The Show - RHUBARB

Episode Date: September 14, 2025

No recaps on Friday shows, but Brandon Steiner stops by to discuss his new book & Carissa just can’t stay out that damn rhubarb patch!

We interrupt this program. Previously, critics had brailed against the duo as crude, dumb, ugly, thoughtless, sexist, self-destructive, and foolish. They are not part of the legitimate business world. What they do is they celebrate underachievement. And all candor, I would tell you it's outrageous, Phil. And if I could find somewhere constitutionally to do away with it, I would. Is it like a valley? Is it down in a valley or something?

Maybe the heat sit in there? Come on. I don't know if it understood my question. What did you type in? What the hell is going on in Danesville? Is there a dump? It was just like, yes, but I don't know if it knew what I meant. The news just showed the temperatures around the state of New York,

and for some reason, Dansville, which is like southwest of Rochester, is like considerably warmer than the rest of the state. It was the high yesterday there was 82 degrees, where other places even around it were 72. So is it like either Danzville's on fire, which I certainly hope it's not, or is it like down in a valley? Maybe it's in the valley. Is it in a valley? Maybe like the heat sits in a bowl or something. I don't know.

I don't know. We got any fans out in Dansville, you all right? Are you having a heat wave? Are you doing like the Simpsons tire fire in Dansville? What is it? Is it in a bowl? Yes. Look at me knowing Geogglegrief.

Specifically, the Genesee Valley. Oh. which contributes to its rural and fertile landscape. So there you go. Well, now we know. Now we know. Now we learned about it. It's good that all week we've been learning about our little tiny communities.

We're so smart and educated. Happy Friday, everybody. Here we are. We are live. Hello? Football game tonight, 7 o'clock, Colgate. Yeah. Big battle.

Big battle tonight. Although both our runnybacks are out. I saw that. I saw Fran said that. He broke that on Gomez's show yesterday morning. That Syracuse has running, why? Both of them. I don't know.

I didn't. That's as far as I went, is that I saw that line. I was like, I don't need to know anymore. That's all I need to know. I'm good right there. But yeah, I think they're just both hurt. So next man up. Good for Gomez getting a scoop.

Right? Mm-hmm. But, I mean, hopefully it doesn't mean anything for. Not against Colgate? Yeah. But you never know. Colgate could roll in here with just the best team you ever seen. You never know.

What's going on in town this weekend? You got S-U game tonight. You got Tapp into the Most tonight. You got Hamilton in town. Nothing to do around here. There's something else tonight, too. What am I blanking on? There's no more concerts at the Yamp.

Oh, Italian Fest. Oh, Italian Fest is happening. Look at that, guys. Yeah, no, there's nothing, though. There's nothing going on. Ever. Oh, no, your dog doesn't want to go to Italian Fest. So boring.

Oh, look at that big thing. Oh, they didn't think. Yeah, I got it. I got to go eat There. But again, like I was saying, I don't want to just get one thing anymore, and that's kind of the,

what you gotta do. That's been our note to festivals now, is that you don't want, you want us to sample. That's why Tases Syracuse is a success. Because you want just a little taste of everything. Yep. When you go to the fair,

I don't want to spend $30 on a 10-pound bucket of French fries. And then you're done. Loyal to the Soil Brew Fest. Crazy Daisies, whatever that means, Penny said. See? There's a bunch of probably nice fall little festivals out and about. Oh, yeah. Fall time is happening now. Well, here we are. How are y'all doing? Good. Happy Friday.

I'm doing good. We've got Brandon Steiner coming in today. You might not know that name, but he is a very famous collectibles gentleman. He wrote a book. We're going to talk about that. Owned the Yankees for a while, right? Steiner. I think he wished. He owned parts of Yankee Stadium. Steinbrenner. Different. Yeah, no, he's got, I go on his website all the time.

If you ever bought a piece of the dome when they did all that. That was him? That was what he does. He rolls in collectibles, so he knows a lot about him. Do we have anything in here we can ask him about? Oh, we should find something. Find something. Ask him about it.

He'll probably know. And then, of course, we got Joel and Carissa for a beer Friday coming in. They are. Who are they? I'm sorry. And Charisman. Got a big old thing of treats right over there for Barley Doll. What are you talking about?

I have to sit a certain way? Yeah, aren't those seats really small? At the landmark? Yeah. Demand, show the people how you just... You got to sit like this where everything you're like tucked in small because they're tiny, right? Even for me, aren't they small?

But why would I be sitting differently with an injured foot than I would in normal life? Well, because if your foot's injured, you're going to have to keep that thing like in and in a certain manner and in a certain position. Oh, like tucked up and stuff? Like you're not going to be able to just kind of like lounge and put your foot wherever you want, you know what I mean? Like at MetLife, you could kind of... That is true. I could move around a little bit tighter seating.

Good morning, by the way. We've come back twice in the middle of conversations here. What? Yeah, like just like that. Right? Yeah, like a little... If you can't... He's doing a sitting thing.

We're in the middle of conversations and then these stupid songs end. We got to come back. We're in the middle of things. I was asking how I can get to the landmark for Hamilton this weekend tomorrow. Because every day I think, oh, maybe my foot will be better tomorrow. And then it's freaking not. And then every day is just another day in hell. And I already texted my brother, who I thought worked at the landmark.

He never replied to me. So I don't know if he would be down there to accommodate me or not. But if I see him, maybe he can help accommodate me. I would imagine that that would be one of the benefits of, That, yes, let's see. Offers seating on the orchestra level, including locations for wheelchair users and 12 seats with flip-up armrests for those needing more space or a better transfer point. The theater also provides that. All right.

So I don't know how you get all up on one of those. I'm just going to scoot down there. I'm going to put my wife on my back. We're going to scoot all the way down there on my scooter. And then once I get there, I guess I'll figure that out. It says that you should probably contact them to discuss your. your specific needs. I did.

And my brother never replied. Well, I mean, maybe, maybe somebody a little. A little. Find somebody who will reply to me? Yeah. All right. Well, good morning, everybody. Happy, uh, happy, uh,

happy Friday. Oh, my God. Yo, right? Uh, you said it was kind of a boring football game last night. Uh, apparently it looks like the end got a little better as a, but the Packers in Washington. No, it wasn't that enjoyable for me. Do I have any audio? of it? Not really. What was the final

score? Uh, wouldn't it be in 27-18? Thursday night, football. Get the action. Football. All right. Catch the fever. And then we'll do our gaming stream later for our Dallas Cowboys Friday. First Dallas Cowboys Friday. Who am I?

Who am I? Who are you? I mean, you're the Cowboys, who am I? You're the Giants? I'm feeling it. You're feeling it? You're feeling it? You're feeling the Giants? I'm feeling locked and loaded for a game stream later on today. Yes, I am. You're going to start Jackson Dart? Is that who their quarterback is?

No, it's Russell Wilson. Oh, okay. I mean, if you wanted to start Jackson Dart, I don't know. Mm-hmm. Jay Gonzalez Diaz was on Royal Caribbean's Rhapsody of the Seas. As he is. And on Sunday morning, I got to understand this. He jumped overboard with $14,600 in cash.

It's like a cartoon thing that he maybe thought works. Like, ha, ha, ha, ha, I've got the boat's money. Can anybody help me understand what's going on in this story? And that was he floating there like, ha ha ha. Cruised passenger charged with jumping overboard with $14,600 in cash. The passenger had accumulated $16,710 and 24 cents in gambling debts aboard the ship. Uh-oh. Jet skiers, blah, blah, blah.

Officers discovered he was carrying two phones and five IDs along with the cash. What? What is going on in this story? Every sentence is making me angrier. All right, so they've got him. They told me he had a bunch of gambling debts. Yes. So that's why apparently it looks like he stole this money.

But where do you see that he stole money? Oh, I thought it said that he jumped overboard with money. He did. I don't know how he got the money. I thought he stole a bunch of money from the book. Oh, all right. If you got, he explained he avoided reporting the currency because he thought he was going to be taxed duties for the currency.

