Hey folks, welcome to good news York. I'm Matt
from growth mode content joined as always by
my handsome headphone friend Mikey B. Yeah, it's
episode 90. I know I can't 9 -0. That's crazy.
It is crazy. It's uh, it feels if I mean it feels
like it's episode 89, you know, I just believe
we're at 90. It's true crazy didn't know we'd
come this far enough of us we have an incredible
guess Who was creating an incredible product
you might have noticed on our Table here. We're
gonna talk all about that Mike. Tell us. Yeah
got here. We are honored to welcome The one of
the CEOs founders of a very innovative Energy
drink at least in my world something I've never
heard of absolutely delicious. We're very excited
Mr.. Vincent de Grecia there. He is there he
is guys. You just you just made the handsome
meter go up about 100 points by being on the
show. Thank you for helping us on that. Yeah,
thanks. Thanks for joining us on the show. We
tried your it's it's wava water and wava beats
which we'll get into. This is caffeinated water
lightly caffeinated. Yeah, and it's sparkling
water. Yeah, which I don't know about you, Matt.
But in my world, I didn't know those two things
could ever go together. So I'm excited to talk
about this. Yeah, yeah, I am as well. Welcome
to the show, Vincent. Thank you so much, guys.
Really appreciate having me on the show. Of course.
So if you want, let's let's dive right in. Tell
us a little bit about this product and maybe
how you got to this endeavor. Yeah, for sure.
So my background is. I'm a musician, as well
as I have a deep hospitality background. I grew
up in the restaurant business. Grandfather's
a restaurateur, father's a restaurateur. So grew
up in restaurants, right? So 10 years prior to
starting Wava Water, I worked for a group called
Tow Group Hospitality, which is an international
entertainment nightlife hospitality branch. And
I was... a director of ops for on their hotel
side for the last few years of my 10 year tenure.
So it was during that time where I came up with
the idea for Wobble Water, right? So it was over
COVID and we were just coming out of COVID and
we were reopening up all of our venues, right?
So New York City, we're building roadside dining
rooms, it was summertime, hot, minimal staff.
And we were just drinking, me and my crew were
drinking tons of ice coffees. For the reason
ice coffees is because me personally, and a lot
of my other crew, we don't drink energy drinks
and sodas, somewhat health conscious, stay away
from all these weird things or just beverages
that have a list of names of things in them that
you don't even know what is, right? So it was
like ice coffees from the old day. So one day
I finished my ice coffee. I put it down. Went
back to it 20 minutes later, the ice melted.
I drank it because I was thirsty as we all do.
And a light bulb went off in my head. I went
over to the bar. I put a little bit of soda water
into it. I squeezed some lemon and I'm like a
lightly caffeinated spark on the water. I'm like
it has to exist because I would crush these things
all day. Sure. I put R &D on the space and. I
saw a hole in the space. I saw no one was really
doing a simple, clean, lightly caffeinated, sparkling
water. There's a couple of independents, but
no one was really doing it or doing it well.
So after a bunch of, again, R &D research on
the space, I went to my wife, who was my fiance
at the time, Olexa Sivaretsina, now, but her
name was Olexa Sivaretsina, and I was like, check
this out. I got this really cool idea. I made
her a couple concoctions. And I'm like, I want
to go for it. What do you think about it? She's
like, this is a great idea. I'm like, awesome.
Do you want to do this with me? She has a marketing
background. She worked on the mobile marketing
team for the Pond Watch at Neon with LPQ, which
is the national Dutch bakery. And she was just
laid off due to COVID and seemed like the perfect
time. And I was like, listen, I really want to
go for it. What do you think? And again, like
I said, she was like, yeah, let's do it. But
the caveat was that me working my full -time
Director of Operations job for this high -end
hospitality brand, there's no way I would have
been able to give it a shot. There's no way I
could have actually done it. We could have done
it with working 12 hours a day. What are the
responsibilities? So after much discussion, we
decided to put all our eggs in the basket and
go for it. So shortly after that, I put in my
notice with the company I've been with for 10
years. I was like, listen, I'm not leaving for
a competitive company only because I have this
dream and I want to do my own thing. I said,
gave them five months notice. I'm like, I don't
want to leave you, you know, high and dry. I
want to help you open up all the venues. They're
like Vincent, we believe in you. Go for it. Finish
out your contractors and six more weeks on it.
And that's what we did. Then we packed up our
bags. We moved upstate where we had a family
house two and a half hours north of New York
City, where we were able to cut our expenses
by 75 % and focus on building the brand. And
that's what we did. We moved up here for three
years full time until we launched. And we launched
about a year ago. We launched Wobble Water, right?
So that's kind of the story of how we got to
this. Yeah. And, you know, for me, building Wobble
Water, you know, what it is, it's a creative
performance brand that utilizes a lightly caffeinated
sparkling water or functional beverage. with
music to help increase our creativity and productivity,
right? So we got the beverage, which 45 milligrams
of natural caffeine from green coffee beans.
