WEBVTT 00:00:08.750 --> 00:00:11.210 Hey folks Matt major from growth mode content. 00:00:11.210 --> 00:00:14.470 Welcome to good news York. It is a new week. 00:00:14.470 --> 00:00:18.370 It's Monday Yes, we're starting like the closest 00:00:18.370 --> 00:00:21.589 to on time. We've ever recorded on a Monday Yeah, 00:00:21.769 --> 00:00:24.190 I am eight cups of coffee in already. I'm on 00:00:24.190 --> 00:00:27.789 my second. I might collapse before lunch anyway 00:00:27.789 --> 00:00:32.670 Joining me as always is my smiley friend Mikey 00:00:32.670 --> 00:00:38.119 B and a returning guest. Yes our hidden growth 00:00:38.119 --> 00:00:40.640 mode content member. She's like the fifth beetle. 00:00:40.799 --> 00:00:44.380 She is. You know what I mean? She is. Jackie 00:00:44.380 --> 00:00:48.820 Vidler's with us. Yay! We love Jackie. Now, Jackie 00:00:48.820 --> 00:00:51.759 is here to talk about an awesome, awesome, awesome 00:00:51.759 --> 00:00:53.619 charity event that she's putting on. We're gonna 00:00:53.619 --> 00:00:55.859 get to that in a few minutes. Sure. But first, 00:00:55.939 --> 00:00:58.479 I just wanted to catch up a little bit and see 00:00:58.479 --> 00:01:00.320 how everybody's been, see how your weekend was. 00:01:00.460 --> 00:01:03.689 It was... Did you... You didn't get arrested 00:01:03.689 --> 00:01:06.010 this weekend? I did not get arrested this weekend. 00:01:06.590 --> 00:01:09.409 That jury's still out on that. I did not get 00:01:09.409 --> 00:01:13.530 arrested. I went to a... Go to Moore football? 00:01:14.250 --> 00:01:16.269 I didn't go to Moore football. I watched football. 00:01:16.269 --> 00:01:19.590 Okay. But I went to a service for a friend's 00:01:19.590 --> 00:01:21.969 mother. She lived 80 -something years. She lived 00:01:21.969 --> 00:01:23.209 a happy life. Way to bring the party down, buddy. 00:01:23.329 --> 00:01:26.870 No, hell no. But it was happy in that when I 00:01:26.870 --> 00:01:29.290 sat there at this ceremony, it makes you think 00:01:29.290 --> 00:01:32.930 about your life and, you know... They were playing 00:01:32.930 --> 00:01:36.950 these songs, and we had to sit there in silence 00:01:36.950 --> 00:01:38.469 and wait through these songs, and one of the 00:01:38.469 --> 00:01:42.049 songs was by Celine Dion. My Heart Will Go On? 00:01:42.409 --> 00:01:46.989 No, it wasn't. It was, um... Oh. She Has More 00:01:46.989 --> 00:01:49.269 Than One Song? Yeah, believe it or not. I don't 00:01:49.269 --> 00:01:51.409 remember. I'm the greatest singer in the world! 00:01:53.230 --> 00:01:56.500 But I gotta say, it made me really think... about 00:01:56.500 --> 00:01:58.579 some things I need to come clean about. And I 00:01:58.579 --> 00:02:00.260 did it on social media yesterday, and I'm gonna 00:02:00.260 --> 00:02:01.799 do it today. Did you listen to Celine Dion? I 00:02:01.799 --> 00:02:07.540 like Limp Bizkit. I like Celine Dion. And I like 00:02:07.540 --> 00:02:10.219 Boyz II Men. And I've been ashamed of that for 00:02:10.219 --> 00:02:12.460 years. And I'm gonna throw an extra one in. I 00:02:12.460 --> 00:02:15.580 love boy band music. And it just feels good to 00:02:15.580 --> 00:02:21.639 say. 98 Degrees was okay. I was an in -sync guy. 00:02:22.219 --> 00:02:24.979 No disrespect to Backstreet. They're back, alright? 00:02:25.340 --> 00:02:28.219 But I just wanted to get that off my chest. I 00:02:28.219 --> 00:02:30.180 was sitting there at this funeral, and it was 00:02:30.180 --> 00:02:32.659 sad, but it was plain, and I found myself just... 00:02:32.659 --> 00:02:34.580 Of all the deep thoughts, you decided to admit 00:02:34.580 --> 00:02:36.180 your bad taste. Yeah, just made me realize how 00:02:36.180 --> 00:02:37.939 much I love Celine. I mean, Alanis Morissette 00:02:37.939 --> 00:02:39.900 will forever be my favorite female artist, and 00:02:39.900 --> 00:02:42.699 I love pink. She is the superior Canadian. Who 00:02:42.699 --> 00:02:45.419 do you think is the greatest female singer of 00:02:45.419 --> 00:02:52.979 all time? Sheer vocal talent. Oh, wow. That's 00:02:52.979 --> 00:02:54.939 a great question. It is a great question. You 00:02:54.939 --> 00:02:57.539 know what, I gotta go deep and go with like Aretha. 00:02:58.020 --> 00:03:01.199 See, that's a very great, that's a great answer. 00:03:01.340 --> 00:03:05.060 And I could never, I would be doing myself a 00:03:05.060 --> 00:03:07.219 disservice if I said, that's not right. You know, 00:03:07.219 --> 00:03:08.259 I would make myself look like I don't know what 00:03:08.259 --> 00:03:09.939 I'm talking about. Cause how can you say Aretha's 00:03:09.939 --> 00:03:12.599 not a great singer? But for me, pound for pound, 00:03:14.539 --> 00:03:17.039 Celine is up there, but I think she gets edged 00:03:17.039 --> 00:03:20.189 by Whitney. I think just Whitney was... All right, 00:03:20.289 --> 00:03:23.629 so you're going... Whitney was everything. ...90s 00:03:23.629 --> 00:03:25.550 superstars, and they no doubt had incredible 00:03:25.550 --> 00:03:28.889 voices. I mean, Mariah's good. Celine's phenomenal, 00:03:29.250 --> 00:03:31.169 but I... Christine Aguilera. I just feel like 00:03:31.169 --> 00:03:33.169 you gotta... To me, if you're gonna say the best 00:03:33.169 --> 00:03:36.129 of all time, you gotta dig a little deeper. I 00:03:36.129 --> 00:03:37.990 feel like Dolly might be in there, Dolly Parton. 00:03:38.009 --> 00:03:40.310 Dolly Parton? Wow, okay. I mean, but also, here's 00:03:40.310 --> 00:03:42.650 the thing. Really? What's awesome about Dolly, 00:03:42.750 --> 00:03:44.729 I think, goes even beyond what she sings, right? 00:03:44.729 --> 00:03:47.030 Because she's a... incredible songwriter who's 00:03:47.030 --> 00:03:48.889 wrote so many of these hits that even Whitney 00:03:48.889 --> 00:03:52.270 sang. Sure. So I don't know if that's necessarily 00:03:52.270 --> 00:03:54.750 if that counts in your in your qualification, 00:03:55.009 --> 00:03:58.050 because her her musical resume goes beyond singing. 00:03:58.169 --> 00:03:59.469 You know what I'm saying? Listen, that's a fair 00:03:59.469 --> 00:04:02.349 point. And I don't even know what the qualifications 00:04:02.349 --> 00:04:04.189 are, because I just made this up. You know, it's 00:04:04.189 --> 00:04:06.330 a great question. But I think I think I got to 00:04:06.330 --> 00:04:08.030 go if I'm going to make, you know, backs against 00:04:08.030 --> 00:04:09.830 the wall. I'm going to I'm going to go Whitney 00:04:09.830 --> 00:04:12.949 and then Celine. All right. Aretha's up there. 00:04:12.990 --> 00:04:14.550 Jackie, what's your yeah, I was going to say. 00:04:15.280 --> 00:04:17.300 on board with you guys, but I love your thought 00:04:17.300 --> 00:04:21.180 process with it goes beyond just their voice 00:04:21.180 --> 00:04:24.819 within the community and just how big their hearts 00:04:24.819 --> 00:04:27.980 are. I'm just thinking incredible female artists, 00:04:28.339 --> 00:04:30.579 these people that are everywhere doing these 00:04:30.579 --> 00:04:31.980 things, helping other artists. Like I said, that's 00:04:31.980 --> 00:04:33.920 why I think of Dolly. You think about all her 00:04:33.920 --> 00:04:36.579 songwriting and producing and everything that 00:04:36.579 --> 00:04:39.920 goes way beyond her just being a great human. 00:04:40.740 --> 00:04:45.360 That was the Bill Super Bowl, I think, 92. That 00:04:45.360 --> 00:04:47.639 national anthem by Whitney Houston to me, to 00:04:47.639 --> 00:04:49.879 this day, is the greatest national anthem performance 00:04:49.879 --> 00:04:52.959 of all time, which is part of the reason I chose 00:04:52.959 --> 00:04:55.420 her. And her cover of I Will Always Love You, 00:04:55.439 --> 00:04:57.259 by the way, that was a Dolly Parton song. Right, 00:04:57.360 --> 00:05:00.439 that's what I'm saying. And my favorite covers 00:05:00.439 --> 00:05:04.459 of all time are ones that become their own thing. 