Hey, folks. Matt Major from Growth Mode Content.
Welcome to Good News York. We got a full house,
and we got lots to talk about. As always, I'm
joined on my other side. This is really throwing
me off. I know. The not spiky -haired monkey
bee. No. Going hat today. In fact, I'm going
to show off my AOL hat. America Online hat. That's
cool. That's cool. In what is usually Mike's
seat, we have... We have the OG, the band, the
man. My former superstar podcast co -host. We
discussed hats on the way in, and I was like,
I'm not going to wear a hat. And then you guys
had hats on. Yeah. No, I'm glad you did. Phil
Farta, let's go. I've been waiting to do that
since the car ride up here. That's what the gun's
for, isn't it? Well, it's the Phil Farta gun,
yeah. But last but not least. Certainly not.
The one who's definitely cranking up the attention.
You just leave the camera on Kelly the whole
time. Kelly Beer's back with us. Kelly. Superstar,
esthetician, and all those other big words that
I can't say. Yeah. Welcome back. I can't say
some of them either. Redneck. Yes. I mean, she
pulls it together. These are the big words that
he can't say. So we're going to get into, Phil's
got some cool stuff going on. We're going to
talk about that in a few minutes. But I just
wanted to kind of recap real quick. Yesterday,
you guys went to the fair for the media day.
Yeah. I was held up with some stuff, but the
team went over and took some great pictures and
video. Got the butter reveal. Yeah. Anybody who
saw yesterday's episode. Can you tell me what
the theme was? Because I saw them pull the curtain
off. What a butcher. And it was, I remember like
this year's theme is. Oh my god. I purposely
brought it today in case this question came up.
Oh, I think it was Dairy Health. It's Dairy for
Good, Nourish, Grow, Thrive. It celebrates the
joy and nourishment that dairy provides at every
stage of life, but it's also inspired by the
125th anniversary of the Wonderful Wizard of
Oz, which is by local author L. Frank Baum. So
they incorporated... Obviously the the Wizard
of Oz characters, right? It was Dorothy when
they pulled I wouldn't figure out who the They're
not supposed to say the names because the licensing
sure don't know what it is. It was Toto It was
Dorothy. It was the whole thing. So they incorporated,
you know, obviously the Wizard of Oz, but the
idea was how milk Provides nourishment through
all stages of your life sure does a boy it sure
does it makes a body good So I gotta say if you've
ever been to the state fair in that dairy building
where this thing is housed the the sculpture
is massive You know, it's it's probably on a
platform a little bigger than this table here
and it's encased in glass Which of course you
got to keep it cold cuz butter and also you don't
want people to touch it, right? for the press
day They let you Inside that glass tank, you
know, I didn't and I wasn't there and I know
everything was fine But afterwards I'm watching
the footage and I'm sweating my ass off like
yeah Do they know how close to catastrophe we
just were you let this fucking guy know within
inches of that sculpture You know, I didn't think
about it till you said something, you know Because
everybody was being ushered in and you're allowed
to go around And I took advantage of it. I was
really reaching I was good. I grabbed a still
That I swear to God, if you had moved half an
inch, you would have taken out Toto. I got sturdy
legs. You know, I don't, you know, I'm low. I
was nervous for them. Yeah. Could Butter Dorothy
get it? Oh, she was. She looked creamy, man.
She was milk, milk. Good proportions and everything,
yeah. Yeah, no, she, look, the sculptor knew
what he was doing, right? She had the curves.
It was, look, it was awesome to be a part of,
you know? I didn't, obviously I understand that
it's a big deal around here and this and that.
But like, it was a press media event. They were
handing out press packets. People were trying
to get around each other. I mean, it was a big
deal. And we were honored that the New York State
Fair and the American Dairy Association had us
be a part of it. So I'm really glad you mentioned
that because it kind of brings me to the next
thing I wanted to mention. Please. Exactly what
you talked about. This is a big press event.
This is also an annual thing. Like they've been
doing it for, I don't know, 100 years or something.
Sure. As long as. somebody figured out how they
could mold butter into a shape. They've been
doing this at the state fair, right? Yeah. And
they've had this big press day reveal the day
before the fair every year. Um, but apparently
it's controversial. Thank you. That's where I
was going next. Uh, we got a number of comments
on our videos. There's also even the Syracuse
history guy who I love, uh, made some comment
about why did they reveal this? Why, why are
you letting it out? I should basically be able
to discover it myself. People were mad that this
was Publicly revealed and they gave away the
surprise of what the sculpture was and I just
wrote a little while ago I was like imagine being
mad that we Revealed the butter sculpture from
the butter sculpture reveal event. Yeah, it's
literally the point of the event or I don't know
what's going on Could somebody just avoid it
like a spoiler, right? Couldn't you just now
watch the reveal and then just go to the park
to the fair also like it's a sculpture You know
what I mean like if you appreciate the sculpture
even if you know what it is You want to see it
in person, but there were all there were also
like eight other media outlets there. Why are
we? No, I think people probably oh they spread
the shit around. Yeah, you know okay. It's good
for engagement, right? 100 % we were loving it
great butter people. I just love that You know
there's literally nothing that Karen will not
find issue with Listen you know I was gonna guess
what the what the concern was I thought it was
like maybe cruelty like this is to sure butter
for a cow to Right, it was gonna be an animal
cruelty thing. No, it's like a you're wounded
for this really ruined it I was here on my couch
I was watching, you know cooking videos or police
body cam videos and I scroll through and there's
the butter sculpture summer ruin If there ever
been a butter sculpture disaster There must somebody
knocked into it or it melted or I what you know,
I should have asked that old because it's If
you don't build it, right? I mean, it's maybe
could have been heavy or something. That would
have been a great question for the sculptor.
