Hey folks, welcome to good news York. I'm Matt
major from growth mode content and This is our
99th. We are so close We I feel we are so close
in fact that we were actually thinking today
was the hundredth and then I know it's like hey
guys Um, actually I told our guest yesterday
I said, I'm so sorry you were one off but 99
still cool. You know, it's Wayne Gretzky's number
I was off. This is this is definitely 99 hiding
the spiky hair this morning. I am hiding it But
he's rocking a Syracuse hat, at least, for once.
Yeah, I got my Syracuse hat, by the way. Shout
out. He finally figured out how to do the local
virtue signaling. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Trying to
teach him for months. Well, I'm getting there.
I'm getting there. This is not Ithaca. And I
color -coordinated for you. I love it, buddy.
I love it. Mike, go ahead and introduce our guest
again, our returning champion here. Listen, we
are excited to bring back a very special guest
from Visit Syracuse. That's it. Our man Danny
is back in the studio again. Dan, you are not
only back, but you're looking good. You're looking
like things are going well. Welcome back to the
show. We love having repeat guests. Yeah. You
know, it feels good. Yeah. When I got the invite,
man, I was pumped up. It's great to be back.
Thanks for having me. We love having you. Danny,
if you wouldn't mind, let's just give folks a
real quick recap of kind of what Visit Syracuse
is. And we don't have to go too in depth, but
yeah. Give them the spiel. Visit Syracuse, we're
the official tourism agency, marketing agency
for Onondaga County, and also in the film realm
as well. So we're the official film develop,
movie development, and televisions commercials,
those sort of things for Onondaga County. We're
funded through the tax that's on hotel rooms,
the occupancy tax, and a marketing group, but
we're also a sales group too. We try to bring
large meetings, conventions, sporting events
to the area. And we also have a seat at the table
with some of the large economic development projects
that are, you know, shovels are in the ground.
We were part of those at the start. So that's
kind of a unique part of our role, but it's something
that's come on with time and as we proved our
value to the county. That's awesome. That's really
great and you know, you're the guys we talked
about this before I remember it was on the off
-the -air but I mentioned you have the best job
in the world because you just get to promote
all the fun stuff and you know as many folks
are in a Government or pseudo government role.
There's a lot of a lot of nonsense You're over
here telling people where the funds at and and
all those good times So I I can't say that I'm
not a little jealous of you, but it's it's a
great gig But you know the people that that work
on my team make it a whole lot more fun because
We're all competitive, but we're winning a lot
of these battles and it's thanks to my team I've
got a world -class team. I'd put them up against
just about anybody Yeah, I would agree because
every time I see the visit Syracuse account on
social media I have I have FOMO like I feel like
I'm missing out. Yeah, which is what you want
You know that means you're doing your job I mean
it just you really capture what's going on in
Syracuse and why you should visit it I just I
love it. Yeah I mean, you so many agree. Our
good friend Robin is just out there every day.
It seems like hitting the pavement and showing
off the area and cool things. And I just love
it. Yeah, I think if I start of about a year
and a half ago, I always assess where we're at
and maybe what our weaknesses are. And maybe
not a weakness, but maybe an area that we needed
to. really go out and make a bang with was community
relations and kind of tooting our horn. We've
been very humble for too long, but getting somebody
out in the community. And I thought about it
for a long time. And I'm like, man, this is a
tough gig for somebody. I'm not sure that it's
going to take me a long time to find this person.
And she landed on my doorstep. And I think I
knew within 40 seconds I had to have her. And
she didn't come in for that reason. It's just
that personality. She's really connected, represents
the brand. Extremely well. Yeah, we couldn't
have a better ambassador. Honestly. No, she's
she's wonderful She was she was a guest on one
of our clients podcasts not long ago yes out
and all kinds of great things happening around
here and just like I said just a great super
impressive team and And we'd love to see it because
it's in all honesty We have very similar missions
at least with this this podcast in your organization
in that we're here to promote the good stuff
you know and and let people know the good stories
and This month we've had close to a million views
on videos featuring a couple local businesses
and the thing that's like, the thing that's blown
my mind is kind of the most common comment on
both two different places was I live right near
here and I had never heard of this place. I'm
gonna check it out. That's the best. And that
just, you know, that's the whole point. That
is the whole point. So many of us are just determined,
we've got to go to vacation, we've got to go
to another state, we've got to go to the other
side of the country, we've got to do these things.
