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Well, Hello and thank you. Welcome tune a little backwards tonight.
Usually we say welcome and then thank you for getting your pot on. That's
how we do it. I'm all discombobulated trying to make the cameras work.
Now, you've been drinking all day with no I really haven't been. I
just had I only had one. I've actually today's been with the PGA in
town. I'm setting stuff up for tomorrow. We're gonna have ESPN involved,
We're gonna have the president of o'kill involved, We're gonna have the town supervisor.
It's been a day of a tremendous amount of work and then going over
there to see stuff. But I forget doctor. Well, what I love
the most, What I love the most is that Rick from the Plug is
here. And Rick says to me, who's watching the game tonight? And
I go, yes, Yes, it's the Lakers and the Nuggets tonight.
At eight thirty. Yes, what's up? Huh, what's up? You
think? So? Of course he's got Denver. Of course he does.
Come on, now you have to get right on top of that. When
you're to give him some shit, you have to get rid of the top
of that. But yeah, luck, it's King James. I think,
so, I think this is the year I do. I think, you
know what? So in America we build people up, we build them up,
and then it's funded like poke holes and tear him down. And you
talk about Lebron James as a guy who I mean, they were showing pictures
of him from when he entered the league. It looks like a baby,
Yes, dogging the technolog where we at no, but he looks like such
a baby. And now it's I was watching, um, what's the one
with Shannon Sharp on FS one and Skip ballas and Skip is going, look,
he missed the last five shots last night? He missed And I'm going,
yeah, I mean, try playing that game after twenty years. Your
legs are out from under, you're playing, You're I don't think he's playing
less minutes. I think I feel like he's playing more minutes. Yeah,
I don't know the stats on that ran under God otherwise we can't hear you.
You're right on that, Mic, Yes, I don't necessarily think that
he's playing like less minutes is really more so just about his body. Yeah,
but I mean I'm seeing thirty eight minutes thirty that that's a tremendous amount
of time for a guy who's, you know, eight years old. I
was gonna say almost forty, but yeah, you're right, thirty eight.
If I were almost something, I would still save down myself. But it's
impressive because I don't, you know. And they're saying that he's played in
more playoff games than any other NBA player, and Skipp's going, yeah,
because he's played longer than anybody, right, But look, everybody had to
wear and chair. I look, the league has gotten. It's not as
bad as when the Pistons were the bad boys, right, and they were
just beating the crap out of people. I mean, their whole thing was
to just knock Michael down to the ground. Now when they were playing,
the whole thing was just kick. What I was shocked about was remember who's
the coach of the heat is it? Yeah? Remember when they brought him
in to coach yes, the Big three there. This guy's a joke,
this guy's yes, we all thought somebody said this guy's the best coach in
the league. Now I would think that he's got to be doing something right.
And he's also from Yeah, he's he's just joking the league. That's
student of the game. I mean, I think a lot of people thought
he was a figurehead for pat Riley right when those guys were there. That's
kind of how I think they saw it. It was a figurehead for Riley
and not necessarily the case. No, yeah, because here he is.
I mean that was almost fifteen years ago. Yeah yeah, yeah, and
right away Lebron took him to the to the championship. So I think what
they're and I hate to well not the first year, that was the whole
the craft that first year they've ever like there was all this one not three.
Yeah, it was bad too because he made that whole proclamation with the
you know where he gets horrible where I love Barkley, but where you know,
when he sat down and it was his the decision and all that it
tuned in. I hadn't watched that. I honestly see what was going on.
Jimmy Z is here from Jimmy Z's plates and shakes. And it's great
that you like, both of you guys are here tonight because I know I
did tell you when you said something about wanting to come in. Yeah,
I said that that Rick was supposed to come in. I texted Rick.
He's so busy. I wasn't sure if he was coming or not. But
he has the plug and he's few mall. That's where you can go and
find all different models of Jordan's, all different models of Yeezy's and probably I
mean, would there be some Kobe's in there as well? Or is it
mostly yet? We got a few. We don't have a lot of Kobe's,
but we do represent them. Yeah, I thought I saw a couple
when I was in there, and yeah, I hope they're just there.
Isn't There isn't as many produced Kobies as there is Jordan sense that's got to
put them higher value. Know well, the second he died there, I
mean I didn't there was some resell would you agree that I'm not a Kobe
guy, So that's why I have to ask, would just would you agree
there was some resell value in some Kobe's. But then after he died,
almost every Kobe at that point, because now they're not making them and they're
only bringing out a few pairs here and there, so they're even harder to
get when they do come out, and then instantly worth hundreds and hundred of
dollars. Yeah, they're talking one seventy to three fifty four fifty easy four
a pair of Kobe's. Yeah, one seventy retail yea and in three fifty
four fifty is the resale value? Wow? Yeah? Man? Yeah.
And then if somebody wanted to come in and put shoes on consignment with you,
how what's the process? Um, they just have to come in,
you know, come in or it can call, but it's easy to just
come in. UM. A lot of times, well now we ask them
to bring us an inventory list, um, just simply because we're like,
we got a lot of stuff, so there's some stuff we just don't need.
So we'll kind of like we through their list and say, okay,
bring these items and then we'll put them on consignment, so we'll get him
in our portal and then that's kind of it just goes from there. Everything's
electronic, so you can come in with inventory on Monday and you can have
some sales between Monday and Thursday and Friday. You don't have to come to
the story to get paid, and we just send you in check via email.
Who does all your social media? We do it at the store.
You do it our own. Okay. It's impressive because I've been watching the
plug stuff. Did somebody shoot some things with a drone for you? Yeah?
So we have a guy us really well done. Yeah about the bus.
Yeah, he came in and UM, shout out to my guy Max.
He came in and that's what he does for a living. He does
real estate. He does commercial properties, and he came in with the concept
of him wanting to do some you know, projects with us, and that
was just like literally he just gave me that. I didn't pay for that,
but he he gave me that snippet of him shooting the bus. The
bus. I didn't even know he did it. So when he sent it,
did you like walking up to the I go? This is? I
go? That is cool? Because I'm like their social media every day you'll
see multiple like if you follow them on Instagram. Is it the Underscore plug,
the Underscore Plug, Underscore five A five Okay, underscore five A five.
Thank you because every day that I follow you, I'll see multiple times
a day Yeezy's Jordan's always on display, put nicely photographed, perfectly lit.
Well, I'm like, man, who's doing their social media out there?
And then I saw that ye tell me about the bus. So the bus
my business partner, Tyler shout out to Tyler in Reading in Pennsylvania. It
was something that he came up with the idea. I don't remember the year,
let's call it seven years ago. And he wanted to go to some
trade shows, so call it your sneaker cons and they call him got soul,
so alady sneaker events. And he took it to some one in New
York City a few years ago, I want to say. It was like
twenty fifteen, I want to say. And he has a high on his
Instagram page where there's like literally probably like five thousand kids at the bottom.
He climbed on top of the bus and they're like, you know, just
having the kids going crazy. He gained a lot of followers from that because
he was the first of its kind. So there was never a mobile Synker
store. So when we opened up at that particular moment we opened up in
twenty twenty one, the bus was sitting in this driveway. He wasn't using
it, and he just said to me, he said, yeah, you're
gonna be a rock star with this bus. So I flew there and drove
it back. So now I own it. You own the bush, Jimmy.
I smell an opportunity here. There's always opportunity. No smell. He's
got the food truck. That's what I'm saying. This is what I'm saying.
We get some backyard banger. Right, you bring in the food truck.
And I mean because you were Basically I watched this and what I took
away was why not hire? Why not have you come in for a graduation
party? Yeah? Right? And then what do you do? So let's
say you show up for the graduation party. If I'm hosting, and let's
say I want to get there's five graduates and I want to buy them whatever
they want, right, So they come in, you size them up,
and then essentially is that is that how it works? Well? That can
happen? So and what casts us to be um in a position to do
the grad parties? Yeah? So last year we had just got the bus
we were on our way back home from New Jersey. We went to a
Sneaker event out there with the bus and I was driving. I'm like,
what can I do different that will market the bus in the brand because we
were still new and um, I thought about it, said Okay, well,
let's getting close to the end of the school year. How about we
just crashed grad parties? So you would just crash grad parties. So yeah,
So what happened was we created, you know, the marketing behind it
where the students who graduated, whether it was high school, into college or
done with college, they would um fill out an e form they had to
send us and invite their shoe size two personal goals that they wanted to to
accomplish the next coming year. And then we selected those people and then pretty
much whatever day it was for the for the event, we pulled up and
we gifted them a free person if you gifted them, Let's say, I'm
I'm at the party, can I go, oh, this is awesome?
Can I go in there and buy a pair of two from you? We
did have some stops where we made anywhere between fifteen hundred and two thousand dollars
on the stops and in conclusion, what's given a free pair? Yes,
that's right, so that doesn't happen worth every penny of grad party coming up
on June fourth and Greece if you want to the bus on buy list and
that the video that you saw with the drone that is promoting the grad parties
for the class of twenty twenty three. Yeah, so there is still some
spaces available on our Instagram bio. Just have to click on the link tree.
So you just gotta go to your bio, click on the link tree
and the second tab it says, uh Grad Parties twenty twenty three. Yeah,
just click on that and send us the invite and everybody else will take
everything goes. I'm gonna make Sam do that when I get home. I
like this, I like this, and I love I love something with the
Jimmy ze only because I haven't met anybody with like you I've heard. I
was gonna say the one. I just haven't no, because like Hustle right
rick Is, I mean, he's out there, he's going to the sneak
but it's all sneakers. It's all focused on on sneakers. Jimmy's into plates
and shakes. Sneakers. Rent, I mean, you're you're, you got
your You're like a hose with a bunch of different offshoots off of it.
My WiFi is busy, Yes, yes, I like it. I like
it. But the knowledge you have, because can we say where you were
today? Yeah? Of course you can say anything you want. Well,
I don't. I would you understand, right, I would never want to
Yeah, of course. Well, you know, some things are private,
and that's okay here. I mean you were in Canada, yes, and
you were hunting sneakers. Yeah. Well I actually went for the Yankees game.
And any where I go now and I travel, I just put Nike
near me and we kind of make it part of the you know, part
of the trip. And uh so Nike. There's a Nike Sterniagara Falls,
America. Stopped there on the way to Toronto. Uh and then uh uh
and then there's two stores in Canada. We stopped at one of them picked
up twelve pairs and then the other one, uh, picked up twenty five
pairs. So when when was the Yankee game last night? Last night?
