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Episode Date: July 29, 2025

Good News York: Catching Up Post-Vacation, K-Rockathon Recap, and Unexpected Concert Memories In this episode of Good News York, hosts Matt Masur and Mike Brindisi catch up after Matt's vacation. They discuss their new podcast equipment and upcoming guests. Matt shares humorous anecdotes from his family beach vacation, including his struggles with beach amenities and sand. The duo also recap their experience at the K-Rockathon Reboot event, describing it as a highly enjoyable experience despite some mixed media reviews, and share interviews with attendees including a Jesus impersonator and a Jack Daniels bottle. They reminisce about memorable concerts, with Matt sharing his worst concert experience at a Bob Dylan show and his best at a Woodstock festival. The episode also dives into a fascinating story involving a long-lost photo of Metallica that went viral, encourages locals to attend the Baldwin Brothers Celebrity Pickleball Bash for charity, and promotes their TikTok shop featuring trendy fanny packs. They wrap up with thoughts on timely responses in group chats and an engaging debate over lawn care practices. 00:00 Welcome Back from Vacation 00:53 Vacation Recap and Beach Rants 06:05 Lawn Care Debates 14:33 K Rock Aon Reboot Experience 22:08 Celebrity Tributes and Controversies 24:02 A Piece of Shit 24:37 Group Chat Etiquette 27:00 Fanny Packs and Fashion 31:49 The Baldwin Brothers Pickleball Event 35:26 Metallica and the Mystery Kid 41:11 Concert Experiences: The Best and Worst 47:55 Conclusion and Sign-Off

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Welcome to Good News York. I'm Matt Meager. I'm from vacation, joined by my buddy who looks the same as he did when I left. Mike Brindisi is sitting to my left. Yeah, buddy. Chilling. What's up, dude?

We're back. We got a new mic on it. Yeah, yeah. We do. Thanks, Danny. We have... Upgrade. I like how I leave town and come back and you guys have bought real equipment.

Yeah, we don't mess around around here. It is good news York. sponsored by ads on the go get ads on the go.com Get ads on the go. Dude, it feels good to be back and again, you know I love when we have guests and we have a bunch of guests coming up this week, but I love these shows when you and I can just shoot the shit. And there's

a lot of stuff that happened while you were on vacation, but it's true. Before we can get into that, let's talk about your vacation. Come on. How was your vacation? We didn't really get to talk about it. It was all right. Yeah, the kids had a great time. We went to a nice place down south. you know it was a good time

okay that's I feel like that's the proper middle age dad answer you know it's like it's more for the kids and the wife and it's like I'm you know what I mean it's like what do you guys want to do

you want to go down to the boardwalk you want to get ice cream cool let's go you know had I paid attention at all to the planning it might have been a red but that's a you know a whole other story well you look great

we're so happy you're back Annie Danny and I I sat in the sun for For, is that tan? Can you tell? Is that, yeah, I guess you do look a little bit tanner. I told my wife, we went to the beach for maybe two hours out of that entire week. But as I was there, I said, am I the whitest thing on the entire beach?

And she looked around, she's like, yeah, yeah. When you take your- I was like glowing. Yeah, look, when you have your bare feet, it looks like you have white socks on. Oh, it's incredible. Yeah, I'm the same way. I catch on fire. I'm actually not wearing a shirt right now.

No shit. You've got a flannel skin. That's amazing. Crazy. The tan lines were warm. You know, I too, listen, I love, we had to talk a week or so ago about vacations and how it's like you want to do nothing. But, you know, I obviously, look, I love beaches. And I'm not even going to go as far as to say that beach vacations are overrated.

But there are just some things. I can only spend so much time on the beach staring at the water. and then the part that really bugs me the most is I'm cleaning out sand from my ears, my shoes, anything I took to the, anything that I took on vacation, not even things I took to the beach. Like I'll open up my suitcase

and take out my headphones that I didn't even bring to the beach and there's sand in them, you know? I'll be honest, I enjoyed the beach more than I probably would have, even though it sounds like we didn't get there very much. The one issue that I take with it, and I don't really understand

is there are zero amenities at the beach. What I mean by that is like, we didn't plan well. We probably should have eaten a meal before we went to the beach, but we didn't. So we're sitting there for a while and it's like, I'm hungry. Can I grab a hot dog or a burger or something? No.

Nope. There's not a single vendor of any sort anywhere near the beach. Yeah. I don't understand this. I've been to many beaches. It blows my mind. And it's not, you're right. It's not even like a beach by beach thing.

I would say the general consensus, they don't really have. Well, a lot of other places. Like I years ago lived in Clearwater, Florida, and the Clearwater Beach is one of the best ones they say in the country, right? You can easily, there's a hundred bars that you just walk right off the beach and they're right there and you can sit on a stool and restaurants and all these other things. This, North Carolina is just, it's gorgeous, but like, I don't know what you're saving because there's still millions of people. so it's not like your, you know. Yeah. I was shocked that there wasn't, you know,

a guy with a cooler walking around selling drinks or some kind of anything. Yeah. You would think that someone would jump on that. Like a guy like you would. Talk about like a guest opportunity. What about like a hot dog cart? That's what I'm saying. You make a flipplest thing.

