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On location and driven by Dons G. Brown. It's Billified the Bill Moran

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Podcast. Well, hello and welcome. Thanks for getting your pod on.

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Thanks for telling a friend. That's
how we spread the word about the pirate

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ship on the road. Today at
the Bill's Mafia House, Danny, this

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is the first time for both of
us, that's right. And we're sitting

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down with Shane Crowdy, who is
the owner of the Bill's Mafia House.

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And I'm looking down at the scream
that everybody's looking at, and I believe

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we spelled his name wrong, and
I just went to edit it, and

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I think we've spelled a p r
o U d y and it's t y.

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Yeah, it's t y. I
apologize. You should change my whole

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life. You should change it to
d though for defense, you know,

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because if it's condus your help right
about now? Yeah? Yeah, So

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why do we just leave it like
that? Go to the town hall and

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change your name tomorrow? Shane?
You are you? And I spoke before

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you came on the podcast, and
uh, we're gonna be coming uh segment

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by segment today from the Bill's Mafia
House with different people. But I thought

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it'd be fun to have Shane On. First, you're from Central p A.

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Yeah, how does the Central PA
guy become a Bills fan? I

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mean, you're you are Bill's mafia, my man. Well, it's funny.

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A lot of people actually ask that
all the time. And the the

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funny part about it is is that
when you when you watch the news where

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like I come from. It's if
you watch like news for or anything in

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Buffalo, right, there's always those
two random counties that they show when they're

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doing the weather. The weather,
that's where from Warren, Pennsylvania. It's

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gonna be a little cult too,
right, So those two random counties just

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south of Wellsville, New York,
that's where I'm from. So okay,

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so right over the border. So
you're always a Bills fan. Yeah.

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I grew up as a young child
just following the Buffalo area and it was

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actually a lifelong dream of mine to
move to Buffalo. It was look at

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this, not only that, but
how did you come to then own this

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this home. Well, it's funny. I always tell everybody this, this

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this small story because I remember like
growing up watching games with my dad all

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the time and everything and I got
I always tell my dad I was like

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man, how cool would it be
to like live in Buffalo never miss a

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Bills game, you know. And
then when I I finally got the opportunity

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to move up here, we'll talk
about like manifesting your dream, you know

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what I mean. I mean,
seriously, I don't mean. I'm sorry

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to jump on. So the company
I was working for at the time,

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I had an opportunity to finally move
to Buffalo, and I came up and

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matter of fact, I would I
tailgate it right across the street from here,

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the house right across the street,
and that's where I parked, and

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I saw this house come for sale, and I thought, well, man,

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like this is it right, this
is how it happens. Yeah,

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so I bought the house, and
well, my girlfriend at the time,

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which is now my wife, she
was she was good to go along with

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it and to paint the outside.
We weren't this on the inside yet right

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as we lived here remodeling it and
stuff at the time. And then how

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is she living? Like, I
mean, you're in the shadow of Highmark

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Stadium. Yeah, yeah, it's
and there's not a lot around. Well

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no there's not. So, but
the thing is, what's so fun about

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it is that like all this happens, and you know, the weekends are

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crazy and everything, but honestly,
the way things are around here, two

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hours after the game happens, you
wouldn't even you wouldn't even know there's a

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football stadium. Yeah, Like your
kids would just ride their bikes up down

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the street. Like it's just a
small little family neighborhood. Yeah it is.

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So it's it's amazing. So and
then and then you own this property.

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So we took a tour. We're
outside walking around, and I see

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a bunch of campers and things.
So people set up here and they just

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stay here till April or March or
April. Do you rent these spaces out?

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Yeah, we run all the spaces, you know. So a few

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campers would come in when we first
bought the property and stuff, but they

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didn't stay for like long periods of
time or anything else like that, just

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because we try to separate ourselves a
little bit from it when we lived here,

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right, because we're small kids.
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now that we don't live here anymore, that's really what it's all about.

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Right as we rent the house and
then there's people camping outside and and yeah,

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there's there's people that they can't here
for every Bills game, so they'll

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just leave their campers here throughout the
season. Then after the seasons over the

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pull the mouth. Yeah, and
then so and everybody has their party.

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But do you know all the people, Oh yeah, I woul they become

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like friends. Yeah we are.
We're pretty much all friends, I mean,

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and mostly it's yeah, there's always
that one weirdo. And honestly,

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that's what makes it makes it so
great, right, is because you get

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to see the same people, and
you know, and everybody's inviting other people

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to their own tailgate and then you
know, i mean just social media representing

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itself right and bringing other people in
to take pictures of the house. I

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mean, we've had so many different
people here taking pictures of the house,

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and it's so cool. Can show
up, you know, well as the

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owner of the house. Who's the
most famous person you've met because of the

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house? I mean, don't mean
to put you on the spot like that,

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but I mean I got to think
that there's been some that you go,

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man, never in my life that
I ever expect to meet blank and

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yeah, well, I mean,
honestly, the probably the most famous person

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like right now in America, right
would be Josh Allen. It's been two

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years in a row now that like
like Wegman's and stuff with their coffee and

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the Josh's Jacks and all that stuff, and then they have the digs Hot

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sauce. They'll they'll do like a
little photo shoot and a signing and stuff

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for that promotional thing. So I
kind of have to keep it under the

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ropes. I'm not allowed to tell
anybody, like even my own family for

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that aspect of but I can bring
my kids, but uh, they'll come

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over here. And it was just
two months ago they called and said Josh

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was coming over and they actually set
up like right in here. Like if

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you look at the background of the
promotions like on the like the Josh's coffee

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and the Josh Jack's, like this
is the background these covers too. Oh

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wow. Yeah yeah, now when
you see the picture you'll put it together.

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But yeah, he stood right here. He got a sign one of

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coboards. Yeah, he was just
like sitting over there on the couch though,

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and like just signing stuff. And
it was like that it was like

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a super surreal moment. Sure,
yeah, I think this is like I

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mean, you know, he's probably
like top five, top ten most popular

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guys in America right now, and
he's just like chilling on my couch.

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Now, I did hear that you
got a call from the owner of the

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Buffalo Bill's Terry Pagoula. How how
was that? What? What what happened

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with that? And what were you
expecting with that when that went down?

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Yeah? So that that was kind
of the whole thing was was super weird.

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Right. My neighbor calls me one
day and over there it's you know,

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I don't hear from Bill a lot, right, It's more Patty.

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Patty calls more shots over there.
But so Bill calls me one day and

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I'm like, man, why is
Bill calling me? So he calls me

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and he's like, hey, You'll
never guess. He was just showed up

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at the house. And I was
like, who's that. He's like,

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Terry Paula. I was like,
he just knocked on your front door and

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he's like, yeah, he came
over guard. I'm like, and he

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was looking. He was looking for
you too. He was like, you

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want to know who owned the house. And I was like, well,

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that's crazy, right. So,
like I called in and then I ended

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up speaking to a few different people
over there, and it was in reference

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to one of the signs I put
back up right it had it still had

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like a cours light logo on it, and that really wasn't gonna fly.

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So they wanted to talk about that
a little bit. But then when we're

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on the phone, they were like, hey, we just want to let

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you know. When they put the
fence up back there, and then you

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saw him come back and take it
down. That was because Terry himself and

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all of them that were like,
you can't see the house anymore. He's

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like, I want that down,
So they wanted to be able to see

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the Bill's Mafia House. Yeah,
so that was a really cool thing for

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me because like I guess, so
when did you turn it into the Bill's

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Mafia House. I mean, obviously
you buy it and the logo wasn't on

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it or anything when you bought this
house. No. Actually, when I

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bought it, it was like like
green, like New York Jets green.

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Oh wow, Oh yeah. I
actually still have a half a can of

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pain because I was like, I
can't believe somebody actually bought this color paint.

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Like when I bought it, some
of my friends actually took the pictures

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of the house and like photoshop jet
logos on it. Yeah. So no,

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I painted it right away when when
we first bought it. So this

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is the tenth year and you put
the logo on it and everything. Yeah,

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we had to. We had to
change it a few times just because

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of different marketing logo. Yeah,
working with Dell and then the Bill's Mafia,

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right, they've had to change something. So we've changed a couple of

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different things. But yeah, from
the first year we had it, we

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painted the outside just just the inside
was a little bit. So I hear,

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I have lots of questions as we're
talking. I forgive me. But

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so you buy the house. It's
a family neighborhood, right you have kids

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at the time when when you moved
in here? Yeah, you have kids?

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Yeah when when we moved in.
Yeah, because I had a son

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and my wife had a daughter and
we met and then we had a little

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one together. Okay, we had
a baby living. Okay, so now

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you've got but when do you do
people start coming up and knocking on the

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door after they after you put the
logo outside, saying hey can we park

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here? Did you rent parking for
games. How did this? Because I

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nothing just happens, right, Things
evolve over time. Yeah, Like I'm

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thinking the first year you own the
house ten years ago, there probably weren't

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campers on the property. That's evolved
over time. Yeah, there was no

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campers when we first started, and
it was just the people we knew that

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we intailgated with before. And it
was like prime spot. Yeah, we'll

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see what else happens, and we'll
see who else parks and who else tailgates,

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and then you you just get to
know more and more people, and

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then you know, and then all
of a sudden, you know, people

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start asking like, hey, what
can we do? Yeah, you print

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campers? Can we do this?
Right? So it becomes a revenue generator

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for you. Yeah. Yeah,
Now it's you know, it's it's it's

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not like it's like I make millions. No, I don't think they are.

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But you got to do something.
Yeah, like I own a really

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cool house, Yeah, cool place. It cost me nothing? Yeah,

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okay there yeah, right your property
taxes? Yeah. Right now we're here

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with uh with uh Clark Pashkin and
they're they're a law firm, so they've

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rented the house. But I got
to think, like, is it booked

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out for how long? And how
hard is it to get in? I

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think you got to wait till the
schedules out right to see ye, So

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yeah, I I released after the
schedule releases is when I'll I have some

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repeat customers, so they'll kind of
reach out to me and book certain games.

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But then from there it just goes
on online and then people book it

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and it books up pretty quick.
I mean this whole season book. The

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schedule released in May, right in
the beginning of May, and by June

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the house was booked for the year. So you know, we just had

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just had one cancelation and and it
uh it happened just this past week and

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so it it opened back up online
and within two days it was it was

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rebooked. Is that crazy? Yeah? Yeah, it's it's it's it's cool,

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it's fun. And your dad still
around, Yeah yeah, yeah,

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my dad has done a lot to
help with this. I was gonna say,

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he's got to be just blown away
by this. Yeah, yeah,

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yeah, my my dad has helped
a ton with this place. Right,

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So he's he's a little bit more
patient with a paint rush than I am.

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So I would I would do the
rough draft back there of what needs

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to be done, and then he
would just stand back there with a small

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little paintbrush and yah, yeah,
everything here's hand yeahs hand painted. Because

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I went back there and I put
some pictures on my Instagram story. Now,

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tell me about some of the Memorabilian
stuff. I mean, where have

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you gotten this? And how long
has it taken? Has it been donated

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to you some of it from Bill's
mafia people or no, It's just been

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an accumulation of time. I've always
collected things. I've always been a big

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helmet guy, and and then different
pictures and things I've I've always just collected

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different things. And when when when
my wife's grandmother passed away, we were

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we were looking to buy in her
house, right and then kind of doing

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what we need to do over there, and it was a way of well,

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I don't want to have two mortgages, right, like, so how

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do we make this work? And
the Airbnb thing is what really started it,

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right, because that's where I started
to look into and I said,

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what what if I just take all
my bill stuff and I just turned started

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decorating the whole house, right,
Yeah, And some of it's different,

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like right, so like the tissue
boxes, my grandmother made those things.

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Yeah, there can you grab that? Dancers we getting shown out even on

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the camera, they're all they're crocheted, yeah right and that. Yeah,

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but she had that when you were
a kid. Yeah, my grandmother just

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made those in the last couple of
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couple of years. But yeah,
just right there just different things and uh,

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you know a lot of the uh, like there's a champagne bottle in

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there from one of the Super Bowls
that came from. Yeah, where did

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that come from? Because we were
talking about that. That's the uh it's

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probably behind me and it's from Super
Bowl twenty five. Yeah. So so

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back when, back where I grew
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real small town and called Guilton,
Pennsylvania is where it's at. It's in

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Potter County. One of the most
beautiful places on earth if you ever get

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a chance to go there. But
so so my neighbor there. Once I

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had the house and everything, and
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thing and everybody kind of learned about
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went back to visit my dad one
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like you should probably have these things. And she gave me like the

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champagne bottle and this old like old
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That's a nice yeah. So,
and and there's just a combination of

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different things from like collecting helmets and
just collecting. Because you've got a lot

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of autograph memorabilia here as well.
Did you personally get it autographed? Yeah?

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of bought in that way, or
just there's a few of the things in

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here I won from like like the
bills from the like fantasy season ticket holder,

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like football fantasy football leagues. Really
that's just crazy crazy stuff, and

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uh, you know, or other
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forget who who used to be down
there doing like the thing down here at

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Danny South. But they would always
have football players down there, so I'd

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go down again. Stuff autograph just
yeah, you know, however, you

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can do it right, and and
so now I have to think too,

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do you ever even must be bugged
by friends and family? Hey man,

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can you get it? Not?
Really? No? I mean most people

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are pretty extremely respectful of it.
I mean, obviously when it comes to

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the house, right, the rental, that's that's where the the brother money

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comes from, right to to make
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you get them into park and things
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comes to tailgating. And I haven't
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but I remember going to even the
Cleveland Browns years ago and it's nothing

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like this. I mean, it's
good, but it isn't this. Yeah,

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And that's just it, right that
it's always the next step is is

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how do you how do you step
it up every year? Right? Right?

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It's it's where do we where do
we go from here? So?

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Yeah, what is the is that
you? I'm sorry you get no,

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I don't want to. I don't
want to keep you if you need to,

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you sure? Because so what do
you do like every day? What

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your do you have a day?
Got day job? Yeah? I work

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for Sintas Okay, great sales training, yeah, great sales training. Okay?

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What do you do with stas?
I'm a service manager for the First

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s Aid and Safety divisions. Okay, yeah, so my office is actually

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in Henrietta, is it really?
Yeah? Okay, I live in Henrietta.

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Yeah, there you go. Danny
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a fun thing. And I got
to think, like, I know,

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the Steve Tasker comes over here quite
a bit. Yes, he came by.

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He came by last time. He's
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But then the last game, we
actually got a chance. When you were

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a kid, did you watch him
play? Yeah? Yeah, I mean

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that's got to be somewhat surreal.
It is a kid from where was it,

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Potter County? Yeah, I graduated
with like thirty seven people, Okay,

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like I did sixty five. I'm
from a really small part of New

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York State. Same thing, but
it's like thirty You don't think you're gonna

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like that's gonna happen to you where
they're going to be in the house that

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you own. I think that's awesome, and I think that's I think that's

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great. So then the Bill's Mafia. You've gotten to know Dell, who's

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I think fan of the Year,
and you probably deserved. Yeah, all

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that stuff, and then I would
assume you're a season ticket holder and you

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go to every game. Yeah,
I haven't missed. I haven't missed a

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home game now and well at the
end of at the end of this year,

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it'll be fourteen years woeen years.
Wow? Yeah, how do you

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feel about the new stadium? I
mean, now it'll be right across the

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street from you, right, so
I'll still right in the vicinity in the

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shadow. I'm excited for it,
right, I mean every year that passes

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by, I think I like the
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new one might be a little warmer. Yeah, so that's true. H

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You know what somebody I did see
we walked outside and on your property is

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somebody with an Lway jersey, and
I think it was Danny. You said,

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uh wow, the first er jersey
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But someone had texted the podcast and
said, do you guys feel like Josh

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Allen is more like John Elway in
that his style of play? And will

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he have a career like Lway where
he does and get to a Super Bowl?

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Until towards the game, and I
don't know what the what you think

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of that? But when you're looking
at things. I mean, it's a

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he's more Elway than Kelly. I'll
say that he's got Kelly Kelly's toughness,

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but Elway was a tough quarterback too, right. I mean, I've made

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the argument, and I've gotten killed
for this, but I've made the argument

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that Elway after Brady's the greatest quarterback
ever. Being. The reason why is

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because in those three Super Bowls that
they went and lost. Name the second

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best player on those Denver Bronco teams. You can't, they all sucked.

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Now. He then he gets Terrell
Davis, and he gets Rod Smith,

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who by the way, was like
a non drafted free agent, right,

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and Mike Shanahan's his head coach,
and all of a sudden, Oh wow,

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to that we have talent and we
could go win a couple of Super

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Bowls at the end of his career. Yeah, it's pretty freaking good.

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Yeah, you know, and I
think as a hell of an athlete because

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I think he was a Yankee recruit. Oh yeah, yeah. He he

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levers the Yankees to like get traded
from Baltimore to Denver. He didn't want

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to play in Baltimore. That's where
he was drafted because buying the Baltimore Colts

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first overall, and he didn't want
to he didn't want to play in Baltimore,

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Kelly didn't want to play in and
ma Reno was just happy to be

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drafted in the first pepadge that.
Meanwhile, there's three other guys, Todd

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black Ledge, Tony Easton, and
Ken O'Brien, who like nobody talks about

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anymore, and we're all drafted before
Damn Marino. That's pretty funny. Uh,

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while this is fantastic, great spot, funhouse. I actually snuck in

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here once and got yelled at what
I came in to just peek at it.

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Somebody else had rented it, so
we snuck in behind some people.

