Good News York by Growth Mode Content - GNY EP.56 | Tuesday Newsday!

Episode Date: June 17, 2025

Tuesday Newsday: Pizza Vending Machines, Trolls, and a Blueberry Treehouse In this episode of Good News York, co-hosts Mike Brindisi and Matt Masur discuss their recent adventures at CannaCon, includi...ng Mike's mind-blowing encounter with a pizza vending machine. They delve into interactions with internet trolls and analyze the impact of their comments on podcasting. The hosts also highlight a unique restaurant experience at Blueberry Treehouse Farm in Western New York, and share their excitement about the TV show 'Tires' on Netflix. Additionally, they explore the mystery behind ceramic Mario piggy banks spotted around Syracuse. The episode wraps up with a preview of upcoming guests. 00:00 Introduction and Greetings 00:29 Welcome to Good News York 00:47 Tuesday Newsday 00:54 Reflecting on Yesterday's Show 01:57 Pizza Vending Machine Adventure 04:33 Social Media and Trolls 05:46 Pronunciation Debate 08:41 Improving the Show 13:41 Documentary Pronunciation Poll 14:13 Crime Documentaries and TV Shows 14:39 Discovering a New Show: Tires on Netflix 15:13 The Appeal of Tires: Writing, Casting, and Comedy 17:38 Guest Stars and Behind-the-Scenes Stories 18:29 Netflix Frustrations and Streaming Habits 22:18 The Mystery of the Mario Piggy Bank 27:01 Magical Dining Experience: Blueberry Treehouse Farm 28:51 Upcoming Guests and Closing Remarks

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Starting point is 00:01:27 Hi. Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. I feel, oh, welcome to Good News. You're sponsored by Ads on the Go. Get Ads on the Go.com. I'm Mike Brindisi.
Starting point is 00:01:38 I didn't say it quick enough, so he jumped right in. No, no, I wanted to get it out of the way. This is why he's the best co-host. I don't know about that at all. And I'm just the other guy. Yeah, well. We'll get into that. I'm at Major Growth Mode content.
Starting point is 00:01:50 I think he might have said that already. No. It's not too. It's Tuesday, which means... Tuesday, Newsday. Tuesday, Newsday. And we got a bunch of stuff to talk about real quick. And I'm already feeling...
Starting point is 00:02:03 Yesterday, man, I was watching back some of the clips. I was very low energy. It was very Monday yesterday. Yeah? So I apologize. Yeah. I just wasn't... I don't know.
Starting point is 00:02:12 I think you were doing great. Well, thanks, Pud. We had a good PUD. We had a good conversation. It called you a PUD. After I heard... I meant Bud. Remember that word?
Starting point is 00:02:18 Pud? Dude, that's a great word. I haven't heard... Pudwackers. Put. Yeah. He's such a pud. Bring back pud.
Starting point is 00:02:26 Yeah. There's another one, but I'm hesitant to say it. If I'm hesitant, I shouldn't. Yeah. But it's a great 90s like, Pud. But I meant bud. You're not a putt.
Starting point is 00:02:38 Totally off the fucking rail. Wow. What a way to start. Anyway. What a great, you know, I was looking back at some of these clips, too, and just a little plug for ourselves. Sure. Because I'm a shameless promotion whore.
Starting point is 00:02:53 That's the name of the car. Our adventures at CanaCon last week are just phenomenal. And they're up all over. The episode is there, as we mentioned yesterday. But you can see some of the clips from there, especially the clip about a pizza vending machine. And if you have not seen this, it's on all our socialists. You've got to check this out.
Starting point is 00:03:12 Mike's mind was literally blown. You could see the smoke coming out. Danny thought it was actually the pizza machine on fire. It was Mike's evening. Yeah, I was the vending machine. And I watched the clip back, and this is me being me. I totally criticized myself because I'm like, I didn't even really give any substance because I was,
Starting point is 00:03:28 you could see, I was like speechless because we captured the exact moment when I saw. And we specifically tried to do that and we almost got away because you started walking towards it. We're like, Mike, there's a pizza vending machine over there. And you're like, whoa, I got to see this. And we were immediately like, Danny, grab the camera. Yeah, yeah, we got to.
Starting point is 00:03:43 Get his first fucking reaction. Dude. And you were just blown away. It's the one food that I could eat breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Sure. And not get sick of. It's just, that's me. It's who I am.
