Good News York by Growth Mode Content - GNY EP20 Feat. Stephen Brown

Episode Date: April 10, 2025

Comedian Steven Brown Talks Comedy Journey, Bombing Stories, and Golf Lingo In this episode of Good News York, Mike Brindisi and Matt Masur are joined by comedian Steven Brown. The show covers various topics, including Steven's journey into comedy, his experience with open mics, and his role in booking for Crooked Mouth Brewing. The conversation also touches on the psychology of comedy, the support of the local scene, and the intricacies of booking shows. Additionally, Mike and Matt engage in a humorous segment where Matt attempts to define golf terms, leading to some surprising answers. The episode wraps up with a discussion on Steven's involvement in music before comedy, his experiences at the Funny Bone, and his upcoming festival plans. 00:00 Welcome to Good News York 01:16 Special Guest: Comedian Steven Brown 01:46 Steven Brown's Comedy Journey 04:47 Booking and Performing Comedy Shows 05:00 The Crooked Mouth Comedy Scene 13:25 Steven's Upcoming Shows and Festival 19:48 Festival Tickets and Weekend Passes 20:07 Hosting at the Funny Bone 21:50 Bombing Stories and Comedic Resilience 23:36 Gimmicky Shows and Comedy Bets 26:07 Supporting the Local Comedy Scene 28:33 Golf Terminology Quiz 29:02 Tiger Woods and the Masters

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All right, welcome to the Thursday edition of Good News, York. Yeah. A lot of things. I'm Mike Brindisi, of course, the great Matt Mazer, Danny on the ones and twos back there. I don't even know what that means, but people say it. The DJ thing. A special guest, but I do want to mention it is our last show of the week, but it is an exciting show because it is the beginning of the masters. And I can't wait.

I have an idea of a little bit I want to do with you after this. You just gave me an idea. Now I want Danny to have a whole DJ set up and he can... Well, we need a house DJ. What do you... You're right. Like, Ellen? Like, you know, when she had a, like a DJ.

Ellen? Of all the things you think of Ellen? I know. I don't know why the hell I just... Anyway. I should probably let us proceed with the guest. Yeah. Anyway, we'll talk about the masters and all that stuff.

But first, I'm joined by... Wait, I'm sorry. Is that... Is it like a football competition? Oh, perfect. You're setting it up perfect. No, it's golf. Oh.

But we'll just go with football for now. The old swing in the woods. The old sports ball. So we are joined by comedian, and I can again say friend, Stephen Brown. You got a lot of funny friends. I do have a lot of funny friends. Hi, Stephen. What's up, buddy?

I was ready for you guys just to vamp and do folly sounds for 10 minutes. I was happy to wait. I mean, well, we can. The Foley. Yeah, Foley, fully. But I knew what you meant. With you, it's folly. When you're around, words are just funnier.

So, Stephen, I'm so excited you're here. We found out right before we went on the air that this is an anniversary for you. Yes, this is officially the fourth year anniversary of my very first open mic I ever did. Wow. That is awesome. And I want to lie to the viewers and say, that is why we booked Stephen today. knew it was going to be his four-year anniversary. And so that's what we're celebrating.

I got to ask you right out of the gate then, what was that first open mic like? Like, how bad did you bomb? Actually, I had a very, very friendly room. So I did okay because the power of friendship is better than the power of punchlines. But it was a lot of fun. I ran through four and a half minutes of material in about two and a half, you know, the same way that one normally was. would when they're afraid of every word that's about to come out of their mouth.

Yeah. Any of those original jokes still stick around? Any of them? One of them. Yes. That's awesome. Only recently that I start phasing it out a little bit just because I've been telling it for four years. Sure.

That's fantastic. When I'm still kicking around in the master set. I love it. You got to have a hit once in a while. You know what I mean? Yeah, you got to hold on to those, you know, three or four that you know, they're guaranteed laughter. Yeah.

And even if you don't put them in the set, you leave them in your back pocket in case you start bombing. And then you're just like, I'm going to throw this joke about old people's vaginas. What's bombing? I've never done that. No, I don't know either. What's bombing? That sounds very violent. You know, Stephen, what I love about you other than you as a person, and I think you're just an amazing dude.

