Good News York by Growth Mode Content - GNY EP.74 | Tuesday News Day!

Episode Date: August 5, 2025

Rebranding the Syracuse Mets and Fun with Local Advertising In this episode of Good News, New York, hosts Matt Masur and his co-host chat about a variety of topics, starting with a humorous discussion about country music stars and scandal. They transition into serious content, like Syracuse Mets' announcement about seeking community input for a new team name by 2027, celebrating views in the millions for Good News, York, and the power of consistency and volume in content creation. The duo also explores classic New York state advertising jingles, the opening of a new non-alcoholic social club by a reality TV star, celebrating Buffalo Bills' Marv Levy's 100th birthday, and a chaotic hot dog spill in Pennsylvania. The episode is peppered with humor and local pride, aiming to keep listeners both informed and entertained. 00:00 Introduction and Guest Introduction 00:30 Brianna Chicken Fry Drama 04:17 Simon Cowell's Image Makeover 08:30 Good News, New York Milestone 11:58 Live Selling and Future Plans 21:26 IMAX and Future Technologies 26:36 Syracuse Mets Renaming Announcement 27:29 Discussing Syracuse Baseball Team Names 27:58 Minor League Baseball Team Names and Gimmicks 30:24 Creative Name Suggestions for Syracuse Team 35:25 Favorite New York Advertising Jingles 40:27 Local News and Events 45:17 Funny Traffic Incident in Pennsylvania 47:28 Concluding Remarks and Banter

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Is my buddy here, Garth Brooks. Stayed away from Zach. Yeah, apparently you told me I looked like a country music star with a hat on. Yeah, with the hat, just for the... I don't get it, but okay. Tell me he looks like he doesn't want to just go out and ruin Brianna Chicken Fry's life right now. Chicken Frye, Briano Chicken Frye. What is that story?

I saw that name in the news the other day. You don't know that story? No, I don't. Something about... Oh, man. I don't know. There's some sort of divorce going on. They just dated.

Is her real name Chicken Fry? No, that's her stage name. Stage name. Yeah, she works for Barstool. She's a podcaster, kind of creator. Cool. Beautiful young woman dated this dude. And he was a piece of shit, apparently.

This is a country singer? Yeah. Yeah. And I'm blanking on his name and I, they all blur together. No, they're all the same. Zach Brian. It's not the other guy who's exactly like him. Is there another Zach?

Because it could be. I think so. Is there a Zach? All right. All right. So anyway, he was apparently. a piece of shit to her during their relationship. They only dated. They didn't, they weren't married nothing.

They broke up. He, so bad so that he offered her a $12 million NDA to not talk about the relationship. Wow. How much did you fuck up when you go ahead? Yeah. Listen, before you say a word, here's 12 mil. That's my opening

offer. Dude. Now, here's the cool part. One of the reasons that I have a lot of respect for this young woman, she said, fuck you, no. Hmm. Yeah. So, A, Barstool pays a lot better than I do because clearly she had fuck you money enough to turn down 12 mil. I would, there's not much I wouldn't do for 12 million. Dude, 12.

I might throw you off the roof for $12 million. You would throw me off the roof for $5. But I, I got to believe that 12, like, what do you think? What could he have done that it's worth $12 million to shut your money? It's got to be he likes getting pegged. No, no. He's just, he's just. piece of shit. You know, and we're living

kind of in the post, Me Too, where it's not cool for the world to see that you are a piece of a yet. I see. So you just think it's $12 million, like, overall, don't make me look bad. It's one of those, it's the management going, uh, if she tells the truth about this guy, how much is that going to hurt his image and, you know,

reflecting ticket sales and it's one of those it's almost like one of those insurance deals. They're trying to hedge their bets to save their losses. Didn't work. She said no and has proceeded to tell the world what a piece of the shit he is. Interesting subtext of that story.

He has apparently moved on, has a new girl. I think he cloned Brianna in a lab. So much so that when they put the comparison together, people are like, which one is who? So she's one of those type. Brianna grilled chicken? Brianna chicken pot. Bro seriously has a type.

You know, it's one of those types. You know her Kanye? Kanye got a new woman that looked exactly like the old Yes, right after Kim Kardashian. He dated a Kim Kardashian. Right on the nose, you know? You know, it's funny because if I was Zach Bryan, which apparently I look like him with a hat on,

I would actually not offer $12 million because here's the thing. I have noticed there is public relations people. Also, you're not a piece of shit. Oh, thanks, buddy. I always thought he thought I was. You probably wouldn't have sat there and I don't mean to cut you off, but you probably wouldn't have sat there and thought, Listen, I have $12 million worth of bullshit that we don't want the public to know about me.

Yeah, I'm pretty open book. I mean, if I got pegged, I'd be like, okay, yes, you pegged me. There it is. You know, I'm not going to pay $12 million. I'm not going to pay $12 million. I don't think that's actually part of the deal, but I think we should run with it. So here's the thing. The public relations people these days are very, very smart.