Yeah? Last night? Were you was that the one that Josh Allen was
taking to Josh? Yeah, Allen was there. Oh he was, Yeah,
didn't take batting practice. I wasn't there that early. Yeah, definitely
maybe. Yeah, I didn't see. I didn't even know he was there
until we were at the game and they put him up on the screen.
Um. Yeah, because we we went we had dinner at the Sea On
Tower. You know, it's never a bad meal or never a bad view
there. Yeah a three at the three sixty Toronto Oak Hill? Was that
old kill today? Yeah? Yeah. So we didn't get in until like
right in the beginning of the game. Uh. I actually bought my tickets
right after dinner, like twenty seats behind home play forty five bucks a piece.
How wait, whoa, whoa, whoa whoa. Yeah, well hang
on the way to go. How is you going to get that forty five
dollars back too? By the way, yeah he already did. I'm sure
how does that happen because most people, Jimmy, you're paying for how many
rows behind home playing twenty it's a great, that's like perfect. Yeah,
you can see you're up just a little bit. I mean that. Yeah.
I just went on Stophub an hour before and I just was checking to
see and I was checking to see and you know there was other seats in
the same area for like fifteen or even twenty dollars more so, like you
could go, I couldn't. And even for eighty dollars. Are those are
like even eighty dollars seats? Yeah? Those know what happens with that?
No, because I'm a season take a hold of with the bills. I
had one game. I can't remember which game it was. I was nervous.
I wasn't going to sell a seat, okay, so I started lowering
the price, yea or in the price, so eventually it's sold. So
that's probably what happened. Yeah, I mean and and I do that all
the time, to be honest with you, Like last time we went to
Toronto, do you lower I'm yeah, forget my ignorance was StubHub. Yeah,
you get to kind of control it. They're just happened to be what
the NFL is. It's not through stuff up. I think it's through the
ticket exchange, okay, but but you control the price, but you use
their platforms to sell It's it's it's consigning your tickets. You can sign your
sneakers at the plug Okay, that's the same thing. Real quick. Since
you are right, are you still a season ticket holder? Yeah? I
actually doubled up this year. I had one seat last year and I bought
my brother's seats, So now I'm gonna take my son. It's awesome.
Yeah, what's the How do you feel about the personal seat license thing that's
going to come with the new stadium. It just depends on what that number
is. It does. Yeah, I think everybody's kind of waiting to hear,
right, depending on where you sit, because I know how you feel
about it. And I am with like, not a fan, no,
because if there's no money to be made with this fee, like yeah,
you say you can will it to your you know, your children, you
can once you pay it, right, So whatever it is, And it
could be what we heard as high as twenty five thousand in a certain section.
It was fifty. That's not my section. This is what I say,
this is This is what I'm saying, Ricky is it's almost like they're
not being forthcoming with how much that's gonna be. Right, and there's no
dome and then and and our friend Jimmy Z brought that up to a guy
I always called the future owner of the Buffalo Bills. His name is Greg
Connors and he's a big sponsor, Connors of Farris, the law firm.
YEP. And Greg was basically saying, what, that's Western New York and
most of the seats will be covered, but you need the elements there and
there is a Okay, I mean I guess on that one, you just
gotta go down. I mean I'm pro no dome. And I like how
they do. I like how they have like you know, the soccer stadiums.
Yes, yes they did, ye you know I I personally do think
that a dome would totally take away from everything the Buffalo Bills are. Yeah,
you know, um and but boy was with the amount of you're gonna
pay for the views? Give me a goddamn Peter, Why but why moved
the game last year? Then? Because they couldn't driven. They couldn't drive,
They couldn't the roads were closed down and they couldn't drive. That was
really because I brought that brought up that red flag. Of course did ready
for those conditions, but I think that no matter what it would have even
if they had a dome, I don't think they would have been able to
play the game, only because the roads were so that was a freak first
and foremost that situation. People were dying. So I mean like that's that's
I mean, you know, you can have a dome like he said,
dome or not. Like they weren't playing regardless, they weren't begin to be
able to clean up the roads and get everybody to be able to have,
you know, the proper transportation to get there. Yeah. So but the
private but the PSL, the private seat license, it's a one time fee.
And then from what I understand, so you're saying, then you pay
it. Let's say you pay it and then you could gift it to your
son and he wouldn't have to pay for some reason, I feel like they're
going to figure out that there's a shelf life on it and after ten years
you got to buy it, said you know what I mean. He also
said through a tolls, we're going to go away. Yeah they didn't the
toll booths to boots, yes the word. But now with the PSL's if
I somehow he decides I don't want to be a season ticket holder. He
wants to sell me his tickets. Can he charge me a pslil seat or
no, I don't. I don't believe. I don't know. I don't
know. I think you're terrible. Yeah, because here's what you're all you're
doing is getting the right to buy a season ticket. That's what you're getting.
You're not getting a season ticket with that, So you're paying your fifteen
grand plus you gotta buy the season ticket on top of that, and you
gotta buy the season ticket every season. So they've got the PSL, and
they've been doing it in you know, bigger market. The only the only
good thing in the reason why I would say that I would continue to buy
a season tickets at least right now, is that you can do it on
a payment plan. You don't have to pay it all at once. That's
true, and I think the same thing. I think they're going to do
the same thing with the PSL, and they'll continue that with your right.
That makes that makes sense. But I think a fifteen thousand, I think
they're gonna but I think there'll be a financing charge if you did it over
a number of years, right, So yeah, oh then maybe I'm still
not doing it your money either way. I love I mean, I love
economic m my favorite I failed math one regions three times. But I understand
this doesn't make sense. Failed math one regions, the math one, the
algebra regions, whatever, ninth grade math algebra, whatever you want to You
can figure that out today in your sleep. Yeah. So if we changed
it from Y and X to Nike or yeasy equals Jordan. Yes, my
whole school life was like the like the one scene off of road Trip where
he's explaining it to him, like, okay, you have Vince McMahon.
Yes, Like if I was taught school based on Jordan and wrestling economics,
I've been a straight A student. I believe that. Yeah, I believe
that it would have kept your It would have kept your interest. Yeah yeah,
except I was yawning, then you would have been so well, I
am very impressed by both of you guys in the uh the sneaker game.
How you go and hunt wherever you are. Well, I'll be honest with
you, like my I you know, it's you know, clearly, I've
spent a lot of time in the Sneaker game. But like, what's really
elevated my long term plan um that I put in place at around COVID was
you know Ricky, you know Ricky store opening up I mean, that's really
what's that's just amplified. Like I my car wouldn't. I wouldn't have eighty
pairs of sneakers in my car right now if if the plug wasn't open.
Ricky did you did you know him prior to opening the store two and ten
ten? Wow? Yeah, when he was managing foot Action and he used
to go into foot Action. Well, they used to have eight am releases.
They used to have midnight releases. Okay, So in two thousand and
ten East Bay and then there were certain stores, you know how like Footy,
you know how House Guitars would open up Sneaker stores used to do that.
This is before the raffle system. This is before all that. And
so there's some stores, mainly out of malls that would open up at midnight.
You'd have lines. Then you'd have the mall stores that would open up
early, like eight am. We would close the shop at four am to
lock the doors, clean up out. We we we'd go out the door
at five o'clock with a car full. We have a few blunts rolled,
and we're waiting for them all to open up at eight o'clock. Yeah,
and yeah, you know what I mean and we're just waiting for them all
to open up, sitting there having coffee after work. I mean, and
this is the time after work where we were all we were all enjoying our
happy hour after work. Sure you know what I mean. And then you
know, then you see it getting daylight, it's time to go to bed.
Yeah, and that that was my life for ten straight years. Okay,
yeah, So yeah, I had just got promoted to the store manager
and leaving Buffalo to come to Rochester to run foot Action in the Grease Ridge
Mall. And I think it was the we first really made like just South
Beach, the South Beach Lebron. Yeah, those came out January twenty ten.
I got back in the game December nine. So look, I literally
had just got back in the game weeks before I met him. Yeah,
so how how did the Lebron sell? Then? Oh? My god?
Then keep him in the store. Yeah, they're not keep him in about
now. They're they're not selling as well. They're selling the younger kids,
the AAU kids, they're buying them. Yeah, but people our age they're
not, They're not buying them. Okay, it's still Jordans. I have
someone right now, But it's just he's on year twenty now. Yeah,
and it's just like with Jordan's, not every Jordan was a fan favorite,
right, So there's a pocket of Lebron's. That's the same thing. I
would say from the ones did really well, but I would say like the
sevens is where he really took off. I would say seven to like maybe
like twelve. And that makes sense because Lebron sevens was my first pair of
Lebron's. Yeah, we opened up that time. I was I was never
a Lebron fan sneaker wise. And then his two thousand and ten All Star
shoe they like had part of it was like a wood grain finish, and
I was like, I gotta have this shoe. And then so and then
and then then the South Beach EIDs came out super limited shoe. Back then
the day of the sale, uh, you know, you bought the shoe
for two hundred. You could probably saw it for three three hundred right off
the bat four hundred. But then it was one of those shoes that it
only took like two or three months. In four months, six months,
it was up to five six, seven, eight hundred. It ended up
going up to about thousand dollars a pair. Wow. But then you know,
but then you know, as time changes, you know, you get
a whole cycle new of of new people and uh you know, and then
the Lebron face kind of fell off, you know, and then um,
you know, and that's pretty much about that. If Lebron wins this year
when it won't, it won't, it won't make an impact. I say,
if I said, if you said when I got you, all right,
I hear you, Uh, it won't make an impact. No,
you don't think. So what if they released like uh, I don't know,
fifth ring, anything is possible. If they have something limited and they
make a gimmick shoe and you know, a marketing gimmick shoe like that's limited,
that's gonna make people want it. Yeah, then yeah, you know,
I mean, and that's how sometimes what it takes, it takes the
right you know, the air Jordans win. Yeah, I love thee Yeah
they air Jordan's four right now is the most popular one out there. And
it has a lot to do with putting um, you know, rapper Travis
Scott's name on a model and then then they put out some um ones that
were uh Virgil, what was it the off white and then then you put
it. Then you take some Jordan's Indo collapse with a famous designer that's really
big in the underground scene, and you know and all that, and you
know, and then the fours are, you know, a hot commodity.
Now. I think you gotta you gotta give Jordan his props though, because
he started off with basketball. Yeah, now he's killing it in golf.