You, what I love watching you work because, you know, every comedian has a different process. different cadence, different style, whatever you want to call it. What I love is you can see your evolution. If you go back to the videos that you put out on your TikTok, which will tag your handles on all that, you know, obviously like any comedian, you know, you were good, but you watch yourself just get better and better and better. But it wasn't by doing shows.

Like you've done the work of hitting open mics. I feel like at this point, you're doing a comedy, five, seven days a week? I don't even know. What do you do? What's your schedule like with that? I would say most weeks it's between two to five times a week. That's great.

Depending on the mic schedule that's available. It's wild. Weather. Yeah. Yeah. That's the way to go. I mean, I know a lot of comedians who like myself don't have the schedule anymore to be able to do that at the moment

or they don't care to do that. And I just see you putting in the work, man. And I just want to tell you, if I haven't already, I'm just, I respect that so much. It's like one of those athletes that's like, you know, I go to the gym three hours. When you had the schedule, you weren't doing mics either. I know. I know. I never just did the mics. No. And it shows. He is the mic.

Yeah, I am the mic. No, but I met you through Homebrewd comedy. We've had Mike Peters on the show. We've talked about Homebrewd. It's fantastic. But you're doing a little booking of your own now, right? Talk about that. Yeah, I run a monthly open mic and two months.

monthly shows at Crooked Mouth Brewing in Endicott. And we were doing just one show a month. And then towards the end of last year, we started transitioning to two shows a month, including like a brunch show. Wow. And we had the festival last year. We're doing that again this year in October.

So it's a lot of fun. We've got some big names lined up coming through. Really exciting. Like guys who are like theater comics coming in and doing our little bar. So that's a lot on. That's awesome. Anybody you can tell us yet or no? Is it still kind of a secret?

The biggest one coming up is Jim Florentine on May 21st. That's fantastic. I actually did a couple shows with him when I started comedy. I was the House MC at a comedy club, and he came through a bunch. I love that dude. And I'm a big Howard Stern fan, so he was a big part of that show, too. That's awesome. How did you, I want to go back a little bit.

Sure. Because I noticed on your bio, and even though we're friends now, we never really talked about this. I didn't know you two were involved in music before comedy. You never heard of YouTube? No, I've heard of you two. I never heard of YouTube until I got that iPhone. Yeah. No, yeah, when I came up, I grew up going to like punk rock shows and stuff like that.

And I was sick of driving to New Jersey to go see the bands I wanted to see. So I just started booking them to come play Binghamton. That's perfect Make them come to you I love this guy Yeah Yeah so we did it a few times Like we had some bands

That got like pretty big Come through like you know Like AFI The Atari's stuff like that Like That's awesome All over MTV and everything We're coming through

And doing our dingy skate parks and bars That was a lot of fun So you were booking the shows Booking um I played very very poorly In some bands There is some very bad video On YouTube of me drop kicking a buddy

Because we had no talent So we had to put on a show another way. And we will be showing that clip in post-production. Absolutely. I'll get you the link. Get me the link. It's bad. That's fantastic.

Did you play guitar? Sing? What did you do? I played guitar. Yeah. I played guitar. I wear white air walks. I was very cool.

Oh, dude, air walks. Remember air walks? I do. That's the colds bands. I feel like they were comfortable. I don't remember. There was one that it just felt like you were stepping on. like a boulder.

Yeah, some of these trendy shoes are the worst. Yeah, they're the worst. But airwarks were like... Chucks are horrible. I love chucks. The most uncomfortable sneaker on the planet. Yes. I love chucks too.

Anyway. Actually, aren't you... Welcome to sneaker talk. I'm slowly having to transition out of my dunks because I have, you know, I'm old and fat, so I need more support. I'm coming to AirMax guy and they're all so ugly. It pains me. You are a sneaker guy, though, aren't you?

I am, yeah. How many shoes you have? At least you're not rocking the new balance yet. I've got a couple pairs of NBs. It's a, you know, we support the NBs around here. Probably about 100 pairs. 100 pair. Yeah.

And you will transition, like you'll go through that and just pick different pairs of shoes. Or you like shelf them and they're retired. You know what I mean? No, no, no, no. I wear them. I wear them. I transition them daily. What's your fan?

