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Bill Moran Podcast. Well, Hello and welcome, Oh Doug everliche if you
can only have held on just a little bit longer, just to do you're
that close? Yeah, I hear there's a report of a man in Pittsford
flipping over cars trashcads. I can't get an identification. I don't know,
but it's not. Don Alhart's gonna retire from thirteen WAM TV And even if
you don't live in in the Greater Rochester area, he has set the Guinness
record for the most consecutive years on television fifty eight. We should do a
Guinness toast leading up to his last show, Scary O' Talk on June sixth.
Yeah, when he takes the air for the last time, it won't
be any news he'll be. It'll be just his big, sad, soppy
story. I don't know. He he's retiring to go be the voice of
Keed Brockman from the Simpsons. I heard that guy's retiring too, so it's
gonna be a seamless transition. Yeah, he's just a great dude. Nobody's
gonna I've never heard a bad thing about him. All Right, I'll say
something bad about him, Okay, we I'm gonna say something bad about it
about about Don Alhart. I did an interview with Don Alhart, and it
was like I couldn't wrap it up. I couldn't get I couldn't wrap it
up. Gonna best. I don't know. I don't know if that's a
bad thing or not. I'm just saying very extremely verbose, like a d
d whmember. We we had a roast for our friend Tom mulay on the
air when Tommy turned fifty. Yeah, and Don came on and roasted Tommy
on his birthday. Talked about all the stuff that went on around his birthday,
which like which had something to do with like the astronauts, all this
history. He's very very interesting and he's a treasure. Truly, is right?
Truly in the studio tonight is John link Up from wine Bow Incorporated?
Is that correct? Correct? Talk right into them? What is this?
What is the CSW? CSW is Certified Specialist of Wine, Certified Specialists of
wine. How does one become a certified specialist of wine? So it was
many years of many years of training. So yeah, I started. I
started in the business in two thousand and two at the Genesee Valley Club downtown,
Okay, and I was just working there on weekends while I was finished
in college and I was going to school for criminal justice. I wanted to
be a cop, and I interned with the city Police department and absolutely hated
it. It's kind of funny, you know, cops like to drink and
hear and what. There you go. It works out well, saying the
Genesee Valley Commercial Genesee Valley was that you? Valley Club? Oh? Okay,
Gennessee Valley is that you're thinking of? Joey BRICADOCT. Yeah. Genesee
Valley Club is a great like rest club downtown. They got like indoor tennis
courts and all. Who's the majer D Gennaro Gennaro still still there? Yeah,
he's got to be like eighty five eighty six. Yeah, I be
gone longer. I think set a Guinness record for the longest serving majer D.
The real home kidding retired the same day. He still goes to the
Philippines every summer on vacation, goes and hangs out and parties and does his
team, comes back and just rocks it out. Changes his tuxs five times
during weddings and everything. It's pretty crazy. He's a fantastic I think my
brother in law was a member there at one point, because when my parents
celebrated their twenty fifth anniversary, we all went there and my brother in law
was an avid squash player, d one squash player to he said, Oh,
yeah, this is a squash score. That's where I play squash.
I'm like, that's awesome, man, thanks congratulations. The place used to
have a bowling alley in the back, like it was nuts man. They
changed into a gym because no one was using the bowling alley anymore. But
they've got two restaurants in there, great food, do weddings, all sorts
of fun stuff. What all right, So the career starts there, starts
there? Okay? So I was. I was working a private party for
a CEO of bauschin Lam at the time, and he brought all of his
own wine from his wine cellar. Then had me like tending bar in his
private room and opening all the wines, and he sends me back a couple
of glasses of wine. He's like, here, try this. You know,
this is cool stuff. And I didn't know at the time, but
I was drinking some of the best wines in the world. Yeah, And
I tasted it, and I'm like, that's the most amazing thing I've ever
tasted in my life. And I went down to my boss that day and
it was still, you know, just a part time bartender, make an
ends meet. And I'm like, how do I make this into a career
because this is amazing And he's like, well, you can become a psalm.
I'm like, what do I gotta do to do that? Yeah,
so say the full time I screw this up there, I always say it's
a yeah. So it's way finally got it? Was it that a dealership
in Honeyway Falls. It's way better than others. I've heard some people case
Somalian yeah, but I usually said yeah, yeah, Okay. I always
say you're you're on top of it. That is uh, that is really
tough to get it is. It's crazy. It's crazy. So I studied.
I've actually flew down and back every Tuesday for six months down in New
York City to do a program called the Certified are the Somalia Society of America.
And at the end of it there's a test and there was forty five
people in our class, and eight of us passed. Wow, you're kidding.
No, it was rough. It's that low of a percentage. Huh
hard. So there's the first due. The test is in three parts.
So there's a theory part, which is like one hundred multiple choice questions and
they can ask you anything over the course of the world of wine. And
then the second part is an essay part, and you pick like three of
five things and write essays on them. It's like a region's test too.
Yeah, pick three of five essays you choose to dude. The last part
is a tasting part where they give you five wines. They don't tell you
what they are, where they're from. They just hand them to you in
a glass and you have to identify what they are, what the grape is,
what region they're from, approximately how old they are. So I have
always secretly referred to wine tastings as adult hide and seek pretty much, because
you're you know, you're searching for that flavor that you're told is there,
but you can't really find it because you're not you're not refined. I have
no idea, and I love I always I used to do a joke where
you know, you go to a vineyard and you're in, you're tasting,
and everybody starts using the snobby wine, is this oky? Is this okay?
You know that kind of thing, and then we're in, that's the
that's the one where right, it's okay, And then they start going,
you know, you could taste a little lavender in this, and if you
go and maybe he tastes a little some of the little grasses, and oh,
can you taste the Asian pear? We have Asian pear? And I
go, I'm looking at my buddies and they're going, oh yeah, yeah,
yeah, yeah, I can wait a second. Your tongue is so
good. Not only can you determine the fruit, but what continent is from?
Because I walked around this place, I didn't see pear or an Asian.
Yeah yeah, this is definitely some antarcticle fruits. So I always went,
but to me, what you do is amazing, Like, how do
I would assume our tongue is pretty similar. We're both human. So I
took I took so many notes going through that wine program that I have a
binder of tasting notes that I've written and just pulling out individual flavors and smells
from different wines. Yeah, and it comes to a point now where instead
of, you know, trying to figure out what it is, the key
is you figure out what it's not. Oh yeah, interesting, I have
a question, might tull like a dumb question? We learned yeah, you
talk to me. Yet we learned science class that there are genes that could
taste certain tastes and jeans that that or if you don't have this gene,
you can't taste certain taste. And they had us all taste a piece of
paper. Those are always the soo, we found the eight people in that
class that had that gene. That's my question. Do you have to have
a gene to taste certain taste for for this role? Nope? Okay no.
In fact, I'm not a super taster. So they're super tasters are
generally female, actually believe or not surprised. They're always you know, women
can smell in anything, right, But were you with last night? Was
it Jerry, right, But you can also train you could you can train
yourself to pick up certain things like there's there's certain times where you put your
nose in a glass of wine and something pops out, like and it could
be something stupid, like there's there's a particular a grape called vidal blanc.
They grow at a ton in the finger legs and every time I smell it,
it smells like you're opening up a brand new pool toy and it's got
that like vinyl po oh yeah yeah. So every time I pick that up,
I'm like, oh, I know that's vidal block because that every single
time, Wow, it's always that wan aroma that pops out. So when
you become a psalm, as you said, I'm going to shorten it to
that to save myself a good what is usually the next step, because you
could do anything right. You could be hired on staff at a vineyards that
and restaurant, high end restaurants. You can do what you're doing now.
So my goal at the time was to be in the restaurant business because I
really enjoyed it a lot of fun. I did that for almost five years,
and then eventually I just got burnt out it because it's exhausting. Yeah,
and then I and then I got into retail, and I worked in
retail for ten years, and I really enjoyed that. I was, you
know, picking wines for the store, helping our customers find new wines.
I was teaching wine classes doing all that. That's that's I think my biggest
passion is really education. I can see that just by the way you're speaking.
And what I think is kind of interesting is the love of it.
But it's an art for you, isn't it. It is? Yeah,
I mean it's it's truly like art. Well, the mastery that goes into
making the wine and doing all that. That's a real appreciation. See,
that's the stuff that I, honestly I get jealous of. It's really cool.
I really am a little envious to that because I think that's very cool
to have that. The biggest thing is that there's so many pitfalls in the
wine making process that can just ruin it. And it's like that it just
happens immediately. If the fermentation isn't done perfectly at the right temperature, it'll
get stuck and then the entire batch of wine is ruined. There's certain faults
that end up in wine, like volatile acidity that can get in there,
bacterial issues that can get in there, and you can smell it, and
you can smell it in the end result. So unless you're really careful with
how you're doing it, making sure everything's very clean, making sure that the
wine making facility itself is very clean, you're gonna end up with wine that's
just faulty and no one's gonna go I remember neighbors and I used to used
to buy like a case and we would call it the two buck Chuck and
it was from Argentine. It was an Argentinian wine, but it was basically
all I want to say, like the overflow that they just blended together.
Would that be sure? And it just tasted I mean I say this after
like two or three glasses, I think your tongue swells. I can't tell.
I couldn't tell no after after a while. We in the business,
we call it palette fatigue. Basically you're just hammered and you can't focus on
anything right. So that's interesting. So I was looking for someone to come
in and I thought it'd be fun to do a wine tasting and then also
around Easter, and John was like, I just worked out perfectly to tell
people what maybe you want to pick up for the weekend. If you've got
family coming in, that may pair well with I think a lot of people
eat ham On on Easter. Yeah that's the plan. Yeah, it's usually
right. Yeah, because the Catholic Church, you weren't allowed to eat meat
meat on Fridays and then in the three days leading up to eat to Easter.
Yes, so everybody went with ham right. So but I don't know
does wine pair with him? It does? Oh yeah, you can pare
wine with anything. I figured you could. Yeah, the old Dago red
billy exactly, like my grandpa used to make the big gallon at Paisano.
Yeah, look at this. He knows well that spell like, oh my
grandpa exactly. So John was kind enough to bring in a couple of bottles
of wine and tells it I because I said to him, can you recommend?
And I was thinking something like a ten dollars price point? But he
brought up a good A good thing. The price has gone up on things,
you know. The one I usually go to as a default because I
do like cabs and bigger reds is the Josh. I just I just like
the Josh Cabernet. It just seems solid and it's fine. And that's usually
about twelve thirteen bucks. That's it, and that's you know. That's the
thing is if if you find something that you like in a price point that
you like, yeah, that's awesome. Yeah. And one of the things
I'd love to do as a retailer was I used to say, oh,
you like that wine, it's twelve bucks. How about I find one that's
even better that you'll like even more for a buck less? Really? Yeah,
So how many wines do you taste? You know? And you can
remember all this? You can remember all of it. It's like a catalog.