You can drive a half hour and see some of the
most incredible things that you're going to wait
in line and pay three times the price tour in
another state. But anyway. Danny, tell us about
some of the things that folks can look forward
to. What's coming up maybe this fall, this winter
that they might want to check out in our area?
It's obviously a great time of year fall in central
New York. It's a peak season for us. October,
September, once that chills in the air, those
leaves start changing. We kind of change gears.
It's just promoting all the great things, especially
on the agriculture side, getting people to stop
at some of these farms and these orchards to
maximize their time there, help the local agriculture
industry. really one of our biggest strengths
here is what we have from that side of things.
Plenty of conventions coming through town, Syracuse
football. We help Coach Brown any way we can
because what he's done with that team, somebody
asked me, why do you get so involved with athletics?
Look at it this way, and Coach Brown mentioned
this at my annual meeting, and I kind of gave
him the notes, but. The year before he came in,
football was roughly round numbers, 20, 22 million
dollar economic impact on the local economy.
So think about not just when they're on the road,
people are in bars and restaurants. When they're
home, you can think, obviously, it's a massive
effect. His first year, that number jumped up
almost 35, 40 million dollars. Wow. So that's
major tourism. So whatever we can do to help
him win, we're going to we're going to jump in.
Same with basketball. So it's a great time of
year. Just. I'm a baseball guy. It's the perfect
time of year, right? The Syracuse Mets had a
great year. Now we're on to Syracuse Athletics,
LeMoyne Athletics, conventions, fall season.
It's just... There's just so much going on. I
can't point in one direction. It's just a great
time of year. It's our favorite. And my team
was out doing some great content yesterday, which
you'll see on social over the coming days to
welcome in that fall season and really showcase
what we have to do. I mean, people don't realize
like people that don't watch sports sometimes
don't realize that when a when a local sports
team is doing well on the field and there's excitement
around the team. I mean, it's a butterfly effect
across the board and it's better for everybody.
It's not it's not just about It's about the games.
It's about the excitement in the air. People
got a little bit of an extra pep in their step.
And Syracuse football, it's felt that way for
the last couple years, thanks to Fran Brown.
He's different. He is different. And I think
that's part of the excitement. You knew when
he came along that you just went, this feels
a little bit different than before. And that
generates excitement. And then if they start
playing well, then the snowball is going. Community
prides through the roof. I would say the Clemson
game is probably his signature win. What's the
first thing he says when he was being interviewed?
He thanks the Syracuse community. He thanks the
community, right? Say no more. That blew my mind.
And I'll tell you what. And it's like that with
the Bills. That's why it's exciting for the Bills
right now. You know, other teams and other, you
know, journalists come to these games and they
go, man, you know, Buffalo and Syracuse has got
such like a tight, you know, the community is
very intertwined with the team. And that's when
you know you're doing it right. The team and
the city feel intertwined. And that's exactly
what's going on. I'm just lucky we don't have
a Syracuse mafia yet. Well, I could just imagine
just hordes of people dressed like Otto trying
to. What would we jump through, though? We can't.
That's what I'm saying. We'll jump through like...
That orange suit is hard to navigate. Recycling
bins. I gotta ask our intern. I think he's secretly
auto. He might be. We shouldn't say that on the
show. I get going. Danny, I gotta ask you because
you mentioned the Syracuse Mets and as you know
they have a naming contest. Do you have an entry
or what you think the new name of the Mets should
be? I mean, I don't know that my offer carries
any weight. Yes, it does. Thousands and thousands.
Well, ours didn't. We came up with really great
names. They didn't even listen. Jason Smoral,
right? I had the Smorials. Hello. That's actually
really good. Thank you. Thank you, Dan. That's
kind of neat. They didn't. But so now we're soliciting
any names that anybody wants to come up with.
