Good News York by Growth Mode Content - GNY EP.200 | feat. The People Who Made It Possible

Episode Date: July 16, 2026

Good News York Celebrates 200 Episodes and Announces Sponsorship Opportunities Matt Masur hosts a special 200th episode of Good News York from their studio at the former Spaghetti Warehouse, celebrating the show’s mission to spotlight positive stories across New York State and noting the series has earned millions of views. Co-host Noah and a room of past guests briefly introduce themselves and share their work, including leadership development workshops combining performing arts and business concepts, CNY Jazz’s Jazz in the City concert series and education programs, community events like Winter Fair, Vera House services and shelter expansion plans, Senator Christopher Ryan’s perspective on highlighting nonpartisan community good, acting and coaching programs, Syracuse Actors Studio, a leadership author/podcaster’s new mission, cybersecurity podcasting and business growth at the Inspire Innovation Hub, local development and relationship-building, and Noah’s effort rebuilding Syracuse Improv with sold-out shows. Matt announces new sponsorship options at goodnewsyork.com/sponsor to fund content such as nonprofit profiles, restaurant videos, and small business features, and thanks the production team. 00:00 200th Episode Celebration 01:41 Meet Co Host Noah 02:31 Guest Intros Begin 03:02 Leadership Workshop Spotlight 05:49 CNY Jazz And Arts Impact 07:16 Events And Winter Fair 09:49 Vera House Community Support 11:15 State Senator On Good News 14:40 Acting Career And Classes 17:35 Syracuse Actors Studio Update 20:28 Transitions Of Hope Mission 22:35 Cybersecurity Podcast Growth 24:38 Building Relationships In CNY 26:30 Inspire Hub And Gratitude 28:51 Noah On Rebuilding Improv 31:29 Sponsorships Announcement 33:24 Looking Ahead To Episode 300 35:20 Highlights And Final Thanks 37:00 Episode 200 Wrap Up

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I just, I stumbled into another one the other day. I don't know if you were, it's like a portal to another to land here at the former spaghetti warehouse. But we are rocking and rolling and we are here to celebrate the 200th episode of Good News York. This is a, this is a pretty exciting thing. Most podcasts, like less than 1% of podcasts make it to 100 episodes. Out of the ones that do that, the ones that make it to 200, is like a rounding error. We're in a very rare club,

and it's pretty neat because our whole mission here is to spread good news. I've kind of described this many times as the anti-Saracuse.com, right? We are not here to push controversy or division or politics. We're here to celebrate everything that's great about New York State.

We all have made the conscious decision to live here because of so many wonderful things and so many wonderful people that are a part of it. And that's what we've been able to highlight in the last 200 episodes, which is pretty crazy. I also want to introduce our co-host, Noah. Noah's been with us for, I don't know, seems like forever, but it hasn't actually been that long. Noah jumped in and has really hit the ground running. Many of you have sat down and seen his interviews or been interviewed by him. He's done an incredible job. Thank you.

He also runs Syracuse Improv, which is pretty impressive, man. You've done a great job of gathering a great group of people and built a really cool organization. Pretty cool to see. Thank you. Congratulations on all that. Absolutely. Our next workshops tonight at 6 o'clock. So if you guys are bored tonight, it's the same room.

Improves. He's something we practice for improv. I don't understand it. You've got to come to a workshop. You'll see. It works. But I don't know what it's happening. And for those watching at home, we have a variety of folks here.

These are all past guests of Good News, York. These are folks who that have been kind enough to come join us and share some good news. And I'm going to let Noah actually just jump in the crowd and let everybody just quickly introduce themselves. And if you could, tell us who you are, what you do. and your favorite thing about good news in New York State. Who's going first? We're starting over here. Boom. Oh, wow.