00:05:04.500 --> 00:05:07.779 Like for me, Joe Cocker's help with Little Help, 00:05:08.439 --> 00:05:10.600 help from my friends. I can never get the name 00:05:10.600 --> 00:05:13.399 out. That song to me is the greatest cover of 00:05:13.399 --> 00:05:15.300 all time I would put I will always love you up 00:05:15.300 --> 00:05:17.220 there as well because it's its own thing if you 00:05:17.220 --> 00:05:19.800 listen to the Beatles I get by with a little 00:05:19.800 --> 00:05:22.879 help from my friends great song It sounds nothing 00:05:22.879 --> 00:05:24.740 like that. Like you forget that the Joe Cocker 00:05:24.740 --> 00:05:26.480 version is a cover of the Beatles song Yeah, 00:05:26.540 --> 00:05:28.759 it's his own animal. No, I'm with you. So I'm 00:05:28.759 --> 00:05:32.000 with you. Anyway, hey on a completely different 00:05:32.000 --> 00:05:34.819 topic I'm sitting here staring at this big dumb 00:05:34.819 --> 00:05:37.879 cup. There's a big dumb cup. We now have Good 00:05:37.879 --> 00:05:42.569 News York big dumb cups Can I say I love the 00:05:42.569 --> 00:05:45.110 sheen? I'm genuinely impressed with the quality. 00:05:45.389 --> 00:05:48.550 Yeah. The first one that we got in, our first 00:05:48.550 --> 00:05:51.509 prototype. It's phenomenal. It's insulated. It's 00:05:51.509 --> 00:05:55.790 whatever. It's like 27 bucks. Get it. All right. 00:05:57.410 --> 00:06:00.750 We also have the regular mugs. I say this only 00:06:00.750 --> 00:06:03.449 to point out something that I think everyone 00:06:03.449 --> 00:06:05.930 should check out. So we did some work this past 00:06:05.930 --> 00:06:09.680 week on GoodNewsYork .com. So we drive everybody 00:06:09.680 --> 00:06:12.240 to YouTube and Facebook and Instagram and all 00:06:12.240 --> 00:06:14.220 these places all the podcast platforms and things 00:06:14.220 --> 00:06:17.759 and we sort of neglected the actual website for 00:06:17.759 --> 00:06:21.019 good news York, right because you know everybody 00:06:21.019 --> 00:06:23.759 looks at these other places if you come to good 00:06:23.759 --> 00:06:27.939 news York calm It is now just the best hub for 00:06:27.939 --> 00:06:29.959 everything that we've got exactly. So if you 00:06:29.959 --> 00:06:32.819 want to watch The live episodes on YouTube right 00:06:32.819 --> 00:06:34.399 there on the front page if you want to listen 00:06:34.399 --> 00:06:36.680 to the audio version of the podcast which is 00:06:36.680 --> 00:06:39.339 something that We need to encourage people to 00:06:39.339 --> 00:06:41.779 do more of. That's sweet. So when I'm driving 00:06:41.779 --> 00:06:44.439 in the car, I don't have a hundred percent like 00:06:44.439 --> 00:06:46.680 that's great. Hundred percent. And if you're 00:06:46.680 --> 00:06:49.879 a podcast person, whatever your favorite podcast 00:06:49.879 --> 00:06:52.939 app, whether it be I Heart, you can just tighten 00:06:52.939 --> 00:06:55.439 it. That thing's Doris. Whether it be I Heart, 00:06:55.660 --> 00:06:59.680 Apple, Spotify, all of those things. The icon 00:06:59.680 --> 00:07:01.199 for that is right on the home page. It'll jump 00:07:01.199 --> 00:07:03.259 into your favorite app so you can use that or 00:07:03.259 --> 00:07:05.800 you can just listen. And right on the home page, 00:07:05.899 --> 00:07:08.949 there is now a link directly to our new merch 00:07:08.949 --> 00:07:11.509 shop. It was the long point that I was trying 00:07:11.509 --> 00:07:12.990 to get to. I would like to shout out and give 00:07:12.990 --> 00:07:16.209 you credit because you were doing most of that 00:07:16.209 --> 00:07:19.050 work here in the office. In fact, you missed 00:07:19.050 --> 00:07:20.529 out on an interview because you were putting 00:07:20.529 --> 00:07:22.370 in so much work. Yeah, I need to finish that 00:07:22.370 --> 00:07:24.889 shit. I just wanted to commend you for your work 00:07:24.889 --> 00:07:27.189 on the website. It looks awesome, dude. And it's 00:07:27.189 --> 00:07:28.490 just easier to tell people when they're like, 00:07:28.970 --> 00:07:31.110 actually somebody on social media this past weekend 00:07:31.110 --> 00:07:33.660 wrote, I love this. Where can I see the full 00:07:33.660 --> 00:07:35.160 episode? I said you can go to our YouTube channel 00:07:35.160 --> 00:07:37.240 or go to goodnewsyork .com. That's the best place 00:07:37.240 --> 00:07:39.339 to go. What's nice is that there's an automatic 00:07:39.339 --> 00:07:40.920 player, and this is the part that's kind of neat. 00:07:41.259 --> 00:07:43.160 Do not nerd out a little bit. But everything 00:07:43.160 --> 00:07:45.639 in there is mostly automated. So what that means 00:07:45.639 --> 00:07:47.540 is when we put our episodes on the different 00:07:47.540 --> 00:07:49.819 platforms, they automatically show up on the 00:07:49.819 --> 00:07:52.699 website. So it's as quick as you could find anything, 00:07:53.040 --> 00:07:54.660 you'll be able to find it on our website, which 00:07:54.660 --> 00:07:57.819 is pretty cool. And you just said how many episodes. 00:07:58.420 --> 00:08:00.699 What is whatever? I guess this is episode 81, 00:08:00.920 --> 00:08:05.480 Danny. 81. 81. That's nuts. Wild. It's wild. 00:08:05.500 --> 00:08:07.660 There's a lot of really friggin' cool people 00:08:07.660 --> 00:08:10.259 that you brought on the show. Yeah. I see them 00:08:10.259 --> 00:08:13.339 poppin' up and I'm like, man. We have been so 00:08:13.339 --> 00:08:17.839 lucky today to have so many great guests. It's 00:08:17.839 --> 00:08:19.120 almost like a... And we're just gettin' started. 00:08:19.319 --> 00:08:21.699 Remember that show, This Is Your Life? It's like 00:08:21.699 --> 00:08:23.839 old, like our parents, grandparents watched it. 00:08:23.860 --> 00:08:25.560 Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what it feels like 00:08:25.560 --> 00:08:28.139 working here because it's like all the connections 00:08:28.139 --> 00:08:32.620 that you and I... and Danny and whoever's involved 00:08:32.620 --> 00:08:36.000 in all of this. Everyone we've ever met and networked 00:08:36.000 --> 00:08:38.519 with are just coming on the show and it's coming 00:08:38.519 --> 00:08:40.379 back from your past life and it's just been awesome. 00:08:40.519 --> 00:08:43.600 Oh yeah, you connect with old friends and share 00:08:43.600 --> 00:08:45.720 why they're awesome. That's why we do this, right? 00:08:45.759 --> 00:08:48.039 It is why we do. And if you're unsure, if I'm 00:08:48.039 --> 00:08:50.720 in my 40s, earlier I said, I really like the 00:08:50.720 --> 00:08:52.940 sheen of this. Do you believe I said sheen? It 00:08:52.940 --> 00:08:54.700 is definitely a... But you know what I mean? 00:08:54.879 --> 00:08:56.460 Like, I like... Who are you, Michael? Who am 00:08:56.460 --> 00:08:58.919 I, Jackie? But look at that. It's nice and shiny. 00:08:58.919 --> 00:09:01.179 You're such a dad. I am a dad. Total dad. I love 00:09:01.179 --> 00:09:04.820 being a dad. Anyway, I want to talk about one 00:09:04.820 --> 00:09:06.960 more thing, and then we're gonna get into the 00:09:06.960 --> 00:09:09.759 goodies, because this was kind of amusing. I 00:09:09.759 --> 00:09:12.700 had a post go viral on LinkedIn. Yes, yes, yes, 00:09:12.899 --> 00:09:16.730 yes. LinkedIn. All right. And if you haven't 00:09:16.730 --> 00:09:19.389 guessed, it was for our IT side of the business. 00:09:19.990 --> 00:09:22.429 It's the place that I probably talk about IT 00:09:22.429 --> 00:09:24.529 more than anything on these different platforms. 00:09:24.610 --> 00:09:26.470 That's the place that seems to get the most attention 00:09:26.470 --> 00:09:30.009 for that. And in any case, all I did was share 00:09:30.009 --> 00:09:33.009 my professional experience with Microsoft Teams 00:09:33.009 --> 00:09:36.889 as your business phone system. This is an option, 00:09:37.149 --> 00:09:41.289 okay? It's the worst option in my professional 00:09:41.289 --> 00:09:44.629 opinion. It is. And here's the thing, I don't 00:09:44.629 --> 00:09:48.909 mean to bash Microsoft as an IT provider. All 00:09:48.909 --> 00:09:50.889 of our clients have Microsoft licensing that 00:09:50.889 --> 00:09:52.769 we provide. There's so many other tools that 00:09:52.769 --> 00:09:55.730 are superior to everything else. That does not 00:09:55.730 --> 00:09:58.769 mean every product they make is the best choice. 00:09:59.649 --> 00:10:03.350 And Teams calling or Teams phone is a prime example 00:10:03.350 --> 00:10:06.610 of that. So I went on to just kind of describe 00:10:06.610 --> 00:10:11.529 some of the issues with it and laid out that 00:10:11.529 --> 00:10:15.000 A, we offer an incredible solution that does 00:10:15.000 --> 00:10:17.720 all those things. But there's like 100 other 00:10:17.720 --> 00:10:21.799 options that are better than Teams, right? 100%. 