Like, have you ever been halfway through and
then like your wife's like, you know, John, you're
like, what? And then fucking topples over and
you're like, no, he's a sculptor, right? Do they?
Is it like a different artist every year? Uh,
so he's been the artist for, I think. A few years
a few years. Okay, but I asked him I was like
is this is there like competition like is there
other sculpt and he's like Yeah, there's a ton
of sculptors and so I guess it's like a really
coveted like he's got that spot. He's holding
on to that thing Yeah, I mean that getting the
sculpture in the state fairs got to be hopped
here Yeah, I mean a butter sculptor you are an
a list butter sculptor at that point You're making
me think of all the questions I didn't ask like
how did they get well actually I do know that
they brought the butter in and it comes in just
like Box big boxes and chunks and then he sculpts
it inside. Oh, he makes it right in that in the
refrigerator Whatever you call that. Yeah, big
glass refrigerator glass Kelly's kids do that
once at the house dude Yeah, really just sculpt
butter on the counter. Yeah, that's Wild very
expensive. I'm into yeah, I'm into weird sculptures
in Las Vegas in the in the Hershey store They've
got the Statue of Liberty out of chocolate and
it's like great six seven foot tall edible Probably
right or is it I mean it's behind glass, but
I would assume so I don't know in Ithaca they
do the ice festival every year where they All
these on the downtown Commons all these sculptors
come in and you can watch with chainsaws. They
all sculpt Oh, yeah, different ice sculptures,
and then what they do is they build a bar in
the middle of the Commons Okay, and a big throne
and bar seats all out of ice and you can literally
Throughout the whatever, you know this ice festival
extends couple weeks You can go have drinks on
the Commons sitting on an ice ice bar, which
is fucking awesome some cold Do you pay to enter
that that sounds wicked? I don't know I don't
know you go to go seasonal shout out to downtown
Ithaca Alliance check their website because they
do chili fast They do chowder fast. They do the
ice festers All sorts of fests. I just hosted
the 25th annual Town of Schuyler Car and Corn
Festival. What? Car and corn? Yeah, it's a car
show. And then there's a corn eating competition.
They just threw two things together. I was going
to say that. But I'm like, I wonder if we could
sculpt corn, dude. A corn sculpture? Yeah. Definitely.
How do you sculpt corn? Because doesn't it just
fall? Well, if you go beyond the ears, you could
make something cool with the stock and the whole
like. Sure. I feel like you could put something
together, yeah. Or I bet if you just took the
corn with the, even with the stock, you could
tape them together in such a way. Sure. Yeah,
big corn giant. I have a friend who's into like
old, you know, classic cars and he went to one
car show with his car and he never went again
because he said... Is just like a huge too much
corn suck off no not corn cars, but just a huge
like look at my car Look at yours. That's not
as cool as mine, and it's just a very did you
get that vibe ours is no We have cars that are
they set them up like costumes and stuff They
have like a car full of skeletons, and it's like
the dead mobile. Oh, that's great different.
That's great Okay, I thought it was a classic
car show there are there are classic cars, but
it's just you could bring anything It's and then
the crowd votes so they walk through like almost
museum style and you put your vote in for the
your favorite car It's awesome. Do a rev competition
and they ride them around the park This is what
people in New York City don't understand about
upstate New York. They don't get this shit They
don't they don't get to do this stuff It was
a huge event, though. Yeah. They've got the hot
air balloon rides that you can go on, the bounce
houses for the kids. That's awesome. We had Brinkley
Page. You know about them? I know about them.
I was in that band for four months at one time
in my life, literally. Yeah, they were playing
there, I'm sure. Showtime's playing at, where
did we just see them? State Fair. State Fair.
Oh, wonderful. Yeah, love those boys. It's a
good event. We do it every year. I've been on
six years. Our buddy Joe Boogie, the late great
Joe Boogie, was our mascot. He was the original
corn mascot. When I became part of the event,
I was like, first rule of business, Boogie is
gonna become a... We don't have a mascot. I'm
like, Boogie is the mascot. And then he immediately
died. It's very unfortunate. Well, it is unfortunate.
But now we honor his memory. Well, why don't
you do it properly and honor him with a corn
sculpture of Joe Boogie? Oh my god, dude. I don't
know if there's enough corn to be honest. I don't
know if you've ever seen this guy, but big dude.
Be a lot of corn. A lot of corn, dude. Yeah.
You know, just something to think about. There
should be like a boogie monument at the festival
every year. Well, I'm telling you, make it. Yeah,
yeah. So we did, one year, we did something.
I think maybe just I did a shout out. Maybe it
was like, you know, in honor of boogie. But then
we did, last year, it was like two fallen soldiers.
There's always something real sad and morbid.
Like, we're there, but we're raising money for
a good cause. But then it's. Always something
sad. It's like a kid with cancer or something
that we're celebrating. Speaking of Boogie, that
kind of is a nice segue to talk about one of
your newest ventures. Oh, for sure, man. Which
is the Joe Boogie sort of inspired, right? Yeah,
Joe Boogie. We call it Stage Time Boogie. It's
our silent disco party. And it's the first of
its kind in this area. We teased it last time
I was on. We were talking about, like, somebody
should do a silent disco. Yeah. And then we did
it. And we have a couple events where we did
a couple schools. It's popular with kids. We
did a kids' dance party. They love it, dude.
