Good News York by Growth Mode Content - GNY EP.63 | Clover's Diner in Skaneateles, NY!

Episode Date: July 9, 2025

Road Trip to Skaneateles: Exploring Local Gems and Hidden Stories In this episode of Good News York, hosts Matt and Mike Brindisi take a leisurely drive to the picturesque Skaneateles Lake from their car. Sponsored by Get Ads On The Go, the episode is a blend of spontaneous conversations and planned news segments. The duo discusses local celebrities like Jim Boeheim and Jason Newsted and shares amusing anecdotes about the town’s Dickens-themed Christmas and unique parade experiences. They also highlight heartwarming news like Larry Pelkey's free bike giveaway and Girl Scouts' massive cookie donations. The episode culminates with a visit to Clover's Cafe, where they savor delicious wings and breakfast, concluding their trip with a stroll along the lake's pier. 00:00 Welcome to Good News York 01:12 Famous Residents of Skaneateles 02:00 Christmas in Skaneateles 02:28 Horse Parade Shenanigans 04:45 Safety Tips for Runners and Cyclists 05:43 Motorcycles and Bicycles: A Risky Business 09:46 Tuesday News Day: Larry the Bike Man 15:07 Tribute Bands and Nostalgia 17:51 The Simple Life of the Amish 19:56 Debating the Utility of Wicker Furniture 20:16 Girl Scouts' Generous Cookie Donations 23:11 Navigating Girl Scout Cookie Etiquette at Work 26:21 Exploring Skaneateles: A Charming Town 28:24 Dining at Clover's Cafe 37:13 Concluding the Road Trip

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From my car. Yeah. Because, you know, we get bored. I'm Matt. That's, uh... Mike. Brindisi, nice to see you. Yeah, we're going to do Good News York, brought to you by Get Ads on the Go.

Get Ads on the Go.com. We're on the go. In your vehicle. We are. If we were smart, we would drive to where... Our man, Zach, is driving the ads on the go truck around, but that's not what we're doing. We're going to take a ride to the beautiful Skinny Atlas Lake. Yeah, I'm excited.

And maybe grab a bite to eat down there and, you know, just enjoy what's great about New York. You even want it to look cloudy out today. Yeah. Did you know, I think I mentioned to you, did you know at home that some famous people that Living in Skinny Atlas, obviously Jim Beehive is well documented. Jason Neustadt, former Vist player of Battalica, my favorite band on the planet, he lives there. So there might be some like stalking going on. Who else, did you say lives in Skinny Atlas?

Oh, the dude from Mary's Most Wanted. There you go. John something. There's a bunch of other. There's ball players. Yeah, yeah. There was a rumor that. Reclusive scrat metal billionaires.

There's all. kinds of people like that out there. Oh, really? Well, it's a good town. It's a good town. It's beautiful. A lot of money. You got to have a lot of money to live there, I've heard.

Nah. I went there, um, I went there once with my wife's family. During Christmas, they turned the full town into, um, a Christmas carol. Yeah, it was like a Dickens, uh, whoa. I did not know where you were going with that. That's really pretty much Dickens very loudly and abruptly. Uh, yeah, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, it's a, Dickens the Christmas yeah yeah dick themed Christmas get your dickens Christmas get your dickens Christmas

yeah it's great they all dress up they they Christmas Carol there's like horse and buggies all everywhere which you ever seen a force crap yeah it's massive it's unbelievable yeah they have a bag that just catches it yeah I want one for myself I knew you were gonna say that you did it was been hanging out guaranteed yeah well I mean it'd come in any But, yeah, but before that, you see, you know, they don't always have that. Like, you see a parade, you see the animals walking by. And sometimes there's some poor slub who's got to walk behind them with a bucket and just shovel the shit. You're quite literally.

That is honestly what I saw in Skye Atlas. In public. That was, I've seen horses. It's like a modern day public shaming, I feel like. It kind of is. What do you do? I shovel shit in parades. I've seen many horses poop in parades.