There's certain ones I won't take out when there's puddles. Yeah. You know that. Uh-huh. What's, what's like the pair, if you really want to dress up, what's the fanciest pair you got? Um, my favorite pair would be the Jordan High Palomino's. They're like a chocolate and black. Wow.

All right. What if you're going on a date? Depends on what match is my shirt vest. See, this guy, this guy, yeah. This is the real deal. He's not fucking around. I thought it was only basketball players that were on TV cribs. that had this, what do you call it?

And you remember Turtle from Entourage? I do remember. He was like the original sneakerhead. He was. That was a great show. It was a phenomenal show. But great show. I'm like that with hoodies.

You are a hoodie. I'm like the hoodie connoisseur. That's for sure. Yeah, it breaks my heart. We're going out of hoodie season because when it comes T-shirt time, you can start seeing my tities again. I'm 100% with you, dude.

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How did you, and obviously we know four years ago is when you, what inspired you to transition over to comedy? You're obviously very funny. Thank you. So shortly after I, got divorced. I guess it was a while after. It's been a long time. But I reconnected with a buddy who also was going through a divorce. And the only time we both had a night off without our kids was every other Monday. So we started going to the Kelly's Open mic just to hang out and have a

beer. And we probably went to those for about a year and a half before I ever went up. And he started seeing a girl named Emily, who also happens to be her birthday today. Happy birthday, Emily. Look at this. And she told me, she's a, hey, in three weeks, it's my birthday. You're always spawning at the table, you need to go do a set for my birthday. Oh, wow. So she gave me three weeks to write that set, and then for her birthday is when I went up and I did the mic. And you had no interest in doing comedy before she made you do that? At that point, I'd gone to the dipping my toes in the water where I had like the no tap of funny thoughts. Sure. But I never thought I'd have the hoods, to go actually up and do it? And do you find because, you know, the big thing is like, just because

you're funny at the table doesn't mean you can be funny on stage. Did you know, were you kind of like caught off guard? Did you go in thinking like, oh, yeah, I'm funny. I'll be able to do this and then realizing, oh, wow, this is a lot harder? No, I knew it was going to be harder. We've been sitting there watching. I've been a fan of comedy forever. I'd already been going to mic shows here and there.

I've been watching the mic. So I've been watching people develop material and understanding. It's very different than just like bullshitting with your buddies. Sure. You know, because everyone's funny with their friends because you have so much of a shared frame of reference. That's right. Absolutely. So the biggest thing from going to being funny with your friends to be able to write a joke is how to get that premise out as concisely as possible. Because if you have to give, you know, six to eight sentences of setup, your joke sucks.

That's right. You know, it's too much where you can't have them doing the mental math for you. That's right. And, you know, the other part of that too is, and again, I always talk about how in comedy, being an audience member is way more psychoactive. than people realize. And when you're with your buddies, it's easier for them to laugh, again, because you have a shared frame of reference, but also because they know already in the back of their head

that you're funny and what you're about to say is going to be funny. When you're up there in front of a crowd that doesn't know you, they don't know if you're funny yet. They're judging you through the first, you know, 30 seconds to a minute. And it doesn't always translate. Well, and it's in the psychology of shows, too. It's one of the reasons where the crooked mouth show is, like, instead doing like a budget from the bar, we do a paid ticket because a paid audience member is a better audience member.

Absolutely. That's exactly right. Now, they all have that shared incentive now. Like, oh, no, I spent money to be here. Yeah. They're going to police each other. They're paying to have a good time. They want to have a good time.

Yeah. I mean, I always talk about how, you know, I worked in in music venues and bars where they wanted to do a comedy night and have it, you know, oh, we'll just have someone get up there during happy hour. and I kind of explained that same thing where it was like, dude, you know, you can't just pop up and do comedy in the middle of a happy hour, people are going to just,

you're interrupting their drinking. It doesn't work that way. If you bill it as a comedy show, you sell tickets, you have seats, people don't realize it, but on the way to the show, they're already getting ready to laugh, and they don't even know that yet

because, you know what I mean? So it's just, The psychological aspect is so important and true. Let's talk about Crooked Mouth, though. So are you only booking at, is that the only venue you're booking for or are you doing other venues as well? No, that's it. They are so fantastic to work with.

