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All right, all right.

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Beanie talks with friends episode 156.

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We're in a special place.

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We're in Farmington on 258 Main Street.

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In maximum beverage.

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We use you film in maximum beverage,
but in West Hartford.

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But today we're in Farmington
with a good friend.

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What's up? Reno?

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How are we doing? Reno from Jay Timothy's.

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I'm here. Can you guys smell those wings?

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Their hair
dirt. Wings are in the building.

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I can't concentrate,
so I'm very excited to talk with you.

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Where do you want to start?

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Anywhere you want the holiday season?

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Yeah. You talk about holiday seasons.

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We can talk about,
how how blessed people are.

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How lucky people are.
How matter of fact, how I got involved.

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This seat
that I'm across from you right now,

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like getting contacted
for a donation, for one thing.

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And then it led to an email,
and it led to another email,

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and it led to, okay,
well, we'll help you here.

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And I'm like, by the way,

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I got a golf tournament
in May of the next year or something.

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You know,
you may get some connections for me.

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You know, and then it was like,
you know, you want come on a podcast.

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And I was like,
talk to my marketing person.

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Like, what's that like?

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And she's like, I'm just like, when
you go on TV, except there's no cameras.

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Yeah, gotta talk to people.
Talk about topics you want to talk about.

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You know, a lot of times
I'm talking about Super Bowl

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more than anything with a lot of people,
or the history of Jake Timothy's

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up on a case like this, you know,
like I said, when I first got here,

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you know, I left the restaurant
that was busy.

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And we're going to be busier tonight,

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but, an hour earlier conversation,
you know, it's holiday season.

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It's about,

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you know,
not just what it's going on for us.

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It's what's going on for everybody else,
you know?

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So when you said you not going to sit down
and have a have a conversation,

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you know, I went and looked up,

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you know, friends with being
and see what everything's about.

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And you know, spending
taking some time out to help other people

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or to even send a story, tell a story,
you know, it's good for everybody.

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Yeah.

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I've been I've been at Jay Timothy's
for three plus decades, you know? So,

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I've seen all the ups and downs and, and,
you know, the,

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the people we've been able to help,
you know, the friends we've made,

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the connections we've made, you know,
it's, I'm making a connection today.

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I met 3 or 4 people here.

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Yeah, I didn't know before
and didn't know your face.

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And then, walked in here
and said, I'm looking for an Eric

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guy, and,
you know, and I'm looking for friends.

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Repeating the first guy's like, yeah,
the podcast is over there.

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Like, okay, you know, no strangers
are just friends who haven't met yet.

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Just, you know, I met met the owner
and I told myself, I stopped here.

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I said, I live in South Windsor,
right on the way home from work.

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I'll stop in over here, grab something,
and then I go home and that's.

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I can hit something else on the way,
but you know. Yeah. Nice.

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Speaking of Matt,
the owner, this is my, Alec Baldwin.

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He's been on the most podcasts.
Matt. Yeah.

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Alec Baldwin, you've been in the most,
I think episode

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30, you were episode 20.

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But again,

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he's been

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we comes in with celebrations, bring some

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beer here.

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And he usually
he doesn't come empty handed either.

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That's why he always gets invited.

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You're at maximum beverage.

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Yeah. I mean, there's a lot of whiskey

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and, but, what do we got here?

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Tell us about this. Yeah.

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So Sagamore
Rides. Guys are out of Maryland.

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This is their cask strength,
seven year old, which is,

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you know, the way whiskeys have been going
lately.

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That's on the water side of things.

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And we see a lot of 45 year
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So right now,
you say you're on the bucket. Yep.

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Someone's got to work.

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Someone's got to work.

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Nice and dark blue.

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Those little,
nice little, rye whiskey here.

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Beautiful cup to look at.

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Maximum beverage
that's going to be for Dave.

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Shout out to Direct Line Media.

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None of this would be possible
Dave still here 156 episodes and counting.

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It's Mount
and my guy Marty's in the building.

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Marty. Party

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hard right now.

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Yeah, yeah, this one is.

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I don't.

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I mean, we're big on the proof here.

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Well, I guess

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give me a number. It's over 100.

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Gas law by a lot.

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One 2114, 123.

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Yeah. Let's go.

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Prices right, I win. That's a big.

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But does it smell hard though.

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No, it's it's going down.

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It's like two shots at one you know.

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Cheers to you.

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Cheers.

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The Jay Tims cheers to maximum beverage.

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Here's to friends of Fini.

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So I'm gonna go sit in the corner.

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Cheers, Dave. Oh, can Marty have one?

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I think Marty can already get one.
Yeah. You want that?

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Yeah.

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Beanie talks with friends.

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This podcast was created thanks to Dave.

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He did book behind the brand. He.

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I came on
and talked about friends of Fini.

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When I left, I said, hey,
can I do the questions?

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And and here we are.

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So this is fini talks with friends.

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I use this podcast
to talk to wonderful people

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in the community
that are doing great things.

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And you've been in the community
for 30 plus years, 30, for

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34 years.

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How's that feel?

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Old, old some days, other days.

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Not not some old at all.

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You know.

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They say

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find something you you love to do
and you'll never you never, you know,

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never feel like you're working a day
like, sure, that's a great thing.

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But I do love what I do.

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Some days I just like what I do.
Other days are difficult.

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I'm sure everybody's job,
you know, as much as they like it,

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there are days they, you know, you go in
and you to do your job and that's fine.

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And that's just human.

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You know, there's no way, in my opinion,
you're going to love what you do.

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Every single day.

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But I like the job that I have.

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I like the connection.

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I've always been a food and drink person.

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I like all the spirits I deal with.

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It's my primary job.
They're beer, wine and liquor.

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But I go hand in hand with our chef
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Probably the biggest food
geek in the building.

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I, I get all jazzed up
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going to new restaurants
when I make connections.

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Just like we're having, you know,
making a new friend here, like you said.

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You know what I mean?

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When I go to another restaurant,
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rugby manager over there I've met before,
let them know where I work and like, oh,

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my goodness, you know,

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I just I just did a gift card swap
in the restaurant they called up today.

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They want to do that.

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We've done a couple times in the past.

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So I like people, you know.

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Yeah, there are people in this world that,

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you know, would rather be on a computer
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some days, like I said, some days
you don't want the old people.

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Teachers don't want to deal
with pupils and students every single day.

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Lawyers, I want to deal with this
police and fire and everybody's got it.

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Everybody's got a job,
you know, whatever it is.

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But, I still enjoy what I do

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nine out of ten times making people happy,
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a little bit like your organization.

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Ours is on a smaller scale,
so we only do one event a year,

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but we help out with so many different
organizations and through activities.

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But we do our, our charity
golf tournament every single year.

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But I reach out to everybody and anybody.

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You know, I used a long arm
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to say, listen, we're all just looking for
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and I'm not looking for anybody
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You give me 50 bucks here and $100 here,
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Yep. Adds up later.

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You know, you how many years
has your golf tournament been gone?

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I'm there for 30 for someone for 35 years.

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35 years of your golf tournament.

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Oh, amazing.

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Well, 30. I'm sorry. It's be 35 years
this year.

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I missed the very first year
I was not working there.

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And then when you start
started was a small one.

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So it's I think it's 35 years.

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It's just there. 34.

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Oh, I hope I get in trouble. Cheese.

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Friends of Feeney's on our fourth.

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Our fifth 1st September 12th, 2026.

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When's your next one?

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Do you got the date yet?

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May 18th or 19th
is the third Monday in May.

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Okay.

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Hours at two hours
is that takes us on a Saturday.

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Yours is on a Monday because of of work.

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If I did mine on a Saturday June
it was going to be there.

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That is interesting.
You're closed on Mondays.

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What's the reason on that and why?

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And how long has that been going

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that only that only happened
to coming out of Covid.

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Okay.

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We were expecting closed
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Staffing issues, restrictions.

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Guests were coming out right off the bat.

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You know, we're not going to staff
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not have anybody in there
dining restrictions.

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We adhere to to whatever the state
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And we had no problem that, you know this.

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We want to get everybody safe.
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try to get back into business,
but we want to do the proper channels.

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Yeah. Now, you mentioned it.

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Thank you so much.

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Marty swung by and grabbed up a gift.

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Grab the gift card
for our golf tournament.

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You guys were very generous.

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It was a huge hit at a raffle,
so we can't thank you enough.

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Give me Marty.

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Give me two weeks notice.

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Next year,
I'm build a whole basket for you.

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Not just a gift card. Yes, absolutely.

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That's amazing. Thank you.

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Yeah, we're here at Reno.

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I'll let, take us back to 1989.

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What happened then and why?

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I just joined Jay Timothy's.

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I was working at a place
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The bartenders happened to come into

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start to come in at the beginning
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I was already going into
Jay Timothy's on Wednesday nights.

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I was playing in a coed soccer league.

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Just stop at Jay Tim's way home.

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I lived in Southington at that time,
so that was just our stop on Wednesday.

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So I got to meet the two bartenders
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They found out I worked over Branigan's.

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Slowly but surely.

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You know, we make a good friendship.

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Brady's was a very nice restaurant.

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I worked there for just just about a year.

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But definitely not doing the building
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I guess they pushed me. And so, listen,
we got a spot open.

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We got four shifts a week,

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a couple shifts as a server
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September of 89.

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The rest was all done.

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I didn't leave them for a year and a half.

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I went and worked for chain restaurant.

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I was looking to get into full time
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Want to learn more and more
the numbers and get involved, you know,

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not the day to day bartending. And,

244
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but after I left and then I came back
and it was like from there

245
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we just kept going and going and going
and growing and growing and growing.

246
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You know, we've I've been through

247
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seven,

248
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six renovations,
two that were major kitchen

249
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blowouts and full room
redos and shut down for a week.

250
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I mean, a lot of restaurants do that.

251
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It's normal to pick up,

252
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pick a slow weekend,
whatever it may be for you and renovating

253
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to the owners
have since we say semi-retired.

254
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But they're not there.

255
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And it's, you know,
if they hear this, that's good.

256
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That's not there. They're not there.

257
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That means we're doing our job
better than better. Yeah.

258
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So that was 1989.

259
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What happened in 1789?

260
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1786 when it started the building.

261
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Oh, okay.

262
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So 1786.

263
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So, we as a matter of fact,
we celebrated Jake Timothy's

264
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celebrated its 40th anniversary

265
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five days before Covid
shut the country down.

266
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Oh, shut it down. We were on a Thursday.

267
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They shut down on Sunday. Yep.

268
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And one day when the basketball game
Sunday night.

269
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Yeah, it was like 3 or 4 days before,
literally when they shut everything down.

270
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I remember the NBA game.

271
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Yeah, the NBA game.

272
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Right now we have 20 people that are sick.

273
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And the next day they came out
and started saying,

274
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okay, everything's getting shut down.

275
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But we had just done a 40th anniversary
where we closed the entire restaurant,

276
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sold tickets for next month.

277
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People donated everything.

278
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Our main charity for us is to play
in the food pantry has been for the 30.

279
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Is that where your golf tournament goes?

280
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Yes. All year I say 90, 80%, 85% of
it goes to people food pantry.

281
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We also have a John Dewey scholarship,
you know. Yup.

282
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He was our original chef
and a small minority,

283
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partner with Tim and Jim, two owners.

284
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He he came with them out of, Pennsylvania
from Stinking Hill, where they started.

285
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So John came over.

286
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He was the original chef with them.

287
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Unfortunately passed the cancer

288
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on these terrible dates.

289
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I want to say it's about 11 years now.

290
00:11:41,283 --> 00:11:44,286
So once we started doing
the golf tournament.

291
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Oh, yeah.

292
00:11:45,955 --> 00:11:46,247
Okay.

293
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Once we started doing
the golf tournament,

294
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we started pulling out of the golf
tournament

295
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and doing special holes to benefit
just a John January scholarship.

296
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We took like a couple of par threes
and instead of, you know, doing it 5050,

297
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there it's for the January scholarship
a little matching to the 5050.

298
00:12:00,469 --> 00:12:02,596
So you pay $10. It's just for John here.

299
00:12:02,596 --> 00:12:06,225
What you pay 2010 goes
for John at ten goes oh that's cool.

300
00:12:06,225 --> 00:12:10,187
So most people just throw 20 out there
ten for charity, ten for the John Dewey.

301
00:12:10,354 --> 00:12:10,771
Yeah.

302
00:12:10,771 --> 00:12:12,857
You know we share it out that way
I saw that.

303
00:12:12,857 --> 00:12:15,818
Yeah. That was great
that you do that, scholarship.

304
00:12:15,818 --> 00:12:16,485
Yeah, we do it.

305
00:12:16,485 --> 00:12:19,488
We we try to keep it to play adult
just because,

306
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you know, we're we're in that town.

307
00:12:21,198 --> 00:12:25,786
But I also have a lot of students,
high school students that go Southington,

308
00:12:25,786 --> 00:12:29,915
New Britain, both Bristol Eastern,
Bristol, central, Farmington, Newington.

309
00:12:30,458 --> 00:12:32,251
I get to choose your group of kids

310
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that work at Jay.

311
00:12:34,253 --> 00:12:35,504
Tim's that who you're saying? Yep.

312
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Like, I get it seems like once
I get like one football player

313
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from doing it high school for them apply
that they like the job.

314
00:12:42,219 --> 00:12:44,305
Yeah. So they're friends.
Yeah. Word of mouth.

315
00:12:44,305 --> 00:12:44,513
Yeah.

316
00:12:44,513 --> 00:12:45,431
It is word of mouth.

317
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It's a
I've always said it's a good first job.

318
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Although if you're not a people person
it's a tough first job.

319
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Yeah.

320
00:12:52,980 --> 00:12:53,939
But you got to talk to people

321
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that are clearing a table
or bringing food or stacking dishes.

322
00:12:58,110 --> 00:12:59,737
You still got to talk to people. Yep.

323
00:12:59,737 --> 00:13:02,239
A kitchen person,
a host person, a server person.

324
00:13:02,239 --> 00:13:06,994
You know, they're
you know, we're 130, 540 employees.

325
00:13:08,329 --> 00:13:12,166
Between the front, but between our kitchen
and our front of the house, staff.

326
00:13:12,166 --> 00:13:15,669
So we're a big building,
you know, we we seat 370 plus people.

327
00:13:15,836 --> 00:13:17,630
We're nine rooms on three levels.

328
00:13:17,630 --> 00:13:19,465
So, you know, on a Saturday night, I have

329
00:13:20,424 --> 00:13:23,260
50, 55 employees in the building.

330
00:13:23,260 --> 00:13:26,263
You know,
I'll turn between this time of year

331
00:13:26,597 --> 00:13:29,975
12 to 1400 people through the door,
you know, so that's,

332
00:13:30,476 --> 00:13:34,271
you know, and they walk in the door, it's
prep people in at 7:00, wait staff

333
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a 10:45, and by 12:00 where to wait list,
you know, and they're busy, you know.

334
00:13:40,069 --> 00:13:41,320
So that's amazing.

335
00:13:41,320 --> 00:13:44,406
It's a lot of our one of our favorites
questions

336
00:13:44,740 --> 00:13:47,743
we've used it for
the longest time is controlled chaos.

337
00:13:48,077 --> 00:13:50,704
You know, I always get every year
I get somebody to want to talk

338
00:13:50,704 --> 00:13:54,083
about our Super Bowl and what happens
with the Super Bowl and how much we do.

339
00:13:54,124 --> 00:13:56,168
That's a question

340
00:13:56,168 --> 00:13:59,171
I got that random, remind me,
I'll tell you

341
00:13:59,421 --> 00:14:02,800
my funniest joke ever to the Super Bowl,
and I will go to get to that.

342
00:14:02,800 --> 00:14:03,384
I'll take that one.

343
00:14:03,384 --> 00:14:06,136
But, you know, I tell everybody it's,
you know, we've been doing for so long,

344
00:14:07,137 --> 00:14:08,973
it's like a system for any other job.

345
00:14:08,973 --> 00:14:11,517
Doesn't matter
what job you have in this world,

346
00:14:11,517 --> 00:14:12,893
you know, you have systems in place.

347
00:14:12,893 --> 00:14:15,855
If you follow them,
usually things go pretty well for you.

348
00:14:16,021 --> 00:14:18,023
We have controlled chaos. Yeah. We are.

349
00:14:18,023 --> 00:14:20,359
We are busy throughout
three quarters of the day.

350
00:14:20,359 --> 00:14:23,362
And, you know, we just try to maximize
all our time with it.

351
00:14:24,321 --> 00:14:25,614
Let's go to the Super Bowl then.

352
00:14:25,614 --> 00:14:26,615
Come on now.

353
00:14:26,615 --> 00:14:27,324
True or false.

354
00:14:27,324 --> 00:14:30,494
Confirm or deny that right after 2015.

355
00:14:30,953 --> 00:14:32,746
You had

356
00:14:32,746 --> 00:14:35,541
20,000 pounds of wings in 2015.

357
00:14:35,541 --> 00:14:39,712
And then and then 2025 was 24,000 pounds.

358
00:14:39,712 --> 00:14:43,757
Last year was 24,000
pounds of wings, 24,000 pounds.

359
00:14:43,757 --> 00:14:46,135
But like that's 12 to 12 tonnes.

360
00:14:46,135 --> 00:14:49,138
Yes. Absolutely. Yeah. 12 tonnes of meat.

361
00:14:49,555 --> 00:14:51,140
Yeah. That's all I got right.

362
00:14:51,140 --> 00:14:53,684
Yeah. So our biggest so our biggest.

363
00:14:53,684 --> 00:14:55,519
Where do you store it.
How do you get it out.

364
00:14:55,519 --> 00:14:57,021
Like there's so many questions.

