Good News York by Growth Mode Content - Tuesday Newsday! - GNY EP. 34

Episode Date: May 6, 2025

Fainting Goats, Speeding Tickets, and the Launch of 'Every Town in New York' In this episode of Good News York, hosts Matt Ma and Mikey BI discuss an array of entertaining topics. Mikey recounts a humorous story from a Syracuse Crunch hockey game involving a passionate fan. The hosts delve into various subjects including the Kentucky Derby and the MET Gala. They also touch upon a surprising speeding ticket Mikey received through the New York State Work Zone Speed Enforcement Program. The big announcement of a new segment, 'Every Town in New York,' which aims to spotlight the unique features of every town in the state, is made. The episode concludes with a light-hearted discussion about Matt's desire for a fainting goat farm, complete with humorous video clips of fainting goats. 00:00 Welcome to Good News York 00:29 A Wild Hockey Game Experience 04:31 The Passionate Fan Theory 09:38 Celebrating Shawnee Davis 14:33 Fun with Horse Names 18:29 Understanding the Met Gala 21:26 Chain Wallet Chronicles 22:37 The Pickpocket Incident 24:27 Front Wallet Solution 26:00 Central Park Renovation 29:46 Speeding Ticket Surprise 37:00 Every Town in New York 41:35 Fainting Goat Farm Dream 44:13 Upcoming Interview Teaser

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If you've been thinking about starting a podcast, this is your sign. Start free at RSS.com. Hey, folks. Hey! Welcome to Good News York. I'm your host Matt Maseer, founder of Growth Mode content. joined with me by my luckily clothed friend. Yes.

Mikey B. I chose clothes today. Some people wake up and choose violence. I choose clothing. All right. So that reminds me. I got to tell this story. I wasn't going to tell this story, but now I have to.

All right. So last week I brought the family to a Syracuse Crunch game. Nice. Go local sports team. Sports. They lost. But they were in competition with the Rochester Amerix. Yes.

Amricks. Um, Amricks. That's how you probably. Because apparently people in Rochester can't spell the entire word of our nation. Nope. Why Americans is so difficult. I don't know.

Anyway, worst team name ever. And they won. So listen, I can shit on them a little bit, right? You know what I mean? So anyway, we're sitting there and my family, my girls,

wanted to go to a hockey game. So we're not a huge sports family. But yeah, you know, that sounds fun. And of all live sports, as we've talked about, I'm a huge sports guy. I have all live sports. Hockey to me is the one that I am most easily talked into. It's fun.

It's interesting. It does move relatively quickly with the exception of the 20-minute breaks between periods. It's a good game, right? Yeah. So anyway, we go. My wife actually got us real good seats. We were literally three rows back from the glass. Great, great view.

We get in, we sit down. We're sort of the middle of the row. My kids go in first. My wife, me, I sit down. And right next to me is this lady who is a, big Amerix fan. Right? AmeriX.

Whatever the fuck. They're shitty name. I'm trying to help you. She's got the jersey on. And she is very enthusiastic. I mean, she is one of these screaming at the top of her lungs. Every time her team comes to our end of the ice. Yelling, Helen.

Oh, my God. Whistling got this high-pitched dog whistle that I'm pretty sure made the glass crack in front of us. It was insane. But anyway, this woman, biggest fan, Rod. Chester has. Sure. She's going crazy for the team. They score.

They score in front of us, and now she really goes nuts. She stands up, she starts screaming, and she grabs the jersey. No, she doesn't. And I'm just, oh, my God, this woman's going to pull her top off or something. Like, I got children here. Sure. What the fuck is happening? Yeah, she's going to dump them.

It was just the jersey. She had a tie-dye t-shirt on underneath, and apparently the thrill of their first point was too much for her to handle and she just had to to shed the jersey wow craziest shit i ever saw sits down in the tie-dye for the rest of the game still hooping and hollering wildest part we get to the break in between periods you know zamboni comes out she whips out a novel no and casually quietly reads pages from her book what the fuck it was the most fucked up thing i'd ever seen in my whole life. Yeah.

You know, I'm at a loss for words. Go Rochester. I mean, that is such, is dichotomy the right word? It was the weirdest thing I ever. Like, to go from, I'm so inspired by a goal being scored that I'm going to potentially scare all of you into thinking I'm going to flop my boobies out. To like, I'm just going to catch up on a few chapters in my book in between. It's puzzling.