Yeah, he's doing a NASCAR stuff. He's like in feel treating all these
other sports, just getting more and more people. I saw him down in
Watkins Glen a couple of years ago, like two years ago. So we
got we got some Jordan golf shoes in the store right now. And yeah,
legends fit in every genre, like and I'll get Michael Jordan's one,
Rick Flair's one. Yeah, okay, like their personalities and their likeness in
Jordan. You know, I guess Flair's more of a of a likeness and
personality. But Jordan, now, like he said, he's sponsoring anything and
everything, right, you know what I mean. So he's got Nascars,
He's got you know, the you know, Nike's got the contract with making
the jersey. So half the NBA jerseys have a Jordans SA jump man on
it instead of a Nike you know. So, yeah, he's a brand,
Yeah he is. We'll take a minute. You you saw the movie,
Yeah, do you see? Uh yeah, not yet. It's on
Prime now, Yeah, you can see it, So I'll get your thoughts
on that, and then I want to know what your son's favorite seekers.
Okay, because he's probably got I didn't even put you on the spot.
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graduation parties, backyard bangers, after wedding receptions. Imagine this. You're leaving
the reception, you've had a few cocktails, you're waiting for your uber to
show up, and you're going, man, I'm really hungry. I could
go for something, And then, almost like a mirage, you walk outside
and there's the Jimmy Z's Plates and Shakes trunk. Yeah, and it's good
doing all the delicious shakes that you can get at Jimmy's Ees. It's fantastic.
That would be maybe the best gift you could give to the people coming
to your wedding. Do you have a sneaker theme shake? No? You
know what I think? I think? I think Yeah, I mean I
could put some miny thought into it like this, He's gotta be something good.
Yeah, you gotta give him a coin for that first first shakes on
me. Yeah, sees Plates and Shakes. You're gonna find them on Main
Street and Brockport and online at the Almighty Jimmy's Ees, Plates and Shakes dot
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this is called sleep Walk My Life Away from seventy two Seasons. Have you
listened to the album? Not listened to the album, but very much like
lard to saying that concerts, Yeah, because they're going to be doing two
show concerts and they're not repeating the songs really yeah. So they're playing like
I think maybe like less than twenty cities in America, Okay, and in
each city that they play, it's uh, they'll play play one night,
take one night off, play another night, and each night has a for
an opener. So like Pantera's back on the road. They're doing like a
tribute thing because dining back Darryl and Um Vinnie Paul, the brothers in the
band, the drummer and the guitarist, they both died. Yeah, so
they're doing like a um not so much like a reunion tour, but a
tribute tour. And they have that I forgot what his name is, the
drummer from Mathrax, and then they have Zach While on guitar. So anyways,
I'm a huge Pantera fan. So they're opening one night, and to
be honest with you, whatever band's opening the second night. They're a big
name too, but I don't like them, so I don't even remember who
it is Rick any any love for Pantara. I don't know who that is.
Rick doesn't know. I figured, I figured That's why I said,
I see, yeah, yeah, I see. I was hoping. I
was hoping. I was right. Yeah, I'm not that. I don't
know Pantera very well. You know Pantera. I don't know. Are you
in the pit for Metallica? No, I'll watch out for stuff and if
you are, yeah, no, yeah, no pit for me. I'm
not trying to stand. Last time I was in the pit was uh,
Guns and Roses two thousand and seven tea, and I'm not doing it again.
How bad? It wasn't bad from the pushing and standing, but because
it was you know, like you know, you got a man your space.
We were against the railing on the side of the stage and so literally
we had to get there early to own our part of like so you had
to, like we were the first people in in in the in the whole
stadium. He's used to camping out, Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
don't. I don't mess around. I know what I want and and
I have and I have all the time to get in Rick, have you
ever camped out for tickets to anything? Usually by You're young enough that I
probably think they did away with some of that stuff. No, so you
got to think about it. So twenty ten the camping out for I'm Gonna
use sneakers, Yes, but yeah, so in Las Vegas that was the
year of the Galaxy phone posits. Yeah, everything went twenty twelve. Um,
I happened to be in Las Vegas with my wife. I want a
trip. Ironically, I was working for Footlocker at the time and because of
the accolades that we did over the holiday season. It was Cancun, Vegas
or trip to Mexico, and I chose Vegas. Yeah, and um,
we went there that weekend and luckily out I end up getting a couple of
pairs of Lebron's look at this. Yeah wow, But I did have to
camp out my jad to camp out. She was pissed because we were on
vacation and you're still working over the overnight, literally stayed overnight outside of a
Champs I believe it was the Champ Sports really strip. Wow, how much
that people watching? So Nike's super smart. And back then Nike was charging
a buck sixty, a buck seventy for retro Jordan's. Yeah, and then
guys like me were selling them instantly for two thirty, just making a quick
fifty bucks and moving right right eventually, and this is now. The first
three, four, five, and six all had Nike Air branding on the
back on the tab of the of the Jordans, and then once he became
his own brand, they took off that and they replaced a Nike with the
Jumpman, which then made the Nike Air back Jordans that were retro from ninety
four to two thousand and one. The beginning retros, everyone wanted all you
got the og, you got the OG, and I said it. Then
I said, and then the quality of the Jordan's back then were absolutely terrible.
When I tell you, they did the worst possible leather you can put
on these. They dogged the shit out of this brand. So the early,
the early retros, when they when they were mass producing and dogging the
brand, they were just putting out anything, the worst leather. And when
I tell you the worst, I mean the worst, okay, and people
are still buying it. But what I said to what I said was this,
and this is in the back of my head and I shared it with
a bunch of people, and I'm not sure i've ever shared this a rick,
I said, but they're dogging this brand so bad right now and making
people want the original U the original you know, back on these shoes that
they're eventually going to bring them back and then they're going to charge what we're
reselling she was for. And that's exactly what happened. Now shoes are two
twenty two thirty, Like it's not it's not uncommon and wouldn't blink an eye.
You know if something like the Jordans with the ones that came out a
month ago after tax two twenty six eighty. Yeah, you know the ones
that the ones that the thirty pairs who walked out them all on Sunday with
where where the men's payers were? Two twenty six eighty same thing? Wow,
the uh you saw the movie? What were your thoughts on that?
Um My initial thoughts was I knew that Adidas was in play, but I
didn't know that Jordan did not. Sorry, I already know Jordan didn't have
any and he didn't had anything to do with thank you. Yeah, So
that was that was to see that. I was kind of like, wow,
like he really saved their basketball division because saved it. They didn't have
one, No, they didn't, and now it's four hundred million. But
you think of the risk that you're taking on a player who has some really
played a game. Yet how many guys come in lauded with praise in any
sport and then just don't make it. But this was the guy and it
was something where I liked the stuff with his mom. Yeah, I hope
his mom was that in tune to kind of know and when she called back
and said we're gonna go with you. But he gets a percentage of every
I mean that was unprecedented, right, I mean that's likeness, that's name
Vincelis. It's happening in the NC DOUBLEA now. Yeah, and I almost
feel like he's the reason why. Yeah. I mean he paved away for
a lot. Like I said, if it wasn't for this the successes him
as a player, yeah, we wouldn't be standing. Well that's yeah,
that's really what it is. I wouldn't I would not have a sneaker side
house it was, or if he if he would have tanked out and there
would have never been right what it is today. Yeah, So you know,
credit to him for being the player that he was. The sneakers just
kind of made it cool. Yeah. Yeah, Jordan Jordan wore uh converse
his whole college career. Yes, he did, you know, and then
even for the Olympics when I just saw this for the first time the other
day. But I didn't know that the USA Olympic team in eighty four played
the NBA All Stars. Oh, I didn't know that either. I didn't
know that either. Like literally, as a rookie, he played all the
NBA All Stars. You know, yeah, I didn't know that either,
And then um and he was wearing Converse for that too. I'm not sure.
I think Adidas was just the most popular back then, so in eighty
five, I guess. I mean, even when we grew up. When
I was a kid, Converse was the one I was when I was a
kid. Reebok high tops with the British logo on them in eighty eight to
me were like the bee's knees. You're right, that was becoming the big
thing. But when I was like in seventh eighth grade, it was Converse
and all the NBA was Converse. So Nike was a struggling brand period,
and they weren't even on Nike. Is what we look at Puma right now,
Like in Reebok right now, they're kind of like whatever. That's what
Nike was. Then I saw a brilliant thing today. Back in nineteen seventy
two, I believe Puma sponsored Pelee. Pelee was playing in the championship game
and they asked him before the game started to bend down and tie his shoe
so the whole world would see that he was winning Pumas and he did it.
That was that was part of the that was part of his deal,
because I think his deal was like one hundred thousand, and they're saying we
were nine hundred thousand today. The only thing we want you do is make
sure over and tire shoe. And that was it, and it exploded that
that brand at the time. So now you see we're a player. Nobody
all the way. Nobody cared about Adidas right now in the recent times,
nobody cared about Adidas until Easy signed with them. Yeah, and even right
now when people are buying Easies, I don't even would you say people even
look at them as Adidas. I don't think they think they look at their
own brand. It's his own brand. Yeah, you know, even though
there're Adida's originals like and don't get me wrong, even though this made this
Kanye's relationship, but Adidas has made people buy other Adidas that they wouldn't have
bought before. I believe that, you know what I mean, and which
is great, that's what you're supposed to. Adidas was big when I was
like a kid in the city, like a queens and stuff. Jordan's relationship
with Nike yea the reason why people started buying other nikes, you know what
I mean, It's the same thing. I get it. You know,
the success doesn't always translate. Because didn't they just dump Beyonce and her whole
line because she didn't sell but her the price points were ridiculous. I didn't
even know. Yeah, let me put this. I didn't even know she
was with Adidas until they dropped it. I didn't even know that she got
dropped. Yeah, I'm not proud of this. Well I know she does.
Yeah, so we want to talk about the crumbly shoe. I wanted
to talk about the crumbly shoe. I want to talk about the box.
Yeah you know, well he's over in Canada rubbed off it crumbly shoe A.
So that that is these shoes when you buy them, you must also
have to have climate storage, almost like a humidifier for a cigar. You
definitely want to have the right kind of room. Okay, uh yeah,
like just when like when you see on a jar in a cool dry room,
you know what I mean? So definitely. Um, but I have
found out in my experience that I the oldest shoe I ever had before it
crumbled was a two thousand air Jordan five. Yeah, and it crumbled like
four years ago. It just crumbled like it started cracking. It started cracking
like four or four or five years ago. Was this because of the bad
leather or just because the leather? This is the this is the soul.
