Episode Transcript
[00:00:00] Speaker A: Hello friends. Stan Houde, business editor with the Daily Gazette family of newspapers. Each week I travel across upstate's New York capital region and meet interesting people talking about exciting things happening in their lives.
I also have the pleasure of working with a host of talented writers who cover a variety of topics on a weekly basis.
Some of those interactions begin as assignments, some as random meetings, but through these fortunate opportunities, I like to think that in some small way, each time they become friends. As the podcast continues this week, I'd like to introduce you to some of my fabulous coworkers who helped bring you the news and features. The Stan and Friends podcast could not be possible with the help of a few of my friends.
[00:00:47] Speaker B: John McIntyre and it is publisher of.
[00:00:50] Speaker C: The Spotlight, John Norris, pint sized reviewer.
[00:00:54] Speaker D: Ken Schottz, sports editor of the Daily Gazette and host of the Parting Shots podcast.
[00:00:59] Speaker A: John is new to the Daily Gazette family of newspapers but has a career in journalism and comes to the podcast one week after the Spotlight Publications joined our company.
Here's John and I in the Gazette podcast studio.
Well, fantastic and I guess officially welcome aboard because the ink is dry.
[00:01:20] Speaker B: It is dry.
[00:01:21] Speaker A: And you have put out this week's version of the Spotlight Newspapers under the Gazette News Group Media.
[00:01:30] Speaker B: Gazette News Group Gazette News Group. We are now a member of the Gazette News Group and it was a little bit of a struggle to get things out for the first time because it's all new and there's technology that we have never seen before and it was, it was quite a bit of fun on Monday.
But the paper I know is in is Holmes is in Holmes and it's going well.
[00:01:56] Speaker A: So how long for people that don't know the Spotlight who may not be familiar if they're Gazette readers and things like that, part of the reasoning for the Gazette family to pursue this merger, cooperation, sale, meeting of the minds is a lot of it's demographics. It's a different area than you're not, you weren't in a sense a competitor within our core district. But what does the Spotlight continue to serve but under the Gazette banner per se?
[00:02:32] Speaker B: Well, we are, we are in Albany county, the Albany County Centric News Group when it comes to news. When it comes to arts and entertainment, we're all across the capital district all the way from, you know, Albany County, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Schenectady, we have sort of all that and a little farther Beyond. So the spot 518 does all of that and we've always done it, but we're obviously, we're obviously always centric. Around Albany, because we're that way. And the two weekly newspapers that we have, the Colony Spotlight and the Spotlight in Del Mar, obviously Del Mar is a little bit south, and Colony is sort of encompasses the west and north and all around Albany. So we cover community news in those places.
We don't usually go out into national news or state news or international news unless it has a focus into one of our towns.
[00:03:33] Speaker A: I have a passion for weeklies, and I left a weekly to come down here five years ago, and we had two weeklies at the time. And then Covid changed everybody's life. Correct. And came. And now we have the one, the Yorniska Yuna.
The weekly is a different animal.
[00:03:53] Speaker B: Absolutely.
[00:03:54] Speaker A: But it's adored people like the Gazette. I think people have a big. Almost from what I've. My experience has been there's a connection to that weekly where people refer to it as. Often I had with the Community News, which served Clifton park their paper. Right. It had a longer shelf life.
[00:04:14] Speaker B: But also you have a greater chance of being in the Community News or the Spotlight or your Niskiuna than you do a daily newspaper because the focus is much tighter.
And it's also.
The pace is different.
So when you look at, you know, what we. We cover, we're. We're really focused on. On those communities. That's where we start. Like, if we're going to school, we're doing high school sports. This afternoon, I'll be shooting girls volleyball with Shaker in Bethlehem. Well, that to me is. Is a win win, because it covers both of my papers with one place, and it's called. We call it a twofer. So I've got a twofer this afternoon.
[00:04:57] Speaker A: And.
[00:04:58] Speaker B: And.