It was so weird, man. Yeah. So weird. I went to But clearly the biggest She must have You know Season tickets

And she's following the team Obviously Um So It's wild Is it fair to say you were You became more interested In her than the game

I was more scared by her How close was she to you Like a couple of Literally the one sitting next to me Oh she was next to you Yes I shared an armrest with this woman Oh Jesus

That's next level Right Because that I mean That can be It can be scary When you're a few rows away let alone right next to you. I'm like, what is, you know, the whole time we're that close,

my only concern was like a puck coming over the glass and bonk in one of my kids on the head or some shit. I did not expect to be concerned about some woman going buck wild next to me. I have a- Normally you think I'd be into. Oh, yeah. I have a theory on this. And, you know, I'm a New York Rangers fan, but because I follow the bills,

I listen to Bill Sports Radio and occasionally they'll talk about the Buffalo Sabres. The Buffalo Sabres are bad. I mean, really, really bad, organizationally bad. Like, not just on the ice, the decisions they make. I feel bad, you know. As a Rangers fan, I don't give a shit. But, you know, as a Bill's fan, I feel,

because it's the same fans. They've been talking, usually on days where they talk about the Sabres. They've been talking about the Amricks, the Rochester Amrists. Okay. And I've come to the conclusion that the Sabers are so God,

awful. And that city and that area loves hockey so much that the Amarix for the time being have kind of replaced the Sabres for them. So I think... Well, they're close enough. Yeah, they're close enough in the market. I think what you're seeing is a very passionate fan who normally would be doing this at Sabres games that has to just take all of this frustration, excitement, all of it all together. You think this is a displaced Buffalo fan, is what you're saying. That's a better. way to play. That's what I think. It's got to be. I mean, it's got all the makings of a Buffalo fan. Might be. Might be.

Might be. She also might be their good luck charm. I mean, they won, right? Sure. It's, uh, I don't know. You know, who knows? You think they know her? You know what, but you are. She knows that. She's one of the ones that's like yelling the players names as they're skating. Oh, and shit. Well, there's also an element of every single minor league team that I've ever visited, I've been to a game to. There's always at least one. lifer that everybody knows.

Do you remember it wasn't Utica Devils? Was it the Comets? There was the chicken man in Utica? I vaguely remember this. Right. Yeah. The fact that you even vaguely remember it means

that's what it was. He was the chicken. Like there's always the one fan in the minor leagues that becomes the At Syracuse there were some dudes with hard hats. Exactly. That was a thing? Exactly.

Yes. I don't remember exactly the whole deal of that. So I think what you're witnessing is somebody who is or is really trying to be that fan. And I'm not pooping on that at all. Listen, we need those. She clearly was having the time of her life and good for her. I don't know about the book thing, though.

That kind of ruins all of it. It's so weird. That is very, so weird. Like, I'm trying to think about. It's the second weirdest thing that woman did. Is there a weirder place to read a book? I'm trying to think. I don't.

I understand, you know, you're bored, whatever. You don't feel like getting up. You don't, I don't know. Use a restroom. get a drink, whatever, but like, as a sports fan, as a hockey fan, like, isn't there enough going on that you're interested in to, oh, let me read the next chapter of, you know. And to go from that level of excitement down to the other end of the spectrum.

It's borderline psychotic in my unprofessional opinion. But listen, you also just did me a huge service, and I love you for that. And that is, I was just talking the other day about, it might have actually been on here. To me, the greatest live sport is hockey, bar none. And the toughest athletes in the world are hockey players. Those guys will get stitched up after lacerating their throats and head right back into the game. And you who have openly said, I'm not a sports fan are like, dude, I love hockey. If you're going to get me to go to a live event, it really is.

It's nonstop action. Like I said, it moves along. Yeah. And it's interesting. Yeah. You know, as much as it's fun going to the Mets here because it's local and we can actually get there, like watching a baseball game is painful to me. Like it takes eight years between every swing.

Listen, we talked, you know. We had Jason Smorrell for GM of the Syracuse Mets on the show last week. We didn't really get into it, but I was alluding to that's why baseball is going through such a struggle right now with keeping the game relevant. because, dude, baseball was invented long before distractions. It was the point was the point was to be, you know, your afternoon of entertainment. There you go. You know, not, not, you know, one of many things you do or watch. And trying to keep a three-hour event that moves at the pace of a snail relevant in a time where we have cell phones and...

If we're being honest, golf moves faster than baseball. It honestly does. Yeah. That is almost, I got to look at it, but pretty, pretty. factually true right there. I have an old roommate who used to say, I could watch golf on TV, but I'd rather be bored. That's a great saying. And with that, it's Tuesday Newsday, buddy.

It is Tuesday Newsday? I have, you have a whole list. I have not really. Not really breaking news, but great news that I'd love to share. Oh my God, please? If you don't mind. Listen, this is your Newsday, too, pal. It is true, I do.

All right. I do own everything. You do? What we could do? Yesterday, Danny and I were very honored to go visit OCC onondaga Community College, or those aren't familiar, for a great ceremony put on by the Small Business Association, the SBA, which is a federal organization, but they have local branches. And this was an awards ceremony for the local region SBA, and they handed out a number of awards

to small businesses, including the biggest award. It was like a golden eagle statue thing. It was aggressive. Was awarded to our very own growth mode content, content creator, Shawnee Davis from Luminary Electric. And who deserves it more? There is no one on earth who deserves any award you come up with.

