Hey, folks. I'm Matt Major from Growth Mode Content.
Welcome to Good News York, joined as always by
my smiley friend, Mikey B. Yeah. What's up, buddy?
Hi, bud. How you doing? It's good to be back
in the saddle with you. Yeah. Yeah. Good news,
York. This is a little, I'm slightly discombobulated.
We're recording a little later today because
we had one of our content clients record. Yeah.
their show earlier today in the studio. I'm glad
you said that, because I feel the same way. Because
I just stuffed my face with lunch, and I don't
like to do that before I go on air, because then
I feel really bloated and shitty. Oh, I got to
say poopy, because your kids are here today.
Yeah, they are. We do have your kids here, so
very... Yeah, so, but whatever. We're together,
and we are doing another episode of Good News
York, brought to you by Get Ads on the Go, GetAdsOnTheGo
.com. It is Tuesday News Day, my friend. It is
Tuesday News Day. And it sounds like you have
more news than I have. I don't know if I have
more news, but I do have a new toy. What? Yeah,
so I've been playing a little bit, and we're
going to take a look in a few minutes, not just
yet. But I've set it up in such a way where I
can now cast my phone to the screen so we can
put it in the video and we can do a little React
content and pull up some stuff on the fly. We
don't have to have images pre -cut for Danny
to pull up, which is what we've had to do in
the past. That's excellent. We're moving up.
And you know what? To peel the curtain back further,
I'm excited because I have a new toy. We added
a fill light here because I saw a clip. If you
guys notice, there are some clips, dude, where
I look like I'm a fucking zombie. Yeah. Like
my eye ba - And yes, I, you know, I'm tired.
I have two kids. But some days I'm like, dude,
my eyes do not look like that. So Amanda, our
amazing assistant here, who's also a photographer,
helped us put up a fill light so maybe we'll
look less dead. You know, because that zombie
phase is kind of over, right? Here's the thing.
This is why places, you know, professional production
houses put makeup on. I know. I thought about
that. Even, you know, even the mail hosts. They
do. They do. We're not going to do that. Oh,
OK. Not because I have anything against makeup,
but just that I don't have the patience. Yeah.
You know? It's actually not bad. I used to wear
it when I would do theater. You know, you put
foundation on. Funny part is, I didn't even think
this is, I'm such a dude. I didn't even think
that was such a thing until we had one of our
clients, Marie Ardenado, who is a fashion designer,
a former pageant girl and all these things. And
we did her podcast, and she got here and she
goes, yeah, here's my stylist who's going to
do my makeup before the shoot. And we're like,
oh, shit. We're like, wow. That's something people
do? We are nowhere near stylist level. No. We've
got the space for it, though. We do. We've got
a lot of ladies that want that. So we now have
that here in growth mode content. Lots of fun
things happening. I just want to talk about a
couple of random things in the news. Let me find
the first one here. You find the first one. Because
we got graphics, and I can put them up on the
screen. I got graphic a second ago. That's not.
You know what I was thinking while you were looking
at that. Am I casting? I'm not, am I? You're
not casting. Oh, there you are. Look at you.
So here's the first thing. Breaking news for
1998, it seems. AOL America Online. Yeah. Does
anybody even remember that's what they were called?
Dude, I wore an American online hat the other
day. You got mailed. It's set to pull the plug
on their dial -up internet service in a few weeks.
Is this a joke? It's completely true. What are
we talking about here? They're still, to this
day, for a couple of more weeks, there is still
AOL dial -up internet available, apparently.
It was news to me. What? Here's what drives me
crazy. AOL killed AIM, which was the best. could
have been their core product. And you want to
talk about miss the boat, right? These days,
we've got Teams, we've got Zoom, we've got all
these different private messaging apps, WhatsApp,
all these different things, Slack, all these
things that companies use to coordinate and keep
in touch and message each other, Facebook Messenger,
all of these. It was texting before texting.
It was, yes, AIM had all these features. They
had emojis, they had all this shit. decades ago,
it was a phenomenal tool, it was a great platform,
and they're like, eh. And they killed it off.
But somehow maintained dial -up to this day.