I have no idea what's happening in this story. At some point, this guy had gambling debts, but then he also had cash, so he jumped overboard and now he's going to prison? Because he had the debt and he didn't want to pay taxes. on it or something, it sounds like maybe? He racked up in debt. He were near, he... That's so confusing.

I gotta just stop reading it because it's making me angry. They're not explaining anything. Do this guy just have a ton of money on him? So then what is... I don't care about the gambling debts. Yeah, so why did he jump overboard then? A criminal complaint states that when investigators asked Gonzalez-D-S for his full name, he told him if you were good at your job, you would know that.

Nice, burn. Nice, burn. Nice. Um, failing to report the transport of monetary instruments exceeding $10,000 as a federal crime. So he sounds like he maybe, I don't even know. I don't even know. I'm so angry at the lack of information in this story. Because if he had a debt on the boat or, or how about this, maybe they're just, he had the debt, but he kept winning,

they're just throwing that in there that he had a debt on the boat. for gambling? Or did he have a ton of cash on him? And he just didn't want to pay the debt. So now he's in trouble because he had too much cash on him and he jumped overboard? And he didn't tell them when he got on board first that he had that much? Am I just ornery today or is this story not making? Is this story making anybody else is angry? No, because it had like eight different parts that. Yeah. And that they should have like, if you're going to mention that he had IDs and cell phones on him, don't mention that after you told me he, he told me he jumped in the water.

Cindy said, didn't want to pay on his winnings and have to claim anything you bring into the country? That's what it sounds like. That's what it sounds like. I wish they never said anything about the debt because that's what it sounds like. Is he either he won money or had money that he didn't claim? So maybe he won a bunch of money, but the casino's like, hey man, you owe us $16,000. And he's like, goodbye.

And that's why he jumped overboard? Maybe. Yeah, he had to have jumped weed when he jumped. If not, it doesn't matter. If he didn't say we, no, it doesn't count. Now, I just, there's so many layers to what's going on, and I'm so confused. There was just so much. And then why did it, another thing they just gloss over it is also the IDs and the phone.

Why does he have five IDs? Whose IDs? I don't know. They're just like, yeah, he just has them. So, also, and you know what I mean? They just kind of were like, yeah, he's got a bunch of phones, IDs, a kilo of Coke. Claim he's Jesus. So when you jumped overboard

But don't worry When you try to read the article There's 500 ads that you can't click out of And I can sign up for Social Security Journalism is dead in this country One teaspoon of this med Melt's fat like crazy Like what?

He's a trickster There's more ads on this page Than actual information about the gentleman Who jumped off the boat Well it's just making me grumpy out Because it's not giving me any information I don't care about this guy I don't care about his money.

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Happy Friday, everybody. To take Uber to wherever they are. So let's go down to Western Pennsylvania. As I would imagine some stuff goes down in Western PA. A Walmart in Western Pennsylvania has banned a 60-year-old local man from bringing his emotional support alligator inside. I kind of get it, bud. Listen, I'm all down with you having whatever pets you want and your emotional support, whatever,

but I just don't trust a gator walking around me in the Walmart. No, if it's got, even if it's got its muzzle on or something. Mouth taped shut. It still has that enormous tail. And I still don't need some gator, like a, you know what I mean, bumrushing a kid. Yeah. And scratching it with its claws or something.

I don't, let's just, I'm, I don't. Let's just, I'm with you. Yes, fine, have all the animals you want, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. But then as soon as you start doing stuff like that, like, it's not your emotional support alligator. Right. Stop it. Right. Stop it.

That's one thing I don't understand is I'm all about mental health. And if something makes you feel more confident and whatever. Yes. But a gator doesn't seem, I mean, who am I to say? Maybe it does make it feel better. But I would imagine, like, what can a gator do to make you feel better? I mean, I, it's like a dog kind of makes you feel like, you know, love and compassion. Yeah, I'm sure it could, you know, gives you something to care for and all that.

Right. I mean, I don't know. I just, I'm on board with most all things, but I don't think you can try to claim an alligator. Well, and if you're at the point where you. As a service patent bringing into Walmart. If you're at the point where you need an emotional support alligator to go in the wall, Just do grocery pickup. Just do Walmart pickup.

You and the Gator stay in the car. Yep. Yeah, have him stay in the car. And they'll bring it out to you. Have him stay in the car. And you put a little sign. Don't worry, AC is on. Gators listening to his favorite music right now.

Like what I do with Elsa. Mm-hmm. Yep. Just put a little sign in the window. Here's Wesley Silva talking about his gator. We've gone to restaurants. We've been to Denny's where she's a star there. She gets VIP treatment.

We've been out to Bob Evans. We've been out to the wagon wheel. It's been very positive, and I was really taken back by that. Wesley, with all due respect, Wesley, it sounds like you're just doing this for attention. Like, it sounds like you're bringing your gator places so people talk to you and your gator. Yeah, so you can, yeah. Or does he, I'm sure he likes to create the, you gotta let me bring my old gator in here. Yeah, it sounds like you just want to show off your gator so you're going places with your gator.

Yeah, you can't leave it in the truck? Because how big is it? Where is the, I want to see a photo of this. I only have the audio. Because usually, depending on, like, the animal, I don't want a dog in Denny's either. I am on the wrong side of this argument because I do not like dogs in anything.

I don't mind. And I know that people love bringing their dogs to places. I'm the opposite. I don't mind if you want to bring it to, like, the Home Depot's and Lows and all that, where there's all that room. Yeah. There's no food.

And even Walmart, I'm sort of okay with, because that's not, Not that bad, but all, I mean, everywhere. Fuzz is right, woke Perkins would allow any emotional support animal to come in. Oh, woke Perkins, it doesn't matter what you have.

I'm going to ask. You don't even have to have papers or you just have to say, my emotional support anything. And to what you just said, people have ruined it for me. And by that I mean, I want everybody to have the mental help that they need in life. So if you really need, This dog to help you navigate life, I'm pro that.

The people who have ruined it are like two weeks ago when I go to Lowe's. This older woman and her two giant Bernese mountain dogs that are so poorly behaved. And they're like pulling her all over the place, but she's got to make a scene about it. I'm like, this isn't, you're taking advantage of a situation now. Yes, you can bring your dogs to Lowe's. You brought two full-sized bears to Lowe's and it's causing a scene. And I prefer where I'm with you is that if you're going to be doing that, they better be trained. They better be behaved.

I want them to be because that's, again, you're, because that could cause an issue for someone else. And I don't want because you, because a dog doesn't know. Because you wanted to bring a dog into Lowe's. Yeah. And it doesn't really know. And it's in a weird spot. And someone comes around the corner and it bites someone. Exactly.

Now that dog is screwed. And that dog doesn't know. I feel bad for the, like the workers to have to. to be like, oh yeah, you got your two giant dogs and what do they knock something over? And I got to go pick it up. I don't know. I want you to have all the emotional support you need, but also there's people out there ruining it for everybody. Yeah. No, I mean, that's everything. That's everything. Because again, yes, like you said, all for your emotional support, whatever. But just, you know, read the room. No, know where you're going. Be careful.

I'm going to show you Wesley's emotional support gator. Okay, we got it. I'm going to tell you one thing right now before I show you this photo. I was adamantly opposed to Wesley's Gator until I saw the photo. Well, that's why I asked, okay. Because I was going to say, that's why I asked you if there was a picture. Because if it's just some stupid little small thing, eh. You're going to see this photo in Twitch and YouTube right now.

And I think it swayed me. Oh, no. Okay. Because now I want Wesley bringing this Gator. everywhere he goes. All right? It's wearing a vest. Oh, not a vest.

A cute little sweater with a little fringe on the collar right there, but... Give it a couple seconds. There's a pop-off for me. There's Wesley and your support gator. If I can describe this to you, listeners. It's not that big, but also close its mouth. It's like a medium-sized gator, and it's got a sweater on with like a fuzzy collar. It's Elsa-sized.