Starting point is 00:03:54 Can't wait for people to be like, Oh, I lose. I don't have this nearly enough, but like a good breakfast pizza. Yeah, sure. I'm not just talking about like cold pizza from the night before for breakfast, which is also awesome.
Starting point is 00:04:04 But, you know, you get those ones that they do that. I just, I love pizza. I'm a pizza connoisseur. You know, we had Nick from tossing fire on here. Yeah. So to have it, like, I just, I think it was, first of all, I love pizza, but second of all,
Starting point is 00:04:18 I just didn't think, I didn't think that it was, that we were capable, as a society to have a pizza vending machine. And he showed me how it worked. You know, the arm comes down after you pick it. Spits out the pizza in the box and everything. It takes it out of its tray that it's sitting on,
Starting point is 00:04:32 puts it up inside this oven cooks. I mean, it's just. It's incredible. I mean, gone or the day. I mean, remember the old days at a gas station, you get some M&Ms, you got to kick the machine. You left a wall it on them. It's a, you know, wife-beater T-shirt that he ain't walking in eight years.
Starting point is 00:04:46 Yeah. Yeah. You had like the bugles that were like, they expired four years previously. Nobody's buying bugles. Back then. I loved them. I loved bugles. It was a good time.
Starting point is 00:04:58 Anyway, check out Good News, York, on TikTok and Instagram and YouTube and Facebook. Yeah. I think that's all the places. It was a good time, Kana Khan. And thanks, Kimera, our clients, Kimera, who have a great podcast with us for inviting us. That's the whole reason we were there. Yeah. Absolutely.
Starting point is 00:05:14 We had a lot of fun. I wanted to tell you, I was, speaking of other clips, I was looking, I was looking, I was watching our clip about the Osama bin Laden pizza. Yes. That was around the corner from where the site was, which is still a mind-old. Should we just rename this the pizza cast? I feel like that- Sure.
Starting point is 00:05:33 Oh, yeah, we really are going with pizza. Primary time. A couple of fucking fat guys here. Dude, some people, man, trolls are great. Trolls actually make me happy because I just, every time I even look into someone who trolls us, I don't even get past their bio, and I realize, they ain't worth a shit. This is called, we love bad comments.
Starting point is 00:05:56 Dude, I didn't know this was a thing. And I'm not saying they're wrong for commenting this on the pizza, Osama bin Laden video. First comment, okay? Who says, I don't even know if I'm saying it right? Who says documentary like that, L.O.L. Then someone wrote, seriously. And then another person wrote, weirdos.
Starting point is 00:06:18 And then, of course, some woman who has a profile picture who's a dog. Yeah, of course. Yeah, she writes, Not Everyone Should Have a Podcast. I wrote, Not Everyone Should Have a Dog as their profile pic. My rule of thumb is if your dog is your profile pick, you're ugly.
Starting point is 00:06:32 And then my favorite, Just Pronounced Documentary the way it's supposed to be. Why would you say it like that? Weird. All right, all right. Hold on, hold on, hold on. Danny, say that word. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:06:43 That's, and don't say it the way I say it how you would say it. Yeah. Documentary. Thank you. That's how I said it. I probably. will say documentary. That's the only other option. I can stumble it that way.
Starting point is 00:06:57 How did you say it again that everybody's mad about? Well, and me on here I get excited, so I was like, documentary, probably, you know, but I said documentary. And I think they were, so I read those comments and I laughed because I don't give a shit. But then I started going, but what, they didn't correct me. What is it? And I'm like, the only other option is what? Documentary, right?
Starting point is 00:07:16 Document, what did you say? Documentary? Well, that's how I said. That's totally different. Now I don't know how to say it anymore. If my name was Terry, I would want to be called Documentary. The trolls won. I think they did. Not everyone should have a podcast.
Starting point is 00:07:30 But listen, if you're out there and you're watching or listening, write us a producer at growthmodetech.com. Send us your hate mail. Or send us a video. We'll turn it into positivity. We will. We will. But let us know how you're supposed to say it. Because I think maybe is it a regional thing?
Starting point is 00:07:47 I have said it both. No, I think you just pronounced it in a goofy way. Now I hate it. Now I just say doc. People do that. I watched a doc. Hold on. I'm trying to pull it up.
Starting point is 00:07:57 Again, I had it and I somehow lost it. Where to go? Oh, here we go. Bin Laden's pizza. Which that is still a wild story. It is. Pizza place around. I love how that's what they focused on.