365
00:14:57,021 --> 00:15:00,024
Two tractor trailers that come to get two
deliveries are in the week.

366
00:15:00,316 --> 00:15:03,110
We got one in the middle of the week and
one at the very end of Friday deliveries.

367
00:15:03,110 --> 00:15:05,946
Never fun for our delivery guy.
He hates it because place is busy.

368
00:15:05,946 --> 00:15:07,489
He tries to get there
as early as possible.

369
00:15:07,489 --> 00:15:10,868
We actually bring in a refrigerated truck,

370
00:15:11,785 --> 00:15:13,996
that we actually plug in to the outside

371
00:15:13,996 --> 00:15:16,957
and keep the stuff in there,
keep all that product right in there.

372
00:15:16,957 --> 00:15:18,751
Wow. And

373
00:15:19,919 --> 00:15:20,127
you're

374
00:15:20,127 --> 00:15:23,130
known for having bigger wings than places.

375
00:15:23,213 --> 00:15:24,632
Can you share
where do you get these wings?

376
00:15:24,632 --> 00:15:27,343
Or where's the farm? Who's the chicken?
Are they on steroids?

377
00:15:27,343 --> 00:15:28,010
I don't know, man.

378
00:15:28,010 --> 00:15:28,928
I only live with chickens.

379
00:15:28,928 --> 00:15:31,805
I've never,

380
00:15:31,805 --> 00:15:32,932
We use our one provider.

381
00:15:32,932 --> 00:15:34,475
That's PFG.

382
00:15:34,475 --> 00:15:35,601
Performance Food group.

383
00:15:35,601 --> 00:15:37,519
Don't know the name of the farm.

384
00:15:37,519 --> 00:15:37,728
Laughs.

385
00:15:37,728 --> 00:15:40,606
And we were buying up a farm
in Pennsylvania.

386
00:15:40,606 --> 00:15:43,442
We do have a spec just like almost
every restaurant does.

387
00:15:43,442 --> 00:15:46,487
Is a spec in every,
you know, chain restaurant spec qualities.

388
00:15:47,112 --> 00:15:47,905
Yeah.

389
00:15:47,905 --> 00:15:51,784
You know, a ten, 12
which uses ten, 10 to 12 rings per pound.

390
00:15:52,284 --> 00:15:54,244
So, you know,
if they're running a little small,

391
00:15:54,244 --> 00:15:57,623
some places, you know, they're buying,
you know, 12, 15 wings.

392
00:15:57,623 --> 00:16:00,292
But I'm just going to do shrimp
that people look at that says you 12.

393
00:16:00,292 --> 00:16:01,877
That means it's hundred and 15 per pound.

394
00:16:02,962 --> 00:16:06,006
So our wings in the
industry are considered a medium to large.

395
00:16:06,465 --> 00:16:09,468
They're places that use bigger ones,
are places you want smaller ones.

396
00:16:09,468 --> 00:16:12,596
But we have found that that size
and we did a lot of work with it.

397
00:16:12,596 --> 00:16:14,765
But that gives us the best

398
00:16:14,765 --> 00:16:17,810
meat to Christmas ratio on a chicken
and the chicken itself.

399
00:16:18,602 --> 00:16:19,645
You know, some people say,

400
00:16:19,645 --> 00:16:22,314
you know, they want a little less little
a little bit more, a little less.

401
00:16:22,314 --> 00:16:22,856
That's fine.

402
00:16:22,856 --> 00:16:23,899
Everybody's got their own taste.

403
00:16:23,899 --> 00:16:25,192
You know what I've said?

404
00:16:25,192 --> 00:16:26,986
Other people, other chicken
places in the state, you know.

405
00:16:26,986 --> 00:16:28,445
Well, some people do.

406
00:16:28,445 --> 00:16:29,446
Other people looking for a good job.

407
00:16:29,446 --> 00:16:32,324
But, you know, not
everybody's as big as we are either.

408
00:16:32,324 --> 00:16:33,951
You know, we're a we're a big facility.

409
00:16:33,951 --> 00:16:36,078
That's why we do so much for people. Yes.

410
00:16:36,078 --> 00:16:37,579
Last year was right on. Right.

411
00:16:37,579 --> 00:16:39,081
Right below 12 months.

412
00:16:39,081 --> 00:16:41,000
That was the number two right below it.

413
00:16:41,000 --> 00:16:41,583
Cheese.

414
00:16:41,583 --> 00:16:43,836
And are you still doing Wednesday buckets?

415
00:16:43,836 --> 00:16:47,840
I heard that was like, what started did
that bring you after the softball games?

416
00:16:47,840 --> 00:16:49,174
Is that why you went that.

417
00:16:49,174 --> 00:16:51,010
So that's where things all started okay.

418
00:16:51,010 --> 00:16:51,593
All right.

419
00:16:51,593 --> 00:16:55,264
History lesson is so we used to do, bucket

420
00:16:55,431 --> 00:16:58,350
night is he was putting the wings
in a bucket of rolling rock points.

421
00:16:58,350 --> 00:16:58,809
Okay.

422
00:16:58,809 --> 00:17:01,770
Nice ponies in a bucket of wings
on Wednesday night.

423
00:17:01,770 --> 00:17:02,771
Here's the deal.

424
00:17:02,771 --> 00:17:06,442
You basically got the beer
for, like, $0.02 per beer.

425
00:17:07,609 --> 00:17:10,154
Just to generate
business in the middle of the week. Yep.

426
00:17:10,154 --> 00:17:11,655
We were open seven days a week.

427
00:17:11,655 --> 00:17:13,824
Yep. But.

428
00:17:13,824 --> 00:17:14,742
So we were just looking for a way,

429
00:17:14,742 --> 00:17:17,911
you know, other places do now that do Taco
Tuesdays are happy hour.

430
00:17:17,911 --> 00:17:18,871
Thursdays are.

431
00:17:18,871 --> 00:17:20,664
Everybody has promotions, you know.
Oh yeah.

432
00:17:20,664 --> 00:17:21,540
We didn't do many of them.

433
00:17:21,540 --> 00:17:25,502
But we said something like this
with in middle of the week,

434
00:17:25,502 --> 00:17:28,505
on the softball team was our pitcher
name was very Virgin.

435
00:17:29,173 --> 00:17:30,799
His nickname was dirt.

436
00:17:30,799 --> 00:17:32,926
The reason being he was the oldest dirt.

437
00:17:32,926 --> 00:17:35,596
Everybody on the team was not
because he slid in the dirt or anything.

438
00:17:35,596 --> 00:17:37,431
He was old as dirt poor Barry,

439
00:17:37,431 --> 00:17:40,434
I was, I it was my second year there,
so I was all 22.

440
00:17:40,684 --> 00:17:43,937
I think the oldest guy on the team was 25,
other than Barry, who was like

441
00:17:44,271 --> 00:17:47,483
38, is it that oldest dirt 38?

442
00:17:47,691 --> 00:17:48,484
Yeah, okay.

443
00:17:48,484 --> 00:17:50,819
But he was literally ten years
on the next hole.

444
00:17:50,819 --> 00:17:53,530
This guy, you know, with high school,
college kids,

445
00:17:53,530 --> 00:17:55,532
I had some some of my fruit runners
that were on the team.

446
00:17:55,532 --> 00:17:56,992
You know, they're good athletes.

447
00:17:56,992 --> 00:17:59,078
Did you play? I did play, okay.

448
00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:02,164
There was a soccer player, so I was okay.

449
00:18:02,164 --> 00:18:04,458
But back to back to Barry. Barry.

450
00:18:04,458 --> 00:18:07,461
Yeah, but Barry was name was dirt.

451
00:18:07,503 --> 00:18:10,506
His name was dirt,
but we call them beer dirt.

452
00:18:10,881 --> 00:18:12,257
Oh, that was his nickname from day one.

453
00:18:12,257 --> 00:18:15,385
Always had I when I first met him,
he introduced me.

454
00:18:15,385 --> 00:18:16,053
This is dirt.

455
00:18:16,053 --> 00:18:17,763
No, I actually knew I met his kids.

456
00:18:17,763 --> 00:18:19,139
I, you know, his wife.

457
00:18:19,139 --> 00:18:20,474
No one met her several times.

458
00:18:20,474 --> 00:18:22,101
You know,
she's been a good friend of Jimmy's.

459
00:18:22,101 --> 00:18:23,852
But anyway,

460
00:18:23,852 --> 00:18:26,688
come back from softball games,
go to Jay Timothy's.

461
00:18:26,688 --> 00:18:29,316
Get your get wings.

462
00:18:29,316 --> 00:18:30,984
Barry was a smoker back then.

463
00:18:30,984 --> 00:18:32,778
You quit smoking. Drinking
didn't stop the smoking there.

464
00:18:32,778 --> 00:18:35,030
So he would eat some of his wings.

465
00:18:35,030 --> 00:18:36,115
Go. Go outside.

466
00:18:36,115 --> 00:18:37,407
Want a cigaret and say, listen,
you got to.

467
00:18:37,407 --> 00:18:39,284
You know, my wings are, you know,

468
00:18:40,285 --> 00:18:40,869
cold.

469
00:18:40,869 --> 00:18:42,704
Gotta hit him up, you know?

470
00:18:42,704 --> 00:18:45,958
So we're like, we could do that
with, like, throw them back into the oven

471
00:18:46,458 --> 00:18:47,501
because, you know, he's already
eating on them.

472
00:18:47,501 --> 00:18:50,504
You got to put it back on a plate,
cook them up again and then some.

473
00:18:52,005 --> 00:18:54,299
So we start saying
this is a good way to do these things.

474
00:18:54,299 --> 00:18:57,427
So we started working on a formula
to do this where instead of

475
00:18:58,303 --> 00:18:59,847
I'm not going to have
somebody 5 or 6 wings

476
00:18:59,847 --> 00:19:02,599
and then say cook them some more
from again, we do that for them now.

477
00:19:02,599 --> 00:19:05,811
So our get fried sauce down

478
00:19:07,020 --> 00:19:10,023
and then we're fry them
and sauce them a second time.

479
00:19:10,315 --> 00:19:11,150
So we made them.

480
00:19:11,150 --> 00:19:12,985
And he would always say people would say,
you know

481
00:19:12,985 --> 00:19:15,529
I want the wings like I want those
because I want those dirt.

482
00:19:15,529 --> 00:19:16,488
They were dirt wings.

483
00:19:17,823 --> 00:19:18,323
Good old dirt.

484
00:19:18,323 --> 00:19:19,825
Is he still with us?

485
00:19:19,825 --> 00:19:20,534
Is he still around?

486
00:19:20,534 --> 00:19:22,911
Does he get. He's not around.

487
00:19:22,911 --> 00:19:25,998
I don't believe where he is now
because I've not seen him.

488
00:19:26,665 --> 00:19:28,709
Does he any compensation using his like.

489
00:19:28,709 --> 00:19:30,711
Like. Oh, he got
you got treated very well.

490
00:19:30,711 --> 00:19:31,628
Image and likeness.

491
00:19:31,628 --> 00:19:35,465
And I'll deal back then it was treated him
very good at the beginning.

492
00:19:35,465 --> 00:19:38,177
So is this one the dirt.
Can we show them off?

493
00:19:38,177 --> 00:19:40,220
That's your sweet red chili.
That's your buffalo dirt.

494
00:19:40,220 --> 00:19:41,805
That's your drive over here. We got.

495
00:19:41,805 --> 00:19:43,098
We talked all this dirt.

496
00:19:43,098 --> 00:19:45,893
Let's get a zoom in on these dirt.

497
00:19:45,893 --> 00:19:47,519
Wow. Buffalo dirt.

498
00:19:47,519 --> 00:19:49,104
That's the buffalo dirt.

499
00:19:49,104 --> 00:19:51,106
And what do you have?
This is a sweet red chili dirt.

500
00:19:51,106 --> 00:19:52,524
Yeah. Okay. Gotcha.

501
00:19:52,524 --> 00:19:54,109
You can dirt any flavor. Nope.

502
00:19:54,109 --> 00:19:55,694
We don't got dirt to dry rub.

503
00:19:57,779 --> 00:19:58,989
Oh, look at that.

504
00:19:58,989 --> 00:20:01,283
Yeah. People love these.

505
00:20:01,283 --> 00:20:03,035
That's crispy.

506
00:20:03,035 --> 00:20:05,162
Yes. So it's double dip. Double fried.

507
00:20:05,162 --> 00:20:08,165
So we basically you're frying the sauce
onto the skin. Oh.

508
00:20:08,248 --> 00:20:09,958
So we're going to we should do.

509
00:20:09,958 --> 00:20:12,211
That's the buffalo.

510
00:20:12,211 --> 00:20:13,420
That's the honey barbecue.

511
00:20:13,420 --> 00:20:16,006
Not sweet red chili. Sweet red chili.

512
00:20:16,006 --> 00:20:18,800
And then I wanted to try a dry rub
if you want to try that.

513
00:20:18,800 --> 00:20:18,884
What?

514
00:20:18,884 --> 00:20:22,721
We try not dirt at all, but a dry rub.

515
00:20:23,055 --> 00:20:26,141
Rub it all. Very excited.

516
00:20:26,141 --> 00:20:27,184
We'll get into these.

517
00:20:27,184 --> 00:20:28,143
Smell that from over here.

518
00:20:28,143 --> 00:20:30,562
Marry us over there.

519
00:20:30,562 --> 00:20:32,314
Now. True or false?

520
00:20:32,314 --> 00:20:34,024
Is there ketchup in your sauce?

521
00:20:34,024 --> 00:20:36,026
Not going to say anything?

522
00:20:36,026 --> 00:20:37,694
Not gonna say anything. True or false.

523
00:20:37,694 --> 00:20:42,449
Do you make homemade the, 
blue cheese in ranch?

524
00:20:43,283 --> 00:20:44,451
Yes or no?

525
00:20:44,451 --> 00:20:46,495
So true to the blue cheese.

526
00:20:46,495 --> 00:20:47,871
You make your homemade blue cheese

527
00:20:48,956 --> 00:20:49,790
from scratch,

528
00:20:49,790 --> 00:20:53,377
and you add a lot more blue cheese,
and people would get somewhere else.

529
00:20:54,378 --> 00:20:56,797
Not asking the question. Yeah.

530
00:20:56,797 --> 00:20:58,131
So everybody, you heard it here first.

531
00:20:58,131 --> 00:21:01,051
There's ketchup in these wings
and they make their blue cheese

532
00:21:01,051 --> 00:21:02,010
with extra blue.

533
00:21:02,010 --> 00:21:05,472
No I'm kidding
I don't know no I'm very excited.

534
00:21:05,847 --> 00:21:08,809
Dirt shout out to dirt.

535
00:21:08,809 --> 00:21:10,727
Do you have t shirts
that say dirt wings or anything?

536
00:21:10,727 --> 00:21:13,814
We do market the dirt I didn't have
I didn't have a t shirt.

537
00:21:13,855 --> 00:21:16,191
Your like to sit dirt please.
Come on them.

538
00:21:16,191 --> 00:21:17,985
What about j? Tim is in the back.

539
00:21:17,985 --> 00:21:19,152
Says come get dirty with us.

540
00:21:19,152 --> 00:21:21,530
Oh little innuendos.

541
00:21:21,530 --> 00:21:24,533
Come on in the front says
come get dirty with us in the back.

542
00:21:24,741 --> 00:21:25,701
Let's get dirty.

543
00:21:25,701 --> 00:21:28,745
Yeah it's it's one of the, it's
one of the staff's favorite spots to wear.

544
00:21:29,162 --> 00:21:30,664
Wow. You know tell no

545
00:21:30,664 --> 00:21:33,250
the only wear that the bar
that we don't wear the dining room.

546
00:21:33,250 --> 00:21:35,377
Like I said, too many people question
the innuendo when they're walking by.

547
00:21:35,377 --> 00:21:37,129
Say, what's that supposed to
mean? Let's get dirty.

548
00:21:37,129 --> 00:21:39,172
Yeah, exactly.

549
00:21:39,172 --> 00:21:41,216
Wow. And, explain the J.

550
00:21:41,216 --> 00:21:42,676
Tim's who's Jim, who's Tim?

551
00:21:42,676 --> 00:21:46,305
So you've got Jim
Welch and Tim, Tim Adams. Yep.

552
00:21:46,305 --> 00:21:49,474
So it was called Cook's Tavern
when they first had it.

553
00:21:50,225 --> 00:21:53,103
Were you
did you ever frequent Cook's Tavern?

554
00:21:53,103 --> 00:21:53,645
Okay.

555
00:21:53,645 --> 00:21:56,857
I joined them about a year after
they went from Cook's Tavern to gotcha.

556
00:21:57,441 --> 00:21:59,985
Back then, there used to have a,

557
00:21:59,985 --> 00:22:04,489
Sunday, Sunday review of restaurants
and the people that did restaurant.

558
00:22:04,489 --> 00:22:07,367
You reviewed them
and gave them a horrendous review.

559
00:22:07,367 --> 00:22:08,660
Horrendous.

560
00:22:08,660 --> 00:22:09,911
And people actually canceled events.

561
00:22:09,911 --> 00:22:11,455
People at weddings booked their canceled.

562
00:22:11,455 --> 00:22:12,998
They were so worried about it.

563
00:22:12,998 --> 00:22:15,751
Obviously nowadays
we got influencers of every side.

564
00:22:15,751 --> 00:22:18,211
Yeah,
but there's so many influencers back then.

565
00:22:18,211 --> 00:22:19,796
There's only one food critic.

566
00:22:19,796 --> 00:22:23,550
There was a, husband or wife back
then, gave a terrible review.

567
00:22:24,092 --> 00:22:25,635
And the point
where they were like questioning,

568
00:22:25,635 --> 00:22:26,803
should we continue down this road?

