Hey folks Matt major from growth mode content.
Welcome to good news York. It is a new week.
It's Monday Yes, we're starting like the closest
to on time. We've ever recorded on a Monday Yeah,
I am eight cups of coffee in already. I'm on
my second. I might collapse before lunch anyway
Joining me as always is my smiley friend Mikey
B and a returning guest. Yes our hidden growth
mode content member. She's like the fifth beetle.
She is. You know what I mean? She is. Jackie
Vidler's with us. Yay! We love Jackie. Now, Jackie
is here to talk about an awesome, awesome, awesome
charity event that she's putting on. We're gonna
get to that in a few minutes. Sure. But first,
I just wanted to catch up a little bit and see
how everybody's been, see how your weekend was.
It was... Did you... You didn't get arrested
this weekend? I did not get arrested this weekend.
That jury's still out on that. I did not get
arrested. I went to a... Go to Moore football?
I didn't go to Moore football. I watched football.
Okay. But I went to a service for a friend's
mother. She lived 80 -something years. She lived
a happy life. Way to bring the party down, buddy.
No, hell no. But it was happy in that when I
sat there at this ceremony, it makes you think
about your life and, you know... They were playing
these songs, and we had to sit there in silence
and wait through these songs, and one of the
songs was by Celine Dion. My Heart Will Go On?
No, it wasn't. It was, um... Oh. She Has More
Than One Song? Yeah, believe it or not. I don't
remember. I'm the greatest singer in the world!
But I gotta say, it made me really think... about
some things I need to come clean about. And I
did it on social media yesterday, and I'm gonna
do it today. Did you listen to Celine Dion? I
like Limp Bizkit. I like Celine Dion. And I like
Boyz II Men. And I've been ashamed of that for
years. And I'm gonna throw an extra one in. I
love boy band music. And it just feels good to
say. 98 Degrees was okay. I was an in -sync guy.
No disrespect to Backstreet. They're back, alright?
But I just wanted to get that off my chest. I
was sitting there at this funeral, and it was
sad, but it was plain, and I found myself just...
Of all the deep thoughts, you decided to admit
your bad taste. Yeah, just made me realize how
much I love Celine. I mean, Alanis Morissette
will forever be my favorite female artist, and
I love pink. She is the superior Canadian. Who
do you think is the greatest female singer of
all time? Sheer vocal talent. Oh, wow. That's
a great question. It is a great question. You
know what, I gotta go deep and go with like Aretha.
See, that's a very great, that's a great answer.
And I could never, I would be doing myself a
disservice if I said, that's not right. You know,
I would make myself look like I don't know what
I'm talking about. Cause how can you say Aretha's
not a great singer? But for me, pound for pound,
Celine is up there, but I think she gets edged
by Whitney. I think just Whitney was... All right,
so you're going... Whitney was everything. ...90s
superstars, and they no doubt had incredible
voices. I mean, Mariah's good. Celine's phenomenal,
but I... Christine Aguilera. I just feel like
you gotta... To me, if you're gonna say the best
of all time, you gotta dig a little deeper. I
feel like Dolly might be in there, Dolly Parton.
Dolly Parton? Wow, okay. I mean, but also, here's
the thing. Really? What's awesome about Dolly,
I think, goes even beyond what she sings, right?
Because she's a... incredible songwriter who's
wrote so many of these hits that even Whitney
sang. Sure. So I don't know if that's necessarily
if that counts in your in your qualification,
because her her musical resume goes beyond singing.
You know what I'm saying? Listen, that's a fair
point. And I don't even know what the qualifications
are, because I just made this up. You know, it's
a great question. But I think I think I got to
go if I'm going to make, you know, backs against
the wall. I'm going to I'm going to go Whitney
and then Celine. All right. Aretha's up there.
Jackie, what's your yeah, I was going to say.
on board with you guys, but I love your thought
process with it goes beyond just their voice
within the community and just how big their hearts
are. I'm just thinking incredible female artists,
these people that are everywhere doing these
things, helping other artists. Like I said, that's
why I think of Dolly. You think about all her
songwriting and producing and everything that
goes way beyond her just being a great human.
That was the Bill Super Bowl, I think, 92. That
national anthem by Whitney Houston to me, to
this day, is the greatest national anthem performance
of all time, which is part of the reason I chose
her. And her cover of I Will Always Love You,
by the way, that was a Dolly Parton song. Right,
that's what I'm saying. And my favorite covers
of all time are ones that become their own thing.