I bet it's like 40 pounds. Yeah, and I've completely changed my opinion on Wesley and his gator. I like that it. I like that it's wearing a sweater because it gets cold. Completely changed my opinion, Wesley. Well done. Well done. That's a cute-ass gator.

If you want to see it, just type in Wesley. It's ridiculous. Emotional support gator and you'll see the photo. All right, you brought me around, Wesley. Good for you. You and your gator enjoy a meal. You're all good. Everything is testing my patience today.

Oh, biblical. Oh, yeah? Oh, one of this? A little bit. Ah. That's feeling better now? All right? Yeah, I feel a little better?

Um, what do I got here? I got things in front of me. Like, today's National Video Game Day, but I want to talk more. I would save that for a bigger chunk of time. Okay. I got that Cornell Bear story where the students killed a bear. Which, I mean, by the way, is always the most manly thing to do is to shoot a 120 pound. What was the point in that?

Why did we kill this bear? Because that's, again, a manly. You got to show a manly. You're even that big, tough bear. I don't know, because they were allowed. They were allowed to. I don't know what the point of that was. It was legal.

Yeah, I think they ate it. It was legal. We'll get into that story. A Grammy salute to Earth, Wind, and Fire on the 21st night. Do you remember? I just think it's screwed up that they kicked out water and heart. Oh. Earth Wind and Fire, they kept those, but.

I mean, they got rid of Water and Heart. Captain Planet, he's our hero. Right. Gonna take pollution down to zero. I actually think he was their manager for a while and stole all their money. So then they were on the outs with Captain Planet. Oh. Here, we'll do a good news story.

A 13-year-old kid in Kansas mowed lawns all summer to save up and buy a dirt bike. Oh, my God, what a dork. Sick. Turns out the bike he bought then got stolen. Oh, see, that... What jerks. Oh, the bike he bought was... stolen, meaning he had bought a stolen bike.

Oh, we bought a stolen bike. So he had to give it back. That sucks. That's not fair. And I bet he didn't get any of his money back. So they had to do. And then other people had to be nice about it. And shout out to the guy who had the bike stolen in the first place. He's the one that started the go fund me. Oh, that's cool. They raised money and got him a new one.

Nice. How to make money in the winter. How to make money in the summer. It's very industrious. And I was just like belildered. It is insane. Like, it was horrible. I'm so happy to have my bike back, but I just could not get the fact that there was a 13-year-old boy in Kansas that had put his harder money into this bike.

Him and his dad, I consider friends for life. What? I'm going to get a new bike. Turns out better than I thought it was going to be stolen to a brand-new dirt bike. See, that's some good news. That's cool. Good news. That's where my misset cycle went.

Anybody go see those guys last night? I know Malloy was out there. The boss lady was out there. They were day really. That tour's got to be finishing up here soon. Right. I did see, and I was going to ask, the follow-up to that was, it's one of the things I hate about going out there is the, when you leave, the parking.

What is it hard to get home? I saw a couple of social medias of people that were like, we left early and we're still here an hour and a half later. We haven't moved. It's been two hours. Like, what is going on? Because there's one way out. Nobody is, I mean, yes, you can take a. left out of Darien Lake.

Nobody's taking a left. Everybody is taking a right and there's only one lane. I have not been to a show in Darien Lake in probably 20 years. I really have not been out there for a show in that long. Dave was probably my last. He was the one I stopped

because it was like his Cajun era and I was miserable. I didn't enjoy it and I think that was probably the last show that I saw out there. I've had nothing but success getting home after shows though. We got out of Oasis really quick. Oh, that, yeah. No, that, when you travel like that out of really quick. Yeah, when you travel for stuff where it sucks that you have to travel, usually when you do travel to a certain area, a lot of people are going an opposite way because they all came from, you know,

like where we were, the city and stuff like that, whereas we're going back up north. That was nice. Everybody was getting on the train either to have back into the city or Long Island. We were going the other way. If you didn't have the foot thing, we would have been in and out wicked fans. I know, man. Next year. But even with the foot thing, it still didn't take. Now, we got half an hour to either side.

Yeah. I mean, it wasn't that bad at all. But next year, when they definitely come back and we're going to go definitely see them again because I feel like it's going to happen because there's already leaks coming out that Oasis is booking other venues for 2006. Yeah, they're going to play next summer out in a, at that place I did in that, that sick DVD. How do I say that? Nebworth, Kevorth?

I have no idea, bro. But the reason they're doing that, allegedly, it's been leaked by Oasis nerd sites that I follow. Yeah, I saw. Yeah, they are. It's because it's the 90th anniversary of it. And that's one of the coolest. And they're doing five nights there. Yep.

So then they can do that. Take like a week to pop around where. come on over there and see you another summer. But I don't know where they would go. They would have to hit up other. I mean, I don't know if they would do a MetLife again just for trying other places out. That's just a good area to play a big show because you're going to, you know, you're the city. People can come down from, come up from Philly, all of that.

Yeah. I don't think they can play any other venue in New York. I mean, maybe Bill Stadium whenever. But why would they play Buffalo? Yeah. You know? Yeah. Yeah.

Madison Swear Garden only holds It's not big Because they always talk about that with wrestling And it's packed but it's not huge I don't want to see them with the roof Does that make any sense? I want it open I want fireworks again

I mean they Well they played Toronto Because I was thinking they might play Toronto But they did So maybe I don't know Either way You see the Mexico crowds dude Yes

Oh They're Mexico right now Just nuts We'll get them Oh we're gonna see them again bud That's a sure we're going to drive to again if we got to. Well, I mean, if we have to again, you know, we might not drive, but maybe be driven.

Oh, we're trying to, yeah, yeah. We're making a whole lot of plans for something that hasn't even been announced. Oh, we'll figure it out. We got a lot of ideas. There'll be, there's going to be a closet oasis fan inside one of the two places we mentioned about, hey, you know, we see pretty good. Oasis coming to song and dance. That's the venue they're going to play.

You're going to play at the F shed. Yeah, so this Cornell bear story, I'm pro-hunting. I'm fine with hunting, but I don't know why we got to kill a little bear. I am. Like, because, you know, I know things got to be, like, killed. But then I'm kind of like a hypocrite because then if I see like a picture of him, like you with a bear, I'm like, oh. Yeah. Dick.

Like, I'm fine. But I know that. But I don't want to look like, same with cows. I love eating beef. Yes. I don't know. Look at a cow. though, because it's cute.

Yes, I'm an extremely big hypocrite when it comes to that. I'm like, oh, don't kill that cow or pig, and I'm like, yo. You got that smashburg, bro? Deer, they just piss me up. I hate deer. If I could punch a deer, I would. Kill all the deer you want. I don't care.

Same is geese. I hate geese. Yeah, deer are just jerks, and there's too many of them that. That's fine. But, I mean, if photo is going vile. It's legal. There's reasons for it. Because I guess these guys down in Cornell, I don't know who it was.

They did this legally. None of this was illegal. They had permits. this bear was of the proper weight and all that stuff. Yeah. And then they brought it back to like, you know how college dorms have a communal kitchen? Yeah, they skinned it, right? Do you want to see the photo or no?

You have it? Yeah, that's right here on my screen. I just want to see what. I can't show it on Twitter YouTube because I'll get banned, but. Like it doesn't look like they harvested the meat or anything. Or maybe they're in the process of that. No, it looks like they are doing it in a right way where they're going to, they're skin in it and they're going to process it.

that because they've got it. It's not messy and it's not done in like a jerk way. It's just, I don't know, 120 pound bear. Like, look at, I mean, look at me. Yeah. I'm 175 pounds. Right. 50 pounds off of me?