Yeah, go ahead and introduce yourself. Sure. Mark O'Donnell, founder and owner of Operations Excellence, leadership and organizational development. And I think, Matt, I was one of your first clients to do a podcast when you started this whole enterprise. So I want to thank you for that. I think Matt actually got about half of the explanation out of his mouth, and I said, I'm in when he said he was going to, you know, hire some professional staff and create a professional studio and start doing podcast and having business people that he knew do podcast as well. So thank you for that. This has been a great experience for me. Matt's been a great friend and I really do I'm inspired right by what Matt's been able to achieve and he's also been very supportive of me so and I want to say thank you as well to the staff

I mean Noah Amanda Danny you guys are all great so great to be here I would give a shameless plug Matt actually heard about a workshop that my friend Joanne Yaro and I were working on putting together a joint workshop on leadership. Joanne comes out of the performing arts world, and she approached me months ago and said, hey, I got this idea. And, of course, I leaned in because she's a very creative person. She said, you know, we've got some interesting synergies with what I do, meaning what she does and what I do.

So we worked on it for a few months and put together a workshop that brings together concepts from the performing arts space in her world, things like what would be. normally called stage presence, right? And that really translates well into executive presence, being able to command a room, how to use your voice appropriately, storytelling. These are all things from that space that translate well into the business world. And we coupled that with a little bit more traditional approach that I use in leadership development, things like emotional intelligence and what is leadership and goal setting and goal achievement and culture. And when Matt heard about this, he said, why don't you come on down and meet with me and my staff?

And he pitched us on the idea of doing the workshop here with a chosen small group live. They would record it. And then we would market it online as a learning video. And we've done that. So thank you for that. That's been a lot of fun and great experience. That's the great thing. Mark's got all kinds of wisdom.

But before you had to take advantage of it on the seminars that he booked, you had to be available that day. Anything that he's got to offer. Well, not every. We're not giving the whole store all. At least that way. Cool. You all go nice? Well, thank you very much.

Absolutely. Hi, everybody. I'm Larry Luttinger. I'm the founder and executive director of CNY Jazz. And I have no idea what number of podcast I was, but hopefully it'll be a lucky number. And I, too, am very impressed by your approach. Oh, thanks.

To shouting out all the good news that emanates from the heart of New York State, central New York. And we talked enough a lot about the value of cultural pursuits to the well-being of a community, especially our city, and specifically our very unique, mobile, public health-themed concert series that visits Syracuse's underserved neighborhoods called Jazz in the City. And I appreciate the opportunity to tell many, many, many folks that experienced that podcast about everything that we're doing to leverage the power of the arts for social and economic change. They're a very powerful vehicle for any city, and they are a major indicator of quality of life for adults and for children. We talked about our education programs as well.

So thank you very much for that opportunity, and I'll let you be the pastor of the microphone. it. Absolutely. Cool. You go nice? Boom. Hi, I'm Steve Becker with Premier Promotions. I'm very honored to be a part of this because early on I got to know some of the ideas of what Good News York was all about.

This is the new media. Now, I was part of the media for over 20 years, programming radio stations. I first came here in 1979, fell in love with the community and had watched the community go through their challenges. And there is a lot of good news in this community. And as I made a transition from radio, I went into events involved with a chamber business show, small business show, Soho, Syracuse launched Taste to Syracuse, involved working with Larry with jazz in the city. And I came up with this idea of winter fair where we're bringing summer into winter. All those things you enjoy during the summer, midway rides, entertainment, food,

helping a lot of organizations raise donations for their charities and such. We came up in this idea and launched it in 2019, and we're planning to do 2007. That's going to be our eighth year. And watching this organization grow, I feel that, you know, we've been there to help with this platform. Getting to know, Matt, first with your local IT department and growth mode technologies, the overall plan and idea. This is fantastic of bringing good news because we have a tendency to watch media and you're hearing the negativity, negativity, you know. With Micron coming here,

people have to realize this is just amazing transformation we're going to be going through. And we start at Good News, York actually at Winterfair. You came on board initially with your local IT department and then launched Good News York

at Winter Fair in 2025 and we're there and we're planning already for 2027. So thank you for making me feel I'm part of the team, that this is a great community, and keep doing what you're doing. Thank you. Beautiful.