It's not its head, it's it's nuts. And I don't know how
my brain works that way. Like I'll forget to take the trash out on
a weekly basis, but I'll remember some wine. You're like, guys,
you're like danding with sports stats. Yeah, yeah, that's amazing. So
what do we have there? So one is that a pinot? It is
so I brought up So I was thinking specifically with ham in mind, and
generally when you pair food and wine, you want to look at the protein,
look at the richness of the protein, and then pair of wine that
matches. So, being that ham is a lighter protein without a ton of
fat content, you want something a wine that's a little bit softer, a
little bit lighter. So I brought a pinau no wire and red. I
brought a great rose from the south of France in the Provence region, and
then I brought a reestling with just a touch of sweetness for people that might
not like dryer wines. I got so and all three of them will work
with ham. So yeah, we'll start here. We'll taste some stuff,
all right. I want to and walk us through like you would teach a
class, because I want to see if I can pick anything out or if
it is just as I always joked, the adult hide and seek. Well,
So one of the one of the important things with wine is you know,
unlike unlike some psalms that are that are super you know that are super
stuck on themselves and think I'm right, You're wrong. There's no right and
wrong with wine. Everybody's palette works completely differently. What you taste and what
you taste I might not taste, and vice versa. So you can use
the example that you said earlier about you know, everybody having a different tasting
profile, Like some people to cilantro to some people taste like just soap,
yes, And it's just a genetic thing and that's just how it is.
Some people like tomato, some people hate tomatoes. Well, the flavor of
the tomato doesn't change. The chemical makeup of the tomato stays the same.
It's how your brain perceives what your taste. So everybody tastes things very,
very differently. Yeah, like I hate nanners. My daughter hates bananas too,
She's so gross. I'm like, how do you eat bananas? Come
on in? So the one thing that everybody can feel the same way,
though, is acidity tannins. And tannins are like when you drink a big
red wine and it tightens up your tongue, sweetness, It sits in the
middle of your palate that the acidity kind of rounds out the sides of your
tongue and it makes you salivate a little bit. And then alcohol you feel
it, like if you drink like a barrel caskaged or a cask strength bourbon
or something, Yeah, you feel it in the back of your throat.
Right up into your nose. You can feel alcohol from wine the same way.
So when people smell, you'll see people take the big sniff and all
that. What is that? What does that do? It just it it
gives you an idea, No, not at all, It just it gives
you. It gives you an idea of the aroma of this wine. So
when when you're when you put your nose into this wine, so you get
a little bit of that kind of there's a there's a little bit of minerality
to it, like a wet stone almost. Yes, So that wet stone
is because of where this is from. So this is from the Mosel River
Valley in Germany. Yeah, it's gonna say Eastern European can taste of Germans.
So the Mosel River valley has a ton of like slate in the soil.
Okay, so the slaty or the soil. And in fact, the
Mosel River has a very similar soil condition to the Finger Lakes, which is
why we do really well with the Finger Lights. So you get that kind
of minerality in that wet stone and that vibrance out of it from that soil
condition. I so badly want to be a wine snob. I'm not even
kidding out. I really would love to have like a wine cellar. Someday
I got a wine I'll I'll tell you what next time. Next time you
have me on, I'll bring a fifteen dollars bottle of wine. Yeah,
and I'll bring one hundred and fifty dollars bottle of wine. Don't waste that
on us? Why not? Dude's fun. You gotta be careful because this
guy couldn't figure out. This guy, the mister Guinness over here couldn't figure
out alcoholic Guinness versus non alcoholic guinness. I could do like a Guinness,
though. I do like genness. That's it. This is very good.
This is very nice and light crisp. So what are you supposed to do?
Because I already swallowed the thing I'm watching you, you're supposed to almost
slurp? Like, yeah, you get a little out, you get a
little oxygen into it, and then it kind of opens up the it opens
up the wine on your palate and you kind of let it roll around and
then you swallow it. What are you tasting? Because I taste sweetness.
There is sweetness almost like see how it kind of just sits in the middle
of your palate. Yeah, it's refreshing and then towards the end it gives
you a little kick. Yeah, and that's the acidity. But this is
this is a great reasling for It's like clean slate. It's clean slate.
It's like twelve or teen bucks on the shelf. It's it's everywhere, like
most stores carry it. And uh, it's it's just an easy go to,
you know, grab and go kind of wine. You don't have to
think too much. You just sit there and enjoy it. Now, if
you were to describe the fruit, what fruits are are you taking? Cause
I almost and I don't know if it's psychosomatic so to speak in my head
because I said pear, I was sort of taste a little pear, but
it's that pear apple stone stone fruit like peach, like peach, nectarine kind
of. Yes, I did get pea. You go, I'm on track,
Yeah, I'm on. I tasted that. I should be a sou
le mon. There you go, leme on. That's that is really really
impressive, Like the way he can pull that all out, you know,
it was amazing. Yeah, I like obviously wouldn't swallow too. Yeah,
well that's me. That is what I do. I drink in volume.
That's so, do we need other glasses then for the other ones use the
same thing. Is it more cost efficient to drinking volume? Uh no,
no, no, it's like buying a bulk but not really. It's the
only reason I have a BJ's card is because it's the only place they can
buy a Guinness in the case. I can only buy buy the case in
BJS. I can't. I didn't even know that was a thing. Yeah
really, yeah, so I can get to twenty four and I prefer the
can if I'm not going to get a tap totally. So I don't like
the bottle and only it doesn't taste. Isn't that funny? We're talking about
taste that tastes very different to me. Yes, I agree, hundred percent.
So it's a different texture too. Yes, they open up the can,
it's got that little nitro canisty. Yes it does. And they do
something in the bottle that's similar, but it just doesn't taste the same.
So what now this is the rose It is now rosees? Have they gained
in popularity a lot? Okay? Yes, why do you think that is?
What what makes something all of a sudden become somewhat trendy in the wine
world. So that's that's kind of a mixed bag. It's it's it either
goes one way or the other. So we had the movie Sideways that came
out a whole bunch of years ago. Oh yeah, and there was the
Sideways effect where everybody stopped drinking Merlau because he hated Merlow in the movie and
started drinking. So there was this whole big like revolt against Merlin. You
really that movie had that big an influence huge Were you able to see it
sort of economically impact? It really? Didn't It win Best Picture in like
four I don't remember it was. It was dominated because I remember the late
Bill Klein was the movie critic at the time at WHAM and I worked there,
and I watched the movie. I'm like, really, well, I
did I understand why this was like such a heralded movie, but I yeah,
it was kind of sad. Yeah, but that's interesting to me that
people would base it on You're not well. They saw him as like the
all knowing whine expert in the movie. It was a fictional movie, yes,
And then he would go out there and be like, oh, you
know, we got to drink pin and noir from this vineyard and from this
site. And he would just wax poetically about pen noir and then he would
say, I don't care what we do. I'm not drinking any damn or
low. And that became a big thing and people are like, no,
I'm not going to drink the mor low. So I was working I was
working at market View at the time. Yeah, and they immediately, like
Melow sales just started dipping that. It boggles my mind because it goes back
to you're almost drinking almost the way we dress, you know what I mean,
we do things because it's in style. Yes, right, and it's
the trendy thing we wear, that we wear our hair a certain way.
All that stuff is dictated really by social norms. I just figured you drank
what you liked. No. No, I've never been really persuaded to go
You've I mean I've had people say you have to try. I've tried,
and some of it I've stuck with and some of it I just didn't.
It's crazy, man. There's like there's celebrities that all of a sudden show
up on some TV show and drink a bottle of something and the next thing
you know, there's thirty customers asking for it. Really, now, I
mean, did you see that? With tequila becoming very popular again, and
you know Cosamigos. I saw the Cosamegos truck today over at my wine and
beer unloading and I see, you know, it's Clooney and what's his name?
Uh? Rich No, I was gonna say, Richard Gear. It's
the model's husband. Yeah, I can't think of the name. But yeah,
I mean that's a that's a solid tequila and tequila and Medscow in general,
the whole Gave portfolio has gone crazy in the last three years, really,
and it's nuts and it's it's the demand has gone up so high that
tequila distilleries can't keep up. Really. Now you do tastings of that as
well, you can't. Yeah, yeah, so you can do them all
all the alcohol because I don't do much with beer, Like i'm a I
make beer. I do I'm me and a buddy of mine. I don't
make wine because I'd be way too hard on myself. But it's a ship.
Me and a buddy of mine. We make beer and we hang out
and and and that's cool. Spend the day just making really cool stuff and
we have a good time doing it. You know, I don't drink a
ton of beer anymore, but when I do, it's it's usually something cool
like everyone's I I'm one of those weird people that loves to get in my
car and go for a drive just to vent the head. So I'll just
get in my car and say I'm going to drive to Stove Vermont and go
Wait. Yeah, I thought you were saying, I'm thinking I'm going out
a Kuka. No, no, no, no, I'll Stove Vermont.
Yeah, I'll say, all right, Friday, I'm going for a drive
and I'll drive all the way to Stove, Vermont, stop at like three
breweries, pick up a bunch of cool beer, and then drive home.
What's the one from Vermont that I had? It was a double bag?
I p a. Was it the Heady Topper, the Alchemist one? I
don't know. There was one that used to have a cow on it.
That was the label I'm oh Lossons. Yeah, yeah, yeah it was.
They had the Sip of Sunshine. Yeah. There's a couple other ones.
Yeah, yeah, I've been there. That's a cool place. I
think they have like a double I pad and they have a triple that they
sell triple. That's right. And somebody went up there and brought it back
and then I'll knock you on your ass. It's like fifteen and a half
percent. It's a lot for it's a lot, so all right. So
this is the rose forever summer, forever summer. So this is this is
the entry level rose from a producer called Marriboo and Provence. And the vineyard
itself was started by a British couple who loved rose and loved gin, and
they the gentleman in the couple was a banker in England and just got sick
and tired of running a bank and being in that business and said, you
know what, I'm tied to make you, buddy, honey, it's time
to do something that it's time to spend money by starting a winery exactly.
So they they moved to France, bought a property and planted a bunch of
grapes and now they make rose and they make a pink gin from the grapes.
Pink gin it I have and it's great. Really, yeah, okay,
I'll bring it in. Yeah, that's interesting, it's uh forever summer.
All right, here we go right now, this one I'm smelling.
It definitely smells different, Yes it does. I'm afraid to say, Clai
like I'd be afraid. I'm super was this harvested near a nuclear plant?
That it's a bunch ofm in France? We need to go in nuclear bill?
It's clean? Well, that's nice. Yeah, so this is a
bone dry rose, so oh yeah, very dry. Yeah, I could
taste the bone. Don't say that. That's very good. Yeah. I
like this one a lot. And again, this is like ten twelve bucks
on the shelf, you know, it's it's super affordable. And to come
from Provence and be that affordable is unique because generally you're looking somewhere between fifteen
and twenty bucks to start in Provence. Okay, but this is their kind
of entry level. It's it's not necessarily classified as Provence, which is how
they can get away selling it cheaper. But it's mostly a grape called grenache,
and it's nice, it's light, it's got it's got a little bit.