You know, give her a Tony. She's never been on stage. Give her a Tony anyway. She should be an egot winner at this point. is just one of the most incredible humans. One of the things that I love about Shawnee the most is how she is the most humble. Like, best resume, one of the most impressive humans you will ever meet. And you will never pick that up if you meet her.

She should give you a big hug. Casually hang out and just be the most chill person in town. And she's the most important person in town. Shawnee Davis. Her company is Illuminary Electric. We are so blessed to have her as a client. You can check out her podcast. here at growth mode content, the current conversation.

Yeah. And she's got a lot of cool things coming up in that podcast plan, unique things about innovation and technology. And that's the type of thing that they gave her an award for, is not just because 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 is free and easy.

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for people that come after her and for young people and for other women and just awesome in the right approach, and it's working. And she's building this massive business. You know, she's one of the contracts they work,

and she's helping build your new Bill Stadium. Yes, she is. I've been picking her brain about that. How impressive. Because I'm the idiot that's like, can you get me tickets? Can I get me tickets? Can I go see the...

She's like, shut up, I do the electricity. We make the lights work. Yeah, we make the lights work. Shut up. You know, what impresses me, one of the many things that impresses me about her is that she... I mean, she's been recognized by President Biden. She's been recognized. She's gotten many awards and all well-deserved.

You know, she's... It's a milestone just for a female to do what she's doing in the electricians field, if I said that correctly, let alone to be a person. of color to represent the LGBTQ plus she but she's not she's not doing it with the sole purpose of I want to be the first person but I want to be the first female she's just doing it because this is what she wants to do right and all that stuff is secondary sort of a bonus it's a bonus and what she's doing for other women other people of color you know it's just the other side of it and she's doing it she's just doing it

Right, man. And we're so proud of her. I love it. I'm so glad you guys were able to go. It was a good time. I looked like an asshole because I had to stay here and do work. Yeah, well, you know, somebody's got to pay the bills. Yeah, wow.

So anyway. Anywho. Shout out to our friend Sean and a bunch of other people. Annette Peters, who we haven't talked about. Great. Also, local businesswoman was recognized there. She owns Syracuse boat tours. We got to get her in here because she's got just expanded to an even bigger boat.

so you can go on a really cool local ride with food and drinks. And I've heard nothing but great things about her business as well. I'd like to push back on that. I don't think we need to have her in here. I think we need to go on the boat. She would take us there. And we do the interview on the boat. We will add that to your list.

Lieutenant Dyer. Mr. Super Producer. Oh, yeah, super producer. Okay. Let's see, boat ride. Check. Got it. So let's kick off the.

What do you got for me, buddy? Tuesday, Newsday, not much because I'm going to tell you what. Talk about Super Producer. It is very hard to find positive news, which gives us all the more reason to keep doing this. That's why we're here. Yeah. But, you know, my work's cut out for me. But I do want to mention as we get started, some big events happened this weekend.

Yeah. The Kentucky Derby. Is that on your radar at all? Is that in New York? It is not at all in New York. It is in Kentucky. That's why it's called the Kentucky Derby. Danny clip this and send this to Kentucky News.

Yeah, Kentucky News York. Yeah. Confucky. I just wanted to say that. Who won? I guarantee there's goofy horse names, right? Oh, there are goofy horse names, my friend. I should have the list of horse names in front of me if I was a super producer, but I actually

forgot to do that. But I remember there was, I don't remember the name of the winner, but there was journalism. There was, oh yeah, we're going to play a game in a second. There was journalism. There was Luxor Cafe. There was Sandman. One I can't pronounce. How do they come up with these names?

Well, horse names, I don't know how they come up with them. I do remember years ago, I don't know what I was listening to, there was a big deal about someone named their horse, hoof, hoff, right? H-O-F, hearted, H-E-A-R-T-E-D. Okay. Who farted? And there's an announcer going, who farted? Who farted? And who farted?

And I'll never forget that. How many people bet on that because of the name? Oh, God. Does that go into it? Does it go in the naming process? They're thinking about the betting when it comes to race? I'm sure that would play a part in it. You've got to find something catchy that casual fans like myself would just go, ooh, I like that name.

I'll bet on that. They don't know how to read the stats or anything. They just want who farted. Yeah, who farted. but that was like decades ago. So I thought we would play a game. There's a chart if our great producer, Danny Tripote. I found this while I was reading about the Derby.

It's what's your Derby horse name? All right. So it's got A to Z. This is how to make the name. This is how to make the name. And this is from the Kentucky Derby website, I believe. And this is based on your initials. So it's got A to Z.

