Good News York by Growth Mode Content - Good News York: Jackie Vidler Joins the Team! | GNY ep11

Episode Date: March 18, 2025

Good News York: Jackie Vidler Joins the Team!In this episode of Good News York, hosts Mike Brindisi and Matt Masur welcome a special guest, Jackie Vidler, who is officially joining the team. Jackie discusses her photography and videography business, Enfoque Images, and shares her passion for creating empowering content for small businesses and women through her boudoir photography. The team talks about the new capabilities that Jackie will bring to Growth Mode Content, including outdoor shoots and drone-based videography. The episode also includes humorous banter about past drinking experiences, TV show recommendations, and the upcoming March Madness college basketball tournament.00:00 Welcome and Special Announcement00:53 Meet Jackie Vidler01:46 Joining Growth Mode03:23 Expanding Capabilities06:53 Boudoir Photography Passion11:40 Drone Adventures and Certifications21:40 Nostalgia and Changing Times30:05 Wild Party Stories30:23 Reflections on Youth and Drinking31:03 Herkimer Hangouts31:41 Changing Attitudes Towards Substances32:56 March Madness Explained38:44 TV Show Recommendations43:35 Underrated and Canceled Shows51:47 Comedy and Upcoming Events

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And I'm Mike Brindisi, Matt Mazer We have a special guest today, very special. We always say special guests This one, she's actually special. Here's the thing. Now let's, do we get to call her a guest Because the reality is. Now that is

The reason that she's here Is to announce that she's joining the team. Yay! Danny, can we get like a fake applause? Real applause? Cheers. button there. We need one of those. You just took Danny's job. He's fired. You have a sad. Never mind. You're rehired. I love the sad trumbra. Jackie Vidler is

joining us bringing her incredible talents and you shouldn't listen to me talk about her. We should listen to her talk about her. Jackie, say hi and tell us who you are and what you do. Yeah, yeah. Jackie doesn't talk about herself very well, but I'm going to do my damnedest. See, this is like professional therapies. 100%. Yes. Yeah. Make everybody better at everything. That's it. I'm, I shouldn't say, I don't. I'm trying to talk better. There you go. But yeah, I'm Jackie Viddler. I own infocate images. It's a photography and videography studio in Solvei and met Matt through our mastermind group and was like, I want to be on board. I want what you got. I want what you're doing.

Funny. I wasn't invited to the mastermind group. Anyway, proceed. We're starting her own now. Oh, okay, okay. It's called growth mode. I'll check my junk email. She's got it. Yeah. Yeah, I'm excited to be joining growth mode and this amazing team because they already are hitting the ground running with this jogging.

We're trying hard, man. We're very excited to have you with us. Yeah, for sure. What's great is as we're growing this business and going out in the community, everybody knows. you. You're like the most popular photographer in Syracuse. So when we're like, oh, by the way, Jackie's going to be working with us, they just sign on 10 times quicker, which is awesome. Did my face just get red? Because I didn't think that was a thing. No, it's definitely, I didn't think your face could get red. You have a very fair complexion like me.

We've been working with the lights. But that's been my goal from the beginning and knock on something here. I've been incredibly lucky that the timing was right to grab the most talented people that I've known. Don't make me cry. was the guy, I've said this before, Mike was the guy that I pictured for this position as I built this thing. I said, I need a producer. I need a guy who's got at least enough smarts and education to run the board when we need it, but also I have the personality to jump in and help our clients as they make stuff. And that's, that was Mike, as I've known him for years. And then I needed the social media piece and the best social media guy I know happened to be

on the job market right around the time that I needed to hire somebody. And we were able to land Danny. And then I think once we got Danny, you were like, damn, that's legit. Jackie, like, I want to end on this. We'll take you immediately. Very excited, Jackie, to have you on board of the growth mode content team. Thank you. Excited to be here.

Same. We're very excited. One of the things that's really neat and what other people should know is you're not necessarily just more hands on here in the studio, but one of the things that you bring to the table now, and we now have his capabilities of growth mode content, is doing a lot more outside of our studio. So we focused real hard in the beginning in kind of building this space

and we're still very much dialing it in. But most of what we're doing is taking place right here in this room for our clients. You now have the capabilities. You've got the equipment. You've got drones and then the know-how. We're going to be able to go out and shoot some real content out in the field, out in the real world.

And that's the part I'm really excited about. Same. I'm excited to be able to offer to the clients being able to create genuine out of this space. The podcast is amazing, but to be able to go into other small businesses space and create genuine content that resonates with their clientele and then having the posting schedule, like all of it just comes together just seamlessly. And I think it's going to be big for a lot of. It is. For everyone that signs on. What's wild is just as our very beginnings with everybody is showing results.

And I know we've talked about this before. The first couple of videos that dropped for a number of our clients turned into business for them. Already. And they're already getting the compliments out in the world. Hey, I saw your videos. And that's the type of thing that we're going for and build that personal connection. And like you said, we're going to be able to get out there and you're going to be able to see what they're doing. And the podcast is great.

and we talk about a lot of these things, but we'll actually be able to see them in action and even record some podcasts eventually on site in people's place of business or even random locations. We got some fun things planned where we're going to take the team on a field trip and record some cool content

in beautiful places in New York State. We also have clients that, look, having a photographer of your caliber, I would say photographer, videographer, right? It's great to have anyway, right? Just to shoot B-roll. but in our situation a lot of our clients do some really cool shit. Yeah.

The pest control, they all pest cast, all of our clients that are realtors showing the homes and the buildings. And being able to do that is great. But being able to do it with the podcast clientele that we have is just going to be killer. Yeah. Because we're listening to these episodes and the things they're talking about and I'm thinking, before we had Jackie, I'm thinking, man, I can't wait until we can actually go do that. And now we can. Yeah.