Or just a drink. It's fucking 90 degrees. 90 degrees. Sell some bottles of waters or somebody that didn't bring one. See, for me, I. People would have to carry so much shit. I pee and poop a lot and when you're on the beach

that's another thing. A lot of times any sort of bathroom is so far away. They got that covered. With sand. Well, I mean, you... Well, that's what I mean. Everyone's just like, oh, go in the ocean. Obviously, not number two, but, you know, I'm not pooping it. You would poop in the ocean? I mean, no. You're a fucking rebel. But, like, I don't...

I'll pee in the ocean, yeah, I'll pee in the ocean. What do you think you're... Like, what's the different? Well, here's the thing I hate about swimming in open water Is when it goes from hot to cold, hot to cold When you're swimming and you're treading water And then all I think of is, oh God, that's some old guy's piss That's some old guy's piss. You know, like...

You know, there's like sea creatures that shit in that water all day long, too, right? Yeah, but sea creatures shit compared to human shit Seems wildly different. I think so? Yeah. Also, cruise ships just dumped millions of gallons of people's shit in the ocean all the time. You remember years ago when the Dave Matthews ban accidentally unloaded their septic tank on a bridge

and it hit people underneath on a boat. It was a national story. Hey, I said I'm going to give you my shit. You think you'd be shit in the ocean, buddy. Hey, speaking of peeing and pooping. You think you'd have to wipe? What?

I don't know because I would never shit in the ocean. But probably not. But like if you're completely submerged in water. Yeah, but what if it's like a real, pasty, Jesus Christ, what are we talking about? I mean, I guess you could twerk and, like, get the water washing around, you know? I got a more important question. Oh, okay.

It has nothing to be with shit. Good. How often should you mow your lawn? Oh, buddy. You, my friend, you just tapped in. My wife and I just had this conversation in the car the other day. Actually, it might have been yesterday. I mow my lawn once a week.

We have Fridays off here, so Friday is my mow day. I am very particular about my lawn. Now, my neighbor, not so particular. He takes care of his lawn, but sometimes he'll go like two weeks, and it looks like a cornfield compared to mine. So I came to the crossroads yesterday, or the day before with my wife,

I said, you know what, I'm starting to think, maybe it's less about how much he doesn't mow his lawn, and it's more about, like, how much I do. You know, even like last week I mowed it because it was on a Friday, probably could have went a couple more days. Yeah. But I like a nicely groomed lawn.

And then we have lawn guy, which is down the road for me, which when I did my, when you were in here, I did an episode of GNY where I talked about lawn guy. That's a whole different story. But why do you ask, though? What do you? I just, you know, this seems to be a controversy, you know. And I personally don't give a fuck. Right. Like, you know, let the grass grow.

That seems like nature, but people have a problem with that. So I wanted to know what your opinion was on how often or, you know, what should happen. Well, I mean, look, so are you saying like you just let your lawn go like a hippie chick with her armpits? Like you just let it fly? I mean. How often do you mow your lawn? So we actually have a lawn service that now comes weekly. You've earned that.

Before that, the reason that we had to get a lawn service is we'd go, you know, a couple weeks maybe longer just as a matter of time to be able to get out there and do it. And the worst part is the rain. So, you know, it's like I get this one day when I can do it. and then it happens to be the rain day, well, it's going to be another fucking week. And the rain just made it shoot up another foot. That's fair. I mean, I think I would like to believe most of the people

that don't mow their lawn regularly, it's because of time, work, things like that. But if you have the time and you're like, nah, fuck it, come on. And so here's the other challenge. At one point, I sort of did it. I don't want to say out of spite, but almost as a fuck you. So I've got neighbors who are phenomenal people.

but they're retired. Okay. And they're able to do lawn care multiple times. Sure, sure. And their lawn looks pristine. So no matter how much we do, I always look like that shaggy dog. Yes. That is. Even when I'm doing it at a regular basis.

See, and that is the tough part because, you know, there is kind of this unspoken back and forth that goes between neighbors. Like the first time the weather broke. for the spring. And listen, I'm not knocking them. They're great people. And listen, if you got the time, that's the whole issue. Right. And they got the time.

So when I first did the first cut of the season, because I get out there early, as soon as the weather breaks, I'm going to get excited, you know? It's, you know, you can tell that the other guys on each side of my house come out and they're like, motherfucker, Brindisi mowed his lawn. Now I have to. It's kind of like in NASCAR, the first guy that pits. And everyone's like, I guess I should pit since the lead guy's pitting. A little NASCAR reference there My point is, once the first guy mows,

now all the other guys in the neighborhood's wives are like, honey, you should get out there, you know, because your lawn looks like shit now. So I get it from my perspective. I'm like, hey, if my neighbor forgets his lawn, it just makes my lawn look better. But on the flip side, that neighbor's like, oh, he mowed his lawn a second fucking time before I mowed the first.

It's tough. It's tough. But I like a nice manicured lawn. I'm very into it. I have sprinklers. I like to seed. Damn. Yeah, no, I've really,

really just kind of slid in... You are full dead. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. I slid into my 40s like a champ, like the way it should be done. I love a good lawn. This guy down the road from my house, man. Lawn guy.

My wife and I call him lawn guy. We keep tabs on them. The neighbors write me because they... I have a neighbor that watches the show and she loved that I talked about long guy because they're baffled by it too. This guy, he must work at Cornell. Because if you look in his windows two at night, he's got like hydroponic stuff. He must be involved in some sort of agriculture.

Because this motherfucker's lawn, this motherfucker's lawn is like heaven's carpet. I've never seen anything like it. Dude. And every time we go by, he's doing something to it. And the ultimate was one day I came by, he was on his hands and knees with scissors, dude. I mean, this is next level. I got to interview this guy. No, I'm not lying, dude.

