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Pretty low.

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This is an amazing

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feeney talks with friends.

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We won an Emmy.

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It's been 157 podcast, but we did it.

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I like to thank my mother, my father

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and everyone that supported
Friends of Feeny.

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Actually,
I'd like to thank my guests. Marcus.

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What's up? Marcus? Marcus brought an Emmy.

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This is Marcus Patton, everybody.

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How you doing? Fantastic.

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I'm excited to be here.

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I thought they'd be.

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I thought they'd be great
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Yeah.

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Usually just sit on my fireplace.

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So now it gets to go outside for me.

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Yeah. Well,
you know, I'm a third grade teacher.

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This is show and tell right here.

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That one specifically.

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We won that one in for the 22, 23 year.

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Confront me if I'm right.

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2223 specifically is for sports Center.

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I have three.

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So one of them, I got, shortly after
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That was for a

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special production called
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somewhat of a reality show,
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So Sports Center was live on ESPN.

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This production is live on ESPN two.

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Mikes everywhere, cameras everywhere.

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We've got talent running through the back
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We're in the edit suites
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Director's produce. It was fantastic.

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So we won an Emmy for that
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So I won that one as a camera operator.

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I won that one as a producer.

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And then my most recent one was last year.

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On the management team
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Wow. Are you currently the supervision
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super supervisor on the management
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and we oversee the teams,
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operate those studio pieces.

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Audio operators are media
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studio hands.

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we call it PD, but it's it's a lot of our,

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Kind of we like to call one man band.

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Operations. Right.

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That one person that's in there,
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technical directing and some automation.

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For media, you know. Is that a pass?

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Excuse me? I'm sorry,
I pass. Podcast guest.

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these Feeny talks with friends.

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This is Andrew.

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How's everything, buddy?
Nice to see you. Shake my hand.

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Oh, man.

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People can have so many questions.

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Any questions?

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Go back to see episode 57.

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I came to do an update while on here.

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Please do

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man. To a lot of different, challenges,

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one unit and it didn't work out the
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But now I'm working at several different,
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I now have a brand of public
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for like schools, providers, nonprofits
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That's so good to hear.

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And I don't know how this came to be.

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I will be perfectly honest.

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Yeah, well,
you were a great guest, a coffee guy.

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Just ignore anything else
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Yeah, exactly.

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He he drinks coffee.

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Let's be clear.

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He wants to be a coffee. Hot coffee.

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Like I would go to any inclusive coffee
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That's great.

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well, wonderful seeing you.

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Best of luck and thank you for the update.

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Impromptu surprise guest.

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Episode 57.

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You're the man. He's a coffee guy.

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Marcus, thank you for allowing me
to say hi to a friend.

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That literally fit your brand.

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Let's be a good friend.

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You know, that's our motto.

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Be a good friend.

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Hold the door.

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Give compliments. Pick up trash.
That's not yours.

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Be charitable.
So it's so great that you're here.

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My dude. You were my friend
a long time ago.

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We will get into that.

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But.

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Neff Hall, were you a refugee? Yes, sir.

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I'm 25.

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Oh, you remember your room number one
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Was I though that I don't know,
you're 528.

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Last one on the right,
last one on the right. And I took my.

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I took the number
with me right off the road.

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That's so great, though.

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You were a good friend then,
and it's so great to catch up with you.

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This is for you.

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Thank you for your support
and your donation

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to friends of Fini truly means the world.

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And I'm really excited to talk with you.

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This is my guy, Marcus.

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He's at ESPN for 20 plus years.

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He is on the board of the Diversity
Council of Bristol.

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He's a girl, dad.

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He went to Southern.

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He three time Emmy.

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And these things are heavy. Very heavy.

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And like, the ones on the, I think
the ones when you're watching it on TV

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and they're throwing that thing around.

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I think that might be hollow.

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Okay. Yeah, and it takes time.

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It takes a while for us to get them.

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So once they're done, they take them,
they print them.

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They're all handmade.

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Every single Emmy is handmade in a way.

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Yeah. The three are yours.
Slightly different.

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Can you see any, So there's only one.

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The one that I got in the early 2000.

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Kind of has a different gold to it.

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But outside of that, they're all.

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They're all the same.

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So an Emmy, if you're wondering,
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of Television Arts and Science
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There's three rules.

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You know, the three rules on the bottom.

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And I rarely see the bottom.

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I do know here's what I don't know what's
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I believe that she always has to be facing
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Okay. Interesting.

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Right. If you're a and,

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And if for some
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I believe you have to return it
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Very good. That's rule number three.

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If the recipient or their successor.

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Any purpose to dispose of this Emmy
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the person shall be obligated
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which will retain in the storage
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So please do not throw this in the trash.

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Marcus.

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I'm so glad you brought this.

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This is cool. So glad you're here.

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And if you didn't know, this is Feeny.

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Talks with friends.

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My name is Eric Feeny, founder
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Our mission is to help

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children and families that need assistance
after heartbreak or tragedy.

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I use this podcast, Feeny talks
with friends, and I talk to wonderful

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people that are doing great things
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Bristol community.

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Oh, we moving on from ESPN.

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How are we doing with ESPN?

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So it's up to you.

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Let's talk a little more ESPN.

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Then we'll go to Bristol.

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Well, ESPN is in Bristol.

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Is your diversity council in Bristol?

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Do you live in Bristol? I do.

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You grew up in Bristol.

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Bristol central.

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Bristol central high school. Go rest.

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Go, Rams.

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And now, how many years now at ESPN?

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I'm going on 25.

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Going on 25 with ESPN
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It is a huge, huge,

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sense of pride for me.

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I grew up, grew up a dreamer,
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So to be able to tell those stories,
really, I want to tell stories, right?

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Whether they're stories
of the people. Right.

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Which is a lot of my community work
that I do now just helps me,

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allows me, to me to tell stories
about people that and also help people

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tell their own stories,
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is when people
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we get to tell stories of athletes, right?

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those are the pictures for us
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And we get to present
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And what they do.

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And so I, I it's a kind of a full circle

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moment of what I love and take pride in
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Yeah. You always love sports.

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I remember at southern, you new players.

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Was it wrestling, women's
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You're all Gator up.

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Bills Mets.

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And I think that was it.

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But no, it was great.

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Even, you know, sports at school right.

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There wasn't
there wasn't a lot of what a lot of people

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walking across the street
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Right? I was oh, nice. People were.

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People were kicking balls, throwing
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I was going I heard we had a hockey team,
a club hockey team at southern.

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I couldn't find it, I couldn't
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We were at southern.

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And then I found out
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So I was like, I guess, can't go there.

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But yeah, well,
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and I was just trying to immerse myself
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Very cool, very cool.

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It's been a fitting career and literally
don't feel like I've worked a day.

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I would do it for free.

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That's right.

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When you find a job that you love
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you never worked a day in your life,
that's so cool.

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Some some past podcast guest, Kenny Mayne.

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Sure.

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Episode 38.

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Go back.

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He was on Feeny talks with friends and he.

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Kenny. Antidotes or tidbits or stories?

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Great Kenny story for you
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And it wasn't, really all that long ago.

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So we have a,

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one of the most fun areas to work in at
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It's a large room and kind of

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looks like a sports version of of of,
the New York Stock Exchange.

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Like big, big room, high ceilings,
noise TVs.

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Someone scores a touchdown.

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It kind of sounds like a sports bar.

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Yeah, yeah, I think I've been there.

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Berman, sit front and center.

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Does he have a special. See?

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Chris Berman's like, screening,
not screening,

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but, But, you know, have you been there?

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Okay. There.

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And there's a ton of people in there
just consuming sports.

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It's got a big scoreboard
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Up on the ceiling.

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Almost looks like the inside of an NBA.

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Oh, right.

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But I was,
I was supervising highlights in there.

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Kenny's
walking by the outer, part of that.

256
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So he walks in, just to see what's up.

257
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It's a big horse racing day.

258
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I can't remember
if it was Belmont or Churchill.

259
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I can't remember.

260
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Preakness. Kentucky. Derby.

261
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But I love that stuff.

262
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Okay. I was one of those days.

263
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He walks by, walks in and sees
everyone just kind of having a good time.

264
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He goes, hey,

265
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if I give you $200 right now,

266
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do you think you can buy pizza
for everybody in?

267
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Yeah.

268
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If that's what you want to do.
You want to.

269
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You want to buy pizza?
There's 100 people in there.

270
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You want to buy pizza
for everyone in here? Yep.

271
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He goes, there's a hundred people.

272
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Okay. Make it 300.

273
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And here you go. Go to Savoy.

274
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I love the pizza at Savoy.

275
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Call them. Tell them Kenny sent you.

276
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And, in West Hartford and,
that's exactly what we did.

277
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He handed me $300 cash.

278
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He wanted to treat everybody to pizza.

279
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He literally just walked off after that.

280
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He had a couple of shows,
but he wanted to do that

281
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out of the kindness of his heart.

282
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So. Cheers, Kenny.

283
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Though, those are the things that
those are the little things

284
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that really make talent stand out,
because we work pretty hard, right?

285
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And it's not so much that we work hard
for them, but it's a team game.

286
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Yeah, right.

287
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So to have them do a little gestures
like that are fantastic.

288
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Yeah.

289
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That's one of the ones I always remember
Kenny Mayne.

290
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That's great.

291
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And then Seth Wickersham, episode six.

292
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And he he wrote a book about quarterbacks
and Tom Brady.

293
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I haven't met Seth.

294
00:12:00,636 --> 00:12:04,515
Shane Spencer from the Yankees
episode 151.

295
00:12:05,099 --> 00:12:07,226
And my and my guide, Greg
Jewel has some Emmys.

296
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A West Hartford guy.

297
00:12:08,769 --> 00:12:11,313
Yeah, yeah. Any stories about Greg?

298
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No. No.

299
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Did he buy everyone pizza, too?

300
00:12:14,483 --> 00:12:16,235
Well, no, but I'm sure he would have.

301
00:12:17,403 --> 00:12:18,237
I'm sure he would.

302
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Well. Well respected, professional.

303
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And someone who allows us to.

304
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Who really kind of paves the way for a lot
of us to do the things that we do. So.

305
00:12:26,370 --> 00:12:27,955
Very cool. Yeah, he very much.

306
00:12:27,955 --> 00:12:30,249
He was a producer of Sunday Night
Football, right?

307
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Sunday. Sunday.

308
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What's the show before Berman.

309
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Ray. Lewis.

310
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Hasselbeck. Calm down.

311
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Excuse me. Countdown. Countdown.

312
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Still runs to this day.

313
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And he still.
Is he still the producer? Great.

314
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I know because
because I'm not on it anymore.

315
00:12:47,433 --> 00:12:50,436
So I'm not sure a lot of times of that
that happens there.

316
00:12:50,811 --> 00:12:54,398
Literally a less than a week ago,
I'm walking through the hallway

317
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and saw four people
that I hadn't seen in years.

318
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I assumed
they were still with the company.

319
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But that's a lot of the it's so big
that sometimes

320
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you just you're passing by
and it's a it's a reunion.

321
00:13:08,412 --> 00:13:10,289
I haven't seen you in a year.
I usually work days.

322
00:13:10,289 --> 00:13:12,708
I usually work
nights. I'm just here working on some.

323
00:13:12,708 --> 00:13:15,753
So those parts are in
and then sometimes out in the field.

324
00:13:15,753 --> 00:13:18,214
Right. I'm remote on location.

325
00:13:18,214 --> 00:13:19,840
You'll pass by people sometimes.

326
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They're still with you. Sometimes,
with another network.

327
00:13:22,510 --> 00:13:26,180
But that that makes it really cool is, is
that little kind of reunion that we get?

328
00:13:26,514 --> 00:13:27,515
Yeah.

329
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Very cool.

330
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And to all your employees and friends.

331
00:13:30,601 --> 00:13:32,561
Friends of Feeney is on your list

332
00:13:32,561 --> 00:13:36,065
where ESPN or Disney
matches donations to friends of Feeney.

333
00:13:36,065 --> 00:13:38,400
So tell your friends you get money.

334
00:13:38,400 --> 00:13:40,277
John Fagin put put me on to that.

335
00:13:40,277 --> 00:13:41,487
So thank you John Fagan.

336
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He's a good friend.

337
00:13:42,780 --> 00:13:45,366
Jeremy Frankel's made a donation.

338
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This guy
I just played hoop with at the JCC.

339
00:13:49,912 --> 00:13:50,538
Romney.

340
00:13:50,538 --> 00:13:53,999
Romney, Romney, Romney made a donation.

341
00:13:53,999 --> 00:13:57,962
So, please,
like and share that information.

342
00:13:57,962 --> 00:14:00,005
I will, I've made my donation.

343
00:14:00,005 --> 00:14:02,049
I'll be sure to match and try to get it.

344
00:14:02,049 --> 00:14:03,634
Some some more. Some more cash.

345
00:14:03,634 --> 00:14:04,718
Thank you, thank you.

346
00:14:04,718 --> 00:14:07,888
If you still didn't know,
you still giving out Disney tickets,

347
00:14:08,264 --> 00:14:09,181
you still got the hook up.

348
00:14:09,181 --> 00:14:12,935
I mean, you know, they they
they help us out,

349
00:14:13,435 --> 00:14:16,230
and they and they help us out in a way
that at times

350
00:14:16,230 --> 00:14:18,190
allows us to help other people.

351
00:14:18,190 --> 00:14:19,483
Okay. Okay.

352
00:14:19,483 --> 00:14:21,986
That's a big shout out to the company
because they don't have to do that.

353
00:14:21,986 --> 00:14:22,987
And they do.

354
00:14:22,987 --> 00:14:23,904
Yeah. It was really nice.

355
00:14:23,904 --> 00:14:25,364
So it is it's really cool.

356
00:14:25,364 --> 00:14:28,367
They don't last long.
Oh, they don't laugh.

357
00:14:28,617 --> 00:14:30,077
We get them, they're gone.

358
00:14:30,077 --> 00:14:32,288
But again the company doesn't
have to do that at all.

359
00:14:32,288 --> 00:14:34,331
So the fact that they do. Yeah.

360
00:14:34,331 --> 00:14:35,499
Is is much appreciated.

361
00:14:37,001 --> 00:14:38,794
So we have a game.

362
00:14:38,794 --> 00:14:41,547
It's called first, last, best, worst.

363
00:14:41,547 --> 00:14:42,923
Your ESPN moments.

364
00:14:42,923 --> 00:14:47,553
You're producing your first production,
your last production,

365
00:14:47,678 --> 00:14:50,681
your best production
and your worst production

366
00:14:51,390 --> 00:14:54,935
or event,
or some sort of ESPN related activity.

367
00:14:55,269 --> 00:14:57,563
Your first one, last one, best one.

368
00:14:57,563 --> 00:15:00,441
Worst one. Any order?

369
00:15:00,441 --> 00:15:03,444
We'll go with the first,

370
00:15:05,779 --> 00:15:08,782
A very surreal moment

371
00:15:08,824 --> 00:15:11,660
that, I bring up often.

372
00:15:11,660 --> 00:15:14,496
My first day at ESPN,

373
00:15:14,496 --> 00:15:15,748
within an hour.

374
00:15:15,748 --> 00:15:22,922
And a half time, I went from watching
Sports Center in my living room,

375
00:15:22,922 --> 00:15:25,925
having never really stepped foot
on that campus

376
00:15:26,008 --> 00:15:28,677
to an hour and a half later,

377
00:15:28,677 --> 00:15:30,721
standing behind a camera,

378
00:15:30,721 --> 00:15:34,516
pointing at that exact same set
and those exact same talent.