Yeah, and it does have that summer feel to it. It does,
right, that nice kickback almost like you're along lake somewhere and just kicking
backtoon boat where you want to sit on a dock with hat on, sunglasses
and just drink this. Yes, yes, the case and the wife's happy,
and the wife's happy. Yeah, that's right. Yes, there you
go. That's the important thing. That's really good. Wow, forever summer.
They have a couple other ones. There's one that's called pure, which
is great. That's a little price step up. And that one's from actually
a region called x in Provence, which is just west of the main province.
So when you took the test and they didn't tell you you just had,
you'd be able to identify where this was from pretty much the region and
all that. That was the goal, right, that was the goal.
So the key is you don't have to be one hundred percent correct, because
when you're writing out all your answers, you have to justify why you think
that's the case. So you identify the grape, you say what you think
it is. You have to show work, have to show your work.
So you say, all right, this has bits of strawberry on the nose,
so that leads me to believe that the grape is grenage. There's a
touch of earthiness on the finish with lent makes me think old world. I'm
gonna say Provence rose. So you kind of you break down what you think
it's not. So if you tase this and you're like, okay, well
that's definitely not a Pino noir rose because of the flavor profile, because of
the color, it's not an Italian rose from you know, Tuscany. And
then you go through and you just kind of narrow it down what it could
possibly be. So it ends up being like a fun kind of game you
play in your brain with with with wines. And most of the time we're
not right. Like most of the time, even psalms that have been doing
it for longer than me, we don't get it right, you know,
and but we always make interesting arguments as to what we think it is.
Gotcha. So I just got lucky. I got I nailed three out of
the five of them for the test because I knew immediately one of them was
a New Zealand sauvignon blanc, which is kind of unmistakable. It smells like
pineapple and grapefruit, and it's one of those things that if it's got a
cidity, it's got ripping. It smells like it smells like pineapple and grapefruit.
That you know it's going to be that. And then there was another
one that was a god I think it was an all s all sauce gavertz
demeanor, which is also an unmistakable type of flavor profiles. Yeah, my
wife loves that. Okay, something to keep in mind. The wine.
Yeah, there we go. Yeah, because well it's got the German name
to it, you know, and it's it's you know, it's forever summer
though. Man, I would I might find a case of that for the
summertime, sitting down on the deck, and that is really like perfect for
them. Well when we're when we're done here, I'll leave these three with
you guys. You can take them home. You don't have to do that.
But my pleasure, my pleasure. But with with me showing customers wines
a week, I end up with a bag full of open bottles of wine
anyway, So the last thing I need to do is have more open all
right. And then lastly we're going to Oregon. So we had Germany and
then France and now we're going to Oregon. All right. Now, Oregon
seems to be is the Northwest becoming more popular. I don't know the answer.
It is for noirs, specifically an Oregon for pino noirs. Washington State
does really well with cab and sarah. Oh yeah, okay, so weird,
weird random wine fact about Washington. The Columbia River Valley, where a
lot of these grapes are planted, is actually a desert, which is really
bizarre to say about Washington State because most people think it's you know, it's
the Evergreen what. Yeah, but where the where the Russian were? Where
the Columbia Valley is? It sits just opposite the Cascade Mountain range, so
the clouds come in off the ocean and the Cascades operate as this like rain
chef. So the Columbia River Valley only averages about six inches of rain a
year. Wow, And it allows them. That allows the winemakers to dry
farm the vineyards and if they need to irrigate, they can irrigate right out
of the Columbia River, so they can control exactly how much moisture all their
vines get. That's really interesting because I think who's the former quarterback with the
Patriots and the build I think Bledsoe has a winery in Washington. He does.
It's huge. It's expensive. Yes, it's like you got to be
a member to like buy his wine. I mean good, just buy it.
It is good. But it's like fifty bucks a bottle. Okay,
yeah, and you got to join the club. I've looked into it.
You have to join his club. Yeah. Yeah, it's so exclusive.
They've really made it like because wine. This is what I love about wine.
It becomes exclusive and I do. I do. I'm sorry, I
appreciate that. That's important. I do. I appreciate it. There's something
about it because there's an appreciation. You're not buying something cheap and you're paying
for it's almost an experience in the bottle. We really are, we really
are. So the cool thing about Cloudline Pinot here is that it's made by
the Joseph drew and wine family out of France. So years ago Joseph drew
In was this like icon in Burgundy making amazing Burgundy wines, and his daughter
started taking over the prog the business and said, you know, we have
very similar climate patterns and soil condition that they do in Oregon. Why don't
we plant some vineyards there and see if we can make as beautiful a pino
noires as we do here in Burgundy. So she came over purchased this property
in the early nineties called Domain Druen and made it into this world class wine
making facility out in Oregon. Amazing. And this is their kind of entry
level version of the Domain dru And so Domain drew And now is this also,
forgive me where is this? Is this in that region you talked about
it? So this is Willamette Valley, which is in the almost the dead
center of the state and Oregon, and the Wilammett Valley is really kind of
the headquarters of pino in on the west coast, and they make wines that
are very very similar in style to Burgundy because of the soil conditions, because
of the the climate, because of the diurnal shifts, so that in the
temperature, so it'll be warmer during the day and then cold at night.
So when you do that, it allows the grapes to kind of shut down
at nighttime and then wake up during the day, and it makes the vines
produce a little bit more rich fruit. Wow, so very cool stuff.
Yeah, all right, let's see this is like well the spell the scent
immediately hits you more than the first two. Is that is that like a
rule of thumb with the darker winds or doesn't matter that the darker wines like
the scent is more potent, not necessarily like it. It really depends on
what it is. This just happens to be pino happens to be a very
aromatic wine with this particular one you get when you smell it, it gets
a little bit of that kind of earthy funk. Oh yeah, which I
really really dig It's almost like two we call that. The wine geeks they
call that forest floor. It almost it almost smells like you're walking through a
forest, like rustling dry pine needles. Oh I, I could sense that.
Seriously, that is really nice, how smooth. Sometimes pino has a
more of a after bite like so when it does, it's not supposed to
Okay, when it does, no, no, no, not at all,
it just means that they're blending something else into the pena. So in
the United States, if it says pino noir on the label, yeah,
legally it only has to be seventy five percent noir. And pino noir is
a very finicky grape and very difficult to grow. So a lot of producers
that make like tons of pino noir, and I don't want to name names
out there, but some mass producers in California, YE blend petite Sarah and
Sarah to their pino noir, which makes it much darker colored than this.
This is what it's a post I look like because this almost yeah, this
is opaque. Yeah you can look through it. Yeah you should be able.
You should be able to read through pino noir. Okay, yeah you
can. I didn't know that that. See, this is the stuff I
want to know. There's only a few I don't know where I'm going to
use this knowledge, but I do. I love it just for the sake
of knowing it. And that's one of the great things about wine. The
more you learn about wine, the more you realize that you don't know anything.
Yeah, Like you can study. I've been studying for twenty years,
and every single day I'm like, Oh, I didn't know that. There's
just new stuff to learn every single day. Is there? Now that we've
tasted these, go ahead, Danny, because you're are you going to ask
about this wine? Well? I was going to ask about like you've just
been doing this for twenty years. But my question was more about aerating the
wine. Right, Like, my wife and I took a wine making class
about a year ago, so I thought, we're gonna be able to stop
grapes and stuff, and no, that's not what happened. They basically assign
a kit, you pick the ten wines as a class, and those are
the wines you get. Did you do it over there? I did it
someplace in gates. I think wine by design? I think, oh yeah,
so. But the longest short of it they tried. They sold us
these air raiders right where they say it'll age the wine five years. That's
why I want to ask. That's why I wanted to ask. It'll age
supposedly age the wine five years for every time you dip it into this air
raider and dip it back. That's right, I thought. I knew it.
Are the air raiders even, I mean they're They were there a gimmick
like honestly, if you if you get a decanter, you pour the wine
and let it sit for ten minutes, it does the exact same thing,
right, So I talked myself with the oh yeah, this definitely tastes ten
minutes ten years older than it did before. This is I would say,
suggestion power suggestion. Of course. I will say this though, Oxygenating a
wine definitely has an impact. Like when you opened last week, I went
out to dinner with a couple of buddies of mine and it was because me
and my one buddy had we had come in first and second in our fantasy
football league. Okay, so we just decided we'll just split the winnings and
take everybody out to a nice dinner Atlanto. Oh cool, So we went
to we went to dinner at Lento. I brought a nineteen eighty four bottle
of red. It was actually from Lebanon. Wow, and uh so I
brought this. I brought this? Hell do you find that? So there's
a there's a the super geekiest wine in the world is Chateau Mousar from Lebanon.
It's a guy that studied in France how to make wine and makes these
beautiful Bordeaux style wines in Lebanon. Really, right, I do Like now
with the cedars of letter of Lebanon, does that impact the wine at all?
You never know? Mind, because like Lebanon's known for cedar trees it
is, okay, So that's why I was asking, well, I did
I know that? Yeah, So I was wondering if there was like a
hint of cedar. I mean, it depends what. If you're using certain
oak, you'll definitely get some cedar. I mean, I've never looked at
what is it nineteen maybe four? So you're talking to wine. It's forty
years forty years old? Yeah, yeah, So you put it in a
decanter and let it open up, and when you first pour it, it's
really kind of they call it. They say the wine is tight, so
it means none of the flavors are there. All you're tasting is the component.
So all you're getting is tannin and acid, okay. And then as
the bottle as it sits there in the decanter, it slowly opens up and
opens up, and then the fruit flavors start coming out and the wine just
kind of evolves in the glass. And then if you let it sit for
too long, it just dies because now it's exposed to oxygen after not being
exposed to oxygen for forty years. So the older the wine is, the
shorter it's lifetime when it's opened. I didn't know that drink it. Now,
what is the oldest wine you've ever tasted? Late twenties? Really?
Yeah, wow, late twenties and how I was good? I was awesome
about it. Twenty minute span and that was dead. Yeah. So do
you have a favorite? That's is that almost like asking you who your favorite
kid is? It is in a way, okay, but it really it
really I see, I only got one kid, so that's I have a
favorite nephew and niece. I can tell you. It really defends what I'm
in the mood for. Like, my favorite region in the world is the
Rhone Valley of France, just because if I want to drink white, I
drink white. If I want red, they've got sparkling, They've got rose,
They've got everything I could possibly want in that one region. And it's
all great. But like I do have a wine cellar then I collect stuff,
and most of my cellar is either Burgundy or German reestling. Really yeah,
oh okay, so those are my those are my two sweet spots,
and both because they age really really well. So I've got I've got thirty
forty year old bottles of reestling that age beautifully really yeah, yeah, I've
never recently was almost too sweet for my palette a little bit, but I
don't know if I've had good reasling or bad recently. And some of the
ice wines very sweet. Some of the ice wines are very sweet. Yeah,
that's not always my favorite, so I always stuck more to cabs or
Tuscans. Love the Tuscan. Tuscan wines are great, yeah, like if
you can really go deep. But I but that's about that. There's what
it ends for me. And what's that Australian wine with the kangaroo on it?