00:10:21.799 --> 00:10:26.240 This post went super viral and a large number 00:10:26.240 --> 00:10:29.740 of folks agree with me. And then there was the 00:10:29.740 --> 00:10:34.179 Microsoft fanboys. Oh yeah. And let me tell you, 00:10:34.820 --> 00:10:38.000 IT guys and I am one are some of the snarkiest 00:10:38.000 --> 00:10:41.940 assholes on the planet. especially when they 00:10:41.940 --> 00:10:45.500 decide that their opinion is superior. It's really 00:10:45.500 --> 00:10:47.379 kind of amusing. The other thing that I found 00:10:47.379 --> 00:10:49.679 really incredible is the fact, I didn't really 00:10:49.679 --> 00:10:51.779 realize this, the fact that there are still what 00:10:51.779 --> 00:10:55.379 they call a Microsoft shop, right? What that 00:10:55.379 --> 00:11:00.120 is is that's a IT provider typically that not 00:11:00.120 --> 00:11:02.720 only offers Microsoft like literally all of us 00:11:02.720 --> 00:11:07.700 do, but they're a thousand percent in. everything 00:11:07.700 --> 00:11:09.879 that they want to do in their customer's environment 00:11:09.879 --> 00:11:12.960 has to be within this suite, even though there 00:11:12.960 --> 00:11:14.840 might be better ways to do different pieces. 00:11:16.100 --> 00:11:18.220 And it's very strange to me, because back in 00:11:18.220 --> 00:11:20.080 the day, it sort of made sense. Back in the day, 00:11:20.139 --> 00:11:23.340 the model worked where if you were our client, 00:11:23.639 --> 00:11:26.080 we had you sign on and say we were your partner, 00:11:26.379 --> 00:11:29.299 and Microsoft would pay us. You'd buy your Microsoft 00:11:29.299 --> 00:11:31.279 licensing, whatever, and they'd pay us a fee. 00:11:31.639 --> 00:11:35.039 It was nice, and I could understand. It was, 00:11:35.259 --> 00:11:37.159 and we used to get checks in the mail every month 00:11:37.159 --> 00:11:39.740 for Microsoft, right? And I could sort of understand 00:11:39.740 --> 00:11:42.799 at that point why folks were rabidly loyal to 00:11:42.799 --> 00:11:45.860 exclusively selling their stuff. It doesn't work 00:11:45.860 --> 00:11:47.120 that way anymore. It hasn't worked that way for 00:11:47.120 --> 00:11:49.240 a long time. Now the way it works is we, the 00:11:49.240 --> 00:11:53.279 IT provider, buy all the licensing up front and 00:11:53.279 --> 00:11:56.539 charge our clients, and we get a little bit of 00:11:56.539 --> 00:11:58.419 a wholesale discount. And when I say little, 00:11:58.460 --> 00:12:02.470 I mean like pennies, right? The only real advantage 00:12:02.470 --> 00:12:04.809 you can have is if you sell a lot more, you will 00:12:04.809 --> 00:12:07.450 get more volume discounts. But that's the only 00:12:07.450 --> 00:12:09.549 carrot. You know what I mean? And it is nothing 00:12:09.549 --> 00:12:12.649 like when they used to pay us. So the fact that 00:12:12.649 --> 00:12:14.529 there are still today these companies, these 00:12:14.529 --> 00:12:18.190 IT providers that are just rabidly loyal to this 00:12:18.190 --> 00:12:20.769 one vendor when there are millions to choose 00:12:20.769 --> 00:12:24.769 from. Strange. Drives me insane. You know, and 00:12:24.769 --> 00:12:27.570 just to see these guys... argue about the well 00:12:27.570 --> 00:12:30.129 You know you can do this if you add these and 00:12:30.129 --> 00:12:32.269 all these different pieces And I'm like listen 00:12:32.269 --> 00:12:34.710 every other solution. It's very easy. It does 00:12:34.710 --> 00:12:36.330 everything anybody could have imagined with nothing 00:12:36.330 --> 00:12:38.929 special out of the box It's great You guys are 00:12:38.929 --> 00:12:40.929 all talking about things that are capable of 00:12:40.929 --> 00:12:42.889 if you have a full IT team, and they do lots 00:12:42.889 --> 00:12:46.190 of custom stuff This is not a viable solution 00:12:46.190 --> 00:12:48.610 for everyday businesses And it drives me crazy 00:12:48.610 --> 00:12:51.090 when I see some of these other IT providers how 00:12:51.090 --> 00:12:54.409 they go about things So much so to say one of 00:12:54.409 --> 00:12:57.039 one guy actually argued with me when I made the 00:12:57.039 --> 00:12:59.360 point that it is very important to get the end 00:12:59.360 --> 00:13:01.480 user, the everyday person, it's very important 00:13:01.480 --> 00:13:03.860 to get their buy -in and give them a tool that 00:13:03.860 --> 00:13:07.659 they will use. Yeah. Right? The user doesn't 00:13:07.659 --> 00:13:09.860 matter. This tool is superior and this is what 00:13:09.860 --> 00:13:13.019 we as IT give them. Like, what planet do you 00:13:13.019 --> 00:13:16.519 live on? Like, that's a nice idea, right? And 00:13:16.519 --> 00:13:19.100 we do that in the IT world on the backside, right? 00:13:19.120 --> 00:13:20.840 There's tools that we use, there's tools we use 00:13:20.840 --> 00:13:23.399 to keep you safe, stuff that you as a user will 00:13:23.399 --> 00:13:26.320 never in a million years see. That I can dictate 00:13:26.320 --> 00:13:28.720 but when it comes to things that you need to 00:13:28.720 --> 00:13:31.460 do to do your job We need to make sure we're 00:13:31.460 --> 00:13:34.919 providing a tool that you can and will use correct 00:13:34.919 --> 00:13:36.779 I can't tell you how many companies I've seen 00:13:36.779 --> 00:13:39.399 over the years have spent Hundreds of thousands 00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:42.179 millions of dollars on systems and processes 00:13:42.179 --> 00:13:44.960 and things like this That never get completed 00:13:44.960 --> 00:13:48.039 or never get used once completed Because they 00:13:48.039 --> 00:13:49.480 never asked the people who are actually going 00:13:49.480 --> 00:13:52.100 to use it for their input So they end up with 00:13:52.100 --> 00:13:55.340 a piece of trash that nobody wants to use and 00:13:55.340 --> 00:13:57.100 all that time, effort, and money that the company 00:13:57.100 --> 00:14:01.059 invested is gone. And the fact that this has 00:14:01.059 --> 00:14:04.200 become like a common mindset among IT providers 00:14:04.200 --> 00:14:07.919 kind of shows you why I run an IT company. Right. 00:14:08.000 --> 00:14:11.580 Because it's not the right way. Yeah, and this 00:14:11.580 --> 00:14:14.200 isn't my wheelhouse, so forgive me, but, you 00:14:14.200 --> 00:14:16.960 know, I too was on that thread with you. I was 00:14:16.960 --> 00:14:19.500 monitoring the situation. I thought one of your 00:14:19.500 --> 00:14:22.379 best points, and I'm paraphrasing, you could 00:14:22.379 --> 00:14:25.120 elaborate on it, was that I think at some point 00:14:25.120 --> 00:14:27.480 you were talking about kind of all the things 00:14:27.480 --> 00:14:31.340 that teams can or cannot do. And the one person 00:14:31.340 --> 00:14:33.580 arguing with you was like, well, we don't need 00:14:33.580 --> 00:14:35.580 it to do texting. And you're like, excuse me, 00:14:35.659 --> 00:14:39.960 it's 2025. SMS is so important. I don't know 00:14:39.960 --> 00:14:41.899 if you want to talk about that. No, I mean, yeah, 00:14:41.899 --> 00:14:44.759 that's a great point. That's another really ridiculous, 00:14:45.259 --> 00:14:49.139 outdated boomer mindset. They don't understand. 00:14:49.379 --> 00:14:51.440 Nobody wants to call you on the phone. No one 00:14:51.440 --> 00:14:54.149 wants to speak to you. Right. We want to text, 00:14:54.250 --> 00:14:57.190 right? And we don't want to go to your website 00:14:57.190 --> 00:14:59.870 and mess, find your chat. We don't want to do 00:14:59.870 --> 00:15:01.909 those things. We just the phone number that you 00:15:01.909 --> 00:15:03.929 advertise on billboards and trucks and business 00:15:03.929 --> 00:15:06.350 cards for the last 100 years. We want to be able 00:15:06.350 --> 00:15:08.009 just to send a regular message, just like we 00:15:08.009 --> 00:15:11.789 can to our friends. For a company to go, we don't 00:15:11.789 --> 00:15:14.350 need that, it tells me that we don't want to 00:15:14.350 --> 00:15:17.490 be in business in 2025. That's what it says to 00:15:17.490 --> 00:15:18.889 me. Let me ask you this, because I'm sitting 00:15:18.889 --> 00:15:21.399 here, I'm listening to you talk about it. Do 00:15:21.399 --> 00:15:24.519 you think this is a product of the pandemic happens? 