379
00:15:35,476 --> 00:15:37,978
Only now it was my job.

380
00:15:37,978 --> 00:15:40,397
Within an hour and a half,
I had to report.

381
00:15:40,397 --> 00:15:43,484
I had to report to work at around
five, around 5:00.

382
00:15:43,859 --> 00:15:46,862
I was watching afternoon repairs
from earlier that day.

383
00:15:47,363 --> 00:15:48,572
It was time to go.

384
00:15:48,572 --> 00:15:51,951
I had in, my first job,
there was camera operator in studio.

385
00:15:52,618 --> 00:15:54,662
So I meet with the person
I'm supposed to meet with,

386
00:15:54,662 --> 00:15:56,580
and they're like, great, we'll take you
where you're supposed to go.

387
00:15:56,580 --> 00:15:59,667
Which was the sports studio a,

388
00:16:01,126 --> 00:16:03,671
they turn me, I turned the corner
and boom, there's a sports.

389
00:16:03,671 --> 00:16:07,049
And I said I was just watching it
on television an hour and some change ago.

390
00:16:08,550 --> 00:16:11,095
So later on that night, I'm learning
how to hold cameras.

391
00:16:11,095 --> 00:16:12,179
I'm learning how to zoom.

392
00:16:12,179 --> 00:16:15,349
I'm getting my my shots
of framing up my shots

393
00:16:15,349 --> 00:16:18,352
of Rich Eisen and Steve Scott.

394
00:16:18,894 --> 00:16:20,980
And again, earlier that day

395
00:16:20,980 --> 00:16:23,774
hadn't stepped foot much on the game.

396
00:16:23,774 --> 00:16:26,694
I know, talking with Kenny Mayne,
I was looking at this guy like, dude,

397
00:16:26,694 --> 00:16:31,198
I went to bed and woke up to this guy
my whole life and I'm sitting across from.

398
00:16:31,198 --> 00:16:32,616
So that was a surreal moment for me.

399
00:16:32,616 --> 00:16:37,413
So I couldn't imagine being in the actual
studio because, again, I love sports.

400
00:16:37,496 --> 00:16:40,624
I don't know as much as you maybe,
but no one loves sports as much as you.

401
00:16:40,624 --> 00:16:45,087
But but it was so cool to to be with him,
so I could only imagine.

402
00:16:45,462 --> 00:16:47,047
And I'll tell you what,
it hasn't gotten it.

403
00:16:47,047 --> 00:16:48,007
It hasn't.

404
00:16:48,007 --> 00:16:52,052
I made a an Instagram post
that literally said that I think

405
00:16:52,261 --> 00:16:56,098
it was the night of the Super Bowl, 25
plus years, and it hasn't gone.

406
00:16:57,182 --> 00:17:00,185
It still feels like that first day.

407
00:17:00,352 --> 00:17:00,602
All right.

408
00:17:00,602 --> 00:17:03,647
And I would say last, thus far,

409
00:17:03,647 --> 00:17:06,650
I'm going to go with really that
because my last day at work,

410
00:17:06,734 --> 00:17:10,946
thus far was Sunday, Sunday night,
Super Bowl night.

411
00:17:11,488 --> 00:17:14,742
And I was in our control rooms
as we were broadcasting.

412
00:17:15,325 --> 00:17:18,620
Not only our Super Bowl, so we don't
we previously

413
00:17:19,204 --> 00:17:22,541
haven't had rights to the game here
domestically,

414
00:17:23,000 --> 00:17:25,961
but we broadcast the game,

415
00:17:25,961 --> 00:17:27,046
internationally.

416
00:17:27,046 --> 00:17:31,800
So, okay, some of our control rooms where
we were actually broadcasting the game.

417
00:17:32,009 --> 00:17:34,803
Our talent,

418
00:17:34,803 --> 00:17:37,806
were so.

419
00:17:38,432 --> 00:17:40,768
That was so that was Sunday, right?

420
00:17:40,768 --> 00:17:43,353
And being able to be there

421
00:17:43,353 --> 00:17:45,064
for that as a part of that.

422
00:17:45,064 --> 00:17:46,982
Right.

423
00:17:46,982 --> 00:17:49,485
And then later on, once the game was over.

424
00:17:49,485 --> 00:17:53,072
So I don't know if you know this,
but the, Super Bowl will be on ESPN,

425
00:17:53,781 --> 00:17:56,700
this upcoming
year, the first time and very excited.

426
00:17:56,700 --> 00:17:57,534
Oh, wow.

427
00:17:57,534 --> 00:18:00,579
So we did something really
cool called, the handoff.

428
00:18:01,789 --> 00:18:02,456
Which was

429
00:18:02,456 --> 00:18:06,418
a piece of production
that we worked up, as a company.

430
00:18:06,627 --> 00:18:07,711
Really just.

431
00:18:07,711 --> 00:18:09,296
Okay, it's the handoff to ESPN.

432
00:18:09,296 --> 00:18:12,299
We're going to start
our Super Bowl coverage right now.

433
00:18:12,591 --> 00:18:15,636
We so we started our Super Bowl coverage
that night.

434
00:18:16,386 --> 00:18:21,600
We had sets in front of SoFi Stadium,
which is where the Super Bowl will be.

435
00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:23,102
We did NFL live from there.

436
00:18:23,102 --> 00:18:25,562
We did a show called
how we just got up from there.

437
00:18:25,562 --> 00:18:28,565
We did a show called Super Bowl
Live from there.

438
00:18:29,358 --> 00:18:32,945
And we'll, we'll sprinkle some of that,
you know, to, to throughout that

439
00:18:33,195 --> 00:18:36,198
that won't be the last time
people will see it.

440
00:18:37,157 --> 00:18:39,910
But again,
I just talk to you about that first time.

441
00:18:39,910 --> 00:18:43,831
Now I'm talking to you about the
the last time I was on ESPN's campus

442
00:18:44,790 --> 00:18:46,708
doing all that.

443
00:18:46,708 --> 00:18:47,584
Pinch me.

444
00:18:47,584 --> 00:18:49,336
I get to be part of that.

445
00:18:49,336 --> 00:18:53,549
Just a regular dude from Bristol
that watched it growing up

446
00:18:53,549 --> 00:18:57,511
like everyone else of the kids
that are still watching it now, going.

447
00:18:58,053 --> 00:19:00,806
I would love to be a part of that. Yeah.

448
00:19:00,806 --> 00:19:03,475
And I tell people, I'll tell you this,
I tell people

449
00:19:03,475 --> 00:19:06,478
this all the time,
and it's really important to me.

450
00:19:06,895 --> 00:19:10,399
In my 25 years plus years there, certainly

451
00:19:10,399 --> 00:19:13,402
a lot of people have come and gone
willingly.

452
00:19:14,403 --> 00:19:16,864
In, in terms of,

453
00:19:16,864 --> 00:19:19,658
the, the thing
that's one of the things that's kept me

454
00:19:19,658 --> 00:19:22,661
there has been our youth has been the

455
00:19:23,203 --> 00:19:26,206
the young bees of bees.

456
00:19:27,040 --> 00:19:29,710
Since I was that kid.

457
00:19:29,710 --> 00:19:32,171
I have, I have a younger cousin,

458
00:19:32,171 --> 00:19:35,757
named Peyton Trust,
who's at the University of Alabama.

459
00:19:35,841 --> 00:19:36,258
She's

460
00:19:37,384 --> 00:19:39,178
since the time she's been eight years old.

461
00:19:39,178 --> 00:19:42,139
She's a huge LeBron fan. Huge sports fan.

462
00:19:42,139 --> 00:19:45,142
She would always go,
I want to work at ESPN one with ESPN.

463
00:19:45,350 --> 00:19:48,270
She's. That was literally me.

464
00:19:48,270 --> 00:19:51,273
And she has said that for years,
so I've always had in my mind.

465
00:19:53,442 --> 00:19:56,278
I have an opportunity to make

466
00:19:56,278 --> 00:19:58,405
to help make this place

467
00:19:58,405 --> 00:20:02,075
what the youth thinks
it is, wants it to be.

468
00:20:02,701 --> 00:20:05,537
Can't imagine where it's going.

469
00:20:05,537 --> 00:20:09,833
I want to be a part of making it
that whatever that is.

470
00:20:09,875 --> 00:20:10,167
Right.

471
00:20:10,167 --> 00:20:14,004
So, sure,
I could move on, or I could be a part of

472
00:20:14,004 --> 00:20:18,217
what I've already helped to build
and have that go forward.

473
00:20:18,217 --> 00:20:20,219
Right?

474
00:20:20,219 --> 00:20:24,806
So that's always been a big,
a big driving force for me to keep giving.

475
00:20:25,182 --> 00:20:25,807
Yeah.

476
00:20:25,807 --> 00:20:28,769
You're teaching everything that I have.

477
00:20:28,769 --> 00:20:30,395
I'm hoping to leave a lasting.

478
00:20:30,395 --> 00:20:31,355
Yeah. Right. Yeah.

479
00:20:32,564 --> 00:20:33,815
And that was first.

480
00:20:33,815 --> 00:20:34,900
Last.

481
00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:36,151
Best. Worst.

482
00:20:36,151 --> 00:20:36,985
Best, worst.

483
00:20:36,985 --> 00:20:39,988
Oh, best is going to be easy.

484
00:20:40,197 --> 00:20:43,200
I was asked to,

485
00:20:44,034 --> 00:20:48,163
to head out to Jacksonville for
the Florida Georgia game a few years back.

486
00:20:48,163 --> 00:20:50,624
Right.
As you mentioned. And big Gators fan.

487
00:20:50,624 --> 00:20:54,211
I grew up with a poster on my wall.

488
00:20:54,711 --> 00:20:58,465
It was it was it was an image
right before the snap of the ball.

489
00:20:58,465 --> 00:21:00,133
So it's a Gator helmet

490
00:21:00,133 --> 00:21:03,136
and a Georgia Bulldogs helmet lined up
right before the snap of the ball.

491
00:21:03,470 --> 00:21:06,473
Literally hung over my bed.

492
00:21:07,099 --> 00:21:10,435
And, you know, from childhood
to adulthood.

493
00:21:10,727 --> 00:21:13,563
Standing on the sidelines inches

494
00:21:13,563 --> 00:21:17,317
feet away from a game that I grew up with.

495
00:21:17,901 --> 00:21:20,821
Right. I ended up on TV. Right.

496
00:21:20,821 --> 00:21:21,571
Not on purpose.

497
00:21:21,571 --> 00:21:24,866
Gator scored
a touchdown there, panning the end zone.

498
00:21:25,117 --> 00:21:28,620
And I'm standing there with my phone out,
and people are sending text left

499
00:21:28,620 --> 00:21:30,205
and right with me on there.

500
00:21:30,205 --> 00:21:32,624
I'm like, wow, okay, I guess I made TV.

501
00:21:32,624 --> 00:21:33,875
That's awesome.

502
00:21:33,875 --> 00:21:35,794
Is that the greatest cocktail game
or something?

503
00:21:35,794 --> 00:21:36,753
What game is that?

504
00:21:36,753 --> 00:21:39,923
So it was called the world's
largest outdoor cocktail party.

505
00:21:40,382 --> 00:21:43,385
It's not called that anymore. Dude.

506
00:21:45,012 --> 00:21:46,013
Students.

507
00:21:46,013 --> 00:21:47,472
Kids were being kids.

508
00:21:47,472 --> 00:21:50,225
They took that as a license to maybe
go a little overboard.

509
00:21:50,225 --> 00:21:51,059
Gotcha.

510
00:21:51,059 --> 00:21:52,311
They've stopped calling it that.

511
00:21:52,311 --> 00:21:55,314
I'm not sure that that tailgate has,

512
00:21:55,647 --> 00:21:58,108
has ceased that type of behavior.

513
00:21:58,108 --> 00:21:59,276
Oh no, I've been there.

514
00:21:59,276 --> 00:22:02,279
It's still.

515
00:22:02,738 --> 00:22:04,698
But yes, that's that's the nickname.

516
00:22:04,698 --> 00:22:06,158
And then back to Super Bowls.

517
00:22:06,158 --> 00:22:08,702
How many have you been to Super Bowls?

518
00:22:08,702 --> 00:22:11,413
I'm usually
so I've always worked in studio.

519
00:22:11,413 --> 00:22:14,333
I've largely worked in studio.

520
00:22:14,333 --> 00:22:16,585
Gotcha. I'm here in Bristol.

521
00:22:16,585 --> 00:22:20,130
In that case,
I spent a time with the social media team.

522
00:22:21,590 --> 00:22:22,591
Doing social content.

523
00:22:22,591 --> 00:22:25,594
So I was there, with the social team.

524
00:22:25,886 --> 00:22:26,720
The social.

525
00:22:26,720 --> 00:22:30,599
Our social team is always, live, on site.

526
00:22:31,058 --> 00:22:34,102
Those those images
you're seeing from our social,

527
00:22:35,479 --> 00:22:37,230
the, from our social handles.

528
00:22:37,230 --> 00:22:39,900
Those are. Those are us on camera.

529
00:22:39,900 --> 00:22:43,195
I'm following where they're at
from a person that's shooting those.

530
00:22:43,195 --> 00:22:45,238
We're not stealing those from.

531
00:22:45,238 --> 00:22:48,658
A lot of times
you can steal them from the broadcast.

532
00:22:48,658 --> 00:22:52,788
You can shape them
into, into the into a tall format.

533
00:22:53,163 --> 00:22:54,164
Yep. We're there.

534
00:22:54,164 --> 00:22:55,207
So we're sending them out.

535
00:22:55,207 --> 00:22:57,125
We're
getting all the good stuff ourselves.

536
00:22:57,125 --> 00:22:58,251
Have you been to a game day?

537
00:22:59,252 --> 00:23:00,754
Yes. Yep.

538
00:23:00,754 --> 00:23:02,881
Yep. That that same.

539
00:23:02,881 --> 00:23:04,007
That was another great game day.

540
00:23:04,007 --> 00:23:05,342
Was that same one. Right.

541
00:23:05,342 --> 00:23:07,302
Just because again you've got Georgia.

542
00:23:07,302 --> 00:23:09,888
Well that was definitely a game day
that we picked the game.

543
00:23:09,888 --> 00:23:10,180
Yeah.

544
00:23:10,180 --> 00:23:13,683
Game day is the game day selection
that we need from.

545
00:23:13,850 --> 00:23:16,311
So game game day selections.

546
00:23:16,311 --> 00:23:19,398
Where as a, as a, as a nation, we're
almost

547
00:23:19,398 --> 00:23:22,734
finding we're all finding out
at the same time where game day is going.

548
00:23:22,734 --> 00:23:24,986
Right?
You know, it's, that's part of the draw.

549
00:23:24,986 --> 00:23:26,905
No. Yeah. Game day is going.

550
00:23:26,905 --> 00:23:28,323
So. And it's it's real.

551
00:23:28,323 --> 00:23:30,700
Load up the truck, we figure out where
we're going, and we're off.

552
00:23:30,700 --> 00:23:32,119
We're coming to the city.

553
00:23:32,119 --> 00:23:32,786
That's awesome.

554
00:23:32,786 --> 00:23:35,122
So again, the production team

555
00:23:35,122 --> 00:23:37,624
where we're on ice, just waiting to
find out where we're going.

556
00:23:39,000 --> 00:23:39,626
When you.

557
00:23:39,626 --> 00:23:41,962
So the games are out every Saturday
when you find out.

558
00:23:41,962 --> 00:23:44,714
Wednesday. Wednesday. Thursday.
Know a little bit before that.