That's really jellle tale. Yeah, it's cheap and that's hugely what I
bought. I got the jumbo bottle. Well then I yes, you could
buy the jumbo bottle for like ten bucks. Yeah, that's right, and
it's not great, it's just exactly but I'm I'd like buying, like if
you can buy the case sometimes sure, and then they have you know,
if you find a wine you really like, that's always a favorite of mine.
This has been amazing. Do you teach classes? Could you hire you?
Sure? Like? Could Let's say somebody wanted to have you know,
I think they do wine and art? Do they do wine and painting somewhere.
I want to say somebody wanted to have in their house like a wine
tasting. Yeah. Absolutely, yeah, I think that's a great idea.
How do people find you through LinkedIn or something? Yeah, well you can
find me through LinkedIn. You can send me an email, uh jlink one
one three at gmail dot com. Just put wine tasting in the in the
subject line and and well, I think that would be a really cool fun
thing, especially as the weather's warming up, you know, in the next
couple of weeks, and and what a cool thing that that forever summer is
perfect for something. And that pino noir. Dude, I've never had a
pino noir that didn't kind of bite me in the end. I actually I
actually sell this to one of one of my customers is the Naples Tael down
and down in Naples, and they have this great little restaurant in the bottom
floor and they have like a patio outside there and in the summertime they just
crush with this and just yeah, people just hang out in the patio and
drink rose. Yeah, it's great. Cool, So that's fun. Can
I ask you, like, how is how is brandy made from wine?
So much in the same way that whiskey is basically just distilled beer. Yes,
brandy is basically just distilled wine. Okay, so same. It goes
through the distillation process. They boil it, they cook it, they take
all the the alcohol that evaporates out of it. It goes through the cooling
coils that recondenses into alcohol, and then they just agent. Oh I see,
okay, so it's basically the residue of the wine after they boil it.
Okay. Yeah, So you start with when you make any distilled product,
you start with a base fermented product, so tequila. In order to
make tequila, you take your agave. They take the center of the agave,
they slice it, they cook it, and that brings out all of
the sweetness and the sugars. Then they press it, so you've got all
that sugary juice from the agave. Then they ferment it into basically an agave
beer called polke, and then they take that pulke and distill it and they
run it through the still and then you end up with tequila. Wow,
that's the healthiest thing you could drink too. I hear that about tequila,
and it's an up or not a right, Tequila is kind of my superpower.
Like I'm I'll drink three beers and be hammered. Yes, I can
drink tequila all night and be perfectly fine. Yeah, I'm getting to that
point in my life where I'm starting to appreciate it. I always feel like
I'm a late bloomer to the party late, but I have gaining an appreciation
for these things and this has been great. Thank you so much. Yeah,
fantastic any time, man, my pleasure. I'm about the worm in
the tequila. Where's that coming? That's a message and you don't want to
buy the one with the worms? Okay, all right, good, all
right. Although if you go down to Mexico, there's a couple of tequila
shops that I went to, and I was in Guadalajara, and they had
like a bottle with a scorpion in it and spider in it, and one
with a snake. I remember seeing that too in it, but I thought
I saw that I definitely wasn't in Guadala. Horror when I saw that.
The uh, do you base your vacations in travel on wine regions at all?
Or no? It depends. So one of the perks of the job
is that in wholesale they offer incentives. If you sell enough of this,
We're gonna send you on a trip someplace. Yeah, and it benefits the
wholesaler in the end because now you can go and say, dude, I
was at this winery and it's killer. You should buy some. But at
the same time, it gives us all new education and kind of new excitement
about the territory. So that's one of the things I've gotten to do in
the past, you know, ten years in this business. Is I've been
to Portugal, I've been to Spain, I've been to Italy. Last year,
I spent two weeks in Italy. I was in South America and Chile
and Argentina of wine regions just like cool places and you get to meet really
cool people and eat great food and drink great wine. All this from working
at the Genesee Valley Club and deciding that this is the way I'd rather go
than be inte justice and be a cop. Yeah, that's that's really interesting.
All right, We'll take a moment, feel free to hang out.
Speaking of cops, I was down at the courthouse. I was part of
the Sheriff's podcast today and then went with my son over to the courthouse and
did our old bit what you're doing at the cloud now? Then audio didn't
really come out that well. Okay, so I've got two that kind of
worked, and I will we will play those and let you know. But
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wine buzz is a happy buzz for me. Yeah, I like a wall.
I still had to muto over there because I have a wine buzz.
Phil's good. Yeah. So I grew up around wine. My grandfather used
to grow grapes and then make his own wine. That peano was so good.
And what happened is he he would make the wine, and then his
nephews the only time they would come and see him is when they wanted to
bottle wine and get pissed off about it. Was it because that wine was
just for his consumption? Is a good wine? I wouldn't know I was
a kid. Yeah, my father had ray fooled. One year, he
decided to go down the road to the to the to the winery called Willow
Creek, and he bought a bottle of this stuff which I later bought a
couple of years ago, called Rambo Red. And he convinced the family that
he found a bob of Grandpa's old wine and that they all got to try
it. It's amazing for an excuse to have a Fourth of July party,
These people been, Oh my gosh, this why it's twenty years that's so
amazing. My grandfather had passed away in eighty eight. Now we're in the
year two thousand and Also, my father's got everybody convinced that he found this
barrel of my grandfather's wine and they're all trinking it thinking it's my grandfather's and
he and after he died, my mother goes, oh, by the way,
your father wanted me to tell you after he died. Yeah, that
wine party. Yeah, he bought it from Willow Creek and he had everybody
fooled. Nobody knows anything. I'm like, wow, nobody does know anything
when it comes to that. But man John Link knew his stuff. That
was really really love. Yeah, he was great. Uh So I got
invited to go down and I've spent a lot of time with Sheriff Baxter recently.
Jameis and I were with him the other day having a little bit of
fun. He had come in a couple of weeks ago when we dropped the
podcast yesterday or two days ago. And then I get a call from Deputy
Hurley who's been in here, and Deputy Hurley said, Hey, filling in
for Sheriff Baxter on this podcast, do you mind coming down? And it
had to do it was centered around autism and autism up and which I told
Autism Up I would MC their gala and uh, I thought it was May
fourth and it's not. It's May eleventh and that's the same day as my
son's college graduation. So I can't. I can't do it, but helping
them get some other things together. So I went down with Jamison and I
thought, while we're there, why don't we bring up the old bit,
Danny, Yes, the old bit what you're doing at the court house.
You know what's funny, it's like, have you done this bit since I
did it back? No? So like, wow, then I had done
We're talking about ten years? Yeah, oh at least and because sometimes I
did it but mostly you did it. Yeah. So Jamison was like really
nervous. So we tried it with our Lavalier mics, and the Lavalier mic
picks us up. They're wonderful, but they're not good pick up. Yeah.
So what I'm thinking is I like the quality of the Lavaler mic.
What I may do is almost put it like on a boom, like a
long just a stick and just kind of hanging out like Bob Barker's are at
the Price right, Yes, because that's what it looks like. Yes,
So that I may do that. But we went down there and uh,
here's our first contestant. And it was Jamison wanted to host this, and
I said, we got to get five questions. I think I was lucky
if I got three. But here is our first person on what you're doing
at the courthouse pizzo. Okay, what's your favorite hot sauce? What's your
favorite hot sauce? He says. And the guy, because it's a little
echob we where we were, and we again we have the right mic says
yeah, CABn arrow cabin arrow is his favorite hot sauce. So then Jamison
asked them and how many stars are on the American flag? How many stars
are on the American flag? Danny, these are always our favorite kind of
questions. I hope he said, fifty, but I don't believe it.
Okay, fifty six sing American Samoa, Puerto Rico, Pago, Pago,
Pago, uh d d C. We're kind of the district of Columbia.
Uh maybe Canada, I don't know, Like they call him the fifty first
state, and that still leaves one other so uh maybe uh Cuba. St
Martin, Yeah, Cuba, right, Saint Martin. Uh Okay. So
then right away Jamison asked him, Okay, and why are you at the
courthouse. Why are you at the courthouse? Why are at the courthouse.
So, look, this is a guy who likes having an arrow sauce.
He likes uh, he thinks there's fifty six stars in the American flag.
Danny, What is this gentleman doing at the courthouse. I'll bet you he's
there for alimony. He's got to pay baby mama something. Okay, alimony.
Let's see if you are correct, We'll see. We get the answer
here. Do you mind ify it? Oh? My god, I mean
terrorist against my mom's eyes. He got terrorist threats, terrorists against his mom's
X, terrorist threats against his mom's So now I have to jump in.
I can't stay quiet with this charging. You're protecting your mom stuff? Six
months? Six months in jail for terroristic threats. Uh. I don't know
if there was gun assault in there, but basically he went after his mom's
X and he was doing he was doing God's work and he did six months
in the Monroe County jail. I had to ask, I don't know if
you were you were here, but Sheriff Baxter when he came in, I
was left of chips that you can only get. Oh. I did try
the chips. Yes, yes, yeah, I was What are the name
of the what are the name of I haven't execute the shebang. You can't
get anywhere but in the jail only places. Yeah, he's in the city.
You can find him, all right, and the Wayne County jail.
We're also learning maybe we're also learning that how to like this. So I
apologize. It probably would have been better just on the phone. So you
know, our friend Doug Phelps is a number driver. So in between jobs,
about five six years ago, I was a lyft driver and I was
summoned, uh to I believe it was Penfield, this apartment complex in Penfield,
to pick somebody up by the person's mother. Okay. So I'm like,
okay, So I'm waiting and this is like taking like twenty minutes.
So I call I go, man, like, somebody, uh some from
this number summoned to ride. Yeah, my boyfriend's gonna bring him out to
your car. He's causing a real problem. This is my son. Just
he's drunk, he's got a drinking problem. Just bring him home. I
go, okay. Okay. So you turn down a ride, No,
you can't once you accept the ride. If you turn it down you lose
points. See, it's not a it's not a perfect system. So I
go, okay, So she remembers she said, my boyfriend's gonna walk him
to your car. So the guy that her son is white, the boyfriend's
black, and they're about the same age, and he goes, yeah,
racist mother, effort, get that car. Oh So the black dude's like,
yeo, what the white dude her son for being a racist? But
they look like they're about the same age. So this guy is dating this
kid's mom throws him in the car and he goes, yeah, you know
what, though he deserved it. I'm like, I'm sorry to hear that.
I'm not here to quick fights. I'm just here to bring you home.