Kids love it. Parents love it, because you don't
have to listen to kids. Exactly. Yeah. It's silent.
If you don't know what it is, we've been figuring
now. A lot of people in this area, they haven't
heard of it before. It's just a party where all
the music is streamed through headphones. The
headphones have different channels you can flip
to. So there's three different channels. I'm
going to act it out while you're talking. We
control the music, exactly. So let's say you're
on the blue channel, right? You go flip to the
next channel. It's our all request line. And
then the third channel, you can flip to that.
And that's just like a preacher telling a story.
It could be anything. It's not necessarily that.
But we can stream whatever we want. We've done
two live DJ battles. We've done kids parties.
And it's available for private events. And you
can get all that info on our new website, stagetimeent
.com. That's awesome. Stagetime Entertainment.
And our next one we're doing, we're going to
do a... Actually, you guys can help me with this.
We want to do a decades -themed rave. So we're
going to do a decades party where every channel
is like a different decade. But then we have
the Burstone Inn, the ballroom. We want to blacklight
it out and then just go rave style. But without
your typical rave music, just like decades. And
you can choose through the request line. We have
that event booked in November. Don't know that's
awesome, but it's way we haven't announced it
yet. That's really really one month at a time.
This is something that Anybody's been down south,
you know, we're always sort of late to the party
to do some of these things here in Central New
York But in different parts of the country, this
has been popping off for a while and it's I was
surprised at the number of people that thought
I invented it. Yeah Sort of an issue that I didn't
even foresee I was a called Silent Disco because
they gave it on cruise ships. Yeah, it's been
in larger cities. It's a good for Any sort of
noise ordinance when you want to keep quiet?
Yeah, and I thought people just sort of Common
commonly knew what it was and they don't I I
only reason I knew about it was because I was
again walking through the Commons in Ithaca one
night and There's a DJ up on the pavilion in
the middle of the Commons and he's going hard
and I'm like There's there's no sound and then
there's all these people doing what I was just
doing Dancing like zombies and I found out it
was a silent disco and I'm like that's such a
brilliant idea You want to see some footage of
it? You could go to our YouTube page. So just
stage time trivia on YouTube and you'll see Some
promo that our buddy Aiden shot. Well, I'll tell
you what You know, one of the reasons people
might think you invented this is you really went
all out from a business perspective and did it
the right way. You actually had your own headsets
manufactured with your logo baked right on the
thing. Yeah, with help. It's legit. I'll tell
you, man, if you guys are trying to do anything
new, reach out and network with people. Find
some friends that have done it before. Yeah.
Because I was about to make every mistake. Sure.
The way I had thought it would work, I was going
to make every single mistake you possibly could.
and I coordinated with my buddy Ryan Buds, Trivia
with Buds, and he connected me with a buddy of
his who runs it in Alabama, of all places. Okay.
And so this guy was so nice. We got on the phone
for one hour, dude. One hour phone call. He walked
me through everything I was about to do wrong.
Wow. Probably saved me thousands of dollars in
the process, how to order the manufacturing,
connected me with his, like, warehouse in China
that we ordered from and got everything done.
So, dude, network for sure. Get help with yeah,
that's awesome. That's smart that it just and
they're beautiful like the head Yeah, sounds
nice. It's fully full logo on the side Danny's
got a video creeping. I saw it we going up He
could do on the end out today. Yes, Danny tripodia.
This is from our first DJ battle at the Saranac
Brewery Is that the singer from nickel back up
in the corner? Oh, here we go. They are right
there. Hey, there's I know that guy You got sound
buddy silent disco silent video It is pretty
I mean it is it actually works out. Yeah. Yeah
Somebody watch people just kind of dancing and
you know, but they're not really making noise.
This guy was Watching Danny navigate eight different.
Yeah, that was really fun to watch right gets
paid the big bucks He's gonna be DJ in the next
one. Yes How did you find so many good looking
people in Utica? That's what I want to know.
Oh, so the whole thing illuminates. You know
what channel they're listening to. That's cool.
I didn't even realize that. Great promo video,
by the way. Who made that? That's our buddy Aidan
at Sprout Media. Yeah. Shout out Aidan at Sprout
Media. That's fantastic. He does a lot of great
stuff. He does a lot of videos for us. But that's
a good just summary of what it is right there.
But yeah, so if you're looking into the crowd,
you can see 30 people with blue headphones. They're
on that channel. That's cool. And my brother,
who's running it with me, built a display using
OBS. We found the correct OBS. And you'll see
what's playing on each station, what's coming
up on the request line. So you could control
the whole channel from your phone. But you can
see what people are listening to. It helps us
to kind of. Steer the party in the right direction.
Yeah, so if you know, it's like nobody's on green.
What's that? Oh, that's like country iron. Nobody's
listening to country Let's drop that so we kind
of stare the party in the right direction. That's
pretty cool. You know, I saw it I was out in
Vegas and There was this big entertainment place
almost reminds you of a mall, right? They had
a bunch of different venues and things on the
sides, but in the middle they also had a bar
and they had Different things happening in the
middle. They had a comedy show that was silent
comedy, and it was the same thing. Wait, what?
