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Episode Date: March 18, 2025

Good News York: Pest Talks, Gadget Reviews, and Epic Daily SurprisesIn this episode of Good News York, hosts Mike Brindisi and Matt Masur introduce Kelly and Ray from 'All Pests of Syracuse' and discuss various pest-related insights, including their new podcast, 'All Pests Cast.' The show also features humorous anecdotes and the hosts' escapades with cheap gadgets, reviewing items like a law enforcement body cam and a Wyze Cam Pan. A lively discussion about the Rochester neighborhood ensues further to showcase an unbelievable piece of organic footage captured on a cellphone.00:00 Introduction and Greetings00:15 Meet the Guests: Kelly and Ray from All Pests of Syracuse00:50 Gadget Talk: Cheap Electronics01:37 Hardware Store Adventures03:49 Spring and Pest Season04:38 Cicadas and Other Insects06:55 Woodpeckers and Wildlife10:32 Homemade Pest Control Solutions15:14 Kelly and Ray's Love Story18:32 Golf Talk and Personal Stories26:58 Professionalism in Pest Control28:26 Dress Code Dilemma28:53 Horrible Interview Stories29:04 Training Day Disaster29:30 Sumo Suit Shenanigans29:49 Good News York Welcomes Guests30:23 Creative Pest Control Ideas32:20 Unboxing Law Enforcement Body Cam37:53 Price Guessing Game44:41 Wyze Cam Pan Review49:04 Upcoming Guests and Events50:07 Craziest Organic Footage Ever56:23 Just Another Day in the Hood

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Episode whatever. Three. We stopped counting already. Yeah. I love count. Three. Yeah, I'm Mike Pindisi. This is Matt Mazer.

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We had to kidnap them. This is Kelly and Ray of All Pest of Syracuse. You could check out their podcast. They've done their first episode, the All Pestcast. Where should I direct them for that? Good News York. Good News York.com. We got all the links right here in the description.

Right here in the description for that episode and for future episodes. And so what's the good news? Man, we got so much good news today. Okay. I'm excited to talk about a few different things. Later in the show, after Kelly and Ray are here, we're going to do some more gadgets. That was fun yesterday. That was wild.

So I have this problem with buying cheap anything. Okay. So like these Chinese ordering apps are an issue for me. So I've got a bag of random electronics that I've purchased recently where yesterday we pulled out a cool little 4K camera that was supposed to be like a gimbal, but really it was. just a molded solid piece of plastic. It was pretty awful. It did take pictures. But it did work.

It did what it was supposed to do. It did. You know, it was like a $50 version of a normally like $500 item. So I couldn't be too upset. Were you guys ever suckers for like infomercials back in the day? No. So you're smart. See, I was.

I bought all that dumb stuff. No, but if you leave me loan to a hardware store for like a problem. Yeah. That's it. I went to a hardware store. I can say it, right? I went to Lowe's. I went to Lowe's.

When I think a hardware, I think of like a small moment. I mean, they've replaced hardware stores. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, I guess, I guess. Well, whatever. I went to Lowe's. And, you know, tools have come a long way since, you know, remember it was like, give me a hammer, give me a screwdriver.

We had a Shawnee, we were doing her podcast yesterday, and she was telling me how there's like 500 versions of, like, wire cutters now. Yeah. So there's this section in, and it just says tool world. And to me, being in a, that's how I realized that I was old. Because I was like, that looked like a sign that I used to see when I was like exciting to you.

Yeah, like an amusement park. And I spent a half an hour in there just looking around. It's the best part about being an adult is you can actually buy the toys that you find. Yeah. So my dad remodeled homes growing up. So he would buy and flip them. And so after school, that's all we did. And so Home Depot growing up was my favorite store.

And I thought I was crazy. Well, now I'm not as big of a fan. Right. Me either. But it is, you know, it's funny. Like I remember when Labor Day came around, or maybe it was Memorial Day, and I saw a commercial. It was like, Maltch, 50% off. And I screamed like, I, like, my team won the Super Bowl. I was like, yeah. I want to finish that swing set. And I'm like, Jesus, I'm old. A good deal on Maltz is exciting, man. You can't. I appreciate it. I really feel that. You probably, like me, remember going to the hardware store with your day. You probably went to what, calluses or something? Oh, it's hardware, right? That's right.

Yeah. I went to school at Matt, the son who runs it now, I assume, still. Yeah, that was a hardware store. Local hard, literally sold, you know, nails by the pound. Sure. There was a dude behind the counter that knew everything about everything in the world, you know. Jamesville hardware. Yeah.

There you go. There you go. Fixes lawnmowers in the back. That's the real way to do it. Yeah. But anyway, enough about that. Yeah, yeah. So what's the good news, guys?

Spring is almost here. Yes. Sunshine's coming. Spring is almost here. And so in the pest business, so to us we say spring is almost here. But in the back of your mind, is that like, uh-oh, that means stink bugs are almost. What are the, what's season in the pest world is after? Yeah, it's our, it's go time, really.

Yeah. It's when they all come out. We do probably 80% or 75% of our business in the first, you know, from April to July and it's it's definitely when they all you know they're waking up and mating and trying to get in everybody's house heathens yeah wow just like spring breakers just waking up and making love and ruining people's houses right you know can i can i ask you a silly question this is might be slightly off topic love this every year we hear the story of the cicadas waking up after 17 year slumber or whatever the hell the number is.

But isn't the case that like every year there's a generation that might have been sleeping that, but it's not like this is the first, it doesn't happen every 17 years or whatever, right? No, for the most part it does. I think, I don't think it's that long. I mean, it's not really something that we have to control for people. Because I feel like you hear them in the news literally every year. Like here they come. I don't know too much about it, but I do.