But it works that way with a lot of the news, like with county news that is applicable to both newspapers. But now with us being part of the Gazette News Group, I think that it kind of opens up a whole bunch more opportunities both ways, because there are some things that happen to be, you know, Schenectady and Colony, I mean, they border, you know, they border Niskayuna, they border Schenectady proper in Schenectady County. So it's not like we've been very far away, but if you live in Albany or you live in Schenectady, those are different worlds.
So we cover it from different angles.
[00:05:44] Speaker A: What's been for people and also for myself.
We have names, we have people we run into. We say, hi, we're at the same things, we're at the same places and stuff like that. But what's your journey been, you know, in this industry?
This why Barbara Lombardo never let me talk to her Journalism 101 class again. Because I always opened up with, it's the best worst paying job I've ever had.
What's been your journey to this world?
[00:06:11] Speaker B: Well, we went to Barb's class last year too.
[00:06:13] Speaker A: That's why you went.
[00:06:14] Speaker B: And, you know, I think that, you know, I've been in newsrooms my whole career. It's like, it's like 42 years now.
I started in high school, I worked for a daily newspaper there and then I went to school for journalism and I was in a lot of newsrooms there. The last time I was in a daily newsroom was probably 1992.
And then from there I did a lot of work for. I started with a group in Syracuse, which then I actually was part of the ownership group that bought them.
So it was really kind of a weird thing. My first professional job, I ended up buying the newspaper and owning the newspaper that I started as the sports editor in 1992.
So it's been a very interesting journey. I've been at the spotlight 27 years in various capacities, most of them on the dark side.
You become a publisher in your management and stuff like that. It's called the dark side for anybody that doesn't know.
But I'm a unique person on that side because I actually still write all the crime, a lot of the politics, a lot of the breaking news.
And I'm also a photographer, so I am sort of a sports photographer with a couple other people. But that's what we do. So I have connections to my communities and I look forward to being able to use the technology that we have here at the Gazette and at the whole news group.
We're going to make the paper much more accessible to many more people. It's going to be a lot better. So it's going to be a fun ride.
[00:07:58] Speaker A: It's.
Yes, I think a ride is the proper. I think, like I said, 42 years in, I'm at 28.
Why are you still doing it when.
[00:08:09] Speaker B: You do this for a living? It's not a money thing. I mean, it is not a money thing.
And it's because we have the opportunity to really affect change.
That doesn't mean that we're out there giving our opinion.
We're not in charge of how you change it.
We just give information so that people can make informed decisions and leaders in our communities can actually make informed decisions because they know what's actually going on.
You can't have alternative facts and think that you're going to properly fix a problem if you don't know what's causing the problem, you have no idea. Or if something's really working well and people love it. Well, isn't it. Wouldn't it be great to have somebody writing about and showing how this is such a great success?
So that's kind of what I see, our role.
But more importantly, that's what. That's what, you know, gets me up in the morning and makes me want to go to work, because it's all about people.
And people call me and scream at me on the phone, and I'm okay with that, you know, as long as we have a constructive conversation.
But if someone's calling me and screaming at me, then guess what?
This is important to them. So you know what? It's really important that we talk to them.
But the reality is, this is about making life better.
That's what it's about.
[00:09:41] Speaker A: All right, I'm gonna get you out of here on this one. This is the.
[00:09:45] Speaker B: Oh, boy.
[00:09:45] Speaker A: This is the tough question. All right. Okay. You ready?
[00:09:48] Speaker B: Yeah.
[00:09:48] Speaker A: What's next?
[00:09:50] Speaker B: Well, in this industry, we never know.
We really don't know.
What I know what is next for Spotlight is that we're going to have a new, modern website that allows people to have an E edition with.
They can click the stories, it will explode out. You can read the stories, you can send the stories to your friends, you can print them, you can do whatever.
All of that's part of the subscription to the Spotlight.
