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looking at my watch recording Frida for Friday. Happened? What happened? No
no, no, no, no, no no no no. What happened?
What happen? I believe? Greg Connors says, charity events. Yeah,
I don't know what happened. One of these cameras set ups. I'm
looking at the cameras and I go, wow, that's a little close image
control. Welcome and thank you for checking out the Bill five podcast. Is
my chin stilling this shot? No, it's not. We were at a
charity event. And what was it for? Does anybody know it was for?
Come on, Craig's come on, friend's cousin. But the Equestrian Center,
And yes it was. It was bigger than that. Horses, well,
horses that that help people. All right, they're not. I appreciate
you guys coming in here. And I left the door un lock to the
studio. Hey, buddy, you lift the door unlocked out. Yeah,
we're across from the police station in Fairport. Now that I'm saying it on
the podcast, yeah, you got some people may come in and take some
such. But at one point I think we were there for about forty five
minutes and Danny was texting. I'm like, yeah, he's probably just come
over to Tin Cup and hang out. I feel bad, We're gonna be
there for a while. It was Danny's birthday. It is Danny's birthday.
It's Danny's birthday again, thank you? Yes, so we have So I
went to crumble Danny. I see that. Yes, I went to Crumble
Cookie and I have never been to Crumble Cookie. Did you go to the
one on Monroe app No, I yes, I did. Oyes, there's
two now I know that one is such a hot spot. Not realize I
have two? Such a fat pitch now. Yeah. So I'm talking to
a friend of mine on my way to Crumble Cookie and I say to this
friend who I have a mandate with on the weekend, Uh, I said
a bloody irishman. No it is not the irishman, So I said,
we saw him tonight. We did. He's very preoccupied. Oh yeah,
you know what you call it, You get a cute person, because he
did have a cute person. His girlfriend is lovely Sarah. I I I
think Sarah's amazingly So I, uh, I was on my way and I
heard that there's one in Victor out by the five. Yeah, there's the
five guys. Oh I didn't know was wait wait wait, whoa whoa.
So this is the same Crumble that texts me when they don't hear from me
three weeks for three weeks and goes, are you being held against your will?
Text one? Yeah, is your wife preventing you from coming? He?
Text two? Yeah, did you have the heart attack. Finally text
three. But no, I I did not know. I always there's the
one in Henrietta. Then there's the one in on Monroe Avenue near the Whole
Foods. But now there's a third location of Victor. So I went to,
uh, the one near Whole Foods. And I walked in there and
there's these people at what looks like Kiosk, but they're not exactly Kiosk,
and they were talking. They were it was two iPads and you can order
from there. And then the woman. So I'm just standing there and the
woman says to me, uh, can I help you? And I said
yeah, She goes, you can go over there. I can talk to
you right here, and I said, I'd rather talk to you. But
I had no idea there was like this whole there were rules to this that
I was unaware of. Yeah, constitutional amendments. Well, apparently I was
not aware of the paruble cookie. You gotta walk in, you gotta go
in the on the one of the two kiosks. You gotta handshake, and
you have to just enter your information and order the cookies, but your name
that not information. And then they yell and then they go like Dan,
Dan, are you here? I usually going under there, Enrique, and
there's no answer. So then they go Bill, Bill, are you here?
And they said, yes, I am all right, we got your
order. So Danny feel free to open up the cookies and uh, let's
have a little taste this because Danny, did you learn handshake? Danny has
talked about the cupcakes. Son, do you know what these cookies are?
Yes? Okay, so there so there's the chocolate chap, there's the chocolate.
There's the chocolate chip, right, which is their main class? Ye?
Yeah, the classic. Yeah. Then you got like wait, wait,
wait with Greg Connors just walked. Tonay stumbled in. That's not a
cookie, that's a pie. It's a frisbee. Yeah, no, one
is a pie. That is fair. You've gained seven pounds just looking at
there's these there's six to seven hundred calories apiece each of these cookies. When
they walk in order that they say, no cookie for you. Actually,
I was gonna send you audio for my birthday yesterday. Oh boy, boy,
so you got this already. So we're repeating ourselves. Yeah, yeah,
that's fine man, Yeah I appreciate that much. Boy. Yeah,
you can't you can't get enough crumble cookies. I mean, that's just how
I got hip cookie. And it's my birth Oh my gosh, it's like
it's like the greatest day ever vodka. Oh my god, this is my
birthday. So so basically they have right now, they have the key Lime
Pie, which build it not yet but that's okay. It's like a key
Lime pie. Literally, that's all right. They have they what's in there?
They have the Classic. They have the Classic pink cookie with like pink
frosting. Okay. Then there's the Oreo. There's the Oreo cookie, but
that's true. There's the they have this Oreo version which is basically just redone.
Well that's the Oreo one. They have a raspberry and cream cookie,
and then they have this, uh left, this oatmeal and cream type of
thing. So yeah, I mean like, look, you guys like really
went out and there was a plate for you somewhere. I don't want to
I'm good man, I'm good. But yeah, my Chromo cookies like look,
but not open on Sundays. I'm not hungry after every ques. So
if you honor the Sabbath, right, you gotta get your cookies the day
before. Yeah, right, Danny, here's a knife and and some stuff
we need. We need a knife, No, but we need well.
I'm saying like we could all share a different crumble cookie because I'd like to
taste experience that is crumble. I'll split them in force cream scoop on it
there, Dan, do you know what that one is? I probably haven't.
That one's called diabetes. They're all they're all diabetes like well for Brimley's
like logo, this is something real. Yeah, but where is this place
so crumble? I didn't realize. I guess there's one in Victor. I
only knew of the one in Pittsford near Whole Foods. So I went into
Whole Foods since I was there because I need to get a card for Danny.
So I thought, Whole Foods will have a card, you haven't do
anything. Yeah, they didn't have anything. So I went in there,
and now I'm in Whole Foods. I've never been well neither. Now.
I have been inside Whole Foods in other cities, but I have not been
in inside Whole Foods. Set the calories of walking into crumble. Yes,
So I went into Whole Foods and Whole Foods had I decided to get like
dinner, so I got on like an Alfredo chicken. Well, I'll just
heat it up in the microwave, already prepared, nine nine nine wonderful.
I bought some Vitamin D with K two Okay, yeah, Danny, because
it activates the gifts the kactivate each other. Yep. So I got that
very important. And then I got a protein shake and I think one of
those, and I think I think I walked out of there for I don't
know, fifty bucks whatever. Oh yeah, I walked to the whole Friday
walked unbelievable. You got a cover again, that sounds cheap, but I
go, what happened? What happened? Do you think you walk out there
for like ten or fifteen bucks with that? Yes, not fifty, Danny.
This cookie is pretty damn good and it's amazing. It's a raspberry cream
cookie. Okay. It reminds me of like that Christmas cookie with a raspberry
jelly that's in the center of it. It's really good, very good.
Now, Greg tell us a little bit about the questioning him that we're helping
tonight. Do you know I do, I don't want to know a little
bit about it. But well I don't mean it, Like, what do
you mean? So, Jennifer, I got idea. We developed a corner.
Well, first of all, when we when we did the event back
in the fall, back in November for Zach which you guys all came to,
which was a ton of fun, the casino night. It was to
help support his condition that he has. And then one of the things,
because he's got some developmental disabilities and physical disabilities, part of his therapy is
to in the Equestrian Center. And so the Equine Center which is down in
Mendon to south of where I live. I used to drive by this every
time I would drive to Elford, which is you know, five to six
times a year. Five Yeah, I would drive by it to get to
go to Alfred. And now with with Luke going to I'm good. I'm
good. Yeah, thank you. With Luke going to Elford, I'll be
going there. But there you go, and and you drive by this huge
horse farm. But I didn't know what it was. And it's the it's
the Ecoin Center. And what it does it provides programs for kids with disabilities
and they ride horses and they're involved and they interact and uh, Jennifer goes
there with her cousin Zach and her aunt aunt Debbie Juliaris, who has been
involved with the program since Zach was you know, diagnosed and then and moved
back here from Florida while and yeah, she's great, man, She's got
tons of energy. She is she is a she is a spitfire. And
so Zach's sister Nicole, who Jen is cousins with and essentially best friends,
kind of introduced me to the whole thing and that we had an event last
year. Uh it was kind of like their gala of sorts, and it
was right on the right in the center, and it had the tense And
I go there just with Jen thinking I'm not going to know anybody, because
I mean, this is nowhere. And I see my buddy Charlie Fox,
I see Dave Brown, I see Alex. I see a bunch of people
on the board there. Yeah, Charlie's on the board. Yeah, Charlie
is a really impressive young guy. Oh he's really impressive. You want to
talk about somebody who who is very unassuming and extremely giving and kind and and
philanthropic, is is Charlie and his family And and so I was there and
also and I'm like here we you know, also undercover pointed out built tonight
in the bar at one point. Oh, we're going to get to that
story, because that was he totally saw you out. What do you mean
you know? He said, Well, he said to me, he goes,
is that Bill Moran? I said, yeah, that's my buddy Bill.
He goes, I think he dated my sister. I did, and
I go, I go, I don't ever heard that. I didn't.
But when he comes back, we're gonna ask me. And we did.
True story, true story, and just they're just a great family. They
are, Yeah, they really are. I was not in a great space.
It was my my ba blue period, yes, Danny, Yes,
actually, yes, that is very true. You used to call it,
Yes, I did. I'm not making that. You're not to say that
that. Uh Van Goh had his blue period. That's when he cut off
his ear. I had my La Bat blue period when I was drunk and
I might have been working for a radio station. Greg No, I was.
I was doing mornings and they were calling around to different sales women to
find out if I were at their house because I didn't show up for work.
Oh my gosh, so Nicole would say, you probably should have been
drinking, but wouldn't have been through that same d much more man past.
Yes, but they all do great work. I think these programs are so
important. And then horses have a real wonderful sense. I just saw,
just as an example on social media, a horse that was making a baby
laugh by doing all these like it was doing these weird things with its tongue,
and it's almost as they're intuitive enough. They are, you know,
the beasts of the world, right, we call them the beast and they
plow our lands and they do these things. I've been around horses. I
worked for people who were very, very rich, and we used to clear
paths so they could have progressive dinners where you would have, you know,
appetizers and then jump on your horse, go to the next house. That's
what it was, and that's exactly what it was. And this guy was
you can look them up Myers. I'm trying to remember his first name,
but he handled the Howard the Harvard Endowment, and he was written up in
New York Times for growing the Harvard Endowment for by millions and millions of dollars.
It was just a a bright man and very humble, straight love to
come up. Enough of that. Oh yeah, he used to love He
had every toy Greg, he had Bobcats and all these things. He would
go out and he would come up and he was, you know, the
man of the land, right. I would I dug holes to plant trees
for them. I watched their kids, and he had a backo that he
would go and dredge out his pond. And he loved doing that shit.