So drinking the entire can would be like drinking
a half a cup of coffee. So it's super light.
It's one of the lights on the market. Has a hundred
milligrams of L -theanine, which is an amino
acid that's derived from marine telus that helps
reduce your anxiety and increase your common.
The combination is they put the combination for
increased focus and cognition. Now it's also
a very clean beverage. No calories, no sugar,
no sugar substitutes. Very clean and good for
you, right? Unlike a lot of the other beverages
out there. And then back at the can, which is
really cool, is the music element. which is Waba
Beats. You scan that with your phone, and it
goes to multiple playlists of original music
that we create ourselves that helps you focus.
There's also a music company that builds focus
music. That's incredible. That is absolutely,
as a musician myself, that is my absolute favorite
part of this, is that not only did you incorporate
music which makes the product better, but you're
also still kind of... Using your talents as a
as a musician and songwriter and incorporating
that into it and I just think that's such a brilliant
idea What goes into the I think this goes well
with it or was there a whole process that went
into the pairing? There's totally a process and
it's it's not like you have to listen to one
song with a certain flavor or anything like that.
So we create focus music and what we do to make
the focus music is we incorporate binaural beats
into our instrumental music. So binaural beats,
you know, playing the serum to simply describe
is sound frequencies that activate brain waves
to get you into desired mindsets, whether it
be calm, whether it be creativity, whether it
be focus, increased cognition, things of that
nature. That's amazing. I'm getting that kind
of sense when you talk about the beats and everything,
as I just look at the whole design of the can
with the waves and the, honestly, the marketing,
the packaging design as products go is phenomenal.
We were actually saying that before we went on
the air. Who did that? Is that you? Is that your
wife? Is it a really awesome marketing team?
How'd you get this cool looking can? Yeah, I
mean, we do have a great brand agency that we
worked with from the beginning, but we also you
know, our friend group is a group of artistic
individuals, graphic designers, music artists,
and we had a friend start helping us with design
at the beginning and waves were incorporated
right away. And as we're going through different
design patterns, always with waves, another like
epiphany like went off in my head and I'm like
brainwaves, right? That's kind of how the whole,
you know, going down that rabbit hole. came to
play for building Lava Beats, right? So we came
up with the waves and then I thought brain waves,
then deep dive into brain waves, vinyl beats
came to my forefront and I was like, okay, this
is really cool. We can incorporate these sound
frequencies and bend them into the music. And
there we go. We have focus music to help increase
creativity, focus, production, things of that
nature. But, you know, what we do is me and I
have a team of musicians that we work with and
other influential musicians that we co -brand
with to create music, is we create all different
styles of music, right? Not just like focal meditative
music. It's we did an R &B and soul album, all
instrumental. We did a lo -fi album, ambient
house album. you know, we really try to hit on
different genres of music, you know, this winter
will come out with a classical classical piano
album, guitar, blues album, and all the tracks
will have different effects to activate different
variables. So Vinny, I, we tried these and for
me personally, my favorites, the orange vanilla,
it's kind of like a taste like a creamsicle to
me. I love it. But I wanted to ask you, because
this is such a unique beverage, did the coffee
or the caffeinated part of it kind of have to
dictate what flavors you chose? Or were you like,
these are the flavors I like, this is what I
want to want to create? Yeah, so it didn't dictate
it at all. So what did dictate it was we wanted
to do classic flavoring, flavorings that will
always stay in the test of time that people understand
that people love, right? So lemon ice. When you
drink the lemon ice, it literally tastes like
Italian lemon ice. without the sugar. It's round,
it's clean, it's punchy, it's delicious. The
orange vanilla, again, classic, just like you
said, an orange cream soup. We wanted to stay
high level, classic flavors, things that people
would understand and people would love. And then
we have our natural flavor, which is just the
sparkling water added benefits with some sea
salt to give it a little bit of flavor and not
just leave it flat. You know what I mean? So
again, just classic. cool flavor. That's really
cool. What what goes into, you know, kind of
picking some different flavors? Because I'm guessing
as much as these classic ones that we're talking
about, I'm guessing there was like a room full
of other possibles, right? Is that is that the
case? Or am I dreaming that? Yeah, we discussed
it internally. We do research on what sells very
well, high level. what it does is we go through
tons of formulations to get the right flavor
profile. We test those formulations and then
we make a decision. That's so neat. I just think,
like I said, I think it's so neat how you put
it together. When I look at the can and I look
at zero sugar, zero calories, but it's got a
flavor. I don't know how you do, this is like
magic to me. It's like there's nothing in this
can, but somehow it tastes good and it gives
me energy. I just think that concept is incredible,
especially for folks that are very just calorie
and carb conscious. Speaking of that, was that
the goal from the beginning was you wanted something
zero sugar, zero calories? And from someone who's
a musician and does work or had worked in the
restaurant industry, I mean, this is a bit of
science, so who do you go to for that to say,
hey, listen, how do we make this zero calorie,
zero sugar? Did you kind of know what you were
doing? We kind of had an understanding, but we
did work with the grape formulation house to
make it happen, make it taste delicious. But,
you know, when you're taking flavor extracts,
there's different kinds of flavor extracts. Most
extracts come from the use of alcohol to extract
flavor from the orange, from the lemon, et cetera.