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I just wanted to see it so
badly because you realize you have a little

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piece of folklore that you own,
Like people want to see this. Yeah,

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you know, every every time these
little things like this come up,

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right, Yeah, it's kind of
like surreal moments of you know, yeah,

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yeah, you know, when you
when you do things, you never

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know what it's going to turn into
or whatever. Right, And we just

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did this for fun and and here
we are. And the great thing is

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I would assume since you're in charge
of first aid, that you know first

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aid, and that sometimes you have
to administer it out here at the Bills

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Mob House. Sometimes he saved the
mar Hamlin's life. You don't know that.

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We try to keep the craziness of
course. Actually I've been over here

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and everybody's very well behaved. There's
nothing outrageous at all, crowded. It's

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fun that it's great food, great
atmosphere. You know, it's it.

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I I think that, uh,
some of the crazy gets highlighted, but

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it's usually somewhere else in the on
the not your property a hundred percent,

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right, I mean, and that's
you know, as far as here is

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concerned, it's you know, obviously
even when my family lived here, right,

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that's we've tried to keep the same
precedent. Right. We all have

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fun, right, we're all adults, and we know as adults and fun

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and football comes with it with a
few pops here and there. Right,

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So, but we try to keep
it. I mean, there's people out

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there that have their their kids here
too, right exactly, and most importantly

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for me, right, I love
when people come in from opposing areas,

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right, And you know, for
me, that's fun right to see you

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know some some Denver Broncos fans out
in the yard, right, because that

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means like they kind of know the
place to come, you know, I

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know a place where they can come
have fun and tailgate and yeah, right,

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it's tell me on your jersey.
This the coat, it's like the

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it would be like a coat of
arms for a family crest or something,

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but this looks like it's the tailgate
crest. It is. Yeah, so

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it's the tailgate Hall of Fame crest. Right that I didn't even know they

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had such a thing. Yeah,
get the hell out of here. Are

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you a member? Well, did
you get inducted? Not? Not officially?

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Okay. There's there's a gentleman that
the tailgates here and he rents the

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house once a year. Hans.
He's actually from on the Detroit area,

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but he's a big Bills fan.
But this is what he does is he

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goes around and he has visited every
football stadium and found like the best places

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to tailgate. And that's so if
you if you ever reach out to him,

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you go into any football stadium anywhere, he'll tell you the best tailgates

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to go to and the best places
of his name is Hans and he lives

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in the Detroit area. Yeah.
Yeah, and here comes Detroit looking pretty

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good. Yeah, they're coming out
of nowhere right like, Yeah, what's

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like all of a sudden, Detroit
and Houston are good. It's not.

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Yeah, it's happening. The world's
upside down. But that's the NFL.

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Every month, you know what,
I think we got this league figured out.

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And then next week, you know
what, I think we got this

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league while we have you to tell
how people may be able to find the

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house to rent it next season before
you know, when the schedule comes out

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if they wanted to. Yeah,
just anywhere on I mean the two bigger

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social media platforms, right Facebook or
Twitter. Look for us called the Bill's

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Mafia House. If you look on
there, you'll find my contact information,

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email information and everything. That's the
best way to just reach out and ask

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questions. You should have a draft
lottery so people, you know what I

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mean, And then people get their
first pick of the weekend they want like

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all these people, you just line
it up. You get seventeen weeks or

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no, you know, you get
what eight or nine depending on the on

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the season. All games well this
year to the England game. Yeah,

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yea, yeahhould be like seat licenses. Yeah, yeah, you donate X

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amount of dollars you know what I
mean, you really manipulate that your advantaged.

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But it seems like you're better than
that. Yeah, it's you know,

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the way I've always looked at it, right, it's nice to uh

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to make a little money to to
to just cover everything and and and that's

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it. I'm not I'm not really
doing this right to make big money on

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it. This is fun. I
have my own place to tailgate. We

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have a great, great crowd over
here. And like I said, I

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want a piece of property costs me
nothing, right, so that that comes

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with itself. Let me ask you, with the stadium moving across the street,

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are you gonna move the house too? Have you talked to Terry about

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that? And wheeling and over?
What's what's actually funny is I think when

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you look at the pictures of it
and you see now like the layout of

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where it's being built, I actually
think Gate two might be closer to the

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house than the new stadium. Oh
wow, Now, yeah, I think

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you're right, because I mean it's
right there, it is, yeah,

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literally across the street. Yeah,
it's definitely gonna be fun. It'll be

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a great time. Well, Shane, it's been a pleasure talking to you,

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meeting you and uh. I suggest
to anybody who's a Bills fan try

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to get in here because it is
right exactly where you want to be,

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on the heart of Bill's Mafia tailgating. Yeah. Great, appreciate you guys

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being here. I appreciate you having
me on. Thank you, thanks for

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having us, Thank you. We
are live at the Bill's Mafia House.

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We'll be right back. But first
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mall at Grease Ridge Danny great place
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fifty TVs. Any football And when
you go in there each month they have

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different specials. They even have drink
specials. You can go in and get

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a pumpkin spiced margarita. How good
is that? Wow? Yeah, in

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November in November. Wow, that's
right, pumpkin spice margarita. You know

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you could you get a lot of
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then I had the bTB Cheeseburger Mac
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think are pretty booked, but hey, there are other days in the week.

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440
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throw your hair and something. Throw
your hair down. The Bills. I'm

441
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making it. Bill's Mafia House is
where we are get ready for the Bills

442
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and the Denver Broncos Monday Night football. Sorry, I interrupted a story you

443
00:26:45,960 --> 00:26:53,359
were telling you Mdilldill Uh. Vince
Press from Clark Peshkin invited us up because

444
00:26:53,359 --> 00:26:57,920
they rented the Bill's Mafia House and
allowed us. Vince Uh I had been

445
00:26:57,920 --> 00:27:03,079
in radio It's with us for a
while. Glad you could make it.

446
00:27:03,160 --> 00:27:06,039
I'm glad we made sure you're coming. You appreciate it coming. Tip that

447
00:27:06,079 --> 00:27:07,960
camera down just a little bit so
we can get Vinie. I don't know

448
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:11,440
if it'll go. We're a little
wobbly there. That's that's the one that

449
00:27:11,480 --> 00:27:15,480
I knocked over. It's all right, there we go. I knocked one

450
00:27:15,480 --> 00:27:18,200
office stand. It's the way it
is. But man, you have so

451
00:27:18,359 --> 00:27:22,480
much fucking food here. The Bloody
Mary's could last a week. What are

452
00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:26,599
you doing? Well? We invited
obviously our crew, but then I invited.

453
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:30,200
I just put something on Facebook and
Instagram too. Oh you didn't stop

454
00:27:30,200 --> 00:27:33,720
by it, Okay, so people
will be stopping by. Yeah, and

455
00:27:33,759 --> 00:27:37,720
then we have a core crew.
But we're taping this. It's only ten

456
00:27:37,759 --> 00:27:41,960
of five, the games at eight
thirty and you know Monday night traffic,

457
00:27:41,000 --> 00:27:44,920
it's getting crazy out there now.
Yeah, yeah, well we got here

458
00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,960
in plenty of times set up.
We talked to the owner of the house,

459
00:27:48,960 --> 00:27:51,720
Shane, and we're hoping to get
the head of the Bill's mafia on

460
00:27:51,759 --> 00:27:55,319
a little while. But you're a
foodie. I didn't realize what a food

461
00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:59,559
you are. The food is phenomenal
that you've made. You find different things

462
00:27:59,559 --> 00:28:02,839
at Wegman. What what is happening
in your life? What how did this

463
00:28:02,880 --> 00:28:06,960
all come about? Well? I
wrote I wrote a column for DNC for

464
00:28:07,000 --> 00:28:11,200
ten years. That was my side
hustle actually one of the before all the

465
00:28:11,240 --> 00:28:12,519
instagrams. Wait wait, hang on
a second, hang on a second,

466
00:28:12,559 --> 00:28:17,680
time out timeout, Yeah, hang
on one second, Danny, Yeah,

467
00:28:17,839 --> 00:28:22,000
you write a time for the Times
in Wayne County. He wrote one for

468
00:28:22,119 --> 00:28:26,720
the DNC. What happened, Well, Danny can't ring. They got enough

469
00:28:26,759 --> 00:28:30,880
sports people to see. They keep
letting more and more people go, that's

470
00:28:30,079 --> 00:28:33,240
totally that's cool, kidding, we're
talking about food. I know, I

471
00:28:33,279 --> 00:28:41,200
know it when I great texture.
When I first pitched the DNC for my

472
00:28:41,279 --> 00:28:42,480
column, which was now twelve years
ago, I said, we'll do the

473
00:28:42,519 --> 00:28:45,920
best of where to get the best
veggie burger? Where the best where to

474
00:28:45,960 --> 00:28:48,880
get the best colum ari? They
said, people really want to know that.

475
00:28:49,200 --> 00:28:52,960
So I had to fight them to
get that written. And then now,

476
00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:56,799
of course every it's the biggest thing, top ten lists, and absolutely

477
00:28:56,640 --> 00:28:59,880
know it's one of the biggest things. Tell me how because I would have

478
00:29:00,400 --> 00:29:06,079
when it comes to doing things like
this for Paskin Clark Paschkin, excuse me

479
00:29:06,359 --> 00:29:10,359
that it would be you. So
how far in advance do you have to

480
00:29:10,359 --> 00:29:14,000
try to book this house? I
think we booked it eight months in advance.

481
00:29:14,079 --> 00:29:17,519
Okay, you have booked it before, and Shane does book this place

482
00:29:17,599 --> 00:29:18,960
up. Yeah, we booked it
a long time ago, not knowing who

483
00:29:19,000 --> 00:29:22,559
is going to be around or available, right, but you knew it was

484
00:29:22,559 --> 00:29:25,640
a Monday night game and yep,
yeah, one of the reasons to book

485
00:29:25,680 --> 00:29:27,599
it. Sure, absolutely you don't
have to go home. By the way,

486
00:29:27,599 --> 00:29:30,640
you guys are welcome to crash here. Yeah, I know we're going

487
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:34,440
to get this get out of here. I'm afraid I'm gonna wake up with

488
00:29:34,480 --> 00:29:37,559
you, you know, spooning me
or something. I don't either, anything's

489
00:29:37,599 --> 00:29:41,079
possible, anything is possible. So
when it comes to the food, Vince,

490
00:29:41,519 --> 00:29:45,839
talk to me about things that you
have made, the different cheeses that

491
00:29:45,880 --> 00:29:49,079
you bring, what makes well,
let's start here, what makes a great

492
00:29:49,079 --> 00:29:52,720
tailgate food for you? What's a
great tailgate food? Well, snack table

493
00:29:52,880 --> 00:29:56,720
obviously, and there's one over here
that has some of the stuff you brought.

494
00:29:56,720 --> 00:30:02,079
But there's a fantastic goat and sheep's
milk, and I just want you

495
00:30:02,119 --> 00:30:04,519
to notice the back handle. Did
you notice how I got dissed some of

496
00:30:04,559 --> 00:30:08,799
the stuff you brought. But there's
a fantastic there's a fantastic goat, cheese.

497
00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:15,000
You you base basic Dick did not
bring that, not at all.

498
00:30:15,720 --> 00:30:18,880
You did your part. You brought
more than I thought you were going to

499
00:30:18,920 --> 00:30:21,880
bring it. Actually well I didn't
know, so I just figured. I

500
00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:25,240
said, guinnis and some snacks and
you, yeah, yeah, I try

501
00:30:25,279 --> 00:30:26,200
to do I try to do my
part. You're very good to me,

502
00:30:26,519 --> 00:30:30,279
you know. I tried to do
my part. So snack table is important,

503
00:30:30,400 --> 00:30:33,440
obviously, a charcuteri plate of some
type, and meats and cheeses and

504
00:30:33,480 --> 00:30:37,920
I actually we had so many other
snacks. I left that in the fridge.

505
00:30:37,000 --> 00:30:41,079
Oh you did meats and cheeses is
very important. Yeah, and then

506
00:30:41,119 --> 00:30:45,240
you have to run the gamut on
the mains. So you have burgers,

507
00:30:45,440 --> 00:30:49,039
sausage, chicken, chili, and
so there's a little something for everyone to

508
00:30:49,079 --> 00:30:52,519
eat. And it's and then the
bloody Mary's that you made. Now,

509
00:30:52,559 --> 00:30:56,000
what happens with all this food if
it's left over? Well, that's a

510
00:30:56,000 --> 00:31:02,039
good question. The bloodies can stay
for two weeks because those meld. There's

511
00:31:02,079 --> 00:31:07,079
about eighteen ingredients and then my bloody
marry mix there's eighteen ingredients. What do

512
00:31:07,119 --> 00:31:11,400
you have in there? Well,
there's I used clemato and then I use

513
00:31:11,480 --> 00:31:17,839
some combination of other mix and vhus. But then there's dill weed and black

514
00:31:17,880 --> 00:31:23,000
pepper and pickled juice and old bay
and some other secret stuff. Now,

515
00:31:23,160 --> 00:31:27,799
is this a recipe you've just perfected
over time or is it something that you

516
00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:33,519
have stolen from somebody? I don't
mean steel, what borrowed? Maybe I've

517
00:31:33,559 --> 00:31:37,960
perfected it over time. Okay,
And it's there's literally it's a great bloody

518
00:31:37,960 --> 00:31:40,640
mary. It's a little spicy.
You said that it's a little spicy,

519
00:31:40,960 --> 00:31:45,839
a little soft soft. Did other
guys here going to Kevin Clark? I'm

520
00:31:45,839 --> 00:31:49,160
not drinking it it's too spicy you
drank? Oh yeah, it's perfect.

521
00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:52,920
At eleven am it is. It
was a great bloody marry. Oh.

522
00:31:52,920 --> 00:31:55,519
I didn't have it at eleven am, and I think I may have another

523
00:31:55,559 --> 00:31:59,880
one please, And usually I don't
have it here. But you can use

524
00:32:00,079 --> 00:32:02,440
vodka or tequila. Yeah, tequila, I think goes a lot better with

525
00:32:02,440 --> 00:32:05,920
bloody may it does. What do
you have, Aria, that's a great

526
00:32:05,920 --> 00:32:08,119
counter says, what do you have
with tequila? Yeah? It goes better

527
00:32:08,160 --> 00:32:10,519
with the buddy. Wow, he's
a big tequila guy. Yeah, it's

528
00:32:10,559 --> 00:32:16,160
tequila. What is the What is
in yours vodka? Yeah? That's I

529
00:32:16,240 --> 00:32:21,440
just brought that local recipe twenty one
from Rochester the okay, And I don't

530
00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:22,880
put a lot of it in there. It's mostly about the mix. Yeah,

531
00:32:22,920 --> 00:32:25,880
so all right, this is very
good. So are there? So

532
00:32:25,920 --> 00:32:31,359
there are twenty one ingredients in that, eighteen to twenty depending depending on the

533
00:32:31,359 --> 00:32:36,640
deck. And then the garnish people
are going eight shit with bloody Marit garnishes

534
00:32:36,680 --> 00:32:40,279
I have. I brought Swan Market
beef sticks. Yeah you did, pepperccini.

535
00:32:42,039 --> 00:32:47,359
I usually put a toothpick of pickles
and some buffalo cheese. Curds on

536
00:32:47,400 --> 00:32:52,039
there. Oh wow, you could
do shrimp or crab claws, which I've

537
00:32:52,119 --> 00:32:53,519
done. It's a way to do
it. I mean, it does.

538
00:32:53,720 --> 00:32:58,200
It is fun and it's I mean, and it feels party ish and it's

539
00:32:58,240 --> 00:33:00,480
a great way to kick off your
tailgate. The Bills don't have any more

540
00:33:00,480 --> 00:33:06,720
one o'clock games until New England in
December or New Year's. New Year's probably

541
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,559
a great idea. Yeah, hey
do that kid at one Yeah, one

542
00:33:09,559 --> 00:33:14,319
o'clock New Year's Eve. You make
a bloody Mary like that. Vince just

543
00:33:14,359 --> 00:33:16,400
laid down. You put a little
crab claw on there. That's awesome.

544
00:33:16,880 --> 00:33:20,920
Yeah, that's one of the best
things. That's right. You bite into

545
00:33:20,960 --> 00:33:23,200
it and you go take that in
New England. Eh, you do it.

546
00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:27,240
How are you feeling about the game
tonight? I feel pretty good.

547
00:33:27,319 --> 00:33:30,160
I mean, clearly, there's a
ton of pressure and they just have to

548
00:33:30,160 --> 00:33:34,240
win, especially because I believe they
could take first place in the division tonight

549
00:33:34,440 --> 00:33:37,799
the way things have fallen out,
and they beat Miami and so I think

550
00:33:37,799 --> 00:33:40,000
they can take right Yeah, what
do you what do you think? I

551
00:33:40,039 --> 00:33:44,039
think that they'll win, but I
don't think it's going to be a blowout.

552
00:33:44,079 --> 00:33:45,400
I think it'll be another close game. I think we'll walk away from

553
00:33:45,400 --> 00:33:51,000
this going like the last seven games. What the f right? And uh,

554
00:33:51,599 --> 00:33:53,799
it's just this team right now,
they're at a forty percent chance of

555
00:33:53,839 --> 00:33:59,640
making the playoffs. You got to
remember the last time this team, actually

556
00:34:00,079 --> 00:34:04,039
for last week, was not favored
in the football game was in twenty twenty.

557
00:34:04,480 --> 00:34:07,079
Think about that. That's how much
America and Vegas thought about this team.