Yeah, no problem. So I'm driving under all sudden, Hey I'm
an auto mechanic. You might want to get your transmission fit what he goes,
Oh yeah, he goes, you can't hear that. He goes,
oh yeah that that transmission is about to go he goes, and I'm drunk.
I can tell I'm telling you the truth. So I went and traded
my car in like the next week. But it was so hilarious, Like
the guy there the same age the boyfriend is the same age as the woman
said. He's drunk, he's a racist. They throw him in the car.
I got to bring him home. Oh. Then he wanted me to
stop at the one of the quick fills along the way, and he goes,
oh, I forgot did him to cash? All right? We have
one more what you're doing at the courthouse. This is with my son Jamison
today, because this is what I do with father son time. I make
bits. Thick crust pizza. What's your favorite hot sauce? I don't remember.
She doesn't remember her favorite hot sauce. I think she said thin crust
pizza, favorite hot sauce. She doesn't remember. And how many stars on
the American flag? How many stars in an American flag? Do you think
she gets this right or wrong? Let's say she says fifty two, yes,
ma'am, okay, isn't it like fifty Yes? She was right.
My favorite answer is fifty two. So many people would say fifty two.
I think they they're confused. The weeks in the year yeah, and somebody
else like today, said thirteen. But there are thirteen stripes, as Jameson
said to me, And I feel bad that guy got confused, but the
audio didn't really work. Here we go, and why are you at the
courthouse today? Okay, why are you at the courthouse? Lovely, lovely,
great personality. I'll just tell you that little little cheating We'll have I
have video of this stuff so you'll see it on the socials. She likes
I think she said thin crust. She doesn't know what hot sauce she likes,
and she knows there's fifty stars in the American She is a support person
or she's visiting her support support is a good question, good good answer.
Oh, I have to do drug test. Okay, thank you so much.
She had to do a drug test. She had to do a drug
test. So there was another guy that had to do a drug test.
And I had a conversation with him and he and he's like he's telling me
about how yeah, you know, I gotta I can only be me to
myself because to my kids, I gotta be a role model. To a
judge, I gotta, I gotta, you know, basically tell them what
they want to hear. To a lawyer, I gotta be this. But
I can just be truly me to myself. So we walk away from that
guy and he said all this stuff, and Javison goes, hey, guy
was really deep. I go, oh, yeah, with something. Javison
is one of like you know, as a parent, I would always say
to the other boys, I'm not your I'm not your friend, I'm your
dad. Yes, so we need to keep some of the you know,
hey, bro, that kind of ship needs to be by mini condoms for
Jordan's Yeah. Uh so all these things I need to, like, you
know, just run in with Jamison. It's terrible because we're so much alike
in terms of the sense of humor and stuff that. I mean, even
today we're together. And he said something, he goes, oh, man,
out of the corner of my eye, I thought that was a hot
dog mascot and I look over and it's this big woman in pink in like
a pink shirt and she's big. You go to and I just start laughing.
And I shouldn't laugh. I shouldn't laugh. I should go, hey,
buddy, let's be kind. Like if it was the other boys,
I would go, that's not funny. See, my dad would My dad
would actually be the guy who instigated that stuff. So we're Christian people,
right, but we'd be driving down the road if he saw a fat woman
walk. He goes, hey, Dan, look at that Walrus. Yeah,
yeah, yeah, it's like, Dad, you're not supposed to You're
right, daddy, boy, Yeah, you're right. I'm sorry. Two
days later, hey look at that, Walrus. Well, I was like,
my grandfather used to do that too. It when my grand my mom's
dad died that my grandfather, who I was very close with, we used
to write stories. He would write a portion and mail it to me,
and then I would write the next portion and mail it back. Let's go
do that. We did all that, and my mom's dad died. So
we're at the I meet him in the parking lot of the funeral home.
It's awake, and it's irish, and he's a fireman from New York City.
So there's on our guard and it's two days or three days, and
there's alcohol, and uh, my grandfather goes, oh, I guess I'm
your I guess I'm your favorite grandfather now and I start laughing. Then it's
you know, I'm sitting in the back of the church and all of a
sudden, this big woman, I mean she was big. She gets goes
up and kneels next to the coffin. She just praying. My grandfather goes,
holy goosh, look in the size of her It was billy a stick
of light bulb upper ass her antler's glow, and I fucking lost it.
I lost it all of a sudden, the front of the front of it's
not the church. It's at the funeral home. My mother's snapping her fingers
and con She's like, so I got tossed because my grandfather at my other
grandfather's my material, my paternal grandfather got me thrown out of my maternal grandmofather's
uh wake. It was unbelievable. It's amazing. Let's just star. So
here's my complaint about about the courthouse. And it's not really the courthouse.
I can't say it's the parking garage. I parked in the Civic Center parking
garage. I just have to say this way here. Often I can't find
help. I can't find people to work. I can't find that. And
I say, maybe I live in a bubble. I have guys who are
in their twenties and they're working all the time. My son Jordan, we're
delayed going to my mom's and he's a student athlete at Roberts Wesley and on
their track team because he wants to work till five o'clock tomorrow for the ten
company. He works for McCarthy's, so he was today. He was at
the warehouse and then over at U of R and all this stuff. So
I just I'm not seeing or recognizing what other people recognizing until today I go
there, I do the podcast with Deputy Hurley in place of Sheriff Baxter and
drop on to April tenth, and he said, I'll validate your parking.
I said, fantastic, validate the parking. I go down, we do
what you're doing at the courthouse, and then I go down to the garage
and I drive to out the Exchange Street exit. That's where I'm going to
go. And it's not taking the ticket. It's like keeps spitting the ticket
back out of me. So I pushed the little intercom. They go,
well, you're gonna have to back up. And I've got this beautiful ram
truck from Victor Chrysler Dodge deeep ramp. It really is if you put a
light bulb in the back of the antlers, well they got it's got every
kind of beeping signal because you're in a tight space, right, and if
you get too close to anything. Nowadays, these trucks will jam the brakes
on for you because you're such an idiot and like it knows you're centimeters away,
and it spares you because any damage to these cars are thousands of dollars,
right. So i'm you know. So they say to me, you
have to You're gonna have to go where there's a person, and the person
is on the fits you exit. I go, that's on the other side
of the garage and they said yeah, and I go, okay. So
she goes, yeah, you're gonna have to back up and drive. So
now so I back up. I drive. There's something. I think there's
two lanes out. There are two lanes out. Only one is operational though,
So I pull up to the gate. It's not going up. There's
not a person in the little house there. But I look over to my
right, there's four or five people in this building in this one little room.
So I come over and they begrudgingly waved me in. I said,
hey, I was just did a podcast for the sheriff, and they validated
my my parking. Can somebody lift the gate? For me. And the
guy goes, you're gonna have to back up and go to the other lane.
And I go, I said what, And he goes, you're gonna
have to back up. You're gonna have to go to the other lane.
That's where the machine is that you put the ticket in. I go,
well, the machine's not taking the ticket in anyway. He goes, well,
this machine will take it. I said, this is the same machine
that was down at the other end of the garage and it didn't take it.
Can't you just lift the gate? I go, I can't. I
go. Look at the size of that truck. I go, this,
this garage is antiquated, right, compared to the size of cars too.
Yeah, they used to hold like a host to Yes, horses and carriages.
I mean it's well sort of, I mean, but the cars were
smaller. Yeah. So I said, can you just and he goes,
no, you're gonna have to back up. No, I go, how
am I going to back up and pull up because you're gonna have to drive
around and come back in. And I look, and there's four or five
people that are all just sitting in this room, and I go, watch
it. I went in my hand I go, Holy f I thought,
what happened? To just make the customer happy? All want to do is
get out of the fucking garage. That's all I want to do. I
just want to get out of the garage. So I go, okay,
and so I back up. The guy comes out and stands there watches me
back up. I drive out. I come back around now as I get
in this lane, I get in the right lane, I put the ticket
in. Ticket shoots back out and he walks over and he goes, uh,
share a validate to this? I said, yeah, heyes, you
sure? I said, well, I was just on the podcast early.
They have video if you'd like to go see. Yes, No, that's
fine. Looks at it again. Yes, all right, and like wedges
himself between the truck and the little booth, the little checkout thing, yeah,
and pushes some button and e raisst thing. I go, youkn'd have
done this? Fucking hard? Was that to do? Fifteen minutes ago?
It? Anyway? How is that possible? And he went, you gotta
be miserable in your job. You have to be to do that, like
it is a thing. I had a miserable day yesterday. Miserable awful,
awful, to the point where I wound up rerunning, not rerunning, but
taking a podcast I planned to run later and running it yesterday because just things
where it's just and I go when you and it was my in my head
when you start, there's a momentum to it, and it's shitty, and
you can make everything worse. Well, when you're dealing with people who doesn't
love the person's like, hey, beautiful day today, that's finally getting some
vitamin D. How can I help you? You know what, I'll lift
that gate for you, no problem, or even if you said to me,
I'm so sorry, it's kind of impossible for us to do it that
way. Look, I know this is gonna be a pain, but back
up I would have been I wouldn't even be talking right now. I know.
Do you know what I'm saying? And it just shows you and I
know that it sounds like a simple it sounds like a stupid thing, but
it's a huge thing. It's a huge thing with and and it's something for
all of us to remember when we interact with anybody. We love being around
people who are energetic. Pod don't think of your friends who just have a
lot of energy and are fun and you're like, God, I love hanging
out with that guy. Right, Yeah, you can get off that man
exactly. And I'm not saying you know, maybe you're I mean, look
that that probably is a job like and I'm sorry to put it this way.
I don't mean it in a negative way, but it was like being
a you know, a troll bridge operator and come out once in a while
and you got it, and I guarantee people are surly. Come on,
God, damn, I got somewhere to be. I got a meeting in
ten minutes. I could get out of the garage. You know, I'm
sure there's a lot of that. But if you met it with you know
what I understand. Let me give me less than ten seconds. We're gonna
get you right on your way. Boy, you become a hero. You
know, think of there's a guy in our and every city has one of
these, but Uncle Phil that everybody knows Uncle Phil. He works the parking
at every event in Rochester, whether it be a Rochester Red Wings game they're
the the Triple A team for the Nationals, or he's at our Lilac Fest
or I'm sure he'll be Rochesters the eclipse. Yes right, and honey,
you can't park there, I'll lead help you over here, right, but
let me help you. Let me help you. That guy needs to teach
a classes on how to have class I'm sorry, he really is. It's
an amazing thing. He's Rochester's best pr guy. Yes, he really is.
And I'm sorry to sound like a grumpy old man, but I am
telling you that goes a long way, you think. And I didn't want
to flip out in front of my kid or be you know what. I
didn't want to flip out. I just wanted to get on my way.