569
00:22:26,803 --> 00:22:28,764
They were white tablecloth at that time.

570
00:22:28,764 --> 00:22:29,139
It was.

571
00:22:29,139 --> 00:22:32,142
It was fine dining, white tablecloth.

572
00:22:32,476 --> 00:22:34,853
And they took a hard
look at it, said, you know what?

573
00:22:34,853 --> 00:22:36,271
We're going to change our entire,

574
00:22:37,481 --> 00:22:40,025
you know, business model.

575
00:22:40,025 --> 00:22:41,777
And they were sitting around

576
00:22:41,777 --> 00:22:44,654
discussing they had already known
what they wanted to do.

577
00:22:44,654 --> 00:22:48,283
They want to become a tavern, approachable
for everybody, families

578
00:22:48,283 --> 00:22:49,368
more than anything.

579
00:22:49,368 --> 00:22:51,370
They knew being in Plainville
and the surrounding towns are like,

580
00:22:51,370 --> 00:22:53,955
listen, we're not dealing with,
you know, city.

581
00:22:53,955 --> 00:22:55,707
We're not dealing
with a lot of white collar.

582
00:22:55,707 --> 00:22:57,959
We need to change this.

583
00:22:57,959 --> 00:22:59,836
Especially that whole thing was happening.

584
00:22:59,836 --> 00:23:03,173
And, they were sitting around
and one of our one of the cooks back then,

585
00:23:03,673 --> 00:23:07,719
a guy named Gary was, 
they were throwing names out,

586
00:23:07,719 --> 00:23:11,723
and he threw out about Jake Tims,
and they're going, what do you mean, Jake?

587
00:23:12,516 --> 00:23:14,810
Jake for Jim and T for Timothy J.

588
00:23:14,810 --> 00:23:15,811
Timothy's.

589
00:23:15,811 --> 00:23:16,937
And he's like Jake Timothy's.

590
00:23:16,937 --> 00:23:18,897
And they're like,
wait a minute, Jake, Tim's or Jake? Tim.

591
00:23:18,897 --> 00:23:20,690
And they said,
no, let's go. Jake. Timothy.

592
00:23:20,690 --> 00:23:24,027
But yeah, I can't tell you how many times
I'm walking through the restaurant.

593
00:23:24,027 --> 00:23:26,071
I hear people on the phone saying, yeah,
I stopped at Jake. Tim's.

594
00:23:26,071 --> 00:23:27,864
I stopped at Jake, Tim's
I stopped the Jake. Tim's.

595
00:23:27,864 --> 00:23:28,865
Oh, that's all I hear.

596
00:23:28,865 --> 00:23:31,868
Yeah, some of these are people
from out of state that heard about it.

597
00:23:31,868 --> 00:23:34,830
Just read the sign. Yeah,
I would get that. That was the the act.

598
00:23:34,830 --> 00:23:37,582
The best thing that came out of Covid
for us.

599
00:23:37,582 --> 00:23:42,796
I met people from Maryland, Maine,
Pennsylvania, Vermont, mass.

600
00:23:42,796 --> 00:23:46,216
Everything within 5 to 6 hours
during Covid.

601
00:23:46,216 --> 00:23:48,135
If you're allowed to come out,
they would just drive.

602
00:23:48,135 --> 00:23:51,221
I remember meet at the film people and
only go with a six hour drive, he said.

603
00:23:51,388 --> 00:23:52,848
We come up here, we're getting Jake.

604
00:23:52,848 --> 00:23:55,934
Timothy swings Pepe's pizza,
staying overnight and going back home.

605
00:23:56,601 --> 00:23:58,979
Hey, that's a day I'm going you know what?

606
00:23:58,979 --> 00:24:00,981
That's amazing.
Yeah. Look, you're from Maryland.

607
00:24:00,981 --> 00:24:02,983
They were just looking up things to do,
you know? Yeah.

608
00:24:02,983 --> 00:24:05,444
And they said, you know,
you had some nationally recognized pizza,

609
00:24:05,444 --> 00:24:07,904
a nationally recognized chicken wings
in the same state.

610
00:24:07,904 --> 00:24:10,115
They said they literally
like, we love this 40 9:00

611
00:24:11,116 --> 00:24:11,324
pizza.

612
00:24:11,324 --> 00:24:12,492
On the way up, we hit New Haven.

613
00:24:12,492 --> 00:24:14,286
Yeah, we went down to New Haven
a little bit, checked it out.

614
00:24:14,286 --> 00:24:15,328
Are we stopping here for dinner?

615
00:24:15,328 --> 00:24:17,747
We're getting a hotel room on the way
back. We're going home.

616
00:24:17,747 --> 00:24:19,791
So beautiful day, babies
a boyfriend grew up in.

617
00:24:19,791 --> 00:24:21,418
But they were they were

618
00:24:21,418 --> 00:24:24,421
middle aged couple going, yeah, yeah,
you know, what else are you going to do?

619
00:24:24,796 --> 00:24:25,547
You know, it was a Saturday.

620
00:24:25,547 --> 00:24:26,715
Like, you stay home,

621
00:24:26,715 --> 00:24:29,968
you can't feel like grocery shop
on certain days or stay where you were.

622
00:24:29,968 --> 00:24:31,428
You always killing it with the wings.

623
00:24:31,428 --> 00:24:35,056
Or did the Food Network show in 2016
really help

624
00:24:35,474 --> 00:24:39,269
or were you was it on its way
anyway, or did that push you over?

625
00:24:39,686 --> 00:24:43,398
Like, can you compare and contrast before
and after the Food Network anyway?

626
00:24:45,358 --> 00:24:48,028
But my worry would be but

627
00:24:48,028 --> 00:24:51,907
it blew it up in the sense
that after the Food Network show happened,

628
00:24:52,491 --> 00:24:56,411
the very first sauce order we got for
an online, we always had online ordering.

629
00:24:57,370 --> 00:25:01,458
We get people within the state
to get shots, sauce, chips them.

630
00:25:01,750 --> 00:25:03,043
The very first order we got.

631
00:25:03,043 --> 00:25:05,629
The first one was Alaska.

632
00:25:05,629 --> 00:25:07,547
I'm like

633
00:25:07,547 --> 00:25:10,133
the second one was Texas.

634
00:25:10,133 --> 00:25:13,136
So and then I remember
our marketing person Nikki, saying,

635
00:25:13,553 --> 00:25:16,306
look at these online orders,

636
00:25:16,306 --> 00:25:17,516
eight out of ten.

637
00:25:17,516 --> 00:25:19,851
We're well outside the northeast.

638
00:25:19,851 --> 00:25:22,437
I mean, that's cool in the northeast.

639
00:25:22,437 --> 00:25:23,730
Also, why these people?

640
00:25:23,730 --> 00:25:26,107
She goes all through networking
and whatnot.

641
00:25:26,107 --> 00:25:31,154
So you bottled the sauce,
the buffalo sauce and and the sweet chili.

642
00:25:31,154 --> 00:25:33,782
Just a buffalo with ketchup.

643
00:25:33,782 --> 00:25:35,242
Oh. Yes, sir.

644
00:25:35,242 --> 00:25:37,285
Catch up. Now we catch up.

645
00:25:39,412 --> 00:25:42,207
There's about nine ingredients in there.

646
00:25:42,207 --> 00:25:43,667
I've never made the sauce.

647
00:25:43,667 --> 00:25:46,586
Sugar. No answers,

648
00:25:46,586 --> 00:25:48,672
no answer. I got inside sauce.

649
00:25:48,672 --> 00:25:49,714
You can have inside sauces.

650
00:25:49,714 --> 00:25:51,675
There's
there's there's plenty of ingredients.

651
00:25:51,675 --> 00:25:53,426
So were you there?

652
00:25:53,426 --> 00:25:55,011
Where do you want
to put the really nice back.

653
00:25:55,011 --> 00:25:57,389
They have sauce in there and everything.
Yes. Sauces.

654
00:25:57,389 --> 00:25:58,306
Some dry rubs.

655
00:25:58,306 --> 00:25:58,640
Trust me.

656
00:25:58,640 --> 00:26:00,976
It'll be a nice basket. I'm going to be
the one who puts it together myself.

657
00:26:00,976 --> 00:26:02,769
Like, yes, I do. What about?

658
00:26:02,769 --> 00:26:06,398
I do have about a dozen charities
that I hand work with,

659
00:26:06,773 --> 00:26:09,651
that I've worked with
for probably 15 to 20 years.

660
00:26:09,651 --> 00:26:10,026
Yeah.

661
00:26:10,026 --> 00:26:12,696
Or other organizations
that have helped us out very much. So.

662
00:26:12,696 --> 00:26:14,489
And that's when I was like,
I got carte blanche.

663
00:26:14,489 --> 00:26:16,283
You want you want something really nice.

664
00:26:16,283 --> 00:26:17,033
I'll make a basket.

665
00:26:17,033 --> 00:26:18,785
So you need a rolling cart
to put it out there.

666
00:26:18,785 --> 00:26:20,036
All right. Remember us.

667
00:26:20,036 --> 00:26:22,414
Thank you. Reno, this is amazing.
Yeah, you're a good friend.

668
00:26:22,414 --> 00:26:25,458
I knew this is going to be a great, 
great conversation.

669
00:26:25,667 --> 00:26:26,835
Learning a lot.

670
00:26:26,835 --> 00:26:29,838
Let's talk about your role. So.

671
00:26:29,921 --> 00:26:31,881
And I learned today f h

672
00:26:32,966 --> 00:26:35,343
so f h and be a part of the house
and back of the house.

673
00:26:35,343 --> 00:26:36,136
Yeah.

674
00:26:36,136 --> 00:26:39,139
Everybody in the restaurant industry,
that's that's common

675
00:26:39,639 --> 00:26:40,473
jargon.

676
00:26:40,473 --> 00:26:42,142
It's like the word 86.

677
00:26:42,142 --> 00:26:43,268
86. Yeah.

678
00:26:43,268 --> 00:26:44,644
Everybody.
Everybody works in a restaurant.

679
00:26:44,644 --> 00:26:47,689
Even once you learn that,
we'll start in the military, I think.

680
00:26:47,731 --> 00:26:49,524
So, 86. Yeah. Okay.

681
00:26:49,524 --> 00:26:53,570
See, so we have a couple of acronyms,
like everything else doesn't like.

682
00:26:53,570 --> 00:26:55,697
But that's. So,

683
00:26:55,697 --> 00:26:58,700
Heather said my role is defined.

684
00:26:58,700 --> 00:27:02,412
Is beverage beverage director slash
front of the house manager.

685
00:27:03,955 --> 00:27:05,957
I make sure my bar is already stocked.

686
00:27:05,957 --> 00:27:07,250
Beer, wine and liquor.

687
00:27:07,250 --> 00:27:10,795
But I also handling,
you know, all the hiring of front of house

688
00:27:10,795 --> 00:27:14,633
staff, being waitstaff,
bartenders, hostesses, food

689
00:27:14,633 --> 00:27:18,386
runners, my own staff,
we have a staff to just use.

690
00:27:18,720 --> 00:27:19,721
It just holds for us.

691
00:27:21,056 --> 00:27:22,182
How's that online I,

692
00:27:22,182 --> 00:27:24,976
I application
they and you sit down to do interviews

693
00:27:24,976 --> 00:27:28,897
with the kids to know it's all in person,
all in person, all in person.

694
00:27:28,897 --> 00:27:30,023
We are still old school.

695
00:27:30,023 --> 00:27:33,818
We still want to come in with a pen
and paper and fill out the application.

696
00:27:34,319 --> 00:27:35,195
Oh, nice.

697
00:27:35,195 --> 00:27:37,656
I like the I like the face to the person.

698
00:27:37,656 --> 00:27:40,283
Yeah, especially because for me

699
00:27:40,283 --> 00:27:41,868
it's we're an independent

700
00:27:41,868 --> 00:27:44,579
and I want to know who's
going to be talking to my guests. Yep.

701
00:27:44,579 --> 00:27:46,581
It's like one thing
I've instilled in our staff,

702
00:27:46,581 --> 00:27:49,000
we don't call them customers.
We call them guests.

703
00:27:49,000 --> 00:27:49,542
Okay.

704
00:27:49,542 --> 00:27:52,045
From day one,
if you're having a house party

705
00:27:52,045 --> 00:27:55,006
and you have like ten people
over to your house, guys here,

706
00:27:55,674 --> 00:27:58,635
they come over and you're welcome
in your house, your customers or guests.

707
00:27:59,260 --> 00:28:00,512
Agreed, I like it.

708
00:28:00,512 --> 00:28:02,138
You're going to give them some drink.
Maybe.

709
00:28:02,138 --> 00:28:03,890
Maybe going to watch a movie
and they're done.

710
00:28:03,890 --> 00:28:06,935
You're going to give them a handshake
or a hug or something like that.

711
00:28:07,102 --> 00:28:07,977
And off they go.

712
00:28:07,977 --> 00:28:09,562
They're a guest of yours. Yeah.

713
00:28:09,562 --> 00:28:11,231
We don't hug all our stuff. Guest

714
00:28:12,232 --> 00:28:14,234
some we do shake hands with them, I do.

715
00:28:14,234 --> 00:28:15,318
How many of them I've got?

716
00:28:15,318 --> 00:28:17,028
We got lots of requests
for other people that come in

717
00:28:17,028 --> 00:28:19,239
here, people
that ask for certain tables and nights.

718
00:28:19,239 --> 00:28:21,199
We got plenty of regulars, which is great.

719
00:28:21,199 --> 00:28:25,370
You know, you want those people,
but their guests, they have chosen,

720
00:28:25,912 --> 00:28:26,538
if you're driving

721
00:28:26,538 --> 00:28:29,541
from you're driving from West Hartford,
you can work or you drive to Jay.

722
00:28:29,582 --> 00:28:31,793
These you pass 15, 20 restaurants.

723
00:28:31,793 --> 00:28:34,796
You've chosen to spend your money
a good point.

724
00:28:34,838 --> 00:28:36,047
You're a guest of ours.

725
00:28:36,047 --> 00:28:38,133
I like that well, up anywhere you want.

726
00:28:38,133 --> 00:28:41,094
You're you're kind of jumping the gun
because my next switch at three keys

727
00:28:41,094 --> 00:28:42,262
that make you great at your job.

728
00:28:42,262 --> 00:28:45,265
And I think treating others
as guests may be a great key.

729
00:28:45,473 --> 00:28:45,807
It is.

730
00:28:45,807 --> 00:28:47,100
I'm. Am I wrong?

731
00:28:47,100 --> 00:28:50,645
And then, you know, we when we when I was
thinking about something of that nature,

732
00:28:52,105 --> 00:28:53,565
the first one is caring.

733
00:28:53,565 --> 00:28:56,192
Caring to me it's bottom line.

734
00:28:56,192 --> 00:29:00,739
And like we were talking earlier,
like loving your job or liking your job

735
00:29:01,197 --> 00:29:04,200
or caring about your job,
there's differences here there.

736
00:29:04,284 --> 00:29:05,869
Like I said, there are days I love my job.

737
00:29:05,869 --> 00:29:07,495
There are days I just like my job.

738
00:29:07,495 --> 00:29:09,706
But no matter what the day,
I always care about it.

739
00:29:09,706 --> 00:29:10,915
Yeah, I have to.

740
00:29:10,915 --> 00:29:13,251
You got to care 140 staff.

741
00:29:13,251 --> 00:29:14,878
You know, I have bad days.

742
00:29:14,878 --> 00:29:17,630
I work human,
you know, sometimes my staff realize

743
00:29:17,630 --> 00:29:19,549
when I have a bad day,
I can't wear, can't wear.

744
00:29:19,549 --> 00:29:20,508
Got to leave it up,

745
00:29:20,508 --> 00:29:23,511
you know, leave that motion off
your sleeve that leave in the back door.

746
00:29:23,887 --> 00:29:25,847
But if you care about it,

747
00:29:25,847 --> 00:29:27,098
that makes all the work a lot easier.

748
00:29:28,308 --> 00:29:30,560
The other one is,

749
00:29:30,560 --> 00:29:33,104
I get my hands dirty,
I don't know, I don't what word it is,

750
00:29:33,104 --> 00:29:35,899
but if I need to be a busboy, my passport,
I need be a food.

751
00:29:35,899 --> 00:29:37,692
One of my food. Water, no changing cakes.

752
00:29:37,692 --> 00:29:38,985
I'm changing cakes.

753
00:29:38,985 --> 00:29:41,196
So if I'm doing the job,
my staff knows I'm doing the job.

754
00:29:41,196 --> 00:29:42,614
Yeah. Lead by example.

755
00:29:42,614 --> 00:29:44,073
Never ask someone to do something.

756
00:29:44,073 --> 00:29:47,452
You wouldn't do another military thing
except for a couple of crazy

757
00:29:47,994 --> 00:29:50,455
stuff on the computer. Okay, I got,
I got a couple.

758
00:29:50,455 --> 00:29:51,831
I got more than enough tech people.

759
00:29:51,831 --> 00:29:53,208
Do you run the Instagram page? Yeah.

760
00:29:53,208 --> 00:29:57,045
Absolutely not that she's she's a
she's one of my chief like tech person,

761
00:29:57,462 --> 00:29:57,962
you know.

762
00:29:57,962 --> 00:30:02,217
Or if I have to move a couple tickets
around and pull one drink

763
00:30:02,217 --> 00:30:05,220
off of one thing, I got 3 or 4 people
that are whizzes with the computer.

764
00:30:05,386 --> 00:30:07,055
I'll go get them in a heartbeat.