We use a certain company that extracts the flavor
using CO2, so it's a cleaner flavoring than using
alcohol to extract flavoring. And the zero calorie,
zero sugar, it's pretty simple. Just keep it
low level. You don't add anything, because the
extractive flavoring doesn't have any calories.
You know, caffeine doesn't have any calories,
caffeine doesn't have any calories. We don't
use sweeteners or sugar, so there's no calories
there. We keep it, again, like the thought process
was I was thinking, I was building something
that, for me, that I wanted. because I'm health
forward, as so many people out there are health
forward that don't want that, don't drink sodas,
don't drink energy drinks, and there's nothing
out there for them that is something like this,
that is clean, that's mid -day pick -me -up,
it's not too much energy, it's just enough to
give you that boost. You can drink these all
day and never feel crazy. The L -thin, that bounces
out any jitters from any excess of caffeine.
So you can drink three or four of these a day,
I drink all day. I gotta say, I can completely
understand that because I'm in that boat, right?
I traditionally drink water or... coffee and
black coffee. I don't put anything in it. So
I drank probably five lifetimes worth of soda
in my younger years and gave that up. And it
was life changing. And I think so many people
are doing that. But again, like I said, it seems
like my options are energy drinks that are full
of all kinds of nonsense that I don't want any
part of. or just plain old water. So this is
great filling the market. Tell us a little bit
when we talk about the market. Where can folks
get this? Because we understand it's available
in a number of spots all over New York State
at least, right? We are. Primarily as far as
retail goes in New York City, we're new to the
market. We're a year old. we're even younger
than that as far as our distribution goes. So
we're really just getting out there of a really
proven concept. It's going very well, by the
way. We know that we have a product that there's
a need for it. So right now, you can get it in
retail in about 70 stores, 70 plus stores. And
we're in a couple of places in the Catskills,
and we're here and there. We're one spot in Syracuse.
I apologize, I can't think of a spot to name
my now. But on our website, there is a find us
ad at the top and I'll show you every single
spot where you can get us. And you can also order
us online through our website. Free shipping.
Yeah, that's incredible. You guys sent us a case
of it. And I feel like it appeared within a day
of a conversation. So I can I can attest to that
right there. Also, I want to compliment you.
Not only did you send us a case, but you guys
had like the sexiest branding. Like we got this
beautiful suave water sleeve and there's this
gold straw in it, which I just wanted to thank
you. It's such a nice time. I feel more important
just using it. So just, are you behind all the
marketing and branding is that you and your wife
together? It's me and my wife together, we discuss
everything besides marketing and branding, you
know, we're positioned as we're thinking of ourselves
as a luxury brand, you know, we like to elevate
it. So a gold wall, the straw was such a nice
touch, you know, we didn't know we started like
handing those things out in rooms like oh my
god. A little things matter in that industry.
It really does in every business. So many folks
I feel like have gotten away from that. I think
and honestly, I'll tell you what. And as we're
talking here, so many of these things just really
impress me about your business approach, you
know, even with the flavors and like you said,
going with something simple and something that
people understand. And there's so many of these
folks that, you know, obviously you've created
a new type of product, but there's so many of
these folks that want to recreate everything
and they'll come up with some weird combination
and then call it something you never heard of.
And it's like, what the hell am I getting? This
you walk up on the store shelves and like, wow,
that looks cool. And it's a lemon drink or it's
an orange drink. I immediately know what's happening.
And I just want to tip my hat to you. It's really
a great job and a lot of thought put into things
that other people, you know, they think they're
being cool by being sort of difficult. I think
you've really got the right approach. Thank you.
I appreciate that. So the last thing and we'll
let you go is really just you know, you mentioned
your website things like that What are the socials?
What are some places some folks might be able
to check out more about this cool product? My
wife, she runs all of our socials. She runs all
of our branding. We keep everything super high
level. We keep everyone very informed on what
we're doing, events, activations, and just what's
to come. Well, I want to give you before we go,
I actually have one more thing. Sure. From one
artist to another, I feel like I need to do this.
Let's talk about your music real quick. Where
can we find your music and buy it wherever music
is sold these days or streamed? Yeah, we're basically
on almost every music platform from Spotify,
iTunes, Tidal, Pandora. Just type in Wobble Water
and it's gonna come up and you're gonna have
access to all of our albums. And again, we come
out with new music every, let's call it six weeks
or so. Sometimes we drop a single track, sometimes
we drop a full album. But every track, we talk
about what this track is going to do. for your
mind state, again, whether you're looking to
be more creative. I was talking to other musicians
recently, and I was saying, first of all, you're
ahead of your time with the Wobble Water itself,
but you're also ahead of your time with the music
because I personally believe that's where we're
headed, where people are now consuming music
by mood. So I think you really hit hit the mark
with that. So I just wanted to let you know,
I appreciate how you incorporate the music into
this. Yeah, thank you. I really appreciate that.
