Hey folks, I'm Matt Major from Growth Mode Content.
Welcome to another episode of Good News York.
Joining us again, back from his vacation, all
rested, he's got the fresh hair gel, he's rockin'
and rollin'. Mikey B hanging out with us. Welcome,
well I should say, it's good to be back. Yeah.
I'm back in the saddle. I missed you guys. I
really did. I could tell by the zillions of messages
we got the entire time here. Well, you know,
you have a lot of downtime on vacation. This
is the first time I've ever had a job that I've
missed. So that's a huge compliment to you. I
mean, I hope. I love it here, obviously. And
yeah, it was also my first paid vacation, thank
you, in my entire life. Seriously? Yes. I've
always bartended or worked jobs that didn't offer
it. I said it many times on vacation. I said,
this is so exciting. I'm in my 40s, and I'm finally
getting paid on a vacation. It was great. So
thank you for that. Dude, I'm not going to lie.
The first time that occurred for me, it is the
most magical feeling. It's unbelievable. It's
like, wait a minute. I am just going to screw
around all day long, and I'm still going to get
a paycheck. So hold on. I'm going to drag this
beach cart to the beach, plop it down, pop open
some cocktails or whatever, and Matt's paying
me. There's a little bit of guilt that comes
with that, but this is also because I came from
never having it, so I appreciate it a little
more. I'm sure there's people that join the workforce,
and hopefully they get these paid vacations right
out of the gate. And I'm sure they appreciate
it, but man, thank you. I won't honestly say
that. It was awesome. So we had a lot of fun
at the fair. Yes. With you, and we went and had
some fun without you. That's OK. I'm sorry. Listen.
I got it. Before I say anything else, I got a
shout out to our fucking absolute spectacular
photographer, Amanda. Yes. Who went and shot
a lot of extra. We didn't require this. She's
like, I'm going to go get us some more content
and went to a number of the concerts. We, of
course, got some media credentials. Big thank
you to the fair for that. But that allowed her
to get right up in front of the crowd, actually,
on the stage for Polly D and 98 Degrees. and
a bunch of the other acts. We got some absolutely
stellar photographs. Danny's got them there on
the shot. From my perspective, first of all,
I didn't know this was happening. Like, I didn't
know she had applied for press credentials or
anything. So you had sent the link, and I'm like,
who took these? And they have our watermark.
Yeah. And I'm like, I mean, it looks like she's
on the stage with them. Yeah. And by the way,
I got to admit something. I kind of laughed when
I found out Pauly D from the Jersey Shore was,
like, on the... you know, on the bill. Yeah.
And shame on me. That place was packed. I think
I've never seen anybody, a crowd more amped up
to see someone at the fair than that. It was...
Here's the thing. Paulie Dee is probably the
most legitimate Jersey Shore member in that he
had that career as a DJ before he started the
show that obviously propelled him. But he's still
been working as a DJ. Yeah. You know, putting
on... He had a residency in Vegas for a while.
He might even still... Dude is a legitimate...
That was kind of the thing back during the MTV
reality days. All the real, the early on the
real worlds, there was always like one musician
or comedian, and they would, not all of them,
but some, it would propel their career. Like
Theo Vaughn, actually, I found out was on Road
Rules. Get out of here. No, that's where he,
exactly, that was my reaction. Kyle Brandt, who's
like my favorite NFL analyst, on Good Morning
Football started on the real world Chicago. So
there are some success stories. And I guess we
could say Paulie Dee is. Wow. What about the
situation dude? What's he doing besides flexing
his... Well, he was in prison for a while. He's
out. Tax evasion. Well, I mean, did we ever really
watch those shows, you know, like Jersey Shore
and Jackass and things? I mean, I did. These
are real well put together people. I think they're
going to be fine once they... People might not
realize this. There are... I don't know about
still, but very recently, like, within the last
couple of years, there's new seasons of Jersey
Shore. There's Jersey Shore Family Vacation,
where they're all adults and family. They don't
show the families. They still get together and
get stupid. And I kind of appreciate that, because,
you know, I am that old and move as slowly as
they do now on the show. It's nice to see it,
right? Because you're like, oh, I'm not... the
only one getting old. It's like when I went to
the Metallica show and I was having a panic attack
thinking, oh my God, I'm on the floor, I'm gonna
get moshed to death. And then I realized everyone
around me was the same age and had no desire
to do that. Here's the thing, sometimes I hate
that stuff, though. Like, there's this trend,
these videos I've been seeing online where they
take, you know, like an 80s or a 90s movie cast
and they show each person and then they morph
into them today. Oh. You know, I don't know if
you've seen these things. It's the most depressing
shit on the planet. It really is. Even the ones
you go, oh yeah, they're looking good. They don't
look as good as they did. Like, I want to remember
that person then. You know what I'm saying? There's
always one that's on meth. Like, they did it
for the Mighty Ducks, and Goldberg is like, I
don't even know if he's alive. He's an extreme
meth head. He looks terrible. And then Sandlot,
they did that thing. And the Smalls ended up
getting arrested for throwing a brick through
his neighbor's... I mean, it's very depressing.
