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Episode 25: Teddy Foster & Chris Ryan (Universal Preservation Hall) · Buying Local Podcast

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  Welcome back, everyone, to buying local Saratoga.
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  I'm your host, Mike Nelson. I am excited about today's
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  episode, joined here by a good friend of mine and someone that
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  he is on a committee with. Is that how we say that?
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  Yeah. So.
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  But the important guest, really. Let's talk about the important
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  guest, which is Teddy Foster from Universal Preservation
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  Hall. UPH Hi Teddy.
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  Hi, Mike. Welcome.
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  Thanks for having. Me, thanks for joining us.
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  Very excited to talk about what you have going on and by Chris
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  Ryan almost said cool. Chris Ryan from Six Marketing,
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  but also Chris is on the committee with UPH, is that
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  that's correct, right it is. Yes, hello.
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  Thanks for having me as well. We're excited.
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  Yes, good to have you back. Actually this is your your
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  second appearance here on buying local Saratoga previously you're
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  with Leah Perillo coming over here, talk about some marketing
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  stuff growth. Company stuff.
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  Frequent shopper? So UPH has their annual event
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  coming up. Yes, frequent.
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  So we really want to talk about that.
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  So Teddy, maybe give us now you're there.
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  You're the director, Executive Director.
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  I'm their director. Director So give us kind of a
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  quick rundown about what UPH does.
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  So UPH, or Universal Preservation Hall, is a former
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  Methodist Church that was built in 1871.
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  And it stayed at church for many years, until about the year
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  2000, when the building had fallen into such disrepair that
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  it was condemned by the city and the congregation was evicted.
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  At that time, it wasn't a Methodist Church anymore, It was
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  a Baptist Church, and they were evicted from it.
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  So that was in about the year 2000 and a group of people I
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  wasn't involved at that time, They got together and they knew
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  the historic significance of the building.
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  And also the important architectural piece of it for
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  Saratoga and they raised $3,000,000 privately to
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  stabilize and salvage the building because otherwise it
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  was going to be knocked down, the Wrecking Ball was on the
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  way, it would have been a parking lot.
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  So it everything started up with UPH in about 2003.
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  I came on the scene in 2006 and the place was a bomb site.
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  I mean, we it wasn't. It was we could only use it
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  seasonally. There was no heat, There was no
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  air conditioning. There was no elevator.
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  There was no nothing, only heat on one of the floors.
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  But we kind of cobbed it together when we ran it, you
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  know, seasonally and trying to raise money all the time.
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  And then in 2009, we the recession hit.
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  The board kind of broke up a little bit because people were
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  leaving the board to go, you know, pay attention to their own
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  businesses. I worked for a GE company and
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  was laid off in the recession. So the result?
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  The board members that stayed kindly made me the board
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  president when I missed a meeting.
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  So there was. That's what you got.
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  That's what I got. I've never missed a meeting
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  since, but anyway, we I took it forward and formed an
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  affiliation with Proctor's a few years later to become a partner
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  with them because they were branding themselves regionally,
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  which they have done now. They're called the Proctor's
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  Collaborative. And together we kicked off a
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  capital campaign to restore the building to its original
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  grandeur and to turn it into a worldclass performing arts
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  venue. We started that campaign in
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  2016. I think we started construction
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  in 2018 after having raised $14 million.
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  And then very proud and excited that we opened on February 29th
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  of 2020 only to be shut down 10 days later.
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  So yeah, that was a bit of a an obstacle to overcome, but we're
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  past it. So it is a downtown yearround
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  venue for the performing arts and community events.
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  We also do rentals for weddings and galas and you know.
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  We talked to everybody. You know, we have beautiful
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  spaces that can be used in the building.
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  So that's that's what I was going to ask.
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  So that's what your your purpose or your mission is really to be
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  a venue. Yeah, we want to be an economic
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  driver for downtown Saratoga all year round, and I feel that
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  we're accomplishing that. OK.
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  The Great Hall upstairs, it's on the 2nd floor is our main
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  performance space. It's Seats 700.