But Skinny Atlas was actually where I saw. someone walking behind, just as you described. I feel like every parade must have been like right after breakfast or something. They all, they just let it fly. Yeah, or they all have celiacs disease. I don't know, but I'll tell you this, it's a massive amount. And whatever they're paying those people that scoop it, they need to double it. You think the horse is doing it on purpose?

I'm sure. You think he's like, you're making me put on this show. I'm just going to shit all over the place. If you're going to make me marching this parade, I'm going to make it a real show. shitty time frame. I just got to wonder if a horse normally shits that much all the time. That's a great. That is a ballot question. Or do they only shit at parade times and unlucky for us? And maybe does the per or does the trade provoke more

shit because they're nervous because there's so much noise and people? I mean, I mean these are could be scaring the shit out of these horses. These are questions that that matter to America. They do. America. America. Well, we're going to find out because We're not really going to find anything out about horse shit. Well, now we're not, not with that attitude. What if I find someone, you know, in our travels today? And I'm like, hey, have you ever worked for it?

I mean, there's a good chance we might encounter a horse farm on the way to Skitty Atlas. But I feel like anything we could possibly do to approach them would get you kicked in the nuts by a horse. You know, that's something that annoys me right there, by the way. Hort-kickens? Folks, if you're going to run alongside a road. How dare you exercise in public? No, no. Or walk. Do it on the left side of the road. Facing oncoming traffic. It is basic safety. That way, if someone's distracted by their phone, you can tell this gets dad with a cop. You can see, yes. You are supposed to run against track. He's right. Not by law. I'm saying for safety. Because if someone's coming, you'll see them swerving. If they're behind you and they swerve, you're fuck, your horse shit. Literally, you're smashed.

Now, a bicycle on the other hand. You're supposed to be on the right, which I don't get. You got to ride with track. because you're like a vehicle. Yeah, but... Annoying as fuck vehicle, but you're like a vehicle. Bikers, I got in an argument with a bicyclist the other day. Yeah? I'm pretty sure I was in the wrong, but I was embarrassed. And I was in the middle of an intersection,

and everyone in the other cars were like, what the fuck to me? And I was like, ah, I think I made the wrong move. But anyway, um, bicyclists, uh, I don't understand... My whole thing is this is why I'll never... I will never own a motorcycle, because... When you're on a motorcycle or a bike, right, and you get an accident, right, at the very least, you're going to be very, very sore and scraped up. And at the very worst, you're going to be dead.

In a car or some sort of closed vehicle, you have a chance. And I'm also 5'6, so, like, I can't operate a motorcycle. Would you ever drive a motorcycle? No. Yeah, good. I don't want you. No, here's a thing. My dad does.

My dad recently had a motorcycle. He had a license since before I was born and hadn't owned one for me. years and in his retirement decided you get one again. It's never been my thing. And here's the thing, when I was a kid, I rode my bicycle, like everywhere I went. I was one of those kids that put 100 miles a day on their bicycle. Do you have pegs?

And no. But I also took, I don't know how many epic spills on that bicycle. My legs were cut to shreds in all times every summer, right? And so when I think about that, and I think about the that same thing, but at 60 miles an hour, like, I'm just going to be dead. Like, it doesn't, it don't make no sense. It, it, that's correct. That's right.

That's a microcosm of what your whole body would look like if it was a and by the way, I tell my kids all that. Falling at one mile an hour onto the sidewalk is a little different that, you know, at 60. You could stop at a stoplight and fall to the side at zero miles an hour and get hurt. I tell my kids all the time, though, I said, listen, you know, my son will come in crying, Oh, I scraped up my knee, and I was like, listen, you're going to, if your knees are not scraped up for 90% of your childhood, you're not doing it right. So, I mean, I'm with you on that, actually. You ever had your bicycle seat fall off by accident and then it goes up here?

No, you fucking weirdo. I know. Mine was not on purpose, believe it or not. Did you do the cards in the spokes? Me either. I could never figure those out. It was like a 70s kid thing. Who fucking does that?

I know. It was kind of a, it was a. I didn't. So here's the thing. I was a nerd. I was. I had every type of gadget attached to my bicycle, including an alarm.