He loved doing almost i'll call the blue collar work. He still made your
dig holes for tree. Yeah. Yeah. He wanted to make sure that
Bill could earn the money that he wanted, and he could. He was,
he was awesome and he paid me at the time. We're talking like
nineteen eighty six fifteen bucks an hour. That's the above. I can quit
school now close close, And uh, I thought I thought the world of
these though, of both of he and his wife. But that was the
that was the deal, and so we I used to clear trails for them.
Yeah, I mean, Jennifer goes with Zach and you know, she's
with him with his with the therapy part that he does, and and you
know, the excitement, the exhilaration, that connection, that he has with
the animal, and what he gets out of it is just so. I
mean as a parent or or a sibling or a relative, to see him
with that type of joy and that excitement and that connection. I mean,
that's what it's all about. And there's the one thing about Rochester that is
really unique. I think you know, and I spend a lot of time
in Buffalo. Is the amount of community I'll say activities or community organizations is
probably better that provide these types of opportunities for kids throughout our area is unbelievable.
I mean it really is. I mean you have that, you have
autism up, you have make a Wish Foundation. There's so many local and
some of these are just essentially Rochester. Well that's the thing I do love
is when you know where your money's going. A lot sometimes unfortunately and I
and I don't like to speak of any of it because I always think I
remember some of the getting busted for faking cancer and all these people, and
she had to give back the money. And I thought, if I gave
money, I gave it a pure intention. If you need it for whatever
it is, just use it. I don't care. I'm not going to
give you something I can't live without, right, I'm not going to do
that. So unfortunately, Bill, there are people, yes, that are
vulnerable, that give beyond their means. Yes, and those are the people
we have to protect. Yes, I and Greg, I'm with you.
But I often thought, and so when I see these things, I do
like when the money is staying local, I really do, because it doesn't
enrich the community we live in. And I think this is a great area.
I've been here for thirty forty years now almost, you know, almost
forty years. I love it here, and I think this is a wonderful
community and a very philanthropic community in the epicenter services you know, every part
of Monroe County and Livingson County. I mean, kids come from all over
Central New York and the Finger Lakes to have that experience. And it's I
mean, it's great because you do, you spend your money, you see
it, you see the impact it has, and you know people, I
mean, we're there today and I showed up thinking I was just gonna be
you guys. Yeah, and you know people Tommy shows up, shows up,
may or Pete Kennedy shut up. And by the way, we got
there, got exter is there. We got them all to comment on Gage
is there. Yeah, Jody Gage was by the bar. I even recognized
me as a hockey guy. Yes, he is. I was. I
was surprise, Yes, you are a hockey guy. I was surprised that
Greg recognized hockey. He had blue on anythink. I think he thought it
was a bill shirt. Uh, okay, Uh. There is somebody we'll
we'll take a moment. I know it's a little early, but there's somebody
who is opening up a drive in theater that has been dormant for a number
of years. He's been working for I want to say at least the past
year. We'll find out to open this place up in Wayne County. And
I want to try to pitch him to show a friend of ours movie.
Oh yeah, that would be Doug Phelps. I want to have a screening
of One Night at the Cat on the big screen at a drive in the
theater. I think it would be amazing, fantastic, I really do.
And Doug. By the way, Doug sent me a video of him practicing
his stand up and he's doing it. He's probably is he bombo, He's
probably already bombed tonight. Yes, tonight, Carlson. Yes, it is.
I told him just to come out in no Jay jersey and go what
he didn't suggest that and then have a have a Digs jersey underneath it and
be like you and then have a Joshu underneath that and say I'm here for
you. We have a whole lot to get into. Well, no,
because you have a lot of information about the new stadium. We talked to
uh uh Tim Graham. Tim Graham last night. I missed Tim interview Tim.
It was a great interview. He's fan test Well. The bad part
is I could sit and talk to Tim forever. Yeah. Yeah, and
it's Diggs for about three minutes. Why it's true because I brought up OJ
and all the interviews he's done with OJ and how interesting that was just from
a from a humanity perspective, and it was fascinating. I could sit with
Tim Graham. I've known I am not. I've known of Tim Graham since
CMF when you and I I think you introduced me to he's the ballsiest reporter.
I am, Well, he's I mean, he's controversial, yes,
and not just not just in Buffalo, but but nationally. Yeah, and
I'm a I'm a big fan and I enjoyed, and I said to him,
Man, if you are ever, I would love to talk to you.
Because he's a big boxing guy. He's in the boxing writer. He
was the president of the Boxing Writers Association. He was the guy who like
came under fire because he was talking about baby Joe Macy, who was the
great white Hope and buffalo for you right, and he had a brain bleed
and and all all Tim was, it was covered the story and Macy's family
came after him. But he's like, I'm just I'm just reporting the news.
Tim is very factual in his reporting, yes, and not so much
like not a lot of conjecture. I think he just lays it out.
Well, you don't think so. The controversy is is that he presents the
facts in a manner that is more sensationalist. Yes he does. I will
you know what, Greg, I want to a god. I would love
to disagree, but I can't because I went back and I read his last
article about oj and it is so well written. But he paints such a
picture. So when he talks very talented, when he talks about him ordering
his second Bloody Mary, you can't help but in your mind, do you
understand what I'm saying? He takes you to a place in your mind.
That's the talent. But that is a talent, But that is also persuasive,
sure, and not necessarily what we need from journalism. Sometimes if it's
not, he is it is factual, but it is factual sensationalized. And
I cannot argue with that. And I want you so badly, but I
can't. I can't, you know. I mean, journalism today it is
different than it was in nineteen ninety. Journalism today is part entertainment, yes,
and if you're not you die in the vine. You lose, You're
gone. And so in order for the guys that you know, you got
some of these old timers that are out there. You know, we could
name a couple, but I don't want to piss anybody off a button.
I don't know. I really don't either. I appreciate it, but you
know, but but they've got to adapt, and you've got to provide some
adapt or die. Yeah. Yeah, And they do a good job.
They want to maintain their integrity, but you gotta be a little bit.
I will tell you that the attention from this side here it is an attention
game. Yes all, this is anymore and it is not the same as
the feeld I played in before. And I'm learning and it's taken me almost
a year and a half. Why the fuck am I on the show?
I'm not getting attention from out so yes, you are, you are and
I love it. We will take a moment. I will go and talk
to a guy named Paul Cole. Paul is the owner of this the drive
in theater that was dormant for a number of years in Wayne County. He's
opening it up to see if I can persuade in to show Doug's movie.
Maybe do a Q and A with Doug on the on the big screen,
Greg and the new stadium. A lot of questions about that, and also
your thoughts on on Stefan Diggs. I mean, there was a lot said
last night, but I would love to hear what you have to say about
that, and then we have will end it tonight with Closest to the pin.
Oh no, it's a great game because you're here. Well, I
play it with you guys when I'm not here, and I freaking suck at
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I really I don't know. I don't know. But I had a
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I saw I saw you as I as soon as I walked into Tin
Cup tonight for a charity event, and I thought, I hope that guy
doesn't hate me, because I was just sure. I'm talking about rich Ie
from Dick. I you're still You're still attesting the dick. Okay, well
this is called dick hide. The dick has been chopped off for years.
Oh they dropped the day man. I apologize. That's why I'm hanging sorry.
You know what that is, right about the word for a week and
a half. I am so sorry because that was one of the first things
I remember when I was at Saint John Fisher brother We did a joke on
the radio school bus memory. I'm sure and you had to be in middle
school at the time, which would be the worst ever. Yeah. So
then I went on the WII show as an adult, and I was supposed
to have this airtime and he spends the whole time telling the dick eyed joke
and I'm like, cool, thanks, But that doesn't mean it's a representative
of how you do business or anything. No, we don't. Yes,
but you wouldn't stay in business if you did, right, So there you
go, but tonight. And the only reason this is can I say you
can say that your wife? Well? No, no, I don't want
to make anybody. Here's my thing. It's like I have realized over the
years when it comes to this, I don't want to make anybody uncomfortable.
I like people, I really do. I am more of an extrovert.
There are times I like to be alone, but I'm more of an extrovert.
I don't want to hurting people I love, which I love nothing more
than busting balls. I love it. And when I can find guys like
Greg Connors, Kevin Danny that I can bust ball with, well I wouldn't
match the Here's why I'm afraid because I may end up in handcuffing. There's
about there's about seven or eight moves he knows that I have never even experienced.
I went to shotguns with him. I saw the material this man,
You're like, I fucking around anything? Aund there nothing, but I love
busting busts. But I don't like there's no reason to be mean to somebody.
But I will have to. I have to address this. Your ex
wife, Stephanie has been a fixture on our podcast for a long time and
and by the way, an amazing personality. Yeah, and really really fantastic.
And uh, actually I have some things that I haven't even released with
Stephanie yet. No no, no, no, no, that sounds really
gross and per verda what I mean, finding to pay all kind of stuff.
I'm looking at my lawyer. I don't want to, you know,
careful what you say. I uh but no, but she was, she
is very on the episode. I'm no, I will not, I will
not. But I think that what you're doing here is fantastic because we were
talking about the equestrian is it the Equestrian Center Center, equa Center, And
I was saying to these guys, I've been around horses many many years ago,
but they are very intuitive animals that seem to be able to pick up
on some of the human condition. There was even a video I saw today
where a horse and it was the horse trying to entertain a baby, and
it was it was taking its tongue and practically touched in its eye and doing
all these goofy things that you thought, this is crazy, But is it
possible? And I've always thought that with horses, and I've heard about it
for years, being in somewhat horse country. If you're going to call it
that downstate, Uh, you know that that horses are intuitive and can kind
of pick up on human feelings and human emotions. I agree with that one
hundred percent. I got two of my boys riding horses right now, and
they are so in tune. I mean, if you want to talk about
an empathetic creature, they can pick up on people's emotions. So with the
EQUI Center, I mean, working with veterans, working with law enforcement,
working with people with PTSD, I mean, it seemed like a natural fit
for us. Obviously with the dealerships doing all the stuff with local it was
it was just an easy decision. Yeah, you do a lot in the
community, thank you. No, but you do, I mean, and
as does like Greg. But it's got to be hard because I'm I would
think for both of you guys. People see that and just come running.
And sometimes there are things where you have to you know what, you have
to say no only because it's not the right fit or or they're there setup
isn't right. I used to laugh because I knew people who had gone before
Galasano for example, right, and we know Galasano has endorsed buildings on universities
and colleges and local high schools and and and beyond Rochester. And you have
to make a pitch that, yeah, And I think that's really smart because
I need to know that you're invested as much as I'm invested. Well,
yeah, I mean you've got to make the right pitch and it has to
be good, and you have to see that the business that's helping you.