Go ahead. So it says first name. and then it's got different names for each letter, A through Z. And then it's got last name. And from A to Z... All right, we know how names work. So let's start. Well, I'm explaining it for listeners.

Fuck them. All right, so let's go with your horse name first. So Matt Mazur, we're going to M. Your horse name is Tiger. Your last name starts with an M. And that is going to be Julep. Tiger Julep. Ooh, that's sexy.

It's a little Southern. A little Southern? A little Southern? A little Southern. horse. Tiger tulip. I'm exotic, though. I'm a hell of a ride ago.

I am also Tiger, but I'm Tiger Whiskey. Hey now. Oh, Tiger Whiskey. Tag of Juip is just going to run all over your ass. Yeah, Tiger Whiskey. Danny, let's check you out.

Danny Tripote. Oh, yeah. Coming in to the gate is American Pharaoh. That's an actual horse. I think that's an actual horse that won American Farrow years ago.

That's the winning name. That's not. fun. You got like a legit... All right, Amanda, you're in here. Danny is the prized horse. Amanda Miller. She's hiding in the back. Chief? Uh, where is it? She is chief. Julep. This is boring. We all have too many of the same initial.

Yeah. I thought this was going to be way fun. No. It's not. I should have went with an unsanctioned list. Danny's still the winner, though. Danny is the winner. American Farrow was an actual... If you had to pick a name for a horse that wasn't on that list, what would you call it? Oh, my God. Well, I'd want who farted, but that already... Yeah. That's already taken.

I don't know. Maybe the mobile homie. How about General Hercimer? Oh, dude. That's great, actually. That's great. Yeah. Yeah, that would work.

I can call him Nick for short. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a history joke. Oh. Well, here. We'll get all the sound effects on that one. I don't know. I mean, mobile homie,

General Herkimer. I'm trying to think off the top of my head. You caught me off guard. I should have had something prepared. That's all right. Enough horse talk. What else we got? That's horse shit.

The Met Gala happened. Are you familiar with the Met Gala? Is that a Jason Smarral event? No, that's that's Catter-Day. The Met Gala is a really pretentious event that happens. For real. I hear about this thing all the time when it happens. I have no idea what the fuck it is.

I'm sort of. of only half joking when I ask if it's any association with the Mets. I love you for that because last night, I decided, what the fuck is the Met Gala? And I hear about it every year. I watch the highlights and I go, why have I never actually checked? So I did what I'm about to do to you.

All I know is it's got a hell of a red carpet. It does. I ask my wife. Is that the whole thing? What do you think the Mett Gala is? And she goes, I don't know. Does it have to do with the Mets? She's a Mets fan.

So she had the same reaction. Turns out from the outside, all the Mek Gala looks like to me and many others is a bunch of celebrities rich people party rich people get dressed up in very pretentious costumes and they go to some of them turns out and i'm not i'm i'm i'm semi paraphrasing this is what it is but i don't know the exact ins and outs other than it is a fundraiser okay okay for the metropolitan museum of arts costume department just a particular department not the whole museum. Right.

Therefore, that's why everybody dresses up in those outrageous costumes because it has to do with costumes. All right. Yeah. So, and I'm pretty sure it's a metropolitan theme of art. Either way, it's a costume department. So it gives a little validity to all the pretentious bullshit. Over the top.

And it is over the top. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Would you wear a sweatshirt? Probably. You'd probably wear a hoodie. Yeah.

Yeah. You would dress it up. You put like a, what are these to call those, bootnear or some shit? That's a great idea. You know what I mean? Just a hoodie with a boot near. You're like, yeah, I dressed up. What if I had a hoodie printed like a t-shirt?

It's just a t-sito hoodie. Now you're talking. See? Now you're talking. I could pull that off. No, you know, for an event like that, you know, I'd dress up. I'm not John Fetterman. I know how to play the right part when it's time.

Yeah. Yes. Listen, you clean up nicely. I've seen it. I wouldn't go that far, but I appreciate it. No, listen. I'm not, look, that's your style, and I appreciate anyone that has style,

whether it's a hoodie or whatever. Sequin dress. I come from the 90s when, you know, the grunge area when, you know, dressing like a homeless man was on trend. Yeah, it was. Remember when... It wasn't the worst thing, man. The thing was I used to wear the t-shirts

with these long-sleeveeep shirt. it's underneath. 100%. And then sometimes you would cut the holes in the sleeve so your thumbs would stick out. See, I never did the thumb thing because it just annoyed me,

but I 100% know it. Yeah, and I would wear air walks and I get yelled at because I didn't skateboard and I was a poser. It was a whole thing. It was true. Did you have the gate or the gate, the chain on your wallet?