Do you remember years ago when... Are they very, very scared? That too. You remember when Simon Cowell like banged his buddy's wife And then she got pregnant and now he has a kid, right? So I've been, I watch America's Got Talent It's one of the only reality shows I watch. My daughter and I have this thing where we bond at night

Is that still on? We watch new episodes. Yeah, 20th season. 20th season actually. I'm watching it right now. And Simon Cowell And I'll admit I even fell for it even though I knew what was going on. Simon Cowell is now this likable,

guy. He always likes the acts that he would normally. Oh yeah. Now they've kind of moved it on. He was famous for being the asshole. Right. That was his whole thing with American Idol. So here's, and I don't have proof of this, but this is the way I've felt the template that you have one of those shows and you have an asshole British guy. 100%. Yeah. There's a million shows that completely ripped off his stick. And I'm glad you said that because that's where I'm going with this. This is why I think this was a PR move. Suddenly he's nice, okay, which doesn't check out because you got to have the angry British guy, right? and that's what he was known for.

And then I remembered this whole bang in his, you know, friend's wife and he gets her pregnant. They have a kid. How do you recover from that if you're Simon Colle's management or PR, right? Here's what you do. You use the old script writing trick. You show somebody with children or animals and all is forgiven. So if you're writing a script and you want the heel to become a good guy,

you show them being nice to children or an elderly person or you bring in a pet. And I've noticed over the years He goes Gaga over the dog axe He constantly, there was a while Where they were bringing his son on set Like in between footage of him like hugging his son Right? So I'm like, I see what they're doing They're trying to turn him into a good guy

And it worked because I like him now So I think Zach Brian shouldn't have paid the 12 million Because if you can make Simon Cowell look like a good dude All right, but here's the thing in that example Simon Cowell plays the heel Like, I don't understand how you could hurt your... Not anymore. You're like, oh, he did this nasty thing.

He's a real asshole. Like, yeah, that's on brand. Oh, I see what you're saying. Yeah, but the thing is... How do you tarnish the image of a heel? Well, see, asshole on a reality TV show is like, yeah, bloody awful. You don't know how to sing.

But I think it crosses the line when you're having sex and impregnating your friend's wife. I don't... I don't want this to sound like I'm disagreeing, because honestly, I think you're completely correct. I do too. I don't totally understand. You know what I mean?

Understand what I mean? He doesn't have an image to rehab. I feel like there is exactly zero viewers who decided I'm not going to watch NBC because Simon banged his buddy's sister. But see, that's... Like, exactly zero dollars were affected by that move, in my opinion. Well, I think you're right on it because... Maybe they've got analysts that think differently.

If he's supposed to be this asshole, and he does that, which is really, I mean, as asshole as you can get. I mean, is it, though, like, on the list of things, it's not like Seinfeld who dated a child. Oh, you know? What? Seinfeld dated a child? Yeah, you don't remember that? God, no.

He's famous for being a pedophile. Oh, my God. What is with all these minors? A teenager. I didn't know that. Yeah. Well, that's disgusting. I'm not really a Jerry Seinfeld family.

You know. Simon is just, you know, that's an asshole. but adultery, impregnating your friend's wife. But here's the thing, I think, because we're in this... AOLO game is weak. It was in the... It was in the Me Too, like the heat of the cancel culture. Yeah, and I...

I think AGT was like, dude, nobody's going to watch the show. We're going to get canceled. I mean, it's his show. Right. So, I think you're... No, you're right. I think that's... I think that was kind of the thing behind it.

So what did they do? They doctored him up into this, like, oh, look, he's so nice to these children and these dogs. And it worked. Because even though I was aware of it, I still fell for it. It can, it's very easy to do. It's very easy to do. It's Tuesday, Newsday. That was literally the opening.

We started out with me making fun of him, and that turned into a whole ass segment. That's what the beauty of what we do. You need a podcast. That's why I love you. Not to derail you. What are you going to do to me? To another point that I did want to make sure that I talk about today. So I posted about this, and it got a lot of love on a lot of the channels.

Grindr. And the reality is, this was a really pretty big thing that flew under the radar. our views on our posts and our videos and our clips and all those things for Good News York have now reached the millions. Our numbers are in the fucking million. That's crazy. I meant to ask you about that. And I honestly, I honestly don't, we haven't paid close enough attention to tell you exactly the day that we like crossed that line or got our millionth view or anything like that. I literally was like, hey, I should probably see where our numbers are at.

And they were absolutely incredible. Are you talking just good news York? Specifically just good news york. So not our clients. No. So that would mean... Not our clients, not our personal stuff that are, a lot of this content has driven on our own pages. You know, you've got a ton of traction on your existing pages from clips from the show and things like that you've done.

It doesn't include any of that. Wow. And these are real numbers. Yeah, real video views. And these are... And here's the thing. It's not surprising, right? Because this is literally the strategy.

And this is literally what we've been telling people would occur. And I'm happy to say that we're proving that model. But consistency, volume, and quality. We're working on the quality. In that order, right? Consistency and volume, honestly, come before quality. And I don't say that to like shit on us, but just to talk about the way that content and these algorithms work. You've got to start doing it.

because with that consistency and quantity, you start to see what works. And that's the part that I think a lot of people miss. A lot of people get into this game and they go, I know exactly what kind of video is going to do right, and they spend three and a half days producing that video, and it gets eight fucking views. Yeah.

And we do that too. Yeah. But the reality is we also machine gun out ten other videos, and two of them suddenly do tens of thousands of views. You're absolutely right. And then we adjust. Yeah. And I'm sorry, I mean to coach you up.