I mean, obviously we need to get a return because if I'm not around
next year to help you, then it does not good, right, But
you know it's it's a lot of the stuff that we do that I really
think does help the community. And I do like giving back and I'm so
fortunate to have you know, obviously, I'm third generation. I mean,
statistically I shouldn't even be able to be successful, yeah, right, and
to be able to give back and help the community means a lot. And
these groups like this just make it so easy. And that's the great thing
about you know, roster based businesses is that when you have you grew up
in the community, you know the benefits that these organizations provides the entire community.
And so when they come to you and you can help your dollars impact
them, I benefits to the community stronger than you can national organizations because great,
Greg and I always think that to your point, and we were sort
of saying this before. When you know that the dollars stay here and I
can see what it goes to. That's why I was always a huge proponent
of Autism Up and the fact that Autism Up was one that really stayed local.
Right. So you had four moms who were looking for a solution and
built something, and they are pioneers blazing a trail, and I know that
Sheriff Baxter has been a huge supporter of that. I'll tell you Like,
So I just talked to them, I had lunch with them, and I
screwed up because I was I didn't realize that my son's college graduation is the
same weekend. I thought it was different weekends. Yeah, yeah, so,
but they told me that one of the biggest fundraisers for them, one
of the biggest money makers is the ride along with Sheriff Baxter. Yeah.
Well, first of all, it's a wonderful place. Like you said,
you go there, there's nothing else like that. You go across America,
you don't find nautism, No you don't. So what do the other communities
do, right, Yeah, and they run a great show. They don't.
But going back to these two business guys here, if you will and
if you don't mind, you know, when they build up the community,
the community builds up their business, right. This is this is an abundance
abundancy theory thing. This is not a competition. This is you know,
so they're giving back to the community, but the community is giving back to
them. And it's just a perfect business model where we take care of each
other. And I really like that because we hear awful lot about you know,
shop locals stay local. Well, there's a real there's a real reason
why, reasons. I'll tell you this. Many years ago, I remember
reading Sports Illustrated when the Buffalo Bills were at Saint John Fisher College, and
what was written was Pittsford, the town that the recession forgot right. Interesting
Peter King wrote it. Peter King did rite that. But the thing that
is interesting is that, did it? Or is it? That we take
care of our own and then we can lift up everybody and you're not buying
into what all the fears of everybody else. We kind of have insulated ourselves.
I love this community. I think it's amazing and it is because of
people like you and uh even Rich even though I know his ex wife.
Yeah, I just had to make him laugh. I knew you would laugh
at that. That's why I said. Reason I said it Rich Rich and
his family have been doing it for ye yes, they have for three generations
and it's you know, one of the things out in his current ads is
how you know, it's like when you when you support us, we support
you. Yes, And that to me is a great line. It's a
it's a it's a great testament to what they do and how they invest in
the community, and you know with autism up. I mean that gala is
on Saturday night, May eleventh, and thanks to you, I'll be there
again, although you'll be at well, I'll try I'll try to I'll try
to carry your way. Feel terrible because they did ask me. I was
supposed to m see it and do all this stuff. And I was like,
so now they're gonna have Todd do it? What are they? I
think, Todd, I think you'd be amazing, aren't you? Celes didn't
up there by the enough three right along side they showed up, Sarah.
I'm like, what just happened? A week? Highest pitter gets a free
arrest. By the way, if he doesn't show up this year and the
you're gonna do ten They all get jail chips, right that, They all
get jail chips. They all get those jail chips, by the way.
So I talked to a kid who was in jail. Jeffrey Rodgers is Jeffrey
Rodgers likes to call this podcast now. I'm not I'm not sure what what?
No, Sheff Baxter, you don't have to say anything. I'm not.
I will say this right in front of a microphone. I am not
sure what to think of this, but I like to think yes, yes,
and then this is the thing like I believe and I believe this all
my life that and I saw this with my uncle. If you try someone's
gonna meet you halfway, right. So my uncle was in Brooklyn College,
dropped out, wind up in Vietnam, became a pilot. Years later he's
the head of the Delta Union and he's a pilot, right. But it
was other people who helped you along the way that are willing to meet you.
When I see an effort from somebody, I would love to do that.
So that's what I see. But there are other times I go,
what are we doing? You know? He chopped on a I had stopped
with my son at a restaurant and we went on live on Instagram and he
chimes in and he was making fun of my gray hair, and I goes,
stay out of jail, you can make fun of you want to keep
great hair, you want to get this old to keep, stay the fuck
out of jail because you know you're better than that. That's really profound advice
you got. I mean, this is what I'm saying. And then I
did ask I have asked everybody because I've I went down and we do this
thing called what You're Doing at the courthouse. We had Steve Cercu in here
last night, and Steve crushed this game because he as nobody. I mean,
we're asking ridiculous, silly, silly questions like do you like thin crush
of thin crust pizza? Thick crust pizza? He knew, yeah, well
something like that. That's after all those ones, it all tastes the same.
He said to me. As I'm doing all this, I'm going it's
amazing that he could read these people that well. Right, And so Jeffery,
it's one of these guys, I go, you got to stay out
of it. It's just stop, you know, follow the rules. The
rules aren't the rules aren't. There are rules for a reason, and we
need to all young. You're energetic, you got ambition. Let's just focus
it. Let's focus it. Learn how to park, you know. And
one of one of the things that a lot of problems. One of the
things that Roscher tries to do in terms of business and different things is provide
opportunities because you know that as it's about access, yes, right, you
know what I mean, and if you if you don't have access, you
can't capitalize on what skill set you have. And so you know, there's
people in Rosher, in these organizations that are there that are providing these opportunities
for people to grab and get that access. And that's one of things that
Rosher I think does really really well. Now can we improve in some things,
We can everybody, but you know, it really comes once to the
core, comes down, the family, comes on the community. And that's
one of the things that that I love being in Rosher is because of these
things. And I mean, where else where else does the sheriff of your
county show up the support an organization that's in Mendon that that provides horses and
other opportunities for kids that have disabilities. I mean that's it. And then
you know you got a prominent, you know, philanthropic businessman who sells cars.
Now, they always always always overcharge you in terms of like the repairs,
but I don't mind buying the cars. Can I ask you? I'm
the idiot because I can't. I don't know anything about cars. So they
come in you need this, I'm like, okay, no one is excited
about servicing their cars. That's just transition. You should try their collision shop.
I'll talk about career, yes, yeah, it's to talk about that.
But the stuff you do I think is let me ask you this because
twenty thirty five New York State is saying that all cars being sold in you
or state have to be electric. Is that really a reality? It seems
like it's almost an impossibility to me that we haven't built the infrastructure that let's
take politics out of it. You know, it seems like, yes,
it does. I don't think we have the infrastructure. I don't think I
do either think it's realistic. Now. Look, I love electric cars.
We were the number one dealer in Western New York for the BW ID four,
done a very good job when we had the Honda hybrids, like the
Insight and that stuff. We did very well with those. I think they're
great vehicles. I think they're a great second or third vehicle. I think
if you want one and it works for your lifestyle, it's great. I
think forcing it down our throats right now is wrong. But I did just
take all the extra Honda prologue. So I hope people want electric manufacturers pulling
back from EV now too. Some of them are now. Honda and VW
are definitely going big on it, and I think there's a future and potential.
I just I think these deadlines that are set unrealistic. And I even
an auto dealer, question. That's a talk to someone on the electric side
of things like the power grids. Yeah, this is just want to handle
it, right, that's kind of my thing is. And I know nothing,
right, I'm just a citizens of anything. But when I look at
this, and I love cars. I've driven electric cars, I find electric
cars to be really well, well, those are impressive, yeah right,
they go real quick. I love the fact that you take your foot off
the accelerator let's not call it the gas pedal, right, and they stop
almost immediately. The regenerative breaking, the fact that you can almost make your
breaks last five years is really impressive. But yet all this other stuff,
I go, boy, I don't know that we have the infrastructure for that
or for people to build in their house. So to make it a mandate
seems to me to be again. I mean like I'm seeing the sheriff cross
his arms, and I hope it's not over what I'm saying, but I
would say I'm teasing you. I'm teasing you. But I think New York
State puts these mandates out without thinking it all way through. Yes, take
it to crime, take anything your current subthing. My son's engineer, a
civil engineer, works on the power grid. That's his job. He builds
foundations for high tension power lines across America. And and we laugh about to
the point it's it's scary. We laugh about the infrastructure in New York.
It's just cannot sustain. It can't the current load. It's just hanging on
by. And then we're pushing. I don't care about pushing the additional load
on it. But you gotta do the math. You got to yes science
ahead of it. You can't just say it's a nice and that's what we're
doing criminals. So we talked about it just feels good, so we do
it. But it's not there's no infrastructure. We talk telling you you can't
charge your car, like, let's let's it's not a unicorn, it's not
some magical Wait, you mentioned California. California, I thought had certain days
if you had an electric car that you could charge and you couldn't charge.
Is that right? I believe that's made true. Think about that, like
the last time we've had to go to alternate days, I think with the
seventies or in the gas stor in the forties. World War Two. My
grandmother gave me a booklet of like, Okay, these are war rations.
Do you know what these are? Where you have to like use these to
buy gas and you can only buy candidates silvercreation. Yeah, Rochester in the
country has one of the average shortest commutes in the whole country. So an
electric car is a second vehicle if you're just going to and from work ten
minutes. And IVY is great. I think it'd be fun. It's it's
it's great. You can charge it at work as more charging stations go up.
Wow, that's awesome. But you cannot force the elimination of ICE,
which is internal combustion and internal combustion engine cars. We can make it sound
like it, Yes, you can, you can. I've I'm all about
regular big engines. They're fun. I just don't think you can force it.
I think you should let the consumer decide. I think there's plenty of
people who could You is an EV and it's a great vehicle, but it
shouldn't be forced on our throats. Manufacturers shouldn't be forced to do this.
And that's my stance. No, I just couldn't imagine. I couldn't imagine
having a purely dependent electric vehicle and then drive someplace and then I gotta stop
and plug it in and wait an hour? Are you kidding? My?
My freaking attention span is so goddamn sure. If I'd drive to Florida then
plug in for a bit, I'd freaking lose. It's almost a forty five
minute right on the on the fast ones. Yeah, like we have one
in Fairport here and it sounds like a jumbo jet going off on you.