Oh, buddy. I, listen to this. I wore a chain wallet up until about five, six years ago. So, ironically enough, Anthony and I were talking about this recently. Apparently, he was the same. He had the whole

that was honestly a great idea for a security purpose. That is why. You couldn't lose your fucking wallet. You can call me a poser for everything else. The reason I wore a chain wallet was because I lost my wallet so many damn times. My grandfather...

I'm surprised you don't strap everything important to yourself. Oh, fuck. Dude, I should be walk around with chains hanging all over me. My grandfather used to wear a chain. He wore Dickies and a chain. He was a union electrician in New York City. And I thought it was the coolest thing. So when I first saw it, I was like, I want to wear a chain like my grandfather. Gotcha.

And then I actually started losing my wall. So I wear this chain for decades. Yeah. And then I decide at some point about five years, I go, you know what? I'm done with the chain. Yeah. Like I just, I don't know. It's just not a thing anymore.

It's not a thing. I take the chain off. 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 is free and easy. Upload an episode and we distribute it to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, and hundreds more. Track your listeners, see where they're from, and start earning from ads like this, even with just 10 listeners a month.

If you've been thinking about starting a podcast, this is your sign. Start free at RSS.com. That week, we go to Myrtle Beach on a family vacation. his wallet. I get pickpocketed, which I didn't even think was a real thing, dude. How do you know you got pickpocket and you didn't just leave it? Well, so I leave the hotel at night to meet a buddy of mine who was down there at the same time.

We're going to meet at this bar. I'm walking to the bar because I always keep patting my ass to make sure the wall it's there. Especially now that I'm going chainless, right? I'm unguarded. I'm worried. So I start walking down the sidewalk. This guy kind of scoots up next to me and he's really nice, older guy, and we're talking and we're talking and

you interact it wasn't one of the quick drive by like you know he's walking with me we're interacting whatever and then I keep walking I go to the bar I get to the bar

to show my ID my wallet's not there and I'm like I just had it I get back so I we look all over the place we retrace my steps I end up going back to the hotel

I can't get a drink anywhere because I don't have my ID so you look at your 12th next morning yeah that too I wake up the next morning

I decide I'm going to call my bank. I think I lost my wallet. Oh yes. Your credit card was tried. Someone tried to use your bank card at an ATM multiple times yesterday. So I go back in my rolodex and I go, holy shit, this guy pickpock in me. And by the way, I didn't feel it at all, obviously. Smooth. I was honestly impressed. But here's what I'm not impressed about. If you were to take a bank card, why the fuck would you go to an ATM and try to countless guess the probability of my pin number instead of just

going and buying a pack of smokes at a store but thank God he did to be fair the chances of your pin being one two three four solid I mean that is and I do look like someone that would but anyway I don't even know how interesting along those lines I've never

lost my wallet or been pickpocketed but have also been equally paranoid my whole life and I've recently solved this problem and I don't know why it took me so long. I've moved to a front wallet. So I have a much smaller, it's no longer the fucking fat Rolodex with every card I have in the world. Like I can just grab the ones that I use most often and it's in my front pocket where I always know it's right there. It's not easy to slip out like it's made me much less paranoid. So now everyone knows what pocket to grab when they're talking about.

Yeah, I mean if somebody wants to try to take my wallet from my front pocket, I sort of welcome the challenge. Except they're going to grab that fat hog of year. Jesus Christ. I'm sorry. Danny hates when I say that stuff. I, too, have a front wallet, and I'm going to show you something. Yeah. See this?

It's a fucking binder clip. It's a binder clip. This has been the most solid thing I've used since I got rid of the chain wallet. A friend of mine, Hank, shout out, told me one day I was fumbled around. I go, I got my got pick pocket. It was right after I got picked pocket. I don't know what to do. You know, every money clip that I used that I got at a wedding bench.

and he goes, dude, use a giant paper clip. I, look at this, I highly recommend this. It looks like, I don't know what it looks like. Forget that fancy leather shit. Forget that fancy leather shit. This has been the most truck. It carries my cards. Apparently, I only have a $5 bill on me right now.

$10. Yeah, I will endorse the giant paper. There you go. There you go. I don't even know how we got here. I don't either. What else? We got some news.

So we got some news. Because it is good news, York, we cover everything, right? Western New York, Central New York, Southern Tier, Adirondacks, capital region, New York City. Let's head to New York City real quick. They are doing something in the middle of Central Park called the Davis Project. Now, if I was really a legit producer, I would have done my research and figured out what the project is as a whole. But essentially, I'll cut to the chase.

They're renovating a part of Central Park. Okay. Check this out, man. I got a picture for you. So this is the before picture. All right. Okay. So during, I don't know, the fall.

spring. There's people doing yoga on the feet. It's just this beautiful oval field. Like a park. Yep. There's an overlook you can see. You see security there watching. Now when the summer hits, Danny, if you can click to the next picture, it turns into a pool. Oh, a pool. And then they're going to turn it into an ice skating rink in the winter. So you've got a hybrid pool, ice skating rink field. So they're adding a new public. public pool to Central Park, is what you're telling me. Which makes me think... Are there other public pools and so?