It's a thing. It's a movement and it's becoming
more mainstream. Me and Lexi are going out to
LA, UCLA, to a functional music conference at
UCLA two Mondays from now. We're all the top
researchers, musicians, scientists for functional
music. And functional music is music that, like
one of our beats, can help pitch into certain
mind states. So it's happening. Yeah. Wow. Awesome.
This is it. You've nailed it, man. Listen, we
really appreciate your time. This is great. And
of course, for sending us some samples so we
could really know what it is we're talking about
here. It's great. It's been awesome to have you.
Thank you so much. Yeah. Thank you. Thank you
Wava water grab it and grab the music that goes
with it cuz that's badass. Yeah. All right, Vinny.
Thank you so much We will be right back On Good
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on the go the King Matt Mazer. There you go.
Hey, buddy. Thought Mike was having a stroke.
We're back. We are back. It's Tuesday News Day.
Oh, shit. And you have a pile of things for us
to talk about. I mean, it's news, but it's not
like the traditional news. We just it's just
fun stuff. Yeah, like the same shit we've covered
for 90 episodes. Pretty much 90, by the way.
Ninety nine zero. Almost a ten. Hey, quick shout
out to other local podcasts. Captivate, CNY hit
their hundredth episode. Wow. They're ten ahead
of us. Yeah. Well, they're also a year head start.
So they go for quality, not quantity. Unlike
us, we just yeah, we just pump out shit. We're
just year round. Yep. Diarrhea of podcast diarrhea
of pot actually let's start I want to start I'm
I've been waiting for this you mentioned something
about little John yesterday Yeah, and we didn't
get it Okay, we didn't get to it what? What's
the third one? Yeah, what Danny? What's the third
one? Yeah, okay, and What oh, I don't remember
the third one. He's got three of them. Yeah,
yeah Okay I think I just made Danny piss his
pants. I've never seen him leave. That's what
made him leave. I've said so many worse things.
He's like, that's it, I'm gone. That's fine.
So it's easy. He's crying. Yeah, yeah. OK. Oh,
is it? Watch out. No. Watch out. What? What?
Somebody has not watched enough Chappelle show
Well, I guess we anyway the story that was it
the actual fucking story yesterday I've been
very intrigued. So let's what what is it? Yeah,
so If you if you jump This is our interns first
day, this is fucking great and walk into this
So if you go to our Facebook page, and we'll
of course cut it in here, but if you go to our
Facebook page for Good News York, you will see
I re -shared the video that Lil Jon himself shared
just recently, but it was from his time at the
state fair a couple weeks back where he came
to town. There's a fan, Lil Jon fan, young woman
who lost her leg in a car wreck or something.
And so she's got a prosthetic. And let's, we
can just fire the clip. Danny's got it right
there. and first time at the fair, and I got
this awesome signature. Sick. That's awesome.
Clearly a Byrds fan. Go Byrds. Man, she got to
meet me. What? Thank you so much. I didn't expect
that. See, I just said, what? Yeah, see, that
was a real one. I, you know, and that was the
reaction for not only me and a lot of folks in
the comments, all the same thing. Like, oh, here's
this this really kind of inspirational video
of of this woman. Nobody expected him to come
out like that in the video. And we thought he
was sharing her video. You know, I have to admit,
I always got him mixed up with Lil Wayne. And
then there was like Lil Lil Dragon, Lil. Little
marshmallow. There's so many Lil's. There's a
lot of Lil's. A lot of Lil's. Yeah. They never
seem to get any bigger either. I never understood
that part. They never do. They never do. That
is such a great story. Lil Wayne, jokes aside.
I mean Lil' John. You did it to me. See? Lil'
John will just always, you know, be special.
Because, you know, that video was cool. When
he was at the fair, he also posted some videos
giving love to Syracuse. Nice. You know, I don't
follow every one of the artists that came to
the fair, these big national acts, but I don't
know that many of them really gave the love and
respect to our town as he did. And I think that's
just a lot to be said about an artist, especially
somebody of his caliber, name recognition, to
actually kind of show respect to the area is
awesome. Yeah, it is awesome. And you know why?
It's because you see those... promo videos or
videos of artists giving an area a shout out.
And you can tell it's very contrived. It's you
could tell he genuinely like he had. Hello, Seattle.
Good night, dark continent. Where am I? But you
know what I mean? Like they he genuinely was
given genuine love to the area. I've got to tell
you, do you remember the Super Bowl a few years
ago? I know you don't watch sports, but a few
years ago and they had like the 90s hip hop halftime
show. Well, they did okay, and it was like Snoop
Dogg and it was Yeah, I know yeah, I remember
that so I got to tell you something whenever
a song from the 90s comes on right? People that
grew up in the 90s obviously love it and they
start they start moving and shaking if you want
to see middle -aged white women go crazy throw
on little John Get low Oh wait, that's Usher.