I know my way. It's an inconvenience and it was multiplied. I just
want to get in my way. And as people have like tried to do
the right thing like that before and been burned by it possibly very possible that
it's possible or the other thing. But you could also be like even to
say to me, I said to you, I was on the Sheriff's podcast,
So you say to me the sheriff Alladay, and I go, yeah,
you sure. I'm like, now you're just being a prick. And
I get it. I get it, and I do think that sometimes there
is I think it's in their head, but we all do it. They
think. I think they look at at people and think you in the car
are better than you, think you're better than And I don't think I'm better
than you. I just want to get out of my way. I got
ship to do. This is my lot in life. It's got ship to
do well. Maybe maybe not after day, month after month, year after
year. Well, I'll tell you what, attitude goes a long way.
And if you're positive even and I know, oh it sounds, it's so
much easier said than done. Yesterday was a prime example for me. But
it's one of these things where if you get a choice, no matter what
pops up, look for the positive in it or try to find it or
bring it with a smile. You you could change someone's entire day. You
could have somebody who just got the worst news right their loved one. They're
in that garage, their loved ones going to jail for the next six months,
and they are distraught, and they don't know how they're going to make
ends meet because that person's not bringing an income. All this stuff, and
you can say to them on the way, you can say to them you
got to back up and move this shit around on sorry, or you could
say, you know what, I hope you have a better day. The
sun is shining, right, we're all still here. Keep a smile on
that pretty face and go why can't you do that? Why can't you do
that? I remember when we worked at High Falls and there was a garage
there and everybody hated, like having to pay the monthly rate for it.
Right, And but if you stayed till the end or whatever, everyone for
a while. If you're if you like got to the end and you forgot
to pay your bill or whatever, they let you out. They're be like,
hey, they look the other way. They go, okay, look
you didn't see this for me, don't tell anybody's pay your bill. Yes,
I'm gonna let you out. Yes, Yes, they give you a
break, yes, every once in a while. And then we left them
for it. Yes, they were fantastic. Then they call, hey,
yeah you got tickets to uh yes to uh Eddie Murphy come to town.
Right, but still, I mean it was they understood it, but it
was it was customer customer focus. It's called right, not just customer service,
customer focus. Do you have to do it? You know, it's
but Kenya. Sure you know it's great at Customer Focus, Dan Mason,
Yes he is, and he joins us next because opening day is just a
couple of days away. We'll get to it next. Cobblestone on Maine at
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Red White and Brew r o c dot com. Opening Day for Major League
Baseball today. The Yankees on a comeback, which is the biggest comebacks is
nineteen fifty five. Biggest Opening Day comebacks is nineteen fifty They beat the Astros.
They're down four to zero and they beat them five to four and wat
Soto had a big throwout at a big out of the plate to win the
game the Yanks. But Nationals didn't do so well against the rest. We
don't need to rub that in because the Red Wings are gonna do good.
I think the ass I think the Nats are gonna have a better year than
they did last year. I really do well. They are the parent club
for the Rochester Red Wings. Dan Mason is on the line, Dan,
getting ready for your fifty degree guarantee. Believe it fell us, but I
guarantee you these fifty fifty degrees on opening day Tuesday, Yeah, April second,
four to h five. Tickets are available at Red Wings Baseball Back Can.
This is a big, big opening, uh week for you because I
think normally I think they're on the road the next week. But you've got
us coming and a bunch of people come for the eclipse. Yeah, Solar
Palooza on April eighth, and we're looking forward to having you guys and of
course some of the three hundred and fifty thousand people that will be uh converging
on the Flower City here for the Great North American Eclipse, and uh even
next weekend, we are going to be playing as the Rochester moon Rocks on
Friday, Saturday and Sunday in the honor of the eclipse. How are selling?
They got to be selling pretty big. They're doing pretty good, pretty
good. And the hats as well. Yeah, people like the people like
the new drip Moon Rocks Drip. As the kids are saying, you know
what, Dan, they ought to do. I just like you, Dan,
say the drip. If you're if you're going to sell Moon Rocks,
drip, somebody and I'm not saying who, Dan Mason, but somebody maybe
will rumbold I don't know. Somebody that organization needs to moon walk during the
stretch across the moon the moon rocks. Uh don't. I don't think they've
already thought of that. That is a that's a very good call dance.
Yeah, we'll have to Uh, we'll have to work that in. You
know, our skipper, Matt Lee Croy is a great dancer. I might
get him to do it. May sti't lie. You've been practicing your moonwalk
ever since this all? You know me, I'm more of a I'm more
of a dead dancer, not a not a good not a good dancer.
Yeah. Well, this is exciting because opening day earlier than the past couple
of years. Yeah, we're well. Last year we opened uh March.
I think it was thirty first last year year for some reason, I don't
know. Yeah, usually it was. It used to be that used to
be like the you know, kind of the first week of April, and
our season starts earlier. Uh. Major League Baseball wanted us to kind of
mirror their schedule, So they opened today and we open tomorrow against the dreaded
Syracuse Mets in Syracuse, and then we're home for the home opener against Lehigh
Valley on Tuesday. Yeah, Tuesday, and that's a I know, that's
a big deal. I have friends who have gone to every Opening Day a
friend and their dad for probably forty years, if maybe longer. Yeah,
I think that's really cool. It's something that you know, you know what
you have done, You've made memories for people, which I think is one
of the greatest things you can do as a business, right, no doubt.
That's what we're in the business of, you know, fun and making
memories. So it's it's awesome to hear stories like that, and you know,
people Opening Day is a is a write of passage for a lot of
families, and you know, like just like your buddy, and there's just
something special about Opening Day. You know, you still get the butterflies,
and you still it's just one of the coolest games of the season, and
it's a sign that spring is finally here and and the first of seventy five
home games for the Wings. Talk to me real quick about you know,
I obviously baseball and we've got the entire season to look forward to, but
talk to me about the the Eclipse party and what people can expect, because
I think a lot of people are now you know the excitement, there's more
build up. We're getting warnings. We're being told to stock up on three
days worth the groceries and make sure you've got I know it seems a little
ridiculous, it does, but I think that it's it's certainly a historic moment
and something that we all want to see. But you know what would be
the best time to arrive, you think at Innovative Field and to be part
of all the things that are happening there. On Monday, April sure,
Our Solar Bluza party starts at noon, so gates will open at noon,
will have live music from the Skycoasters, will have massive feed on the two
largest televisions in Monroe County, our video boards. We'll have an arts and
craft station for the kids. We're going to have a scavenger hunt. We're
gonna have autographs from our stars, the Red Wings players, Mac Spikes and
MITSI will be around. It's going to be a great party. And first
three thousand fans are going to get a free pair of eclipse glasses because you
must be wearing your glasses to view the Great North American Eclipse. Yeah,
and uh, and of course, like I said, all kinds of really
cool solar Pluza and moon Rock strip available in the Red Wings team store.
So I think's going to be a great party. I'm going to try to
get there right at at noon then, or or maybe a few minutes earlier.
I'm worried. Well, yeah, I mean the one thing that we
have going for us, or one of the many things we have going for
us. Right, there's a lot of events all over town. We have
we have a lot of parking available, We've got concessions, you know,
don't forget. We'll be serving all kinds of celestial delights like rocket red hots
and Pluto's popcorn and Nebula nachos and space station Sunday. We've got Totality beer
will be available, Tequila, Sunrise Ye planetary plate. So let's see buzzes
pulled torque mac and cheese. I want all kinds of great I want to
be in the planning meeting for this, because you know, they were spitball
on every idea of Dave's and I love it. I think it's great.
I think it's great. Yeah. Will people be allowed on the field for
this or just out in the stands, so we have both VIP tickets which
would include access to the warning track on the field, and then we have
regular tickets in the seam Bowl. So tickets are available now at Red Wings
baseball dot com. Okay, very good, All right, Well Mace is
here goes another exciting season. Man, here's to it. Well, let's
go, let's let's go. And you know how we like our Wings.
We like him? Hot hot, I believe it. How many years is
this? How many opening days is this for you? This would be thirty
five with the Wings and thirty is GM? Fantastic? Congratulations. I remember
when you became GM. Oh my gosh, it was nineteen ninety four,
wasn't it ninety five? Ninety five? Okay? That was right before the
new stadium, right about a year or two before the new stadium. Yeah,
two years before we moved here in ninety seven. I remember when he
came in because somebody goes that it's a McQuay guy. All McQuay guys here,
That's what I heard. And I remember going, that's awesome, that's
awesome. I've never been a quake guy. I don't like. I have
there, you go, I met some acquias people I don't like. Wow,
I'm kidding. I love all the quay people. Seriously, you're right,
fantastic, that is true. Yeah, yeah, that's right, Mace.
We will see April eighth, if not sooner, on opening day April
second. It's coming up this Tuesday, So you've got you can work off
your Easter dinner on Monday, take a nice walk, stretch out, get
ready, get it up, and then load it all up again on Tuesday
a, April second for opening day. Absolutely, and tickets available at Red
Wings baseball dot com. All right, thank you for being patient with us
tonight. I appreciate. Oh you got it, guys, my pleasure.
Enjoy your Eastern Hams. All right, absolutely, all right, we'll see
you bye bye. All right. So during that segment, jd Our former
intern now Dan and I at one point were part of a show on w
CMF, which was a legendary rock station in the in the Northeast, and
we did mornings there. Uh and it was sort of after brother We's had
moved to another station, so we stayed and they wanted to call us the
men's room, and I told them, well, somebody knows that that show
already exists in the Great Northwest. So then whatever. We don't need to
get into that. But we wound up with an intern and his name with
JD. And I really like JD. He was fearless and clueless at the
same time, and it was fantastic. We dressed him up as the Pope.
We sent him out I think it was around Easter time, yes,
and had him walk into a church in an early morning service. They chased
him out, then he went out and he's dancing around outside McQuaid with a
sign of his father knows best and all. This was stupidly my idea.
And then he had We had this guy we called Ramsey, Ramsey, the
pansy Ramsey winds up. He's on the phone with us and some guy's trying
to rip the phone out of the cop. The police officer trying to rip
the phone out. Some call goes, you can't do that to Ramsey.
This ship we did, and this ship we got away with. But JD
was calling me during the segment with Dan Mason because he saw that we're doing
what you're doing at the courthouse. So I am calling JD back and see
if we can get her to answer and find out what JD's up to.
I actually saw his dad not long ago. Oh no, kid, Yeah,
oh shay, here we go. Hey JD, JD, you were
on the podcast and you know who does the podcast with me is Dan Burrillo.
It's going out there. I know, I saw that the other I
saw that for a minute. What's up, guys? How are you good?
Man? Is good? Dude? I just bought a house in July
and having a daughter in June. Look at this. Congratulations JB. Now
JD is I ran into your dad and your dad and I spoke and he
said, you're doing great? Uh? Are you selling some kind of computer?