So, hey, you're ready to go next? I'm ready. Sure. Hi, my name is Tricia Matthews. I am the CEO of Vera House. Vera House takes care of survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault. On a positive note, that's a very dark topic, but on a positive note, it is so great to have it here in this community,

because this community's been very, very supportive of Vera House. I say all the time it takes a village to run the place, and so I feel like all of you in this community have been very good villagers. We've been able to escalate and elevate the work that we're doing at Vera House to meet the needs of the survivors. The landscape of the people we care for today is a lot different than it was probably five years ago. We're working on an expansion project with the state to expand the number of beds that we're licensed for in our shelters in anticipation for Micron, which I think is wonderful.

What comes with a lot more people is a lot more of the stuff that we deal with. So also hoping that futuristically we could get a brand new shelter to be a real place for people to heal. I can't thank Matt, you and your team enough. You've been great partners to collaborate with this work. You've helped us out tremendously. And I hope that the people of Onondaga County know how lucky. are to have the wrap-round services that we have here because it's really robust and we're very,

very fortunate. Thank you very much. Ready? I'm ready. Boom. Boom. Good afternoon. Christopher Ryan, State Senator, 50th District.

Happy to be here amongst a lot of people who are doing a lot, a lot of good things in the community. So very happy. Thanks for having me. You know, it's good news, York. So I guess in my position, right, politics and a rather, I guess, hyper politicized world that we live in, it's nice to take a step back and talk about the good news. The reality is that a lot of what kind of the media reports on is our disagreements and, you know, whenever we either one side disagrees with the other, and that's a lot of times what makes the news

and what other outfits or outlets deem newsworthy. It's not always like that. You know, we have a lot of respect for many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, as I did when I was in the county legislature, and a lot of things, what we do is just kind of keep the state running. So, but then things get in the way, and that's what gets reported on. So, you know, I was happy to be here, so we talked a little bit about, you know, just what you like to do and where do you like to go in the district.

And that's the things that I think sometimes people need to, to break and like to hear about. And again, you know, some things that we do out in the community. I've had, and last I'll just close with this. You know, the good news is that in my first, a year, first, second year as a state senator, not just within the county legislature for 13 years, but met so many, so many great people that are doing so many awesome things in this community. And it's nice to know that at least one media outlet is shining a light on that. Because it just, if you hear bad news all day every day, then, you know, you got to hear some uplifting stuff sometimes. So happy to be here. Thanks again. Thank you so much for your time. And, you know, just to

somebody you touched on is, you're the whole point. It's already here with this negativity. We're all just going to be negative. And there isn't a whole lot that combats that. And we were actually worried when we started this show that maybe there's not a lot because there's no appetite for. Maybe people don't want to hear good news and that's why you don't see much of it. Luckily we found out that wasn't the case and there's a huge appetite for it. It's been incredibly well received. We've had millions and millions and millions of views on our content from the show in the past 200 episodes. And it's just a testament to everything we're saying.

And just one quick note, you know, I mentioned we're not political and you might be, well, there's an elected official here. What do you mean you're not political? had folks here from from both parties and and none of the above and the reason is to not talk about their politics but exactly what what he mentioned was I love to talk to these folks about what is going on in their districts nobody other than elected official between campaigning and serving knows so much of this area better you know they are in every corner they are shaking every hand kissing every

baby but you get to see these things that so many of us just don't when we're in know, go from work to home every day. So that is one of the reasons we really love having elected officials here to just share the stories of their travels for lack of a better term. So thank you very much. And thank you. Ready to go next? Sure. Hi, everybody. I'm Jamie, Sarah Lewis. I am an actor, a voice actor, and coach. I grew up here in Syracuse. And I started in radio. I was actually a radio DJ for 95X for about five years. I always had the acting bug, and I did theater, and then I decided to move to New York City. So I went to New York City, studied really hard there at a conservatory.

Afterwards, I did the whole thing. I did all the auditioning. I could. I started working in film, television, voiceovers, and then I moved to L.A., and then I went back to New York, and then back to L.A. And I was gone for about 23 years. And then I had a pretty successful run, which is awesome. And after COVID hit, it was like, all right, I don't need to be here in L.A. anymore.