Can you swim in Central Park? That is a great question. I'm not a New York City. Here's the bigger question, do you want to swim in Central Park? That was going to be the next logical. Are there enough chemicals? Conclusion. To keep the water clean in Central Park?

I mean... I love New York. Don't get me wrong. I mean... You know what goes on there at night. It's an interesting thing. Are they going to have a diving board? That's a great question.

Great liability. Right? But that was the best part of the public pool was the diving board. It was the best part. You remember? Did you have a... Well, your school had a pool. My school?

Oh, yeah, we had an indoor pool. Yeah, you had an indoor pool. We did. We did, which is a big deal. We did not. We had a public pool. That had nothing to do with the school. We didn't do school swimming, none of that shit.

Ironically, the public pool was near the school, but it didn't open until school was closed anyway. And I'm pretty sure they destroyed that since anyway. They tore it down or filled it in. It's not there anymore. They renovated. I mean, if I go to Herkimer High School, school now it's like I don't even recognize it so it's like I never even went there as a whole do I'm

happy it's great it looks great uh there was an indoor pool I do remember there was a thing I think it was a 90s phase where kids we were daring each other to do spank the baby off the diving board do you remember this I'm not sure that I do spank the baby is where you would you would jump on the diving board land on your butt and then fall in okay and so So I've seen that move. I'm not sure I've ever heard it called that. Yeah, it was called Spank the Baby. I was too afraid to do it, but we talked my buddy Matt Bates into it who we used to call them.

It seems like a relatively harmless. Oh, no. No? It's very harmful. Really? And our friend Matt Bates, who we called Master Bates, would get up onto the diving board. So we dared him to do it because we were all too afraid to do it. Poor kid does it and comes down and hits his elbow.

And a lifeguard has to come in and save him because he shattered his elbow doing it. spank the baby so it was it you know spank the baby um it became break the elbow you know it was less about spanking the uh the ass and it seems like you had to really try to do that yeah i mean i don't know how he did it i was right there and i still i'm like how did you get your elbow down but like yeah that's that's not the part that's supposed to hit the board no it's not but uh remember that scene in uh what was it sandlot where the kid purposely drowned so he gets kissed by the lifeguard. Anyway, moving on, that was a little Central Park thing.

I want to talk about something that happened to me. Here's some news. I'm curious to your opinion on this, Matthew. Yesterday I got home and I got out of the car. My wife was in the driveway with my son there playing basketball. My wife says, so, hon, where were you on May 28th at, uh, 10, 11 a.m. I said, I don't fucking know.

I don't know where I was five minutes ago. Right. She goes, oh, well, you might want to go check the mail because you were speeding. You were speeding. I got a ticket in the mail from the New York State Work Zone Speed Enforcement Program.

Here's a picture of me. I was going 58 in a 45-mile-an-hour construction zone. I see that. And look, I take full responsibility. Clearly, I did it. but here's why I'm bringing it up

when the fuck did this become a thing and I don't hate it because as the son of a retired police officer I think it's important to enforce speed on the roadways but I kind of feel I don't know what I feel entrapment

I'm no I'm no attorney you are right now but if I was one I only play one on podcasts if I was one I would have concerns for the fact that... This is what I was looking for. Yeah, this is weird.

So typically when you get a ticket, you get a ticket. That's correct. You as the licensed driver. Right. This is basically giving a ticket to your vehicle. That is... I mean, you don't see me at all in those pictures. And it says you are the registered owner of a vehicle that exceeded the speed limit.

So it's not saying you... sped, and I'm not sure that this is a like points on your license. That's the first thing I said. My wife goes, oh, it's okay. It's only 50 bucks. And I said, only 50 bucks. I said, fine. But what about the points on my license?

Or I'm on thin ice with my insurance company. And she's like, I don't think it's going to apply. I don't think they can because, well, A, you have to be caught. Like, right? This is innocent until proven guilty for you to. But I think I just admitted it. Well, that's because you're dumb. But in these photographs, which people can't see it,

I don't think we should put it up there. But in the photographs, it clearly shows your vehicle. They got a close-up of your license plate. But they actually blank out the windows. I didn't see that. So they're going out of their way to hide who the actual driver was. So I could say. So in any normal ticket, again, that you would get, they would have to prove you were

driving the vehicle. They're not trying to do that at all. This is a straight up like, this is almost like a parking ticket sort of deal. It's crazy. Where they found a unique way to generate revenue. And how do I fight that other than it wasn't me? That's what I mean.

That's one of those deals. Because I wanted to be like, hey, it was Danny Tripote. And that's what they're saying. He just borrowing my car. It doesn't matter. We're not going to put any points on your plate, but we're going to. Here, give me 50 bucks. Find you this $50.