00:15:24.720 --> 00:15:27.279 The pandemic kind of microwaves everything for 00:15:27.279 --> 00:15:29.840 everybody. You know, all of a sudden we're doing 00:15:29.840 --> 00:15:33.960 Zoom class or, you know, meetings on Zoom. And 00:15:33.960 --> 00:15:35.980 next thing you know, work from home becomes a 00:15:35.980 --> 00:15:40.259 mainstay. Do you think that they maybe developed 00:15:40.259 --> 00:15:42.100 teams, I don't want to say too soon, because 00:15:42.100 --> 00:15:43.840 it was needed, but they kind of rushed it and 00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:45.399 they're missing out on some of the details along 00:15:45.399 --> 00:15:47.279 the way? Funny that you say that, because that 00:15:47.279 --> 00:15:49.240 is sort of what happened. teams existed before 00:15:49.240 --> 00:15:51.120 the pandemic, then exactly what you're talking 00:15:51.120 --> 00:15:54.500 about. They put the pedal to the metal and cranked 00:15:54.500 --> 00:15:57.639 out a bunch of stuff. And you know what, it had 00:15:57.639 --> 00:16:01.220 a lot of promise. So we spent, I can't tell you 00:16:01.220 --> 00:16:05.039 how long as IT providers trying to fully embrace 00:16:05.039 --> 00:16:08.080 teams. Like my issue with it does not come from 00:16:08.080 --> 00:16:10.960 like hearsay or personal preference. It comes 00:16:10.960 --> 00:16:13.299 from really trying to go all in on this because 00:16:13.299 --> 00:16:16.639 it sounds in theory like a great idea. You got 00:16:16.639 --> 00:16:20.389 one tool for everything. Cool except that tool 00:16:20.389 --> 00:16:23.850 is junk. It doesn't do anything. Well like of 00:16:23.850 --> 00:16:27.169 all the features that it provides All of them 00:16:27.169 --> 00:16:29.529 are lacking and it's like, you know, we've tried 00:16:29.529 --> 00:16:31.429 so hard to do this We tried to do it for file 00:16:31.429 --> 00:16:33.950 management and things like that It's a front 00:16:33.950 --> 00:16:35.649 -end for SharePoint go right to SharePoint. You 00:16:35.649 --> 00:16:37.529 have a thousand percent better experience, you 00:16:37.529 --> 00:16:42.850 know video conferencing works half the time At 00:16:42.850 --> 00:16:46.710 best and we go noise. It's phenomenal It's shit 00:16:47.639 --> 00:16:50.059 Any person in any office who's ever used teams 00:16:50.059 --> 00:16:52.139 for more than three meetings in their life will 00:16:52.139 --> 00:16:55.320 tell you that it's shit There's other options. 00:16:55.600 --> 00:16:57.799 I mean again. This isn't all I'm saying I used 00:16:57.799 --> 00:17:00.179 it briefly while I went back to college. I hated 00:17:00.179 --> 00:17:02.139 it Yeah, but I mean this is from someone who's 00:17:02.139 --> 00:17:04.940 just like ah this thing sucks You're giving you 00:17:04.940 --> 00:17:06.400 know you were giving so you're saying that's 00:17:06.400 --> 00:17:09.079 what that's what matters right? That's true everyday 00:17:09.079 --> 00:17:12.400 users like you who are not tech guys Yeah, should 00:17:12.400 --> 00:17:15.319 be able to use a product easily. Yeah, you know 00:17:15.450 --> 00:17:17.930 You know, my least favorite part about LinkedIn 00:17:17.930 --> 00:17:21.630 is... Because you go to Twitter, right? You go 00:17:21.630 --> 00:17:24.230 to Facebook. It's a goddamn free -for -all. F 00:17:24.230 --> 00:17:27.690 you, F this. But on LinkedIn, we have to be professional. 00:17:27.930 --> 00:17:30.750 So it's just passive -aggressive bullshit. Yes. 00:17:30.930 --> 00:17:33.390 And if there's one thing I hate in this world, 00:17:33.549 --> 00:17:35.690 it's people that are... I'd rather you tell me 00:17:35.690 --> 00:17:38.470 I hate you, get out of my face, than be passive 00:17:38.470 --> 00:17:40.549 -aggressive with me. Corporate speak on LinkedIn 00:17:40.549 --> 00:17:43.150 is just... Corporate, yes. Corporate passive 00:17:43.150 --> 00:17:45.549 -aggressive arguing is... It's actually pretty 00:17:45.549 --> 00:17:48.329 fun to watch, but I can't stand that. Yeah, you 00:17:48.329 --> 00:17:50.490 said you were monitoring them. I was monitoring. 00:17:51.089 --> 00:17:52.490 You were monitoring. I was. You were eating popcorn. 00:17:52.549 --> 00:17:55.750 I was like, ooh, ooh, ooh. Because at one point, 00:17:55.849 --> 00:17:58.450 they're like, the guy gave you kind of the passive 00:17:58.450 --> 00:18:00.069 aggressive, like, well, Matt, if you'd like to 00:18:00.069 --> 00:18:02.069 hop on a call, I can tell you about all the features. 00:18:02.250 --> 00:18:05.130 And you're like, no, thanks. I spent like five 00:18:05.130 --> 00:18:07.750 years dealing with this bullshit. Like, you know, 00:18:07.750 --> 00:18:09.670 and I was just like. I don't need a demo. Yeah. 00:18:09.890 --> 00:18:12.470 Thanks. Just the passive aggressive. I love it. 00:18:12.539 --> 00:18:14.259 They can't tell you to go fuck yourself. They're 00:18:14.259 --> 00:18:17.140 like, if you could kindly go on your way now. 00:18:18.640 --> 00:18:20.579 They can't say what they want to say. No, that's 00:18:20.579 --> 00:18:24.059 great. But anyway. In any case. But we can. We 00:18:24.059 --> 00:18:25.920 can say what we want to say. Let's get to the 00:18:25.920 --> 00:18:30.900 good part of the show today. So our friend Jackie 00:18:30.900 --> 00:18:34.039 is not here just to dramatically increase the 00:18:34.039 --> 00:18:36.900 attractiveness of our podcast. Yes, like by 100%. 00:18:36.900 --> 00:18:38.740 Although we really do need to book it more for 00:18:38.740 --> 00:18:41.960 that reason. Yes. She's got an awesome event 00:18:41.960 --> 00:18:44.140 coming on now. I attended this I'm gonna let 00:18:44.140 --> 00:18:46.000 you give the whole spiel But I just want to say 00:18:46.000 --> 00:18:49.220 that like this is something that she is doing 00:18:49.220 --> 00:18:52.000 for a charity organization She doesn't work for 00:18:52.000 --> 00:18:53.940 that charity organizations. He's not a development 00:18:53.940 --> 00:18:56.519 officer. She's that Purely out of the goodness 00:18:56.519 --> 00:18:59.819 of her heart and Jackie I will let you Give folks 00:18:59.819 --> 00:19:01.980 kind of the pitch on on the event coming up. 00:19:01.980 --> 00:19:04.519 Can I do the thing? I did earlier, please. Well, 00:19:04.519 --> 00:19:07.200 I don't know what it is, but go ahead Good morning 00:19:07.200 --> 00:19:10.609 America. I'm Jackie viddler here live in the 00:19:10.609 --> 00:19:14.569 Good News York studios with breaking news. Nice. 00:19:15.049 --> 00:19:17.170 Brought to you by ads on the go. Get ads on the 00:19:17.170 --> 00:19:20.869 go dot com. Yeah, that was good. Breaking news. 00:19:21.069 --> 00:19:25.109 Well, let's hear it. Breaking news. So August 00:19:25.109 --> 00:19:29.690 20th, this Wednesday, two days from now, we are 00:19:29.690 --> 00:19:35.049 my photography studio is throwing our fifth annual 00:19:35.049 --> 00:19:40.450 Vera House fundraiser. Yeah, that's so we and 00:19:40.450 --> 00:19:43.269 we're celebrating 15 years in business, which 00:19:43.269 --> 00:19:47.089 is really cool as we Survived so many things. 00:19:47.089 --> 00:19:51.470 Yeah kind of a huge milestone survived a pandemic 00:19:51.470 --> 00:19:57.549 divorce You know all life stuff And all the proceeds 00:19:57.549 --> 00:20:00.410 are going to their house like every dime goes 00:20:00.410 --> 00:20:04.009 to their house, which is super exciting To me, 00:20:04.049 --> 00:20:08.130 it's that their house is a an organization That 00:20:08.130 --> 00:20:11.630 is kind of near and dear to me for some personal 00:20:11.630 --> 00:20:15.829 experiences. And they just do amazing work in 00:20:15.829 --> 00:20:20.190 the community. And it's fun. So we call it a 00:20:20.190 --> 00:20:25.069 glow up party because we started it. It was actually 00:20:25.069 --> 00:20:29.470 our 11 years in business. But because our 10 00:20:29.470 --> 00:20:33.450 years was 2020. Yeah. And we couldn't do anything. 00:20:33.930 --> 00:20:36.809 Yeah. So in 2021, we called it the 10 again. 00:20:37.230 --> 00:20:40.450 So we were turning 10 again. I love that. And 00:20:40.450 --> 00:20:42.890 we called it the Glow Up Party. And it's just 00:20:42.890 --> 00:20:48.109 grown into this beautiful miracle of a thing 00:20:48.109 --> 00:20:50.490 where we all come together. We have raffles. 