It's very exciting. and we're going to definitely keep her busy. We're going to do a lot of cool stuff. But also, she still has her own incredible business, her own incredible studio in Solvei, as she mentioned. Do you want to talk a little bit about the type of stuff that you like to do there as well? Sure.

I appreciate that. Sure. I'm here for growth mode. It's a team effort. Absolutely. We look forward to shooting some stuff at your studio. So I'm going to put that to yours too. So, yeah, like I started pivoting.

I've been in business for. over 15 years. And I started pivoting, realizing that there's so many things to photograph. There's so many video opportunities. But I realized over the past few years that my passion really is empowering people. So I have narrowed it down to empowering small businesses with the content that we're creating and empowering women. So the other side to my business, which is like more of my passion project, which is boudoir photography. So our studio on State Fair Boulevard is 2,400 square feet. I've got bedroom sets, heels from a size 5 and a half to a 12. I've got over 350 outfits of lingerie. So we do everything in-house, hair and makeup. You have a glass of champagne, and it's a whole experience.

I know what I'll be doing with Danny on lunch break. You have me at lingerie in high heels. Oh, sorry, I thought I was thinking. Go ahead. That's awesome. If you could, just tell us a little bit about that because I know that's something that's become more and more popular in the past few years. For sure. Who is your typical customer? What type of lady comes in to do that sort of thing?

I have to say. I have to say. I've done a few men, but typically it's a woman. I have a lot of women who are in the same boat as me who come in and they're good with the 90s aren't being ramp. But mostly it's women who are either engaged and they're doing it for their husband or spouse to be or if they're doing it for Christmas gift, Valentine's Day. But I have such of, they say, what's your target market? I have such a broad spectrum of my target market because I just had a woman come in a couple months ago who was 70. And she was celebrating, she was just doing it for herself, celebrating her.

celebrating her 70th birthday and we just had so much fun. But then I have the young girls who are engaged and I actually had a girl who was going through nursing school or medical school. Okay. And she was just, I'm so spent. I need a day for myself. And that's what she did. She came in to do just to make herself feel empowered.

I can do this. I still got this. I am like all over the spectrum as far as. It sounds like it's a little almost like a spa day where you really pamper yourself a little bit. Yeah, women come in. Like I said, you have a glass of champagne. We pick out outfits and we have more fun than anything. And you get your hair and makeup done. And it's just a day to reflect on yourself and empower yourself. And for me to show you what everyone else sees around you, how you look. Because we look at ourselves as women, even men, not to look at you. Sure. Mike. But we look at ourselves in the mirror. And we see all our imperfections. We don't. see the things that other people see. And that's the unique beauty in each of us.

Mirrors actually break when I look in them. Yeah. I doubt that. It's a weird thing. I've photographed you before. It hasn't broken. You use a mirrorless camera. That was good.

I hate looking in the mirror. I just, is it me or? Yes. I feel like I look better. There's a certain mirror in my house. that makes me look so good. Is that a thing? I think a lot of it has to do with lighting,

but I think some mirrors are bowed and have a different. Because I know, it's like going to the circus and you go into see yourself. It is very much like going to the circus when you see me naked in a mirror. That's very true. They're like, oh, is that the bearded lady? Or the, I, no, I...

Are you using a fun house mirror? I might be. I might be. Let me ask you. My nose is not nearly that big. I don't, so what was the term you used, budro? Say that again? Oh, no, go ahead.

I was trying to lead you there. Like a horse. You're close. Boudreau? Boudreau. Boudreau. Boudoir. Boudoir. Boudoir.

Is it boudoir. Photography. Is that, clearly here, that's not what you're doing, but is that your main, the main thing? Or do you also do wedding photography? Do you do all sorts of different photography? So I used to, as I was saying before. I used to just take whatever I can. But after so many years of just trying to hone in my focus,

the empowerment part of it is really small businesses doing headshots and doing brandy-neached down. Yes, significantly. And is it, do you find that photographers have to be videographers now? It goes hand-in-hand, right? Or can you just still do straight photography? It really depends on the photographer. If they're willing to, like, and this goes along with any business,

you want to do what you can to see in business. And I feel like now, what's the word I'm looking for? Boudoir. No. You just want to say it now. I do. Can't wait to go home. This new favorite word.

Yeah. Honey, looks when I learned. Boudoir. Yeah. With the drone, because I know you do operate drones, and that's like a kind of a thing now. Do you have to have a license training, or do you just buy one and mess around with it,

and you're good to go? So when you're shooting commercially, you definitely have to have a license. You have to have a part 107 through the FAA, and it's not an easy, like, I bought myself a flight suit when I passed because I just thought I was like, I got a license. Good for you. That's awesome. Top gun, let's go. Do you wear that every time you fly the thing?

I have, yes. Good for you. That's what an awesome. That is awesome. We have to shoot a video where she steps out and do. Talk to me, good. Let's recreate the top gun scene. drones that would be talk to me goose yes then we'll dress up in airline or whatever you call them

air pilot jumpsuits yeah and with that with the drone I actually do construction as well so I have a woman minority certification through the state and federal so I can do all that and but on construction projects around the state that's nice that those companies use that what to track the progress to their projects and stuff like that yeah that's cool that's pretty neat yeah these drones make crazy And it's funny because, like, my kids watch these YouTube videos and some of these high-end content creators. They've got these gorgeous shots that in Hollywood, you might know, I don't know how much you would spend to get a helicopter to get that shot.

Sure. You could do it yourself now. When I went back to school at Ithaca College, shout out to the park school, there's college productions using drones. And we're talking the sweeping coming down. It's unbelievable. You're listening to a podcast right now, driving, working out, walking the dog. If you're into podcasts, chances are you have something to say too.

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Did you have to like demonstrate the thing in front of somebody or something? You didn't have to take a physical test. It's literally all so you have to know like the wind. I'm going to butcher this right now because it was a couple years ago that I took it. We don't know the difference. You just make it up. You have to be able to read the maps. You have to know all the things about ATC.

