Hey guys, Matt Major from Growth Mode Content.
Welcome to another episode of Good News York.
Joining me. Joining you. Is my buddy here, Garth
Brooks. Stayed away from Zach. Yeah, apparently
you told me I look like a country music star
with a hat on. Yeah, with the hat. Just for the...
I don't get it, but okay. Tell me he looks like
he doesn't want to just go out and ruin Breonna
Chicken Fry's life right now. Chicken Fry, Brianna
Chicken Fry. What is that story? I saw that name
in the news the other day. You don't know that
story? No, I don't. Something about... Oh, man.
I don't know. There's some sort of divorce going
on. They just dated. Is her real name Chicken
Fry? No, that's her stage name. Stage name, yeah.
She works for Barstool. She's a podcaster. Cool.
beautiful young woman dated this dude and He
was a piece of shit. Apparently, this is a country
singer. Yeah. Yeah, and I'm blanking on his name
and I blur together No, they're all the same
Zach bryan. I'm not the other guy exactly like
him. Is there another Zach? Cuz I it could be
I think All right. All right. So anyway, he was
apparently a piece of shit to her during the
relationship. They only dated. They didn't. They
were married. They broke up. He so bad so that
he offered her a 12 million dollar NDA to not
talk about the relationship. Wow. How much did
you fuck up when you go? Yeah. Listen, before
you say a word, here's 12 mil. That's my opening
offer, dude. Now, here's the cool part. One of
the reasons that that I have a lot of respect
for this young woman. She said, fuck you, no.
Hmm. Yeah. So her barstool pays a lot better
than I do because clearly she had fuck you money
enough to turn down 12 mil. I would. There's
not much I wouldn't do for 12. Dude, 12. I might
throw you off the roof for 12 million dollars.
You would throw me off the roof for five bucks,
but I I got to believe that 12. Like, what do
you think? What could he have done that it's
worth $12 million to shut your mouth? It's gotta
be he likes getting pegged. No, no. He's just
a piece of shit. Know and we're living kind of
in the post me too where it's not cool for the
world to see that you are a piece I see so you
just think it's a million like overall don't
make me look bad. It's one of those It's the
management going if she tells the truth about
this guy How much is that gonna hurt his image
and you know, so it's not reflected ticket sales
and it's one of those It's almost like one of
those insurance deals. They're trying to hedge
their bets to save their losses didn't work She
said no and and has proceeded to tell the world
what a piece of shit. He is an interesting subtext
of that story He is apparently moved on as a
new girl I think he cloned Briana in a lab Mmm,
so much so that when they put the comparison
together people are like which one is who? So
she's the Briana grilled chicken Briana grilled
chicken. All right, Briana chicken par Bro seriously
has a type, you know, it's one of those sets.
You know, Kanye got a new woman that looked exactly
like the old one. Yes, right after Kim Kardashian.
He dated a Kim Kardashian. Right on the nose.
You know, it's funny because if I was Zach Brian,
which apparently I look like him with a hat on,
I would actually not offer 12 million because
here's the thing, I have noticed there is public
relations people. Also, you're not a piece of
shit. Aw, thanks, buddy. I always thought you
thought I was. You probably wouldn't have sat
there, and I don't mean to cut you off, but you
probably wouldn't have sat there and thought,
listen, I have $12 million worth of bullshit
that I don't want the public to know about me.
Yeah, I'm a pretty open book. I mean... If I
got pegged, I'd be like, okay. Yes, she pegged
me. There it is. You know, I'm not gonna pay
12 million saying that I don't think that's actually
part of the deal, but I think we should run with
it Yeah, I do too. Um, so here's the thing. I
have noticed something That they're the public
relations people these days are very very smart.
Do you remember years ago? When they very very
scared it will that too you remember when Simon
Cowell like banged his Buddy's wife and then
they she got pregnant and now he has a kid, right?
So I watch America's Got Talent. It's one of
the only reality shows I watch. My daughter and
I have this thing where we bond at night. Is
that still on? We watch new episodes. Yeah, 20th
season. 20th season, actually. I'm watching it
right now. And Simon Cowell, and I'll admit,
I even fell for it, even though I knew what was
going on. Simon Cowell is now this likable guy.
He always likes the acts that he would normally.
Oh, yeah. Now they've kind of moved it on for
being the asshole. Right. That was his whole
thing with American Idol. So here's and I don't
have proof of this, but this is the way I've
built a template that you have one of those shows
and you have an asshole British guy. 100 percent.
Yeah. There's a million shows that completely
ripped off his shtick. And I'm glad you said
that because that's where I'm going with this.
This is why I think this was a PR move. Suddenly
he's nice. which doesn't check out because you
gotta have the angry British guy, right? And
that's what he was known for. And then I remembered
this whole banging his friend's wife and he gets
her pregnant, they have a kid. How do you recover
from that if you're Simon Cowell's management
or PR, right? Here's what you do. You use the
old script writing trick. You show somebody with
children or animals and... All is forgiven. So
like if you're writing a script and you want
the heel to become a good guy, you show them
being nice to children or an elderly person or
you bring in a pet. And I've noticed over the
years, he goes gaga over the dog axe. He constantly,
there was a while where they were bringing his
son on set, like in between footage of him like
hugging his son, right? So I'm like, I see what
they're doing. They're trying to turn him into
a good guy. And it worked because I like them
now. So I think Zach Bryan shouldn't have paid
the 12 million because if you can make Simon
Cowell look like a good dude. All right, but
here's the thing. In that example, Simon Cowell
plays the heel. Like, I don't understand how
you could hurt your - Not anymore. You're like,
oh. He did this nasty thing. He's a real asshole.