But I think even the Tesla dealership locally does not have the superchargers. I
think they're the two twenty vault and it would take you know, a while
for you to right exactly again, where's the power coming from? Where are
you getting it? Yes? Right? I have a buddy who got an
electric car, thought it was gonna be the greatest thing in the world,
and now it's like Clark Griswold, right, you know, like how we
get dated like that? That the emergency auxiliary power like it sucked out the
power out of his house. But rich to me, look, it's somebody
who I understand, right, I would love to leave the earth better than
I arrived in it. Okay, Okay, However, these batteries to me
are not the most pure things. And if you buy one of these used
or secondhand and the battery goes. You're talking ten to fifteen thousand, maybe
twenty thousand to get a new battery, and forget the cost. Forget okay,
recycling, what about you came the material? Well, that's why life
Cycle was here for a minute. Make sure And this is where I think
the government. Man, I hope I don't get taken out after this.
I hope you think the government is messing up. But if you did really
send my race roof Ridge's final podcast first and only told him not to do
it, too many over it, Tin Cup and just at publishers, Tame
Cup go. Where the hell did he go? But where did I taken?
As I see with many things with government, make sure your solution to
your problem is better than your problem. And I don't think they are.
And they all sound great, good concepts. All yeah, I disagree,
feel good mentality, What are you actually doing something better than? I mean,
the exhaust out of a Honda with an engine is probably cleaner than the
air in La not to mention most other countries in the world. Oh my
god, what are we doing China? When my sister taught English for a
little while, she was working on her doctorate in linguistics. She had to
wear a mask and go home, and she said, you had to shower.
She was in Shanghai because there is no EPA and there's cold burning facilities
and there's nothing there to filter it. And so to your point, yeah,
yeah, what are we doing? Why are we forcing people to buy
expensive cars? If? Again, I think they're great, I'm excited.
I'm getting a prologue when they come in. Yeah, I'm excited to drive
one. I don't think it should be forced on us. I agree choice,
I agree with that. And Sheriff Baxter did a podcast cheers to that,
very yes, cheers to that. Sheriff Box was very kind of coming
to give his time and and and do a podcast, just a couple of
episodes ago. But I loved what you said about New York State. I
don't disagree with anything you're doing, but nothing is logical right right, you
know, you you want to legalize marijuana, but we had we don't have
any legalized stores. So now we have the black market that's exploding because there's
no possession punishment but yet, and so we have guys selling people selling it
illegally, and we there's a problem here, and it's almost as though we
do these feel good things in the moment or what feels instead of actually kind
of putting some critical thinking behind it. And that's that's disturbing. And I
feel like the same thing is happening with the sound bites and headlines. I
really do. I was literally sitting for half an hour before I went home
today with a defense lawyer in my office, one on one conversation, Steve
Shirky. I won't say anything, but we will. We did not disagree
on much, I'm sure, but what we do say is we all need
public safety and we all need to protect our liberties. Yes, right,
yes you are innocent to proven guilty. Who at the state doesn't agree with
that, But we also got people that are running around We got thirty thousand
dollars yet attack a woman at Saint John Fisher should probably not be walking around
our community to we do something intervened in that guy's life, right, Yeah,
So this is just common sense, But they've created an infrastructure. Whether
it's this what we're talking about with vehicles, we're talking about criminal justice,
it's just all emotional base. You're just passing laws the sake of sense I
did it right, as opposed to let's develop a business plan around this.
Let's develop a business plan around electric vehicles and see how we can encourage it
consumer. I don't think they ever advertised a dollar, right. They went
in, they found a market, they did it, and there was no
regulation the government, no nothing. Well, I often think like, if
you can put it in a very simplistic thing, who has not had buyers
remorse on something right where you wake up the next day and say, ooh,
I wish I had thought this through a little bit. And that's sort
of what we're saying with the laws. I wish you had thought these my
first marriage, a second one. There's a lot of us. I don't
know. I don't want to speak for anybody else. I'll go back to
the military. Yeah, yeah, but in the military, we we'd spend
weeks sometimes developing an operational plan. You know, as soon as you cross
the line of the departure, you start adjusting that plan to what the environment
and the bad guys are doing here. Right, So that's just common sense.
You guys are businessmen, you know that, right. What I was
going to say is that our government can't do that it's the difference between government
in business. Yes, is because as business we need to think the whole
thing through because if we can't make money, if we can't execute, then
we're not a business. To business in the government, people they don't care
because they're always going to be in business because we live here, right,
And that's where the disconnect in my opinion, that's where my that's where the
disconnect is. I think you're And then the other problem is is because when
you go into politics, people they get into politics aren't there for the same
reasons that Rich and I are in business. They're not because of their power
of the influence whatever it is. Now, there are some they are the
rare that are in there for the right reason, and those that are there
for the right reasons last until they becomes sour because they realize they really can't
make the difference. They want to do it because so much. But having
guys like Todd in what he does helps us have the feeling that there's actually
people there who have the mindset, that have the drive, that have the
values, they have the core, that have the ethics different I will embarrass
Todd for just a moment. The ethics thing did you hear that? I
was getting there? But I'm a lawyer. I want but I would embarrass
Todd for a minute because I had spent some time with Todd last week with
my youngest son, and uh, I think that Todd is the true example
of a modern man and what a man should be and what a role model
should be. And I don't know if that if that well, it's in
writing and it's shown up in your mailbox. But because I sincerely feel that
way, and I thought that is exactly what is representing our community. How
could you not see this for what it is? And this is somebody who
boy when you talk about sort of looking at things from all angles and trying
Todd Baxter to me, I I I think he does that. Yeah,
last week we did podcaststitutional amendments, and one of them was to make you
king of Monroe County, provided provided that you serve out your term and you
don't go run for lieutenant governor after a year and a half. I'm not
gonna name any names. Yeah, yeah, I'm good, But you know,
I think everybody is podcasts can't disagree with it. I'm the conservative Bill
Maher on this show. I was gonna say something very intelligent, but I
lost track. You know, just for a moment. Everybody in this room
is smart enough to know what they don't know, right, Yes, because
it doesn't man trained with certified boards, right. But if you don't,
you get pit by it. And that's what our problem is. As you
were saying, you know, our our folks that are represented all me.
Either they don't know what they don't know, or they're too pompous to realize
that I was elected or representative, which is awesome, God bless you,
or serving our community. Right, But don't think you're a medical doctor,
don't think you're a school teacher. Don't think you're a parent officer. You
don't think you're a musician. Don't think you represent these people. Go talk
to them and then create represent that that and you still do what you believe.
I don't. I don't disagree with that, but you at least got
to go sit with the people that are experts in our community. Yes you
do, Yes, they refuse to do it. I'm watching over here a
game of the Patriots because somebody dropped off laser. These are really impressive,
aren't they. They're laser coasters. Those are Yeah, they're laser cut coasters.
The new stage with the Patriots. No, not the new strate.
We're gonna talk to Greg because he had a meeting about the new stadium.
And then of course the Stefan dig says, but I can't thank you both.
I don't know if you can stay or have to go Mary's Texans.
I don't want you to be in trouble. But rich, I reallyppreciate you
coming by. I am more than surprised to see you here. Was I
more than surprised to see myself? I wasn't. I wasn't sure if you
would. Actually I wasn't sure tonight because I think we've made eye contact and
I was like, oh boy, yeah, but I would never ever.
And I hope you know that. I'm impressed. And of course, I
mean I was there to support the sheriff. I'll take my ship out with
you later. That's a whole other ship. This is American, right,
That's what I love. That's what I love with your pink cookies. But
I thank you guys, And listen, everybody needs laughter and that's why you
go to comedy at the Carlson and this weekend is my buddy Jamie Lissow.
Jamie will be there and I'm going to take my mom. I think,
uh, Saturday night at seven to see Jamie Lissow. Are you going,
Doug. No, Well, Doug's there, Tugs there tonight. So Doug
sent me his practic this video. Rich he's practicing and he has and he
does it just like the club where they play you know, Welcome to the
Jungle. As you come up on stage. He just the whole thing is
so badass. And then all of a sudden he's got all the stuffed animals
lined up in. He reaches over and all of a sudden there's like a
piece of laundry that he just flicks out of the way. I go,
the fuck is going. He's practicing and there's like a blanket or something and
that flies over his shoulder. It's in a video. I put it up.
It's me watching his video that he sent me before Rich goes. One
of the things that I learned tonight. And whenever you listen to this podcast,
you always learned something. I love it. It's always you always learn
something. I learned that not only is Rich committed to give him back to
the community, he actually gave back to the community in investing with Doug with
a movie. Yes he did. Oh that's right, he was. Okay,
I mean you want to talk. Is there a producer credit that in
there? For? I think I was the guy that just Rich what eighteen
or nineteen I was in college? I really sophomore or junior year. Yeah,
so I was nineteen or twenty. Awesome. I watched that movie and
as much as I say that there were hacky lines and stuff, there was
a story there. So there is a guy that I owe a phone call
to, and he said he's available to ten tonight who owns a drive in
theater that he bought and is renovating and is opening this weekend in Wayne County.
Are you going to do a screening? I am so badly trying to
And if you would come and we could do please, if we could get
this done, I think this would be amazing. I would love it.
Rich I was behind the saying it's insane, I let's figure it out.
Great. I think that, Oh, dude, better being quarterbacking a Super
Bowl CEO of IBM, nothing compared to being a strip club DJ lines movie,
Greg, Greg. Those are the lines of the movie on Town.
Remember for twenty years. It's on the poster. It was it was the
roadhouse of its time. Oh my god, that those shitty lines. But
you can't, you can't, you can't erase them from your mind. But
but listen if you need laughter. Carlsoncomedy dot com, get your tickets to
lock them down and we will take them oment. Thank you guys for coming.
Thank you. We're all aware that Trota is known for the rooftop.
Well, Trotta is taking advantage of their prime position on Monday, April eighth,
hosting an eclipse viewing party. It's called Trautality, that's right, Trautality,
and for fifty bucks, they're offering a welcome drink, a spread of
appetizers, and access to watch the eclipse on the roof. Trota will not
be open to the public otherwise, so this is your chance to get up
there for the eclipse. Limited number of tickets remain and can be purchased online
at Trotaorchester dot comm. So there's a new drive in and that's coming to
Wayne County. And I hope that Paul Cole will still answer my phone call
because we are three hours later. The comments are great to time on Facebook.
We had a greasy a mercan comment, I haven't had seen that one
in a long time, greasy talking about that's throwback throwback. I'm glad that'll
be one of the man I missed you beating into the studio. And there's
been a lot of people who say, when you're on the phone, they
wish you were. No, they don't. They listen, but they liked
it better when Greg was in the leg But here's a lot of people.
Paul Cole owns the uh Land of Legends Racetrack. Now, I don't know
if Paul will be kind enough to answer it this late hour, but he
is opening this weekend with his UH driving don't see if I can. Oh,
I can't wait to see how you get out of this one. Well,
I don't know if be able to. He said up to ten you
he said earlier. It's nine right inside that ten o'clock time. I got
this. Yeah, I think we can. But you know what happened was
somehow my phone disconnected from the board. Source. Will call rac and Randy.