We'll be redoing our E Editions in terms of the print. The print's still going to be the same, but it's going to be delivered better. Because the systems we had in the Spotlight as a standalone were nowhere near the quality that they have a department to do that here.
And that means that when somebody calls and says, hey, I need to pay this bill or I need to fix this, or I want this subscription sent here, there's people here that can do that much easier than what we could do at Spotlight.
So when we were independent, that's what I mean by that.
[00:10:56] Speaker D: So we'll.
[00:10:57] Speaker B: We'll see. I don't know what the future is, but I do know that if you follow the truth and you write about the truth, people will eventually.
[00:11:06] Speaker D: They.
[00:11:06] Speaker B: They gravitate towards that. So I'm hoping that we can continue to deliver that on a weekly basis. We'll see where we go.
[00:11:14] Speaker A: All right.
[00:11:14] Speaker B: Thanks for stopping in. Hey. It was Great to be here.
[00:11:17] Speaker A: When he's not highlighting advertising opportunities for businesses for the Gazette News Group, John Norris visits craft brewers throughout the capital district, highlighting their beverages each week in his pint size feature. Here's John and I in the Gazette podcast studio. All right, John Norris, welcome back for the.
And I love it. The pint sized chat.
[00:11:42] Speaker C: Chat over beer. Sort of thought.
[00:11:45] Speaker A: What better way to spend an afternoon in the Daily Gazette podcast studio with.
[00:11:50] Speaker C: You and your beloved Dunkin Donuts cup?
[00:11:53] Speaker A: I know, it's, it's awful.
[00:11:55] Speaker C: We're on the clock now, so.
[00:11:56] Speaker A: That's right.
[00:11:57] Speaker C: True, true.
[00:11:58] Speaker A: But John, you hear that?
[00:11:59] Speaker C: We're on the clock that's working our butts off.
[00:12:01] Speaker A: So where were. I mean, we teased this last week, right? And this is again even more off the beaten path for your pint sized weekly feature. Yes, but where did your travels take you?
[00:12:14] Speaker C: We were in Troy two weeks ago and walked into the Heldenberg Meadworks. My girlfriend Mary said, john, could you do this place for pint size? I said, you know what, sure thing. I'll make you associate producer.
But somebody popped into the Hildenberg Meadworks. They've got a great little shop right on 3rd street in Troy.
They're headquartered out in Esperance, New York. That's where they actually did their brewing.
And it's like a farm brewery license. They can do it that way. But the thing is with mead, it's an ancient brew.
Essentially it's fermented honey. It's akin to wine, but they use honey instead of grapes. The owner, Volker, his unique approach, he's really focused on balancing complex flavors with seven dry meads. And he's got an award winning sweet mead. Really, there's any.
They've opened up a great space there.
It's inclusive to all communities. They're really happy to welcome people in.
It seems like it'd be just like the D and D crowd.
They're the kids in mom's basement.
[00:13:28] Speaker A: Yes, yes.
[00:13:31] Speaker C: I built my own Linux server and I got a five gallon carboy of mead.
[00:13:36] Speaker A: Let's go boys.
[00:13:37] Speaker C: Let's go right up. Take down the fort. But yeah, it was a great place. Real friendly folks there. Yeah, they've got some real, real serious beard things like that. About one called Odin's Tears, which is exactly Odin's Tears. It's essentially, it's, it's a really clean.
It's 13% alcohol. Really, it's, it's, it's like a wine, 13% alcohol. They're really all anywhere from 13 to 14% in that range.
Odin's tears are clean.
They've got one, a blueberry, blueberry sumac mead. It's very floral. They got cherry vanilla mead, which they said was a happy accident because they'd, they were brewing just, they were brewing a, a vanilla mead and, and then they just threw, they just threw a few extra bits in there and it really, it tastes, it tastes like a, like a cherry.
Chocolate covered cherry.
[00:14:36] Speaker D: Really?
[00:14:36] Speaker C: It tastes like a chocolate covered cherry.