Whatever, that one too. That one will really
get their asses shaken. But you throw on that
little John Get Low, they lose their minds. Yeah!
We were at a Super Bowl party, our kids were
there, and I just remember that came on and all
the women in the room were like grabbing onto
the arms of the couch and all the kids were looking
around like, Mom, what are you doing? What's
going on? Dude's got it down, man. I'll tell
you what. It's great. I love it. It's awesome.
You know what? Staying on music. OK. All right.
So I'm not a big conspiracy theory guy. Uh -oh.
Oh, we're going into this. I can't just say all
conspiracy theories are fake. That would be Ridiculous
because you know, that's it. Come on But some
point it's a numbers game. It's at some point
it's a number two, but this one I don't believe
it. I just appreciate the thought that went into
it and I think it's hilarious Okay, did some
digging on my own Danny if you could pull up
the video We walked in and Mike was straight
down the rabbit hole of this this came up on
my feed and I had to just listen to this Four
dates And every tour date lines up with a missing
person or an unsolved homicide every place He's
ever been the guys we came up with of course
about a hundred and twenty missing persons and
around not roughly 90 unsolved homicides, and
I am telling you the man is a monster when All
right, so To summarize real quick the theory
here Is that Garth Brooks? country music legend
Garth Brooks the Thunder roll Garth Brooks rolls
Thunder kills is a serial killer that's and the
evidence is They can look at crime data from
the various major cities that this man toured
in and They found that a crime occurred in those
cities on the same day. Yeah, but it goes far
so it's clearly Garth Brooks clearly I mean,
no trial needed. Right. Here's the thing. It's
a monster, as this fellow says, but it's not
just tour dates. He goes further that it goes
back to when he was like in college and where
he lived. Crime occurred when Garth was young,
too. Yeah. So I guess this woman that went missing
or was killed lived only like five or 10 miles
away from where he lived during college. It's
it's crazy to me because I can't believe someone
had the time to. But first of all, how do you
even put that together? How do you go? Oh, look,
here's Garth Brooks tour dates Let me see if
anyone died around, you know, I like I theorize
I think it had to start with Tom Segura. He had
some sort of bit. Oh she started this I don't
know the the backstory on I theorize and I don't
care enough to test this theory but I theorize
that you can find any major artist and Make a
viable case for the same thing Again, just clearly
based on stats. Numbers game, like you said.
Andrew Dice Clay performed at Madison Square
Garden, and five people were murdered that week
in New York City. I think the Dice Man did it.
I heard that Mick Jagger was actually a pickpocket.
Mick Jagger was a pickpocket? Yeah, yeah, a lot
of people went to his concerts and left without
their wallets. Yeah. Here's the thing, though.
I went a little further. Oh, dear. Yeah, yeah.
Danny, pull up from right to left. I've got some
lyrics that I highlighted. I went through Garth
Brooks' catalog. Oh, you went through the lyrics?
We're going this deep? Dude, we're going deep.
Buddy, hit a little control plus and zoom in.
Check out the title of this song, What She's
Doing Now. I'll tell you what she's doing now.
What she's doing now. I don't know if that's
how the song even goes. She's she don't know
that's what she's doing. Oh, he clicked off my
highlight last time I saw her it was turning
colder, but that was years ago Last I heard she
had mood moved to Boulder, but where she's now
I Don't know I mean buried Go to you know, or
it's just an ex who we stopped talking to This
one so I'll just what's the name of the song?
It's called which one of them is like the most
obscure Garth Brooks songs you could have found
well think about it if you're Garth Brooks I'm
not gonna put what I my murder details in my
hit songs I'm gonna put him in the b -side he's
got a lot to learn so I'll just smile and pretend
and she'll never know Who she's up against when
she's holding me close a monster is what she's
up against Dude, it's there and then there's
like two more. There's two more. It's there.
It's all It's a monster. He's right walking after
midnight. Is this the Patsy Klein song? No, no,
no. Oh, maybe I go it is this is a Patsy Klein
song shit So Patsy Klein's a murderer. I mean
she could be I'm always walking after midnight
searching for you. All right scratch that one
It's like it but why did he cover it all -time
classic probably? Yeah, and then last but not
least This one, I think is the nail. Oh, I can't
wait for this one. No pun intended. When there's
no one around is the name of the song. Huh? This
is the man that nobody sees. He wears my old
clothes and he looks just like me. Just one of
the boys who gets lost in the crowd. He's the
man that I am when there's no one around. Dude,
there it is. He's a fucking psycho. What? There's
a killer inside him and it's Chris Gaines. That's
what I'm talking about. I genuinely don't understand.
What is that? Don't know did you start a document
Danny Garth Brooks? I did it What is that he
found looks? I did it. He found the wait a minute.
What does it say? It's a new track actually always
killing people and making them disappear in No,
I like that you left the geo irrefutable proof
yeah, that's funny. That's wild so I don't know
so Be on the lookout for Garth Brooks apparently.
Garth Brooks is playing in your area. Does he
still tour fucking strap up what? Is he still?
