Good News York by Growth Mode Content - GNY EP.91 | Matt & Mike Chat

Episode Date: September 10, 2025

Exploring the Beauty of Upstate New York and Beyond: A Deep Dive into Good Vibes In this episode, Matt Masur from Growth Mode Content engages in an intriguing conversation about the beauty and underrated appeal of Upstate New York, particularly the Adirondacks, through the perspective of a travel vlogger named Juliet. The episode discusses the transition from recording to live streaming, challenges in appreciating local beauty, and fascinating encounters on Saturday Night Live. Adding humor, the hosts share personal stories from their entertainment careers and debate about cruises, aliens, and the best and worst SNL cast members. The episode concludes with promo notes for upcoming guest appearances. 00:00 Introduction and Tech Updates 01:21 Exploring the Adirondacks 05:20 Reflections on Upstate New York 12:32 Cruise Ship Controversies 16:02 Worst SNL Cast Member Debate 18:48 Debating Overrated SNL Cast Members 20:00 The Best SNL Cast Members 21:38 Memorable SNL Sketches and Quotes 22:21 Garth Brooks and SNL Skits 24:16 Personal SNL Experiences 31:37 NASA's Mars Discovery 33:51 Belief in Aliens and Government Disclosures 35:08 Good News York and Upcoming Guests

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and Unirold's 50th anniversary summer specials. Hey, guys. It's Matt Major from Growth Mode content. Welcome to Good News, York. I was going to say what day it is. I genuinely don't know what day. Oh, yeah, I got you. It feels like, I don't know.

I have nothing funny to say here. That's how fucked up I am. Guys, we've got some fun topics to talk about. And behind the scenes, we're trying some new tech stuff to make the show a little more efficient and things of that nature. So I'm kind of excited to see how that goes today for episode 90. We made it easier to cut clips on the fly. But eventually we're going to be live soon. Do it live.

Fuck it. We'll do it live. Yeah, that's going to be soon. But we don't really have a set time on that yet. But that way we can interact. Interrect. That sounded dirty. Interact with viewers and listeners, which I love that aspect.

You know, we haven't done that. We did it backwards. Remember when we started, we were live? And then we realized, why the hell are we putting this much pressure on ourselves when we're still trying to build this thing? So we went to recording and now we'll be live at some point. What you got today, buddy? Well, we got a bunch of different things, man. So the first thing I want to jump into

was this video that I discovered a little while ago. It's a person on TikTok. Okay. And this woman and her fiancé husband, I'm not sure, are from the UK. You'll clearly hear their accent. Love it. They live in the United States now, I believe, in the Boston area,

but they are very into traveling and checking out different parts of the United States that aren't, you know, the most, you know, aren't like Disneyland. you know right um and i discovered them because they recently took a trip to the adirondacks oh i saw this you said it yeah they made a number of videos about how great it was and how great the time was and um you know as good news york i couldn't think of anything that was more good or more positive for our empire state than than somebody like this who was coming here and experiencing it for the first time and um it's awesome it's it's almost it's almost it's almost

gives them more clout that not only are they not from upstate New York but they're from a different country because I think we are as Americans and upstate New Yorkers we are so bad at appreciating what we have and not realizing how good we have it in many ways that we won't get into

but so when you hear somebody from another country come especially to a place that's not exactly talked about a lot like the Adirondacks or upstate New York you're like oh wow you know what this lady's right bloisie head She's right. It just, you know, like I said, it just, it just sells the point. I think you're absolutely right, buddy.

So let's take a look. She is now back in Boston in this particular video. She's just given a little recap of her trip to New York. And she lives in Boston? I believe so. Okay. I'm not an expert. What's her address?

Yes. In Boston, I'm going to do a debrief of my Adirondack and Upstate New York trip. Make sure that audio. I want to say hello to anyone that's following me now from Upstate New York. I have loved how passionate you've been and all your feedback, all your help. Welcome, welcome, welcome. I live in Boston just so you know. I travel around as much as I possibly can.

It's a huge passion of mine. And I take you all with me and you all seem to love it. Okay, a common theme that keeps happening to me and we just need to go there. Okay. It's every time that I say I'm going somewhere and yeah, albeit I am choosing out-the-box type places. This is the part that I love people to hear. I'm just entranced by her accent. And every single time I go to places, I'm getting asked by people in the comments.