Here's the thing, like, I'm a fan of the movie
and the character. I don't even want to connect
them to a different person. So, you know what
I mean? Like, I don't want to see... Exactly.
It's timeless. It is timeless, and I'd like to
always look at them in that light. Fun fact,
I played, this was my name in the script, a,
quote, Jersey Shore douche in an SNL skit in
2010 when Bobby Moynihan played Snooki. Bobby
Moynihan was in the middle. It was a fake MTV
promo. And part of the promo, it was showing
all of the shows, like 16 and pregnant. And then
it said Jersey Shore, and Bobby Moynihan's, you
know, orange. And we're next. Me and one other
and like two or three other guys are just Jersey
Shore douche. So that's my biggest credit to
date. So I guess I kind of owe it to the Jersey
Shore for that. It's all thanks to Pauly D. Thanks,
Pauly. And thanks, Amanda, for the great pictures.
They are, like I said, phenomenal. Check us out.
Good News York, Facebook, all the socials. You
will see a lot of these photos. She got the 98
degrees, like, logo. Yeah. Phenomenal. I just,
I don't know. It's really cool. So one of the
things that we did while you were gone is we
checked out a bunch of these different spots
around the fair that I felt hadn't gotten enough
love from all the various content creators, ourselves
included, right? Because there's all the hot
viral stuff. It's like, let's see what people
aren't really talking about. I keep walking by
this tent, and they had this tent outside of
the Expo Center, white walled, you know, typical
party tent, but like, very little signage. And
it didn't seem to hurt them, because it was busy,
but I was like, I gotta see what's going on in
this tent. It was bolt -handy. So we will show
the footage, but imagine this like... maze of
aisles and aisles that you had to walk through
of bulk candy they give you this big basket to
start with and you fill it and then you weigh
it and I had to get some you know cool unique
things we've already tapped into so this bag
is considerably depleted from what it was but
guess how much we we ended up with buddy I'm
trying to be conservative how much weight wise
how much you think that I checked out with Jesus
I don't even know how to That we'll say that's
half of it. This is a half of it. Yeah I'm gonna
say Eight pounds Jesus Christ no It was two and
a half. Oh see I don't I don't I don't even know
how to translate pounds to candy pound like the
I Don't I don't might get a newborn It was 87
pounds. Yes, my son was 87 pounds, 14 ounces.
Beautiful, beautiful. My wife has never walked
the same again. My wife walks like she just rode
a horse. Yeah, wow. I guess that's still impressive.
No, it was huge. Here's the thing. My guess,
I think, was like a pound and a half. And I was
off by a full pound. I was off by like... But
they had all the cool different vintage things.
We got some taffy in there. We got some all kinds
of things. And Danny, so I see you noticed the
Cow Tales. That was Danny's pick. They had, I
love Cow Tales. It's something my mom has gotten
me into since I was a little kid. She loves them.
But I've only ever seen like two flavors, like
the regular, and sometimes you'll find a chocolate
one. Yeah, this one caught my eye. These guys,
they had like five or six different types that
I'd never seen before. Caramel Apple Cow Tale.
Yeah. That's what... So what caught my eye was
I thought, oh, man, they rebranded. I remember
the orange and the brown. It's just a different
flavor. Yeah, it's just a different flavor. And
root beer barrels, come on. Dads, I'm a dad now.