It's really spoiled me on working with anybody else. I've done a couple one-offs here or there. And it was fine. But I just, I love working with these guys. It's so rare to have a venue that really backs you. Sure. They do their own paid advertising for the shows. They give me carte blanche, do whatever I want to do with the shows, which is amazing.

But, I mean, we've been doing it for two years there. We've built up a lot of mutual trust where if I say, no, this is going to be good. This guy's worth, you know, ponying up the extra money or something like that. They get on board. They trust me. And it's just awesome having, like, a real partner, not just something they deal with three days a week or three times a month. You know, you're right because, you know, I did a show at Crooked Mouth with Stephen. and when I met the owner,

unless I'm thinking it's the wrong guy, correct me if I'm wrong, I've never met an owner. He is not a comedian, but he loves comedy. Is that the right guy, right? Yeah, Josh. He's obsessed with comedy.

He watches comedy. He's kind of like those friends that you had that never played an instrument, but like an Andi Lomaca, but just knew everything about music. And they were, as a rock star without being a rock star. The owner of Crooked Mouth Brewing

is a big, is a comedian as much as you can be without actually being a comedian. And that really helps it for you, I'm sure. Oh, yeah. One of the reasons he said he wanted to have a brewery so he could do comedy at it. That's amazing. I love that. We all took a trip to go see Nate Bargassi together. So my first time meeting him was comedy-related.

That's awesome. Well, and you do such a great job there. Are there set dates that you can plug now that you do shows there? open months? We have Patrick Holbert coming to headline on April 18th and he has his new special coming out on Amazon on April 22nd. Awesome.

That on May 4th, we have our next brunch show. Gray West is going to be headlining that. He's done festivals all over the country. He's the regular host at the comedy seller. He's there three or four nights a week. So obviously you don't get past there without being legit. That's fair sure.

Cody Montane coming in May from Albany, very funny guy. Jim Florence. and that we were booked all the way through November. We have the festival. All the headliners are booked on that. Some excellent comics, some nice names, but we're not going to release those just yet. And are you doing, in addition to that,

are you doing your own shows, or are you just kind of doing your time at these shows opening it up? Oh, I have, like, other dates going everywhere else. Yeah, but this is kind of like, I use Crooked Mouth as kind of my writing. Unfortunately, every show there for me is like an open mic. No, that's great. The worst person at every show, because they have so many repeat customers

where I try to have like a new eight to ten minutes for the every month. No, but I think that, see, this is brilliant. That's a lot of work. It is a lot of work. But see, this is such a fantastic thing for any comedian to have, which is, you know, we've talked about this on the show too,

where in music it's like you can rehearse, rehearse, and then you kind of know when you're ready. The only way to rehearse in comedy is to get in front of people and do it. Do it. But that's not always easy to find venues or open mics or get booked on shows to do that. Sure.

I think that's fantastic. You have, you know, booking for Crooked Mouth Brewing, you now have all these shows to kind of tighten that material out, try it out, and then you go do your own dates. I love that for you. What dates do you have coming up? I want to make sure we plug those as well. I have to look.

Excuse me while I look at my phone because I don't have it memorized. I'm just going to guess. May 10th. I'll tell you if you're right. No, not May 10th. Oh, let's see. He's off at that then. This month we've got, I'm going to be up at a contest in Syracuse on April 25th.

What's right here? Yeah, right of the end is going to be a lot of, but there's like 15 comics on it. They've already sold 200 tickets. That's going to be a lot of fun. Where is that? April. That is at the Polish home, I think. I'm a judge on that show.

Are you really? Yeah. Okay. Well. What conflict of interest? The next thing after that is on. April 29th, I'm going to do Molly with my friend Stormy. I'm excited for that.

That's how you know you're old when you're scheduling doing drugs. Oh, you're really, you're doing Molly. He's serious. I thought it was a game thing. Okay. Holy shit. Okay. Yeah, we're doing Molly.

I mean, he's right, though. You got to plan these things out. Yeah. Yeah, got the day off of work and make sure we're hydrated, time for a nap before the kids get around. Yeah. Smart. See, drugies, drug dealers are not bad people.