You have to know the different wind currents. Oh, wow. Things like that. Jesus, some legitimate flying things. That's why I bought myself a freaking. Yeah. It's like sniper training. Yeah.

I assumed it was just a matter of will you not fly in the path of an airplane? And that's the whole thing. I have to learn. There's more to that. Yeah. Yeah, definitely. Because you're not able to, you know, there's the weight of the plane. You're not able to fly above 400 feet when you're flying an on an airplane.

What are you doing? The lights are blinking. Keep going. It's driving me nuts. They are blinking. I noticed that too. Our remotes, Danny must have hit something,

and it triggered the lights, and now I'm going to... And I've never been epileptic before, but I think today's the day. Leave me alone. Okay, I have ADD, and it's... Can't... What did you shoot?

A bad guy. Just keep... Can't focus. That is Star Trek. Faser shooting the bed. We have high-end... quality production here. Holy shit.

Wow. That's wild. I don't know why I did that. You can see it now. All right. You know what? It's not look into my mind. I can't even see.

You can't look behind you. You have a third eye for colored lights. Like in the back of your head, you can tell. The color temperature changed three degrees. Hold on. My head says it's 2,800 Kelvin. Stop the press. Stop.

Anyway. Back to you. Oh, shit. I can't even operate an LED light, let alone a drone. It's absolutely amazing what you can do. How long did it take you to... Try they make you get a license. Like, how long did it take you from the first time you flew a drone to when you were like,

okay, like, I got this? So I actually borrowed a buddy of mine's drone, and he taught me how to use it. And then once I got, like, my first gig, I'm like, okay, I didn't charge for it. So I wasn't doing it commercially, so I didn't need my license. And it was like for real estate. It was for a friend. Yeah. And then I just went and got, I studied for a year and a half for the test.

And failed at first time. Damn. Really? And yeah. Is it written and? It's just written. It's just written? But it's not, it's multiple choice.

There's some, but it's all on a computer. So it's not like physically written. There is no actually, it's like cosmetology school. They teach you about everything else but how to apply the makeup. Yeah. That's cool. Yeah. So I had to learn how to...

She's actually qualified now to be an astronaut. No way. I'm going to get drafted. Yeah. It's going to be part of the next time. I was excited. I was like, what do we have? I used to love that on the late night shows where they'd be like, actually, Bob, I brought...

I was like, what is this? Yeah. It was good. We got to do that. We do have to do that. We have so many things. We have so many plans. I could break out the donuts.

That no one's eating. I'm trying to be You ate one Yeah Listen I'm trying to think Donuts are like You know crack to me

I can help it They want to so bad But I'm trying to be good Trying to be good And work out again And now that I'm on This crazy hit show I don't want to

Eat too many donuts That's where I'm getting at I will say Jumping on that Like the amount of views That the podcast has had and the snippets, like, it is incredible just going through. Yeah, that's awesome.

That's one thing I'm excited to be a part of this. We're excited to have you, for real. We're very lucky, and I know I've said this before, but I think we're really lucky that we came into this right as these algorithm changes have hit the whole internet. And in this new world where the quality of the content matters more than anything else, it used to be all about the followers. And it was you could make the coolest video in the world,

but absolutely nobody would see it if you didn't have a million followers. followers already. And so, of course, getting to there was always the nightmare. And it led to these real douchebags being the ones that dominated the internet, for lack of a better term. And they had this following. So it just kept continuing to grow while actual quality information, education, entertainment, it all just sat with zero views. Today, everything has been TikTok-fied. Yes. And it uses what made them really successful was their radically different algorithm that goes out and shows your video to a bunch of people. And if a bunch of people like it, it shows them to more people.

Yeah. And it lets it grow based on the quality of what's in it. And that's how we've had some of our first posts, 10,000 views on one clip. I know. Like, my stupid llama thing. We didn't even show the video. I just talked about it. And I mean this tongue in cheek, but I think if you had asked me a year ago, I don't

think this would have lined up for me. because as someone who's, I'm not trying to sound like, I'm too good, but as someone who spent his entire life on stage and also didn't have done radio, I've worked so hard at honing my craft and getting better.

And there used to be hard to get into, to get on the air. And so it was like these content creators, like you said, it used to be, it would drive me nuts that there was this oversaturation of bullshit, to be honest with it.

And it's what we call organic content now. So for me to say that and to be working here seems contradictory, but because of the, kind of that filter that's been naturally created by at least TikTok's algorithm, it's weeded out that bullshit. They've all stolen it. And the creams kind of rise into the tops because I was always like, I don't,

I don't want to be a part of giving these people that don't belong having a microphone near their mouth, a microphone. And now it's, I think it's where it should be, thankfully. It's getting there. It's getting there. There's still no shortage of people that shouldn't be in front of a microphone. But the opportunities are growing. And people are seeing the value in it.

And that's why we've jumped on this organic content. Jackie's done for years and she's got the skills to shoot you an incredible commercial that you could have seen on television for decades. It's amazing. And there's still a good place for that. But that's not necessarily the best thing on social media world. Where they want that organic, they want that real. And that's what we're doing. That's right.

We just signed up a new client over the weekend, actually, who has a variety of businesses and does a variety of different things. and we are, interestingly enough, just like everybody else, going to focus on her as the person. And that is, the more we go through this, all these different businesses and different business models and people's different goals, at the end of the day, the strategy for everybody is pretty much the same

is we're going to focus on you and let people get to know you as the human. Yeah. After that, all the business stuff is just... It's almost secondary, which sounds crazy, right? When you're like, hey, we want to... You get a podcast once a month, we chop it up, and that's your advertisement. But the business is secondary.

You're like, but that's what we're advertising. But it's true. We've said it a million times. I've said it admonagement. People are going to fall in love with you and then go, oh, wait, what do you do? Sure, I want to do that. People do business with people. Yeah.