I liked these before. So try what? The root beer
barrel? The caramel apple? Oh, here we go again.
So while you're doing that, there used to be
a hidden stash of root beer barrels in our candy
printer. The smell. Yes, that's I did not know
that this is exclusively for for me. Um, this
brings me back Let's see if you know this one.
All right, here's a little New York reference
Good News York sponsored by get ads on ads on
the go get ads on the go .com Carney's corner
in Herkimer course I used to go down there with
my buddies and we'd have a couple bucks from
our parents get a sub There was always cow tails
But I would always get bubble tape and big league
chew. Oh, yeah. Yeah big league You love that
shredding of bubble gum in a bag so you could
pretend you were eating tobacco. Yeah, by the
way, I didn't know that that was supposed to
be tobacco until I tried tobacco in high school.
I was doing Redman with my buddies and I went,
hey, this looks like Big League. And it all kind
of came together. Side note. I love Mike's little
light bulb moments. Thank you, buddy. I put about
two to three feet of the gum in my mouth at all
times for the bubble tape. That's the only way
to do it. Thank you. Thank you. The best part
of the bubble tape is when the roll got small
enough to where you could just take the roll
and eat it. Eat it like a giant chunk of gum,
yeah. You did it right. All right, here we go.
So this is a caramel apple cow tail. Tastes like
Play -Doh. Really good Play -Doh. I mean, Play
-Doh is good, actually. I don't hate it. But
I think it's because... I know what to expect.
Like, if I was eating this for the first time...
Does it taste anything like a traditional cow
tail? Not at all. Okay. Like, it tastes like...
Doesn't even look like it. Doesn't even have
the traditional, like, cream in the middle there.
The texture is the same as a regular cow tail.
Okay. But, um, it's kind of its own thing. All
right. There's a little cow tail underneath.
Fair enough. But it's mostly, uh, apple. Better
than the camel we had. Jesus. You should hear
the conversations I've been having about that.
Yeah? People are like, dude... You ate camel
and like think so. I think we did. I mean, that's
what they tell us I I think you and I are on
just spoiled chicken. Oh I Love when Amanda was
like, well, don't worry about the Gator. It's
just like fishy chicken Like that's supposed
to make me want to eat it more. I'm gonna be
honest Gator to me is the most normal Exotic
meat out of all those ones that they had there.
I thought elk was I mean, yeah Once in a while
you get but you're right You would see gator
on a menu. You can go to Florida and there's
a large number of restaurants that will have
gator nuggets or some kind of. I went to visit
my uncle in the Tampa area and Steve Miller banned
cigarettes down there, I'll tell you that. But
it was gator bites. Yeah, okay. I couldn't. Took
good. But for you, buddy, I chowed right down.
And look, it could be all beef that's just spiced
differently. A lot of people were like, is that
legal? I'm like, I don't know. Of course it's
legal. I mean, do you, can you, isn't it poaching
if you kill a camel? I don't know. No, there's
a camel farm. How hard is it to hunt a camel?
They move like, ooh. You don't have to hunt it,
you farm it. It's like, you don't hunt cows.
I wonder what, just take it out back, you know?
They store all that water. Next thing you know,
there's steak. Store all that water. Magic. We
don't ask questions. No. We just enjoy. But we
had fun. We had fun at the farm. Or you don't
enjoy sometimes. Did you and Danny win any more?
It's a great question. We did not but I went
last night with my kid I closed out the fair
like I was literally there as the thing was ending
and tell him how you closed it out a double fisting
wine slushies I had to I had to end the way I
began But on the claw game thing my kids love
the claw game. So we had to play that I looked
all over so I won that Garfield I don't know
if we even took a picture of that, but I won
the coolest looking stuffed Garfield where like
He's made out of the cartoon. It's hard to describe,
but awesome. There was an Odie, the dog that
goes with it. When we were there, and I'm like,
I don't need to spend another $30 to try to win
the Odie. I wish I had. I went back, looked all
over. There was no more Odie. I wish I had had
the set. But anyway, so we played, and my daughters
both cleaned out the fucking claw machine. It
was a good time. We played a couple other games
and won some prizes, which was great. And yeah,
it was a good time. That's fantastic. You guys,
I mean, it started as an innocent... I got another
lobster roll. You did? Before, yeah, I had...