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  The sound is beautiful in there. We have shows every weekend, a
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  couple of shows every weekend. You know, we're getting there
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  and our audience is growing. And so tell us about some of the
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  shows that you've done so far. In 2020, we opened with Rosanne
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  Cash. She was our opening night.
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  And then a couple days later we had Louie Anderson.
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  We had Chris Bodie, the jazz trumpeter.
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  Since we've been open, we've had wonderful, wonderful shows.
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  We had Bobby Collins, a comedian.
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  We had Suzanne Vega the other night.
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  Josh Ritter. Maria Bamford We do comedians,
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  we do music. Albany Symphony has played
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  there. Schenectady Symphony has played
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  there. We have a show coming up this
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  weekend. Isaac Mizrahi, who is the
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  fashion designer for Target, has a cabaret act, and he's doing
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  that at UPH on Friday night. And on Saturday we have a reggae
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  show. It's Mystic Bowie's talking
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  dreads. Going to be a great show,
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  selling well. O Lots of diverse programming
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  for people of all different likes and dislikes.
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  Yeah, yeah, it sounds, it sounds like you've got something for
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  everybody over. It's very fun.
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  Yeah, yeah. And I was trying to think so.
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  We had, we were talking before. I had gone to the fundraising
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  event back in 2000, but we decided that was 2019. 2019
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  shaken and stirred celebrity bartender competition.
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  Yeah, yeah. That was a lot of fun.
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  So that was part of the capital campaign that you were doing to
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  raise money for the renovations or?
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  Yeah, we included that in the capital campaign, but before
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  that we our main mission was just to get the building
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  restored. You know, we would say all the
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  funds raised go to restoration of the building.
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  The funds that we raised this year will be used towards family
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  and children's programming to develop more of that at UPH.
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  I'm really excited about that. Yeah, I can't imagine what
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  raising $14 million I'd like. That doesn't sound easy.
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  It wasn't easy, but they everybody always laughed because
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  I would bring people into the building for tours and the
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  building is spectacular even when it wasn't finished.
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  And the joke always was don't let her get in you in the
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  balcony, because if she gets you in the balcony, you're not
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  getting away. And you raised a lot of money
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  that way. Get people in the balcony.
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  Getting them in the balcony and painting the picture of what it
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  was going to be, what it was. Going to be.
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  Yeah, I'm very fortunate that people believed what I was
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  saying and knew that I'm a person of my word.
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  And if I said this is what we were going to do, that's that's
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  what we did. So very happy to have that
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  support. That's awesome.
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  Thank you. So the Shaken, Stirred event
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  that now you have it coming up again, right?
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  So the one that I went to in 2019, that was so much fun.
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  So this is our 8th annual coming up and we had to take a break
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  because of COVID. So we're really excited for this
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  event. Yeah.
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  So, so just because you brought up COVID, but I hate talking
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  about the pandemic at this point because we've all talked about
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  it so much, but. You So you you're open your
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  doors and then you're shut down. Like, what did you do for that?
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  How long were you shut down? We were shut down for over 2
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  years. Yeah, So what?
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  What? What do you?
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  Do well. What we did was we pivoted and
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  the building is extremely versatile.
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  So we turned it into an exhibit hall for two summers and the
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  first summer we were able to bring in a Rock and Roll Hall of
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  Fame pinball machine exhibit that was really great.
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  The pinballs. Machines were all owned by
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  famous guitarists or famous performers.
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  So we we would allow 20 people in the building at a time.
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  They had to wear gloves, They had to wear masks.
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  They could come in and they could actually play these
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  pinball machines for an hour and a half.
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  And then we'd usher them out. We'd clean like maniacs for the
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  next half hour and then let the next group in.
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  And you know, we did that for the summer of 2020 and.
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  It was great because in that that those couple of months we
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  had 3000 people come through our building which never would have
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  been there before. And it was interesting because a
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  lot of people still came to Lake George for vacation and they
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  didn't they love the arcades up there and the arcades were shut
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  down. So they came down and played
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  pinball. So it was kind of we didn't
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  realize that was going to be that was like a surprise.
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  And then the second year we got a really wonderful dinosaur
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  exhibit in there, and they were dinosaurs.