559
00:23:44,714 --> 00:23:47,717
We gotta let we have to let the,
the weekend games play out.

560
00:23:47,843 --> 00:23:48,635
Yeah.

561
00:23:48,635 --> 00:23:50,595
We we've got a good idea.

562
00:23:50,595 --> 00:23:53,723
We've got maybe a handful of options.

563
00:23:53,723 --> 00:23:55,350
Right. Hey,
if this happens, this could be good.

564
00:23:55,350 --> 00:23:57,227
If this happens, this could be good.

565
00:23:57,227 --> 00:24:01,481
And then we let the weekend play out,
and it would be I.

566
00:24:01,857 --> 00:24:07,863
I'd be lying if I said that it was,
always the same time, same day.

567
00:24:07,863 --> 00:24:09,656
Right? We know when we know.

568
00:24:09,656 --> 00:24:13,160
But it's pretty much
the beginning of that week.

569
00:24:13,201 --> 00:24:13,618
We got to go.

570
00:24:13,618 --> 00:24:15,537
We got to get flights.
We got to get. Yeah.

571
00:24:15,537 --> 00:24:17,038
Need to go right there. Schedule.

572
00:24:18,623 --> 00:24:19,624
And then what about

573
00:24:19,624 --> 00:24:22,627
your where
something goes wrong or missing or,

574
00:24:22,669 --> 00:24:26,923
oh I you know what I love
I'll give you my worst.

575
00:24:26,923 --> 00:24:28,592
And it's, it's amazing right?

576
00:24:28,592 --> 00:24:32,053
I, I love, I love the dressing
my own issues and errors.

577
00:24:32,053 --> 00:24:35,056
Right.

578
00:24:35,140 --> 00:24:38,393
When I was with Social team,
it was probably.

579
00:24:38,435 --> 00:24:41,396
It might have been my first weekend
with them.

580
00:24:43,356 --> 00:24:44,399
That was right when Herm

581
00:24:44,399 --> 00:24:47,527
Edwards left ESPN to go coach
Arizona State.

582
00:24:47,736 --> 00:24:48,528
Okay.

583
00:24:48,528 --> 00:24:51,656
First weekend for opening Saturday.

584
00:24:53,492 --> 00:24:57,287
So they also have, like a screening room
where they can all sit and watch games.

585
00:24:57,621 --> 00:24:59,206
So I sit in that one.

586
00:24:59,206 --> 00:25:00,665
I'm a I'm a bit nervous, right?

587
00:25:00,665 --> 00:25:03,668
Against my first day with a new team.

588
00:25:03,668 --> 00:25:04,294
Right? Yes.

589
00:25:04,294 --> 00:25:06,546
I've been there for
15, 20 years, but new team?

590
00:25:08,465 --> 00:25:09,716
New responsibility.

591
00:25:09,716 --> 00:25:12,219
So all the games are starting. I sit down.

592
00:25:12,219 --> 00:25:13,803
Look up.

593
00:25:13,803 --> 00:25:16,806
There's a wall full of games going on.

594
00:25:16,806 --> 00:25:21,353
And as I'm scoping all the games out,

595
00:25:22,145 --> 00:25:24,481
everyone's
hugging and cheering Herm Edwards.

596
00:25:24,481 --> 00:25:25,440
And this is great.

597
00:25:25,440 --> 00:25:27,984
And I'm just getting accustomed
to the day.

598
00:25:27,984 --> 00:25:28,235
Right.

599
00:25:28,235 --> 00:25:28,527
The date

600
00:25:28,527 --> 00:25:31,613
already been going on for a little while,
but it's I'm just getting started.

601
00:25:32,197 --> 00:25:34,199
So I look up I'm
like oh wow, this is great.

602
00:25:34,199 --> 00:25:36,660
Herm Edwards
finally won his first game, right?

603
00:25:36,660 --> 00:25:38,453
Arizona State that's awesome.

604
00:25:38,453 --> 00:25:39,871
That's our guy.

605
00:25:39,871 --> 00:25:41,498
That's our colleague. Right.

606
00:25:41,498 --> 00:25:43,833
Let's make a post for him.

607
00:25:43,833 --> 00:25:46,836
So we go ahead, work
it up, make that post,

608
00:25:46,878 --> 00:25:50,090
on Instagram, Facebook, Twitter and,

609
00:25:52,050 --> 00:25:53,218
Start reading through the comments.

610
00:25:53,218 --> 00:25:57,305
And they're like, is ESPN know that
the Arizona State game hasn't started yet?

611
00:25:58,515 --> 00:26:00,934
And I'm like, hey, everybody,

612
00:26:00,934 --> 00:26:03,144
I think I made a mistake.

613
00:26:03,144 --> 00:26:04,646
And they're like, oh, okay.

614
00:26:04,646 --> 00:26:07,023
Normally we don't take stuff down.

615
00:26:07,023 --> 00:26:09,359
We're taking this. Let's
go ahead and take that down.

616
00:26:09,359 --> 00:26:10,569
Oh, please.

617
00:26:10,569 --> 00:26:13,572
What what would you see that made
you think he won?

618
00:26:14,447 --> 00:26:15,073
Celebration.

619
00:26:15,073 --> 00:26:16,783
But they were they were giving him love.

620
00:26:16,783 --> 00:26:18,159
It was, Yeah.

621
00:26:18,159 --> 00:26:20,662
So they were on the field
that were no players around them.

622
00:26:20,662 --> 00:26:21,663
It was in the pre game.

623
00:26:21,663 --> 00:26:21,871
Right.

624
00:26:21,871 --> 00:26:22,581
To me

625
00:26:22,581 --> 00:26:26,668
it was very similar visually to what
it looks like when a victory or something.

626
00:26:26,710 --> 00:26:27,627
Yeah. Okay.

627
00:26:27,627 --> 00:26:28,587
That's great.

628
00:26:28,587 --> 00:26:31,590
The the coolest slash.

629
00:26:31,673 --> 00:26:34,593
Worst part about
it was now I'm covering post game.

630
00:26:34,593 --> 00:26:37,387
And one of the reporters asked me about
hey friends at ESPN.

631
00:26:37,387 --> 00:26:39,222
Actually congratulated you.

632
00:26:39,222 --> 00:26:41,725
And I was like, oh, I made the post game.

633
00:26:41,725 --> 00:26:42,726
There you go, there you go.

634
00:26:42,726 --> 00:26:45,854
And he's like, hey,
those are my guys over there, right there.

635
00:26:45,854 --> 00:26:47,564
They're always going to champion me right?

636
00:26:47,564 --> 00:26:49,441
And and he's back now with us.

637
00:26:49,441 --> 00:26:51,526
I don't know that
I've told them yet that that was me.

638
00:26:52,986 --> 00:26:55,989
If I haven't told them yet, I have to.

639
00:26:56,072 --> 00:26:59,075
Is he you play to win the game? Yes.

640
00:27:00,035 --> 00:27:01,536
But I, I do. That was.

641
00:27:01,536 --> 00:27:03,204
I like bringing that one up again.

642
00:27:03,204 --> 00:27:04,122
It's it's

643
00:27:04,122 --> 00:27:07,876
it always brings you back down when you do
loads and loads of live television.

644
00:27:07,876 --> 00:27:11,630
Hey, your mistakes are your mistakes
are out there for everyone to see.

645
00:27:11,838 --> 00:27:12,839
All right, one last question.

646
00:27:12,839 --> 00:27:15,592
And we're moving on in the 25 years.

647
00:27:15,592 --> 00:27:18,345
You must have seen a change
in the technology, right?

648
00:27:18,345 --> 00:27:19,012
Oh, yeah.

649
00:27:19,012 --> 00:27:23,725
Can you give us an example
or I can, I and I bring this up

650
00:27:23,725 --> 00:27:25,518
to a lot of the young people
because we're moving

651
00:27:25,518 --> 00:27:27,729
we're moving forward in technology.

652
00:27:27,729 --> 00:27:29,522
Yeah. Never stopped.

653
00:27:29,522 --> 00:27:33,026
But for everyone else, that's
really getting used to the newer people

654
00:27:33,026 --> 00:27:33,943
that are really getting used to

655
00:27:33,943 --> 00:27:37,864
embracing change,
not only in life but in their jobs.

656
00:27:37,864 --> 00:27:40,492
Right. A lot of people that work at ESPN
are from Connecticut, right?

657
00:27:40,492 --> 00:27:45,455
They're from Oklahoma, California, Texas,
and trying to get used to a new place,

658
00:27:45,455 --> 00:27:48,458
a new weather pattern,
and then all of a sudden,

659
00:27:48,583 --> 00:27:52,087
this piece of equipment
that they've always learned to use,

660
00:27:52,671 --> 00:27:54,422
we're up here, right?

661
00:27:54,422 --> 00:27:56,508
So a lot of times
that happens a lot of times.

662
00:27:56,508 --> 00:28:00,970
So it always gives me an opportunity to
go, hey, look, here's what I walked into.

663
00:28:01,346 --> 00:28:04,265
And we're three stages after that.

664
00:28:04,265 --> 00:28:05,225
Not right I'm going.

665
00:28:05,225 --> 00:28:07,727
You did maybe my fifth technology, but

666
00:28:08,937 --> 00:28:12,691
yes, being
there from going into HD, right?

667
00:28:13,191 --> 00:28:17,362
Oh yes, HD 720p 1080 I

668
00:28:17,821 --> 00:28:21,825
that took a lot of we're rebuilding sets
where we designing sets

669
00:28:21,825 --> 00:28:24,828
just for resolution purposes.

670
00:28:25,620 --> 00:28:27,789
Then here comes 3D, right?

671
00:28:27,789 --> 00:28:30,333
Everyone thought 3D
television was going to be the thing.

672
00:28:30,333 --> 00:28:32,210
I was broadcasting

673
00:28:32,210 --> 00:28:35,755
aspects of live sports in 3D
because that's going to be the new thing.

674
00:28:37,006 --> 00:28:38,925
Then comes ESPN the phone, right?

675
00:28:38,925 --> 00:28:40,510
ESPN we had our own phone.

676
00:28:40,510 --> 00:28:42,595
Literally our own phone.

677
00:28:42,595 --> 00:28:43,263
You remember that?

678
00:28:43,263 --> 00:28:44,222
No way.

679
00:28:44,222 --> 00:28:46,891
You you did the plan through ESPN, right?

680
00:28:46,891 --> 00:28:50,520
It was it wasn't like a version
of one of the other places.

681
00:28:50,520 --> 00:28:52,147
It was through ESPN.

682
00:28:52,147 --> 00:28:57,861
That phone was actually the first device
that I ever watched live content.

683
00:28:58,236 --> 00:29:01,781
So we were showing
I was at the UConn game in East Hartford

684
00:29:02,073 --> 00:29:08,163
watching a Virginia Tech
game on a 1.5in flip phone, ESPN.

685
00:29:10,540 --> 00:29:13,543
And so then we built the digital center,

686
00:29:14,669 --> 00:29:17,338
as we were going into a deeper form of HD.

687
00:29:17,338 --> 00:29:18,423
Right.

688
00:29:18,423 --> 00:29:19,424
We're switching cameras.

689
00:29:19,424 --> 00:29:21,301
We're switching over to robotics.

690
00:29:21,301 --> 00:29:23,219
Right.

691
00:29:23,219 --> 00:29:25,388
And then we we built Dk2. Right.

692
00:29:25,388 --> 00:29:28,475
And then we're going into 4K, right.

693
00:29:28,475 --> 00:29:31,436
And 4K has got to be

694
00:29:31,853 --> 00:29:33,563
it's got to be upgradable to eight K.

695
00:29:33,563 --> 00:29:36,274
Right. So the technology has changed.

696
00:29:36,274 --> 00:29:38,526
Wow. Incredibly it hasn't stopped.

697
00:29:38,526 --> 00:29:42,238
It's now we're doing things now
with VR a lot.

698
00:29:42,947 --> 00:29:45,950
So and just on the innovative side
of that part right.

699
00:29:45,950 --> 00:29:48,495
We're just we're exploring
in that setting.

700
00:29:48,495 --> 00:29:52,916
So a lot of, a lot of cool things, a
lot of cool toys that we get to play with.

701
00:29:53,416 --> 00:29:56,920
And I was just saying to, our, our,
our friend that owns this place,

702
00:29:57,545 --> 00:30:00,215
that's, that's the fun part that I do.

703
00:30:00,215 --> 00:30:02,717
We just get to play with that stuff.
Right?

704
00:30:02,717 --> 00:30:05,512
Figure out the best way to make it work
and then present that.

705
00:30:05,512 --> 00:30:09,140
Present those stories to our audience
with with those pieces of the technology.

706
00:30:09,140 --> 00:30:11,017
It's very cool, very cool.

707
00:30:11,017 --> 00:30:12,727
Maybe we'll have time to get back to ESPN.

708
00:30:12,727 --> 00:30:14,646
But we have so much to talk about.

709
00:30:14,646 --> 00:30:17,106
You are also the director.

710
00:30:17,106 --> 00:30:18,274
This is very cool.

711
00:30:18,274 --> 00:30:21,486
So 20, 25 years at ESPN, but

712
00:30:21,903 --> 00:30:25,406
recently as last year,
you were appointed last February, right?

713
00:30:25,406 --> 00:30:26,783
It's going to be a full year in February.

714
00:30:26,783 --> 00:30:27,367
Yeah.

715
00:30:27,367 --> 00:30:31,037
I think we're just
over. I would say maybe.

716
00:30:33,873 --> 00:30:36,876
A year, I would say where we are going
into,

717
00:30:37,168 --> 00:30:40,964
I would call this our second nice and year
that into our second full year. Yes.

718
00:30:41,130 --> 00:30:43,633
Director of the Diversity
Council of chairperson.

719
00:30:43,633 --> 00:30:45,093
Chairperson, chairperson.

720
00:30:45,093 --> 00:30:47,762
Yep. I'm the chair of the Bristol
Diversity Council.

721
00:30:47,762 --> 00:30:51,057
So as being a third grader,
can you explain that role?

722
00:30:51,474 --> 00:30:53,184
I'm actually teaching third grade.

723
00:30:53,184 --> 00:30:55,436
I'm not a third grader,
I think. Yeah. Oh, boy.

724
00:30:55,436 --> 00:30:56,312
Time out.

725
00:30:56,312 --> 00:30:59,357
Can you explain to say
I was a third grader?

726
00:30:59,357 --> 00:31:00,316
Okay.

727
00:31:00,316 --> 00:31:01,568
What does that mean?

728
00:31:01,568 --> 00:31:04,571
We'll play,

729
00:31:05,405 --> 00:31:06,030
As the.

730
00:31:06,030 --> 00:31:10,785
So the Bristol Diversity Council is a
is a is a city run official city run or,

731
00:31:11,327 --> 00:31:13,830
under under the mayor,

732
00:31:13,830 --> 00:31:16,833
our current mayor, was asked to,

733
00:31:17,375 --> 00:31:21,462
created the diversity
council back, 2018 ish.

734
00:31:22,005 --> 00:31:24,799
And she left.

735
00:31:24,799 --> 00:31:26,467
She was another mayor.

736
00:31:26,467 --> 00:31:28,136
Jeff Caggiano was brought in,

737
00:31:29,637 --> 00:31:30,889
served a couple of terms, and

738
00:31:30,889 --> 00:31:33,892
now Ellen was just reelected, back
into that seat.

739
00:31:34,684 --> 00:31:37,437
Ellen invited me
to serve on the diversity council.

740
00:31:37,437 --> 00:31:42,483
So I was a member of it, from 2018 until.