I wouldn't make it up. I'm telling you. And I don't know if I should be envious of this guy or if I should check his hard drive or his basement for bodies. because it is a, I am committed to my lawn of sorts, but this guy is next level, man. So you don't ask that guy about it because I don't know what he'll say to you.

Great stuff, love it. You can get as into it as you want, or you can just mow it every now and then. I'm kind of in the middle. I know a lot of people that are in the grass. I do, so a couple things. Speaking, we were talking about peeing in the ocean a few minutes ago.

How were we? I thought about this last week. where is the coolest place you've ever peed? Cut to Matt. I've never seen him laugh at this. I thought of this last week. I did. I've had...

I've been sitting on this for days. You were on vacation and there was a post... I've got to know what I'm pissed. There was a post-it note on my desk for over a week that has said, coolest place you've peed. Oh, my God. I employ these people. I can tell you mine if you need

Well, now it got me thinking Yeah, well, yeah Get back to me on it I want it on my desk Yeah, all right, I want your answer Because my answer is I don't remember, I think it was 2008 or no Hey, it's Trevor from the Jim Kerr Rock and Roll Morning Show

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I won a contest with the New York Yankees. They wanted you to send in a picture of yourself at the game. And all the cool, all the, like the best pictures, you got a chance to go to the ballpark when the Yankees were not there. They were traveling. And you got to hang out in the dugout, take batting practice, and get a tour of the locker rooms, the whole thing. And I won.

I was one of the winners. So I took batting practice. I was horrible. But in between batting, because everybody, there's like 12, 15 guys that won this and women as well. And I said, I got to go to the bad. bathroom. They're like, just use the bathroom right there. Dude, I peed in the Yankee

dugout bathroom where the players use. That the players use. Now, at the time, Jeter was still on the team, and I'm like, holy shit, I'm peeing where Jeter peed. And I believe Pasado was still on the team. And I'm like, there's a whole story about Jorge Posada, the catcher that he used to pee on his hands before every at bat. Anytime he had to pee because it helped.

No, you can look it up. That's not a fact. and he would, you can look at over your hands? No, not at all. My mouth, no. But it's supposed to help him grip the bat. And so, yeah, it was like a stainless steel toilet. It was almost like a jail cell kind of toilet,

which was kind of weird. But yeah, I got to pee where greatness peed. What's that? Like the troughs at the dome? Yes, but a toilet. You know. Yeah, it was a toilet like they have in the prison. Stainless steel, like a prison toilet.

There was no toilet wine in there. Weird. I tasted it. But yeah, that's mine. I know, that's a high. bar I set. But yeah. Don't answer it if you can't.

You just think about it. If you remember now or in 15 episodes, just bust it out. Just trying to decide whether or not that's even something I want on tape. I found out that my name is pronounced. We have an Italian family that lives down the road from us. And they're from Italy. And when we were talking, they said, you know, you're saying your last name wrong, which checks out for me.

And I said, what do you mean? They said it's brindisi. So I'm asking you guys, from now on, I want you to roll your R's when you say my love. That's not, I've never heard an Italian pronounce anything like that. Well, I think they're fucking with you. There's one in Ithaca. It's brindisi. Always one in it.

So please roll your R's when talking about me. Wow. Let's talk about K-Rock, dude. Yeah. So Matt and I went to the K-Rockathon reboot. Thank you, K-Rock, and everybody involved that got us credentials allowed us to come there and shoot. We met Jesus. We did meet Jesus. We met a human Jack Daniels bottle. Also true. And we saw Alien Amp Farm and set it off and candlebox and drowning pool

and nothing more. That's the name of a band, not. Yeah, no, yeah, we saw more, but the band was nothing more. We had a great time. It was a great time. Everybody, I think, had a great time. Despite what some people say, I think everybody had a good time. The local page, paper does what the local paper does, which is shit on everything. Okay. Their perception of that event, I don't think was one shared by anyone else who attended. Because, listen, we were there. I didn't see a disgruntled anybody.

And I've been to shows that, like, are kind of shitty. They got problems, whatever. The audiences never hides their feelings. Right. I saw nothing but people enjoying themselves. everybody, even if you weren't there to see every band, everybody had one of these bands that they were really looking forward to. And from what we could tell,

they all felt like they definitely got their monies worth and had a great time. The weather was great. They had a very intelligent setup for the whole layout of the whole thing, which is not always the case at a show. Like, it was great. Yeah, the food, the drink, bathrooms, everything was within walking distance.

Yeah. One thing I can tell you that the local newspaper definitely got wrong. He said the real feel was like 90-something degrees. No, no, it was 90-something degrees. I thought it felt like it was 75. It was shockingly comfortable. Yeah.

Because that area, if you're familiar, the Chevy Court. Chevy Court there at the state fairgrounds, there are a lot of trees. There are some big shade. There's also the bathroom area also has a big, like, pavilion. So there was lots of access to shade

in that whole spot, and I agree with you. It didn't. It was more comfortable than you would have expected. Yeah, and I get it. I did help, you know, staying cool with a wine slushy. You sure did. That's always the way of them. You snuck that one.