OK. I thought he was one of those guys that sort
of took his money and retired. Well, he took
his money and... I mean, clearly he's got a garage
full of skulls or something, it sounds like.
I want to talk about this real quick. OK. Hold
the pizza bagel up. So Barstool released this
video. I'm not going to play the video. I just
want you to see the video. Pizza bagel? Dude,
this is so great. When pizza's on a bagel. We
talk about organic content. OK. This is an example
of something so simple, but so engaging. All
right. And I'm curious to see where you. I'm
curious to understand what we're talking about.
Danny really surprised me with what he picked.
So the premise is, which bagel bite are you picking?
I don't know if you can. Oh, I see. So the idea
is you go to somebody's house, they put this
plate down in front of you. Which is the first
off the pile you would grab? Is that what we're
saying? OK. So without overthinking it too much.
All right. I'm immediately drawn to 10 because
I'm a guy that likes a little crisp. Oh, oh,
oh. And I like that the cheese is hanging off
the side. That means it's extra cheese. You've
put way more thought into this. Now, what if
if you're a sauce person, number nine is phenomenal.
But here's my way of thinking. There's nothing
more painful than a pizza bagel burn on your
side of your mouth. Number nine, if it's hot
off the oven, that screams. There are four thousand
degrees inside that. That screams third degree
burns. Yep. Staying away from nine. All right.
So I like ten. But then my last one I'm thinking
about up there way up at the top. Take a look
at six. OK, six seems to me it's the perfect
cheese to sauce ratio. And there's a little extra
on the side. So you're really getting the most
for your grab. I got to ask you a question. Yeah.
Does this entire thought process typically go
through your head before you choose a food 100
% holy shit more rapid rate Let's be exhausting
to be you. Oh, no, it doesn't I'm a fat kid.
I grabbed the one on the top of the pile Like
oh there's different ones so you don't look you
just grab fuck no, it's a pizza bagel, okay?
17 to me doesn't matter what it looks like they
all taste a hundred percent the same Yeah, but
you can get pizza in the morning pizza in the
evening, pizza at suppertime with pizza on your
bagel. You can really get pizza any time. That's
what I've heard. Yeah. So I don't know. So you
so you're going to pick all of you're going to
pick none of them. I'm literally going to the
top of the pile, the closest to my reach. Maybe
it's the edge piece. But again, the most convenient
to grab. I'm not I'm not giving any sort of consideration
to the look unless there's one that's horrific.
Right. Like sometimes you get those that you've.
put in too long, and all the cheese is just soup,
and it's completely falling off the thing. Like,
I ain't choosing that one. But any one on this
plate is satisfactory. Danny, which one did you
choose again? Yeah, this blew my mind, because
that's probably the last one I would grab, because
there's the least amount of cheese and sauce.
But he brings up a great point. See, to me, it's
front and center. I would be right in that one
or the 21 as well. Yeah, but your theory is geography,
whatever is closest to your hand. But what Danny's
saying is... It's given you let that natural
pizza crust on the edges because it's fair. Yeah,
I thought that was a brilliant observation that
I wouldn't have thought of. That's fair. That's
number three is like the redheaded. Now, here's
the thing. And maybe we should do this for another
day, because I believe this bit would be completely
different if instead of a plate of completely
identical things, we looked at like a dozen donuts.
And, you know, where there's a genuine difference
now there. I'm like you, I'm going through that
thought process going, hmm, do I want this one?
Do I want the one that the powdered doughnuts
tasty, but it's going to be the messy thing,
you know, like there is real consideration when
it comes to a plate of these or like, you know,
a plate of dino nuggets or some of this shit
like just consume it. There's if you're taking
the time to think about your pizza bagel, you
are not a proper fat kid. I appreciate that thought.
But for me, I think when you're looking at doughnuts
and that's a great bit and we should do it. As
you said, there's a clear difference. So then
it just becomes what's your favorite kind of
donut. That's what I'm saying. With this, there's
zero difference on any of those two. Right. But
I think that makes it better, because it's more,
if everything is the same, if it's the same exact
product, what is separating it for you? Why are
you going for this one? I think it makes it more
intriguing than, well, I just don't like jelly
donuts, so I'm going to grab this chocolate one.
But whatever. Fair enough. Fair enough. All right.
That was good. I enjoyed that. That was fun.
That was fun. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Back
up. If you could jump back to that video buddy
I'm just interested to know what some of their
picks were he clicked off control shift t. He
is lost He's freaking out guys. Oh there it is
damn nice What do you wanna? I'm just curious
to see what they pick in the video oh I don't
even know if I watch on the internet right now.
I took this photo of these bagel bites at 2 a
.m And I need to know who you're drafting first.
Also, just as a side note, this is, again, when
we talk about content creation, like. Number
23. Yep. So that guy's choice was to go with
the shittiest choice first. All right, bro's
less interesting than I thought it was going
to be. OK. He's way too laid back over this.