[00:14:38] Speaker A: Oh, that's an easy sell right there.
[00:14:41] Speaker D: Boom.
[00:14:41] Speaker C: You're in. I'm in too. I like that a lot.
The woman there, the woman who runs that shop, her name's India Roy.
Her favorite's the black currant mead. It's Grant Thatch actually. And she says that that's like a beginner friendly option for someone who isn't ready for like the, the full Mead experience.
But very nice, you know, very enjoyable.
As we talked a little bit, she said that mead's actually, it's an ancient, an ancient brew. It's, it's roots date back anywhere from, from back to 7,000 BC.
[00:15:19] Speaker A: Oh, wow.
[00:15:19] Speaker C: China. Possibly 20 to 40,000 years ago as like a happy accident. In Africa. They say that they found logs with bees nests that had fallen, fallen by the, on the sides of rivers and somehow the white components came out of there and people, people had consumed it again. 40,000 years ago, accidental accident came from like accidental fermentation in nature. And you're gonna edit this, so I'm gonna Bible a little bit.
Yeah, it's a bit too, It's a.
[00:15:53] Speaker D: Really a cool space.
[00:15:55] Speaker A: So I've come across, you know, the weekend photography duties and things like that. Festivals and fairs and craft fairs and some like, stuff like that. And I've seen Heldenberg Meadworks. Yeah. On occasion, a couple different places. They do, yeah, they're, they're. I mean they're out there selling their wares. And I think, and this is so fitting is that the 18th of October will be nightmare and J. Oh, nice. It'll be the Nightmare Marketplace. And I know they were there earlier in the year when they had a marketplace midway to this point and talking to Kayla Eck, the curator of the Nightmare Market.
But they were as busy a booth vendor as anybody because, I mean, it's an easy hook. I mean anybody who's going by is going to Mead. What's Mead?
So why did your girlfriend. Was she familiar with me? Did she. No, she just thought it was Mead.
[00:16:53] Speaker C: Mary just mentioned, she goes, is this a place? She was just, you know, if she sees me not working, she gets upset.
[00:17:01] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:17:02] Speaker C: So she goes, whoa, no, no, no. She thought that she just had her eye on board. I was happy she did.
[00:17:10] Speaker A: Yeah. That's the same thing with Rita. It's. I'll get stuff all the time. She'll be, I'll get a text from her and there'll be a Facebook link to something she saw. Yeah. That she's like, I thought you'd like this. Or I thought you'd like this. Sometimes it's, can we go to this? So I didn't know if that's where Mary. Like, I don't know if that was. Was that also. So you've been in. Troy and I, we were at the.
[00:17:33] Speaker C: Farmer'S market and I parked near, actually about. And I parked kind of across street from when the mead works. And I kind of noticed that we noticed it on the way going to the market. But then it opened till noon and we were there like at 11 o' clock going to the market. So we walked around the market. Then on the way back, she passed it, we passed it again. She said, oh, look, they're opening up. So then we just went in and I and I.
[00:18:00] Speaker A: And a pint sized feature was born.
[00:18:02] Speaker C: It truly was.
[00:18:03] Speaker A: And it didn't take a couple. A lot of fermentation.
[00:18:07] Speaker C: No, no.
They had brewed over the course of an hour and boom, out it came.
[00:18:12] Speaker A: It was a fast rising yeast. There we go again. Being, you know, a craft beer connoisseur.
[00:18:20] Speaker C: As you are, as they say. Yes.
[00:18:23] Speaker A: How did mead strike you?
[00:18:24] Speaker C: Mead is very interesting. It's, you know, it's, it's not fermented. It's not, it's not fermented. So. But it's like a smooth wine.
It's, it's got a wine flavor to it, but it's, it's sweeter. It's, it's less complex than wine, but.
[00:18:40] Speaker A: It is, it's, I guess it's is the infamous. You know, it's been used 100 times on TV and stuff. Does it go down smooth? Is this like, who would you.