558
00:34:07,119 --> 00:34:09,360
And now all of a sudden,
yeah they're I mean, yesterday you

559
00:34:09,360 --> 00:34:14,559
saw Cincinnati get beat by Houston.
This is the same team the Buffalo couldn't,

560
00:34:14,639 --> 00:34:16,360
like, you know, crack until
the fourth quarter. So this this

561
00:34:16,400 --> 00:34:20,320
team's got issues and hopefully they'll figure
it out tonight. But I don't I'm

562
00:34:20,320 --> 00:34:22,920
not expecting fireworks. I'll expect him
to win, but it's gonna be a

563
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,639
nail bier, I don't I think. Yeah, I don't like saying it,

564
00:34:25,679 --> 00:34:30,599
but the truth with you, I
think they're gonna win pretty handling lots

565
00:34:30,599 --> 00:34:34,000
of pressure and they've had lots of
meetings this week. Yeah they're gonna crush

566
00:34:34,119 --> 00:34:37,679
right, I think so too.
They've had players only meetings things. That's

567
00:34:37,760 --> 00:34:43,719
right, over problem, what's problem? My offense sucks. Oh you're Josh

568
00:34:43,719 --> 00:34:46,639
Allen overeaters anonymous meetings. They've had
it all. They've had it all.

569
00:34:46,719 --> 00:34:50,800
Leonif for Net's supposed to play the
night Okay, so that's exciting. Leonard

570
00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:53,719
Furnett is the running back who has
played on the Super Bowl champion Tampa Bay

571
00:34:53,719 --> 00:34:58,519
Buccaneers. Yeah, he came out
of college. People were talking him into

572
00:34:58,559 --> 00:35:00,440
like, you know, well he
was with the jat Yeah, people were

573
00:35:00,440 --> 00:35:04,480
talking him into like he just stopped
playing bro before he get hurt because he

574
00:35:04,519 --> 00:35:07,480
was projected to be the number one
pick at one point when running backs were

575
00:35:07,480 --> 00:35:10,280
still a thing. Maybe that's the
spark. I mean, we got to

576
00:35:10,320 --> 00:35:15,079
convert those fourth and two's that we
haven't been going for and that that pisses

577
00:35:15,119 --> 00:35:17,840
me off. Yeah, let's draw
the defense off side. So yeah,

578
00:35:17,840 --> 00:35:22,599
that I didn't realize like foody and
sports and well you got the whole thing

579
00:35:22,639 --> 00:35:27,760
going there. You did realize the
foodie things. Yeah, even since we

580
00:35:27,760 --> 00:35:29,960
worked, No, I knew the
foody thing, but I didn't know that

581
00:35:30,000 --> 00:35:31,480
it was that big. I guess
I never paid attention to the I never

582
00:35:31,519 --> 00:35:37,320
read the column. I didn't know
it was only out for ten years,

583
00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:40,920
and I did TV everyone for ten
years, for five years? Or did

584
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:46,159
you do TV thirteen? What?
Oh my god, just put on mornings

585
00:35:46,599 --> 00:35:51,199
mornings. Yeah, you would go
on in the morning in the mornings and

586
00:35:51,360 --> 00:35:53,840
talk about yeah with Doug and Jaja. Look at you. That's great.

587
00:35:54,000 --> 00:35:59,400
Yeah, what a nice little gig. Yeah, it was unpaid. I'll

588
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:04,280
tell Can I tell a story about
the very first time I did? So?

589
00:36:04,360 --> 00:36:06,639
I took my column in the in
the DNC and then I went,

590
00:36:06,639 --> 00:36:07,519
if you get lower that just a
little bit. I don't know if there's

591
00:36:07,519 --> 00:36:12,880
a way to squish just because it's
the top of my head. Yeah,

592
00:36:12,920 --> 00:36:15,960
and it's yeah, it's just a
bad shot. I get all the all

593
00:36:15,000 --> 00:36:19,119
the camera people who are like,
you know, really do well with their

594
00:36:19,159 --> 00:36:22,320
podcasts and their cameras and stuff always
go, I think you need help with

595
00:36:22,360 --> 00:36:24,840
yours. They's something wrong. I
think you have too much duct tape on

596
00:36:24,920 --> 00:36:28,559
them. Well, it's not it's
the duct tapes around the thing. Try

597
00:36:28,599 --> 00:36:31,039
squishing down on the legs, try
to make the legs water, all right,

598
00:36:31,199 --> 00:36:35,559
Yeah, never mind, I think
I don't know if I should tell

599
00:36:35,559 --> 00:36:37,639
this story about Yes, you should, Mike to George to Georgia. There

600
00:36:37,679 --> 00:36:40,079
you go, right there, that's
perfect right, and I'm bringing over this

601
00:36:40,079 --> 00:36:43,679
way a little bit. Hang on, we're doing this live on the pod.

602
00:36:43,719 --> 00:36:45,159
The other way, the other way, the other way, the other

603
00:36:45,199 --> 00:36:47,599
way. There. Look, and
now I get to see Vince's face Govin,

604
00:36:49,280 --> 00:36:51,760
so that this is the first time
I'm on. Otherwise it was no,

605
00:36:51,840 --> 00:36:52,719
you were on. You were on. It just was you know,

606
00:36:53,199 --> 00:36:55,880
a little bit of your skull.
It's still an odd shot. Go ahead.

607
00:36:57,159 --> 00:37:00,519
So the first time I did Morning
TV, Mike de Giorgio, the

608
00:37:01,159 --> 00:37:06,679
fabulous producer over there e x VP
he uh, I think it was.

609
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:08,800
It was actually what to cook for
the Super Bowl. So I brought in

610
00:37:08,880 --> 00:37:15,320
meatballs and all this other stuff and
I'm getting ready on their prep table to

611
00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:17,320
wheel it in to do the set, and one of the one of the

612
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:22,159
meatballs falls off the table and rolls
down the hall in the in the corner

613
00:37:22,239 --> 00:37:27,159
of the wall and the floor tell
me it had sauce on it. Yeah,

614
00:37:27,159 --> 00:37:30,639
they were. They were meatballs.
They were saucy barbecue meatballs. And

615
00:37:30,679 --> 00:37:37,880
it's rolling down the corner picking up
all their ship from years and Mike looks

616
00:37:37,920 --> 00:37:45,960
around, picks it up and eats. He did not stop it. That

617
00:37:46,079 --> 00:37:52,719
was my first experience. Did you
did you watch this happen? And he

618
00:37:52,840 --> 00:37:54,519
did. He say to you,
I'm gonna eat this. He just don't

619
00:37:54,559 --> 00:37:58,480
tell anyone that no, he ate
and then don't tell anyone and then we

620
00:37:58,679 --> 00:38:00,480
and then I did TV for or
five more years with him, and all

621
00:38:00,559 --> 00:38:06,480
right, so how long ago was
this? Probably five or six years.

622
00:38:06,559 --> 00:38:09,639
Okay, you need to find out
from Clark Pashkin if the satulations on its

623
00:38:09,639 --> 00:38:14,880
story is run out, because he
said, don't tell anybody, right,

624
00:38:15,400 --> 00:38:17,920
don't kill me Mike it was Mike. He might have wiped it off.

625
00:38:17,960 --> 00:38:22,039
But you know what, we're over
sensitive to this stuff. You know,

626
00:38:22,039 --> 00:38:24,480
there are parts of the world that
are just going thank you for this food

627
00:38:24,679 --> 00:38:28,239
or whatever we got. Right.
Yeah, he probably, like you know,

628
00:38:28,320 --> 00:38:30,519
immunized himself from like seven or eight
different diseases by eating that meatball.

629
00:38:30,599 --> 00:38:36,159
So he's good. All the germs
out there. He's probably live another hundred

630
00:38:36,199 --> 00:38:38,639
years, probably, And then I
did one of my episodes was a spicy

631
00:38:38,679 --> 00:38:44,280
food episode that I did, and
I brought the spiciest tie ship you can

632
00:38:44,320 --> 00:38:47,800
imagine in Yeah, they killed because
it was oh my god, wait,

633
00:38:47,840 --> 00:38:51,840
did you have him eat it?
Yeah? Everybody ate it and they couldn't

634
00:38:51,840 --> 00:38:57,760
finish it Norma and Jennifer Johnson,
and they were crying because it was so

635
00:38:57,840 --> 00:39:00,840
high, and I don't think they
could do their next segment because they were

636
00:39:01,480 --> 00:39:05,719
And so they reminded me, it's
too bad that you didn't jump on the

637
00:39:06,280 --> 00:39:09,320
hot what's the hot enough or something
with the ones? Hot ones? Yeah,

638
00:39:09,559 --> 00:39:13,280
I don't even want to talk about
that. Why are you what happened?

639
00:39:13,639 --> 00:39:15,880
Did you what happened? Did you
get pissed about that or something?

640
00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:19,239
No, it was my idea.
I've had that idea for a long time.

641
00:39:19,480 --> 00:39:22,320
I think del Reed is here.
Sorry, Oh all right, great,

642
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:24,360
yeah, all right, Dell is
the head of the Bill's moth.

643
00:39:24,920 --> 00:39:30,599
Like many ideas that don't go anywhere, and it's it should be a lesson

644
00:39:30,639 --> 00:39:34,880
for everybody. I had the idea
of interviewing celebrities when they came to town

645
00:39:34,960 --> 00:39:38,360
and being a food column and then
just talking about interviewing them but over food.

646
00:39:39,159 --> 00:39:42,960
And that was the years, and
I pitched it to the d n

647
00:39:43,039 --> 00:39:45,960
C too, and it never went
anywhere, and then hot Ones came out.

648
00:39:45,239 --> 00:39:49,239
You see. The great thing is
now and I will use the term

649
00:39:49,239 --> 00:39:52,000
that everybody makes fun of me for
is the barrier to entry is gone,

650
00:39:52,000 --> 00:39:54,440
and so hot ones could just go
right onto YouTube. They didn't need to

651
00:39:54,440 --> 00:40:00,199
get the DNC to approve because everybody's
gonna go that's not our idea. I'm

652
00:40:00,239 --> 00:40:01,880
not sure. We're not sure,
and until you prove that it works.

653
00:40:01,880 --> 00:40:06,119
And it's too bad because you were
coming in a little you were a little

654
00:40:06,119 --> 00:40:08,119
before your time. You know,
I had a little bit in some stuff,

655
00:40:08,199 --> 00:40:12,199
and you also were doing a job
and trying to you know, keep

656
00:40:12,199 --> 00:40:15,760
your family going something. Sure,
I mean, I'm not saying they stole

657
00:40:15,800 --> 00:40:17,519
it. I'm just saying I had
the idea. Yeah, well, I

658
00:40:17,719 --> 00:40:22,960
congratulations. How often though that we
have we all said that to some degree,

659
00:40:23,039 --> 00:40:25,599
like we go, we can't believe
that we had that idea and then

660
00:40:25,599 --> 00:40:28,920
they and somebody did it. Right, no matter what it is, you

661
00:40:28,920 --> 00:40:30,920
got, it's the dumbest thing in
the world, and that somebody's made a

662
00:40:30,960 --> 00:40:32,400
million dollars with it, and we
all kick ourselves. So you got to

663
00:40:32,400 --> 00:40:36,880
be, you know, one of
these proactive people to actually when you get

664
00:40:36,880 --> 00:40:40,760
the inspiration, move take action.
And but I think you've done it.

665
00:40:40,800 --> 00:40:45,960
I mean you've written screenplays and everything. You're a man of many talents.

666
00:40:46,239 --> 00:40:50,079
Yeah, a little bit, Yeah, that's what I do at Clark Peschkin,

667
00:40:50,079 --> 00:40:52,880
a little bit of everything, and
yeah, promote the hell out of

668
00:40:52,920 --> 00:40:59,239
them. Yeah you do. Yeah, facilities and parties and yeah, you're

669
00:40:59,360 --> 00:41:02,119
you're a great You're a great host. You do nice, nice work with

670
00:41:02,159 --> 00:41:05,519
all this stuff you do. You
are you're a great host everywhere, great

671
00:41:05,559 --> 00:41:07,880
American. You guys are great guests. Well, thank you. We've taken

672
00:41:07,960 --> 00:41:13,880
over your entire kitchen here and I
allow, I'm juice to the well.

673
00:41:14,039 --> 00:41:15,719
It's fun and we were doing a
segment by segment, so you know,

674
00:41:15,800 --> 00:41:19,320
I thought it'd be fun to get
you on. And uh, I think

675
00:41:19,400 --> 00:41:22,880
when when if Dell comes in,
the head of the Bills Mafia. Yeah,

676
00:41:22,400 --> 00:41:25,320
well we'll talk to him. But
Bill's Bill, Oh he is here.

677
00:41:25,559 --> 00:41:28,960
All right, let me why don't
we take a quick break and we'll

678
00:41:28,960 --> 00:41:31,119
come back and we will talk to
the head of the Bills Mafia, the

679
00:41:31,360 --> 00:41:36,079
twenty twenty three fan of the Year
for the Buffalo Bills. We'll get to

680
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681
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682
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683
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some man escaped. It could be
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684
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yes, you know what I mean. You take care of down there or

685
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net. It was a beautiful Da
sunt Radio. I was you know I

728
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played this? I know why you
played this. Let's see if you know

729
00:44:57,880 --> 00:45:04,800
I played this. Me and Dell
were singing right, well read I love

730
00:45:04,840 --> 00:45:07,840
singing Bills Mafia. I love singing
to Petty because's you not have to sing

731
00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:15,559
it just to I love to dell
Is the twenty twenty three Bill's Fan of

732
00:45:15,599 --> 00:45:17,199
the Year. How did that feel? I watched the whole thing on,

733
00:45:17,559 --> 00:45:21,480
like, I watched you run out
of the tunnel and onto the field and

734
00:45:22,079 --> 00:45:25,519
you got who gave you the shirt
the jersey? Was it Stevie Johnson?

735
00:45:25,519 --> 00:45:30,320
That's right, Stevie Johnson. The
that had to be What was that like?

736
00:45:30,320 --> 00:45:31,960
What did that feel like for you? It was a huge surprise,

737
00:45:32,360 --> 00:45:37,639
really, they had the Bills invited
me out to do an interview about the

738
00:45:37,039 --> 00:45:39,360
you know, the history of Bill's
Mafia, and I've done a bunch of

739
00:45:39,360 --> 00:45:43,239
things with them in the past yea, So it wasn't like a huge surprise

740
00:45:43,320 --> 00:45:44,880
for them to say, hey,
come on down to the stadium. We

741
00:45:44,920 --> 00:45:47,639
want to we're putting something together,
yea. And they said we're gonna do

742
00:45:47,920 --> 00:45:52,239
you know, the interview down the
tunnel. They said, we're doing this

743
00:45:52,280 --> 00:45:54,159
with everybody. Everybody's coming down the
tunnel and okay, we're gonna have everybody

744
00:45:54,199 --> 00:45:57,559
run out onto the field and everything. I was like, did you feel

745
00:45:57,559 --> 00:46:00,440
a little self conscious doing that?
Because I would have absolutely. Yeah.

746
00:46:00,480 --> 00:46:04,119
Somebody said it was probably like an
ant or something. They said, oh,

747
00:46:04,159 --> 00:46:06,280
it was my mom. Oh,
you look really athletic runging out there.

748
00:46:07,119 --> 00:46:12,679
No I didn't. I looked like
a man. That your mom.

749
00:46:12,800 --> 00:46:15,079
That's the greatest thing. That's cool
that she got to see that too.

750
00:46:15,360 --> 00:46:20,800
That was cool. So it feeling
like von Miller limput out there exactly,

751
00:46:21,320 --> 00:46:24,400
I looked like a forty eight year
old athletic man doing that. So how

752
00:46:24,400 --> 00:46:31,039
does okay, so what did what
does being the fan of the Year entitle

753
00:46:31,119 --> 00:46:34,159
you too? I guess what?
What is the whole thing with that?

754
00:46:34,199 --> 00:46:36,639
What do they give you? Well, they give me a pretty sweet jersey.

755
00:46:36,760 --> 00:46:39,119
Yeah, I saw that on everything
that I'm not allowed to wear according

756
00:46:39,159 --> 00:46:44,320
to my wife until like a special
night or whatever. Okay, but she's

757
00:46:44,360 --> 00:46:47,800
looking out for me because I'll spill
something on it. But yeah, you

758
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:52,840
get the jersey, you get two
tickets to the Super Bowl. Oh wow,

759
00:46:52,320 --> 00:46:58,960
all expenses paid trip and throughout the
I guess the remainder of the season,

760
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:00,159
they have all these different zooms,
halls and everything where you get to

761
00:47:00,199 --> 00:47:04,960
see behind the scenes stuff with the
NFL. That's I just got that first

762
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:07,599
invite the other day, so I
don't know what's involved. It'll be like,

763
00:47:07,639 --> 00:47:09,760
but yeah, the whole you know, that little minor Super Bowl trip

764
00:47:09,800 --> 00:47:14,039
is kind of cool. Yeah,
that is pretty cool. Bill's better be

765
00:47:14,079 --> 00:47:15,920
there. I'm gonna be I'm not
going there to watch Patrick Mahomes another super

766
00:47:16,239 --> 00:47:22,440
Yeah, if you don't want to
go, we would be glad. Yeah,

767
00:47:23,599 --> 00:47:29,159
I'm sure there's ready. There's many
people. So as the the president

768
00:47:29,199 --> 00:47:30,679
of the Bill's Mafia, the founder
of the Bill's Mafia, what is the

769
00:47:30,719 --> 00:47:35,320
title co founder of the cole founder? Yeah, so who's the other founder?