765
00:30:07,055 --> 00:30:10,058
To be for it again,
because I'm just not as quick as them

766
00:30:10,058 --> 00:30:13,061
or I'm just not savvy them.
I definitely got

767
00:30:13,061 --> 00:30:16,397
a little bit of a dinosaur in me
when it comes to technology.

768
00:30:16,564 --> 00:30:19,567
Okay, I'm here about at the restaurant,
you know,

769
00:30:19,651 --> 00:30:23,196
so you got key caring,
leading by example and third key.

770
00:30:28,493 --> 00:30:29,244
The word

771
00:30:29,244 --> 00:30:32,247
I use, we use all the time is execute.

772
00:30:33,706 --> 00:30:36,084
If I do my job training

773
00:30:36,084 --> 00:30:39,796
somebody, give them the right tools
and they can do their job.

774
00:30:39,796 --> 00:30:44,968
If my if my delivery guy receives the
product properly, it stores it properly.

775
00:30:44,968 --> 00:30:47,887
My prep person can prep it properly.
My prep for food preparation properly.

776
00:30:47,887 --> 00:30:50,223
Oh my goodness I prepping properly.

777
00:30:50,223 --> 00:30:52,517
Yes my line cooks going to cook it
properly.

778
00:30:52,517 --> 00:30:53,685
He cooks it properly.

779
00:30:53,685 --> 00:30:56,688
But 200 to the table
which is order to properly.

780
00:30:56,688 --> 00:30:57,856
You're getting the meal you want.

781
00:30:57,856 --> 00:31:00,650
Yeah. You're happy to get in there.
Going to get 51.

782
00:31:00,650 --> 00:31:01,192
They've executed.

783
00:31:01,192 --> 00:31:03,987
If my hostess clears the table properly
and another person they're they're happy.

784
00:31:03,987 --> 00:31:06,322
They're not waiting an hour
and 45 minutes for a table.

785
00:31:06,322 --> 00:31:08,575
So everybody execute boom boom boom. Yeah.

786
00:31:08,575 --> 00:31:09,826
Know your role.

787
00:31:09,826 --> 00:31:12,120
You know, you leave room for little slip
ups here and there.

788
00:31:12,120 --> 00:31:14,122
Sure. Always.

789
00:31:14,122 --> 00:31:17,625
When the service industry deal
with people that there's there's so

790
00:31:17,625 --> 00:31:18,918
many unknown factors.

791
00:31:20,044 --> 00:31:21,546
But if I tell

792
00:31:21,546 --> 00:31:25,091
people, if you just execute,
if you just do your job, that's faster.

793
00:31:25,425 --> 00:31:27,260
And that means you're set up

794
00:31:27,260 --> 00:31:30,013
taking care of your tables, your break
down, your side work, your cleaning

795
00:31:30,013 --> 00:31:30,889
and stuff like that.

796
00:31:30,889 --> 00:31:34,434
If it's a dishwasher, you know, stacking
silverware, white, there's there's

797
00:31:34,434 --> 00:31:36,352
so many things that go on the day.

798
00:31:36,352 --> 00:31:38,438
I'm sure you plan your day. Yeah.

799
00:31:38,438 --> 00:31:40,523
You said you were a teacher.
My wife's a teacher.

800
00:31:40,523 --> 00:31:42,233
And I don't want you to have a tough day.

801
00:31:42,233 --> 00:31:45,194
Except I get home
and she's doing lesson plans

802
00:31:45,528 --> 00:31:48,531
from the time I get home
until time she goes to bed.

803
00:31:48,823 --> 00:31:50,074
I want a glass of wine.

804
00:31:50,074 --> 00:31:51,659
I go up to you in a different room.

805
00:31:51,659 --> 00:31:53,244
Smart man.

806
00:31:53,244 --> 00:31:56,497
If I get home and she's asking what's
for dinner, I know what lesson plans done.

807
00:31:57,081 --> 00:31:59,125
So I do the cooking in the house,
so that's okay.

808
00:31:59,125 --> 00:32:00,001
Nice.

809
00:32:00,001 --> 00:32:03,671
I can tell you know, I know
when the state exams are coming up. Yep.

810
00:32:04,464 --> 00:32:06,049
You have prep work to do. Yep.

811
00:32:06,049 --> 00:32:07,050
We have prep work to do.

812
00:32:07,050 --> 00:32:10,970
I we came here today and I walked in
and this this whole area of this camera

813
00:32:11,179 --> 00:32:12,764
can see you. This all gets set up.

814
00:32:12,764 --> 00:32:14,807
I'm assuming he set all this up.
He sure did.

815
00:32:14,807 --> 00:32:16,184
So someone has to prep this.

816
00:32:16,184 --> 00:32:18,978
We didn't just have two chairs
and just with a little phone

817
00:32:18,978 --> 00:32:21,064
to record ourselves and say,
we're gonna figure it all out later on.

818
00:32:21,064 --> 00:32:22,482
It took some work done,
but this is lighting.

819
00:32:22,482 --> 00:32:24,233
There's cameras or sound.

820
00:32:24,233 --> 00:32:25,693
They can't have the tape,
which I do my mistakes.

821
00:32:25,693 --> 00:32:28,279
I'm very, My hands are trying to
keep them down low at this.

822
00:32:29,280 --> 00:32:32,241
Give them slap, Dave, slap them.

823
00:32:32,241 --> 00:32:33,952
So I mean, that is all part of it.

824
00:32:33,952 --> 00:32:36,454
Otherwise we exchange emails.
How many times?

825
00:32:36,454 --> 00:32:38,915
Yeah, we got to text messages.
We got to set this up.

826
00:32:38,915 --> 00:32:41,376
We got bad
weather. Had a cancel. Cancel once before.

827
00:32:41,376 --> 00:32:43,962
We had one person that fits
the person isn't there.

828
00:32:43,962 --> 00:32:45,880
Yeah. Stephania okay.

829
00:32:45,880 --> 00:32:46,756
She's under the weather.

830
00:32:46,756 --> 00:32:49,550
She's not getting the bad weather.
Under the weather.

831
00:32:49,550 --> 00:32:51,135
Stephania misses out.

832
00:32:51,135 --> 00:32:51,761
Could have been here.

833
00:32:51,761 --> 00:32:54,180
Stephania
dirt wings are calling your name.

834
00:32:54,180 --> 00:32:56,724
By I mean if she mentions me
and she's got.

835
00:32:56,724 --> 00:32:58,518
Remember you might be who she is.

836
00:32:58,518 --> 00:33:01,479
All right, next time you get the VIP
treatment, go see

837
00:33:01,479 --> 00:33:04,399
Reno VIP treatment.

838
00:33:04,399 --> 00:33:06,275
Just code word is be a good friend.

839
00:33:06,275 --> 00:33:08,152
There you go. So, I mean,

840
00:33:09,195 --> 00:33:11,406
you know,
if there's if there's a fifth word,

841
00:33:11,406 --> 00:33:14,867
if there's a fourth word in this whole,
thing, all someone smells wings.

842
00:33:15,576 --> 00:33:16,369
You smell him from far.

843
00:33:16,369 --> 00:33:19,372
He's got a play, like you said.

844
00:33:19,789 --> 00:33:20,748
Friends.

845
00:33:20,748 --> 00:33:23,751
Friends are strangers. Come on, come on.

846
00:33:23,876 --> 00:33:24,419
Yeah.

847
00:33:24,419 --> 00:33:27,422
You know, I take a lot of stuff
from the friends that have,

848
00:33:27,422 --> 00:33:30,425
you know, relationships
with friends like that through the state,

849
00:33:30,591 --> 00:33:33,636
you know, be it like said chefs or owners
or other managers.

850
00:33:34,012 --> 00:33:35,638
Great connections. Yeah.

851
00:33:35,638 --> 00:33:37,432
And I'm making this connection here.

852
00:33:37,432 --> 00:33:40,143
And we play to help each other out
in the future.

853
00:33:40,143 --> 00:33:42,145
Both of their golf tournaments.
Absolutely.

854
00:33:42,145 --> 00:33:44,480
As long as they're still going undercover
to help people out.

855
00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:45,314
Yep, yep.

856
00:33:45,314 --> 00:33:48,026
An organization I'm helping you
with the organization agreed.

857
00:33:48,026 --> 00:33:50,528
Nothing wrong with that.
Being a good friend. Give me some of that.

858
00:33:52,071 --> 00:33:54,240
I want to say that three carry keys

859
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:58,161
that was sponsored by a podcast sponsor,
New England Dawn security.

860
00:33:58,161 --> 00:34:00,788
And I also want to shout out
some other sponsors. Maximum beverage.

861
00:34:00,788 --> 00:34:04,959
Here we are in Farmington,
Direct Line Media, Brook Golf Law Group,

862
00:34:05,001 --> 00:34:08,004
Keating Agency insurance, Sally and Bob's

863
00:34:08,004 --> 00:34:10,757
Parkville management.

864
00:34:10,757 --> 00:34:12,383
People's Bank.

865
00:34:12,383 --> 00:34:14,635
Did I mention maximum beverage?

866
00:34:14,635 --> 00:34:16,554
Matt. He's all right. He's a good friend.

867
00:34:16,554 --> 00:34:18,556
Matt's here hounding us for the wings.

868
00:34:18,556 --> 00:34:19,515
It's time for wings.

869
00:34:19,515 --> 00:34:21,851
Shout out to the, buffalo dirt.

870
00:34:21,851 --> 00:34:22,727
Sweet chili dirt.

871
00:34:22,727 --> 00:34:25,938
Sweet chili dirt run the Irish ranch,

872
00:34:26,022 --> 00:34:28,316
the ones that are not Mark
the blue cheese.

873
00:34:28,316 --> 00:34:29,358
Get after it.

874
00:34:29,358 --> 00:34:30,443
Get after there, too.

875
00:34:30,443 --> 00:34:31,277
I couldn't wait any longer.

876
00:34:31,277 --> 00:34:34,280
Guys,
I don't blame you. But now it's time.

877
00:34:34,405 --> 00:34:36,824
Let's do it. I'm already get after it.

878
00:34:36,824 --> 00:34:39,285
Maybe Marty will just rip up
a plastic cover for like. Oh,

879
00:34:40,912 --> 00:34:41,329
yeah, I was going to

880
00:34:41,329 --> 00:34:44,332
say we like to buy the nice ones
that are vented.

881
00:34:45,333 --> 00:34:47,168
Oh, okay.

882
00:34:47,168 --> 00:34:50,880
Okay, I like it vented to goes.

883
00:34:53,049 --> 00:34:54,759
Three keys.

884
00:34:54,759 --> 00:34:57,053
Oh, yeah. Can grab a few.

885
00:34:57,053 --> 00:35:00,056
What is,

886
00:35:00,306 --> 00:35:03,226
Any wild, funny

887
00:35:03,226 --> 00:35:04,477
restaurant stories?

888
00:35:04,477 --> 00:35:07,980
And have you seen the movie
waiting with Ryan Reynolds?

889
00:35:07,980 --> 00:35:09,857
Ryan Reynolds I watch.

890
00:35:09,857 --> 00:35:12,693
We're not going to share any Ryan Reynolds
waiting

891
00:35:12,693 --> 00:35:16,239
story belts,
I think, you seen the movie, Burt?

892
00:35:16,614 --> 00:35:17,657
No, I haven't seen that one.

893
00:35:17,657 --> 00:35:20,243
But what's that one? Is it wait. Staff.

894
00:35:20,243 --> 00:35:23,454
Okay,
which is a, three star Michelin chef.

895
00:35:23,704 --> 00:35:26,707
Okay. In, London.

896
00:35:26,916 --> 00:35:29,919
Okay, so that's a little crazy.

897
00:35:30,002 --> 00:35:32,713
But I've definitely been in contact
with some crazy chefs

898
00:35:32,713 --> 00:35:34,132
or some other crazy people.

899
00:35:34,132 --> 00:35:35,550
Crazy owner that want to make sure,

900
00:35:35,550 --> 00:35:39,345
you know, things got to be one way
or the highway type of thing, which

901
00:35:40,471 --> 00:35:41,305
if something says works.

902
00:35:41,305 --> 00:35:43,099
But in most cases, I find, you know,

903
00:35:43,099 --> 00:35:45,768
my way or the highway doesn't always do
they say yes, chef?

904
00:35:45,768 --> 00:35:46,435
Yes, chef.

905
00:35:46,435 --> 00:35:47,061
Yes, chef.

906
00:35:47,061 --> 00:35:47,728
We don't.

907
00:35:47,728 --> 00:35:50,022
Or behind you, like in the kitchen.

908
00:35:50,022 --> 00:35:50,481
Behind you.

909
00:35:50,481 --> 00:35:52,191
Behind you. Behind. Just behind.

910
00:35:52,191 --> 00:35:54,402
Oh, absolutely. That word is that word.

911
00:35:54,402 --> 00:35:57,405
Because God forbid, you step back
and you spill everyone's plate.

912
00:35:58,030 --> 00:35:59,240
That's from the beer.

913
00:35:59,240 --> 00:36:01,951
That is from the throw that or that's
how I know that term.

914
00:36:01,951 --> 00:36:02,952
You're watching the beer.

915
00:36:02,952 --> 00:36:05,872
That's everything I would do.

916
00:36:05,872 --> 00:36:08,416
You say corner two or oh yeah. Corner.

917
00:36:08,416 --> 00:36:10,585
When you're coming around a corner corner
always the corner.

918
00:36:10,585 --> 00:36:13,045
Then we say door
because in our case we have three levels

919
00:36:13,045 --> 00:36:15,506
a door down the stairs, like the doors
go in and out.

920
00:36:15,506 --> 00:36:18,301
So I have to say door because if you're
coming down with the tray,

921
00:36:18,301 --> 00:36:19,510
even if it's on your left side,

922
00:36:19,510 --> 00:36:21,262
you can put your right hand up
to hold the door

923
00:36:21,262 --> 00:36:25,099
and someone else can't see it because
there's only one one line of sight.

924
00:36:25,099 --> 00:36:28,603
So we always say door coming up or down
the stairs have to have two.

925
00:36:28,644 --> 00:36:30,354
We've had a couple collisions.
We've had a couple.

926
00:36:30,354 --> 00:36:33,149
Hold on. Couple for sure. Absolutely.

927
00:36:33,149 --> 00:36:36,402
What's your go to meal at Jay Tim's

928
00:36:37,403 --> 00:36:40,698
Reno can share three years.

929
00:36:40,698 --> 00:36:43,576
There's not there's not one. Go okay.

930
00:36:43,576 --> 00:36:44,744
Which top three?

931
00:36:44,744 --> 00:36:46,704
We're going in. Marty.

932
00:36:46,704 --> 00:36:48,581
Come on Marty dirt.

933
00:36:48,581 --> 00:36:50,082
I've been eating a lot of these lately.

934
00:36:50,082 --> 00:36:51,667
Sweet red chili wings.

935
00:36:51,667 --> 00:36:53,586
I eat mine with ranch.

936
00:36:53,586 --> 00:36:55,338
Okay.

937
00:36:55,338 --> 00:36:58,341
I am, without a doubt a French dip guy.

938
00:36:58,716 --> 00:36:59,759
Roast beef, cheddar cheese.

939
00:36:59,759 --> 00:37:00,760
No issue.

940
00:37:00,760 --> 00:37:03,262
Simply,

941
00:37:03,262 --> 00:37:04,347
That I like it.

942
00:37:04,347 --> 00:37:05,056
It's just.

943
00:37:05,056 --> 00:37:08,059
It's just a classic,

944
00:37:08,935 --> 00:37:10,311
try to ranch now that you said it.

945
00:37:10,311 --> 00:37:12,230
Ranch with the sweet chilis. Mike.

946
00:37:12,230 --> 00:37:15,233
That's my that's my go to. That's.

947
00:37:15,524 --> 00:37:17,944
I only do that when I know
no one's going to bother me.

948
00:37:17,944 --> 00:37:20,071
And I go hide the corners.
I don't eat my wings hot.

949
00:37:20,071 --> 00:37:22,865
It's like a cold bacon,
egg and cheese. No one wants you to think

950
00:37:24,033 --> 00:37:24,742
I've been there long enough.

951
00:37:24,742 --> 00:37:26,661
They've had cold wings.

952
00:37:26,661 --> 00:37:28,037
I don't want to eat. So I want you to.

953
00:37:28,037 --> 00:37:29,664
Don't have a plate of wings.
I want to eat them hot.

954
00:37:29,664 --> 00:37:31,582
I wanted to, yeah.

955
00:37:31,582 --> 00:37:33,918
But that just after having it for so long

956
00:37:33,918 --> 00:37:37,088
and no, I did that sometimes, like,
you know.

957
00:37:37,088 --> 00:37:39,548
Aren't you sick of wings?
Don't you eat them every single day?

958
00:37:39,548 --> 00:37:42,385
No, because I work there, you know.

959
00:37:42,385 --> 00:37:43,219
So, yes, I have the.

960
00:37:43,219 --> 00:37:45,221
I have the ability to eat wings
whenever I want.

961
00:37:45,221 --> 00:37:46,931
So I don't eat that every single day.

962
00:37:46,931 --> 00:37:47,974
No, I'm not saying that.

963
00:37:47,974 --> 00:37:49,100
It just, you know,

964
00:37:49,100 --> 00:37:52,561
sometimes I'll eat three orders in a month
and sometimes order for three months.

965
00:37:53,062 --> 00:37:55,564
Wow. You know, just as the ordering.

966
00:37:55,564 --> 00:37:58,609
But I said, you know, people travel
for an hour to get to the wings,

967
00:37:58,609 --> 00:38:00,861
and I've got them 30s wake up sometimes.

968
00:38:03,489 --> 00:38:04,824
Man, I mean,

969
00:38:04,824 --> 00:38:07,952
come on, what's say a first timer
shows up?