I'm going to go back home and give it a try and be around family. So the great thing is, is that I built a recording studio here, and I'm still able to work. So you can hear me on Disney. I was in Disney Doc McStuffins. I'm currently in a Dr. Seuss film on Netflix for animation. And then I also have a new movie coming out called Wildwood, which was made by Lake of Studios. And it's the same creators of Coraline. So it's called Wildwood.

And I played a maid in an evil mansion. And I'm really excited. It's coming to International Theater on October 23rd. But the reason why I came here to Good News New York is to let you guys know about my awesome classes that I'm doing for kids and adults, actually. So I do workshops and classes for kids from 9 to 17, and I'm just launching my first workshop for adults and to be doing classes for adults as well. But when I was growing up here, like I was saying, is that I always had this bug of acting. And I literally, I had no idea what I was doing. I would audition horribly.

And I just had no mentor or anyone to guide me and give me a roadmap as to how to audition and how to perform and go through training. So for me to bring this to the community and just offer these kids real industry training and also to give in a very positive way. You know, I went through New York and L.A. experiencing, I mean, during a time when people can be quite harsh in this business. And that is something that I do not do. It's all positive. There's a, there's a place for everybody to explore whether, you know, you have autism or disability. or ADHD or whatever it may be, there's a space in my class for everybody. But thank you guys for having me.

Thank you. And pass the mic like the Beastie Boys. There you go. Thank you. Hi, everybody. I'm Laura Sisser. I'm a local actor, producer, and just recently a director. And I'm also a co-founder and vice president of Syracuse Actress Studio, aka SAS,

along with my co-founder and president, Joe Cunningham, who could not be here today. unfortunately but we have a circus extra studio is something that was actually Joe's brainchild he wanted it to be like New York acting studio but nobody yelling at you so it's a very zen place when you come in it's very safe for for people to come in it is a free there's no barrier of entry anybody can come at any level of acting or writing or producing screenwriting playwriting whatever type of entertainment that you're into or want to get into, that is what we're all about. We started three years ago in a small area in downtown, and now we're at the Palace Theater. And we are there

once a month on a Monday, and they've been so wonderful to us. They've been amazing. And I think Larry, Larry, okay, I love what you said about jazz in the city and, you know, having it accessible for everybody. And that's what we're all about as well. And we just finally got a board together after three years and we're starting to get our 5013C started. So that's a process, but we're really excited about it. And yeah, we actually had Jamie as a guest on our past Monday night show. And Joe and I had met with her for coffee about a month ago. So I love Syracuse because my kids were raised here they have great educations they turn into pretty good adults even with me as her mother and um i didn't get into acting until 11 years ago so it was very late in life but it just shows you

that you can do it no matter how old you are and if you have the bug and you have the drive you can do it and i was mentored by a lot of young people and they took me under my under their wing and told me what to do and what not to do and that's what this community is all about um and i was going to move down South but I have so many good friends here I don't want to make new friends I just really like my friends here and my family and my home and now with the studio and American High Productions is here and they've been amazing as far as as as far as employment for cast and crew and so yeah it's all good New York and thank you so much for having us the shows that you're into

oh yeah that's it's not about me though but thank you honey Why are you from out there? Sweet, Marian, you ready? Okay, where do you want me looking? Over here? Anywhere. Okay, I'm going to look at Danny. Okay, I'm going to look at Danny.

He's going to tell you which one. Okay. Hi, everybody. All around me. I'm Mary Ann Rafferow. And after over 40 years of health care experience, over 35 of which was executive leadership positions. I retired on Valentine's Day of 2025.

And my first book was building the team from the inside out. And through the years, I've done a lot of public speaking and a lot of mentoring and leadership development and all sorts of things. But my fourth book, Transitions of Hope, was just another labor of love. And so now I'm sporting a new uniform. It is a T-shirt that always has something meaningful, jeans, and my sneakers. And I do a podcast here with my wonderful friends. And I love it.