What do you got? The Visit Syracuses? Visitors?
I have a German Shepherd. How come there aren't
any teams that have a cool shepherd mascot? Wait
a minute, man. Just the look of that. OK. So
it's maybe not the most, but like the canines
or the shepherds or something. I have always
said that. I love that. The breed of dog that
always blows my mind is the German Shepherd.
Yeah. Because I mean, that's what the police
use because they're the smartest. They're loyal,
they're protective. I mean, these people will
sniff this cup and then be able to go find me
in Ithaca, you know? It's crazy. They're goofy,
too. You know, my dog works at golf courses.
She's got the best life in the world, you know?
Ride around in a golf cart, swim in the pond,
chase a few things. Come home. Damn. And then
my kids like, for some reason, they like squirrels,
so we were talking about the flying squirrels.
It's an inside family joke, but it's a great,
I think it was a great move on their part. We're
one of the few, I think maybe two or three that
have the parent name where others have something
that's kind of born in the community. I think
that's important. It's gonna help them from a
merchandising standpoint. I can tell you as a
Yankee fan, it's really hard for me to buy. something
Mets. Sure. Me too. But if it was neutral, if
it was the squirrels or whatever, you know, the
the small makes a lot of sense. Like, yeah. You're
you're you're good. Thank you. You're absolutely
right, because we we we did a shoot at the I
wasn't even thinking about that. The Syracuse
Mets game. And I saw all this great merchandise,
but I'm a Yankees fan. I can't rock that, you
know. So, you know, if we had the Syracuse Shepherds
or but again, this goes back to what you said
earlier about we were talking about community
and the team being intertwined. Yeah. Right.
I mean, look, Look at what Jason Somoro and the
Syracuse Mets are doing. They're including the
community. And that's great. Yeah, it's a great
move. And we're happy to be part of that. We're
the big sponsor for that. And just the traffic
we're seeing from that is great. But again, it's
community pride. People are getting involved.
They've got a stake in this now. So I think it's
a really brilliant idea. It was awesome. It was
an awesome idea. I'm excited to see it. I'm not
necessarily a baseball guy, but we went to opening
day. And it's just the facility is just absolutely
incredible. And Jason talked about everything
that they do with a different event. It's crazy.
It's like Super Sunday, Manic Monday. They really
figured it out. I'm a huge, you guys know I coach
baseball. I love my baseball. But whenever I
go to a game there, I end up seeing very little
of it because it's just like a social event.
And that's great. And it appeals to anyone. You
don't have to be a baseball fan. Go there and
enjoy. And they always have some wacky contests
going on. It's cool. It's a really cool scene.
No, it was a good time. It was a good time. Danny,
let's talk a little bit about film. There's been
some different headlines about different things
happening. Give us kind of an update on just
the status of the kind of film program that's
happening in our area. Yeah, I think it's really
unleashed now once the governor Once her budget
came out, that announced the tax credits being
good through, I think it's 2034, 36, something
like that. We had a lot of folks that got to
the start gate and just sat there until that
was re -upped. So now we're starting to see three
or four productions at a time. We've seen massive
private development here with an animation studio
and a post -audio production studio downtown.
Also down where case supply is, those buildings
have been repurposed into sound stages. is just
to ramp up for what we see as amazing growth.
And then with the new aquarium, the county executive
mentioned dovetailing some of the aquarium into
the film industry, which makes good sense. So
I think we're going places there. We've hired
a consultant that's in the industry. We market
to those folks, but we're kind of outsiders.