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  Sculptures, there were thirteen of them made out of recycled
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  metal that you could move, so that was a big deal.
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  And they we've had over 5000 people come through that summer.
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  So that's what we did and it just kept people coming in, it
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  kept us busy, it kept us relevant and then starting in
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  2/21/2000 we did that in 21 and then the fall of 21 we went full
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  music. And other, you know, kind of
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  performing arts things. Yeah, it's been really great
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  coming back. And that, yeah.
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  And that was when you were able to open back up?
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  Right. Yeah, Yeah.
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  You know, we did the mask thing, the temperature thing, the
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  COVID, you know, the vaccination thing.
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  We did all that and people. As a whole, were were lovely
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  about wearing the masks because they were just so grateful to be
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  seeing live. Yeah, Yeah, Public.
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  And the great thing about the Hall is the HVAC system is so
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  advanced because we were just finished.
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  I mean we run a 40% fresh air mix at all times and all the air
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  in the building recycles every 30 minutes.
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  So it was a really safe place for them to be and the musicians
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  unions loved it too because it was safe place for the
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  performers. So, so yeah, that was going to
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  be one of my questions is, so after a $14 million renovation,
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  you probably have heat and air conditioning.
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  We have it all. Yeah, very comfy in there, I'd
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  imagine. Sky Zone Trampoline Park,
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  Queensbury Sky Zone can set you up with a great birthday party
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  for your kids and less hassle for all of you parents.
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  They also offer general admission tickets and
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  memberships. With exclusive.
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  Discounts and access to member only events.
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  So we do some children's programming already.
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  We have a music camp in the summer.
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  We call it rock camp. And it's a twoweek camp where
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  middle school and high school kids can come to learn how to
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  play in a band and how to get along with other band mates and
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  how to interact and how to set the stage and all that.
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  It's a really wonderful thing. And that's in July.
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  We have that coming up this year.
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  So we looked at, we're hoping to that through the money that we
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  raised with shaken and stirred, we can expand that next year to
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  maybe have a rock camp and maybe a different kind of camp.
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  You know what? You know a jazz camp or
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  something like that. And we do have children's and
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  family programming throughout the year.
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  Next Wednesday we have two shows on Wednesday, a school day show,
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  where schools bust their students in.
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  And then at night we have a family performance of Eric
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  Carle. He's a great author of
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  children's books The Very Hungry Caterpillar, and it's great so.
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  I'm very familiar with that. Book.
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  So those are the kind of things, you know, we want to develop
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  more of for our families. Is she going to read the book?
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  The puppet show. A puppet.
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  Show full puppet show of the book.
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  Very nice. Want tickets?
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  I don't know. Maybe I'm I think my 3 year old
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  hasn't gotten into The Hungry Caterpillar yet.
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  My older kids definitely remember The Hungry Caterpillar,
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  though we read it quite often. It was actually my daughter
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  Avery. She's 12 now.
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  It was one of her favorites when she was a little younger.
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  How about you Chris? Have you read The Hungry
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  Caterpillar? I have not yet.
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  You're going to. It's on the way so.
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  Yes, it's soon, soon and and Chris, you know from your
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  standpoint, so you're on a committee with Teddy for this
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  for is that for the fundraising for Shaken and Stirred or?
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  Yeah, for shaken and stirred. Tell us a little bit about what
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  you do over there to help Teddy in the and the team.
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  Not nearly as much as Teddy does, let's be honest.
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  But so Teddy invited me for. A long time ago. 20/18/2017 so.
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  So as part of a few events and then COVID happened then it
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  feels like we've been planning for this event for three years
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  plus we kept beating and having you know discussions on,
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  especially 2020, will we open back up the same conversations
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  that everyone else was having? Obviously we didn't.
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  So we're really excited about this year.
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  But yeah, shake and disturb. We have a great committee board,
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  whatever you want to call it, of people all meeting.
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  We're meeting on a weekly basis. We're captaining teams around
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  the area to help them, to support them.
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  So it's really just a crazy event if you haven't seen or
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  never heard of Shaken and Stirred.