And I will tell you that my first podcast was November 11th of last year, and I've had many of them. And I think the good news is the world is ripe for an incredible infusion of love. And I think that there are so many people who search and search outside themselves for what really can be found within. And so the good news is to be better tomorrow than you were yesterday requires some clearing of the clutter inside. and a true look of what is really beautiful around us. And so that's really my new mission. And I love doing my podcast. These guys are absolutely fabulous.

And my motto is making the world a better place, one person at a time from the inside out. And so that's why I'm doing what I'm doing. After being a CEO for 23 years of hematology oncology associates, I was one of the vice presidents at Krause Hospital, it's a new mission and it's just my love affair with this community and all the people who will truly listen to all the things I feel will bring us into a better tomorrow. That is it.

Who am I giving this to? Okay, here you go. Save you the work there, Noah. Thank you very much. Hey, my name's Mike. I'm the founder of Maltek Solutions. We do cybersecurity work here in Central Nealek. but a lot of our customers are across the country.

Also, we run a podcast. It's called Hack Dissection. I really got involved with it just from meeting Matt a few years ago through a local mastermind group called Profound, so many friends that are just still around because of that. So Matt and I had spent some time talking, and he mentioned that he's starting up this new endeavor for podcasts. And I thought it would be a good opportunity as somebody that's,

you know, trying to grow business and trying to get some of that information and that knowledge out there. So it's been, it's been a lot of fun. Matt invited me to the very first episode recording at the Winter Fair 2025 right before we started shooting. And yeah, it's been, it's been a lot of fun, just figuring this out as we go. You know, it started off as one thing and then, you know, you just, you just, you just roll with it and you just see where it takes you. So that's been a lot of A lot of fun. And as far as good news and everything goes, we celebrated five years in business. So the company has been consistently growing.

We opened an office down at the Inspire Innovation Hub with their new renovations. So that's a phenomenal place now. And really, they took super good care of us. So I really appreciate the opportunity to be here and look forward to, you know, more episodes with you, Matt, and the rest of your team. That's fun. For those who don't know Mike's podcast is very much about his industry, cybersecurity. but it's very popular in his industry.

He actually had a trade paper listed it as what the number five podcasts to listen to in cybersecurity. So this guy knows what he's talking about. Our biggest challenge is getting him in studio time because he travels the world like a rock star going to every cybersecurity conference in the country. He really knows this stuff. And it's just been incredible to work with. And great podcast, even if you're not technical, some of the stuff you get into is really awesome. Thank you.

Good afternoon. I'm Mike Durkin. I'm with VIP structures in downtown Syracuse. We are known for designing, building, and developing throughout Central New York. And then as I think about the stories they're being told today and sharing, I always come back to the really my core, and that's the who. It's not the what, it's not the why, but it's the folks that we surround ourselves with, professionally or personally, and the who is really part of the good news. York story of who's out there doing good things and who's willing to get on the podcast and share those stories. And I just want to reiterate what everybody else is saying, the folks that are here, a lot of us stayed through the ups and the downs. We stayed here for reasons. It doesn't matter why, but we're here. And I think about it as a parent of young adults who are finding their way through their careers, I think about where I was in the 1990s and what Central New York was. was in the 1990s versus what my kids are able to take advantage of in 2026 and beyond. The opportunities are here.

There's plenty of good news to share. But it always comes back to the people and the who and the relationships. And what's really cool about podcasting in general is the ability to really get to know the person that's your guest or your co-host, but understanding who they are. We'll figure out how and if you can help them. business-wise, but you're not going to do that unless you understand their DNA. So professionally, I'm always looking to create relationships, and it's about giving to them, letting them tell us what they're trying to accomplish, and we'll figure out if we can help them.

If we can, I'm pretty certain I know somebody who can. That's great. Thank you so much, Mike. Hi, everyone. My name is Dylan Wirtz. I'm a membership manager at Center State CEO. My role is to get to know local business owners and help connect them to resources and other people that can help support them. I'm really proud of our new Inspire Innovation Hub.