This is the soul. Soul and what it's made out of is spongey,
So once it dries, it's gone. Okay, you know. And so
these shoes and and and it doesn't matter what you put them in. This
kind of material is not a shoe that's gonna last forever. So where it
okay? Yeah? Um? And you know and um and so a kid
pulled out a twenty sixteen pair, which is only let's do the math here.
I mean, there we go seven years ago. Yeah uh and uh
they started they crumbled, They cracked right down the middle. They were all
separated. It was it was crazy. Um. And that could have been
because of poor storage. Something that old shouldn't crumble like that. But would
I come and find would I've come to find out like I was talking about
that, you know that literally sixteen or seventeen year old pair, that if
I had that shoe brand new and in the most perfect room, and I
started wearing it, it would have it would have crumbled. So the fact
that this shoe was worn periodically over the years. Yea, and for whatever
reason is what kind of like kept it together. Oh you do. Yeah,
so even if most of the ones that are coming in there, So
if you're a collector, do you ever put the shoes on a little bit?
I mean I wear some shoes, but my feet are shows shot right
now from the amount of you know, amount of time extent you know worked
that Like, I can't even wear half of my shoes anywhere. I mean,
if I can, I can wear them for a few hours and I
got taken. Usually you're buying and then just reselling. Yeah, immediate,
immediate. Yeah, I'm not even if I have a Jordan that I want,
and if I have it brand new in a box, I will look
for it used and I'll sell the brand new one and make my money.
Okay, all right, But even the box itself, you guys were talking
about, people are selling the box to a pair of sneakers. Let's say
the retro Jordan or the air Force one or whatever. Not so much air
Force one. This Jordan, Yeah, this is more of a Jordan thing.
And but and it's more of an older Jordan thing. I mean,
I don't really think anyone's gonna care for a Jordan box in my opinion of
it's a retro. Okay, unless it's some fancy retro. But for the
most part, we're talking about boxes of any of the original like one through
fourteen that he you know that you know when he was around. There there's
some boxes too that are different. Where there's one it has like just his
eyes. So there there are some boxes that now the boxes we see now
just a regular black box no one cares about. No, but you want
a specialty box, Yeah, those are the ones where you can and people
pay. Yeah, how much do you know how much? Well, I'm
gonna look up right now in eBay air Jordan one box only and these are
probably from eighty five, and we can see what some of the prices are
because Kevin had looked up before. He was looking for something. Found what
was it one one left shoe of only of who was a Jordan left shoe
only? And it was like forty and forty dollars. That's crazy. You
know who's could be someone could be an amputee. Somebody bought it, bought
up air and they only need one. See I've seen that happen. You
would you buy just one? No, I would sell, but I wouldn't.
I wouldn't. I still would sell the pair. Yes, but if
I got you, yeah, I got you. No. But I'm saying,
like, let's say somebody goes, I got this one that you would
only if I knew if I had a customer like I have, I know
a lot of my customers, I'm okay, so someone came in and just
what happened that I know that just customer wors a size nine and they happen
to have an amputee. Yeah, you know, and that was the right
shoe, right size their size. Yeah, I would entertain it, but
I would probably call them first and say, would you say, hey,
would you be interested in the shoe? And then if they want it,
then I would get it, but I wouldn't just buy it. What is
your day like? It's chaos? No? I mean, I mean,
I mean obviously, right, you had to go get your kids in a
baseball game, all that stuff that most people. But you're running a business.
It's a business that there aren't other I don't I don't see it anywhere
else. I understand what I'm saying, like breaking groundedly here, I feel
like I get inquiries eleven, twelve o'clock at night, sure about shoes.
Yeah, you know, five six o'clock in the morning. Um, when
I'm not at the store, and you know, my staff may call,
Hey, somebody wants to sew this. What do you want to do?
So there's always I'm always on my phone. Have to stay charged because if
not, I'll probably miss something. So but yeah, I'm yeah, I
mean yeah, And and that's said. It's it's it's busy, it's it's
it's all day stuff. You know. I can just speak from my experiences.
It's NonStop, you know what I mean. Especially it's second year in
third year in you know, growing growing, when you're a growing phase,
it's NonStop. You don't stop moving or you're not gonna grow. Yeah,
you're a gonna grows as fast as you move. That is absolutely the eye,
believe me, you see it. I feel it myself. I'm feeling
it myself, or about six months in I'm feeling that. Not even yet,
but you know, but this concept has been growing, you know,
throughout the United States, you know, and it just got bigger around here,
but like when in the New York City, like in the mall's over
there, Like I've been walking in this stores like this for years. Yeah,
you know, and they are growing over Rochester, you know, and
and it's just kind of like the plate community. Uh you know, there's
other stores that do this, but nobody's near each other. Everyone's got there,
you know, in different places, and you know, it's uh,
you know, it's a it's a sneaker community. Yeah, you know,
yea. So, but the operation you know at the plug clearly is uh,
you know, you know there's there. I don't. I don't think
there's a store in Rochester has more that has more shoes in one store.
No, and not more shoes that you can't find anywhere else. That's that's
that I took away from there. It's like I go, I give them.
I'm very proud to have a nice chunk of inventory in the Yeah.
So I know he showed me. It's it's it's it's kind of like you
get the museum piece, yes, as well as the retail reso. Yeah,
and then the service. But it's a thing. Well, first of
all, it's almost you're right, because you guys are like sue Maya's am
I saying that? Right of sneakers? My brothers Maya and I still can't
say. I think it's I think I say different. I say it different
every time. Maya like, what the fuck are we gonna do over here?
You know it's crazy? Wait? How long did he go to study
for that? Oh? Dude, he gotta be years? Right? He
took the test three times, three times, and like there's two parts a
good man, there's three parts of those three times. I know I'll never
forget going to his apartment when he was studying for it. This guy literally
had maps of every region, colors, this and that. Did he tell
Jimmy if you gave him a just a blind take, he could tell you
where it was from? Or pretty much? I would have to say,
yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean honestly, because I'm not into wine.
We don't talk a lot of wine, right, you know what I
mean? I don't know. I think that he went he went wine,
You went sneakers, Yeah, he went wine. I want ground beef and
then ground bee and then ground beef turned into you know B and B's,
and then you know B and B's turned into air Jordan's and here we are.
Yeah, yeah, that's impressive. That's impressive. Yeah, so and
so, yeah and so make a long story the way he should be.
Like Poppy says, um, you know, I don't even know how to
say it. He and my brother has been one for ten years. That's
amazing. But that's what you guys kind of are of sneakers that you can
you sight unseen. Somebody calls you, knows the value, knows the resale.
I don't knows that somebody wants it. I think that's really yeahs different.
A lot of people too, like today, like they will call and
say, hey, I have ex pair of sneakers. What's the value.
We never will give a price over the phone. You have to physically bringing
into the store, right, because we can't. You can't see it,
right, you told me it was this month, yes, so we never
we never give prices. You have to bring it in so that we can
kind of like inspect it. I had a guy brought into pair of shoes,
um early this week. I can't remember what day it was, but
the shoes weren't real and he bought them from eBay and he wanted to do
a side swap with me. But I wouldn't take the shoes and actually made
a post out of it, like, so, what happens with people with
the customer I have to get Do they get belligerent? No? Okay,
because that he but he paid probably a top dollar an eBay No, no,
but it was a reason why he bought it off. eBay got it.
He thought he was saving money, but he was getting fooled. Yes,
so a lot of time, and that kind of helps us out because
then we can tell you can spot a fake. So this is like a
fake Gucci bag. Yeah right, I mean almost knock off. Soon as
I as soon as I took it out of the box, I noticed a
lot of flaws right away. He noticed that, said Mikey instead of night.
I mean this a sniff and most newer shoes the sniff test also is
good. I mean they all have they have a smell. Yeah, the
Nike glue has a smell and I and I and I have had hands in
my shoes that look real and you smell them and wow, ain't real.
Look at that. Well, because the factories out there are not owned by
Nikes, so there's a lot of unauthorized pairs out there too, which will
means will the same people. You know, once the lights turn off and
the bosses go home, the same people continue running machines and then they're going
to push those out the back door. So these were never part of Nike's
inventory. These were never authorized, same materials, same everything. It's wild
stuff. If you want to go to the Plug, it is an East
Few mall. You can call five eight five four three three two eight nine
nine and you can set up an appointment to come in, right. I
would assume you want an appointment or just tell him when to come in and
he can always follow him on Instagram at the Underscore Plug Underscore five eight five.
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story with Jamie Fox? Because I kept seeing stuff like this didn't put a
hit on him? Is there any truth to that? I don't know,
but I did see something um that a lot of people who were close and
associated with did. He are no longer here, so they were like linking
a lot of stuff. When you speak too much about Hollywood, they don't
like that. So going to he built like he just had some interviews of
him talking about the parties and all that, and he had the Jamie Fox
comedy radio show on sirious. I wonder if he spilled some stories. It's
possible, but uh, and it's it's so like vague because at one point
they were saying he was close to dying, and it saw something that he
was playing pickleball his daughter reported. Now I'm there saying he's in a rehab.
The stories are all over the place rehab not like a rehab. But
right, so, well, that's scary. How do you go from aneurysm
to picka right? Yeah, usually that you aren't walking or something. Yeah,
somethings of it, somethings not enough, all right, trying not the
comment on it. Here's the here's the lesson in all that us shut your
mouth, right, because I can't tell you any times over the years,
my big mouth would just and say all kinds of stuff. Uh, they're
speaking of that. There's a mystery guest on the line. Kevin goes and
find somebody from my past every every week or so, and we try to
get somebody on, and it's just someone from my childhood or from work.
It would be indirectly through work, indirectly through work, directly through work.
And I knew you were like very excited about having this person on. I
am very excited, but indirectly through work. So it's a comic. It
is a comic. Okay, I know exactly who it is. Who is
it? Jimmy Schubert, You got it, Yeah, nailed it. Jimmy.
Hey, Hey, hey, hey, hey, I heard Jamie Fox
is a rehab for pickleball. That's the other thing. I'm good. No,
of course should be coming out of the gate twin thank thank oh.
So yeah, because I said, try to s guise my voice. But
it's like I said, because there's no way I say two lines, you're
gonna know who it is. Of course it is, of course, But
I say Steward Pickle and I gott oh, gosh, I always tell this,
yes, go ahead. I saw him coming up there in October.
I'm very excited to be back at comedy to Carlson. Oh comedy. Carlson's
great. And if you've never seen Jimmy you are missing out. Talk about
energy and fun. And you know, we were talking with another guy in
the studio, Jimmy Z from Jimmy Z's Plates and Shakes, and he's going
to see Metallica, and he said, you know, Metallica is playing two
nights in every city and the set will not be the same for either night.