[00:18:50] Speaker D: Yeah, yeah.
[00:18:51] Speaker A: You know when you have your craft beer people.
[00:18:55] Speaker D: Yeah.
[00:18:55] Speaker A: And you have.
I'm.
Again, you know, you don't get to be my size as I was, by being fussy. So I would eat and drink everything. I stole a little bit more towards a basic lager. You know, when you're at the mixer, like you're gonna have one to walk around with for two hours. So it's gonna be a straight lager.
I Love Guinness. I love baking with Guinness and things like that. And then wine also. But like, who would you say? Like, who, what person would you introduce mead to? Like, what kind of flavor palette do you think they would have that would, like, would somebody who's a wino, would they be a mead person?
[00:19:30] Speaker C: Anaphile.
[00:19:31] Speaker A: Yeah. Yes.
[00:19:32] Speaker C: What do you think an autophile is? Just a wino with a job.
[00:19:36] Speaker A: Okay.
So good job. Yeah, yeah. Who would like it, do you think?
[00:19:41] Speaker D: Right.
[00:19:42] Speaker C: I think the taste. Who would like this? I think anybody who's interested in like experimental flavors because I think because it only uses honey, water and yeast. That's it. That's, that's all that's in me and in the most basic mead recipe.
So there's a lot of, there are a lot of ways that someone can go with that in terms of, in terms of how they spice it.
They've got some meads that are, that are like, like almost like southwestern flavors. They've got spices in them. They've got some that are very, like a cherry, like cherry vanilla kind of, kind of like sweet.
[00:20:26] Speaker A: So you got somebody who likes flavors, you know, type of thing because you can get, like I said, you said like southwestern. And I know we had that at Murray's Fools, where one of the mystery ingredients on their chop competition was. Was gin. And one of the mystery ingredients they could use was peppercorn. Oh. So that became a very spicy drink. Okay. And then some people had the option of not using that, but that made it much sweeter.
So it's like whatever palette you've got, if you like flavor in a sense of off the shelf flavor versus a hop flavor or how it hits you, mead might be the way to go.
[00:21:03] Speaker C: Mead's fun. Definitely. I would recommend trying it. I've got to definitely recommend being open minded about it and realizing it's an ancient drink that's been with humanity for thousands of years. So it's not going to hurt you.
[00:21:18] Speaker A: Yes.
[00:21:19] Speaker C: It's been tested by generations and yeah, it's definitely worth a try.
[00:21:25] Speaker A: And then where are you off to next? After your Troy visit to Heldenberg Meadworks, where'd your travels take you to next for next week?
[00:21:34] Speaker C: Bennington, Vermont.
[00:21:35] Speaker A: Ah, leaf peeping.
[00:21:37] Speaker B: Leaf peeping.
[00:21:39] Speaker A: And just licensed leaf peeping. Exactly.
[00:21:41] Speaker C: License leafing.
Yeah, there's, yeah, there's a pop into a great little, A great little tavern. It's almost like, it's like if Garth and Wayne grew up, got good jobs, but still wanted to have a living room where they could party. That's what they built.
[00:21:59] Speaker A: All right, so next week, we will party on.
[00:22:03] Speaker C: Dude.
[00:22:05] Speaker A: Some people may think I host a lot of podcasts, but I must tip my hat to Gazette sports editor Ken Schotter and his Parting Shots podcast that will approach a major milestone in just a few months. Here's Ken and I in the aptly titled Parting Shots podcast studio. I'm the captain now. I'm on the board.
[00:22:27] Speaker D: It feels weird going this side of the microphone.
[00:22:30] Speaker A: So this is our sports editor, Ken Schott, host of the Parting Shot podcast.
And I. I actually, I wouldn't say broke news, but I informed you that we shared a big holiday yesterday.
It was National Podcasting Day.
[00:22:46] Speaker D: I had no idea.