I didn't even see you drink it. You're a sneaky little slushy drinker. I got to agree with you, man. Listen, I understand that, look, the bands that were on the bill, mine, I guess nothing more charts now. But, I mean, I get it. There's not a lot of bands that are still, you know, play. I mean, they're still playing, but, you know, they're not what's going on right now. But, hello, the rock genre is not what's going on right now.

and the whole thing is called the K Rockathon reboot. So the idea was to bring back bands that had played there before. So listen, the other thing I want to make sure I say, I don't want to shit on the newspaper for giving them shit because I think it's important that we do have truthful press that doesn't hide the truth. You know, I want people to say, hey, that sucks. But I don't know.

I didn't feel like you said, I didn't get the vibe that they got. I mean, look, it wasn't like, whoa, but it was, But it was, fuck, it was great. It seemed like, in fairness, the reviewers, it wasn't their taste in music. And that's, you know what I mean? And that's kind of a weird thing where you walk into a review and you're like, well, listen, I don't like this to begin with. But now I'm going to find reasons to justify that. Right.

As I stand here and look at a crowd of folks who couldn't be happier and having a better time. Yeah. I mean, it's a weird thing. Do you see how happy the Jack Daniels bottle was? He couldn't have been happier. He was. Not even sure he knew where he was But he was very happy

It was his Super Bowl man He was fucking thriving He got mentioned in the article So did Jesus He did And so that means we interviewed the two most important people We did And not not

On purpose They came to us really Literally We went to Jesus We found Jesus We found Jesus Guys we found Jesus We found Jesus and it was at K Rockathon

Yeah I feel different No Me either but the Jack Daniels bottle found us which is also sort of a yeah it's kind of like our high school year sort of a thing right there too

I feel like whiskey finds you yeah it was great and honorable mention to the guy that recognized hold up yeah I was just gonna say hold on hold on day we can't gloss over I hate this I love it the greatest thing that's ever happened

okay I don't know that but it was fair in our short history uh short so we're walking through the crowd and we will put out I got like five minutes of video of this encounter we're walking through the crowd

and this dude comes running Mike Brindindanzi he said your name a weird way He should have said brindis Brindisi Yeah but and we're like Oh shit And then so this dude comes up

and Mike and I are both like Is this Does this dude like me or is he gonna fight? Yeah Because the vibe was weird It was a very weird vibe He wasn't getting to the point, so it was almost like he was being a smart ass. Yeah.

But then he was not. And I'm like, well, he was trying to be coy, right? Yeah. So we get to, Mike's like, I think you look familiar. Dude's like, you don't, you never seen me before. Yeah. And then I was like, oh boy. What the fuck is going on now?

That's when I got the fucking camera out. I'm like, this is interesting. Come to find out relatively quickly that he recognizes you from your appearance on the Howard Stern show. Yeah. Yeah. He does. He recognized me from Kakioki. It's one of my favorite credits on your resume.

It is not mine, but I'm listening. I'm not ashamed of it, but, you know, it's not like I celebrate. It's not, you know, look, Howard's... Without even going into detail, I think that the interesting part, how old is that bit? That was 2010. So, 15 years. 15 years ago. Wow, that's fucking crazy.

And this bro recognizes you. Not only does he recognize you. And again, you'll see in the footage, he goes on to experience. that it's his favorite clip, and he keeps it queued up. So when friends come to his house, he makes them all watch it. The queued up part really got me. Because I go, why is it queued up, dude? I'm honored, because it's the funniest thing I've ever seen.

Now, listen, it was obviously funny. Funniest thing he's ever seen. I mean, come on, bro. We've got to get out there more. I mean, listen, I loved it. It did wonders for my career in the moment as far as album sales, and I got a manager out of it. And it was fun.

And to be honest with you, I was relieved when I found out that we had to sing into a penis because I thought, Howard Stern, if you're a listener like me, you know, I could have got vomited on, which I wouldn't have done. They could have been way worse.

I was like, this is easy. I'm, you know, two feet away, three feet away, I'll sing into this thing. Anyway, it was a lot of fun. It was hilarious. But for someone to be like a fan of that, that's like being like, oh my God, season six American Idol,

I love the guy that came in seventh place. You know, like, it's just a very niche thing to love. And thank you, sir. I'm actually a fan of some very niche folks along those lines, so I think it's interesting. I would love, imagine you see those people. I know. You have a doughtry tattoo, don't you?

Oh, fuck. Okay. Do not. So that was a lot of fun. And we have a lot of footage that's going to come out. Maybe I don't know if we'll play any in this episode, but yeah, it was a great day. I had fun with you, man. It was a good time.

It was a good time. Thanks again to K. Yeah, thank you to K. Yeah, thank you to K. K. Rock and Syracuse and Utica and all the people involved and Matt. I'm blanking on your last name, but thank you so much for everything you did for us. We do appreciate it.

Also, while you were gone, I wanted to get your thoughts. I did a little tribute with Danny. Hulk Hogan, Theo from the Cosby Show, and Ozzy Osbourne died, which, again, goes back to that theory. It happens in threes. Any thoughts on it? Anything you want to say?

That's a couple of people to be sad about. It's actually three people. A couple would be two. Are you not sad about one of them? He catches it. Wait, wait. It took him a second, but he caught it. Hold on.

Hold on. Fuck Mary Kill. Ozzie, Theo from the Cosby show, or Hogan. I don't want to marry your F any. Or killing you. I don't want to. This is a bad game. I'm a straight man.

No. Huck Hogan was a piece of shit, is the thing. I know. And listen, I put. I know. I posted a tribute to him. And there were a couple people that were like, what the hell, man? I was like, look, this guy was my fucking hero when I was a kid.