That's like going to a Jimmy Shuber concert. It's never the same.
Yeah, it's never the same. And you know, like you said,
it's a lot of fun. I love what I do I have a pactable
I can people laugh and obviously you're just trying to keep up. I'm lucky
and blessed to be able to do this as long as though. Jimmy Schubert,
yeah well yeah, yeah, my jugs are so funny. You could
dance to him. I listen. I'm on Instagram. I see you all
that. I every time I stop and I look. I looked at the
Mother's day photo. Did your mom have six boys? Six boys by like
woman? Yeah, and she looks like this sport little sweet Irish woman and
you got it's like you big Beheemith house safe standing behind her. I mean
it's a gang man, it's a gang. It's it's the Irish mob.
I mean, you know, my old man was a silly homicide detect them.
So on top of that, I got six brothers. My dad was
a homicide cop. I got one feeling, and I dare you to heart
it. No, I'm kidding. No, I grew up a great family.
I got I love. All my brothers were still thick as thieves,
and uh, you know they're all everybody's don't go. I got men and
blessed beyond measure. Right with your dad. No, you couldn't get war
with not man. It was like living with like kind of Colombo. You
know, I hain't the body. Yeah, I'd like to ask you a
question. You know, I really realized my dad had six boys and like
so if there was twenty dollars listening, that was a shock tour and we'll
all walk around. We do baseball baseball cards to a bubble gum. We
were gonna get it, you know, I mean the guy would he break
down hard in criminals, murderers, rapists and ship and we got baseball cards,
bubble gumments. Who did it? Did it? Jimmy? I did
see you on a on a podcast? Was it? Do my Rareers podcast?
Yeah? Yeah, do my Rares podcast? Yeah yeah. I did
see a little bit of that. But what other projects, because you've been
doing I know there were movies and you're always going in an audition for things
and you were yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well there's a movie
I just went to the premiere or two in Las Vegas, Uh Don't Stock,
which is a great movie with Jamie Kennedy, Russell Peters is in it,
Ellen Holman who's also a John Wick four and uh who Russell Peters,
Jamie Kennedy, Matt Rice too. Matt Rice is the lead. Matt Rife
is this kid is blowing up real good looking comic on the TikTok at twelve
million followers. But he does a great job. Everybody does a great job
at it. And it's such a weird, unique genre. It's like comedy
horror, but it's set in the stand up comedy community where the guy's actually
like a real vampire, but everybody thinks he's just playing a character and being
stupid until the guy does some real vampire shit, you know what I mean,
and then like two times two days in a row. So yeah,
yeah, like he has twelve million followers, Like like that's why I think
the movie is gonna be a hit. I think if everybody who loves Matt
Rife goes and see if that's twelve million times sixteen dollars of the movie,
you got your money back at all for a hot I uh yeah, I'm
trying to think if it was the same Yep, it's the same kid.
So he he did Delago, but Matt also, I think was playing what's
the comedy club in the in the mall in Syracuse is that the uh oh
oh, the Funny Bone. Funny Bone, And I think he sold out
the Funny Bone like four nights real quick, or four shows, I should
say four shows. Yeah, that's that's that's a tough room. I mean,
there's a tough one, bro Syracuse. You know what I'm saying.
Yes, economic economic deprivation phills the air like a foal stand. People just
come out and just stay like they're having a good ship a month, you
know what I mean. It's not like it's not like Rochester. Well people
come out and laugh and have a good time. Well people love to come
out and laugh and have a good time in Rochester. That's right, That's
what I'm saying. So so I did another movie called Topper, and there's
another one called Puppy Love, which is making his rounds on the International Film
Festival circuit because it's a cool movie with Hopperpen and his guy Michael Max has
directed it and Roseann ar catch in it. Uh Chel Madsen is in it.
You know. There's just a couple a couple of Wayne Newton's in a
cowboy serone from the US season. So it's really cool. Yeah, it's
a really cool cast and it's a great movie. And uh I saw it
was down here to the Port lauder Del Film Festival and it was made.
I loved it. So yeah, a couple of projects coming to another,
one called Copper with Brian Collen and Eric Griffin and this kid Mark O'Brien who's
on the City on the Hill on Showtime and some other good actors. And
the said, yeah, I've got a couple of things coming down. Just
shout a new spectral fell clown shoes and just keep hanging the banging, bro,
I'm just hanging a bang coming out. I love it. I love
that Hopper penned to me was always he just looks like a skinnier version of
his dad. Well, you know, he play he plays a really kind
of a mentally slow kind of guy. He plays a little brother and a
cowboy serone, and he falls in love with this crack addicted hooker and so
it's like a love story in the other direction, you know what I mean,
Like like it's like fars Come if everything horrible happens. So that's like
it's not even that's a ride through the it's a ride through the sewer and
the glass bottom boat, you know, what I'm saying. That's what this
is. A two hour ride through the sewer and the glass bottle boat.
You get to see this, So it's really kind of I like that,
it's interesting like that, Like I love stuff like that. It's offbeat and
not like you know a lot like you know, I just like an original
movie with original character's a great writing and all three and Topper, which is
the last one I did, which is also uh kind of set in Detroit
in La We shot in both cities, but that'll be coming out. Maybe
that's a streamer. I don't know who knows anymore where movies go, right,
But as long as it's making money, it doesn't it doesn't matter.
I mean, you look at how quickly Air went from the theater right to
prime. You know the one about the Yeah, you don't even know.
You know, nobody knows anymore. You know, it's like, who knows
what's going to be a hit? Who knows what I mean? If anybody
knew what they were doing, they've been making a million dollars, do you
know what I mean? Everybody's just pretending in this and you get lucky once
in a while, you know what I mean. So we'll see. Does
Cowboy Cerone whipped Wayne Newton's asked in that movie? No, but I gotta
tell you something. I got news for you, bro. He does a
killer job, Like he fucking acts circles around Michael Matchen really like an eyebrow.
Oh dude, I'm telling you. It was unbelievable. It was.
I'm telling you. I was really impressed. How good of an actor he
was. Let me put a tea that way? Wow? Yeah, he
kind of Yeah, he's really he does an amazing job. Man, that's
impressive. Do you still take acting classes evert? I mean sometimes you just
need a coach, right, or well sometimes you yeah, sometimes you need
coach. You gotta figure out what the dramaturgy is and what the subtext is.
Yeah, and like you know, it's funny like over the summer.
I just thought this for a show on DT called Average Joe, and I
was gonna play this sub like a uniform police officer who's addicted to heroin.
It's his intricate story and it's great. These guys. Rob Colin wrote it
and he's great writer. I mean he did he but I auditioned for it
twice, I think yet. But yeah, I'm still auditioning and pretty important
stuff. I will work with a coach because you know, there's a lot
of people out there doing it. But I got to tell you, man,
i moved from Los Angeles to Delray Beach, Florida and now quite frank
And I've had more auditions in the last five months than I had in LA
in the last five years. So it's crazy. So I think a lot
of people have moved out of LA. So they opened it up. A
lot of stuff gets filmed right in Atlanta, which is right up the road.
Right, there is a ton of this up there. Well, Tyler
Perry has this whole production company up there. Yeah, it's like there's like
sixty to eighty television production is being shot in Atlanta, so right to work
state. There's no unions. It's it's actually you know, so well,
but yeah, who knows. Tell me about your special clown shoes. Where
can I get that? Yeah, well, let's in post production right now.
Well, it we take five shows. There's gonna be a new album
coming out. I don't know if the album would call clown Shoes, but
just from the line in my act, I just say, you know,
just getting home and back alive without getting canceled some weird shit out. It's
like it's like walking through a minefield and clown shoes, you know what I
mean. That's like that's what like modern day life is about. It like
just walking through you know. And so so that was the theme of it.
But yeah, it's a new hour. It so my last special.
Uh out that album with the number one on iTunes how many charts? So
you know, I'm just gonna keep creating content and keep working and keep doing
what I love to do. Man. But I'm really very fortunate to be
able to do this. When when you shoot your special, are you doing
the whole thing, Jimmy, are you funding the whole thing? Yeah?
Yeah, you fund the whole thing and do it with with my distributor.
Yeah. I mean this when I knew this is gonna be a YouTube special,
Okay, this was gonna be an hour special. That's just people could
just go check it out and I'll just I'll just send the links. I'll
talk to everybody and so they could just check out my hours. But it
seems to be the new business model. Uh, you know, comedians are
just putting their specials out. But I mean and that translates into seats and
the seats in the in the common clubs, right sure, um so so
so yeah, man, it's uh. And you know, I love what
I do. I really do. I definitely have a passion for creating good
content and good comedy and so and so you just keep doing that. As
long as I could do that, I'm a happy guy. You know.
Well, when you started out, did you think, you what, what
was the end game? That's that's good, that's a good question. I
mean, at some point, you know more, if I could just make
a living doing yeah, sure, if I can make a living doing this,
and then I could do some TV shows and some films, that would
be great. And then you start doing that, you well, if I
can do that, if I could get like a series regular in the show,
and then you wind up when King of Queens for like fifteen as like
a guy, and then you and you get all these other movies that played
Zeke and Luther Diysbey show. I played Bobby Dicey, the World's Greatest dared
Devil. I mean, you know, and I've been able to to get
a lot of acting stuff to the point where you know, I got a
pension fund from the screen actors guilt, which is crazy. So that's like
I've done enough acting work that that's a legitimate thing, and so that's cool.
But also I just love being creative. Man. I did a short
film when I first moved to Florida called friend Draft without a couple that gets
divorced and their friends keep uninviting the other ones to these events and so to
decide, so they decide to have a freaking like a friend raft like they
do in the h NFL Fantasy football Draft. Did you write No, My
buddy Matt Florio did, but he was like, I played the leader with
this woman named and Angelica Castro, who is a huge internectal start in South
America and she plays my wife. And so it's actually really funny. It's
about thirty minutes. Just got accepted into a couple of film festivals. It's
a great, great premise. Love it. Yeah, it's a great Yeah,
it's a great family so uh so yeah, yeah, man, I'm
not you know, I'm I'm a busy I'm a busy dude. I love
it. I know because you started out. One of the first things that
I was familiar with with the it was the Outlaws of Comedy with saying yeah,
yeah, you know it's funny this year. Yeah, yeah, this
year, I'm a tennis for dead thirty years that was so long ago.