[00:22:47] Speaker A: It should get more pub, shouldn't it?
[00:22:49] Speaker D: Yeah, we should.
[00:22:50] Speaker A: And I'm like, who better to bring in than the guru of podcasting in the building, Ken Schott? And just talk about, like, what's your number right now?
[00:23:04] Speaker D: Well, earlier today, I recorded my 474th podcast with. This was with the Union Men's head hock coach, Josh Algy.
Season three of his weekly appearance on the podcast. We tape every Wednesday throughout the season as he begins his fourth season as the Union College men's hockey coach. And I have a podcast every Thursday. So for now, for now through probably mid March, I'll have probably at least two podcasts a week, and we'll hit 500 before you know it.
[00:23:31] Speaker A: So what year did you start the podcast?
[00:23:35] Speaker D: Well, I started the. I actually took over the podcast because that's. To go back a little further.
October 27th or September 2017. I was laid off here.
[00:23:45] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:23:46] Speaker D: I went to work at CBS 6 for a few. A few months. And then Mark McGuire was a sports editor at the time, called me up, asked me if I was interested in coming back because he was leaving. Michael Kelly was taking over sports editor, and he asked me if I wanted to be associate sports editor. I said, okay, let's do it. And his interview with me was, are you breathing? And I said, yes. Okay. So I came back, just. I was going to play out sections. Nope, nothing else. And there was actually a podcast done by Jake Lahat, who's now very famous with the political reporting, and he's seems to be a regular MSNBC these days covering Trump and his presidency. That's all I'll say about that. But when Jake left, I think I forget where he was going. One of the national websites.
I ended up taking over the podcast. I have a background in radio because I went to York College of Pennsylvania. I was four year Involved with college radio that they called speech communications was a fancy way of saying radio television.
There was a two year radio television degree. So for me it was just natural it was to do this. The question was getting guests. And I started lining up guests locally and then started getting some national feed. I mean, I've talked to Freddie Coleman of ESPN radio a number of times.
I've had Wayne Brady who host let's Make a Deal is also on Whose Line Is It Anyway? And Colin Mochrie was one of my early guests too. And so I like to delve in once a while. And outside of sports, it's my, my second favorite thing is music. So I've been really big into music and so I've had, you know, some guests on before. So it's just evolved and it's evolved into something that I can't believe. I've come 26 episodes away from 500.
[00:25:47] Speaker A: What was the gear like? Because the current podcast room we have now generated within last year. Right. The, the cool setup we got.
[00:25:55] Speaker D: Actually it's more unworthy. It's been a couple of years. Okay. I would just use my tape recorder.
[00:26:00] Speaker A: Okay.
[00:26:00] Speaker D: And test the cell phone and that was it. That was basically it. You put it in, edit in whatever system we had at the time, whatever program at the time. Because like we now have audacity, I think it is. We put this together and that's how it all started. And, and I got my, my. One of my best friends from college, Scott Geezy, does the opening for me.
So it makes it really sound professional.
He's got a wonderful voice, by the way.
So that's basically how everything went going. And then we, we did get some equipment a couple years ago, be able to do that.
So my, my goal is one of these days to be able to do. Do it on camera and do the podcast on camera if we ever get that opportunity. But that's something down the road and we'll worry about that later. But I mean, I love doing it because it feels like I'm doing radio again.
As I mentioned, I was involved in college radio. I did play by play basketball and baseball for York College of Pennsylvania's. Our radio station was WVYC AM640, which is unfortunately no longer there. It was the carrier current station and FM88, which is the rock of York back in my day. So I also, you know, was a DJ and sports director, program director of the AM station, program director of the FM station and then general manager of the final semester of my senior year, I think If I hadn't gotten in newspapers, I probably would have doing radio, sports or music. To this day and age, I'm glad I'm not in radio because it's all automated these days, but it's been a blast. I mean, I accidentally got into the journalism business when I took a class. My junior year was taught by two members of the York Daily Record. Our one assignment was that we had to do a one day internship at the internship at the paper. And I went for my day. And it was right after the Baltimore Orioles meeting my Philadelphia affiliates in the 1983 World Series.