970
00:38:08,411 --> 00:38:10,913
Buffalo, buffalo dirt.

971
00:38:10,913 --> 00:38:12,164
Cheers to the buffalo dirt.

972
00:38:12,164 --> 00:38:14,208
We should. We'll do.

973
00:38:14,208 --> 00:38:17,795
I'm gonna say right around 430
tons this year

974
00:38:17,795 --> 00:38:21,299
if you maybe I don't think really hit 452
like a year to get that high. But

975
00:38:22,550 --> 00:38:25,553
we'll be right on 430, give or take

976
00:38:25,636 --> 00:38:28,639
80% of my wings
to go out the door or buffalo dirt.

977
00:38:29,515 --> 00:38:31,767
So that leaves 20% for the
all the other ones,

978
00:38:31,767 --> 00:38:33,519
because you can have your wings.
Not enough.

979
00:38:33,519 --> 00:38:34,979
Just buffalo wings.

980
00:38:34,979 --> 00:38:36,230
Some people don't like dirt.

981
00:38:36,230 --> 00:38:38,441
They like they like this.
They're like, it's not dirt.

982
00:38:38,441 --> 00:38:42,570
So you can have that's what lunatic goes
to jail terms and doesn't get dirt.

983
00:38:42,987 --> 00:38:45,656
We got lots of dirt. Okay, it's too dry.

984
00:38:45,656 --> 00:38:47,074
They say it's too dry.

985
00:38:47,074 --> 00:38:49,285
Does it shrivel the wing a little bit?

986
00:38:49,285 --> 00:38:50,286
I would say no.

987
00:38:50,286 --> 00:38:52,621
I just think it tightened up
the skin better.

988
00:38:52,621 --> 00:38:54,540
But there are other people.
It definitely makes it crunchier.

989
00:38:54,540 --> 00:38:55,750
Oh, yes.

990
00:38:55,750 --> 00:38:58,794
Is there anything worse
than a loose, sloppy skinned wing

991
00:38:59,879 --> 00:39:00,421
to me?

992
00:39:00,421 --> 00:39:01,255
What's that?

993
00:39:01,255 --> 00:39:02,506
Dave thought that was fun.

994
00:39:02,506 --> 00:39:04,717
Loose and sloppy wing.

995
00:39:04,717 --> 00:39:07,970
That is no fun.

996
00:39:09,096 --> 00:39:11,265
You know,
there are people listening to you.

997
00:39:11,265 --> 00:39:13,642
We for years make fun of people,
eat chicken wings with their.

998
00:39:13,642 --> 00:39:14,977
With a fork and a knife.

999
00:39:14,977 --> 00:39:15,853
Yeah. Kick them out.

1000
00:39:15,853 --> 00:39:17,480
Yeah, well, they can't come back.

1001
00:39:17,480 --> 00:39:19,523
Everybody welcome.

1002
00:39:19,523 --> 00:39:22,193
You know, I'm a diehard Red Sox fan.

1003
00:39:22,193 --> 00:39:23,861
I make no bones about that.

1004
00:39:23,861 --> 00:39:26,572
And I got married in my wedding party.

1005
00:39:26,572 --> 00:39:27,740
That was four guys.

1006
00:39:27,740 --> 00:39:28,908
Two of them are diehard.

1007
00:39:28,908 --> 00:39:29,617
Yes. Are we?

1008
00:39:29,617 --> 00:39:31,452
We got to end the podcast.

1009
00:39:31,452 --> 00:39:34,246
Sorry, I, I had that friends that are.

1010
00:39:34,246 --> 00:39:35,247
I'm teasing.

1011
00:39:35,247 --> 00:39:36,999
I was he was in my body.

1012
00:39:36,999 --> 00:39:38,209
I was in his wedding party.

1013
00:39:38,209 --> 00:39:41,212
You know, I always make the joke of,
I don't know the organization.

1014
00:39:41,379 --> 00:39:44,382
Yeah I don't okay.
So I didn't even ask you.

1015
00:39:44,423 --> 00:39:46,842
He's got down.
Are you red soccer. You. Yep.

1016
00:39:46,842 --> 00:39:49,053
I'm a you come men's basketball game.
I'm going to the game tonight.

1017
00:39:49,053 --> 00:39:49,553
All right.

1018
00:39:49,553 --> 00:39:52,014
I see you there.
Are you going. Yeah. Oh, there you go.

1019
00:39:53,057 --> 00:39:53,432
Cool.

1020
00:39:53,432 --> 00:39:57,061
So I mean, but that's
where you make the friendships, where

1021
00:39:57,436 --> 00:39:59,730
if somebody's willing enough
to just watch the game.

1022
00:39:59,730 --> 00:40:02,733
And I hope your team loses 19 to nothing.

1023
00:40:02,775 --> 00:40:04,110
You have the same feelings that I do
because I.

1024
00:40:04,110 --> 00:40:06,112
You want my team to lose 19 to nothing.

1025
00:40:06,112 --> 00:40:08,531
But if we can have a beer
and share some wings, we're good.

1026
00:40:08,531 --> 00:40:10,783
We can still get along. Yeah,
we can play golf together.

1027
00:40:10,783 --> 00:40:12,743
We can. We can do a podcast together.

1028
00:40:12,743 --> 00:40:14,245
We can eat dinner together.

1029
00:40:14,245 --> 00:40:16,789
It doesn't, you know, that's where

1030
00:40:16,789 --> 00:40:18,040
you can't take something like that.

1031
00:40:18,040 --> 00:40:21,085
That's serious to say, you know,
how can you dislike somebody for the team

1032
00:40:21,085 --> 00:40:22,211
they root for?

1033
00:40:22,211 --> 00:40:25,548
I'm like,
no, it's, you know, so fork in a knife.

1034
00:40:26,674 --> 00:40:28,092
Not my first choice.

1035
00:40:28,092 --> 00:40:29,677
What about people
that leave meat on the bone?

1036
00:40:30,636 --> 00:40:32,388
They're lazy.

1037
00:40:32,388 --> 00:40:33,848
Pick them out or they get full.

1038
00:40:33,848 --> 00:40:35,599
Maybe they get full. They order ten wings.

1039
00:40:35,599 --> 00:40:38,144
They got through the first eight
in the last to the convention.

1040
00:40:38,144 --> 00:40:39,145
It happens.

1041
00:40:39,145 --> 00:40:41,689
Listen, I've seen some
I've seen some masterful displays

1042
00:40:41,689 --> 00:40:45,234
of winning teams, and I've seen
some very pathetic displays of winning.

1043
00:40:45,443 --> 00:40:47,695
Yeah. Do you ever have, like, a contest
of how many you can eat?

1044
00:40:47,695 --> 00:40:48,237
We did.

1045
00:40:48,237 --> 00:40:52,491
We did it once, way back in the day,
some almost 20 years ago.

1046
00:40:53,993 --> 00:40:55,578
But as the contest was going, I'm going.

1047
00:40:55,578 --> 00:40:55,744
Yeah.

1048
00:40:55,744 --> 00:40:59,748
This is opening us up to a lot of issues
with choking. And,

1049
00:41:01,500 --> 00:41:04,003
you got to ask
yourself, is the juice worth squeezing?

1050
00:41:04,003 --> 00:41:04,462
There you go.

1051
00:41:04,462 --> 00:41:07,465
Well, well, that wing isn't fully,
you know, cleaned up.

1052
00:41:07,631 --> 00:41:10,176
Oh, yeah. We only had about 15
people get involved.

1053
00:41:10,176 --> 00:41:13,095
What about the hot contest with hot,
hot wings?

1054
00:41:13,095 --> 00:41:14,930
What's your hottest wing on the menu? No.

1055
00:41:14,930 --> 00:41:16,682
Buffalo. Really? We're not.

1056
00:41:16,682 --> 00:41:17,808
We're not there to.

1057
00:41:17,808 --> 00:41:20,102
I don't know what I'm about to say.
We're not there to hurt you behind.

1058
00:41:20,102 --> 00:41:22,396
Oh, yeah. Burns on the way
in. Burns on the way up.

1059
00:41:22,396 --> 00:41:25,566
We don't want that, you know,
because I had some murder.

1060
00:41:25,566 --> 00:41:27,860
Hornet. Would you try any of these? No.
Thank you.

1061
00:41:27,860 --> 00:41:29,236
Would you try these, Dave?

1062
00:41:29,236 --> 00:41:31,780
Yeah. Murder. Murder and the reaper.

1063
00:41:31,780 --> 00:41:33,908
You down right now? No.
Anything with the Reapers, bat.

1064
00:41:33,908 --> 00:41:35,618
That means it's a Reaper pepper in there.
Nuts.

1065
00:41:35,618 --> 00:41:38,245
And it. Look, it's the guy.
What's his name? The grim reaper. Yeah.

1066
00:41:38,245 --> 00:41:40,664
You know what? The reaper
ghost Pepper used to be the bad one.

1067
00:41:40,664 --> 00:41:42,583
That was the Reaper and murderer. Win it.

1068
00:41:42,583 --> 00:41:44,543
We'll do those at the end.
Me and Dave. Yeah.

1069
00:41:44,543 --> 00:41:45,336
That was. I don't know.

1070
00:41:48,047 --> 00:41:49,340
No, I'm passionate on that now.

1071
00:41:49,340 --> 00:41:50,090
Yeah. So.

1072
00:41:50,090 --> 00:41:52,968
Yeah. No,
we we want our wings to be enjoyable.

1073
00:41:52,968 --> 00:41:54,720
Buffalo wings
should have some heat to it. It's design.

1074
00:41:54,720 --> 00:41:58,390
That's why you have the blue cheese
on the ranch that you want a little.

1075
00:41:58,682 --> 00:42:00,768
You know, we're not looking to scold him.

1076
00:42:00,768 --> 00:42:02,811
Oh, but make a lips vibrate.

1077
00:42:02,811 --> 00:42:05,481
You can't, you know, feel tingle anywhere.

1078
00:42:05,481 --> 00:42:07,399
So. Yeah. Yeah.

1079
00:42:07,399 --> 00:42:11,237
So it takes away from the flavor because
then you're sweating and you're burning.

1080
00:42:13,113 --> 00:42:15,491
We like to keep our,

1081
00:42:15,491 --> 00:42:16,617
flavors simple.

1082
00:42:16,617 --> 00:42:17,910
You know, people said,
you know, you can do these

1083
00:42:17,910 --> 00:42:20,204
and these these, like,
we've got five flavors.

1084
00:42:20,204 --> 00:42:21,205
That's more than I know.

1085
00:42:21,205 --> 00:42:21,830
That's amazing.

1086
00:42:21,830 --> 00:42:24,833
We've experimented
several others out there, here and there.

1087
00:42:24,917 --> 00:42:26,919
There are places with, like, 30 flavors.

1088
00:42:26,919 --> 00:42:27,795
Is that too much?

1089
00:42:27,795 --> 00:42:28,462
Like you?

1090
00:42:28,462 --> 00:42:31,757
You zone in and laser
focused on your flavors.

1091
00:42:31,882 --> 00:42:33,384
What it is, where you at, what you do.

1092
00:42:33,384 --> 00:42:35,844
You never want to do. Like a fudge?

1093
00:42:35,844 --> 00:42:36,971
Not fudge.

1094
00:42:36,971 --> 00:42:37,972
Fluffernutter.

1095
00:42:37,972 --> 00:42:40,474
Peanut butter wing
and all that stuff that people are doing.

1096
00:42:41,559 --> 00:42:42,226
I know that looks good.

1097
00:42:42,226 --> 00:42:45,229
I know other great place to place to do
very good wings.

1098
00:42:45,521 --> 00:42:48,524
They have lots of flavors,
and that's all more power to them.

1099
00:42:50,109 --> 00:42:52,152
You know,

1100
00:42:52,152 --> 00:42:52,778
we like that.

1101
00:42:52,778 --> 00:42:54,488
We've explored,
we played with a lot of other flavors.

1102
00:42:54,488 --> 00:42:57,074
And just like, you know what? We're good.
We're where we're at.

1103
00:42:57,074 --> 00:43:00,119
You know, if we execute them well,
that word again, you know.

1104
00:43:00,494 --> 00:43:02,955
So why

1105
00:43:02,955 --> 00:43:05,040
this was not for me.

1106
00:43:05,040 --> 00:43:08,043
You know, we've got other areas
we can add to and change with our menu.

1107
00:43:08,127 --> 00:43:09,628
We try to be seasonal.

1108
00:43:09,628 --> 00:43:12,631
So the wings
they already have their recognition.

1109
00:43:13,924 --> 00:43:16,844
And then congrats on 45 year
anniversary last year.

1110
00:43:16,844 --> 00:43:18,804
That's amazing.

1111
00:43:18,804 --> 00:43:21,640
What do we have planned for
the 50th anniversary?

1112
00:43:21,640 --> 00:43:22,474
Great question.

1113
00:43:22,474 --> 00:43:25,519
We have a fireworks party.

1114
00:43:26,145 --> 00:43:28,397
I've been and friends of
Fini get involved.

1115
00:43:28,397 --> 00:43:29,815
Maybe we can talk about that.

1116
00:43:29,815 --> 00:43:32,276
Does Jay
Tims want to be a podcast sponsor?

1117
00:43:32,276 --> 00:43:34,236
I mean this is a great questions.

1118
00:43:34,236 --> 00:43:35,904
Are you going to sponsor
our golf tournament?

1119
00:43:35,904 --> 00:43:38,532
I'm going to sponsor the golf tournament
for sure. Perfect.

1120
00:43:38,532 --> 00:43:41,368
I can run up the flagpole without,
you know, having friends and

1121
00:43:41,368 --> 00:43:42,578
activities through the podcast.

1122
00:43:42,578 --> 00:43:45,873
What if we did like a bartending
celebrity server event?

1123
00:43:46,707 --> 00:43:48,584
If we had celebrities like, you know,

1124
00:43:50,085 --> 00:43:52,338
maybe a couple athletes like Hurley.

1125
00:43:52,338 --> 00:43:55,341
Coach
Hurley comes bartenders at Jay Tim's.

1126
00:43:57,551 --> 00:43:59,553
Is this guy Dowling? Me?

1127
00:43:59,553 --> 00:44:02,097
He confirmed to be a guest on the podcast.

1128
00:44:02,097 --> 00:44:03,682
We we did we did an event with them.

1129
00:44:03,682 --> 00:44:04,516
We just to develop them.

1130
00:44:04,516 --> 00:44:07,019
Last year when we had the whole.

1131
00:44:07,019 --> 00:44:09,938
So the whole thing
when he was going to go coach the Lakers.

1132
00:44:09,938 --> 00:44:12,650
Oh that was awesome.
Yeah. Go ahead. That was cool.

1133
00:44:12,650 --> 00:44:14,068
Talk about that. That's awesome.

1134
00:44:14,068 --> 00:44:15,152
Vince, your marketing person,

1135
00:44:15,152 --> 00:44:18,989
just like whatever she just said,
you know, send out a tweet.

1136
00:44:19,406 --> 00:44:21,700
You know don't go to LA coach.

1137
00:44:21,700 --> 00:44:23,619
Yeah she's for life at JT.

1138
00:44:23,619 --> 00:44:25,704
Yep yep. Just to get it out.

1139
00:44:25,704 --> 00:44:28,666
Traction
traction traction traction traction.

1140
00:44:29,124 --> 00:44:30,084
We're also trying.

1141
00:44:30,084 --> 00:44:31,877
Yep Jake tends to give you wins for life.

1142
00:44:31,877 --> 00:44:33,837
We're giving you hot dogs for life.

1143
00:44:33,837 --> 00:44:36,173
Yep. Traction, traction.

1144
00:44:36,173 --> 00:44:38,175
Help these girls.
If Martin Russell's given hotdogs.

1145
00:44:38,175 --> 00:44:39,134
Jenkins. Can we.

1146
00:44:39,134 --> 00:44:40,469
Happy pizza.

1147
00:44:40,469 --> 00:44:42,262
Yep. Traction, traction, traction.

1148
00:44:42,262 --> 00:44:43,847
Killed. Call.

1149
00:44:43,847 --> 00:44:46,475
I said there's
a major work done at my house at the time.

1150
00:44:46,475 --> 00:44:50,020
I got a phone call from from contrasting
my podcast people I listen to.

1151
00:44:50,020 --> 00:44:50,938
What? Philadelphia.

1152
00:44:50,938 --> 00:44:53,899
Just put your show on the air,
put your name on the air.

1153
00:44:53,899 --> 00:44:56,026
We're talking about. Then I get it,
we get a message.

1154
00:44:56,026 --> 00:44:57,861
We got a couple of nice people
we know very well.

1155
00:44:57,861 --> 00:44:59,822
You know, just, you know,

1156
00:45:01,490 --> 00:45:03,492
Dan Leopard talk show just called.

1157
00:45:03,492 --> 00:45:04,493
You guys out.

1158
00:45:04,493 --> 00:45:06,620
I'm like, what is going on here?

1159
00:45:06,620 --> 00:45:09,623
So we start going on and

1160
00:45:09,665 --> 00:45:12,042
me and Nick, you're in the office,

1161
00:45:12,042 --> 00:45:15,045
and, Jason Fitz is a friend of ours.

1162
00:45:15,170 --> 00:45:17,131
That is Jason Fitz. And before.

1163
00:45:17,131 --> 00:45:20,050
But he had done some offense.
Yeah, him, blah, blah, blah.

1164
00:45:20,050 --> 00:45:22,136
This when he was working back from Nike
like. Yep.

1165
00:45:22,136 --> 00:45:23,512
With them.

1166
00:45:23,512 --> 00:45:25,389
So some of this is what they're saying.