Like, why on earth did you choose to go there? I even had it when I went to Charleston, South Carolina. Stop underestimating yourself and where you live. There is beauty in all these places. I am so happy with all of my choices. Let's just start there. Why did I choose upstate New York? Because I'd heard it's beautiful.

And I live in Boston, and it was a driverable place that we could go to. would feel like a remote type trip. The Labor Day weekend and we wanted to take our dogs and do some nature stuff. We love hikes. We love walking. The Adirondacks is obviously great for that. Why would you not? Again, like I said this about Michigan.

Why not? Why wouldn't you go there? It's absolutely stunning. It was such a beautiful trip. Another thing that kept happening to me is... Can you pause this for a second? I think I've got my itinerary down. You've all helped me with the best place.

So we're going to watch just another... minute or so of this because it's, I just think it's phenomenal. And again, it just speaks to your point. We don't know how good we have it here. And when you see someone an outsider's perspective coming here, I just hope this clicks for everybody. Like what we have, to me, specifically the Adirondacks have always been my favorite place on earth.

And the fact that we have them, you know, for us a little over an hour away's drive is everything to me. But, you know, to find a stranger come and discover our land is, uh, you know, It's pretty cool. It dawned on me how great we have it when my band years ago played in Mason City, Iowa. Okay. And if you don't know anything about Iowa other than corn,

that's all you need to know. It was genuinely corn and open fields for hundreds and hundreds of miles. When we saw a building, we were like, civilization. So when we got back and like, you know, every day I take a trip from Ithaca to Syracuse and back, we have those beautiful mountains, you know, fall foliage.

You got to love that. And it made me realize, like, man, I never realized how lucky we are in that aspect. There's one other point that I want you to hear from this young lady. By the way, her name's Juliet, which is my daughter's name. So it's kind of like a special place in my heart. But she's going to talk about something else, I think, in just a moment here that I want to listen to. I am definitely mistaken because when the comments come pouring in, when you all see my videos, you're recommending a million other places that weren't even on the map for me,

and I don't have time for them all. People get upset because I haven't gone to some of the places that will record love, your recommendations. And what I do with all the other comments that I can't get to is I save them down. Also, this is just a note for aspiring content creators. Grab your phone on your way to work and make a video. It's all it is. It's all it takes.

It starts to get a little bit annoyed with me. Because if there's stuff near me, like I want to get to it. This is what audio should sound like on AirPods. It ends up happening is I get really overwhelmed with how amazing this country is. And then that just turns from anxiety into gratitude. And I end up just feeling extremely grateful. This was not the part that I was. Sorry, I thought it was coming up next.

I do a lot of gratitude yaps and stuff like that. I'm like extremely grateful for my life and the opportunity to live here. But what I've got access to, look at what is available here. Even in the places that you don't necessarily think are, The top, top spots for beauty are still beautiful. You can pause this, Tandy. If you want, buddy, just click on her profile. And if you don't mind scrolling back a little bit,

she's got a couple other videos she made in the Adirondacks. And I just think it's great because just seeing, again, seeing people discover these things, and that's just kind of another, as much as I love New York and I'm an advocate for exploring that, explore everywhere. Yeah. Like what?

as cool as it is to see these things in videos. Tell everyone what we're doing. Me? Yeah. Oh, uh, we just started the Cobble Hill Trail. We're going with the dogs. This is a very dog-friendly hike. And Ollie is in shorts.

You must be freezing your titties off. Titties. Arthur's doing this one. Slowly but surely. As much as I love living in Boston. So, I love getting all. We don't have to go through all these, but I recommend you do.

We're obviously going to tag this. She's got a number of videos where she shows great things in the Adirondacks. And also, just in general, she's kind of a, I guess you'd say a travel vlogger. Yeah. So there's a lot of other places in the United States that she and her fiance are checking out and making some cool videos. But the thing that I wanted to get to, and it's in one of those videos, she makes a very big point to recognize the gratitude of the, the upstate New Yorkers and how welcoming all of them were to her surprise when she visited the Adirondacks.

Well, you know, if you've ever been to New York City, New York is known and it's well documented. Everybody's pissed off because everything you have to do in New York add that you would do anywhere else, you got to add extra 30 minutes. You want to go to the grocery store? Well, now you've got to take a train. And you've also learned stay out of people's business. Just walk straight. they don't realize that upstate is a whole different lifestyle.