And you made a great point, too, with some of our clients, like all pest. And I can't think of the others off the top of my head, but that they go into your homes. Yeah. That was something that was such a huge thing. Yeah, that would particularly, they're a service business. So you want to be able to trust these people. and Googling nowadays, you can't tell, you know, what's what other than the reviews help, but this is better than a review because you're going to use your own vibes to...

You can see the humans, and in their case, the husband and wife, who are deeply involved in this thing, and you get an idea of the actual people. That's right. Like I said, in their case, that's going to actually be in your home. Yeah. And be around your home. And that's something that I think is absolutely huge for those types of local businesses, more than anything.

Nobody knows who you are Or they think you're a faceless corporation And people aren't really into that Yeah, it was a long time ago Oh God, I'm gonna make myself sound old Back in the day when it was your boy When there was yellow pages When I was a kid in the yellow pages

Remember that shit? And I remember my parents specifically Businesses used to spend so much money on that And I don't know if this is good or vice, bad advice or what But whatever, I retained it I remember some people in my family saying And if you're looking for a service, don't go to the big full page ad because they're like a corporation. They have a ton of money.

You want to look for the smaller name. That's what we're doing, the mom and pop, the husband and wife, that they're not out just to make a buck. They really care. And I don't know if that. But that's like what we're doing is the new age version of that. Yeah. It's not the full page ad. You're getting to see the who they are.

Go for the quarter page. The quarter page. That's the one. That's the. So here's the thing. As crazy as it sounds. those is wild. This is funny.

You're going to take me down bad business memory lane. Yes. But the way these worked, I don't know if you're familiar at all, but the phone books typically came from the phone company. So they would... I've sat on a bunch while driving. They would roll in the advertising price in your phone bill. So it would be locked in. And it was all under contract so you could never cancel.

And by the way, if you couldn't afford your advertisement, then you can't have a phone anymore. What? But it was so insane. insanely expensive because for many businesses, that was 100%. Remember, there was no Google. There was no anything. So if I'm a plumber, the one and only place people's going to go to find a plumber was that book.

So if it cost me in the 90s, $1,000, $2,000 a month for that ad, that's something you're going to pay and it's going to pay for itself. Wow. At the same time for the business, could you imagine that today? Like there was technically like two phone book companies. most people only got one, but even if you had two, you could spend money to be in two spots and everybody in your area would have your ad. Like today, you can't pay for that on Facebook.

Show my ad to everybody in the city of Syracuse. Like you can't. Back then, it was that one spot, so it was worth top dollar. But usually at that price, the only people that could afford the full page was either the company, the big corporate or the lawyers. people. I mean, now we have Clipper. Yeah.

I don't know what Clipper is. Like a penny saver. Oh, a flyer. Coupon magazine. Yeah. They still have those. The Yellow Paces was a hell of a thing back in the day, man. It was something.

They made a lot of great calls. They made some great money, too. You want to talk about a good commission sales job back in the day? Those, the ones that were good at it and they stuck with it for years. Because, like I said, it was locked in. Everybody had to keep paying. So as a salesperson, you get some good clients under your belt. And you had really.

Really good guaranteed commission for a long time. It was an interesting time. Growing up in the Mohawk Valley originally, your phone book was like this. Yeah. I remember going to visit my mom's side of the family that lived in Westchester County in New York City. Yep. And their phone books were like the Bible.

And I just remember being fascinated by that. Like, what? Those areas, it was so big that it was technically a separate book because you remember ours wasn't. That's right. You had the white and yellow pages. That's one thing. They had the white.

For those I don't remember, the white pages were the homes, the residences. There was every person in town had their name address and phone number in this fucking book that they distributed to every house in town. That's true. Think about how crazy that was. That is crazy. It was wild. But yeah, you had the white pages that were the people and then the yellow that were business. In the bigger areas, they separated them.

So they were two different books. I'm a glass half full guy. So if they didn't have the name and address on the phone. books, there would have been less murder and we wouldn't have had unsolved mysteries, 60 minutes. Dude, it made for some good stuff. It did. It made... The other thing you used to do, and it just reminded me, we went out, you guys are going to see a video in a little bit of a phone system install that we did.

Danny went down and shot some stuff with us. But interestingly enough, the old phone system we replaced was sold, in fact, that it had no sort of display and no caller ID. So they were answering phones like it was the 90s. And I don't know if you guys remember that shit. Yes, I do. But we had no idea. It was completely blind. Whoa.

The wall would start ringing and you just had to grab it and then speak to whoever you unfortunately picked up. Crapshoot. Was your grandmother or a bill collector or the police? Is it the ex-girlfriend? Yep. Fuck, I got a talk. Yeah. That's the way.

You remember that? Answering blind? Do you imagine doing such a thing these days? Remember party lines? Oh my gosh. Wow. That was wild. Party lines.

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Get up the phone line. Yeah, people don't understand that. We used to have to tie up our phone lines to get online. You guys don't understand what we went through. Kids today. I've seen one of these videos that they showed some teenagers today, some like typical 90s stuff and tried to ask them. Like dial-ups.

What's dial-up? And they're like, what? The kids didn't get hardly any of them. Yeah. What's a Zima? Oh, shit. Oh, man. You never got that one.

Now, I don't remember if this was like just the circle I ran with or if it was a thing. When I think of Zima, I remember some girls in my life that would put skittles. Yep. Okay. Yep. But you and I are from the same area now. That was a thing. We grew up in the Mock Valley and they would put skittles in the Zeeals.

which would flavor it more, but it would make it change colors. Oh, that's cool. Yeah. I don't know if it was cool then. It was like a wine cooler. I think I was like 14 when I started drinking. Me too. I didn't say that.

Seamas were expensive, though. We didn't drink those. Oh, that was bougie. That was boudoir. We were drinking PBRs before then. Hell yeah. Old Mill bar bottles. Let's go.

