Good News York by Growth Mode Content - GNY EP.62 | 4th of July Recap!

Episode Date: July 7, 2025

Post-4th of July Reflections, Vacation Debates, and The Intrigue of Destiny Mall In this episode, Matt Masur and Mike Brindisi discuss their 4th of July weekend activities, emphasizing different vacation preferences and activities. They debate the merits of a busy vacation versus a relaxing one, and share thoughts on upcoming vacations with family and friends. The hosts also delve into recent happenings in sports, including the accomplishments of Syracuse-born golfer Kevin Roy and a brief overview of notable tennis players. Additionally, they share humorous musings about Ozzy Osbourne's farewell tour and touch upon craft beer's potency compared to the past. The episode wraps up with a discussion about the anticipation surrounding Destiny Mall's upcoming announcement, speculating on potential new developments. 00:00 Introduction and Post-4th of July Reflections 00:53 Vacation Preferences and Experiences 05:45 Golf and Local Talent Shoutout 10:27 Tennis Talk and Famous Players 14:40 Ozzy Osbourne's Farewell and Rock Legends 23:19 The Therapy of Performance 24:10 Ozzy Osbourne: Myth vs. Reality 25:43 The Osbournes' Reality Show Impact 28:22 Political Commentary and Social Media 33:49 Destiny Mall's Big Announcement 44:05 Content Creation and Future Plans

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Welcome. Not lying. Happy after Fourth of July. It's all downhill for me. Yes, happy July 7. We survived. We got all our digits. Yeah, dude.

I didn't blow anything off. Nice. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Nice. What'd you do? I'm Matt Masure, by the way. Oh, and I'm Mike Brindisi. There he is.

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That's fine. Yeah. Yeah. No, I did a lot of stuff. I run the house with the family. Beautiful. The boy had to go back to Florida on Saturday morning, like super early, so I didn't kick it up late on the fourth.

I had a friend's birthday party. Shot off some fun fireworks. No neighbor's houses erupted in flames. It was a good time had by all. You know, I was having this conversation this past weekend. So we went to Middle Pennsylvania, which that's a place you. want to go for fourth. Is that like an Amish Dutch country? Oh, baby. It's everything. It's that.

It is Kid Rock, Mudslides, and Toby Keith. You know what I mean? Yeah. Yeah, yeah. No, it's great. It was actually beautiful. It was in Fleetwood, Pennsylvania. It's like between Reading and Allentown. We have some family friends that my wife and kids and I stayed. They don't have kids.

They're dinks. Double income, no kids. So they got a huge pool, jacuzzi. And we went to the fireworks place and lit some stuff off. But my favorite part about was that we really did nothing other than swim, light off our, and that's when we got in the debate. I'm a fan of, you know, some people go on vacation and then you come home and you feel like you need a vacation from the vacation.

100%. Because it was chocked full of events, which is, I don't discriminate. That's fine. But then there's those vacations where maybe you take a nap at one in the afternoon or maybe you just wake up and you go, I don't know what we're going to do. We'll figure it out. That's more my speed. I'm not saying I want to be a hermit and sleep all the time on vacation,

but I'm also not saying I want to line up and say at 1 o'clock, we're going on a fishing excursion. You know, I like to meet in the middle. I'm with you. I lean towards just, I want to, my days are not like, I want a day off from work. It's I want a day off from work with nothing to do. That's fair. You know what I mean?

That's fair. Yeah. That's the worst part is like you take a day off from work and then you just work even harder. Yes. And stuff. But you've got to do, right? Yeah, yeah. but yeah, no, I'm with you.

We're going on a family vacation soon with a couple other families in a couple of weeks. And I'm, I don't know, I don't know exactly how I feel about it just yet. We'll see. It's going to be kind of like that. So we're going down. We rented a house on a beach and the whole thing. But I'm not personally the lay on the beach guy as much as I like it, casual. And also like something to do.

Right. And I enjoy the beach. I love nature more than anything. But, you know, that attention span is like 45 minutes. So what do we do with the next seven days? Exactly. And the only problem with... See, my problem with the beach, I guess I'm more lake guy than an ocean.

It's because you come home and for the next two weeks, you know, you're putting your shoes on for work and they've got sanded in them. And you didn't even bring those shoes on the trip. That's true. You know what I mean? Like, that's my only downfall of the beach. But I love it. I mean...

They should really be tidier. Yeah, they really should clean up. What a letter. Now, here's the real question. Do you know everybody that you're going on vacation with? Oh, yeah. Okay, see, that's key. Because it gets murky when you start going on like friends of friends.

It's like when you would go on a wine tour, you know, I live in Ithaca now, so I'm used to go on wine tours for the day and friends of friends would come. And then you're, the next thing you know, you're on a bus full of drunk people. and you walk into a winery and unfortunately you're associated with the guy who just like walked in and yelled, you know, suck my wiener or something inappropriate. I don't know why I went with suck my wiener, but... Is this like a story people used to tell about you?

Maybe. I feel like maybe you're the guy. Names have been changed to protect the innocent. No, but you know what I mean? Like, you get stuck on these excursions where like you could be on vacation with a family who brought some, you know, their neighbors with them or are their friends.