They are smart people. Um, all right. Cookin' mouth. You also have a festival coming up. Yes, sir. Yeah, you mentioned a couple times. I want to hear, uh, you know, obviously you can't give us the lineup, but tell us just what is this festival that you mentioned a few times.

Yeah. Well, last year, uh, in February, I think it was, I went to do a festival down in the Hudson Valley and it was terrible. And I was like, oh, I can do at least better than this. And that's when the German. the idea started. And we ended up just picking a date six months out. And we did five shows over four days. They all sold out. We had, you know, comics from all over coming through. We had over 50 comics on it altogether. And I learned that was too many. So we're going to cut that down a little

bit this year. But it's going to be from October. You're listening to a podcast right now. Driving, working out, walking the dog. If you're into podcasts, chances are you have something to say too. With RSS.com, starting your own is free and easy. Upload an episode and we distribute it to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and hundreds more. Track your listeners, see where they're from, and start earning from ads like this, even with just 10 listeners a month. If you've been thinking about starting a podcast, this is your sign. Start free at RSS.com. We're 16 through the 19.

Wow. All the shows will be right in the same spot. We do a Thursday, a Friday, two Saturdays, and, of course, the Sunday brunch. And just looking forward to really stacking up that lineup. This last year was kind of for the homies a little bit. I was pretty much saying anyone who helped build this scene at Crooked Mouth to make this even a possibility. If you want to be a part of it, I'm happy to have you there. But it was just too many people.

Yeah. So this year, we're going to cut that down to hopefully about 30 comics, give everyone a little bit of a longer set. And I just want people to show up and see killer. from start to finish, not just the headliner. Yeah. But everyone's coming to bring in their best eight to ten minutes and you're just getting, you know, laugh, last, last from go.

And is that, you know, as a festival, is that something that somebody can get tickets to multiple nights kind of simultaneously or how's that? Yeah. Yeah, we did individual tickets or we did weekend passes at a significant discount. That's awesome. And anyone who bought the weekend pass will do it again this year.

Also got like a festival t-shirt. So. That's great. Now, you also. are involved, well, you're involved with a lot of things. But in addition to the Crooked Mouth and then the Crooked Mouth Festival, all the dates, you also, I've noticed you've been doing a lot of, or some stage time at the Funny Bone. Are you there regularly?

What's going on there? That's right here in Cuse. Yeah, I've been lucky enough to crack the rotation as a regular host up there. Usually get up there, you know, once every two or three months, which is great. Because, again, it gives me time to take that. new material I've written over the last few months. Yeah. And it really tested out in front of, you know, we love, you know, I know you love doing a show

for 20 to 40 people. Those are great. But really taking the training wheels off those jokes and doing it in front of 300 people. It's intense. A lot of money to be, is really like a good test of, okay, is this good or not? Yeah, this is this worker? You really know. Yeah.

When you step into, I started in a comedy club. I went the other way. I started in a club and then, you know, now things are different. You can do it at breweries. You can do it at the Polish home. You know, there's pop-up comedy everywhere. But back in the day, it was like you had to do it in a comedy club. And I don't care how ready you think you are.

When those lights go down and there's, you know, anywhere from 100 to 300 people that have paid money to see. And it's like a show show with an MC and the music plays and you walk up. That's intimidating. And that's what separates the boys from the men, I guess, so to speak. And about a month ago, I had the opportunity. I was hosting for Josh Blue. Oh, yeah. It was incredible.

And, you know, all sold out shows. It was really the first time I was like, oh, I belong up here. But then you know this comedy humbles you very, very quickly. They had to come back to host for a TikTok superstar. And when I tell you, I eat the biggest shit in my life in front of those 300 mooks who just wanted to talk about meatballs. Oh. It was really bad. I love good bombing stories.

I always ask comedians, do you have a great bombing story? Not because I want to, like, laugh at you because I get it. And you know, as a comedian, you love hearing bombing stories because you all have to do it. It's a right of passage, you know? There is very, very few things that are more fun than bombing in front of your friends. He's sharing that. I know. Like I remember at that show, that Sunday show I went to, my buddy, Jerry came up.