770
00:47:35,440 --> 00:47:37,760
That would be Breon Harris, Leslie
Willie. It was the three of

771
00:47:37,840 --> 00:47:44,880
Us shoot twelve plus years ago.
Now that kind of took that phrase that

772
00:47:44,920 --> 00:47:50,199
I invertently came up with as a
joke based on conversations and stuff we were

773
00:47:50,199 --> 00:47:52,800
doing together on Twitter. That's when
we kind of decided like, hey,

774
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:55,400
maybe we could do something with this
because it was going viral with the fans

775
00:47:55,400 --> 00:48:00,000
and the players and we really just
wanted to do We felt the opportunity to

776
00:48:00,039 --> 00:48:02,920
do something special. Yeah, and
we chose not to make it about of

777
00:48:04,079 --> 00:48:06,679
So what was the Yeah, when
you say something special, what do you

778
00:48:06,719 --> 00:48:08,480
mean by that? It was an
opportunity for because I mean at that time,

779
00:48:08,559 --> 00:48:14,119
especially think about it, the Bills
were basically the Washington Generals. Yeah,

780
00:48:14,159 --> 00:48:15,079
of the NFL. You know,
the team that always losesus to the

781
00:48:15,079 --> 00:48:17,840
Globetrotters or there just what the other
team has a team to play, right,

782
00:48:19,079 --> 00:48:23,079
But that's not that's how the country
looks at the team. The way

783
00:48:23,159 --> 00:48:28,119
fans look at the team is they
are be all end all right. We

784
00:48:28,199 --> 00:48:30,199
love the Bills, and so it
was an opportunity for us to kind of

785
00:48:30,920 --> 00:48:35,519
with the attention we were getting to
put the focus not only on the team,

786
00:48:35,599 --> 00:48:37,920
but more so on just the fans
because we love our culture. We

787
00:48:38,039 --> 00:48:43,079
lost our team. So these weren't
bandwagon fans. These are die hard die

788
00:48:43,360 --> 00:48:45,760
I mean, live and die by
this team no matter what this season brings

789
00:48:45,840 --> 00:48:50,239
us. We are fans well absolutely, and people I remember saying like,

790
00:48:50,239 --> 00:48:53,639
oh, Bill's Mafia as a bandwagon
thing. Yo, that thing started in

791
00:48:54,039 --> 00:48:59,159
twenty ten, twenty eleven, in
the middle of a terrible drought, you

792
00:48:59,159 --> 00:49:01,480
know, playoffs. Like, if
you've been around Bill's Mafia, you know

793
00:49:01,519 --> 00:49:04,960
that we're not. So I mean, when did they start coming to Saint

794
00:49:05,000 --> 00:49:08,800
John Fisher University two thousand, so
two thousand we were doing radio shows from

795
00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:13,920
there, and the team every year
was awful. I mean they had some

796
00:49:14,000 --> 00:49:17,320
guys right, Bledsoe came out.
He was good for a game. Was

797
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:21,679
the Curse of Saint John Fisher.
Yeah, it was either him or Billy

798
00:49:21,679 --> 00:49:24,159
Buffer that or Billy Buffer, Billy
Buffalo Billy Buffer because they never had a

799
00:49:24,159 --> 00:49:28,079
mascot before that. So all those
things you're right through all that time.

800
00:49:28,119 --> 00:49:32,159
So you bring the Bills Mafia,
then it starts getting attention nationally when Josh

801
00:49:32,239 --> 00:49:35,840
Allen shows up and everybody starts to
get a little better. And even with

802
00:49:35,920 --> 00:49:38,880
Josh Allen when that draft happened,
I don't know what the Bills Mafia were

803
00:49:38,880 --> 00:49:42,920
saying on social media, but I
kept hearing things like I know exactly what

804
00:49:42,960 --> 00:49:44,880
he was saying. Well, okay, what was it, Dell? I'd

805
00:49:44,880 --> 00:49:47,760
like to do you mind saying yeah, sir, So Actually that's Josh Begelman.

806
00:49:47,840 --> 00:49:51,480
He is our creative director at twenty
six Shirts, and Josh, I'm

807
00:49:51,519 --> 00:49:55,119
sorry all right when we get to
introduce it, so j twenty six Shirts,

808
00:49:55,360 --> 00:49:59,480
we'll talk about twenty six Shirts in
a second, But there's context there.

809
00:50:00,039 --> 00:50:02,719
I mentioned that because that night of
that draft, we knew the Bills

810
00:50:02,719 --> 00:50:07,760
were drafting a quarterback. In fact, when they traded Cody not Cody Ford,

811
00:50:08,159 --> 00:50:14,039
Cody Ford. Yeah, yeah,
well they he was traded away Cody

812
00:50:14,079 --> 00:50:15,480
Glenn. That did not sound right
to me. That's how long ago it

813
00:50:15,519 --> 00:50:19,559
was. Now when they traded Cordy
Glenn away. You can ask Josh.

814
00:50:19,559 --> 00:50:22,199
I actually got out of my chair
in the office and like ran around because

815
00:50:22,199 --> 00:50:23,920
I was so excited. Was like, they're definitely drafted a quarterback and so

816
00:50:24,000 --> 00:50:28,480
we had it's a true story,
like I got up on it. So,

817
00:50:28,639 --> 00:50:32,000
uh, we had a shirt designed
for every quarterback that was in that

818
00:50:32,119 --> 00:50:36,639
draft that the Bills could possibly draft. Okay, and you know we had

819
00:50:36,840 --> 00:50:38,840
the best one we had was Baker
Mayfield is planning a mafia flag based on

820
00:50:38,880 --> 00:50:43,679
when you know the flag? Wait, did you have a Kyle Aletta shirt?

821
00:50:44,360 --> 00:50:46,400
Did you have a Kyle Letta design? We had the top five Sam,

822
00:50:46,880 --> 00:50:52,719
Sam Donalds and Josh Josh Rows and
Sam Donald, Baker Mayfield, Josh

823
00:50:52,679 --> 00:50:55,239
and Lamar Jackson those were the five
and the Letta was six. Yeah.

824
00:50:55,679 --> 00:50:59,000
So we had the top five.
Well, we had we had Rudolph Mason

825
00:50:59,039 --> 00:51:06,719
too, right, he went to
the shirt QB Mason. So so anyways,

826
00:51:06,719 --> 00:51:09,440
that to the Josh Allen point,
Josh Allen was the one that we

827
00:51:09,440 --> 00:51:14,559
were least excited about because all the
pundits were saying, like, this is

828
00:51:14,559 --> 00:51:16,719
not the guy. He's not accurate. Right, I don't watch a lot

829
00:51:16,719 --> 00:51:22,280
of college football, and even if
I did, I'm not right. And

830
00:51:22,360 --> 00:51:25,360
so the design that we put the
least amount of effort into was that Josh

831
00:51:25,360 --> 00:51:30,159
Allen designed, so like he gets
all right, alive, all right,

832
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:35,599
that's good, and we were very
pleasantly surprised. So you fast forward a

833
00:51:35,639 --> 00:51:39,239
few months and he plays that that
preseason game against the Browns. I remember

834
00:51:39,239 --> 00:51:43,000
he threw a touchdown pass where he
just threaded the needle so perfectly, and

835
00:51:43,079 --> 00:51:45,480
I was like, oh my gosh, he might be good. Yeah.

836
00:51:45,559 --> 00:51:47,400
Remember the first pass he threw though, like they called the bomb, like

837
00:51:47,440 --> 00:51:51,079
in his first throw and he throws
it he was out of bounds, but

838
00:51:51,119 --> 00:51:52,199
there was like, wow, man, he's got a cannon. Yeah,

839
00:51:52,599 --> 00:51:57,000
and he's like eighty yards. And
then the regular season starts and he's running

840
00:51:57,000 --> 00:51:59,159
around like I didn't even know this
was part of the package. This was.

841
00:52:00,039 --> 00:52:04,159
It's just it is It's like they
did a great job scouting, because

842
00:52:04,199 --> 00:52:07,719
I think most fans said, we
picked the wrong Josh. That's what I

843
00:52:07,719 --> 00:52:09,519
could hear. We picked the wrong
Josh. Like Josh Rosen was going to

844
00:52:09,559 --> 00:52:14,800
be the guy. Josh Rosen's out
of the league. Baker Mayfield, the

845
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:16,639
number one pick, is on his
fourth team. This is his fourth or

846
00:52:16,639 --> 00:52:22,079
fifth fifteen. Yeah, because he
went he was with Cleveland, then he

847
00:52:22,159 --> 00:52:25,639
was with Carolina, Carolina Ram,
then he went to the Rams. Okay,

848
00:52:25,639 --> 00:52:30,639
so forth Tampa, and then you
look at Sam Darnold and he was

849
00:52:30,760 --> 00:52:35,320
Jets, Carolinas, Carolina, they
were both is he out of the league?

850
00:52:35,320 --> 00:52:40,800
San Francisco and he was considered to
be the best quarterback in the league.

851
00:52:40,800 --> 00:52:45,239
He's the backup to this guy was
supposed to be the first overall pick

852
00:52:45,280 --> 00:52:47,519
in the draft. But the Browns
let's go with Baker and like he's backing

853
00:52:47,599 --> 00:52:51,239
up the guy was the last pick
of the NFL draft for two years later.

854
00:52:51,320 --> 00:52:53,000
It's interesting and it just shows you
how hard it is to play in

855
00:52:53,039 --> 00:52:55,239
the NFL. I always say,
do you know how good you have to

856
00:52:55,239 --> 00:52:59,280
be to suck at the NFL?
Right? Right? Right? And yet

857
00:52:59,280 --> 00:53:01,400
we live in eye and get angry
and do all this. So as the

858
00:53:01,400 --> 00:53:08,360
Bills Mafia has grown, what has
the purpose become for you? I feel

859
00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:12,159
like there's a charity element to well, yeah, pretty much. I mean

860
00:53:12,280 --> 00:53:15,559
since our since our inception. Really
we wanted it to be about serving the

861
00:53:15,559 --> 00:53:20,760
community that the team represents. And
we were selling T shirts early on,

862
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:24,159
just said Bill's Mafia before I understood
intellectual property, okay, And what happened

863
00:53:24,320 --> 00:53:29,280
what happened with that? We were
given a season desist or anything. It

864
00:53:29,320 --> 00:53:30,920
was I think Cafe Press if you
remember them. I think they took it

865
00:53:30,920 --> 00:53:34,199
down because we were using the Twitter
bird. It wasn't even the Bills,

866
00:53:34,280 --> 00:53:37,760
you know, who said anything that's
right? Okay, but we so we

867
00:53:37,920 --> 00:53:38,760
you know, but we learned really
quickly and what we can do and what

868
00:53:38,800 --> 00:53:43,760
we can't do. And but even
then the we wanted the proceeds to go

869
00:53:43,840 --> 00:53:46,760
to to charity. So they were
supporting the what was then called Carl's Club

870
00:53:46,800 --> 00:53:52,440
now Courage of Karlie at Roswell Park
and we began doing tailgates. You know,

871
00:53:52,519 --> 00:53:55,840
we've been once or once or twice
a year and we do like a

872
00:53:55,880 --> 00:54:00,679
basket raffle and the money that we
raised from basket Raffle would go to Courage

873
00:54:00,679 --> 00:54:04,679
of Karly. So we always wanted
a charitable What is Courage of Carly?

874
00:54:05,000 --> 00:54:12,079
It is a pediatric cancer foundation or
fund at Roswell Park Row. They do

875
00:54:12,199 --> 00:54:15,119
monetary support for the families and also
psychosocial for the kids. As you've seen

876
00:54:15,159 --> 00:54:19,960
this grow overwhelmed by fans, I
mean, how can I how can I?

877
00:54:20,320 --> 00:54:22,039
You couldn't think this? No?
And I get asked that sometimes like

878
00:54:22,159 --> 00:54:25,400
did you ever? Who could?
Who thinks this? Who? Whatever?

879
00:54:25,480 --> 00:54:29,119
I mean, this is just an
idea to just sort of bring fans together,

880
00:54:29,159 --> 00:54:31,320
and we'll put it under the umbrella
Bill's Mafia and then from that idea

881
00:54:31,400 --> 00:54:36,599
on social media, you've got tangible
stuff. Now, well tell me about

882
00:54:36,599 --> 00:54:38,280
the twenty six shirts, because that's
time to Bill's Mafia, correct, right?

883
00:54:38,360 --> 00:54:40,760
Right? So two years, about
two years into the whole Bill's Mafia

884
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:45,159
movement, I really thought of I
had the opportunity. I had the thought

885
00:54:45,239 --> 00:54:49,639
that I, you know, even
during a drought, Bills fans are so

886
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:54,199
Mrch hungry, it doesn't matter if
they would own sixteen I'm wearing my Bill

887
00:54:54,320 --> 00:54:58,639
shirt if I'm going on vacation,
especially I'm wearing Bill shirt. Everyon's gonna

888
00:54:58,639 --> 00:55:02,800
because I'm wearing my Bill's hat,
you know what. Yeah, absolutely absolutely,

889
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:06,920
And so you know, I had
the idea of, like, maybe

890
00:55:06,920 --> 00:55:08,320
I could do a different shirt every
two weeks and support a different you know,

891
00:55:08,400 --> 00:55:12,440
family along the way, because one
thing I was learning as our Bill's

892
00:55:12,480 --> 00:55:15,079
Mafia Twitter account had grown, people
were always asking us to retweet this or

893
00:55:15,119 --> 00:55:19,320
retweet that, share this, share
that, And so I had the idea,

894
00:55:19,360 --> 00:55:21,760
like, I could probably sell a
different shirt every two weeks, do

895
00:55:21,800 --> 00:55:23,159
it as one year and that's it, because this will be exhausting. And

896
00:55:23,159 --> 00:55:27,960
I already had a full time job
at Roswell and do it at nights and

897
00:55:27,960 --> 00:55:31,760
on the weekends and stuff. And
my one year project is now celebrating it.

898
00:55:31,960 --> 00:55:37,920
Just Saturday was the actual tenth anniversary
of the tenth anniversary. So tell

899
00:55:37,960 --> 00:55:40,880
me about the twenty six shirts then
what it would come You come out with

900
00:55:40,960 --> 00:55:45,239
how many per season? Well,
now it's a shirt of It's shirts a

901
00:55:45,280 --> 00:55:47,440
week, two shots, it's non
stop, at least two. Yeah,

902
00:55:47,480 --> 00:55:52,239
and Josh, our creative director,
designs, probably it was at one point

903
00:55:52,239 --> 00:55:55,159
like ninety percent of them. It's
probably down to like eighty or something five

904
00:55:55,199 --> 00:55:59,239
now, but we've heard somebody to
help him out so he doesn't get carpal

905
00:55:59,239 --> 00:56:04,119
tunnel again again again? Yeah,
surgery, might I had? Actually I

906
00:56:04,199 --> 00:56:07,639
almost had? Is it because of
this? Yeah? You're Tommy john because

907
00:56:07,679 --> 00:56:09,920
of I had got Tommy Johnson drawing
too much? Yeah, you're a kidding.

908
00:56:10,000 --> 00:56:14,079
I'm not kidding now, so I'm
not laughing at you. I have

909
00:56:14,199 --> 00:56:16,840
the scard. Wow. If anybody
is from OSHA is listening, just turn

910
00:56:16,920 --> 00:56:20,920
off. So but man, I
can throw a hell of fastball. No,

911
00:56:21,079 --> 00:56:24,239
buddy, Josh, hang on a
second, because you do you have

912
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:27,719
it? Is this a full time
job for you yet? Oh? Yeah?

913
00:56:27,760 --> 00:56:30,599
Okay, So actually I started as
a freelancer. What year two?

914
00:56:31,039 --> 00:56:35,199
You're beginning of year three? Literally
in new year two? That's right?

915
00:56:35,239 --> 00:56:39,400
Okay, So I started as a
freelancer and then I jumped in uh in,

916
00:56:40,679 --> 00:56:45,840
I guess twenty sixteen sixteen. Thank
you for knowing, because I don't

917
00:56:46,039 --> 00:56:50,480
as a I quit my job to
come because he said, hey, why

918
00:56:50,480 --> 00:56:52,519
don't go tell your boss you're gonna
come work for me? Yeah? I

919
00:56:52,559 --> 00:56:54,360
said, okay, So this is
this now a full time job for you?

920
00:56:54,519 --> 00:56:57,960
It has to be yeah, yeah, we have six full time employees.

921
00:56:57,960 --> 00:57:00,280
Now you have six full time employees
the Bill. I had no idea.

922
00:57:00,400 --> 00:57:02,960
Yeah, yeah, twenty six Shirts. It's a we've actually so twenty

923
00:57:02,960 --> 00:57:07,159
six Shirts has become the company.
Yeah, and that's kind of the company

924
00:57:07,159 --> 00:57:08,960
behind Bill's Mafia. Well, there's
separate. It grew out of bills.