If you were a kid watching wrestling in the 80s and 90s, there was no bigger presence in the world. I'm paying tribute to the character. I don't know what he did off the air. I mean, I'm not one of those people that, like, I'm not going to give somebody shit for being fan of a fucking fake TV character. You know what I mean? That's like, how dare you like Cobra Commander?

You know, like, what the fuck? I'm just at the same time not going to pretend that I give a shit. Yeah. Sorry, brother. It's fine. And that's fine. Just like it's fine with me saying, hey, man. Hey, brother.

Gonna miss you, brother. Here's the thing, like. It's okay to say I don't give a fuck. Pro was a union buster. He was a backstabber. Was he? A union buster? 100%.

Man. Go listen to Jesse Ventura, talk about how Hulgin ratted out. That guy. To v. Vince McMahon and stopped their unionization. There's a lot of stuff that's come out. Yeah, yeah.

He's a very, very, very self-centered dude at the expense of anyone, including his own family. Yeah. Piece of shit. Well, Rest in peace. I'm sorry I asked you. Brother.

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Good deal on Real American. What is it? It wasn't that? I think it was called Real American. Because that was his song, I am a real... You're a brother. Look with that.

couple more things what is your I'm sorry am I not supposed to shit on dead people on good news york you can do whatever the fuck you want it's your show oh that's right I own the place yeah man you can do whatever you want

so I have this group chat I want to get your opinion on this I have so I have this group chat with some of my high school buddies and one of our buddies we will talk about something and fire off 30 texts over it you know over the span

of sometimes 10 minutes sometimes four hours. Sometimes our buddy does not get back to us after two or three days. Two or three days. Yeah. Is that, is there an unwritten rule, do you think? Like, what's the word I'm looking for? Not ethic.

I don't know the answer to that because I literally I have that guy unfortunately. Okay, well then let me, take me into your brain. Are you like, fuck these guys? I'll get back to him when I get back to him. Or you just like, I haven't looked? I haven't looked. I do it to you all the time. I don't know. I read like 30% of your message. That's fine. I'll take it.

I, it's literally a matter, here's the thing. It's a matter of capacity, right? And not even necessarily like time. You go, well, you got three seconds to look at a fuck. I do. But am I in the fucking mental space to not just look at that thing, but think about what it is properly responding to that? And honestly, like, I just am not.

Yeah. So there's all the time. And I feel bad. It sucks. Like I have a lot of friends that I have nothing against. And I would be more than happy to immediately just. respond to whatever the fuck they asked me, and I don't for a week. Okay.

Like, I don't, I'm not proud. It's not like a point of pride. Okay. But it, unfortunately, is the reality. All right. Well, that's fine. Because I don't get mad at them because, look, I actually envy people that aren't, you know, able to be attached to their phones all that.

Like, I love that he's like, I get to my phone when I get to my phone. Well, here's at some point. What the fuck, man? Like, you can't crack a joke in reply to something from three days ago. No, I can understand that, too. I have a good chat group of friends that we really kind of came together around COVID when we're all much more

free time and a lot of them still work from home and stuff so they're able to still kind of keep up the conversation more than I am and I feel like an asshole and I miss them honestly like I enjoyed that you know friend group

so again it's not like I'm not saying I'm proud of this or anything like that but unfortunately I think It's the reality for a lot of people. All right. Well, that's settled. We have a ruling. It worked.

It worked. First time. Awesome. Before you jump into some, I want to talk. I was going to say, I have like one or two more things in the fanny pack. Let's do the, let's do it. Yeah, let's talk about it. So sitting in front of me is this super fashionable fanny pack.

Which are back in fashion, by the way. Yeah. It's our man Dakota rocks it, and he's the coolest guy I know. Yeah, so he does it. He's wearing fanny packs. Clearly they are on Trent. I created this thing, right? So we are in full disclosure here at Growth Mode content.

We are moving heavily into the live social shopping world. And this is, in many cases, modern day QVC or really just the next evolution of e-commerce. You know what I mean? But to do that, we're trying some things. And so let me try to create some products. So I actually made this design, this like space peasant. pattern and I threw it on a couple things. You can get it on fanny pack.

We also have fanny packs in a bunch of other patterns. Or you can get this design on a shirt, which I was just talking to Amanda about. She thought it was pretty cool. That is cool. That is by far the coolest fanny pack I've ever seen. I've ever seen. I genuinely love these things. They are available right now on the TikTok shop.

They will hold thousands of dollars. Like the capacity of this fucking thing is just off the charts. It's also got a separate little wiserable. wallet compartment inside? Look at how freaking awesome is that. Cool. It's adjustable. It's got dual zippers. I don't

know. I think it's a cool product. If you want to check it out, you can hit the TikTok shop at Matt Major. It's my TikTok shop. Or you can visit buy-and-y. We haven't talked about that at all. Buy-Ny.com

is our online store that we've started to put together. And that is something where you can shop for all kinds of things, including one-of-a-kind Good News York merchandise. Hey, now. We have a button up with both. I didn't know this. Mike.

Oh. And Danny's face on them that are super goofy. They are goofy. That's the worst picture of me, too. We've got hats. We've even got Good News York sneakers. Dude, I will shit myself if I'm walking somewhere and I see myself on a shirt. That would be the, that would be like I arrived.

Yeah. Next to having your song in a karaoke library. Buy ny. That's it. Check it out all kinds of cool. Random goofy things. Again, it's something that we're kind of dipping our toes in so we're playing with.