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  Really just go. On find that hard to believe
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  actually if you're in the local area that you haven't heard
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  about it some. People haven't, which is
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  surprising. That is surprising, yeah.
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  I don't know if we've been a sellout crowd, but prime is
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  always. It's standing room only and it's
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  an outside event, so. Yeah.
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  So you're going to do that at Saratoga National again?
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  We do. We're doing it out on the
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  veranda and the patio. That's where we have it every
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  year and they have the capacity to hold a lot of people.
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  We normally have a huge crowd for this event.
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  There's also tons of parking, so it works.
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  The really good thing about shaking and stirred is there's
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  no ticket, There's no cover charge to get in.
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  It's all about tipping for your favorite teams, and we have
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  business teams that have signed up.
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  And they compete against each other in shifts to see who can
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  raise the most tips for UPH. And then they get an award and
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  their picture taken and all kinds of stuff at the end.
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  So can I say who our teams are? So we have Bonacio, Finger
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  Paint, Stewart's Mohawk Auto Group, Sotheby's old Tavern
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  farm. Micropolitan matchmakers and de
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  crescente. OK, so they will compete against
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  each other in half hour shifts. It is so much fun.
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  It is. It is so much fun.
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  And in the past, we've taken a lot of cash.
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  You know, it's been a cash event.
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  This year, we don't think it's going to be that big of a cash
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  event. So we have QR codes for every
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  team, so it's easy to tip. It's very easy to tip.
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  We also will have great raffle prizes.
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  We have great raffle packages that will also have a QR code
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  that you can do. We will also take cash and we
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  have a photo booth and a DJ so You Can Dance.
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  Wonderful, wonderful, fun time. Yeah, I like I said, I know we
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  had a great time when we were there a few years back.
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  So that was, I'm sure it's going to be even more fun this time.
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  And the QR code is a nice touch. I'm so proud of the QR code,
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  yeah. Chris has been really
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  instrumental with us and helping us get on board with that.
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  He also has been a big part of our committee because we don't
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  just get these businesses to to come on with us.
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  We give them a toolkit of everything that they need to do
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  and Chris created that. It's wonderful.
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  Very nice, Chris. Thanks.
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  You and your team over at six. Yeah, we helped out in any way
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  we can. Obviously, we're the marketing
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  people, so we assisted the Proctors collaborative team,
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  which are phenomenal, incredibly smart.
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  Ali has been pioneering that on that team and she's great, but
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  she can insert itself. I think it might be worth
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  talking about what actually happens.
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  So Teddy mentioned that the teams, and they come and they
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  bartend against one another, but it's much more than that.
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  They dress up, they have themes and they have entry songs.
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  It's very much like the WWE meets, like the Super Bowl.
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  Yeah, so it's this crazy fun event.
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  We had a team one year UPH. We filled the last and our team.
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  We did a circus theme and we had a lady come in on stilts.
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  If. She's coming back.
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  We got her on stilts. Yeah.
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  I mean the juggler. And she's on stilts and she's
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  juggling. She doesn't.
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  That's amazing. Yeah.
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  We didn't win that year, but we tried anyway.
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  We looked great. How did you not win with a woman
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  on stilts juggling? I don't think we could win, but
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  yeah, so maybe we. Wouldn't I guess that?
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  Would be it was OK. So they'd be cheating.
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  But everybody does different themes and it's really, really
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  fun. So the teams will really, really
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  compete. Stewart's is I'm the coach of
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  Stewart, so if you want to donate to a team, that's a great
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  team to donate. Are you the.
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  Movers and shakers. We are the movers and Shakers
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  and Stewart's will bring their. Very nice, Which?
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  Is the cow and they will bring that in and it is just a huge,
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  really, really fun, but it's pretty manic.
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  The the teams, there's two bars open.
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  They have to compete against each other.
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  Side by side. Side by side, so you're trying.
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  Kind of hustle and work the crowd and and really just get as
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  many tips as humanly possible and it's such a great event it
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  delivers just raises a ton of money.