The first thing you told me when I started working here, when we started talking about strategy and what we're going to do is you preached consistency. Yeah. You preached, and you made the point, like, think about all the things that show up in your algorithm, things that you're like, it's not that good, but it keeps showing up. It's because they're just consistent in what they're posting. Maybe the quality isn't as great. But it's phenomenal that we're getting this many views, man.

And it's a testament to how hard you've worked and your vision. and I'm so glad to be a part of it. You know, I just, I forgot where I was going with it, but I'm just, I'm excited. No, it's good. We're doing great things, and I'm very excited. Very happy to have all of the folks that are listening and watching. I will say as well, our audio podcast. Which you can get anywhere.

Podcasts are starting to grow incredibly rapidly as well. People are starting to figure that part out. Really? That's a slow burn. All of this, and this is what we've told all of our clients from day one, the content game is always going to be a slow burn. Sure. No one with the exception of, you know, well-known celebrities, and honestly, many of them

have never put out episode one, two, or three and, you know, hit the masses. Right. It's a slow burn. What's interesting, though, as I was thinking about this, we've talked about this a little bit, and I'm not going to get too deep into it, but here at Growth Mode content, we are getting into live selling. And we've talked about this a little bit, this live shopping. basically, I keep calling it modern day QVC. But it's basically there's a wide variety of platforms, including ones that you use,

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Amazon Music, and hundreds more. Track your listeners. See where they're from and start earning from ads like this even with just 10 listeners a month If you've been thinking about starting a podcast, this is your sign. Start free at RSS.com They do this, but there's these live shopping feeds where you can go on and watch everyday people sell regular products This is something that we're going to offer as a company to our clients. We're going to help local businesses sell their stuff But I was thinking about the difference in these games, and I realized it's two totally different gamuts, right? So all of our content clients, we've told them exactly what I just said. When they come in and they start doing the podcast, listen, you're not going to go viral on day one.

Don't expect that. Don't expect massive numbers. This is a slow burn. And it's made to put things out there, so eventually people will find you and jump on. But the live selling is the exact. opposite side of that. It is instant gratification. Yeah. And that will be a whole different world for us where instead of making something and putting it out there and getting feedback and eventually whatever, literally we're going to go live right now for the next couple hours and folks are going to buy this shit right now.

Yeah. And it's very interesting. I just got thinking about, you know, like the strategies. I'm like, wait a minute. You know, we're talking all these other things that's very slow, this long term, this whatever. The selling is the exact opposite. Dude, you are always a step ahead. You know, you built the first podcast studio in Syracuse, which I was a guest on. I've talked about this before. And I remember getting done with the interview.

I was in a band and you had interviewed me. And I remember saying to you, so wait, did this air? And you're like, no, no, buddy. It's a podcast. I'm like, what's a podcast? You know, it's like radio, but scheduled. So, I mean, you have been talking about this live selling

because before now, live selling to me was what I would see on TikTok after midnight. And it was just like a really bad Walmart. You know, I was like, what is going on? This is crazy. Now, I'm starting to see what you're seeing, and I want to get to a point where, like, this morning we opened with, hey, look, when Mike wears his hat, he looks like Zach Bryan or whatever. Yeah, I think it's Zach Brown.

And what if we made it clickable? You could buy my hat right now. We link it, you know? I want to do that stuff. And it's going to be done. And that's what we're getting to. And another thing, yesterday, I showed off my new business card. Can I talk about this?

Is this a private? Don't yet. Okay. Um, well, we got a new cool thing. We got a new cool thing and I can't wait to talk about it. And it's along those lines. It's one of those things that's very close to ready. That's one of the reasons I don't want to deep tease it too much because I think we're going to be able to go the full, the full long.

I knew it was cool when you gave it to me and we set it up. When I unveiled it to family and friends yesterday, their jaws dropped. And I said, here's the thing. I said, my boss is always, and my friend, more importantly, is always a step ahead. I said, so this is going to, this is going to become normal. This is going to be a normal thing for people without saying too much. It's going to become normal in society. And just remember that Matt Mazer thought of it first.

And you saw it here. I don't know if I can take the credit for thinking of it first. There's lots of people that sell those things that we're going to be selling. But because of that reason, we're going to hopefully have some competitive advantages. Some features, some quality, some unique things that you can't get from anybody else. And then, again, not to talk about it too much, but we are going to get into some things that nobody is. doing and I think if we are successful in popularizing it, it's going to be incredible. So I'm excited about that.

That's going to be a fun thing. That is going to be a direct-to-consumer product, meaning, you know, everyday people might want to buy it, which is a departure from what I've traditionally done. My history and business is what they call B2B business to business. I've always done what we do here, where we offer a service to another business. I personally don't have a huge background in selling products directly to consumers and I'm kind of excited about that.

That's a fun like thing to do. As we get into this live shopping, that's one of the things I'm going to kind of focus on. It's going to give me the good sort of sample to learn how to sell and do this stuff. So I'm excited about that part too. You make a good point because I just thought of something. Back in the day, if you wanted to pivot

and say, I want to kind of just do direct-to-consumer stuff, you'd have to pivot and rebrand your business or just do a whole new business model. You can still keep your business as is and just almost do it on the side. I don't want to say on the side you won't put effort into it, but you know what I mean?

It's just easy to do in addition to what you're already doing. One of the things we're doing here from a content standpoint and one of the things that I've always kept in mind from a business standpoint is building a machine that you can pump other things through. Right. So growth more technologies is technically a kind of an overarching company with the idea of having a number of these brands and products and services that live under it.