Selling software software? Yeah? Yeah, so I I so it's been
a long journey since the since the WCMF day. Yeah. I work in
the cloud industry doing right sales for like a software as a service, right,
so it's like a kind of monthly subscription model for software in the cloud
space. Yeah. Look, I recruit softw for salespeople. So I saw
that, Dan, I saw your LinkedIn and you actually I think he reached
out to me a couple of months ago, or maybe a year ago,
because with your with your recruiting, uh, the recruiting efforts they have.
Yeah, So JD, we were reminiscing about some of the things we had
you do. It's at w CF. Do you remember some of those things?
Oh, dude, I tell these stories, tell these stories all the
time. You remember the Dope Pope that was brought up, the Dope Pope
where we stay out that picture? What other things did we have you do?
All right? So we did the we used to do the It started
with what do we do at the courthouse? Yeah, we did have it.
But then I made my own game, which was the east Side,
West Side three one five. That is true, that's right. You were
the one. That's right. You did that, and I actually carried that
to other stations after that, and I never gave you credit because I didn't
remember the terrible Well, the courthouse was getting testy, people were getting testy,
and I was like, I'm in I'm in community college. I should
be able to ask these people here similar questions and find a way to build
a game around that. Okay, well you did that was great? And
what else did we have you do? Let's see? Did you go down
when they were taping Spider Man? Oh? Yeah, I think I was
just like kind of like on the scenes for that. There wasn't spider Man.
I don't know if we did or not, but I know I don't
dress up. I was on the roof of a parking garage watching them do
watching them do one of the chase scenes, right, and you guys had
pointed me in the direction for that, But no, I think it was
mostly the dope hoope thing, the east Side West Side three one five.
I mean I was screening calls and sleeping on the floor at the studio.
I had just turned twenty one, so I was like drinking the city and
then I would come into the studio and just sleep on the floor and then
oh god, radio man. It was so much fun. It was fun.
Well, it was fun, and it prepared me for a lot of
I don't know later in life. I just felt like that that drive could
just talk to a total stranger. Yes, yes, especially from a sales
perspective, you know, talking to people who have no interest in talking to
you, and just getting past that initial hey, how you doing yeah in
a positive way is a skill that I've that I've carried with me throughout my
life. After that, Yeah, well, congratulations and all this success.
And I saw you you were calling us when we were talking to Dan Mason,
just like we did back in the day. Yes, oh yeah,
and I spoke see Jeff Dale all the time, him coming in. I
remember he brought me a case of three heads back when they only did the
deuce bottles. Remember they have the regular bottles. Yeah, I think they
were still brilliant out of like custom brew crafters, they were customer brew crafters.
Well, good, and I congratulations on the daughter. Is this your
first child? This is this is yeah, Okay, we got married in
twenty two, but we've been together almost ten years at this point. Well,
congratulations. Now the Bombo Restaurant, which was where I had had to
scramble too after CMF. Yes, we used to talk about that too.
Remember didn't you almost get fired for there or something? I heard from there
twice? Yeah, I remember that a couple of times, this kid,
I got fired from there because Rachel and all the promo girls used to still
come see me at the melting Pot. Yes, the melting pot that's right
there, and Haley and all those girls would come in and be like,
oh, look at Jada. He got fired. Now he's stir in cheese.
Well, JD, it was great catching up with you and I'd love
to have you in some night. Yeah, let me know. I mean
I'm still around and you know, get on the way. It makes things
a little bit more difficult, but I'm happy to come out. I've ever
done a podcast and it all right, we'll make it happen, all right,
see it got to talk to you there, he goes g D all
right, we'll take a moment. Now. There's been a lot of stuff
happening over the past couple of days about Diddy. Oh yeah, him too.
What were you thinking of? It's just Monroe County in general? What's
going on wrong? Oh? I said post officer got assaulted today on parking
Culver you didn't see this? No, oh yeah, well then you gotta
be quarker Culver, you gotta be quicker. Got the quicker with that mail
bag. I did not see that. It's like Paranello's neighborhood. It was
John. All right, Well, we'll take a moment. Here's what we'll
do. We'll find out about Diddy. We'll catch up and GSL News is
going to give it to Jeffrey Rogers, so he's going to give us some
Diddy talk, okay, because the Diddy stuff is is I'm on I'm on
talk and I'm watching and I'm seeing uh, fifty oh yeah, fifty cent
say he tried to get me to go shopping with him. I'm like shopping,
Oh yeah, he goes. Let me tell you something. He's gay.
Oh yeah, Kat Williams, Yeah, supposedly said he offered him like
fifty million dollars three times or something like that to do stuff with him.
And then there's somebody else who's been on TikTok that I'll tell you what I
heard, and then we'll get We'll get Jeffrey Tice into the Nickelodeon stuff in
some cases. Yeah, And I'm hearing stuff with Jamie Fox maybe connected to
this, and that there's a former Syracuse basketball player who was a walk on
who was the drug fuel and he he only did two years at Syracuse and
transfer. So I don't think they want to claim this thing has the legs
of a tarantula. Yeah, but it's it's wild and uh so we'll get
a little bit of news on that, and then maybe news of the day
from Danny from things I was not aware of the assault and some other stuff.
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right, there's a puff daddy. Yeah, they get to be careful with
what we're playing there. People saying that there was no audio coming through.
We I think we have solved that problem for the video portion. Now.
Uh see, here's the thing is, like, so when Kevin was here,
I would have Kevin do the audio Kevin or do the video, and
then Kevin wouldn't switch the cameras, so like it wouldn't be on the person
that was that was talking even like now, so I go, I'll just
do it. Well, what happens is I'm hitting so many buttons over here
sometimes like fat finger things, and I wound up muting something okay, And
so that that's where that may have happened. Uh, puff daddy. I
have to be a little careful in some of the language in this song.
But there's a whole lot of stuff. And we had brought this up a
while ago. Now I'm hearing that he may be be behind potentially the poisoning
as they're saying now of Jamie Fox, he may be behind the death of
his ex girlfriend who he or ex wife, I don't know. He has
children with who she just sort of mysteriously deteriorated and died. Then there's people
who are accusing him of all kinds of sexual affecting, sex trafficking. But
here's the weird part. They raid his house, and they raid his house
because he's got videotape. Why do and I don't know if it's pedophilia or
not in terms of I don't know how old these these people were, but
why keep the evidence around. It's almost like you want to get caught right
in some weird way. At the same time, though, when you think
you're that high up that you're untouchable, I guess, and I think in
a lot of cases, like when this broke yesterday, a lot of people
who are very cynical about it. And I'm not saying I believe this.
I'm saying, like what they said said that the FBI and the likes were
not going to collect evidence, but they are going to suppress evidence. In
other words, make Diddy the fall guy, take the evidence out that could
implicate eight other people who are high in power or higher up than Diddy.
Is make him look like the fall guy? Yeah, okay, well maybe
I Meanwhile, he's out to some country that doesn't extradite people back to the
ure Buddha. Is that what it's called's in Barbuda, which is near Antigua?
Uh? Yeah? Is that that wine we had earlier came from?
I think it was a wine. Yeah. I think it was a delicious
barboot and wine. Now we're gonna try Jeffrey Rogers uh to see because he
I know he's been following this and following out TMZ and stuff. He's it
does mostly local news, but he may have a little more insight on the
Diddy stuff. Okay, yeah, Jeffrey Jeffrey Rodgers. Hello Jeffrey Rodgers.
Uh. First of all, jeff Jeffrey Rogers. I was down at the
Monroe County jail today and uh, I know you had just been there for
for a hot minute. Is everything okay? Yeah? Yeah? So you
know I was arrested on too charge the possessional weapon which is a TA which
that case is going forward to be dismissed. There was also another one's riving
was suspended license which I did have a knowledge that it was suspended, but
it was getting handled within the next couple of days. But unfortunately I ran
to a situation where I was at the hospital visiting my father who was ill
at the time, and I bumped into a curb which caused them to run
my plate and then tried to say my tears was illegal. I've been arrested
several times on the taser occasions where the case has been dismissed. But for
the suspended license, totally my fault and went on up to that because that
was just me not thinking here of my responsibilities. That was due to because
I had missed traffic court which caused my license to be suspended. So that
is being handled, and you know there's a lot of rumors, are there.
Yeah, not to justify, right, not to justify it all.
What I was gonna say is not to justify. But I have had the
same thing when I was young where I missed the court date or something that
my license was suspended. I think I drove around once and got pulled over.
I think I was married and had two kids in the back of the
car and I was told your licensemen suspended you you can't drive, So I
had to switch seats and become a passenger and let somebody else drive, or
they were towing the car there, you know, and I had car seats
and everything, and and so my point to bringing that up is this does
happen to people, to anybody, anybody, and you got to stay on
top of it. There's no real excuse, right, Jeffrey, I've been
there exactly right, and that was stal of my fault for just being irresponsible.
But that does matters to be handled because obviously, you know, driving
is my job. Like I grabbed a news stories, so I want to
make sure that this is handled and nobody can have an excuse to arrest me
for the taser thing. Very unnecessary to take my pager and then my mate
and my pocket knife. Then to try to bring up some previous things that
have been handled in court already. Uh, that was inappropriate for the u
of R. Public Safety to even bring that up and do what they do.
Uh, so they may get the cruiser and all that stuff. And
I mean it is what it is, you know, the taser thing.
It will be dismissing core. It was already told to me. Uh,
that was inappropriate. That was very incorporate and wrong. But hey, you
know, we are not going to make excuses. I still have a job
to get done and I'm still out here reporting in the community, and that's
just that, you know. All right, Now, let's let's switch away
from our community and let's talk about this P. Diddy situation, because there's
a lot of people saying many many things, uh like almost a sex slavery
with some women, yes, of homosexuality. There's a guy who was on
TikTok who said he was at Diddy and he his rap career was blown up
and he wanted to leave Bad Boy Records, and he was at a party
and he woke up and he felt like a shoe had been shoved up his
butt, and uh, he says to did he a listen? I want
to leave? And did? He puts on a big screen and there is
basically this guy roofed and being anally raped. I'm sorry to be so graphic,
but the guys. Yeah. So Diddy has had several allegations over the
years, over at least the last three years, he's avigations And now I'm
mind you, he just had a civil wark case where a woman said he
was basically raped yea, and I think she did win that case. Now,
the fans have gotten and rated nearly every single property that did he owned
just a few days ago, including Florida and New York City, and they
did it all at the same time. Now, now with that being said,
I'm not sure if he's in custody at this time. There is rumors
of him going around the city saying that he is in custody. That is
not the case. There has been no public records of him being taken into
custody. But what I can tell you is that there are several people who
have come forward and say that they have been sexually assaulted. And even he
said it in this video slickly. He said, quote unquote, you know,
there's a lot of sexual things in the music industry. He said that
in one of his videos in an interview that he did about two years ago.
So these are serious allegations, and the fads do not come in unless
they have enough evidence. So at this point they probably do have enough evidence
to go ahead and take Diddy into custody. There's also a young person who
used to play for Syracuse a University who was also taken in custody. He
was then bled out with hearing by Diddy that has not had have enough evidence
to confirm that at this time, but we're hearing about that as well.