741
00:31:42,483 --> 00:31:44,819
And then in

742
00:31:44,819 --> 00:31:47,822
2024,

743
00:31:49,824 --> 00:31:52,785
I was asked to be to, to be chairperson.

744
00:31:52,785 --> 00:31:56,456
So I served 2025
as chairperson of the 2026.

745
00:31:56,873 --> 00:32:00,043
I ultimately simply oversee the meetings.

746
00:32:01,461 --> 00:32:04,464
Being an official city run
or drive with God,

747
00:32:04,714 --> 00:32:08,426
we have rules, that
we need to abide by Robert's rules.

748
00:32:09,928 --> 00:32:11,721
So, so, like a board of Ed meeting?

749
00:32:11,721 --> 00:32:12,430
Almost. Yeah.

750
00:32:12,430 --> 00:32:15,016
So the chairperson is there to keep order.

751
00:32:15,016 --> 00:32:18,019
We have an a, an official record keeper,

752
00:32:18,269 --> 00:32:21,272
to help us keep our notes,
to help us keep time minutes.

753
00:32:22,273 --> 00:32:24,943
So it's really
is it live stream on YouTube?

754
00:32:24,943 --> 00:32:28,947
It's live stream, but,
through a city link, so.

755
00:32:28,988 --> 00:32:30,031
Gotcha.

756
00:32:30,031 --> 00:32:33,534
Folks can find it, on the city website,

757
00:32:33,660 --> 00:32:38,373
with agendas, with every other agenda
that a city run org has and with

758
00:32:38,373 --> 00:32:41,376
that has a link that people can go to
and they can watch it.

759
00:32:41,376 --> 00:32:42,168
Yeah.

760
00:32:42,168 --> 00:32:45,338
I think I met Ellen at a Bristol Blues
game.

761
00:32:45,463 --> 00:32:46,381
Okay.

762
00:32:46,381 --> 00:32:49,092
And then the previous mayor,
I saw you eating,

763
00:32:49,092 --> 00:32:52,720
you were in a restaurant where you doing
chicken wing tasting or something?

764
00:32:53,096 --> 00:32:55,765
Yeah. I can only imagine you.

765
00:32:55,765 --> 00:32:58,685
You saw us at rock and roll?

766
00:32:58,685 --> 00:32:59,560
Possibly. Yeah.

767
00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:03,773
Which is, one of our newer,
Mexican restaurants in Bristol.

768
00:33:04,065 --> 00:33:05,525
Gotcha. Yeah. Yep. There.

769
00:33:05,525 --> 00:33:08,987
And Mayor Casiano came in because that's
when I knew to reach out to you.

770
00:33:09,570 --> 00:33:14,033
We had our board of director,
Rob Parente at Green Hill School.

771
00:33:14,367 --> 00:33:18,997
Had had 500 kids yelling,
be a good friend, be a good friend!

772
00:33:19,163 --> 00:33:21,791
The mayor reshared it, got 5000 likes.

773
00:33:21,791 --> 00:33:24,794
And then the next post was my guy Marcus.

774
00:33:24,836 --> 00:33:27,422
So I was like,
that is what that was. That okay?

775
00:33:27,422 --> 00:33:29,340
That's where you were.
You were sitting in like a booth. Yeah.

776
00:33:30,341 --> 00:33:31,968
Very cool, very cool.

777
00:33:31,968 --> 00:33:34,721
Shortly we can get into a little bit
about why that happened,

778
00:33:34,721 --> 00:33:37,390
because that was fully, related to what?

779
00:33:37,390 --> 00:33:40,393
The Diversity Council experience. Nice.

780
00:33:40,518 --> 00:33:42,145
All right. Cool.

781
00:33:42,145 --> 00:33:43,187
Let me shout out some sponsors.

782
00:33:43,187 --> 00:33:45,481
I'll come back for a quick question
with that regarding.

783
00:33:45,481 --> 00:33:47,817
So we're here
at Maximum Beverage in Farmington.

784
00:33:47,817 --> 00:33:50,570
Thank you Matt
and everyone at Maximum Beverage.

785
00:33:50,570 --> 00:33:53,573
Thank you
Stephanie and Dave from Direct Line Media.

786
00:33:53,614 --> 00:33:57,535
Thank you to Brooke golf
lore Keating agency insurance Keating

787
00:33:57,535 --> 00:34:01,039
agency will they just sponsored our beer
for the golf tournament.

788
00:34:01,414 --> 00:34:02,290
September 12th.

789
00:34:02,290 --> 00:34:04,709
I got the check. So thank you. Keating.

790
00:34:04,709 --> 00:34:08,212
Sally and Bob's peoples
bank, Parkville management.

791
00:34:08,212 --> 00:34:12,633
The fix Ivy float, 41
and New England dawn security.

792
00:34:13,509 --> 00:34:16,012
So with New England Dawn security,

793
00:34:16,012 --> 00:34:18,556
what are three keys that make you great?

794
00:34:18,556 --> 00:34:22,018
As the chairperson
for the Diversity Council of Bristol?

795
00:34:23,728 --> 00:34:26,731
But I, I wonder who said I.

796
00:34:28,149 --> 00:34:29,942
I'm, I'm doing the best that I can.

797
00:34:29,942 --> 00:34:33,154
I got, I've got a handful of folks
that I work with

798
00:34:33,154 --> 00:34:36,157
that I'd love to to hear from them
if they would agree with that.

799
00:34:36,949 --> 00:34:40,620
But, the,

800
00:34:41,954 --> 00:34:44,165
the three keys that I,

801
00:34:44,165 --> 00:34:46,876
that I try to go into this role

802
00:34:46,876 --> 00:34:49,253
with every day,

803
00:34:49,253 --> 00:34:52,256
is to remember that.

804
00:34:52,924 --> 00:34:55,927
We are doing this for people,

805
00:34:55,927 --> 00:34:57,720
and people deserve to be

806
00:34:57,720 --> 00:35:00,723
heard and people deserve to be celebrated.

807
00:35:00,807 --> 00:35:02,934
Hard. Stop.

808
00:35:02,934 --> 00:35:05,937
This life is tough,
and it's tough for everybody.

809
00:35:06,062 --> 00:35:08,731
Bigger than that. When life's great.

810
00:35:08,731 --> 00:35:09,482
Oh, man.

811
00:35:09,482 --> 00:35:11,984
It's so much better
than those tough times.

812
00:35:11,984 --> 00:35:14,987
It's so much better.

813
00:35:15,863 --> 00:35:18,658
Five tough times and one really good time

814
00:35:18,658 --> 00:35:21,536
that gets you through those next
five tough times.

815
00:35:21,536 --> 00:35:22,995
Waiting for that. That good.

816
00:35:24,747 --> 00:35:29,085
So to remember that, to celebrate, to

817
00:35:30,503 --> 00:35:34,090
to celebrate people and their perspectives
and their backgrounds

818
00:35:34,090 --> 00:35:37,093
and who they are.

819
00:35:38,886 --> 00:35:40,555
To remember, to be imaginative,

820
00:35:40,555 --> 00:35:43,558
to imaginative,

821
00:35:45,101 --> 00:35:48,396
Again, life can get pretty
run of the mill, right?

822
00:35:48,396 --> 00:35:51,399
It's it's it can get pretty boring. Right.

823
00:35:51,691 --> 00:35:54,694
And the status quo is easy.

824
00:35:54,986 --> 00:35:56,404
That's the easy part of the game.

825
00:35:56,404 --> 00:35:59,407
But effectiveness usually

826
00:36:00,366 --> 00:36:04,120
usually lives
in that curiosity place, right.

827
00:36:04,120 --> 00:36:07,123
So when you're doing something new
and innovative,

828
00:36:08,416 --> 00:36:11,043
people that have been a part of that thing
the whole time,

829
00:36:11,043 --> 00:36:14,046
all of a sudden
can find a new burst of energy,

830
00:36:14,547 --> 00:36:19,760
to maybe contribute with their own time
or contribute finances or contribute ideas

831
00:36:19,760 --> 00:36:22,638
because you just came up with something,
right?

832
00:36:22,638 --> 00:36:25,641
That they were interested.

833
00:36:25,725 --> 00:36:28,227
And, and then lastly, to.

834
00:36:30,271 --> 00:36:32,732
You know, one of the

835
00:36:32,732 --> 00:36:36,319
someone asked on, Facebook, a while
back, what

836
00:36:37,528 --> 00:36:39,906
what's the best piece of advice
that anyone's ever given you?

837
00:36:39,906 --> 00:36:41,199
And it was a general post.

838
00:36:41,199 --> 00:36:43,701
They weren't talking to me.

839
00:36:43,701 --> 00:36:45,661
That this person,
his name is Dave. Heather.

840
00:36:45,661 --> 00:36:48,331
So, he he he's a Bristol guy.

841
00:36:48,331 --> 00:36:51,334
Bristol businessman. But,

842
00:36:52,919 --> 00:36:55,922
usually tries to get people involved

843
00:36:56,255 --> 00:36:58,007
with his post as a community.

844
00:36:58,007 --> 00:36:58,799
Right?

845
00:36:58,799 --> 00:37:02,887
So a lot of times he'll ask questions
that people can dig into.

846
00:37:02,887 --> 00:37:03,888
And then if you find it,

847
00:37:03,888 --> 00:37:07,058
you can kind of scroll down
and maybe there's something here for you.

848
00:37:07,683 --> 00:37:10,102
And one of his questions was,
what's the best piece of advice?

849
00:37:10,102 --> 00:37:12,313
Anyone that will ever give you?

850
00:37:12,313 --> 00:37:14,941
And that thing is probably my number
three thing.

851
00:37:14,941 --> 00:37:16,859
What I said was someone once told me

852
00:37:17,944 --> 00:37:19,654
that you're not that important.

853
00:37:19,654 --> 00:37:20,279
Remember? You're not.

854
00:37:20,279 --> 00:37:23,783
Then, and on the surface,
that can sound horrible.

855
00:37:27,036 --> 00:37:27,954
With context.

856
00:37:27,954 --> 00:37:29,914
I knew where he was going with it, and.

857
00:37:29,914 --> 00:37:31,832
Oh, I felt that, 100%.

858
00:37:31,832 --> 00:37:35,086
It really had a great part
of changing how I see

859
00:37:35,419 --> 00:37:38,422
what they were going for was

860
00:37:39,048 --> 00:37:40,800
it doesn't always matter how you feel.

861
00:37:40,800 --> 00:37:44,220
It doesn't always matter
what you think about things.

862
00:37:44,428 --> 00:37:46,264
You're not that important. It's.

863
00:37:46,264 --> 00:37:51,811
It's yes, you're you and you're
completely entitled to how you feel.

864
00:37:51,811 --> 00:37:53,187
And it has solidity.

865
00:37:53,187 --> 00:37:56,190
It's serious.

866
00:37:57,566 --> 00:37:59,485
And that should live within you.

867
00:37:59,485 --> 00:38:01,362
And maybe some of that outer perimeter.

868
00:38:01,362 --> 00:38:04,365
And you should really take those things
forward with you.

869
00:38:04,573 --> 00:38:07,576
But to project those things on to others,

870
00:38:08,703 --> 00:38:11,706
to assume
that others need to feel that way.

871
00:38:11,914 --> 00:38:12,623
Right.

872
00:38:12,623 --> 00:38:15,501
Well,
that that's maybe gone too far. Right.

873
00:38:15,501 --> 00:38:21,757
So for someone who hears a lot
and I take in a lot from others, right.

874
00:38:23,384 --> 00:38:24,593
Intentionally I welcome.

875
00:38:24,593 --> 00:38:26,554
Hey, tell me your story.

876
00:38:26,554 --> 00:38:29,098
It's important

877
00:38:29,098 --> 00:38:31,559
for me to keep that open minded ness.

878
00:38:31,559 --> 00:38:35,354
And I'm usually able to do that by
remembering that I'm not that important.

879
00:38:35,771 --> 00:38:38,774
I like it, put you in perspective.

880
00:38:39,608 --> 00:38:40,943
Not that important.

881
00:38:40,943 --> 00:38:42,778
Three keys of the chairperson.

882
00:38:42,778 --> 00:38:44,155
Thank you. Marcus.

883
00:38:44,155 --> 00:38:47,992
We have friends of is really starting to

884
00:38:48,868 --> 00:38:53,289
grow and expand, and we're really welcomed
from the Bristol community.

885
00:38:53,289 --> 00:38:57,877
So again, this will be our third
annual Bristol Blues game.

886
00:38:58,336 --> 00:39:00,838
Like I said, it interacted with the mayor.

887
00:39:00,838 --> 00:39:03,924
The superintendent has sent out
a very nice email

888
00:39:03,924 --> 00:39:07,136
to every school,
school staff and principal.

889
00:39:07,720 --> 00:39:10,723
I have a quick share of it.

890
00:39:11,015 --> 00:39:14,018
If I could find it.

891
00:39:14,518 --> 00:39:15,061
Yeah. Right here.

892
00:39:15,061 --> 00:39:16,145
Boom.

893
00:39:16,145 --> 00:39:17,104
It's a beautiful email.

894
00:39:17,104 --> 00:39:19,648
I won't read it, but we're going to boom.
Put that on there.

895
00:39:19,648 --> 00:39:23,361
That says on behalf of the community,
I guess I'm going to read it.

896
00:39:23,402 --> 00:39:25,112
Heartfelt
thank you to the friends of Feeney

897
00:39:25,112 --> 00:39:28,115
for their immediate
and compassionate response in supporting

898
00:39:28,324 --> 00:39:31,577
one of our families who recently suffered
a devastating house fire.

899
00:39:32,286 --> 00:39:35,373
He goes into our mission, shares our our.

900
00:39:36,415 --> 00:39:39,001
And then
I get the text from the singing principal.

901
00:39:39,001 --> 00:39:41,212
Do you know who the singing principal is?

902
00:39:41,212 --> 00:39:43,589
She was one of our principals
as a family. Yes.

903
00:39:43,589 --> 00:39:44,382
We went to her.

904
00:39:44,382 --> 00:39:47,426
Come on, episode 99, where she.

905
00:39:47,718 --> 00:39:48,260
Oh, yeah.

906
00:39:48,260 --> 00:39:51,263
LaTanya Farrell Farrell love her.

907
00:39:51,263 --> 00:39:53,224
And then podcast 100.

908
00:39:53,224 --> 00:39:56,685
When we celebrated,
I had Javier Colon and Frank Whaley,

909
00:39:57,103 --> 00:40:00,689
her band, and she was the band
to back to back with LaTanya.

910
00:40:00,689 --> 00:40:03,901
So she sent me a very nice email
after receiving that,

911
00:40:04,527 --> 00:40:08,072
text or excuse me
email from the superintendent.

912
00:40:08,531 --> 00:40:09,323
It's LaTonya.

913
00:40:09,323 --> 00:40:12,284
My heart smile when I saw this
come through a little while

914
00:40:12,284 --> 00:40:14,161
on our weekly memo
from the superintendent.

915
00:40:14,161 --> 00:40:15,413
I'm so glad to be your friend.

916
00:40:15,413 --> 00:40:17,832
Peace, joy, light and ladybugs.

917
00:40:17,832 --> 00:40:19,125
She always loved ladybugs.

918
00:40:20,584 --> 00:40:22,628
We had Rob parentis, our board member.

919
00:40:22,628 --> 00:40:25,798
He's episode 117 Insight Technology.

920
00:40:25,798 --> 00:40:26,841
Do you know them?

921
00:40:26,841 --> 00:40:28,467
Tom Holtz and Ryan McKenna.

922
00:40:28,467 --> 00:40:31,137
Any chance Ryan McKenna
I know personally.