Drinking in the middle of a park. What was it? Natty Ice. Natty Ice. Came in the 30-packed. Oh, BlackBand. The cheapest beer. you could get.

Yeah. And it honestly wasn't horrible beer. No, not for what we were doing. No. Not that anybody cared. Do people still party in the woods? I was wondering that. I think so.

I really hope so. Because I am telling you, if you're out there and you are an underage drinker, you don't do it. But you are missing out. Like some of the best memories I have. This is before cell phones. We would go to a gravel pit, to a state land, to a back dirt road. I remember it would be a Friday afternoon.

I think I just spit all over you. I'm sorry, I was very excited. We'd be a Friday afternoon, no cell phones, so we would have to find out in school, where's the party tonight, where's the party? And then it would be like three o'clock, bell rings. All the guys in the pickup trucks would go up to East Herkimer, and they would load it up with pallets,

drop it off at the place we were partying, and then later that night, light the pallets, and it was Garth Brooks, Alan Jackson, and beers, and it was the best. It was the best. And I hope kids still do that. So here's the thing. I don't know if they do.

This is going to be my real hot take. I'm going to get canceled for this. But good. Kids drink considerably less these days. Oh, yeah. And part of me fears that's a bad thing for exactly the reasons that you point out because I don't know that they're having those experiences. I know.

Now at the same time, like one out of every 200 high school kids died at one of those parties somewhere along. Like you can hear those stories. Oh, yeah. I have a cousin who got drunk and fell down a cliff. There was a lot of four. You know, like crash into a tree. Because he was stupid, so it's better that nobody does anything ever.

Because of that. But no. Well, people are just more hermets nowadays. Yeah. And that's sad. There's also a lot. We used to have. Now, tell me if it was like this.

Now, for those who don't know, we lived in neighboring small towns. By the way, hated each other. Yeah, cake eaters and pizza pusher. That's it. I was a pizza pusher. He was a cake eater. Damn, cake eater from way back. But we had these party spots in the woods where the two groups of kids that didn't like each other.

Oh, yeah. would share the party spot because that was the only place to go party. So it was the weirdest thing that they didn't like each other but they would coordinate on where we're going to party this weekend and who's going to bring the booze and shit. Crazy shit.

I ran with some guys from Illian and I've been to a few of the party spots. There was a guy, I don't want to say his name on here. I'll tell you off the air, but his family or dad owned a very big towing company. I know Bill. Yeah, yeah. I remember partying on his.

Yes. And that was some shit. I could tell you some stories. That was a wild time. Wild time. Yes. And that's the thing. I want kids to experience that.

I guess to answer your question half asked, it would be, I do think it is a bad thing that people aren't drinking as much. I want them to be able to experience that. But then at some point in their life, be able to say, I'm not going to drink any. I'm cool with less of the dangerous. Don't get me wrong. Don't think that I want kids to be drunk and reckless. Absolutely not. But I just worry about the other experiences that went through that.

Like you said was like the... I want you to be able to say, oh, my God, remember that time we were partying at such and such and we were carrying all the beer on our way home and it ripped and then I fell and my underwear. You know what I mean? That's the stuff. Where'd you guys used to go in Herkimer?

Oh, God. The state land it was called, which was in the middle of nowhere. There was Broat Road, which was a dirt road. There was the gravel pit in East Herkimer, which was like a very... The T-Mew version of a... quarry.

Remind me where that was. That was like... The gravel pit was up behind Boces. Yeah, okay. Got it. Yep. There was Brookwood Park. Yeah.

That was downtown near the high school, right around the corner from the high school. There was the other... There was so many. And then there was always the East Herkimer Hicks, as we would call them. They would probably call themselves that. That had their own land and we would party on that all, like a bill. Yeah.

That we won't say is last night. That's wild. It's so funny how the narratives changed, too, because... And I don't know for you, again, because we grew up in the same... area but it was like back then if you got caught drinking alcohol underage whether it was the cops or teacher boys will be boys or kids will be kids and if you got caught like just taking a puff of a joint you had to stop hanging out with your friend you got to go to drug counseling you're gonna go nowhere in life and what's

funny is the irony is that nowadays it's flipped like science and just life in reality showed us taking home weed is so much safer than alcohol but man that's that I don't think our generation will be able to shake because it's like they pounded it into our heads that like we're going to hell and you're going to jail got what I smell that the devil's lattice don't you smoke the devil's lattice you know what I mean it was just like sorry I apologize smoke a joint calm down yeah there's always the people that need it the most that yeah yeah point the finger 100% but listen man before we get out of here for today this has been a great Monday, by the way. Very great. This is one of the best

Mondays I have a good Monday, but when you start out with somebody awesome, like, Jackie, joining the team, joining the show today. It's pretty awesome. I just got to ask you about this, buddy, because we're getting through the month of March. I'm seeing all these sports people who I am not. Talk about March Madness. Yeah,

I'm one of those sports people. Sports fanatic. I don't... Is this a soccer thing? What is... Oh, wow. Great. That was a great lead in. It is far from a soccer thing. March Madness. I don't know anything about sports. So March Madness. Madness, that's just the name they call it, because it's in March and it's Matt.

It's usually March 7th. I thought it was a car sale. Everybody's bracket gets busted. But essentially, what happens is 64. So I don't know the exact number, but there's 200 and something D1 colleges. Okay. With basketball programs. Oh, basketball.

Okay. It's basketball, yes. And the reason you probably don't know about is that Syracuse sucks for the first time. Yes, that's the orange ball with the net. I'm wearing a Syracuse head. I'm going to get for. So, essentially. Essentially, 64 teams make it into this bracket.

Okay. Okay. And there's one through 16 seeds. So the teams that just squeeze in. So this is like the finals for the season? Is that what happened? So it's a big tournament that goes for the half of March. And usually the championship is at the beginning of April, I believe, the national championship.