It's definitely cyclical. That's wild. There's quite a few insects that do that. Like millipedes, people will only. have issues in millipedes every three years or so wow for the most part yeah there's some properties that you know you've got a lot of stonework or you have a particularly damp property you're probably going to have issues but is that is a milipede a damaging creature yeah no they're just a mali right yeah those ones that curl up into a ball or those centipede yeah yeah they can they go yeah not the like

potato bugs not those but um yeah the ones that's a small wind up into a spiral You'll see. Yeah. That's crazy. Yeah. What's your, what's your, what's your,

what's your favorite kind of bug? Well, I think they hate them. Well, my favorite bug to get rid of or just my favorite. I guess either. Yeah.

What's the most satisfying to get rid of? Both. I'd love to hear that. Um, the most satisfying is probably yellow jackets. Yeah. Okay. Stinging insects.

Yeah. Yes. Um, it's immediate. That and Carpenter ants. Oh. When I treat them, if I do it correctly or am able to actually, you know, find the nest and treat it correctly, then it's instant gratification.

I get to see the results immediately, not where, you know, it's not like something nasty or like cockroaches where I go and treat a house or an apartment and it starts to work over the course of the next few weeks where with, you know, I can, I can show you some videos of carpenter ant nests that are, you know, I treat it and wait five or ten minutes and it's like someone turns a faucet on and they just start pouring out of the wall. That's wild. That's too much, man. Just stand there with a vacuum and vacuum them up.

That's awesome. I had a year-long war with a woodpecker. Now, is that something, a woodpecker I wouldn't consider. His name was Woody. Yeah, Woody. My name is on television. Is that, I mean, do you deal with birds or anything? Who would I call if that was to happen?

Because it was ruining our siding. Yeah. Just like destroying it. And I was in this war for a while. Yeah. I ended up winning. Woodpeckers are wildlife removal. Okay.

But right now we are not allowed to, no one's really allowed to do anything with them. Okay. They're protected right now. So I usually tell clients, you know, the pie plates that are like two pack, super cheap. Illuminum. Yeah. I'll tell them to use fish line and hang those where they're seeing the woodpecker going after things after he comes in and inspect. So make sure there's not any answer.

anything living in that thing. Yeah, there's two reasons that they do it. They're either nesting. So if they're trying to make larger holes, you know, golf ball size or bigger holes, that's them trying to make a spot to nest. Or there's an underlying issue. You either have. Termites.

No termites in upstate New York. That's right. That's right. That's right. Yeah, no, you either have carpenter ants or some sort of ant that's behind your siding or carpenter bees. There's a lot of times it's an underlying issue. And then in that case, it'll be a bunch of small, like, probing holes, you know, just little holes all over the place.

That means looking for food. That means there's something going on behind your siding. So you have houses that have cedar siding. Log cabin style houses, usually wood siding is, have more of an issue with woodpeckers. Yeah. Do you have one siding? Well, we did. We've moved.

We sold the house since. Yeah, it was wood siding. As soon as someone calls. A consistent issue, it was cedar, cedars. Wow. Yeah. And it was golf, all size hole. So, yeah.

They were just roommates. And I used to love woodpeckers. I used to watch Woody Woodpeckers. I was like, oh, we go to the woodpuff. They're pretty neat. Until they tried to get into your house. No, I hate them. We had like a family of them that destroyed a couple big trees in our backyard.

And it's okay because they were trees that wanted to run anyway. But it was wild to watch them work. You used to see him go to town on those trees, man. I have a buddy that's been posted on Facebook. He's in this war with much. And he's got... Everyone is right now. He's got...

Oh, really? Yeah. It's bad. He's got some sort of... Like the guy from Caddyshack? Kind of. Yeah. The tophers.

Yes. But he's got this new, and I don't know if you work with these. This is like, look, back in the day, it was like you throw some peanut butter on a trap. You know what I mean? Yeah. He's got some CO2 thing that almost, I want to say it, like, sucks them up and then spits it. I don't know what it was. Are you familiar with anything I'm expecting?

And the only... thing I've seen CO2 use for they use it with like rats when you find their, when you find their den, you can literally pipe CO2 into their den and kill them that way. So the only thing I could think of, you know what it probably is,

is the CO2 is probably, it's like a pneumatic like the way they, you know, they kill cows. Yeah, yeah. They take cows out. The guy from that movie. Oh, I know, that was when, They can't see it on the stream. Yeah, I know, I know.

I'm just, I want to show them. We can link to it. I'll find it. But yeah, for the most part, we, uh, it's just as far as mice. We typically don't use traps. Um, we will in certain occasions, but we usually use bait for the most part. Um, nicer waves thing. What's the craziest homemade contraption you've seen?

What's the, what's the, I don't know about crazy. Everybody's got the better mouse trap, right? Yeah. Yeah. I don't know about craziest, but the, the, the five gallon bucket. Uh-huh. So you. It works.

put a spindle, you know, drill holes, put a spindle through it and a can in the middle of it. You know, I see a lot of people with farms or big barns, big buildings do that. And if, you know, if it's not, it's not really effective or realistic for your home and then having in your basement, but if you don't, you know, you have a big open building or open space, I've seen a lot of mice. I can imagine. I can imagine. I can't imagine. I can't imagine. Oh, that's crazy.

Is there any positive to mice or do any sort of like other pest control to eat other things or anything like that? You know, I know they talk about some things. Well, don't bother the spiders too much because they help with other things. No, I mean, the only thing I would think is they, you know, their food for other animals, whether, you know, birds are crying and things like that. Fair enough. Other than that, they don't really do anything positive at all. I'm trying to try and flying. I know.

Trying to give you something here. Look, you know, I don't. You're great in the Tom and Jerry. I don't like bats. I mean, I don't like rats. I don't like mice. You know, I don't like spiders, but they don't scare me. But the one thing that horrifies me, there's one thing, and that are bats.

