[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hi, I'm Stan.
[00:00:02] Speaker B: And I'm Shen.
[00:00:03] Speaker A: And each week we bring you the Stan and Shen Show.
And each week we talk about fun things through our travels throughout the capital region. We touch on food, we touch on news, try to touch heavily on good news. And Shen's always available with hot takes.
[00:00:20] Speaker B: Yeah. So if you could follow along and listen to us every week on DailyGazette.com or on all major streaming platforms, we'd love to have you join us.
[00:00:30] Speaker A: Welcome back.
[00:00:32] Speaker B: Hello.
[00:00:33] Speaker A: You had.
How was your week? Extended weekend.
[00:00:39] Speaker B: There are about seven items that were on my to do list that still have not gotten done, including my mileage sheet.
[00:00:46] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:00:46] Speaker B: Now three months behind.
[00:00:48] Speaker A: Okay. Sorry. Just check it.
[00:00:50] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:00:52] Speaker A: Good morning, good afternoon, good day, good evening. If you're in Finland as Amera is as one of our counterparts and to the Great White North.
So I've got a new rule. You can't go out of country.
You can go on vacation, but you can't go out of country.
[00:01:12] Speaker B: I just love like that The B team is in place right now holding down the fort.
[00:01:17] Speaker A: So this is where. This is where I mean, I do mean this with all my heart. People talk about the miracle of birth.
Okay. Putting out a paper every day is a miracle unto itself. And then when the all star team is on the freaking road.
[00:01:30] Speaker B: So let me just point out that Will has already said that he's gonna drop a fat wet kiss on Andrew. I'm sorry, I apologize ahead of time. You can file a complaint with Paula and I, I said I will hug him when he comes back.
[00:01:45] Speaker A: The rare, the rare hug may happen. This is like a thousand dollar Pokemon card as a hug from Shannon.
[00:01:51] Speaker B: We don't appreciate him enough.
We found that out.
[00:01:55] Speaker A: You need to remember that because you know what? I'm.
[00:01:58] Speaker B: I have been telling him every week how much we appreciate him lately.
[00:02:02] Speaker A: But you got. It's the heartfelt. But you know what I'm going to do.
[00:02:04] Speaker B: It is heartfelt.
[00:02:04] Speaker A: Whenever.
[00:02:05] Speaker B: We've been having a lot of closed.
[00:02:07] Speaker A: Doors, Shannon to Andrew, which I get nervous about. But the next time this goes becomes a skirmish. I'm just going to start yelling Montreal.
That's going to be my detente phrase for you two to remind you both that when Andrew was in Montreal how much he was missed.
[00:02:28] Speaker B: I mean, it's not like we're not holding down the floor here though.
[00:02:31] Speaker A: It's.
[00:02:32] Speaker B: I navigated that Sunday story slash message.
[00:02:35] Speaker A: It's. It's Wednesday.
[00:02:37] Speaker B: Okay. I navigated us through that pretty well.
A little credit where credit is due. Apparently Stan Lee was too busy driving to even respond back.
[00:02:47] Speaker A: Correct.
Correct. As I was chastised on the phone for looking at my watch by number one wife.
So weekend was fun.
You weren't here.
[00:03:02] Speaker B: I was not. Thank you.
[00:03:03] Speaker A: Weren't. Saw a lot of great music at Music Haven Wext had their five Winnie music festivals. Awesome. Saw a lot of bands. Tops of Trees.
Our friends from Belmont on Broadway.
[00:03:15] Speaker B: Correct.
[00:03:16] Speaker A: Damian and the gang. So again we're pitching them Local 518. We're gonna bring em back Last Belmont on Broadway. We're gonna open Tops of Trees, Sydney Wordley. And then we're gonna close with Dirty Honey as our.
[00:03:30] Speaker B: I doubt they're gonna do three acts again. Stan.
[00:03:33] Speaker A: I think we got the juice.
So they were great.
[00:03:37] Speaker B: We don't have any juice.
[00:03:39] Speaker A: We got Jovich Sawyer Frederick.
So here's the thing. Have you listened to his music?
Season eight winner. Okay. The Voice.
Johnstown native. Great guy, Indiana Nash. Adored him. Very friendly, great family, all that stuff.
His voice audition is like 8 million. It's like number five on voice auditions.