I mean, I'm a husky fella, but, I mean, 50 pounds off of me? It seems like it was just at the weight that I got, I don't know what the legal weight is, but you, you're allowed to, because it's, if you're saying, I mean, I can't, I can't be pro hunting and then also be mad at. about this? I'm mad that you did it in my dorm, bro. That's where I'd be mad. You don't need to do it. Not everybody needs to be involved with it. I mean, even if you do, like, you're, it's, oh, it's our communal kitchen, blah, blah, blah. Yeah, I didn't come here to see a carcass.

Yeah, read the room. That's not, some people that's going to mess them up, man. But yeah, I agree with it. It's hunting for food versus for fun and sports. That's different. Yeah. Yeah, like, if they did this and they're going to harvest it and they're going to use the meat and they're going to use, I guess, the skin or whatever, or whatever, that's the right to do it. And they just did it to kill a bear and be like, look at me, I killed a bear. I ain't down with that. That bums me out. But it's a really gross, like, I think back to college when that girl microaged pork lines.

Yeah, right. And it stunk up all of Finale Hall. Now, I, just looking at it, though, it does look like they are doing it in, because it's not, like, there's not, like, a mess. You know what I mean? Yeah. They're just kind of processing it, their skin in it. Because if they're just doing it to be jerks, I feel like it would be, I don't know. No, they seem to know what they're doing.

So, because if, especially it, because it was all legal. Yeah. You're not, you know what I mean? You don't just slap a, you know, a gun in someone's hand and be like, you're good, head on out. Yeah. You got to take the courses and all that stuff. No, it seemed like they followed all the rules. Nothing is, nothing is done illegally.

It's just gross. It's just, I mean, there's certain, again, it's like the theory of the, or the theme of the morning. Just kind of read the room. Read the room. You don't bring a bear into your dorm. Right. And skin it a lot. You had no other place to do this.

You don't have a guy's like, you know, a buddy with a garage? I mean, maybe not if they're, well, see, I don't know. If they're from here and they've got hunting licenses, then they should know someone around here, right? Mm-hmm. Because you can't just. But you could also argue, well, why they're paying tuition. They're paying room and board.

That's their kitchen to use. Yeah. I don't know where I stay. on it. I don't know. It's just... Because I recognize our hypocrisy. We love animals, but we also like eating animals. Like, animals are cute and adorable, but I also like to eat them. Because if you

just say like they get halfway through all this, like, it's all skinned and deorganed, whatever the hell of that's called, and they just have all that there, then I don't have an issue with it now all of a sudden. What do you mean? Like, if it's just

done in the kitchen, they clean up? Well, because just say, all right, the kitchen's clean. Say, I come in with a hundred pounds of hamburger meat. And I slap it down on the counter. Right, right. That's kind of the same now. It's just not the animal I'm used to. Yeah, show sister in our chat.

Imagine you're just coming down to wash your ramen bowl and you're like, yeah. What? Yeah. Like, you got to understand. You got to read the room like Cody said. Not everybody wants to see a giant carcass. Steps one through five.

It's a lot. Yeah. I mean, or maybe, who knows, maybe they were cool and we're like, hey, no one come in here for like an hour. Yeah, guy. Put up signs, be like, the kitchen's in use. We'll harvest this beer and we'll get out of here. And I know it's, they're college kids.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Money is what it is, I'm sure, anywhere. Even if you're at Cornell. They're young adults. It is upstate New York. Yeah. There's a place for that to be processed. Oh, there's a guy whose yard would have done that for you.

I don't hunt or know anything about cutting up meat or anything. Right. I know two places I could take you to get an animal processed right now. Mm-hmm. So I don't know. So what do you do? So let's say they harvested the meat. If you're just tuning in, there's a viral photo going around, pretty local from Cornell, of these students.

And they are young adults. They're over 18. So they're, you know, adults. But they brought their bear back to their college dorm into the shared kitchen to harvest it. Cody and I are both pro-hunter. You want to hunt, do whatever you want. If you're going to eat it, don't just hunt for sport and, you know, take a trophy photo photo, whatever while to use the meat you get.

Yeah. We also, like, both know that we could take it somewhere to a guy or a gal that could harvest a bear. Yeah, exactly. But yeah, as long as you're not just, like, skin in it and having a bear rug. So you harvest it. But everyone said they have this meat in freezer's pictures, too. All right. So you get your meat, good, that's fine.

You get the bear skin or whatever. But then you still got bare bones. Like, where do the bones go? Oh, I think that's their money. The bones are their money. Like, the bare waste. Remember how we weren't supposed to throw things away in the dumpsters, but we all did? Oh my God, screw you a Spiegel.

I'm putting it in the dumpster, bud. Yeah, I'm going to throw my own garbage. All right, garbage hours are like two hours. I'm not here for that. No, I'm very busy. So, I mean. Yeah, like, that's the part of story I want to know. Yeah, the clean up.

Where did the bones and the brains and the organs go? The cleanup is, yeah. You just chucked that in the communal dumpster too? Right then. Yeah, you come down to throw some garbage way and there's a bearhead sticking on the topster. Bro, I just saw a bearhead in the dumpster. No, you did it. You're high.

All right. I swear to God. All right, Josh is cut off. Dude, we're Cornell, our mascot to bear. You probably saw the logo. It is. The mascot's a bear. You didn't know that?

That's the weirdest part of all this. It's like, come on, man. I looked at the text line. That was my emotional support bear. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm not going to Denny's night. Now. Come on.

This is K Rock Walk. What do you see? They'll be a Daring Lake in five days. Three days or races, yeah. Yes, they will be. Who's with them? I knew this. I just heard this.

Is it Breaking Benjamin? Because I was with them on tour. It's on my sheet, but you're asking me a question. I don't have in front of me right now. I'm trying to find a Neo music video. Oh, I knew it because I heard it on when I was listening to... Yeah, yeah, Breaking Benjamin. Breaking Benjamin.

All right. Because I called it when they said it on a serious. I called it the, the 2003 tour. Oh, okay. Because there's just, for a while, we've always just had, it's either some combination of Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace, Three Days Grace, Shined Down, Shined Down, Breaking Benjamin.

Right. Breaking Benjamin. You know what I mean? There's like those five bands, and they all kind of like a combo package deal. And who's this? Neo. Why am I talking about Neo? The guy from The Matrix?

No. Keanu Reeves? This is Keanu Reeves right here. He was on the radio back in my 90s. free Q days. Gianno Reeves. That of their music. The boy to music.

You remember Neo? And she shines just like a star. Mm-hmm. And I swear I know her face. I just don't know who you are. Is he a rapper? What was his other songs? It was like the early 2000s.

Hold on a second. I know. Enyo. Not Neo. Enyo. Nyo? Right? Who's Enya?

Is that a different kind? Enya? Are you talking to Enya? Oh, yeah, yeah, I know. Who's not a rapper at all, but like earthy music? Does that count? Uh-huh. No.

All right, hold on a second. Everybody shut up. We're at the top songs. You're not going to give me. Yeah, this one. Oh, this one. Maybe this one? I didn't listen to this.

So if it's older, no. I don't hate it, but R&B and stuff like this was always, At the bottom of my list is Christoff. Yeah, you wouldn't have been aware of Neo. Well, I only bring you up. Especially if, when did you say this is from? This is from 2008.

Yeah, and if I wasn't, well, it just got out of college, so a little bit more. Especially not then. Definitely not if I was working for. Our chat's getting very angry that you don't know Neo. I know. This was crazy. They never got so mad at me. Well, Neo's in the news.

Oh, uh-oh. Not for anything, I mean, not bad to me. He's living his life. I don't care. Okay. But I guess he's polyamorous. Okay. And took his four girlfriends

shopping in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Nice. Okay. But I love their names. So here's the names of Neo's four girlfriends. They were shopping at the skim store. Okay.

Took them out for dinner and cocktails. Nice. He calls them his pyramid. Does it mean like he stacks some and stuff? I don't know. I just... All right. I don't know.

It's a funny name for... You know, like wrestling. I thought of like a stable. It's like, it's the pyramid. His girlfriends are pretty baby. Nice. Sexy little something. Of course.