That's moving over for it. Oh, I was supposed to call Race
and Randy. I got a call from racor Hey, buddy, you forget
about me yes, and I went no, I didn't forget about it.
He was looking for the bottle of a bottle of wine, Randy. He
didn't see that, but I want to. I didn't realize it. Bills
a Peanu noir guy. Now, well I got some good I don't know
you do. And I've become a Peano and noir guy because we had a
uh. Danny and I were here Kevin was not one night, and we
did a wine tasting with it. Saw my a. They do all the
fun shows and I'm not around, and we saved the best for when Kevin's
not here. Yeah. Tom Brady was in here too, and we do
uh. So this guy had a Peanu Noir that I absolutely loved. Any
a rose which I would normally shy away from, but this one was called.
So I went and I got summer water, not as good as the
one he had, and that one is called. So there are some roses
actually that are pretty good that that summer and one. Yeah, this one's
really really delicious. But I'm not a rose. But he said so at
the Naples Hotel, which overlooks a creek, and it's I've been there on
the back deck. He goes in the summer, they sell out of this
whatever summer forever summer. I've been to the Naples Hotel. I was not
old enough to be drinking. What was that one? What was that summer's
smash forever summer night? I was, you know, I've always been a
big naper cab guy, you know, with big bold and and and Jennifer
started drinking peanut and wires and I'm like, if I got to buy the
buy a class by the bottle. Yes, I started drinking with you now,
Paul. So I waited to the absolute last second that I could possibly
call you. Oh you could have called me all night. I know.
I am so sorry. We wound up going to a charity event and drinking
way too much and then coming and trying to do a podcast, and this
has turned into just an abysmal But I'm excited to talk about your drive in
theater because we also would like to pitch you a movie that we'd like to
do a screening of at your at your theater. You know, that's only
the possibility. I think. I think it would be a great possibility.
This is a local movie. It's called A Night at the Cat and it's
all about a DJ working at the classycat Strip club. And there's a real
story there and it was made probably twenty years ago. But I think it
would be a lot of fun if we could find an off night for you
during the week or something. I think we could really. I think you're
gonna have to get some bouncers though, at the front entrance now, because
you're only gonna get three to four escorts of Chevet to bw bus. But
I think we are, yes, we are open for classic movies during the
week. So that sounds like twenty years that may be a classic classic,
can't definitely. I think I think we fit right into that, right into
the definite. All depends on how you define classic. All right, Well,
the trees have grown up really good, so you can't see it from
thirty one now. There is a little bit of U, not a whole
lot, some topless but not much dog is it? Uh No, Doug
is from the waist down? Oh no, I'm kidding. Uh No,
No, there really isn't anything in there. I think that I think by
today standards it would be PG. Thirteen. But Paul, in all seriousness,
this is quite an undertaking that you have gone through to take on this
uh movie theater and bring it back to life. Absolutely, it's been.
It's been quite a labor of love and a labor of stupidity in some days.
You know. When I undertook it, it was it was an opportunity
to you know, somewhat relive my childhood, you know, going to driving
the a as a young boy. I mean it closed in nineteen eighty five,
so I was still I was just at the beginning of high school and
uh, you know, watching something that went from from being really vibrant and
important part of the community to not existing and most people don't even know.
For the last thirty nine years it's been sitting on the hill just just outside
of the village limits. It'd be kind of cool and bringing it back,
you know, kind of like a phoenix rising from the ashes. It's it's
uh, it's pretty incredible, rare, Paul. Where it's right on Roude
thirty one in Newark, just literally, uh, a tenth of a mile
maybe maybe maybe two tenths of a mile outside the village limits it before you
get into NewYork from Rochester. So how far is that from like Penfield?
Then? You said, Pfield, Yeah, thirty minutes, so you go
thirty one? Is that that's through Fairport? Right? Yeah? Yeah,
paringson and so how far is that from from like the Parington Plaza and stuff,
you know, Like I said, Likewy five thirty miss but none traffic
in? How you jet? No, it's not. And I think that
to me seeing these is like a resurgence of eighties nostalsa in a way,
because I haven't gone to a drive in. I think I tried when the
boys were little, My guys were little, and uh, it was kind
of it was fun, but there aren't many left. What so this property
they did nothing with it for thirty nine years? Correct really was. It
was full of full of trees and scrubbrush and the only thing that was still
remaining. They tore down the original marquee. They tore down the original concession
building because of vandals. The screen was there the whole third time. I
had about one hundred and eighteen bullet holes that we repaired, but it's all
it's all galvanized deal and totally we repaired it all up. We picked up
a probably you know, four or three or four golf balls people using as
a driving range on their own I'm sorry to laughing. Then it's kind of
funny, you know, I mean, you sort of have to appreciate that,
right ball absolutely absolutely, I mean, and I know plenty of people
used to go up there and ride their motorcycles because they still have that We
still out the ramps you know as they're called in the driving industry that aims
aims your car ride at the screen. So people go up there and they
jump their jump their motorcycles in the ramps because it was like doing a little
motorcross. Uh. You know a lot of people wanted to hunt deer or
turkeys up there. There's a there was a whole plethora of that up there.
But uh, you know, we started about just over a year ago
in the first week in March. Whether it got good in March and we
were able to start taking trees down and uh uh rehelped rehabilitate the big open
open field and then start building a building where the building used to be.
And it's has been one one little project that's you know, actually about eight
million little projects in a row. Uh. To bring it back to you
know, and not only bring it back, but bring it back to twenty
twenty four standards. So you know we have when you're water, now we
have you know, we have electric, you know we have you know,
all full septics system. You know a lot of different things they didn't have
when they opened originally nineteen fifty six. How is the sound delivered to cars
today? Is it over FM wire or something FM transmitter? FM transmitter?
Okay, so you would tune in on your your FM band in your in
your car, truck or suv and that's how you find okay, yeah,
or bring your box or your radio because a lot of people summertime, I
want to sit out, want to sit out in the back of their truck
or sit on the lawn chairs out in front and uh and enjoy the movie
out under the stars. So when do you guys start? When? When
is it? When's your first showing? First show is tomorrow night, May
April April fifth. The show starts at seven thirty where we do what's called
the soft open, where I'm only doing one show. Typically, well,
we'll do double features. We're starting with the Ghostbusters Frozen Empire, which brand
new last week or about a week ago. And uh uh ironically, the
last movie shown there was Ghostbusters in ninet to eighty five. Yeah. Wow,
that's a pretty good that is God bless you. Circle p yeah,
circle. You know, And what happened in the eighties, You know,
VHS came along, people started watching movies at home, the uh uh you
know, cables started to expand, people had more entertainment options, and a
lot of drive ins just started closing up. They were still doing the things
on reels then, and uh, you know, maintaining and operating a reel,
uh was a lot different than being able to maintain a VHS tape.
And then here we are now a lot of drive ins are still closing because
property values have gone up that the property that they're sitting on is worth more
than than the movies are making they can make out of it. Plus,
you have a lot of people that are in their sixties and seventies that own
them that don't want to buy the newest projection systems that are available because they're
you know, they're north of a of a of a house payment, you
know of a house. Yeah, and uh, you know, when you're
getting retired, the last thing I do is is take on a note for
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to show movies and make you know, and
make three dollars on a kind of admission. So what do you charge a
car? Is it? Is it per person in the car? Is it
per car? Is that when we when we do blockbuster films, you know
the you know current current films has to come out. Uh, it's charged
by the person. The movie industry requires that they that you charge by the
person. You check the do you check do you check in the in the
trunk. We will check the truck if we have to, if we catch
you. If we catch you, we'll take charge a double or ask the
entire group to leave because because frankly, it affects our license, you know,
to have to have to provide movies, and you know, we don't
want to jeopardize that. They do. They do send people around the country,
uh checking you know, make sure that we reported fifteen people watch the
movie and night and you got you know, creator cars in the parking lot.
They're they're going to cull bullshit. Yeah. But uh, then then
we do classic movies. Classic movies basically you contract that out to to somebody
and they can they can sell theres a car load, you know. So
you know, so for instance, if I want to posessively up with the
Humane Society, which is what group we're talking to. They're looking at a
classic movie they want to do to do a fundraiser and they'll be able to
help. Uh. I was Dumbatians, but you're probably right, lady in
the Trent was a great one. That Ny. They even look at one
e T. You know, people will you know, will be really interesting
going to see T on the big screen. A lot of memory is watching
it at nineteen eighty three on the big screen. How about audio? How
do you what do you do for audio? Do you know that's FMS over
your FM man so you can have it stereo surround. Some people people have
more money in the in their stereo in their cars than they that they would
ever have in their home in their home system. And they don't realize it
because they because they ride that in that the standard option into your car.
But it's amazing sitting in there and you can kill the base pump in the
in the and it's really really cool. And it's a big We have a
big one hundred and five hundred by forty five foot screen with a fifty five
thousand lumen Uh, you know projector I was testing it earlier to night in
the pouring rain, and you couldn't tell the difference. No, just like
you were sitting in front of your TV at home. Uh, you know,
in your in your man case. So I have to tell you.
I took the boys when they're probably between ten and thirteen down in I think
it was an Avon or outside Avon or Geneseo was an old theater, old
movie or you know drive in. Yeah, it was this funk for a
while and they reopened it. We took him down there. We went once
and Luke, who's in the senior in high school, he's graduating, he
wants to He was like asking me about the driving. Well, he wants
to do it because he's eighteen. Yes, and he wants to take his
girlfriend. Yeah. I mean it's romantic. It's a smart move. It's
a true romantic. Now is old man needs to learn from that. I
should make plans to get driving and ways. Yeah, date night, I
gotta do date night work. Exactly what they gotta do is they gotta do
They gotta do the bills games. When I first started this, When I
first started this, I got called by the class of sixty one. They
want to have their class reunion when we open. Yeah, and why is
the class of sixty one? I mean they were out of it. They
don't they don't care. What if I wasn open the middle of winter.
They want to have their class union. I'm going, okay, eighty one
gotta be about about eighty. Class sixty one, you got to be about
eighty. Why is it they're so avid about this? And that's because their
entire high school season from fifty six to say sixty one was where they enjoyed
all the fruits of being a teenager. Yeah, and you know those drug
sacks right there, man neck in neck in some of the memories they have
had because you know then you had to borrow the four cars in the family.