Starting point is 00:08:09 Not the fact that there's a fucking pizza place around the corner from where a terrorist was killed named after some terrorist. I got to sort of tip my head for them paying attention, right? Look, I love it. I love that they. commented. Thank you. Thank you for engaging. This is the master of the internet and in the craziness of these algorithms and these things like this. The bulk of the comments and the interaction on this story is about you pronouncing a word in a goofy way. Nobody even gives a shit about selling pizza. Oh, Osama bin Laden pizza place? No biggie. Say the word right. Weirdo.
Starting point is 00:08:45 There was a couple other comments that you kind of glazed by that I want to. One fellow says, took a shot at you. Other guy can't stop interrupting. Now, if you're not watching this clip, the clip is predominantly Mike on the screen. I'm off the screen. My comments do. So, A, I replied to this guy. It's called being a co-host, right? Right. And it is. At least give you a name. I'm not going to get mad at this guy because I don't know that there's complete falsehood to his comment. But and here's what I'm going to say. I think there's oftentimes where we might step on each other. Oh, all the time.
Starting point is 00:09:22 And it's not interrupting, but if we're not careful, and I am definitely guilty of this. So am I. If I throw something in as you're still talking, it doesn't come out great. So I will appreciate this guy, even though he's snarky, he doesn't actually give a fuck. He doesn't have a, listen, he doesn't have a profile pick. Strike one. Your comments null and void when you don't even have the balls to have a profile thing. But my point is this is something that we could potentially do to improve.
Starting point is 00:09:50 And it's not, fuck him. It's just something in general that I think that we could do. So like the way we might be able to do that is, and both of us, and it's a challenge as we're going, is kind of add and listen to pauses for each other. Right. And not necessarily like. Shouldn't we talk about this off the year? No, no, I think this is great.
Starting point is 00:10:11 Seriously, I think this is great. No, it is good. How the sausage is made type of stuff. right? I know. I think it's just a thing that any two people can do to improve so that we both get the jokes out, right? Sure. And we originally, we've tweaked this already a little bit and a lot of people don't know behind the scenes, but we've changed some audio settings and taken off some of the gate settings and those behind the scenes. Basically what that means is they turn off some of the lower background noise so you can hear crystal clear who's talking. That results in me when I say a snarky convent when my, it's, it's, it's, doesn't even necessarily come through. So it's not a high quality thing. So we've changed that. But I think a further improvement is, like I said, and I don't even know the best way to do it for both of us. I don't want to make, you know, awkward pauses and things of that nature. But I think we should both keep in the back of our minds the best way to give each other a spot to get a comment in that doesn't step on each other. Well, first of all, great feedback. You're absolutely right. Here's the sad part. I don't think people realize, including you,
Starting point is 00:11:14 how much I have worked so hard at not interrupting. I have ADHD severely. So one of the main symptoms of ADHD, you're always interrupting people. I have worked so hard over the years at mastering just listening. Like when you were talking right there, there's a million comments I could have said. Yeah. And I've learned to listen and I want to listen. Oh, that's great. But in those moments of excitement, because this is organic,
Starting point is 00:11:38 and because it's not scripted, we both get exciting and we're firing comments off. But, I mean, look, at the end of the day, I don't think we do it enough to where it... I don't even know if we needed to address it, but I'm glad you did, because it's good. It's good. Just like to keep in the back of our mind. Right.
Starting point is 00:11:54 But fuck that guy. He doesn't have... Look, if you have... Yeah, no, I genuinely, I agree with you. Fuck that guy. If your profile pick is a dog, you're ugly, and if you don't have a profile pick, none of your comments matter
Starting point is 00:12:03 because you don't even have the balls to admit who he is. This guy, his name is like King Farter or something like that. Perfect. Listen, he's completely irrelevant, right? And this is what I could not... This is how we're spinning this stuff into a positive light is we're looking at this stuff and forget what this clown said to make fun
Starting point is 00:12:18 of us. It's a good point to bring up something that helps us move forward. And I also think it's important for people who, you know, we hear about bullying on social media and I hate when they use that word because it kind of makes it sound childish and not that it's not a problem, but what I mean is
Starting point is 00:12:35 don't call it bullying. I'm saying when people harass you and troll you on social media like we've been trolled. It's a whole different thing. Yeah. I think people should look at it this because it feels bigger in the moment. When someone really personally attacks you, in that moment, for some people, it feels really, some people are good at just being like,
Starting point is 00:12:54 oh, whatever, I don't care. Some people, like myself, it might hurt, and then I get over it in 13 seconds, and I'm like, wait, what am I doing? But there are people out there that really get affected by it, and you hear terrible stories about that, but these people don't matter. All you're hearing are people's thoughts.