This is a serious issue. I mean, he got Barstool
to share it, so he did something right. Real
quick, though, before we go, this is exciting.
OK. We always. What's exciting? More and more,
especially since American High has been here,
we're having more celebrity sightings in Syracuse.
Dan Aykroyd was at Dinosaur Barbecue. Yeah. I
love that. He frequents the place quite often.
Yeah, but you told me something this morning
that I think is amazing. Yeah, so I tell everyone
this at every opportunity I have. And it is a
true story, Noble. And still my mind is blown
every time I speak this to a local person and
they have no idea. So the first part is Dan Aykroyd
is one of the co -founders. He makes crystal
head vodka. Yes. Now, even if you're not a big
drinker, if you've ever even just been to a liquor
store, you might have noticed a bottle on the
shelf that is literally a skull. It's the clear
glass of a clear. It's the coolest bottle, I
think, in the whole liquor store. I love it.
But that's Dan Aykroyd's product. Again, he's
the co -founder of this vodka company. The interesting
part that local folks don't know... is Crystal
Head Vodka is filtered through Herkimer Diamonds.
And I grew up in Herkimer, so that is beyond
exciting to me. Yeah, it's an incredible thing.
For folks that don't know, Herkimer Diamonds
are a particular type of quartz crystal found
in the Herkimer County area and like one other
tiny spot in out west somewhere. Yeah, I am ashamed.
They're very rare though. I'm ashamed to admit
that growing up, I did not give a shit about
Herkimer diamonds. I found out that people outside
of Herkimer in the diamond world, it's a very
big deal. We used to go there for field trips
every year. It was fun, whatever. Come to find
out. Do you remember there was a movie in the
90s called Congo? Those diamonds in the movie
were from Herkimer. Oh, really? Yeah. So up until
Dan Aykroyd, that was the big like, holy cow.
But yeah, Dan Aykroyd. Well, I know years before
the Internet and before it was very easy for
you to buy anything from anywhere. I know people
that were very big in going to these gem shows,
you know, just like trade shows you have for
everything. They would have out west these big
shows with unique gems and diamonds and things
of that nature. These folks would take Herkimer
diamonds and they would sell for huge money out
west because like I said, you couldn't just get
them. And they're so rare because they're only
found here, but but yeah And again, you don't
take my word for it go to the crystal head vodka
website And you will see they very clearly disclose
this so it's not some like urban legend Yeah,
I mean I genuinely like look it up It's very
straightforward and also you probably didn't
know and we locals need to take more pride in
that because it's cool as hell Pizza bagels are
actually marinated in the Mohawk River You laugh
that is That is something that not enough people
know nor do they appreciate the last thing I
want to talk about is Macaulay caulking is coming
to Rochester and Buffalo they're doing a 35th
anniversary home alone Tour and in my household
I post every year Christmas time home alone one
and two are my top favorite Christmas movies
Which we can get into that discussion as we get
closer to the holidays What's wrong with three?
Oh, please Name me one movie that's a third that's
good. And if you say Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles,
I'll throw it to you. Why don't you like the
New York City one, buddy? No, that's number two.
I love that one. I don't understand. The New
York City one's great with Pigeon Lady. Oh, OK.
No, no, no. I love Home Alone 2. Home Alone 3
was not even McCall. Wait, hold on. Which? Oh,
oh, oh. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Shit. OK. I think
they did even more. I think they did like four.
Maybe even five. Oh, they don't count without
him. Unless it's Fast and the Furious, once you
get past two, fuck it. I'm not watching it. Listen,
Fast and the Furious 78 is gonna be awesome.
Think about like Back to the Future, love those
movies. One and two, great. Three? Hot taste
goes off. Ninja Turtles, one and two, great.
Third, garbage. They're in Japan, doesn't even
make sense. By the third, it gets so diluted.
It's like the movie, or that game telephone where
you whisper in someone's ear and then by the
time it gets to the end, it's totally different.
But anyway. I caught the end of Robocop 3. Oh,
you might be on to something. I don't remember
three. Well, then that's fine. There's a reason
for it. Well, anyway. Anyway. So Macaulay Culkin
is coming to Rochester Buffalo. The one in Rochester
is at the Westhurst Theatre. Have you ever met
him? No, I wouldn't. If I met him, I wouldn't
be flipping out right now. I was told I looked
like him when I was a kid. I was just going to
tell you when I was a kid. Literally, you could
be a stunt double. Yeah. Well, I don't know about
now, because now people tell me I look like I'm
not gonna say whatever. No, you definitely look
like him still. But, uh, you know... And he got
old too. He did get old. Yeah. He, uh... Remember
The Good Son? The Good Son was probably the most
underrated Macaulay Culkin movie ever made. Yeah,
because his... It was a phenomenal movie. Well,
he was known as the kid from Home Alone, the,
you know, the young, uh, innocent child, and
he was a psychotic murderer like Garth Brooks.