923
00:40:31,137 --> 00:40:34,140
Very. Okay, not so much for your position.

924
00:40:34,140 --> 00:40:36,851
Yep. 146

925
00:40:36,851 --> 00:40:39,520
I even called the game
during the Bristol Blues.

926
00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:41,689
So that's on the podcast that's out there.

927
00:40:41,689 --> 00:40:44,692
It was August 21st, 2024.

928
00:40:45,067 --> 00:40:46,735
I said there was an easy pop up.

929
00:40:46,735 --> 00:40:48,696
I go, that's a can of corn.

930
00:40:48,696 --> 00:40:51,031
Can can of corn.

931
00:40:51,031 --> 00:40:53,742
So the Bristol community,
we're going to try

932
00:40:53,742 --> 00:40:57,746
to bring our float in the parade,
the mom fest.

933
00:40:58,038 --> 00:41:00,708
We're really excited to be a part of that.

934
00:41:00,708 --> 00:41:01,917
We've helped many families.

935
00:41:01,917 --> 00:41:04,503
I was one of the families
that we have helped in Bristol.

936
00:41:04,503 --> 00:41:08,090
There's, recently a person, a

937
00:41:08,090 --> 00:41:11,135
father and son crash, person

938
00:41:12,344 --> 00:41:13,471
just recently died.

939
00:41:13,471 --> 00:41:15,639
Shoveling, was heartbreaking.

940
00:41:15,639 --> 00:41:18,517
That is, that is. And we've helped
all these different families.

941
00:41:18,517 --> 00:41:21,520
We hope heartbreak and tragedy,
like loss of a loved one.

942
00:41:21,562 --> 00:41:22,771
Displacement of your home

943
00:41:22,771 --> 00:41:26,734
from a catastrophe like a fire
or like a chronic illness or disease.

944
00:41:26,734 --> 00:41:29,737
So those are our three categories.

945
00:41:30,237 --> 00:41:33,240
And we've been helping
we've just helped our 140th family.

946
00:41:33,282 --> 00:41:35,075
And a lot of them are coming from
Bristol now.

947
00:41:35,075 --> 00:41:38,162
So I think you and your team, thank you.

948
00:41:38,162 --> 00:41:40,623
Thank you. Yeah.
I can't do it without the team.

949
00:41:40,623 --> 00:41:44,585
Anything else you'd like to share
about the Bristol Diversity Council?

950
00:41:45,085 --> 00:41:46,504
What initiatives are you doing?

951
00:41:46,504 --> 00:41:49,840
And you know, I love that
that you really kind of went through that.

952
00:41:49,840 --> 00:41:51,634
I'm, I'm

953
00:41:51,634 --> 00:41:56,013
it's an understatement to talk about
how prideful I am in Bristol.

954
00:41:56,222 --> 00:41:58,307
Right. That's that's that's home.

955
00:41:58,307 --> 00:42:01,477
But it's so much deeper than that.

956
00:42:01,477 --> 00:42:01,936
Right.

957
00:42:03,187 --> 00:42:06,106
My grandparents, were

958
00:42:06,106 --> 00:42:09,109
one of the early, early African-American,

959
00:42:10,819 --> 00:42:14,990
members of the Bristol community from they
they came up here from the South.

960
00:42:14,990 --> 00:42:17,535
They came up independently,
met on the train.

961
00:42:17,535 --> 00:42:19,745
Right. Which is really cool.

962
00:42:19,745 --> 00:42:22,331
So here there was work up here, right?

963
00:42:22,331 --> 00:42:25,334
One grandparent from Mississippi, one

964
00:42:25,543 --> 00:42:26,835
coming up here. There's work.

965
00:42:26,835 --> 00:42:28,921
They need a relationship built.

966
00:42:28,921 --> 00:42:29,964
They settled in Bristol.

967
00:42:29,964 --> 00:42:33,509
Bristol was selling, you know,
getting houses to to African Americans.

968
00:42:34,260 --> 00:42:36,845
My grandparents grabbed one,

969
00:42:36,845 --> 00:42:39,265
11 children later,

970
00:42:39,265 --> 00:42:41,850
and nearly 100 grandchildren later,

971
00:42:41,850 --> 00:42:44,728
which on the 15th of,

972
00:42:44,728 --> 00:42:47,147
we were here,

973
00:42:47,147 --> 00:42:49,858
half of my aunts and uncles went to

974
00:42:49,858 --> 00:42:52,861
I think most of my aunts and uncles
left Bristol Eastern,

975
00:42:53,362 --> 00:42:54,071
grandkids.

976
00:42:54,071 --> 00:42:56,824
Me we all a lot of us went to business
central. Right.

977
00:42:56,824 --> 00:42:59,868
So there's this, this this lineage.

978
00:43:00,744 --> 00:43:02,663
Right? Yeah. That's great.

979
00:43:02,663 --> 00:43:07,293
My grandfather was a, preacher
at a church in Bristol.

980
00:43:09,169 --> 00:43:10,129
And with that.

981
00:43:10,129 --> 00:43:14,425
Right, it's,
it's a lot of African-American pastors,

982
00:43:15,801 --> 00:43:17,761
really helping to build the community.

983
00:43:17,761 --> 00:43:20,347
Right? All they had was each other,

984
00:43:20,347 --> 00:43:22,766
spotted between a few different churches.

985
00:43:22,766 --> 00:43:25,978
So all of those families became

986
00:43:26,895 --> 00:43:30,316
friends
whose families then became friends.

987
00:43:30,316 --> 00:43:30,566
Right.

988
00:43:30,566 --> 00:43:33,777
And all those things are still ongoing
to this day.

989
00:43:35,779 --> 00:43:38,073
Last February,

990
00:43:38,073 --> 00:43:42,494
a, a local, contributor
named Melina Floyd,

991
00:43:42,494 --> 00:43:45,539
someone I'd certainly recommend, that
that you speak to.

992
00:43:46,874 --> 00:43:50,044
She ran a program at the Bristol
Historical Museum,

993
00:43:50,044 --> 00:43:53,297
I believe, for African,
African-American History Month.

994
00:43:54,214 --> 00:43:57,468
And she did a panel discussion of,

995
00:43:58,802 --> 00:44:03,015
a few African-American folks
who are younger,

996
00:44:03,641 --> 00:44:07,227
but we're still a part
of that earlier generation as children.

997
00:44:08,771 --> 00:44:10,773
And to hear my, like,

998
00:44:10,773 --> 00:44:15,235
to hear them talk, all three of which
knew my grandparents, and to hear them

999
00:44:15,611 --> 00:44:20,699
talk about not because I was there,
but because of their history in Bristol.

1000
00:44:21,909 --> 00:44:25,913
It I got emotional
about it just sitting in the stands

1001
00:44:25,913 --> 00:44:29,792
when you when you hear
people talk about your family

1002
00:44:29,792 --> 00:44:33,629
in ways that you don't even know,
that you never got a chance to know that.

1003
00:44:34,046 --> 00:44:35,923
That's powerful. Right? Yeah.

1004
00:44:35,923 --> 00:44:40,094
In a in a community where I'm serving,

1005
00:44:40,427 --> 00:44:43,430
the diversity Council, my brother,

1006
00:44:44,598 --> 00:44:47,601
Vickie Patton, has served on countless,

1007
00:44:49,853 --> 00:44:51,730
city run organizations.

1008
00:44:51,730 --> 00:44:54,775
Who's the chairperson of the DTC
for quite a while.

1009
00:44:55,651 --> 00:44:59,238
He currently just opened up a nonprofit
in Bristol called Dads Up Front.

1010
00:45:00,197 --> 00:45:02,366
So here we are, just

1011
00:45:02,366 --> 00:45:06,704
all we're doing is trying to make our town
to make our city

1012
00:45:07,913 --> 00:45:10,916
the best that it can be.

1013
00:45:11,417 --> 00:45:12,167
Only because.

1014
00:45:12,167 --> 00:45:14,378
Why not? Right.

1015
00:45:14,378 --> 00:45:18,006
So with the Diversity Council,
that was that

1016
00:45:18,006 --> 00:45:20,342
is that's my that's
a, that's an initiative.

1017
00:45:20,342 --> 00:45:23,637
You know, I,
I was serving on some of the political,

1018
00:45:23,637 --> 00:45:26,890
town committees early on and realized,

1019
00:45:28,392 --> 00:45:29,435
for me,

1020
00:45:29,435 --> 00:45:32,438
I'm, I'm too positive in person for this.

1021
00:45:33,480 --> 00:45:34,523
What else is that?

1022
00:45:34,523 --> 00:45:36,692
Where where can I be positive?

1023
00:45:36,692 --> 00:45:39,695
And I found the diversity Council
since then.

1024
00:45:39,987 --> 00:45:41,947
And thank you to everyone that's asked me.

1025
00:45:41,947 --> 00:45:45,242
I've been invited to run for things again.

1026
00:45:46,744 --> 00:45:49,747
The diversity
the Diversity Council is where

1027
00:45:50,164 --> 00:45:53,167
I find my place to help create platforms.

1028
00:45:54,334 --> 00:45:56,253
For diversity.

1029
00:45:56,253 --> 00:45:56,587
Right.

1030
00:45:56,587 --> 00:45:59,590
Of all kinds.

1031
00:46:00,299 --> 00:46:02,676
So that's that's really
what we've been working on.

1032
00:46:02,676 --> 00:46:06,305
We over the years, we have

1033
00:46:07,097 --> 00:46:10,100
we've had some trouble,

1034
00:46:11,226 --> 00:46:12,978
of of of,

1035
00:46:12,978 --> 00:46:15,689
we'll call it
we've had some mass exodus of leaders.

1036
00:46:15,689 --> 00:46:16,732
Okay.

1037
00:46:16,732 --> 00:46:17,941
Not on purpose at life.

1038
00:46:17,941 --> 00:46:19,777
Life starts life, right.

1039
00:46:19,777 --> 00:46:24,031
And then it's time for half of the people
in the org to go, hey, I gotta move on.

1040
00:46:24,782 --> 00:46:27,659
And then in the middle of whatever
projects we're on, we've got to start

1041
00:46:27,659 --> 00:46:28,619
over again. Right?

1042
00:46:30,871 --> 00:46:33,874
So that recently happened.

1043
00:46:34,917 --> 00:46:37,628
The mayor says, hey, look,

1044
00:46:37,628 --> 00:46:38,796
is this going to continue?

1045
00:46:38,796 --> 00:46:39,671
There's only a couple.

1046
00:46:39,671 --> 00:46:41,882
There's only five of you.

1047
00:46:41,882 --> 00:46:42,841
This is going to continue.

1048
00:46:42,841 --> 00:46:45,385
I want it to continue.
This was Mayor Caggiano said.

1049
00:46:45,385 --> 00:46:48,055
I want it to continue.
I feel like there's a place for you here.

1050
00:46:48,055 --> 00:46:51,099
I know there's a place for you here,
but do you guys feel that way?

1051
00:46:51,266 --> 00:46:53,519
And if so, what does that look like?

1052
00:46:53,519 --> 00:46:55,229
So I gathered everyone together.

1053
00:46:55,229 --> 00:46:56,396
I gathered everyone together.

1054
00:46:56,396 --> 00:46:59,316
We determined.

1055
00:46:59,316 --> 00:47:01,235
We want to be here.

1056
00:47:01,235 --> 00:47:02,027
We remodeled.

1057
00:47:02,027 --> 00:47:04,488
We figured out who we were going to be

1058
00:47:04,488 --> 00:47:07,533
and what we decided we were going to be
was we were going to be

1059
00:47:07,533 --> 00:47:12,663
a unit of people that created platforms
for people to celebrate themselves

1060
00:47:14,248 --> 00:47:15,499
point blank.

1061
00:47:15,499 --> 00:47:18,544
So we
introduced ourselves to the community

1062
00:47:18,544 --> 00:47:21,547
with a community event last year called,

1063
00:47:21,755 --> 00:47:23,006
the Bristol Meet and Greet.

1064
00:47:23,006 --> 00:47:26,552
It was an open forum, open
mic opportunity for anyone in the city

1065
00:47:26,885 --> 00:47:30,472
to stand up in front of the mic and go,
this is who I am, this is where I'm from.

1066
00:47:30,848 --> 00:47:32,975
Here's how I landed in Bristol.

1067
00:47:32,975 --> 00:47:34,518
Here's a little bit about me right?

1068
00:47:34,518 --> 00:47:36,603
That when you meet people,
when you meet a good friend,

1069
00:47:36,603 --> 00:47:38,397
it starts with an introduction.

1070
00:47:38,397 --> 00:47:41,400
We wanted to create that platform
for people.

1071
00:47:41,859 --> 00:47:42,901
People loved it.

1072
00:47:42,901 --> 00:47:46,113
And you find a common interest in a bond
and then you go from there.

1073
00:47:46,113 --> 00:47:48,031
Was the afterwards party? Yeah.

1074
00:47:48,031 --> 00:47:50,701
Hey, I know, you bum bum.

1075
00:47:50,701 --> 00:47:54,246
So then we we took over the cash mob
from Dave Hypervolt.

1076
00:47:54,538 --> 00:47:56,874
And that was what
you saw with rock and roll.

1077
00:47:58,667 --> 00:47:59,793
What that is, is it's

1078
00:47:59,793 --> 00:48:03,630
an opportunity
for us to allow people of Bristol

1079
00:48:03,630 --> 00:48:07,175
to vote on a business
that they would like to

1080
00:48:08,635 --> 00:48:10,679
shower with cash for a day.

1081
00:48:10,679 --> 00:48:12,598
Oh, yeah, the Bristol cash.

1082
00:48:12,598 --> 00:48:13,223
Oh, wow.

1083
00:48:13,223 --> 00:48:16,226
So people vote, go back and roll one.

1084
00:48:16,977 --> 00:48:18,896
We did their event that day.

1085
00:48:18,896 --> 00:48:21,899
So that was the day that the mayor had
come in.

1086
00:48:22,566 --> 00:48:25,611
Everyone comes in, preferably pay cash,
but the store takes

1087
00:48:25,611 --> 00:48:26,945
whatever they take, right?

1088
00:48:26,945 --> 00:48:29,823
It helps with all those fees,
those little micro things that come

1089
00:48:29,823 --> 00:48:31,366
from swiping the card. Yep.

1090
00:48:31,366 --> 00:48:35,495
And we are getting ready
to plant our second cash mob, as we speak.

1091
00:48:36,079 --> 00:48:38,665
And we are also planning our second,

1092
00:48:38,665 --> 00:48:41,668
event as we speak, an event called Words
Matter.

1093
00:48:41,668 --> 00:48:42,002
Okay.

1094
00:48:42,002 --> 00:48:45,172
And that event, is leaning
on being somewhat

1095
00:48:45,172 --> 00:48:48,508
of a panel
discussion about words and their impact.

1096
00:48:49,468 --> 00:48:50,928
And then that will finish off

1097
00:48:50,928 --> 00:48:53,931
with an opportunity for people to,

1098
00:48:55,265 --> 00:48:57,059
to stand up and talk about your words.

1099
00:48:57,059 --> 00:49:00,020
And what's the sports bar in Bristol?

1100
00:49:00,020 --> 00:49:01,229
I watched Donovan Klingon.

1101
00:49:01,229 --> 00:49:02,606
You can win the championship there.

1102
00:49:02,606 --> 00:49:05,525
It was cool to be in Bristol
when that happened. Sports bar.

1103
00:49:05,525 --> 00:49:08,487
So can you name a few bleachers?

1104
00:49:08,487 --> 00:49:08,904
Where you at?