Yeah, they had a stage, and they had an open
area, but everybody got the headsets, because
you're basically, if you think about it, sort
of like in the middle of a ball area. It was
just a regular open mic. Oh, was it just like
this? But yeah. That's it pretty much. They had
a lounge and whatever. So it was sort of a designated
area, but it was definitely, if you were on a
mic, everybody in the world would hear it, or
not be able to hear it because of the noise.
And it was just a neat concept. Yeah, we're going
to roll out some creative. Concepts like that.
So we're gonna I want to do a silent trivia Event
because what you can do is we can we can speak
to each channel individually So you could have
different colors get different clues or different
questions. I want to do a scavenger hunt Oh,
that's awesome Simon that's gonna take a while
to plan out but you would have the headphones
different colors would send you to different
clues or different areas and If you had a team
of three like each person would get different
information that they'd have to kind of collaborate
with and share That's awesome. And this is something,
just so folks know, this is the type of thing
where you put on events or collaborate with venues
to have events to the public. You can come in
and enjoy that if you're an individual. Yeah,
we're like a mobile DJ service. I might need
your help, because I'm trying to set up my Google
Business profile right now. The categories that
they offer are abysmal. There's no entertainment
services option. You can either be a DJ, or you
could be an adult. strip club. There's no in
between. It's outrageous. That was the crossroads
I was at when I left high school. Do I want to
be a DJ? Because I didn't really want to get
dumped into all DJ services. We do offer traditional
DJ services, but that's not our main thing. And
I could not find trying to figure out where to
land on the business side. That's actually, I'm
glad you said that. For those that... don't know,
Phil, which I'd be surprised. What exactly, what
are all the things that you do with StageShop?
Because you are like a one -stop shop, dude.
Yeah, yeah, we've expanded. So it started just
producing comedy shows. That's where we started.
My buddy Will Phillips was doing trivia, which
got into trivia. And that's been our main. That's
kind of our flagship product. We do trivia nights
that are infused with comedy. They're fun, dude.
And then from there, we offered Singo. So we're
in a licensed Singo provider, our music bingo.
And then my brother does karaoke now. He's joined
up. We have the silent disco. I'm friends with
a bunch of DJs. So we will book DJs for you as
well. We've done weddings and private events.
I really like corporate work. Boy, if you got
a company and you want your employees entertained,
that's my bread and butter. I really love those.
So you must be just like seven days a week, dude.
No. OK, good. No, no. I make it look harder than
it is. Right. OK. What you don't realize is he's
got a whole team. So he talks about the trivia
nights He's got an army of folks that used to
be just mostly you and will lead and all those
but now you've got You've got minions. We used
to coat we used to run together as a team and
it was fun Yeah, you know we had working with
your buddy and then I was like, oh we have to
split all this money, right? You know like the
business mind son where I was like boy if we
just did this alone Keep all the money. Yeah,
and then we added more nights and added more
to the team But we're currently in about 70 locations
right now, nationwide, with our website subscription
service. And that's my biggest accomplishment
with this. Years ago when we started, I was like,
I could see this going into more places. And
so that's going really well. But locally, we
do all this other stuff as well. And we were
launching a new website probably within a week.
Remember that website that was going to be done
in three months? Yeah. That's how websites go.
Yeah, it's still going. So we're six months in.
But I got a call Friday with my developer. We
got to bring down the current site for a few
hours to flip the new one out. Swap it over,
sure. Yeah. And it looks really sharp, man. It's
going to have all of our booking. There's a really
nice booking form on there. Individual game downloads
if you want a one -off trivia night. And the
subscription. But anything you want to book will
go through that new website now. That's awesome.
So you don't have to be actually physical. Like,
people can book you to do the trivia, or they
can also subscribe to you and they can do their
own. Correct. Right, right, right. Yeah, so it's
a do -it -yourself. We had all these games we
were creating every week for local trivia. I
was like, what are we doing with these? We got
this giant archive. So we package them and just
sell them as digital downloads. So you can print
and play. And so we try. I mean, it's all tried
and tested stuff. So it's like a game we run.
We catch. Most of the typos yeah, you know I
mean like it's mostly accurate so and then you
can download it and run it at your bar so the
other night I did my my in -laws and and my wife
and I and the kids we went to a trivia night
at Remember where we were it doesn't matter But
the point is I was sitting there and I was getting
mad at this one team And then I started thinking
like I got to go home Look up on YouTube. Have
there ever been trivia night fights and now I'm
realizing I can ask the guy right here Have you
ever seen it get so hostile where teams maybe
not physical but close to physical or physical
question? I never have seen a physical fight.
That's good. And the part of that's our brand.
We're just chill bar trivia Yeah, yeah, I did
have my first I did have my first trivia Karen.
Yes. Oh, yeah, but every West Wednesday we had
a We had a brewery man and we had 19 teams like
130 players, which is a record crowd It's a hard
demand hundred and one roast. Yeah, you say 130
Wow and 30 people in the bar I mean they were
at capacity standing room only and it's a lot
to run So it's like if you're correcting in between
rounds takes a long time. Yeah, you run slow
This game typically runs 7 and 9 p .m. We were
running late. We're getting done at like 930
I cut out a round. I was like we got to cut the
game down We're never, otherwise we're gonna
go home at midnight on Wednesday. So at the end
of the game, somebody, one of my regular players
who I typically like just approached me and started
complaining about cutting the round and I was,
so I was explaining and I'm like, I just need
a little bit of empathy, dude. Just a smidge
of empathy up there. And she hit me with, I could
run it faster. And I said, how do you know that?