It's a beautiful facility. We welcome entrepreneurs of every shape and size, every business type. We give them access to business coaching, community space to work in, office space. It's really a hub for inspiration. When you go in there, you feel like your business is a little bit more possible. and I'm proud to be a conduit of that space and get people in and just help, you know, bring in time and treasure to help those entrepreneurs. The good news for me really is what Matt's done here.

Matt took on the risk, he took on the work, he took on the stress to create something, you know, really cool in our community, which I'm sure has not been easy on a million different levels. And these podcasts, they help individuals actualize. Like I saw the one with the young lady who just, lost her mom in the podcast as a way of her kind of transmuting that energy out into the world. I'm just, I'm so impressed by what you've been able to do, Matt. And I'm not about to cry. Just my voice cracks when I public speak. Yeah, I did an episode. No, I'd be down for, I'd be down for a cry. But I was, no, I was on one episode of Good News, York promoting a comedy show I was

throwing. And to this day, it's just a cool thing that I know exists in the world. where like I'm on the internet, you know, in high definition. So my hope is that people just really rally around this place and give it as much grace and generosity as possible with their time and energy. And I look forward to the day when this place is just rocking. And there's, you know, million hit clips coming out daily. So thank you.

Thank you. Beautiful. For anybody that doesn't know, Dylan, he's very humble. He's one of these folks around town that people call a connector. And there is so many folks that you know that, you know how to connect with everybody and really build those networks. And I think for that reason, Center State is really lucky to have it. That's exactly the type of person that should be in that organization.

And we're all lucky to have you because I think there's probably many people that have come into our lives because you've put the pieces together. So thank you for that. Yeah, I asked Matt quick if it was okay if I did like a more formal introduction about what Circus Improv is and that sort of thing. And so, yeah, I, you know, it's very similar to some of the things that you guys were describing, right? But I moved back to Syracuse about a year and a half ago, or even longer now that I think about it, about two years ago. And when I came back, I was really excited to get involved with the local improv scene here.

And I discovered that the improv scene had essentially died out after COVID, which I felt was devastating. I had been around the country, and every time I moved to a new city, the way I met my network, the way I met my friends was always by joining an improv theater in that city. And when I came back to Syracuse, I was very excited because I knew the power of doing that, the power of those connections. And I was really sad for about three months. I was like, this is awful. This was my plan.

I was going to get involved in the improv scene. It doesn't exist. And so after those three months, I'm like, okay, cool, let's do something about it. And so I chose to help rebuild that scene and help do it in a way that I thought would be very powerful. And so our biggest, highest value at Syracuse Improv is community, right? I think that improv is probably the best way that a group can build community. It requires vulnerability. Improv is a lot about, you know, using your own lived experience to improvise entertainment and comedy.

And through that, you know, you basically, I heard a statistic the other day. It was something about like, you know, you need about 60 hours with the same group of people or the same person or develop a true friendship with that person, right? To consider somebody a close friend, you need to spend 60 hours with them over a long period of time, right? Through like, not just like 60 hours at once. You can't speed run it in two days if you lock yourself in a room with somebody. Maybe you could, I don't know. But this is, it's been really wonderful. At the beginning, we were looking for a home, you know.

We were working with the North Andagga public library system, doing different library workshops and everything. But there's always logistical hurdles with that and everything. And so having ClickStream Studios be our home has been absolutely transformative and very, very meaningful. And so far we've done three sold-out shows. There was over 140 people at our last show. And it was absolutely wonderful. It was a wonderful experience to hear or to see Syracuse come out for us in a major way. So it's been great.

And that's what that is about. And so I know that I make jokes and I don't like to always, you know, go on and on about that. But I felt like it was necessary. So boom, thank you, man. I appreciate the time. Thank you so much. Thank you. So one thing that we want to kind of announce today, you know, today is the 200th episode.