But everyone's like, what if you have bats? That's great. They're going to eat all the bugs. I mean, are they as horrifying as they look and sound? I mean, what do you do for a bat? We had a, under our deck. They built a nest. It almost looked like a pile of dirt, right?

Do you live in the wilderness? No, no. No. God, no, I can never survive in the world. Just look at me. Is bats something that you guys deal with? No, we also send that to wildlife as well. Yeah, it's its own category.

Bats are you need a special license to deal with bats. You're right. It's like I live in the middle of them. See? But I've seen a huge increase the last like maybe eight, ten years of people in areas like Skinny Atlas, Casanovia, especially around bodies of water. But a lot of people putting up bat houses in their backyard. Yes.

for mosquito control. I see. So they're trying to draw them there. Yeah. Yeah. To help keep the mosquito population down. Interesting. Interesting.

It's wild stuff, man. It is. Wild stuff. So let's talk a minute about what you can do about these things and what you folks can help people do. So especially this time of year, you know, we've talked before in other podcasts about treatment, right? and getting out there and preparing your property to avoid these things. So if you could talk a little bit about that and why this might be the time of year to be thinking about that stuff. So we actually just sent out what we call our early winter letters.

So we have everybody call in by April 10th, which most pest control companies do this. So if you have one, you need to call them now and get your appointment for spring. It prepares us to get ready for this prevention season. everyone who's on the list we know we'll be able to get to. So if you wait too long after April 10th, there's usually a waiting list of at least a month. And that's just to protect your property from all of the things. So ants, stinging insects, spiders, what am I missing? Fies.

And yeah, so we come and we spray the areas that those pests could get into and it protects your home. And then for us, we guarantee our work for the whole season. So let's say you do find a stinging in Saxon. 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. With RSS.com, starting your own podcast is free and easy. Upload an episode and we distribute it to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and more. Track your listeners, see where they're from, and start earning from ads just like this.

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with just 10 listeners a month. If you've been thinking about starting a podcast, this is your sign. Start free at RSS.com. In Nest in August, you just call us, we come back out and take care of it, no charge. That's great. That's so nice. Yeah, the goal is to, as soon as the weather breaks, once it's going to stay about freezing, we want to get the treatment done as early as possible so that, you know, we get the house treated before they can move in and make their home. It's kind of putting up that barrier, right?

Yeah. that waiting to the weather break. We call it our preventative treatment. Yeah. We have to wait until that weather breaks. A lot of people are like, oh, well, it's, you know, it's been so nice all week. And I'm like, yeah, look at the weather report next week. If it snows, what we did, we have to come back and redo it.

So we really start, you know, in the last few years, we haven't been able to get started until May. Where prior, we were able to start second week of April. So it's just a waiting game. Yeah. You and I recently were speaking through email because my brother and sister. her in law. Immediately we're getting kickback from their all pest cast. They were like, hey,

we saw the clips of the pest control couple. Can you ask them a question? So I asked Kelly and she graciously wrote back and I appreciate that. But you and I mentioned, you had a story about how you guys met. Do you want to talk about that? Sure. Because I, here's a question

I do have, to preface with, is were you all, and maybe I should know this, was it like, you were the pest guy and then you married Ray and then you became the pest woman like you know what I mean or were you did you both end up into pests and it was like you know divine intervention yeah he was he rescued you from yeah um I actually was a consultant for a makeup and skin care company before um we met and I was babysitting wow um but yeah so we actually were in the same middle

school um homeroom together and in the same high school no way Yeah, couldn't stand him. I got to stand him. And I got along with everyone. I didn't have like a huge group. But like I talked to anybody, anything like that. But there was something about him just his untied Tim's walking down the hall with his lacrosse. I wanted to slap him.

Oh, lacrosse guy. Yeah. And her boyfriend was my best friend. So I was like the dynamic. I couldn't stand him every time. And now we're going to bring him in. No. They, so I became, oh, I'm going to go and hang out with him.

I was like, okay, you have fun. Like, never would want to be around him. So now at least that worked out that we know why. But my first husband passed away unexpectedly. And the first time we'd seen each other since high school was at the funeral. Oh, my. Yeah. And they hadn't spoken because me and my first husband had our first child right out of high school.

So they hadn't spoken. Everyone kind of was living their life. And he just, you know, I would like to come over, talk with you, kind of see what happened. And hear about what I had missed the last 10 years in his life. Yeah. And he did. He came to my house with cookies. His dad made. His dad's amazing baker. And my whole family was there. And we just sat down and I kind of filled them in on everything. And then he was like, you know, I really want to be a part of the older two's life. Like I would like to, you know, him and a couple other friends said that. And we ended up going to breakfast a couple weeks later.

And then we, bye, have a good day, you know. And as soon as I got in the car, there was something. I was like, oh my goodness, I don't think I'm supposed to be feeling when I am right now. And it kind of just went from there. That's awesome. What a great story. What a great story. That's a good. That's amazing.

That's awesome. That's fantastic. Raising my childhood best friends, sons. It's really weird now that they're teenagers because they're starting to look like him. They're looking like him, acting like him. Wow. Crazy. Yeah.

And they were, so they were nine and six when he died. So like the younger of those two, he has memories, but. It's just funny how many of the characteristics passed on to him in just those five or six years before he died. And he's exactly like his mom. Yeah. Wow. But it's fun. I get to share stories with them that, you know, they probably never would have heard otherwise.

They don't need to hear because it gives them ideas. Yeah. Well, and I'm sure there's some comfort, you know, in there, whether they know it or not, you know, makes them feel closer to their dad because you're an extension of that, you know. That's awesome. But yeah, I was actually in the golf business before. You know, growing up, I told my father there's no way I'm killing bugs for a living. Now look at you. Right.

And so I was in the golf business. I was traveling all over the country. I lived in like 12 states in eight years. I'd basically move every six months. You were a professional golfer? As a teaching profession. Oh, wow. Oh, that's great.