Came, you know, came across Tick tock.
Crazy good.
Not like the Sawyer Frederick that I known of, you know.
And then he played some jam and stuff there on Sunday night or Saturday. So that was great to see him. Sunday farm to table. We're out to see our friends in Fulton, Montgomery County. And then Monday we were at our favorite place. Our new favorite place.
[00:04:28] Speaker B: I have no favorites.
I'm a coffee lover of all sorts. Except for one place that shall not be named but is primarily a gas station. Coffee is God awful.
[00:04:42] Speaker A: But you didn't turn down today's selection from seven Brew, Our friends at seven Brew.
[00:04:46] Speaker B: I did not. Today is a sugar free brunette, but I went with almond milk which was the right choice.
[00:04:53] Speaker A: You like it?
[00:04:54] Speaker B: Yeah, it's really good.
[00:04:55] Speaker A: I got the German chocolate.
Sugar free.
[00:04:57] Speaker B: Is that one of the originals?
[00:04:59] Speaker A: It's. It's on. It's on the originals. It's on the originals.
[00:05:02] Speaker B: Listen, it's not bad.
[00:05:03] Speaker A: Not bad. 20,000 brunette is crazy good.
[00:05:06] Speaker B: Do you have the sweet and salty yet?
[00:05:08] Speaker A: I have not.
[00:05:09] Speaker B: Gotta get that.
[00:05:10] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:05:10] Speaker B: I feel like they should do a salt room on it.
[00:05:12] Speaker A: So I was over there Monday at the behest of the be correct. They have soft open soft.
[00:05:19] Speaker B: Oh, that's the official opening.
[00:05:21] Speaker A: No, because they give. They're doing like crazy stuff on Saturday for the grand opening. Get a little bit crazier. But talk to Savannah who is the director of training.
New Hartford resident but travels all over and has some great Things to say, talked about.
The seventh of every month gets pretty crazy. They're jackpot days. Buy one, get one and swag on the seventh of every month.
[00:05:47] Speaker B: So you're telling me come August 7th, you will be in line, like, I.
[00:05:52] Speaker A: Think August 6th, I'll probably get a note from the BE business editor saying, oh, hey, you know, tomorrow's like their first jackpot day. Can you go by and get me something?
[00:06:03] Speaker B: First of all, I don't sound like that. And it'll be a Thursday, so no.
[00:06:08] Speaker A: Oh, I could be making a road trip down with the bride.
So we had that on Monday and yesterday had a great time. Was over at Proctor's.
[00:06:17] Speaker B: But more importantly, yesterday.
[00:06:19] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:06:20] Speaker B: Long awaited, beloved Schenectady Pastry Shop.
They also do sandwiches.
Civitello's reopen. They did top of our read list for the past two days, by the way, except for a short time yesterday following the identification of a dead man. But Civitello is well loved, well established.
Back with original recipes from the family, I can attest.
Not from Chad, because Chad doesn't know a good cannoli if it smacked him in the face.
But Lisa loved their cannolis. I wish I had gotten that because the eclair is a. Lisa. Lisa, don't say, oh, okay, sorry.
[00:07:07] Speaker A: Sorry, Lisa.
[00:07:08] Speaker B: But the eclair is a two man job. It's also very messy and it was a lot. And I even shared a little bit with Paula because she loves their eclairs.
[00:07:18] Speaker A: And is it eclair or eclair?
Eclair. You're going eclair, not eclair.
[00:07:24] Speaker B: I don't know. Is this caramel? Caramel, like I don't know, but.
[00:07:28] Speaker A: And you also got great video I.
[00:07:31] Speaker B: Did of them filling the cannolis, which they do in front of you every single time.
[00:07:34] Speaker A: That's the only way to do it. Have you seen like the wedding thing where like you get like the people going through? That's. Yeah, you gotta like, you gotta line that up.
[00:07:41] Speaker B: Honestly though, like, the price that I had to pay for those three items made me question the prices of those items. I felt like they could have been more like that.
[00:07:51] Speaker A: You would. So I would have tipping.
[00:07:54] Speaker B: I would have paid more for that, Claire. Like, I feel like I was undercharged. But I digress because it was.
[00:08:00] Speaker A: Maybe you got friends and family.