Like, yeah, that's on brand. Oh, I see what you're
saying. Yeah, but the thing is... How do you
tarnish the image of a heel? Well, see, asshole
on a reality TV show is like, yeah, bloody awful.
You don't know how to sing. But I think... It
crosses the line when you're having sex and impregnating
your friend's wife. I don't want this to sound
like I'm disagreeing because honestly I think
you're completely correct. I do too. I just don't
totally understand. You know what I mean? Understand
what? He doesn't have an image to rehab. I feel
like there is exactly zero viewers who decided
I'm not going to watch NBC because Simon... Banged
his buddy's sister, but see that like exactly
zero dollars were affected by that move in my
opinion Well, I think you're right on it because
they got analysts if he's differently if he's
supposed to be this asshole And he does that
which is really I mean as asshole as you can
get I mean is it though like on the list of things.
It's not like Seinfeld who dated a child Oh,
you know what Seinfeld dated a child. You don't
remember that God famous for being a pedophile.
Oh my god One is with all these minors. A teenager.
I didn't know that. Yeah. Well, that's disgusting.
I'm not really a Jerry Seinfeld fan, you know.
Simon is just, you know... I know he's supposed
to be an asshole, but adultery, impregnating
your friend's wife, but here's the thing. I think
because we're in this... Hello, game is weak!
It was in the Me Too, like the heat of the cancel
culture. I think AGT was like, dude, nobody's
gonna watch the show, we're gonna get canceled.
I mean, it's his show. So I think you know, you're
right. I think that's I think that was kind of
the thing behind it. So what did they do? They
doctored him up into this like, oh, look, he's
so nice to these children and these dogs. And
and it worked because even though I was aware
of it, I still fell for it. It can it's very
easy to do. It's very easy to do. It's Tuesday
Newsday. That was literally the opening. We started
out with me making fun of him and that turned
into a whole segment. That's the beauty of what
we do. That's why you need a podcast. That's
why I love you. Not to derail you, but that brings
me to another point that I did want to make sure
that I talk about today. So I posted about this
and it got a lot of love on a lot of the channels.
And the reality is this was a really pretty big
thing that flew under the radar. Our views on
our posts and our videos and our clips and all
those things for Good News York have now reached
the millions. Our numbers are in the fucking
million. That's crazy. I meant to ask you about
that. You texted us that. I honestly don't...
We haven't paid close enough attention to tell
you exactly the day that we crossed that line
or got our millionth viewer or anything like
that. I literally was like, hey, I should probably
see where our numbers are at. And they were absolutely
incredible. Are you talking just Good News York?
Specifically just Good News York. So not our
clients? No. So that would mean not our clients
not our personal stuff that our our a lot of
this person has driven on our own pages, you
know, you've got a ton of traction on your Existing
pages from clips from the show and things like
that. Yeah done. It doesn't include any of that
Wow And these are real real numbers. Yeah real
real video view and these are and here's the
thing It's not surprising Right? Because this
is literally the strategy, and this is literally
what we've been telling people would occur, and
I'm happy to say that we're proving that model.
But consistency, volume, and quality. We're working
on the quality. We're working on the quality.
In that order, right? Consistency and volume
honestly come before quality. And I don't say
that to like shit on us, but just to talk about
the way that content and these algorithms work,
you gotta start doing it. because with that consistency
and quantity, you start to see what works. And
that's the part that I think a lot of people
miss. A lot of people get into this game and
they go, I know exactly what kind of video is
gonna do right. And they spend three and a half
days producing that video and it gets eight fucking
views. And we do that too. But the reality is
we also machine gun out 10 other videos and two
of them suddenly do tens of thousands of views.
And then we adjust. Thing you told me when I
started working here when we started talking
about strategy and what we're gonna do is you
preached consistency Yeah, you preach cuz and
you made the point like think about all the things
that show up in your algorithm things that you're
like It's not that good, but it keeps showing
up. It's because they're just consistent in what
they're posting Maybe the quality isn't as great
But it's phenomenal that we're getting this many
views, man. And it's a testament to how hard
you've worked in your vision. And I'm so glad
to be a part of it. You know, I just I forgot
where I was going with it, but I'm just I'm excited.
No, it's good. We're we're doing great things
and I'm very excited, very happy to have all
of the folks that are listening and watching.
I will say as well, our audio podcast. Which
you can get anywhere, podcasts. It is starting
to grow incredibly rapidly as well. People are
starting to figure that part out. Really? That's
a slow burn. All of this, and this is what we've
told all of our clients from day one, the content
game is always going to be a slow burn. Sure.
No one, with the exception of, you know, well
-known celebrities, and honestly, many of them,
have never put out episode one, two, or three
and, you know, hit the masses. Right. It's a
slow burn. What's interesting, though, as I was
thinking about this, We've talked about this
a little bit, and I'm not going to get too deep
into it, but here at Growth Mode Content, we
are getting into live selling. And we've talked
about this a little bit, this live shopping.
Basically, I keep calling it modern day QVC.
But it's basically there's a wide variety of
platforms including ones that you use like Amazon
and eBay that you might not even realize they
do this But there's these live shopping feeds
where you can go on and watch everyday people
sell regular products This is something that
we're going to offer as a company to our clients.
