Good News York by Growth Mode Content - Good News York: Wednesday Wits and Wellness with Phil Farda and Kelly Beer | GNY Ep07

Episode Date: March 18, 2025

Good News York: Wednesday Wits and Wellness with Phil Farda and Kelly BeerIn the latest episode of 'Good News York,' the hosts discuss the phenomenon of 'Hump Day,' reminisce about a classic Geico commercial, and express excitement for their guest lineup. They introduce Phil Farta and Kelly Beer, who narrate their journeys in comedy and wellness, respectively. Phil shares insights into his successful business ventures in entertainment, including comedy shows and trivia nights, highlighting an upcoming comedy show featuring Ryan Niemiller from 'America's Got Talent.' Kelly Beer discusses her transition from state work to opening her own esthetics business, emphasizing the importance of skincare and self-care. The show concludes with promotions for their ventures and the promise of more good news on future episodes.00:00 Welcome to Good News York!00:55 Special Guests: Phil Farta and Kelly Beer01:19 Comedy and Business Insights with Phil Farta03:57 Ryan Kneemiller's Journey and Upcoming Show09:28 Stage Time Trivia: The Perfect Blend of Comedy and Trivia15:21 Kelly Beer's New Venture in Esthetics23:20 Balancing Budget and Self-Care24:11 Understanding Skin Health24:36 Daily Skincare Routine Tips25:47 The Importance of Sunscreen26:31 Facial Treatments and Benefits28:46 Pimple Popping Stories30:57 Comedy and Local Events38:51 Trivia and Entertainment Services42:51 Coffee Habits and Health44:13 Conclusion and Upcoming Events

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This is your sign. Start free at RSS.com. Hey guys, welcome to Good News York. Yes, it's Wednesday. You're getting better. Humpty? Yeah. Is that a thing? I guess. I mean, I'm kind of become a thing. I feel like it wasn't on my radar until like 10 years ago I started hearing hump day. It was like a 90s thing. Is it? Is it? The Guy Co-commercial?

Well, with the camel, the camel. They really put some boost behind it, but it was a thing before. No, all right. Well, it is, that's what it is. It's Wednesday. It's true. And we got our good buddy coming in and I'm pumped about that. I'm excited. We got two good buddies. I got here for you today on Good News York.

If you saw yesterday's show, you should have an idea what's coming up. We were with our buddy, Ryan Knee Miller, talking about this awesome comedy show that he's going to be on in Utica. Yeah. And we got the folks that are going to tell you more about that. So stick around. We'll pull him in here and have some good news. Coming up next right here on Good News York. All right, guys, welcome back.

We are here. With our very good friends, we got Phil Farda and the lovely helied beer here in person. I'm very excited. A clip for that. For those who don't know, Phil here is my podcast bestie, and I've never done anyone without him before. So it was weird. I felt like I was cheating on Phil when we started the show with Mike piece, and I have tough shoes to Phil. We're here to talk about a lot of cool things.

I am excited for a lot of people to learn about your business, Phil, because everybody knows Phil is the comedian. And the reality is he's a brilliant businessman and he's turned entertainment into a full-time job, not just for himself, but a whole group of people. Absolutely. I think that's pretty awesome. Nice. You were talking about how Phil is your podcast bestie. Phil is my stand-up comedy bestie. I go back further with Mike, to be honest.

The first guy I started with was Phil and then a kid Blair, who I don't know where he is. Is he alive? He's doing really well. He's doing forestry now. He's done with lawn care. He's doing forestry. He moves quick, yeah. God damn.

Yeah, man. I started with you, Phil. I don't know how to explain this, but I think you'll get it. Like, when you're in a band with somebody or you work in some sort of creative project with somebody, there's a bond that happens for the rest of your life. And I'm being serious. It's like called an NDA. A non-disclosure agreement?

Oh, right. Well, there's that part of it, too. But I've always had this tremendous bond with Phil because we started together on the front lines. We didn't know what we were doing. I remember, so I did the open mic, right? You were hosting the open mic, got my first show, about 200 people, went on stage, the mic didn't work. It just didn't work.

It pulled out of the wall or failed or something. Shit. I mean, I really ate shit. And then I went backstage, like at the back of the club. And I cried. You came back and gave me a pep talk. Do you remember that? I don't.

Yeah, you were really sweet. You came back and you were like, hey, man, it happens. Everybody is okay. Like, it's just a fucking pep talk. you know that made me keep going because I was I can't do that every night that was I know well I think the reason I don't remember is because I don't ever remember seeing you bomb you were just so good thanks man my first time everything went wrong it was a nightmare I know well that's how you close to talk yeah well anyway yeah I mean look I loved you

I was like this kid is so funny you were great man well you were host of that mic I was like oh this guy's really really good polished funny and I was like oh maybe you were great. If I didn't see somebody doing it well, I don't know that I would have kept going. I was, I just, I saw it in you right from the start. You inspired me too, man. Oh, that's just, I love you, buddy, so that's a little love on the show here.

If I could, if I could, I could reach over this table but I can't. Set up our bobblehead. I didn't dust him. Bob Ross is my favorite. That's right. Nixon. Warbill. Do you want the Bob Ross? Deal their shit. Oh, that's damn it. Like, came me the Bob Ross.

Today is my brother's birthday. And Bob is his favorite. It came with an easel, but I lost it. Among many things that we're here to talk about, is this show that you've got coming up with the awesome Ryan Neemiller, who we had to listen talking to you. You guys just had him on, yeah. He's great. We made it very clear, by the way, that Mike was already booking Ryan to do the show. That is true.