1105
00:49:08,904 --> 00:49:10,989
Sporty's. And, I think it was.

1106
00:49:10,989 --> 00:49:13,367
I think it was bleachers. Okay.

1107
00:49:13,367 --> 00:49:14,576
That's on Middle Street.

1108
00:49:14,576 --> 00:49:16,411
That's my vote for cash cow.

1109
00:49:16,411 --> 00:49:17,329
Bring it to bleachers.

1110
00:49:17,329 --> 00:49:18,914
Cash mob, cash mob.

1111
00:49:18,914 --> 00:49:19,998
That's that.

1112
00:49:19,998 --> 00:49:23,001
So that's a good one.

1113
00:49:23,043 --> 00:49:25,170
Bars are going to be involved,
right? Bars.

1114
00:49:25,170 --> 00:49:27,422
Oh, you're doing restaurants.
Okay, well, we do, we do go free.

1115
00:49:27,422 --> 00:49:28,757
We do all of them.

1116
00:49:28,757 --> 00:49:30,884
But that's that's a good one.
We'll put it on the list.

1117
00:49:30,884 --> 00:49:32,636
All right. Thanks. Thanks, thanks.

1118
00:49:32,636 --> 00:49:34,137
Anything that our listeners

1119
00:49:34,137 --> 00:49:38,016
can do to support that diversity council,
after hearing us chat,

1120
00:49:38,976 --> 00:49:39,977
where can they reach you?

1121
00:49:39,977 --> 00:49:42,813
Websites, emails, phone numbers.

1122
00:49:42,813 --> 00:49:45,565
We are we are on the,

1123
00:49:45,565 --> 00:49:47,109
we are on the city website.

1124
00:49:47,109 --> 00:49:50,195
Right as you go on there and look at all
the city or the Bristol Diversity Council.

1125
00:49:51,279 --> 00:49:53,240
Our email is,

1126
00:49:53,240 --> 00:49:56,243
Diversity Council, that Bristol City that

1127
00:49:56,451 --> 00:49:58,495
are the two easiest ways to reach us.

1128
00:49:58,495 --> 00:50:01,498
We are on Facebook,
so they can reach us on

1129
00:50:01,498 --> 00:50:04,501
Facebook, in the DMs are always open.

1130
00:50:04,710 --> 00:50:06,545
Or probably the easiest case.

1131
00:50:06,545 --> 00:50:06,962
Yeah.

1132
00:50:06,962 --> 00:50:08,046
No, you're doing great things.

1133
00:50:08,046 --> 00:50:11,049
I love I love that you,

1134
00:50:11,925 --> 00:50:16,638
put yourself out there to to, 
improve the town and, open discussion.

1135
00:50:16,638 --> 00:50:21,810
And I love that everyone deserves
an opportunity to share and be themselves.

1136
00:50:21,810 --> 00:50:24,938
And best of luck with that friendship
and that cash mob.

1137
00:50:24,938 --> 00:50:25,939
I like that idea.

1138
00:50:25,939 --> 00:50:26,398
Thank you.

1139
00:50:26,398 --> 00:50:26,940
I might steal.

1140
00:50:26,940 --> 00:50:29,443
Then suggested to West Hartford,
please do.

1141
00:50:29,443 --> 00:50:32,362
I'll tell you what. One one quick thing.
One of the.

1142
00:50:32,362 --> 00:50:35,741
And here's
where the impact comes as I was.

1143
00:50:35,741 --> 00:50:38,201
So when we had our candidates,
I reached out to each of them

1144
00:50:38,201 --> 00:50:39,995
and said,
hey, you're candidate for cash mob.

1145
00:50:40,996 --> 00:50:43,582
I, I want to
let you know I'm putting you on the list.

1146
00:50:43,582 --> 00:50:45,459
Most of the businesses
were a little nervous.

1147
00:50:45,459 --> 00:50:47,794
Hey. Whoa, whoa.
What are you putting me on the list for?

1148
00:50:47,794 --> 00:50:49,087
What is this?

1149
00:50:49,087 --> 00:50:52,090
And the the place that won.

1150
00:50:54,384 --> 00:50:56,470
I had a hard time explaining to them

1151
00:50:56,470 --> 00:51:00,599
and getting
and getting the mind around to them.

1152
00:51:00,599 --> 00:51:02,476
And the other candidates.

1153
00:51:02,476 --> 00:51:04,311
This is a free service. All we're going.

1154
00:51:04,311 --> 00:51:06,271
No, no, no, no, no,
you don't owe us anything.

1155
00:51:06,271 --> 00:51:07,355
It's not a membership.

1156
00:51:07,355 --> 00:51:09,691
It's not a yearly membership.

1157
00:51:09,691 --> 00:51:10,233
Oh, yeah.

1158
00:51:10,233 --> 00:51:13,695
We are just going to promote
your business.

1159
00:51:13,695 --> 00:51:16,615
We want everyone to know that you're here.

1160
00:51:16,615 --> 00:51:19,618
We're going to talk about you
for weeks and after,

1161
00:51:19,868 --> 00:51:22,079
and we're going to do it at no cost.

1162
00:51:23,246 --> 00:51:24,206
That's cool.

1163
00:51:24,206 --> 00:51:24,539
Right.

1164
00:51:24,539 --> 00:51:28,835
So it's rare to find people nowadays
that are just doing cool things

1165
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:30,545
out of the kindness. Yeah.

1166
00:51:30,545 --> 00:51:33,423
Without any thing to gain from it.

1167
00:51:33,423 --> 00:51:36,426
We want
we want to make that popular again.

1168
00:51:37,636 --> 00:51:38,595
Cool.

1169
00:51:38,595 --> 00:51:41,181
But being good friends,
you're a good friend.

1170
00:51:41,181 --> 00:51:43,975
And speaking of which,
we're going to talk right where we met

1171
00:51:43,975 --> 00:51:45,602
southern Connecticut state.

1172
00:51:45,602 --> 00:51:48,897
I'm going to read you
a couple of text messages here at CSU.

1173
00:51:50,774 --> 00:51:53,193
Text messages.

1174
00:51:53,193 --> 00:51:53,860
Oh, here we go.

1175
00:51:53,860 --> 00:51:55,612
We got text messages.

1176
00:51:55,612 --> 00:51:58,615
You got to guess who this is from.

1177
00:51:59,074 --> 00:52:02,035
Marcus was the chillest guy
enough friends with everyone.

1178
00:52:02,035 --> 00:52:03,745
Never had a beef, never cause trouble.

1179
00:52:03,745 --> 00:52:05,247
Man was a role model.

1180
00:52:05,247 --> 00:52:06,873
He was the biggest sports fan I knew.

1181
00:52:06,873 --> 00:52:08,375
Not just NBA, NFL.

1182
00:52:08,375 --> 00:52:10,794
He knew him. All women's tennis? Check.

1183
00:52:10,794 --> 00:52:13,171
Track and field?
Check. Pro wrestling? Check.

1184
00:52:13,171 --> 00:52:16,258
I remember I brought my electric guitar
to Neff, cranked it up real loud.

1185
00:52:16,258 --> 00:52:18,969
It started playing 80s and 90s metal.

1186
00:52:18,969 --> 00:52:21,680
Marcus and his cousin Adam came in
and I felt bad

1187
00:52:21,680 --> 00:52:23,056
because they thought I was bugging them.

1188
00:52:23,056 --> 00:52:25,892
They were like, nah, man,
play some guns N roses. We love this.

1189
00:52:27,102 --> 00:52:28,770
He and Adam played PlayStation.

1190
00:52:28,770 --> 00:52:31,565
I had a, Nintendo 64, we'd argue.

1191
00:52:31,565 --> 00:52:34,109
Which was better. I'd be like James Bond.

1192
00:52:34,109 --> 00:52:35,569
He'd be like, please,

1193
00:52:35,569 --> 00:52:39,281
I'll see your bond and raise you Tomb
Raider, GranTurismo and Resident Evil.

1194
00:52:40,157 --> 00:52:43,326
It was him and his cousin
Adam were dangerous in chess, too.

1195
00:52:43,827 --> 00:52:47,080
The nails
we used to kill in the fifth floor lounge.

1196
00:52:48,456 --> 00:52:50,375
You know, this is

1197
00:52:50,375 --> 00:52:52,085
but one of my favorite memories.

1198
00:52:52,085 --> 00:52:53,044
This is hilarious.

1199
00:52:53,044 --> 00:52:54,421
This brings me back.

1200
00:52:54,421 --> 00:52:57,841
Was in the first floor
lounge when every single afternoon,

1201
00:52:57,841 --> 00:53:00,969
everyone was chanting, you know, TV show.

1202
00:53:00,969 --> 00:53:01,720
Everyone was watching.

1203
00:53:01,720 --> 00:53:06,516
We were chanting,
Jerry, Jerry, Jerry and I had a wish.

1204
00:53:06,516 --> 00:53:09,019
I had a front row seat for.

1205
00:53:09,019 --> 00:53:11,438
I'm sitting at the front desk.

1206
00:53:11,438 --> 00:53:12,355
Oh, yeah, you did it.

1207
00:53:12,355 --> 00:53:13,565
You let us in here.

1208
00:53:13,565 --> 00:53:16,193
I was just sitting there
while everyone was there making noise.

1209
00:53:16,193 --> 00:53:17,861
So good.

1210
00:53:17,861 --> 00:53:23,283
To answer your question,
every single note in there,

1211
00:53:23,283 --> 00:53:26,286
I remember every single one.

1212
00:53:26,328 --> 00:53:29,331
I could even walk to his room.

1213
00:53:30,582 --> 00:53:32,250
He was directly across the hall from you.

1214
00:53:32,250 --> 00:53:36,838
The part that is the part that is the part
that, bears his name with this game.

1215
00:53:37,339 --> 00:53:39,299
All right, let me out there. And then I.

1216
00:53:39,299 --> 00:53:40,217
Jeff. Craig.

1217
00:53:40,217 --> 00:53:42,928
Jeff. Oh.

1218
00:53:42,928 --> 00:53:43,845
Oh. Jeff.

1219
00:53:43,845 --> 00:53:45,180
I'm in Texas again.

1220
00:53:45,180 --> 00:53:48,183
Ten years, five years, but. And he's.

1221
00:53:48,558 --> 00:53:51,186
And I just, doc has been on the podcast.

1222
00:53:51,186 --> 00:53:52,562
He locks number 58.

1223
00:53:52,562 --> 00:53:55,190
Oh, this is great.
I get to go back, go watch that one.

1224
00:53:55,190 --> 00:53:57,275
And he's like, I'm watching that one now.

1225
00:53:57,275 --> 00:53:58,985
He goes, I love this man.

1226
00:53:58,985 --> 00:54:00,779
He's like,
you're going to cut that. Don't cut that.

1227
00:54:00,779 --> 00:54:04,074
Feeny Cam Park I open up the podcast
about not being able to park.

1228
00:54:04,741 --> 00:54:08,161
Jeff Ben goes on to put together
the whole roster

1229
00:54:08,745 --> 00:54:11,331
from 9798.

1230
00:54:11,331 --> 00:54:14,960
Feeny and Locke,
Marcus and Adam, Johnny Blaze and Mark,

1231
00:54:15,210 --> 00:54:19,714
Andre, Ethan, Joaquin the drain
and Mike West, Jackson, Anthony G.

1232
00:54:19,839 --> 00:54:24,844
Brian Brown, Calvin Harris, Jermaine Money
Wells, my barber.

1233
00:54:25,553 --> 00:54:27,305
DeShawn. Sean.

1234
00:54:29,099 --> 00:54:29,975
Jeremy, Sarah.

1235
00:54:29,975 --> 00:54:31,226
Titus, Isaac.

1236
00:54:31,226 --> 00:54:34,020
Warren, Andy.

1237
00:54:34,020 --> 00:54:34,396
Lisa.

1238
00:54:34,396 --> 00:54:37,399
Souza, Erica. Nikki.

1239
00:54:37,857 --> 00:54:38,733
Robin. Rob.

1240
00:54:38,733 --> 00:54:39,901
The rays. Marvin.

1241
00:54:39,901 --> 00:54:40,819
Lewis. The. Rays.

1242
00:54:40,819 --> 00:54:43,113
Jamie. Julia. Christina and and the rays.

1243
00:54:43,113 --> 00:54:43,863
This guy good.

1244
00:54:43,863 --> 00:54:46,950
Jeff. Craig. Right? He's cheap. Somehow.

1245
00:54:46,950 --> 00:54:47,951
Some way. There's no.

1246
00:54:47,951 --> 00:54:50,412
It was so good that he did that dome.

1247
00:54:50,412 --> 00:54:53,415
That's unbelievable that he remember.

1248
00:54:54,124 --> 00:54:57,752
Wow. Did he get snacks in there
was, snacks.

1249
00:54:58,128 --> 00:54:59,879
The snacks in there. Snacks.

1250
00:54:59,879 --> 00:55:01,673
Another. He cut my hair to cut my hair.

1251
00:55:01,673 --> 00:55:03,174
Yeah, that was that was my main barber.

1252
00:55:03,174 --> 00:55:05,427
The snacks, I loved him.

1253
00:55:05,427 --> 00:55:06,720
What did he get Tiger woods in there?

1254
00:55:06,720 --> 00:55:08,221
Mike? Great.

1255
00:55:08,221 --> 00:55:09,639
No. Mike. Ray.

1256
00:55:09,639 --> 00:55:11,850
Yeah, I don't remember him.

1257
00:55:11,850 --> 00:55:13,310
I don't remember him.

1258
00:55:13,310 --> 00:55:15,603
Kelvin I still I'm still cool. Kelvin.

1259
00:55:15,603 --> 00:55:17,188
Are you still see him?

1260
00:55:17,188 --> 00:55:18,898
Give him my best black.

1261
00:55:18,898 --> 00:55:21,901
I still see Brian Brown. Oh, yeah.

1262
00:55:22,319 --> 00:55:24,362
I don't know Brown. Brown.

1263
00:55:24,362 --> 00:55:26,323
I don't remember Brian Brown.

1264
00:55:26,323 --> 00:55:27,949
I thought you mentioned that. Did.
Oh, yeah.

1265
00:55:27,949 --> 00:55:29,034
I don't remember who he was.

1266
00:55:29,034 --> 00:55:31,661
Yeah. Real time, probably six four.

1267
00:55:31,661 --> 00:55:33,747
High jumper, darker. Dude.

1268
00:55:33,747 --> 00:55:36,875
Okay, okay.
How about this guy? Who's this?

1269
00:55:38,835 --> 00:55:39,586
I remember these

1270
00:55:39,586 --> 00:55:42,589
of you guys were mourning
folks more than us.

1271
00:55:42,672 --> 00:55:46,593
I remember waking up to Rakim, the 18th
letter, and biggie life after death

1272
00:55:47,761 --> 00:55:48,011
letter.

1273
00:55:48,011 --> 00:55:51,014
I was addicted,

1274
00:55:51,014 --> 00:55:54,017
and then we're going to show
a picture of Marcus.

1275
00:55:54,059 --> 00:55:56,311
You got I got pics.

1276
00:55:56,311 --> 00:55:58,605
What's in my.

1277
00:55:58,605 --> 00:56:00,357
I'm going to get part of the agreement.

1278
00:56:00,357 --> 00:56:03,276
Yeah, I going back into the archives.

1279
00:56:03,276 --> 00:56:03,777
Look at this.

1280
00:56:03,777 --> 00:56:06,780
He took, I had the, 
Zink Zink disposable camera that

1281
00:56:07,697 --> 00:56:09,532
and you took it obviously faced it.

1282
00:56:09,532 --> 00:56:10,533
Boom.