With the idea to sort of share resources and make things efficient. And like I said, when you got a new idea, I don't have to go and rent another place and hire another team and do these other things because we've got so many of these pieces already that we can just sort of lend to that. If you don't mind talking about it, one of the things I asked you when you started talking about it, one of the things I asked you when you started to, talking about this live selling and, you know, we start having meetings about it. Because, again, I always think you're ahead of the game and, and, and you know what you're doing. And so I said, well, what do you, if, if the future becomes online selling more than retail, what happens to brick and mortar in retail stores, do you remember what you said? And I loved it.

I am, and I'm already seeing it. And again, it's because you're already seeing these things. I am of the opinion that the local store will become more of a distribution center. It makes so much sense. Remember when Walmart not long ago started putting those big orange things in the middle of Walmart and you could like order something and then you go, you unlock it? Like whatever you order is in a locker. Yeah. Well, plus they do a lot of delivery, right?

So like 90% of the time now we get our groceries delivered. And it's great because you know what you want. You know what the family needs and it comes time to reorder every week. You just give me this week's groceries and it shows up at your door. You know what else is around the corner They give you a lot of money And I think I sent this to you guys Did I send you the video of the guy

Somewhere in Europe I think He ordered subway like in the middle of a park And it came by drone I could see that It's people talk about that Quite a bit And I think a lot of people think It's one of those funny or futuristic things

That's legit Amazon is legitimately In testing with that In other parts of the country right now You can go watch videos of people getting Yeah Amazon Prime drone delivery. It's pretty wild. Because I remember hearing about it and then I was like, where is this?

Remember, uh, uh, Y2K era? When everybody thought, from my point of view, correct me wrong, if you were a 90s teen like me, everybody couldn't wait for the year 2000 because what was coming? Flying cars. Oh yeah. That was the whole, nobody cared

about anything else. It was cell phone. That's the future. Flying car. And we still don't have flying cars. So that's what- The future is flying cars. Right. And I, that's why I think people are kind of naysaying the drone thing because they're like, Oh, yeah, just like flying cars and we're like, no, it's already happening. I mean, and there is honestly some similar ideas of flying cars that are starting to become a little more popular. And mark my words.

They're calling them now. Holograms are the new thing. Real rich people can buy themselves like a one-man helicopter. Yeah. When I was in school, they showed a video of this is around the corner too. I don't know about, definitely commercially, but for the regular concerns. I don't know when, but there's these boxes you can get in your house where you essentially, let's say cousins live across the country from each other. You have a video camera set up and you are essentially on the other side of the country are your cousins who have a video camera set up, but you're a hologram in the house.

And you can talk to each other. And I remember during the pandemic, the stand up New York, which I've performed at, by the way, shout out stand up New York, love that club. is they were the first to, they were having comedians in L.A. do spots in New York by using holograms on the stage. It's wild shit. That thing you're talking about, they used,

I think last season on the show Big Brother, where AI themed and the AI of the house was in that thing. If you haven't seen it, what he's talking about, it's sort of like a phone booth. Yeah. It's a tall, completely closed thing.

Yes. Where the hologram appears sort of inside it, and they look 3D and all that, but it's not like they're in the room or you can't like wave your hand through it. It's literally this... It's enclosed. It's wild.

Kind of neat. But, again, I don't know. I'm of the opinion when it comes to holograms as well as, like, 3D. Like, I love 3D in movies and things like that. But to me, I'm not super interested until we get to the point to where I can see it without glasses and special shit. I get it. Like, the legit, pretty much, that box is real close. Yeah.

You know, where, you know, from Star Wars. So I got to deliver a message and boop. Yeah. You know, it pops up. and there's the princess talking to you in three dimensions. I don't know if we're that far away from that to be completely honest. I don't think we are. I'm really not too interested in it until we get there.

Speaking of which, you know what I've never done? You're talking about 3D movies? Have you ever been to an IMAX? Of course. Yeah, I haven't. Is that weird? Yes. What is it like?

Is it just like the IMAX in Syracuse here? Never. Oh my God, bro. Not in Hercmer. All right, I'll give you a quick background. Just give me like what is it? Is it fully immersed? Sort of.

Sort of. So IMAX in general is a very large format film. And there's a couple types of IMAX screens. So you can actually go to the IMAX screen in the mall, and it's just a very, very, very big screen. And the video, the movie is shot in special extra high resolution and it's cool shit. What you really want, though, don't mess with the mall at all. Got to go to the most.

They're in Syracuse, the Museum of Science and Technology. Oh, right, right, right. They have what's called an IMAX dome theater. There's a few of these in the country, but it is essentially this fear in Las Vegas. Yeah, what? Yeah. It is, I sort of picture it as sitting like on the inside of a golf ball.

You sit there and literally pretty much to the sides of what you can see is this inside of a ball, is the whole screen. And so it is immersive in that it is literally everything you can see and feel. So there'll be movies where you're moving around and you're moving fast and it stops real quick. You feel like you're going to fall out of your chair. No shit. But there's no moving anything.