But, Morty, you booked him on this event. So it just happened to work together nicely. How did you time that? He told me that. He said, oh, I'm doing mad show. I was like, because I thought it was because of this. I was like, they got you quick, dude. They got you within like 20 minutes.

He reached out to us first. Wonder. We're just starting. And to me, this guy's a celebrity. He's a big star now. So I was like, Jesus Christ, my first week and I got an email from this Ryan emailer from AGT to be on. And I was like, yeah, man, we're not really up and running yet, but we'll get you on as soon as we can. Dude.

Yeah, Matt mentioned you set up a show with him. I was like, well, fuck yeah. So I wrote him back. I said, we're up and running. Your show's going. Let's do it. I would love to give you the history of Ryan real quick. He was friends with Will Phillips, who was also on the show that we're doing.

He's like, oh, my buddy Ryan's real funny. You should put him on. He was touring everywhere. He's the hardest working dude in comedy. So he would come to Utica area about once a year. I would put together six, seven shows from when we do a run. And we did that for about six years. The shows would vary.

Some would have 30 people. Some would have 100. It was just like local comedy at that point. Nobody knew him. And we had some crazy, we did like an abandoned mall. We did a failed restaurant. We did a lot of great. great comedy spots.

Last show we did was it was Nicole's in Camden and the now defunct restaurant. And he leaned into us before the show. He's like, listen, I can't really tell anybody this, but I'm going to share it with you guys. I got America's got talent. And we were like, that's amazing, dude, because that's just a good career thing. No matter what. Not even assuming that he was going to become a finalist. You just think you're on the show, you get the exposure.

He is funny enough. He definitely could have won the whole thing. Sure. But he tells us who are excited and then it airs and everything goes on. he explodes, you know, goes like a million followers. And I'm like, hey, everybody in Utica loves you, man. And he's like, hey, since we ran these tours all these years, can I come back and do a show?

And at that point, he could have did theaters and shit, man. You know what I mean? And I would have totally understood. He could have done anything else. And instead of doing theaters, we did four shows at Cavalos. That's a me. We sold out the banquet room four times, and it was dope. He gave back because that paid our mortgage for the year.

That was a great time. I think that's the first time I saw him. He actually talked about that. He said, you know, when you get on AGT, become more of a star. He's like, but I still wanted to go back and do small comedy clubs and things like that. Because he could have been like, thanks for the, thanks for nothing and never talked to me again. And I would have understood. What's that Halloween place that pops up in abandoned places?

That's what Phil is. Spirit Halloween. Yes. Phil is the spirit Halloween of comedy. He just pops up in abandoned restaurants. And I love that. I had to pick him up. We were doing a show from Messina.

My car breaks down. I had to go to the airport. Get him at Hancock, right? So I go to Syracuse. I got a rental minivan. It's a blizzard out. It's the worst day of the year. The temperature was negative 43.

And it was May, by the way. He gets, we get to the car. I'm watching him struggle with his bag. Because I don't want to be like, you need a hand. I'm like, he's perfectly capable. I'm just going to let him carry his own shit. Because you know, you know what I mean? There's a lie.

It's just a dude. Don't focus on the. disability in any way. He carries the shit out all the time. He doesn't need my help. We got frostbite going from the car, we had to load in all this equipment. It's going to be a great show, but it was a nightmare. He'll never forget that. The coldest day I've ever experienced. That's insane. So the mall was completely abandoned. There was a Wendy's and then just a warehouse. Like a place where you would do drugs. They filled it with chairs and we set up the show and it was a hit. The guy that ran the show, his name's Elijah. He's still around. He got divorced, I think.

His wife says shambles His wife is like I'm dealing with this It was pre-A-G-T by the way Yeah It's so great Just bother anybody in my seen it But yeah shout out to anybody that

See some success And then To humble and returns Tickets are already selling good for the show The room we're in sells 200 Hopefully we could sell that out The show that Phil is talking about Is Ryan E Miller

The Great Phil Fardo Will Phillips Who we both know and love Friday March 21st 8 p.m At the Burstown Inn, Stone Road, Utica, New York. So it's in a hotel, they got a banquet room. The beer garden is a bar attached to the front of that. Cool.

So it's all connected. First event there. We're going to give away tickets. Oh, dude. Yeah, we're going to give away. We want to do that for sure. Will they tell us the legend of the great Burstone? What is the legend?

I just thought that was your birth stone. I didn't know. I thought Burstown was your Burthstone. We'll talk about it another time. This place? There's a lot of Burstones. There's a lot of Burstones. There's an animal hospital, the road.

I'm telling you. Nice cream. Not a whole department. Yeah, they had to come from. Oh, you were serious. Oh, shit. I don't know the legend of Burstone. Somewhere there's gotta be a stone.

I like you saying Burstown instead of Burstown. It's like if you want it to appeal to the upper, they say it's on Burstown Road. That's how you pronounce it. That's right. But we should also give some love to Josh Wilbur. He's also a comedian. He's a comedian, great, funny dude. He's also one of our trivia hosts.

He hosts two of our absolutely jam-packed trivia nights every Monday and Thursday. It's part of why he's on the show. I was like, he doesn't bring a lot of people. Yeah. I appreciate your honesty. Let's put him on there, yeah. The dude is legitimately funny. I've enjoyed any of the shows that he has a good dude.