On that site, you'll find lots of goofy things like meme candles. We've got a lot of candles that make fun of memes. And so I can create stuff too, right? 100%. And do I put it in the same shop or do I start my own? We'll probably throw in the same shop, yeah. But we'll link it so folks can get to it for many. This is exciting.

Yeah. That's a very nice fanny pack. I remember growing up in the 80s and 90s, My uncle always wore a fanny pack, and a lot of my friends would be like, dude, your uncle wears a fanny pack? And secretly I was like, I know it looks weird, but like, it's so, so convenient and handy. It's like being a kangaroo. Women figured out purses long ago.

Us dudes, we got to just make do with cargo shorts, and sometimes that doesn't hold all the cargo. No, and cargo shorts are out now, no offense. Fuck they are. I mean, you do you. I don't ever be out. I know. I don't make the rules. I'm a dad.

I don't know who does. You are dad. Cargo shorts are in if you're a job. dad. Also, I feel like all of that shit is back in. We're back to 90s fashion, dude. It's come around. And music is starting.

Pants that aren't skin tight are back in. Like, you can, you know, grunge. Grunge. A little bit. A little rock. I was driving around on the SU campus this spring here before they let out. And I saw a couple kids that just made my heart flutter because they looked exactly like 90s Nirvana Grunge kids that we grew up with.

I miss those kids. They're back. They're back, baby. The children will be okay. Well, I'm excited about the TikTok talk shop thing. And that is just more proof that you are always a step ahead. You know, you are always good at kind of knowing what's the next thing. And, you know, this is the new world for me, the selling thing.

I don't know if Slingin Fannie Pecks is the next thing. But I appreciate that. Yeah. No, I know. The whole idea. I think it's awesome, dude. I appreciate that. I forgot to give Danny.

I got like two things. and I forgot to give Danny a link to one of them but yeah I know I fucked up We'll do it in a little. We'll do it in post. Well, you kind of need to see it. I mean, I guess if you go to my Facebook, Danny, just clip to the other story then.

All right, skip to the, go to my Facebook. It's the last thing I posted about Metallica. But in the meantime, while he's looking that up, this is kind of cool. Amanda, our assistant, who's amazing, drop this in my email inbox. I'll have to throw this picture up on the screen. Yeah.

So check it out. You know the Baldwin brothers, the actors. I do. You know, the whole family. They're from Syracuse. I know this. And there was a rumor going around that they named Baldwin'sville

because of them, but I don't believe that. That is false. Okay, thank you. Two of the famous Baldwin brothers are set to face off in the central New York pickleball event. Yeah. Alec Baldwin and Stephen Baldwin

are going to play against each other in a friendly competition at the first ever, Byrne in Baldwin Brothers Celebrity Pickleball bash in Skinny Atlas, August 22nd and 23rd at 1957 Pine Grove Road, Lake Skinny Atlas.

There's going to be other celebrities there. There's going to be player registration, actually, is $1,000, which includes access to all weekend events and dinner. To attend as a spectator tickets are only $50. Proceeds are going to the Baldwin Fund, which is their fund, after their mother, Carol Baldwin, who passed away from Rest Cairns. It's a huge, huge charitable organization. So check that out.

And I reached out to, I think it's Beth Baldwin, the sister, who is the chair, the head of the Baldwin Foundation, trying to get around the show to talk about that. We love that. So, yeah, pretty cool. Funny story, I was at a charity event earlier this year, and Stephen Baldwin was there. Really?

Casually, just like everybody else. I didn't talk to him. Here's the thing. It was one of those things where I'm just standing there talking to folks, and you see somebody out of the corner of your eye, and that looks familiar, and you look over, and you're like, holy fuck, that's Stephen Baldwin. And if you saw a back draft, then he's a huge star.

And it was like, oh, okay, that's Stephen Baldwin. He lives around here. I guess that makes sense. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I didn't want to go harass the guy and do any of that sort of shit. I didn't speak to him or anything, but it was just fun. And I'm sure he saw me looking at him, and I'm sure he gets that from a million fucking people. Sure.

But it was one of those things where it wasn't even the initial like, oh, my God, there's a celebrity. It was one of those things where out of the corner of my eye, someone familiar just clicked. And it took me a minute to process as I'm staring at him, I'm sure. Like, oh, shit. But yeah, no, that's pretty cool. It is strange seeing celebrities out of the Hollywood element and just like in the middle of Syracuse. You know, one of the thing that's great is locally they are the most famous for this foundation that has done great things. It's one of the areas probably.

So you're aware. Well, you're aware. Well, I don't know if we can get her or anyone from the foundation on, but we want to try. And not because it's a Baldwin because, I mean, it's a good cause. It's a good cause. And that's what we do here at good. News York and it's pickleball, which I've played pickleball. I don't get the craze.

I don't shit on it. It's fine. It's fun. I'm not understanding this crazy. It's like human paddle ball. Here's the thing. I don't know if I totally get it, but I will say that I have the utmost respect for folks who have pulled this off.

Because you think of all the little different types of games, things that come and go, this has become a sport that has been embraced in a very short time. They're building courts all over the place. like it's it blew up i don't i don't exactly understand how or why but like i tip my hat to them because they've this is a unicorn as we would say in the business you're right ESPN did a story on it like a year ago a piece on it some family like a guy and his son created this game i want to say during covid okay and they didn't want they couldn't play tennis at home sure so they played like a smaller and it i don't know how it caught on i'm assuming in the pandemic a lot of us were

tied to social media and it just took off. And between that and the Savannah bananas, holy shit. That's a whole other story. It's the future, man. It's awesome, man. Yeah. Last thing, you got it? So I saw this last night. I'm a huge Metallica fan, as you know.