And next thing you know, they're dictating how you're... They're dictating how your vacation's going to go and you're going to go, oh, I can't say no, we just... We've been on trips in the past that friends have planned. Not strangers, but friends. Yeah. And we don't do that anymore.

Yeah. It's almost like... Yeah, it's almost like when you move in with somebody and you're like, this is going to be great. One of those deals where you spend the whole trip, like, why the fuck did we do this? Yeah. Like, why are we staying here and, you know, Oh, well, you know.

Well, we wanted to be nice because they... They thought it'd be easy because they planned. Richard has a problem with his hip, so he wanted to be closer to the beach. And you're like, yeah, well, that doesn't work for me. But anyway. Fucking Richard. I digress. Hey, you know what's pretty cool?

Me? No. Well, yes. Yesterday I was watching golf, because I'm an old man. Four! And it was the John Deere classic, which is perfect for Fourth of July weekend, America, John Deere. and right near the end of the tournament there was a three-way tie

and one of the golfers was Kevin Roy who is right from here he lives in Florida now but he's right from Syracuse New York That's incredible It is incredible And then I got to thinking I don't know how many golfers are from this area

That are on the PGA but not many If any at all And he's legit So I just wanted to do a quick shout out to Kevin Roy I actually wrote his agent And I tweeted at him I was like I'd love to get you on the show this week To talk about it so we'll see

but no promises. But yeah, it was pretty cool. A little representation. They were talking about Syracuse on the air. I love that. Yeah. They gave it a little love? Give it a little love.

Nothing crazy. Nice. But, you know, when it would go to him, they do that thing where they're like, and Kevin Roy, I was going for the birdie putt here, native of Syracuse, New York. Known for it's, and, oh, and he just pushed that one. You know, so it was just like a little bit of rub. Nice. Yeah.

So he's a. Sorry, is it a tournament or he won something or what? Well, he ended up losing. I mean, he, you know, so it's in golf. In golf every week, there's a tournament from Thursday to Sunday. And, you know, look, the leaderboard changes quite a bit. We're not taught. And again, I don't know anything about fucking golf.

No, that's what makes it fun. I like that you don't know. I forget my stupid questions. But this is not like the football season where this game builds to the next. No, no, no. So it's basically every week. weekend from, it starts on Thursday. There's like a mini championship every weekend sort of deal?

Yeah, they have a tournament. So it's from Thursday to Sunday. And whoever is at the top of the leaderboard at Sunday wins that tournament. Do they ever take the winner from every tournament in like a bigger tournament? Great question. So there are four majors, right? So there are all these tournaments and there are four majors throughout the year. I think I got that right.

There's the Masters, which is the biggest one. Okay. And they have the U.S. open and they have the PGA championship and then they have I'm blanking out on the fourth. Why am I someone's going to write in? I'm trying to remember the fourth. So these are like individual Super Bowls? Yeah, yeah, sure.

Each tournament. Multiple big events. Yeah, so each tournament has its own trophy and you win a certain amount of money. But then the big ones throughout the year there are four majors that, every PGA golfer wants to win the Masters being the biggest. And kind of what you're talking about is in play. And again, I'm not going to get this completely right

because I'm talking off the cuff. But in order to be a part of the Masters, there's like a bunch of qualifications. And they've done so well in other things. You have to be at a certain spot in the standing. You had to have at least won a PGA tournament. You're running standing. So there's like a run through the season.

Yes, there is. Yes, there is. But in order to play the Masters, to qualify for that major. Each major has qualifications. You had to, if you win that major ever, you have a lifetime bid. Okay.

If you won a tournament, I think, that year or, you know, you're in. If you've won, if you've been in the standings in the last five years in the top ten, like there's all those kind of things. So the idea is, yeah, you want to win every tournament you play in. Some tournaments are bigger than others because it offers more money. Makes sense. And then there's the majors, which it's, those are like the Super Bowl. There's like four Super Bowls throughout the season that every golfer wants to.

And when you win these competitions, do you actually get the big check, like in Happy Gilmore? Well, I think maybe back in the day they did it that way, but that's kind of outdated. But there's always like a hot blonde wife waiting with their child on the green, and you can always just see in her eyes. She's like, I'm going shopping. Yeah, yeah. And then she kisses them and they make out. And then all the guys are like, oh, my God, I wish I was that guy.

I would like 50% of that in a year. Yeah. Yeah. So it was cool. Kevin Roy from Syracuse was in the running. He ended up finishing, I don't know, somewhere in the top five or ten. You probably get some money for that, though, right? Oh, hell yeah.

Yeah, no, it pays out. Again, I don't know the exact number, but it pays out the tops, you know, we'll say 10, maybe even 50. Who the hell knows? Nice. But, yeah. But it's crazy, too, because one put could be worth, like, depending on the purse, the total that the tournament's worth. you could miss a $10,000 puck because it's a matter of sixth place or 13th.