And love his trivia nights, which we should mention. So we're talking about these comedy things. But really, you're kind of everyday operation is this stage time trivia. Yeah, the bread and butter, man. And that one, I owe to Will Phillips a lot because he was the first trivia host. that I saw hosting, he was doing comedy with trivia, and I was like, oh, this is fun. I don't even like trivia. It's standard.

Yeah, you're in front of a crowd. You have a script to follow loosely. You can kind of riff on it. He killed it. I was like, oh, this is a brand. You want to team up and make this a brand? And he was like, okay, what's the pay? I was like, it's going to pay good.

We're doing great. We're in eight locations weekly in Utica area. We got one in Syracuse now. We've been there for a while. We have 62 locations nationwide that run our game. That's amazing. It's doing all right. Stagetime trivia.com.

That's the website. We offer a content subscription service. Matt helped me design. He built the original website. Genius. Go figure, right? That's the thing where I mentioned at the top how Phil is a genius in business. He had this great bar trivia business going around town.

And you see these all over the country. He had this idea. How can we take this and expand beyond what I can physically go to every day? Yeah. Their secret sauce is the actual comedy. A lot of folks might not know. It's not random, like, trivial pursuit questions. You guys actually write a custom full package every week of multiple rounds and topical things. And that content is gold. The picture round is always my favorite because you never know if you're going to get something, you know, on the naughty side. People have like 10 different balls. You got to identify the testicles. I love that.

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That's why I love this business model specifically for you because it, okay, so this is your bread and butter. You don't even like trivia, right? But it's not like you're sitting there going, yeah, I got to do this to pay the bills and then I do stand-up. It's scratching that stand-up itch for you. You're still performing. I think it's the perfect gig for someone like you. Oh, this is it for sure, man. Comedy is somewhat taking a back seat to this.

Which explains my depression now. It's just sunken into the couch. But for me, like, looking at it that way, I think it would scratch that it from me where I don't necessarily think that the stand-ups taking a back seat. I think it's another form. Like you're doing stand-up. You're just doing it as the host of a trivia thing. Yeah, yeah, you get a built-in crowd.

It's almost like if you did comedy with an audience and good pay. It's like, yeah, this is great, and this isn't a way to go. This is what it could be like. That was the original business plan. I was going to pitch this to comics as a way to improve, make some money, pick up gigs on weeknights where you normally would not have any work. Yeah. Oh, yeah, missed it to me.

The only reason I didn't is because I was really heavily considering taking that leap. There's a lot of great folks. What we learned was comics are lazy and flaky and terrible people, really. So we just started selling it to bars. Listen, if there's ever a more honorable customer, it's a bar. Yeah, we need them. So let's say we're a bar, preferably a gay bar. We want to do the stage time trivia thing.

Take me through it. Sure, really easy, man. So you're going to visit stagetimetrivia.com. The website is undergoing a facelift right now, so that's going to look different shortly. But there's a free game download. There's a try it free button. You can click that. Try a free game.

You just print it out. It'll give you all the materials, questions, handouts, instructions, everything. We have an online tutorial on there as well, teach you how to run the game. Pretty easy to walk through. If you like it, you want to keep running it every week. You subscribe. It's $100 a month. Works out to be less than $25 a game.

And every Sunday, we email you a complete new game. Got some topical questions on there. all original content. And it's not all testicles, by the way. Mostly testicles, but it's not all testicles. It's like, here you go. The real problem that it solves is creating the game. People will start a trivia night and they'll come up with questions.

After the first two weeks, you're like, this takes a ton of time to come up with good questions. You got to create the handouts. There's graphic design involved, a lot of stuff to do. That could take six hours, put a full whole game together. If you got a bar or if you're hosting, you have other stuff you got to do. So that part's done. The work's done for you. How do you find new material, like new questions and things like that?

Well, so Phillips is our head writer. He does all the content creation. We source some questions from the internet. We utilize chat GPT. Sometimes you're just late. Like, I wonder. It would be a great question. Yeah, I wonder if Napoleon had, how many wives he had.

So you think of something and it becomes trivia. I love it. It's not the typical cookie cutter trivia questions. You can play one of those games. And I'll get a couple of questions. They're like, oh, I know that. And you'll get another one that's just like, why? They're typically too hard.

People are like, oh, this sucks. I don't know anything. Yeah. So we find just the right balance. Sure. It's for bars, too. It's for guys like us. Idiots.

Stupid. Morons. Fat idiots. Yeah. So it's it. Wait a minute. Oh, you're the smartest. Smelly, dumb, stupid.

Buggly. That's our customer. The last time I played at the Aloft, I won the game. Well, that doesn't surprise them. I think I got a free gift. Was it then? She. I found that with karaoke in my travels and my travels and

performing over the year. Karaoke and trivia has this sect of culture, and I'm asking if you've encountered this, where there's people that show up every week and they are very serious about diehard. Die hard. You got that? You get that. Yeah, yeah. It's part of what makes the business work. Oh, no, our guys are cool. Our regulars are cool. But yeah, in a typical trivia and I, people do take it too seriously. We discourage that. We use comedy to do that. Stop being an idiot. Smart. It's meant to be fun. Your drink, you're hanging out with your friends. You don't want to leave you feeling stupid.

I love the diehards. So we should talk to this lovely young lady who's sitting right next to us. Scoot right up to the bike there. Can I assume on there? Oh, that works better. Yeah, because I'm not going to reach this table. Little. Our good friend Kelly here has recently joined the ranks of the business.