You know how she knows that? I donated a game
to one of her charity events. That probably had
10 people. And why are you fighting with me?
I donated stuff to you. And boy, that was a reminder
of why I never help anybody. But I listened to
her points. They were valid. I'm not a superhuman,
dude. And Cookie was there with the baby, dude.
I was playing with the baby. It was probably
my fault, actually. It was definitely his fault.
He was playing with Nora. So no trivia fights.
Maybe I'm the Karen. Maybe you. Times you gotta
ask yourself that. You bring out the Karens.
Nah, no physical fights. That's good. I have,
my favorite was once I announced the wrong winner.
So I had a team and I just read the score wrong.
Classic Steve Harvey, dude. I was just gonna
say that. Classic Steve Harvey. And you know,
it's a quick correction. Somebody comes up and
they're like, I think you misread. So I apologize
to the room, the bar. And it's like, at the end
of the game, everybody's hammered. So I apologize.
The kid that thought he wanted this team, this
guy, he was so upset. He was like, listen, man,
I was going to get laid. Well, and you just ruined
it. Oh, my God. I was like, but you didn't win.
I'm like, you understand how numbers work, right?
I mean, you didn't really win the game. I just
announced it wrong. He was like. And so and I
get I'm like, man, if that was. If that was what
was getting you, I don't think you were getting
laid, dude. Yeah. Here's the other part of that.
I mean, what man or woman is going to sit there
and be like, I'll tell you what, if that guy
wins this trivia game, I'm going to bang his
brains. Like, why is that? Why is that a benchmark?
Listen, ladies have standards, you know. I get
it, and that's fine. They don't want no loser
trivia guy. You don't want a loser of trivia.
That's true. You know, some guy that doesn't
know when the Battle of 1812 was is not somebody
that's worthy of your underwear. You don't know
how to put these board games in the right order,
dude. You can't put this pussy in the right order.
That's right. You need to put that on a shirt.
That is wild. So this guy, I'm sorry, he'd never
let it go for weeks. What? Oh, he held on. I
would run into him. Yeah, he would bring it up
every time. Know so I had a sleep with him, dude
I gotta take care of this guy like listen. There's
only one way to resolve this pull your pants
down Yeah, and that then that's what makes you
great. You're a man of the people. Yeah, you
boy It's the most popular trivia night. We all
know believe me amazing We can't we can't go
much longer without give. Yeah some love to our
lady Kelly here Kelly tell folks again what type
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is what I love about it, because, you know, who
doesn't like to wake up in the morning and be
like, whoa, I actually look alive today? I feel
like any beauty thing that you can do that lasts
is awesome like that. Yeah. I was blown away
by how long they actually last. And I finally
found a system. that I implemented at the shop
that's amazing. I mean, it's the same stuff that
I would utilize, you know, in some of my facials
even, you know. So for people with like sensitive
eyes and, or I call it leaky eyes too, you know,
like those chemicals not getting into your eye
and actually burning, you know, like. Last six
to eight weeks? Come on, you can't beat that.
That's awesome. We have a podcast through Growth
Mode Content. Our clients, Stacey and Jen, it's
the Stab and Jab podcast. And I don't want to
speak out of turn. Are they estheticians? They
do a lot of the medical. Yeah, so they do PRF
treatment, lip filler, Botox. Do you do any of
that? So I am an esthetician, not a medical esthetician.
Gotcha. So that's actually kind of the difference
between the A and the E. Okay, okay All right,
yep, but I do like the more advanced treatments
so I can still offer things like chemical peels
Nano infusion nano needling. So I'm like one
step below the medical ones but there's still
ways to kind of work around that and still get
the results that you want. It's just my approach
is more low and slow. So a lot of like the dermatologists
and stuff, they're not going to go through your
whole skin care routine with you and tell you
what each ingredient does and why it's beneficial
for your skin. And, you know, I mean, they're
not going to take the time. They're going to
prescribe you, you know, some tretinoin or you
have to lean or something like that. Can we try
something fun just based on Just your instincts.
How would you fix these guys? Look, first glance,
right? Got another hour? Look at first glance.
I would need about an hour. OK. Matt's got a
little bag right here, right? I got big ones.
How do you fix the bags? So for bags, typically,
for. Topical products anyway something with like
caffeine niacinamide vitamin C. Just pour my
coffee on my face. I know I know it's a lot of
Ingredients like I said, but each one of those
does a different thing, you know once that's
frightening one will help Constrict the blood
vessels a little bit for you if we were in Office,
you know if it's a matter of you know, it might
be actually your sleep, you know I have a cool
little tool called a hot and cold hammer, and
it literally looks like a mini blow dryer. But
it cools the skin, so that'll reduce inflammation,
reduce the redness on your skin, help with the
puffiness and stuff. So I can alter and adapt
everyone's. experience, depending on what they're
looking for. You ever see these things? They've
been advertising on TikTok, and I don't really
understand. This is one of the things that I
have not searched for, but it's shown to me.