Did you get a clear answer on is lobster roll
a sandwich? I mean, I feel like the general consensus
from what I saw was... The general consensus,
I don't know what you're talking about, because
the majority of the people seem to agree with
me that it is not. Really? and the one person
likened it more to the family of a taco, so I
don't know that I necessarily agree with, but
a lot of people said it's not a sandwich. Yeah,
which is not a sandwich. A sandwich is two pieces
of bread. True, like a cheese steak's not a sandwich.
Right. Hot dog's not a sandwich. Right. Yeah,
I'm with that. See, I don't know. All I know
is it's damn good, and I did have to take out
a second mortgage to pay for all the... You know
what's... What I love, I've said it, you know,
we have a clip of me. I love that not only that
you drink wine slushies, but you own it and you
don't care. I think that's phenomenal. But it
reminds me, there was a, remember Kids in the
Hall in the 90s? Tasty and refreshing. Of course
I remember Kids in the Hall in the 90s. You know,
you don't, when I saw it - I just see the Kids
in the Hall live show at the landmark theater
in Syracuse and then got their autographs afterwards.
That's phenomenal. Yeah. Well, the Kids in the
Hall was a sketch comedy show in the 90s. Kind
of like a Canadian version of SNL. And - I don't
watch it all the time, but I had a close friend
who always watched it. There was one sketch that
I'll never forget. And when I saw the video or
the picture of you with the double -fisted wine
slushie, it was called Girl Drink Drunk. And
it was where this guy was working for a company
and the CEO invited him out to dinner. And he's
all nervous because he's thinking he's going
to get a promotion and he wants to... He wants
to impress his boss and they get to this restaurant
and his boss orders like a pina colada with an
umbrella and he's like, come on, man, try this.
And he's like, oh, I don't drink. And I try it.
So fast forward, he ends up getting addicted,
but he's only addicted to girly drinks. So he's
at work and he's like, I got to get some pencils
out of the utility closet. And like the door
shuts and you just hear like a blender going
and he's drinking. You know so the premise is
that he only drinks girl drinks And girl drink
drunk, and I just that's what it reminded me
of so I I thought it was funny But it was even
funnier when I put it into that cup Anytime you
can mix in a kids in the hall reference. It's
a positive. Well. Thank you. Thank you There
is exactly four and a half people on the planet
who will get it Love that you know the name of
that sketch though. That was the only one I remember
blows my mind The only one I remember because
I just thought it was so funny. I thought was
a great premise So listen folks We have some
breaking news Breaking news New York State College
campuses look are being ravished by an epidemic
of pissers an Epidemic haha see what I did there
I forgot my sound effects. I'm off. I'm off my
game. When I say pissers, I don't mean like,
you know, your grandpa. Oh, you got a little
pressure. You have a root beer barrel. There
are people, I'm going to say dudes. It doesn't
have to be dudes, though, I guess. But there
are people who are going to different buildings
on the various college campuses and posting a
video of what looks like them pissing. Now, let's
be honest. Or at least I'm going to go so far
as to say, I don't believe that most of these
are actually urinating. I think that they are
using a bottle of water. I kind of hope that
because I don't want some kid to get a lifelong
record for a TikTok. Yeah. You told me that if
you get caught peeing in public, that you're
on the sex offender. It's indecent exposure.
That's insane. It's the same thing as flashing
to kids or something. On the way to vacation.
I have a very, when I drink coffee, for the next
two hours, I have to go constantly. I should
probably get it checked out. So we have to keep
stopping when we're on our way to vacation. My
poor wife has to pull over. But what I do is
a trick I learned at the Bills games where you
pull the back door on the passenger side and
the passenger side door so that you're blocked
on both sides and then you go. I didn't know
that I mean I feel like that's a good method
But I don't even I don't even want to entertain
that if I I mean if that's the charge you get
Like walk off the road just enough into the trees.
That's all you gotta do, bro. No, it's just well
I will now or you do have a bladder like an infant.