925
00:57:09,119 --> 00:57:12,800
Out of bills bills, mafia kind
of belongs to everybody. Yes, I

926
00:57:12,840 --> 00:57:16,280
got that, Yes, but it's
something that that all fans share. Who

927
00:57:16,320 --> 00:57:20,119
runs the Bill's Mafia Twitter account?
You do, correct, I do with

928
00:57:20,159 --> 00:57:22,960
a bunch of other people's, right, But from twenty six Shirts. So

929
00:57:22,039 --> 00:57:25,000
do you have somebody who's just running
social because that's a full time job in

930
00:57:25,000 --> 00:57:28,880
and of itself. Yeah, well, twenty six Shirts Social is managed by

931
00:57:28,880 --> 00:57:34,440
Andrew Baglini primarily former weather man for
former weather man for now our marketing guy

932
00:57:35,480 --> 00:57:38,519
stole a weather man. Yeah,
wow, Buffalo fan base, give you

933
00:57:38,599 --> 00:57:43,239
the weather before the games? Just
curious we have a report? Do you

934
00:57:43,280 --> 00:57:46,480
really around the twenty six Yeah that's
awesome. Oh that's so great. I

935
00:57:46,559 --> 00:57:51,679
love this A fun cheeky that's awesome. Yeah, we do DLA and I

936
00:57:51,719 --> 00:57:54,360
do a little news segment beforehand,
just make a joke about something and then

937
00:57:54,360 --> 00:57:58,639
we toss a day. Where can
we see that it's all of our socials.

938
00:57:58,679 --> 00:58:01,039
So it's at twenty six at twenty
six shirts. Yeah, okay,

939
00:58:01,079 --> 00:58:05,679
and you'll see Della and I sitting
at a desk, at a news desk,

940
00:58:05,760 --> 00:58:07,639
and it's pretty some of them are
somebody we have a lot of fun.

941
00:58:07,920 --> 00:58:12,960
Yeah, So my wife thinks they're
hilarious and she doesn't think any of

942
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:15,639
my stuff is funny. Well,
that's good. I mean, that's that's

943
00:58:15,679 --> 00:58:19,920
a great litt that's the highest phrase
I can get. Well, so,

944
00:58:20,079 --> 00:58:23,000
Dell, I mean this as as
we're talking, it became and went from

945
00:58:23,039 --> 00:58:28,440
an idea to a full on company
for you, Yeah, to supporting your

946
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:31,840
family and other families. Yeah,
it's really surreal. I mean I remember

947
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:36,639
so in twenty fifteen I got laid
off from Roswell and it was a union

948
00:58:36,719 --> 00:58:38,079
job, so I could have posted
for another position that was opened, but

949
00:58:38,119 --> 00:58:42,880
I really felt like I was driving
to the wrong building every day at that

950
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:46,199
point. And the the company that
I was working with, the twenty six

951
00:58:46,239 --> 00:58:50,760
shirts project on you and who Dan
Giganti. He said, why don't you

952
00:58:50,800 --> 00:58:53,079
come work alongside me and I'll give
you fifty percent of the company and we'll

953
00:58:53,119 --> 00:58:57,159
just we'll do it together. It
was it was a small boutique T shirt

954
00:58:57,159 --> 00:59:00,199
company. It was like a hobby
for both of us, and it was

955
00:59:00,199 --> 00:59:02,639
one of those things where it was
one of those things where it was just

956
00:59:02,679 --> 00:59:06,440
it was crazy enough where it might
work. Sure. So my wife,

957
00:59:06,440 --> 00:59:10,400
who is awesome, really believed in
the idea, believed in me, and

958
00:59:10,679 --> 00:59:14,840
really, you know, realized this
is worth taking a shot on. Part

959
00:59:14,840 --> 00:59:17,719
of my severance from Roswell was one
year's health insurance for the families. Awesome,

960
00:59:17,760 --> 00:59:21,440
the daughters. You got to be
careful. So a way to worry

961
00:59:21,440 --> 00:59:25,280
about was the whole money thing.
But outside of that. But yeah,

962
00:59:25,320 --> 00:59:30,320
So I came on in twenty fifteen
and within six months we had to hire

963
00:59:30,360 --> 00:59:35,119
somebody because the work was becoming overwhelming, which led into Josh, and a

964
00:59:35,199 --> 00:59:37,079
year and a half later we had
to hire somebody, and then a year

965
00:59:37,079 --> 00:59:38,000
after that we had to hire somebody, and then it just kept getting shorter

966
00:59:38,039 --> 00:59:43,159
and shorter between the needed hirings.
Right, I think we're kind of right

967
00:59:43,239 --> 00:59:46,440
sized at least right now. Who
knows what the future holds. Do you

968
00:59:46,480 --> 00:59:51,320
ever get fan bases from other teams
reach out to you? How can we

969
00:59:51,360 --> 00:59:52,760
do. Yeah, I had to
think you did. Yeah. We actually

970
00:59:52,800 --> 00:59:57,400
for a while we had a Chicago
line like twenty six shirt Chicago, twenty

971
00:59:57,440 --> 01:00:00,280
six shirts Pittsburgh, and twenty six
shirts Cincinnati, and we kind of in

972
01:00:00,320 --> 01:00:04,440
that reverse order, kind of folded
them up. After a year, we

973
01:00:04,760 --> 01:00:07,519
realized we were spread tooth thin,
and we shut down Cincinnati when COVID started.

974
01:00:07,960 --> 01:00:12,679
We shut down Pittsburgh because I didn't
March twenty twenty yearly we're gonna be

975
01:00:12,719 --> 01:00:16,199
in business. Twenty twenty turned out
to be our best year, but people

976
01:00:16,199 --> 01:00:20,159
were sitting at home online and the
government was sending them free money. Yeah,

977
01:00:20,159 --> 01:00:23,480
so oh advice some shirt? Yeah
yeah, right, And then Chicago

978
01:00:23,599 --> 01:00:28,639
we closed down in twenty twenty one, just because we realized as Buffalo was

979
01:00:28,840 --> 01:00:31,559
growing exponentially, we couldn't be spending
the way I always describe it as for

980
01:00:31,679 --> 01:00:35,679
every unit of energy we put into
Buffalo, we get ten back, right,

981
01:00:35,719 --> 01:00:37,159
we were putting ten units into these
other cities to get one back.

982
01:00:37,599 --> 01:00:43,159
I think in the future we will
expand into other markets again, but in

983
01:00:43,199 --> 01:00:46,719
the meantime, we're going to just
focus on Buffalo and grow Buffalo. There's

984
01:00:46,800 --> 01:00:51,000
just so much good left to do. Here that yeah. You know,

985
01:00:51,360 --> 01:00:55,320
so when you see things like the
Bills Mafia and it gets its reputation and

986
01:00:55,360 --> 01:00:59,559
you've known for over the years the
wild shit that's gone on in the parking

987
01:00:59,559 --> 01:01:04,559
lot and all that events, that
that's not a representative I would love for

988
01:01:04,599 --> 01:01:07,119
people to know that's a small portion
of the fan base, don't you think.

989
01:01:07,199 --> 01:01:10,239
Yeah, people think that they're gonna, you know, fly to Buffalo

990
01:01:10,480 --> 01:01:13,840
and as they deep playing, they're
going to see people in the you know,

991
01:01:13,960 --> 01:01:17,360
on the tarmacicly jumping got to be
driving. I mean, it's a

992
01:01:17,440 --> 01:01:21,639
funny thing and you see some people
do it, and you know, of

993
01:01:21,679 --> 01:01:24,360
course we the guy from Rochester covers
himself in the in the condiments every year,

994
01:01:25,360 --> 01:01:29,480
printal Ron before the games and I'm
sure you've met pintal Ron and all.

995
01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:32,480
But these are these are fun,
novelty things. But overall the fan

996
01:01:32,559 --> 01:01:38,079
base pretty freaking cool and down to
earth, welcoming to any fan base,

997
01:01:38,280 --> 01:01:40,679
Like I think you could come in
if you wanted to come over to the

998
01:01:40,679 --> 01:01:44,400
Bill's Mafia House. By the way, how did this get christened the Bill's

999
01:01:44,440 --> 01:01:47,760
Mafia House or you? I don't
I don't know if it's just because well

1000
01:01:50,000 --> 01:01:52,920
it's got the name the Bill's Mafia
house. And is it because he put

1001
01:01:52,920 --> 01:01:54,320
the logo on the back when he
bought it, and everybody just said,

1002
01:01:54,360 --> 01:01:58,679
that's the Bills. That's Shane reached
out to me in twenty thirteen, okay,

1003
01:01:58,760 --> 01:02:00,960
and he said, is it cool
if I put your logo on my

1004
01:02:00,039 --> 01:02:04,280
house? Oh? And I'm like, okay, where you live? He's

1005
01:02:04,320 --> 01:02:06,199
like, oh, I live near
the stadium. Like, all right,

1006
01:02:06,199 --> 01:02:07,280
sure, send me a picture when
it's done. I'd love to see it.

1007
01:02:07,360 --> 01:02:09,480
So he does it, and it
was back when our logo was the

1008
01:02:09,480 --> 01:02:13,679
actual like it was still like a
bird with a slash and everything, and

1009
01:02:13,719 --> 01:02:16,559
so he took the time and he
painted it on there and we're walking out.

1010
01:02:16,599 --> 01:02:20,480
I remember so fast forward now that
same year, it's a preseason game.

1011
01:02:20,519 --> 01:02:23,199
I've my wife and our two you
know now you know younger daughters.

1012
01:02:23,239 --> 01:02:28,039
Ten years ago. We're walking out
of the preseason game. And when he

1013
01:02:28,079 --> 01:02:30,239
said near the house near the stadium, yeah, I didn't think he meant

1014
01:02:30,239 --> 01:02:37,280
like facing the stadium, walking out
of the stadium, and there's a billboard

1015
01:02:37,119 --> 01:02:40,079
of Bill's Mafia. And I remember
I said, you got the girls right?

1016
01:02:40,119 --> 01:02:43,679
Okay? Good? I like booked
across the parking lot to get to

1017
01:02:43,679 --> 01:02:45,639
the house. I was like,
this is amazing, Oh my gosh.

1018
01:02:45,880 --> 01:02:47,559
And then I changed our logo to
a buffalo. Later that year, he

1019
01:02:47,679 --> 01:02:51,199
repainted the whole house. Yeah,
made it. I felt bad. He's

1020
01:02:51,239 --> 01:02:52,400
like, like, I won't change
the logo again in front. Yeah,

1021
01:02:52,400 --> 01:02:57,960
but then we did no no oh
yeah, well indirectly yeah, directly,

1022
01:02:58,000 --> 01:03:00,480
yeah, but no, this one
is still our classic logo. So it's

1023
01:03:00,519 --> 01:03:04,400
been great. And Shane has been
just he's become a good friend. Yeah,

1024
01:03:04,440 --> 01:03:06,679
and he's been really cool. He
says, anytime you have an interview,

1025
01:03:06,719 --> 01:03:07,519
you don't even have to ask,
because a lot of times we'll do

1026
01:03:07,599 --> 01:03:10,800
stuff like national, like CBS or
whatever, and they want to do it

1027
01:03:10,920 --> 01:03:14,840
here, okay, And he's like, anytime at all, just show up.

1028
01:03:14,840 --> 01:03:15,599
You don't even have to ask.
So he's been awesome like that.

1029
01:03:15,599 --> 01:03:20,039
We did a photo shoot here a
couple of summers ago, right after COVID.

1030
01:03:20,039 --> 01:03:22,559
We had a shirt said a great
day for a tailgate because so long

1031
01:03:22,599 --> 01:03:24,639
as then we got the tailgate and
we did a whole photo shoot and everything

1032
01:03:24,679 --> 01:03:28,320
here for that shirt, Like in
the backyard, I want a hot tub

1033
01:03:28,360 --> 01:03:31,519
contest in his backyard. Wait,
wait wait, this is a separate thing.

1034
01:03:32,199 --> 01:03:36,079
Wait wait wait wait, yeah,
what's the hot tub contest? So?

1035
01:03:36,599 --> 01:03:39,199
Uh, what was it? Two
years the year that we beat the

1036
01:03:39,239 --> 01:03:45,679
Patriots twenty twenty one, Molson Canadian
had a contest where you send in like

1037
01:03:45,719 --> 01:03:51,760
a vintage style photo and you could
win. What what is a vintage style

1038
01:03:51,800 --> 01:03:55,480
photo you know from the early nineties, all the guys sitting in the hot

1039
01:03:57,199 --> 01:04:00,599
Yeah. Yes, so they so
they had a contest and I was like,

1040
01:04:00,639 --> 01:04:02,880
man, my buddy's like, we
got to do this, well,

1041
01:04:03,079 --> 01:04:06,440
we could win. I was like, you know, we would be hilarious.

1042
01:04:06,480 --> 01:04:12,159
And it was like a good almost
negative five. He's like, you

1043
01:04:12,159 --> 01:04:14,840
know, would be hilarious if we
got a kiddie poll just filled it with

1044
01:04:14,920 --> 01:04:17,480
bubbles and sat in the back of
somebody's truck with a bunch of beers in

1045
01:04:17,480 --> 01:04:21,039
our bathing suits and and you know, pretend we were you know, right

1046
01:04:21,159 --> 01:04:25,280
exactly, just do it. How
old were you at the time? This

1047
01:04:25,360 --> 01:04:30,280
was two years ago. I was
thirty six years old. So we got

1048
01:04:30,320 --> 01:04:34,400
a bunch of our friends together and
uh, I text him and I was

1049
01:04:34,440 --> 01:04:36,320
like, can you give me Shane's
number? I'd love to do it at

1050
01:04:36,320 --> 01:04:41,480
the Mafia house with the stadium in
the background. Shane was super gracious.

1051
01:04:41,559 --> 01:04:45,679
He let us use his camper to
warm up because like it was real cold

1052
01:04:45,480 --> 01:04:49,079
and the bubbles were freezing negative.
Yeah, it was always real cold,

1053
01:04:49,159 --> 01:04:53,000
and uh yeah yeah we were we
were dying. He's like, you can

1054
01:04:53,039 --> 01:04:54,880
go in the camper if you want. We were like, oh, thank

1055
01:04:54,920 --> 01:04:58,320
you. So yeah, and we
ended up winning. So we got to

1056
01:04:58,480 --> 01:05:01,039
sit in a hot tub before the
Patriots game and we met a bunch of

1057
01:05:01,079 --> 01:05:08,719
the former players, like John Foena
was out there and they're like, you

1058
01:05:08,719 --> 01:05:11,159
guys are nuts. But they gave
us a bunch of swag. They had

1059
01:05:11,159 --> 01:05:15,719
a uh like a merch tent and
all kinds of good stuff. I got

1060
01:05:15,760 --> 01:05:19,440
like this gorgeous Bill's robe. Wow. Yeah. So but it was all

1061
01:05:19,480 --> 01:05:21,880
because I think it was. It
was all because, like you could have

1062
01:05:21,960 --> 01:05:26,239
green screened it, but everybody's gonna
know you green right, that's uh,

1063
01:05:26,280 --> 01:05:29,639
why don't we go do it at
the Bill's MAFIAU. So yeah, it's

1064
01:05:29,760 --> 01:05:31,880
fantastic. It was good. That's
fantastic. It was really smart to do

1065
01:05:31,920 --> 01:05:36,760
it well. I mean, we'll
get a robot. So we used we

1066
01:05:36,880 --> 01:05:42,119
used kid in bath bubbles and a
leaf blower and just made a whole bunch

1067
01:05:42,159 --> 01:05:45,639
of foam and just sat in full
and there was like no water because it's

1068
01:05:45,719 --> 01:05:49,239
like it's too cold for water.
That's hysterical. That's great. Yeah,

1069
01:05:49,280 --> 01:05:53,360
yeah, he seems like he's a
very cool guy down the earth. And

1070
01:05:53,039 --> 01:05:57,559
then and boy, isn't it finding
how things just are meant to be?

1071
01:05:58,679 --> 01:06:00,440
Yeah, you know what I mean. I mean, shere, as you

1072
01:06:00,440 --> 01:06:01,519
look at this, you go,
well, you've done a lot of good

1073
01:06:01,559 --> 01:06:08,719
work. You've had people other fan
bases donating. When Josh mentioned his grandmother

1074
01:06:08,800 --> 01:06:11,199
or something, didn't a bunch of
money come in and that went to the

1075
01:06:11,480 --> 01:06:14,000
I think, to your charities.
Yeah, it went well. It was

1076
01:06:14,400 --> 01:06:18,679
to the Oshi Children Hospital, which
is his his children, yes, rep

1077
01:06:18,760 --> 01:06:23,320
And so now they have the Patricia
Allen Fund named after his grandmother. I

1078
01:06:23,360 --> 01:06:26,320
could name, you know, but
that kind of went through the Bill's mafia

1079
01:06:26,440 --> 01:06:29,400
or you got credit. Was the
Bill's mafia that was doing it. Bill's

1080
01:06:29,400 --> 01:06:32,639
mafia being bills for everybody every time
I see. I mean, I've done

1081
01:06:32,760 --> 01:06:36,239
a few over the years, but
most of them I've not weren't my idea.

1082
01:06:36,400 --> 01:06:39,480
Try to, you know, give
him a signal boost and share it

1083
01:06:39,519 --> 01:06:44,079
and I'm always excited when that's able
to happen. But yeah, you talk

1084
01:06:44,119 --> 01:06:47,119
about destiny and sometimes like I look
back and like it's because I fired off

1085
01:06:47,159 --> 01:06:54,239
a tweet in April twenty eleven.
All this has happened, and you know,

1086
01:06:54,360 --> 01:06:57,840
I really believe it. I mean, I'm not I'm not manifesting this

1087
01:06:57,880 --> 01:07:00,920
stuff. It's part of who we
are as a commun yes, and it's

1088
01:07:00,920 --> 01:07:03,039
going to happen either way. You
know, I'm lucky enough to be the

1089
01:07:03,079 --> 01:07:05,639
guy part of it. Yeah,
to he's sort of the conduit to it,

1090
01:07:05,719 --> 01:07:09,039
right, I mean, it's sort
of the guy that made it happen.