They're showing me these, like, almost like a
boxer tool. Yeah. Metal thing where you're just,
like, pulling across, just similar to they do
with boxers. I think that's the cold hammer,
isn't it? So, yeah, that one typically is the
one that warms up. But they do make the cold
ones too. Sometimes they... So there is some
value to that. It's not just some idiot wiping
something across his face. Yes. Wow. Hey Rock,
get in there. Depends on how it's designed. You
know what I mean? So, some of them have like
the little red light therapy or sometimes the
blue light therapy. How does TikTok, are they
analyzing my videos and going, this guy needs
his shit? Maybe. Is that how they're feeding
me? What do you think of some of the, I know
you can't speak for all, but I also see these
creams that you can put on and then they sit
there and they time lapse it and they put it
on one side and you can see within minutes it
works. And I feel like that's complete bullshit.
Yeah, the temporary face. Well, it kind of like...
fills the holes, you know what I mean? And it
will burn, but it's not gonna be a long -term
effect. I've always had some bags under my eyes,
but now with the lighting in here, there's some
clips I see. I look like I'm dead, because there's
no filler light. Mike, we have something to tell
you. Am I dying? Or am I already dead? You actually
died three months ago. I fucking knew it. I knew
it. Who were you talking to? I forgot what I
was gonna say. Cause I'm so, I'm so. So you look
dead inside. I'm dead inside, I'm dead on the
outside. I wanna do, our next visit, I wanted
her to bring masks that we can wear. She's got,
you got under the eye little peels, and then
you got this whole thing that goes over your
whole face. Like Dwight in the office? Yeah,
Carol is talking about the lumen fusion service.
So I utilize Dermalogica products, and I love
them because they... do their research, you know,
scientifically backed. I know it works. I know
how to how to use them. But the LumenFusion is
an awesome service that they came up with. And
it allows my clients to kind of trial all these
like big words that nobody's know. What the heck
is LumenFusion? What the heck is LED light therapy?
And you know, what do they do? So that one's
nice because you get like a low level peel. There's
no downtime. It feels incredible. You leave looking
glowy. You get to try the nano -infusion, you
know, so the peel is actually nano -infused into
the skin so it helps it to penetrate more. Then
it's removed with an enzyme and obviously you
get the nice enjoyable massage and all that stuff.
And then there's actual chemical peel, iPads
that you can use with that service as an upcharge.
And then you get the red light therapy mask.
Can you get to try the LED therapies too and
it's all in one service? So yeah, really if I
have clients that are a little bit hesitant To
actually go the full -fledged chem peel. I'll
start them out with that because it's a nice
way to kind of You know, yeah chem peel sounds
like they pour acid over you Made the Joker exactly.
Well, can we do a good New York spa day where
we go? Probably said that last time It's hard
to really explain what I do right because there's
so many moving parts to it Yeah, same here. We
can't explain what either and I honestly I work
better when I'm doing it, you know what I mean?
I have the best interaction with my clients because
I can explain it as I'm doing right right right,
you know, and it's hard to appreciate until you
got like cream getting painted on your face,
and it smells good and it feels nice, and you're
like, oh, this is wonderful. Yeah. Yeah, I just
think it's unfair that, like, you know when someone
says, like, hey, man, you look good, or you look,
you know, you say that to a guy, we're like,
oh, wow, thank you, because society has made
us just raw dog life with no makeup. We don't
do anything. Women get all these, all that stuff
you're talking about. We don't do any of it.
So I feel like... When someone says you look
good, I'm like, that's a compliment because I
didn't do any of that shit. No peels, no eyelash
perms. Mic unfiltered. I really believe that,
you know, skincare is a form of healthcare for
us. Of course. And why should guys not be allowed
to, like, participate in this? Exactly. It's
true. I just booked a client for Tuesday, actually,
you know, another male client. So I love having
gentlemen in, because it's a different... She
said gentlemen, sorry guys. We're out. I do notice
that there are more and more males admitting
publicly that they get pedicures and manicures
and I think that's great. There's so much information
out there. How do you know that the information
that you're getting is valuable? Astaticians
can help you with that. Go talk to a professional.
Or Facebook. Facebook's very reliable. All in
any information. Yeah, you got some growth coming
out of your... What I like to do is go to the
Facebook when professionals put up their detailed
videos and then you go to the comments. The comments
are where you find the real, truthful info. All
the research that everybody does. Well, you're
amazing. Go ahead before we know. I'm sorry.
I didn't mean to know to cut you off there I
want to make sure that we dig into this really
cool upcoming event that that is also something
that we're here to talk about Plus it's Dan's
involved in this one. Yeah. Yeah, so this is
now a family event Yeah, you helped put this
together. I love this. Tell us about it, buddy.
Yeah, so Coming up if you don't know the original
Nintendo Entertainment System was released October
1985 in the US It's a 40th anniversary. It was
the first toy I got. I mean, I remember getting
this thing as a kid, dude, for Christmas. Same.
My parents were like, here you go, leave us alone.
And it worked. Yep, it definitely worked. It
was the best. So anybody in our age range, we're
celebrating. We're doing a 40th anniversary Nintendo
trivia night. It's at the Burstone Inn in New
Hartford. It's going to be. fully original NES
themed, and then we're doing a Nintendo music
bingo night, so we're gonna incorporate two of
our events. We're doing original NES theme songs
with our bingo card. Prize pool is outrageous,
dude. My friends over at GameStop in New Hartford
got us a Switch 2, so a brand new Switch 2 Mario
Kart bundle that's a grand prize. What is it,
$500 or something? If you have IT issues the
night of that event, You're shit out of luck,
because every nerd in the world is going to be
at this event. Yeah, I got you guys a table.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. You guys will have growth mode.