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  Helps a ton of kids. Obviously with the with the most
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  recent program, but this year three years in planning and yes
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  we have QR codes. QR Codes and we have Chris
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  Honorato, the morning anchor on WNYT is going to be our host for
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  the night. So we're excited about that
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  first time. So hopefully it won't be his
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  last time. He might be so horrified.
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  I'm sure, I'm sure they're going to love the fun.
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  Yeah, I think he'll love it. And the national loves having
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  us. They're wonderful to us.
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  When we come out, there'll be some food.
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  You know, we have Uber, Lyft tickets that have been donated
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  by Harding and Mazzati. Yeah, so people can get a safe
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  ride home, which we think is really important.
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  That's very fitting. Yeah.
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  Way to go, Harding and Mazzati. Surround plumbing, heating and
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  air conditioning in Queensbury, NY has been offering services
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  including installation and repair to our community for over
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  25 years. They're professionally trained
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  plumbers and HVAC technicians are capable of completing any
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  job from start to finish, with a promise to deliver unmatched
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  customer service in the process. I'm just curious about so the QR
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  code to help understand, to explain that a little bit to our
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  listeners. So the QR code, they scan it.
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  That's gonna open up a donation form.
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  So realistically how most teams, so we have a competition, teams
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  will try to raise as much money. So but most of the money they
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  raise is before the event itself.
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  So obviously you can only collect so much tip money during
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  the actual event. But yeah, we have a QR code
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  that's assigned to Stewart's Bonaccio finger paint, you know
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  all of them. So if you scan that code, it
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  goes right to our app. You can donate through Venmo or
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  PayPal. Everything is is all done right
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  for you but. QR codes are great.
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  It also has a texting so you can text stewards to this number
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  etc. And that's I think that's even
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  easier than the QR code. So we give people every option
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  to be able to donate as easy as possible because it is hectic
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  and when you're there you can bring cash and you can pay at
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  the bar etc. But these guys are they're
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  hustling in 1/2 an hour to deliver.
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  Hundreds of drinks, yeah. It's really, you know, it's a it
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  started already. So if you haven't seen any of
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  the the correspondence online, QR codes are up, text messages
• 19:46
  are up. Pick a team Stewart's and and
• 19:49
  donate to whoever you want, whoever you'd like, but yeah.
• 19:52
  It's pretty exciting. I mean, I might be partial to
• 19:54
  Stewart's. I only stop at like 7 different
• 19:56
  Stewart's every day. Unless I'm driving around and
• 19:58
  getting getting food and coffee. We.
• 20:01
  Also have a specialty drink. It's called the Steeple Teeny.
• 20:04
  The steeple teeny. The steeple teeny cuz we have a
• 20:06
  beautiful big steeple. And that's been what we've
• 20:09
  called it since the beginning. OK, so it's yeah, we love it
• 20:13
  when people buy our steeple. Teenies, The steeple Teenies.
• 20:15
  And I'm assuming it's a vodka drink.
• 20:18
  It is. Yes, all right.
• 20:20
  Like a martini, but yeah, some we.
• 20:22
  But taller? We have to do a steeple teeny
• 20:24
  tasting soon, so we'll let you know.
• 20:26
  Oh. Yes, please do.
• 20:27
  Yes. That is the favorite event of
• 20:29
  the committee, so we have to try the.
• 20:31
  Product to make sure it works. The taste testing, yes.
• 20:34
  The quality control, it's people should come out.
• 20:38
  It's just so much fun and hopefully the weather gods will
• 20:41
  be with us and we've had it in the rain.
• 20:43
  Doesn't matter. People still come.
• 20:45
  We have a ball, so. It's the 18th.
• 20:48
  It's May 18th. It's one month from today.
• 20:51
  Wow. That's yeah, I'm one month away.
• 20:53
  I don't know. So plenty of time to get your
• 20:59
  get yourself ready, get your tipping done in advance.
• 21:01
  Get your tipping done in advance.
• 21:02
  Okay. All right.
• 21:13
  The teams. And I'm sure people are taking
• 21:05
  the social media as well as far as doing some of these promos
• 21:09
  and some of these fundraising efforts.
• 21:18
  So the team, they're very competitive.