I had a bike alarm on my bicycle that I used to ride to school when I was a kid. It had a fucking tee pad in a security unlock code. If somebody moved it, it was like a car alarm, the alarm would go off. It was meant to be literally like a steal my bike alarm. Oh, wow. But it also had like a P.A.

speaker and like a siren and shit yeah it was the coolest thing that is wild i don't know if it was really that cool but uh remember the club in the cars yeah that was the big thing so on our way to uh skinny atlas yeah might as well do tuesday newsday right yes which by the way that reminds me did you see there was a social media video making its rounds i love what people turn right from the left plane that's great uh that no talking me about it So they list off All these names of towns in New York State Oh, that's the best part

I know exactly what you're talking about Yeah, so Skinny Atlas He was like, skinny Us My favorite, I will always call it Because of one of those videos Skinietlies Skinnedalies

It's the best I thought that person was pulling out from it I love that That was wild They have a tough time with Schenectady too Schenectady Schenectady.

Schenectady. We definitely have to do this because here's the thing. As much as there's a bunch of those names that I see and I'm laughing at these people try to figure them out, there's some other names in New York State that I don't know how to say right. And I look just as stupid. Yeah, we should pick into those.

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Oh, yeah, I love, I'm always been a big fan of Coxsacky. Yeah, someone played a prank. But anyway, listen, it's Tuesday Newsday. I didn't forget. I brought some news stories. I love it. And I have this idea. I want to see what you thought.

I decided, because we talk about how it's good New York. Obviously, our studios in Syracuse, we talk a lot about Syracuse. But the whole idea is we talk about all of New York State, the Adirondacks, Western New York, Southern Tier. We're leaving the county as we speak. We're leaving the county, so obviously I'm not full of shit completely. And so today I went through and I found news from each region. I think I want to do it that way. Nice.

But here's a sad part. And honestly, what justified, did you bring the trombone? I didn't. Fuck, that's probably good for all of us. I need a sad trombone for not bringing the sad trombone. But yes, I think this justifies why we exist. It was so hard to find positive news stories.

Like when we do actual Newsday, Tuesday, Newsday. Yeah, yeah. And I just think to myself, this is frustrating. And then I realized, well, actually, that's why good news York exists because... 100%. There's a lack of it. But we're just talking about bikes. And no BS.

There happens to be. This is our first Tuesday, New Today story from the Southern Tier, Finger Lakes Reason. Hornell, New York. Have you ever heard of Hornell? I think there's a college there? I'm thinking of Cornell. I'm thinking of Cornell. Yeah.

That's a, you know, easy mistake to make. everyday heroes don't always wear capes sometimes they quietly go about their business Larry Pelke refired retired a few years back and he knew he had to stay busy so what he's been doing he's become a bike repair shop but he doesn't sell any they're all free like 100% and he rebuilds these bikes

and gives them away to children in need of bikes he gave noise 1,105 free bicycle to local children over the last three years. Larry the bike man was recently recognized. It's like a bike a day. Yeah. And it keeps the doctor away. Was recently recognized by Hornell's mayor. People often send them letters of thanks.

To least take it to. He's taking in more than 150 donated bicycles from the nonprofit. Our community bikes of Rochester. So you can look them up. He's finally filed as a charity so you can actually do it. donate money to help him out because he invested $10,000 of his own money to make this happen. And he does it out of the goodness of his heart. And I, uh, I absolutely love that. So I thought I would pull that story. You ever work on your own bike, Mike, when you're a kid? No. But,

well, yes, you had to. My main gig, working on my bike as a kid was getting my shoelaces out of the pedals, when they would tie around the pedals or the chain. And my chain falling off. That was the worst. I remember you had to put it up? You. You had to put it up. you know, upside down. Yeah, why did that happen so much? I feel like that shouldn't have happened as much. Yeah, I feel like, if there was one thing when they were building the bike,

they were like, let's make sure the tires don't fall off and the chain stays on. And yet, the tires, neither occurs. I mean, my tires stayed out, thankfully. But, yeah, so, I mean, look, riding bikes were it. I don't see that happening very much. I don't want to sound like, you look at this. Look at this kind of with the leaf blower,

blowing off the edge of the road. Yeah, that's great. That's how nice skinny outlets. We're not in skinny atlas yet. But yeah, it's just somebody taking good care of their property. You know what's the worst is when you see people, usually it's the opposite. They're blowing their shit into the road, which is illegal because it's ridiculously dangerous. Yeah.