Well, but how long since you opened? Almost you. I opened April 1st. Tell folks what you do and please. Well, I'm a licensed S-2. I worked for the state for 20 years and hated my life and decided to go back to school. She was a corrections officer. I did work at the prison with the sex offender.

I got fed up with the day-to-day, the mundane, and went back to school. It was a four-month program. Good for you. It was like super convenient, appealed to my ADHD, you know, like quick done to the point. Like you don't got to mess with all the extracurriculars and shit. I decided that after that most aestheticians, don't do this, and I don't recommend it for anyone. But I jumped right into it and opened my own place.

I'm located within a larger entity, which appeals to my more witchy side. I get to do the holistic kind of stuff. I work out of a new attitude in Barnville, which is a very small town. But I love it. I like being the local hometown esthetician. And I can also offer the infrared sauna in the Halo Salt Therapy room. We even got a two-person giant salt tank, float, anti-gravity, wild. You look great.

And yes, men can come and get their face. Stop using your shampoo. You are glowing. What is this? I even rub his head. I do his head too. It's nice to get your beard all cleaned out and stuff. You wouldn't believe the funk sometimes.

I've never considered it as a man ever to go and get spa treatment. Oh, no, absolutely. It's glorious. It's not. My friends open a place. Let me go check it. Oh, it's beautiful, dude. Yeah. Yeah. She does waxing. I mean, why don't you list your services? I can do pretty much anything. I just, I do all natural lash lift and tints. I'm a more natural girly myself. I can't deal with the extensions. Okay. It's too much upkeep. I could do that,

too. I don't want to sit there for three hours, monkeying with lashes one by one. The lash lift and tints appeal to me. I do waxing a whole slew of facials. I like to sit there. I like the science part of it. I like the gadgets. I like learning about the science behind it all and how it works. So I do comp heels and nanonealing. I would love to do microneedling, but New York State won't allow us to do it. And I kind of revoke that on us. But anything... If you don't know what you're talking about. What does that do for it? It's okay. You're the three best guys you could talk to about this. Is that like acupuncture? Acupuncture is more like trying to target a specific nerve. Nanonetling, microneedling, you're trying to really as we age, we lose our collagen and everything. So we want to really preserve that. By creating these micro injuries in the skin, it's like when you get a deep tissue massage.

You're trying to purposely inflame the area. Oh. But I do it within a nice sterile environment. So I never had one in my life. You go to Barnabelle, right? You walk in the door. This place smells amazing, dude. It's lavender and...

And eucalyptus. Smells amazing. I love it already. I don't know if you smelled Kelly. She smells like this. You go in the spa. Yeah, the spa. It's very warm.

And you get in there, you start sweating. You sweat out all the gunk. The cough. It's a dry sauna. So it's a butt. Yeah, you don't want to sweat and detox. You get in there, and that lasts for 20 minutes or some. 30 minutes.

You last until you think you're going to die. It's unbearable. Yeah. It feels like the depths of hell. And then when you open the door, you get hit with cool air, and you're totally refreshed and revived. Can we shoot the three of us going there? Oh, yeah. We'll do the full, the full, whatever.

I do it want some of nanos. My facials are anywhere from an hour to an hour and a half. Once you get in the facial, you go in this smaller room. It's like a bed that you lay it, but it's a bed chair thing. And you get in there's the most comfortable chair I've ever been in my entire life. Three layers of foam. Three layers of fall. Hand caught.

That's a lot of fault. Yeah. Yeah. And when you're in there, you're looking up at Kelly, right? Which you're already, that's already pretty good. Yeah. He's the only one that keeps his eyes open. and I keep telling them, please don't do that.

I'm very meticulous, but I might get soap in your eyes. I'm like, you can close your eyes, fell, and relax. I don't want to. It's so relaxed. I've fallen asleep in the setup multiple times. It starts with this face scrub, and then there's a massage thing, and that you don't know what's happening, but you're feeling like lotions and fucking,

oh, there's a towel. Tell them about the towel. The hot towel. Yeah, everybody likes the hot towels. Hot towels are everything. When I go to the barber, that's the best part. She's got so many hot towels. I go through like six of them.

And they're so hot. It feels like you need to go to the hospital. Okay. Afterwards. It's just so hot. It burns. It's like your skin starts to peel off. Oh my God.

Like that scene from Indiana Jones. But sometimes I like to burn them on purpose. It's so nice. Wow. Sometimes I have to ask her to show me what she's using because I'll feel something. And I'm like, what is your thing? I try to show people now. You know what I mean?

I explain what it does. It's the ultrasonic skin scrubber, which I love. It's this. Yeah. And your face. Yeah. It's going about it. Yeah.

Yeah. You don't need to understand it. That's what I'm telling you. It's so glorious and relaxing. Is it all sorts of different processes or is it one full product? Yeah, so my number one seller, and this is probably because I like to do custom facials. So I can really gear it towards anything. So I can use any of my modalities like my high frequency wand or the ultrasonic skin scrubber,

which I call the BT Micro because that's the brand that makes it that I like. I can do a vast variety of things and I customize it all the way through. What would you do differently from one person to another? Oh my God. Are you kidding? There's so many different skin type. But I, this is where my ADHD comes as a perk within this job because everybody has a different routine. Not everybody is going to go home and want to do a 10-step skincare routine. Those people, I try to find things, keep it as simple and basic like all-in-one creams so I can make recommendations.