I started out caddying and then got my professional golf management degree and my instructor. Damn. Long story, the timing worked out, but my father had health issues. He had two heart attacks exactly a year apart, and he couldn't really keep up with the demand, you know, work anymore. He couldn't do it physically. So that was when I moved back to Syracuse.

Initially, it was just to help him out. And I spent, it had been, I'd been working with him maybe a year and a half, two years when Evan died. And yeah, and then we met and I had an instant family and things started to look better and better as far as having a business. And then when we decided that I was going to buy them out or buy the business, we knew we had to do it together. Yeah. There was no way to do it on my own. And there's, yeah.

Organization is lacking. We're 50, 50 partners, but she's like 80% of them. Well, yeah. There's no way I could do it without her in the office. You know, look, I mean, if you're looking for a pest control business, why wouldn't you go with, I mean, look at this love story. It's amazing. And I have an idea. This isn't ethical, but if you want to combine both of your loves, go into these places with a golf club and just,

why? Not these pests. There you go. Through the wall. We should definitely do some sort of golf promotion here. I would love to. I love golf. I wish I was better, but I absolutely love golf.

Yeah. So we can talk about that. I can't be. When I was in high school, I had friends that were on the golf team. And back in the 90s, golf wasn't, you know, three-tiger. Yeah, it was like, old men, right? So I was like, look at these losers. Did you have a party?

No, I didn't have, I do now. And I remember, I used to be like, guys, why are you on the golf? It's so boring. Like, you come part. Now I'm calling all those same guys. I'm like, can you help me with my, uh, my, uh, chipping? So I wish I didn't the first time I ever played golf was my senior year of high school And we were that if we ever decided to

Excuse ourselves from school during the day We'd go play golf because we knew if we saw anyone there From school or anything they couldn't get us in trouble because they were there too They should have said right You say That's good That's the move right there It is the move man

That's awesome. I love golfing. That's awesome. You, uh, are you any good or? Oh, God. I mean, uh, no. Look, I don't know. I'm, I'm like a 12 handicap.

95% of people that play golf can't break 90. I can't. I am just starting to, to break, on nine holes, I'm out of the 50s. I'm in the mid to high 40s. Yeah. And that's better than 90% of people are playing. The thing is, if you want to really be good at golf, you have to be down south. where you can golf year round.

You know, we get three or four months here. So it's like... Well, that's... I actually went to a golf college. Grandpa's got to speak. It was in Hilton Head. And we had class from 8 a.m. to noon, and then we had 20 courses we could play seven days a week.

Instructors on staff to take lessons from... Damn. So when I went to that school, I was a 12 handicap. And when I left, I was a two. Oh, you're a two? Are you scratch now? Yeah. You are?

Yeah. I have realistically since we have our fourth child I have not been playing I know I know but we are this year

yes who's your who's your favorite golfer do you have one oh Matt loves this conversation it's always Tiger Woods yeah always I mean he's

he changed the entire sport yeah if you're talking about just golf it's Tiger Woods that's not a sports guy but I'll break it down like this Tiger Woods is the Beatles of golf yeah he made it like

he's one of He said names. Right. That says something. He shed the, like the old man. Isn't his son or something playing? He's about to. Yes.

Yeah. He's only 14, but he's really good. He's one of those kids that you watch and you're like, I don't even want to play anymore. Like, what's the point? I mean, he's got it in the jeans. And on top of that, I guarantee he's been trained since he could stand, you know, probably before that. Yeah, he was on. What was that nighttime show?

What's a night show? The big one. Back in before, like, Jay. Leno or any of them. Oh, not the Tonight Show. David Letterman. Dick Fame died. No.

Lauren, or not Lawrence, Welk. It was like the first. Milton Burl. Whatever. Tiger Woods was on there when he was three years old. Holy shit. Hitting golf balls. Wow.

Oh, I think I saw that, yeah. Yeah. That's incredible. What is this, listen, man. That is wild. I had something I was going to say on that. I ruined it. You did.

I did, didn't know. It's Tiger Woods. It's Tiger Woods. He ruins everything. He really does. He got some work done. Yeah. Have you watched that outdoor golf league thing with the simulator?

I've seen clips of that. I haven't actually locked in that. Isn't it a team thing? Yeah. They basically do indoor golf. They fire at a screen, which if you're there, I think it'd be cool because you get to see them in the flesh. Dude, that's big money. But then they have an actual green in that area.

So you do all your drives and approach shots on the simulator and then around the green, you actually go to the physical green. Right. I don't know if it's going to work. I mean, live, I think it's great. But on TV, I'm just like, I can't, I can't watch this. Can't do it. Can't do it.

I have a buddy that used to say I could watch golf on TV, but I'd rather be bored. Yeah. I remember I caught myself last year. I was driving home and I'm in a golf pool, kind of like a fantasy thing. and I was listening to golf. And it was like five minutes in and I go, I'm listening to golf. Yeah.

That is as old man as it gets. Yeah. And I just turned it off. It's pretty bad. Just wait to hear the results at the end, you know? How did he play? That's all it needs to know. I was falling asleep.

They're like, and here's his approach. Yeah. You know, imagine being an announcer for that? No. Can you imagine me being, I'm as loud? I'd be like, yeah, I'm great. Oh, sorry.

I'm sorry. Oh, great John. They just pod your mic down. You'd be yelling, but everybody just hears you as a whisper. That'd be awesome. It's kind of what Danny does or not. We even said hi to Danny this morning. Danny, let's see your beautiful face.

What do you look like today? Let's see. And big reveal. Here we go. Buddy, you're so adorable. Look at them. I just want to hug them all with her. All right, I'm going to go.

All right. Red-headed Italians. And she's done. He's the reason this whole thing works right. Just your typical redhead and Italian. Yeah. Anyway. Good news, you are.