We're gonna help local businesses sell their
stuff But I was thinking about the difference
in these games and I realized it's two totally
different gamuts, right? So all of our content
clients We've told them exactly what I just said
when they come in and they start doing the podcast.
Listen, you're not going to go viral on day one.
Don't expect that. Don't expect massive numbers.
This is a slow burn and it's made for to put
things out there. So eventually people will find
you and jump on. But the live selling is the
exact opposite side of that. It is instant gratification.
Yeah. And that will be a whole different world
for us where Instead of making something and
putting it out there and getting feedback and
eventually whatever literally we're gonna go
live right now for the next couple hours and
Folks are gonna buy this shit right now. Yeah,
and It's very interesting. I just got I love
you know like the strategies I'm like, wait a
minute, you know, we're talking all these other
things are this very slow this long -term this
whatever The selling is the exact opposite. Dude,
you are always a step ahead. You know, you built
the first podcast studio in Syracuse, which I
was a guest on. I've talked about this before.
And I remember getting done with the interview.
I was in a band and you had interviewed me. And
I remember saying to you, so wait, did this air?
And you're like, no, no, buddy. It's a podcast.
I'm like, what's a pod? You know, it's like radio,
but scheduled. So I mean. You have been talking
about this live selling because before now, live
selling to me was what I would see on TikTok
after midnight, and it was just like a really
bad Walmart, you know? I was like, what is going
on? This is crazy. Now, I'm starting to see what
you're seeing, and I want to get to a point where,
like, this morning, we opened with, hey, looky,
when Mike wears his hat, He looks like Zach Brian,
or whatever. Yeah, I think it's Zach Brian. And
what if we made it clickable? You could buy my
hat right now and we link it, you know? I wanna
do that stuff. And it's going to be done. And
that's what we're getting to. And another thing,
yesterday, I showed off my new business card.
Can I talk about this? Is this private? Don't
yet. Okay. We got a new cool thing. We got a
new cool thing and I can't wait to talk about
it and it's along those lines. It's one of those
things that's very close to ready. That's one
of the reasons I don't want to deep tease it
too much because I think we're going to be able
to go the full long. I knew it was cool when
you gave it to me and we set it up. when I unveiled
it to family and friends yesterday, their jaws
dropped. And I said, here's the thing. I said,
my boss is always and my friend, more importantly,
is always a step ahead. I said, so this is going
to this is going to become normal. This is going
to be a normal thing for people without saying
too much. It's going to become normal in society.
And just remember that Matt Maeser thought of
it first. And you saw it here. I don't I don't
know if I can take the credit for thinking of
it first. There's lots of people that sell those
things that we're going to be selling. But. Because
of that reason, we're gonna hopefully have some
competitive advantages. Some features, some quality,
some unique things that you can't get from anybody
else. And then, again, not to talk about it too
much, but we are going to get into some things
that nobody is doing. And I think if we are successful
in popularizing it, it's going to be incredible.
So I'm excited about that. That's going to be
a fun thing. That is going to be a direct -to
-consumer product, meaning everyday people might
want to buy it. which is a departure from what
I've traditionally done. My history in business
is what they call B2B, business to business.
I've always done what we do here where we offer
a service to another business. I personally don't
have a huge background in selling products directly
to consumers and I'm kind of excited about that.
That's a fun like thing to do. As we get into
this live shopping, that's one of the things
I'm gonna kind of focus on. It's gonna give me
the good sort of sample to... learn how to sell
and do this stuff. So I'm excited about that
part, too. You make a good point because I just
thought of something. Back in the day, if you
wanted to pivot and say, I want to kind of just
do direct to consumer stuff, you'd have to pivot
and re brand your business or just do a whole
new business model. You can still keep your business
as is and just almost do it on the side. Yeah,
I don't want to say like on the side, like you
won't put effort into it. But you know what I
mean? Like, you know, it's just easy to do in
addition to what you're already doing. You know,
One of the things we're doing here from a content
standpoint and one of the things that I've always
kept in mind from a business standpoint is is
building a machine that you can pump other things
through right so growth mode technologies is
technically a Kind of an overarching company
with the idea of having a number of these brands
and products and services that that live under
it With the idea to sort of share resources make
things efficient and and like I said when you
got a new idea I don't have to go and rent another
place and hire another team and do these other
things because we've got so many of these pieces
already that we can just sort of lend to that
and if you if you don't mind what happens talking
about it one of the things I asked you when you
started talking about this live selling and you
know we start having meetings about it because
again I always think you're ahead of the game
and and and you know what you're doing and so
I said well what if the future becomes online
selling more than retail. What happens to brick
and mortar in retail stores? Do you remember
what you said? And I loved it. And I'm already
seeing it. And again, it's because you're already
seeing these things. I am of the opinion that
the local store will become more of a distribution
center. It makes so much sense. Like you remember
when Walmart not long ago started putting those
big orange things in the middle of Walmart and
you could like order something and then you go,
you unlock it. Like, whatever you ordered is
in a locker. Yeah, and... Well, plus they do
a lot of delivery, right? So, like, 90 % of the
time now we get our groceries delivered. Mm.
And it's great because you know what you want,
you know what the family needs, and it comes
time to reorder every week. You just, give me
this week's groceries, and it shows up at your
door. You know what else is around the corner?