Like for me, Joe Cocker's help with Little Help,
help from my friends. I can never get the name
out. That song to me is the greatest cover of
all time I would put I will always love you up
there as well because it's its own thing if you
listen to the Beatles I get by with a little
help from my friends great song It sounds nothing
like that. Like you forget that the Joe Cocker
version is a cover of the Beatles song Yeah,
it's his own animal. No, I'm with you. So I'm
with you. Anyway, hey on a completely different
topic I'm sitting here staring at this big dumb
cup. There's a big dumb cup. We now have Good
News York big dumb cups Can I say I love the
sheen? I'm genuinely impressed with the quality.
Yeah. The first one that we got in, our first
prototype. It's phenomenal. It's insulated. It's
whatever. It's like 27 bucks. Get it. All right.
We also have the regular mugs. I say this only
to point out something that I think everyone
should check out. So we did some work this past
week on GoodNewsYork .com. So we drive everybody
to YouTube and Facebook and Instagram and all
these places all the podcast platforms and things
and we sort of neglected the actual website for
good news York, right because you know everybody
looks at these other places if you come to good
news York calm It is now just the best hub for
everything that we've got exactly. So if you
want to watch The live episodes on YouTube right
there on the front page if you want to listen
to the audio version of the podcast which is
something that We need to encourage people to
do more of. That's sweet. So when I'm driving
in the car, I don't have a hundred percent like
that's great. Hundred percent. And if you're
a podcast person, whatever your favorite podcast
app, whether it be I Heart, you can just tighten
it. That thing's Doris. Whether it be I Heart,
Apple, Spotify, all of those things. The icon
for that is right on the home page. It'll jump
into your favorite app so you can use that or
you can just listen. And right on the home page,
there is now a link directly to our new merch
shop. It was the long point that I was trying
to get to. I would like to shout out and give
you credit because you were doing most of that
work here in the office. In fact, you missed
out on an interview because you were putting
in so much work. Yeah, I need to finish that
shit. I just wanted to commend you for your work
on the website. It looks awesome, dude. And it's
just easier to tell people when they're like,
actually somebody on social media this past weekend
wrote, I love this. Where can I see the full
episode? I said you can go to our YouTube channel
or go to goodnewsyork .com. That's the best place
to go. What's nice is that there's an automatic
player, and this is the part that's kind of neat.
Do not nerd out a little bit. But everything
in there is mostly automated. So what that means
is when we put our episodes on the different
platforms, they automatically show up on the
website. So it's as quick as you could find anything,
you'll be able to find it on our website, which
is pretty cool. And you just said how many episodes.
What is whatever? I guess this is episode 81,
Danny. 81. 81. That's nuts. Wild. It's wild.
There's a lot of really friggin' cool people
that you brought on the show. Yeah. I see them
poppin' up and I'm like, man. We have been so
lucky today to have so many great guests. It's
almost like a... And we're just gettin' started.
Remember that show, This Is Your Life? It's like
old, like our parents, grandparents watched it.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. That's what it feels like
working here because it's like all the connections
that you and I... and Danny and whoever's involved
in all of this. Everyone we've ever met and networked
with are just coming on the show and it's coming
back from your past life and it's just been awesome.
Oh yeah, you connect with old friends and share
why they're awesome. That's why we do this, right?
It is why we do. And if you're unsure, if I'm
in my 40s, earlier I said, I really like the
sheen of this. Do you believe I said sheen? It
is definitely a... But you know what I mean?
Like, I like... Who are you, Michael? Who am
I, Jackie? But look at that. It's nice and shiny.
You're such a dad. I am a dad. Total dad. I love
being a dad. Anyway, I want to talk about one
more thing, and then we're gonna get into the
goodies, because this was kind of amusing. I
had a post go viral on LinkedIn. Yes, yes, yes,
yes. LinkedIn. All right. And if you haven't
guessed, it was for our IT side of the business.
It's the place that I probably talk about IT
more than anything on these different platforms.
That's the place that seems to get the most attention
for that. And in any case, all I did was share
my professional experience with Microsoft Teams
as your business phone system. This is an option,
okay? It's the worst option in my professional
opinion. It is. And here's the thing, I don't
mean to bash Microsoft as an IT provider. All
of our clients have Microsoft licensing that
we provide. There's so many other tools that
are superior to everything else. That does not
mean every product they make is the best choice.
And Teams calling or Teams phone is a prime example
of that. So I went on to just kind of describe
some of the issues with it and laid out that
A, we offer an incredible solution that does
all those things. But there's like 100 other
options that are better than Teams, right? 100%.