[00:08:01] Speaker B: Well, it's delicious nonetheless and really enjoyed it. Love that they're back open.
I mean, that's just gonna make that portion of the street even more bustling now. So just be aware of that because Parking down there is not always the greatest. So yeah, it was just fantastic. I actually walked in after one of the officers stopped down there to pick up some pizza for lunch that you then ate in his car with the AC going.
So. Yes, because it's been very hot, but it was, it was packed in there. When I went yesterday, there was not a chair available and people were just streaming in during my lunch hour. So. So they have their grand opening, grand reopening tomorrow. So they'll have a celebration that's going on from 11 to 2. And the hours do change a little bit. I don't have them off the top of my head, but they are not open on Mondays. That is the one day they're not open. I believe Sundays will continue to be 10 to 2 and then 8 to 5 every other day.
So yeah, so just excited to have them back. I know that this has been a story that, you know, prior to me taking over Bite Sized Indiana, had been working on. TED even did one at one point because we continuously got questions about it. And the reason we were able to get it so quickly yesterday was I actually got an email over the weekend from a gentleman who was like, I read Blindsides all the time and I feel like you would know and I don't want to drive down there if they aren't open. So do you know? And I was like, I don't know, but let me find out. And so we found out. I emailed him back, he was so excited. So anyways, they are, like I said, very beloved in this area.
You know, it would be like a Villa Italia shut down. Like same thing there, look.
[00:09:36] Speaker A: That's the conversation we had when you called me because during soup stroll they still had the building permits in on the renovation.
So I'm like, God, yeah, they've been closed for a while.
[00:09:46] Speaker B: They took it down to the studs, they said because the building was in dire need of repairs. I mean, you think about it, the business has been around over 100 years. And so, you know, it just, it needed a lot of work. They took it back to sort of what it looked like in the 1920s, they said. Reupholstered the booths, those are still.
Redid the floors, put the, like a tin ceiling back up. It's just, it looks really nice, you know, still working on the garden area. So hopefully soon people will be able to enjoy that or at least by next summer.
But just I think everybody's just happy to have the food back. This connectivity, you know, much like the rest of the capital region Is very food heavy and food prominent, and it's just great that we continue to have them in this area. So, yeah, you can go to Cornell's, and then you can stop on over for a cannoli.
[00:10:34] Speaker A: And speaking of food. But off the beaten path, you sent me to Albany Wednesday.
[00:10:41] Speaker B: I did. For El Rancho.
[00:10:44] Speaker A: Muy bien.
[00:10:45] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:10:47] Speaker A: Holy mackerel.
[00:10:49] Speaker B: Yeah, so.
[00:10:49] Speaker A: And I didn't mean mackerel.
[00:10:51] Speaker B: Yeah. So a Mexican restaurant, but not Mexican in the way that most people generally think of food. Theirs is very specific to a.
Of Mexico. It's a coastal.
[00:11:05] Speaker A: What's the name of the area?
[00:11:07] Speaker B: I cannot pronounce it.
I could see. I cannot pronounce half the things they were telling me. For the life of me, I. This is why I was having her spell everything, because it doesn't sound like how it's spelled.
[00:11:18] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:11:19] Speaker B: So anyway, so that's a coastal region.
So they deal in a lot of fish items. And you'll see that heavily on the menu for which you partook in. You had what for the first time?
[00:11:31] Speaker A: So this was. This is the whole thing. So I. I went and.
[00:11:35] Speaker B: And then Rita did not like him for the rest of the evening.
[00:11:37] Speaker A: No.
So I went in. And usually we try to go in. We do these photos. We're kind of like, okay, do you have any tickets coming in? What's in for service? You know, we don't ask restaurants to make anything specific for us traditionally, just because there is a cost associated with. For them. They were all for making four dishes. They were all for it. And I'm like, are you sure? Absolutely.
So they made a mole, which is a sauce that mom takes about a day to make, more than 14 different ingredients in it to make a proper mole. And they make that twice a week and had that over a chicken.
Then they came up with a cerviche, which is cervic. Cerviche.
The polish is coming out.
So that contains shrimp, fish and fish. Shrimp and squid.
All new to Stanley. Very new.
[00:12:37] Speaker B: Never had squid.