Starting point is 00:13:09 I've talked about that a million times. And the other thing specifically, and not to get too far off topic, But the thing to keep in mind, anytime you get a trolling and negative comment, a stranger who just throws a negativity bomb at you that has no value other than that. What you need to understand is that's for them. That is them hurting and them trying to, you know, use this as an outlet to get that dopamine hit and make themselves feel better about how shitty they are. So, A, we all want to immediately take this shit personal, but we have to realize that it just comes from a place of they got issues. And they're probably scrolling and they see it, they write it, they don't even remember right now.
Starting point is 00:13:48 I am certainly not immune to making snarky comments on some random things to myself. No, no, no, no, snarky comments are different. I will give you that. The difference is I do use my name and my real profile. I don't have sock accounts. I don't hide my shit. You can find all of that. And I'm willing to pay the consequences for my obnoxiousness.
Starting point is 00:14:07 100%. That's the difference. Unlike this faceless dude who said the other guy meaning me is not funny at all. I do appreciate that he was able to garner my entire personality from about four seconds of a clip that I'm actually not even featured. Really got a good chance to meet who you are. This person who has no photograph or anything, but has the year 1963 in their name. What does that tell you? Boomer.
Starting point is 00:14:32 Nothing wrong with Boomer. Just some. And then some other guy that was just extra bent about your bizarre pronunciation. Yeah. So, yeah. back to that. The whole purpose of bringing this up wasn't really to talk about trolls. It was, what is your opinion? Maybe I'll put a poll up on our social media after this. How do you say documentary? I'll spell it out phonetically. Is it documentary? Is it documentary?
Starting point is 00:14:56 Is it documentary? Is it document? I don't even know any other way. Yeah, I don't. I mean, because guess what? If they're right and I say it weird, I want to fix it. I don't think you have to. Everybody knew what you were saying. For the record, you were funny. I think, you're the one that made that clip funny. I was just stating what was there. Your reaction was fucking hilarious. Speaking of documentaries,
Starting point is 00:15:20 I've been stuck on crime docs and the Osama bin Laden thing we talked about, but dude, it's been a while since I found a show, a scripted show that I like. And lover like a traditional TV show. Just a traditional show, yeah, streaming show.
Starting point is 00:15:37 Yeah. So like music these days, I find that Every couple years, maybe within six months to two years, depending on the space, I find a show that I am addicted to and I binge watch. It's been a while and I've found one. Yeah? What is it? Dude, love or hate Shane Gillis, tires on Netflix is fucking awesome.
Starting point is 00:15:59 I watch the first season. You're listening to a podcast right now, driving, working out, walking the dog. If you're in a podcast, chances are you have something to say too. With RSS.com, starting your own podcast. is free and easy. Upload an episode and we distribute it to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and more. Track your listeners, see where they're from, and start earning from ads just like this. If you've been thinking about starting a podcast, this is your sign.
Starting point is 00:16:26 Start your new podcast for free today at RSS.com. I'm like, this is good. But knowing working in this world, I know that the first season, especially these days, a lot more things get greenlit. First seasons don't have usually the funding or the casting that you, would get if you get picked up for a second season. First season's really good. Lays the groundwork.
Starting point is 00:16:45 It was fine. And when I heard they got picked up, I checked out season two. Dude, in my opinion, from the writing to the casting, the characters they've created, the story. I love it. Yeah. Highly recommend tires on Netflix. Great, great. It's like a parks and rec or office about a tire shop called Valley Forge Automotive.
Starting point is 00:17:07 I'm only smirking because I feel like you've been sleeping on this. I have. To be fair, season two just came out and they just started promoting that so I could see why folks are picking it up. They may have missed it previously. It is great. It's great. Like the thing that I loved about it from the beginning of the first season is it's a little bit mindless in the best kind of way. Like in the way comedy TV is supposed to be.
Starting point is 00:17:30 You're not dealing with some gripping dramatic issues. Right. And some crazy subplot and all the – it's just funny. Dude, it's just funny. The characters are so real. The other part of it to me is the acting in it is so, it's just natural. It borders on. I genuinely wonder how much of that is ad-libbed.