Yeah. And I, you know, here's the thing. People in the city, I don't even think they're pissed off. It's just that fast-paced. You know what I mean? And you have to have something to do. And a lot of folks aren't even necessarily mad or rude in the city, but they're not just bubbly and friendly. And, you know, they've got to catch train.

When you come upstate, especially to these places in the Adirondacks that live on tourism and live on visitors and things, it's not. It's not like New York City where there's all these people are in my way. You're right. It's we love you here and we want to help celebrate what's beautiful about our area. And nobody wants to say hello when they're like, I just got pissed on by a homeless person. You know what I mean? They're in a different world. It's what I also love about Julia is not only did she choose upstate, she went upstate.

Because, you know, we've talked about this before. People down in the city or that don't know anything about New York, they go 40 minutes outside of the city. they think they're upstate, which, okay, technically they are, but we know it's, it's, uh, there's, there's more up here than just trees and bears, um, or there's not. Like, that's literally the whole reason you go to the Adirondas. Sure. There's nothing but trees and bears. Right.

In the Adirondas. That's, that's why we come here. So, uh, I love it. Yeah, great. Uh, check her out. Like I said, all of her videos are just, non-controversial. They're not, uh, risque. They're just heartwarming and, and, and, um,

good content. And you know what the sad part is? I guarantee there's trolls that fuck with her because that's just what people do. Yeah, it's the internet. They take the nice things and they ruin them. You know, I love her accent for obvious reasons. It's beautiful. I've always loved the British accent.

I want to ask you something. It's such a gift to be in America with somebody like that because we're just instantly enamored. We were talking about social media, the greatest hooks. You get somebody with an accent like that. You're instantly like, what what's happening? Yeah. And it's just the way they talk. You can save up to 50 pounds, pass. And like, you just

take them more serious. But when my first kid was born, my daughter, I said to my wife, I said, can we just talk to our daughter in a British accent and see if she grows up?

Now, my wife, not being any fun, said no. But do you think that would work? That'd be a great social experience. But not to the other kid. I would just love to see how two parents could commit to that bit. And do it just. Oh, your diapers full of shit in it.

You know what I mean? And then the other kid was like, Hey, get off. Stop running up and down the stairs. What happens when your kid sees you at the store interacting with the clerk and you, you know, like. Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's what I'm saying.

You got to play it up all. You got to do it with the teachers. It would be a very large. Oh, that's right. The teachers, you'd have to get them in on it. It'd be a large commitment. It'd be even better if you get crazy. So the first kid you do British,

the other kid you do a Southern accent. You could just like. Stop rolling up and downstairs. It might be easier. just to like move to England and have a child. Yeah, I know, but I hate flying over water. Yeah. Anyway.

Like a boat. You feel better in a boat? At least then you don't crash into the water. I don't know. I don't know. I refuse to go on a cruise. Never. Oh, my God.

You, Matt, if you told me right now, hey buddy, I'm going to give you a week off and I'm going to pay for it for you to go on a cruise with your wife. My wife and I would say, go fuck yourself. I have no... I don't want to be stuck in the middle of the ocean with people that could potentially be annoying and gross and drunk. And I just, you can't get away. And then if you've ever seen that, you see that.

So things are the size of a city. A really shitty city. No, like the fanciest city you've ever been to. It's all like high-end fixtures in the tree. Well, you watch that train wreck series on Netflix about the cruises. That'll help you lean towards my side. man. People were pooping in bags when they got... Life was better without documentaries.

I'm just going to put it out there. You know what? I'll hop on that. I'll agree with you there. They do ruin everything. They're like, what do you like? Here's a documentary on why it's shit. One person had a shit in a bag on a cruise ship and suddenly the whole industry is no good. It was actually multiple people and it's not just that story. I don't have...

I don't want to be stuck in the middle of the ocean because if something goes wrong you're there for a long time. I mean, they don't. They don't. They don't go to like, you don't take a trip to Australia where you're literally like hundreds of thousands of miles away from land anywhere. You're going from like Florida to a Caribbean island to whatever. Like there's people that swim that distance. If the boat breaks down between them, that is days.

Days. These people were dragging mattresses out onto the deck because the rooms were so hot. None of the air conditioning was working. It was a disaster. They just go swimming. You can't. Or the sharks will eat you. There's a pool on the deck.

I'm out of here with this. I refuse to go on a cruise. I'll do anything else. I'll go on a jet two hole a day and save 50 pounds pie passing. Kevin Smith has a Vue, a clerk's themed cruise where they're going to be doing a lot of live podcasts and things. I was going to get us all tickets, but I'm not going. I guess just Danny and I are going.