Phoenix Feather. Absolutely. And Twin Flame. If I could get past this ad, I can see what they look like. Oh, there's a photo of them? Yep, but. Okay. God forbid.

No, I can't go back. Nah, you got to see all the videos and the ads. Oh, they look? Yes. No, they're all very pretty. They're all attractive. Good for Neo. He's a good looking, dude.

I'm sure he's got money, too, so why not, dude? Look up Neo's net worth for me. How much is Neo worth? Have a five-way with four hot chicks. Why not? What do I care, I mean? If they're down with it and he's down with it, whatever. Around 30 mil.

No way! They all do other stuff. Neo is worth more than Liam Gallagher? A Grammy-winning singer-songwriter, actor, producer. That's where all these guys are making, they all make their money. They're producers. Wow. So they'll, you know what I mean?

They'll get a cut from everybody's stuff because he did some stuff and then everybody else probably came to him and was like, yo, how do I get that big? And he's like, I'll give you a little neo-taste. But I still don't. Nope. No.

They are Miss independent. That's what I mean. Back then, this was the furthest stuff for my radar that they could possibly get. Especially because this was around the time that I started to get into the screamier stuff. Oh, yeah, yeah. That would be even further away.

This is Keanu Reeves, though? Yes. Oh, the voice. Yeah. No, not further than country. What do you mean? Does Charles. Aser said, further than country?

No, because there would still be, because, you know, I'd still listen to rap. Yeah. So. Country's way further off your right on. Yeah, yeah. This I wouldn't turn off. You know what I mean? If it was on the radio or something.

Man, this song, I know, But I don't know it. I don't play in a lot of Neil, but it's taking me back to my early radio days. Don't you like that? Outside of like random places. Taking me back, maybe. And if it wasn't on when I was doing... More than on Mix.

No. Mix stuff. When I was doing that for a little while, then no, I wouldn't know it. That's how I remember some songs. I'm like, I know the beginning of that from Mix. Now, this takes me back to sit in the big old boombox outside of like Chuck Heafner or something. I was going to say some random place. Come stop it out.

Me and Rick Roberts sitting outside in the boombox. Sit outside the Cicero Ollie's. Come check us out. We got stickers and we got bumper stickers that if we spot you out on the wild. Oh, yeah. We'll get you. The 93 Q crew spots you. You get a last card out of.

We'll be out at the brand new singular location on Erie Boulevard. Come check us out in the brand new cricket wireless. Yeah, hell yeah, dude. We'll be down there. Eastwood. You know I'll be a fusillow Hyundai noon to two. coming up. Every Saturday. You know that, but. Every Saturday.

Well, you know I'm going down to Vuciland. I don't forget about that. I'm bowling the boom box, too. Hi, I'm Kevin Fear at my cellular store. Come on down. Oh, yeah. What was this before me at Express? I couldn't remember the name of it. It was right there in the corner of Taft and we would be there too. But were we hanging out with him? Yeah, it's right over there.

That's not even there now. Yeah. But I remember that. And we used to even go to Kevin's Fears like insurance thing when he did the Fear Insurance. Wow. Wow. It takes me. back, but it's been a long time in this stupid business. The two of us. We've done it all, baby.

We are your home in the Mohawk Valley for Cuse Football. Listen to the game. I'm 949K Rockwell, of course, here in the Syracuse area, Brostat, TK-99. Just listen to the game. Instead of trying to find whatever stupid app I got to get, well, no, this week's game is on ACCX plus ESPN. Ultra, you got to get that subscription. Oh, but the next weekend, no, no, you got to get

the Disney Plus Hulu edition. Oh, that one? Oh, that is. Oh, sorry. Yeah, we can't put all the games in the same place. Let me see. We can't if you listen to the radio. Boom. I see what you did there. Okay, if you listen to the radio, games are at the same place every week run by

stupid old Polly in his stupid face. Hey, I'm operating the games. Hey, go, you tell me, I am the most debilies. Easy man. And it costs you $0 to listen to the action. And it's going to be in the same spot every week. Your mom's house. I know I sound like a grumpy old man, but I'm so damn sick.

Of all these sports teams, and you can't just watch games anymore. It's a damn hunt every week. Yeah, no, they've. I got to track down the app, but I got to get the certain app. You don't have that extension, but did you pay for this? Oh, my God. They're free on the radio. Like, oh, sorry, you got to have the plus version.

You don't have ACC platinum gold? Oh, well, then you're not going to hear this one. Sorry. And that's why, is he? Let me see. What? I mean, it says place you can watch it, but good luck. Good luck.

Just listen on the radio. Just listen on the radio. You hear the glorious pipes of Matt Park and, of course, Polly Sibelia on the faders. I will bring you all the action as the circus is all. No. Happy National Video Game Day. Cool. And according to a study published last year, kids who play video games earn more money as adults.

And they're lazy and stupid. Really, though? That's interesting. Well, I would think that if you play video games, you're able to solve problems. You have a different kind of logic. I'm not going to lie. It is pretty damn impressive to see some stupid little, like, three-year-old that can't wipe his own ass, just sit down and beat the bejesus out of some video games.

It's incredible. It's incredible. Like, how is he doing that? My kids are both... He can't tie his shoes. Well, and even can... Paul. Well, I'm looking Big Paul over on TK.

But... Who I quote, and I quote yesterday, said, why bother at this point? What? Learning on tie shoes. Yeah. Yeah. So.

But those you don't know that story, Big Paul, who you'll see on Q Sports Talk, ESPN, well, that doesn't know how to tie his own shoes. He is a, I believe he has graduated. Yep. From Syracuse University. Yep. So he has a degree from Syracuse University.

Cannot tie his own shoes? And like Cody just said, even why bother at this point? Even Infante yesterday was blown away. And I think even Steve was going to be like, are you an idiot? But he's too nice. Because even he was like, you're kidding.

No way. Yeah. Why? Like, you can hear him be like, what? That's the weirdest thing about Big Paul is he's so sweet. And he's like, but I think that's why he gets away with it

because he's got that child like whimsy. He's got the childlike wonder. It's got the child like one year. Ooh. So they said, I mean, they break down all the, like, the most popular games. Still, FIFA leads the pack. I guess worldwide, I bet FIFA's huge. It's, I just watched a little thing.

I guess they, when they sold it, because it's like football club, whatever now. Yeah, something else, yeah. And it was bad. I didn't get last years or whatever it was. And the one before that was just not, I don't know, like regressed a lot when they took over, whatever they did. I can't stop playing whatever the soccer games are. Same.

But I read that they went to like the FIFA community and revamped it. Okay. All right. If they do that thing where you can do a trial for a couple hours again, like, you know, here you have three hours to play this. Then I'll try and see. but text line just said

my 22 year old can't tie his shoes come on guys guys what are we doing you gotta at least tie your shoes you got to at least be able to tie your shoes

and that's not a tall order is it and no by the way he does not wear Velcro someone else someone else ties his shoes another college graduate

has to tie his shoes yes candy crush second place really still playing candy crush I think my mom plays candy crush

um and people believe that the biggest benefits to video games are stress relief and relaxation. Yeah, it takes your mind off things for a couple seconds. Entertainment and fun. Yeah. Is Candy Crush Tetris? Candy Crush is more Dr. Mario. Oh.

You got to, like, match the candies, right? I think you match the candies. Gotcha, gotcha. Okay. They also claim that kids who play video games have better grades in school. I don't think so. I mean, I could absolutely. see how it helps with problem solving and all that crap because kids play it's not like just me

where I just play sports games because I'm too stupid to do all the other ones. Kids don't care. They'll learn. They're smart. And they play all of these incredible games that you've got to like really have your cognitive skills. Some of the, yeah. Like you've got to know how to do this, you know, some, you know, problem solving pretty early ages. And they do it. And they do it. And they know how to like, Like, I can only use 2K as an example, because that's what I watch. That's what my kid plays all the time.