How do you not have it anyway? So here's the
thing though, right so I'm scrolling through
the old talk and it's becoming hyper local which
I kind of like, but I'm scrolling through, and
suddenly I see this story about a Syracuse pisser.
What the fuck is a pisser? And you sent it to
us, and we're like, huh, this is funny. This
is funny, right? So then, of course, as the way
algorithms work, the algorithm's like, well,
now you like pissers. So every video I flipped,
but here's the thing, man. Supposedly, they're
saying that this originated in Binghamton. I
was gonna ask that. So, SUNY Binghamton is the
alleged... start of this trend, but it has spread
like wildfire across New York State campuses.
We're talking Syracuse University, RIT, Oswego.
These are just the ones I've seen. Binghamton,
Cortland, Ithaca, Albany, Herkimer. Herkimer
got a pisser. That's my hometown originally.
I'm very excited for the Herkimer pisser. Well,
explain, what is the context? What do they do?
You flip the video. It's literally them taking
a piss. Somewhere on campus. Right. And you just
see the stream, you don't actually see anything.
Yeah, yeah. Inappropriate. It's wild. I love
this. I love this because it's stupid. But also,
first of all, listen, it's New York -based. It's
all New York. Like, and this is what the show
is about, right? I foresee this trend expanding
beyond our state quickly. I do. I do. And here's
the thing. Years ago, I had a manager for a short
time when I was in the band. And I told her,
I said, I think... Think honestly what we need
in in rock music especially if we want to drum
up some interest in it again It's kind of the
way it was in the 90s with like the turf wars
like East Coast West Coast, right? I was like
we even in politics and in everything we do there's
such a sports mentality now in it and regencies
and you know, this town's better than this town
and and Who busts it wide open and proves me,
right? The the the college campus pissers cuz
look what's happening Binghamton starts it and
then what? Utica's like, well screw you, we're
gonna do it. And now we've got P. Turf Ward.
You gotta give a little credit where credit is
due. I love that this is allegedly started at
state schools and then spread to the privates.
Wow, spread it to the privates. I can't believe
I just said that. That's awesome. The plot thickens.
Oh. There's a little more to this story. So there's
a video, the first video that I saw was this
gentleman at Syracuse explaining this concept
and talking about what the hell's going on. And
apparently he's been accused of being one of
the pissers. He claims he is not, but there's
more to it and I'd love to play this clip and
then we'll talk about it for a minute here. So
I don't know this guy, he does appear to be a
student at Syracuse University. How do you think
you can find this guy? Find these guys. You know,
the TikTok algorithm, bro. No, I mean, like...
Oh, well, let's find out. This actually might
talk about that. Piss hunters. This is getting
out of hand. Fellas, we have piss hunters. That's
right. People that are trying to find these college
pissers in the act. Still really weird, because
if you do find them in the act... That's just...
Still weird if you're a piss hunter. But I have
a feeling, I have an intuition. that the pissers,
college pissers are going to be going cross country.
You're going to see pissers around a lot of different
colleges. There's going to be fake pissers as
well, fake accounts, double accounts, not the
OG from that school. So that'll be interesting
to see if those get weeded out or not. But now
we have piss hunters. That is so weird. So this
concept of piss hunters, I had already seen a
few videos before him explaining it of these
people saying that we are the piss hunter and
we will find you. And so now there are people
on campus trying to find the people pissing.
That's where I was going next, which is, what's
the end game? What is this going to turn into?
Because right now, it's just people peeing in
random places in the town that they claim to
be the pisser of. OK, so now what? What's next?
Is there a battle? I mean, that's it. No, but
I think you're right. I think now it becomes,
let's find them. I think they just get bored.
That's my prediction. This is like I think this
is like a news cycle style prank side no they
will instantly get bored with all due respect
to Danny Can we not normalize speeding up people's
voices because we're that fucking impatient that
we can't sit through. That was an effect that
he used. It was him? Okay, good. Because I am
fed up. Like I get that the tension spans have
changed. I completely disagree with you there.
I'm not gonna lie. I am standing firm on this.