So we have somebody on the inside pushing from
the opposite direction. So he's been with us
for about six months, and we're starting to make
really good traction. And we were doing great
before, but I think think over the course of
the next few years, I think it's going to grow
exponentially, especially with the county putting
some more money in to go on top of the state
incentive. That's awesome. You talked about kind
of repurposing these things as sound stages and
stuff, and I know I think we talked about this
a little bit previously, but what kind of goes
into doing that? Say you've got an existing place
and you want to make it ready to shoot. What
do you got to do? Yeah, it's not really a tedious
process at all. I mean, obviously you want clear
span, very few pillars, high ceilings. I mean,
adding soundproofing is pretty inexpensive. So
it's a process where we come in, we fill out
the application, take some snapshots and look
at it. But if you have a big open building, those
are ideal. I mean, the fairgrounds in a perfect
world, if we had a lot more access to that would
be amazing. Obviously, you have tons of events
going there. But you think of like the Center
of Progress. building, that is a nice spot. So
case supply, that was warehouse space. Gotcha.
So it's transformed into that. So it's not a
difficult process at all. What do folks do if
they want to get into that? Is that something
they can reach out to your office? Yeah, reach
out. Eric Vinal on my staff is our VP of film,
and he knows the process intimately. He's helped
us. During COVID, we had to go around and add
a few, such as the Red House, the On Center,
Civic Center. So we've went into some of those
facilities to have alternatives. But we're always
looking for unique venues. So I would encourage
people, if they think they have something, by
all means, reach out to us. Awesome. That's great
to hear. 10 years ago when I had my first podcast
studio, I interviewed Eric. I wonder if he remembers
it, but I interviewed Eric over a decade ago.
Was he shaking? Incredibly, incredibly interesting
guy. He really is. I think sometimes he's a little
hard on himself, but I take him to meetings,
and I just let him go. And the stuff that comes
out of his mouth, it's fascinating, really. People
are really into it. But he knows the industry.
There's really... Not anyone better than him.
And we're lucky he fell into our lap. Yeah. Yeah.
No, that's that's awesome. Let's see. One person
fall on your doorstep. Another fell on your lap.
Well, I went and acquired him. Let's let me back
up. I we actually went to the I went to the county
back in 18. Joni Mahoney was the county executive
at the time. And he was I call him the guy in
the broom closet. He worked for County Economic
Development. It was him in a broom closet. That's
it. He didn't have any resources. And I went
to The county executive and I said, you know,
you're doing five or six million dollars worth
of productions here locally We can do a whole
lot better here's my plan. I need him and you
know, she's a Was a wonderful leader and I go
to her budget presentation and I tell this all
the time I'm sitting there picking my nose and
she goes on Danny leak is here and he's gonna
be taking over film and his visit Syracuse and
like Well, careful what you wish for. So we had
Eric and some of the resources to market that
starting in 19 and the rest is history. So we
went out and got him. He's a talent. That's awesome.
That sounds like a movie the guy in the broom
closet There's your next film. I don't think
he's kidding. I'm pretty sure that that we Interviewed
him potentially in his office really and I remember
it was it he just in the middle of the county
office Everything else happened. There's one
little tucked away at this spot. That was the
whole department in the county It makes them
even cooler. Yeah, I love it No, but it's it's
great to hear and you know, there's so many things
going on We interviewed Joe Cunningham who just
finished local guy here who who just made a movie
and can't wait to see and just you know sentinel
shout out talk about building a community you
know we're able to do that now for that whole
industry which only I'm assuming can make your
job easier yeah no doubt about you know and it's
just so cool to see and hear and And then we
keep hearing about these things. Oh, here's this
movie. It's now on Netflix that by the way, that's
my house. Yeah, like in the background I love
hearing about that too is you know, it's easy
to say that with with streaming and the way things
have kind of rapidly changed that the film industry
is moving out of the whole everything's in LA
or New York, you know, and people are going to
different states for tax credits, but You know,
this the filming in Syracuse was was going on
before that started and American High has a lot
to do with that. But you know, this area was
a little bit on the map and now because it's
gorgeous. It is. It's always been a beautiful
backdrop for anything. Yeah. Well, Hollywood
became Hollywood because of the weather. You
know, they couldn't shoot here year round. It
was originally supposed to be in this area. And
I think in Danny can probably speak to this a
little bit, but it was a little bit of a perfect
storm where the costs in California and all that.