I'll just FaceTime me if you're still. That's wild. I hate it. Dude, I've been on a couple of cruises in my life, but when I was younger, I went as a teenager with my parents. I would love to go again, honestly, because it's like the greatest vacation ever because you can be super active if you want. If you want to sight, see, you want to do all these different things, you could do that. Or if you just want to lay around and drink, also an option. When I was drinking, that's what I would have done.

You know what I mean? There's live entertainment. There's nightclubs. There's bags to poop in There's ocean to swallow you whole To never be seen again I just I can't I'm sorry I'm yucking your yum

It's okay It's okay What's fun for me You got anything else Do you want to chat about? I got a couple of things Oh well shit let's hear it Well so yesterday on the show

We talked about Well we talked about Garth Brooks We'll get to that in a second But we were talking about What the hell was the other thing we were talking about. It had to do with SNL. No.

Yeah. What were we talking about? I'm blanking out now. Hold for edit. Danny, what were we doing? Actually, you know what? Hold on. Because you just made me think of something.

Since you mentioned SNL, I got to ask you, bro. Yeah, yeah. Who is the worst SNL cast member of all time? Oh, my God. That's a loaded-ass question. Well, listen, as you know.

And here's the thing. One of the reasons that I ask you is you're a fan. You're not one of these folks who has always been trying to go, it was never fun. Those assholes. I don't think up until the last two seasons I stopped watching because I became jaded. That's a different story. But I don't think before then, I don't think I missed an episode since like 1994.

That was the worst. Okay. Well, so there's a couple factors, right? Because like off the top of my head, Jay Moore, Gilbert Godfrey, Chris Elliott, Robert Downey Jr., Jim Brewer. Those are all names that get tossed around as the worst, but all of those guys I just said had pretty brilliant careers otherwise.

Like Chris Elliott's actually, he was not good on the show. He's hilarious. Gilbert Godfrey was one-of-a-kind type comedian. You know, it's kind of like Lars Ulrich, not a great drummer, but he's perfect for Metallica. It was backwards for them. Not great on SNL, but they had brilliant careers otherwise.

I mean, look, A lot of people will go with Jenny Slate because she's the one that said the F word and got canned after being on there for six months. But I've got to tell you, off the top of my head, the one that comes to mind for me has to be that Victoria Jackson.

Anytime she was in the 90s, she actually turned into a nutbag, so it actually makes me feel better about this decision. She never really had a feature character, and if she did, I don't remember it, so what does that tell you? but she was just kind of there. What, I vaguely...

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The reason I'm choosing her is... You know, I'm not attacking her personally. I don't know her. But I just think... You said she was a nutback. Well, she is now. She's like turned into a political weirdo. But she was just... never, she never had like a main character.

She always had a bit part. Her voice was kind of annoying. And then for the reason that you just said, which is, wait, what did she do? But there's a, the last reason I chose her was she was there for a while. You know what I mean? Like, it's easy to pick the people that are there for one or two seasons as the worst, right? Because they were only on it. But when you have someone who was like there and you're always like, why are they there?

So I'm with you. Actually on that, I know exactly what you mean? Because some of those folks that you mentioned, I didn't even heard of. You know what I mean? And I guess you could say, yes, the worst person is one. one of these people that was on in three sketches and they sucked and they got cut or whatever. Yeah. But I'm with you.

To me, I'm thinking of the worst of the ones folks know or even the people that maybe you'd say they're overrated. Sure. Probably a fair. To me, I don't know, this might be a shocker. I find Chris Catan to be. You know what? I just can't stand him. He...

Shit ain't funny. You know, I was always on the fence with him because I just thought outside of, of a few sketches. I was just, again, his voice annoyed me. I didn't think he was that funny when he, you know, when he'd get interviewed. But dude, when he did Mr. Peepers, the monkey, and he would eat the apple and he would jump.

All right. And then he did this one character where he was a coach that just didn't speak clearly. So he would rev his team up. And they couldn't understand what he was saying. He'd be like, so you go out there? You got it in a hot. You got it in a tampon.