Yeah. But, like, they know how to, like, dial in their characters and where to spend their things. And it's, like, where a lot of their communities are for all their friends and stuff. And that's how they play now. Yeah. Let me see. Can we name all these sounds? That was you got a, like, Mario.

Boop, boop, and you're big now, right? What one was that? Oh, that was all Mario sounds, I think. Oh, it's all Mario? Oh, okay, but newer Mario? Mm-hmm. Mario claiming some coins is what that one was able to have. Joining us in studio, I want you to be Brandon Steiner.

Good morning. Good morning. Great to be here this morning. I could see Syracuse. I mean, people don't, people don't, you can't get in their way in the morning. They're very serious about getting where they want to go. Yeah. They have to get to work. It's very important. And if you're in their way, they're going to be mad about it, Brandon. Here's my quote of the day just to help everybody out there that's losing their minds. if you want to get someplace really fast, slow down. Really? Why is that?

Because you really don't work efficiently when you're kind of on this high level speed. When you're frantic. That's what you always say. You don't need to be frantic. I think it could have been in about three or four accidents. I think it was only going 1.9 miles from my hotel. Yeah. Brandon is here.

We're going to talk about your book in a second, but I never get to talk to you. You're on with Gomez all the time, and he was telling me your story. So I want you to share, like, how you got into the collectible game. You were riding your bike by Yankee Stadium. Is that what happened? Definitely not. No? Because, you know, I liked my life.

And when I went to games at Yankee Stadium, when I was a kid, that was usually a mugging or some kind of bad, bad stuff happening. But, you know, my real career, a big turning point, obviously was going up here at SU. You know, I live with Ken Mandoval, the fullback. Remember Morris Mandeville Monk. Yeah. And, you know, I got a little taste of what it's like to live with an athlete.

and how the sports thing worked. There wasn't sports marketing back in the late 70s, 80s. But, you know, I was a business guy. And I got a sense that, you know, this sports thing was something that maybe had a little bit, an opportunity, you know, an opportunity around it. But I think, you know, for me, like the collectible thing started. I was booking athletes. Okay.

Like you wouldn't believe. And I still do it to this day. I book hundreds of athletes for, you know, PR, marketing, promote all kinds of stuff and promotions. And I needed some extra added value to these appearances. So I figured, hey, let me bring a couple of helmets, let me bring some footballs when I was doing these appearances. And the companies I was working with loved it.

And I realized, like, this could be kind of cool. I have a little bit of an eye for collectibles. I was always a collector. And I just started creating this collectible line to support the appearances I was doing. I bring Joe Morris to an appearance. I bring some Syracuse stuff. I'd bring a couple of giant helmets.

I'd make more money on these stuff I was bringing than I did on the appearance. Wow. That was how I was able to make things work. I hate to tell you, it's not this. great, unbelievable story, but it was a little bit of a money grab at the time. But then I really had a love for the collectibles. You know, started to sign all the Yankees, Jeter, Mariano, Eli Mann, you know, I've signed hundreds of players through exclusive contracts. And then our own great, the great, Coach Mayheim.

Yeah. He's not like the coach Bayhine autographs. Yeah. At least that's what I tell him when I'm with him. You know. But he is amazing. He's very generous for this autograph. We put a lot of cool collectibles together with him. And that's how my head worked. It's like, wow, it'll be really cool to have a, you know, Jim Bay High autograph Hall of Fame or one of the greatest coaches of all time, winning his coach ever, ever, not only here, but in the country, second winningest.

And then I would find different great moments of time and put collectibles around it. And it was really just about finding great moments that I knew were important to people, and I would do collections around those moments. And that's how the collectible thing really started. And it just, I never ever thought it was going to be this big. Now, I'm not at Steiner anymore, but I start a new company collectible exchange. And what's amazing is the people up at Syracuse, because teams used to Barnstorm up here, have incredible collectibles.

Yeah. Which is why Ed Levine and I would talk about doing this What's a Word Show, because people up here are serious collectors, and we've gotten incredible collections in. But I have more stuff on collectible exchanges that I did at Steiner, because people are sending me hundreds and thousands of items. I just bought a five, not bought, somebody brought me a five million. collection of trading cards. Every top sets since 48.

Oh, wow. Wow. Babe Ruth cards. I mean, a Thai Cobb letter that he hand wrote. I mean, all kinds of stuff. So the stuff that comes in every day is exciting. And I'm enjoying this new company. It's bigger, better.

And I've gotten incredible support from around here with people bringing me their collections. I verify it. I authenticate if needed. And then I help you sell it. You know, a lot of people, somebody dies or your downsize. and what do you do with this stuff? And people come to me and they go to collectible exchange

and I give them a fair shake as opposed to just auctioning it off. I tell you what you have. I tell you what it's worth. Everybody's got some collectibles. Everybody's got some cards, but they don't know how to get the cards graded. They don't know what they have and what it's worth. And I feel like I'm really doing a service that makes sense,

especially with older people that, you know, sometimes they've got a lot going on. Yeah. So I'm able to help them. Getting them some money, getting in the hands of people who want it. You'd be surprised some people, some of the things they have, agents, commissioners, people that have been

advertising in sports business forever, they don't want to do their stuff. All of a sudden you're sitting with a room full of stuff and your wife wakes you up and says, get that stuff out of the house. What's the most valuable Syracuse-related item you've worked with? Well, Jim Brown, you know, some of the Jim Brown doing signs with Jim and doing stuff with him

and, you know, Jim Brown, when you come across at Jersey, and when he played was, you know, always big, big money. they've been some great, you know, also Floyd Little too. As soon as I graduated, immediately go to Jim Brown and Floyd and stop booking them. Because I was just comfortable there, and they were so nice, so generous to me. You know, because I was a kid, I didn't know what I was doing. And then obviously one of my first guys I represented was Joe Morris having the relationship there.

So, you know, your college days, you'd be surprised how they end up being very beneficial and helpful in many ways. Yeah. And I think Syracuse really afforded me that to get my career going. I never thought it was going to be this big and be able to represent people like Muhammad Ali or a painting. Eli Manning, those kind of names. But it's just been amazing. And, you know, something like now for me, it's about money that I make a collectible exchange.

A lot of it really now is about building my scholarship at Syracuse charity. I've already let my wife know that they're not going to be bringing that many checks home. the checks are going to charity. Yeah. And that's kind of like my reason for continuing to work at this point. I'm getting a little older now, but I love what I do. So, you know, for people out there to know, like I'm all about, you know, teaming up with that to help a charity, if that's the case, that kind of thing.

And it's more fulfilling, to be honest with you, when you work to help people as opposed to working for money. But, you know, I get why you work for money. Yeah. I'm just, you know, so I'm grateful to be able to have this extra money to help others. And that kind of leads me to the book. Yeah, we're talking to speaking of team at up. Brandon Steiner's in here. You just said you're getting older,

so you decide to go and do an extremely dangerous thing. Tell people about this book and why it came to you. Well, let me preface this by saying that, stupid. Really? Okay, it's stupid. Stupid. I wouldn't do this again. However, I'm really glad I did it. You know, I would get a call from the police commissioner when an officer died in the line of duty. and I go and do a tribute in the precinct, fix it up,

the conference room or the locker room or where they have lunch, and then I would dedicate that to the new office that I'd fallen. I'd bring a couple of Yankees in and have a little celebration of their life, and I take the whole prison to a Yankee game. So I've developed a little report with the NYPD, and I teach a leadership class for the NYPD. I speak with my fourth book, by the way. And I asked the commission, I said,

I want to write something confused. using here, like I'm in these precincts. These men and women are selfless, giving up their lives, but there's a rub here, something's not feeling right. So somehow I finagle this commission to give me a complete carte blanche. And

when I tell you that I was in places that non-civilians should not be in. Robbery, shootings, gang takedowns. When you read this book, like, you're going to be, how did you, are you crazy? Yeah, the book is called the ride-alongs because you literally went on

ride-alongs for like years? I spent him over a year. I probably did about 15 ride-alongs, and I did one up here in Syracuse. Let me say this, first of all, out there. We have in Syracuse a phenomenal police commissioner. He is a rock star. He was very pivotal in this book.