Because you think about a motorcycle comes by. We were talking about a bike. Yeah. They hit that wet stuff and, again, crash. at how many miles an hour on the bike and your... What are your feelings on in the winter? You're snow blowing, your driveway, and you blow snow out into the road.

Yeah, that's a big no-no as well. Yeah. Because from a snowblower's perspective, it's like, well, what am I going to do with it, right? I'm sorry, I got to... You got to put it somewhere. To a driver? It's terrifying.

It's like little... Yeah, it's horrible. Like slippery patches of... Right. Right. Which, man, I've sound- Snowblowing's no joke. Dude, snowblowing.

It's also a horrible thing to do. Like, don't, I don't know. I've made that mistake as an upstate New Yorker. I don't know. I would never do it again. I enjoy it. But the price of one snowblower is like four years of paying a plow guy. And I don't have to get out of my bed.

Yeah, there's an app now. You can just like order an app a plowed. Plows and mows. Mows and plows. Guys in Mowlough. Guys in mainland. has created it. Yeah, that'd be a good band name, Plosin' Plot, like Crosby still plows and mo's.

I don't know about that one. Wait, what was it? Who am I thinking of? And I will. What was that band? Two names. I'm blanking out. I know the song now, too. Who is it? Hall of notes. There you go. Hall of notes.

What are not, well, anyway. Is there more of this thing? No. I saw once. There's this band from Pennsylvania. Before the pandemic, they came to Ithaca regularly. I don't know what happened.

Hopefully they're alive. No bullshit. They were called, I believe they were called Hall and Mother fucking Oates, but it was like the abbreviation. Okay. This is wild. They were a Hall and Oates tribute band. Yep.

Okay. But they would. open by being a tribute band for talking heads. Or maybe it was the other way around. They were a Talking Heads tribute band, and they would open up for themselves as a Hall & Oates tribute bands. They were two tribute bands,

and they would do both shows. That sounds borderline psychotic. It was borderline psychotic. And the singer dressed up just like David Byrne from Talking Heads in the suit, and he moved like him and he sang like him. Because here's my thing. You really owned the part.

If you're going to be a tribute band, I want the whole thing. I want you to look like them, sound like them. I can respect that. You know, like there was a member of Brownies and Hercimer back in the day? I lived there. Yeah, me too. That's probably where we saw each other a lot. Yep.

We, uh, there was a band called the Soft Parade. They were a Doors tribute band. And they went as far as to the singer who looked exactly like Jim Morrison. He would have a bottle of Jack Daniels. He actually overdosed. He actually overdosed. Uh, he had a, uh, I mean, he would drink it on stage like Jim Morrison did. I'm assuming it was like iced tea, but they went the full gamut.

And I don't know about you, but if I'm going to be a tribute band, you've got to really play the part. Yeah. Like that's just, you can't, because then it just looks weird. You know, in some cases you can't help. You don't look like them, but at least make the effort, you know. I'm with you there, buddy. I don't even know how we got here. We started talking about bikes.

Yeah. And look where we are. We're on our way to beautiful Skinny Alice. Do you think we have a chance to see Jim Beheim? No. Or Jason Newsta? Probably not. Way to be negative.

We might run into somebody from Profound. It's about our best chance. I mean, that seems to happen everywhere I go with you guys. Well, they do own half the Skinny Ellas. That's where Jeff is. We should have messaged Jeff. I think he's got a town. Just going to say, is Jeff Lamphere living here? Yeah.

Skinny. Yeah, I believe. Carman Dan's got a... boat out here too. You invited me out on it. That's cool. I have many yet. Years ago, my sister graduated from Kyuka College. Yeah. Got her master's there. And we're driving from Ithaca to Kyuka College for the graduation. And there was, so it would be going from the Finger Lakes going from Kuga Lake all the way over to Kuka Lake. And In between Seneca and Kuka Lake, I drove by this field.