Remember? which in the grand scheme of things for speeding in a workshop. It kind of reminds me of... You're cheap. Remember the movie Demolition Man where you would swear and it would go... Actually, it would go... And then a ticket would pop out of a terminal that you were standing next to because swearing was illegal in the future?

I mean, obviously it's two different things, but... You can dispute it. It's $50. You don't even want to talk about a money grab. I know. This isn't normally our typical content. But you can dispute it if you got some options. The vehicle is leased to someone other than registered owner,

and you've got to provide an agreement copy. The vehicle or license plate were stolen. It would provide a police report. The vehicle was sold prior to this date, provider receipt. I want to say Danny stole it. But I don't want him to get in trouble. You'd have to have a police report.

I'd be like, he stole it, but we're fine. Before they did it. So years ago, I had an interesting thing. Okay. I got a ticket in the mail from Herkimer. what was wild is I haven't been to Hercimer in fucking decades at this time. They're like, you owe us this ticket from 2003 or something. What year was this that you...

I don't know, 2019 or something. Oh, my God. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was insane. You were a... Fugitive. So, no, what it is is they hire these companies that go through old shit to find revenue. To find anybody that they have, they don't have all the paperwork for.

Okay. So then they tell you, you've got to come answer for this right now. Which any basic lawyer will tell you, there's such a thing called Statue of Limitations. Right? At some point, if they ain't done their thing, they ain't got you time expired. Very typical thing in the law. But these guys, they want you to just pay it. And again, it's another one of those things where you can just cut us a check.

Well, like, I don't want to do that. Like they're doing you a favor. Yeah. And what was wild is that was the last time I had been pulled over. Literally in 20 years, I hadn't been stopped. I don't have a ticket. I don't have nothing. And they want to basically give me this ticket as if I just got it.

Get the fuck out of here. Dude, forget statute of limitations. There's also a thing called I don't fucking remember because it was 20 years ago. Exactly. So we're going to have a trial. So I go to court. No way. Fuck yeah.

Oh, my God. And I said. to the judge, sir, this is way beyond any statute of limitations. And he's like, yeah, you're probably right. Oh my God.

Like, what do you want to do? He's like, I'll let you, you can dismiss it right here for a hundred bucks and we'll just go away and we don't have to argue about anything. And it was one of those like, okay, I'll fucking do that. It's easier.

So they got the money out of me. But the reality is, straight up, if you want to fight, it, but you're going to spend five times as much to fight it. So they get you. Do you think it's less about the justice and it's more about like, hey, let's go. It's a 100% of revenue thing. I was going to say.

There's no. Can you go? How can we get some money? You know what? Let's comb through some old records. There's companies that sell this as a service to the municipalities. Like your, your budget is tight. Let us dig through your shit to find money for you.

And then, you know, we sort of harassed citizens for that, you know. because this is something that I had taken care of years ago, but they didn't have the right paperwork, they didn't have the right whatever, so it's like, oh, you never responded to this ticket. If I didn't actually respond to that ticket, you would have came looking for me. You know what I mean?

Dude, that is wild. But, wild. Well, listen, before we wrap up newsday, I want to end on a funny note, but before we do that, I think you should make the announcement. We have kind of an exciting new segment. We can't really say we're doing

because we have to try it out first, But go ahead. We're fucking, this is it. So we're very excited to announce this segment. We're going to do something called Every Town in New York. Yes. And the idea here, Good News York, as we've talked about many times, is a show highlighting the positivity of all things in New York State.

We're based here in East Syracuse. We talk a lot about the greater Syracuse, Central New York region. But we really are here to celebrate all of our friends and fellow New Yorkers. Adirondacks, Capital Region. Western New York, Southern Tier, New York City, you got it. And, you know, as we think about that, how do we really celebrate that? Let's literally talk about every town in New York State. And as you can imagine, this is not going to be a short-term venture.

This is something that we're going to keep as a running segment. But we're really excited to learn about all the cool little things in all the cool little towns. Let me ask you, Matt, if you wanted to go and spotlight it. a random town in New York, who's the person that you should go to, right? I'm glad you mentioned that, Mike, because our initial approach to this every town in New York segment is we're inviting every mayor in New York State to join us on the show and give a fun little pitch about their town. And I'm glad you said fun.

100%. Because I can imagine being the mayor of any town, any city is very daunting and you're going to do a lot of interviews with a lot of hard-hitting questions. but that's not what we're going to do. Nope. Complete softball Jones here, and we're being very upfront about them. Our goal is not to discuss anything of controversy. We're not talking about politics.