This post went super viral and a large number
of folks agree with me. And then there was the
Microsoft fanboys. Oh yeah. And let me tell you,
IT guys and I am one are some of the snarkiest
assholes on the planet. especially when they
decide that their opinion is superior. It's really
kind of amusing. The other thing that I found
really incredible is the fact, I didn't really
realize this, the fact that there are still what
they call a Microsoft shop, right? What that
is is that's a IT provider typically that not
only offers Microsoft like literally all of us
do, but they're a thousand percent in. everything
that they want to do in their customer's environment
has to be within this suite, even though there
might be better ways to do different pieces.
And it's very strange to me, because back in
the day, it sort of made sense. Back in the day,
the model worked where if you were our client,
we had you sign on and say we were your partner,
and Microsoft would pay us. You'd buy your Microsoft
licensing, whatever, and they'd pay us a fee.
It was nice, and I could understand. It was,
and we used to get checks in the mail every month
for Microsoft, right? And I could sort of understand
at that point why folks were rabidly loyal to
exclusively selling their stuff. It doesn't work
that way anymore. It hasn't worked that way for
a long time. Now the way it works is we, the
IT provider, buy all the licensing up front and
charge our clients, and we get a little bit of
a wholesale discount. And when I say little,
I mean like pennies, right? The only real advantage
you can have is if you sell a lot more, you will
get more volume discounts. But that's the only
carrot. You know what I mean? And it is nothing
like when they used to pay us. So the fact that
there are still today these companies, these
IT providers that are just rabidly loyal to this
one vendor when there are millions to choose
from. Strange. Drives me insane. You know, and
just to see these guys... argue about the well
You know you can do this if you add these and
all these different pieces And I'm like listen
every other solution. It's very easy. It does
everything anybody could have imagined with nothing
special out of the box It's great You guys are
all talking about things that are capable of
if you have a full IT team, and they do lots
of custom stuff This is not a viable solution
for everyday businesses And it drives me crazy
when I see some of these other IT providers how
they go about things So much so to say one of
one guy actually argued with me when I made the
point that it is very important to get the end
user, the everyday person, it's very important
to get their buy -in and give them a tool that
they will use. Yeah. Right? The user doesn't
matter. This tool is superior and this is what
we as IT give them. Like, what planet do you
live on? Like, that's a nice idea, right? And
we do that in the IT world on the backside, right?
There's tools that we use, there's tools we use
to keep you safe, stuff that you as a user will
never in a million years see. That I can dictate
but when it comes to things that you need to
do to do your job We need to make sure we're
providing a tool that you can and will use correct
I can't tell you how many companies I've seen
over the years have spent Hundreds of thousands
millions of dollars on systems and processes
and things like this That never get completed
or never get used once completed Because they
never asked the people who are actually going
to use it for their input So they end up with
a piece of trash that nobody wants to use and
all that time, effort, and money that the company
invested is gone. And the fact that this has
become like a common mindset among IT providers
kind of shows you why I run an IT company. Right.
Because it's not the right way. Yeah, and this
isn't my wheelhouse, so forgive me, but, you
know, I too was on that thread with you. I was
monitoring the situation. I thought one of your
best points, and I'm paraphrasing, you could
elaborate on it, was that I think at some point
you were talking about kind of all the things
that teams can or cannot do. And the one person
arguing with you was like, well, we don't need
it to do texting. And you're like, excuse me,
it's 2025. SMS is so important. I don't know
if you want to talk about that. No, I mean, yeah,
that's a great point. That's another really ridiculous,
outdated boomer mindset. They don't understand.
Nobody wants to call you on the phone. No one
wants to speak to you. Right. We want to text,
right? And we don't want to go to your website
and mess, find your chat. We don't want to do
those things. We just the phone number that you
advertise on billboards and trucks and business
cards for the last 100 years. We want to be able
just to send a regular message, just like we
can to our friends. For a company to go, we don't
need that, it tells me that we don't want to
be in business in 2025. That's what it says to
me. Let me ask you this, because I'm sitting
here, I'm listening to you talk about it. Do
you think this is a product of the pandemic happens?
The pandemic kind of microwaves everything for
everybody. You know, all of a sudden we're doing
Zoom class or, you know, meetings on Zoom. And
next thing you know, work from home becomes a
mainstay. Do you think that they maybe developed
teams, I don't want to say too soon, because
it was needed, but they kind of rushed it and
they're missing out on some of the details along
the way? Funny that you say that, because that
is sort of what happened. teams existed before
the pandemic, then exactly what you're talking
about. They put the pedal to the metal and cranked
out a bunch of stuff. And you know what, it had
a lot of promise. So we spent, I can't tell you
how long as IT providers trying to fully embrace
teams. Like my issue with it does not come from
like hearsay or personal preference. It comes
from really trying to go all in on this because
it sounds in theory like a great idea. You got
one tool for everything. Cool except that tool
is junk. It doesn't do anything. Well like of
all the features that it provides All of them
are lacking and it's like, you know, we've tried
so hard to do this We tried to do it for file
management and things like that It's a front
-end for SharePoint go right to SharePoint. You
have a thousand percent better experience, you
know video conferencing works half the time At
best and we go noise. It's phenomenal It's shit
Any person in any office who's ever used teams
for more than three meetings in their life will
tell you that it's shit There's other options.