And there had to be 30 Amish kids, full garb. You know, their cute little outfits, which I love. Suites and suspenders and bonnets. And all their bicycles were in a pile because they all went there. Girls and boys playing, laughing, playing baseball. No cell phones. Like real humans. Like real humans.

And that's when it dawned on me. The fucking Amish got it right, man. All these years growing up, we'd be like, Hamish, you don't know how to use a toaster, right? Meanwhile, look at the hell we're in because of social media and misinformation, and they're happy playing stickball in a fucking field because that's what life's really about, human social connection.

No, that's just all anybody ever shows. Yeah, well, whatever. But it's funny how we used to-rump-springer, bitches. Yeah, Rum Springer, that's crazy shit. But wait till, you know, we made fun of them growing up, not me. Well, I'm sure. But, you know, people would make fun of them for being weird, and it's like, now we're weird. Look at us.

I mean, we are weird. We're all fucking... You got me there. Coming up with conspiracy theories and wild shit. We should be playing stickball and bonnets and suspenders, man. I'm with you. I mean, I don't know about the wool, but, you know, sometimes that shit gets a little warm, but... Yeah, wool, I wouldn't do well with that.

I don't want to wear wool anything. Right? Like, who decided wool was it? Same thing with Wicca. I don't want a Wicker table. Total other side of the world, but I'm with you on that too. Yeah. Why do you want a table that has no flat surface?

Yeah. Doesn't make any sense. No, I don't need Wicker. My mom had a whole rule of Wicker stuff. Oh, dude, you and me both. Any more news? Oh, yeah. Fuck.

We're five miles from Scan. Uh, this is a good one. Oh, here we go. On Tuesday, Newsday, Keeping it rolling, we went from the Southern Tier to now we're going to the capital region, which, I know, man, out of all the news. Capital City. Out of all the news I read today's, you know, farming stories out for good news. Not a lot of good news coming out of the capital region. They need it, so we're going to provide it.

That's not even a political. No, it's not. Girl Scouts give back. 17K in cookie boxes. That's right. What do you mean give back? Several local nonprofits and active service members around the Capitol region received boxes of Girl Scout cookies during the annual cookie season.

Officials with the Girl Scouts of Northeastern New York said 17,719 boxes of cookies were donated through the Council's gift of Caring program. That's a lot of cookies. They let customers buy cookies that are later donated to local nonprofits, It's military support organizations and food pantries. And I got to tell you, these are the charities that benefited from it. So just to be clear, people donated or the Girl Scouts donated? So the gift of caring lets customers buy the cookies that are later donated.

Let me see. The American Red Cross, where is it? Chipped 5,000 boxes to military members. So this is a group out. That's a group effort. They benefit a bunch of charities. But to me, the real story is it's 2025. We've seen so many things change.

Dude, Girl Scout cookies are still fucking king. And they're still making a difference. Because you know, there's a lot of things that are now outdated, you know, with social media and everything. But not capitalism. Not capitalism. And not when a little girl comes up and says, would you like to buy something? Well, you know, it doesn't hurt. that the cookies themselves are like crack.

What are your go-to? As a parent of Girl Scouts, and my wife does the whole cookie thing. So we had, you know, truckloads of cookies around, but, you know, we end up buying cases ourselves. Finments will never not be the best thing ever paid. You're the only one that's ever agreed with me. What?

No. They're the most popular cookie, period. They're so good. They're the best. I've grown to love tag-alongs. What was the brown With the dark Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

You don't even like a hole in the middle Yes yes yes I always shit on those I'm just blanking on them Those are like the second most popular Yeah I used to hate those Now I love them I love them

They got some coconut of them You know Look A blanking on what they're called A bad girl scout guy I'm a bad boy scout dad Good Girl Scout dad

What is the etiquette for you on Like let's you know You own two companies at this point. Sure. Like, what if, what is your etiquette on, on the, like, bringing the Girl Scout thing to work? Do it. Yeah. And hitting your, your coworkers.