I'll go all out in the treatment room because that's what they're there for. But as far as like home care and that sort of stuff, you know, I try to make recommendations based on their lifestyle diet. I mean, there's so many different actors. So there's a consulting? Oh, God, yeah. Very big on the consultation. Yes, very big. And my regulars that come in, you know, I know that I usually ask is there been any significant changes.

But yeah, I always creep people out because if you got breakouts in this lower area, I'm like, you got your period, don't you? Oh, of course. They're going to get it soon, huh? I can't imagine. They're like, how the hell do you know? And I'm like, well, it's in this little area. You got GI issues going on. How's your diet?

Like, I can tell by it's fake. Could you look at our skin and be like, IBS? No, not that. Right. Yeah, but usually, you know. 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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And they're very strict. That's why I can't do the microneedling right now. Okay. Because it's more of a medical thing at the moment. Although I can do anything with the epidermist. Your skin is your biggest organ. It covers your whole body. So really, it's all in how I word things.

I can't necessarily offer a hair treatment, but I can offer a scalp treatment. Oh, I see what you're saying. My skelet has never been nice. Dude, you look three weeks young. He's been brave enough that we've done a couple of compiles on this little dark spot right here. You actually do look good, though. I haven't seen you a while. You look good.

You should look at his nose. It's weird. All right. A regular customer, they really want to take good care. How often is that? Did they come to see you weekly, monthly? It's just going to ask. How does that work?

Once a month. Okay. If I have clients that are really consistent with their skin care, I usually have them. come once every six weeks. But I also take their budget into consideration too. I understand you got responsibilities and I'm a luxury. I get that. It's really healthcare, but not everybody can be afforded that luxury to take care of themselves. I'm telling you the self-care aspect of it. I see such a difference in my clients when they finally start paying attention to themselves for months. A lot of them are moms. They got busy lives. They're working. They're finally at that point.

point in their career where they got true responsibilities too. It's like tug and pull and usually you let yourself go. One day you wake up and you're like, oh shit, I look old. I should do something about that. I've been going through that. Is the idea to kind of intervene on the aging process or is it just more of a look good, feel good, a mixture of everything? It depends on person. Okay. My spiel is healthy skin. I just want you to have healthy skin. Nobody's skin is perfect. I would rather teach people how to utilize ingredients that are actually beneficial to their skin. I like my clients to leave knowing something about themselves and how to truly help themselves. Some of them don't even know their skin type.

How are you choosing products, not knowing your skin type? You don't just buy a bar of soap? I'll teach you, Matt. Beaver 2000. No, you got a lot of Lever 2,000. Zestfully clean. So I guess I compare it to kind of like with mental health therapy, right? People think you go in and they fix you and you leave.

It's like, well, there's a lot of work that has to be done. They give you some tools to use outside. So it sounds like you kind of do that too. Yes. You talk about diet and stuff like that. So if you really want your skin to look amazing, it really comes down to you. Yeah. I can only handle about 20% of it, you know, increase to your benefits.

But the other 80% is honestly because consistency. You have to be consistent. And most of us aren't in our lives right now. No. You know what I mean? We don't wash your face before bed. I'm too tired. I don't want to do it.

I don't want to deal with it. But I tell you, it's going to make a difference if you do. I use the pads before bed. Is that bad? The hydrocholidol pads? Yeah, well, they're meant for it. I don't know if it's oxy or I think it's the peel ones or the hydricles. Those are fantastic.

Those are fantastic. It actually is just protecting your skin barrier. It helps draw a little bit fluid in there. But it decreases scarring. I mean, there's so many different. different benefits. Wow. So for like do you what are some basic things that the everyday Joe could do to to for their skin are you please wear screen. Oh please I got on right now like there's so many great sunscreens out there now what but what would be a good you want a 30 SPF and you want it broad spectrum so it covers all the race. UBA is aging rate I just thought that was like a brand name you were on the spectrum yeah right I always knew I was on the spectrum. UVB is burning. And then there's UVC, which are the cancer causing or ozone kind of takes care of that for the time being. But, you know, geez. I just want to emphasize. I never would have thought

it was for men. I was like, oh, this is a service for women. It's awesome. I go every month. It's a treat. Have you ever had your face massaged? There's a part where you got sinus issues. You're feeling puffy. The massage part is one of my all-time favorite. So usually I start out with the double cleanse. Then I go into extractions. I do a very, very, very. Very gently. It's luxurious. And then I go in when I exfoliate, it's usually an enzyme-type mask, which I love.

What should do one? You got a little bit of that steam going and the hot towels and all that. Oh, I forgot a steam machine? Yeah. So you lay down and puts hot steam right into your face. Let's say you've been out drinking all night, right? And then it's like two in the morning. Your buddy's got some toots.

You're like, oh-oh. Now you're all clogged up. You go see her the next day. It's like sinuses clear. Head congestion gone, hangover, help. Like, it's so nice, man. It's really great. The sunscreen's one thing we can do on our own,

and you think watching your face before bed, is that another thing? What is some other regular loaves? Not to wash their face toys a day. You can do a rinse in the morning. I suggest double cleansing at night at the very least. You mean double it? Like you clean it and then clean it? You have to use an oil-based cleanser and then a water-based cleanser.

Do you learn? Yeah. If you wear makeup, double cleansing, helps to eat away at that oil without stripping your skin. Gene Simmons must be a nightmare for these people. Do you wear makeup like that? I would hate to do a gig where you had to go full makeup every time. Yeah.