You know, calamari, I was gonna say, you know, that's typical.
[00:12:42] Speaker A: Everybody eats, which is like, you know, they've done that.
So that was wonderful. Then the big one, octopus.
And I'm like, okay, so I've got great photos, and you're writing a piece on it. We'll have a full photo gallery, and we've got video and everything for that. So, I mean, this is a sizable piece of octopus. Like, we're literally talking tentacles. Like, you can see it, and it's.
[00:13:09] Speaker B: Just slathered See, I like mine to not look like the fish, right?
[00:13:13] Speaker A: So, like, it's slathered in this beautiful sauce, and then it's on the grill, and then it's flipped on the grill, and then it's flipped on the grill and flipped. So, I mean, this is grilled like. Like you've not seen before. And then it's served. And I'm talking to the family, and the funny thing was, so we have a beautiful photo array on a table, and the family's like, let's eat. And I'm like, really? And the whole thing was the family never has a chance to sit down and eat.
So this is their chance to sit down and enjoy everything they worked on, because everything's so fast, and you taste and go and you snack and things like that.
So.
[00:13:47] Speaker B: But I don't even think that's the most interesting part of this whole story, though, at least from my perspective.
[00:13:52] Speaker A: And I finished my part. So the mother's like, we want to try the octopus.
And I'm like, okay.
And so, like, I'm like, think of a small piece of. So it's like a whole tentacle. So it's like a plate size of octopus or octopi.
And I'm like, apologies if I don't like this, but I've never had this before.
It was wonderful. It is a very meaty fish or sea creature? Sea, yes. I think that's what it is. I had looked this up. That octopus is not a mammal and things like that. It's not considered a fish. It's considered a sea creature. And it was delicious. And the sauce they put it in was spicy. And then Rita has a fish allergy, so she got wiped out of that. But I did bring home. I did ask, and they did provide me with a piece of the tres leche cake, which is cake soaked in milk.
[00:14:46] Speaker B: Yes.
[00:14:46] Speaker A: With a whipped cream frosting. Correct. And read it.
[00:14:51] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:14:51] Speaker A: Yeah. That was a thumbs up. So what. What I meant, we. I was there. You weren't there. What do I. What did I miss?
[00:14:56] Speaker B: So I think the most intriguing part of this, like, this whole story and the development of this story isn't necessarily the food, but the communication about everything. Because I spoke to the daughter who speaks English, but the parents, it sounds like, primarily don't. So I could tell that there were, like, two or three people involved in this conversation, but the daughter had to do all the talking. And there was a lot of back. Like, how do you say this?
She asked that, you know, sort of in the conversation, which is the first time I've had to really deal with that.
[00:15:26] Speaker A: They're all native to the country. She was born in the United States. Everybody came. Yeah, their show came from Oaxacas. And.
[00:15:34] Speaker B: Yeah, so it's very.
It's very interesting way of story.
[00:15:39] Speaker A: The own restaurants.
[00:15:40] Speaker B: Yes, yes. So this one actually opened primarily because the first restaurant they have is near a church and there are limitations on liquor license regarding churches, but also gives them an opportunity to really hone. And that's more like sort of your traditional Mexican style restaurant. This gave them the opportunity to really.
[00:15:57] Speaker A: Hone in on their Ocas region.
[00:16:01] Speaker B: Correct. Yeah.
[00:16:02] Speaker A: And then speaking of drinks, they also made several cocktails.
There was a coffee martini, which I couldn't bottle and take home. I apologize.
And then there was another drink. And I know I've got a shot of the photo of the menu and things like that, but the garnish is crickets.
It's actually three crickets. I don't know crickets on it.
[00:16:23] Speaker B: I don't know if I can tell you that.
[00:16:24] Speaker A: I was like, oh, my gosh, that is a thing.
[00:16:27] Speaker B: I don't know if I could do that one.
[00:16:28] Speaker A: But it's very. Yeah, I think it was like grilled and chocolate dip crickets. It was interesting, but the family was absolutely wonderful. So if you get a chance, I mean, for something, for cuisine and, and, you know, for that region, I mean, you can't be. I mean, the food was absolutely. The plating was absolutely gorgeous and I think it'll come out in the photos, but I mean, that's a place for you to go out to dine and eat and sample. And speaking of sample, we're waiting. As the list is growing. Schenectady Sample week is coming up.