You know what I mean? So it's a lot of pressure. Also, Wimbledon's going on. That's tennis? No, tennis. Yeah, I have a problem. I appreciate you specifying. Yeah, no, no problem.

The thing what Wimbledon is, well, any tennis. They banned grunting for a while. I think it's back. I think it's back. I went to tennis camp as a kid, you know. What? Yeah.

That is the last camp I would choose Like if you were like, guess what kind of camp I went to? There was, uh, one of our coaches was a local, uh, Hercimer person who made it in the like U.S. Open or whatever the fuck that is in, in, uh, there is a U.S. Open. I think of tennis. Like a top notch.

Um, okay. I wonder who that was. I don't. I was, what, 12 or something. Huh. Yeah. Was this like a week thing? A week long?

You know, one day? Those summer things that you go to for a week or two when you're, when you're a kid, your parents sign up for your, as much shit as possible to get rid of you. Right. Yeah. So they can. I like tennis.

I like tennis. Yeah, no, it's great. The one game I know the rules of from tennis camp. Really? Yeah. Because that can get confusing. I mean, not really. Right, but for someone who doesn't follow sports,

like you actually understand the scoring of probably one of the harder sports to understand. Yeah, I mean, to be fair, their scoring is just dumb. It's really frustrating. Like you really just get one, two, three, four, however many points. Yeah. But they call it goofy things. You're listening to a podcast right now. Driving, working out, walking the dog.

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Yeah, that's... I think love wins all, so it should be infinity. Technically, love all is. Everybody's a zero, but... Right. Yeah, tennis is fun. My wife and I tried to play it when we first met, and I just kept belting the ball over the fucking roof.

I mean, I feel like all the famous tennis athletes that I've ever heard of. Again, I don't follow the sport today, so forgive me the hate... comments. Are there any big name celebrities in this part? I don't remember back in the day you had like John McEnroe Right? Sure. And he was famous for being a dickhead. Yes, still is. That was his whole schick.

Yeah. And then you had the Venus and Serena, like superstar sisters. Do they still play? They do not. Serena I believe, I feel like they were. Serena retired. Venus. I don't know if Venus is still playing. I don't follow enough. Gotcha. But are there any

Are there any like, should be household names that I don't know of today? So it's funny you say that because they were actually, they've been talking about that a lot in sports media. Whereas what we didn't realize or people that watch tennis in our era was that we were basically watching for Michael Jordans with Nadal Federer. What was the other guys? Nadal, Federer, Djokovic, and I'm missing one. and those were the four of those those those four guys I listed three were all constantly winning they were but we just you know I just thought yeah those are four good tennis players I didn't realize that like now that they're all retired there's really there's this Alcarez guy or Alvarez no I think it's Alcarez who is young and he's the new star I see but other than him you have a few you know in the women's there's Cocoa Gough and and actually Terry Pagula's daughter Kim and Terry and Kim Pagula, who own the bills and the sabers, their daughter. She was just in Wimbledon got eliminated.

She's a big name. Oh, wow. But no. So that was a long way to say. Interesting. There's only really one household name at this point unless you really, really follow tennis. And it's strange because we didn't realize that we were just liable. I took for granted that we had for Michael Jordan's play.

And, you know, who knows? But it sounds like one of those sports, they'd be in a real good position for like a good rebound. You know, they get their own like Caitlin Clark or something. Sure. Superstar and suddenly the world is all over that again. Right. I mean, because back in our day growing up, it was Sampras and Agassi. Okay.

Yep. And then I can't believe I'm missing the fourth because this is really off the top of my head. We're obviously not scripted. Nadal, Federer, Djokovic, and there's one more. That's a big name. And I'm blanking out. But yeah. So that's what's going on in tennis.

Wow. Good for them. Osborne did a farewell show. Yes. Farewell show in England. Sean! With all of the original members of Black Sabbath. Didn't they get divorced? I think they did and then they got back together. I don't think they were split.

I know she still manages them. Yeah. No, I think they split for a while, like in the last 10 years. And then within the last five or so got back together, I think. I don't think they were ever officially divorced. But... It hasn't been speaking English for like 40 years. Isn't it crazy? that he can't put a sentence together,

but he gets on the mic. Oh, yeah. And he sounds, I don't even mean he sounds good live. I mean, he sounds like he does on all his record. It is mind-blowing. And that happens all the time.

Like, I had a friend who stuttered, I think actually, a high school friend of mine. And he never stuttered when he sang. Yeah. And also, how many times did you hear

like a person sing? And then they get on the microphone and they're like, hello, everybody. And you're like, you're British? Like, you don't even hear the British accent. So singing is amazing to me

Because it's like you You can hide your accent You can not be able to carry a conversation Past three words But you get on that mic man So what is the Prince of Darkness up to right now Well he's got a lot of what they call Parkinson's Oh shit

Yeah Which dude How old is he? I don't know I should know this Danny holds Ozzy He's got to be 80 something Danny's pissed I ask It's almost little enough to be president

Exactly. He, listen, 76. He's actually young to be pregnant. Here's what makes no sense to me. The fact that he, like, I hear people going, oh, it's so sad he's got Parkinson's. I'm like, that's not sad. That's a fucking miracle.