Because a lot of people have a bitch about that. They're like, well, you put us in a terrible position because we can't say no. And then if one guy does it. So first of all, that's, that's a you problem, right? Because you 100% can't say no. And, you know, you know, nobody has to buy anybody else's shit. And I would say don't buy it just to buy it. But, you know, again, that's what I'm saying.

Like Girl Scout cookies are good. There's a lot of people that sort of look forward to those. So you're, you know, if you're offering them, take it or leave it. It's totally cool. But, you know, I've seen a lot of people in workplaces. And, you know, maybe a quarter of the people buy. That's totally cool. All right.

So what happens? What's the etiquette on? So, and here's the thing. I'll give you this. If you want an easy out, my niece, I bought from my niece. I got somebody at home that that's the out. Is that selling needs? Is that the Girl Scout Cookie version of, oh, I'll catch you on the way out to the salvation?

Yeah, sort of. And the other thing is, though, it's almost very frequently true. You have a close family member or you already bought him or some kid fucking beat you to knock it on the door. And you're like, all right, I already got a case of Girl Scout cookie. I'm not ordering more. that is the move you're right valid misavile

that's like the if you care enough to give an excuse I personally because what happens when I'm the same way at you know the checkout

you know you're going to the checkout you know you're going to the checkout like you want to donate a dollar to whatever no oh no sure like it's okay to say no you're right you're right

and I don't always say no what happens when co-worker A comes up and says hey my daughter and then co-worker B comes up I don't know maybe a couple hours later. Do you have to buy co-worker B's cookies because you bought co-workers?

You don't have to? You could? No. You could split the order between the two. You could just say you're slower than Jimmy. Yeah, that's true. Early Bird gets the word. Welcome to capitalism.

Welcome to capitalism. What? No, you're talking about... Too slow, little girl. You fail. Somebody else got the sale. Early Bird gets the worm. Teach it.

Grind harder. Teach me how to tie a knot. You're going to start. Now. Go hawk your cookies for a discount. We were talking about the Salvation Army bell ringers. They must be struggling because nobody carries cash anymore. Yeah, that's got to be a thing, right?

They must do a credit card thing now, right? Can they? Oh, I don't know. That's a great question. Why does that truck go carry dogs? That's a... What is that famous white cartoon dog that it looked like? I'm trying to think of the name of it.

You know what I'm talking about. Oh, geez. It looked like a specific dog. Are you thinking of Clifford, the red dog? No. It's a white-faced. like a car. I know where you're going.

Truffy. It is droopy. That's what I was going to say. Droopy dog. Troopy dog. We, uh, are we in? By the way, are in. Beautiful, uh, skinny Atlas rapidly approaching downtown.

Skinnydilese. Skinny toles. Thank you. German for a Wales. Yeah, I know. I don't think that's true. No, it's not. It's a banker, man.

Uh, this is a beautiful little town, man. It reminds me of like, Cooperstown meets Geneva. I don't know. That's a weird combination, but I think I understand what you're trying to say. I'm going to aim for the parking lot. Hey, oh.

Okay. Nice part about Skinny Atlas. Big old parking lot right in the middle of town. Question is whether or not the many spots. It is very much like Cooperstown. It is a... Yeah, I'm getting at Cooperstown vibe. I've been here before, but...

Well, you know, it's affluent tourist. Yeah, yeah, yeah. So it's a very similar. Less baseball, more boating. That'd be a, you know, I'll tell you what. That'd be a fucking day trip for good news you are. Yeah, we'll go on that way. Got a lot of good restaurants there.

We should, we should pack up Jason Smorrell and go to the baseball hall. That would be fucking awesome, actually. That's where they filmed a league, part of league of their own. Are you going to a couple? Imagine if we can get a couple. Do you? Syracuse Mets and just bring them to the Hall of Fame. Do you remember?

Do you remember that's where I was. Well, you didn't really follow sports, but every summer they would have the Hall of Fame game in Cooperstown where they would take two baseball teams and they would bust them wherever they were from up to Cooperstown to play like a preseason game and you would just wait out in the parking lot and shagg fly balls with your glove and your friends.