1091
01:07:09,079 --> 01:07:13,000
And now twenty twenty three Fan of
the Year and that's pretty big.

1092
01:07:13,440 --> 01:07:16,480
It's it's it's surreal. And my
wife had I mean, my wife learned

1093
01:07:16,519 --> 01:07:20,719
about this, you know, effort
that the NFL does every year with fans,

1094
01:07:20,719 --> 01:07:23,880
and she's like, we're doing it. Yeah. I was like,

1095
01:07:24,159 --> 01:07:27,119
I don't really feel comfortable like asking
people to vote for me and stuff.

1096
01:07:27,119 --> 01:07:29,960
It's really weird. But she's like, I don't care, I'm gonna do

1097
01:07:30,000 --> 01:07:32,480
it. And she hit up anybody
we talked to, or any player we

1098
01:07:32,519 --> 01:07:35,599
ever met, any like connection that
we had, and she just said,

1099
01:07:35,599 --> 01:07:38,880
will you please share this? Will
you please share this? And she I

1100
01:07:38,880 --> 01:07:42,559
mean, I think I tweeted it. Maybe I didn't understand this. You're

1101
01:07:42,639 --> 01:07:45,599
the twenty twenty three NFL Fan of
the Year. No, no, no,

1102
01:07:45,760 --> 01:07:49,039
no, you're the Bills fans,
the Bills version of Okay, now,

1103
01:07:49,079 --> 01:07:51,480
do you guys get to fight each
other like in a royal rumble a

1104
01:07:51,519 --> 01:07:56,119
battle royal? Who is king?
Fan? Well? I mentioned before I

1105
01:07:56,159 --> 01:07:59,960
was forty eight year old on Athletic. Yeah, but we still share.

1106
01:08:00,400 --> 01:08:02,559
But your mom said you've ran out
of the tunnel or John Athletic. I

1107
01:08:02,559 --> 01:08:06,840
could take her there. No,
but they actually have a vote going on

1108
01:08:06,920 --> 01:08:12,159
right now on NFL dot com where
all the different fans who were nominated as

1109
01:08:12,199 --> 01:08:15,239
Fan of the Year. So we
could vote for you to be fan NFL

1110
01:08:15,360 --> 01:08:16,800
Fan of the Year. So let's
please do that. I think that that's

1111
01:08:16,840 --> 01:08:19,239
great. I know you're not asking. I'm gonna ask no, And you

1112
01:08:19,279 --> 01:08:21,880
can vote as many times as you
want. I'll give him the extra plug.

1113
01:08:21,960 --> 01:08:26,039
You go to NFL dot contract built
dot com and then you scroll down

1114
01:08:26,079 --> 01:08:28,600
just a little bit. There's a
big subheading and says Fan of the Year.

1115
01:08:28,960 --> 01:08:30,199
You find his picture. You quick
on it. They ask you to

1116
01:08:30,199 --> 01:08:33,079
put in your email address and you
can vote. Like the other day at

1117
01:08:33,119 --> 01:08:36,239
work, I was like, wow, this is a company time. It

1118
01:08:36,239 --> 01:08:43,439
doesn't matter to me. Uh,
you fire me for quoting co I fired

1119
01:08:43,479 --> 01:08:45,079
off ten in like five minutes.
So you know, if you're sitting in

1120
01:08:45,079 --> 01:08:47,800
traffic or what, don't do it
while you're in traffic. Don't. Yeah

1121
01:08:47,960 --> 01:08:51,439
you're a passenger, but you're up
in the back yep, come exactly.

1122
01:08:51,479 --> 01:08:54,800
You know you can do that kind
of thing. Well, it's been a

1123
01:08:54,840 --> 01:08:57,720
pleasure meeting you guys. I think
I I think the stuff you do is

1124
01:08:58,199 --> 01:09:02,600
pretty uh admirable. I think that's
not even capturing it accurately. But the

1125
01:09:02,600 --> 01:09:05,239
whole twenty six shirts thing, it's
really cool to see how all that,

1126
01:09:05,359 --> 01:09:09,039
to hear the story behind it.
I wasn't as familiar with that. Yeah.

1127
01:09:09,079 --> 01:09:11,960
No, we're really blessed to be
able to do this. Yeah,

1128
01:09:12,000 --> 01:09:16,960
and you're very humble, if exhaustingly
so. No, I know, but

1129
01:09:17,279 --> 01:09:20,600
you're not like I mean, some
bills, some fans, sports guy guys,

1130
01:09:20,600 --> 01:09:24,520
sports guys. You're you know,
this beating their chest and all.

1131
01:09:24,560 --> 01:09:27,279
You've done more than any sports fan. You wouldn't know it. You're very

1132
01:09:27,359 --> 01:09:29,479
humble. Well, listen, I
like that. I like that it's a

1133
01:09:29,520 --> 01:09:31,600
nice quality. Well, thank you. This whole thing happened because I fired

1134
01:09:31,600 --> 01:09:34,479
off a tweet as a joke while
I was waiting for a pizza. Pick

1135
01:09:34,520 --> 01:09:38,239
up a pizza. So like,
everything has kind of fallen into my lap,

1136
01:09:38,239 --> 01:09:41,239
and I've tried to be a good
steward of the attention that's come my

1137
01:09:41,319 --> 01:09:44,279
way. But I'd like to think
that most people would do the same.

1138
01:09:44,840 --> 01:09:45,560
Whether they do or not, I
don't know, but I have to think

1139
01:09:45,560 --> 01:09:47,880
most people. I think you're probably
right. I think it's the ones that

1140
01:09:47,920 --> 01:09:51,640
we get that get the attention aren't
always the best. You know what I'm

1141
01:09:51,640 --> 01:09:56,359
saying the loudest, they're there,
and there are smaller percentage we ask it.

1142
01:09:56,399 --> 01:10:00,359
Is it hard tho when people are
like tagging you and everything, Hey,

1143
01:10:00,399 --> 01:10:01,199
can you help this charity? Can
you help that? You? Because

1144
01:10:01,399 --> 01:10:03,920
it's got to be exhausting after a
while, because you want to help everybody.

1145
01:10:04,399 --> 01:10:09,760
No, it's not exhausting. I
mean the exhausting part is talking to

1146
01:10:09,840 --> 01:10:13,680
these families that need to help.
I mean, when we work with a

1147
01:10:13,720 --> 01:10:15,359
family and we're working, we do
a new shirt every week. Now it's

1148
01:10:15,399 --> 01:10:19,800
not every two weeks every week.
When you meet these families, you're meeting

1149
01:10:19,800 --> 01:10:25,520
them at the worst time of their
lives, like my kid has cancer,

1150
01:10:25,600 --> 01:10:29,079
my my house burned down. You
know, I'm you know, I just

1151
01:10:29,159 --> 01:10:31,199
lost my job, and in between
jobs, I've been diagnosed with cancer and

1152
01:10:31,279 --> 01:10:33,760
I have no health insurance. I
mean, these are all things that you

1153
01:10:33,800 --> 01:10:38,560
know, you learn about, and
so it's tough not to carry that with

1154
01:10:38,720 --> 01:10:42,840
you. But at the same time, you can't shut off your heart to

1155
01:10:43,800 --> 01:10:45,560
these people you know you don't want. I've I caught myself a couple years

1156
01:10:45,560 --> 01:10:51,279
into it treating these campaigns almost like
business transactions, like Okay, you need

1157
01:10:51,319 --> 01:10:54,279
help, we will sell your shirts
and we will give you the money.

1158
01:10:54,479 --> 01:10:58,239
But because I subconsciously was kind of
protecting myself, sure, it felt like

1159
01:10:58,279 --> 01:11:01,199
I had hurt. You know,
it's just as right kids and that pass

1160
01:11:01,239 --> 01:11:06,520
away and stuff sometimes so but then
I realized, I'm not allowed to celebrate

1161
01:11:06,560 --> 01:11:10,479
the kid that gets to ring the
bell when they beat cancer if I'm not

1162
01:11:10,960 --> 01:11:14,079
going to also be there if they
lose that bad. Did you come to

1163
01:11:14,119 --> 01:11:17,800
this conclusion on your own, like, I think it's very very Yeah,

1164
01:11:17,920 --> 01:11:20,520
I don't know valid. Yeah,
No, that's a very valid thing.

1165
01:11:20,520 --> 01:11:24,279
It's a little deep. I'm saying. Some people go to therapy and figure

1166
01:11:24,279 --> 01:11:29,079
that out. That's funny. I
could probably use therapy for other things like

1167
01:11:29,159 --> 01:11:32,239
that. That's pretty Yeah, I
agree. And there's there's a human aspect

1168
01:11:32,239 --> 01:11:34,800
of it. And you can't be
a robot when you're dealing with people who

1169
01:11:34,800 --> 01:11:39,720
are dealing with such emotional things.
And it's easier to be a robot because

1170
01:11:40,159 --> 01:11:43,479
who wants to feed all this stuff? Who wants to carry that? And

1171
01:11:43,520 --> 01:11:46,720
even now, ten years later,
I'll catch myself building that wall up again.

1172
01:11:46,840 --> 01:11:50,880
Sure, And I have to remind
myself teartown because the whole mission.

1173
01:11:50,880 --> 01:11:55,560
If we lose sight of our mission, we lose. So what's the point

1174
01:11:55,640 --> 01:12:00,359
have you bought? Have you bought
stock and Kleenex? Because I swear to

1175
01:12:00,399 --> 01:12:01,640
God, I would be crying at
every one of these. I'm a very

1176
01:12:01,760 --> 01:12:04,640
I can I couldn't possibly be in
a father myself, you know, and

1177
01:12:05,560 --> 01:12:09,680
be tough. It's tough. Yeah. And the first family we helped girl,

1178
01:12:09,760 --> 01:12:13,039
little girl named Amber, had a
condition called retina blastomas. She was

1179
01:12:13,119 --> 01:12:15,319
the inspiration for twenty six shirts,
which, like eye cancer, had one

1180
01:12:15,359 --> 01:12:19,880
eye removed. The other eye was
getting chemotherapy applied directly to it. And

1181
01:12:20,760 --> 01:12:25,880
Scott, who had reached out to
me a total stranger, now dear friend.

1182
01:12:26,520 --> 01:12:28,520
He told me, you know about
the situations, got two daughters,

1183
01:12:28,520 --> 01:12:30,760
one of them, and immediately human
nature is to put yourself in that position.

1184
01:12:30,800 --> 01:12:33,039
I have two daughters, you know, and you think about, like,

1185
01:12:33,079 --> 01:12:36,800
how blessed you are, how blessed
we are to not have to be

1186
01:12:36,960 --> 01:12:41,119
dealing with that situation, and you
know what, God forbid anything that ever

1187
01:12:41,159 --> 01:12:45,560
happens. I'm still blessed, you
know, but you just you know,

1188
01:12:45,640 --> 01:12:50,640
from our position of strength or well
offness, I don't know. We're sure

1189
01:12:53,520 --> 01:12:57,560
as humans we should always pull somebody
up who's in a tough position, because

1190
01:12:57,920 --> 01:13:00,920
you know, tell me again,
twenty six shirts. So each week a

1191
01:13:00,960 --> 01:13:04,960
new shirt, one or two to
two new shirts come out. Yep,

1192
01:13:05,079 --> 01:13:10,600
okay, And even if I wanted
to buy last week's shirt, I can

1193
01:13:10,640 --> 01:13:14,600
still go on, well there or
no, they're limited runs. They're limited

1194
01:13:14,680 --> 01:13:16,680
runs, so this is important for
people to kind of know. So there's

1195
01:13:16,680 --> 01:13:21,079
a limited run, but each different
shirt goes to a different person the money

1196
01:13:21,199 --> 01:13:26,159
raised, right, or a portion
of the money raised, So who is

1197
01:13:26,199 --> 01:13:30,000
it this week? There's we actually
have two running right now. Okay,

1198
01:13:30,079 --> 01:13:32,960
run We launch a new one every
week, but they overlap each other.

1199
01:13:33,000 --> 01:13:36,439
When does your week launch begin?
Like, guys, sometimes some people woul

1200
01:13:36,479 --> 01:13:40,279
lunch, like on a Wednesday to
a Wednesday Sunday night if the Bills win,

1201
01:13:40,439 --> 01:13:43,640
will sometimes we push it a little
early just to kind of, yeah,

1202
01:13:44,039 --> 01:13:46,319
to drive that momentum, that momentum, right, yeah, sure,

1203
01:13:46,520 --> 01:13:49,720
you know, anything, any little
extra we can do. But we've got

1204
01:13:49,760 --> 01:13:53,560
a couple of really good ones right
now. Yeah. We have one.

1205
01:13:54,079 --> 01:13:57,960
It's called Mafia Football and it's a
really cool vintage looking design, and that

1206
01:13:58,000 --> 01:14:02,560
one supports the family of Teresa and
Novsky. And there she was the second

1207
01:14:02,680 --> 01:14:10,359
shirt in a row where the beneficiary
we were supposed to help passed away just

1208
01:14:10,399 --> 01:14:14,640
before the campaign launched, and so
we're still raising money. We're gonna support

1209
01:14:14,640 --> 01:14:17,319
her family. Sure, And the
one Bills don't go away. Yeah,

1210
01:14:17,520 --> 01:14:19,920
no, they don't know. I
think that's no, no, I understand.

1211
01:14:20,199 --> 01:14:23,920
And the Bill's Mafia doesn't go away. We don't go away. So

1212
01:14:23,960 --> 01:14:30,079
that that's a great double entendre there
because you you can remember that, but

1213
01:14:30,159 --> 01:14:32,199
I mean that that's a that's a
really important thing to say and to your

1214
01:14:32,239 --> 01:14:40,960
point just because the person right,
Yes, a lot of these families that

1215
01:14:41,000 --> 01:14:44,079
lose a loved one, even with
they have great insurance or whatever. Like,

1216
01:14:45,800 --> 01:14:47,920
every situation is going to require money, whether it's paying for a funeral

1217
01:14:48,039 --> 01:14:51,159
or paying for whatever the situation is. I mean, you know, we

1218
01:14:51,199 --> 01:14:54,720
want to help it. And then
the other shirt we're offering right now,

1219
01:14:54,720 --> 01:14:58,760
we just launched today, is for
a gentleman named Tom Albone and uh he

1220
01:14:58,880 --> 01:15:04,000
has U cancer which is fantastasized.
Forgive me if I'm remembering incorrectly, there

1221
01:15:04,079 --> 01:15:09,000
is pancreas or his liver. I
think my dad had that. I think

1222
01:15:09,039 --> 01:15:11,159
it's pancreas. I was gonna say, what a real pain in the ass,

1223
01:15:11,159 --> 01:15:15,199
but I now, yes, right
both. But when it when it

1224
01:15:15,520 --> 01:15:20,239
spreads right, it goes outside of
its origin. It's original airs automatically a

1225
01:15:20,279 --> 01:15:24,199
stage four Stage four exactly. Yeah. So, and so we just launched

1226
01:15:24,439 --> 01:15:28,000
his shirt campaign today. And actually, as the as the business has grown,

1227
01:15:28,000 --> 01:15:30,039
I feel like I'm taking up your
who PODCASTO. No, You're fine.

1228
01:15:30,079 --> 01:15:33,600
As the business has grown, our
supporters, their dresser drawers are filling

1229
01:15:33,680 --> 01:15:36,199
up, right, but they still
want to support us, and so we're

1230
01:15:36,239 --> 01:15:40,359
trying more and more to offer as
much as possible. So the design we

1231
01:15:40,439 --> 01:15:43,840
launched today. You can buy it
on two different color shirts, two different

1232
01:15:43,840 --> 01:15:45,960
color pillows, and we also have
a mug. So we're offering more and

1233
01:15:46,000 --> 01:15:49,199
more stuff love it to support these
fans love it. Yeah, that's great.

1234
01:15:49,600 --> 01:15:54,119
So go to twenty six shirts dot
com and you can see all you

1235
01:15:54,159 --> 01:15:57,039
can see it there and buy it
there and buy everything else there, and

1236
01:15:57,079 --> 01:16:00,880
then go watch the newscast that you
do and the weather cast, the weathercast,

1237
01:16:00,960 --> 01:16:03,199
all of it. We're starting our
own podcast pretty soon. All right,

1238
01:16:03,439 --> 01:16:06,199
we're getting I like this. We're
getting there. Look out, cover

1239
01:16:06,319 --> 01:16:13,319
one it. I like it for
your bab I like it, Josh,

1240
01:16:13,399 --> 01:16:15,279
All right, Josh, I like
it. Well, I've been studying.

1241
01:16:15,359 --> 01:16:17,880
I'm just watching you right now.
Yeah, I don't know what I'm doing.

1242
01:16:17,920 --> 01:16:20,640
But it's fine. You're doing a
good job. Baking it till you

1243
01:16:20,680 --> 01:16:24,199
make it. That's the way I
do it. That's our model too.

1244
01:16:25,079 --> 01:16:27,279
How I did it mean to?
You know what? Only I don't have

1245
01:16:27,319 --> 01:16:30,119
carpal tunnel and had to have surgery. Well, they work too much.