So this is all all a lot of rumors, but the fads have not
released what they are actually looking for in dds. That's something that I'm interested
in looking into and what they were actually looking for, because there's a lot
of things about him sex trafficking kids. Neighbors have come out and said they
I mean, it's a huge case and I think he definitely would be charged
in the coming days a charge. But then if he's in Barbuda, where
we're totally is and they can't extradite him back from that province or that state,
well, the Fat's gonna work. The Feds listen that you can't hide
from the fests. They're gonna work, so you know they're gonna work and
getting him back here. I'm pretty sure that he will be extradited in some
type of way or for him rather he comes back on his own, but
he he can't run from the Fed that long and he's probably just getting the
thing together. He did sell off all of his shares from his UH company
that he was a part of he did sell that, and so this is
all looking suspicious, you know what I mean, what happens to Sea Rock,
isn't it him? That's voyeah. Yeah, So he's like selling off
and it's becoming suspicious. I don't know if he's getting his legal money ready
or getting ready to be taking into custody, but it's very suspicious in these
allegations sexual trafficking. Said something, and I had to say, but he's
looking like the black Epstein at this point. He's definitely looking at the black
all right. So you bring that up because we hear different connections of things,
right, we hear connections of uh, Jamie Fox and is there something
there? There was another connection with somebody else that I had heard of a
case where I'm like, you know, I'm not sure about any of that
stuff. Yeah, I think you're I think this is almost similar to just
like ee case. I think it's very similar, and I'm not letting go.
Yeah. I wonder if he's ever been to Epstein Island himself. Do
we have any record of that, because I mean, if that's the kind
of creepiness. He was into birds of a feather, right, I did
hear that they did communicate. There's also pictures of Epstein out there, so
I mean they could have communicated about some things, which is also very interesting.
Yeah, we're gonna say that. Well, there's there's uh, there's
a guy named Dom Luker. I don't know if you follow him Jeffrey on
Twitter. He's considered a breaker of narratives. A lot of stuff he has
reported has actually surfaced. And one of the things that it's surfaced, there's
a lawsuit out there against the CEO of Universal Music Group, Lucian Grange,
considered the most powerful man of music. He's named as an accomplice in the
Ditty sex trafficking lawsuit for leged claims aiding a betting and including Puffy to run
a sex trafficking ring and like the details go there. Then he also talks
about you mentioned Fitty Sent earlier and how Fitty Sent is actually trying to suiting
a custody of his kid back because his ex has some type of connections to
Ditty as well, Like Fitty Scent can't stand did he No, he can't.
He hates him. Well, he talked about he's at some party and
he came up to him and he's like, hey, we should go shopping.
Sometimes he's like shop shopping yeah yeah, yeah, with trying some outfits.
It's funny. Yeah, Fitty sent is seeking sole custody of his ex,
his ex's son, he and his exist son, Dafty Joy's son because
he she is named as a sex worker and did he's lawsuit or whatever.
So, I mean it's like, it's just true. How big a story
is this in And I Am going to say it this way, Jeffrey in
the black community, I mean we we you know, there's a there's a
company now that has the Black News Network. Uh so I'm just wondering this
is a big deal. As you're saying he's the black Epstein. I think
so. I mean, these are any serious allegations, I mean, there's
not gonna be this many allegations and not none of them are true. I
mean there are people who come victims, and mind you, he just lost
and laws to a couple of years ago from the young lady who claimed that
he raped her. That serious. Oh they settled it really quick? Yeah,
like was it wasn't there something recently where it was like all of a
sudden it evaporated, Like they settled immediately. So as the accusations came out,
did it again? There there was a recent lawsuit where he was accused
of so and the loss is immediately like I said, like it was a
lady who had been raped. Yeah, well, we'll see where all this
goes. But it's uh, it's certainly as you're saying, Jeffrey, right,
you can't have all these accusations and nothing's going on. Something's going on,
and there's there's too much. There's too much stuff. But do you
do you think he's in some way I don't want to say responsible, but
in some way involved in Jamie Fox because that's another one I'm hearing when Jamie
went up in the hospital with it. So I'm not going to say that
one because I don't have enough proup revenue. Yeah right, right, But
those are the rumors you're hearing those as well. Those are rumors. I'm
hearing those rumors, but I don't know if there's enough group revenue for those
ones. Yeah all right, But I ask this question though, of all
the people in rap music, right, did he all of his songs?
Nobody looks at Diddy and goes, yeah, man, that's an awesome rapper.
He's great he's fantastic or well, I thought he was more of a
He is more of a producer. But it's like all this stuff that he
produces is off other people's music, Like he can't come up with an original
tune on his own. He's got a like sample, Well, everybody throw
that on there now too, because there's all these other things. I mean,
I gotta understand, like what makes it? What? What don't?
Makes him so high and mighty? I don't get it, j Z.
I get I'm not a fan of his either, But did he really?
It's like I always thought he was just like a pretender. What do you
what do you say to that, Jeffrey? Do you think he's a pretender?
Well? I think I always thought did he was suspicious because the way
I mean, even looking at the Biggie King, I mean, all that
is just suspicious. And a lot of people to that community already didn't trust
him. I mean, his reputation wasn't good already. He was no for
scanning and the inner frang. Okay, right, interesting, Well I appreciate
you giving us some time tonight. Do you have a nice meal with the
fam? Yeah? I had a delicious meal, and I just came from
Niagara Falls. So yeah, did you talk about he's Oh, he's at
the hospital. He's doing well. Now he has some things that he just
got medications. But did you guys talk about the bomb investigation downtown already?
Yeah? There was I forgot where we have not? Why don't you feel
us? You know what? And since you're on here News of the Day
with you and Danny, because I missed out on a couple of things,
tell us about the bomb. So the bomb situation, the FBI didn't release
you know, the FBI really doesn't release much information, but we do know
that around this afternoon they shut down those roads in Q fifteen, industry was
evacuated and they they haven't released much information, which is interesting. Uh and
I have a shock tem getting else. But they haven't released much information.
No, suspects are in custody and it has reopened to the public. So
this is interesting. Yeah, but they did was it a bomb stair?
You think just a scare? I mean they had a lot of equipment out
there. They had a warrn, so that's what it was. They had
a ordered warr and so that's that's where it gets interesting, Like do they
know this for a while somebody you know, So this takes a little bit
talent to get a warrn. Yeah, all right, so we don't know
much about that. But that was around the Blue Cross Arena area. No,
it was industry, Okay, a little further down. Uh and then
tell talk to me about because I did not pay attention to this, but
Danny brought it up. Uh. Post post worker being assaulted a mailman or
a male woman being assaulted on Park and Culver. Yeah, so suffect is
indy after robbing or attending to rob a United States Postal worker just around ten
a m. This morning. He was then taken into dustity. Okay,
so did they get anything? I mean, I it sounds like they got
the person pretty quickly. Then let me read the email for you. Actually
while I'm here, they see I because I just was looking at it not
too long ago. Hold on one second, going through my emails. Okay,
parking there it is, Okay, So it says just around today and
Goodman textant officers responding to the area of Cover Road and the sabine for a
board of a robbery. But officers spoke to the victim, which is a
un United States Postal service carrier, she stated, as he was confronted by
a male who then had his hand in his coat as he had a weapon.
He was fearing a drop all the mail and then ran off. He
was then fronted by other citizens who then said he flat on foot. He
was then taking scussody the Rochester police officers and no one was injured. Hot,
Now, how how do these other citizens step in? That's that's some
balls, yeah, right, because you don't know, you don't know,
no, right, you kind of put yourself on risk, you know what
they're carrying a lot of people, a lot of people are properting with police.
And when you have the community who was property in the pleee, a
community becomes much safer, Yes, And so that's something that you really don't
see much in the inner city, right, And so that I'm I'm actually
surprised and I'm actually excited that this is this has happening in the suspect was
instity? All right? Any other news today? Not so far? No
breaking news all right? Well, Jeffrey Rogers with GSL News check them out
online. How do I find Jeffrey Rodgers on GSL news again? GSO news
dot com like gs O news and all social media. Okay, all right,
Jeffrey, good luck with everything and stay out of trouble, will you.
All right, I's right, We'll see you later, all right,
by bye. There it goes there it is yeah, wow, yeah,
yeah, it's only March twenty nights. Billy. Well, it was kind
of like the Dinny thing is. It's really sort of interesting to me in
because, uh, you're hearing a lot of the you know, homosexual references
made towards him, And I say it that way because it's really frowned upon.
He's still in the black community. Yeah, and there's talks about him
being tight with TD Jakes, the black minister who's also been caught you know
dudes. Yeah, I mean there's a lot of ties to this. And
when there's i mean the phraser when they're smoke, there's fire, yeah,
or where they're smoke, there's fire. It's gonna be his next song,
yeah, apparently. Yeah. It's just somebody showed Tom Brady at a news
conference, like looking over and smiling as somebody walks in, and they go,
this is the look R. Kelly has as P Diddy walks terrible,
terrible, terrible, all right, Danny why don't we, Uh, what
do you want to add podcastitutional amendments? I know you have, but was
there anything else that we've missed? No, not really really. It's opening
day of baseball season today. Your Yankees came back. Yeah, a lot
of stuff going on, all right, give me your Danny has podcast stitutional
amendments like Bill Maher's new rules. Yes, I know he rips off Bill
Marshon. Yes so, but these aren't though, these are your thoughts,
these are your things, and so we like to use. It's a couple.
Yes, it's the couple this week. Okay, here when I go
to the gymp Sorry, this is a sports one. Yeah. So,
the NFL draft's coming up in less than a month. The NFL drafts come
up right now. As of right now, the Buffalo Bills have eleven picks
right now, a lot of quarterbacks are jockeying for position on to according to
the media, on where they'll be drafted. Right. But podcaststitutional amendment.
If you want to clare yourself any type of NFL draft expert when you're in
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one question lie detector test, and that is this. Did you believe in
josh Allen before the twenty eighteen draft if you failed the test? No,
But the answer is no, you do not get to participate at any NFL
draft talks. And I will start with myself right there, because I did
not believe in Joshua Patrick Allen. But he said we took the wrong job.
The only person, the only two people actually who publicly said came out
in defense of Josh Allen or mel Kiper Junior, who's gotten a lot of
crap over the years for his draft picks. Know he was the original godfather
of draft nicking and Chris Simms NBC Sports Gonna. He believed in josh Allen
quite a bit. And he also believed the Lamar Jackson too, the two
quarterbacks, they were the best in that draft. So a podcastitutional amendment due
to all the bad news that's happening in this area or maybe across America.
But now a mailman was roughed up today, A mailman, folks. So
yeah, so forget what I said last week about giving Monroe County back to
the Native America. I have a better idea. Let's make sure Iff Baxter,
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