And I saw this random post. And I'm waiting for, there it is. Oh, you sent me this and it was way too much to read. Yeah, I did. Here's the gist. So years ago, this freelance photographer was at Madison Square Garden in New York City

shooting stuff for the Rangers of the Knicks. I'm assuming the Rangers. Okay. And Metallica. No, no, I'm sorry. It was the Rangers because they were playing against the Pittsburgh Penguins. All right. And the dude looks over and he sees Lars and James from Metallica.

Yeah. What the hell? And he starts talking to him. And they said, yeah, we're here to see Yarmir Yager play. He's a very famous, what do you call it? Very famous hockey player, Hall of Famer. and so he was kind of... Hey, it's Cubby.

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He talks to them. And then he says, hey, you mind if I get a picture of you guys. And Lars being Lars, this is such a Lars thing to say. And I don't even know what this means. Maybe you can help me. Due to promotional reasons, it can't be just a picture of two guys from Metallica. We need another person in here. So they grabbed some kid that was walking by.

Kid didn't even probably know who they were. Just a random kid. And he snapped the picture. And he said for years, for decades, he's had this picture. And, you know, social media wasn't really around. Yeah. You know. And so he goes, I think about this kid every time I see the picture.

So he's asking that we find this kid. He wants to give him the picture. And I was like, first of all, it's a great story. And I was like, you know what we kind of have a little bit of a platform where we can spread it a little bit. That's incredible. It is incredible. the fuck does that mean though for promotion how long ago like this was so i can i can actually i didn't look but i can tell you because i know when yager played and when metallica looked like that so

this is probably mid 90s probably 95 96 all right so that kid's got to be like almost our age maybe what does he look at like 10 oh it's the number i can't read it from here but what's it oh it is nice nice i nailed it so that kid is maybe a little bit younger than us in the ballpark of our age, I'm going to guess. If we found a llama guy, we can find this guy. Yeah. But isn't that cool? Do you think that kid, did he even know who he was taking a picture with?

No, that's the thing. He said, he goes, I can't confirm that he knew or didn't know, but it didn't. The kid was just kind of like, okay. Yeah. He's like, whatever. I'm here for the Rangers. No, I could see that, though, because here's this thing, that promotional reasons or whatever. Yeah, tell me what that means.

They're a brand. Definitely. Photographers like paparazzi, the reason they exist is they get paid for high quality photos of celebrities. And that's why at any moment they're trying to grab that photo. So you see them in the magazine and it's just the celebrity. It's just the whatever. He didn't want them making the guy making money off them. It's like a commercial thing.

So it's totally fine to take a picture with a fan that you're not going to try to use in an ad or sell to somebody. To get an autograph. Right, right, right. But otherwise, it's something that. You know, Lars, I get it, right? The guy, one of my... Also, that might have been like a... That might have been something that Lars just said

because he didn't want to take a photo and they didn't imagine they would grab a kid and chuck him in the picture. For promotional reasons, we just can't take a picture with Metallica. You're going to have to find a kid. I mean, that is the most Lars thing ever, but... It's so Lars, but here's the thing about Lars. He's not the greatest drummer, okay?

Yes, did he sue fans over Napster? Napster, bah! But he was right, look what happened to the music business because of illegal downloads. Anyway, say what you want about the guy. He's a fucking brilliant business and marketing person. He, I've never seen a ban more zipped up tight, branding, marketing, monetizing than Metallica. And it's all his.

Oh, too. That's different, though. That motherfucker monetizes his toilet. So that Lars could run, my friend. I like to monetize toilet paper and, uh, Gene Simmons will sell tickets to his own funeral. He probably will. that's not a show Oh I know

I watched his reality show I kind of liked it It made me like him a little bit Because I just think he was a giant ass No matter what you think of him Like I said As you talk about that You know promotional

The business side The merchandising all that He Nobody Matches his game in that You are 1,000% correct If it wasn't for all that branding

Just purely the music And Kiss has some fucking bangers But if it was purely the music and they looked like, I don't know, cheap trick or something like that. Sure. Right? Would they be the household name they are? You know what?

I say no confidently because if you remember, they came out with an album, no makeup. Yeah. Didn't go so well. Yeah. So I'm going to assume. And like I say, they got some great songs that I think probably would have been hits. Yes. In their day, just like so many other bands.

Yep. but, you know, are they that iconic as they are today? If it wasn't for all that brain. Yeah, I don't know. I mean, like I said, confidently, I don't think so. I think that the whole thing. But there's no shame in it because that whole thing. No, no, I'm not knocking it.

I'm just saying. No, I know. That whole thing is brilliant. I was never a kiss fan. Like, I'm not, you know, because it's like you're either all in or you're not. There's no in between. Let's be honest. They're not, you know, purely in the music game.

They are in the entertainment game. Correct. And they put on an, that's what anybody who wants to go see a concert, anytime you hear somebody say they want to, they went to a great concert, they'll say they put on a hell of a show, right? It's not just that they sang my favorite song. That's right. It's that, you know, they had some kind of shit going that made it interesting and, you know, so. Let me ask you this before we go. He just made me think of a question. What is the worst concert you've ever been to? I actually have one, and I hate saying.