He should have 15 diseases with all the drugs that man has done. That's the only thing that he's got. Literally. I mean, him and Keith Richards are the reason, there's at least dozens of drug addicts out there that at one point in there, they were like, I should probably put this down, but Keith Richards is fine.

Ozzie's fine. You know, they just, they're defying the odds. The fact that he only has Parkinson's, and I'm not making light of Parkinson's by any means, but I am making light of the fact that Ozzy Osbourne sniffed every drug possible and only has Parkinson's. I'm no doctor.

You're not? But it seems to me that if you do all of the drugs, it somehow canceled. You can still beat them. You know? You see that episode of The Simpsons where Mr. Burns go to the doctor? and the doctor does this illustration

of every disease in the world is trying to kill him, but they're all jammed in the doorway they can't get in because there's so many of them. That's what happens with the 80s and 70s rock and roll drug addicts. Yeah. And I think he was obviously clean

for a very long time. I actually think... Or should I say this? Or did the drugs just suck back then? Well... I mean, everybody talks about how pot is more potent these days from the 70s.

Dude, you... You could, and I still don't know if that's necessarily true or just people love to say that shit, but, you know, are the other drugs? No. You could, in the 90s. Was heroin weak in the 70s? I don't know. The pot now is crazy. You could, back in the 90s, you could smoke a joint without feeling like you were in hospice care.

You know what I mean? Like, now it's like, and it's just, but if you think about it's the same way with craft beer, you know, we grew up with Coors Light, Labat, Budweiser, Bud Light. Right? Maybe you got magic hat. Whoa. crazy craft beer. Now these beers are like 400%. You take one sip and you're hammered. You know what I mean? It's the same

thing. So that's part of it, I would think. Bro, I don't even want to tell you about this one made from Ithaca beer that I've had a few of at some local estate. Shout out. Ithaca beer company. You want to talk about a cost-effective beer. I'm going to assume

you're hammered out of your mind after one of them. Was it flower power? Like yes. Yes? Yes. Yeah. That's their flagship, man. Yeah, that'll fuck you up. There was a, so I worked at the Ithaca alehouse as a bartender server for, for years. Shout out, Ithaca alehouse. And this was when craft beer and those kind of bars were kind of becoming a thing, right?

And so every year the alehouse would host these firemen would come up from Westchester County, New York City, Long Island for this fireman's conference in Ithaca. Okay. And they would rent out the, the alehouse would close to the public. Yeah. Right around 4 o'clock and they would have it from 5 to 9 or whatever it was. Sure. And one of the firemen ended up ironically being taken out on a stretcher because he was drinking craft beer like it was Bud Light and ended up passing out and shitting his pants.

I mean. And that is just a extreme example of how much more powerful beer is. Alcohol. You look at it and it says, you know, it's like 11% or something. And you're like, oh, well, the regular, you know, shit beer is like four or five percent. So it's like double. No big deal. So it's like two in one.

No big deal. I drink two beers. Yeah. It's like drinking 10 beers. Yeah. It is. In the time it takes you to drink one. It's nuts.

It's wild. Like I said, though, if that's your intention to go out and get a heavy buzz on, super cost effective. I remember in my 20s, we used to have after hours after the bar. made this thing called beer nannas, where we would take a normal beer, and then put a shot of 99 bananas in them. Because it was god-offal. It was the dumbest thing.

Was there literally nothing else you could have poured in there? You know what? I think at the time it wasn't. Had no one taught you kids how to do shots? I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I think it's the reason why I couldn't think of the fourth major in golf and the fourth, the fourth tennis player.

I lost too many brain cells with beer nannas. But yeah, dude, it's crazy. crazy, the craft beer and the weed now, it's all way, way more powerful. You got to be careful with that stuff. It's a more bang for your buck. Well, yeah. And I mean, you know, with how expensive everything is, it better be packed with goodness. So to bring this full circle, what's this have to do with Ozzy again?

I forget. Oh, he was doing a fair, he was doing a fair. He did his farewell. That's it. He's done. He hung it up. Done other farewells? Well, you know, it's kind of like the way kids.

Probably more probable. Yeah. I mean, dude, he's, like Danny just said, he's 76. He's got Parkinson's. He's been battling it for a while. And he's, Jesus Christ, dude's been doing it for 50-something years. So with that in mind, I have this question. Uh-oh.

Is there any reason other than a money grab facilitated by the people who are going to stick around longer to do this? You're 76 years old. You're on death's door. You've been a superstar your whole life. conceivably, and then we could be wrong, but you conceivably have a good chunk of change in the bank. Yeah. Why the fuck would you do this? What, a farewell show?

Anything. This is my problem with boomers in general. Hmm. They don't know when to fucking quit. Well, though he is knowing when to quit because he's doing a farewell show. Yeah, he said farewelling fucking 20 years ago. Well. Like, that's what I'm saying, like, what is wrong with these people?