He gave me a lot of time and a lot of insight, honest insight about where things are. He runs a great ship. The precincts, I mean, the men and women were great. And when I did my ride along, what really scared me about Syracuse is that, you know, these men and women don't have the same backup. You know, when you're in New York, 30 seconds, we're at a crime scene. 30 seconds, there's two more cars there. Here, you're spread out.

It could be 8, 10, 12 minutes sometimes. Wow. So, you know, there's a lot going on in a city like Syracuse. And I would say it's just as dangerous in Syracuse is New York. I think the problem is people feel like they're not safe. And yet, when you talk to police executives, they say crime is down. The truth of the matter is that we're down in almost every policing around the country, 25, 30 percent with the men and women.

Recruiting is very difficult. Nobody wants to be a police officer. And retention is even harder. And we must keep our older police officers. That experience is priceless. And we have to do whatever we can do to keep these men and women on. We've got to change the optics and change the look about how people feel about our police. but on the same token,

we must go into some of these neighborhoods and invest more. There's so much hopelessness and some unfairness that's going on in some of these neighborhoods that we kind of dump in. In one precinct, there's 200,000 people. I do a ride along

on a Friday night in the middle of the Bronx. Eight straight hours is five cars in this two-mile radius. We never caught up to 911 calls. In eight straight hours, no dinner. Wow. That's insane. So just to give an idea the chaos that can go on in urban policing, never caught up.

And what's scary is there's eight gangs in that two-mile radius that are free fall on. I mean, shooting, thinking they could do whatever they want and trying to arrest them is difficult. And there were nine homeless shelters in a two-mile radius. So how does that formula add up to success? Yeah. And that's what the book covers. So if you're thinking about safety, your kids, when they leave your house in the morning,

and you want to really understand what's really going on. Yes, policing is complicated, and they're doing an amazing job. However, I tell it straight. I see the holes as a business person, and I try to comment on them fairly. But I ask the question every time I give out one of these books, are we safe? Do you really know what's really going on to keep you safe?

It's unbelievable. On the other hand, we can't have retention sliding. We can't have recruiting being this difficult. And not talking about just Syracuse and New York, but all over the country. And the amount of guns and putting the bad guys away, which I'll talk about in the book, really hard. Really hard. I'm arresting people.

I'm going down the street. I'm like, we got to arrest everybody. Right, right. We got to arrest the whole freaking street. Right, right, right. And they're like, we can't do that. You know, so prioritization, the great thing about offices that are constantly prioritizing, which makes life difficult.

but which people do you arrest, and some people you have to kind of let go. But at the end of the day, we arrest somebody and they've got 30 arrests. I mean, can you imagine, like, here I am trying to arrest somebody that's had 30 arrests. I'm like, it's frustrating for police officers that they have to keep going back over and over.

And then the last thing I'll say is 40 to 50% of the calls with domestic violence. Terrible. And I don't know how that gets put on the police, because it is dangerous. I understand that's we dealt with, but for God's sakes, and when are we going to increase the amount of mental health

and therapy available so people can get along in their own homes? That's half the battle. As people are not getting along in their own homes or with their neighbors. And that's tying the police up like there's no tomorrow. In one precinct, I interviewed two detectives, each detective in one precinct, each had for the year,

300 domestic violence. Wow. Each. And that was not, the only detectives in the precinct. That's the depth of urban policing where they're dealing with domestic violence issues on the street to street

basis. Like, nobody's getting along with their spouses. Unlike myself, who's got the incredibly happy marriage. My wife couldn't be happier. At least that I went to Syracuse and left her alone for them. But, you know, but, you know, it's a daunting project, and I would

say, I hope you take this journey with me. I hope you give this book a look, because I have other things to do, but that's how important I think it is. And I would never do this again. I got really sick in the middle of it because I didn't realize, you know, first of all, when I got in the police car, I just thought I'd been sitting in the back. I was the thing I was getting out.

Right. And then, like, let's go. Like, go where? Into the building in the middle of the, middle of Harlem, in the middle of Bronx. And there's so many dark and gloomy stories. But, you know, when was the last time you were afraid for your life? Yeah.

I mean, think about it. I mean, eight hours I'm in this car afraid for my life. Your anxiety is cranked up. On a level that I wasn't aware of. Yeah. And then, you know, I found myself in the hospital, like, because I just got my style, I got really sick. Yeah.

I got to calm myself down a little bit. As I went and did more ride-alongs, but I kind of learned to deal with, you know, the difficulties as these rides, the difficulties and the insanity. And you got to leave. Think about all these, this is their job. They do it every day.

You did 15. They're doing, you know, lifetime. You know, my message is like, you know, you see a police officer thank him, and we all need to increase our gratitude for the police officers that we encounter. The police commissioner we have here, thank him. He is, he's a rock star, his view, the way he runs his ship, I hope people out there feel the same way. And, you know, think about how you can maybe invest and help some of the people that are a little hopeless. Like, I don't, I'm not asking you to hand out and give people more. You're asking to invest more.

Because when you're hopeless, there's no need to have people that are living in the same community or areas we're living in and have them hopeless. That's third world country level stuff. And it's really depressing when you go out to these neighborhoods and the homelessness and the drug and the gang. And we need to cut down on that. And that shouldn't just be on all the police to do it. The book is called The Ride Alongs. If you go to Amazon or you just go to Brandon Steiner's website, you can find it right. there. So cool. I'm looking for, I'm going to get this myself and read this. This seems fascinating.

I can't believe you did it. It sounds crazy here and you describe all this stuff. But I'm glad you're safe. I'm glad you're healthy now and I'm glad you got this book out for people to read. It is called the ride-alongs Brandon Steiner. Great to talk to you. Great to meet you. I could chat all day. You love this station, but this was my station when I was here. And if you listen to this station, you're right way you're supposed to be. I love this place and you guys do a great job. I may have to torch Gomez and maybe come over here more often. Come on over. I'd leave Gomez in a Syracuse second.

I mean, you know. Thank you so much, Brandon. We'll go back. This is the show. You're listening to KROC. Hi. I'm sorry. Did I startle you?

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See Burtig Lexus in Cicicero. You even said it like you would say it. It can't understand it's Cody speaking. I think. Cody, uh, Cody's... So we're watching the Today Show in here as they had the Harlem Globetrotters on. I love the Harlem Globetrotters. Cody has never seen the Harlem Globetrotters,

He saw some other similar showcase basketball thing. Yeah, the ones they bring around to the schools and stuff around here. And we couldn't think of the name. Nope. It's the Harlem who? The Wizards. The Harlem Wizards. Yep, Wizards.

But he asks his phone in a way. I did Cody speak because I remember. He picks up his phone. Yeah, Cody's going to fall in love with his AI because it's going to understand him so well. He picks up his phone just before we came back and he goes, what's that team? No, not the Harlem blowtrodgers, but the other one. What's that?

Oh, knew what he meant. It's starting to understand my... It's understanding. He goes, who's the team? No, not the hard on Globetrotters, the other one. Yeah, the other one. Do you mean the Harlem Wizards? Yes.

Thank you. I do. Love of my life. Appreciate you. Wow. It took it just the littlest bit, but it's getting it. I love it. It took me a little while to start to be able to decode Cody speak, but we all do learn

eventually. That's one of the weird things that I have to explain to new people. What? That, like, you'll figure it out. Eventually, but I do Cody speak where it makes perfect sense. What I'm saying in my head

absolutely makes all the sense. But some of the words aren't there. People will also learn that if you get into, obviously Cody and I have a relationship here, but if you get into like a relationship where you're with Cody a lot, it's very common that he has the first part of the sentence in his brain quietly.

And the second part comes out of his mouth, but you didn't hear him. the first part. Then I have to ask. His brain did. Then I have to ask. Did I say this whole thing? Yeah, that's one.