That's what you're watching. Guys, anything else that we should tell folks, let's give me your websites and phone numbers and stuff. Yes, please. Phone numbers 315-877-4462. And the website is www. All-Passive Syracuse.com. That's awesome.

You're the best? You don't know what I say the WWW anymore? It's okay. I have to train myself because, is now when you do the links, which I learned with you guys. If you don't put them, the link doesn't work. So now I've been repeating it constantly. See, I don't know.

That was always like H-TTP, colon, slash, slash, W. It'll go either way. The interweb. It works. All pests of Syracuse, clearly, they know what they're doing. And high school sweethearts. Not even middle school sweethearts, we could say, right? Kind of.

You'd have to be, we would have to be dating then. No, that's right. You hated him then. Yeah. That's right. We've known each other since fifth grade. We're in a homeroom to go. That's insane. That's incredible.

That's so great. The good news is these are the type of people you feel comfortable with heaven in your home. 100%. And their team is equally as wholesome and professional. And, you know, that's the thing is whether what you offer a landscape or a plumber, these folks come into your house. And that's a big deal. And to have people that you don't mind having around is a big deal.

You're right. I've had some shady people show up for services where I was like, I don't know. So this is something we have to factor into even the hiring process. Sure. Right. And if you're looking for new people, if you don't have a good feeling, then a 60-year-old woman that's home by herself isn't going to have a good feeling either. Yeah. And it's got to be tough.

You don't want to comment on employees' appearances, but it's kind of part of the gig. You got to look. that guy we interviewed last year. He showed up. Nice. Jeans, jeans, cowboy boots, wallet chain,

flannel shirt, unbuttoned to hear with his chest hair hanging out. Okay. Another chain over that. Had food in his beard. Oh. And, yeah, just.

You interviewed, 90s Paul Bunyan. He fell asleep in the first hour of training. Yeah. Yeah, he called him and I was like, he's not going to work out. He's like, it's only day one. And I go, well, he didn't dress the way

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Start free at RSS.com. I'm stuff, and I dress up anyway. I feel like it's just the way it should be when you're in an office. And so I was like, listen, you got at least like fancy it up just a little bit, nothing crazy but some nice pants. Even if it's jeans and a nice shirt, if you need me to buy them for you, I will. So didn't do that to start off the bat wore exactly what he wore to the interview. And then, yeah, this is so boring.

Do I have to do this? What? And then fell asleep. Was this a year? He's had to be a kid. Yeah, he was younger. He's 22. Okay.

Yeah. And I was like, sorry, you got to go. Just get on my face. You know, you just inspired. This might be a new segment. I want horrible interview stories. Yeah. Yeah.

This guy. I got a couple. I bet you do. He fell asleep, like in person, fell asleep. Yeah. So not. So we interviewed him and then brought him in for his first day of training, which to be fair, it's an eight-hour online safety course.

DEC safety course. So it's a slideshow that's with a monotone voice. But still, it's your first day. Right. Your first day at a new job. And yeah, after 10 minutes, he says to his boss, he says, wow, this is really boring. Do I have to do this? And half hour later was asleep.

I wore a full sumo suit. We just want to see if you'd make it through. And you didn't. So goodbye. I wore a sumo suit and put candy canes in my beard for your inner. review with you. But I got the job. It was a miracle.

Should have see us trying to push him through the dark. It was great. It was great. Guys, Kelly, Ray, I am so excited that you were able to join us on Good News York. And I'm also very excited about the new episodes and clips from the All Pest cast. All Pest cast. They are dropping sort of, I think, as we speak. Yeah.

So people are going to start to get that taste of how awesome you guys are, like we already know. Yes, sir. But come back anytime. We'll be here. We want to hear about this. We want to hear about crazy bugs. And interviews. The more you interview, keep just for Mike, be like, okay.

We'll be doing a few soon. Okay, good. We should come up with like the most creative ways to kill things. I don't know. We might get us thrown off at YouTube. Most creative ways to kill things. Step lightly. I got to keep it legal.

Yeah. Yeah. That's true. There's that whole legal for a damn ruin. It's different when you're doing it in your backyard. It's a lot different. than me doing it. Running a real business over here.

You're seeing all ethical. We love it, guys. All right. Stay tuned for a little more Good News, York. We were going to get into our bag of goodies. Yeah, I'm excited. And we'll be right back. All right.

Thanks a lot. It's you and me, buddy. Hey, how about that? Yes, sir. We lost our guests. Literally, we can't find them. They were the best. They were the best.

Kelly and Ray from all pest of Syracuse. That was great. I'm glad we had them on. Yeah. That was fun. I don't know that I had heard that story of how they met. Yeah. When I was talking to Kelly through email about my brother and sister-in-law's stink bubub problem,

she's like, hey, I got this idea about telling how Ray and I met. It's kind of a cool story. I was like, hell yeah. All right. Let's go. So speaking of cool stories. Yeah. There's a horrible segue.

I love horribes. Yesterday we debuted the segment where we started going through some stuff I bought and laughed comedically at the nonsense that I purchased. I got more. Yes. Yes. And I'm not going to lie. It might not be as exciting. Okay.

Because I sort of gave you the best stuff yesterday. But let's see what we got in our bag. But let me ask you this. Is this the first time you're actually like, we're getting a real reaction? Like you don't know anything about these other than what you bought, right? Well, I bought them. Right, right. But yeah, we haven't opened anything.

Okay, okay, cool. That's good stuff. So here's the first one on our list. What you got? A law enforcement body cam. Oh, man. All right, so this is... I'm a sucker for those videos.

Just so you know, this is how committed to making content I am. If I could find one that worked, I would wear one of these all around and capture the random things. that never happened to me. Nothing interesting actually happened, so it would be a total waste of time. But, you know, then I can pay Mike to sit through

eight hours of footage. All right. Well, if you were serious about it, you would have bought a cop to put it on, but whatever. All right.