I mean again. This isn't all I'm saying I used
it briefly while I went back to college. I hated
it Yeah, but I mean this is from someone who's
just like ah this thing sucks You're giving you
know you were giving so you're saying that's
what that's what matters right? That's true everyday
users like you who are not tech guys Yeah, should
be able to use a product easily. Yeah, you know
You know, my least favorite part about LinkedIn
is... Because you go to Twitter, right? You go
to Facebook. It's a goddamn free -for -all. F
you, F this. But on LinkedIn, we have to be professional.
So it's just passive -aggressive bullshit. Yes.
And if there's one thing I hate in this world,
it's people that are... I'd rather you tell me
I hate you, get out of my face, than be passive
-aggressive with me. Corporate speak on LinkedIn
is just... Corporate, yes. Corporate passive
-aggressive arguing is... It's actually pretty
fun to watch, but I can't stand that. Yeah, you
said you were monitoring them. I was monitoring.
You were monitoring. I was. You were eating popcorn.
I was like, ooh, ooh, ooh. Because at one point,
they're like, the guy gave you kind of the passive
aggressive, like, well, Matt, if you'd like to
hop on a call, I can tell you about all the features.
And you're like, no, thanks. I spent like five
years dealing with this bullshit. Like, you know,
and I was just like. I don't need a demo. Yeah.
Thanks. Just the passive aggressive. I love it.
They can't tell you to go fuck yourself. They're
like, if you could kindly go on your way now.
They can't say what they want to say. No, that's
great. But anyway. In any case. But we can. We
can say what we want to say. Let's get to the
good part of the show today. So our friend Jackie
is not here just to dramatically increase the
attractiveness of our podcast. Yes, like by 100%.
Although we really do need to book it more for
that reason. Yes. She's got an awesome event
coming on now. I attended this I'm gonna let
you give the whole spiel But I just want to say
that like this is something that she is doing
for a charity organization She doesn't work for
that charity organizations. He's not a development
officer. She's that Purely out of the goodness
of her heart and Jackie I will let you Give folks
kind of the pitch on on the event coming up.
Can I do the thing? I did earlier, please. Well,
I don't know what it is, but go ahead Good morning
America. I'm Jackie viddler here live in the
Good News York studios with breaking news. Nice.
Brought to you by ads on the go. Get ads on the
go dot com. Yeah, that was good. Breaking news.
Well, let's hear it. Breaking news. So August
20th, this Wednesday, two days from now, we are
my photography studio is throwing our fifth annual
Vera House fundraiser. Yeah, that's so we and
we're celebrating 15 years in business, which
is really cool as we Survived so many things.
Yeah kind of a huge milestone survived a pandemic
divorce You know all life stuff And all the proceeds
are going to their house like every dime goes
to their house, which is super exciting To me,
it's that their house is a an organization That
is kind of near and dear to me for some personal
experiences. And they just do amazing work in
the community. And it's fun. So we call it a
glow up party because we started it. It was actually
our 11 years in business. But because our 10
years was 2020. Yeah. And we couldn't do anything.
Yeah. So in 2021, we called it the 10 again.
So we were turning 10 again. I love that. And
we called it the Glow Up Party. And it's just
grown into this beautiful miracle of a thing
where we all come together. We have raffles.
We have silent auction items. We have a DJ. We
have a huge tent that we just transformed the
back part of, well, really the entire studio
into. just a party scene. And we all come together
and support Vera House. And they organized it
all on Microsoft Teams. Can you tell us about
Vera House for those of you? Because I just learned
about Vera House because I'm not from the area.
It's an amazing organization. Yes. So Vera House
supports men and women, actually. That's important.
Yeah. I'm glad you said that. That's awesome.
That men are abused as well. It goes both ways.
So they support men, women, and children who
have been abused in multiple ways, whether it's
giving them things that they need, getting them
on their own, bringing them in, giving them shelter.
It's a really awesome organization. Funny story,
my mom actually worked there when I was a kid.