Why can these people not just fucking retire? Well, I have an answer to that, but it's not going to be that funny. You're not wrong because there's... Again, maybe there's financial shit that I don't know about and they literally need to make some money. That's kind of the thing. So about 15 years ago, 15 plus years ago,

you would see a lot of older artists not doing a farewell show and they would just, you kind of figure out like, wow, they haven't put an out amount in eight years. I think they're done. Because they could collect what's called, mailbox money. All the residuals and royalties from their albums being sold. Well, people

stopped buying albums. So that mailbox money for a lot of artists that were living off of maybe one hit wonder, two hit wonders started drying up. It was not a source of income anymore. So that's why all of a sudden you saw guys like Art Garfunkel and trying to think of, they're coming out

of tort because that's how they make their money now. I can see that. And again, maybe I'm wrong, but I feel like that's not Ozzy. No, Ozzy could have retired 20 years. Is a brand almost like KISS. Correct.

Not even the music, but the merch and the all. And then he did the fucking TV shows back in the day. And like, I don't know. And again, like I said,

as somebody judge people how they manage it. I've spent my life performing. And from a performance standpoint, though, sometimes it sounds cheesy, but sometimes you do it

just because that's your therapy. That's what you love. That's when you feel at home is when you're... 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.

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and sends like, yeah. I don't know, man. This feels like, oh, I would have felt like Joe Biden 2.0. Well, it feels like, it,

yeah, elder abuse. Well, I mean, maybe that's why you know what I'm saying. We can't, we can't do this anymore,

man. That's, but what a fucking legend. Yeah. What a fucking legend. I mean, I mean, I mean,

there are, we use the word icon and legend too, freely, but like... Is he gonna... No, he's not gonna bite. I knew you were gonna ask that now. That's a myth, by the way.

So... It's not a myth. Well, it's not a myth. He didn't bite their fucking heads off. He didn't... No, he did. The bat that he did bite was...

He didn't know it was alive, which, how do you not know? The thing's got to be wriggling around in your hand, but he did not know it was live. He thought it was a fake bat. I see. And I could have to score, I have to look this up, but I'm pretty sure he's on record

saying, like, behind the music or one of those shows back in the day, that he actually did it in a meeting with the record labels. Like, he was in the room, and something happened, and he did it in there as a joke, and it was a real... But then there was an incident on stage as well.

I don't know. I got to do my Ozzy research, but... So I'm saying, like... Still fucked up. If you're going to do a farewell tour, you've got to incorporate that something. Oh, I see what you're saying. Like, he's got to... It's your goodbye. He's got to do some sort of, yeah. That's a great... I mean, now with Pita, though, that would...

Or maybe he's a thousand years. And maybe his thing is the end is he fucking lets a dove go. No. Prince of Darkness is... That's not bad. Free. I got a better one. You know?

A guy comes out dressed like Batman and he bites his head off. He bites the head off of Batman. I mean, I pay for that. Could he? Excessive. It is a little excessive. I mean, I guess human decapitation wouldn't be a crowd pleaser. Could be the next Batman movie where Ozzy is the final.

demon or you know he's the next bad guy dude totally parkinson's the fucking prince of darkness oh no show man did you watch that reality show i'm a not ashamed to admit i did that's one of the few reality shows i watched i i just thought it was fantastic well it was mind blowing because you got to watch this really weird family and all surrounded by this old dude who acted like he didn't know where he was most of the time. Well, because he didn't know where he was. Also, remember him fucking with the remotes? Yes.

But you know what the thing is, man? That was honestly, to segue, again, that was what social media is now. You're seeing people living in their everyday lives. That was weird. Like, for people that didn't grow up with reality TV when everything was scripted, that was odd to see Ozzie just operating a remote because you either saw him on stage or in a studio. The other thing is I feel like that's the thing that gave Sharon. I don't want to say her career because she did a ton for Ozzie through all the years.

But as her own, you know. Her own brand. It was kind of her breakout where she then is now doing talk shows. I would say you are 100% right except for me, from my perspective. Sort of that for the kids, but they burned out. Yeah. The, there was a famous Howard Stern interview, you probably remember, with Sharon an insane clown posse. where they like totally ragged on her in Ozzy

and she started swearing at them and you know which in the 90s was a she's like you mother cares they got in a huge argument yeah they got in a huge argument it was it was one of the bigger moments in Stern history and I think that put her on the map at least in my world I was like

yo that's Ozzy's wife she's his manager she just told swaggy pee or whatever his name is to fuck off all right I like this lady and then you're right and then came the the Ozzy show or the Osbournes. And then she ended up to do. Remember America's got talent. That's what I'm saying. She skyrocketed.

Amazing. The kids, on the other hand, I feel like Yeah. There was Jack, right? Jack. They're all right now. They're all right now. I think he's sick. No, he's got a pretty bad disease. Really? Yeah, yeah. He's pretty sick. I don't know if it's MS or... What was Kelly? Kelly? That's right. There was another daughter that refused to be on the show.

Really? Who was estranged from the family, I think. If she wasn't estranged, then she just didn't want to be on the show. I mean, that's fair. But Kelly was obviously on the show. She's like Tiffany Trump. She knows it. Yes.