And the company is law enforcement body cam. Yeah. Yeah, these are, you know where that was made. Great name brand products that you've purchased.

Let's see. So at first glance, I just took the dust cover off the screen there. It's got a clip, like a belt clip. Right. It also seems to have a screw that you could put on a tripod mount, which is interesting. I don't know exactly why you'd do that. The camera rotates, huh? USBC.

It's got a little memory card spot, which I'll grab the memory card out of the other thing from yesterday. Okay. Does it hold charge? You know, I was surprised yesterday. Both things that you unbox actually came with a held charge, which was very surprised. Here we go. Moment of truth. There it is. Oh, if there's a race car on the screen when it comes on.

You know what that means. It's going to get crazy. This is a thing. Let's see. How do you use it? I think you wear it on your body. I mean, you're right. But no card.

Here's my question. Why would you have a rotating camera, though? You can turn the microphone on and off. slut. Yeah, but I think you get in trouble. You have to keep your cam on. I mean, the only time you cut audio is, actually you can't cut audio, I think, but they can omit audio in court if there's.

I don't have to do anything. No, we don't have to do shit. We're not, we're not law enforcement. If he didn't know. I'll put a card in this just a second and see, but what is it? Is there even the specs? I don't know. There's, oh, thanks, buddy.

Aha. There's just a cave. Oh, there is a manual. There we go. Here we go. It's completely in Chinese. Well, yeah. Usually there's an English version.

The one who printed that was probably six years old. Oh, wait, there is an English version. Hold on, hold on. Law enforcement instrument instruction manual. I love for they don't even make up some kind of weird brand. No, they're just like, look. We're not even going to bother. We're going to shoot it straight here.

With this here. It's got a lot of, here we go, the specs. This is what I wanted to see. Okay. Video resolution. It'll shoot in 4K, it says. Bull shit. I believe you.

I'm just calling bullshit. Yeah, I mean, I'm with you. I'm with you. Danny gave us a card. Thank you, Danny. You're amazing. We love you. Our savior here.

I am a sucker for body cam videos and people fighting at sporting event videos. So this is exciting for me. All right, we got a card in it. Yeah. I'm upside down. I mean, I'm starting to think about this, though. Like, we can't really be too harsh critics. Because the idea is they just need to capture video.

They're not trying to capture, like, you know, they're not trying to create a movie. So, I mean, maybe we should set the expectations low. Did they steal our logo? It looks like our logo. You know, you just need footage. Oh, there's a, oh, we got to the menu here. Here we go, here we go.

This is thrilling, I know, guys. This is resolution, let's see. Rivided it. How do I? Oh, I see you. I didn't do it, I swear to God. How do I record it? Does it always record?

No. So confused. No, you, they always have to record, but I think the device itself needs to be prompted to record. I mean, it's not supposed to use that crazy tech speak. I can turn the screen on her off. We're going to use this around the office. We're going to catch employees in the action.

Oh, took a pick. It's got that old school. I feel like it's going to take like a... It's supposed to be 4K. I feel like this photo is going to be like from a fucking 80s flip phone. Yeah. Remember those? I sure do.

Resolution was like 120 by 40 or something. I really want to know how I actually record. I could probably read the manual. Yeah, read the manual and let me mess around here. Okay, there's the mic. Functions, video. Okay, right now you have the mic off, and that's fine. Here you go, here's the button up to start recording.

Push down to stop recording. This one? No. Wait. Yes. Okay, well, it's, it's... So we should be recording. Yeah, we're...

One, two, three, we got a four, five, six. Let's seven, eight, nine, this one. I don't know So hold on Does that mean Should we do like Price is right Where I guess what you paid

Over under I am going to guess you paid $2,999. I don't actually know All right now It's specifically recording It says it's recording So I feel like I had to activate that

You did because now that's right I wasn't there before All right Okay. Also, so funny story, remember how I said it does in 4K? On it, it says HD 1080. Which is not 4K. It is definitely not. That's printed on the device.

I'm not talking about on the screen. It's printed on the device. Oh, right, right. HD 1080. But supposedly it does 4K. Right. Now, let me ask you this. You're more of a tech guy.

If you had a 4K, if you had a camera that had 4K quality ability, wouldn't you print that on it over the HD? One would think. Because 4K is better than... Right. Yeah. So something's not adding up. Yeah. So we will pull the footage and put it if you go to Good News, York.com.

The results of this adventure will be there in this segment. Yeah. I'm going to take it and I'm going to wear it. It'll be interesting to see what's... I'm going to try to catch Danny. What's popping off. Doing what he does. He might have to see.

You got to... I want to follow Danny around with the body cam and just piss them all. I don't wear any... I need, like, a shirt with a pocket. It doesn't... No, you can you rotate? Yeah, you know, but it's going to be crooked. When you're, you know, when you're a cop,

you got all those gadgets and gizmos and you're... Wait, does it? Oh, shoot, it auto rotates. Wow, that's actually... Honestly? All right. That's kind of impressive to me. I'm even more impressed.

Yeah. So if you fall down... We never want an officer to fall down. It's sideways. It should... Yeah. What else you got? I don't know.

You getting bored with that? No. Well, I just feel like we've peaked with our body canoe. All right. So this is sort of a real product, actually. So hold on. You wanted to know what I paid for that. Hold on.

Hold on, hold on. I mean. I want to know what I paid for that. I just want to see how close. I mean, to me, I feel like that's a fair price point for a... Timu. T. Is it Timo or T-Mew?

or temo. It's take all my money. Take, oh, I thought it stood for that. Take everybody's money. I mean, it might, actually. I might have just inadvertently stumbled on that. Maybe Team stands for take everybody's money, understandably. Where the fuck are my orders?

Come on. There's my cart, but I don't want to buy that stuff here. That'll be next week's bit. All right. What is, why is this so difficult? Your orders. There we go. Here we go.