Oh, wow. And she used to bring me to work with
her, and I would do some of the ladies' nails
and their makeup and just kind of help boost
their self -esteem. And so it's kind of transcended
over the years into what I do now. So this has
more meaning for you than most. That's amazing.
Absolutely. And you really have figured out how
to put on quite an event because between the
organization and just everything that you've
got there in the good time. Yeah. That's the
best part. You're onto something here. It's like
partying, like bringing everyone together to
party to give back to something that's a huge
part of our community. We have Kam's Pizza that's
coming out and making pizza. Our man Tony, best
pizza in Syracuse. Seriously. And pizza is kind
of like, you asked me what my favorite food is.
He's like, what if I did pizzas this year? I'm
like, I love you. Hell yes. And we have five
points. Liquor and wine is donating. We have
a champagne toast and we have a signature drink.
We also have a fair deli. So fair deli is donating
beer and water. And so we have a bunch of different
vendors that are coming in and just. donating
for an amazing cause. This year, I'm really excited.
We have Cordero Collective, which is a tattoo
shop. And they're doing pop -up tattoos, so there's
going to be two tattoo artists. Wait, you can
get tattooed at the event? Yes. Well, they do
face tattoos. Imagine that. If someone walks
up, they're like, I love this. Can I get the
Tyson? How much of a charitable donation would
I have to make to get you to put a Good News
York logo on? On my face? I'm not your face.
I wouldn't make anybody do that. Okay. But let's
get a tattoo of our logo. How much would I have
to donate to Vera Haus? For their sake, 500.
Keep in mind, I'm not giving you any money in
this scenario. I don't care. Donate what you
want. I would do it. I would do it. I would do
it. I've already got, I don't know, six, seven
tattoos. Why not? See, you guys are all tattooed.
I don't have anything. Yeah, but that's cool.
It's almost cooler not to have them. I don't
know about all that. Yeah, there's not many people
that don't have tattoos anymore, that's for sure.
That's true. It is, yeah. Definitely. It's rare.
I will do the Good News York tattoo, but nothing
from here up. Just anywhere else. Yeah, yeah.
Right? What else can we get like pierced or head
shaved or anything like that at the event? Are
you looking to get like the bull ring? Imagine
that. I figure we'll go all out. Hey, I want
to get a face tattoo. I want to pierce my septum
and can you shave my head? Here's the thing,
we could do all that, and then she could do a
photo shoot of it right on the spot. On the spot.
Before and after. It would be... I mean, dude,
I think it would raise... I mean, if you said
that over the mic at the party, this guy will
get a face tattoo, his head shaved, and his septum
pierced. Pony up. I think everyone would be like,
I gotta see this. I don't even think we had to
do all the three. Yeah. Jackie, I want to say
that the other thing that's pretty neat, and
again, you're celebrating how many years in business.
I think it's pretty awesome because it also becomes
an open house for your studio as well, right?
Folks get to see what you do in that awesome
space. And we talk about our studio, but your
photo studio is incredible. And you've got what,
three or four different room sets? Yeah, so we
have a big shooting space, and then we have a
bedroom set with multiple. I kind of use every
nook and cranny in the studio. But definitely
working with growth mode. gives us the option
to be able to do things in my studio as well,
which is really cool because then you have, you
know, totally so many different options, whether
it's in their space here or my studio, we've
got a bunch of different. That's so cool. Jackie,
at your event last year, the most fun part, I
think, was the auction, right? Yeah. So can you
just quickly take folks through. They've probably
seen a silent auction before, but just kind of
how that works and some of the things folks can
get in there. So this year, we have Stacey Cook,
actually. Nice. Oh, Stace. Stab and jab podcast.
Amazing, yes. She donated a couple different
things, which amounts to quite a bit. Botox,
and I'm not familiar with it. Legit beauty treatment.
Yes. Yes, those things. She does the best things.
Yes. Yes. Treatment. Yep. And I'm giving away,
well, my studio is giving away a $500 gift card
too. Wow. So the silent auction, you know, it's
fun because you kind of go back and you see where
you're at as far as money goes. It's like old
school eBay. Yeah. You know? Yep. You don't know,
like you keep going back, except you can check.
You know, you can say, oh, who's betting what
or donating what? But the only thing I don't
like about Silent Ox is you don't get the...
I love when they bring in those... Stacy actually
kind of did that last year. I could see that.
I could hear that. Last year, our buddy Dan,
the car man, donated some mini bikes, right?