The thing, celebrities meet the kids. Yeah. It's like, Gene, you got to go meet this kid. He's dying. I need eight hours. I just let the kid die. I could not put full makeup on it. No, I know.

What if he never takes it off? I would just leave it on. Just be easier. That would drive her crazy. You got a one ball. Dr. Pimple Popper. That's a whole world. Now there's a whole culture of people that want.

Like, wear gloves. Please don't pop your pimples. I always say don't pick. Oh, I did my whole life. Your hands have been everywhere. Do you really scrub your nails all crazy before you go and pop your pimples? So, yeah, please don't do that. Wear gloves or use Q-tips.

That's my little trick. Or come to me. Get a nice deep clean. Danny's back there doing everything you're saying. He's exfoliating right now. It's a man. What's the craziest pimple you've popped? There is a question.

Oh, that was in school, actually. So we used to. We're great. In duty school. People could come from up the street and we could get to practice. You got to boil? I wasn't sure what the hell this thing was. I called my teacher over, but it was a blackhead that had basically tunneled underneath

and connected to another one next to it. It was wild. And I knew it was a blackhead, but I was like, and I popped that thing. My teacher came in. I loved her, Miss Rita. She's the best at Continental Swear. But she was like, yeah, and you should have seen the crap that came out of it.

Dr. Pimple Popper and esthetic. No, no, they can do all the things. Okay. You can say S-D-2. And the Lovie. Yeah. Well, we just got a crash course in skin care. That's more than I've ever learned in my entire.

Sure. That's true. You started right where I did. I didn't know anything. Yeah. You're going to touch my face for an hour. All right. I think guys like the pampering aspect does.

I mean, everybody does, but. It's nice. You know, but I feel like I'm speaking for all men when it's like, it's not that we don't believe in your services. I just, we don't think about our skin other than, oh, I got to get rid of. Yeah, usually you go to your girlfriends or your wives and say, hey, can you look at this? Yeah, what is going on? Exactly.

Who's checking your skin that thoroughly, though? You know what I mean? There's lots of skin cancers. Especially if you don't wear your sunscreen. I go to a dermatologist. just once a year. That's great. I hate it because they always freeze shit or inject you and then scrape it off. Wow. Yeah, I look like I have infatigo on my chest right now. They chopped off a thing and I don't know. They're just like, it could be cancer. So I'm like, skin cancer, everyone survives

that. Do I really need to hack it off? I shouldn't say that actually. I should be sensitive to people about there. Dude, I would chop off anything if I thought it had cancer. No, same. And that's why I do. This finger. Okay, let's get rid of that. Cancer, chop it off. For sure. Women, chop off their tits. They do. I just as a precaution. Yeah. Get rid of them early on. Stop complaining about your flat man chattel. He did.

This train back on the tricks. America's got talents. Vetus. Ryan Neemiller is coming to you. Yeah, a few weeks away. Hartford to be technical. Friday, March 21st, 8 p.m. on Burstone Road at the Burstone Inn in New Hartford. I'm starting to turn. Doors open at seven. The show starts at eight.

You got Ryan Niemeiller, who we interviewed yesterday, Phil Fardo, Will Phillips, we all love, and Josh Wilbert. So that's going to be awesome. It is. It is really. We're going to be there. We're coming. It is. You guys are coming to that?

Wonderful. I didn't know if you were available. That's all. Let's do some. We had this whole talk. You guys are on the flyer. You sponsored it. We'll do live mentions at the show.

Yeah. I could have put Mike on the show. I didn't even know this was happening. We'll do something for you. It'll be great. It all came together at once. And I'm glad it was because I noticed. We were already talking.

with Ryan to have him on the show and then you announce this. I'm like, this is awesome. Let's sponsor this. It happened so fast. Dude, don't ever worry about putting me on the bill. I want to come support you and... I want you there to hold me when I cry. That's what I've always done, apparently. I've been on in a minute. I'm going to go up there and eat shit again.

Just for old time. Yeah, why is the last time you did a comedy show? Immediately bought tickets because one I wanted... I wanted to go. Cthory's closing. Oh, that was good. You were there. It was fun.

We were in that wet room. It smelled like yeast. beer. It smelled like a bar after a rugby team was there all day. Yeah, I mean, it's supposed to smell like that. We got this big bar area. Let's take the hottest part of the entire thing. It was so humid. The middle of the summer. It shows are notoriously worst. The worst possible environments. Yeah. You just like a call, like put them in the back of a bowling alley. Yeah. Or like in an alley outside. I have such a pet peeve. I was managing a venue a year ago, music venue. And Phil, I know you're totally going to get this.

We had this owner that was like, do a stand-up comedy during happy hour. I'm like, you can't just throw someone up there to tell jokes as a secondary. People are there to drink for happy hour. If you're going to do stand-up, you have seating and you make it an event because what people don't realize is subconsciously, if you're on your way to a comedy show, you're already mentally ready to laugh.

You're in laugh mode. You're in comedy mode, right? If you are on your way to a bar and you're hanging with your buddies, Even if you love comedy and someone starts telling jokes, you're like, what the fuck is there? Like, they did this crowded drunks and make them listen to one guy as a surprise. Oh, no. And people don't understand that you'll see Phil and shout out to Mike Peters who does great things with Homebrewed comedy. Love Mike.