And I got two laughs. Like a crushed all weekend. And this time I got two laughs. I'm a peeddy joke. And when I said, you hate me, I'm going to hang myself. That crush. Ah. And then I come off

And Jerry was just shaking his head Like that was bad Yeah I know it It's great That's good to have that attitude though Because if you can just accept that like Hey

This is part of the deal I've never met a successful comedian Who hasn't bombed Or is still bombing Yeah It's just if you can embrace it as it's It's hilarious Because listen

There's been times Where it's debilitating Where like he said You crush you crush And then you have this show Where you just You bomb. Yeah.

And it is hard not to just want to quit right then and there. It's tough. So I love that you have that attitude about it. One of my favorite things you ever did when we talked about this with Mike was when you created the funeral for Mike Peters. And we basically did a. Oh, he was one of the guys behind that? He was the guy behind it. Oh, wow.

And hired all of us to do it. And it was a wild success. Hired. Yeah, hired. But I wouldn't have paid us anyway. Are you still doing shows like that, or do you have any other kind of gimmicky shows like that coming up? No. I had last summer, I had a guy coming up, and he was a Braves fan.

They were playing the Mets that weekend. And I had made a bet that whichever team won, the other comic would get a tattoo of the other person's choice during their set at the show that night. Awesome. So he backed out. Dude, one of my quick story is one time I'm coming up to do a show

through a homebrewed comedy and I walk in and Stevens there with his kids and I'm thinking oh hey buddy, are you on the show? He says no I'm just here to, that's the other cool part is he'll just come out and support. But he's got his kids there and this happened

to be the set where I had like four jokes about come and it was the most uncomfortable set. But you were like, oh, no, no, it's fine, man. They've heard it all. But I just remember, as I'm telling the, thinking, I don't want to say this word.

I can see the kids sitting there. But, uh, so thanks. She, we say come all the time, right? Dale? My 14th year old is walking through the kitchen right now, even though I told them not too well, I was recording this podcast. We said come all the time, right? He says he's dying, so.

That's fantastic. Uh, before we get out of here, uh, is there anything you wanted to? to ask or add I no I think this has been awesome man it's really I'd love hearing the stories of how people you know come up and find success in this because honestly so many people don't unfortunately you know they just it doesn't work out for them or they just don't get the passion for it and we meet the folks that do it's uh and work hard at it yeah and you know and turn it into a business I've got nothing but respect for that is you know he's not

trying to get rich being Chris Rock. He's figured out how to, you know, help other comedians and probably make a little bit of a living in the process. And I think that's pretty awesome. It is awesome. And that's kind of the recipe. I think everybody, you know, I made the mistake early on of not looking at it this way. And I know you do too. Stephen, Stephen is that, you know, if you were in it for the money or the fame, you would quit the second day.

Because it doesn't work that way. You got to do it because you love it. You got to put the work in. And if you're funny, the success will come along. That's it. That's pretty much it. No, I think, like, and one thing I want to say piggyback is no one gets any success doing this on their own back. That's right.

Right. Obviously, like anyone who's had success, they're doing the work. But without Mike Peters, without Joe Becker, without the funny bone, without Dave Dayo, all these other people, Jason Gowan at the Legacy Lounge, all these local places. are really making it a point to support the local scene, give each other time, and grow this together. Because that's the biggest thing.

You know, if we don't have places to do this and people will, running shows sucks. It's the worst. It's stressful. It's not fun. You know,

worrying about other people's money. It's terrible. Yeah. But, you know, getting to give people their first show is really fun or bringing a headline or that's never done the town before

to have them kind of out of crush. It feels great that you're giving, the community something valuable. Especially since the boho closed down, Mike has his don't tell, but there's not a lot of comedy going on in Broom County proper.

So it's nice to be able to kind of fill that void. You're so right about booking show sucking, because I've had like five opportunities where someone's called me. They've heard my name. They want to book me and they want me to set up a show and I just push it off onto Mike. Maybe I'll start pushing it off on you

because I know, like, I just want to do my set. I don't want to go down. Yeah. When I was in my band, I was the booking agent, the singer, the song, everything, and it was too much. And so, yeah, I get it. That's why I respect even more what you do. Is there somewhere where we can go to get all these dates that we talked about? I wrote them down, so we'll make sure we put them in the caption, in the comments.

