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All right, all right.

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Feeney talks with friends.

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Episode 150.

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Woohoo!

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We got a live.

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Audience here at New Park Brewery.

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Give it. Up! Woo!

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Thank you so much for being here.

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Place is packed.

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150. I'm here
with a great guests ball for a cure.

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How are you guys doing today?

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We're doing good.

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We're doing good. We're happy to be here.
Yeah.

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Special podcast.

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Special people, special place.

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We're here at New Park Brewery.

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Thank you, new Park, for hosting us.

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We got some drinks.
We got some pizza coming out.

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Truly means the world.

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Thank you.

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Direct line media.

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He's been here from the start.
150 episodes.

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We were right around the corner.

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It's a vintage spot now.

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That was Direct Line Media.
He did behind the brand.

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I he asked me about friends of Feeney.

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And next.

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You know, I'm the way out I go, hey,
can I ask the questions?

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And you record
and he's been with me ever since.

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So truly means the world.

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Dave is a good friend,
so give it up for Direct Line Media.

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For 85 New Park.

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If something sells and New Park
Brewery will buy it.

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So they're expanding.

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Congratulations on all their success.

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Tom is great.

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John is great.

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Tom's mom was a teacher.

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John's mom was a teacher.

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So give it up for the teachers.

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Teachers are great.

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My name is Eric Feeney, founder
and president of Friends of Feeney.

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And I use this podcast.

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Feeney talks with friends,
and I talk to a wonderful people

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in the community
that are doing great things.

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So you're coming up on ten years
in the community.

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How's it been going, boys?

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Yeah, it's, it's surreal really,
to think about, we started ten years ago

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after we graduated Konrad High Schools
or shout out West Hartford.

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We're in West Hartford.

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We're doing work
for the West Hartford community.

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And the best part is that we have
just made so many great relationships,

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with businesses, with families
with, first,

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you know, essential workers
at Connecticut Children's Hospital.

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So it's really been a unreal journey.

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And, we're excited to be here
and kind of showcasing what we've done

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and how we partner with people like, Eric
leaning Van Sweeney.

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Yeah. Our missions align.

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We're just trying to help make the world
a better place and help,

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people that that have a
tragic event or a heartbreak.

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We, my

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board of directors, Marty, Jan, Matt,

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and all of our friends, tyhe are great,

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but it's extra special for you guys
because you guys started off as friends.

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We became friends
through friends of Feeney.

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But I felt like you guys were friends.
First.

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Our motto is be a good friend.
Hold the door.

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Pick up trash.

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Give compliments and be charitable.

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But you guys started off as friends. What?

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How does that dynamic
change your organization?

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Or how did that help?

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Or just tell us about that?

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Yeah, I mean, we're
so there's none of us now.

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Sorry.

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And we actually have
a couple sets of brothers.

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So my younger brothers in, in the group
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his younger brother is in it.

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But, yeah, we've all known each other
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I want to say
probably since first or second grade,

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pretty much across the board.

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And it's been honestly,
we were just so close.

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And just being able to do this
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it's just a great experience.

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And we were connected on just a level,
you know, some other people just aren't.

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So it's just it's a great collaborative
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been it's been a tremendous amount of fun,
and a great learning experience as well.

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And I, you know, I'll jump on that too.

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We started ball for a cure
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and we wanted to do something
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So we decided that we were going to do
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in honor of a classmate
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And we did it in honor,
and we raised, like, 1500 bucks

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first year, Duffee Elementary School
on the black tops out back.

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And we were thrilled, you know, $1,500.

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And we all came together,
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that we had both a powerful community
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People really wanted to give a hand

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up to people, and families
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And not just the hand up financially, but,
you know, a sign of support.

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So I think once we did that, all of us
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we can't go back, you know, like
we got to just keep on going forward.

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And as far as a friend group
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when we first started it,
it was, you know, looking back like you're

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looking at ten years later that,
you know, we'd be where we are right now.

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But it's just we've had pretty much
just constant growth.

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And you know, we just
the crowd just keeps growing.

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And it's just it's
been a great experience.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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Special group

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I heard of you guys first episode
72 with the West Hartford Tree Project.

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You know where I'm going with this.

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Do you know Helen?

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Is it Helen? Yeah. Ago. Yeah. Yeah.

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So did you help?
Was that her child that you helped first?

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Yeah. Yeah, I was amazed.

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And Seamus.