Stay in the shadows. Yes. I like that you've made three political references in this. Slip them in. I like it. Do you think it'll piss people off? I'm sure it will. That's hilarious.

Do you know why it pisses people off when you mention it? anything political? We talked about this. Yeah. Yes, go ahead. Because what I'm finding with you is when you post things political, you do it in a way that's genuine, first of all, but it's never F this and yay that.

You're always very just like matter of fact and very like, here's from a human perspective. And what I found is that the mail that we get turns into a coded way of saying, we'll just pick aside because I can't figure out if I don't like you or if I like you because I want you to like what I like. Yeah, it's funny. It's the weirdest hate I've ever gotten. And like I try to go out of my way to not even get into that stuff anymore for these reasons.

But you're so smart with it though. But that's the problem. That's the thing. If I make a comment, it's about something. I'm not like a team player. Like I have massive issues with all of the above. This is the most politics we've ever done on the show. Well, we're not doing.

But I, we're talking about talking about something. call something out or whatever and people don't. They don't like it. Debate the thing or anything like that. They come at me and are upset because exactly what you said, they don't know what the fuck. Am I with them or against them? And they don't come out and say that.

Like, hey, what are you? But they, but they dance around it and I read it as they just want to know what party you're affiliated with because they need, because in society, if you've studied history or not even history, stratification is what we as humans do. When we're talking to somebody, we're immediately going, hmm, what race are they? What religion are they? Hmm, I wonder if they're poor.

You know what I mean? Like in your head, whether you know it or not, we have to fit things and people into categories. So when you post what you post, nine times out of ten, you don't really know what you're agreeing with or you might say, I'm disagreeing with this. But you never say what party or anything like that. And I think it drives people nuts because we're in such a world. now where with politics it's my team versus your team instead of it's party over people

it was so weird because when this guy so just a quick little backstory I posted something making the light of something it was not a very serious post whatsoever I get a DM from somebody I've never got a DM from before and it's a fucking novel

it was I mean it's pages and pages and it's like one of those I'm just reading it was like war in peace nonsense things So this guy's going on and on about my post. Okay. I thought his issue was that I was insulting someone that he supported. Right. And I pointed out, well, listen, you know, I've made almost no political posts in a long time.

But the ones I have, you'll see there's one poking fun on one side and the other one pokes fun at the other side. And I'm not into this team sports thing. And by the way. And I'm just talking about different things that happen. and I speak up about people. And to your credit, you're not purposely going while I posted one about this side,

so I should balance it out. I'm not trying to make it even. You're just hosting. That just happens to be the way of hell. Right. And this guy, and that was part of his thing is I've seen you make a couple of posts recently.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And again, I thought at first he was just mad because I said something about somebody he likes. Sure. Come to find out is exactly what you said. And I interacted with him and I was trying to understand that, you know, I'm not trying to insult anybody. I'm not against you.

I don't, you know, you know, I don't care if you subscribe to whatever. I have no problem with you that way. And typically folks find understanding that, at least traditionally folks found out, oh, okay, yeah, I get it. You're not against my guys, whatever. This guy, no, you got to pick a side.

No, I don't. And that boiled down to his whole gripe was that I don't play the team sport. Just prove my point. You know? And it was like, wait a minute, what? It's unbelievable You know

Look you know how much I love the Buffalo Bills If Josh Allen came out on the field Screaming profanities Pulling his pants down Throwing D batteries at kids' heads I'm just thinking of horrible things What about C's? C's too

I would be like man I love Josh Allen But I don't know if I can support him anymore And we live in a time now Where people do really bad things And people still are like But, or maybe Josh What happened to this?

Why are we on a team? Let's just call out. Let's be human. Maybe Josh Allen says, you know, anchor bar is the best wings of Buffalo. And you're like. Which they're not. What a fucking idiot. Right.

I now hate the bills. Yeah. Screw the bills because he said the anchor bar. Like what that doesn't have to do with the bills. That's the team mentality that these folks apparently want me to engage. And the funny part about that is, I've played that game before too. Yeah. And nobody's even happier at that. So people supposedly on your own side will spend all their time telling you why you're not on the same side.

And then people on the other side will spend their whole time telling you're an idiot. And nothing gets done. It's a great time to live in America. It's great. Happy Fourth of July weekend. Merica. Merica. Listen Before we came on the air

Actually breaking news The drummer Matt Cameron from Pearl Jam is retiring Just want to throw that out there That literally happened a few minutes before I came on Did you just get a fucking news I have a chip Yeah I have an Eddie Vedder chip It's like we got a producer in his ear

Hold on What Yep I'm just receiving this news I seem to recognize Yeah he's retiring Oh my ball You know, the first time I saw the Evenflow music video where he...

You thought it was every other Pearl Jam song? Well, no, yes. But when he climbed up the balcony and stage dove, because we were coming out of the hair bands, like, overnight, I was like, I want to do that. Like, that was the first time I was like, I want to be that, you know? Anyway, breaking news, destiny... We don't know what it is, but Destiny Mall...