1167
00:45:25,389 --> 00:45:28,308
The other Jason pizza shop he's on.

1168
00:45:28,308 --> 00:45:31,145
But that time is working for USA Sports
Talk.

1169
00:45:31,145 --> 00:45:32,312
Whatever.

1170
00:45:32,312 --> 00:45:34,606
So you're talking about this whole thing
with Dan

1171
00:45:34,606 --> 00:45:36,442
really dotted our local restaurant.

1172
00:45:36,442 --> 00:45:37,609
Well we have his number.

1173
00:45:37,609 --> 00:45:40,487
So Nikki texted him right away saying,

1174
00:45:40,487 --> 00:45:41,572
what you said is wrong.

1175
00:45:41,572 --> 00:45:43,741
So he goes on there
goes, oh, wait, I just got we got

1176
00:45:44,908 --> 00:45:45,826
we're going to go live.

1177
00:45:45,826 --> 00:45:48,829
I'm calling them now.
We literally calls us.

1178
00:45:49,204 --> 00:45:50,914
He says, all right, let's talk.

1179
00:45:50,914 --> 00:45:52,583
And the kids will be the poster.

1180
00:45:52,583 --> 00:45:53,917
No, I'm talking more.

1181
00:45:53,917 --> 00:45:55,794
What's up Jason? It's real.
Hey, how are you doing?

1182
00:45:55,794 --> 00:45:58,005
What is this thing? Wait,
you thought you said this?

1183
00:45:58,005 --> 00:46:00,090
Nikki said as well. But wait,
wait. Stop stop stop.

1184
00:46:00,090 --> 00:46:01,925
Well, you don't shoot the messenger.

1185
00:46:01,925 --> 00:46:04,678
He goes. No, no, I want some facts. No.

1186
00:46:04,678 --> 00:46:08,932
So we had this literally a one minute
live on his radio talk show.

1187
00:46:09,141 --> 00:46:11,185
That's awesome
going on about the whole thing about,

1188
00:46:11,185 --> 00:46:12,853
you know, Hurley, like,
we don't want to leave.

1189
00:46:12,853 --> 00:46:15,397
Why would I want anything to go
wrong with you? Come. Basketball.

1190
00:46:15,397 --> 00:46:19,818
Yeah, yeah, we're the tiny state,
and we are literally beating the

1191
00:46:19,818 --> 00:46:20,319
you know what?

1192
00:46:20,319 --> 00:46:22,821
Out of the other 48, 49, 49 states.

1193
00:46:22,821 --> 00:46:25,449
Sorry. Oh my gosh,
I don't think we ever play Alaska.

1194
00:46:25,449 --> 00:46:27,576
Did he ever take you up on the offer?

1195
00:46:27,576 --> 00:46:29,828
Has he been in for his free wings?

1196
00:46:29,828 --> 00:46:31,705
Hurley. He's a state employee.

1197
00:46:31,705 --> 00:46:34,666
He's not allowed to have free wings
for like, everybody

1198
00:46:34,792 --> 00:46:38,170
chimed in with negative comments about us
given, you know, gentlemen,

1199
00:46:38,212 --> 00:46:40,422
Scotty,
I don't know what the contract is now,

1200
00:46:40,422 --> 00:46:42,049
a couple million dollars a year,
and that's great.

1201
00:46:42,049 --> 00:46:43,634
Who? Hurley?

1202
00:46:43,634 --> 00:46:44,384
Couple. Yeah.

1203
00:46:44,384 --> 00:46:47,387
Try 50 couple more than a couple.

1204
00:46:47,429 --> 00:46:49,306
But us trying to give him free wins,
we're going.

1205
00:46:49,306 --> 00:46:51,892
Oh my gosh, there's
so many other needy people were like

1206
00:46:51,892 --> 00:46:54,686
we were just trying to I mean, it's
the last guy who needs anything free.

1207
00:46:54,686 --> 00:46:55,938
He doesn't need free weights.

1208
00:46:55,938 --> 00:46:58,524
He needs to come on this podcast. Hurley.

1209
00:46:58,524 --> 00:46:59,775
This will get you wings.

1210
00:46:59,775 --> 00:47:01,151
Free wings. You heard it here.

1211
00:47:01,151 --> 00:47:02,694
Free drinks, maximum beverage.

1212
00:47:02,694 --> 00:47:05,030
We'll get you free wings, free drinks. So.

1213
00:47:05,030 --> 00:47:07,407
And then Martin Russell,
there are future podcast guests.

1214
00:47:07,407 --> 00:47:09,284
Teddy Russell great.

1215
00:47:09,284 --> 00:47:11,328
Teddy. Yeah. They're so cool.

1216
00:47:11,328 --> 00:47:12,704
We love them.

1217
00:47:12,704 --> 00:47:13,705
They're great.

1218
00:47:13,705 --> 00:47:14,414
Good rapport with them.

1219
00:47:14,414 --> 00:47:18,043
Again I took a tour and saw
behind the scenes at the great product.

1220
00:47:18,168 --> 00:47:19,837
Yeah, that's what we buy his stuff.

1221
00:47:19,837 --> 00:47:23,423
So Black Keys
uses, Capital Grill uses, Martin.

1222
00:47:23,423 --> 00:47:26,134
Oh they're good. So this gives traction.

1223
00:47:27,261 --> 00:47:30,180
We get a call from,

1224
00:47:30,180 --> 00:47:31,682
I don't know their title that you can't,

1225
00:47:31,682 --> 00:47:34,685
but they are the fundraising person
in charge of the.

1226
00:47:34,685 --> 00:47:35,894
For the basketball side.

1227
00:47:35,894 --> 00:47:37,354
We get a call saying, got it out.

1228
00:47:37,354 --> 00:47:39,022
It obvious that the other thing.

1229
00:47:39,022 --> 00:47:41,525
I'm sorry Nike reached out to somebody
that she knew over there.

1230
00:47:41,525 --> 00:47:43,193
They call us back saying, listen,
this is great.

1231
00:47:43,193 --> 00:47:46,280
This is like
we've gotten so much good for nothing.

1232
00:47:46,572 --> 00:47:49,199
Nothing. This is national
attention came across this thing.

1233
00:47:49,199 --> 00:47:51,952
You know, it's a firestorm
for about 24 hours. Yeah.

1234
00:47:51,952 --> 00:47:52,703
Yeah, I remember this.

1235
00:47:52,703 --> 00:47:54,663
This is great newspaper.

1236
00:47:54,663 --> 00:47:55,622
Oh. Old place.

1237
00:47:55,622 --> 00:47:57,958
Yeah. Hartford current. ESPN.

1238
00:47:57,958 --> 00:47:59,501
I saw it on both.

1239
00:47:59,501 --> 00:48:02,713
So we said we want to get back,
so we said we'll do an event.

1240
00:48:03,505 --> 00:48:06,508
Any chance we could get, you
know, the players to come in on the call.

1241
00:48:06,508 --> 00:48:07,968
You want to think about that?
Do something.

1242
00:48:07,968 --> 00:48:09,094
We get a call back conversation.

1243
00:48:09,094 --> 00:48:11,513
Listen bounce caravan. He

1244
00:48:12,514 --> 00:48:14,933
does a podcast every week.

1245
00:48:14,933 --> 00:48:17,811
We'll do the podcast Tim come on.

1246
00:48:17,811 --> 00:48:18,979
It's great.

1247
00:48:18,979 --> 00:48:22,608
Don't you thought it was over
two weeks later we got a call.

1248
00:48:22,858 --> 00:48:25,861
Any chance you could host a team?

1249
00:48:27,529 --> 00:48:28,947
Whatever you want.

1250
00:48:28,947 --> 00:48:29,865
Get on the phone to Martin Russell.

1251
00:48:29,865 --> 00:48:32,492
Listen to teams come get in the call.
The Pepi's.

1252
00:48:32,492 --> 00:48:34,369
I had all these contact.
I don't know name.

1253
00:48:34,369 --> 00:48:38,832
I do apologize to her physical activities,
but she she reached out to us.

1254
00:48:38,874 --> 00:48:40,709
And if you guys want anything,
call her up.

1255
00:48:40,709 --> 00:48:42,169
The team's coming. Here's
what we're going to do.

1256
00:48:42,169 --> 00:48:45,714
We're going to sell I think was 70 tickets
and everything we sell.

1257
00:48:45,797 --> 00:48:49,426
It's all going back into the scholarship
fund at UConn.

1258
00:48:49,801 --> 00:48:52,262
They bring in the underprivileged children
to go watch basketball.

1259
00:48:52,262 --> 00:48:55,057
Oh yeah. Yeah, boys and girls.

1260
00:48:55,057 --> 00:48:57,225
They bring them there
for all the hockey games.

1261
00:48:57,225 --> 00:49:00,938
So the invite families in the paper,
whatever we raise, we'll give it all back.

1262
00:49:01,229 --> 00:49:03,732
Everything we collect.
And we had a donation bucket.

1263
00:49:04,691 --> 00:49:05,776
All right back.

1264
00:49:05,776 --> 00:49:07,653
We got double that in the media.

1265
00:49:07,653 --> 00:49:11,365
I mean, to have a nationally televised
daily leopard talk show.

1266
00:49:11,448 --> 00:49:12,032
Talk about us.

1267
00:49:12,032 --> 00:49:14,534
Yeah, yeah, it's nothing special.

1268
00:49:14,534 --> 00:49:15,410
Nikki might get mad enough.

1269
00:49:15,410 --> 00:49:15,661
Sorry.

1270
00:49:15,661 --> 00:49:18,121
She'll remember the 3 or 4 shows
that talked about us, but,

1271
00:49:18,121 --> 00:49:21,375
you know, we like this is all over the,
you know, it's all because of the hurley.

1272
00:49:21,667 --> 00:49:22,876
Yeah. For himself.

1273
00:49:22,876 --> 00:49:26,254
Because we just want to keep you
so the Caribbean do the podcast there.

1274
00:49:26,380 --> 00:49:26,922
No, they never did.

1275
00:49:26,922 --> 00:49:29,925
The whole
the whole team showed up podcast.

1276
00:49:30,258 --> 00:49:30,884
The whole team.

1277
00:49:30,884 --> 00:49:33,720
You guys got picks and stuff
and there was a whole bunch of picks.

1278
00:49:33,720 --> 00:49:38,517
A matter of fact, to this day,
we believe Dan Hurley don't get mad at me.

1279
00:49:39,101 --> 00:49:40,602
Is what Andre?

1280
00:49:40,602 --> 00:49:41,603
Yeah, because of what he said,

1281
00:49:42,604 --> 00:49:43,313
we're going to do it.

1282
00:49:43,313 --> 00:49:46,274
This is this is for good cause.

1283
00:49:46,441 --> 00:49:48,527
Oh, yeah, she's the boss. We heard this.

1284
00:49:48,527 --> 00:49:49,820
She lets them know. Yeah.

1285
00:49:49,820 --> 00:49:51,196
Never better. Don't know.

1286
00:49:51,196 --> 00:49:52,572
She's a wonderful woman.

1287
00:49:52,572 --> 00:49:54,282
I met her there. Met?
Damn. We talked a lot.

1288
00:49:54,282 --> 00:49:55,158
We talked to players.

1289
00:49:55,158 --> 00:49:58,203
I mean, that was kind of crazy,
you know, tons of pictures.

1290
00:49:58,203 --> 00:49:58,620
They were the.

1291
00:49:58,620 --> 00:50:02,290
They were the super nicest people,
you know, they were, you know, more happy,

1292
00:50:02,290 --> 00:50:05,419
I think, to have the pet, our food,
caddies, food, pet food.

1293
00:50:05,419 --> 00:50:08,130
But we gave them plenty of
and said we give them all care packages.

1294
00:50:08,130 --> 00:50:09,923
They sent out pizzas,
they sent entrees, a hot dog.

1295
00:50:09,923 --> 00:50:13,552
We set up buckets, a wing,
you know, these are these are it's 1920.

1296
00:50:13,719 --> 00:50:14,886
Yeah. They want to use the food.

1297
00:50:14,886 --> 00:50:16,430
Athletes two can eat.

1298
00:50:16,430 --> 00:50:18,390
They can throw down, down big time. Yeah.

1299
00:50:18,390 --> 00:50:23,645
So it was a that's so cool, so fun that,
all that happened.

1300
00:50:24,146 --> 00:50:24,479
Yeah.

1301
00:50:24,479 --> 00:50:28,859
One simple tweet that just, you know,
I don't know what's considered viral.

1302
00:50:28,942 --> 00:50:30,235
Yeah, that was nuts.

1303
00:50:30,235 --> 00:50:31,570
Actually. Text Teddy today.

1304
00:50:31,570 --> 00:50:32,988
He's coming on the podcast.

1305
00:50:32,988 --> 00:50:33,780
Congratulations.

1306
00:50:33,780 --> 00:50:36,158
Teddy's having a third child.

1307
00:50:36,158 --> 00:50:38,744
So I said, hey,
you were playing man to man defense

1308
00:50:38,744 --> 00:50:40,704
and now you're playing zone defense.

1309
00:50:40,704 --> 00:50:43,582
So when you go from 2 to 3, it's
man to man to zone.

1310
00:50:43,582 --> 00:50:44,750
So Teddy shout out to Teddy.

1311
00:50:44,750 --> 00:50:47,044
He's a great guy
and he's future podcast guest.

1312
00:50:47,044 --> 00:50:48,462
Be checking us out.

1313
00:50:48,462 --> 00:50:51,089
Hurley also I, I forgot to

1314
00:50:51,089 --> 00:50:54,259
mention float
41 is a podcast sponsor in the fix XIV.

1315
00:50:54,885 --> 00:50:56,136
Hurley loves floating.

1316
00:50:56,136 --> 00:50:59,765
Floating in a chamber of saltwater
because he's so fired up,

1317
00:50:59,765 --> 00:51:03,143
he just needs to calm down
and turn it off for 90 minutes.

1318
00:51:03,143 --> 00:51:06,063
And he talks very highly of it
all. Go, go, go.

1319
00:51:06,063 --> 00:51:08,565
As a matter of fact, he was,
I think, the first person to leave.

1320
00:51:08,565 --> 00:51:09,983
I remember when
he was getting ready to go,

1321
00:51:11,193 --> 00:51:13,195
I was talking to one of his players,

1322
00:51:13,195 --> 00:51:17,741
and two guys from the media team
or the the organization fundraiser.

1323
00:51:17,824 --> 00:51:19,701
Yeah, it was official. Yep.

1324
00:51:19,701 --> 00:51:21,620
We weren't allowed to do certain things
like news. What?

1325
00:51:21,620 --> 00:51:22,954
We had all the news media outlets there.

1326
00:51:22,954 --> 00:51:25,582
They wanted to come in and we were told
the first they couldn't come in.

1327
00:51:25,582 --> 00:51:27,334
It was, this was just for the fundraiser.

1328
00:51:27,334 --> 00:51:29,586
This is not for any kind of loading
or marketing.

1329
00:51:29,586 --> 00:51:30,337
Oh, nice.

1330
00:51:30,337 --> 00:51:32,881
And then afterwards they were told
they could come in and film,

1331
00:51:32,881 --> 00:51:34,132
but they couldn't ask questions

1332
00:51:34,132 --> 00:51:36,301
if they allowed them to do,
which I'm sure killed half the people.

1333
00:51:36,301 --> 00:51:38,011
But some of them came in and just built.

1334
00:51:38,011 --> 00:51:39,096
Yeah, that's fine, we left it.

1335
00:51:39,096 --> 00:51:42,224
It's nothing but one reason you weren't
asking the players any questions

1336
00:51:42,224 --> 00:51:45,352
you would ask me, coach, any question
you know, other than small talk.

1337
00:51:45,685 --> 00:51:46,728
But I remember when he left.

1338
00:51:46,728 --> 00:51:49,314
He's getting ready to go
and he grabbed a slice of the coach.

1339
00:51:49,314 --> 00:51:50,732
Let me get you a box. At least.

1340
00:51:50,732 --> 00:51:52,359
It's like, no, no, I got to go in like,

1341
00:51:52,359 --> 00:51:53,985
we got to go
because I'm recruiting tomorrow.

1342
00:51:53,985 --> 00:51:55,821
I gotta go home.
I gotta get my notes going.

1343
00:51:55,821 --> 00:51:57,948
Let me get your bag.
I just gave him a plastic bag.

1344
00:51:57,948 --> 00:52:00,534
Is it for a couple slices?
Please be a note if you don't.

1345
00:52:00,534 --> 00:52:01,618
Yeah. Shut the door.

1346
00:52:01,618 --> 00:52:03,286
Jeez. Yeah, he's all business.

1347
00:52:03,286 --> 00:52:04,162
He is all business.

1348
00:52:04,162 --> 00:52:09,584
But like I said, the players were super
nice, super appreciative.

1349
00:52:10,127 --> 00:52:12,587
You know, I'm sure they're told to be
on the best behavior.

1350
00:52:12,587 --> 00:52:14,923
Yeah, it's a big business, you know.

1351
00:52:14,923 --> 00:52:17,759
So we do a game on the best worst
first class.

1352
00:52:17,759 --> 00:52:21,054
Would that be considered
like one of your best events at times

1353
00:52:21,054 --> 00:52:24,224
when the players showed up
and best worst first, last

1354
00:52:24,224 --> 00:52:27,227
you remember your first event,
your last event, your worst event.

1355
00:52:27,227 --> 00:52:29,062
Something goes wrong or missing.

1356
00:52:29,062 --> 00:52:30,355
Sounds like this one's the best.

1357
00:52:30,355 --> 00:52:33,024
I don't know, that could be top,
but I'm sure it can be. We'll see.