They give you a lot of money. And I think I sent
this to you guys. Did I send you the video of
the guy somewhere in Europe, I think? He ordered
Subway, like in the middle of a park, and it
came by drone. I could see that. People talk
about that quite a bit, and I think a lot of
people think it's one of those funny or futuristic
things. That's legit. Amazon is legitimately
in testing with that in other parts of the country
right now. You can go watch videos of people
getting their Amazon Prime drone delivery. It's
pretty wild. Because I remember hearing about
it, and then I was like, where is this? Remember
Y2K era, when everybody thought From my point
of view, correct me if I'm wrong, if you were
a 90s teen like me, everybody couldn't wait for
the year 2000 because what was coming? Flying
cars. Oh, yeah. That was the whole, nobody cared
about anything else. It was cell phones. Well,
that's the future. Flying cars, and we still
don't have flying cars. Anonymous with the future
is flying cars. Right. And that's why I think
people are kind of naysaying the drone thing
because they're like, oh, yeah, I'll just like
flying cars. And we're like, no, it's already
happening. I mean, and there is honestly some.
Similar ideas of flying cars that are starting
to become a little more mm -hmm Popular and mark
my words craft. They're calling them now, but
Holograms are the new thing I real rich people
can buy themselves like a one -man helicopter
Yeah, when I was in school they showed it they
showed a video of this is around the corner,
too I don't know about definitely commercially,
but but for the regular consumer. I don't know
when But there's these these boxes you can get
in your house where you essentially let's say
cousins live across the country from each other.
You have a video camera set up and you are essentially
on the other side of the country are your cousins
who have a video camera set up. But you're a
hologram in the house and you can talk to each
other. And I remember what you're talking about
during the pandemic. The stand up New York, which
I've. Performed at by the way shout out stand
up, New York. Love that club Is they were the
first to they were having comedians in LA do
spots in New York by using holograms on stage?
It's wild thing. You're talking about they used
I think last season on the show Big Brother,
where AI themed and the AI of the house was in
that thing. If you haven't seen it, what he's
talking about, it's sort of like a phone booth.
Yeah. It's a tall, completely closed thing. Yes.
Where the hologram appears sort of inside it.
And they look 3D and all that. But it's not like
they're in the room or you can't like wave your
hand through it. It's literally this enclosed
unit. It's wild. It's kind of neat, but again,
I don't know. I'm of the opinion when it comes
to holograms as well as 3D. I love 3D in movies
and things like that, but to me, I'm not super
interested until we get to the point to where
I can see it without glasses and special shit.
I get it. Pretty much, that box is real close.
Yeah. From Star Wars, where I got to deliver
a message and boop. Yeah. It pops up and there's
the princess talking to you in three dimensions.
I don't know if we're that far away from that
to be completely honest. I don't think we are.
I'm really not too interested in it until we
get there. Speaking of which, you know what I've
never done? You're talking about 3D movies. Have
you ever been to an IMAX? Of course. Yeah, I
haven't. Is that weird? Yes. What is it like?
Is it just like the IMAX and Syracuse here? Never.
Oh, my God, bro. Not in Herkimer. All right,
I'll give you a quick. Give me just give me like
what is it? Is it fully immersive? Sort of. So
IMAX in general is a very large format film and
there's a couple types of IMAX screens. So you
can actually go to the IMAX screen in the mall
and it's just a very, very, very big screen.
And the video, the movie is shot in special extra
high resolution and it's cool shit. What you
really want, though, don't mess with the mall
at all. Gotta go to the most. They're in Syracuse,
Museum of Science and Technology. Oh, right,
right, right. They have what's called an IMAX
dome theater. There's a few of these in the country,
but it is essentially the sphere in Las Vegas.
Yeah, what? Yeah. It is, I sort of picture it
as sitting like on the inside of a golf ball.
You sit there and literally pretty much to the
sides of what you can see is this inside of a
ball is the whole screen. And so, It is immersive
in that it is literally everything you can see
and feel. So there'll be movies where you're
you're moving around, you're moving fast and
it stops real quick. You feel like you're going
to fall out of your chair. No shit. But there's
no, you know, there's no moving anything. There's
no atmosphere. They have actually stuff in your
seats and they have wins. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Stuff.
They don't have that at the IMAX, but you don't
need it. It's dude. Incredible. I went to Disney
World years ago. And I went to this little theater
where they would show all clips from different
Disney movies, like the Be Our Guest. Sure. And
they would blow the smell of the food. And that's
a little more of the gimmicky, what they call
a 4D theater. Yeah. So these these movies that
you're seeing in the spheres type IMAX thing,
are they formatted for that? Oh, 100 percent.
OK, I see. That's the biggest thing. And I think
it's becoming easier now with different and we're
honestly shooting movies and insane resolutions
these days. But like back in the day. And this
has been around for a long time since the 90s
like I went to see this as a kid Yeah, and the
dome in Syracuse is one of the only ones in the
area It's honestly really special, but it used
to be Very much had to be shot in that special
large format. So they use special cameras And
they used to have they just moved to digital
So they've got a digital project projector now
in Syracuse, but not too long ago They had the
original film projector and you could actually
see that that took the, you know. Wow. The massive
size frame. What a time to be alive. See, my
wife doesn't like to travel much, right? Like,
if she sees a snake in our garden, she's like,
well, never going in the garden again. Put the
house on the market. She saw that the sphere...