00:20:50.650 --> 00:20:55.349 We have silent auction items. We have a DJ. We 00:20:55.349 --> 00:20:58.069 have a huge tent that we just transformed the 00:20:58.069 --> 00:21:00.869 back part of, well, really the entire studio 00:21:00.869 --> 00:21:05.619 into. just a party scene. And we all come together 00:21:05.619 --> 00:21:08.420 and support Vera House. And they organized it 00:21:08.420 --> 00:21:12.440 all on Microsoft Teams. Can you tell us about 00:21:12.440 --> 00:21:14.480 Vera House for those of you? Because I just learned 00:21:14.480 --> 00:21:17.539 about Vera House because I'm not from the area. 00:21:18.279 --> 00:21:21.480 It's an amazing organization. Yes. So Vera House 00:21:21.480 --> 00:21:25.200 supports men and women, actually. That's important. 00:21:26.359 --> 00:21:28.960 Yeah. I'm glad you said that. That's awesome. 00:21:29.240 --> 00:21:32.730 That men are abused as well. It goes both ways. 00:21:33.410 --> 00:21:37.390 So they support men, women, and children who 00:21:37.390 --> 00:21:43.869 have been abused in multiple ways, whether it's 00:21:43.869 --> 00:21:46.529 giving them things that they need, getting them 00:21:46.529 --> 00:21:49.289 on their own, bringing them in, giving them shelter. 00:21:50.089 --> 00:21:53.470 It's a really awesome organization. Funny story, 00:21:53.470 --> 00:21:55.670 my mom actually worked there when I was a kid. 00:21:55.670 --> 00:21:58.849 Oh, wow. And she used to bring me to work with 00:21:58.849 --> 00:22:01.599 her, and I would do some of the ladies' nails 00:22:01.599 --> 00:22:06.440 and their makeup and just kind of help boost 00:22:06.440 --> 00:22:10.779 their self -esteem. And so it's kind of transcended 00:22:10.779 --> 00:22:13.619 over the years into what I do now. So this has 00:22:13.619 --> 00:22:17.960 more meaning for you than most. That's amazing. 00:22:18.140 --> 00:22:21.400 Absolutely. And you really have figured out how 00:22:21.400 --> 00:22:25.420 to put on quite an event because between the 00:22:25.420 --> 00:22:27.819 organization and just everything that you've 00:22:27.819 --> 00:22:30.720 got there in the good time. Yeah. That's the 00:22:30.720 --> 00:22:33.059 best part. You're onto something here. It's like 00:22:33.059 --> 00:22:36.099 partying, like bringing everyone together to 00:22:36.099 --> 00:22:41.940 party to give back to something that's a huge 00:22:41.940 --> 00:22:46.420 part of our community. We have Kam's Pizza that's 00:22:46.420 --> 00:22:48.980 coming out and making pizza. Our man Tony, best 00:22:48.980 --> 00:22:52.000 pizza in Syracuse. Seriously. And pizza is kind 00:22:52.000 --> 00:22:53.779 of like, you asked me what my favorite food is. 00:22:54.079 --> 00:22:55.799 He's like, what if I did pizzas this year? I'm 00:22:55.799 --> 00:23:01.519 like, I love you. Hell yes. And we have five 00:23:01.519 --> 00:23:09.359 points. Liquor and wine is donating. We have 00:23:09.359 --> 00:23:12.559 a champagne toast and we have a signature drink. 00:23:13.579 --> 00:23:19.380 We also have a fair deli. So fair deli is donating 00:23:19.380 --> 00:23:23.460 beer and water. And so we have a bunch of different 00:23:23.460 --> 00:23:26.079 vendors that are coming in and just. donating 00:23:26.079 --> 00:23:28.579 for an amazing cause. This year, I'm really excited. 00:23:28.700 --> 00:23:32.539 We have Cordero Collective, which is a tattoo 00:23:32.539 --> 00:23:35.460 shop. And they're doing pop -up tattoos, so there's 00:23:35.460 --> 00:23:37.039 going to be two tattoo artists. Wait, you can 00:23:37.039 --> 00:23:39.759 get tattooed at the event? Yes. Well, they do 00:23:39.759 --> 00:23:43.079 face tattoos. Imagine that. If someone walks 00:23:43.079 --> 00:23:44.960 up, they're like, I love this. Can I get the 00:23:44.960 --> 00:23:49.839 Tyson? How much of a charitable donation would 00:23:49.839 --> 00:23:52.140 I have to make to get you to put a Good News 00:23:52.140 --> 00:23:55.119 York logo on? On my face? I'm not your face. 00:23:55.220 --> 00:23:58.119 I wouldn't make anybody do that. Okay. But let's 00:23:58.119 --> 00:24:00.279 get a tattoo of our logo. How much would I have 00:24:00.279 --> 00:24:04.200 to donate to Vera Haus? For their sake, 500. 00:24:04.200 --> 00:24:06.140 Keep in mind, I'm not giving you any money in 00:24:06.140 --> 00:24:08.420 this scenario. I don't care. Donate what you 00:24:08.420 --> 00:24:10.940 want. I would do it. I would do it. I would do 00:24:10.940 --> 00:24:14.279 it. I've already got, I don't know, six, seven 00:24:14.279 --> 00:24:17.920 tattoos. Why not? See, you guys are all tattooed. 00:24:17.960 --> 00:24:20.819 I don't have anything. Yeah, but that's cool. 00:24:20.990 --> 00:24:22.710 It's almost cooler not to have them. I don't 00:24:22.710 --> 00:24:24.650 know about all that. Yeah, there's not many people 00:24:24.650 --> 00:24:26.670 that don't have tattoos anymore, that's for sure. 00:24:27.009 --> 00:24:28.650 That's true. It is, yeah. Definitely. It's rare. 00:24:29.630 --> 00:24:32.690 I will do the Good News York tattoo, but nothing 00:24:32.690 --> 00:24:35.930 from here up. Just anywhere else. Yeah, yeah. 00:24:35.950 --> 00:24:40.609 Right? What else can we get like pierced or head 00:24:40.609 --> 00:24:42.470 shaved or anything like that at the event? Are 00:24:42.470 --> 00:24:45.230 you looking to get like the bull ring? Imagine 00:24:45.230 --> 00:24:46.910 that. I figure we'll go all out. Hey, I want 00:24:46.910 --> 00:24:49.490 to get a face tattoo. I want to pierce my septum 00:24:49.490 --> 00:24:51.230 and can you shave my head? Here's the thing, 00:24:51.410 --> 00:24:53.190 we could do all that, and then she could do a 00:24:53.190 --> 00:24:55.269 photo shoot of it right on the spot. On the spot. 00:24:55.269 --> 00:24:57.230 Before and after. It would be... I mean, dude, 00:24:57.349 --> 00:24:58.809 I think it would raise... I mean, if you said 00:24:58.809 --> 00:25:01.109 that over the mic at the party, this guy will 00:25:01.109 --> 00:25:04.089 get a face tattoo, his head shaved, and his septum 00:25:04.089 --> 00:25:06.690 pierced. Pony up. I think everyone would be like, 00:25:06.750 --> 00:25:08.849 I gotta see this. I don't even think we had to 00:25:08.849 --> 00:25:13.009 do all the three. Yeah. Jackie, I want to say 00:25:13.009 --> 00:25:15.069 that the other thing that's pretty neat, and 00:25:15.069 --> 00:25:16.769 again, you're celebrating how many years in business. 00:25:17.039 --> 00:25:18.819 I think it's pretty awesome because it also becomes 00:25:18.819 --> 00:25:20.680 an open house for your studio as well, right? 00:25:20.839 --> 00:25:23.619 Folks get to see what you do in that awesome 00:25:23.619 --> 00:25:27.059 space. And we talk about our studio, but your 00:25:27.059 --> 00:25:30.480 photo studio is incredible. And you've got what, 00:25:30.720 --> 00:25:34.140 three or four different room sets? Yeah, so we 00:25:34.140 --> 00:25:36.599 have a big shooting space, and then we have a 00:25:36.599 --> 00:25:39.680 bedroom set with multiple. I kind of use every 00:25:39.680 --> 00:25:43.339 nook and cranny in the studio. But definitely 00:25:43.339 --> 00:25:47.559 working with growth mode. gives us the option 00:25:47.559 --> 00:25:50.359 to be able to do things in my studio as well, 00:25:50.460 --> 00:25:52.960 which is really cool because then you have, you 00:25:52.960 --> 00:25:55.920 know, totally so many different options, whether 00:25:55.920 --> 00:25:59.119 it's in their space here or my studio, we've 00:25:59.119 --> 00:26:04.299 got a bunch of different. That's so cool. Jackie, 00:26:04.539 --> 00:26:07.299 at your event last year, the most fun part, I 00:26:07.299 --> 00:26:11.980 think, was the auction, right? Yeah. So can you 00:26:11.980 --> 00:26:14.640 just quickly take folks through. They've probably 00:26:14.640 --> 00:26:16.940 seen a silent auction before, but just kind of 00:26:16.940 --> 00:26:18.880 how that works and some of the things folks can 00:26:18.880 --> 00:26:22.720 get in there. So this year, we have Stacey Cook, 00:26:23.119 --> 00:26:26.619 actually. Nice. Oh, Stace. Stab and jab podcast. 00:26:27.099 --> 00:26:32.180 Amazing, yes. She donated a couple different 00:26:32.180 --> 00:26:37.109 things, which amounts to quite a bit. Botox, 00:26:37.109 --> 00:26:39.369 and I'm not familiar with it. Legit beauty treatment. 00:26:39.470 --> 00:26:42.910 Yes. Yes, those things. She does the best things. 00:26:43.569 --> 00:26:46.829 Yes. Yes. Treatment. Yep. And I'm giving away, 00:26:46.950 --> 00:26:49.910 well, my studio is giving away a $500 gift card 00:26:49.910 --> 00:26:52.690 too. Wow. So the silent auction, you know, it's 00:26:52.690 --> 00:26:55.509 fun because you kind of go back and you see where 00:26:55.509 --> 00:26:58.190 you're at as far as money goes. It's like old 00:26:58.190 --> 00:27:01.569 school eBay. Yeah. You know? Yep. You don't know, 00:27:01.630 --> 00:27:03.410 like you keep going back, except you can check. 