Do you think people, like, do they mean, like,
it's always been there, but we don't use it,
it's abandoned, or do you think people are still?
I would assume that there's at least a customer
or two still using it, should it, if it still
exists. I mean, if they're gonna announce it.
But the other thing is, nobody even has phone
lines anymore. It just blows my mind. Right.
Blows my mind. I guess there's a possibility
of some rural boomer that lives in the mountains
of North Carolina. Yeah. He just threw out his
teletype and he upgraded. Someone like Bigfoot
from the Howard Stern Show. He's probably like,
dial up it is. Dial up it is. That's wild. Right?
You know what? It's not wild. With all of its
wild it's wild that that is even news. I thought
you were playing a prank on me That's for real
just a while that it still existed. I don't I
mean it's like Breaking news cell phones exist
right no shit. We know that absolutely shout
out to AOL though I did just buy an AOL hat I
miss you don't I miss would you remember my space
when you could pick the profile song? to, like,
cryptically show everybody how sad you were about
a breakup or if you were in a good mood. People
don't understand the value of MySpace. Dude,
it was amazing. And what we lost when we moved
to Facebook and so many of those core features,
the personalization, the HTML. I'm feeling good
today. I'm going to play some Sublime. I'm feeling
Summary, you know? You go to the page and you're
like, you know what, I know how this person's
feeling in their life right now because I like,
I know what this song is. You know, it's true
and there was none of the bullshit that we deal
with now on Facebook with the arguing and all
that Hey, although there was an argument remember
the top eight Like I don't know about you. I'd
get friends that would go so I noticed I'm not
in your time. It was a huge thing Yeah, so why'd
you get why am I not in your time? Hey, that's
how you that's how you like You know passive
aggressively told somebody you're mad at him.
That's right out of your top eight That is what
I mean the song the top eight You could find
out so much just by looking at the homepage.
Yeah. But anyway, enough about my... Enough about
that shit. So... Dial up. I want to take you
through this crazy story that I encountered.
There's always this weird shit that happens,
you know, random internet stuff. There's this
restaurant... Okay. That is, I guess, a newer
upscale place. They've got these tables... that
are not meant to be restaurant tables. And I'm
gonna show it to you exactly what it looks like.
Full disclaimer, folks, I, whenever we do this
to each other, swear to God on my children. This
is the first time I'm, I have no idea what I'm
about to say. Yeah, so. I hate when people fake
that stuff. I think this will give you the setup.
Looking for some advice, and hopefully you can
help me figure out how to deal with this situation.
Should she use an AOL dial up her internet? She
might be. three -year -old daughter and 76 -year
-old mom for coffee and ice cream. And we're
at the beach, so we went to this local place
in Lovelette called Hazel Boutique. And I had
my mom and daughter sit at a table to wait for
me while I was getting coffee because the place
was so packed. I'm at the register paying for
coffee and I hear a loud bang and I look and
my daughter, who was trying to push the table
away from her, pushed it over, pushed it over.
And the table, which I later learned was 600
pounds, broke into a bunch of pieces. It was
a stone table. Oh, no. OK. The table. It's broken.
OK. So. So. Let me pause and go back to that.
I'm freaking out. Hold on. I want to go back
to the table itself. Pushed it over. And the
table, which I later learned was 600 pounds.
I broke into a bunch of pieces. It was a stone
table. She's kind of a stone table. But so here's
the table. OK, for those who maybe are listening
and can't see this picture, it looks like it's
marble. It is a marble, narrow table with two
columns for feet. All right. And somebody looked
this up in another video. This is sold online.
This is supposed to be like a hallway table that
is up against a wall and has like a lamp on it
or something. It is not designed to be a restaurant
table. As you can see, it looks like it would
just fall over from the wind. There's literally
nothing to make that thing stable whatsoever.
Those feet aren't proper, like that you can't...
It's only got two legs. It's a horrible design.
if you're using it for that purpose. Also, by
the way, it's not made for this purpose. If it
does fall over, you could kill people. Right.