I've done so much other stuff like I've done you know, Comedy Central specials
and have my own Yeah yeah, you know, you know I said,
I'm always I'm a very lucky in that sense. I've been able to make
a living doing something i'd love to do. And whether you become famous or
not, there's another ball game, and they tell you the truth. People
think you want to become famous. I don't really want to become famous.
I'd love to sell out comedy clubs and stuff like that, But do I
want to be famous? I don't know everybody famous person. I know it's
recking miserable. Yeah, you know, you know they can't go to the
grocery store. They can't do stuff, and so like you know, like
Dennis Leary as famous enough and he's had shows on TV, but he's not
like he's not like Kevin James, you know what I mean. Guys could
still go do stuff, you know what I mean. So, but still
it's it's the level of famous night what he wants to be Jim Carrey.
You have no fucking life, no fricking life, you know, so it's
uh, you know, you gotta hire a doppel gang or the run out,
so the press case the doppelganger or not you so you can go to
park with your kids, your grandkids. It's insane. You know, it's
like that kind you know. I believe me. I saw enough of it
with Shamon and some of these other famous friends that I got how how obnoxious
it is. You know, people just people know. I mean, they
love you, but they just it's weird. Dont come up and yell right
in your face when you're having dinner and stuff. It's crazy. Yeah,
that's uh, that's a little insane. Well, Jimmy, I am so
happy that you agreed to do this. I it's so funny. Man.
I just saw every scrolling through the other day. I saw two or three
Jimmy post and then I don't know what the algorithms doing, but that I
always stop. I always pay attention. That's how I knew. I looked.
I go. Man. One of his brothers looks like he lifted a
lot of weights. But it's Jimmy. If Jimmy lifted a lot of weights.
Yeah. Yeah, well that's my little brother Chris. Like he's a
little one of the younger ones, but he's like six or five. Yeah,
big kid, he was. He was in the military and stuff like
that, and so yeah, it's uh yeah, but I get you know,
it's kind of you know, my mom and boys, the six of
the Six Savages, you know. All right, Well, Jimmy, when
you come up in October, we'll have to, uh see if we can
get together. I'll definitely come up. I love that man. That'd be
great hanging out and look for look for that special clown shoes on on YouTube.
I will call you back. I'll call you back when it comes out,
Okay, plug a little bit, all right, all right, all
right, brother, thanks you. There he goes Jimmy Schuert. I sent
him a message and he immediately came right back, like for Billy, able
to do it absolutely anything that he was always so sweet and kind and uh
he was another one though that you know, we were talked about what you
shouldn't say and say, and maybe somebody talked too much, and all of
a sudden I got a call one day and it's him, and he's pissed.
He's pissed he had been. I don't know if you may be too
young to remember a comic named Sam Kennison. Yeah I know, I remember
saying I figured you would. And so Sam was was the outlaw of comedy
and he was I mean, he was a big, big person. I
kind of looked like a human. Um, say Sam, yeah that's a
great that's a great analogy. He's like, yeah, yes, it's a
great analogy. But I never thought of that. And he did. And
Rodney Dangerfield loved him, and so he was in a lot of Rodney's movies
and stuff. And I think they tried him on Saturday Night Live, but
he didn't. He did a ton of drugs and things, and uh,
he loved a radio personality here, brother weise. So if he was playing
Toronto, he would stay up all night and come and do the Wei show
in the morning. Uh, if he was in Syracuse, if he was
anywhere, or even Rochester. So Sam was like and he teamed up with
uh with Sam out in la and they it just kind of came up through
the ranks and stuff. And yeah, I was actually, Um, I
saw some YouTube video of someone recorded in Weez's studio in the eighties. Yes,
and I saw it on YouTube. Yes, that was cool. Yea
where with Sam? Yeah, yeah, that was so cool. Right and
then he he died in a car accent right, Uh, he did,
and it was he was hit by a drunk driver. I remember it because
I was up all night working on a philosophy favorite of Fisher, and We's
came out in the morning and said he got killed. Yeah. And so
there was a guy who was another outlaw of comedy. Obviously, these guys
were comics like Jimmy, and they stayed on the road He's playing here,
and they started telling some Jimmy stories. And there was an intern that Jimmy
seemed to flirt with or something. And I said something to this guy like,
oh yeah, Jimmy, and he went back he told Jimmy Jimmy called
me up. I thought. I was like, oh my god, I
thought he's gonna kill me. Should have brought that out. I forgot about
it until I'm like, I looked over and I go, oh my god,
I should have made that relate because we were no, no, no,
no, I don't want to rock that boat. It was a long
time ago. We's about six months ago, I are so shared one of
the Late Nights Circus videos and he did, and that's what made me dig
for I think for the Sam Kennison Stead. Yeah, sure that I saw
the episode of How I Mandel. It was crazy. It's awesome, Yeah,
awesome. And I hadn't I didn't even know who um oh man?
What was what was what was his? Uh bj bj Yes, yeah,
yeah, I didn't even Yeah, it was It's cool. It's awesome.
And and and he and that's what he looked like when he went came too
our sixth grade class in ninety four. So I'm like, God, looks
just like him. I met him in sixth grade, sixth grade in nineteen
ninety four. That is fantastic, U Jimmy Shubert, the Mystery guests love
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Yeah you got you, Yeah you got can't you hear me knocking on
that Calder Cup. Everybody's jumping on the bandwagon, and I say, jump
on the bandwagon. It's fine sports. It's supposed to be about fun and
excitement. And I don't know that way way way back in twenty twenty two
when the season began, I don't know. Was it predicted that they would
do this. I don't think so. I don't think so either. I
don't think so either. Jimmy Z is getting his tickets right now to go
to the cameras. I was just to buy it, buy some on Ticketmaster.
Yeah, I'm gonna see what Steve hunts down, all right, Jimmy
see that this is consumer. This is the great thing right now, you've
got it. It's in the favor of the consumer with things like that.
You talked about it camping out for tickets. That's the last time I camped
out for tickets was Game seven in ninety seven. We didn't give him to
you, no cheap bastard. How do we not know? I started?
I think I had a walkman. I think I was listening to weez.
I started across the bridge by the library. Yeah. This is back when
the ticket booths was on the where the big glass hatrium is now. Yea
side. Yeah. I was there for about four and a half hours.
Got seats, but I was there for about four and a half hours.
Wow, no camping out anymore, right, Keith, Keith, it was
really days camping out for tickets and getting early and hanging out in line with
everyone. So well for fun times. Keith. The last time we talked
to you, you were going to Syracuse. Yeah, And were those games
sold out? I think they were, um, at least on paper they
were. There was tons of empty seats still, But it was in Syracuse
when the American fans are definitely outnumbered, or they didn't out number them.
But they were louder than everyone in Syracuse and it was a great time.
Yeah. And then did you go to Toronto as well? No? I
did not. Okay, went to my garage. Did you guys watch the
game though? No, we were watching on show? Okay, is there
um is the NHL? Well sure? Uh, but I mean, come
on, Keith, did you what was the anticipation for Toronto if they took
one away and be okay? Yeah, I mean the old adages, you
know, especially on the road, you just want to went on the road,
and you know, coming back one one would have been great. You
know, coming back down two would have been r a because they already needed
against the Syracuse but you know, coming back two games up and you know
the division typele on the line, that's us exciting, trying to kick the
ass all seasons. So you know, they were one of the best teams.
And right now the Emericks are uh you know, they're they're playing well,
they're you know, at the beginning of the season, obviously everyone hoped
they would get to the Star but you know, to expect this a is
uh, you know, one game at a time. And as cliche as
it sounds that it's exciting one step one, round one punch, Yeah you
got it? Is this best of five? Yes? Yeah? Yeah,
they're still best of five? And then and then what keeps in the in
the stand and think, excuse me, the Calder Cup. It's seven right,
yeah, the next the conference through the conference finals and the Calder Cup
finals are best to seven. So there's two more series that they'd have to
win to get the Calder Cup. Yes, yes, they gotta win this
one, actually three, this one and then one more and then the all
God, so is it gonna be August when they're done? So was Syracuse
Tronts to first round? Yes? Yeah, and no technically the second round
it was a second round. Yeah, that was second Yeah, so technically
a second round. But they were playing around the playing a round. Wow
to Toronto, said anybody down from their rud defeated parent club. They got
the goalie Joseph Wall, who you know lost that last game, and they
got another guy, Bobby McCann back from injury. So Bobby mccan't can't you
can't score a goal? Good one? So what is the uh what is
the expectation? Being at home? I would assume a win at least you
don't want to you don't want Toronto to split here or no. I mean
I think then uh, you know, the players on the coaches talked about
Syracuse that it was you know, they could hear everybody channing from you know,
from their offices, from the locker room, and you know, it
was just you know, it was like a home game game for them.
So I think coming back and you know, playing in front of you know,
the building is probably gonna be sold out, yeah, close to it.
Yeah, you know, so by the time people buy tickets tomorrow and
walked up, you know it's gonna be you know, I think you know,
the players do you know, they love how all the fans have gotten
behind them, and you know, playing to a sold out barn it's gonna
be great. Well, that's really exciting in downtown Rochester when you think about
it. You've got you could go to the PGA tomorrow for the practice stuff,
and then you could go to the game tomorrow. And I absolutely that
that's that's don't start that shit, don't I heard? I heard. Yeah,
it's a bunch of Balarnie, That's what I'll tell me. And Damien
got a nice suite, that's uh man, So you've been to every game
throughout the season, just about every game. It's about every game, do
you now, I know we brought this up before. I know I'm repeating
myself, but do you appreciate that they're selling out? Or does it annoy
you a little bit that the fans weren't there in the beginning, they weren't
there in that December night, that November night, that whatever, you know,
what way look at it is that you know, this team has had
such a drought for such a long time in terms of you know, what
is it two thousand and four the last time they want a division title?
Yeah, so you know, it's almost twenty A lot of a lot of
changed in the city and fans, and you know, I think it's uh,
you know that everybody loves winning hockey. So it's going to be annoying
come first intermission when the lines are too long to get a beer. But
yeah, that's you know, keep winning. Having an awesome atmosphere. It's
awesome. Yeah, the sphere is great and it's a nice family atmosphere too.
That's why I like about it. You know, they make it very
and they make it fun. They make it fun. You know, have
you ever been out on the ice to take part in one of the contests
they do no in between periods. No, my kid did score the earlier
in the season. I he got all, he got all but one of
one of them. That's pretty good. Yeah, most people are like really
wide on those, or they come you know, I did it for lacrosse
dickheads got video of it. He'll probably say, oh, I can't wait.