So my guess. Okay, hold on. 2999. Danny, what is your guess for the law enforcement body camp? Now I'm wondering if it's 19. Oh, man. That's got to be at least like $7. All right, Danny's at seven.

I'll just stick with it. I'm thinking now it's $1999, but I'll go with... Are we playing by Price's right rules? Yeah, the closest without going over. You do $1. Okay, yeah, I'm sticking with $7. All right, I'll go, I'll go... Well, I'll go about.

I think $2.99.99. The actual final price. Retail price. Of the law enforcement body cam. $14.99. $12.56. Wow. Danny wins.

All right. And since I got this, and we didn't get to do this yesterday real quick, on, if you remember the cell phone from yesterday, the miniature cell phone that we couldn't get to live stream anything. Mini cell phone. It's Chloe. This guy. if you remember this thing guys what do you think

the actual retail price didn't you tell us I threw out a number but I wasn't looking at this so I could have made it up well for that one I'm going to go again 2999 okay Danny the the 4G it's a 3G actually

okay that's that's good to know I was going to say it's it's probably more pricey 16 games and $7 I should get to play with it. I put it back in the box yesterday, but I took a look at it.

I don't remember what Android version it was on, but since it's an Android, I'd say it's probably somewhere like $26, $27. Ooh. During Lowe's Pro Savings Days, the job works in your favor. My Lowe's Pro Rewards Members, buy more and save more on materials they rely on every day.

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Subject to change. We'll go with 27 from Danny. What'd you say? I said 2999. The closest without going over in this case is Mike. Wow. $34.60. Wow.

Wow. That's a little expensive for the... T T-MU. Android cell phone. T-Moo. Yeah, if you're watching, you want to write in the chat or write in, I don't even know what capabilities we have. Is it T-Moo or T-Mew?

T-Mu, T-Mu. All right, and from yesterday, again, just real quickly, the 4K camera, yeah. The 4K made by 4K camera. 4K camera, great company. It is a knockoff of the DJI, a gimbal camera where, like, the head is supposed to move around, like a gimbal. It doesn't. It's just a solid piece of plastic. Do you think people get these and get pissed off and they're like, I'm going to call the better business bureau and they're like, what's your problem? I want to report 4K camera. So guys,

closest without going over. What is the price? We'll start with Danny this time of the 4K, uh, not a gimbal camera. Oh man. It's funny because like I have the DJI that it's based on and that that was like a $600 camera. The sky, it doesn't even, it doesn't even have a gimbal. Right. Jimbo, Kimball. I'm going to say, I'm going to say $40. Wow.

That's Balzy. I. $40 is the price from Danny, Mike. All right. Before we noticed that it was molded to look like a gimbal and didn't actually, like the shape had nothing to do with it, I would have, I would have agreed. I'm actually going to go lower on this. I am going to say

1999. $1999 and $40 the closest without going over this time is Danny. God damn it. I paid $53.62 for that thing. Dude, you got ripped. Bent over.

And you can't even capture the bent over because it doesn't adjust so you could. It doesn't flip. But anyway. I'm sorry, man. All right, let's get to the good stuff. So, this is a,

This is a legit product. Okay. I hesitate to believe you. I'm not even kidding on this time. This is a legit. This is the wise. They're great. Cam, pan in black.

Okay. Made by Wise. This hatches up actual branding. No, I actually have a conflict of interest on this. I might have to sit out. Uh-oh. I have indoor security cameras that are Wise brand. Why is it a conflict of interest?

Well, because I knew what I paid for those, but I kind of don't remember. So maybe I can. fucking, who cares. And they're good, right? I'll just do it. I don't know what I mean. Wise is great. I mean, I had a couple issues, but nothing major.

They're definitely more reputable and better quality than the shit we were just opening. No offense to a 4K camera company. So you can get this Wise camera on the TikTok shop if you go to my TikTok at the TikTok shop. On the TikTok shop. Quick start guy. You can buy one of these. It comes with a book in English. That's a positive.

That's good because that's what we know. I mean, the other one wasn't English, too, but you had to... Oh, yeah. This is awesome. That is cool. It's like a bunk bed of cameras. They're like... So, wait, is this a...

Let's make something that's actually cool looking on top of functional. Color night vision. Oh, it's got pantos. And these come in white as well. I think the black is cool, especially if you're in a room with decor like ours in here that's dark. Yep. It's more fitting to your aesthetic. Uh, it moves around.

It's got a two-way audio. Nice. Pan, tilt, and zoom, indoor and outdoor. 120-inch wide-angle lens, 24-7 recording, 1080 full-h-D, color night vision. I mean, this thing is, it does it all. It does the whole bricking thing, man. Look, I will endorse wise.

I, like I said, I had a few issues, but, you know, nothing that I would say. is the company, it reflects bad on the company, just tech stuff. In the box, they give you an actual adapter, which is respectable to be. I don't know why. There's so many of these companies nowadays that now they just give you a cord with a USB end and they say, best of luck. Yeah. You know, we all got a hundred of those things around, but you can never find one ever

when you actually need it. So shout out to the products that take the time to actually let you plug them in. Yeah. In that is the rest of the cables and goodies. they've also given us some mounting hardware to actually put this thing on the wall you don't have to try to figure that out you know when you hold a product

specifically in electronics and you can just feel like oh this isn't like this has got some weight to it the outside is I think it's plastic but it's smooth like you can tell it's not cheap it was made it was it's a quality product

it really is and you can grab that on the TikTok shop right now. Yes, sir. For under 40 bucks. Our TikTok show? Yeah. At Matt Major on TikTok. So did you buy these?

399. Did you buy these to sell? I bought one of these to use. Okay. But that's the beauty of the TikTok shop is I can then also offer it to folks who might want to also purchase it. That's fantastic. So check that out.