1358
00:52:33,024 --> 00:52:38,029
Do you have an event that you could think
of that may top it the the

1359
00:52:39,781 --> 00:52:41,658
the Giants Patriots Super Bowl.

1360
00:52:41,658 --> 00:52:43,160
Oh yeah.

1361
00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:44,452
Just remember the Giants won.

1362
00:52:44,452 --> 00:52:48,039
What was one of our best
was our best Super Bowl ever.

1363
00:52:48,748 --> 00:52:51,710
But the hype that day for Super Bowl
Sunday

1364
00:52:51,710 --> 00:52:54,713
was nonstop off the charts.

1365
00:52:54,796 --> 00:52:57,048
You would have thought
I don't know how to describe it,

1366
00:52:57,048 --> 00:53:00,385
but I mean, all day we start serving
cold buckets at 10:00 in the morning

1367
00:53:00,886 --> 00:53:03,346
and everybody coming in
was like in the best mood.

1368
00:53:03,346 --> 00:53:05,348
Just fired up, ready to go.

1369
00:53:05,348 --> 00:53:09,144
So was either
you want Giants to destroy the Patriots

1370
00:53:09,144 --> 00:53:12,522
because you're anti Patriots
or you didn't want the IT you need.

1371
00:53:12,522 --> 00:53:14,566
I think the right mix of time
they got all the way into.

1372
00:53:14,566 --> 00:53:15,233
Yeah.

1373
00:53:15,233 --> 00:53:18,320
Did you know the so-called giants
to be featured.

1374
00:53:18,320 --> 00:53:21,740
There was just literally a perfect storm
so to speak.

1375
00:53:22,073 --> 00:53:22,490
Love it.

1376
00:53:22,490 --> 00:53:25,410
But that was a
that was a really, really big one.

1377
00:53:25,410 --> 00:53:26,369
Up for it universally.

1378
00:53:26,369 --> 00:53:29,706
We did it especially then again,
that was a wonderful event.

1379
00:53:29,706 --> 00:53:33,001
I mean, the people we sold it out
and Lucky Day and we had so many people

1380
00:53:33,043 --> 00:53:34,419
questions still coming up. You can't.

1381
00:53:35,962 --> 00:53:38,423
We're sorry.

1382
00:53:38,423 --> 00:53:40,634
The men's basketball team was great
having them there.

1383
00:53:40,634 --> 00:53:43,220
Absolutely. Yeah. That sounds so cool.

1384
00:53:43,220 --> 00:53:46,431
That was that was, you know,
that was this clinging

1385
00:53:47,098 --> 00:53:50,101
or, you know, dynamically
when you're fasting

1386
00:53:50,143 --> 00:53:52,687
after us, you just left.

1387
00:53:52,687 --> 00:53:53,980
Gotcha.

1388
00:53:53,980 --> 00:53:56,107
You just left.

1389
00:53:56,107 --> 00:53:57,734
So that was that was one of them.

1390
00:53:57,734 --> 00:54:01,655
Probably the worst for me.

1391
00:54:02,739 --> 00:54:03,949
I will not remember the year.

1392
00:54:03,949 --> 00:54:05,575
It's about

1393
00:54:05,575 --> 00:54:08,536
18 years ago, maybe 20.

1394
00:54:08,536 --> 00:54:11,539
We had moved our golf tournament
because of bad weather.

1395
00:54:12,415 --> 00:54:14,668
We moved it to September

1396
00:54:14,668 --> 00:54:17,671
and we had a horrendous day.

1397
00:54:18,546 --> 00:54:23,301
I think I played 8 or 10 holes
and just went inside and said, I'm done.

1398
00:54:23,843 --> 00:54:25,553
It was cold, windy and raining.

1399
00:54:25,553 --> 00:54:27,639
It was like,
you did it like the end of September.

1400
00:54:27,639 --> 00:54:30,684
Oh yeah. And it was just not nice,
you know?

1401
00:54:30,684 --> 00:54:33,603
And you can't keep people spirits up,

1402
00:54:33,603 --> 00:54:35,939
you know, that you're trying to get money
out of them for charity.

1403
00:54:35,939 --> 00:54:36,314
Yeah.

1404
00:54:36,314 --> 00:54:39,776
It's one thing you can't affect,
you know, the weather, Mother Nature.

1405
00:54:39,943 --> 00:54:41,861
You can't control
her any way, shape or form.

1406
00:54:43,780 --> 00:54:45,282
So that was,

1407
00:54:45,282 --> 00:54:48,285
a big you,

1408
00:54:48,410 --> 00:54:51,621
you know, moment
when this could be canceled again.

1409
00:54:51,746 --> 00:54:53,540
Yeah. There's nothing else
you could do at this point.

1410
00:54:53,540 --> 00:54:56,459
You know, I think we're supposed to have,
like, 150 golfers.

1411
00:54:56,459 --> 00:54:58,545
I think 70 showed up,

1412
00:54:58,545 --> 00:55:02,090
you know, and I think half that
it's the round, it's terrible.

1413
00:55:02,299 --> 00:55:07,012
So that's, you know, that's not a good one
to remember, that's for sure.

1414
00:55:07,053 --> 00:55:10,015
Yeah. You know,

1415
00:55:10,015 --> 00:55:12,684
first best, worst last.

1416
00:55:12,684 --> 00:55:14,060
One of the best.

1417
00:55:14,060 --> 00:55:16,604
Another best one.

1418
00:55:16,604 --> 00:55:18,606
We had the ice storm,

1419
00:55:18,606 --> 00:55:21,234
Halloween ice storm. Oh, yeah.

1420
00:55:21,234 --> 00:55:22,819
15 years ago.

1421
00:55:22,819 --> 00:55:25,905
I've been in South Windsor
for 13 years, so.

1422
00:55:25,905 --> 00:55:28,491
Yeah, about 15 years ago.

1423
00:55:28,491 --> 00:55:30,493
Yep, yep.

1424
00:55:30,493 --> 00:55:31,369
We found out

1425
00:55:31,369 --> 00:55:35,999
that the Plainville High School
was the hub for everybody to get meals in.

1426
00:55:36,041 --> 00:55:37,584
Donated in.

1427
00:55:37,584 --> 00:55:39,794
It was, one day we went over there
Monday afternoon

1428
00:55:39,794 --> 00:55:41,546
and found out
they had like, four people working at,

1429
00:55:42,964 --> 00:55:44,507
we were going to bring food to them.

1430
00:55:44,507 --> 00:55:45,550
And because we were going to dump

1431
00:55:45,550 --> 00:55:48,553
at least we were told were gonna be down
for at least three days. Yep.

1432
00:55:48,553 --> 00:55:51,139
Only lasted 24 hours. Refrigerated stuff.

1433
00:55:51,139 --> 00:55:54,142
$36 frigerator for 24 to close the door.

1434
00:55:54,184 --> 00:55:56,436
That's pretty standard.

1435
00:55:56,436 --> 00:55:57,270
We're going to lose it.

1436
00:55:57,270 --> 00:55:59,314
They had generators.
Let's give them all the food.

1437
00:55:59,314 --> 00:55:59,981
We had already touched

1438
00:55:59,981 --> 00:56:02,567
about the restaurants
given we talked to Nazareth and Cleveland

1439
00:56:02,567 --> 00:56:05,403
is if you stop by and grab some stuff,
you can bring it in.

1440
00:56:05,403 --> 00:56:07,572
You know we're done. You know we can.

1441
00:56:07,572 --> 00:56:09,324
So they're pulling in there.

1442
00:56:09,324 --> 00:56:12,285
With our other major credit partners
or general manager.

1443
00:56:13,787 --> 00:56:14,954
She was like five people I knew.

1444
00:56:14,954 --> 00:56:17,916
One of the guys, Scott,
from, Board of Education.

1445
00:56:17,916 --> 00:56:18,541
Rotarian,

1446
00:56:19,501 --> 00:56:21,294
who? They just finished cooking lunch
for everybody.

1447
00:56:21,294 --> 00:56:22,921
He's like, yeah, we we don't know.
We're doing this stuff.

1448
00:56:22,921 --> 00:56:26,674
The other thing, the town
health inspectors here, Marco's

1449
00:56:27,050 --> 00:56:27,675
America's our health

1450
00:56:27,675 --> 00:56:30,678
inspector for years, and people don't know
very well to inspect their place.

1451
00:56:31,471 --> 00:56:32,806
Very professional.

1452
00:56:32,806 --> 00:56:35,225
You can make a report of them,
keep the place clean.

1453
00:56:35,225 --> 00:56:36,601
It's how it works.

1454
00:56:36,601 --> 00:56:37,894
I look at myself that they need help.

1455
00:56:37,894 --> 00:56:40,897
They need help
that would be surrounded by people.

1456
00:56:40,897 --> 00:56:42,273
To them,

1457
00:56:42,273 --> 00:56:45,235
it was 3:00 in the afternoon and
they started cleaning up from the lunch.

1458
00:56:45,235 --> 00:56:48,071
Basically to go,
I'd like to break us a break.

1459
00:56:48,071 --> 00:56:49,406
I got an idea of what it was.

1460
00:56:49,406 --> 00:56:50,490
Let's take it over some.

1461
00:56:50,490 --> 00:56:53,284
You mean, I said, I'll take 3 or 4.

1462
00:56:53,284 --> 00:56:55,787
The kitchen guys.
I'll take 2 or 3. The prep guys.

1463
00:56:55,787 --> 00:56:56,246
I said,

1464
00:56:57,831 --> 00:56:59,332
I'll, I'll leave it up.

1465
00:56:59,332 --> 00:57:02,210
I'll said, I'll,
I'll get one of the other cooks.

1466
00:57:02,210 --> 00:57:03,545
He said, what else are we to do?

1467
00:57:03,545 --> 00:57:05,672
He's like, don't for at least three days.

1468
00:57:05,672 --> 00:57:07,882
Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Yeah. Wow.

1469
00:57:07,882 --> 00:57:09,884
So I looked at the four people.

1470
00:57:09,884 --> 00:57:11,970
They were told, Scott, Scott, here's
the deal.

1471
00:57:11,970 --> 00:57:16,766
You know, I mean, you know,
I said I said, Michael, a blessing.

1472
00:57:17,225 --> 00:57:18,977
I said, you've got none of you
people are serfs.

1473
00:57:18,977 --> 00:57:21,271
They've certified all the people that are
come in here.

1474
00:57:21,271 --> 00:57:22,439
We're certainly a certified.

1475
00:57:22,439 --> 00:57:24,357
Yeah. I said, talk to us in charge.

1476
00:57:24,357 --> 00:57:26,317
The kitchen high school.

1477
00:57:26,317 --> 00:57:27,819
I said, you guys do breakfast.

1478
00:57:27,819 --> 00:57:30,822
They're basically just putting cereal
toast out for everybody in cut fruit.

1479
00:57:30,947 --> 00:57:35,034
I said, we got lunch and dinner
next three days, so I got Nestle's food.

1480
00:57:35,160 --> 00:57:38,079
I said, I got at the time right over here.

1481
00:57:38,079 --> 00:57:39,831
Yes. It used to be called
the Silo restaurant.

1482
00:57:39,831 --> 00:57:42,250
Okay. Here.
I need to get the owner over there.

1483
00:57:42,250 --> 00:57:43,877
He called me up, said,
what do you do with all your food?

1484
00:57:43,877 --> 00:57:45,545
I said, I'm doing any ideas? Come get it.

1485
00:57:46,546 --> 00:57:49,424
We, Saints restaurant come get it.

1486
00:57:49,424 --> 00:57:52,427
So for the next three days, it ended up
being about a dozen of the staff.

1487
00:57:52,427 --> 00:57:55,346
I say, listen,
the owner said, we'll pay you.

1488
00:57:55,346 --> 00:57:57,807
Everybody go over there. Take care.

1489
00:57:57,807 --> 00:58:01,144
So for the next three days,
we fit everybody the level.

1490
00:58:01,436 --> 00:58:03,188
But the first night.

1491
00:58:03,188 --> 00:58:04,939
Sorry, we got word.

1492
00:58:04,939 --> 00:58:07,942
They got word
that kitchens was cooking food there.

1493
00:58:07,942 --> 00:58:09,694
We're putting out, you know, nice man.

1494
00:58:09,694 --> 00:58:11,779
Oh yeah he called.

1495
00:58:11,779 --> 00:58:13,907
They want the stuff for their food.
Thank you Brittany.

1496
00:58:13,907 --> 00:58:15,742
All they want to get stuff to the food
bank.

1497
00:58:15,742 --> 00:58:18,328
Local law enforcement we call them
people saying we got guys come through.

1498
00:58:18,328 --> 00:58:21,331
Can we get doggie bags?

1499
00:58:21,789 --> 00:58:21,956
Yeah.

1500
00:58:21,956 --> 00:58:23,958
Once they hear Jay Tim's is in town.

1501
00:58:23,958 --> 00:58:25,460
So it was that was.

1502
00:58:25,460 --> 00:58:27,754
That's phenomenal man. Congratulations.
That's so cool.

1503
00:58:27,754 --> 00:58:29,047
That's being a good friend right there.

1504
00:58:29,047 --> 00:58:33,051
That was a proud moment that we and we
and to be honest we had a blast.

1505
00:58:33,051 --> 00:58:34,761
Yeah we had a blast

1506
00:58:34,761 --> 00:58:37,555
thinking outside the box and helping out
whatever food was brought in.

1507
00:58:39,140 --> 00:58:40,517
We were just cooking.

1508
00:58:40,517 --> 00:58:43,019
So all of a sudden we got in

1509
00:58:43,019 --> 00:58:45,438
30 pounds of frozen crawfish.

1510
00:58:45,438 --> 00:58:45,855
All right.

1511
00:58:45,855 --> 00:58:47,273
I never made crawfish.

1512
00:58:47,273 --> 00:58:48,316
Let's look up a recipe.

1513
00:58:48,316 --> 00:58:50,777
I'll get some rice and peppers and olives.

1514
00:58:50,777 --> 00:58:54,113
They sell little seasoning, some
some sausage, or we don't have to do it.

1515
00:58:54,113 --> 00:58:56,991
We've got hot sausage
from from this place.

1516
00:58:56,991 --> 00:58:58,701
Okay. Put this big giant kettle,
make it all up.

1517
00:58:58,701 --> 00:58:59,494
Put it the chicken.

1518
00:58:59,494 --> 00:59:00,954
She called it that. Boom!

1519
00:59:00,954 --> 00:59:02,121
We made it

1520
00:59:02,121 --> 00:59:06,125
wasn't wasn't looking to get Louisiana,
but it was really stinking good, you know.

1521
00:59:06,125 --> 00:59:07,585
And people were like, oh my God.

1522
00:59:07,585 --> 00:59:10,421
We with the second day we play with yard.

1523
00:59:10,421 --> 00:59:13,049
So I ended up having like
eight whole plays.

1524
00:59:13,049 --> 00:59:14,634
We put them down, we roasted them off.

1525
00:59:14,634 --> 00:59:16,803
We did slicing people like you got what we

1526
00:59:17,929 --> 00:59:18,805
it's like a wedding.

1527
00:59:18,805 --> 00:59:21,975
Oh but we had all the stuff
we had to use, you know.

1528
00:59:21,975 --> 00:59:24,102
So it was, that was

1529
00:59:24,102 --> 00:59:24,727
that was a big move.

1530
00:59:24,727 --> 00:59:28,481
They actually the town of people
kept Timothy's a key or placard for,

1531
00:59:28,565 --> 00:59:29,691
for that whole thing to the owners.

1532
00:59:29,691 --> 00:59:32,235
And you know, they thanked us which was,
which is a big deal.

1533
00:59:32,235 --> 00:59:34,862
And that was a

1534
00:59:34,862 --> 00:59:36,406
major feel good. Yeah.

1535
00:59:36,406 --> 00:59:39,409
No, you're giving back
actually that I'm sorry that

1536
00:59:39,867 --> 00:59:41,494
my kids were little.

1537
00:59:41,494 --> 00:59:43,079
Yeah. I was a good 15, 16 years ago.

1538
00:59:43,079 --> 00:59:44,122
My son is now.

1539
00:59:44,122 --> 00:59:44,289
Yeah.

1540
00:59:44,289 --> 00:59:47,125
My girls were in kindergarten
when we had no school for a couple days.

1541
00:59:47,125 --> 00:59:50,086
Yep. So no 17.

1542
00:59:50,253 --> 00:59:52,380
So yeah, you're about right.

1543
00:59:52,380 --> 00:59:55,383
So it was, it was speaking of those,

1544
00:59:55,466 --> 01:00:00,346
I don't if you put it in the best
or worst or whatever, but, that was great.

1545
01:00:00,430 --> 01:00:03,349
No, that's so cool to share that story.

1546
01:00:03,349 --> 01:00:07,270
A couple more questions and we got to
wrap up, but I think it's awesome.

1547
01:00:07,270 --> 01:00:09,981
I want to shout out some friends. 
Jay, Timothy's put this out.

1548
01:00:09,981 --> 01:00:10,940
The Sunday night crew.

1549
01:00:10,940 --> 01:00:13,776
What do you know about the Sunday night
crew who put that up?

1550
01:00:13,776 --> 01:00:16,904
Erica took the pic bottom left.

1551
01:00:17,488 --> 01:00:20,700
And I guess there's the weekend
crew, the Sunday night crew of regulars

1552
01:00:20,700 --> 01:00:21,909
that come every Sunday.

1553
01:00:21,909 --> 01:00:24,412
A wonderful group
being served with our wonderful bartender.

1554
01:00:24,412 --> 01:00:26,539
She did a selfie on Jay Tim.

1555
01:00:26,539 --> 01:00:28,666
So that's really cool.
I just celebrated her 40th birthday.

1556
01:00:28,666 --> 01:00:31,586
She's not with us for 22 or 23 years now.