I think it's pathetic if you can't sit through
somebody's speech. Fuck that. Here's the thing,
you gotta understand. I'll be an old man on this
one. No, here's the thing you gotta appreciate
here. Like half the content on the internet is
fucking trash. True. So when you flip to a video
and somebody starts telling a mildly interesting
story, I personally am not willing to invest
two entire minutes to figure out if it's worth
my attention. So I'll hit the fast forward. And
there was a guy on TikTok. I haven't seen him
in a while, but he was the most brilliant account
I thought. And he was called get to the point,
bro. And he would watch those videos for you
and then do a video where he goes. This guy was
mad at her. She broke up with him. End of story.
You know what? He would literally summarize the
whole 10 minute bullshit story in one line. Get
to the point, bro. One thing I'm trying to do
that I've been aware of is I've got to stop wavering.
I've got to stand firm on my opinion. A lot of
times I waver. But I will say when you put it
in the context of like, there's so much bullshit
out there. How many times have you watched a
two, three minute video, and then at the end
you're like, what the fuck? I just wasted three
minutes. That's what I'm saying. So in that context,
yes, I'll give you that. And also to some degree,
like people need to learn, and this is just a
content creator thing, this is something that
we all work on, you gotta learn how to just get
to the fucking point. Yeah, John Bon Jovi said,
don't bore us, get to the chorus when you're
writing a song. Story, you know, storytelling
is a good thing, it's a good tool in content
creation. But not everybody has that skit. Get
to the point. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You know what
I mean? At some point, you got to deliver. Yeah.
But anyway, this pissing thing is I, first of
all, I think it's hilarious. Second of all, I'm
excited to see where it goes, if it really does
turn into a piss hunter thing. And third of all,
I love how much you loved it. Because I love
that every, like, couple hours, you'd get a message
that would go, we've got a Cortland pisser. We
got a herkimer! And I was like, yes! I'm telling
you, it just fed me a steady stream of, uh...
Steady stream? Did you mean that? What a genius,
guys. That was awesome. You said private. You
said stream. Genius. The jokes write themselves.
I mean, they really do. They really, really...
Thanks to the pissers. Uh... What else we got
today? Well, I want to say real quick. You remember,
uh, a month or so ago... I was talking about
how I'm starting to get addicted to these crime
documentaries. Remember, there was the whole
thing with the way I say documentary. It's the
only part of that that I remember. Exactly. It's
supposed to be documentary. I talked about the
Bin Laden documentary. I talked about the American
murder one, which was the greatest I'd ever seen.
The Bin Laden pizza. Bin Laden pizza, that's
right. Yeah. We did a whole bit on that. I do
remember that. Dude, there, and I saw this come
up and I was kind of interested. It's, I forget
the exact name. I think it's called Unknown Text,
but it's the catfishing. It was number one on
Netflix yesterday. And somebody I know posted
on Facebook, you have to watch this documentary.
It is like an absolute, holy shit, mind blowing
ending. And that hooked me. And so I said, okay,
I'm sold. I watched it last night. Could not
have been more accurate. I yelled holy shit out
loud. Wow. Yeah. You have to watch. Now I know
why it was number one yesterday. I see. It is
a wild and don't don't look up the name. It's
a document. It's like real events. This is a
true story. OK, so I will say you find out that
it was actually well documented in the news,
but we're in the 24 hour news cycle these days.
Nobody get shit. Yeah, you don't remember. So
do not ruin it for yourself because like Fight
Club was ruined for me. Someone was like, hey,
by the way, it's him the whole time. He's not
real. I never got to experience Fight Club. Don't
look up the names of the people involved because
it was a true story. It is unbelievable. Unbelievable.
And I don't, I don't say that. I don't give these
outlights. All right. I promise. I'm no Ithaca
pisser. All right? I don't know. Since we're
on this, I'll give you a Netflix recommendation.
So for a couple of days, my wife and kids were
out of town. I needed something to do and entertain
myself. And I thought, you know what? I'm going
to straight veg out. to watch a Netflix show.
That's great. So I got myself a pizza and wings
and set myself up on the couch all ready to go.
And now what am I gonna watch? Which is always
the worst part of the whole fucking endeavor.
Well then it becomes you spending an hour finding
out what to watch. Absolutely. This time I got
lucky. I stumbled onto this thing and I'm gonna,
I'm not gonna lie, this might be to some degree
a little bit of a chick flick, but there's a
lot of hot sex scenes. So I'm just gonna leave
it out there. So fellas, it'll hold your attention.