At the sphere they have actually stuff in your seats and they have winds. They'll play in the space and stuff. They don't have that at the IMAX, but you don't need it. It's... Dude. Incredible. I went to Disney World years ago

and I went to this little theater where they would show all clips from different Disney movies like the BR guest. Sure. And they would blow the smell of the food and that's a little more of the gimmicky what they call a 4D theater yeah so these these movies that you're seeing in this spheres type iMacs thing are they formatted for that or is oh 100% okay i see that's the biggest thing and i think it's becoming easier now with different and we're honestly shooting movies and

insane resolutions these days but like back in the day um and this has been around for a long time so the 90s like i went to see this as a kid yeah um and the dome in syracuse is one of the only ones in the area It's honestly really special, but it used to be very much had to be shot in that special large format. So they used special cameras. And they used to have, they just moved to digital. So they've got a digital projector now in Syracuse. But not too long ago, they had the original film projector and you could actually see that. That took the, you know, the massive size frame.

What a time to be alive. See, my wife doesn't like to travel much, right? Like if she sees a snake in our garden She's like well never going in the garden again Put the house on the market She saw that the sphere Well no she saw Well if she did we wouldn't I wouldn't be here

No She saw an article about the sphere Because we're I finally convinced her We're gonna go to the sphere Yeah She saw an article that Dozens Hey it's Cubby

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Here's the thing. I mean, there's people that are prone to that stuff all over the place and you go to all kinds of exhibits that have flashing lights or strobe. Sure. And they tell you that. What I would say about the sphere, not so much, honestly a little bit at the most too, because those stadiums are very

high incline. Yeah. Vertigo type shit. You know, it just depends. If you're into that, if you don't like heights, if you don't like steep angles, which I honestly am not a big fan of, but I was fine. In both places, whether you're in the sphere or whatever, the worst of it is right in the middle in the high section, right?

You're sitting in the middle up high. And that is some of the better seats, but there really is not a bad seat. It can't be, yeah. Sit on the first level. And off to the side, if you're somebody who doesn't like the heights, you'll have as good of an experience, but not have a fucking pan-knit. So you can sit anywhere. Because, like, with roller coasters, everyone thinks that, like, the front car, right?

That's the one you want, which in some ways it is cool to be the, you can see everything. What you don't know is, if you're in the back car of a roller coaster, when it's going over the edge, it gets pulled and you actually go faster over the bumps. In the sphere, is there something like that where, like, you think the middle is the best spot? No, I mean, anywhere. The middle is only the best spot because, you know, obviously you're in the middle and you get the most of everything wrapped around you. Okay. You know what I mean?

But when I went and saw Dead in Company, we were sort of off to the side a little bit. Okay. Which who better to go see? Who better to go see than like Pink Floyd or the Grateful Dead? Yeah, I mean, if you're going to. Yeah. Yeah. We know.

Wow. Danny, how long have we been going? We haven't even gotten into anything yet. Have we? Danny's like, I hit Cut. long time. Yeah, he's like, what are you talking about? I went home and came back. Well, I want to get to the, are we good? I don't want to move on if you have more to say about all right, double thumbs. This is huge because our friend, Jason Smorrell, who is the GM of the

Syracuse Mets, they have made a really big announcement and we're going to run with this and I think we're going to do some more stuff about this, but come 2027, the Syracuse Mets will be looking for a rename. That's right. They are asking for community. input as they consider a new identity for the 2027 season. They released a social media video where we can name, anybody can name. And if you want to submit, okay, you're going to submit from August 5th through August 31st. The top 10 name submissions are going to be announced on September 2nd. And then it keeps going on and on until they finally pick in fall 2026.

And you can go on, you can Google it, and you can find the link to go. go ahead and fill that out. But man, that is exciting. Before you say yours, our man, Danny is a patron of the Syracuse Mets, soon to be something else. And actually, he was there before they were even the Mets, right? So I want to get your take first, buddy. If you could pick a name for the Syracuse baseball team. Do you want to flip the camera around?

No, he's fine. What would you call them? You're going to put me on the spot like this. Yeah. I feel like having seen the success with the Syracuse salt potatoes, I think it makes sense, realistically, to just go and be the Syracuse salt potatoes. It's got a great history behind the salt potato in Syracuse. So to me, I think that would be the natural fit.

That's interesting. That being said, you know, I enjoyed the Syracuse Chiefs, enjoyed the Syracuse Mets, honestly. I grew up with Syracuse Sky Chiefs baseball. And you worked there. Go Taters. What were they when you worked there? So they were transitioned to the, it was the, from baby blue Syracuse chiefs to the red, white and blue Syracuse chiefs. That was their first rebrand.

And then from there it was chiefs to Mets. Okay. But through that, we did a bunch of alternate identities like the Syracuse salt potatoes, the Syracuse. So the salt potatoes was something they ran with? There's a gimmick? It was a... Yeah, usually it was an advertisement for around the fair when... I got you.

competing with the fair. Not really competing, but like... At the same time. It's like a limited time thing. Yeah. Yeah, you know, so we would have salt potato power move weekend, and we would be renamed the salt potatoes. We'd change the sign out front. Even all the social media graphics would change over to the Syracuse salt potatoes.

And from that, we kind of did a rivalry with our through-way rivals. down the road the Rochester Red Wings. They were the Rochester plate. Oh, that right, that rat bastard that Jason doesn't like. Dan Mason, you son of a bitch. A battle between the golden fork between the Syracuse plates and the Syracuse salt, sorry, the Rochester plates and Syracuse salt potatoes. That's kind of cool.