Right. So high. Right. And New York saw that
and said, hey, there's an opportunity to draw
that business in. And then the county doubled
down on it. Yeah. And and now we're, you know,
I feel like a big turning point our moment. I
don't know if that an accurate. Yeah. And I think
the part of that that doesn't get a lot of attention.
I mean, you referenced American High. Obviously,
they're doing wonderful things there. But initially,
when we started a lot of a lot of the. The people
that worked on these movies had to come from
Buffalo or downstate. But Eric and the county,
they've done a great job creating the local workforce.
So now a lot of that money stays home, local
jobs, which is important. We're part of the STEAM
school in that realm. So that part of it takes
time to build out. And it just gets bigger and
bigger. And now we've got, you know, I have high
school kids that reach out to me all the time.
Hey, I'm interested in film and going to school
for that. Can you kind of take me around? And
we hand them off to Eric. to develop our own
talent. You saw Mr. Emmy there with his movie
that he'll be rolling out shortly. It's great.
It's local talent. You know, another element
of that is you got to think about the Newhouse
School, right? You know, there's there's TV and
film embedded in there. And a lot of times, same
same with the Park School at Ithaca College.
You know, a lot of these people graduate and
then they go to L .A. or New York. And I think
we're going to see over the next decade. A lot
might stay here as this builds. So I think you're
onto something. That's something we've We've
tried to reach out to some alum and get them
interested in Syracuse, why not Syracuse? We're
gonna see Bobcat Goldsweight do some things here.
That's awesome. Yes! So we're excited about it.
Yeah, we are happy to promote that any time you
want. Yes, especially if you could get Bobcat.
I would even team Bobcat. I would imagine I could.
That would be incredible. He's a big champion
for the area. I don't think that's a huge far
-fetched request. Oh, man. Such a police academy
fanboy. I would have to really take a few breaths
before that interview. Yeah, we might have to
sedate you. I might have to not come in at all.
It might be for the best. My smatching from home
this episode. Bobcat was just like, man. He was
like unlike him and Kinnison in the 80s. It was
just like unlike anything you'd ever seen. And
then Farley came along, just that high energy
madness. I love it. But no, there's so many great
things. And that's the thing that I'm very excited
about is, you know, between the Micron project
and all these other things that are happening.
You know, it's these problems that you've mentioned
we've had for years. We've got these. awesome
universities that train the best and the brightest
and then they go dispatch them away yeah you
know and now we got a reason for them to stay
absolutely we're building I tell you we're building
a really good ecosystem for especially that the
the tourism industry here you mentioned Mike
Cron they're gonna do gangbusters filling up
hotel rooms during the peak. And there's going
to be a lot of new hotel rooms coming on with
that. But then the weekends, we've got to fill
up the weekends. So a few miles from here, Carrier
Park will be done in March. That's a $20 million
project that'll have two super fields, tons of
baseball fields. You'll be able to play soccer,
lacrosse. certainly for special needs folks,
that's one of the only certified facilities in
the country. And then Hopkins Road, the county's
doing the same thing. So my goal, and I kind
of started all of this with a company called
Salt City Sports. Really pushing on the county
exec and the legislators to invest in youth sports
because it is it is a It's recession proof and
we're gonna see 20 million dollars of Hopkins
Road We will become the youth sports capital
of the Northeast with these facilities Wow in
a few years from now Hopkins will be done in
a matter of a year from now So we're already
marketing that in other areas. So you're gonna
see a big lift with those competitive sports
here. And it'll benefit the community during
the week. So we're very, very excited what's
being built here. It's world class. When you
think about the increasing population, more and
more families, more kids, we need to invest in
these things like this. We're not going to have
anything for them to do. There's going to be
the school league that can take 20 kids, and
that's the end of the story. Exactly. What do
we do with the rest of them? So this is great.