00:27:03.529 --> 00:27:06.569 You know, you can say, oh, who's betting what 00:27:06.569 --> 00:27:09.650 or donating what? But the only thing I don't 00:27:09.650 --> 00:27:11.390 like about Silent Ox is you don't get the... 00:27:11.390 --> 00:27:16.369 I love when they bring in those... Stacy actually 00:27:16.369 --> 00:27:19.210 kind of did that last year. I could see that. 00:27:20.309 --> 00:27:23.990 I could hear that. Last year, our buddy Dan, 00:27:23.990 --> 00:27:27.769 the car man, donated some mini bikes, right? 00:27:28.009 --> 00:27:32.200 What? It was great. For real? Yeah, like motorized 00:27:32.200 --> 00:27:34.940 little pocket bikes. But it was a kid's, like 00:27:34.940 --> 00:27:36.920 a kid's size. Yeah, but that's full size for 00:27:36.920 --> 00:27:40.539 me. Well, for him, yeah. That's a road hog for 00:27:40.539 --> 00:27:43.400 this guy. He rode around on it and he's a big 00:27:43.400 --> 00:27:47.640 dude, so. Yeah, that's awesome. But yeah, we've 00:27:47.640 --> 00:27:50.660 got some pretty cool stuff. I saw a video from, 00:27:50.759 --> 00:27:53.119 I don't know if it was last year's event or years 00:27:53.119 --> 00:27:55.140 past, and it looked, not only did it look awesome, 00:27:55.740 --> 00:27:57.859 But it was just really impressive. You guys raised 00:27:57.859 --> 00:28:00.640 like over $5 ,000 from Vera House. So this is 00:28:00.640 --> 00:28:03.460 no like small event where we're gonna raise a 00:28:03.460 --> 00:28:05.380 couple hundred, because look, any amount of money 00:28:05.380 --> 00:28:08.559 is great. But you guys are bringing in... We're 00:28:08.559 --> 00:28:11.140 trying, every year we're trying to level up and 00:28:11.140 --> 00:28:14.720 being that this is our fifth annual and 15 years 00:28:14.720 --> 00:28:18.259 in business, it's a huge, yeah, we're going big 00:28:18.259 --> 00:28:20.539 or go home. You're trying to up the game this 00:28:20.539 --> 00:28:23.039 year? Absolutely. I love it. We're trying to 00:28:23.039 --> 00:28:26.160 make it as big as, so when you asked if we could 00:28:26.160 --> 00:28:28.240 do this, I'm like, absolutely, I want to get 00:28:28.240 --> 00:28:31.119 it out to every year. It's not too late to get 00:28:31.119 --> 00:28:34.660 pre -sale tickets. We have swag bags. and put 00:28:34.660 --> 00:28:37.460 a couple extra cool things in this bag this year. 00:28:38.279 --> 00:28:40.420 Obviously, the tattoo thing is pretty freaking 00:28:40.420 --> 00:28:44.619 cool too. But everyone who pre -registers, we 00:28:44.619 --> 00:28:47.859 cap it at 100 people. So if you want to get in 00:28:47.859 --> 00:28:50.799 there, you got to get in there quick. But it's 00:28:50.799 --> 00:28:55.180 $25 pre -sale up until tomorrow and then $30 00:28:55.180 --> 00:28:58.460 at the door. But you get pizza and drinks and 00:28:58.460 --> 00:29:00.819 free. And that's all the donation. It's a hundred 00:29:00.819 --> 00:29:03.079 percent of that hundred percent goes to donation. 00:29:03.079 --> 00:29:05.559 So you got your tickets at the door You've got 00:29:05.559 --> 00:29:08.519 the silent auction and and I'm guessing you're 00:29:08.519 --> 00:29:10.079 happy to take just straight -up donations if 00:29:10.079 --> 00:29:11.880 folks want to yes contribute as well, right? 00:29:12.140 --> 00:29:14.900 So thank you for bringing that up instead of 00:29:14.900 --> 00:29:19.339 paying for your Ticket you can actually bring 00:29:19.339 --> 00:29:22.880 items To donate to Vera house. Oh, I didn't even 00:29:22.880 --> 00:29:25.339 know that yes, so we actually have it on the 00:29:25.339 --> 00:29:29.150 website so you can And we have a QR code and 00:29:29.150 --> 00:29:32.490 the website to be able to register. But yeah, 00:29:32.589 --> 00:29:35.329 you can bring, we had a whole mess of stuff that 00:29:35.329 --> 00:29:37.410 we had to bring to Vera House. I was like in 00:29:37.410 --> 00:29:39.849 tears when I presented them with the check and 00:29:39.849 --> 00:29:42.410 bringing all this stuff in. That's awesome. Yeah, 00:29:42.410 --> 00:29:45.289 it was really cool. And they were super appreciative 00:29:45.289 --> 00:29:48.930 and it's just, it's awesome. Jackie, if folks 00:29:48.930 --> 00:29:50.869 want to participate or if they can't make it 00:29:50.869 --> 00:29:53.009 and they just want to support this cause, where 00:29:53.009 --> 00:29:57.519 do they do that? So on our website, I can share 00:29:57.519 --> 00:30:00.180 the QR code and the web. We'll have all the links 00:30:00.180 --> 00:30:04.140 in the episode. Yeah, absolutely. It's simple. 00:30:04.299 --> 00:30:07.220 It's invoking images dot square dot site, but 00:30:07.220 --> 00:30:11.240 you can donate monetarily if you can't make it, 00:30:11.240 --> 00:30:13.460 but you can also buy your tickets free on that 00:30:13.460 --> 00:30:16.359 site. I love that. I love that. Lots of parking. 00:30:16.920 --> 00:30:20.140 That's key. Yes. She cut a deal with the neighbors, 00:30:20.380 --> 00:30:23.720 I think, and they hooked you up with that. Yep. 00:30:24.000 --> 00:30:26.839 Lakeland Auto across the street allows us to 00:30:26.839 --> 00:30:29.539 use all of their parking space there. And since 00:30:29.539 --> 00:30:30.960 we mentioned that, if you could just throw out 00:30:30.960 --> 00:30:32.740 the address real quick so folks know where it 00:30:32.740 --> 00:30:36.519 is. So it's 841 State Fair Boulevard, August 00:30:36.519 --> 00:30:40.259 20th from 6 to 9 PM. I'm sure we'll have a little 00:30:40.259 --> 00:30:42.359 after party, too. The neighbors, never mind. 00:30:42.599 --> 00:30:45.799 If you're heading towards the fair, and you're 00:30:45.799 --> 00:30:47.380 like, I don't want to deal with this nonsense. 00:30:47.460 --> 00:30:50.019 I want to go to a party, you just keep driving. 00:30:50.180 --> 00:30:52.420 There you go. And you'll be at Jackie's. Yep. 00:30:52.960 --> 00:30:56.359 Or if you want to skip the fair traffic. Yeah, 00:30:56.720 --> 00:30:58.839 ideally don't go past the fair to get there, 00:30:58.859 --> 00:31:02.319 I guess I should say. But same road. Yeah, take 00:31:02.319 --> 00:31:04.839 690 to Lakeland exit, make a left, and we're 00:31:04.839 --> 00:31:08.200 down on the right -hand side. I got a question. 00:31:08.319 --> 00:31:13.480 Will there be a 50 -50 raffle? That's a really... 00:31:13.480 --> 00:31:16.119 I feel like he's going somewhere. I'm a little 00:31:16.119 --> 00:31:18.359 nervous. I'm not gonna lie. No, no, no. Because 00:31:18.359 --> 00:31:21.980 I think 50 -50 is like baseline, the easiest 00:31:21.980 --> 00:31:25.759 way to just make some extra money for a charity. 00:31:25.940 --> 00:31:28.619 I gotta text Courtney right now. She's Courtney 00:31:28.619 --> 00:31:32.819 from Crown Coordination. She helps me plan this 00:31:32.819 --> 00:31:35.140 entire event. She keeps me on the straight and 00:31:35.140 --> 00:31:38.440 narrow... So that's actually really great. Well, 00:31:38.579 --> 00:31:41.339 I think, you know, it's just an easy extra way 00:31:41.339 --> 00:31:43.400 to make money. But here's my thing. I know where 00:31:43.400 --> 00:31:44.779 he's going. Yeah, you know where I'm going. I 00:31:44.779 --> 00:31:47.200 do. About a month ago, I was in a golf tournament, 00:31:47.279 --> 00:31:49.740 and I won the 50 -50. And the charity, it was 00:31:49.740 --> 00:31:52.720 for a charity. So I won it, and I gave it all 00:31:52.720 --> 00:31:54.839 back. And I remember a few people around me were 00:31:54.839 --> 00:31:57.500 like, dude, but it's 50 -50. Like, they already 00:31:57.500 --> 00:31:59.660 get 50%. Like, it's good that you gave it back, 00:31:59.680 --> 00:32:01.039 but you should have kept some for yourself. And 00:32:01.039 --> 00:32:03.890 I'm like, no, I don't. What do you think the 00:32:03.890 --> 00:32:06.490 unwritten rule? There's no right or wrong answer. 