Yeah, and you wanted to go out and have a good time with
your friend or you know, the girlfriend. You weren't doing that many of
other places, and here you can do it in the darkness and and enjoy
you know a lot of people. If you pay word, do you get
more of a private location? Chris Reader, seventy spots if you if you
want to percolate in the back, you want to pay be in the front
where you can find you know, what double feature movies and theng My curiosity
is, so you're a business guy. You you can look at things analytically
and see you own Land of Legends, which is a dirt track and certainly
is affected by weather, as will be the drive in theater. When you
look at this, what made you say, yeah, this is a great
idea because it has been a year in undertaking. We talked about this last
year that you were doing this, and then here we are a year later
and you're talking about all the trees and and you know, clearing that kind
of stuff is not easy. I mean, I think people look at it,
go what takes a long? What takes so long? You tried doing
it. You want to get smooth pavements so people can park. You can't
have ruts and roots and things popping through. So there's an awful lot that
went into this over the past year. But what was it that you looked
at this and thought, oh, this is a great idea. I was
looking at the long term game. You know, I knew I wasn't going
to make money back this year, probably made there next year, but I'm
making an investment for the next fifteen years. About the time that I'm ready
to retire, retire and you know, protect some investments that that you know,
I had answered cabal geans are coming along that I was going to get
killed with. I'd rather put in the business and do something for the community
then go buy go buy an apartment house and you know deal with section eight
entrepreneurialism. Well, I was just going to say an entrepreneur, I mean
that's really he's an entrepreneur that is really intelligent. And beyond that, as
he's saying, for the community, you're making great memories for people, right,
life experience and memories. Yeah, well, it's the same way.
It's the same same uh you know premise that I run the racetrack on.
You know, sometimes the racing is not the best thing that happens to night.
You know, sometimes sometimes you're gonna get a movie to distinker. But
you're gonna you're gonna be able to remember the hot dog. You're gonna smell
right, You're gonna enjoy the you're gonna beat the girl in the in the
next car over or the next greatest standover. You know, you're gonna watch
jumping in mud puddles. Your kids are gonna gonna remember falling asleep watching you
know, Garfield on screen this summer. You know, there's there's gonna be
memories that you're gonna have for when you're eighty about what happened to when you
were ten or fifteen or twenty five that you can't get just by sitting in
your in your in your on your couch at home, you know, with
your Apple phone watching whatever movie they just said to stream this week. Well,
I agree, What is the actual uh name of the theater? If
I Rose City? Driving? Thank you? Okay, because I I I
apologize. I did not know that where Rose City? Yeah, is there
is that outside out of Newark a place called Rose City. Well, so,
Newark used to be the capital of the US capital of Roses Jackson Perkins.
Roses was founded in an amazing I only knew that because of Randy,
of course, no, no, he wants I think it was his mom
who told me that. You know, okay, I used them all my
weddings, all my weddings, Jackson Jacks until they used to have a major
uh you know, international parade. You know, people coming up from all
over the all over the cut over the world to watch the prade. I
thought that was Pasa Dean of California. Yeah, I know, and marketing
in the early seventies. The wise people of centuries or Coppery tax is enough
that Jackson Perkins said, We're had enough of this. They fought every rose
under, pulled them out of all their gardeners, and they sold to Harry
and David, who took it to Arizona. Oh look at that, Harry.
Wait, Harry and David that I buy my pair basket. Yeah.
I still emails every day from area David. This is amazing. Paul,
I did not know that history. Is that the connection? Paul, Yeah,
that's that's that's the connection. So so there was there's Roast Rose,
you know, Rose Bowl Lanes, there's Rose City driving there. You know,
there's the old world in you know, there was a lot of places
that that were Rose based. There was Rose City, Glass, a lot
of a lot of a lot of businesses that still exist that carried that down.
I think Glass is still around. Yep. And the only reason the
reason anybody knows it is because people like me repeated over and over again.
You go by the building and you say, well, why is that Rose
City, And there's you know, same thing. My kids. They've never
seen the roses in Nork. I mean there used to be fields fields in
Greenhouse about Greenhouse full of full of roses that were shipped all over shipped all
over the world. Weird, and you know it's just picked picked up and
gone south. You know, there's a lot of there's there's probably four or
five of that made your businesses that were in In fact, the weird part
about it is in the late fifties only sixties, nor kat Was was a
village of about fourteen or fifteen thousand right now we have he just about eight
thousand, and horn Was Hornell was twenty thousand on the railroad and Hornell's not
like it fifty five thousand to sixty five hundred. Yeah, that's where Greg
Greg Connors is in here tonight. I don't know if you know Greg Connors
and Farris Law Firm. Yeah, well, yeah, yeah, I grew
up in Hornell's. It's a similar story, but it's a different business.
But yeah, that's CREDI worked. I worked for Congress for thirteen years and
I represent a lot of towns all through western New York for Congress from Reynolds
and the stories of stories of this that you you know of places like that,
they're just no longer what they were. Dansville had a huge factory,
you know, the Foster Really plant. Oh yeah, and the tens of
you know, the hundreds of people that work there that no longer live in
that area because those jobs aren't available. Daniel. You know, look,
God bless you for working for Congressman Reynolds and then coming back to your community
and then giving back and becoming an entrepreneur and creating these experiences that builds families
and builds the community. I mean, I mean, you're a pioneer.
You you are really with the American dream and what we as people in our
community need. I mean, you're the builder of family memories and life experiences.
I mean, God bless you for coming back and doing that. And
nothing makes me crazier than people saying we need to have this, we need
to have that, and they don't get off their chair to try it,
even do the little things to get you know, as funny as he's saying,
because we did a small town tour years ago with radio and we went
to Daneville. I was before the s but Danville has such a beautiful downtown
like that their main I mean, Tom, I have no idea. It's
Paul. It's amazing. When you go down into the village, it's like
these old school beautiful architecture that now is sort of forgotten in a way,
just just from age and the ability to invest in ye because there's no one
there to reinvest. But it's beautiful stuff and you wish that there was something
that would come along that that could and yet you go, well, what's
here? And I can see where people look and don't see the possibility.
They see the impossibility, and that's an unfortunate circumstance. I mean, look,
I mean I went to Alford University. Yeah, and one of my
good friends got into politics and did something similar to I don't know. Paul
didn't necessarily work for Tom Reynolds, but you know he capitalized on his connections
and he's living in Virginia and he makes you know, probably a million dollars
a year as a lobbyist or or more, and that money is staying in
Virginia. I mean, Paul had probably you had the opportunity and you came
and you came back to Newark and you're doing what you're doing. I mean,
God, God, bless you man. You're part of what makes upstate
New York. Bashow and people with the other time, why didn't you move
someplace else? I get even my main business here in New York. I
saw the generators. I get head hundred to go to Texas and Alabama and
Florida all the time. And I'm like, but that doesn't that doesn't.
I can move, I can do a lot of different things, but I
can't move my kids, friends, or my family and and make things better
for them too. You know, it's easy. It's easy to take care
of yourself, but you know, when you take care of your neighborhood,
it's much more fulfilling than it is to just walk away. And you know,
between here and the racetrack and and UH and the and the drive in,
you know, you're talking seventy eighty one hundred people that get a little
bit of income and thousands of people that get enjoyment and benefit. Yeah.
Yeah, how old are are kids? I have a a junior at George
Washington, I have a senior, and I have a freshman high school high
school high school friends from yeah, and they go to Newark High School.
Yeah, my youngest is a freshman Clemens the freshman, he's a he's actually
we had to jump in the year during COVID and told another story. But
he's actually young older than or younger he should be for rena freshman. My
seniors try to decide between Saint Bonaventure and Tennessee for sports management and have him
go to Alfred University. But then my my senior or my junior in college.
Ever, he's he's a George Washington and political science. That's great.
Wow. And by the way, when you if he becomes a lawyer,
once become a lawyer, I can I know someplace between Buffalo, Rosher Syracuse
law from I got a job for him. You can find him in nice
internship for the summer. Yeah, have him call me, Paul, you
seriously, seriously have him called if that's serious for real, super would be
a great I'm not surprised. Congratulations on the on the theater. I think
this is amazing. I can't wait, and I would like to talk to
you without sounding like a joke. I would love to find a way to
screen Dug's movie there as long as the trees are tall enough. That's the
only thing. As as a lawyer, I'm just saying, as a lawyer
of providing advice to you, I think it would go as a PG thirteen,
maybe the what is the seventeen seventeen? Maybe n C seventeen. But
you know what, Paul, how about I let you preview it and then
you tell us because I think the NC seventeen would be outside of my oper
Oh it would be okay, So what can you go up to? PG
thirteen? No radar? Oh you can't go radar? Well, then maybe
you're thinking about I don't even I don't even know what what would meet?
What standard? Greg, I really don't. I don't know you're thinking like
nineteen ninety. I am brother, I am whatever DVD says, don't don't
I get you. I think the billified following would they would just want to
see and Rich Yes, Q and A with Danny Kevin you. That would
be fantastic. I think it would be great. Uh, Paul, I
will be in touch, and I really appreciate you, uh giving us some
times, and I apologize for being so late. No, never a problem.
I work around the clock. So I'm sure I know. I know
you do. I know you do, but I don't mean to make I
don't mean to add to that clock. We're gonna be ready for this thing
show tomorrow. I'm I'm excited you to guys, we're gonna hick upside notes
that're gonna happen. We got a little more mud than i'd bike, but
uh, you know, the nature does that to me at the racetrack too,
And you know, in this case, we can still have a movie
with a little bit of mud. We can't race with that, but uh,
we're gonna We're only a few weeks from Race season two, but that's
coming right around the corner here. Yeah, we need to get Land of
Legends back on Billified. Let's make it happen. We'll get through this week
and then we'll work on what's next. I saw, but then, uh,
you know, I appreciate it, Okay, I will thank you.
Good luck man, Thanks fantastic, And I guess he's gonna all right there
we go. Isn't interesting though that that, you know? I gotta tell
you. For me, the thing that's most interesting for me is that you
have a guy who obviously is super smart, savvy, right driven, he
had opportunities. I mean, look, my I mean my friend was in
that realm. Yeah, and he was like, I have a I have
a window. I'm gonna capitalize it. He's down there killing it. And
but he's left behind his community in the community could use his support. He
came back to his community. He's supporting the Central New York, he's supporting
the Finger Lakes, He's creating memories and life experiences. Joan, I mean,
I don't, I can't. I for me, that type of person
is the probably the most important person in our community. People that could have
have other opportunities, that could go elsewhere, and they decide it's more important
for me to have my family, to have that those experiences and support my
community that I grew up in. That that to me, You want to
talk about the selfless act of people, That to me is amazing. This
guy is. And you talk about hall of famers, this guy's a hall
of famers. I agree with you. And and Uh, Paul is an
interesting guy. There's a lot of different things he has his hands in,
and certainly the racetrack, but this has been one that's been percolating for a
while obviously, and race and Rainey's another racer, Randy, so I told
racer Randy it would call him this wish Dick, call him right now,
call him. We may have to. We'll take a break, we'll come
back and then we'll call Race and Randy. And then we got to talk
about the stadium and Greg Connor's thoughts on Stefan Diggs. I can't wait to
hear this because I have you don't have thoughts on my own networks. Sort
of got some thoughts on this too. I definitely have to go. We
will get to all that next. But you know what, bTB, you
got the Final four coming up. Not a bad place to see. Yeah,
you know, I was thinking about where am I going to watch the
Final four week? Yes? Now two of my teams? Am I going
to bring my boo? Two were still in it? Danny? Yes,
perdue, Gone, I had Alabama winning at all. Really, I filled
out the tournament like five minutes. Sitting right here, I'm in third place
in IT four bracket. Yeah, yeah, I cannot strategy strategy so much
smarter than I am. Yeah, me too, Danny to me, I
was gonna say Danny's a liar, but maybe not. But I got three
of the four I didn't get who at n C State except and Newark new
share balls and new menu items for the month of April. They have the
broccoli dip with chips that you can get. Oh wow, yeah, that's
a healthy way to eat your vegetable. Healthy everything pretzels with feta dip.