You saw a snake in Syracuse? Well, no, she saw...
Well, if she did, I wouldn't be here. No. She
saw an article about the sphere, because I finally
convinced her that we're going to go to the sphere.
Yeah. She saw an article that... like dozens
of people are are having seizures and all these
problems from going to the sphere from this immersive.
Did you see any of that when you went? No, exactly.
No, here's the thing. I mean, there's people
that are prone to that stuff all over the place
and you go to all kinds of exhibits that have
flashing lights or strobe. Sure. And they tell
you that. What I would say about the sphere,
not so much, honestly, a little bit at the most,
too, because those stadiums are very a high incline,
you know? Vertigo type shit? You know, it just
depends. If you're into that, if you don't like
heights, if you don't like steep angles, which
I honestly am not a big fan of, but I was fine.
In both places, whether you're in the sphere
or whatever, the worst of it is right in the
middle in the high section, right? You're sitting
in the middle up high. And that is... some of
the better seats, but there really is not a bad
seat. So can't be. Yeah. Sit on the first level
and off to the side. If you're somebody who doesn't
like the heights, you'll have as good of an experience,
but not have a fucking. So you can sit anywhere
because like with roller coasters, everyone thinks
that like the front car, right? That's the one
you want, which in some ways it is cool to be
the you see everything. You don't know if you're
in the back car of a roller coaster when it's
going over the edge It gets pulled and you actually
go faster over the bumps in the sphere interesting
Is there something like that where you like you
think the middle is the best spot? No, I mean
anywhere the middle is only the best spot because
you know, obviously You're in the middle and
you get the most of everything wrapped around
you. Okay, you know I mean, but I'll wrap around
when I went and saw dead and company We were
sort of off to the side a little bit. Okay Which
who better to go phenomenal who better to go
see than like Pink Floyd or the Grateful Dead?
Yeah, I mean if you're gonna yeah, yeah, we know
Wow Danny, how long have we been going we we
haven't even gotten into anything yet Have we?
Danny's like I hit cut long time. Yeah. He's
like what are you talking about? I went home
and came back Well, I want to get to the are
we good? I want I don't want to move on if you
have more to say about All right, double thumbs.
This is huge because our friend Jason Smoral,
who is the GM of the Syracuse Mets, they have
made a really big announcement and we're gonna
run with this. And I think we're gonna do some
more stuff about this, but come 2027, the Syracuse
Mets will be looking for a rename. That's right,
they're asking for community input as they consider
a new identity for the 2027. Season they released
a social media video where we can name anybody
can name and if you want to submit Okay, you're
going to submit from August 5th through August
31st The top 10 named submissions are going to
be announced on September 2nd and then it keeps
going on and on until they finally Pick in fall
2026 and you can go on you can google it And
you can find the link to go ahead and fill that
out. But man, that is exciting before you say
yours Our man Danny is a alum of the the Syracuse
Mets, soon to be something else. And actually,
he was there before they were even the Mets.
Right. So I want to get your take first, buddy.
Do you want if you could pick a name for the
Syracuse baseball team? Do you want to flip the
camera around? What would you know? He's fine.
What? What would you call them? You're going
to put me on the spot like this. Yeah. I feel
like having seen the success with the Syracuse
Salt Potatoes, I think it makes sense, logistically,
to just go and be the Syracuse Salt Potatoes.
It's got a great history behind the Salt Potato
and Syracuse. So to me, I think that would be
the natural fit. That's interesting. That being
said, you know, I enjoyed the Syracuse Chiefs,
enjoyed the Syracuse Mets, honestly. I grew up
with Syracuse Sky Chiefs baseball. And you worked
there? Go Taters! What were they when you worked
there? So they were transitioned to the... It
was from baby blue Syracuse Chiefs to the red,
white, and blue Syracuse Chiefs. That was their
first rebrand. And then from there, it was Chiefs
to Mets. But through that, we did a bunch of
alternate identities, like the Syracuse Salt
Potatoes, the Syracuse. So the Salt Potatoes
was something they ran with as a gimmick? It
was just like a? Yeah, usually it was an advertisement
for around the fair when we were competing with
the fair. Not really competing, but like. At
the same time. It's like a limited. time yeah
yeah you know so we would have salt potato power
move weekend and we would be renamed the salt
potatoes we'd change the sign out front even
all the social media graphics would change over
to the Syracuse salt potatoes and from that we
kind of did a rivalry with our thruway Rivals
down the road the Rochester Red Wings. They were
the Rochester plate Oh that right that rat bastard
that Jason doesn't like Dan Mason you son of
a battle between the golden fork between the
Syracuse plates than the Syracuse salt Sorry,
the Rochester plates and Syracuse salt potatoes
that that's kind of cool. There's a little bit
of history behind that too So yeah, I don't know.
I think salt potatoes would be great. The merch
could get a refresh I saw that they were gonna
keep the orange and blue Coloring just that'll
help name so That's that's the way better answer
that way better that was So here's the thing.
This is what I love about minor league baseball
teams You actually can have hokey things like
that like the salt potatoes and it sticks like
they have the somewhere I think it's the Albuquerque
Isotopes was a team at one time, which I think
is named after a Simpsons episode I mean you
can do anything field isotopes It's Springfield
Isotopes. There you go. So I think. What's your
what's your name pick, Mike? Well, I had a few
minutes while I was waiting for you. Oh, I'm
just going to run down. I got the whole list.