We'll be there. I got you guys a table. So we're
doing that. We got an original Nintendo. We secured
an original. It comes with three games. Nice.
I can't remember what they are, but they're classics.
We got a NES classic, which is the remake with
the HDMI. We got some portable giveaways. I mean,
there's a it's over a thousand dollars and prizes
and giveaways We're gonna do and it's hosted
by myself. My buddy Josh Wilbert is gonna be
there I just gathered all the nerds. Yeah of
the from the team and all the gamers And we're
gonna have some cosplay. I actually hope people
dress up for this, dude. I Would love that so
tickets are on sale currently if you go to The
Facebook page it's just NES 40th anniversary
trivia party. That's what it's called on our
Facebook page That's the easiest way to send
you there right now, and you guys could probably
throw up a poster Yeah, you'll be like are and
all that deal I mean as a kid of the 80s and
90s like I mean Nintendo was everything there
was no cooler gift no cooler thing in the world
I want to circle back to the music. Do you mean
you're incorporating the music into the trivia
or in between you'll be playing? Totally separate
event. We're going to do trivia and then what
we do is we play our music bingo night powered
by the Syngo software. One thing we do different
that other music bingo events do not do is we
make our own custom playlists. So you go somewhere
else, it's just the pre -made, whatever built
into the software or something. We customized
the whole playlist. So this is going to be all
Nintendo themes. They're relatively short, so
it'll move pretty quick. But it's going to send
you back to memory lane. You're going to hear
songs you never totally forgot about. You get
a bingo card with your games on it. Once you
hear the theme, you mark it. We're going to have
everything projected and displayed, so we'll
help you along the way. And we'll play at least
one, maybe more of that. depends on the schedule.
We're gonna do trivia, bingo, and then we're
also gonna be running that bingo at the Retro
Game Con, which I'm super excited about. Thanks
to Danny, helping us out in making that connection.
So we're gonna give away, part of our prize is
a full weekend pass for your whole team to Retro
Game Con. So our event's September 12th, Game
Con is October 10th, so it's like a month in
between. You got to prepare. But we're going
to be there. So I'm sure you guys are probably
going to be at the event. Yes, for sure. We got
a panel. We're going to be doing the music bingo.
So if you can't come and play with us on September
12, go to Retro Game Con, join our panel. You'll
be able to play live. We'll be doing it probably
from your phone. We have a digital version that's
going to just work better for that event. And
it's all randomized. It's just fun. It's bingo
with the games we grew up on. That's so cool.
Tickets are $20 for the trivia night. And we
have a VIP table available. So you can buy a
whole team table, maximum eight players per team.
So gather your pals. So I got it. I don't want
you to give anything away. But I'm curious at
what some of the trivia questions might be. So
is it like? You know who designed Super Mario
or are we getting niche like like what's you
know, where's the warp zone in level three? How
deep are we getting here? Super Mario 3 the P
wing where you can fly over the lava ship. Yeah.
Yeah, so two part answer here One we haven't
finished the game yet. Fair enough. Yes super
procrastinator That's we are we've been like
but we've been doing everything a boat. We should
probably get this game run We are gonna make
it pretty advanced Because I'm like, I should
be going to this, man. You know all this stuff.
You're serious. You should. It's not going to
be like, what's the contra code? It's not going
to be the softball question. Up, down, up, down,
left, right, left, right. Yeah, we're going to
get a little tricky. We're really going to try
to pull, like, make you remember shit. Like,
you're going to have to be like, oh, I don't.
Damn, that level. Will the venue make drinks
according to the night? Because I think that'd
be a great drink name. Up, down, up, down, left,
right, left, right, A, B, A, B, select, start.
Any gaming nerd would love bartender? Bring you
30 drinks. Yeah, yeah, right, right? Yeah, maybe
that's a little too long when it's busy. Can
I get an up down up down left right left right?
But either way, I think they should be great.
I hope they do. So all the food is provided by
the beer garden, which is attached right to the
birthstone in there. If you're in Syracuse, it
is less than an hour. I think it's a less than
an hour drive to get there. It's worth driving
for this one. This will be our biggest trivia
night of the year. I have no doubt about it.
It's going to be awesome. Tickets are already
selling. There's plenty left, though. We're still
quite a ways out. But yeah, we'll do themed drinks.
So they'll have a mobile bar in the ballroom.
You guys came to the right knee Miller show out
there and so same setup. We're gonna have tables
Staging area. It's a great room for all that.
I love that space. We're also gonna be doing
later in the year This is just a teaser really
we're gonna be doing blacklight. We're gonna
be doing a blacklight rave with our silent disco
We're also doing blacklight bingo We're gonna
bring back sort of the turning stone used to
do it where they would do like the party bingo
on Fridays We're gonna recreate our own version
of that It'll be November. So black lights scare
me cuz you know, we didn't see You have to wear
new you have to wear new clothes. You have to
wear to buy new clothes Matt's gonna walk in
and his crotch is just gonna be lit up. Not me
It's everybody else that you are like, you know,
we were gonna I was gonna do one at a restaurant
at one point Yeah, I quickly changed my mind
Health department will be like what? I don't
think that's mayonnaise. Yeah, that's not man.