That actually held really good to me. Everything pretzel with feta dip. It's
a nice shareball as you're watching the game. Or maybe you get the bTB
smash burger double smashed patty, grilled hallopen heos onion straws hot honey, have
you ever had hot honey? No? Good stuff? Is it? Pepper
jack cheese, baconholopen new cream cheese served with fries or Now this is where
I would come down to a referees call. I don't know. Well,
either way it could go either way. The popper dip grilled cheese or the
bTB smash burger. Which one's better? This is a grilled sour dough,
grilled cheese, holopen you popper dip provolone in Swiss served with fries, sour
dough. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, that could put it over the
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your hair back. Come on now, the Bills already shouting in the ecstasy
or concern over the stef On Biggs move. There's a part of me that
after talking to them Graham last night, that I go, oh, yeah,
they went seven to two with basically, look, I am more excited
about the draft in the in training camp with Stefan Diggs gone than with him.
I I really think what Brandon Bean has done in this offseason, he
has shaken things up, right, He's turned it around. Well, look,
we went to the we went to the AFC Championship is it four years
ago now? So it hasn't worked. What what are you going to do
different? It didn't work, You got it shake things up. What I
like what he's doing now is he's dumped some big contracts some veteran players.
Now, Look is that is that? Does that hurt in terms of like
locker room? It does only if you don't have the people that you've kept
don't have the locker room. The people that are still there have the locker
room. That's what I'm excited about. But yet, when you look at
the teams that are successful, like the Chiefs, they have a cores they
got Josh, they got Kelsey, they got Jones. On defense, those
are the guys that make a difference. You got three or four guys just
like the Bills back in the nineties, eighties and nineties. And so when
you have that cores, you got a supplement that with youth and with a
salary cap. That's what you have to do through the draft. And what
Brandon Bean has done by getting ribed Diggs and look this whole thing about the
cap, he's hit big numbers. Look, they've already paid it. If
there's what did they do today, Greg, because there was something about paying
him in full? Now, well the Houston Houston did Houston gave him his
money upfront. You know. Look someday I hope to be this guy.
If I'm upset about anything, I'm Terry Pagoola looking at Brandon Bean saying,
look, I paid Stefan Diggs his contract upfront last year so we could have
him for next year, the twenty twenty four season. And yet he's gone
and I paid him up front. The person that's hurting this is Pagoula's P
and L because that's where the pain is, because they've already they've already got
it built into the cap and the salary cap. So you know, going
in and then having that second round draft pick, people are like, ah,
they gave up. They you know, Bills didn't get anything. You
got a second round draft pick with your first round draft pick, and you
swap picks with you know, right now the Bears is the big big question
on that. And you give a second round, we still have a second
round, and then you can get up and you can get one of the
top three receivers. And right now Marvin Harrison is looking to go between anywhere
depending on the projections, from five to eleven. He's not going to be
there past eleven. Well, we can get up to about if we throw
in some fifth round picks, you can get up to thirteen. If you
don't. If you just do your first you swip swap first and then you
go your second for next year, you can get up to like I think
fifteen or sixteen. And that's where the guy from LSU's going to be.
Yeah, he's six' four, he's got a wingspan of six five or
six six. He runs a fourth three five forty Are you kidding me?
Is that the kids who ran the fastest, No, that's where. That's
where that he And by the way, I can he catch a ball?
No, we had the fastest guy. You had a track team on the
team point. They couldn't They couldn't catch it. He's impressive, that's great.
But look he's the second round. He's a second late second to early
third. But anybody gets me beforehand is just looking for the smoke. You
got to catch, you gotta get separation. Yeah, you could do those
two things. You're fine the fifth round pick. The one thing about Digs
is that Digs last year in the in the second half of the year,
when they got more they got more balance in their offense, he could not
get separation and he didn't give the effort that he needed. I am so
happy. Look it's you know, any team that's successful, and the Patriots
and fucking Patriots, it's not about one player. One player does not win
a championship, but one player can ruin a championship. And to me,
Diggs's temperament, particularly at the end of the year, he did not step
up and make the play that your number one guy makes, you know what
you gotta be gone, And he is and and they did it in a
manner I think being managed it well, I do. I'm excited. I
am so excited good for this right now. So excited. No, I
would not, I said last year after Diggs dropped that ball, motherfucker Scarry,
after he dropped the ball. Look when you when you're that intense and
you're that critical of everyone else, you got to step up. If you
don't step up, everybody else questions you, and and actually you we had
to, I think, I said on the podcast, I said, look
Diggs after that drop, the biggest challenge was him to prove to his teammates
that he was number one because right now, to me, if Diggs came
into training camp he hit the number one tag, he was not a number
one receiver. He had to prove him self. Now they're gonna get a
rookie and he was gonna come as a big, strong, athletic, young
He's gonna prove himself kind of guy as opposed to the guy who's got his
money hit his contract. I am so excited for this opportunity for the Bills
right now and Josh, Josh's got to deal with the trauma. He's gonna
deal with the bullshit. I am so excited, so excited. So when
they lost that game, I said here on this podcast, I said,
it's time for Stefan Dicks to go. And the reason was, like Greg
alluded to, was the fact that you had your number one receiver, whom,
had he caught that sixty yard bomb, would have doubled, would have
doubled his yardage for cost out games. He holds out playoff games. In
other words, when the Bills were eliminated, he's only compiled sixty three yards
and three elimination games. Sixty three freaking yards, right, and so now
he would have doubled that. And he drops the ball and he looks back
at his quarterback. It holds up an inch between his fingers, like,
oh, you missed me by that. Even though the ball hit him in
the helbt, right, you could have hit him forearm, which is even
worse, hit him in the forearm, and so effing kidding me. And
he looks back at his quarterback and shows him up for the second straight playoff
elimination game. And I said, at that moment, the guy's gotta go.
Regardless of everybody who's surprised yesterday, I could understand why, but you
really shouldn't be You should be surprised if Brandon Bee doesn't do anything to follow
this up, which it sounds like he's planning on doing it. Sounds like
he's gonna have he's gonna have to, but he has a plan. And
the thing is with with with Stefan Diggs. When he came to Buffalo.
You gotta remember Allen wasn't Josh Allen. And by the way, still we
were still waiting and they made the playoffs, but he wasn't the man yet.
We talked about this. Kevin and I talked about this last night on
the podcast. Jim Grammer up the athletics setter. He believes that Stefan Diggs
is the greatest receiver in Bill's history. If you took four years and he
goes, not for longevity, but if you took four years, he goes.
Take Andre Reid any four years, stack them up against Stefan Diggs four
years, and I still think Stefan Diggs four years is better than Andre Diggs
any four years. Let's put that, I have to say, I'd have
to say yes because I think Stefon Diggs when when Canton comes calling, he'll
be in the first or second year. Whereas it took Andre forever to get
in. Now it's a different game. Now it is it's much easier,
pass happy game. Defenses are basically escorts at this point, they're not allowed.
What do you think that? Do you agree? Whereas Andre Reid had
to go up against guys saying, look, if you stack him up stat
wise side by side, he goes his four years was an impressive four years.
I mean he did have thousand yard seasons. I mean yeah, I
mean I look at it being alive and involved in an intense lee and interested
in the Bills in the nineties with Andre, is that Stefan Diggs was definitely
more impactful in these four years than Andre was because Andre's Andre's explosion was because
of the benefit of everybody that was around him. Stefan Diggs created those opportunities
for others that supported it, but he also made do right. He made
some of those catches early. The problem with Diggs for me, as a
Bill's Western New York or Bill's mafia guy since the seventies is that Diggs did
not represent what the Bills mafia is about. It's about hard work, it's
about perseverance. He called out his cohorts. He called out Josh, he
called out the other guys, but then he didn't step up and performed.
When you do that, you're done. And he had an opportunity to make
a catch. By the way, Andre Reid had an opportunity to make a
catch against the New York Giants and the first Super Bowl, and he did
and then we're the the day end, right. But you know the difference,
you know what the difference is. You know the difference to me,
Brandon Bean, Brandon Bean saw it, realize it, appreciates it, and
he's gonna move forward. Yeah, And that is what I like about what
McDermott and Bean a doing and what and Terry Pegoula, you know, look
to me, the unsung hero on this is the Pagula family. They'd eat
all that money because they ate all the money. Yeah paid, Yeah,
they paid him to go to freaking Houston. All the salary cap all the
contract number is the years in the contract is the number of years you could
spread out the the guaranteed money against the cap. So he was already paid.
The rest of the money he was making was a base salary. Like
Greg said when we were out at at that fundraiser, he's already gotten his
money. So now what he did with the Texans was, Okay, I'm
gonna get my guaranteed money this year, plus I'm gonna get an extra three
million dollars for next year. We're gonna wipe off the rest of my contract
that this year I'm gonna go and get paid again again. It's a free
agent. If he's healthy and if he's up right, he performed. Why
do why do I believe that something catastrophies is going to happen to him.
It's the first game of the season, he gets hurt. I feel like
the car like there's gonna be an Aaron Rodgers type he is. He is
on the wrong side of thirty. I believe it, but I don't.
He was an old vet when he happened to good people. I agree with
that, but I think it's mostly because I'm not saying Stephan Diggs is not
a good person. No, I do think he's a narcissistic. Well,
he's a bit of a drama queen. There's a lot of druma he has.
There's been a lot of fun until I mean I heard a room that
it was over Haley Steinfeld. She dated him first and then Josh second and
stuck with Josh. I don't believe that, but but you know, and
we heard all the stuff last year about whatever domestics dispute Josh may or may
not have had. I have none of that isn't any of our business,
but he certainly I think most of us are hearing it because of Stefan Diggs.