1246
01:16:31,720 --> 01:16:33,920
I didn't know what I was doing
so much that it hurt me. Well,

1247
01:16:33,960 --> 01:16:35,880
guys, it was a pleasure meding. I don't want to hold you

1248
01:16:35,920 --> 01:16:39,199
guys up anymore. I'm sure there's
a bunch of people that want to talk

1249
01:16:39,239 --> 01:16:41,119
to you and see you. But
it was really nice and I like that

1250
01:16:41,199 --> 01:16:43,840
twenty six Sure it's hat. Yeah, this is a one off. You

1251
01:16:43,880 --> 01:16:46,119
can't get this well good. It's
a custom order. That's good. Going

1252
01:16:46,199 --> 01:16:49,000
to fight you for it afterwards,
all right, all right, get the

1253
01:16:49,039 --> 01:16:53,239
pool queue out, we'll break the
hat. We'll go to it. All

1254
01:16:53,319 --> 01:16:56,359
right, Thanks guys, We're going
to take a moment and we'll be back

1255
01:16:56,399 --> 01:17:00,560
from the Bill's Mafia house. It
is bilified on the road. But first,

1256
01:17:00,760 --> 01:17:05,000
Victor Chrysler dodgeteep Bram online at Victor
cdjr dot com. State of the

1257
01:17:05,119 --> 01:17:10,239
art dealership. When you go in
there really really sharp, great salespeople.

1258
01:17:10,279 --> 01:17:12,720
And the thing is, you got
to think of this. We got another

1259
01:17:12,720 --> 01:17:16,239
Western New York winter coming. You
need saved for reliable wheels to get around.

1260
01:17:16,279 --> 01:17:18,520
And they're gonna work with you because
they understand, like you got a

1261
01:17:18,520 --> 01:17:20,800
family, you got needs, and
you get a budget. Sometimes you needs

1262
01:17:20,880 --> 01:17:25,039
change. You know what doesn't your
budget right, So you gotta work with

1263
01:17:25,119 --> 01:17:27,600
and they're gonna work with you.
To get you into something safe from reliable.

1264
01:17:28,000 --> 01:17:30,439
Now, if you are looking for
a pickup truck, I highly recommend

1265
01:17:30,720 --> 01:17:35,079
the ram Laramie Beautiful one today.
Bill, Yes she did. Yeah,

1266
01:17:35,319 --> 01:17:38,960
how great is that truck. It's
kind of like a laptop, just like

1267
01:17:39,079 --> 01:17:42,000
it's sitting in front of you.
It's just it's so funny because trucks used

1268
01:17:42,039 --> 01:17:45,720
to be like they're just luxurious inside, right, but does everything you want

1269
01:17:45,720 --> 01:17:48,239
a truck to do. A great
towing capacity, great storage. And the

1270
01:17:48,279 --> 01:17:51,880
thing is like, I got a
son who's six foot seven, so he's

1271
01:17:51,920 --> 01:17:56,199
gonna come visit me. He'll be
able to fit comfortably in there with no

1272
01:17:56,239 --> 01:18:01,800
problem. I'll stretch out like Rick
Jay. You can find everything on their

1273
01:18:01,840 --> 01:18:06,119
lot at Victor cdjr dot com.
It is Victor Chrysler Dodge Jeep. Brown

1274
01:18:06,239 --> 01:18:12,359
Cobblestone on Maine is a historic eighteen
hundreds cobblestone church that has been thoughtfully renovated

1275
01:18:12,359 --> 01:18:15,840
and repurposed into a charming, one
of a kind dining experience in the village

1276
01:18:15,840 --> 01:18:21,399
of Webster. Cobblestone on Maine dot
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1277
01:18:21,439 --> 01:18:25,119
you put in your body goes through
your pie hole. Yeah, and your

1278
01:18:25,239 --> 01:18:27,880
oral hygiene is very important. Oh
yeah, a lot of people fear going

1279
01:18:27,920 --> 01:18:30,520
to the dentist. Dennis can look
in mouth and see how long you're gonna

1280
01:18:30,520 --> 01:18:32,000
live. Stop it. Oh yeah, see how health you are. You

1281
01:18:32,039 --> 01:18:35,000
don't know that based on looking in
your mouth, they can tell how healthy

1282
01:18:35,000 --> 01:18:38,319
you are. Yes, that's why
it's good to take care of your teeth

1283
01:18:38,479 --> 01:18:43,760
well that you go to Toronto Dental, they can tell really yeah, okay,

1284
01:18:43,920 --> 01:18:45,279
well so far I'm doing pretty good. Then, because I'll tell you

1285
01:18:45,359 --> 01:18:48,680
what best. Don't care. I've
ever had state of the art technology services

1286
01:18:48,680 --> 01:18:51,319
that are safe and effective for everyone. And the great thing is they're gonna

1287
01:18:51,560 --> 01:18:55,960
educate you on all your options and
then you ultimately choose the one that's right

1288
01:18:56,000 --> 01:18:59,720
for you. They work with your
health insurance and your health savings account as

1289
01:18:59,720 --> 01:19:02,079
well to keep the out of pocket
expenses low. Oh give him a call

1290
01:19:02,159 --> 01:19:23,000
four four two nineteen five online at
Toronto Dental dot com. Jemvader never been,

1291
01:19:23,520 --> 01:19:47,039
never fell, Never thought, I
say what ye Buffalo's own Google dolls?

1292
01:19:47,199 --> 01:19:50,119
Danny, does your band play this? No, I'd like to play

1293
01:19:50,119 --> 01:19:56,119
some Google dolls. They recorded the
follow up album to this. I believe

1294
01:19:56,199 --> 01:20:00,600
it's silver trick my hometown. Did
they really Their manager, Armin Petrie,

1295
01:20:00,279 --> 01:20:05,239
whose parents owned Petrie Cookies for the
longest time, was their manager, and

1296
01:20:05,279 --> 01:20:08,279
they spent a lot of time.
He used to come to my uncle's restaurant

1297
01:20:08,279 --> 01:20:11,359
all the time. Really, Oh
yeah, did you ever I met him?

1298
01:20:11,399 --> 01:20:14,159
Yeah? No, But did you
ever ask him for tips or anying?

1299
01:20:14,159 --> 01:20:15,960
I mean, like you never come
out and go, hey, man,

1300
01:20:15,199 --> 01:20:21,039
I played guitar too. I play
I'm hey, you know, I

1301
01:20:21,159 --> 01:20:25,119
uh, I mean, I'm not
I'm not much rainying, but I could

1302
01:20:25,119 --> 01:20:29,159
play mean guitar. No, I
never know that it's been too bad.

1303
01:20:29,520 --> 01:20:30,640
She jumped on the bandwagon a little
bit. Yeah, I should have,

1304
01:20:30,800 --> 01:20:33,439
you know, I could have could
have done a bunch of of uh.

1305
01:20:33,640 --> 01:20:38,039
Tonight, the Buffalo Bills. We
are at the Bill's Mafia House. I'm

1306
01:20:38,119 --> 01:20:43,000
very excited thanks to our friend Vince
Press from Clark Peshkin, which, by

1307
01:20:43,039 --> 01:20:45,079
the way, on the screen earlier
I wrote Pushkin and I didn't catch it.

1308
01:20:45,199 --> 01:20:49,560
I fat fingered the typing on the
iPad. When I'll wait a second

1309
01:20:49,640 --> 01:20:54,399
or hang on, Vince, is
it sorry? I thought I edited that

1310
01:20:54,479 --> 01:20:59,960
and saw it and said it looks
good. Fat fingered it. I think

1311
01:20:59,640 --> 01:21:03,119
I did. Either that or we
both just wet like in a blur of

1312
01:21:03,119 --> 01:21:06,279
trying to get the things done.
It's been a lot of fun here man

1313
01:21:06,359 --> 01:21:11,600
meeting Dell who is the twenty twenty
three Fan of the Year, meaning Shane

1314
01:21:11,640 --> 01:21:15,600
who owns the house, and just
walking around. Thanks so much for inviting

1315
01:21:15,680 --> 01:21:17,039
us, Thank you for coming.
It's been up blindly and it's beautif you

1316
01:21:17,079 --> 01:21:20,119
guys haven't been outside too much,
but it's it's a gorgeous night, is

1317
01:21:20,159 --> 01:21:24,079
it it? It was a little
windy earlier. You hearing the winds picking

1318
01:21:24,159 --> 01:21:27,119
up in the stadium. The flags
are flying. It's nice out there.

1319
01:21:27,239 --> 01:21:30,800
Sunset okay, perfect, perfect lighting. It's going to be fun, all

1320
01:21:30,920 --> 01:21:34,239
right now. I hesitate to ask
you what the keys of the game are

1321
01:21:34,279 --> 01:21:38,279
because most people will listen to this
after the results of this game are in.

1322
01:21:38,359 --> 01:21:40,800
That's it's one of the brought to
you by covers, and it's one

1323
01:21:40,800 --> 01:21:44,159
of the problems with with the thing. But let's look at it this way.

1324
01:21:44,199 --> 01:21:48,079
This looks like it may be on
paper. I don't like that term,

1325
01:21:48,119 --> 01:21:53,520
but on paper maybe the easiest game
they have for the next several weeks.

1326
01:21:53,680 --> 01:21:57,199
Would that be fair to say?
Because what again? Game the most

1327
01:21:57,199 --> 01:22:00,000
winnable game. I don't want to
say easy, because nothing in the end.

1328
01:22:00,479 --> 01:22:02,159
You do have the Jets next week, but the Jets have always given

1329
01:22:02,199 --> 01:22:05,800
the Bills problems. See week one. Yeah, yeah, you go.

1330
01:22:05,960 --> 01:22:10,399
So you got the Jets, and
then then you go to Philadelphia. You

1331
01:22:10,439 --> 01:22:12,800
got two four twenty five games.
Then you get a week off to prepare

1332
01:22:12,840 --> 01:22:15,720
for Kansas City another four to twenty
five game. Yeah. Then you got

1333
01:22:15,720 --> 01:22:19,920
to Dallas at home for twenty five. Yeah. Then you go on Christmas

1334
01:22:20,199 --> 01:22:25,119
I'm sorry, the Saturday before Christmas
Eve, and you play the Chargers in

1335
01:22:25,319 --> 01:22:29,800
La at today o'clock Saturday night game. Then you got the Patriots at home

1336
01:22:29,840 --> 01:22:31,600
at one o'clock, and you finish
the season at a time to be determined

1337
01:22:31,640 --> 01:22:36,159
in Miami that could be a Sunday
night or Okay, so you gotta win

1338
01:22:36,199 --> 01:22:41,399
tonight, yeah, period, all
right, gotta win tonight. Vince got

1339
01:22:41,399 --> 01:22:45,079
to we could do the thing where
we look back on the game and say

1340
01:22:45,720 --> 01:22:48,640
what we thought, well, should
we do? Should we do? Like

1341
01:22:48,720 --> 01:22:53,520
two versions of it? Hear it
now, and then we'll edit and whatever

1342
01:22:53,560 --> 01:22:56,399
happens in the game. That's the
podcast we post Actually was going to post

1343
01:22:56,439 --> 01:23:00,680
it before we get into the sadium. Oh that's because we got to drive

1344
01:23:00,720 --> 01:23:03,119
home after this. And you know, well that actually goes with what I

1345
01:23:03,199 --> 01:23:06,920
was gonna say, which is,
if we're aggressive tonight and we go for

1346
01:23:08,039 --> 01:23:12,800
fourth and one or two, yeah, and we don't settle for field goals,

1347
01:23:13,239 --> 01:23:16,399
Yeah, then we'll be all right. Yeah I will. I will

1348
01:23:16,439 --> 01:23:20,880
boo so loud next to Billy.
No, if they don't go for it,

1349
01:23:21,039 --> 01:23:29,159
Oh, Vic Derby bomb. Yeah
that you bumb you bomb. Now

1350
01:23:29,439 --> 01:23:32,880
your your buddy is a huge fan
and he won't say anything on the on

1351
01:23:33,000 --> 01:23:38,239
the microphone, Troy is why didn't
want to embarrass him? If he didn't,

1352
01:23:38,239 --> 01:23:40,720
but now he's now I'm gonna put
him on camera. There's Troy Well,

1353
01:23:40,760 --> 01:23:44,359
he's like the mayor of East Arora
beside Steve Tasker. Well, is

1354
01:23:44,399 --> 01:23:46,039
that where you live? Troy?
Yes? I do. And no it's

1355
01:23:46,039 --> 01:23:50,560
Steve Tasker, not me. But
you live in East Ah Okay? Why

1356
01:23:50,600 --> 01:23:55,720
did I think he was a Rochester
guy? No? And are still pilot?

1357
01:23:56,479 --> 01:24:00,119
No? I was a Oh you
were air traffic control. Yeah that

1358
01:24:00,199 --> 01:24:03,520
seems even more stressful. I didn't
stressful, but most people say it is.

1359
01:24:03,680 --> 01:24:06,720
Yeah, you didn't find it stressful? No, It's no, I

1360
01:24:06,800 --> 01:24:11,680
did not. You never had those
pushing ten moments where like you had to

1361
01:24:11,800 --> 01:24:15,359
like rewire, like reroute eight planes
at once. Yes, quite a bit.

1362
01:24:15,560 --> 01:24:18,399
Yeah, it's funny because I know
all the players involved in that.

1363
01:24:21,119 --> 01:24:25,479
Why don't know the actors? Could
I know the people that the actors portrayed?

1364
01:24:25,880 --> 01:24:29,039
And I could probably tell you some
stories, but probably not late for

1365
01:24:29,119 --> 01:24:31,359
that now. But yes, did
you? Uh? Do you miss it?

1366
01:24:33,760 --> 01:24:36,279
Why did you leave? You have
to retire at a certain age,

1367
01:24:36,359 --> 01:24:41,520
you do, and wanted to come
home. We had a daughter late in

1368
01:24:41,600 --> 01:24:45,119
life, were and decided to have
her be from somewhere to follow me around.

1369
01:24:45,680 --> 01:24:48,640
Where were you so you bounced around
as an air trafficking I didn't know

1370
01:24:48,680 --> 01:24:50,840
they bounced. You don't have to, You don't have to, but I

1371
01:24:50,920 --> 01:24:54,840
did. I started in Cleveland,
went to Boston, went down to the

1372
01:24:54,960 --> 01:25:00,640
Washington, d c. Area,
got involved in some military's off in different

1373
01:25:00,680 --> 01:25:06,039
things. Yeah, and ended up
doing the Seattle well at the Vancouver Olympics

1374
01:25:06,279 --> 01:25:11,039
outside of Seattle, and what was
So you were in charge of what with

1375
01:25:11,199 --> 01:25:14,800
the Vancouver coming up with the traffic
management plan so they could deal with the

1376
01:25:14,920 --> 01:25:18,279
traffic, the plane, the air
traffic, air traffic and security and security

1377
01:25:18,319 --> 01:25:21,199
they were worried about. You know
what year was that. That was twenty

1378
01:25:21,359 --> 01:25:25,359
ten, twenty ten, so we're
posting to eleven. We're all that.

1379
01:25:25,840 --> 01:25:28,359
So there was a lot, but
that sounds and you were in charge of

1380
01:25:28,439 --> 01:25:30,520
all that. Yes, it was
one of the people that was in charge

1381
01:25:30,520 --> 01:25:32,159
of Did you live in Vancouver at
the time, No, we but I

1382
01:25:32,279 --> 01:25:36,239
was out well i'll put it do
this, but I was out there so

1383
01:25:36,439 --> 01:25:42,079
much that when I would come back
to Virginia and they were bringing my wife

1384
01:25:42,079 --> 01:25:44,039
and daughter were bringing me back to
the airport. Like I said, we

1385
01:25:44,079 --> 01:25:45,239
have a daughter late in life.
She was about three at the time.

1386
01:25:45,319 --> 01:25:49,439
For she said, are we bringing
daddy home to the airport? Like,

1387
01:25:49,640 --> 01:25:54,159
yeah, it was. That didn't
sit well with you. We missed it

1388
01:25:54,399 --> 01:25:56,880
as a family. So we ended
up moving out there. Yeah, and

1389
01:25:57,000 --> 01:26:00,800
my daughter heard a great life growing
up out there. And then oh really,

1390
01:26:00,319 --> 01:26:03,680
so where where did you grow Where
was that? Seattle? Right downtown

1391
01:26:04,039 --> 01:26:08,760
downtown Seattle. We went from a
home and a home in Virginia and you

1392
01:26:08,840 --> 01:26:12,439
know a house normal you think,
to living in a condo top floor with

1393
01:26:12,560 --> 01:26:16,079
three about two hundred and eighty degree
views of the mountains, Sound. It

1394
01:26:16,159 --> 01:26:19,640
was totally totally different, living totally
How many years did you live in Seattle.

1395
01:26:19,680 --> 01:26:24,720
We're there five five years now.
My uncle was a pilot for Delta

1396
01:26:25,359 --> 01:26:29,159
and he lived in Bainbridge Island when
I was a kid. I was about

1397
01:26:29,199 --> 01:26:30,800
fifteen and we went out to see
him there. That's pretty nice. Yeah,

1398
01:26:31,119 --> 01:26:33,479
we used to take the ferry there. From we live right in downtown

1399
01:26:33,520 --> 01:26:39,119
Seattle, we take the ferry out
to Bambridge. It's a beautiful in the

1400
01:26:39,199 --> 01:26:42,439
summer. I'd only been there in
the summer, but I winter more mild

1401
01:26:42,479 --> 01:26:45,039
and wet, more mild than wet. We get more rain in DC.