Oh, yeah. I got the Syracuse Alec Baldwin's Syracuse
under construction because everything is Syracuse
Salt City. But I guess Danny said that that that
was already a thing. Salt City Mets. Syracuse
690s. The Syracuse Squall. This is the snow version.
Syracuse Squalls. The Syracuse Snowbirds. The
Syracuse Snowdevils. Syracuse Snowplows. Syracuse
Blizzard. Syracuse Snowflakes. Syracuse Canals.
Syracuse Cruise. Syracuse Krabby Patties. Why?
Because the creator of Spongebob is from here.
I forget his name. Voice actor, excuse me. So
you got Syracuse Krabby Patties. Syracuse Squarepants.
Bobcat Gold Thwait is from here, so how about
the Syracuse Bobcat Gold Thwaits? You can get
him to throw out every pitch. I don't know what
to pitch! The Syracuse Easy Passes. I love baseball,
man. The Syracuse Through Crew and the Syracuse
Fuscillos because they're huge. Tom Park? I don't
know, man. I think that you can make a really
good baseball team if you just base it on Bobcat.
Did you know? All right, of all my shitty impressions,
you got to admit that was pretty good impressions.
That was really good. Police Academy. Great series.
Loved it growing up. Series ever. So, yeah, what
do you what do you got? I know I put you on the
spot. I had some time. Bolly McBaseball face.
Fuck. That's what the what did you just what
did you say? Bolly McBaseball face. Done. That's
it. Bolly Mc. So it's the Syracuse. Bolly McBolly
faces plural Bolly McBaseball face, but excuse
me. I apologize. Don't offend you Bolly McBaseball
face Bolly McBaseball face. He doesn't know about
Bodie McBoat face. Does he? Oh I'm sorry guys.
I'm getting mean girl now by Danny and Matt.
What what don't I know? It's like the oldest
internet meme ever and remember me remember me
remember me remember that again There was a contest
this exact sort of contest and it was named my
boat and they let the internet name the boat
And the internet named the boat Boaty McBoat
face. I always had the best name for a boat.
Are you ready for it? He's got the whole The
breakdown my name for a boat is the cirrhosis
of the river No, okay, fuck you All right, yeah
Boaty McBoat so now that's even funnier then
It's even better when I get the joke. Yeah. Who
would have thought? Yeah, so name the team. I
want to shoot something downtown and ask around
and see what people are thinking. Also, I think
honestly anybody watching this clip, leave a
note in the comments. Because Jason does watch
our show, I found out, which is awesome. We'll
submit that. Leave your team name. Do you think
we get a cut if we come up with a good name?
Finder's fee? Yeah, something like that. What
about the Syracuse Good New York? What if we
come up with a great baseball name and immediately
trademark it so they have to license it from
us? Dude. Jason, don't listen to this. Yeah.
Stop listening now. Let's do it. Anyway, what
else is on Tuesday Newsday? Well, I want to say
real quick also quick plug also for the Syracuse
Mets. They're showing Rookie of the Year. We
talked about this yesterday on Thursday, August
14th to raise money for charity and twenty five
dollars for adults, ten dollars for kids ages
six to twelve and free for kids five and under.
Parking is free. Who doesn't want to go see a
baseball movie in a baseball stadium? It's it's
such a fun, such a great idea. And all proceeds
from the event support the hospice mission. Oh,
they let you right out on the field. Yeah, you
sit on the field. Oh, that's cool. Isn't that
great? I thought it was still in the stands.
No, it's cool. What else is going on? Well, actually,
this whole baseball thing got me thinking, Danny,
do you have the jingle, the old Syracuse Mets
jingle? Do you have it pulled up or no? I have
a jingle. Listen to this jingle. And then I have
a question. No, I wish Danny. Is this like Christmas
Syracuse? Oh my god. No way this is real. It's
real. So this got me thinking. Was this written
in 1985? Let's guess. It was around the 80s.
I don't know the exact time that it was written,
but they would play this when they would win.
which was often rare. This is how David Lee Roth
got discovered. So like at the stadium, they're
winning. They're going to play the victory song.
Yep. This was their victory song. Which I will
write a new jingle if Jason wants me to. I will
write a jingle for the Syracuse Mats. I want
to just say that. Hold on. What is it? What team
do they name in this? Or do they? Oh, OK, the
Chief. I didn't hear the Chief part. OK. So this
got me thinking. What is your favorite? New York
-based advertising jingle. Come on, what do you
got? I got a few queued up for you. Damn. I don't
know that one. I got a... See, now you... I know.
Well, while you're thinking... What's the best?
While you're thinking, I have a few. Yeah, I
want some answers. And... Mean just pull it out
here jingle. I mean those jingles People still
use jingles. Yeah, and I guess that's good. I
mean, this is a good one to start Oh All right,
that's the lowest quality fucking copy you could
ever find it that it's the water safari jingle
For the wild one. Enchanted forest. Water safari.
Where the fun never stops. Bam bam. Fun story.
The only parody, the only parody I've ever made
in my podcasting career was a parody that I made
of that Enchanted Forest song. And we blasted
it out and within 10 minutes, one of the owners
was threatening to sue us. That's awesome. Yeah.