If there's a guy mf in your quarterback, right in your locker room
who was a star before your quarterback became a star, you can't have that
guy continue to mf your quarterback in the room when he's supposed to be the
face of the factise and so he's got to go. And the other thing
is, and being alluded to this in the press conference, they asked,
did Steph ask for a trade? I cannot confirm or deny that, which
kind of tells me he did. And it sounds like, according to Adam
Schefter tonight, there were ten teams that he actually considered for this. They
said, there's one team we don't want you to go to. I don't
know if it's KC, but he said, well, lets you negotiate a
trade with any of these teams, but not this one team. So it
sounds he was in on it. An interesting thing was, Kevin was here
last night. We talked to Tim Graham, and Tim had said that what
tipped him off to the story was something that Stefan tweeted in reaction to somebody
who was simply asking, basically RG three, well it was it was?
It was Rando that basically said the Rando was responding to RG three's tweet about
it, what was it? I should pull it up, but see if
you can see. I know what you're talking in essence was like just Josh
Aled just as good without stuff on. Yeah, yes, yes, yes,
and he said we'll see, we'll see, is what he wrote,
and so or something like you think, yes, you think, yeah,
so that's exactly what it was, you think and and so, uh,
Tim Graham saw that and jumped on it and said, that's when I started
writing my story. And that was interesting that you could. But you get
it. You're around these guys, you know, they're their their speak or
their code. And uh, he said, I started writing my story because
that's why I was able to get it out so quickly, so quickly.
Yeah, he was ahead of it. He knew, he knew what was
happening. Yeah, and when you think when you if you know the circumstances
that ended the twenty twenty two season, yeah, like if you Unbengals loss,
if you if you know what happened at the end of the season,
and then you read that tweet, you can put in perspective why Tim Graham
might have jumped ahead of it because of the issues that that percolate at the
end of last year were not what everybody thinks that happened, But there is
there was a bit of a rift perhaps between the two, but it wasn't
necessarily based on Brittany. I mean, Brittany was a side show, yeah,
but uh and it wasn't and britney sideshow was not based for the same
reason everybody's everybody speculated about. But but Diggs and Josh did not have an
agreement, did not see eye to eye on a certain thing like many business
pods may not have. Yes, But you know, for me being a
diehard Bills guy, and I love when Steph came. I loved the first
couple of years. But after the after they lost the Kansas City the AFC
Chiefs to the Chiefs in that AFC Championship game, and then didn't get back
to the next year. It was over and even was over because the thing
I didn't like about it. I don't think it's dead now though. That's
the thing I didn't like about it is I didn't like how Diggs was the
only one that was adamant on the field. To me, that was that
he was showcasing. Yes, that was individualistic. If he was there with
Josh and Spencer Brown or Mitch Morris or you had a collective group, that
to me would have said, these guys are collectively together. When he's by
himself and he knows they're taking pictures behind him and he's that at that to
me is like, this is this is about him, It's not about the
team, right, And that that bothered me then, and he's just kind
of showcase over the next two years. It's interesting. Well, we will
see how they move forward. They certainly seem to do pretty well in the
second half of the season with a much diminished Stefan Diggs, and we'll see
without Stefan Diggs how we do from there. Kevin has patiently written the closest
to the pin we wrap it up hate because I never I don't know what
do you want to write it next week? Hillman. By the way,
just you know, this is the first time I ever played with you guys,
and every time I play my own and I'm listening, I'm not even
close. I don't even know if I have a panel over here. I
got you, brother. It's not an easy game, thank you. It's
a game of inches. You don't have to be in the Kevin designs it,
just the fun. It does well. I asked Kevin to change the
game a little bit to more like trivial pursuits. So we have like different
categories of questions. So wouldn't all be geared towards one in particular, one
particular field. You have a legal field in here. First one is definitely
legal. Now we go all about legal invented by the J. E.
M. Rubber Company of Toronto, Ontario by employees experimenting with scrapsheets of rubber.
What year was the Whoopee cushion invented? Yea, I know you've probably
slipped on under judges see here and there, Danny that that crumble cookie is
dangerous? I will tell you yeah, it is. How many calories has
Dan eaton tonight? In Crumble cookie. That's question number two. I'm gonna
say one thousand and sixty two. I'd say fourteen hundred. Whoa. We
learned a few weeks ago that Stanford is one of the most national championships in
college sport. UCLA is number two on the list with how many How many
college sports have they won national championships in the history of the university and the
history of the university. Oh my god, so this could be any sport
from wrestling, wrestling, water polo, water polo, synchronized, swimming,
all of them since what year? Since they began giving national championships away?
You don't give them away, They're earned. Yes. Published from nineteen fifty
two until twenty eighteen. Founded originally as a comic book, Mad Magazine and
Alfred E. Newman were a staple of humor on newsstands. How many regular
magazines of Mad Magazine were produced from fifty two to twenty eighteen. Fifty two
to twenty eighteen. How many issues the first hang on down? Greg's looking
up math? No, No, I got that's good pizza too, Thank
you, It's good pizza. Dan's gonna stop for a garbage playing my home.
Probably are you still doing math right here? Yea good lord? Hang
on, sorry, man, doing math never works out well for you.
Bill. We know this is the time if you lay a big mad magazine
guy. Yeah, kids that this number means nothing to me. It's terrible.
How many issues? How many issues from nineteen fifty two until twenty eighteen.
It's a long freaking time, man. I can tell you're not even
on the right fairway with that answer. Who did you look at you?
I just crossed it out? Okay, good, because you were you weren't
even a right golf court. I got it. I don't know. The
first NFL draft was held in nineteen thirty six, consisting of nine rounds.
How many rounds were in the biggest drafts in NFL history? How many rounds?
Oh? Gosh, you know what? I did a draft story a
few years A question. Oh yeah, you don't remember this. You ate
too many fucking crumble cookies. Your brain is all sugared up. It was
probably I think it was like in the sixties or seventies when they had But
the problem is it's like how many mad magazines that could be like thousands?
How many NFL rounds? I don't know, four thirty twenty. It's a
big freaking difference in numbers. That's the ship, right, I always get
fucked Yeah, well I'm fucking all always go by the way, well I
am. It's like Dan's calories. I'm thinking like five thousands Dan twenty.
It just went fucking dance calories pac right now? Might be a higher,
might be, dude, I think the calories is higher than Yes, it's
close. It's a footfall Sean P Diddy puff Daddy? Did he Puffy Combs?
It's better than news lately? His anthem bad Boy for Life is spot
on. What year did did he release bad Boy for Life? Oh?
My god, I don't even know. I wrote down to year, but
I don't know. I still doing math dance. I'm trying to I'm trying
to go back in my in my life with P Daddy. Oh please,
like you had any life with P Diddy? You did not? You know
you didn't. He might have been a puffed Daddy. I'm trying to remember
when P Diddy came on the stay it was it was a little after us.
You think it was just slightly after us, not much slightly. I'm
gonna have to shut down the studio until sub what gets me breast milk from
a Cambodia woman? You see that Chappel show bit, No, these are
making the band bit. Chappelle pretended to be puffed daddy daddy. Oh my
god, he goes, Maybe he wasn't far off. Yeah, so they
showed the clip reachould like he's into some freaking stuff. Last one, The
Stanley Cup has three nine and grave names on it and counting. It's how
many teams? How many names can be added each year by the team that
wins the cup? Say that? What's the end of that? Again?
How many names can be added per team that wins the Cup each year?
There, you're a bathrooms. We are now eleven o'clock at nine Friday Friday.
I know recording. I don't even actually appointment in eight hours. You
have eight hours acupuncture. That's a yeah, give me fine your porkypine,
yeah, porcupine back this that well, year was the whoopee cushion invented?
I said nineteen eighteen, I said fifty four? What I said seventy?
Okay, nineteen thirty one. Yeah, I think Danny and I are somewhere
in between. There we lost twenty three twenty three years off. Do the
mathema mine we said nineteen seven eight, I'm already fucking behind, all right,
So that's uh fourteen thirteen thirteen, all right, so I'm closest.
How many national championships is the number two overall? U CLA Bruins got They
have a heck of a softball team. IM gonna say twenty seven, twenty
seven since what the beginning of time? Yeah, you can't just that's champions
They got forty seven in basketball? Yeah, fucking John Woon, like sixteen
in basketball. I said one hundred, said one hundred and thirty two.
It's actually one twenty one. You were closer, this is it? A
closer on to Danny. Wow, hey Danny, happy birthday. Eat it.
Yeah, but the wheels are going to fall off real soon, don't
worry off. How do you know you have a magazine that just a Mad
magazine going just history that's proven this. How many issues of Mad magazine from
nineteen fifty two, seven hundred eighteen, seven hundred, ninety, seven hundred,
seven hundred nineteen I said two hundred and fifty two. I said eight
hundred oh, five hundred and fifty. Ah, so said I said once
a month for all those years. Yeah, that's what I said too.
You're right, You're right. I think daily produced ten a year, I
think is what it was. Yeah, I read it, Okay, how
many remre production? He's still be in business, yes, man nineteen forty
Grang Persistens shut up nineteen forty three to nineteen forty eight held the longest drafts?
How many rounds? Sixteen rounds? Twelve fourteen? Said twelve fourteen,
sixteen thirty two? Whoa fuck, Danny? Danny was halfway there? God
damn it. Man? What year was Bad Boy for Life nineteen hundred and
ninety eight? I said ninety six, two thousand, Greg Connor's two thousand
and one? Al Right, I lost? How many names o Hawaii?
Closest to tonight? Hopefully not for the rest of the week. Right?
How many names could be added to the Stanley Cup by the team wittiots?
I said forty eight forty eight. Well you gotta think of the coaching staff,
the owners, their kids, trainers, their pets. I shit,
the better on this one, I said twenty helm I said twenty two six
six guys on the team? I said twenty two Yeah, but I forget
it. Really puts your stars. It's like the concord getting it out of
the room. You can't. There's the stars. That's like the concord going
eighty miles an hour to line fifty two fifty two. Fuck man, I
missed that by thirty. He missed it by one hundred and thirties. Don't
worry about it, all right? All right, God told the wheel's going
to fall off. You're right. I got to right after that. I
felt right off forty You know what, you're gonna award the helmet? Who
you jinxed me? That's that's terrible. Greg. Thank you for coming in
tonight. I thank you for your patience. It's being so late, Kevin
for being so late. Danny happy birthday. Was a nice person. A
lot of calories tonight, all of us. Hey, guys, thank you
for supporting the after Absolutely you guys. Yeah, you almost didn't want to
leave there and come do a pot. I'm making a whole bunch of Saturday
now. Uh. Probably you get across the international dately, you got the
clips to deal with flooding, pestilence, biblical problems. I don't know,
Dan, I gotta got Sarah Baxter's number. Just in case. I'm Bill
Moran. We'll see you Monday, DA any Monday for the eclipse. Go
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