1557
01:00:31,586 --> 01:00:33,004
We'll put that picture up. Boom.

1558
01:00:33,004 --> 01:00:36,215
She's one of our longstanding bartenders,
and she has a Sunday group.

1559
01:00:36,466 --> 01:00:38,217
I worked Sunday,
so I never even see these people,

1560
01:00:38,217 --> 01:00:40,011
although I know a couple of them
because they come in all the time.

1561
01:00:40,011 --> 01:00:42,639
Yeah, it's just by chance. They all
started just coming in on Sunday night.

1562
01:00:43,848 --> 01:00:45,475
It's very cool.

1563
01:00:45,475 --> 01:00:46,392
It was like about 18 of them.

1564
01:00:46,392 --> 01:00:48,269
They all put a shirt on it, said
Sunday Night Crew.

1565
01:00:48,269 --> 01:00:49,771
Like it.

1566
01:00:49,771 --> 01:00:51,356
So when they when we put together

1567
01:00:51,356 --> 01:00:53,608
the surprise party for her,
they invited all these people in there.

1568
01:00:53,608 --> 01:00:56,611
So, you know, that's like, that's the.

1569
01:00:57,195 --> 01:00:59,614
That's the beauty of the restaurant. Yeah.

1570
01:00:59,614 --> 01:01:01,866
Crew building friendships.

1571
01:01:01,866 --> 01:01:02,075
Yeah.

1572
01:01:02,075 --> 01:01:03,117
The old softball team.

1573
01:01:03,117 --> 01:01:05,995
Yep. The pitcher named Dirk. Yep.

1574
01:01:05,995 --> 01:01:08,998
You know, we sponsored
little league teams, you know,

1575
01:01:08,998 --> 01:01:11,876
we the golf tournaments, the, the charity

1576
01:01:11,876 --> 01:01:15,713
events, the things that you can do that
you know, to help out the community.

1577
01:01:15,713 --> 01:01:17,048
It helps you. Yeah.

1578
01:01:17,048 --> 01:01:19,175
You want to have a good record
with everybody.

1579
01:01:19,175 --> 01:01:22,720
You know, you don't want to be the person
everybody talks about negatively

1580
01:01:22,720 --> 01:01:24,097
or doesn't talk about.

1581
01:01:24,097 --> 01:01:25,223
Yeah, you give back. No.

1582
01:01:25,223 --> 01:01:27,100
It's a great organization.

1583
01:01:27,100 --> 01:01:31,854
And, let's talk about quickly your
Instagram page at Reno Eats and Drinks.

1584
01:01:31,854 --> 01:01:33,856
I mean,
we don't even get to talk about that.

1585
01:01:33,856 --> 01:01:36,359
I got research you
I know people like, what is that?

1586
01:01:36,359 --> 01:01:39,612
Let's shout out. No, it's so that is just.

1587
01:01:40,780 --> 01:01:42,073
Wow. I'm not usually humbled.

1588
01:01:42,073 --> 01:01:44,033
I'm just. You been. Yeah.

1589
01:01:44,033 --> 01:01:45,660
I'm not at a loss for words.
I can definitely talk.

1590
01:01:45,660 --> 01:01:48,037
That's not the issue. But Bear's barbecue.

1591
01:01:48,037 --> 01:01:51,624
Tim's, max downtown.

1592
01:01:52,417 --> 01:01:54,127
Some places like lot.

1593
01:01:54,127 --> 01:01:56,003
I mean, I don't go out as often as I used
to, just.

1594
01:01:56,003 --> 01:01:57,547
I think that now I have multiple.

1595
01:01:57,547 --> 01:02:00,633
Yeah, that's the pork
belly bao buns at Mecca.

1596
01:02:00,675 --> 01:02:01,426
Maggi.

1597
01:02:01,426 --> 01:02:03,219
Oh, I saw a picture you posted.

1598
01:02:03,219 --> 01:02:05,263
That bear's barbecue.

1599
01:02:05,263 --> 01:02:06,514
Great spot, Max.

1600
01:02:06,514 --> 01:02:09,517
Tuna, the tuna, all the items.

1601
01:02:09,726 --> 01:02:10,601
So, yes.

1602
01:02:10,601 --> 01:02:12,311
Shout out to rhinos. Eats and drinks.

1603
01:02:12,311 --> 01:02:14,897
Come on, you're your influencer. Be proud.

1604
01:02:14,897 --> 01:02:16,816
I am not one of those influencers
by any means.

1605
01:02:16,816 --> 01:02:17,900
I don't have the time to be.

1606
01:02:17,900 --> 01:02:21,237
I did that because I get asked a lot

1607
01:02:21,279 --> 01:02:24,323
at the restaurant for recommendations
for other places. Yup.

1608
01:02:24,407 --> 01:02:26,534
And I always tell people you want to go
to a good Chinese restaurant.

1609
01:02:26,534 --> 01:02:29,370
I'll tell you where to go.
We lost our Chinese food. Yep.

1610
01:02:29,370 --> 01:02:30,913
So I'll say where my favorite place is.

1611
01:02:30,913 --> 01:02:32,623
What is it? What is? Tell us.

1612
01:02:32,623 --> 01:02:33,791
Oh, depends what kind of pizza.

1613
01:02:35,376 --> 01:02:37,920
I'm I love Camille's.

1614
01:02:37,920 --> 01:02:39,338
Do you love Camille's?

1615
01:02:39,338 --> 01:02:41,466
I got no problem with Pepe's.
I like puppies, but.

1616
01:02:41,466 --> 01:02:43,593
Yeah. Which one? It matters.

1617
01:02:43,593 --> 01:02:45,219
Well, no,
I go to New Haven if I want to, but,

1618
01:02:45,219 --> 01:02:46,471
yeah, I live right by the Manchester one.

1619
01:02:46,471 --> 01:02:47,388
Okay, but I'm.

1620
01:02:47,388 --> 01:02:49,932
I'm a very light, charred crust.

1621
01:02:49,932 --> 01:02:52,935
Okay. I want the very, like, charred.

1622
01:02:52,935 --> 01:02:55,688
Adam Greenberg Spiro pizza.

1623
01:02:55,688 --> 01:02:57,356
Great person. Great pies.

1624
01:02:57,356 --> 01:03:00,401
But then I got some
I want a good old school Greek pizza.

1625
01:03:00,401 --> 01:03:02,779
Every once in a great while.
I got Sal's in South Windsor.

1626
01:03:02,779 --> 01:03:05,072
He does an old school Italian.
Very fluffy crust.

1627
01:03:05,072 --> 01:03:06,449
So expensive.

1628
01:03:06,449 --> 01:03:09,118
Yep yep I agree every year

1629
01:03:09,118 --> 01:03:11,871
we close down after
what's the school starts?

1630
01:03:11,871 --> 01:03:13,372
We do a house party.

1631
01:03:13,372 --> 01:03:15,041
I give another one
and I'll give them a shout out.

1632
01:03:15,041 --> 01:03:17,376
Naples one. Yeah.

1633
01:03:17,376 --> 01:03:18,795
Coming on the podcast.

1634
01:03:18,795 --> 01:03:20,546
Absolute fantastic pizza. Love Naples.

1635
01:03:21,756 --> 01:03:23,466
I'm not driving from South Windsor
back to farms

1636
01:03:23,466 --> 01:03:24,842
like a pizza to go back over there.

1637
01:03:24,842 --> 01:03:26,636
Yeah, Naples. Good stuff.

1638
01:03:26,636 --> 01:03:28,554
A lot of people spawned off
in Naples, too.

1639
01:03:28,554 --> 01:03:30,556
Oh, he just insisted that so, yeah.

1640
01:03:30,556 --> 01:03:31,390
You know, but I tell people,

1641
01:03:31,390 --> 01:03:34,519
you go to go other places,
like the people that visit us from other

1642
01:03:34,519 --> 01:03:35,978
states are just in the area, you know,

1643
01:03:35,978 --> 01:03:38,356
you want to go see these attractions,
go eat these foods.

1644
01:03:38,356 --> 01:03:40,149
You know,

1645
01:03:40,149 --> 01:03:44,320
go down to mystic and see this or, you
know, yeah, you see this, do this like.

1646
01:03:44,737 --> 01:03:44,946
Yeah.

1647
01:03:44,946 --> 01:03:47,865
So everyone check out
Reno's Eats and Drinks on Instagram.

1648
01:03:47,865 --> 01:03:48,991
The guy's the man.

1649
01:03:48,991 --> 01:03:50,993
Just that's that is

1650
01:03:50,993 --> 01:03:53,996
that it was just,
you know, like I go on vacation,

1651
01:03:54,038 --> 01:03:54,914
you know, people said, where'd you go?

1652
01:03:54,914 --> 01:03:56,707
Would you eat? Here's where I went.
Here's why, you know.

1653
01:03:56,707 --> 01:03:58,960
Yeah, that's how I.

1654
01:03:58,960 --> 01:04:00,586
That's why I communicate it. Yeah.

1655
01:04:01,838 --> 01:04:03,172
I can talk to you for hours, man.

1656
01:04:03,172 --> 01:04:04,715
You're amazing. You're a great.

1657
01:04:04,715 --> 01:04:06,259
Yeah. Great talker.

1658
01:04:06,259 --> 01:04:07,093
You're a good friend.

1659
01:04:07,093 --> 01:04:09,804
You have some knowledge and experience.

1660
01:04:09,804 --> 01:04:12,265
You've been there for 36 years.

1661
01:04:12,265 --> 01:04:13,766
30, 34 years.

1662
01:04:13,766 --> 01:04:15,977
You took two years off.
I took a year and a half off.

1663
01:04:15,977 --> 01:04:16,352
Okay.

1664
01:04:16,352 --> 01:04:19,146
But around to to around to to 34 years
with them.

1665
01:04:19,146 --> 01:04:21,691
Gotcha, gotcha for 36. Yep.

1666
01:04:21,691 --> 01:04:26,279
And you're the program director
and hiring manager at Jay Beverage.

1667
01:04:26,612 --> 01:04:28,739
Yep. Fire program director program.

1668
01:04:28,739 --> 01:04:31,450
I was a program director at a camp.
So that just comes to my mind.

1669
01:04:31,450 --> 01:04:32,243
All my director.

1670
01:04:32,243 --> 01:04:35,663
So if they're looking for that particular
craft beer or something of that

1671
01:04:35,663 --> 01:04:38,666
nature, that's becomes

1672
01:04:38,666 --> 01:04:39,500
my rapid fire.

1673
01:04:39,500 --> 01:04:41,168
Then we're out.

1674
01:04:41,168 --> 01:04:43,796
Flats are drums.

1675
01:04:43,796 --> 01:04:45,673
Right now I'm on drums.

1676
01:04:45,673 --> 01:04:48,551
Meat. Mild. Medium or inferno?

1677
01:04:48,551 --> 01:04:51,345
Medium. Favorite shift beverage?

1678
01:04:53,890 --> 01:04:55,558
Alcoholic or nonalcoholic?

1679
01:04:55,558 --> 01:04:57,977
We'll do both.

1680
01:04:57,977 --> 01:04:59,687
I'm a big flavored seltzer guy.

1681
01:04:59,687 --> 01:05:02,064
Okay, I'll bring my own flavored
seltzer to work with.

1682
01:05:02,064 --> 01:05:04,275
Kind of nice. I like my flavored seltzer.

1683
01:05:04,275 --> 01:05:05,985
Stop and shop. Blood orange.

1684
01:05:05,985 --> 01:05:08,946
Oh, that's a good I like that.

1685
01:05:09,196 --> 01:05:12,575
I love my hazy IPAs.

1686
01:05:12,575 --> 01:05:15,369
Fox Farm
Brewery is probably my favorite right now.

1687
01:05:15,369 --> 01:05:17,788
No, no
disrespect to several others out there.

1688
01:05:17,788 --> 01:05:20,416
I've got friends
that that run the brewery.

1689
01:05:20,416 --> 01:05:23,210
I've got friends at counterweight,
friends at Back East.

1690
01:05:23,210 --> 01:05:23,753
I love these guys.

1691
01:05:23,753 --> 01:05:26,756
Ken Falls, New Park Brewing.

1692
01:05:28,341 --> 01:05:30,384
But Fox Farm

1693
01:05:30,384 --> 01:05:33,971
shout out to New Park
I podcast did my 150th podcast was.

1694
01:05:33,971 --> 01:05:35,848
They're great good friends with them.

1695
01:05:35,848 --> 01:05:39,727
Once we got their beer on 
you do nice cloud scape.

1696
01:05:39,727 --> 01:05:42,521
I got a running line of theirs
all the time between clouds.

1697
01:05:42,521 --> 01:05:45,024
Double cloud scape,
double solid doing the cans.

1698
01:05:45,024 --> 01:05:48,611
Oh clouds keeping they rotate like
I had vortex and I had fragment last week.

1699
01:05:48,611 --> 01:05:50,321
I had had been waiting for that.

1700
01:05:50,321 --> 01:05:51,614
Shout out to New Park Brewery.

1701
01:05:51,614 --> 01:05:54,867
John and Tom love new parks blenders.

1702
01:05:55,034 --> 01:05:56,911
Oh favorite blend?

1703
01:05:56,911 --> 01:05:57,495
Which fruit?

1704
01:05:57,495 --> 01:05:59,163
Which one clicky?

1705
01:05:59,163 --> 01:06:01,666
It's the kiwi passion fruit.

1706
01:06:01,666 --> 01:06:02,708
I think it's mango.

1707
01:06:02,708 --> 01:06:04,460
It it drinks. The problem with that?

1708
01:06:04,460 --> 01:06:07,338
It's like a golf beer.
The problem is you're cutting the grass.

1709
01:06:07,338 --> 01:06:08,381
I realize I just had three of them.

1710
01:06:08,381 --> 01:06:09,382
Like, no wonder my

1711
01:06:09,382 --> 01:06:12,760
stomach is still turning and burning cause
I just had three salad in 45 minutes.

1712
01:06:12,969 --> 01:06:13,844
It goes down so smooth.

1713
01:06:13,844 --> 01:06:16,430
It's one of the most tastiest,
interesting, clicky.

1714
01:06:16,430 --> 01:06:18,516
I love it, without a doubt.

1715
01:06:18,516 --> 01:06:21,143
I put that right there with my forks
formed, layers and burst.

1716
01:06:21,143 --> 01:06:23,229
Those are my guys.
All right then. Last one.

1717
01:06:23,229 --> 01:06:24,855
The best seat in the restaurant.

1718
01:06:24,855 --> 01:06:26,857
Best seat in Jay. Tim's where we sitting?

1719
01:06:28,067 --> 01:06:29,235
Jay's best seat.

1720
01:06:29,235 --> 01:06:30,111
And then we got to go.

1721
01:06:30,111 --> 01:06:32,363
This is amazing.
It was so good to chat with you.

1722
01:06:32,363 --> 01:06:36,367
This is episode 156 with the great Reno.

1723
01:06:36,367 --> 01:06:38,202
All that

1724
01:06:38,202 --> 01:06:41,580
bar stool two, bar stool two walking in.

1725
01:06:42,373 --> 01:06:43,833
You don't know the restaurant though.

1726
01:06:43,833 --> 01:06:46,085
I'm in the restaurant.

1727
01:06:46,085 --> 01:06:48,963
I'd almost rather be upstairs
in the pub loft

1728
01:06:48,963 --> 01:06:49,839
relaxing in the booth.

1729
01:06:49,839 --> 01:06:51,007
I got the TV's there.

1730
01:06:51,007 --> 01:06:54,010
Yep. And I got plenty of walkway
to go through.

1731
01:06:54,343 --> 01:06:55,428
All right, you heard it here first.

1732
01:06:55,428 --> 01:06:56,887
Bar stool two.

1733
01:06:56,887 --> 01:06:59,265
They put ketchup in the sauce. He said it.

1734
01:06:59,265 --> 01:07:00,975
Favorite beers? New park.

1735
01:07:00,975 --> 01:07:02,601
Favorite pizza?

1736
01:07:02,601 --> 01:07:05,604
The the pizza at New Park
is really good, too.

1737
01:07:06,188 --> 01:07:07,815
From what I give everybody's credit,
you can get.

1738
01:07:07,815 --> 01:07:10,026
You can call it new parking.
Much? I've not had pizza.

1739
01:07:10,026 --> 01:07:12,403
And I know the recipe at every party.

1740
01:07:12,403 --> 01:07:14,071
Yep, yep. But

1741
01:07:15,031 --> 01:07:17,616
no. And you can call me anything you want
for favorite pizza.

1742
01:07:17,616 --> 01:07:18,617
Hahaha.

1743
01:07:18,617 --> 01:07:22,371
Now check out Reno Eats and Drinks
and go check out Jay Tim's.

1744
01:07:22,371 --> 01:07:25,124
It's a landmark. It's an amazing place.

1745
01:07:25,124 --> 01:07:27,126
I had a wonderful time
talking with you on three.

1746
01:07:27,126 --> 01:07:27,460
Thank you.

1747
01:07:27,460 --> 01:07:27,960
Yeah.

1748
01:07:27,960 --> 01:07:29,086
Oh, this is good tastic.

1749
01:07:29,086 --> 01:07:31,172
I mean, it's it's great.

1750
01:07:31,172 --> 01:07:33,674
I mean, and you brought wings.
I mean, you come.

1751
01:07:33,674 --> 01:07:34,675
You could be the podcast guest.

1752
01:07:34,675 --> 01:07:37,678
Every guest, every every episode.

1753
01:07:38,137 --> 01:07:40,890
Let's say be a good friend on three, one,
two, three.

1754
01:07:40,890 --> 01:07:43,142
Be a good friend. Nice.