We're not talking about campaigns. We're not talking about crime or the pandemic. We don't hear about any of that stuff. This is not the time for that. What we're doing here is we would love somebody to come in in sort of cheerlead for their town. Absolutely. What's interesting, anybody who's done any exploration in their hometown here in New York or any neighboring towns know that each one of these many municipalities has so many cool little hidden gem.

That's right. They've got an incredible public park. They've got some other incredible amenity. They've got businesses that are booming. They've got opportunities to start things. These are the types of things we want the mayors to come and tell us all about. Maybe they have, hey, you got to hear about this restaurant. Not many people know, we got the best wings.

We got the best burgers. Right. Maybe it's a fun fact. Here's a small example. I live in Ithaca. A lot of amazing things. I could rave about Ithaca for hours. Here's a fun fact.

Did you know, this is on record, Kurt Cobain's ashes, some of his ashes, have been spread at the Buddhist monastery in Ithaca. Did you even know there was a Buddhist monastery in Ithaca? Did you know that the Dalai Lama's headquarters in the Northeast is in Ithaca. These are things that we could talk about with every mayor. And it doesn't have to be something mind-blowing like that.

We just simply want to know what's going on, what's something cool about the town? If I go there, what do we got to eat? What do we have to try? Where do we have to go? 100%. It's going to be a fun and informational segment that I think will fit perfectly right here in Good News, Yark. And we look forward to reaching out and booking all of these.

There's a ridiculous. We started looking at it. There's a ridiculous number. So the more we get, the more of a championship this will be. And as much as we're going to be reaching out, if you're watching or listening to this, and you know the mayor or you are the mayor and you want to reach out to us. Yeah. Please.

And we're talking every kind of, whether it's a village, a city, it doesn't matter how big, how small we want to hear from you. And we want to learn because there is such a false pretense that for people, especially that in New York City that it's New York City and then, oh, upstate. There's a lot up here. So many incredible things. So much to highlight. And we're going to explore them all.

And then the last thing I'll leave you on this particular segment is, you know, we're starting out with this sort of interview format where we're meeting these mayors and either bringing them in the studio or they can join us remotely for this, you know, 20-minute interview, not a huge long thing. But the next step in the progression of this is we will take the show on the road. And we're going to, Mike and Danny and I and. whoever else we can stuff in the car will actually take you to some of these really cool places. So got to start with some mayors giving us some good ideas of where to go first and that's what we're going to do.

Every town in New York is the segment coming your way here on Good News York and we can't wait. Yeah. Now, with that being said, I would like to show you, I would like to end this segment on something random because that's who I am. Oh, dear. My wife. My wife. She's a very nice. No, people used to ask me,

if you had a million dollars, what would you do? And it's such a broad question. I said, you know, there's a lot of things I do. One thing I would really do, and I don't even need a million dollars for, but my wife says no, is I want a fainting goat farm. Do you know what a fainting goat is?

I do. You do, don't you? For those of you that don't know what a fainting goat is, well, let's just say, I do. I do, and here's the reason why. First of all, I love animals. Second of all, not only is it a great way to just have a pet, right?

The kids will love it. You get the enjoyment of having a pet, but it's wild entertainment because if you have a party, you go out, you scream and scare these things, and they literally, when they get scared, they freeze and they fall over as a natural defense mechanism to play dead. And with that, I feel like that bit would get old pretty quickly. No, it wouldn't because watch this. I got two videos for you. Oh, shit.

Watch this. Tell me, he came with video. I came with video, motherfucker. Watch this. Tell me you wouldn't love this. That one just went nosedive. Oh. Look at that.

How do you not love that? Fainting goats, everybody. Fainting goats. Here, Danny, do the one with the UPS truck. It's like 15 seconds long. This one, this is where the real enjoy. This guy's just doing it with a bell. This is when you're not even trying.

I mean, look at this. The sound of the truck just stopping just made them keel over. I love fainting goats. So if anybody has a fainting goat farm out there, or not even a farm, just has fainting goats, because I don't know where you find them or what region they're from, please contact the show, and please let me come visit, and please let me scare the shit out of them,

because it is just... You're going to make his dreams come true. Most amazing things ever. And with that, this has been Good News, York. We will be back tomorrow and Thursday. Big deal if you're a Bill's fan, Bill's Mafia, the Don, the creator, the man who represents Bill's Mafia del Reed of 26 Shirts.com and Don of Bill's Mafia. Going to be coming in remote for a GNY interview this Thursday.

So we're very excited about that. Good NewsYork.com. It's like the godfather of the mafia? He literally is. He coined the phrase Bill's Mafia by getting in a fight with Adam Schefter from ESPN on Twitter and it turned into a whole thing.

Are we going to owe him a favor now? I'll tell you, might be wearing concrete Bill's shoes. Oof. And sleeping with the fishes in Central Park. See how I brought everything back? Wow. And the fainting goats will rescue you.

Please make it stop. Yeah, please just hit stop. Thank you.