That's a great economic lift. When you look at
tourism, we look at 24 numbers, and what tourism
generated saved the average taxpayer about $900
a year. Wow. So if we continue to grow that,
that's great for everyone. Yeah. Let me ask you
on that. There's been grumblings that tourism
is down in the United States. I don't know about
here. But as someone who works in this industry,
When you hear that or maybe you experience it,
what's the move in the tourism industry to kind
of combat that? I'm just curious. I don't mean
it as a hard hitting. I'm just curious as to
how you combat when tourism is down. I think
it's one of those things where you can make the
numbers say whatever you want. Is tourism down
nationwide? It is. It's probably 1 % or 2%. But
most of it's international driven based on the
status of the visas and those things. Is it down?
It is. But when we look at Syracuse, we used
to be what I call a flatline market. I've been
in this industry, in this market for 35 years.
When the market was struggling, Syracuse never
took that low dip. But when the markets were
flourishing, Syracuse never got that high. Those
days are different now. We're actually one -tenth
of one percent over last year. So we would have
liked to have seen a little bit more growth,
but it's not killing us. The hotel occupancies
are super strong. The rates are up. We haven't
seen that dip yet, knock on wood. Now I think
we would see a dip in the future just based on
what's going on with 81, with downtown being
a little wacky at times. So I think we're going
to see a little dip. But on the other side of
that, we're going to come out of it very, very
strong. So what do we do? We know that Canada
right now, the reception there isn't great. So
we just take the money that we would spend there
in a marketing campaign. And we go into markets
that are really really doing a great job for
us, like New York City, Philadelphia, Boston.
So we just double down there. That's great. And
we try to get more of those folks here. So I
say if we can just hang on and stay relatively
flat and and whether the storm will be just fine.
And we've done that so far. What a great answer.
That's great. I've always wondered that. Yeah,
just. How do you combat when tourism is down?
You know what's interesting is it reminds me
of last week. We randomly discovered this content
creator, this woman and her and her fiance from
Boston. Well, from the UK, they're from the UK
originally. And that's of course, they got the
accent. So that picks you up. But they live in
Boston, primarily now in the United States. And
what they do is travel to different parts of
the country. They recently came to the Adirondacks
and had nothing but great things to say about
upstate New York. And it was just, you know,
it speaks to that. folks, you know, it was a
day trip for them to come here and have the time
of their lives that they never expected. Yeah,
I mean, you teed me up for something there kind
of indirectly, but our challenge right now is
we're focused. The World Cup is coming next year.
Oh, we know international travelers are going
to spend probably 20 days here. Wow. We know
they're going to be in New York City, New Jersey,
Toronto area. What do we got to do to get them
to stop over in Syracuse, even if it's for a
night? So that's our focus right now. Wow, that's
awesome. Because that's a you talk about a massive
influx of visitors. Yeah. And we know they're
going to go to Niagara Falls. Sure. What do we
got to do to get him stopping Syracuse? So that's
what my team were focused on right now for next
year. Not to knock Niagara Falls, but I feel
like we could offer them something way more interesting.
I know that seems to be the natural draw, but
then you get there and you're like, OK, now what?
No, I know what you mean. Like, yes, you should
go see it. It's one of the seven wonders of the
world, whatever. But also, there's a lot of other
cool things going on. Yeah. And something that
I hope you can combat too is. people we talk
about this all the time on the show people in
New York City or in the tri -state area they
think upstate is like an hour north which I guess
technically it is but we need we need more people
like the woman that came you know came down and
was just like whoa okay you know there's so much
more than just trees and you know let's go back
to the upstate thing because you don't talk about
my top pet peeve let's do it let's go on Syracuse
.com and it'll say upstate man charged with x
and it's in Westchester County Or, well, whatever
serves their purpose. One day it's Utica. Yeah,
sure. The next day it's Poughkeepsie. Right.
All right. We're central New York. We're not
upstate. We're central. There you go. New York
state. We're in two different, in the tourism
region, we're in the Finger Lakes. Yes. In the,
what they call the Regional Economic Development
Council region, we're in central New York. So
the state can't even get it. All right, sermon's
over. Fair enough. We did a thing on the show
once where we put the map up, and I asked him
to draw a line where you thought Upstate started.