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Seamus is the man.

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Seamus is doing great, by the way.

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And now he comes to our events
and, a few of our events.

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Now he's, taking the microphone

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in the podium to kind of talk
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somebody who is diagnosed at a young age
with cancer, and finding that fight.

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But also, it's, he.

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Seamus is great articulating
that kids still want to be kids.

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You know,
just because you have a diagnosis,

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that doesn't mean that that defines
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You're still a kid
just like everybody else.

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And when the community is behind
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it's a remarkable thing.

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Yeah. Helen was so thankful
she talks so highly.

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Episode 72.
Go back and check it out with Ted.

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Helen and Bill.

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So great.

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And Paul to Seamus, his dad and Helen's
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Great, dude. Nice.

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Yeah.
So analogy. You guys are like Voltron?

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Yes. How old are you? Voltron?

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I don't know about that.

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One 2920 people come together like that.

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They formed arms. And how about.

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Are you guys like Wu-Tang clan?

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I know you guys heard of them. Yeah.

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That's Matt, I watch. He's in the clan.

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I watch the Hulu,
the Hulu show that they created.

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Which one are you?

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Are you Risa or Method man?

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I'm Method man. George.

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Great, great.

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No. I love how you guys
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and and you come together to form
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Let's go down the line
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there's nine of you.

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Yeah. Who could step out of nest.

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So we have
we have Cole Stanek, Will Dorsey Tommy.

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Jason. Oh you got and can you,
can you name their position.

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Or their role?

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I mean, it's kind of interesting.

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We I guess we have titles,
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like, all different hats.

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Like, we kind of
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Cole is our
is our graphic designer really one of the,

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the key backbones
of the of our, of our organization.

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And then obviously, Luke.

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Let me start with Cole.

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Great job on the flier.

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I put something together.

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I don't know if I use clipart,
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He's like,
send it to me and let me polish it up.

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And Cole, it came out great.

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So thank you, Cole, our 150th podcast.

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Yeah I mean he's an
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Look at that Pac-Man shirt
I love the throwback to jam for sure.

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What's going to follow up
and talk about that later.

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But yeah Cole
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He does all the hats and shirts right.

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He's like the creative inspiration.

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He's he's really he's he's a magician.

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Like, everything he touches
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People. People that don't even know,
that don't even know about ball fake.

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You're like,
reply to my Instagram story or something.

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Just say, hey, is there any way you can
like buy that half for me?

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They don't even like know what it is or
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They're like, well, I'll just buy from you
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I'll shoot you a Venmo or something.
So that's all pretty cool.

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And he does that for footlocker
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To set up.

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Lockers or something.

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He does.

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But you know, the guy wears a lot of hats.

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He actually does a lot of analytical side
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Oh, and he's studying you know what

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what works for new stores
and how how a new store can be successful.

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And he helped set them up.

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So, multi-talented.

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And his dad is fantastic.

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During Covid, he went around and taking
pictures of people on their front stoops.

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Yeah. Remember we took that picture?

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That was Cole's dad project.

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Yeah. Oh. So cool.
And that was a beautiful photo.

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That's like our one and only picture
in front of the house.

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Yeah.

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And then got Tommy,
Tommy James and Will Dorsey,

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who do a lot of our financial work.

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And, you know, that's a burden.

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You know, like you're a small nonprofit.

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It's kind of hard to, you know, use
some of your fundraising dollars

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to outsource for financial help.

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So, you know, when you have people within
your organization who are willing to do

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the books, you know, invest in QuickBooks,
file those taxes.

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It's so helpful

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because that stretches every dollar
that somebody donates further.

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And then what's
great about our organization

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is a lot of the guys on the board

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take on individual events,
and they kind of take point on it.

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So Aiden Stanek and Brendan Connors,
they joined a little bit late.

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And they're they're organizing our Bowl
for a cure tournament.

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That's going to happen the Saturday
after Thanksgiving.

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Taking a leadership role on that.

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Brian. Okay.

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When did you say bowl? Bowl for. Cure.

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Oh where's. That Eric. You got him.

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Yeah I'm going. To be there
the after. Is there any of it?

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Is that the one on by The bowler
I'm on the umbrella.

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Okay. Gotcha. And they treat us right.

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We've been doing it I think five years
now, and they're awesome.

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We have a great day at bowl.

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And, and then afterwards
we go to a, venue.