Absolute psychopath, and he, even as a child
actor, man, he... It was good. There's awards
for that. He's coming to Rochester. Tickets go
on sale September 12th. And the show they're
going to be showing Home Alone, the 35th anniversary,
he will be there on December 6th at the West
Her Theater in Rochester. But he is coming to
Buffalo as well. And I don't know about where
else in New York, but I got to meet him. I've
got to. I've got to. You do. Dude, he's such
a huge part of my childhood. You know what bothers
me about Home Alone? There's one thing. Oh, if
they had just called the cops. It's one of those
movies where the most simple Basic normal human
thing would destroy everything our intern is
is poking holes. He's doing his job already.
He's pointing to Danny and saying The phone lines
were down. Oh Yeah, but he could he could have
went to the neighbor's house. Oh The whole Oh
cuz the alarm clock Fair enough Christopher Columbus
was a racist Oh the director uh Wait a minute.
You know what that's shameful Yeah, look what
you did you little jerk yeah, bro What what Hold
on a second. First of all, I've seen that movie
I just hundred I just bragged that my household
watches one in two every year and I didn't know
that what I was gonna say were you on mic? So
Danny Danny just breaking news. We're like little
John what what? Apparently the phone lines were
down which I that's pretty obvious. I should
have known I didn't know the phone lines throughout
the neighborhood were down though So he couldn't
have called the cops But then Danny drops a bombshell
that when he spills the milk when they're eating
the pizza the night before they're like What
you did you little jerk they get rid of his ticket?
I do also think though He was really lucky that
he found the only criminals who didn't own a
gun the wet bandits So This isn't Danny. It's
somebody's bad screen recording. That's fine.
No, you're fine. Oh, Buzz. Buzz, your girlfriend,
woof. Buzz was the unsung hero of this movie.
Oh, there it goes. Oh. Wow, wow, wow. Danny,
would you consider that an Easter egg, or is
that like something we should have caught? Yeah
See that's one of those things I sort of appreciate
you watch some of these things where they like
go out of their way to speak the obvious Yeah,
yeah, it drives you insane But that's called
being it's too on the nose. I think I yeah, absolutely
I Spilled the soda and now my ticket is wet,
right? Yeah, right. That's it's on the nose Right
dude Danny's Danny's officially the home alone
analyst. He's our special. How many kids you
got now? Two. I got four. Damn. How like real
talk. Oh, OK. How hard would it actually be to
do something and for a few hours not realize
that one of your kids is with you? Oh, that's
a fucking doozy of a question. It's like if we're
being honest. I would say... It's not as far
-fetched as they made it out to be. Ask the question
again. How long would it take before I... Yeah,
before you sort of really... You know, you got
the bun... You're traveling, you get the bundle,
you just sort of assume that everybody's with
you, but... Flying or driving? We'll just say
going to do something for a couple hours. You're
at the mall. As you and Danny both know, I worry
about everything. You actually have those kid
leashes? No, no, I don't do the kid leashes.
I do shock collars. But I'm constantly double
checking. I will say personally, not very long
because I over worry and I love my children.
But I could see how it could happen. Not to the
extent of Home Alone. Yeah, I mean, that's obviously
over the top. And after Home Alone 2, it's like,
bitch, now it's... Like, you're not getting past
the airport. No. Here's the thing. So that's
just going to the mall. Now factor in you're
with your entire family and you're flying over
to Paris. and you just overslept and you're rushing
to get to the airport so you can catch your flight
on time. How like? Yeah, and there's like 20
people in the crowd. No social media. People
checking and do it like the neighbor's kid came
over, so they did the accidental head count like
and you assume, oh, somebody else took care of
it like all the kids are here. And let's not
forget the not to factor in. Kevin gets confused
in the airport because some dudes were in the
same trench coat as his dad. That's really what
happens. By the way, I love that they run right
up to the gate. And they're like, get on. Like,
that shit's way outdated. Dude, all those classic
movies where you can chase somebody to the gate
and watch the plane go. It's like, oh, man, that
doesn't. That used to be a thing. I don't think
people realized that. There was once a point
where airport security. Well, there was no airport
security. You literally could walk up to the
gate. Which is wild the only difference was you
can't get on the plane unless you had a ticket
I was the only thing I was too young to either
remember or to see it But you could fucking smoke
on air. That's insane. Some of them still have
ashtrays. No, they don't they do really? Yeah,
I mean most of them at this point have been redone
But you got to keep in mind that planes are maintained
and I don't know if I for decades So if I get
on a plane and there's still ashtrays that tells
me this shit is old Yeah, well, so I think probably
a good chance most of them have had the interiors
redone But like I said, there's a lot of them
planes Stay in service for decades. Yeah. Well,
wow. What an episode. Yeah. Shout out of the
cannon. We laughed. Danny walked out. Yeah, I
mean... He did. That's not even a joke. We had
a... We drank some... Great interview with a...
Wava water. Yeah, yeah. Entrepreneur. Get your
wava water. Listen to some neural beats. Binaural
beats. Binaural. I think that's that word. Binaural.
Oh, it's bimanin. We got to get the fuck off.
Yes. Peace out. Bye.