And it starts on. And this is what dudes and office jobs bet on, right? Yes, all the time. And this starts this Thursday. And the first weekend's the best because it starts on a Thursday at like noon. and it is four different channels. I don't call them channels anybody. TBS, TNT, CBS and whatever.

True TV, it used to be. And there are games on from noon until 10 o'clock at night for the first week because there's so many teams. And then as the weeks go on, it gets spaced out more. But it's just, and you fill out these brackets. And what's fun is if you have no idea what the hell it is, like you guys have claimed, it's still a blast. Because you are...

It's like bingo. It's like bingo. But it's like you're going to be the one that wins, you're going to be like, but I think a cavalier would beat a coyote. You know what I mean? And so I'll pick that team. I don't even know what a cavalier is. But anyway. The first and only time I ever played fantasy football, I sat through the draft and I had

some handout that they gave that showed like the best draft picks. And I grabbed the best one I could get when it was my turn every time. I never traded a single player and I won. There you go. And it's just fun. And if any, if nothing else, it just gives you, if you, for a guy like you, if you have to be around it. Like if you know you're going to be around people talking about it or you.

you know it's going to be on and you're not into it, just do the damn bracket so it gives you a rooting interest. Because then you'll go, oh, cool. I hope Kentucky wins. And it gets real fun because there's always upsets. That's what makes it so much fun is there's always a 16 seed. Not always, but sometimes there's a 16 seed that knocks off a one scene and it's fucking mind-blowing.

It just breaks everybody's brackets. But it's just fun. It's fun. Okay. Okay. So who's, I don't know if we're giving anything away here, but who's your one to win it off? So here's the thing.

I wish I'd know we're going to do this. I have in my phone calendar today to go through and fill out my brackets. But I'll say early on. He scheduled time to do it. Early on, I hate to go chalk, which means you're just going to go with the one seeds. But it's hard to bet against Florida.

It's hard to bet against even Tennessee, even though they lost to Florida yesterday. But that's a whole different story. I like Texas Tech. They're a three seed. I really like Rick Petino and St. John's. Rick Patino. Coaching, especially in basketball,

makes such a huge difference. I'm left Q's. shitty since then, right? Like, in other sports, sometimes... Is it fair to say that in college basketball, the coaches the big celebrity versus like the big name players at the NBA? That's actually pretty fair. Yeah, guys like Bill Self are in it, Rick Petino,

I think John Calapari, like those kind of guys, those are the big names. And sometimes that was my method, I'll give it away. Sometimes when I'd get down in the bracket and I'd go, I can't decide, I would go coach versus coach. I'm like, he's a way better coach. Because in my opinion, I think in basketball, you see a really immediate correlation between the quality coach and the team. In other sports, it's like you can have a shitty coach and a really good team and they could squeak by.

And it's almost like the reverse in college. But yeah, I have to look. But if you're asking me now, Florida is one of my favorites. I really like St. John's, Texas Tech. I don't trust Houston. Shouldn't be taking notes. I should be looking. If I could look, I'd be able to give you a better answer.

Okay. You can take us through this. So since I don't know anything about this, you can continue to take us through. Well, it's through March so we can. That's what I'm saying. Let us know how it's going. Yeah, and I can let you know if I have any upsets that work. Tell me what goofy things and let me know when the bills are in the playoffs and we'll figure it out.

Yep, yep. Sports ball, right? Sports ball, yeah. I should give you a shirt that just says sports. Here's the thing. Like, I have had Syracuse football season tickets for three years now and I've never been a big football fan. And I enjoy that. So you're there and you're like, it's almost.

like a live concert. A live sporting event is just a fun people activity. I think we're going to go to baseball game sometime soon. And it's not something. I'm super. I'm not one of these guys that knows the stats or the teams or any of that. I don't give a shit, to be completely honest with you. Sure. But to have a good time with people, that's where it's at. Just never gotten into basketball.

It's okay. To me, it just reminds me a ping pong. And like any sport that gets up to the hundreds of points, I feel like, come on, this is, this is too much. It's a lot of points. It is. It's a lot of points. sit through. But look, we need people like you that don't give a shit. You know what I'm saying? It's okay. I always hear, I can't stand when people do the thing where they're

like, oh, I got, remember that part in Braveheart? And you're like, I never saw Brave-Ward. What? You never saw Braveheart? You should be fair, that's a whole other story. But I'm saying, like, you don't watch basketball? What's wrong with you? Dude, fuck. Different strokes, different folks.

I've had a lot of strokes. We're... What? Springsteen? I said, go sports team. Oh, I thought you said, go-sports. I was like, okay. I'm debating if we should get into ripping you apart for not seeing any good television ever in your life.

What are you talking about? What good television haven't I seen? Trailer park boy? You told me you haven't seen Parks and Rec. Shit, you got me there. Yeah. Look, I... Here's the thing.

Now, I'll be fair. I don't want to break your balls on this too much because I was a very late comer to Parks and Rec. It's been a few years now and it was after it was over that I got into it. It's probably the best. Best comedy ever made. I believe you.

And I'll watch it. And I'm telling you, it's almost, a little bit, I'm almost jealous because it's one of those things. You wish you could go back? I wish I had something that awesome to look forward to. Enjoy. Have you seen Brooklyn Nine? So I am about to start that. And by the way, Parks and Rec is in my queue.

Brooklyn Nine-Nine is in my queue. I just started. What's the guy there, Sadecas, the soccer coach? I know you're talking about. Thank you, Danny. Ted Lassow. I just started. So when I'm done with Ted Lassow,

I will move on to Parks and Rec next. I just don't have the time. I guess I have the time, but I have a lot of other things going on. So it's not because I don't care. It's just because I'm not the time. I'm really defending myself. I know you're so serious about it.

Here's what hooked me on Brooklyn 9-9. I saw a clip of the lineup where they do the boy band thing, where they sing, I want it that way. And it was one of funniest things I've ever seen in my life. And I was like, okay, I'm going to watch that show.