I'd like to see that. I'd like to dig into the archives for
that one. All right, so what is it? Two games? Tomorrow's
a game and then well the next game would be when Saturday or Friday,
So tomorrow is uh, you know, must win, and you know things
don't go well, they'll be home on Friday to another you know, sold
out, crowded, So all they need to do is win tomorrow night.
Yeah. If Toronto splits here, they're out. So it's good. Yeah
they can split, right, that's true. I didn't even think of that.
That's right. It's the best of five. In my head, I
always think seven. And I've been watching the NBA and stuff, so that's
uh, that's where my head's Okay, So who's that we're going to watch
the Denver Nuggets win tonight. Is that what you meant watch? I'm watching
La I've been watching Lebron on this so who's like when an old guy,
it's proves he still got it. Who's up next? If they get through
here? You said it was Hartford and her she who's on the on the
west side. On the west side, it's Calgary, Coachella, Milwaukee in
Texas. So I'm just trying to figure out it would have to dress up
where it get beat with, because I'm sure if they win, it would
be great. You know, if they win and Hershey wins, it would
be pretty historic conference finals between two the oldest teams. So that'll be that
could be fun. Do you think Coachella? Yeah? Ye, is it
really interesting that the name of the team. Yeah, they're uh, I
don't even know what the rest of the Coachella Valley Firebirds. So yeah,
California has a whole slew of teams. Now, okay, so that'd be
fun if things go that way, there'll be uh yeah, a team will
have to hop on a plane to go across the country. Yeah, very
interesting. Well, I think that's something you should invest in. A jet.
No taking a trip over. If they don't wind up buying like a
West Coast team, right, they'll just stop in Vegas. How spread out?
You know what I like is these games aren't that spread out, right?
They just now they're back. Yeah, I mean it's because we were
going five days in between. And I don't think it'll be add of last
year. Last year in game three was Division Finals was until like May twenty
fifth, I think. So even though it feels like it's taking forever,
they're still ahead of last year at least, so there's a there's a small
breaks. But well, if we can get a recap since the game is
tomorrow night, maybe on on Thursday with you, that'd be kind of cool.
That would be great and hopefully we'll have some great thing to talk about.
So Keith, I appreciate it. Yeah, thanks for having me on.
And if people want to tickets for you up because they're they're going fast.
I'm watching Jimmy se down at the other end of the year. I'm
debating whether I actually get him on stub Hub for a few more bucks and
better seats, or just get what's left on on Ticketmaster. So look on,
I'm on debate, right, what would you recommend Keith sit up in
a bucket. You'll be sitting right with Keith here. The balcony is a
great place to seat the whereas the balcony is the balcony is one of the
best places to watch or is not many people up there and I'm probably giving
away, but a great view of the ice. The balconies where the stage
is to be yeah yeah, above the stage, ye, above the stage,
all right, yeah, okay, crow's nest, yeah, okay,
it's kind of nice. Yeah, and and there's uh I think there's concessions
right out that door, right yeah, right now. I can get the
balcony on Ticketmaster and then um, but on StubHub, I can get like,
uh, let me go back. On StubHub, I can get something
that's a little bit more center ice in the two hundreds for like fifteen more
dollars a seat. So that's kind of my debate. That's impressive that tickets
are available on StubHub. That tells you, you know, yeah, people
are excited, Yeah, people are Can I ask the price to me or
oh yeah no? So the on if I were to get two tickets on
Ticketmaster right now, they cost me sixty five bucks Okay, if I got
two tickets on StubHub, they would cost me ninety three dollars. Yeah right,
yeah, we're talking three dollars difference here. But I'm so nuts.
Like when I go into stores, I look at unit prices before I buy
something. Sure, Like I'm not I'm gonna buy a bigger bag of that
if it's gonna be if it's gonna cost me last at down in the day,
you know, yeah, yeah, I remember the universe stuff. My
wife she used to do that all the time. I don't care. Yeah,
but you're right it economically, it is. It is the smart way
to go. Keith, good luck. Are you gonna paint your face?
No? No, not painting my face? All right, no, maybe
next time you're lad laid Keith, you call yourself a fan. It's gonna
keep doing the same thing of doing the last games. And you know,
so first good, well, very good, have you go. We're going
Dalkany. It's a little bit more intimate up there. It's not the it's
not as many people the hardcorees are all right, well, I'm gonna be
hardcore tomorrow. I like that. I love that Jimmy z is gonna be
there. All right, Keith, Yeah, real quick, superstition wise,
have you shaved? What are you doing anything? Are you buying into any
of that? I have not shaved, so I've you know, kind of
gone along with that. And so now I've worn the same socks for all
five wins in a row, and you know, those have not they've not
been washed. So I'm not just sure if that's a good thing or a
bad thing, but they're gonna keep going with it. So all right,
So you haven't washed your socks for five games in a row, and you
haven't shaved, and each time the Amorics have been moving on. Yep,
one of my buddies is one of the same blue shirt and someone else wore
in the same jersey. So if the stage superstitions, superstitions are in control,
if they win the Calder Cup, you have to have those socks framed
like you gotta put them behind. Then we get up and walk away.
Keith, I appreciate it, Thank god, Thanks Phil, We'll see good.
All right? Wow, same same socks? Yeah, every time?
How did I think about? There was a funk in the gradual that same
socks every time? That's good thing was in the same under I gotta tell
you, Jimmy, if I, if I ever got so rich, I
would want a fresh pair of socks every day, brand new, brand new
socks, and you get all the lent in your toes and shit, man,
you need it. Yeah, but you gotta get a nice sock,
like I need a nice a nice sock. I know what you're saying.
You're right, socks is got to be broken in man, Like they take
me a couple rounds before, like I like the sponginess. If you get
the right sock, you're right, you're right. And then uh and and
brand new underwear every day. We have a We have a hockey dad who
subscribes to the fact that there is a specific left and right sock and he
can tell the difference. Um, well, they sometimes they like running socks.
I always could tell too, because but they put a left in the
right and they have it's almost like the arch. They put a special arch
thing in old running. I could always tell you never heard of anything crazy
like that. I'm like, you're out of your freaking It's the only ones
I could tell. I couldn't tell any of the like I can tell if
it's a left soccer or right sock. I'm like, you're out of your
mind. I wouldn't know. I mean, I can tell Wegman's will.
I can do a blind test Wagment's water, but I can't tell you which
one's left. You can do a blind test Wagment's water. Yeah, whygram
water is so terrible? Dude. If you give me a line of waters
and one of them's Wagments, I can tell you if I got a bottle
right here tastes like the river I wish I had. I think I have
two different bottles in here. We'll do it, and I'll exactly which one
wags? Will you do it? Can we do that next? Blindfold me?
Whatever you want. I don't care. This is part of the sum.
He's just saying he's a doctor and whine. I'm a doctor and water.
You know, we all ever, My point is this, you have
a discerning tongue. Yes, good taste. I'd like to think I have
good taste. You know, mamais he didn't raise no foo. You clearly
didn't. You know what I would love. I wish you could go back
to whatever because you talked about failing the ninth grade math regions or whatever.
It was, right three times, three times. Okay, well I feel
the chemistry reasons twice, so don't. Yeah, I'm proud. I'm proud
to say that I failed that three times. And then when it was Global
studies two time in tenth grade and it was a review set right before the
regions. It was at that moment of my life that I was told to
go to study Hall. Don't bother taking this test. Really, yes,
And I was one of those very few people, very last classes that New
York allowed local diplomas. Okay, yep, yep. So like my life
changed the second he said. And I didn't even know what you know.
What do you mean, Yeah, don't bother, just go to study Hall,
I say, okay. And then eleventh grade I didn't take one regions
class. I didn't take any classes that require regions like, so my math
was consumer math um. And then senior year I only had two classes.
So I think you could go back now and teach an economics class or how
to be an entrepreneur. I mean, I really do list. But did
you ever have teacher said, didn't think, for lack of a better term
than you would amount to much. Um No, my health teacher said,
I don't know how. And she said this because I was just a one
of one and not so. And it's not because I was one of one,
like you know, like, oh my god, you're the best thing
since sliced bread. It was more kind of like, I don't know how
and why, but I'm gonna read about in the newspaper someday. And you
know what the funniest part about her was is her niece went to Brockport when
we opened up, and she goes, and I was buddies with her boyfriend,
her boyfriend working for us part time, and she goes, oh,
yeah, you know my aunt, you know, teaches in Bloomfield, you
know climate. And I was like, missus Climan, I said, She
said she was gonna read about me in the newspaper someday. And I gave
her her niece a copy of the newspaper so she can give it to her
so she can have fun. Yeah, how fun? Yeah, to tell
her she was a soothsayer, she could see the future here, yeah,
you know, and you know what it was. I think it was.
I think I said some really really wise remark and something to the point where
it was more banter wiseness, and she was more kind of like I don't
know how and why, but I'm gonna read a bout in the newspaper someday,
like basically in a nutshell like you're in my I you know, you
might suck in here, but um but I'm gonna fig you're gonna figure out
somehow, which is yeah, and then that that's exactly what. It was.
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That oldie Han corner to the PGA is. Oh, they're packing a
man and having a great time over there. I was down in the village
of Pittsford today and I gotta tell you, man, there is a buzzing
and energy for real. Cougar cornerback cougar corner. It's uh, it's like
a conu corner. Don't kill what it is? I think so, Greg
Connors, where are you right now? Greg? I am actually at one
of our old stopping grounds Bill, did you name it? You and I
hung out a bit twenty nineteen. Yes, I think that would be the
Pittsford Pub it is, Yes, Yeah, Now I had heard did somebody
rent out that one of the players rent out Pittsford Pub the other night?
Yeah? I will be invited, damn it. No, No, I
don't know. I only heard that from uh Rick Huntley from the Plug was
in He's got the Sneaker Store, and he said that he had heard somebody
had rented that out. I haven't a certain someone there on last night on
Facebook. Who's that certain irishman? I don't think. Oh, I think
he was. I think you're right, Damien was there. It might have
been applying for a job ago, but Damien was there, that's right,
because he got he had his picture taken with the with the cup and I
think he said I want it in the practice round or something like that.
So I love. Look. You know, it looks like it's been going
really smoothly over there. I actually talked to UM some guys from ESPN and
they had nothing but praise for everything, the way it's set up and how
it's it's going. Uh. Tomorrow, We're gonna have one of them on
the podcast, and I'm excited about that. But I think this is UH
speaks very highly for the club. I mean, everything so far these first
two days has been It's been lake. You couldn't expect to go any better.