You think you looked up a chick flick because
you would drink wine slushies right before no,
it was just what Netflix fed me It was good though.
It was called the hunting wives Okay, and it's
about this wife and her husband from from Boston
who got on to Texas movie or documentary It's
it's a that's see like an eight eight part series
documentary series. No, it's a it's a fucking
show Yeah, yeah But it's great and it's wild
and I didn't even realize there was really a
mystery in it. So the first few episodes, they
open up with some like weird crime, but they
don't really reference it at all. So I'm sitting
there through like half of the thing going, Oh,
and there's, you know, others and it's whatever.
It's interesting. And then suddenly it's like,
Oh shit. There's actually a story here that goes
along with this other stuff. And then it's very
suspenseful. And you spend the rest of the time
going who done it. Yeah. The whole time in my
head, oh, it's definitely that guy. It's definitely
that guy. It wasn't that guy. See, that's where
Scooby Doo was. It's one of those things where
they did a really good job of hooking you in
at the end. It was like, OK, that was cool. When
I was a kid, what pissed me off about Scooby
Doo was every time they would pull the mask off
the criminal at the end, it was always the first
character that they talked to. These new... documentaries
and series and movies, they make it a little
more less obvious. But yeah, like I said, I would
recommend, if you want one that's not too deep,
like I said, it's eight episodes, The Hunting
Wives. The Hunting Wives. I thought it was wife
hunters. Good thing I didn't google that. One
of the big things of this Boston liberal woman
goes down there and all the wives are hardcore
Texas gals, and they, for fun, go hunting together,
the wives. That's where the name remember the
movie surviving the game speaking of hunting
with iced tea. No. Oh my god It was phenomenal
as a 90s movie. You reminded me of it. He iced
tea who He joins these old rich white dudes for
a hunting trip He gets invited and they go to
this cabin in the middle of the woods. They have
this the one they're hunting That's right in
the dinnertime. They tell him by the way tomorrow
at 6 a .m You get a one -hour head start and
the only way you survive is if you get out of
here They don't know where they are. They fly
in through a helicopter. It's one of those movie
plots that they've done, like, 100 times. You
know, they say, I heard this in school, that
there's really, and I don't remember the number,
but they say there's only, like, 120 actual plots
throughout the history of TV and film, and it's
just different adaptations of that plot. Yeah,
that makes sense. You know what I mean? Like,
you know, nerdy girl becomes beautiful at the
end, you know, that kind of thing. So you're
probably right. Here's the thing, though. To
some degree, that's kind of cool, because, you
know... then you can kind of get into your genre
of movies, right? Absolutely. The thing that
you like. I used to love party movies, especially
when I was a teenager, you know, like the like
the Dazed and Confused. Yeah. Yeah. Dazed and
Confused. Can't hardly wait. Old school Animal
House, you know, going all the way back, you
know, those type of zero. You know, just fun.
Without without some like bullshit. conflict
sub -story that I don't give a fuck about. Just
have fun. That can be the whole movie. You don't
have to have some villain that's trying to destroy
everything. Do you ever see Van Wilders? Great
one. PCU. You and I love PCU. Fuck. That is a
fucking classic. PCU was great and it's not on
any fucking streaming service. It makes zero
sense. It's insane. It's way too good to not
be out there. I want to watch that movie again.
It was Jeremy Piven. doing Jeremy Piven things
before Jeremy Piven was really popular. He was
phenomenal. That made him. And Jon Favreau? Did
he direct that or was he just in it? I think
he was just in it. PCU. If you haven't watched
it, you really... One of the best and also applicable
movies still today. Yeah, especially with the
social political part of it. Never changed. Not
one bit. It's wild. You could argue it got worse,
you know? But that's a different story. Man,
it's so good to be back with you, buddy. In the
saddle. Glad to have you back. I was afraid I
was going to come back and you guys were going
to be like, listen, it's been really peaceful
around. We're going to have to let you go. I
mean, a head bend. Well, I'm sure. You know,
what fun is that? You get views with boring.