Starting point is 00:17:52 Exactly. Which I think a lot of it is. I can kind of pick up. Especially between Shane and what's the manager? The main guy. I blank on his name. I am too. Either way.
Starting point is 00:18:05 I've seen a ton of interviews with them and they are just, like they are, their buddies, first and foremost. If people didn't know that, they didn't just come together for this. And they've obviously been comedians working together. But a lot of the shit, a lot of those scenes, like,
Starting point is 00:18:19 I feel like you're just a couple of guys ripped it. You can tell. Called that a scene. A lot of its improv. The other thing I love about it is, as much as they are playing characters, they've really found a way, and this is what I love about comedic actors
Starting point is 00:18:32 when they do it right, is they found a way to capture their personalities and just magnify it a little bit. Yeah. You know, like, yes, they're playing a character, but that is how Shane Gillis acts, you know, in his stand-up and in interviews and things like that. And I don't know the lead guy. But he, I see, I saw him at Seth Myers interview. And he was, he was that dude. Yes. And it's just the, the storylines that they've come up with. The characters are hilarious. And the other part of it is if you've ever been to an automotive shop, especially if you've worked in one, it does capture exactly what it's like to. to be at or work at a market. So I love it. Tires on Netflix.
Starting point is 00:19:11 It's fucking. It's awesome. Did you know, I don't know that this is really a spoiler. Did you know that one of the guest stars on that show, the gentleman who was in the first season? I'm only on episode six. Don't ruin it.
Starting point is 00:19:23 I don't think he's already, came back in the second season, needed a job, the startup guy. Remember the startup guy? The good looking kind of tall, chiseled rich kid dude? Yeah, yeah. Did you know he's...
Starting point is 00:19:34 Bill that ends up doing Coke? Yes. That guy, that's the episode I just watched. Great episode. Did you know in real life, he's an employee of barstool sports and he had to like play hooky to get out and go record that? He almost got canned from his full-time job because he had to go record that episode of tires. I almost looked him up and then I forgot. But as I was watching, I was like, this guy's hilarious.
Starting point is 00:19:55 You got to go look at some of that stuff. No way. Yeah. Yeah, it's, it's amusing. Yeah. But all of that, like I said, Netflix, I have a little bit of a frustration with some of the Netflix shows because I feel like lately all it's been showing. showing me are these foreign movies and shows that are dubbed. And like some of them are right, but others are like just, just a hair off.
Starting point is 00:20:18 You know, obviously your lips don't necessarily move with the translated length. Yeah. Right? Yeah. And it's just enough that I can't, I don't like it. I can stand that. And, you know, so when I find some of these things, and I often find myself watching old shows and old, you know, classics that are great, like you said, Parks and Rec and stuff.
Starting point is 00:20:34 But to find a new, it's always exciting when you find a new show. You know, because you think They gotta make more though. They do. What is it? These eight episode seasons? Yeah. You know, I had a thought about that too
Starting point is 00:20:45 while I was watching it where I thought I wonder if shows don't sustain the popularity like shows like the office did. Like I feel like tires could be just as popular as the office was. I mean, I know that's saying a lot. Or at least close if it was spread out more, right? Because back in the day, you had to wait a week to see the episode.
Starting point is 00:21:06 I think it's a matter if they don't have to anymore. Well, that's right. But what I'm saying is in the long run, I feel like shows are watched. You know, it condensed down. You watch it all at once. You kind of forget about it and move on, whereas the office lives on forever because you'd watch an episode, then you have a whole week to talk about it with your buds.
Starting point is 00:21:22 And then you watch the next one. And it's strung out to where it's like a long commitment. You know, traditional television was made to sell advertisement. Correct. And so obviously you want that new episode that draws that new audience. ideally year-round. They never went year-round. But, you know, ideally as many as you want. So that's why most of those shows had 20, 24 episodes.
Starting point is 00:21:43 Right. You know, right. Because it was weekly TV. And some of them even, like on Paramount and stuff, if you watch any of the, like, the cop shows and stuff that are still on regular NBC, you'll still get huge number of episodes. But these ones that are exclusively for streaming, they're like, you know, we don't have to drag this out. We don't have advertisers paying us for eight months. We've got one chunk of change. and here's your, you know, six, eight, ten episodes.