Some of the Orioles were playing a charity basketball game in Southern York county at a local high school. I talked to a few players and came back, wrote the story and sports that are like what I had. He said, you want to do some work? And I said, do I get paid? He said, yes. And that's how it happened.
That was November of 1983 and look where we are now.
[00:28:11] Speaker A: That's it. When, when you took over the podcast, I mean, and we've all had this conversation with coaches and it's funny now at our advanced veteran age, but when we were younger, it was always like, coach, you got 250 wins, you got 300 wins. What's it feel like? And every time I'd ask that question, my first, probably 10 years, most of them would say, well, Stan, I just been around a long time. I'm not any good.
And now that we're at this stage now where you hit these magic numbers, I think you're good. I think your fans think you're good because you get great numbers and a lot of loyal listeners to this 500 still a big, big. It's a big number.
[00:28:49] Speaker D: Yeah. Yeah, it is. I mean, I can't believe it's gotten that far. I mean, if I find the time to do it, you're tough running a sports department, signing my. The reporters that go to certain events and trying to balance that covering Union College hockey and you know, it's just find a way to do it. I mean, you know, I have a Thursday podcast. I've got, you know, sound from the union men's and women's hockey media day that I'll use.
And talked to the Army West Point head coach Zach McKelvey earlier on Wednesday and talked to Mike Vaccaro in New York Post Sports College on Wednesday morning. We talked about the Giants and the Mets.
It's just a matter of just reaching out. Some of these people, a lot of them love to do it.
You take A chance like for example, like Kurt Caro. I emailed him. I had his email address said one of these day. I mean I like to talk. You know, I forget what one of the New York sports team, maybe both New York sports teams and. Or some of the New York sports teams, I should say. And he graciously did it and I reached out to him Sunday night if you want to talk. I want to talk about the Giants and the Mets. And Giants. Obviously Jackson Dart making his first start at quarterback and it was.
There was a success. The giants won after an 013 start. And of course the Mets class which not gonna lie, I have Happy Long Village fan.
[00:30:05] Speaker A: Yeah. Yeah.
[00:30:05] Speaker D: For the kid, right? Yep. So Mike reached out. We'll set it up for Wednesday morning. We talked about 20 minutes and that'll be on the podcast. Podcast. So it made. It depends the length of the podcast. I think it doesn't matter what the length of the podcast. I've been going over close to an hour the last few podcasts, which it's probably going to be that way with interviews and all that stuff. And I just like. I like putting up what I get from Union because there's a lot of stuff that doesn't get in the paper. Of course I also shoot video, so that gets up on our YouTube channel. But I like getting these interviews in me. It may be a few days old, but still it's usable and it's been a blast with the number of people I've talked to over the years.
It's been fun. I mean, there are some people I like to get one of these days, but I don't know if I'll ever do that. But yeah, it's been fun.
[00:30:59] Speaker A: So you are truly an audiophile and I know you contributed on the Stan and Chen show when we were talking about top four albums.
So let's review your top four.
They should be right off the top of your head.
[00:31:15] Speaker D: I always pretty convinced the Beatles were in there with Abbey Road and sergeant Pepper Prince with Purple Rain. Was it Pink Floyd's Dark side?
[00:31:26] Speaker A: I think yeah. You. You kind of hit like you the true Mount Rushmore. And I went back and forth on the Beatles where you want to do both, you know, Abbey Road and sergeant Pepper. I'm like, do you want two or.