It was great. All right. Sounds like a blast. So we are here. at Clovers. Yes, we are in Skinny Atlas. Sorry. This place is awesome. Dude, this place is fantastic. I think I got, I thought I did. Oh, I got it. You got it. Perfect. Thank you so much. All right. So they got free Wi-Fi, which is cool. Yeah, and they give you the password on the menu, which sounds kind of the point. Yeah, but, you know, some places are just like, give me. notice like some public places you're like, hey, what's the Wi-Fers?

Oh, you'll never find it too. As an IT professional, I strongly recommend that people don't provide public Wi-Fi. There's an old man down the road next to the old oak tree. Like, you talk to him. Like, it's almost impossible. I got, I got, I got this really cool service with my phone that gives me internet wherever it goes. Oh, are you doing that thing again?

It's super handy. Where you are against Wi-Fi? Yeah, you shouldn't, no business should provide public Wi-Fi. No, I can't argue with that. It's just not. You should want Wi-Fi, no, right? Do you don't have service? For one reason.

You don't have any service? I have great service. I do not. Well, you have a fucking iPhone. You have Verizon? No, I have an Android. I do it at Verizon. Anyway.

But if it's a matter of no service, wouldn't you get... Or Wi-Fi, wouldn't you... I mean, I guess, but... Yeah, well, that's one... Still would never put my phone on some random public network anyway. That's fair. And it's like, I won't tell you what that's like. So back to the restaurant.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. This place is awesome. This place is awesome. It's a great, I don't know, it's, well, it's Clover's Cafe, right? So it's that kind of cafe diner-ish vibe. Great lunch and breakfast spot. It's got, here's what I love about it. Well, there's a lot of things.

First of all, it smells fantastic. It's clean. It has a dire feel, but it's content. temporary. It's very modern. But not one of those jam-packed diner. No. I love it, man. You ever been to one of those places that it's good, it's great food, but it's so packed and it's so small that it's like a concert where you can't hear the people at your table speak?

That is a problem. It's a great place. This is great. It's busy, but we were able to walk in a little after probably the biggest lunch rush. Yeah. But we were able to walk right in, great at the table. Pretty excited about what we got coming. It looks really good.

This is big with me. Breakfast all day. I love that. Yeah. I love that. I ordered that. You did. And I didn't know that.

And I probably would have ordered breakfast. But you know what? I'm glad I ordered the wings. I was thinking about chicken wings. I'm glad one of us got them. You can ask us. So we can find out. The kind waitress, who, by the way, has been phenomenal.

Yes. Spoke very highly of the wanes. So I am a wing connoisseur. So am I. I may regret. We might just have to switch meals. That's fine. Yeah.

You can have some minor. We're like a couple. I am a wing burger guy. I'm not feeding you though. That's fine. Really? Not baby burgers. You just?

No? No. I, uh, when I go to a new town or a new place, I like to try a burger or wings. I like to judge. I consider myself a pizza wing burger dinosaur. So I'm with the wings here. Good old American boy. Well, see, people get hung up in the, oh, sauce is so good.

Of course the sauce matters. But if you're doing traditional buffalo, you know, the sauce should relatively taste the same. It's the quality of the wing. Is it coated? Is it, you know, with starch or breadcrumbs? That's half. I think you're right.

The cook is... The cook is as if not more important than the sauce. It's underrated. People don't talk about the cook enough. You're right. But a good wing sauce, it's not going to make a bad cook good. Correct. But it'll take a decent wing and make it.

phenomenal. Right, but a bad cook can take a... That'll ruin everything. 100%. It's like a drummer and a band, right? A great drummer will make a bad band sound good. A great band with a bad drummer make you sound horrible. Kind of. Something like that. But yeah,

it's not... But it's the quality of the wing itself. Is it very meaty? Is it they coat it with like red crumbs? Did the chicken go to school? Was it well-rounded? Was the chicken a family man? Was he a piece of shit? What did he vote for? Was he free reign? Right.