That's awesome. You shoulda counter sued for
the Kilimanjaro so you could have it in your
backyard. Here's the thing, my partners at the
time shit themselves. That sucks. We gotta take
it down, so we did. I was more than happy to
lean into it, because A, it was fair use, and
B, it would have been the best publicity we ever
got at the time. But... How badass are you? That
was my one and only pair of thoughts. I'll find
it somewhere. No, I didn't even get that. I just...
got somebody like hey uh that's a credit to you
that you were you were that important to them
that you were on the radar all the way to them
honestly like it didn't even get massive views
it was like they were the one and only view i
don't even know metro mattress or they used to
have uh all right i vaguely get uh what's the
other metro mattress metro the sleep superstore
metro mattress I only vaguely get that one. Oh,
that was when they got all jazzy with it. I like
the, the heavy hitters are all you need. Call
1 -800 -LAW 1333. I think Sean Kelsey wrote that.
He did? I know him. Um, I don't know. There's
so many to choose from. That's it. The Zoom Tan
one. Does this count as a jingle? It's huge!
It's a tagline. If you want to go taglines, I
got taglines all day long. Oh, taglines. Like,
leave off the last S for savings. Come on down,
Center Court, Riverside Mall, beautiful city
of Utica. Thank you very much. Utical? Beautiful
city of Utica, thank you very much. I love Charlie
Seely. I was very close with his son. I hung
out, it was like hanging out at a celebrity's
house when I was a kid. I'm going to ask you
that offer. In all honesty, get Charlie Seely
on the show. I'll get him on here in a second.
I love that man. I used to hang out at his house
and it was like, my friend was like... Dude,
stop being weird. It's just my dad. I always
had a nice pair of leather loafers. Only 15 beans.
15 beans. Come on down. 12 peppers. 12 peppers.
God, I love that. Only eight shells. Put your
favorite... Oh! For Ricky Discovery! Yes! I love
Fort Ricky. Holy shit, I forgot about that. You
know how many were leaving on the table? Is it
still a thing? I don't know. If it is, those
animals are a bitch. They're old. Bro, there
were so many. See, I'm talking about this. It's
my money and I need it now. You know, there's
so many, like, tag lines, but I'm trying to think
of jingles. It's hard. We'll have to revisit
it. But again, just like the naming contest with
the Mets, Give us your favorite jingles in the
comments. We'll sing them on the show. What's
funny is there's a Twitch channel that plays
nothing but retro commercials. It's just called
retro commercials. Phenomenal. I have it on my
office all day long. I can't remember what I
was supposed to do 10 minutes from now. But you
remember the song. But somehow I know every single
word of 95 % of those commercials. 100%. And
I'll find myself sitting there singing along
and going, how the fuck? Do I know it's like
riding a bike man? It's it's a earworm that never
left. That's that's you know, there's the heyday
of marketing and advertising like literally anytime
I like hurt myself in a car like even if I bang
my elbow I'm like call William Mattar hurt in
a car call William Mattar. It just it stays with
you. You think that guy would have a career if
his name didn't rhyme. I think he would have
had a career. He just wouldn't had a great jingle.
But. Anyway, I want to say this is pretty cool
Danny if you want to pull up this video a local
well actually a Syracuse alum who I believe I
I'm paraphrasing, but I think he's got some sort
of accounting and finance degree He didn't go
to the Newhouse school. He played Adam Sandler's
stunt double in Happy Gilmore 2 and here's a
quick video of him talking really yeah. Yeah,
this is really really cool Oh. Just get an X
out of that. There we go. Act flop into the water.
That's him. I had to do the happy Gilmore swing
and full on flop into the water. And I've never
done it before. I'm not a stunt double. I remember
doing this six times. Hair, makeup, new costume.
How do you get a stunt double gig? At the end
of it, I was exhausted. Yeah, that's what I should
have figured out. I was cold. I was wet. But
I would do that. time and time again. And that's
your whole stunt falling in the water? Well,
no, but it's less about him being a stunt double,
more about him being a lookalike. Because he
does look like him. He's got the same kind of
features and profile. Max Kessler is his name.
I feel like 40 % of the male population looks
like Adam Sandler. Yeah. Well, you know. But
shout out to Max Kessler, SU alum. And I probably
should have done more research. Quickly also,
I wanted to talk about I really want to know
how you get that gig with no experience. This
is well, I'll follow your what? How about I book
them on the show? See they make happy or three?
I'll be John Daly's body double I'm gonna get
max Kessler on the show max Kessler if you're
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get calm and it's on the go I want to say this
one. I don't care about but I'm just curious
for your reaction to this gay A reality TV star
opens a new social club in Syracuse. Oh yeah,
I think I found this. This is Tammy Kay Lee?
L -Y? Is that how you say it? Lee? L -Y? Will
open on 300 East Washington Street in Syracuse.
It's called The Society. She's co -finding it.
She was on The Bachelor, Bachelor in Paradise,
and then part of Million Dollar Listing. And
she got the idea when she toured a 3 ,000 square
foot space with a client who was considering
opening a restaurant in LA because she she was
a realtor out there. And yeah, so she she came
up with this idea to open up a new kind of social
club. It's also a luxury coffee shop and juice
bar. That's what's interesting about it is and
I guess maybe that's why we call it a social
club or why they call it a social club. Is that
code? There's no alcohol. So it's not a bar of
any sort. But it's that same vibe as you hang
out with friends and you know enjoy tasty beverages
Again, and maybe correct me if I'm wrong, but
I'm assuming that's why it's known as a social
club No, I think you're right because I was before
I threw the papers awesome. No, it sounds good.