• 21:14
  Well, Chris, you want to talk about the teams and what they do
• 21:16
  on social media? Yeah.
• 21:20
  So let's just put that out there.
• 21:21
  A lot of trash talking. Yeah, de Crescenti, Bonacchio.
• 21:24
  They're always going head to head, but teams will make their
• 21:28
  own videos and they'll come up with their own themes, so they
• 21:30
  do some pretty crazy things. But they're really just, they're
• 21:33
  they're such great supporters and generating just really epic
• 21:36
  content. So everybody's cross sharing and
• 21:39
  you know it's really again I said not maybe you haven't heard
• 21:41
  of it, but if you're on social media you've likely heard of
• 21:43
  this event and it's just the creativity that comes out what
• 21:47
  these teams do and they always try to one up each other which
• 21:49
  is which is amazing. So we're super excited to see,
• 21:52
  we've seen you know, little tidbits of of what what's coming
• 21:55
  out for 2023. But yeah, keep an eye on the the
• 21:59
  old hashtag. Yeah, now that it's a month
• 22:01
  away, things will start to get really heated up on social
• 22:04
  media. And it's hilarious.
• 22:06
  What is the hashtag? We have several hashtags, so if
• 22:09
  the easiest thing to do is just to go to the UP H's like, their
• 22:12
  Facebook page and Instagram, you'll see all the hashtags.
• 22:15
  So we have UPH shaking, UPH shaking to stir, shaking to stir
• 22:18
  2023. Easiest thing is just go right
• 22:21
  to our profile so if you find the profile you will see
• 22:24
  everything. But realistically, if you live
• 22:26
  in Saratoga, you're part of this community.
• 22:28
  Somebody sharing this? Somewhere, right.
• 22:29
  It's got to be somewhere, yeah. Yeah.
• 22:32
  We'll have to make sure we we pick up some of it as well and
• 22:34
  we'll we'll get some of the posts out thank.
• 22:36
  You to go along with the podcast?
• 22:37
  Yeah, for sure. Awesome for sure.
• 22:40
  And and how about for your stuff, Chris, where do they find
• 22:43
  6 marketing on the? The old social media on the
• 22:47
  Internet. Well, I'm just, I mean, and this
• 22:49
  isn't self promotion at all. So we're just one of the
• 22:51
  companies helping. There's how many people on the
• 22:52
  board? Teddy 30 No, there's 18 on our
• 22:55
  board. I.
• 22:56
  Was just, I was kidding, 30. It felt like 30.
• 23:00
  But well, you're in marketing. 18 people doing doing the work
• 23:03
  of. Was double Yeah.
• 23:05
  So no you can find us online 6 dot marketing but more
• 23:08
  importantly like go to UPH find these teams and the the teams
• 23:11
  again they're recruiting for themselves.
• 23:13
  So if you go in Stewart, you, you go in Bonacio Sotheby's, you
• 23:16
  know, and see what they're doing.
• 23:18
  Because even if you look years past, they'll share the old
• 23:21
  videos of what? They've done so.
• 23:23
  Back when boomerangs were a thing, that was a that was a
• 23:25
  big, you know, big hype back in 20/19/2018.
• 23:29
  Boomerangs are no longer there. I mean that kind of are, but not
• 23:31
  really. It depends.
• 23:34
  So So what was the boomerang video?
• 23:37
  There were several boomerangs, so.
• 23:39
  Funny, who did the construction? One Teddy?
• 23:41
  Oh, Bonacio did, yeah. So yeah, it was very funny.
• 23:45
  So I'm gonna have to go and look it up somebody.
• 23:47
  Signed up. Yeah.
• 23:47
  Lifestyles, they did a great video walk through.
• 23:50
  I mean it's everybody gets into it with these high videos and
• 23:53
  then. Obviously they come out to their
• 23:54
  walk out song, like I said it is.
• 23:56
  Like the walk out song? Yeah.
• 23:58
  You know it's a free event. Everyone shows up May 18th,
• 24:01
  starts at 5:30, goes to 9:00, first team goes at 6:00.
• 24:05
  Okay. Yeah, so come in, have some
• 24:07
  drinks. You know, it's a safe event.