1283
00:56:10,533 --> 00:56:12,285
Yep. That's me. You're in my room.

1284
00:56:12,285 --> 00:56:13,745
That's me.

1285
00:56:13,745 --> 00:56:14,954
That's unbelievable.

1286
00:56:14,954 --> 00:56:17,540
I had the TV VCR combo.

1287
00:56:17,540 --> 00:56:20,293
They only played Friday and Dumb
and Dumber.

1288
00:56:20,293 --> 00:56:23,296
The closet to the left,
the closet to the right.

1289
00:56:23,546 --> 00:56:26,132
Marcus. Adam, I need
I need these for Adam.

1290
00:56:26,132 --> 00:56:27,175
Oh, yeah. Adi,

1291
00:56:28,968 --> 00:56:31,638
he's going to go sick over these.

1292
00:56:31,638 --> 00:56:32,430
Who else?

1293
00:56:32,430 --> 00:56:34,057
Rocking the dream.

1294
00:56:34,057 --> 00:56:36,601
He didn't write me back.
He wrote something.

1295
00:56:36,601 --> 00:56:39,604
Maybe I don't want to read on a text over.

1296
00:56:39,729 --> 00:56:42,732
I said, oh, those guys were massive.

1297
00:56:43,650 --> 00:56:44,943
Like. Like twins.

1298
00:56:44,943 --> 00:56:46,820
Twins, twins.

1299
00:56:46,820 --> 00:56:49,322
I remember he picked me up over my head,

1300
00:56:49,322 --> 00:56:52,534
over his head and carried me down the hall
like I was nothing.

1301
00:56:53,284 --> 00:56:56,287
I think what I think, was one of them.

1302
00:56:56,746 --> 00:56:58,164
One of them was Waterbury.

1303
00:56:58,164 --> 00:57:00,625
No, they were both Boston,
mass. Yeah. Okay.

1304
00:57:00,625 --> 00:57:02,585
Yeah. Okay.

1305
00:57:02,585 --> 00:57:04,921
Yeah,
they were, And they lived with Calvin.

1306
00:57:04,921 --> 00:57:07,924
They had a they had a they had a,

1307
00:57:08,091 --> 00:57:10,135
three they had bunk beds.

1308
00:57:10,135 --> 00:57:12,929
And I remember DeShawn
they were so big and Kell was so skinny.

1309
00:57:12,929 --> 00:57:15,932
They gave him a drawer
to fit all his clothes.

1310
00:57:15,932 --> 00:57:18,101
And Hassan had a closet.

1311
00:57:18,101 --> 00:57:19,144
DeShawn had a closet.

1312
00:57:19,144 --> 00:57:23,064
They gave Calvin a drawer because like
come on guys, I was it.

1313
00:57:23,064 --> 00:57:25,442
When I said Waterbury,
I was thinking of, trimming.

1314
00:57:25,442 --> 00:57:26,734
Oh, yeah.

1315
00:57:26,734 --> 00:57:27,193
Boohoo.

1316
00:57:27,193 --> 00:57:28,778
Yeah, that's my guy.

1317
00:57:28,778 --> 00:57:30,780
Jermaine and his sister was there too.

1318
00:57:30,780 --> 00:57:31,781
Yeah. And,

1319
00:57:33,116 --> 00:57:34,742
Oh, Newark Tremaine was Newark.

1320
00:57:34,742 --> 00:57:35,785
His brothers. Boo.

1321
00:57:35,785 --> 00:57:38,580
I just saw Paul
grabbing his little brother.

1322
00:57:38,580 --> 00:57:40,790
Yeah, he's Newark, Kenyan smalls.
They were.

1323
00:57:40,790 --> 00:57:41,958
They were also Waterbury.

1324
00:57:41,958 --> 00:57:42,876
Oh, Damien.

1325
00:57:42,876 --> 00:57:45,545
Damien. Yeah, they were they were cousins.

1326
00:57:45,545 --> 00:57:47,255
Kenyan was in the Army National Guard.

1327
00:57:47,255 --> 00:57:49,299
Damien was in the Army National Guard.

1328
00:57:49,299 --> 00:57:52,552
I yeah, he hit me up on LinkedIn.

1329
00:57:52,635 --> 00:57:54,596
Yeah. Oh, yeah.

1330
00:57:54,596 --> 00:57:56,431
Kenyan.

1331
00:57:56,431 --> 00:57:58,308
He's in up there. Yeah.

1332
00:57:58,308 --> 00:57:59,976
Let me touch his turntables.

1333
00:57:59,976 --> 00:58:02,562
Oh, yeah. Kenyan was great.

1334
00:58:02,562 --> 00:58:05,106
I remember Kenyan,

1335
00:58:05,106 --> 00:58:06,649
man, we could talk.

1336
00:58:06,649 --> 00:58:08,234
Nephew, nephew. Jeez.

1337
00:58:08,234 --> 00:58:11,362
And see if they built that other dorm
right in front of it.

1338
00:58:11,696 --> 00:58:15,742
So you used to be able to see it from
the street, and now they built a dorm.

1339
00:58:15,992 --> 00:58:18,369
I think it's called West.
Something that's right in front of it.

1340
00:58:18,369 --> 00:58:21,080
It dwarfs never sit behind it.

1341
00:58:21,080 --> 00:58:24,000
You never see it unless you drive in the
parking. Oh come on. Yeah.

1342
00:58:25,001 --> 00:58:27,629
No, that was the good old days, nephew.

1343
00:58:27,629 --> 00:58:28,463
Jeez.

1344
00:58:28,463 --> 00:58:29,672
The fifth floor.

1345
00:58:29,672 --> 00:58:32,258
So my brother.

1346
00:58:32,258 --> 00:58:33,968
Yeah, he was on the first floor.

1347
00:58:33,968 --> 00:58:34,469
Yeah.

1348
00:58:34,469 --> 00:58:36,971
Kelvin
and those guys were third floor trainer,

1349
00:58:36,971 --> 00:58:39,140
and they would high five, three times.

1350
00:58:39,140 --> 00:58:41,392
Trainer, trainer.

1351
00:58:41,392 --> 00:58:44,646
We couldn't do trainer, but Jerry in the
I remember

1352
00:58:45,897 --> 00:58:50,193
Richard Hamilton
hit the shot against Washington Snacks.

1353
00:58:50,193 --> 00:58:52,153
I thought he was going
to throw me out the window.

1354
00:58:52,153 --> 00:58:54,781
We we like bumped

1355
00:58:54,781 --> 00:58:58,368
and I
he I bounced off and he just crushed me.

1356
00:58:58,368 --> 00:59:00,912
We flipped me over this couch.

1357
00:59:00,912 --> 00:59:04,123
Now his brother does,
I never get to see snacks much anymore,

1358
00:59:04,123 --> 00:59:05,250
but I see his brother in law.

1359
00:59:05,250 --> 00:59:07,377
His brother, works in the business.

1360
00:59:07,377 --> 00:59:10,380
He does a lot of work with Andre Drummond.

1361
00:59:10,505 --> 00:59:13,758
And his charity, Andre Drummond,
Connecticut based charity.

1362
00:59:13,883 --> 00:59:15,593
Can you get him
on the part? Andre Drummond?

1363
00:59:16,970 --> 00:59:17,303
Maybe.

1364
00:59:17,303 --> 00:59:20,306
Maybe my brother can't,
but he's got the connect, right?

1365
00:59:20,473 --> 00:59:22,141
So so maybe I'm talking about that.

1366
00:59:22,141 --> 00:59:25,061
The bigger picture is I also saw him.

1367
00:59:25,061 --> 00:59:27,480
He spends a lot of time with, danger.

1368
00:59:27,480 --> 00:59:28,356
Oh, yeah.

1369
00:59:28,356 --> 00:59:29,315
So he's,

1370
00:59:29,315 --> 00:59:32,527
I'm not sure if you shoot video for him
sometimes, but I've seen them together.

1371
00:59:32,694 --> 00:59:35,405
I try to, I reach out to him,
I DM dame drops.

1372
00:59:35,405 --> 00:59:38,533
I saw him once at sliders 20 years ago.

1373
00:59:38,533 --> 00:59:41,160
Before he was like famous. Famous.

1374
00:59:41,160 --> 00:59:42,870
And, you know,
he thought he forgot about me.

1375
00:59:42,870 --> 00:59:44,831
I sent the picture and everything.

1376
00:59:44,831 --> 00:59:47,417
Donovan Kling
and I'm trying to get on the pod.

1377
00:59:47,417 --> 00:59:48,585
Okay.

1378
00:59:48,585 --> 00:59:49,502
Jamia.

1379
00:59:49,502 --> 00:59:50,420
Great guy.

1380
00:59:50,420 --> 00:59:53,256
Waterbury
connect. Bristol could definitely help.

1381
00:59:53,256 --> 00:59:54,173
You can get me Jay.

1382
00:59:54,173 --> 00:59:56,676
I would say that could definitely help
you. Jay.

1383
00:59:56,676 --> 00:59:58,803
Jay, you're coming
on. Mark is going to make it happen.

1384
00:59:59,762 --> 01:00:02,140
All right.

1385
01:00:02,140 --> 01:00:03,099
Any closing mark?

1386
01:00:03,099 --> 01:00:05,351
Sun southern. And we're quickly
got one more thing.

1387
01:00:05,351 --> 01:00:07,687
And then, No.
It was so good talking with you.

1388
01:00:07,687 --> 01:00:10,440
Thank you. And southern Connecticut state.

1389
01:00:10,440 --> 01:00:10,773
Yeah.

1390
01:00:10,773 --> 01:00:13,776
No, it's, I appreciate, you know,

1391
01:00:14,068 --> 01:00:17,614
we'll reach into that about the
the school elastic part of things, right.

1392
01:00:17,614 --> 01:00:21,326
Just because, you know, southern southern
created that opportunity for me.

1393
01:00:21,576 --> 01:00:22,744
Low key.

1394
01:00:22,744 --> 01:00:24,746
I didn't even originally get
into something. Right?

1395
01:00:24,746 --> 01:00:27,290
I didn't really get in initially.
Get into anything.

1396
01:00:27,290 --> 01:00:30,293
I, I

1397
01:00:30,293 --> 01:00:32,378
at the time
when we were coming into school, right.

1398
01:00:32,378 --> 01:00:34,839
I, I have ADHD.

1399
01:00:34,839 --> 01:00:38,676
It's that that wasn't something
that was my back

1400
01:00:38,676 --> 01:00:41,679
then they called it A.D.D.,
but it wasn't even something that

1401
01:00:42,221 --> 01:00:45,808
if you got tested for it, right,
it puts you in a different category.

1402
01:00:45,808 --> 01:00:48,227
Diversity wasn't even really celebrated.

1403
01:00:48,227 --> 01:00:49,729
Like, it was just, you know,

1404
01:00:51,064 --> 01:00:52,982
so my grades struggled.

1405
01:00:52,982 --> 01:00:55,860
I did my best to keep up with,
things were going over my head.

1406
01:00:55,860 --> 01:00:57,945
Under my head.
I was just doing my best to keep up.

1407
01:00:57,945 --> 01:01:00,323
And honestly, I did enough to stay afloat,

1408
01:01:00,323 --> 01:01:03,326
but not enough to really get me in
anywhere.

1409
01:01:03,910 --> 01:01:06,871
Southern had a program called ASCAP.

1410
01:01:06,871 --> 01:01:09,874
It was a program for under under

1411
01:01:10,208 --> 01:01:13,211
privileged, minorities.

1412
01:01:13,294 --> 01:01:14,879
To, to really get a second shot.

1413
01:01:14,879 --> 01:01:15,588
Right.

1414
01:01:15,588 --> 01:01:20,426
And this program, I think only has like
a 15 had a 15, 20% graduation rate.

1415
01:01:20,426 --> 01:01:20,968
Right.

1416
01:01:20,968 --> 01:01:23,971
We're going to we're going to bring in 50
kids, give them a shot.

1417
01:01:25,598 --> 01:01:27,141
Not even grades circumstances.

1418
01:01:27,141 --> 01:01:30,228
But circumstances
don't usually allow them to finish.

1419
01:01:31,896 --> 01:01:35,775
I, I got in the EOP program,
so I was at southern that summer.

1420
01:01:36,275 --> 01:01:37,985
It was basically summer school
for college.

1421
01:01:37,985 --> 01:01:40,446
Yeah. When I got there,
your room was already set up

1422
01:01:40,446 --> 01:01:42,073
and I'm like, who's this guy? Looks.

1423
01:01:42,073 --> 01:01:44,826
I was kind of comfortable,
I was comfortable.

1424
01:01:44,826 --> 01:01:48,204
Oh, but that's why,
I was determined to make it through.

1425
01:01:48,287 --> 01:01:48,538
Right.

1426
01:01:48,538 --> 01:01:52,583
So southern created that opportunity
for me when others hadn't,

1427
01:01:53,626 --> 01:01:55,378
from a diversity standpoint.

1428
01:01:55,378 --> 01:01:58,005
And three years later. Right.

1429
01:01:58,005 --> 01:02:02,009
I'm, I'm married to the the woman
that I was dating in high school,

1430
01:02:02,009 --> 01:02:03,261
and the woman that I.

1431
01:02:03,261 --> 01:02:04,512
The same woman you met at.

1432
01:02:04,512 --> 01:02:07,515
Yep. That is my wife now. Wow.

1433
01:02:07,557 --> 01:02:09,684
And I'm, I'm the dad of two, right.

1434
01:02:09,684 --> 01:02:11,519
And it's allowed me the opportunity

1435
01:02:11,519 --> 01:02:14,021
to further my education
and make a career for myself.

1436
01:02:14,021 --> 01:02:17,817
All from, all from a situation
where others said, no, you know.

1437
01:02:17,817 --> 01:02:20,403
So shout out to southern.
Let's cheers to southern.

1438
01:02:20,403 --> 01:02:22,822
This is where Matt Whitney comes
in. Hey, hey.

1439
01:02:22,822 --> 01:02:25,742
Cheers. You got here. Great.

1440
01:02:25,742 --> 01:02:28,286
Is the maximum beverage Here's the max.

1441
01:02:28,286 --> 01:02:31,080
Okay, guys,
going to have Yeah. Cheers, guys.

1442
01:02:31,080 --> 01:02:33,040
And I saw the whiskey

1443
01:02:33,040 --> 01:02:35,209
smokiness off the nose there. Yep.

1444
01:02:35,209 --> 01:02:37,545
This guy
Marcus knows his stuff. The sweetness.

1445
01:02:40,047 --> 01:02:42,925
Toasted on.

1446
01:02:42,925 --> 01:02:46,679
What your top 5502.

1447
01:02:46,679 --> 01:02:48,222
Your top five.

1448
01:02:48,222 --> 01:02:49,098
That's really nice.

1449
01:02:49,098 --> 01:02:52,101
And send him the sizzle
there on the back end.

1450
01:02:52,185 --> 01:02:53,269
That's right.

1451
01:02:53,269 --> 01:02:56,230
Turning this into a bourbon podcast
telling him yeah.

1452
01:02:56,355 --> 01:02:58,816
Or whiskey. Excuse me. Whiskey.
Now in bourbon is whiskey.

1453
01:02:58,816 --> 01:03:00,026
Oh yes. Straight bourbon whiskey.

1454
01:03:00,026 --> 01:03:03,029
My men say they say,

1455
01:03:03,529 --> 01:03:04,572
all bourbon is whiskey.

1456
01:03:04,572 --> 01:03:06,657
Not all whiskeys. Bourbon,

1457
01:03:06,657 --> 01:03:06,949
Jack.