There's a little bit of history behind that, too. So, yeah, I don't know. I think salt potatoes would be great. The merch could get a refresh. I saw that they were going to keep the orange and blue coloring. That'll help. name, so I don't know. I'm excited to see what the picture holds. That's a way better answer than I anticipated to be honest.

That was, so here's the thing. This is what I love about minor league baseball teams. You actually can have hokey things like that, like the salt potatoes, and it sticks. Like, they have the somewhere, I think it's the Albuquerque isotopes was a team at one time, which I think is named after a Simpsons episode. I mean, you can do anything. Springfield isotopes. It's Springfield isotopes. There you go. So I think.

What's your name pick, Mike? Well, I had a few minutes while I was waiting for you. Uh-oh. I'm just going to run down. I got the Syracuse. You got a whole list. Oh, yeah. I got the Syracuse Alec Baldwin's under construction because everything is.

Syracuse Salt City. Um, but I guess Danny said that that was already a thing. Salt City Mets. Syracuse 690s. Um, the Syracuse Squall. This is the snow version. Syracuse squalls. The Syracuse snowbirds.

The Syracuse snow devils. Syracuse snow plows. Syracuse blizzard. Syracuse snowflakes Syracuse Canals Syracuse

Cruz Syracuse Crabby Paddies Why? Because the creator of SpongeBob is from here

I forget his name but a voice actor excuse me So you got Syracuse Craby patties The Syracuse

Squarepants Bopat Goldthwaite is from here So how about the Syracuse Bobcat Goldthwaite

You can't throw out Every Puck The Syracuse Easy Passes The Syracuse through crew And the

Syracuse Fusillos because they're huge. Tom Park? I don't know, man. I think that you can make a really good baseball team. If you just based on Bobcat. Did you know... All right, of all my shitty impressions, you got to admit that was one of the better impressions. That was really good.

Police Academy, great series. Loved it growing up. Series ever. So, yeah, what do you got? I know I put you on the spot. I had some time. Bolly Mick Baseball face. Fuck.

What did you... What did you just, what did you say? Bally McBaseball face. Done. That's it. So it's the Syracuse, Bally McBally Faces, plural? Bally McBaseball face.

Excuse me, I apologize. Don't want to offend you. Bally McBaseball face. Bally McBaseball face. He doesn't know about Bodey McBow face, does he? Oh, I'm sorry, guys. I'm getting mean-girled now by Danny and Matt. What don't I know?

It's like the old. this internet meme ever. I remember me me. Remember me that I met that again. There was a contest, this exact sort of contest. It was named my boat and they let the internet name the boat.

And the internet named the boat, Bodie MacBow. I always had the best name for a boat. Are you ready for it? He's got the whole breakdown. My name for a boat is the cirrhosis of the river. No? Okay. Fuck you.

All right. Boaty McBoast. So that's even funnier then. The baseball It's even better when I get the joke. Yeah. Who would have thought? Yeah, so name the team. I want to shoot something downtown and ask around and see what people are thinking. Also, I think honestly, anybody watching this clip, leave

a note in the comments. Because Jason does watch our show, I found out, which is awesome. We'll submit that. Name, leave your team name. I think we get a cut if we come up with a good name. Finders fee? Yeah, something like that. What about the Syracuse Good New York? What if we come up with a great baseball name and immediately trade market, so they have to license it from us? Dude.

Jason, don't listen to this. Yeah. Stop listening. No. Let's do it. Anyway. What else is on Tuesday, Newsday, my friend? Well, I want to say real quick, also, quick plug, also for the Syracuse Mets.

They're showing rookie of the year. We talked about this yesterday on Thursday, August 14th to raise money for charity. And $25 for adults, $10 for kids, ages 6 to 12. And free for kids, five and under. Parking is free. Who doesn't want to go see a baseball movie in a baseball stadium? It's such a great idea. And all proceeds from the event support the hospice mission.

Oh, they let you right on on the field. Yeah, you sit on the field. Oh, that's cool. Isn't that great? I thought it was still in the stands. No, that's cool. What else is going on? Well, actually, this whole baseball thing got me thinking,

Danny, do you have the jingle, the old Syracuse Mets jingle? Do you have it pulled up or now? Do you have it pulled up or now? Do you have it jingle? Listen to this jingle And then I have a question No I wish Danny Robb is this like Christmas Not Syracuse

Oh my God No way this is real It's real So this got me thinking Was it written in 1985 Let's guess It was around the exact time that it was written But they would play this when they would win

Which was often rare This is how David Lee Roth got discovered So like at the stadium They're winning They're going to play the victory song Which I will write a new jingle If Jason Wants me too I will write a jingle for the Syracuse Mats

I want to just say that Hold on, what is it? What team do they name in this? Or do they? Oh, okay, the chief. I didn't hear the chief part. Okay. So this got me thinking. Oh.

What is your favorite New York-based advertising jingle? Come on. What do you got? I got a few queued up for it. Damn. I don't know that one. I got to see, now you...

I know. Well, while you're thinking... What's the best? While you're thinking, I have a few. Yeah, I want some answers. And... Let me just pull it out here.

I mean, those... First of all, jingles... People still use jingles. Yeah. And I guess that's good. I mean, this is a good one to start. Oh. All right, that's the lowest quality.