I won't say that it's, well, I don't know if it counts. So at Woodstock in 99. Okay. That concert, as a whole, was phenomenal. But, you know, obviously he had different artists. different things. Why Clef Jeanne? Really? Performed. I don't, I wouldn't say I'm like a Wyclef super fan, but he's got some songs that are good. Oogies were somebody that I, you know, sort of was looking forward to see and perform. He was pissed drunk. Oh.

And did no more than half of each of his songs. Maybe like cut it off and go to the next one. Like he would just stop? Yeah, pretty much like, you know, fade out. It wouldn't be like a hard cut. But they'd sing like the first verse. of the song. That's wild. I would rather you cut your entire set, like cut five songs.

Right. Rather than do all 12, but only half of them. 1,000%. That is a wild technique. It was just the shittiest, like... Yeah, dude. Like, why are we... You could have just skipped to another artist.

And you could tell, like, listen, for you to be at an outdoor festival with 100,000 people, and someone's able to tell you're drunk, you're drunk, too. Oh, yeah, he was... I used to get drunk on stage by accident sometime. Stupid. the worst one I ever saw and I'm going to take shit for this online

and I don't care because I know he's a legend I know he's an icon but I'm telling you and I think it was 2013 I went and saw Bob Dylan at Cornell University okay and Dawes opened Dawes was great it was fucking awful

and it's because for a couple reasons first of all he was never known as a great singer but by that point I mean he's like that yeah he's fucking So he can barely sing. I didn't know any of the songs. And you're not getting harmonica acoustic Bob Dylan. It was Bob Dylan standing there with a mic or kind of behind a piano.

It was just like I was looking at my watch for it to be over and I've never done that. And again, no disrespect to Bob Dylan. The fucking guy is a legend for what he did for just society. But look, I'm just being honest. It was not a great show. Let's flip the script. What's the best one he ever went to? Motherfuck.

I was hoping you wouldn't ask this. All right. Honorable mention to Green Day. I can't believe I'm going to say this. This was before 2016. Okay. Kid Rock surprisingly put on one of the greatest shows I've ever seen him. Really?

But Aerosmith, honorable mention, but I've got to go. I absolutely have a Green Day. Oh, I said Green Day. I got to go Metallica. I've seen them seven or eight times any one of those shows. Metallica is just incredible. Fair enough. I think there's one I'm missing, though.

I think there's one I'm missing. But it's hard to pick, but it's hard to beat. Yeah. I'm going to sound like an old man, but I still, my all-time favorite will always be that Woodstock 99, that whole festival. Yeah, you were blessed. And I honestly don't go to enough festivals or anything like that since, which is a regret of mine. But if I had to pick a single concert, that's a whole weekend thing, right? So if I had to pick a single one, I got to say it's got to be dead in company that I saw the sphere a couple months ago in Vegas.

With mayor, John Mayer? Yeah. Yeah, that is just, and I'm not even like a deadhead. Yeah. The sphere is probably the most incredible bucket list for me. more than any other kind of music you could imagine. If there ever was a perfect venue, or I'm sorry, if there ever was a perfect band for that venue,

it's like Pink Floyd or the Grateful Dead. And here's the thing, we got there and we're like, we learned it was a four-hour show. And my wife and I are both like, we're not huge dead fans. Like, are we going to, is this going to be fucking painful to sit here for four hours, you know? No. It flew by like that. Sure.

And I got to say from a nerd, I'm sitting there watching these things. And, you know, they've got graphics and things. And even you go to all kinds of shows and they've got background. graphics that they've pre-produced and they're doing all these different things. The graphics there at the sphere went with the music. So it was tied to that. And in the pre-produced animations and the crazy shit that's happening on the screen, they're mixing in live camera feeds of the musicians.

So you see the musicians floating around in the screen. At one point, they did this thing where they took the live video feed and built it out of dead bears. You know how they make pixels out of other images to do that sort of thing? They did that for all of that. It was incredible.

That's amazing. That is next level. You see like John Mayer playing the guitar but made out of dead bears. Did you see anybody getting sick? I heard there was like at each show there's like a portion of people that have to like, it's like causing migraines or people to pass out.

I don't see anything. I will say anything. that like if you're somebody that has an issue with, um, uh, uh, heights, you know, or steep things, like if you go to some of these stadiums and they're real high and you feel uncomfortable, you're really not going to like the higher sections of this. Yeah. Which unfortunately are some of the best views because it's like sort of the middle, sort of the higher up. It's very steep. Okay. So if you're one of those people that gets o'y about sort of steep, the only time that happened to me is I saw in 06, I saw Billy Joel at the, the carrier dome.

Yeah. Now the JMA wireless dome. That was before they renovated and we were way up and it felt like this. And I don't like that at all. I don't get comfortable in that. But here's the thing in the sphere, if you want, you can have phenomenal seats on the slightly lower level. As long as you aim towards the middle. And the reality is when we went to the Dead show, we were actually way over to the side.

It was probably the least good view and it was a phenomenal view. Yeah. So that's amazing You know Go to the sphere That question is ruined my day Because now when we As soon as we go off the air here

I'm gonna think about Ten other bands I could have mentioned Like Foo Fighters and other honorable mention I can't get away from Metallica But I know there's one I'm missing I know but there might be one that topped him I feel like there was one For a while believe or not

I can't believe it it was Kid Rock It was like it was just absolutely incredible We'll just have to save that for another edition Absolutely anything else buddy Um, nope. All right. Well, thank you for joining us here on Good News. You're sponsored by Ads on the Go.

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