1402
01:26:45,159 --> 01:26:47,840
We get more rain here than they
do out there, but it rains more

1403
01:26:47,880 --> 01:26:51,319
often. It's more overcast. Yeah, that makes sense. But right around

1404
01:26:51,359 --> 01:26:55,319
the fourth of July they always say
fourth July is horrible and then the weather

1405
01:26:55,479 --> 01:26:59,920
is great until sometime in mid October
to early November. That's their dry season.

1406
01:27:00,399 --> 01:27:02,199
And but yeah, your you are
correct. So you did five years

1407
01:27:02,239 --> 01:27:09,359
there and then came back to she
went great to Gray. Really that's well,

1408
01:27:09,399 --> 01:27:12,000
I mean you're talking about right there, you're on the coast and here

1409
01:27:12,039 --> 01:27:15,479
you're on the Great Lakes. It's
kind of the same. It's Yeah.

1410
01:27:15,520 --> 01:27:17,399
And when we first moved back,
and actually right before we moved back,

1411
01:27:17,960 --> 01:27:23,000
there's a place in Buffalo called the
Ocean, and we went there and the

1412
01:27:23,880 --> 01:27:28,279
lady Tanning Bayer was from Seattle.
I met so many in the military Buffalo.

1413
01:27:28,520 --> 01:27:30,520
She was here and we talked about
my wife and her and I talked

1414
01:27:30,520 --> 01:27:34,119
about how similar the places were.
It'll be much bigger, Yeah, and

1415
01:27:34,239 --> 01:27:36,880
it is very simler. You get
the clouds to come over the lake,

1416
01:27:38,800 --> 01:27:41,840
same thing. Yeah. Do you
miss Seattle and all of you miss?

1417
01:27:42,439 --> 01:27:45,439
You do? Yeah? What was
what was the thing to bring you back?

1418
01:27:45,920 --> 01:27:48,720
Family? Family? Just being here, everybody we know is here,

1419
01:27:49,279 --> 01:27:54,720
just just you know, Western New
York, Rochester, all that pulls you

1420
01:27:54,840 --> 01:27:57,960
back. Yeah, it just does
pull you back. Well, I can

1421
01:27:58,079 --> 01:28:00,960
understand that. I mean I certainly
having you know, family that's out there,

1422
01:28:01,039 --> 01:28:04,119
but stayed there. You just don't
see everybody as much. And there

1423
01:28:04,199 --> 01:28:08,479
is something about having that family base
you seat as you get older, you

1424
01:28:08,520 --> 01:28:11,239
don't appreciate it. When you're young, you just want to get out and

1425
01:28:11,359 --> 01:28:14,039
explore and be and live and do. But as you get older, you

1426
01:28:14,119 --> 01:28:17,079
start to see the value in family
and stuff. And but how great for

1427
01:28:17,159 --> 01:28:20,680
your daughter though, to have kind
of a East coast West coast. Yeah,

1428
01:28:20,720 --> 01:28:26,760
she's with the home college, so
she's a sixteen and she's looking at

1429
01:28:26,800 --> 01:28:29,960
college. She really likes here,
but she keeps springing up Seattle University,

1430
01:28:29,960 --> 01:28:32,920
which is downtown Seattle, and University
of Washington because she has great memories.

1431
01:28:33,000 --> 01:28:35,880
Yeah, it's a beautiful place.
Yeah, it's a beautiful place. Yeah,

1432
01:28:35,880 --> 01:28:40,279
and you can't really, I mean, what would you say? Just

1433
01:28:40,600 --> 01:28:43,279
where you want and go where you
want. Yeah, yeah, yeah,

1434
01:28:43,319 --> 01:28:45,800
we'll make it work. We'll probably
follow her around for a little bit,

1435
01:28:45,039 --> 01:28:48,439
sure, and then stop being helicopter
and let her go. Stop being an

1436
01:28:48,520 --> 01:28:55,560
helicopter. It is funny, like
the only child. Yeah, long last

1437
01:28:55,760 --> 01:28:59,479
Yeah do you think that like that'll? Do you think of yourself as a

1438
01:28:59,560 --> 01:29:04,760
helicopter? Yes, you do.
I really it's a different world now because

1439
01:29:04,880 --> 01:29:09,960
there's so much different from when you
and I grew up, with so much

1440
01:29:10,000 --> 01:29:13,720
exposure that you can be having we
could be having a conversation, and I

1441
01:29:13,760 --> 01:29:16,520
could be having a separate conversation with
someone who's physically not here same as you

1442
01:29:17,000 --> 01:29:19,800
in real time, you know,
So the same thing with your kids.

1443
01:29:19,880 --> 01:29:24,479
You don't know who they're talking to. You don't know all this stuff,

1444
01:29:24,520 --> 01:29:27,760
and so you try to kind of
protect because you don't know what else to

1445
01:29:27,840 --> 01:29:30,279
do. And when it's your only
kid and it's a girl, it gonna

1446
01:29:30,279 --> 01:29:34,279
be a little more protective. And
I'll throw these A new term I've heard

1447
01:29:34,399 --> 01:29:38,239
is a snowplow, and that's what
you now want to be as a snowplow

1448
01:29:38,279 --> 01:29:43,199
parent. I just push right through
and everything's about their kids. They're just

1449
01:29:43,760 --> 01:29:47,960
right through, teachers, everything.
Yeah, I think I was. I

1450
01:29:48,159 --> 01:29:56,800
was more the was more like the
let's see what happened, fucking figure it

1451
01:29:56,840 --> 01:30:00,720
out. The feral parents, well, I don't know about that. Like

1452
01:30:00,800 --> 01:30:04,520
I certainly was involved in things,
but I would always say, like,

1453
01:30:05,199 --> 01:30:09,800
you know, when it came to
bullying stuff, I'd rather and I didn't

1454
01:30:09,840 --> 01:30:12,560
know. It may not have been
the right thing to do, but my

1455
01:30:12,960 --> 01:30:16,600
gut instinct would be rules of the
playground, right, Let the rules of

1456
01:30:16,600 --> 01:30:19,520
the playground work out here and the
kids will figure it out. And why

1457
01:30:19,560 --> 01:30:23,720
do we need to get involved and
be pushing our weight around? And this

1458
01:30:23,840 --> 01:30:26,039
kid needs to apologize to this kid, and I go, that's it.

1459
01:30:26,479 --> 01:30:30,560
And it's funny because I watched twice
now on Netflix, and I never do

1460
01:30:30,720 --> 01:30:33,399
this, and I'm more of a
guy who would watch a documentary over something

1461
01:30:33,479 --> 01:30:41,119
that's fictional or made up. I've
now watched twice Old Dads on Netflix with

1462
01:30:41,239 --> 01:30:43,760
Bill Burr. Have you seen this, I've had a chance. Yeah,

1463
01:30:43,800 --> 01:30:46,640
you gotta see. It's hysterical because
it's really about like, you know,

1464
01:30:46,760 --> 01:30:49,720
he is a kid late in life, kid's five, he's fifty one,

1465
01:30:50,359 --> 01:30:53,720
and you know, the kid falls
down and as ad buddy rubs some dirt

1466
01:30:53,840 --> 01:30:55,960
it and don't worry about it.
And the kid rubs a little dirt in

1467
01:30:56,000 --> 01:30:59,760
it, and somebody goes, you
should really have that cleaned and put some

1468
01:31:00,239 --> 01:31:01,439
sporn on it. And he stands
up and he goes, you a medical

1469
01:31:01,520 --> 01:31:04,920
doctor. I go. He goes, listen, I'm trying to raise a

1470
01:31:05,000 --> 01:31:10,159
man here, not a pussy.
It's just so different, and I go,

1471
01:31:10,640 --> 01:31:13,359
I'm of that. I never wanted
to see my kids get hurt and

1472
01:31:13,399 --> 01:31:15,720
stuff. But at the same time, you know, it's the rules of

1473
01:31:15,760 --> 01:31:17,680
the playground. You let him kind
of do the rules of the playground.

1474
01:31:17,680 --> 01:31:21,159
And that's it. They have a
name for you now too, what that's

1475
01:31:21,199 --> 01:31:27,159
called free range? You're a free
range? Okay, no antibiota. It

1476
01:31:27,359 --> 01:31:30,119
was a free range parent. Other
parents just said I was an asshole.

1477
01:31:30,439 --> 01:31:35,560
Like my favorite thing ever was I
still get shipped about a little bit here

1478
01:31:35,600 --> 01:31:40,479
and there was They had an incident
at Park Road Elementary School where my kids

1479
01:31:40,520 --> 01:31:44,800
went. There was somebody who got
loose in the neighborhood and he came flying

1480
01:31:44,920 --> 01:31:46,039
through. Do you remember this.
I think we were on the break room

1481
01:31:46,640 --> 01:31:50,960
and they had it was somebody came
up from New York City picked up a

1482
01:31:51,000 --> 01:31:56,880
guy and his daughter, thinking they
were for a drug deal gone bad.

1483
01:31:57,119 --> 01:31:59,359
They were picking them up. I
don't who knows what they were doing.

1484
01:31:59,640 --> 01:32:00,720
They were they had the wrong people. They dropped them off. Well,

1485
01:32:00,760 --> 01:32:04,920
meanwhile, a police chase ensues.
So now they're coming four ninety headed east.

1486
01:32:05,279 --> 01:32:09,640
These guys get off at Bushnell's Basin, come flying up at like one

1487
01:32:09,720 --> 01:32:13,399
hundred miles an hour through East Street. And I happened to be coming home

1488
01:32:13,439 --> 01:32:16,800
around one o'clock to do in morning
radio. And you're watching all this chaos

1489
01:32:16,960 --> 01:32:21,439
go on, and the guy's abandoned
a car. One walked into a lady's

1490
01:32:21,520 --> 01:32:25,840
house. This is like quaint little
Pittsford. They had raised their family.

1491
01:32:26,439 --> 01:32:31,000
Their house was adjacent to the school
grounds and all she's literally baking a pie.

1492
01:32:32,760 --> 01:32:36,199
She's baking a pie and she goes
to take it out. Guy comes

1493
01:32:36,279 --> 01:32:40,680
busting through the back door. Was
open the back door and he goes,

1494
01:32:40,720 --> 01:32:43,399
hey, can you call me a
cab? And the lady freaked out like

1495
01:32:43,479 --> 01:32:46,039
they sold their house after that,
But all this stuff goes on. One

1496
01:32:46,079 --> 01:32:49,199
guy goes in because the gym teacher
was a warm day in either May or

1497
01:32:49,319 --> 01:32:56,000
June, and he had propped the
gym door open because to keep there was

1498
01:32:56,039 --> 01:33:00,319
no air conditioning in the school.
So some guy walks in and he asked

1499
01:33:00,479 --> 01:33:03,159
to the gym teacher, can you
can you call me a cap This is

1500
01:33:03,239 --> 01:33:09,000
probably a little before uber to twenty
ten maybe, And so now the all

1501
01:33:09,239 --> 01:33:11,920
the I mean the sniper team shows
up. They're climbing up in trees.

1502
01:33:11,960 --> 01:33:14,600
They're pointing the guns at the windows
in case they don't know what's gonna happen.

1503
01:33:14,640 --> 01:33:17,600
But there's a so this they eventually
get the guy. My kid is

1504
01:33:17,680 --> 01:33:21,800
in second grade who's now twenty one. That teacher closed the blind so they

1505
01:33:21,800 --> 01:33:25,840
wouldn't see the guys up, got
them all on the floor, turned off

1506
01:33:25,880 --> 01:33:29,760
the lights, read to the kids. I see her after she's crying when

1507
01:33:29,800 --> 01:33:31,720
I went to get pizza that night, but all the parents meanwhile, are

1508
01:33:31,760 --> 01:33:35,039
gonna run up to the school.
And my wife's going, we gotta go,

1509
01:33:35,359 --> 01:33:38,800
and I go, fuck I am. She goes, what are you

1510
01:33:38,840 --> 01:33:41,319
talking about? I go, they're
the pros. I go, you're a

1511
01:33:41,399 --> 01:33:44,640
cholesterol. Here're gonna get in the
fucking way. These guys know what they're

1512
01:33:44,680 --> 01:33:46,000
doing. They got guns, they
got something. What are you gonna do?

1513
01:33:46,359 --> 01:33:49,399
Don't don't. I mean, what
what are you gonna do? What

1514
01:33:49,640 --> 01:33:51,479
the fuck are you gonna do?
But getting the way? I know,

1515
01:33:51,560 --> 01:33:55,880
it's always it. That was my
whole like, and I just stood.

1516
01:33:55,960 --> 01:33:58,359
I wouldn't go. I refuse,
and I stood in our sun room and

1517
01:33:58,399 --> 01:34:00,319
I watched all these parents marching up
to I go, this is fucking insane.

1518
01:34:01,079 --> 01:34:04,239
There's not a goddamn thing you can
do except get in the way,

1519
01:34:04,760 --> 01:34:09,600
right, get in the way.
And obviously everything worked out fine. I

1520
01:34:09,600 --> 01:34:11,359
don't know what happened with the guy. They arrested them, but I go,

1521
01:34:11,399 --> 01:34:14,439
why are we doing this? Let
the pros be the pros. Let

1522
01:34:14,520 --> 01:34:15,960
them handle their shit. Then when
the kid comes home, let's not make

1523
01:34:16,000 --> 01:34:18,760
a big deal about it, right, No big deal. Everybody survived,

1524
01:34:18,800 --> 01:34:24,279
that's it. If that's free range
parenting, that's me. It's story multiple

1525
01:34:24,439 --> 01:34:27,239
I know it's fantastic, but it's
just one of those things, Vinnie,

1526
01:34:27,279 --> 01:34:29,800
that they can stick to it because
I got so much shit for that.

1527
01:34:30,199 --> 01:34:32,520
I got a ton You wouldn't even
go up to the school like other people

1528
01:34:32,600 --> 01:34:35,640
saying it's me and I'm going,
yeah, I wouldn't. I wouldn't other

1529
01:34:35,800 --> 01:34:38,840
if other dads have said to me, I would have been right there,

1530
01:34:38,920 --> 01:34:42,560
I go for what what are you
gonna do? You think you're superman?

1531
01:34:42,560 --> 01:34:45,720
You're running in there. Bullets won't
bounce off you, asshole, Just stand

1532
01:34:45,800 --> 01:34:49,000
back. I wouldn't call that free
range. I would call that smart.

1533
01:34:49,119 --> 01:34:55,399
Well, it's what I say.
But you know that's people didn't like it.

1534
01:34:55,520 --> 01:34:59,000
That's all. People didn't like it. We're gonna wrap it up.

1535
01:34:59,479 --> 01:35:00,800
Thank you very very much for having
us. Yeah, thank you. This

1536
01:35:01,039 --> 01:35:03,960
was an absolute blast. I'm glad
you guys decided to do it and it

1537
01:35:04,359 --> 01:35:08,000
worked out to the party and it
was it was fantastic. Well, it

1538
01:35:08,079 --> 01:35:11,520
was fun to meet like Shane and
hear the story of the house in Dell

1539
01:35:11,720 --> 01:35:15,119
right, Dell's full story, and
that that was that was fantastic. So

1540
01:35:15,279 --> 01:35:18,439
I I really appreciate you inviting us
up and I can't wait to see the

1541
01:35:18,479 --> 01:35:20,960
game though. Yeah. Go Bills, Yeah, go Bills. That's what

1542
01:35:21,079 --> 01:35:26,239
we uh, that's what we're We
just learned about Vine's defunct food column and

1543
01:35:26,560 --> 01:35:29,760
TV career. Yeah, which which, by the way, we need to

1544
01:35:29,760 --> 01:35:31,800
bring back. I will, I
will throw this out there to you.

1545
01:35:32,000 --> 01:35:34,800
If you want to do food reviews, I'm open to having you on like

1546
01:35:34,840 --> 01:35:36,760
once a month. You know.
I know it's funny. I used to

1547
01:35:36,840 --> 01:35:40,560
pitch to radio and say, hey, everybody wants to know where to get

1548
01:35:40,560 --> 01:35:47,319
the best ship and everybody I knew
in radio, probably including you over now,

1549
01:35:47,920 --> 01:35:51,720
the most calls a radio station guests
are a podcast is when somebody says,

1550
01:35:53,000 --> 01:35:56,159
where do I get the best chicken
French in Rochester? The phones blow

1551
01:35:56,239 --> 01:36:02,479
up on French brown is now,
Well, I'll throw it out there.

1552
01:36:03,000 --> 01:36:06,000
You are welcome to come in any
time you want, and we can make

1553
01:36:06,000 --> 01:36:09,960
it a regular thing. We can
make it a regular thing, and then

1554
01:36:10,119 --> 01:36:13,000
uh, maybe we get the column
going and we do you know, we

1555
01:36:13,079 --> 01:36:15,880
do right on the web page to
be fantastic, fitty, let's do it.

1556
01:36:15,000 --> 01:36:18,800
We get you going, it'll be
awesome, all right for Vince Press

1557
01:36:19,399 --> 01:36:23,960
for Troy the former air traffic controller. Do you ever, just once in

1558
01:36:24,000 --> 01:36:26,640
a while. Now I know you're
up in a tower, but just for

1559
01:36:26,760 --> 01:36:29,920
fun, do you pull some lightsabers
and do this ship? I know,

1560
01:36:30,119 --> 01:36:34,720
but that's amazing. How all right? For Dan Burrillo, I'm Bill Moran.

1561
01:36:34,920 --> 01:36:40,199
Go Bills. We'll see you tomorrow. Go Bills. See hey,

1562
01:36:40,279 --> 01:36:50,439
we're looking borrow cattle with Tanna.
See Califonia, baby, Things have gotten worse.