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That's awesome. You should have a countersued for the Kilimanjaro so you could have it in your backyard. Here's the thing. My partners at the time shit themselves. That sucks. We're going to take it down. So we did. I was more than happy to lean into it because, A, it was fair use.

And B, it would have been the best publicity we ever got at the time. But how badass. That was my one and only pair of things. I'll find it somewhere. No, I didn't even get that. I just got somebody like, hey, that's a credit to you that you were that you were that important to them that you were on the radar. Dude, the fact that it made it all the way to them, honestly, like, it didn't even get massive views.

It was like they were the one and only view. I don't even know. Metro Mattress. Or they used to have a. All right. I vaguely get that. What's the other Metro mattress? Metro.

The sleep super store, metro mattress. The sleep superstore. I only vaguely get that one. Smartphone. Do it again. Oh, that was when they got out jazzy with it. I like the heavy hitters are all you need. Call 1-800 law 1333.

I think Sean Kelsey wrote that. He did? I know him. I don't know. There's so many to choose from. That's it. The Zoom tan one. Is this sound as a jingle?

No. What is that? It's a huge. If you want to go taglines, I got taglines all day long. Like leave off the last S for savings. Come on down, center court, Riverside Mall. Beautiful City of Utica. Beautiful City of Utica.

Thank you very much. I love Charlie Steeley. I was very close with his son. I hung out. It was like hanging out at a celebrity's house. I meant to ask you that offer. In all honesty, get Charlie Steeley on the show. I'll get him on here in a second.

I love that man. I used to hang out at his house and it was like, my friend was like, dude, stop being weird. It's just my dad. I always had a nice pair of leather loafers. Only 15 beans. 15 beans. Come on down.

12 peppers. 12 peppers. God, I love that. Only eight shells. Put your favorite. Oh! Fort Ricky Discovery. Yes.

I love Fort Ricky. Holy shit, I forgot about it. You know how many that we're leaving on the table? Is it still a thing? I don't know. If it is, those animals are in bitching. They're old. Bro, there were so many.

See, uh... Talk about this. It's my money. and I need it now. You know, there's so many like taglines, but I'm trying to think of jingles. It's hard. We'll have to revisit it. But again, just like the naming contest with the Mets, give us your favorite jingles in the comments.

We'll sing them on the show. What's funny is I, there's a Twitch channel that plays nothing but retro commercials. It's just called retro commercials. I have it on in my office all day long. I can't remember what I was supposed to do 10 minutes from now. But you remember the song. somehow I know every single word of 95% of those commercials. 100%.

And I'll find myself sitting there singing along and going, how the fuck do I know this? It's like riding a bike, man. It's a earworm that never left. That's, you know? There's the heyday of marketing and advertising. Like literally, anytime I, like, hurt myself in a car, like, even if I bang my elbow, I'm like, call William a tar.

Hurt in a car, call William a tire. It just stays with you. You think that guy would have had a career if his name didn't rhyme? I think he would have had a career. He just wouldn't have had a great jingle. But anyway, I want to, this is pretty cool. Danny, if you want to pull up this video, a local, well, actually, a Syracuse alum,

who I believe I'm paraphrasing, but I think he's got some sort of accounting and finance degree. He didn't go to the Newhouse School. He played Adam Sandler's stunt double in Happy Gilmore, too. And here's a quick video of him talking to. Really? Yeah, yeah, this is really, really cool. Oh. Just got an ax out of that.

There we go. Act flop into the water. I had to do the Happy Gilmore swing and full-on flop into the water. And I've never done it before. I'm not a stunt double. I remember doing this six times. Hair, makeup, new costume.

How do you get a stunt double? The end of it, I was exhausted. I was cold. I was wet, but I would do that time and time again. And that's your whole story. Stunt, it's fall in the water? But it's less about him being a stunt double, more about him being a lookalike. Because he does look like him.

He's got the same kind of features and profile. Max Kessler is his name. I feel like 40% of the male population looks like Adam Sandler. Yeah. Well, you know. But shout out to Max Kessler. S-U-Alum, and I probably should have done more research. Quickly, also, I wanted to talk about...

I really want to know how you get that gig with no experience. This is... Well... Because I'll fall on the line. You know what? How about I book him on the show? show. They make happy good old. I'll beat John Daly's body double. I'm going to

get Max Kessler on the show. Max Kessler, if you're watching or listening. Come on, good news, York. Sponsored by ads on the go, get ads on the go.com. Ads on the go. I want to say, this one I don't care about, but I'm just curious for your reaction to this. Okay. A reality TV star opens a new social club in Syracuse. Oh yeah, I think I found that. This is

Tammy K. Lee. L.Y. Is that how he's it? Lee? L. L. We'll open on 300 East Washington Street in Syracuse. It's called The Society. She's co-finding it. She was on The Bachelor, Bachelor in Paradise, and then part of million-dollar listing. And she got the idea when she toured a 3,000 square foot space with a client who was considering opening a restaurant in L.A.

Because she was a realtor out there. And yeah, so she came up with this idea to open up a new kind of social club. It's also a luxury coffee shop and juice bar. That's what's interesting about it is, and I guess maybe that's why we call it a social club or why they call it a social club. Is that code for it?