What? It was great. For real? Yeah, like motorized
little pocket bikes. But it was a kid's, like
a kid's size. Yeah, but that's full size for
me. Well, for him, yeah. That's a road hog for
this guy. He rode around on it and he's a big
dude, so. Yeah, that's awesome. But yeah, we've
got some pretty cool stuff. I saw a video from,
I don't know if it was last year's event or years
past, and it looked, not only did it look awesome,
But it was just really impressive. You guys raised
like over $5 ,000 from Vera House. So this is
no like small event where we're gonna raise a
couple hundred, because look, any amount of money
is great. But you guys are bringing in... We're
trying, every year we're trying to level up and
being that this is our fifth annual and 15 years
in business, it's a huge, yeah, we're going big
or go home. You're trying to up the game this
year? Absolutely. I love it. We're trying to
make it as big as, so when you asked if we could
do this, I'm like, absolutely, I want to get
it out to every year. It's not too late to get
pre -sale tickets. We have swag bags. and put
a couple extra cool things in this bag this year.
Obviously, the tattoo thing is pretty freaking
cool too. But everyone who pre -registers, we
cap it at 100 people. So if you want to get in
there, you got to get in there quick. But it's
$25 pre -sale up until tomorrow and then $30
at the door. But you get pizza and drinks and
free. And that's all the donation. It's a hundred
percent of that hundred percent goes to donation.
So you got your tickets at the door You've got
the silent auction and and I'm guessing you're
happy to take just straight -up donations if
folks want to yes contribute as well, right?
So thank you for bringing that up instead of
paying for your Ticket you can actually bring
items To donate to Vera house. Oh, I didn't even
know that yes, so we actually have it on the
website so you can And we have a QR code and
the website to be able to register. But yeah,
you can bring, we had a whole mess of stuff that
we had to bring to Vera House. I was like in
tears when I presented them with the check and
bringing all this stuff in. That's awesome. Yeah,
it was really cool. And they were super appreciative
and it's just, it's awesome. Jackie, if folks
want to participate or if they can't make it
and they just want to support this cause, where
do they do that? So on our website, I can share
the QR code and the web. We'll have all the links
in the episode. Yeah, absolutely. It's simple.
It's invoking images dot square dot site, but
you can donate monetarily if you can't make it,
but you can also buy your tickets free on that
site. I love that. I love that. Lots of parking.
That's key. Yes. She cut a deal with the neighbors,
I think, and they hooked you up with that. Yep.
Lakeland Auto across the street allows us to
use all of their parking space there. And since
we mentioned that, if you could just throw out
the address real quick so folks know where it
is. So it's 841 State Fair Boulevard, August
20th from 6 to 9 PM. I'm sure we'll have a little
after party, too. The neighbors, never mind.
If you're heading towards the fair, and you're
like, I don't want to deal with this nonsense.
I want to go to a party, you just keep driving.
There you go. And you'll be at Jackie's. Yep.
Or if you want to skip the fair traffic. Yeah,
ideally don't go past the fair to get there,
I guess I should say. But same road. Yeah, take
690 to Lakeland exit, make a left, and we're
down on the right -hand side. I got a question.
Will there be a 50 -50 raffle? That's a really...
I feel like he's going somewhere. I'm a little
nervous. I'm not gonna lie. No, no, no. Because
I think 50 -50 is like baseline, the easiest
way to just make some extra money for a charity.
I gotta text Courtney right now. She's Courtney
from Crown Coordination. She helps me plan this
entire event. She keeps me on the straight and
narrow... So that's actually really great. Well,
I think, you know, it's just an easy extra way
to make money. But here's my thing. I know where
he's going. Yeah, you know where I'm going. I
do. About a month ago, I was in a golf tournament,
and I won the 50 -50. And the charity, it was
for a charity. So I won it, and I gave it all
back. And I remember a few people around me were
like, dude, but it's 50 -50. Like, they already
get 50%. Like, it's good that you gave it back,
but you should have kept some for yourself. And
I'm like, no, I don't. What do you think the
unwritten rule? There's no right or wrong answer.
And a charity, the go -to move is you've got
to give it back. When I donate money to 50 -50
and it's a charity, I go in with the mindset
I'm essentially just giving my money away, and
if I win, I'm not going to walk away winning
anything. That's me. I don't think anybody's
wrong if they keep it. I'm just trying to feel
it out. I'm always curious about that. Don't
you get a little bit of that clout, too? Everybody's
like, yeah, you look cool, too. This good guy,
you get the money back. Next thing you know,
everybody's buying you a drink or something before
you know what you got. That's the best part.