That's not ranch um I had this I well, let's
keep talking about the event and then I have
an idea before Tell me I do so I can shit on
them. Well good because I had this for years
And it has to do with the silent disco event
like you're talking about kind of the same thing
I saw I'm like you I saw this car wash for sale,
and I went you know I'll be sick a rock and roll
car wash where when you pull into the bay, you
turn your radio to whatever the dial is. Pretty
sure that's a thing. And you can choose rock,
pop, R &B. And when you go in, the song plays,
right? Like, at the car wash. But it doesn't
have to be car wash themed. It could be rock
and roll. It could be Metallica. I think it should
only be that. And it lights up. That's true.
And it lights up, and everything moves to the
beat of the song. And I feel like, you know,
rock and roll car wash. The brushes. Yeah. Yes,
that's what I mean. Yeah, yeah, I can see it.
And it's all black light. I could be mistaken.
Or it's all black light. All black light. Because
you know what? That's safe, because it's a car
wash, so you won't see any stains, right? So
if the black light's there, you're fine. You
could also just eat some mushrooms and go through
the car wash. You could do that. You see even
more color. And I think what you're describing
is a radio? Yeah, pretty much you're just describing
a radio. I get what you're saying. Thank you,
Kelly. Thank you, Kelly. I used to pay extra
to get the rainbow colored. That's what I'm talking
about. From one aesthetician to another, we understand
each other. We're going to have to have a talk
with our man Jeff, the car wash guy. Yeah, yeah.
I think I might have mentioned it to him, and
he blew me off, as he should have. Yeah. It's
a terrible idea. But I just wanted to get it
out there. Folks, we're almost out of time. But
before we go I want to give a shout out to our
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person in Syracuse head over to Phil's event,
which is, say it again? It's the Ness 40th anniversary
trivia party. That's on our Facebook page, so
check that out, Stagetime Trivia on there. And
if you want to subscribe to the service, we currently
have one Syracuse location we play every Thursday
at the ALOFS Syracuse Inner Harbor, the bar there.
And it's hosted by my buddy Grant Fletcher. Great
dude, great comic. And if you want to subscribe,
it's StagetimeTrivia .com. Love it. That's it.
Kelly, what's the links or wherever folks can
find you? So I primarily utilize my Facebook
right now. I do have Instagram as well, but you
can find me at Beauty by Beer, like the drink.
Easy enough. On Facebook, just like me, friend
me. There's been a lot of marriages based on
Beauty by Beer. I'll tell you that. I get a lot
of questions with the business title, but you
know. I love it. Yeah. It's my last name. Why
not? We should lean into this. Yeah. We should
make literally beauty products that are like
beauty beers. Oh, Philly and I have been working
on this. Beauty beers. Yeah. I got a beard oil
where we're going to release. Yeah. Yeah, beard.
Do you do any belly treatments? You can call
it the beer belly. I can do anything anywhere,
really. It's skin. Settle down. Wherever there's
skin. Body. But currently on the menu, it's primarily
face. I do some. arm and hand stuff. Where are
you located? Back treatments. I'm located in
Barneveld right off of Route 12. Right on the
main drag. I'll put little key tips and tricks
and I'm open every day. Go get beautiful. She's
the best. I'm not just saying this, my wife is
a big... fan of her services. She's turned on
other people, friends, and family members who
have all gone to see Kelly, and they all do nothing
but rave about her. So I don't know anything
about beauty, but the people that do seem to
say that this woman knows what she's doing. Once
you try it, you'll be hooked for sure. And I
think you got a discount, right, for new customers?
Yes. New first time booking? First time booking,
you get $15 off. Anyone that refers gets a 20
% discount. That's phenomenal. Yep. Let's go.
Nice. Amazing. Phil, Kelly, Danny, Mike. This
is not a good episode. This is a great episode.
Look at us. I love when you guys come in. Look
at us. Yeah. Laughing, talking. I got my own
gun. Yeah, you do. Phil, farta, baby. And just
a quick programming note for those following
along, we will be... in and around the fair for
the next, you know, duration of the fair. The
episodes might be a little weird. They might
be kind of a collection of interviews similar
to yesterday's episode from the fair. But we'll
be there. Mike is going on vacation. Let him
take some time off. I am coming up next week.
Family vacay down south. But if I had known that
we, you know, we planned this vacation long before
I had the job. Not long before, but right before.
But I'll make sure we don't do a vacation in
the middle of a state fair week. No, it's really
okay. You're allowed to. Well, I know, but. You're
allowed to take time with your family. I understand,
but. The cool part is that we might, schedule
willing, get our man. I would not. Bill to join
me at the fair and. I couldn't think of a better
person to take my place while we're gone than
this man right here. I think I've committed.
I'm pretty sure no one's gonna come running through
the crowd and recognize him from the Howard Stern
show. No, no. But. That won't happen. And Saturday
Night Live. Saturday Night Live, yeah, I was
twice, but I didn't do anything cool. We had
an adventure at the K -Rockathon where some dude
did a dead sprint. I know you! And we didn't
know if he was going to attack him or make love
to him. It was a very like, I know you, I know
you. And we're like, is this a joke? And then
he's like, the Howard Stern Show, cocky -okey.
I'm like, oh, great. Of course, that's what you
remember. This dude was loving it. Dude, you
made his whole - I mean, it was cool. It made
my day. His whole day. You know. He was the biggest
celebrity he saw on that whole show. Yeah. All
right, guys. Anything else? No. I love you, Phil.
I love you, Kelly. Thank you for coming. Yeah.
And we will see you tomorrow on Good News York,
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