And just a little bit of a background. This is sort of a public service effort from our business. We don't really monetize it in any way. and it's something we're able to do because we have the incredible talent here that is working with all of our clients to make content for them. At the same time, that business is picking up rapidly.

So our resources are drawing thin, but now's not the time to cut back. Now is the time to move forward. So for the first time, we are announcing some sponsorship opportunities for Good News York. If you go to Good NewsYork.com slash sponsor, you will see a wide variety of options

for folks, whether you're a business or an individual. You can contribute as little as you like, or there's some packages. One of the things that I want to mention is there's a lot of content. They'll do things like this. They'll do subscriptions, right? They'll do a member thing,

where if you become a member, there's special content that only you members get to see. We're not doing that. We're doing kind of the opposite. Anybody that sponsors us is essentially paying for us to create some great content that we can share with the world. And we can be very specific. So there's sponsorships for us

do a profile of the nonprofit, a restaurant video, which some of our restaurant videos are some of our most popular and make me hungry every time we show up in our feed. And there's all small business videos. So basically you could be a sponsor, get your company name out there, but also help support another local business or another local charity. You get them some high-end video production marketing videos of that sort as part of the deal. So we're trying to grow this by helping us. others and that's now available. We're really, really excited to see that grow and see where that takes us in the next hundred episodes.

So, with that, we're going to get out of here in a few minutes, but I just, I want to ask Noah, so we're 200 episodes in. This thing's evolved quite a bit. Where do you think will be in 300 episodes? What's, oh, man. I don't know. I don't think that those things are easy to predict, you know? I think the nature of the beast is that, you know, it transforms and it adapts.

And I think that, I don't know, you can never predict the opportunities that come. I will say looking back, you know, one of, it's been an absolute joy to host this show because I've been able to connect with so many people that I would not have otherwise. And to learn about the work that they're doing, I've met some truly selfless people who are building nonprofits, right, who are, you know, you talk to somebody and, you know, you realize, like, this person is one of the most energetic and driven people and also very intelligent. This person probably could go make $100,000, $120,000 somewhere, you know, and instead they're working at, you know, I talk to the director of Meals on Wheels, right? And she's working at a nonprofit

to deliver food to people in upstate New York, you know, who need it, right? And she's running this organization where some like the elderly volunteer to prepare the meals and then they drive them to other people who need the meals that's a that is a wonderful thing to do with your life you know and so to to meet so many people like that right because she's not the only person you know i met dozens of people like that but also other people who are incredibly intelligent and doing wonderful work in other ways that has been for me the biggest uh it's really opened my eyes to hey you know how How many different ways can you live life? And I think we've talked to some people who have really figured out how to live life in a very

interesting and good way. So yeah, it's been wonderful. That's awesome, man. That's awesome. You know, we've done some incredible things. We got to check out an Airbnb where there's tigers outside the window. That's pretty crazy up with the wild and Chittango. Incredible place.

The state fair, I'm sure we'll be back again this year, but we had quite the adventures there last year trying all the foods and all the adventures that you had there. We've been a part of the Micron story. Really, we were there at the groundbreaking. And then just this past week at their concrete event, they asked us to come and be one of the outlets to cover that, which is just mind-blowing to get a call from a company like that. So big thanks and shout-up to our whole team over here.

They're hiding behind the scenes. Danny and Amanda. Malachi, our editor, who works remotely. These guys are the ones that make this all happen. And, you know, Noah is here for a lot of episodes. I'm here for a lot of episodes. Danny's been here for all 200 episodes. Yeah, Danny.

He is the true hero of this whole adventure. So thank you guys. And thank you all of you. Thank you so much for being a guest on our show and sharing the good news and sharing our clips and liking our stuff. You see it in your feet. It means the world.

I truly believe that putting out good content, positive energy like this is the counter to the attitudes that, unfortunately, we deal with so much around here. And I think this is the antidote. And, you know, kill them with kindness, as they say. Mary Ann knows what I'm talking. And with that, I think episode 200's in the books. Nice. Yeah, sounds great.

Thank you all for coming. Seriously. So I had a little hug and have a great day. I love it.