You can get that on there. We will cut in some. footage of the thing in action. But I think it's a pretty neat, pretty neat thing. It is neat. If you go to the showcase on there, Danny, which I don't know how well that shows,

if that even shows on the, so you mean you're, are we selling this item specifically? Yeah, that won't, the one that's here? No, I'm not going to mail you this. This one is mine. That's what I'm getting at. So we're going to use this here in the studio.

But you can buy your own, apparently not on the web version. So we just link to the products we like and put it in our TikTok. Yep. And then we get a... Okay. That's it.

I like that. So guys, uh, we're almost out of time for today's good news, York. Yeah. What do we got coming up tomorrow, my friend? Tomorrow on the show, nothing. Awesome. Yeah. Um, we're going to start booking guests regularly starting next week.

We were, as some of you may know, if you have been watching since we started, you know, we're still getting the tech stuff ironed out, and we've had a few guests, but next week is when we're really going to start kicking it off. We've got a full list of guests coming in. And look, Good News York. It's all Good News York, good news about what's going on in New York events. You know, people doing amazing stuff.

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probably be starting if it hasn't already next week where we can we can kind of interact with you so I'm excited 100% I'm very excited it's going to be really cool yeah I will also I was trying to find it quick I She said yesterday this video that was a wild piece of footage, and of course I can't quickly. Oh, that's right. And I only remembered it when I opened by notes. You intrigued me with this. It is the greatest piece of organic footage ever captured on cell phone camera.

Rough. That is quite the talk up. I will find it so we can properly queue it up tomorrow. Oh, you're going to make me wait another phone. Gay? I can't find it. You're killing me. I don't remember how it was described.

I'm trying to find it. And there's way too many videos that involve the police in Rock. What is it involved? Like, can you at least, is it real footage? It is real. You said organic. Real footage that a person captured standing on a street corner and it is the wildest footage. It looks like something that they couldn't create in a movie after 20 takes.

Does anybody get hurt? I don't think so. Okay. I mean. I mean, not visibly in the footage. Did you save it? You didn't even save. I'm looking, bro.

It was a while ago, so we might be out of luck for today, but I'm trying. Well, while you're looking, if you didn't see the, it's a fucking llama video from yesterday, the video that I think is the funniest video of all time, and we found out that the video was actually shot in Liverpool. I'm going to hunt this guy down, and I want to interview him on the show. Just, I need to know what was going on that day and why there was a llama just running at his car. and it is I love it I love that video

it is pretty funny I'll be honest it got better when you found out it was in Rochester it was in Rochester it was in Rochester or Liverpool right yeah yeah yeah oh Liverpool

I'm still looking for New York no keep looking yeah I mean look I showed it on the show for two reasons because I wanted people to see the video that I thought was the funniest video of all time

and it makes no sense but you know how it is you see a video and it just hits you the right way. Got it. You got it? How do I... Danny, what are you possibly signed into that I could send you this link on?

I can sign in right now on Outlook. Okay. All right. Our crack producer... We've got to get the chat on... Danny... Tripiti. Tripodi?

Capote. Truman Capote. Ladies and gentlemen, our producer, Danny Truman Capote. Danny Truman. It's on its way to you. And also, if you want to be a guest on the show, I forgot that you can, everything's linked off a Good News York, correct? To be a guest, to submit stories. Yeah, sure, we'll go with that.

Good News York.com. All right, I don't want to watch because I want to be surprised. Yeah. Very excited, very excited. Danny, just let us know when you got it ready and you can fire it up. Fire it up. And we are also streaming Monday through Thursday at Good News York. come.

We are. Every morning. We, you know what? In morning. There's a hammer, ham, ham, me, going to get kicked off. What did we do?

We got back. They found the body cam footage that we have right here. Yeah. We're under arrest. I'm not logged at all Facebook here. They won't.

Bad damn it Truman. It was public, so it would just pop up. Oh, wait. We see here. Mm. You got. This whole screen All right, here we go

So can you tease this up again? So we just, this is what now? Yeah, you're a little, I think you're a little fast forwarded by... Did I see this actually? Just watch. And you're saying this is the craziest, the best video of all time.

Best organic video I've ever seen. What the, we need sound. He's getting there. I'm not watch this. I'm going to watch until it's ready. Whoa. All right, phone more. We lined to phone one more time, buddy.

Sorry. Yeah, start from the beginning. Here we go. School bus crash into a vehicle. Shoot. God damn. Oh. There's more.

Are they running? What? This is like grand theft. the video game. Is this Rochester, New York? Of course it is. Wow. That's amazing.

There's so many things happening simultaneously. It's like the Simpsons. So a car goes through an intersection, crashes into a bus, and then a police chase just scoes us, comes by, and then the guy goes on the run. I mean, that is a miracle that was caught. It's wild.

And for the record, I mean, the bad section of Rochester, I used to think, oh, yeah, the bad set. It's pretty bad. I had a band and we played at the Water Street Music Hall. It's pretty entertaining to me. I'm not going to lie. And we stayed near the Water Street Music Hall and I was going to walk to the venue. And the person we were staying with was like, no, you are not walking to the venue because this neighborhood's nasty. And imagine the Benny Hill music over that video.

It's just such a bit. It's an incredible calamity. How do you catch that? Like I'm saying, that dude was at the right place at the right time and just caught the greatest organic footage. I need to watch that. And he was a phenomenal cameraman because that's the problem. Most time you get something like that. And one of these dudes is you get pissed off because they start pointing the phone at the ground or some shit.

Yeah. Because they're looking, oh, look at it. No, he stuck with it. Like, he was a good cameraman. He stuck with it. Shout out to whoever that dude was. That's just another day in the hood, it said. That was the caption.

Yeah. Wow. I was more interested in this. cinematic genius of the whole thing that's the name of this episode just another day in the hood there you go all right mike brindisi matt mazer good news york it's been a fun one my friends we'll see you tomorrow hopefully yeah