• 24:09
  It's fun and it's beautiful. It's at National.
• 24:11
  It's, I think, knock on wood. Knock, knock, knock.
• 24:14
  We have always had pretty good weather.
• 24:16
  Say, don't jinx the weather, Chris.
• 24:18
  I. Just said it.
• 24:19
  So yeah, and we have a newcomer team this year, Micropolitan
• 24:23
  matchmakers from Albany, and they're in it to win it.
• 24:27
  They have, they've asked another group called the Wing Men of
• 24:31
  Albany to join them. So they're going to be a team
• 24:34
  and they're going to have an area where they'll have a
• 24:36
  singles mingle during the event. So that's another reason to come
• 24:40
  out. OK, You might meet the love of
• 24:43
  your Life, OK? Yep.
• 24:44
  So if you're single and in Saratoga, this sounds like the
• 24:47
  event to go to and when you we're listing them off before
• 24:50
  those I'd heard of everybody but the the micro.
• 24:52
  What is it again? Micropolitan matchmakers.
• 24:56
  OK is micropolitan. Steeplepolitan, Yeah.
• 24:59
  Becky Daniels and Gabby Fisher started this matchmaking
• 25:02
  business in Albany. So they're doing a, They're
• 25:04
  doing a team. Very cool.
• 25:06
  Sounds fun, yeah. And can you give us any spoilers
• 25:09
  on on what some of these, what do you call them the the songs
• 25:13
  where you come out to the the entry songs.
• 25:15
  No, you can't, can't give it away.
• 25:16
  No, you got to go to the event. It's yeah, we got to come for
• 25:19
  the procession. And the steeple Teenies, right?
• 25:25
  Right. Obviously I'm hitting my
• 25:26
  microphone now, Teddy, so it's not just you.
• 25:28
  So it's catchy. It is talking with your hands.
• 25:31
  It's going around. It's catchy all right, so let me
• 25:34
  make sure I didn't miss anything here, so.
• 25:37
  May 18th 5:30 to 9:00, Shaken and stirred celebrity bartending
• 25:42
  event at Saratoga National, which is, as you guessed, the
• 25:46
  folks right outside of Saratoga Springs, the city.
• 25:50
  What else? Anything else?
• 25:51
  No cover charge. No cover charge.
• 25:53
  No, no ticket. Just come on in.
• 25:55
  Just. Show up and have a great time
• 25:57
  and find those QR codes and vote for your best tip tip.
• 26:00
  Tip for your best team, which apparently is going what?
• 26:03
  What's the stewards? One again.
• 26:05
  The Shakers and movers. Movers, movers and movers and
• 26:08
  shakers. All right, that's amazing.
• 26:10
  We're. Embracing the Cow theme.
• 26:12
  As you should. As you should.
• 26:16
  Awesome. Well, guys, thanks for coming
• 26:18
  in. Thank you.
• 26:19
  Appreciate it. Yeah, I sit here and talk to you
• 26:21
  all day. I know, it's funny.
• 26:22
  You know what? A way to make a living, right?
• 26:26
  So much fun, Chris. As always, thank you.
• 26:29
  Good to see you. Nice to see you.
• 26:31
  And thanks again. Thanks so much for having.
• 26:33
  Me and check out you pH on social media guys and your
• 26:36
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• 26:40
  Check out our upcoming events. We have great shows coming.
• 26:42
  Yeah, absolutely. What do you think the show you
• 26:45
  probably can't say this can't have a favorite, but do you have
• 26:47
  a favorite one you're really looking forward to that's coming
• 26:49
  up? I just had every show is my
• 26:53
  favorite. I know that's like.
• 26:55
  Asking who your favorite kid is, Right?
• 26:56
  Every show is my favorite, so I'm not the one to ask.
• 26:59
  The sound is amazing in the room and they're all good and there's
• 27:02
  not a bad seat in the house. All right, perfect.
• 27:04
  But definitely lookout for the balcony.
• 27:05
  Is that still the balconies? Beautiful seating.
• 27:09
  OK. All right.
• 27:10
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• 27:11
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