There's no alcohol, so it's not a bar of any sort. But it's that same vibe as you hang out with friends and enjoy tasty beverages. Again, and maybe correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm assuming that's why it's known as a social club. No, I think you're right, because before I threw the papers. Sounds awesome. No, it sounds good. But here's the thing, 10 years ago, I'd be like, 15 years ago,

I'd be like, you're crazy that it's non-alcoholic. It's not going to do it. Right. Nobody's drinking anymore. The pandemic really made us realize how disgusting, how we were just disgusting alcoholics. And a lot of people quit, including myself. So I don't know. I wish them luck, but yeah, I didn't know what you thought about that.

But we got a little reality TV star opening up a place. Any time a new business is opening in our area. We love it. Absolutely. You can go to the societycny.com. Maybe we'll have her on the show. Awesome. And then the last order of business, I just think this is crazy.

Marve Levy, former coach of the Buffalo Bills during the Super Bowl years, turned 100 just a few days ago. Wow. And that got me thinking, if you had a choice, would you want to live to be 100? Sure. Really? As long as I'm not like Alzheimer's brain cooked for the last decade. My whole thing is, this is how I judge.

If I can give conditions to that answer? Well, that's kind of where I'm at, which is I would want to live to be 100, 90, 100, whatever, as long as I'm not this old person. You know the people that are like, yeah, they're just fucking gone. Just constantly saying no. She should probably not do that. But yeah. You know what I mean? I don't want to be the shaky old, like, if I'm shaking, put me out of my misery, you know.

I don't want to. Like, that's a lot of work. We're going to get canceled for that. We're going to get canceled? No. All right, good. Man, I love you. This was fun.

Yeah. What else? Anything we good? There was one other thing in the news. We got. That is... And you might go... You know, I sent this over to you.

Oh! Last night. And you said to me... I'm sorry. I forgot. That's fine. You said to me... Damit, Balby?

Damn it, Mikey. This is a story about an accident in Pennsylvania. Oh! I thought you were talking about... King of the Hill. No. Okay. The hill's coming back on Hulu.

There's that story. And here's what happened. I'll just give you the rundown. You have to pull anything up there. What about this? A truckload of hot dogs spilled across a Pennsylvania highway after a crash, clogging the road for hours. Glizzies.

Glizzies. Four days. And it is reported by NBC New York, but I was like, but that happened in Pennsylvania. And you said, well, that's good news for New York. That's it. That's why this is good news, York is because Pennsylvania is the one that had to deal with that glizzy mess. It is ironic, I will tell you, having being someone who traveled recently and drove through Pennsylvania and got stuck in Pennsylvania traffic.

Worst. I have never, in my life, gone on a trip across the country and not gotten stuck in traffic in Pennsylvania. I feel like they're just a magnet for it. Like, is there construction? No. Okay, dump a load of hot dogs. What's the reason to stop everybody today? When you're traveling down the East Coast, I would dare say that Pennsylvania and Virginia,

are the worst parts of, and no offense, they're beautiful states, I love them, but as far as just driving through, and you're right, it's always some bullshit. Do you think it would make, would it make you less mad, more mad, or the same,

if you're in traffic, you're stuck, you finally get to what the hell is going on and you realize it's hot dogs. Is that like, oh, that's funny, I'm not as mad as if it was an accident? Yeah, I'd probably find a little bit of amusement. Yeah, it would be a little better, right?

In all honesty, if they're going to back up traffic, though, them fuckers and maybe hand out some glissies. Wow, you are genius. Dude, they should have just, oh my God. How do you clean it up faster? Pick them up and start handing out the hot dogs to everybody stuck in traffic?

I would do that. You know, the car stuckless is going to be a couple hours. All right, guys, I hop out and just start grilling. And I'll go a step further. Let's say you're the owner of that company. That's fucking free promotion. And other dads in their cars jump out, stand around, tell you want to turn the dogs. Glizzy's all around.

Why wouldn't you do that? Turn into a party. Because if you have to clean it up, you're going to have to pick up the hot dogs. What are you going to do with them? You give them to the people. You know how many horses we wasted for all that? A ton of horses. That's horses shit.

Anyway. Anyway, it is Good News York, sponsored by ads on the go. Get ads on the go.com. I'm Mike Brindisi. Matt Mazer. That's me. That is you.

You do not look like a country singer with your hat on. I envy you for that. I feel like I could probably pass for a country singer. Oh, easily. You look like one of those like the outlaw, like the Whalen Jennings type of. Yeah, I do the hillbillies.

Like I look like one of those duchy, Zach Bryan. Never even call me. Obama. Okay. Yeah. You would rip at that. Dude. Just singing about like real, real hillbilly shit.

Like, I took a man outside, pulled off his overalls and shot him in the neck. You know, there aren't many advantages to being the most Caucasian person on the planet. Oh, you are not. A country music career is one of them. You've got great features for, like, characters or just in general. You know, with the glasses and the beard. You got a great look. You got a great look, man.

All right, we got to go. Okay. Bye. Peace out. Hey folks, welcome to Good News, York. I'm your host, Matt Major from Growth Mode content. Joined me. Joined me.

Join me. Join me. Join me. Joining me over here is the latest winner of the Zach Braff, Zach Bryant. Fuck. Did you just have a stroke? I think you started this show. You want to run it back? I do. I don't.

I love that before, but yeah, I do. We're going to try this all over again. Zach Brath. Mailka, you can cut the end of the episode and make it a blooper reel. No. Okay, yeah. You're listening to a podcast right now, driving, working out, walking the dog.

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