Do you have in your mind where... An hour, north
of New York. I would say so, too. An hour and
above. I'm with you. On our video about the wild
in Chittanango, I opened up with saying, we're
in Upstate New York, and... This guy no, you're
not you're in Western New York half the comments
are people arguing but the one guy who claimed
we were in Western New York is we're not Appropriately
been been crucified. I feel like but but yeah,
no the whole argument ensued. It's just wild.
It's yeah It's funny what's considered upstate.
We need to we need to listen I feel like you
though of all people have the gravitas for lack
of a better term this you have you're able to
your word holds more water than ours. I feel
like if somebody played it the right way, they
could win a state -level election with the right
position on that particular thing. Just on that
platform. Listen, I'm going to pass a bill that
sets the line. We're going to put up signs. It's
going to be a whole thing. We're going to draw
a line. Google Maps is going to say, welcome
to Upstate, as soon as you drive over the line,
like it says welcome to California. And if you
call Poughkeepsie Upstate, you get a $50 fine.
Anyway, you're going to have something there.
Danny from Visit Syracuse, buddy. We will let
you get back to all of your duties of promoting
our beautiful area. But before we go, where can
people find more websites, socials, what's all
that fun stuff? It all starts at visitsyracuse
.com. Be sure to check it out. You can certainly
subscribe to our newsletters, our weekly updates
on what's going on in town. Our calendars are
top searched. And if you're a local business
and you have an event, you can put it on our
calendar. Just email me and my assistant will
show you how to put your event in there. We do
have some editorial privileges. You'd be amazed
how many, let's say adult events, put them on
there. But if they have events and we can help
promote them, our calendar is a great place to
be. We get several million views of that each
year. So visit Syracuse .com. My information
is right on the website. That's awesome. Danny,
you're doing amazing. Danny, thank you so much
for joining us. Mike, yes. Any any final questions
for our man before we leave? I mean, I feel baseball
playoff question here. Well, I mean, we could
get into that. That just seems dangerous. Well,
I'll ask now. I could know because I'll I'll
I'll go another hour. That's a whole other. Yeah.
Yeah. I'm going to shoot this. We are, by the
way. launching a good New York sports show hosted
by my buddy here. So down the road Danny might
be a great guest. You know what I was thinking
that when you and I started talking about Sergius
football. Love to have you on for that. You guys
may not know this but I spent 34 years in sports
television. That's right, you talked about that.
Now I actually mentor some kids from Cougar Community
College on Spectrum. One, we do a Friday night
game of the week, and I'm on there as the broadcaster.
So if you talk sports, bring me in. I'd be happy
to do it. Let's rephrase that. I think I would
be a great guest. Yeah, right. We should just
let him do it. What are we talking about here?
You host, and I'll just sit here. I'll say, as
much as I'm not a sports guy, the sports content
is some of our most popular stuff on the channel.
So I'm happy to also embrace that. It also brings
the most trolls. People. Oh, if you say one thing
wrong about the, you know, the team that they
root. Oh, my God. Yeah. And they go straight
for the insults to like the personal insults.
But I can take it. Yeah, that's good game. All
right, guys. I'm Matt. That's Mike. He's Danny.
It's the other Danny behind the board, looking
extra fly. You don't have a camera on, but he
is spiffed up today. Danny is the big Dan Bowski
today. He looks phenomenal from head to toe.
He's ready to... Tomorrow's our 100th episode,
brother. Oh. So tomorrow's the big day. Yeah,
Good News York sponsored by ads on the go. Get
ads on the go dot com. The big 100 tomorrow.
Big thank you to our boy, Zach. It adds on the
go first. He's been with us for at least what,
50 episodes or something. I would say so. Yeah.
At least half the ride so far. So love him. Literally
the ride. Yeah, literally rides around. He does
listen to us in the truck as he's advertising
local businesses. So at least he says he does.
I don't know. Well, you know what he he. He might
never have we should tell a bad joke about just
see if he hey, man. What why'd you just? No,
we were like your truck smells bad. Let's see
if he see if he tells us yeah, and we'll know
if he's really We just smelly truck. We just
lost our only sponsor. What did I just do anyway?
We better go yeah peace out