And the people were like, what? It was like a bit they stole from. from the water boy maybe sure I don't know if it was pre-water boy or not or wrote for the water boy that's one of their those two characters for me he got him off

that list for me but I get it I get it's a respectable answer I also think that cast was so amazing they all kind of lifted each other up I agree with that you know I agree with that who's the best who was in your opinion who was the best Saturday Night Live cast member I'm gonna go chalk here I mean this is low hanging fruit

Will Farrell to me is just king King. That's fair. King. That's fair. Not one thing he was ever in was not funny to me. And again, this is subjective.

There's probably people out there, I'm sure, that'll think he's not funny for some. Yeah, you know what? I think you're probably, I think there's some folks that are in the camp, they just can't stand, Will Farrell. I am with you that I think to do is just, just the best. He's the king. But I will have to say that I believe my all-time favorite best S&L cast member, one of the best comedians that ever lived. was Chris Farley. And to me, he's...

How do you argue? He's on the Mount Rushmore. I mean, of course he's on the Mount Rushmore list. He was a one-of-a-kind performer. But if you listen to the way that former cast members still speak of him this day, it was more than just who he was on stage and on camera. I mean, it was who he was off. He was always on.

Always on. Right. Always funny. And a tortured soul like most comedians. So, I mean, Chris Farley is... is he's probably the goat though you know just given what he brought

pop culture wise and what he did for that show and the way he did it his style but also the mark he left behind his legacy which is you know you legacy's you know like Phil Hartman was amazing and after he died his legacy and his legacy does still live on but you say Chris Farley to any generation even the younger generations

they're like fuck yeah you know so there's something to be said about remember Phil Hartman man you remember deep thoughts with Jack Handy back in the day? I love that used to all those old school. So you went to Ily in high school. I went to Herkimer. Class of 2000 was my year and they used to let you put in your favorite quote.

What's your quote? Yeah, yeah, I got you. Mine was a Jack Handy quote. Okay. And I'm going to fuck it up because I wasn't ready for this. But it was basically, I don't think people should be judged. No, I don't think dogs should be judged by their size because I think Chihuahuas would be very upset. that's what I chose.

I'm not sure there were better ones, but... Classic Mike. Yeah, yeah. So I'm sure if people read that now and they're like, what the fuck is he talking about? But I loved Jack Handy. There's actually, speaking to Garth Brooks, and this is where I was kind of going to go.

I was going to... There was something else, but then I wanted to tie in the Garth Brooks. When Garth Brooks was a musical act on Saturday Night Live, he 17 women died. Is that... You know what you tell me? We should look into it.

Yeah. Actually, there is an S&L sketch that, you know, I haven't checked in a while, and things have with social media He actually like He actually cult-coolated

the entire cast party and that's they were never heard from again I know he's a killer but I there's an S&L skit

that I can't find if anyone is watching or listening and can find this instead to us I will forever I'll do something I'll give you

some sort of gift there was just this random throwaway sketch because one thing I learned I was on S&L actually a couple times and there's a process where skits get cut

and they kind of The back end of the episode is where, like, when they do the test show before, when they do the dress rehearsal, what doesn't do well enough goes at the end. Yeah. There was a throw... You've ever seen the show. That's very obvious. Right. You don't have to be on it to know that.

The deal of shit is on, you know, five minutes before 1 a.m. But sometimes the dealish shit to me is some of the hidden gems. I'm with you. And there was a sketch. And when I look it up, because I think Garth Brooks was on a couple times. And, but there was this one sketch where they're in a movie theater and Jim Brewer's in this. sketch I remember specifically. And they get trapped in this movie

theater. Like they lock the door so they can't leave and they have to watch the movie. And they start freaking out. And the ladies like over the thing, there's like a theme song that's like, thank you for coming to blah. We hope you enjoy the movie.

The doors are locked from the outside. And they're like, no. I'm not giving it justice, but I absolutely love it. So if anyone can find the Garth Brooks S&L skit where they're in the movie theater, I will forever be indebted to you. Yeah, it sounds great. It sounds great.

Yeah. I'm actually going to do a video later about, I was talking to Danny about the couple times I was on SNL. Actually, oh wait, Danny, do you have those handy? Okay, okay. So this is not a flex, okay? I was on SNL. A flex, the fact that he has him ready or anything.