[00:17:00] Speaker B: Oh, it's Schenectady Restaurant Week. It's like a summer. It's like a summer.
[00:17:04] Speaker A: Summer sampling.
[00:17:06] Speaker B: Yeah. Yeah. So that will be coming out soon as part of bite sized at some point within the next week, week or so.
Just going to be touching base with our friend of the podcast, Maureen Neufeld, or Downtown's Connected Improvement Corp. But happy to see that they're going to be doing this because they're going to have again, like you sort of expect for restaurant week, certain restaurants participating and offering sort of some menu options that are a little like more affordable, I guess, or it's sort of, you know, you get that entree, main meal, dessert option, and you can pick from like one or two or three items in each category.
And I keep telling myself I'm always going to Participate in restaurant week. And I never do. And I told myself, for this sampling, I'm gonna go do it. I'm gonna pick one, I'm gonna do it. It's gonna be part of the podcast. We're doing it. Stand. We're going.
[00:18:01] Speaker A: You're doing it.
[00:18:02] Speaker B: You're doing it.
[00:18:03] Speaker A: I'm doing it.
[00:18:04] Speaker B: We're both doing it. We're gonna go somewhere. I don't know when and I don't know where.
We have to wait for the menus to come out, but we're doing it. Maybe you, me and Maureen can all go together.
We'll just have the podcast right at the table.
[00:18:19] Speaker A: Just do it.
[00:18:20] Speaker B: Do it. Live in the restaurant.
[00:18:21] Speaker A: We'll do a true bite sized podcast.
[00:18:23] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:24] Speaker A: In Between Bites.
[00:18:25] Speaker B: Yeah, in between.
[00:18:25] Speaker A: It'll be the new podcast, In Between Bites.
[00:18:28] Speaker B: In Between Bites. Here's what we had. Here's what we thought.
But yeah, so excited to see that that's going to be an offering.
And you know, we're getting into August, which, I mean, only feels like more food stuff is going to be ramping up here.
Pretty sure I saw Wing Walk Talk in Schenectady. Already did a little shout out to Maureen that I'm up for being a judge.
[00:18:51] Speaker A: You were up.
[00:18:52] Speaker B: I'm up for being a judge.
[00:18:53] Speaker A: You're up for being a judge.
[00:18:54] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:18:55] Speaker A: You're going solo.
[00:18:56] Speaker B: If I need to, you can message her on your own.
[00:19:04] Speaker A: So, like, we're trying to break up the band now. You're like, you're like, yeah, I'm going out. I'm going to do my own album. I got my own stuff I want to work on.
[00:19:12] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:19:12] Speaker A: Is that what you're doing? Correct, Shen. Solo. The new podcast. Or as we already talked about the name of your podcast anyway, so. Which you forgot already, didn't you?
[00:19:23] Speaker B: No Shenanigans.
[00:19:24] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:19:26] Speaker B: I have other podcast ideas though.
[00:19:28] Speaker A: Okay. There's enough Taylor Swift podcasts we don't even know.
[00:19:31] Speaker B: I have a podcast. I literally just want to call Going off, where I pick a topic to go off about every week. It.
[00:19:37] Speaker A: And I think I've given you the form.
[00:19:38] Speaker B: I think people would enjoy it.
I think people would really. They. They would agree with me on things.
[00:19:45] Speaker A: And then email your thoughts to stan and shenmail.com and I think sometimes I'll.
[00:19:49] Speaker B: Get a little pushback on certain topics where they're like, well, no, I think you're in the wrong here. And I'm going to be like, well, to each their own.
[00:19:56] Speaker A: You can tell me. You think I'm wrong.
[00:19:58] Speaker B: That's why it's my podcast.
[00:20:00] Speaker A: But I'm not.
[00:20:01] Speaker B: Thank you. Can have your own podcast.
[00:20:03] Speaker A: Thank you for your email.
[00:20:04] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:05] Speaker A: Will be the standard sign off.
[00:20:06] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:20:07] Speaker A: It'll be in the signature business. Editor. Thank you for your email.
Just automatically.
[00:20:14] Speaker B: Yeah. So anyways, that's. Those are my thoughts.