Yeah. I will re-watch it. it after I'm done with that. Some of them hook me at. I've watched The Office. That's one of my favorite of all time. I've watched songs of anarchy, breaking bad. I'm just always late.

I understand. You know what I mean? If you haven't seen nine, that's a good one to follow us. That sounds good. The one that I have not seen that they've been hooking me real good with these commercials. I got the, is it called?

Is it called? Oh, no. Yeah. Walton Goggins. He's like a preacher. Maybe that is it. Is that the right? It looks awesome.

I love that, dude. seen this. Oh my God. This ties into what we were talking about earlier when you're talking about the way organic contents come along and drone shots and everyone can do it. There is, and I'm not saying this a bad thing. There's just a complete oversaturation now in the TV and movie market. I just can't keep up. You got to watch White Lotus. You got to watch Parks and Rec. I'm going to get there. But it's just, there's- What's ironic about that is every time I go to watch, I feel like there's nothing to fucking watch. That's the other thing. And we- I have every damn streaming service. There is.

The end of the night is when I, that's for me, that's when I finally have time. Kids are in bed. All right, here we go. Then what do I do? I scroll through whatever it is, Hulu, Netflix, for an hour trying to pick one and I fall asleep with the goddamn remote in my name. And nothing gets done. That's why I get really excited when I find one of those. So here's the thing.

I have less time than probably anybody ever. I believe that. If I don't break away from work, my brain will never stop. 100%. And it'll just fucking drive. drive me in crazy and I'll never get to sleep. So there's, I designate time. Like, I have to be mindless and invest myself in some goofy TV show for a couple hours late at night.

Just lose yourself. Yeah. It's nice once in a while. You get in some of those? Last year I found suits. I got fucking obsessed. I watched probably all of the seasons and very small amount of time. Let's do.

Name one show, maybe two. one show or two shows that not a lot of people know about and it or have been canceled that you have to go back and watch. Well, before I want to do that, but before we do that, I want to ask Jackie, have you seen,

and I want to give you a recommendation to Mike, have you seen Letter Kenny? No, that's in my cue. Trailer Park Boys. Yes. Okay. See, I'm trying to give him,

of the two great Canadian shows, which one should be well-enaded. Trailor Park Boys is older. It is. Let me... I feel, you know what? You got to watch that one first. Which one? Trailer Park Boys.

Okay. Yeah. Done. Yeah, that's the one you've been pissed about, so I got it. Bubbles. Maybe I'll just stop watching Ted Lasson and just be like, I'll go back to it. I'll watch this for my boss. I don't know.

Ted Lassow is pretty good. It is good. It is good so far. I'll tell you what. One of the things that I find most endearing about trailer park boys is when I was first introduced to it many years ago. It was so long ago, actually, that it was being passed around on bootleg CDs. Oh, Jesus. And it was like, here's this Canadian, and they were all rips from that, because it was on Canadian television.

That makes it cooler. Like here are the rips from the actual Canadian TV long before Netflix bought it or anything. So we used to have these. It's cool. When we used to hand out bootleg CDs of shit. God damn. It was old episodes. It was probably like 400 resolution horrible TV capture shit, but.

We found floppy disks in our nose. That's crazy. All right. I'm putting them on the wall. Either underrated show that you have to watch. Or a show that got canceled too early and you want them to bring back because it's amazing.

I'll start. Go for it. There is a show that was three seasons in 2015, I think, 14, 2014. And it was called Lily Hammer with Stevie Van Zant of the East Street Band. And he essentially... Silvio Dante.

That's right. But he essentially plays the same character, which is hilarious, and it's not a good advertisement for it because you're like, why would I want to watch it? I'm telling you. I don't think his acting chops are that far and wide.

He's basically playing the same character. Most of those soprano's guys weren't really acting. Well. So the idea is he's a former mob boss that goes in witness protection, and he goes to Lillehammer because he saw it on the Olympics. The name of a town. He goes to Lilliehammer. Oh, God, help me.

I don't want to sound like an idiot. I don't know. Yeah, I think Norway. Okay. Lillhammer. Somewhere in Europe. Norway. That's where they had the Olympics.

Anyway, he saw the, because there was the Olympics in the 90s there. Okay. And he saw the Olympics. He loves the Olympics. the Olympics. And because he saw Lily Hammer and it looked cool and he loves the Olympics, he decides that's where he wants them to place him. Fair. So now he's in the middle of, it's winter, all day, all night. And he starts trying to blend in, but he can't help it. And he just starts kind of getting back into the mob life, but in Norway. And it's funny. It's

action-packed. I have no idea how it got canceled. Interesting. Lilliehammer, check out. How many seasons are there? Three. Three season. All right. It's really quality. That's mine. That's my bring it back. You got one, Jackie? I really don't. How about an underrated one that, like, it's not crazy popular, but, like, I'm telling you it's awesome. If you want to go full, girly, I feel like, Virgin River. Virgin River. Yeah, that was.

That is, that's the name. What is that on? That's the name of Danny's bathtub. Just kidding. It's on Netflix. Okay. It was just a girl who lost her husband, moved. She's a doctor.

moved to this small town called Virgin River ends up falling in love with the guy who owns the bar. Sounds like a Hallmark movie. Yeah, basically. But it's, I don't even know how many seasons. Oh, wow. Like, it's one of those things that I put on while I'm editing. Is it one of those kind of like Gilmore girls

where it's a guilty pleasure for men too? Or is it like total, like, girly? No, I think it'd be. Yeah, I think so. I get into that shit. I love girly stuff. I watched The Bachelor for a long time. I don't anymore, but.

See, that's one thing I can never get into. I can never get into the bachelor. We'd go more viral if we did like Bachelor analysis content. Be completely honest with you. I don't want to. I would rather not go viral to be honest. The more you've talked, the more answers that I've come up with. You can say them all.