Well, because I was going to do a thing on SNL. This almost feels organic. And then, yeah. Very natural. No, the reason I'm showing them is because I want you to see how hilarious this is that when I say I was on SNL, I didn't do very much. The first time I was on, I was just part of this European TRL-type sketch with Lindsay Lohan. And it's like a TRL-type show in Europe, and I'm in the audience. And so you see me for like 3.2 seconds.

but the second time I was on I was they asked me to come back they sent me over the sides the script and I shit you not my character's name was Jersey Shore douche number three nice I didn't even get one

you weren't the first now so here's my career I want to see this you gotta you gotta really pay attention oh you're gonna show this one okay so this one you can see me it's ready to go get ready here we go

I'm off to the right right there oh shit yeah yeah yeah let's hold on pause that as always there's no audio bro what kind of they did some serious makeup they stepped up your duchiness yeah yeah yeah yeah you can see me there in the shadow so we shot that at a bar around the corner it was a remote shoot so it wasn't so the first just a hair and see if we can catch him in a better the first the first time i was on it was an actual live sketch i was in the studio for this was shot before the episode like on a friday afternoon And I actually, one of my proudest moments. You look like that dude in American Pie.

Okay. The super nerdy dude. What is his name? Oh. The red-headed kid? No, no. The dude that's always got like a Sherman. Shermanator.

Yes. Yeah. You look just like him in that. I'll take that as a compliment because I was Jersey Shore douche number three. Actually, maybe I was four. How many are there? One, two, three, four, five. I might have been Jersey Dush five, to be honest with you.

It was not the higher number. But anyway, so we're walking. You're not the superior douche. They gather us up. They said, we're going to go shoot it now. So we're walking over, and we all get in this elevator together. But they have security with us because, you know, there's famous cast members, certainly not me. And I remember Bobby Moynihan, he was sitting there and he just goes, you know, man, he goes, three years ago, I was watching the show on my couch.

And I was like, someday I really wish, I pray that I'm on there. Not only did I not think I would be, but I didn't think I'd be. dressed as fucking snooky. And then he said, he goes, I've done this before, man. He goes, wait till you see what happens. He goes, last time I was dressed as snooky, we were walking. And he goes, and all these, like, you know, all these

construction workers were going, hey, Snokey! Hey, get over! And I said something, and I made Bobby Moynihan moina ham, moina ham, moinahan, laugh his ass off. Like, genuinely laugh. And after that day, when someone was like, so how was it? I was like,

Well, it was great. But honestly, the highlight was making Bobby Moynihan laugh before we even shot anything. And the craziest part, a little peek into the entertainment business. I left that night, drove back to Ithaca and was bartending for a bunch of snot-nosed college kids and getting peach snobs poured all over my hands. Like the day after I was just on SNL. And that's just a lesson in, you know, it just... What happens to a Jersey Shore Dush?

That's what happens to a Jersey Shore Dush. So... But anyway, yeah. We don't have time, but I got stories about the first time I was on because I hung out for two days. Oh, is Danny going to pull it up? What is that? This is the first time I was on.

Is it behind the music? Oh, you can't skip it. Yeah, so it was a sketch where it was like a European TRL and Lindsay Lohan was the gas. So at the end, you'll see, like, it pans and you just see me in the background with the Mohawk kind of clapping. Nice. But Instagram doesn't let you scrubbing. They're a solid extra. solid extra.

But what was crazy about that night was before I went on... So you rehearsed the episode on Friday a couple times, and then you're released for the day. And then Saturday you come back and during the day you run it again, and then you just hang out

to 11 o'clock at night. But what people don't realize is they cut the sketches. So at like 10 o'clock, they post what skits made it in because you do an 8 o'clock show for, you know, they sell tickets,

to that and that's a dress rehearsal. So any sketch that anyone wrote is performed. And whatever the audience doesn't laugh at or, you know, Lauren and the producers don't like at 10 o'clock they cut. And then for the live show, you only get the best of the best. To me, this skit that I was in kind of sucked. So I'm waiting around thinking, oh, God, 10 o'clock comes. You know, we got some laughs during the dress rehearsal,

but I'm like, this is my one chance. You know, this is my chance. I'm finally on SNL. I've always dreamed of being on SNL. and we made it. And I remember thinking, I don't know how this is happening, but we're on.

And I just remember the other extras were like, who cares, dude? We still get paid $250. Like, and I'm thinking, I don't give a shit about the money. I want to be on. My dream my whole life

was to be a cast member on SNL. And now I'm on GNY, baby. So I made the cut. But I didn't do very much. Didn't do very much. I was there. Oh, here it comes. Okay.