1458
01:03:06,949 --> 01:03:09,368
Just like cheese or Oreos or cookies.

1459
01:03:09,368 --> 01:03:11,621
But not all
cookies are Oreos. Correct? Right.

1460
01:03:11,621 --> 01:03:12,789
You got Irish?

1461
01:03:12,789 --> 01:03:15,500
All squares are rectangles,
but not all rectangles or squares

1462
01:03:15,500 --> 01:03:16,459
or the other way around.

1463
01:03:16,459 --> 01:03:17,794
I missed

1464
01:03:17,794 --> 01:03:20,797
all squares are.

1465
01:03:21,005 --> 01:03:22,632
Yeah,

1466
01:03:22,632 --> 01:03:25,259
because you only need two sides
to be the same and squares have that.

1467
01:03:25,259 --> 01:03:28,221
We're rectangle. We're in for a square
you need four sides. So a rectangle.

1468
01:03:28,221 --> 01:03:30,723
That's how we teach the kids
square and rectangle right.

1469
01:03:31,766 --> 01:03:32,725
Go back in the video.

1470
01:03:32,725 --> 01:03:35,144
Whatever I said is right

1471
01:03:35,144 --> 01:03:37,188
okay. This is fantastic. Thank you.

1472
01:03:37,188 --> 01:03:39,899
Cheers, girl. Dad, it's our next topic.

1473
01:03:39,899 --> 01:03:40,441
Girl dad.

1474
01:03:40,441 --> 01:03:41,692
And we're closing out.

1475
01:03:41,692 --> 01:03:43,361
He's a girl, dad. He's a girl. Dad.

1476
01:03:43,361 --> 01:03:44,654
I'm a girl. Dad.

1477
01:03:44,654 --> 01:03:44,862
Yeah.

1478
01:03:44,862 --> 01:03:47,824
You have some wonderful kids
doing some wonderful things in Bristol.

1479
01:03:47,990 --> 01:03:49,033
We'll share that.

1480
01:03:49,033 --> 01:03:50,868
And my girls are trying to share that.

1481
01:03:50,868 --> 01:03:51,744
We got to close out,

1482
01:03:51,744 --> 01:03:56,290
but I would like to share and congratulate
your children and the entire family.

1483
01:03:56,332 --> 01:03:58,000
It's it's a great story.

1484
01:03:58,000 --> 01:04:00,795
We'll pull up a photo
with a three, three out of four.

1485
01:04:00,795 --> 01:04:03,506
You know, mine does take a village. Yes.

1486
01:04:03,506 --> 01:04:06,425
So I have two daughters, Haley and Harper.

1487
01:04:06,425 --> 01:04:07,134
I'm going to do right here.

1488
01:04:07,134 --> 01:04:08,469
Three cousins, one dream.

1489
01:04:08,469 --> 01:04:11,013
Oh, look at that beautiful pic right here.

1490
01:04:11,013 --> 01:04:13,808
Boom. Yes, yes. Elaborate.

1491
01:04:13,808 --> 01:04:15,268
Three cousins.

1492
01:04:15,268 --> 01:04:17,854
So in that situation, right where it is a

1493
01:04:19,230 --> 01:04:20,565
Peyton trough.

1494
01:04:20,565 --> 01:04:22,066
Cameron. Peyton. Haley. Ben.

1495
01:04:22,066 --> 01:04:24,151
Those are the three cousins.

1496
01:04:24,151 --> 01:04:26,070
One dream.

1497
01:04:26,070 --> 01:04:29,073
They all had a dream to compete
at Miss America.

1498
01:04:29,657 --> 01:04:32,660
Over the last four years,
all three have done that,

1499
01:04:33,160 --> 01:04:35,830
with the most recent being my daughter
Haley,

1500
01:04:35,830 --> 01:04:40,751
then, competed at the doctor, at the Walt
Disney Theater and doctor Phillips.

1501
01:04:40,751 --> 01:04:43,170
Orlando.

1502
01:04:43,170 --> 01:04:45,756
In September,

1503
01:04:45,756 --> 01:04:47,633
we didn't walk away with the Crown.

1504
01:04:47,633 --> 01:04:49,677
But, what what?

1505
01:04:49,677 --> 01:04:50,469
She walked away

1506
01:04:50,469 --> 01:04:54,432
with was, the presidential scholarship
to the University of Alabama.

1507
01:04:54,599 --> 01:04:57,977
Well, a full scholarship
to Mississippi State University

1508
01:04:58,936 --> 01:05:02,815
and, a handful, general scholarship.

1509
01:05:03,816 --> 01:05:06,819
The Miss America organization
is the number one

1510
01:05:06,819 --> 01:05:10,865
scholarship, organization
for young women here in America.

1511
01:05:11,824 --> 01:05:14,118
We are a pageant family for sure.

1512
01:05:14,118 --> 01:05:18,623
I think I walked across the pageant stage
for the first time in years old, walking

1513
01:05:18,623 --> 01:05:22,209
with my cousin Nakia down in the Miss
Southern New England stage as an escort.

1514
01:05:23,920 --> 01:05:26,130
Nakia then went to,

1515
01:05:26,130 --> 01:05:29,634
to compete, to, and Miss Bristol.

1516
01:05:29,675 --> 01:05:30,217
Right.

1517
01:05:30,217 --> 01:05:34,263
My wife, Tracy, Baton and Nakia,
both competed at the state level.

1518
01:05:35,431 --> 01:05:37,141
They both ran their own local pageants.

1519
01:05:37,141 --> 01:05:39,018
Miss Harford County, Miss Rocky Hill.

1520
01:05:39,018 --> 01:05:41,354
All right, so this is
this is our thing. Wow.

1521
01:05:41,354 --> 01:05:44,941
So for my daughter, my niece and cousin

1522
01:05:45,066 --> 01:05:48,486
to all have their
their spot in there is fantastic.

1523
01:05:48,486 --> 01:05:51,489
Now, when we talk about
friends is from the transitioning

1524
01:05:52,406 --> 01:05:54,659
and being models of the community.

1525
01:05:54,659 --> 01:05:58,329
One of the things about the pageant world
is they used to call it Issue of Concern.

1526
01:05:58,329 --> 01:06:00,122
It was called the Community Service
Initiative.

1527
01:06:00,122 --> 01:06:03,167
Every contestant in the entire country
needs

1528
01:06:03,167 --> 01:06:06,170
a community service initiative.

1529
01:06:06,504 --> 01:06:08,881
Peyton's was Peyton from Peyton's promise.

1530
01:06:08,881 --> 01:06:11,884
That is an official nonprofit.

1531
01:06:12,593 --> 01:06:13,511
Yup. Very good.

1532
01:06:13,511 --> 01:06:15,221
So Peyton's promise provides,

1533
01:06:17,139 --> 01:06:18,599
school goods,

1534
01:06:18,599 --> 01:06:21,602
to, to students
who can't get them themselves right.

1535
01:06:21,602 --> 01:06:24,605
Books, pens, pads, backpacks,

1536
01:06:26,315 --> 01:06:28,609
cameras,

1537
01:06:28,609 --> 01:06:30,236
is, centered

1538
01:06:30,236 --> 01:06:33,239
around, anxiety
within the performing arts.

1539
01:06:33,656 --> 01:06:34,240
Right.

1540
01:06:34,240 --> 01:06:37,243
You'd be surprised
how many people love the performing arts.

1541
01:06:37,410 --> 01:06:39,370
They get on stage and they do their thing.

1542
01:06:39,370 --> 01:06:41,247
You have no idea what they're dealing
with.

1543
01:06:41,247 --> 01:06:44,250
Once the bright lights and camera and,

1544
01:06:44,792 --> 01:06:47,086
you have to serve that community.

1545
01:06:47,086 --> 01:06:50,131
My daughter's,
there's the ladybug outreach program.

1546
01:06:50,840 --> 01:06:52,675
And I got to talk to Miss Farrell
about the laser.

1547
01:06:52,675 --> 01:06:55,052
Yeah. Outreach program.

1548
01:06:55,052 --> 01:06:58,514
Haley works to provide, goods

1549
01:06:58,514 --> 01:07:01,517
for the, food insecure and unhoused.

1550
01:07:03,060 --> 01:07:06,272
So we're working on getting that
to be an official site of one C3.

1551
01:07:07,023 --> 01:07:10,735
But those are the three community
service initiatives that all three of them

1552
01:07:10,735 --> 01:07:13,696
brought to us. That's amazing. My other,

1553
01:07:15,364 --> 01:07:18,367
shout out to her, she had just.

1554
01:07:18,868 --> 01:07:19,535
Oh, I guess.

1555
01:07:19,535 --> 01:07:20,911
Yeah, just 14 years old.

1556
01:07:20,911 --> 01:07:23,914
She hit the Broadway stage,

1557
01:07:24,540 --> 01:07:27,543
on the stage of, The Great Gatsby.

1558
01:07:28,294 --> 01:07:31,297
Just a few months ago, in October,

1559
01:07:31,797 --> 01:07:36,052
she was selected by The Great Gatsby
choreographer

1560
01:07:36,510 --> 01:07:39,513
and a couple of their talent,

1561
01:07:39,680 --> 01:07:42,141
to perform the new money dance,

1562
01:07:42,141 --> 01:07:45,811
the viral new money
dance that takes place in the in the show.

1563
01:07:46,103 --> 01:07:49,023
Gotcha. As a bit of a fan engagement.

1564
01:07:49,023 --> 01:07:52,026
So if you go to The Great Gatsby website,
you can see it.

1565
01:07:52,109 --> 01:07:55,529
Harper and her friend Evelyn from Bristol
Central High School.

1566
01:07:55,529 --> 01:07:58,574
Theater programs,
and games theater program.

1567
01:07:58,574 --> 01:08:01,035
Graduates of games theater program.

1568
01:08:01,035 --> 01:08:03,162
Had hit the Great Gatsby stage.

1569
01:08:03,162 --> 01:08:04,330
They're doing incredible things.

1570
01:08:04,330 --> 01:08:06,373
I'm proud of their both on students.

1571
01:08:06,373 --> 01:08:08,292
Good kids at Bristol Central High School.

1572
01:08:08,292 --> 01:08:10,419
They're doing they're doing it.
They're doing it.

1573
01:08:10,419 --> 01:08:13,172
I don't know what to say.
Me and their mom are over there.

1574
01:08:13,172 --> 01:08:14,673
Congrats, man. Cheers again.

1575
01:08:15,966 --> 01:08:17,468
It was so good to talk with you.

1576
01:08:17,468 --> 01:08:20,971
We could talk forever, but unfortunately,
we shoot for 50 minutes of Feeny.

1577
01:08:20,971 --> 01:08:22,598
But we did. Over an hour.

1578
01:08:22,598 --> 01:08:23,974
I can't thank you enough.

1579
01:08:23,974 --> 01:08:25,976
You brought brought his Emmy.

1580
01:08:25,976 --> 01:08:26,769
I'm taking his home.

1581
01:08:26,769 --> 01:08:27,103
Thank you.

1582
01:08:27,103 --> 01:08:29,522
Marcus, you appreciate this.

1583
01:08:29,522 --> 01:08:29,730
Thank you.

1584
01:08:29,730 --> 01:08:32,108
Throw it away. And sure,

1585
01:08:32,108 --> 01:08:34,777
this podcast won an Emmy.

1586
01:08:34,777 --> 01:08:36,403
Talked southern.

1587
01:08:36,403 --> 01:08:38,030
We talked diversity council.

1588
01:08:38,030 --> 01:08:41,033
We talked to ESPN. Can't
thank you enough.

1589
01:08:41,200 --> 01:08:42,368
Actually, I did a Broadway thing.

1590
01:08:42,368 --> 01:08:44,954
We're going to throw that at stick around
to the end.

1591
01:08:44,954 --> 01:08:47,915
There's a Broadway video.
I was a producer.

1592
01:08:47,915 --> 01:08:50,167
I was in

1593
01:08:50,167 --> 01:08:51,961
Gutenberg the musical.

1594
01:08:51,961 --> 01:08:52,837
Okay.

1595
01:08:52,837 --> 01:08:56,257
Came out and said, dreams.

1596
01:08:56,632 --> 01:08:58,926
I eat them, too.

1597
01:08:58,926 --> 01:08:59,135
All right.

1598
01:08:59,135 --> 01:09:01,595
We'll get a close up fan to,
Phantom of the opera.

1599
01:09:01,595 --> 01:09:03,597
I know almost every word of it
from start to finish.

1600
01:09:03,597 --> 01:09:05,474
Very nice, very nice. Fun fact about it.

1601
01:09:06,475 --> 01:09:08,519
And we had trivia we'd even get to.

1602
01:09:08,519 --> 01:09:09,728
I'm glad we didn't get to the trip.

1603
01:09:09,728 --> 01:09:13,399
I know we got an athletic game on
July 11th, Yard Goats game on

1604
01:09:13,399 --> 01:09:17,069
August 14th, and our fifth annual golf
tournament September 12th.

1605
01:09:17,069 --> 01:09:18,612
Please be there!

1606
01:09:18,612 --> 01:09:21,532
Shout us out on ESPN

1607
01:09:21,532 --> 01:09:24,285
and we'll say be a good friend
on three, one, two, three.

1608
01:09:24,285 --> 01:09:27,246
Be a good friend every day.

1609
01:09:27,246 --> 01:09:29,498
Sometimes he dreams.

1610
01:09:29,498 --> 01:09:34,461
We can show everyone we dream.

1611
01:09:34,587 --> 01:09:37,798
We them. Not just the Broadway producer.

1612
01:09:37,840 --> 01:09:39,717
We dream.

1613
01:09:39,717 --> 01:09:42,720
I need them to.

1614
01:09:42,761 --> 01:09:44,847
We each dreams.

1615
01:09:44,847 --> 01:09:47,725
I need them to I want.

1616
01:09:47,725 --> 01:09:51,145
It's every meeting up with every teacher
and my family

1617
01:09:51,145 --> 01:09:54,148
and friends. Oh.

1618
01:09:55,566 --> 01:10:00,029
And $280,000 in charity
for the local community.

1619
01:10:00,070 --> 01:10:02,698
What are you doing here? My industry.

1620
01:10:02,698 --> 01:10:04,950
But I also my Broadway producer. The

1621
01:10:06,785 --> 01:10:09,205
one who does your surgery

1622
01:10:09,205 --> 01:10:12,208
will be the primary medical.

1623
01:10:13,083 --> 01:10:15,711
The way together under way.

1624
01:10:15,711 --> 01:10:17,588
What's wrong? Wait. What?

1625
01:10:17,588 --> 01:10:18,130
That's right.

1626
01:10:18,130 --> 01:10:21,133
What's wrong with that? What?

1627
01:10:21,508 --> 01:10:22,134
What's wrong?

1628
01:10:22,134 --> 01:10:22,927
Fantastic.

1629
01:10:22,927 --> 01:10:25,930
Didn't
you ever see another doctor right here?

1630
01:10:25,930 --> 01:10:27,556
And Broadway contract.

1631
01:10:27,556 --> 01:10:30,392
I mean, I'm so proud of you.

1632
01:10:30,392 --> 01:10:33,354
You show so let me.

1633
01:10:34,939 --> 01:10:38,067
Get. Your.

1634
01:10:40,653 --> 01:10:42,321
Hair.

1635
01:10:42,321 --> 01:10:47,826
Thank you so much. Let.

1636
01:10:49,036 --> 01:10:49,787
Have the friends.

1637
01:10:49,787 --> 01:10:53,290
A free

1638
01:10:53,290 --> 01:10:57,544
day. Hey!