[00:31:37] Speaker D: Yeah. Sergeant Pepper is just unique because it was psychedelic of a lot of its songs. But they really. That was at their peak, I mean when they were unified together because. And then Abbey Road, which is, you know, was the last. It was the last hour to recover but not the last one released, because Let It Be was actually recorded early 16, 1969. Of course, they had all kinds of problems with that and Put it away and whether it was released in 70. But in just listening, and I appreciate more and more listening to side two of that, especially the Sun King melody, all the songs run together, and it closed out with Carry that Weight. And in the end, it's. It's just unbelievable stuff that. That still resonates today. I think a lot of younger fans and music fans, they'll love. Beagle's music is timeless. And then Prince, he just.
He was an underrated guitar player. I mean, he has. He had some quirky songs, don't get me wrong. But you. You listen to the title track of Purple Rain does the guitar solo. And I remember when he passed away, I think David Gilmore was doing the solo for Comfort Comfortably Numb at a concert. I saw this on YouTube. And then he eased into the solo from Purple Rain, so he had the respect of those musicians, rock musicians.
[00:33:00] Speaker A: All right, 500 is coming up. 24 to go, right?
24 to go. Who's the get? Who's the get for 500?
[00:33:07] Speaker D: Who's. Actually. I take that back.
[00:33:08] Speaker A: 26 to 26 to go. Yeah. 274. Yeah. 474 to 500. So 26 to go. Who's got to be the get for 500?
We got a little bit of time, so, I mean, we could put the. You know, we can get the next group of interns on this, working the phones and stuff.
[00:33:22] Speaker D: Oh, God, that's a good question.
[00:33:24] Speaker A: Is it Gretzky? Is it?
[00:33:26] Speaker D: No, I would have said Bernie Perront.
[00:33:29] Speaker A: But unfortunately he passed away. Just. Yeah.
[00:33:32] Speaker D: I mean, one of the gets I've had was Joe Watson, who was also on that. Those Flyers cup teams. And I could have. I talked. We talked for about an hour. I could have talked for two. He was so amazing.
That was one of my highlights of doing this podcast, being able to talk to somebody. I was in the spectrum that day on May 19, 1974, when the Flyers were the Bruins, 1 nothing to win their first Stanley Cup.
I would like being a Philly guy. One of the guys I, you know, probably be a couple. Mike Schmidt and Bobby Clark.
[00:34:06] Speaker A: I was going to say. Is. Is it. Is it Michael and Michael, Is it. You know. You know, growing up, growing up, you know, I only had two channels on the antenna, and one of them was channel 16 down in. So it was all Phillies games and stuff like that. Mike Schmidt was there. I was a huge Greg Luzinski fan, you know, and things like that. So, yes, we're going to effort this for you.
[00:34:28] Speaker D: Okay.
[00:34:28] Speaker A: We're going to effort it and see if we can make this happen for you as a long time. So, yeah. So last favor is, can you take out the Stan and Friends podcast as Ken Shot can only do.
[00:34:40] Speaker D: Okay, Coming up, we're going to.
Coming up next after this one, you're.
[00:34:46] Speaker A: Going to close out.
[00:34:47] Speaker D: I'm closing out the show. Okay.
So thanks for listening to the Stan. What's his name?
[00:34:53] Speaker A: Stan and Friends.
[00:34:53] Speaker D: Stan and Friends. That's right. So you sort of sold a title from Jen and Friends.
[00:34:57] Speaker A: Right.
[00:34:58] Speaker D: Obviously, the views expressed on the Pawnee Shots podcast are not the.
Are not the representation of the Daily Gazette newspaper. And of course, we have a new name. I decided to memorize that. But this podcast is a production of the Daily Gazette Newspapers for Stan Houdy, I'm Ken Schatz. Thanks for listening and we'll catch you next time from the Parting Shots podcast studio in Schenectady, New York. Have a great day.
[00:35:22] Speaker A: The Stan and Friends podcast could not be possible with the help of a few of my friends.
[00:35:27] Speaker B: Chad Arnold, Ted Remsnider from the Daily.
[00:35:30] Speaker D: Gazette, Shenandoah Brear, rita Garrett, hoodie, aka Mrs. Stan, or Stan's wife.