I did that one year at a golf tournament, and
I gave it back. And I mean, everybody was like,
dude. I mean, I left blackout drunk because everybody
was just like, that was so great of you. I mean,
I'll admit, it does feel good, too. You know
what I mean? No respect. But yeah, but at the
heart of it, I just think it's the right thing
to do. And I'm not saying if you keep it, you're
wrong, because there is no written rule. I'm
just trying to figure out what you think about
it. If it's not a charity, forget about it. So
if it's not a charity event, which I don't know
how many other events, like a stag party, it's
like the only other thing I could think of where
they even do those. People out of the area don't
have any idea what that is, actually. It's poor
locals that have to do that to pay for weddings.
But anyway, yeah, I'm just trying to think of
a non -charity event where they even do a 50
-50. When I go to the Bills games, they've been
doing this for years. They do a 50 -50 for the
whole stadium. It's at like $122 ,000. It's just
a straight -up 50 -50, at least I think so. And
so if I was going to win that, you bet your ass
it's $122 ,000. Yeah. So, you know, that's a
different story. I mean, it's just a 50 -50 for
fun. Peel off a G for somebody. Yeah, right.
But you tell me any... It's another story. As
soon as I know it's to raise money for someone
in need, come on. What are we doing? I'm with
you. Yeah. Yeah, thank you for that idea. Well,
I mean, it's just a 50 -50, but you're welcome.
Yeah, no. You use, like, raffle tickets already,
right? Yes. So, honestly, you don't even need
anything extra. Right. Just another bucket. Right.
Yeah. No, absolutely. Because, I mean, we have,
I think, about 15 gift sets. So each raffle is
- Bundles to bid on or whatever. Yeah. Like multiple
gift cards for so many different places. So that's
a good idea. I got so much random stuff last
year. Because it's one of those things where
you - I got random stuff. Well, yeah. But of
course, you know, it's for charity. So I'm putting
bids on everything. Of course. You know, you're
like a zoo for sale. I want some great hunting
gear last year. I don't hunt. I know. Again,
go back to those damn golf. You've got eight
sets of golf clubs. You've never swung one in
your life. I love you for that. I got a really
fancy trail camera. That's great. Check in on
the trail. I think what you should do. You could
be a pioneer, Jack. This is what you're gonna
do. Uh -oh. You're gonna do the 50 -50 raffle.
Call it 100 -0. Then there's no question. It's
not a 50 -50. It's 100 -0. If you win, you're
giving it all back. Yeah. There it is. It's for
charity. Come on. At that point, shouldn't you
just go around with a bucket and say, give me
money? Just give me money. That's pretty much...
We're gonna draw a ticket. She did. You know,
maybe you draw the ticket and they get a gift
card to Duncan. But we keep the actual money.
Why don't you punish him? Nice. Wow. Bazingo.
Jackie, we're getting off the rails here. But
anything else that we should know the folks might
want to know about this awesome event? I think
we covered it all, honestly. We got the tattoos.
Just come out. Bring your glow up shoes like
Stacey did last year. I definitely like, we brought,
I bought a whole bunch of them now. Tell her
to bring the unicorn. That woman's wardrobe.
I can only I can only imagine I would love like
I feel like if you opened her closet, it would
be like a Can you imagine? Yeah. Yeah, she's
just like a living light bulb. She's magical
and that's a compliment I mean that in a positive.
Yes. No, she is amazing. But yes, bring your
dance and shoes Cutting a rug. Yeah, absolutely
and all city sound it's gonna be there mixing
it up anything you want to promote for your photography,
videography. Let's give the links for that as
well. Well, I want to do more with growth mode.
I want to create more content for the growth
mode clients. Well, that is the great way to
go. For those that don't know, Jackie works with
us on, I'm going to say our out of studio stuff.
On location. I think a lot of people that come
to Growth Mode Content, they see the studio here
and all that stuff, and they think, that's cool.
But what if we want to do something at our place?
Or what if we don't want to be here? We have
a more than trained top photography and videography
professional on the team here in Jackie. Not
only is she awesome with the camera, she's got
drones, and she's a master. She's got it all.
And that reminds me, it's a segue into a nice
plug. Coming up this week, next week, we are
going to be at the Great New York State Fair.
The Great on location. And you can check that
out. We're going to have. We're going to be broadcasting
from there. We're going to have clips from there.
We're going to be doing it's going to actually
be a good time. Danny came up with a great idea.
We're going to be great New York for the next
couple of weeks, which I think is just very exciting.
Yeah. So are you guys going to be roaming or
do you? Yeah. Oh, yeah. If you want to join us,
we would love to have you. Mike's going on vacation
next week. I know. When I took this job, we had
already planned the vacation. We do one vacation
a summer with the fam. Danny, obviously, I would
not take a vacation during the state fair when
we're located in Syracuse. That's all right.