They're teasing a big announcement. They're teasing a big announcement. and they've gone so far as to not only say we're going to make a big announcement, but Danny had pointed out they like changed the logo on their social media about the announcement. So we're starting to think maybe it's a big one. So now we're sitting here going before we went on like, what do we think it could be?

Well, it's got to be new ownership, right? No. No, it doesn't. That's my guess. But it is definitely something positive. There's a lot of people. There's a lot of speculation online or people are like going to announce. are closing, you know.

I don't think you'd lead up to that. Right, right. You don't build fanfare. Yeah. Get ready. Get ready. Their social media. We're closing.

You know, are very excited and we got this great, you know, it's clearly something that at least in their mind believes is a positive massive impact. Drum roll, please. Here's our big announcement. So. We burn down. Yeah. It's a second half.

That's a good point. It's either a new national. retailer coming there. Or absolutely nothing is changing except a rebrand, which they think will fix all the problems in the world. Because that's a trendy corporate America thing to do today. Those are my two guesses. What a scary world to be in, though.

With online shopping and selling, which we talked about last week, imagine having the fourth largest mall in America and not a lot of people go out and shop anymore. However, you made a good point. Every time you're there... I think that's false. You're probably right. Don't get me wrong.

Malls around the country are dying, especially even locally. The smaller ones are all gone, right? But Destiny, as much as people will talk crap about it, you could go there. It's the middle of an afternoon on a Monday. If we were to go there right now, there would be a crowd in the mall. You're right. On a weekday. weekends you still have a rough time getting parking and they quadrupled the parking in the last

number of years. You know, like it's the idea that nobody goes at least to Destiny Mall is demonstrably false, massive crowds to the point of like it's almost too busy those days on weekends and things like that. So that whole, like again, nationally sure, and as a concept in malls, you're absolutely right. But Destiny, they got the business. And then you think about like, all right, well, is it the rentals? And there's some vacancies there.

But there's been stories of some of these folks that didn't pay Jimmy Buffett's place, wasn't paying the rent for a while, that type of shit. You know, that'll happen. But if you walk around that mall, you realize that, like, the vast majority of spaces are full. It's not a ghost town by any means. No. So all these people that are ready to just, like, close the casket on the mall are idiots. Yeah.

Like it's not, what they're saying is not representative of what you could see with your own eyes if you went there. But, you know, I'm interested to see what they'll do. A lot of what they've been doing, and maybe this is where they'll go, is they've been adding a lot of entertainment venues. Like the funny bone? Yeah, versus, you know, traditional stores, right? So, like for my kids, we did one of my daughter's birthdays there at, what was it, Billy Bees.

Yes, been there a bunch of my kids. They love it. Not that one. I'm sorry. That was a different birthday. What's the upside down building? Wonderworks? Yes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Wonderworks. A huge thing with stuff for them to do and then they had a laser tag room. But they've got that. The comedy club, they've got all these different. You made a good point without trying to, or maybe you were. Things to do rather than shopping. But, you know, if retail is struggling, how do you get people out, live events?

Yeah. So if we bring live events to the mall. 100%. Right. So maybe it's more venues. And maybe this is one of their announcements. They used to do some like summer things too, where they had a pass where for summer vacation your kids could go to do all those different events for like one price.

So there's stuff like that that I think if the right folks in charge of the places keep up those sorts of things. You know, it'll be a good place for a long time to come. But they got a lot of problems too. Right in producer at growth mode tech.com. Is that the right email? I don't even know. Or comment below.

What do you think the announcement will be for the destiny? We'll reveal it tomorrow when they... Is it going to be... Oh, it's tomorrow? I think they said it's tomorrow, yeah. Oh, you better hurry up, comment. Well, either way, we wish them well because, dear, God, that would be... Before we go...

Yes. Give me the number one thing you would like to see. And it should be realistic, but you can go crazy with it. Oh, God. Number one thing I would like to see what? In Destiny. If we were to add something, whether it was a store, whether it's an amenity, anything. I'll tell you.

Half paintball, half laser tag place. I have this thing where every time I see an abandoned building, I think that would be so sick for laser tag or for, what do you call it, paintball. And you make it call a duty themed. Yo, when we were kids, a few different places that we went to to play laser tag. Like we traveled. We lived in Herkimer County. Yeah, yeah. Drive to Syracuse.

There was a great place here that did it. And then there was a place in Rochester that was absolutely incredible. Paintball or laser tag? They need to bring that back. We played that at the mall for my daughter's birthday. That is fun. That is, uh... I went to a paint.

Maybe you'll remember. Like a video game where you actually get physical activity. I went to an outdoor paintball place somewhere near Utica when we were growing up with a buddy of mine. And it was all outdoor. They had like three or four courses and one was like in a jungle. Well, not a real jungle, but it made it like in a forest. And it was, it was amazing. Yeah.

And it hurt and I cried, but I hit it. It's the thing about laser tag. You don't actually get hit with anything. No. But where was that place? Do you know? I know what you're talking about, but I don't know. For some reason, is Sherburne a place?

Yeah, somewhere out there. Something. Vernon. Yeah, yeah. Whiteboro and Hillbilly. But do you know what I hated about that? There would always be those dudes that showed up with their only. guns and their own masks.