It's 600 pounds. So here's the thing, and here's
the rest of the story that we cut off. So that
woman that you saw, her three -year -old and
her mom went to this place for lunch. The kid,
trying to get up from the table, pushes it as
you normally would to push a table away, knocks
this thing over and breaks it. The restaurant
makes them stay. and demands that they give a
driver's license and a credit card before they're
able to leave and makes them pay $1 ,600 for
this table. Oh, hell no. Oh, hell no. I worked
in a restaurant for over 10 years. Absolutely
not. That is yours. You chose that piece of whatever
it is, so -called table. If it breaks, it breaks.
You'd never alienate your customers into feeling
guilty over something like that. What are you
going to make them wash dishes? Are we doing
that whole thing? On top of that, how ridiculous?
Like, you're telling me that your restaurant
table is that much money? And why did you pay
that much? Because it's a piece of garbage. Right,
you're an idiot. It doesn't make any sense. I'm
not completely sure what the laws are. I do know
the laws, like, as an employer. There's no laws
anymore. I shouldn't tell you this, but technically
as an employer, if you came here and broke something,
broke a computer, whatever, knocked it off the
table. Well, we've had somebody break one of
our arms. I can't, as an employer, charge you
for it. I couldn't deduct your paycheck. I couldn't
demand that you pay for that broken thing. I'm
not allowed to do that as an employer. Now I
know. I am not completely sure how that works
for customers. But I think there's a good chance
that your kid bumps into a vase. No way, dude.
Are you now required to pay for that vase? I
guess I don't technically know the legal. So
if I bring some of my Buffalo Bills memorabilia
to a restaurant that I work at and someone breaks
it, you need to pay me $3 ,000 for this piece
of memorabilia. Why is that in the restaurant?
That's ridiculous. Where is this? Like what state
or region? Ohio? Oh, there you go. Wow. Nah,
man. That ain't right. Is there like, there's
got to be some outrage going on, right? Oh, yeah.
So this is the latest, you know, this is like
the internet freaking out. The the restaurant,
the Hazel Boutique is called. Here we go. We
got lots of influence as well as a child's grandmother.
Oh, here we go. Cafe where the child accidentally
knocks over this heavy table, which you can see
here how unstable it is. This video was posted
by the owners. Let's watch that again. So the
place is called hazel boutique and this happened
in Lavalette now according to the mom when she
finally talks to the owner on the phone she's
still at the store she claims the owner never
asked if the three -year -old was okay or if
Dude you know my first thought was this is my
difference between the restaurant and myself
The first thing I thought of is oh god. I hope
the kids okay, right? Screw the table. Yeah.
Yeah, dude. I Danny if you want to flip that
down for let me ask something as a business owner
and an entrepreneur. Yeah. Do you think all these
reaction videos and the negative publicity, obviously
it reflects negatively, but ultimately do you
think it's actually like one of those, hey, any
publicity's good publicity for that place? Like
you think it'll help them in some way? No. Okay.
Or hurt them. You know, if it was controversial,
if it was like, you know, a normal table and
the kid was swinging from the rafters and, you
know. Sure. If there was some sort of legitimate
argument, then you can get people on your side,
then yes. I would say yes. Those types of controversies
are great. If you can get at least half the public
with you, this is one of those things where you
can get 0 % of the public with you. So you're
screwed. Now, the woman who had this aperture
and all the influencers that then make videos
like we just watched, gold for them. The business
itself, not so much. Oh, man. I got a couple
other things that I just thought kind of funny
that I'm having fun playing with, so. All right.
So, I love it. This reminded me of something.
Hey, it's cute, right? Absolutely. We talked
about the... the little kids' accents back in
the day. I don't know that they don't talk like
that still. It says bring them back. I feel like
you probably still have some New York kids that
say water. Well, that one kid that got interviewed
on Theo Von's back. Yeah, water. I think that's...
Here's the thing, though, I wanted to bring this.
This made me think about this. I remember this
when we were kids. Uh -huh. When I was in, I
don't know, fifth grade, maybe, we did this play
about Earth Day and conservation and about saving
water. And it's always stuck in my head. There
was always this thing about shut off the water
while you're brushing your teeth, because you
could save gallons of water. And my question,
even then, to the teacher, which they couldn't
answer was, how are we wasting water? In what
way? When you run the water and you don't use
it, it goes down the drain back to the water
pool. Oh, right, right, right. I see where you're
going. It's not like it's one of these. It's
not like a tree that you cut down and you burn
it for fire when it's gone. Right. It's literally
flowing. That's a great point. There is no such
thing as wasting water. Jesus, our childhood
was a lie. You're right. You know what I mean?