Yeah. I fucking own this place. That's true. No. When you say a show that got canceled too soon, there is always one ultimate answer, which is my life. Oh my God. The best show ever.

Jared Leto. What a 7. What a dude. I fucking hate that guy still. I know. If you were in the 90, so that was big in the 90s. Fuck Jordan Catalano. Dude, Jordan Catalano was you, if you were, it's that old, if you were a girl, you wanted to sleep with him.

If you were a boy or a man, you wanted to be him. Like, Jared Letto. And still, he's one of those guys that doesn't hate. Still a douchebag. You think he's a douchebag in real life? I'm positive. Oh, do you have a experience? No, I just don't look at the dude.

I'm excited. He's now a singer-year-old fucking rock singer still. How are you not going to be a douchebe? I'm glad I don't play music anymore. He did broke it. Who was the girl Ria? Who was the girl with the colored hair?

She was so. Ria? Rie? He just totally lost it, too. Re? You have no idea what we're talking about, do you? You never watched my soul called love. No, I did.

It was a staple of 90s pop culture. It is 90s pop culture. The best. But keep going to do. going you said you had more still love Claire Dane's let's see alias did you ever watch the show alias heard about it was on ABC back in the day with Jennifer Gardner is how she got her start really action show okay with mixed with sci-fi Bradley Cooper was in it in the beginning big name it was fucking awesome okay and it got canceled abruptly when she got pregnant

and they couldn't figure out how to deal with it they're like I we'll just end the fucking show wow that's a it's a great way it's been a flex well it is what was the third one I had a third one Oh, not really got canceled. Ended too soon. No. Or it's just good. I just totally blank down the fucking name of it. It is an incredible British one.

They just did a new spin-off of it. Orphan Black. Orphan Black. I've seen that team. This is awesome. So the whole thing, it's about cloning. Oh. And this girl discovers that she's a clone.

And then it goes through the story and she finds a couple other clones of her and they band together and they do all this shit. But the wildest part about it is all of the clones are played by the same girl. And so the same person is like eight different characters. And the nutty professor. You look at them and you're like, that one's super hot.

That one's not at all. They're the same person. That's cool. It's wild. But it's also a really good multiple seasons. All about like genetic engineering and like cloning and all this. crazy shit. That's cool. Mysterious. It's pretty cool. And then just

recently, there's just been one season of a spin-off that's, I don't know, 20 years later or something, where the woman's daughter is now the star. She's an adult scientist and it's a whole other thing. Just really good. The fact that it has a spin-off gives you more validity because that means the show must

have been good enough to do a spin-off. Dude, it was solid. I want to say it's four or five seasons. Have you ever witnessed in a show or movie where there's like these supporting characters that were so strong that you were like they should do a spin-off of those characters

but they don't. That happened to me in you probably never watched the league it was like about fantasy football believe it or not it sounds terrible like how can you have a show about fantasy but it was fantastic. It had like trailer park boy vibes

very indie but it was on Netflix or whatever yeah hilarious. There were two characters in this episode there were guest characters who's Seth? Seth Rogen Seth Rogen And I forget who the other actor

Was an A-lister And they were in only for one episode Where it was a dream sequence And they were like these big Okay I don't know But anyway Drug Lords

But they were It was hilarious And I was like I would watch an entire show based Like Itchy and Scratchy I wish itchy and Scratchy From the Simpsons Became its own thing

Big, it's heavy It's wood All Renan Stimpy Yeah Ren and Stimpy They're classic I love that I thought about this

all die. That's true. But we should probably stop. We should go. We should go. Jackie. There's some actual work. Vidler.

Jackie, you got any, like, website or? Welcome to the growth mode team. Welcome to the team. And it feels weird saying that because you've been hanging around here for a while, but this is the first. I've been lurking in the shadows. Do you have any website, phone? What do you got? Yeah.

I got stuff. I got stuff. I got the stuff. So I have the family-friendly side, which is enfokeyimages.com. It's E-N-F-O-Q-U-E. Images.com. And then... Folk, yeah.

Sorry. You know how many people of it. There's so much... It's such a hacky. Like I thought of that first. I know. The boudoir side is infoketitimates.com. Try to keep those separate.

And phone number 3154071742. Real quick, Jackie. Tell us what enfolké means. So infolque means in focus in Spanish. Nice. Boudoir. Boudoir. Boudoir.

It means a woman's changing room or dressing room in French. So everyone thinks in Fouquet is French, but I'm not French. I'm Puerto Rican and Irish. All right. I have a plug. This Saturday, I'm going to be selfish. This Saturday, I have a stand-up show, home-brewed comedy in Dryden, New York, right outside of Ithaca. You can go to Event Bright for tickets to that.

I wish I knew the name of the venue. I feel bad. but look up home-brewed comedy. Put it in the text. Yeah, we'll put it there. Mike Brindisi.com. You can link from there or home-brewd comedy.

So Saturday, March 22nd. I'll be doing some stand-up. It is a whole weekend of comedy. It is. Friday night, we have got our man Ryan Neemiller in New Hartford Comedy CNY show. Check that out.

ComedyCNY.com. Yeah, Ryan Neemiller from AGT is going to be at the Burstone in on Burstone Road this Friday night, March 21st. Yep. Again, I'll be doing stand-up March 22nd in Dryden. And Sunday, my wife and I are going with some friends. Colin Jost from S&L is coming.

Really? Yeah, he's coming back to Cornell. He did Cornell a couple years ago. I went, he's coming Sunday night. So tickets are available. You're going to have a hilarious weekend. It's going to be a weekend of laughs. His tips are going to hurt on me.

Hilarity. Yeah, so a big comedy weekend. I'm excited. Sweet. And you can check us out. Good NewsYork.com. New episode, Monday through Thursday, 5 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.

Or as close as we can get the video. Or whenever it gets up there. Yeah. We'll see you tomorrow. I love you. Peace out.