John out, Mike. You can do a pop-up show in bowling alleys in weird places, but you can't just do it. There's got to be a plan. It does it well. You know? Comedy can't be a surprise. It cannot. That's an important rule.

People don't get that. So what's happening with the open white scene? I know that was really decimated. Any responsible comic would know that. I have stopped paying attention. I'm so explodingly successful. I don't have time. I used to do it every Wednesday at the Uptown Theater.

I think the schedule changed or they either stopped doing it. Something happened. There was a little uptown. That was fun, like a little local drama. I did a show at Uptown. I might have done it with you. Because Vermont Harris was on there. And you were there again.

You're so supportive. It was like a throwback show to Fat Cats. That was the whole theme of that show. At Uptown. At the uptown theater, yes. Right. I had Beth Coalcones on there. I remember that show.

It was fun. I love Vermont. Ramon is a beast. Dude, he is. Yeah, yeah. Those kind of comics piss me off, and I don't mean that in a negative way. Like, I'm jealous. I'm nervous as shit before a show, no matter how much I rehearsed, no matter how long I've been doing it.

Guy sat in his car smoking pot, listening to music. And three minutes before he goes on, he just walks in and lights the place on fire. He's that good. I do. He's always DJing live. He was working. I want to drive Uber for an hour. and it was fully entertained.

I just watched him drive Uber and do karaoke in his cariote in his cari and I was like, oh, God, dude. Black guys are so funny. They are. They're the best. Those were great shows. But Vermont is a black guy if you didn't.

You can figure that out. Not a lot of Romance walking around. Not a ton. Did you know his brother was on Last Comic Standing? What? He's got a more famous brother. So he's like Charlie Murphy? He's somewhat right in the shadow

because he has achieved more commercial. success. Vermont is an A-list year to me, man. Yeah, he is the funniest comic that I've ever seen in my life that I've ever hung out. Vermont or the brother. Vermont. Oh, Vermont, yeah. He actually, I've never seen his brother.

He's played Funny Bone and stuff. They don't get a loss. At last I knew they weren't like buddy-buddy for whatever reason. I don't know that history. That happens. But if there is some, I'm on Team Vermont. Yeah, for sure. I have to be.

By default, I don't even know the other guys. He told me how to do the box step. That's a dance move. What? We went out after Fat Cats one night and he, taught me how to dance as stereotypical. He does everything. He does it all.

I mean, it is what you do after a comedy show. Sure. Many times I'll teach you guys after this. I'm all up for that, you know. I know the Charles Sto. I know the Charleston. Charles, then, look what they done for you, Charleston. That's all I got.

Yeah, I'm white. And it's a Macarena. Oh. Oh. I'm ashamed to admit, but I don't know how to do any of the popular wedding dances like the cha-cha-cha-slap. I don't even know them. And everybody, I watch it.

the most diverse demographic run to the dance floor. It's like white old grandmas. Yeah. There's children. Everybody knows how to do the down. Like, where did you learn this? I understand that the instructions are in the song. Where did you learn this?

I tell you. Yeah. Can't follow. How many hops? To what direction? They're right. Oh, shit. I'm still.

How's big of a slide? Two feet, three feet. Give me measurements. I have this thing. And I feel like everybody does. My buddy and I used to say one of our favorite things on the planet is white people. dancing at weddings. And I don't mean just the dancing itself. What we love about it is the beginning, right? So always in the beginning of the wedding, there's the nervous, like everyone's quiet and

pleasant. You fast forward to the end of the night when Uncle Tom, he's got the tie on his head, I just love the not only the terrible dancing, but the progression from the pleasantries to like the wheels come up. And we have to set videos to each other. Confidence, too. You can tell based on what hour and with the bar. And specifically white people because we're not very good at dancing. No one is.

They're a dance. Just stands on the side. The kids are out, wow cute. A buddy of mine was ordained and he married my wife and I. Well, end of the night, he had the tie on his head

and he's dancing. My best man's mother comes out to me and she goes, oh my God, Michael. And I said, what? She goes, that priest is grinding with those women. And I was like, no, he's not a priest. Yes, I love everything about that.

It makes me miss Joe Boogie, dude. Because Joe Buggy would dance anywhere, he would just start dancing. Even if there was no music? He'd be like, Joe, we're at the deli, dude. Just a non-dance scenario. That was his purpose was to get the party started. He'd go to events and Serenac Thursdays, just like you're saying, before anybody's really in. Before the thought that you even could dance at this thing, he's out there and you're like, oh, I guess we could dance at this thing.

Setting the trend. The bands are in the first warm-up chords. Do you get equipment in? You're like those couple of dollars you put in your own tip jar just. to give people the idea like you should tip. He goes out there and starts dancing like... Joe, he's no longer with us. He's not.

Joe, we love him. Oh, he died? Yeah, he's dead. They can't set down all the Utica. Well, he's dancing. He's looking down on us right now. Like, why aren't you dancing? Yeah.

Your skin looks great, but you're not skin dancing. The fact that we haven't put on a memorial danceathon yet for Joe. Well, it's in the works, man. We're slack. Because I love that, too, when you walk by a silent and you can't hear, but... It's a good idea, man. Yeah, it's a trendy. I've been, that's been...

A lot of people said I should do something with that. So I'm thinking about it. Clearly, we are solving all the world's problems right here today. News York, that's what we're here for. The good news and the positivity and the cool local businesses that people don't know are here. Phil, if people aren't in the greater Utica area and can't make it to one of your trivia nights, where can they find you? And what other kind of special things do you do?