Here we go. You got to really pay attention. When you see the bunny come on the screen. The bunny, he knows right. Oh, yeah. The frame. The bunny, and then top leftish. You'll see me with a Mohawk.

Chris Parnell. There's an underrated cast member. Uh-oh. All of this excitement is giving me the blues. The blues. We got the blues. Okay, so top right, you see the crowd. Uh-huh.

I'll have a Mohawk. I'm coming. I can't believe I didn't win her. This is a award for this. There's the bunny. And here's the funny. There I am right in the back clapping. Wow.

Yeah, you blinked. By the way, side note, Maya Rudolph and Fred Armisen were not only so nice. They were hilarious. That's awesome. During the, what do you call it, the rehearsal, we're all just kind of sitting in between before we run it again. And in character, he wouldn't break it the whole time. Fred Armisen just kept going, hey, how you doing? I just flew in from Albany and boy, are my arms tired.

What do you think about that? And he would hold mics up to us and we're like answering and trying to be funny. And he walks away and my Rudolph's like, sorry, he's trying out a new character that we're writing a sketch for. And I was like, I was just part of his, like, trying. Part of his process. It was quite, I've got a lot of stories from that, but I'm not going to talk about it. It's awesome. Because we need a three-hour show.

But, yeah, S&L. Man, I love it. Cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Really quick before we go. Breaking news before we came on the air. I want to see what you think of this because you're smart. I'm not.

Washington Post said that NASA found some sort of rocks on Mars. I'm sorry, who did? NASA. NASA? Who? Am I saying it wrong? NASA. There you go.

What I say? What I say. I said NASA. NASA. NASA Caledium. saw kid rock. I was like, wait, what? NASA came out with, they found these rocks,

and I'm paraphrasing, obviously, they found these rocks on Mars that are visible to the naked eye that proves chemically or minerally that there was Martian life a long time ago on that, some sort of life. Like Marvin the Martian?

Proof of life on Mars is basically it. We got to read the article, but I just, What a, but I think we're talking like, hold on, because like, scientists run fast and loose with this shit, right? You know what I mean? Proof of life is like some cells running around. And when we hear that and we say that, we think like Little Green Men. Yeah, well, of course.

That's what, you know, Hollywood made us. That's not. Like, is there proof? Is there like a dog at Rome? You know, like, give me something tangible that I don't need a microscope. You were walking in and you were like, all right. ready to go and I was like I put it down so I didn't read it thoroughly. Apparently because of

the minerals and the chemicals surrounding these rocks that they could only be produced if there was life forms. I got you. Whatever. Either way my whole point of this is the fact that proof of life on Mars is such a fucking tiny story compared to what we read every goddamn day is alarming. It's like oh there's proof of life on Mars but hey

check this out. That's awful and that's changing. Do you ever watch that movie Don't Look Up? No, but I keep hearing that it's really good. That was that Netflix release? I'll leave you on that, yeah. Leonardo DiCaprio.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. He doesn't marry a 12-year-old in it, so that's a positive. That's always good. Yeah. Actually, just seriously, everyone should watch that. Do you think, do you believe in aliens? Believe in?

Like, do you think there's other life forms other than us? Of course. Right? Of course. It just seems... Do I have proof? Absolutely not.

But nobody does, except for these NASA scientists. But here's the thing. The galaxy's space in general is so large. It's almost arrogant to think like... 100%. There ain't nobody else out there. You are correct. It's just us.

Okay. I'm not saying there's the big green alien heads that you win at the county fair. I'm just saying... Bro, the government has come close to, like, straight up admitting it recently. And again, you talk about people not paying attention. It got swept under the rug. Like, nobody, that was one of their like, hey, let's distract them from other things and tell them aliens are real. And nobody even blinked.

Nope. This is the world we're living in. Seriously. It's wild. That's why we do good news. We don't cover all the other news that everybody else is talking about, which is horrific. It is horrific. Remember when those idiots stormed Area 51?

There's a documentary about that, too, by the way. I feel like we're a little bit like the orchestra that played as the Titanic went down, you know. That's what it feels like. You know. Misinformation, disinformation, ruining the world, but not us because we are good news. York sponsored by ads on the go.

Get ads on the go.com. By the way, we have a guest coming in every episode up until the end of the month. Yeah. So shout out to Amanda, who has now, you know, taking over booking.

Yeah, which has been so great. Killing it. So, yeah, look for that. We got a lot of guests coming up this month. And that's it for me. What do you got? Anything? I got to go home.

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