Starting point is 00:22:10 And now everybody hold on tight for a year and a half for us to do it again. Exactly. I'm certainly not asking to go back to that format because look, there is no go. You can't fit the toothpaste back in the tube, right? Like now that we can binge watch episode. You know, I want a binge, but I also want 20 to binge. There you go. That's kind of where I'm at.
Starting point is 00:22:28 That's my streaming demand. Do you take your rating as, I feel like you don't as much as I'm psychic or psychic? I'm psychic. I'm psychotic, but I'm also psychic. What is happening? I just had a stroke, like it's glitching. No, I'm psychotic about algorithms and about, like, my personal.
Starting point is 00:22:48 So when I watch Netflix, I make sure that after I watch a show or a documentary, I give it one thumb, two thumbs or a thumbs down. I want Netflix to know exactly what I think because I want the right recommendations. Yes, I mean, if my kids sign into my account, I'm like, no, no, no, no, no. back the fuck up and go into your account. I don't want cartoons showing up. I love cartoons. I take my rating seriously.
Starting point is 00:23:13 I don't bother to rate them, but I do completely understand everything else you're talking about. I especially have that issue with Spotify, where my kids would use my account and then my Spotify recommendations are like one of the main reasons that I liked it because it would push things that I either forgot about, great songs or new ones that I would actually like. And then I randomly get mixed in, you know, Hamilton
Starting point is 00:23:35 and in... Oh, nice. Fucking shit that I don't want to listen to from my children. But, um... I understand what you're saying. Yeah. Um... Something happened.
Starting point is 00:23:48 Something happened? Yeah. What happened? Oh. This. It's a me. Mario. Bootleg ceramic thing.
Starting point is 00:23:58 That's a ceramic Mario, my friend. That is... Bought and paid for by Danny Trapa. Potie, Danny, do you want to... This is like some investigative journalism here. Danny was standing in here this morning before we went on. That is like a felt.
Starting point is 00:24:14 His butt is very pronounced. He's very sculpted butt. And he goes, oh, I forgot. I got something for you guys. And we're like, is this where he kills us? Yeah, what's happening? He left the room. He comes back with this. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:24:28 And I immediately offered to give him $10 more than what he paid for. But there's quite a story behind it. You want to, I feel like it's your story to tell, not mine. Sure, yeah. I met a guy in a parking lot and $40 for a ceramic Mario picky bank. And here he is. All right, great story.
Starting point is 00:24:48 But in reality, I was just so captivated after seeing it, not in one place or two places, but three different places around Syracuse. I was like, what the hell is going on? Honestly, I thought it was a plastic. Yeah. Initially. Sure. Like, I thought it was maybe like.
Starting point is 00:25:04 From the side of the road. I thought there were plushes. Quality. Yeah, like, they're just standing out in abandoned parking lots, and they're selling these copyright-infringed characters that kind of look like the thing. I think Mario looks pretty good. There was a Sonic that was terrifying. Well, Sonic's kind of terrifying anyway.
Starting point is 00:25:23 Yeah, so I just had to go and talk to the guy and be like, what's going on? Yeah. What's happening here? And he just didn't really give you anything, right? He didn't. English was a second language. Okay. All right, a little barrier there.
Starting point is 00:25:36 And he said this is a piggy bank made from Mexico. He pointed to the label on the top of his hat. I see that. And yeah, they're just selling these Mexican piggy banks. Yeah. So first of all, it's glorious. It's really well made. I don't know if I can.
Starting point is 00:25:52 But the reason we're bringing it out is if anyone is listening or watching and knows why the hell there are these pop-up Mario ceramic piggy bank parking lot sales going on. We would love to know. Again, write the show, producer at growthmodec.com. Is that the right email? Yeah, yeah.
Starting point is 00:26:13 And this is felt, by the way. It's like a spray on texture. Do you want to say what your theory was, or do you not want to say that on the air? Well, you know, we can only theorize weird container-shaped objects from Mexico might have multiple uses. We'll leave it at that.
Starting point is 00:26:28 How about that? Yeah, like they've been used for something to get over here and now they don't need it anymore. served as a good container. And to be fair, it's okay for you to make that assumption because we have nothing to go on. The guy, Danny asked, and the guy was like, I don't know. Danny has been a little extra hyper since he's been handling this.