There was a big Sesame Street campaign for that.
Never made any sense to me whatsoever. You shouldn't
let the water run while you brush your teeth.
Why not? Maybe it was really they were just instead
of like, listen, we can't really say, hey, kids.
turn the water off so you don't run up the bill
on your goddamn parents. So let's just reframe
it. I think you're onto something there. I don't
know if I am. I think you're onto something.
Don't get me wrong. There is such a thing as
water shortages. They have droughts in different
places. They conserve water. Don't wash your
car, things like that. But we're talking every
day in New York City. There's an unlimited supply
of tap water. There really is. And you don't
use it. the majority of it goes back into the
system. I think it worked though. And maybe I'm
an idiot. There's a good chance that I'm missing
something huge and I just sound like a total
idiot to smart people, but in my 44 plus years,
no one has been able to explain that part to
me. This is why I always said I want to go back
in time and be your childhood friend, because
you just looked at things so much different.
It's great. It doesn't make sense. You're absolutely
right. It's wild. My mom is from the Bronx in
the Westchester County area, so that reminds
me of my childhood of just being around people
with New York accents. I never understood, I
get like the water and pool. I never understood
with an A, like my mom's name was Linda, and
all my aunts and uncles would call her Linda,
Linda, like Ronnie the limo driver, another Howard
Stern reference. Hey Linda, over there Linda,
you know? It's true. It's very strange. Danny,
give me some audio, buddy. Who's this guy? Do
I like him or do I like him? This is how we do
it Sorry, I just I can't hear this song and not
think of this dude, so here's why I'm not completely
on the floor laughing Howie Mandel had a show
that lasted I think three episodes on NBC on
I think a circle I want to say 09 maybe 2010
and it was called This Is How We Do It, like
D -O -I -T, and it was him doing pranks and they
used that song and it ruined it for me. So I
don't want to be a buzzkill on you, but that
was funny, but I just think of - No, I'm just
telling you, any time I see that - Like the LinkedIn
one? Like the LinkedIn ones? The LinkedIn ones
are phenomenal, I should have pulled up some
of those. Those are great. But anyway, so - That's
all I had but there is one more piece of news.
Oh Tuesday, I think we're gonna cut to our special
guests who will deliver that I Forgot about this
Well, that will be right back Okay, so we're
just gonna show you a clip of the announcement
for her new album Okay, what's listen? Reefcase.
Yep, make green on it Yup. What's in it? This
is my brand new album, The Life of a Showgirl.
Yes. So basically, that clip was from Travis
Kelsey's podcast, New Heights, on Tuesday, where
he announced his new album. And somebody texted
me at 1 AM. Yeah, I found out at 1 a .m. You
really need Yeah, I needed to tell you I told
everybody why why but she released She released
it at 12 12 a .m. Because it was her so specific
the main color orange I'm pretty sure the like
track list of all the songs is going to be out
in October Yeah, the the release date hasn't
come out yet. Um But it's gonna be in 2025 keep
an eye out for the new album Yay. I'm Clara.
And I'm Juliet. And yeah. Are you excited about
the new Taylor Swift album, buddy? Not at all.
Awesome. Not at all. But I know many people will.
It's going to sell a lot of copies. I feel like
it's already sold a bunch of copies, and it's
not even for sale yet. Look, I am not from the
camp. of making fun of people who are obsessed
with Taylor Swift. That's good, because it's
like the majority. Well, yeah, not even that.
I don't care about the blowback from it. I just
mean, let people love something. There you go.
When the NFL thing was happening, they're like,
oh, they're caught in a Taylor Swift. They're
caught in a Taylor Swift. So what? Who cares?
She's awesome. People love her. Let her sing.
Let her dance. Let people be happy. There you
go. That's it. So guys, this has been Good News
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see you tomorrow. Tomorrow. Peace out. Peace.