These are all the things we want to know. Right. And here at Clovers, they handpick the best chickens. All the time. Do you think Jesus did that ever eat here? I don't know, maybe. You're very obsessed with this guy. Yeah.

Pign Metallica fan. Almost danger. There's not like an order to keep you away from his home or anything we should know about, right? I don't know where he lives. I googled it. Yeah. Pig fan. Yeah.

Once he was gone. Skinny Atlas is a beautiful town full of very successful celebrities, all kinds of and lots of great, everyday families. How often do you think so many of those big names are seen around town? I'm going to say almost now. Well, hopefully, what's the day?

Hopefully July 8's a big day for celebrities to come downtown. Well, because here's the thing, right? Part of the reason they live here is the lake, and we're going to take a look at the lake once we leave here. And they have big places and a lot of land, and I think the whole idea is to just kind of be on your own and not be bothered, right?

This is a very... Some place beautiful where you don't have to deal with people? I don't know, that's my idea. Maybe I could be wrong. This town very much has the vibe of like, we know you're here to relax and we're not gonna bother you. Yeah. It's a good call.

It's a good... It's nice. It's very... Everything about this town is clean, quiet, nice, no riffraff. God, I'm getting old. I just said a riff-riff, no riff-raft. No ruffians about... about none of those naredoels running around the streets i don't know what you just said but

he's never heard of a naredo well nope you know when gany's filming i can see how many times he does in this yep not when we're in studio so he does that a lot with mid and that's true it's fair he's not judging you he's just you know could be judging younger and easily shocked i think it'll be funny let's uh why don't we take a break yeah We'll come back with some food in front of us. We'll do it. Hold on. One, two, three, poop.

All right. So we got our food. You do. Your wings smell. They smell great. Incredible. Your plate, the eggs look amazingly cooked. I got the meat lovers.

Omlet. It's got hash. Love me some hash. Corned beef hash. Look at the steam coming off mine. I will say, one of the first things I look at, as I talked about, is the wing itself. These are a little smooth, which makes me nervous, because I like texture on my wings. I like them to be either coated or...

That's weird. Wins aren't supposed to be coated. No, you know what I'm talking. You spent too much time at Hooters. Never. I went one. Their wings were tearing. All right, dig into the wing first.

Yeah? Yeah. Yeah. Absolutely. The cook, the sauce, and everything we talked about? Very good. He likes it, he likes it. Mike he likes it.

Mikey likes it. Buffalo sauce is perfect. Nice. Believe it or not, you can mess up with medium sauce very easily. People don't realize that. Proper hot sauce is nothing but hot sauce and butter. Mm-hmm. Try to get fancy with it, you failed.

There's other things like garlic powder and vinegar that goes in it very little, but this is great. Awesome. All right, let's see what we got in on the breakfast side here. What do we got? I'm going to dig into my omelet here. here. It's very full of meat, which is everything I love in life. These are nice and crispy too, by the way. Very full of meat. He's a knife like a civilized person. I 100% made the right choice go on breakfast. I can tell.

Yeah, yeah. This is actually, swings are getting better with every bite. I couldn't be happier. Crispy, Clover, skinny atlas, breakfast, one. Just come here and eat. A-plus. So this has been a great little road trip. This is awesome. We're going to do more of these. Skinny Atlas is beautiful.

Yeah, it is. It's close. And it's a great reason to hop in the car and come visit. As you can see, we just kind of scratch the surface, but they've got gorgeous boat rides you can take out on the lake and bring your own boat on the lake. Don't mess with me. We took a nice walk down the pier.

That's not like a euphemism. We really did. people fishing out there, just enjoying the summer in central New York, and it's awesome to have. Watch out for Judge Ben Wiles. Yeah. Apparently his boat. Yeah, I guess so. And, yeah, they say Jason News said live in Skinny Atlas.

I haven't seen them one. Yeah, luckily, we got to get out of town before we get caught for stalking. But a great lunch at Clover. Great time in Skinny Atlas. We're going to take the short ride back. And fingerlakes. That's it. Yeah.

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