Way too soon. Like, hey, am I allowed to use this paintball grenade? Or this land mine? You're like, dude, I'm here with my fucking kid. Like, right? I'm just looking for an anti-fog mask which never, they always fogged up on me. I never found a true anti-fog mask. But, yeah, I hated

those guys. Oh, I brought my KS. 47. Yeah, I just hold the trigger. It shoots like 800 paintballs a minute. Fuck you, dude. I've got like... Want to be military guys who... Got a painting. eye black. Could have never made it in the military.

Yeah. But they always won. And I always ran. They have $1,000 guns when you had the provided $50 one that they gave you. They always jammed. Right? I remember there was one game I boycotted. We were there with a group of people.

And they were like, all right. So you would do the game. Then you would fill into the waiting room. And they'd say, all right, the next game is this. And the next game was called, I don't know, traitor or something. And it's where you guys would go out in this place. but one person on the team was a traitor and at any moment could turn and kill you.

Not for real, but like shoot you with him. And I hated it because I was just walking around flinching. Like anytime someone would be like, hey, why, go this way? I'd be like, because I just thought they were going to shoot me. I hated it. I will tell you, and then we can get out of here. My, I guess my, well, aside from a radio shack, which should just be a given.

I'd love a radio shack to open anywhere. I did look into it at that. Actually, I'll talk you about that off the air. We're buying a radio show? We might be able just to open our own radio check. It's a legit thing. Okay. But for Destiny, what I would love to see is what was at one point the original plan

to where there would be an amusement park integrated as part of Destiny. I'm not even a big roller coaster guy. I'm not a roller coaster guy. I don't like them. Is this your idea? No, this was originally in the plane. No, I mean, but you asked me like, what? Oh, yeah, yeah.

So this is my. I should have asked it back. Yeah. This is my. What if? Dream. addition to destiny announcement tomorrow. Amusement Park with rides and...

Hell yeah. I already got the carousel. Yes. I mean, they pretty much have everything else. It was supposed to be all... It was supposed to be very much... The biggest... The big pitch originally when they did these expansions

was going to be bigger than the Mall of Americas, which is the biggest mall in the world. That's in Minnesota. And, yes, that one has straight up apartments in it. You can actually live inside that one. Wow. And it has amusement parks. and all these other things.

But I'd love to see Destiny have that too. That'd be great. I might be in the minority on that. A lot of people around here would rather more outdoor spread out things, which I still don't understand. The concept of mall's great. Everything in one spot. It's great.

What a time to be alive. Apparently, that's not true. Things are changing. That's it. That is it. Tomorrow, Tuesday, Newsday. And we've got to actually starting next week, we're ramping up.

I think we've got a guest every day next week. I think we got Wednesday books this week. Oh, we do. Good. So, yeah, good times. It's going to be good times. And then on Thursday. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

You guys don't know this. This is really from our growth mode content clients, but we will be doing a good news, York. I don't know exactly what time it'll come out because we're going to be shooting a little weird. Usually comes out at five. We're going to be off location. Not going to be here in the studio.

We're going to be at the River Edge Mansion in Pennville, technically just outside of clay. And we're going to be shooting some, it's a historic bed and breakfast, classic old property, beautiful by the water. And we're going to be shooting a bunch of different content, including some Good News York stuff from that gorgeous bed and breakfast. This was Matt's, yeah, it was Matt's, was the mastermind behind this, just a way to get our clients.

You know, we obviously, in addition to Good News York, we produce podcasts for businesses and business owners. And we just, you decided that it would be a great. idea to rent that place out and give a new space to just shoot some content. I wanted to do this from the beginning. And actually, John from River Edge Mansion was one of our very first guests. No, he literally was our first guest. If you do some lore, you will go back to when we launched at the Winter Fair.

Yeah. And John, the owner of the place, came and told us all about his place then. And I've wanted to do this since then. And finally, we got our shit in line and got things organized. But it is my goal to do this sort of, I'm going to call it a content field trip. I like that. On a somewhat regular basis where we invite our clients out to a really cool place, not too far, where we can shoot some stuff that is some great organic content like we're doing in the studio,

but not in the studio. You know, as great as this facility is, every video we put out doesn't have to be completely identical. Well, and we have a new studio that's almost done as well. That's not even fun part. You know what we should do in the future? Let's set out, we should send out old school permission slips like we did. Like in school? Like it's send it to our client.

No, I know. Send it. I've just thought of that. Send it to our clients. How cocky was that? I was like, yeah, I know. I know it was a good idea down. In blood, though.

Cut yourself and write it. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, I think that would be hilarious. Gingerst don't bleed, bro. That's right. They don't bleed. And with that, we are Good News. You are sponsored by ads on the go.

Get ads on the go.com. And we'll see you. It would be funny if Danny cut us off like a half hour ago. I was just laughing at a sitting there. Yeah, he's like, who bleeds now, bitches? Like, this show was posted a while ago. It's already done. Every time we started a new subject, he groaned, he went, oh, Jesus crazy.

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