[00:20:18] Speaker A: So we had Tuesday. Last Tuesday we had the breaking news of Ozzy parting the Prince of Darkness.
[00:20:25] Speaker B: This is supposed to be an upbeat podcast.
[00:20:27] Speaker A: It is. Well, I went to SPAC because Brett Michaels and Def Leppard were playing and they also played some tribute to Ozzy. And I talked to some people, some gray hairs there, talking about their memories of Ozzy, and that was great.
[00:20:39] Speaker B: One of them wasn't Mark Mahoney, was it? No, he was there.
[00:20:43] Speaker A: And then I went to the. I went to fish. My first ever fish experience at spac.
[00:20:49] Speaker B: Did you send video to Miles?
[00:20:51] Speaker A: I didn't do that.
[00:20:54] Speaker B: It's like the one allowable communication with him.
[00:20:57] Speaker A: I didn't know if we were approved for video, but I can tell you as my first experiencing that many people at spac.
So I had a little bit of feeling of how like you are. Like, oh, no, that's too many people. I don't want to go.
I don't want to do the ball drop in Times Square. I don't want to go down for the tree lighting. I don't want to drive to the track because there's too many people. I don't want. I got a little bit of that when I looked from the.
[00:21:23] Speaker B: Hey, now you know how it feels.
[00:21:25] Speaker A: There were 40,000 people there. That's a lot of people.
[00:21:28] Speaker B: So track Belmont last year, that was like the same deal. That was spread out. Yeah, well, that was still too many people.
[00:21:36] Speaker A: And speaking of the track, Whitney's this weekend. Whitney stakes.
[00:21:41] Speaker B: Oh, Whitney's this weekend.
[00:21:42] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:21:43] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm not going.
[00:21:46] Speaker A: I'm well aware.
[00:21:47] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:21:47] Speaker A: I'm going stag.
[00:21:48] Speaker B: Yeah. Well, I have important stuff I need to do on Saturday. I have to.
[00:21:53] Speaker A: Unlike last Saturday, you couldn't get it done in the three day. So now you're gonna get done during the two day.
[00:21:57] Speaker B: Well, my grandparents are coming to visit, so we can go through my dead great grandma's jewelry that she left us.
[00:22:04] Speaker A: Fantastic. So more for Shen.
And you're just supposed to be a happy.
Is it a happy thing?
[00:22:11] Speaker B: I mean, I don't know. I haven't been back there since she passed. So it's a.
[00:22:14] Speaker A: You're going to Syracuse or they're coming out?
[00:22:16] Speaker B: No, she lives Here, So.
[00:22:18] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:22:18] Speaker B: Yeah. She lives up here.
Well, she lived up here.
[00:22:21] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:22:22] Speaker B: So we're going to see my uncle who owns. Who has the house now. Okay.
My cousin and I, to which he left everything to, like, us and my grandma, as far as, like, jewelry and things go. So going up there for that first time back since her passing, so much like my. My prior visit to Syracuse Post, my grandpa passing. It is a interesting feeling. It's weird feeling.
[00:22:51] Speaker A: No, it's. It is. It is, because I. I know in the moment. I know exactly.
I think anybody who's been through this, you're there for the emergency and then you're there for, like, services, and then the next time you go back, it's like, wow, I used to come here for this, or I used to go here.
[00:23:10] Speaker B: Everything feels different.
[00:23:11] Speaker A: It does. Everything is different.
[00:23:13] Speaker B: There's a bit of the happiness that used to be there that's kind of gone. And so anyway, changing topics.
[00:23:21] Speaker A: I was like, yeah, thanks for that. That's wonderful. What?
[00:23:26] Speaker B: Yeah. How bad do you feel about me not going to Whitney now?
Well, pointed out.
[00:23:31] Speaker A: I'm going to point out that you said you weren't going to Whitney like, two months ago. So.
[00:23:34] Speaker B: Yeah, I'm kind of done with the track for the rest of the year and that's. I've reached my limit.
[00:23:38] Speaker A: Yeah, you've, like, been there, done that. I mean, I want to twist your arm to get you to Bellman on Broadway. Like, I've already been twice. I don't. Do we have to go a third time?
I don't know what we need to talk about.
That is the shit right there. I nailed that one. Cause you know it well.
[00:23:56] Speaker B: You know.