What's your website? Website. Social handles. What do you got? Link tree, only fans, all that fun. Pull it at all right now. The comedy's website is Cricketmouth Comedy Fest.com. I'm on socials at Stephen Brown on Facebook.

Otherwise, it's Steve is Jewish on TikTok and Instagram. And YouTube. All right, my man, Stephen Brown, friend, comedian, promoter. We love you. I'll be seeing you soon. Good luck with everything, buddy. We loved having you on. Really enjoyed you, man.

Come back anytime. Yeah, seriously. Come back and put those things. Yeah. All right. And we'll be back. I've got a little something I want to do with you regarding some sports. Interesting.

on Good News York after this Peace out All right So you want to You want to see how dumb of a sports I'm not I guess I don't Did you just have a stroke?

I might have that was Those were us Watched you just have it Those were all words What the hell What the fuck are we doing That's what I'm trying to figure out here I'll tell you what the fuck we're doing

God damn it It is the Thursday Of the Masters tournament The Masters is the most coveted tournament In golf Maybe even in sports It's a huge deal Okay.

So I'm excited. I was going to wear a green jacket. Is it a Tiger Woods thing? Is he still in it? Great start. Yes and no. I mean, he plays golf, right? Yes, he does.

Okay. So for those of you that don't know, Matt is, Matt does not follow sports. And that's okay. It makes for something. I'm a computer nerd. Yeah. And we love you for that. Yeah.

You're right? Because when we're all watching golf. Much more money in that. Yes. And when we're watching golf and it goes out and we're like, I can't get it to work. I'm trying to. We call you. Yeah.

So anyway, I've become an expert in golf simulators, I'll tell you that. It was great. Yeah. I thought it would be fun. If I just throw out some golf terms. Okay. All right. Specifically golf, not other sports.

Nope. Okay, great. Yep, that's it. I want to make it a little easier. That's fair. And I don't want you to overthink it. Oh, I won't. Like, just tell me, well, if you want to try to get the right answer, obviously, that's fine.

I'm trying to define these words. Yeah, just tell me what you think they are. Okay. All right? I love this. All right. we go. All right.

So if you are golfing and you are to get a birdie. A birdie. Yeah. My immediate thought is that it was a good swing and you somehow hit a bird that was in the air. Sure. Sure. I actually do know it has something to do with scoring of some sort, but I'm not

honestly sure what that means. Maybe it's, it can't be a hole in one, right? No. So maybe it's, uh, uh, I mean, I, uh, maybe. Maybe slightly, you know, maybe a hole in two. Okay. You're actually, unfortunately, it's not that funny because you're not far on. Okay.

What is it? The idea is each hole has its own par. So if it's a par four, that means you have to get it there in four strokes to get par. Okay. But if you get a three, that's a brooky. Okay. With that being said, what is a bogey? It's not the big scary guy that stands in the crowd in Happy Gilmore?

No. I actually have no idea. A bogey also scoring. If it's a par four and you get a five. Okay. So it's like one over. That's it. Okay.

Or a double bogey if you're two over. All right. I kind of already told you what par was. Seems excessive. At what point do we stop saying, can you go to like a four bogey? At that point, you can go to triple boge and then it's just four over. That seems successful.

I call it triple boge because that's how I shoot. Yeah. I think you know this one. kind of alluded, uh, hole in one. Yeah, I mean,

that's, come on, it's in the fucking words. I, well, you never know. What is the fairway? The,

um, it's got to be part of the, the grass there, you know? Um, I'm thinking, okay, I'm gonna guess that it's like

the, the, the stretch between where you hit in, and the green, like the in between. That's going to be my guess. God damn it.

You're too, Smart. See, computer nerds figure shit out. I mean, yes, the fairway is the ideal spot that you want your ball to land between the T-B, I won't tell you what that's called, between the place where you hit. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And the green. Okay. Okay, okay. I used to have a roommate back in the day who used to say, I could watch golf, but I'd rather be bored.

And I fully agreed. That's fair. Okay. What is the T-box? It's got to be where you stand to T-off. Right? God damn it, man. I mean, it's...

Yes, the tea box is where you drive, you know, or tea off. You know, that it's where British guys get their drink and... Now we're going to rev it up, though. Okay, here we go. We've got four more. All right. Hit me. What is a slice?