But here's here's the thing 10 years ago, I'd
be like 15 years ago, I'd be like, you're crazy
that it's it's non alcoholic. It's not going
to do it. Right. Nobody's drinking anymore. The
pandemic really made us realize how disgusting
how we were just disgusting alcoholics. And a
lot of people quit, including myself. So I don't
know, I wish them luck. But yeah, I didn't know
what you thought about that. But we got a little
reality TV star opening up a place. Any time
a new business is opening in our area, we love
it. Absolutely. You can go to the society CNY
dot com. Maybe we'll have her. on the show awesome
and then the last order of business I just think
this is crazy Marv Levy former coach of the Buffalo
Bills during the Super Bowl years turned a hundred
just a few days ago Wow and that got me thinking
if you had a choice would you want to live to
be a hundred sure really as long as I'm not like
yeah Alzheimer brain cooked that's the last decade
My whole thing is, this is how I judge. If I
can give conditions to that answer? That's kind
of where I'm at, which is, I would want to live
to be 100, 90, 100, whatever, as long as I'm
not this old person. You know the people that
are like... Yeah, they're just fucking gone.
Just constantly saying no. You know what I mean?
I don't want to be the shaky old, like, if I'm
shaking, put me out of my misery. I don't know.
It's a lot of work. We're going to get canceled
for that. We're going to get canceled? No. All
right, good. Man, I love you. This was fun. Yeah.
What else? Anything we good? There was one other
thing in the news. We got. That is, and you might
go, you know, I sent this over to you. Oh. Last
night. My fault. And you said to me. I'm sorry.
I forgot. No, that's fine. You said to me. Balby.
Damn it, Mikey. This is a story about an accident
in Pennsylvania. Oh, I thought you were talking
about King of the Hill. No, no. OK. King of the
Hill's coming back on Hulu. There's that story.
And here's what happened. I'll just give you
the rundown. You don't have to pull anything
up there. What about this? A truckload of hot
dogs spilled across a Pennsylvania highway after
a crash, clogging the road for hours. Glizzies.
Glizzies. Four days. And it is reported by NBC
New York, but I was like, but that happened in
Pennsylvania. And you said, well, that's good
news for New York. And I thought that was brilliant.
That's why this is good news, York, is because
Pennsylvania was the one that had to deal with
that glizzy mess. It is ironic, I will tell you,
having being someone who traveled recently and
drove through Pennsylvania, got stuck in Pennsylvania
traffic. Worst. I have never in my life. gone
on a trip across the country and not gotten stuck
in traffic in Pennsylvania. I feel like they're
just a magnet for it. Like, is there construction?
No. Okay. Dump a load of hot dogs. What's the
reason to stop everybody today? When you're traveling
down the East Coast. I would dare say that Pennsylvania
and Virginia are the worst parts of, and no offense,
they're beautiful states, I love them, but as
far as just driving through, and you're right,
it's always some bullshit. Do you think it would
make, would it make you less mad, more mad, or
the same if you're in traffic, you're stuck,
you finally get to what the hell is going on,
and you realize it's hot dogs? Is that like,
oh, that's funny, I'm not as mad as if it was
an accident? Yeah, I'd probably find a little
bit of amusement. Yeah, it would be a little
better, right? In all honesty, if they're going
to back up traffic, at least they could do is
start cooking them fuckers and maybe hand out
some glizzies. Wow, you are genius, dude. They
should have just... Oh my God, how do you clean
it up faster? Pick them up and start handing
out the hot dogs to everybody stuck in traffic?
I would do that. You know, the car's stuck, listen,
it's going to be a couple hours. All right, guys,
hop out and just start grilling. And I'll go
a step further. Let's say you're the owner of
that company. That's fucking free promotion.
And other dads in their cars jump out, stand
around, tell you when to turn the dog. Glizzies
all around. Why wouldn't you do that? Turn it
into a party. Because if you have to clean it
up, you're gonna have to pick up the hot dogs.
What are you gonna do with them? You give them
to the people stuck in traffic. Do you know how
many horses we wasted for all that? A ton of
horses. That's horse shit. Anyway. It is Good
News York, sponsored by ads on the go. Get ads
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That's me. That is you. You do not look like
a country singer with your hat on. I envy you
for that. I feel like I could probably pass for
a country singer. Oh, easily. You look like one
of those, like, the outlaw, like, the Waylon
Jennings type. Yeah, I do the hillbillies. Like,
I look like one of those douchey, um, Zach Bryant.
Never even call me by my... Okay. Yeah. You could...
You would rip at that. Dude. Just singing about,
like, real, real hillbilly shit. Like, I took
a man outside, pulled off his overalls and shot
him in the neck. You know, there aren't many
advantages to being the most Caucasian person
on the planet, but... Oh, you are not. A country
music career is one of them. You've got great...
Features for like characters or just in general,
you know with the glasses and the beard you got
a great look You got a great look man. All right,
we got to go. Okay. Bye. Peace out Hey folks,
welcome to good news York. I'm your host Matt
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Over here is the latest winner of the Zach Braff...
Zach Bryant? Fuck! Did you just have a stroke?
I think you started the show! I do! I don't!
I've never done that before, but yeah, I do.
We're gonna try this all over again. Zach Braff!
Malachi, you can cut to the end of the episode
and make it a blooper reel. No, okay, yeah.