That's one part. No, you didn't. You didn't. Who's the team? No, not the, you know. Those are the guys. Oh. We can't come back from every break and make a conversation.

That's why you gotta get on Twitch, you son's the bitches. You guys got to be on Twitch and YouTube because we're deep into the beans controversy right now. Good morning radio. Podcast fan. This is the show. Happy. Beer Friday, Joel and Carissa are here.

You can't just arrest somebody for being fake Jamaican, bro. It's not illegal. That's how he identifies. Yeah. No, but I do a man. Hey, I respect his pronoun. If that's how he feels, whatever. You know what music plays exclusively over the loudspeakers?

Yeah. Woke Perkins. It's all beans reggae. It's all beans. Joel and Carissa are here, branching out bottle shop, township five in Camillas. Ooh, we got a new jingle. I love that. I just wrote it right now.

That was great. Branching out, bottle shot, Township 5 in Camillis. A common get a beer. It's close. No, actually, leave it just like that. What's our theme this week, friends? Beer. Beers, is it beans?

I wish. So our theme is the Loyal to the Soil Brew Fest that's happening tomorrow at Crazy Dazies. Oh, cool. I saw any of that. What is that? Tell me about that. Yeah, it's all New York breweries. Talking Cursev is our first beer here. They're the ones that kind of put it together and gathered a bunch of local New York places. I mean, you got like other half in prison city, the sexy ones. But you're also going to find some really small ones, which I tried to find, like Lily Bells in this four pack.

That's a meatery. Roundtable has amazing sours. Lots of smaller one. Lower Lake has never come up here. So that's an exciting new brewery for people to try. And these will all be at that tomorrow, that event tomorrow? Every one of the beers were Breweries were sampling from will be there Cool. I don't know if these beers will be there. So let's talk about it. What do we got?

Yeah, so we've got the rhubarb raspberry pastry sour from talking cursive. Yo. That's delicious, right? I saw the can a little on the side, and I was going to ask, but I was like, I'll wait and say, I see a pie on that. Yeah, there's a pie on there.

That is so good. Rubarb's my favorite pie. Strawberry rhubarb pie. Rubarb is an underrated. How did I get the pie cross flavor in there? Right? I mean, they may have actually used pastry pie. That's true.

Because it is billed as a pastry sour. What is rhubarb? Fruit? Yeah. Ask your girlfriend. It looks like celery. It's like a sour vegetable. What is rhubarb?

Oh, thank you. It's a cool weather perennial vegetable known for its tart, edible stalk. I do. I thought it was a fruit. That checks out. Poisonous leaves that contain talk. sick of acid. Yeah. So I used to chew on rhubarb growing up.

It was on the garden. And somebody's like, that's poisonous. And I was like, there's no way because I ate a lot. Jeez. Yeah. I googled it. I was like, okay, the leaves. I never ate the leaves.

All right. Good to know. Yeah. Yeah. Hmm. What old timey turn to the century farm did you grow up on there? You know, we. As I came out of my mouth, I'm like, oh, I'm going to get picked on this.

We used to just go outside and chew on rubon. Bik and reubon. But that will get so mad. I eat all his vegetables before. Oh, we got you the garden? Hey, Teresa! What?

Your mama wants to make a pie. Get up on that. You can't eat it all. Pick me some. That goddamn dim girl from down the road is all up in my rhubarb patch. Get out of my rhubarb patch. All right, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry. It would be us if we didn't derail on the first beer.

All right. Number two, what's our second beer? Oh, yeah, should probably finish. All right. I gave you another glass. I figured it was going to be a minute. Well, with all the laugh. So we've got from Whitman, which is in Saratoga.

Okay. There you go. Yeah. Nailed it. It's called Agrarian Society. It's an American wheat ale. Wheat ale. Oh, that's a good one.

Wheat. That's kind of like a blue moon, right? Yeah. Yeah. I love a good weed out. Yep. I do like that. Yep, that is good.

Yeah. Craftier Blue moon. They do a lot of different cool styles. And I've got a really cool place in Saratoga. It's like a historical building. Yeah, they can't have a sign. a sign on the outside of it because it's protected. Yeah.

Those protected things, yeah. That's very yummy. What do you think, Cody? That is good. I do like that. I'm with you. I do like when a beer just has like a solid beer taste. I haven't just drank a good blue moon or a wheat beer in a while.

That's a good one. Beer number three, branching out bottle shop township five in Camillas. Number three. Oh, I need a one. It's a meat from Willie Bell. It's mead made with light honey. tea, apricots, blood orange, and hops. So explain meat again, what is that?

Think cider from apples. Mead is from honey. Oh, okay. That's a big trend right now. I mean, obviously it was a trend thousands of years ago, probably, but yeah. It's been around for a while. This is more of a carbonated,

light, bubbly, version. There are, we do have a few from Denmark that are like the really thick, rich 14% version. Oh. Almost like honey wine, I would say. What is this called? Lady Wine.

what? Lady Appra Hopps. I haven't had this since the Renaissance Festival. This is really good. That's a good mead, me lord. That's a good mead, mead, me lord. May I pour you a pint of me? A flag in me drinking horn.

This, my companion, barley, he quenches his thirst by the river. I am not disloyalty. I need a meat. God damn, that damn girl back of my robot patch again. Get out of my meat, get out of my meat patch. Yeah, see? That's what I say, buddy. That's what I say, buddy.

That's hilarious. Branching out bottle shop. It is chaotic. It's a beer Friday. We're all getting ready for the weekend. This is how we start our day at the show. I love it. Chaos is normal for us when we come in here first thing in the morning.

This is fun. You get us all worked up. Our final beer. I'm just giving you a splish of this one because. Uh-oh. It's a big boy. It's an IPA. It's a big boy.

Oh, gotcha, gotcha. Farley. He's okay. It's my fault. All right, so this is from Big Ditch. And yeah, I said it. It's called Deep Cut. It's a double IPA that weighs in at 9.5%.

And you both could be so mature and understand. Big Ditch, deep cut. I giggle. Uh-oh. No, it's good. It's a double IPA, though. Whoa. It's a bigan.

But then it's gone. It's got that tank to it. It is kind of a femoral in that way, right? That's interesting. It's very powerful. But there's no. aftertaste really. As he sips on his big old drink.

I was going to say, let me cleanse my pelt to make sure it wasn't the other. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Let me just sip some pickle juice. Uh-huh. Oh. Right? Yeah.

Oh, wow. Because I'm not an IPA guy. Right. So for that to hit that hard. And then dissipates. Because that's one of the things I don't really like where it lingers for a long time. I feel like you have a pine tree on your tongue. Yeah.

Wow. That's really good. 9%? Oh, wow. Nine and a half, I think. That'll big did. Get you there. Run through them one more time.

Give me the price. All right. We started with the talking curse of rhubarb raspberry pie, pastry sour. Then we had the American wheat ale from Whitman. Quitman, Whitman, Whiteman, Whiteman. Then we had the mead from Lily Bell, the light honey, tea, apricots, blood, orange, and hops. And then the big old ditch, deep cut, double IPA. Love it.

K-Rock four-pack is. $19. $19. Come on down. Get out at Willie. All right. What have we got planned for our schedule? You're going to be at the fest tomorrow?

We will not. We're just supporting it because we will be at the shop doing what we do. Tickets are still on sale on Crazy Daisy's website. Or just Google, you know, loyal to the soil. I think there's some pepper thing going on there too. Cool. Tonight we've got a tasting with Von Trapp. Okay.

The family of singers, I guess. And that is from 4 to 6. Nope, he changed it. 3.30 to 5.30. And then we're open 11 to 7 today tomorrow, noon to 5 on Sunday. Yay. Come on down to see handsome barley boy. Noodoo.

He is wound up. He is wound up. All right. Guys, we love it. Branching up Bottle Shop Township 5 in Camillist. It's a beer Friday. Get up on that Ruboback! Guy!

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