It's got to be something to do when you hit it. I'm going to say you hit it off to the side. God. Damn it, man. Yes, if you're right-handed and you slice it, it will go. Is it intentional, though, or is it something you do accidentally? Okay. I mean, well, if you're a real good golfer, you can say, I'm going to give it a little slice so it goes.

Okay. Yeah, no, you don't want to. But typically when you slice it, it's a bad thing. I'm left-handed, and if I hit it and it goes like that, that's a slice. All right. This is way less funny than I thought. Wild. But I'm impressed.

What is a divit? it's got to be like a like a hole in the grass or something like you swing and yes it's a hole in my heart now because you're fucking this whole segment up yes it's when you I've heard that term before I'm sorry it's fine no this is I'm testing you and clearly you're better than I thought so you know what a putt is well yeah the putt putt is what they call every mini golf course

on the planet so okay and then last but not least, what is a shank? I like that you think I didn't know what putt was. Well, I just kind of wrote it down. A shank is a homemade weapon that people in prison used to kill each other. Yes, and no. Yes. Golfers shank each other, too?

I don't know. He just walk up to someone and be a more violent game than I thought. No. Arna Palmer was the word. He would just come up, drinking toilet wine, and he would take a blade. and just I genuinely have no idea what it means

in the context of golf You know honestly a shank is almost It's like a slice Or a pole It's just when you shank it It's another bad hit Yeah just like

All right see I had no idea Dude you I learned on that You should not be upset And I'm upset Because I thought This is gonna be

Funnier I should know You're just too smart I've never played Around a golf in my life Well that we're gonna do that I live across the street From a golf course

What Dude I'm gonna murder you Wait until you find out I'm also a member. You are? I'm telling you right now, any golfers that are watching are furious. You can kill to live that close to a course and have a membership. What are you going to do? I'm going to murder you.

I'm going to shank you. I got to go be an IT guy, so. Well, you're the best I know and the best there is. It's true. Mike Brindisi, Matt Mazer. This is Good News York. The Masters is on this weekend. We'll be back Monday with a brand new show.

You can tell me who got shanked. I will tell you who got shanked. Awesome. Yeah, we'll do that. Cool. Hopefully it's not Tiger. He's got way too much child support. He's not golfing right now.

Oh. Is he retired? Is his kid golfing? Is he one of these guys who's now? It's Nepo baby time? It's Nepo baby time. We're getting that. Awesome.

Is he any good? Yes, very good. They've done some pro-ams together. Genetic. Are they going to just start cloning him to make, you know. Well, they put their swing. The PGA is going to put their DNA on ice somewhere. PGA, I would imagine.

They're going to grow tigers. A form of secret service to guard this kid because ratings, dollars. Yeah. It's just got to keep the women away from him. Yes. Well, right now, I don't think, you know, biologically, he could do anything with him. He's still pretty young. How old is he?

Twelve? Is he that young? Twelve, thirteen, maybe eleven? I don't know. Oh, shit. We'll have to look it up. I thought he was an older teenager. But, yeah, no, but they have golfed together.

at like these kind of pro-em events. And they put their swing side by side. There was this one time, not only did they swing. We've probably been being trained from before he could walk. Exactly. But, I mean, they even did like the same reaction. It's absolutely stunning. There was a very wholesome moment, which you can look up from,

so on Wednesday of the Masters, it starts on, every golf tournament goes Thursday to Sunday. But for the Masters, on Wednesday, they have a par three tournament, which is where they just play par three holes. and caddies can play and golfers play and their kids play. Anyway, the daughter

who had to be four years old, Rory McElroy's daughter, four years old, putts. Like she just kind of taps it. And everybody's watching. Now the greens at Augusta, which is the course for the Masters, are known as the most.

Pristine greens in the world. Okay? Like, I'm talking, it's like putting on a parking lot. They're very fast. She taps this thing. This guy really likes golf. I love it.

And at four years old, the thing falls in. She putted like a 20 foot putt. Well, wrap up trap. Wrap up trap? I don't get it. All right. You're going to get a Chappelle wrap-it-up box. Bye.

I'm Matt. He's Mike. We love you guys. Merry Christmas.