00:32:07.170 --> 00:32:08.769 And a charity, the go -to move is you've got 00:32:08.769 --> 00:32:12.029 to give it back. When I donate money to 50 -50 00:32:12.029 --> 00:32:14.930 and it's a charity, I go in with the mindset 00:32:14.930 --> 00:32:18.630 I'm essentially just giving my money away, and 00:32:18.630 --> 00:32:21.789 if I win, I'm not going to walk away winning 00:32:21.789 --> 00:32:25.009 anything. That's me. I don't think anybody's 00:32:25.009 --> 00:32:26.650 wrong if they keep it. I'm just trying to feel 00:32:26.650 --> 00:32:28.630 it out. I'm always curious about that. Don't 00:32:28.630 --> 00:32:31.599 you get a little bit of that clout, too? Everybody's 00:32:31.599 --> 00:32:34.019 like, yeah, you look cool, too. This good guy, 00:32:34.119 --> 00:32:36.119 you get the money back. Next thing you know, 00:32:36.140 --> 00:32:38.079 everybody's buying you a drink or something before 00:32:38.079 --> 00:32:39.539 you know what you got. That's the best part. 00:32:39.660 --> 00:32:42.299 I did that one year at a golf tournament, and 00:32:42.299 --> 00:32:45.220 I gave it back. And I mean, everybody was like, 00:32:45.319 --> 00:32:48.440 dude. I mean, I left blackout drunk because everybody 00:32:48.440 --> 00:32:50.160 was just like, that was so great of you. I mean, 00:32:50.319 --> 00:32:52.440 I'll admit, it does feel good, too. You know 00:32:52.440 --> 00:32:58.599 what I mean? No respect. But yeah, but at the 00:32:58.599 --> 00:33:00.609 heart of it, I just think it's the right thing 00:33:00.609 --> 00:33:03.089 to do. And I'm not saying if you keep it, you're 00:33:03.089 --> 00:33:05.750 wrong, because there is no written rule. I'm 00:33:05.750 --> 00:33:07.210 just trying to figure out what you think about 00:33:07.210 --> 00:33:10.029 it. If it's not a charity, forget about it. So 00:33:10.029 --> 00:33:14.009 if it's not a charity event, which I don't know 00:33:14.009 --> 00:33:16.309 how many other events, like a stag party, it's 00:33:16.309 --> 00:33:17.470 like the only other thing I could think of where 00:33:17.470 --> 00:33:23.690 they even do those. People out of the area don't 00:33:23.690 --> 00:33:26.450 have any idea what that is, actually. It's poor 00:33:26.450 --> 00:33:28.589 locals that have to do that to pay for weddings. 00:33:29.309 --> 00:33:32.349 But anyway, yeah, I'm just trying to think of 00:33:32.349 --> 00:33:34.730 a non -charity event where they even do a 50 00:33:34.730 --> 00:33:37.329 -50. When I go to the Bills games, they've been 00:33:37.329 --> 00:33:39.569 doing this for years. They do a 50 -50 for the 00:33:39.569 --> 00:33:42.849 whole stadium. It's at like $122 ,000. It's just 00:33:42.849 --> 00:33:45.940 a straight -up 50 -50, at least I think so. And 00:33:45.940 --> 00:33:47.920 so if I was going to win that, you bet your ass 00:33:47.920 --> 00:33:52.819 it's $122 ,000. Yeah. So, you know, that's a 00:33:52.819 --> 00:33:54.539 different story. I mean, it's just a 50 -50 for 00:33:54.539 --> 00:33:56.900 fun. Peel off a G for somebody. Yeah, right. 00:33:57.039 --> 00:33:58.680 But you tell me any... It's another story. As 00:33:58.680 --> 00:34:00.319 soon as I know it's to raise money for someone 00:34:00.319 --> 00:34:02.599 in need, come on. What are we doing? I'm with 00:34:02.599 --> 00:34:05.299 you. Yeah. Yeah, thank you for that idea. Well, 00:34:05.299 --> 00:34:07.099 I mean, it's just a 50 -50, but you're welcome. 00:34:07.480 --> 00:34:10.619 Yeah, no. You use, like, raffle tickets already, 00:34:10.679 --> 00:34:13.199 right? Yes. So, honestly, you don't even need 00:34:13.199 --> 00:34:15.860 anything extra. Right. Just another bucket. Right. 00:34:16.239 --> 00:34:20.360 Yeah. No, absolutely. Because, I mean, we have, 00:34:20.599 --> 00:34:27.940 I think, about 15 gift sets. So each raffle is 00:34:27.940 --> 00:34:30.159 - Bundles to bid on or whatever. Yeah. Like multiple 00:34:30.159 --> 00:34:33.519 gift cards for so many different places. So that's 00:34:33.519 --> 00:34:38.059 a good idea. I got so much random stuff last 00:34:38.059 --> 00:34:40.119 year. Because it's one of those things where 00:34:40.119 --> 00:34:43.380 you - I got random stuff. Well, yeah. But of 00:34:43.380 --> 00:34:45.780 course, you know, it's for charity. So I'm putting 00:34:45.780 --> 00:34:49.679 bids on everything. Of course. You know, you're 00:34:49.679 --> 00:34:52.539 like a zoo for sale. I want some great hunting 00:34:52.539 --> 00:34:55.679 gear last year. I don't hunt. I know. Again, 00:34:55.880 --> 00:34:58.119 go back to those damn golf. You've got eight 00:34:58.119 --> 00:35:00.179 sets of golf clubs. You've never swung one in 00:35:00.179 --> 00:35:01.880 your life. I love you for that. I got a really 00:35:01.880 --> 00:35:07.400 fancy trail camera. That's great. Check in on 00:35:07.400 --> 00:35:10.679 the trail. I think what you should do. You could 00:35:10.679 --> 00:35:12.300 be a pioneer, Jack. This is what you're gonna 00:35:12.300 --> 00:35:15.059 do. Uh -oh. You're gonna do the 50 -50 raffle. 00:35:15.199 --> 00:35:18.880 Call it 100 -0. Then there's no question. It's 00:35:18.880 --> 00:35:21.760 not a 50 -50. It's 100 -0. If you win, you're 00:35:21.760 --> 00:35:23.679 giving it all back. Yeah. There it is. It's for 00:35:23.679 --> 00:35:26.639 charity. Come on. At that point, shouldn't you 00:35:26.639 --> 00:35:27.800 just go around with a bucket and say, give me 00:35:27.800 --> 00:35:29.119 money? Just give me money. That's pretty much... 00:35:29.119 --> 00:35:32.360 We're gonna draw a ticket. She did. You know, 00:35:32.460 --> 00:35:36.039 maybe you draw the ticket and they get a gift 00:35:36.039 --> 00:35:38.480 card to Duncan. But we keep the actual money. 00:35:38.480 --> 00:35:44.960 Why don't you punish him? Nice. Wow. Bazingo. 00:35:45.219 --> 00:35:47.360 Jackie, we're getting off the rails here. But 00:35:47.360 --> 00:35:50.980 anything else that we should know the folks might 00:35:50.980 --> 00:35:53.400 want to know about this awesome event? I think 00:35:53.400 --> 00:35:57.079 we covered it all, honestly. We got the tattoos. 00:35:57.320 --> 00:36:00.400 Just come out. Bring your glow up shoes like 00:36:00.400 --> 00:36:04.079 Stacey did last year. I definitely like, we brought, 00:36:04.239 --> 00:36:05.800 I bought a whole bunch of them now. Tell her 00:36:05.800 --> 00:36:08.000 to bring the unicorn. That woman's wardrobe. 00:36:08.909 --> 00:36:12.889 I can only I can only imagine I would love like 00:36:12.889 --> 00:36:15.230 I feel like if you opened her closet, it would 00:36:15.230 --> 00:36:18.869 be like a Can you imagine? Yeah. Yeah, she's 00:36:18.869 --> 00:36:21.349 just like a living light bulb. She's magical 00:36:21.349 --> 00:36:23.309 and that's a compliment I mean that in a positive. 00:36:23.329 --> 00:36:26.610 Yes. No, she is amazing. But yes, bring your 00:36:26.610 --> 00:36:30.550 dance and shoes Cutting a rug. Yeah, absolutely 00:36:30.550 --> 00:36:33.690 and all city sound it's gonna be there mixing 00:36:33.690 --> 00:36:37.420 it up anything you want to promote for your photography, 00:36:37.639 --> 00:36:40.099 videography. Let's give the links for that as 00:36:40.099 --> 00:36:43.860 well. Well, I want to do more with growth mode. 00:36:44.699 --> 00:36:47.719 I want to create more content for the growth 00:36:47.719 --> 00:36:49.880 mode clients. Well, that is the great way to 00:36:49.880 --> 00:36:53.780 go. For those that don't know, Jackie works with 00:36:53.780 --> 00:36:56.500 us on, I'm going to say our out of studio stuff. 00:36:57.130 --> 00:36:59.369 On location. I think a lot of people that come 00:36:59.369 --> 00:37:01.570 to Growth Mode Content, they see the studio here 00:37:01.570 --> 00:37:03.670 and all that stuff, and they think, that's cool. 00:37:03.789 --> 00:37:05.949 But what if we want to do something at our place? 00:37:06.349 --> 00:37:09.389 Or what if we don't want to be here? We have 00:37:09.389 --> 00:37:15.389 a more than trained top photography and videography 00:37:15.389 --> 00:37:18.210 professional on the team here in Jackie. Not 00:37:18.210 --> 00:37:19.849 only is she awesome with the camera, she's got 00:37:19.849 --> 00:37:22.769 drones, and she's a master. She's got it all. 00:37:23.530 --> 00:37:25.869 And that reminds me, it's a segue into a nice 00:37:25.869 --> 00:37:28.130 plug. Coming up this week, next week, we are 00:37:28.130 --> 00:37:29.630 going to be at the Great New York State Fair. 00:37:29.710 --> 00:37:34.530 The Great on location. And you can check that 00:37:34.530 --> 00:37:36.780 out. We're going to have. We're going to be broadcasting 00:37:36.780 --> 00:37:38.400 from there. We're going to have clips from there. 