I'll be here for the first couple days. I'm going
to be blatantly honest and transparent live on
the podcast here. There's a real good chance
that I'm going to get fared out in like a day
or two. Perfect segue. I was just going to ask
you both. Let's just say. I'm just going to be
totally honest. Somebody has the ability, whether
it's financial, whatever, they have the physical
and monetary ability to go to the state fair.
every day that you think anybody would do lots
of people do that. Yeah. Every day. Love the
fair. OK. All right. You do something different
every day. You really can. People watch true
day. People watching his own thing. Yeah. Here's
the thing. My challenge has always been I've
always seemed to manage to pick the hottest day
of the summer to go I know so we go and we're
having a good time But like you're so dripping
from sweat that it's like listen. Yeah, we got
a bail my only complaint about morning It was
kind of cool ice cautiously optimistic that we
might you know not boil at the fair Yeah, make
a lot more fun. There's a there's a spot you
can stand Near where the food is like that strip
of all the the food vendors. Yep where you could
get about a whiff of 15 different smells. And
sometimes not great. Sometimes you're getting
the animal barn mixed with fried dough. He's
not wrong. It really takes you on a ride. So
I don't know if it's good or bad, but just be
ready for that. Everyone talks about the sights
and sounds. Don't forget the smell. We're going
to be there to capture it all. Except the smell.
You don't have to smell it from home. We can
create smell -o -vision, dude. We'll be billionaire.
They've been trying to do that forever now. I
know, but they're not you. So are you guys going
open day? Yeah, actually we're going pre -opening
day. Yeah, we potentially Will even be there
beforehand, but we'll that's still up in there
Do you know how did they call you guys out then
and make sure that you guys at least come down
to the party? Did Syracuse has always been the
home of the state fair, correct? Yes. Do you
think that'll ever change? I hope no, okay And
you think they did it because it's the most central
location in the state? I'm sure there is some
history that goes to that. I couldn't begin to
tell you. We should ask someone at the fair.
And we will. Because I just, like, I know it's
the New York State Fair, but it feels like it's
more of a very large local county fair because
not, I don't, do people come up from New York?
It's just because they live local. Yeah. 100%.
Yeah? Okay. All right. I'm not shitting on it
by any means. I'm just... No, I understand. It's
just, it's... Local to us. So it does it does
it's like when I lived in an herkimer as a kid.
They'd be like Herkimer diamonds, and I'm like,
I don't go to the herkimer diamond mines. I should
have I mean we did for field trips But you don't
appreciate what you have when it's your hundred
percent when it's close, you know That's true.
In the words of Cinderella. You don't know what
you got till it's gone. Not the Cinderella I
thought you were talking about. No, not the Disney
princess. We're talking about the band, baby.
You know it's time to go when I start singing
Cinderella. Definitely time to go. Jackie, it's
been awesome. Jackie Vidler, you know any time
that you are not booked at this hour of the morning,
just come in here. You can genuinely be a third
co -host. You can just throw a wick out of the
chair. You could, actually. And physically. And
I... No, I think you could... I don't think I'm
speaking out. You can always be our third co
-host. Thousand percent. I really don't care.
Show up every day, hop on here. She is the coolest
member of the team, not just when it's behind
the scenes, so... Very excited by the way just
a quick side note very soon you're gonna see
some of the stuff that we shot at our content
day and Jackie shot some incredible stuff and
all of our clients were there and It's it's a
good time so And stay tuned for more because
we are actually working with a bunch of growth
mode content clients at the fair It's one of
the other reasons that we're going there. We're
gonna capture a lot of them in action absolutely,
I don't know it'll all be fun, but We'll tell
you all about that more tomorrow. Yes, it is
good news York sponsored by ads on the go get
ads on the go .com That's it. I'm Mike brindisi.
I'm Matt major. That's Jackie viddler. Yeah,
I don't need introduction I apologize behind
the board as always I'm out of line the apparently
kid. Oh, yes, and of course our Your kid. Oh,
yeah, and our great Danny Tripodi on the ones
and twos Yeah, peace out For the fourth year
in a row, we turned up the glow for a cause.
Our 14th anniversary celebration was one for
the books, complete with glow sticks, light -up
sneakers, vibrant outfits, amazing food, drinks,
and an incredible silent auction and raffles.
Because of you, we raised over $5 ,000 for Vera
House, helping to support their mission of ending
domestic and sexual violence and providing crucial
services to survivors in our community. From
the bottom of our hearts, thank you for glowing
up with us and making a difference. Until next
year, let's keep the light shining.