The weather has been great, the energy levels are amazing. I mean
it's incredible. It's a practice round. I mean yesterday Monday is like a
travel day the PGA tour, so probably a quarter of the players are here
and those quarters that are here didn't play the week before because they didn't make
the cut. And yesterday's crowd was huge and then today was quite as big.
I mean, it's truly, it's great testament to Rochester and the community
in the golf community and how much they just love golf. It's been fantastic.
You know what. It's amazing to me that the number of people that
have traveled because I was seeing something about the volunteers and how they really sold
that out early. But I think they have volunteers from forty three states.
I believe that. I think that's what I heard or read forty three states,
which seemed outrageous to me. But I go, boy, if you're
a fan and you want to be at a premier event at a really,
really beautiful setting, I can't think of one better than Okill really. I
mean maybe Pebble Beach, but yeah, ok Kill has got a real charm
to it. You know, it's great. It's really funny for It's funny
for me to hear that a lot of the people that travel from out of
town and the golfers talk about what a phenomenal golf course it is in the
North because the golf course is up here are so different than the arts style.
But you know, I met a couple of volunteers today who were originally
from Western New York who lived throughout the country. One person was from Seattle,
another person who lives in Austin, Texas. Now somebody else lives and
I think it was New Orleans, but they have family here. So they
all came back to volunteer and are staying with their families right now, which
is just I mean, it's it's just that's Western New York to me.
Yeah, that's killing two birds with one stone. You get the guilt trip
out of the way, and they get to be really close to a nice
event. That's awesome, all right. So when when ye built, they
actually went home for their moms thinking up, my mother late such a guilt
trip, yeap on you and I get the jil trip and I live brother.
Did your brother ever call? He did? I think it was like
eleven thirty five or whoa? Uh? Well, Greg, when you're looking
at the field, I mean, it looks like John rom at least on
all the betting sites, is the favorite to win this. But you've been
around the practice rounds. You've seen the guys. Attitude does play a lot
into this. Do you see anything different? I know you've been close to
it. I saw was it you? I saw with Rory McElroy. Somebody
had put up video. I thought it was you of of Rory, No,
Rory. Rory and I waved to each other as he was walking from
the Putty Green to the first team, but I'm not sure it was me
or the beautiful bomb. I was standing behind me, but he did give
away it was you. He's married. Yeah, it's definitely yeah, Mary,
Mary to Mary to a girl from from Rochester. He's the hometown favorite.
I mean, look, if there's one person that the golf community wants
to win this event, yeah, it's Roy McIlroy. I mean he is
the guy Greig I'll be and Rory suite at the Embers came to Rye.
Yeah, yeah, definitely. I'm waiting for the invite. I'm waiting for
that, but I think it's coming. Yeah, Roy. Kevin likes to
start this rumor that Roy's gonna be at the game. That terrible, terrible,
But tomorrow is the big kickoff party and they're gonna have to want to
maker trophy. I know, I know that last night it was out of
some events, but it'll be. I think it's coming. Almost paraded through
the village. They'll have some bands down there. We're gonna be talking to
town Supervisor Smith will be on with us and we'll be live from the tent
at Thirsties, which is I gotta tell you this, Dan Clifford did a
hell of a job. He really set it up, nice, big flat
screen TVs, WiFi out there, tabletops. It is gonna be a party.
It's gonna be a fun event to kick off PDA, the actual game,
which I think goes down Thursday, right when the event actually starts tomorrow,
being the final practice. You should come to that, Greg, everybody
should come down there and you know, get a little at least jump on
the bandwagon. Get that energy, feel that energy, feel that fun.
If you've never been to a game, a Bill's game in Greg's man cave,
come to Thursday, same atmosphere. Look, there's one thread that Bill
Moran leaves through Western New York and the Rochers munity. His friends all have
one common thing in common that I believe. Yeah, they all provide a
phenomenal life experience. Yes, that may include some adult beverage. Yes,
all provided great. I mean you go, damn you go, Yes,
you go, Greg Connors, Yes you go, macsident hand off of them.
That's absolutely right. Yeah, Mac was in here today going, hey,
coming on the a TV trip. Everything's all included, all that.
You just got to rent the ATV up in the Adirondex in July. Oh
Man, Yeah, Luke, I tell Luke about that. He's all over
that. Yeah, but I gotta tell you. So we talked about we
talked about Oakhille, We talked about the TV pay from the last time,
and that the golf event. Look, if you want to actually watch the
golf, you want to see the ball in the gear, You want to
see it hit the green. You want to see to do, you want
through the put You've got you watch it on TV. If you want to
get the full experience of what a golf event is, you've got to come
to the gotta come to Oak Hill because the people that are there, the
eclectic dress, the unique individuals that are there make it such a phenomenal life
experience. Just being there and that energy is truly a lifetime experience. And
if you can make it out, you've got to come. Did you get
any time in today with the new fourhole hitter for the Toronto Blue Jays?
You know I saw him, uh he you know, got a little fishpop,
set a low and he got mud afterwards. I'm sure I'm sure I
thought you were kill Josh Allen. You know, come on, wherever he
goes, it's a it's a big it's a parade. So I have to
tell you. I mean, you know, I've been friends with Jim Kelly
for many years, and Jim is an extremely popular you know sports that you're
not just in Western herop throughout the country. But there reception that the that
the Bill's Mothia gave Josh Allen at Oak Hill today was unparalleled. You would
have thought he was King Charles in London. I mean, there was a
there was an incident that I saw on Thirteenth Pole where there were a bunch
of kids on the other side of the fairway. They saw Josh on the
other side and they went under the ropes and ran after him to say hello
to him. Wow, did they run across the fairway? Yeah, they
ran across the fay. He's gonna say, where's that hu, where's the
protective box? F okill the dive bomb those little bastards. That's kind of
like a back Jones. Shut up. All the people be ready to see
him too. Oh my gosh, it was. It's unbelievable. But I
mean, that's the energy that that Okill has right now with the golf,
and then you can couple that with the Bills. They had a combination of
an experience today with the Bills and the PGA about the youth, the tea
box for the kids. I mean, it's just a lot of energy stuff.
Brandon Dan today he was out of the course, had a great conversation
with him, stright up for training camp and Ron Riculia, who is coordinating
the effort to build the stadium for the Bills and the Fagulas. So it
was a great day out of Okill today. Very good. H The whole
weekend will be very, very exciting. I assume you'll be there every day.
Did you were up by what the fourteenth or the fourth tea? I
was at the I was all around today. I was out at the fourteenth
tea box, keeping down the short part for up the hill towards the Ronecod
Country Club. Great view from where we sat. The TJ Championship, which
you and I have to connect on and when you're gonna come so we can
share you know, a little bit of the life experience of this event as
well. You can't miss it though, miss it here I've been very busy.
These past couple of days have been very focused, Greg, I have
lots of things happening, very focus on my phone call from out, but
I'll be looking for him. What I'll be looking for look, Oh yeah,
he'll answer. This is the one thing about decision making as I've gotten
older in my life. Yes, when will I ever have this experience again?
I'm not going to have it in the next couple of years. I
don't know if I'm gonna be here years a couple of years after. I'm
gonna live every life experience I can when I can have it, because you
never know what's gonna happen again. All Right, I'll see you, Thirsty.
Well, we gotta be there, all right, I'll see you Thursday.
So we're not doing a showy, alright, got a show. I
gotta do a show, all right? Well, Greg, this is it
really is cool. And I could feel that buzz today down in Pittsford and
around the area. And it was really cool when Rick Huntley was in here
because Rick's telling me he's from the Plug and he's like, yeah, I
went through the village of Pittsford. I'm feeling the same thing. And they
carried Jordan golf shoes. I love it at the plug, so I think
there's yeah, it's it's It was kind of a cool thing overall, but
I think it's a great event for everybody in the big kickoff party tomorrow.
We'll be live over there from the Center Square. I guess you could call
it in the village of Pittsburgh and Jordan's speech for you know, golf and
shoesist. Jordan's speech is in town. He did a practice round today.
He's got his risk taked up pretty heavily, but he is he He said,
I'm talking to his caddy before he came out on the practice green and
he said that Jordan wouldn't have missed the opportunity to play okill for his life.
Wow, that's how much how much the course is revered. Yeah,
well that's great. That's a quite a testament. Greg. Enjoy all the
fun and Uh keep us posted if you don't mind, Thank you guy.
They'll be fourteen Kevin tomorrow. You're looking for you. Here we go,
Here we go, Here we go see Greg Uh live from the Pittsfurd Pub
right down down the street. There you go, Jimmy, any interest in
the PGA at all. I don't do golf. Yeah, no, I
can understand, Yeah, I can understand. No, it's not I've always
been fringed with golf. It's not for me if I go golfing. Um
usually like I always did tournaments and I was the designated putter of the dp
Yeah okay, Like like Greg said, I go, I'm only going tomorrow
because it's it's the practice round. It's a little less, it's a really
watch I want to watch the tournament. Like he said, you watched on
TV, like Poppy was. I. I had, you know, see
Balkan dinner four pm. Okay, So I had dinner at my parents and
my buddy he's there all week Monday through Sunday. He really a whole week
past. Yeah, he's a huge golf fan. Yeah. And I was
like, yeah, you know, I was talking to my dad about it,
and I was he was like, man, I you know, he
go, he might just like I would never do something like that. And
I go, well, if it was the World Cup of Soccer, you
know, and it was a weekend things whatever, it be a different story.
You know, everyone's got their own thing. Everybody's got their own thing.
You know not everyone not everyone's gonna fly to whatever city WrestleMania isn't from
WrestleMania, but Jimmy Z will you got damn. I'm just to see how
different it is. Obviously it's thirty years difference. But when going to the
Ryder Cup and now going to this ye kind of seeing where it's kind well
they redid their course so that'll be interesting to see and just uh the club
main clubhouse and how that's all just how it's exploded the Ryder Cup being the
premier event of golf to wow, this is their Yeah, yeah, I
have there's zero excitement, zero starstruck, like I mean, I think these
guys are all talented whatever, it's just it is what it is. Yeah,
it is what it is. Well, very good. We will wrap
it up for Jimmy Z from Jimmy Z's Plates and Shakes, go to Plates
and shakest Com. I like to say the almighty Plates at Shakes dot Com.
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For Kevin Muir who will be in Pittsford at oh Kill, the prestigious
golf course tomorrow. They get called for just like getting past the border,
I will lust Okay, we will see tomorrow. I'm Bill Moran, live
from downtown Pittsford, ban