00:37:38.519 --> 00:37:39.780 We're going to be doing it's going to actually 00:37:39.780 --> 00:37:41.280 be a good time. Danny came up with a great idea. 00:37:41.300 --> 00:37:43.579 We're going to be great New York for the next 00:37:43.579 --> 00:37:46.139 couple of weeks, which I think is just very exciting. 00:37:46.300 --> 00:37:47.900 Yeah. So are you guys going to be roaming or 00:37:47.900 --> 00:37:51.300 do you? Yeah. Oh, yeah. If you want to join us, 00:37:51.420 --> 00:37:53.960 we would love to have you. Mike's going on vacation 00:37:53.960 --> 00:37:56.820 next week. I know. When I took this job, we had 00:37:56.820 --> 00:37:58.579 already planned the vacation. We do one vacation 00:37:58.579 --> 00:38:00.960 a summer with the fam. Danny, obviously, I would 00:38:00.960 --> 00:38:03.820 not take a vacation during the state fair when 00:38:03.820 --> 00:38:06.079 we're located in Syracuse. That's all right. 00:38:06.159 --> 00:38:08.519 I'll be here for the first couple days. I'm going 00:38:08.519 --> 00:38:12.900 to be blatantly honest and transparent live on 00:38:12.900 --> 00:38:16.619 the podcast here. There's a real good chance 00:38:16.619 --> 00:38:18.880 that I'm going to get fared out in like a day 00:38:18.880 --> 00:38:21.039 or two. Perfect segue. I was just going to ask 00:38:21.039 --> 00:38:24.340 you both. Let's just say. I'm just going to be 00:38:24.340 --> 00:38:26.760 totally honest. Somebody has the ability, whether 00:38:26.760 --> 00:38:29.500 it's financial, whatever, they have the physical 00:38:29.500 --> 00:38:32.059 and monetary ability to go to the state fair. 00:38:32.219 --> 00:38:35.000 every day that you think anybody would do lots 00:38:35.000 --> 00:38:37.420 of people do that. Yeah. Every day. Love the 00:38:37.420 --> 00:38:40.480 fair. OK. All right. You do something different 00:38:40.480 --> 00:38:42.760 every day. You really can. People watch true 00:38:42.760 --> 00:38:46.179 day. People watching his own thing. Yeah. Here's 00:38:46.179 --> 00:38:48.909 the thing. My challenge has always been I've 00:38:48.909 --> 00:38:51.030 always seemed to manage to pick the hottest day 00:38:51.030 --> 00:38:53.349 of the summer to go I know so we go and we're 00:38:53.349 --> 00:38:55.869 having a good time But like you're so dripping 00:38:55.869 --> 00:38:57.969 from sweat that it's like listen. Yeah, we got 00:38:57.969 --> 00:38:59.690 a bail my only complaint about morning It was 00:38:59.690 --> 00:39:03.110 kind of cool ice cautiously optimistic that we 00:39:03.110 --> 00:39:07.429 might you know not boil at the fair Yeah, make 00:39:07.429 --> 00:39:09.869 a lot more fun. There's a there's a spot you 00:39:09.869 --> 00:39:14.010 can stand Near where the food is like that strip 00:39:14.010 --> 00:39:17.280 of all the the food vendors. Yep where you could 00:39:17.280 --> 00:39:21.079 get about a whiff of 15 different smells. And 00:39:21.079 --> 00:39:22.980 sometimes not great. Sometimes you're getting 00:39:22.980 --> 00:39:25.440 the animal barn mixed with fried dough. He's 00:39:25.440 --> 00:39:29.480 not wrong. It really takes you on a ride. So 00:39:29.480 --> 00:39:31.079 I don't know if it's good or bad, but just be 00:39:31.079 --> 00:39:33.440 ready for that. Everyone talks about the sights 00:39:33.440 --> 00:39:35.260 and sounds. Don't forget the smell. We're going 00:39:35.260 --> 00:39:36.960 to be there to capture it all. Except the smell. 00:39:36.960 --> 00:39:39.079 You don't have to smell it from home. We can 00:39:39.079 --> 00:39:41.199 create smell -o -vision, dude. We'll be billionaire. 00:39:41.239 --> 00:39:43.099 They've been trying to do that forever now. I 00:39:43.099 --> 00:39:45.769 know, but they're not you. So are you guys going 00:39:45.769 --> 00:39:49.530 open day? Yeah, actually we're going pre -opening 00:39:49.530 --> 00:39:54.190 day. Yeah, we potentially Will even be there 00:39:54.190 --> 00:39:56.210 beforehand, but we'll that's still up in there 00:39:56.210 --> 00:39:58.309 Do you know how did they call you guys out then 00:39:58.309 --> 00:40:01.050 and make sure that you guys at least come down 00:40:01.050 --> 00:40:07.650 to the party? Did Syracuse has always been the 00:40:07.650 --> 00:40:09.869 home of the state fair, correct? Yes. Do you 00:40:09.869 --> 00:40:12.400 think that'll ever change? I hope no, okay And 00:40:12.400 --> 00:40:14.260 you think they did it because it's the most central 00:40:14.260 --> 00:40:17.139 location in the state? I'm sure there is some 00:40:17.139 --> 00:40:19.239 history that goes to that. I couldn't begin to 00:40:19.239 --> 00:40:21.219 tell you. We should ask someone at the fair. 00:40:21.579 --> 00:40:24.500 And we will. Because I just, like, I know it's 00:40:24.500 --> 00:40:26.500 the New York State Fair, but it feels like it's 00:40:26.500 --> 00:40:29.900 more of a very large local county fair because 00:40:29.900 --> 00:40:32.139 not, I don't, do people come up from New York? 00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:32.840 It's just because they live local. Yeah. 100%. 00:40:32.840 --> 00:40:36.380 Yeah? Okay. All right. I'm not shitting on it 00:40:36.380 --> 00:40:38.400 by any means. I'm just... No, I understand. It's 00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:41.050 just, it's... Local to us. So it does it does 00:40:41.050 --> 00:40:43.250 it's like when I lived in an herkimer as a kid. 00:40:43.590 --> 00:40:46.230 They'd be like Herkimer diamonds, and I'm like, 00:40:46.349 --> 00:40:49.070 I don't go to the herkimer diamond mines. I should 00:40:49.070 --> 00:40:51.349 have I mean we did for field trips But you don't 00:40:51.349 --> 00:40:53.550 appreciate what you have when it's your hundred 00:40:53.550 --> 00:40:56.750 percent when it's close, you know That's true. 00:40:56.809 --> 00:40:59.309 In the words of Cinderella. You don't know what 00:40:59.309 --> 00:41:02.670 you got till it's gone. Not the Cinderella I 00:41:02.670 --> 00:41:04.889 thought you were talking about. No, not the Disney 00:41:04.889 --> 00:41:06.670 princess. We're talking about the band, baby. 00:41:07.869 --> 00:41:10.230 You know it's time to go when I start singing 00:41:10.230 --> 00:41:13.849 Cinderella. Definitely time to go. Jackie, it's 00:41:13.849 --> 00:41:17.170 been awesome. Jackie Vidler, you know any time 00:41:17.170 --> 00:41:20.420 that you are not booked at this hour of the morning, 00:41:20.599 --> 00:41:22.900 just come in here. You can genuinely be a third 00:41:22.900 --> 00:41:24.239 co -host. You can just throw a wick out of the 00:41:24.239 --> 00:41:27.440 chair. You could, actually. And physically. And 00:41:27.440 --> 00:41:31.380 I... No, I think you could... I don't think I'm 00:41:31.380 --> 00:41:33.179 speaking out. You can always be our third co 00:41:33.179 --> 00:41:34.599 -host. Thousand percent. I really don't care. 00:41:34.840 --> 00:41:37.000 Show up every day, hop on here. She is the coolest 00:41:37.000 --> 00:41:38.840 member of the team, not just when it's behind 00:41:38.840 --> 00:41:42.440 the scenes, so... Very excited by the way just 00:41:42.440 --> 00:41:44.219 a quick side note very soon you're gonna see 00:41:44.219 --> 00:41:46.079 some of the stuff that we shot at our content 00:41:46.079 --> 00:41:48.780 day and Jackie shot some incredible stuff and 00:41:48.780 --> 00:41:52.719 all of our clients were there and It's it's a 00:41:52.719 --> 00:41:55.920 good time so And stay tuned for more because 00:41:55.920 --> 00:41:58.219 we are actually working with a bunch of growth 00:41:58.219 --> 00:42:00.139 mode content clients at the fair It's one of 00:42:00.139 --> 00:42:02.159 the other reasons that we're going there. We're 00:42:02.159 --> 00:42:05.039 gonna capture a lot of them in action absolutely, 00:42:05.039 --> 00:42:08.659 I don't know it'll all be fun, but We'll tell 00:42:08.659 --> 00:42:10.880 you all about that more tomorrow. Yes, it is 00:42:10.880 --> 00:42:13.019 good news York sponsored by ads on the go get 00:42:13.019 --> 00:42:15.659 ads on the go .com That's it. I'm Mike brindisi. 00:42:15.719 --> 00:42:18.619 I'm Matt major. That's Jackie viddler. Yeah, 00:42:18.619 --> 00:42:21.960 I don't need introduction I apologize behind 00:42:21.960 --> 00:42:24.519 the board as always I'm out of line the apparently 00:42:24.519 --> 00:42:27.900 kid. Oh, yes, and of course our Your kid. 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