[00:23:57] Speaker A: Yeah.
What do we got coming up? Anything good? Anything exciting?
I've got Whitney.
[00:24:03] Speaker B: I'm just trying to survive the week.
[00:24:05] Speaker A: At the moment, Stanley, without our powers that be.
[00:24:08] Speaker B: Yeah. Just trying to make it through the week without laughing uncontrollably in the newsroom because that I'm stressed.
[00:24:18] Speaker A: It's seven brews getting us there. So our friends at seven Brew, Savannah and the gang be interesting with the grand. Oh, like I said, I told him I wouldn't be there on Saturday. Sorry about that.
For the grand opening.
[00:24:28] Speaker B: Yeah. I've had too much caffeine today. I've had a Duncan, a seven brew, and then I'm probably gonna drink pre workout for the gym later. So if I don't make it to work tomorrow, I probably died from a heart attack.
[00:24:39] Speaker A: We're gonna have a whole podcast, this pre workout thing. I'm not a fan of.
I'm telling you right now.
[00:24:45] Speaker B: It's, it's, it's good.
[00:24:47] Speaker A: No, it's not good. It's not good. So Shen takes pre workout.
[00:24:50] Speaker B: You literally drink pre workout every time you have a Celsius or you drink one of those C4s. That's a pre workout.
[00:24:55] Speaker A: Right.
[00:24:55] Speaker B: And my hair just starts to die. Okay, we want to know why? Because there's beta alanine in it. And you probably have. Your body probably reacts to it. Mine does too, at a certain degree when you have so much of it. Oh, your pre op workout, you get like itchy face. But sometimes that makes the workout feel better. But sometimes you just want to claw your face off.
[00:25:14] Speaker A: So here's the thing about the pre workout for Shannon is you were, you had pre workout, you were at the gym and you felt compelled to call me at 7:45 in the morning.
And I'm like looking at my phone wondering what you are on because you're like, I mean like, you were like non stop. I can't remember what it was, but I was like, I was.
[00:25:36] Speaker B: So sometimes if I have pre workout and then I eat like fruit because it, it's starchy carbs. Especially like apples. And apples will make you like wide awake.
Yeah. And then you're doing a workout and then you're jazzed up from the workout. That's what it was. Yeah. I, I hadn't reached the point of the workout where I'm dead. And that only really happens on leg day. So I must have been an upper body day. It was a Monday. I was back biceps.
[00:25:59] Speaker A: Yeah.
[00:26:00] Speaker B: So I was jazzed. I was in there doing push ups the whole night.
[00:26:02] Speaker A: Like I was like, I. I was like, I don't know what she's on.
[00:26:07] Speaker B: But she is going, see, I don't think people understand. This is how this much work gets done.
I had a guy go. I said to him that I hadn't gotten to a press release he had sent to me because it's been busy. He goes, I know. I've seen, you know, like the number of things. And I'm just like, this is how it gets done.
This is how it gets done. When you ask how much sleep I got, three to four hours, if that. Sometimes you want to know how I'm there the next day. And I'm at the gym too. It's the caffeine man.
[00:26:39] Speaker A: Anyway, see, we just. I just wait for her to run out of steam. It's gonna stop.
[00:26:45] Speaker B: When I start feeling tired, I just.
[00:26:47] Speaker A: Re up Just re up.
[00:26:48] Speaker B: There's water in between. Like I'm not crazy.
[00:26:50] Speaker A: You're hydrated.
[00:26:51] Speaker B: I learned this from going to the. The bars in the twenties. You gotta drink in between the drinks. You gotta drink water in between the drinks.
[00:26:57] Speaker A: So you're out of the 20s.
Because you're sounding like it. You're doing the. When I was in my 20s because.
[00:27:02] Speaker B: I'm in my late 20s, so I'm close enough to 30. Where I'm 30.
[00:27:06] Speaker A: Okay. So you're okay. You're rounding up already?
[00:27:10] Speaker B: Yeah, we might as well.
[00:27:11] Speaker A: Okay, that's it.
[00:27:13] Speaker B: That's it for this week.
[00:27:14] Speaker A: That's all we got.
[00:27:15] Speaker B: Yeah. I gotta get back to work.