Starting point is 00:26:44 You know, I did notice he had a pep in his step. Yeah. The funny part is that, you know, it's a piggy bank, and I don't know if you could see when I was holding up, but in the back, there's a coin slot. There is no empty plug or anything like that. So if you put your life savings into Mario here, you're going to have to kill him to. get it out. Oh. And didn't you say Luigi? Or I read somewhere. We looked it up and on Reddit, someone mentioned it and said, uh, Luigi was Mario just painted like Luigi. It's an incredible thing. You know what it reminds you of is you might have seen in different places they sell like
Starting point is 00:27:21 oriental rugs and things like that. Yes. Some truck will be set up in like the corner of a parking lot. What I really like to know is, does the property owner, are they in on this? Do they approve this? Oh, man. Or do these things? fellas just find these plazas that are owned by like out-estate, real estate companies and things and be like, I'm just going to set up shop until somebody kicks me out. Let's double down. Let's say right now, I'm being serious. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:27:45 Some dude walks in and says, hey, man, do you mind if I sell ceramic Mario brother piggy banks in your parking lot? And in this parking lot, what would you say? Well, technically I'm a renter, so I don't even know that I could authorize that. Damn it. Let's say you own the building. But here's the thing, though. That's funny. in that example, I guarantee you that, you know, if somebody were to say that,
Starting point is 00:28:04 and I go, yeah, yeah, you can use one of our parking spots. That would almost give them a little insulation, you know? Yeah. Somebody said we could be here. Sure. But I don't know. I don't know. Well, here it is.
Starting point is 00:28:18 Mario, let us know what the hell's going on because we love it. And by the way, if Danny had come in and been like, I drove by this place, they had ceramic, I would have been pissed if he didn't stop. So he did the right thing. He did. Like I said, from the road, I thought they were like stuffed animals. I'm kind of blown away to see what they actually are in real life. It is Tuesday Newsday very quickly.
Starting point is 00:28:38 I've got to talk about a few things. This is pretty cool. You can keep Mario there if you want. Danny, you want to throw up the picture of the restaurant there, the tree? Check this out, dude. Look at that. That's a restaurant? Yeah, so one of the most magical restaurants in upstate New York just opened for its short sensational season.
Starting point is 00:28:58 The blueberry treehouse farm is a... a storybook cafe nestled among trees on a blueberry farm in western New York. It reopened on January 6th, but it only runs from early June to the end of October if you want to get in. But every meal feels magical, they say. In fact, it's 15 minutes from East Aurora and about just under 30 from downtown Buffalo. But it's awesome, man. There's a ton of pictures on social media. It's got tables that are sheltered by metal, mushroom-like umbrellas.
Starting point is 00:29:30 to a spiral staircase. Any indication of the menu? Like what they might? I'm looking. I couldn't find. Oh, here you go. The blueberry treehouse farm serves small bites like charcutory and smores boards, along with pinninis and artisan pizzas named after trees.
Starting point is 00:29:47 Its cafe also offers drinks ranging from blueberry lemonade to blueberry moscato. It's casual and whimsical atmosphere. Dogs on leashes are allowed. No reservations needed. Diner's place orders at the bar before. leading themselves and live music floats from the cafe deck every Friday and Saturday. So if you want to check it out on Instagram, TikTok, all that blueberry treehouse farm. I just thought it was cool.
Starting point is 00:30:11 Blueberry moscato. I bet that's pretty tasty. I love those places that, you know, talk about the small bites. You got a mouth like mine, everything is a small bite. That's, yeah, the other guy just said that. Left me hanging on there. What we got coming up tomorrow? What do we got?
Starting point is 00:30:27 We got guests. We do have guests. I don't remember. More stories. I think we have Dan Smalls on tomorrow. Is that right, Danny? No. Who?
Starting point is 00:30:38 Oh, Marie Adernado. Yeah. And Dan Smalls later that day. So we have two guests tomorrow. Dan Smalls, promoter for Dan Smalls Presents.com, one of the biggest concert promoters in New York State. And Marie Adernado, one of our clients. Yeah.
Starting point is 00:30:54 Because Marie said so podcast. So it should be fun. Anything else? I don't think so. I'm going to go and do some lines with our ceramic friend here. Bump it up, brother. Mike Brindisi, Matt Mazer for Good News, York on this Tuesday Newsday. Sponsored by Ads on the Go, get ads on the go.com.
Starting point is 00:31:16 We will see you tomorrow. Peace out.

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