Yeah, so the comedy has turned into a full-scale entertainment business now. So we offer karaoke. We have music bingo. We're a licensed single providers. We do the official single music bingo nights. We also do a feud time, it's called. It's like a family feud take on trivia. We got a pretty full calendar, a full menu of services.

You can find them on stagetime trivia.com. We're in the process. I got the website getting a refresh. Yeah. So I think maybe within I just got the proposal, we're going to be done by the end of May. Awesome. And you, in addition to these public events, restaurants and venues, you also do corporate events. I'm glad you said that because I forgot.

Yeah, we do corporate events. We do fundraisers. That's a big business. lately. A lot of fundraisers, if you're raising money for dance groups, schools, any kind of charity, we did a lot of animal shelters. If you need a great fundraiser, we sell the music bingo cards at the events. There's a lot of revenue. We did, we did center stage dance studio and Utica raised $4,300. Jesus. That was clear, too. That was like I got everything covered and they donated $4,300. Good for them, man. They did a lot of work on that. I give credit where it's due.

The organization did a great job. It's a great fundraiser solution as well. All that stuff will be available online. If you're local, you can go to ComedyCNY.com. We're going to combine this. We're taking that. We're going to put it all on one website. Our company is now stage time entertainment. And that's what we do now. Awesome. And that's also where you can get tickets for the

Comedy CNY show. March 21st, 8 p.m. Burstown Road in Utica. It's the great Phil Fardo, Will Phillips, Josh Wilbur and Ryan Niemiller from AGT. Please do that. I want to shout out. Kelly, can you tell us calls to action? Where would go? Yeah, where can we find all your

We're located right on Route 12 going north in Barnabeld, so it's a really convenient location. The new attitude? I honestly don't know. Oh, you don't know. Well, what's the name of your business? By beer. By beer. And I'm on Facebook and I'm on Instagram.

Most all of my things are located on there. Awesome. The official esthetician of Good News York, Kelly. What hours? What days are you available? I work every day. Employment only, though. Yes, because there's certain things.

you have to do beforehand, you know, if you've got a retinoid that you're on or something. I don't want to rip your face off. Right. They're into that. I try not to. Yeah. Cool. That's awesome.

Your wife came into Sammy. She loves it. Yeah. Yeah. No, it's great. Every time she does that. She comes home beautiful, right? Either they either come home happy or want to nap.

Yes. That's usually how it goes. I do love nap. I do. Beauty by Beer, stagetime trivia.com. ComedyCNY.com. All the plugs will be in the description. I just click them.

Can we come on again? I want to keep doing this, man. Are you kidding me? The drive was closer than I thought. This feels like old school. This is what we used to do, man. This is the lowest thing yet, and that's not to disparage you by any means. Isn't it weird when your ex meet your new piece and they get along?

No, this has been awesome. You want to start your own podcast? Yeah. When I leave here, I'm going to be an esthetician. I'm going to have my own trivia and my own podcast. That's going to be a genius. But honestly, and I'll say it right on the air, you don't ever have to ask. Remember you said that.

You're a friend of the show, buddy. He just go up, dude. Just show up. His job as producer is to fill this place. Yeah. He'll make my job easier. I don't go anywhere. I got to look good everywhere.

I'm so glad. You're such a man, dude. I know. Like, there's people that try and there's people just are. And you are. That's what happens. Yeah. Mike, Phil.

Yeah. Everybody. Kelly. Danny. It's good news. York. We will be back tomorrow with another one. Tomorrow we're going to talk about the first Wegman's opening on Law.

That's right. People down there. are losing their mind. Yeah, why don't I get these cucumbers? Let me get it. And we do have a guest on the show tomorrow from the Giving Bean, coffee shop that's doing some amazing stuff. So I'm excited for that.

Yeah. Oh, we know. Dude, actually, how much, I meant to ask you this, how much coffee do you drink a day? All of you, you probably know. I just see, it's almost like, you remember when chain smokers would like to cigarette with another, it's like you're constantly, and then you leave it.

Yes, and I set it down to don't know where. Yeah. There's a couple drops left at all. I'm just wandering around with the cup. But in general, when I think about it, I don't know. When do you stop drinking coffee? Well, I fall asleep. I have a better question, though, real quick.

When you take your first coffee in the morning, what's the time frame before you have to shit? Oh, see. Great question. It's real quick for me. Whole world wants to know. I can usually get about half a cup in. Because I can't get half a cup. Crazy, right?

So you've built up your coffee tolerance. I have a cup at like 10 p.m. Because I don't think about it. And then suddenly I wonder why I'm awake. clenches your thirst. I'm moments from shitting. Yeah, I don't. If I want anything with any sort of flavor, it's just going to be coffee.

My wife is switch to decast. It's kind of like. It's a point of alcoholic beer. Well, I quit drinking, so the N-A beer, I'm glad that it's not just old duels anymore. Because I do still want to have the taste of a cold beer. You know, here's the thing. I subscribe to Arnold Schwarzenegger's mailing lists all about health and it's been a huge 180 in the coffee study world where more.

Coffee is good milk. Sense to actually have benefits. There's a lot more benefits than the negative size. The study was done by Juan Valdez. Sorry. And with that, this has been in New York. Thank you guys. This is awesome.

Kelly, we love you. Stage Time trivia. Beauty by beer. And March 21st, Burstone Road in Utica, New York. Great comedy show. ComedyCN.Y.com. So.