[00:27:16] Speaker A: We gotta get back to work. My to do list is way too long. Going over to Bass Pro Shops tonight.
[00:27:22] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, that's right. Grand opening today.
[00:27:23] Speaker A: Grand opening today.
[00:27:24] Speaker B: I gotta pre write something for that.
[00:27:27] Speaker A: Add that to the list.
Ken Schott's gonna have Mike McAdam on talking about the Whitney Field heading into this weekend.
[00:27:35] Speaker B: Mike. Yeah, yeah. You know Mike has like a crystal bowl. That's like an award he got for like his horse riding stuff.
[00:27:43] Speaker A: Yeah. Award winning horse rider.
[00:27:44] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. But like the award he got is like this really fancy crystal bowl.
[00:27:50] Speaker A: Speaking of which, Best of is coming out.
[00:27:53] Speaker B: It is. Yeah. So please remember to vote for your favorite local businesses.
Including. Including.
Including.
So under people for best reporter slash Columnist. Because we don't apparently have Best Photographer in that category.
[00:28:14] Speaker A: Correct.
[00:28:15] Speaker B: Although I think that's under business somewhere else. So you could go put in Stan for that, but it doesn't really count the same way.
[00:28:20] Speaker A: Right.
[00:28:21] Speaker B: Vote for Put in Stan and then vote for Stan.
I'm not running this year.
[00:28:26] Speaker A: Thank you for not splitting the ballot.
[00:28:28] Speaker B: You're welcome.
[00:28:29] Speaker A: So that way I've put. I've put my efforts, hopefully we will have. We can call it just the Best of Stan and Chen. Because if we both. You're a past award winning best of award winner.
[00:28:42] Speaker B: Correct. Still sits on my desk.
[00:28:44] Speaker A: And I will hopefully join the ranks of Best of.
[00:28:47] Speaker B: I just want to let you know where the best of ranks in terms of the awards I have. It sits right next to my additional copy of my New York State Press association award on my desk because I have two of those now.
[00:29:00] Speaker A: I'll put mine next to my AP Award for photography.
[00:29:03] Speaker B: I have an AP too.
[00:29:05] Speaker A: Do you have for photography?
[00:29:07] Speaker B: No.
[00:29:07] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:29:08] Speaker B: I have it for reporting.
[00:29:09] Speaker A: Okay.
That's why we're a good team.
[00:29:13] Speaker B: Well, you said that as if I don't have an ap. I have an ap.
[00:29:16] Speaker A: Well, you don't talk about the AP award. You talk about the NIPA Award. New York, pa. New York Press association for.
[00:29:22] Speaker B: No, I have plaques. I have plaques in both.
[00:29:24] Speaker A: I get them at the house. They're too. Too heavy to carry around my neck. Like flavor.
[00:29:29] Speaker B: Flavor fine. On the shelf. And I gotta dust them off.
And then I have a. I have a.
[00:29:36] Speaker A: All right.
[00:29:36] Speaker B: I have a Press Club award, too. That's in the box somewhere.
[00:29:42] Speaker A: Enough about us. Tell us what you think.
[email protected] Kenshot with Mike McAdam coming up.
And I guess that's it. I don't have. I've got some plans lined up for some tell me your story podcasts coming up as we try to break out of the.
[00:30:00] Speaker B: Oh, I forgot. There was one other tidbit of news this week.
[00:30:02] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:30:03] Speaker B: Karen Higgin, Saratoga County District Attorney's last day is Friday.
[00:30:06] Speaker A: Is Friday.
[00:30:08] Speaker B: So congrats to her on her retirement.
[00:30:10] Speaker A: Yeah. Congratulations.
[00:30:12] Speaker B: Three decades, I think.
[00:30:13] Speaker A: I think almost.
[00:30:14] Speaker B: Almost like three decades.
[00:30:16] Speaker A: Yeah, I think it's like 20 some odd years. But then when you do the year.
[00:30:19] Speaker B: Yeah.
You get 11 as district attorney and. But she's been at that office, I think primarily her entire career. Her entire career. Yeah. So that's it.
[00:30:29] Speaker A: Best of luck. Happy trails.
That's it.
[00:30:32] Speaker B: All right. Goodbye, everybody.
You can do your little outro.
[00:30:36] Speaker A: Love your life. It's the only one you got.