No. Danny and I can only talk about card games
for so long. Speaking of which, Danny's retro
game con is coming up in October. It is. It's
crunch time. What's the date? October, you've
told me a million times. October 10th, 11th,
12th, right here in Syracuse is Retro Game Con.
Our very own Danny, part of the committee planning.
He's the guy, one of the guys. One of the three
people that put on one of the biggest and coolest
events in New York state. Not in Syracuse, in
New York state. Which is fairly wild. Three people.
It's beyond wild. Now they have an army of volunteers.
Yeah. Which to me is a whole other thing, how
you get so many people. people to help you out.
Well, the gaming community, they're very, uh...
But it speaks to how cool the event is, though.
It's a big... Well, and when you see it, you
don't... Like, if you showed me the footage that
I've seen of Danny's past retro game cons, you
sit there and you go, oh, wow, this is a huge
event. Like, this must be, like, a year's worth
of planning. They probably have a whole committee.
You would not be able to piece together that
it was three people that put that together. If
you're not familiar with Syracuse, we have this
place called the On Center. It's a convention
center. It is the size of... of damn near every
convention center. Uh, insert city here. They
sell this place out multiple days in a row. It's
just one of the most incredible and it's fun.
There's all kinds of, I'm, you know, of course
the retro computer nerd. There's an entire section,
which I could, I don't, I don't even know what's
in the rest of the con to be honest with you.
I stay in this one section of the thing. Vintage
computers, vintage gaming systems, hooked up
and playable so you can play them. It's not just
like a museum display. Right. To me, I don't
care what else happens in the rest of the show.
To be honest with you, it's the coolest thing
ever. Well worth the price of admission. We're
obviously going to be there. Good New York, for
the retro game con, our boy Danny. You will find
me, I'm sure there's going to be, I'm going to
be very Super Nintendo PlayStation heavy. Because
that's my jam. Nintendo, Super Nintendo. PlayStation
those are so I will be spending lots of I just
can't wait to be like oh My god, I forgot about
that. That's it. I gotta get that or like, you
know that it's just you want to talk about a
nostalgia Wet dream and jokes aside that really
is just a very small sliver of what happened.
Yeah at this show It's absolutely people enjoying
cosplay. There are can't wait for the different
sessions and and you're gonna get to meet people
and buy things the coolest vendors that you will
find anywhere. If you are in this gaming, retro,
anything community, I don't, I feel like Amazon
doesn't have as good a selection of cool things
than you will find from these vendors at GameCon.
Because these vendors, I mean, this isn't your
run of the mill, like I collect stuff. I mean,
this is a serious operation. And you know, I
gotta tell you something. I had this quick thought
of, like, oh, I got to dress up in cosplay, you
know, for the show, and I'm not going to do that
because I have learned that the cosplay... You're
famous on your own. I am not famous, but... Maybe
I could cosplay as Mike. But if I realize that
out of respect for cosplay, I'm not going to
do it because there is a real community that
does cosplay, and I'm not... They don't just
throw on costumes, dude. Yeah, oh, yeah, no,
it's not Halloween. Like, if I just show up in
my cute little costume... No, no, no. That's
disrespectful, and they'll sniff me out. They'll
be like, this guy's not for real. Yeah. Yeah,
no. I mean, there are some serious cosplayers
out there. For those of you that don't know,
cosplay means you become that character. Nobody
doesn't know, Mike. He doesn't. For me. If they're
listening to a podcast, they know what cosplay
is. I want to put a poll up now. Do you know
what cosplay is? Write it in the comments. Do
you know what cosplay is? I'm not completely
sure what our average demographics are, so maybe
I am speaking on a tune here. I don't know. Maybe
I am. Who knows? Cosplay could be, I mean, it
sounds a little kinky, you know? They might not.
They might be like, ooh, that sounds... Depends
on what website you're on, my friend. And with
that, it is Good News York brought to you by
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we love you. And it's been Tuesday. Well, we
thought it was Monday until Danny hit record.
Uh, so... It's a Monday on Tuesday. Oh, no, the
pisser. The pisser was news. That's... That's
your Tuesday. All the news you could possibly
need. Tuesday Newsday. You're in trouble. You're
in trouble. Peace out. Bye -bye.