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I think we're locked in Ann Arbor
Street again, for sure. Yeah.

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So after the bowl
and then there's a little concert.

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So it's a great community day. Love it.

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And I'll just do
the rest of the shout outs here.

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Brian O'shay is just instrumental
to the organization, both

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as the project manager,
and also organizing super Sunday.

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Max Kramer takes care

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of all of our tech,
and also a lot of our philanthropic drive.

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He, he has a nonprofit
background. Media an.

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That's great in that.

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And, Matt and I just kind of show up
to some events, you know?

244
00:09:39,946 --> 00:09:42,415
Yeah. And you guys are the face
of the franchise. You're a good looking to

245
00:09:43,849 --> 00:09:44,383
try that.

246
00:09:44,383 --> 00:09:46,285
I cannot wait to watch.

247
00:09:46,285 --> 00:09:48,688
And if you know who you are.

248
00:09:48,688 --> 00:09:52,792
Supposed to be,
I, I got a bad habit of banging.

249
00:09:52,892 --> 00:09:58,264
You know, it's so funny to,
like great kids and great families.

250
00:09:58,264 --> 00:09:59,599
Like, I know some of your parents.

251
00:09:59,599 --> 00:10:03,903
I don't know Dorsey Kramer,
but I think I know the rest of you guys.

252
00:10:04,337 --> 00:10:06,806
So great kids.

253
00:10:06,806 --> 00:10:08,941
We can make those connections for you.
Yeah, yeah. For sure.

254
00:10:08,941 --> 00:10:09,842
See where you been at?

255
00:10:09,842 --> 00:10:12,144
My life is a, walk at school guy.

256
00:10:12,144 --> 00:10:12,578
Come on.

257
00:10:12,578 --> 00:10:14,146
Yeah, he's an alum.

258
00:10:14,146 --> 00:10:15,081
He's a walking eagle.

259
00:10:15,081 --> 00:10:17,650
Come on, Max Kramer, we got to meet.

260
00:10:17,650 --> 00:10:18,451
I know he's Graham.

261
00:10:18,451 --> 00:10:21,988
I was wondering if he was related to
my friend Dave, whose last name is Kramer.

262
00:10:21,988 --> 00:10:24,557
Spelled that way.
So he's a West Hartford guy, too, but.

263
00:10:24,557 --> 00:10:24,991
I'm not sure.

264
00:10:24,991 --> 00:10:27,727
I'm not sure that
that doesn't ring a bell, but maybe Tommy.

265
00:10:27,727 --> 00:10:29,161
Okay. Great guy. Love them.

266
00:10:30,429 --> 00:10:31,564
And Jameson,

267
00:10:31,564 --> 00:10:34,567
Mark Jameson, both baller still.

268
00:10:34,800 --> 00:10:36,302
Yeah. So now. Great.

269
00:10:36,302 --> 00:10:38,404
That's nine people coming together.

270
00:10:38,404 --> 00:10:39,438
Friends. Previous.

271
00:10:39,438 --> 00:10:40,973
And you just doing great things.

272
00:10:40,973 --> 00:10:42,341
Bowling for a cure.

273
00:10:42,341 --> 00:10:44,710
Yeah. Beaufort is one of the best.

274
00:10:44,710 --> 00:10:45,444
And, every.

275
00:10:45,444 --> 00:10:47,546
Year, our fourth year, now. 50 area.

276
00:10:47,546 --> 00:10:49,649
What date though? Saturday.

277
00:10:49,649 --> 00:10:51,617
It's always a Saturday after Thanksgiving.

278
00:10:51,617 --> 00:10:54,220
So I think it's the 29th.
Yeah. It's here. Yeah.

279
00:10:54,220 --> 00:10:56,155
November their ninth. I'm there.

280
00:10:56,155 --> 00:10:58,557
And you know, it's it's a great event
because. Yeah.

281
00:10:58,557 --> 00:10:59,525
Sign up for a lane.

282
00:10:59,525 --> 00:11:02,762
So you pick your six people
and your family, your friends

283
00:11:02,762 --> 00:11:05,498
and you compete against everybody else
while.

284
00:11:05,498 --> 00:11:07,500
Oh, it's your six versus everyone else.

285
00:11:07,500 --> 00:11:09,935
Yeah. Team. There's about it's
just like a scramble right.

286
00:11:09,935 --> 00:11:12,605
Oh there's 40 there's 40 lanes.

287
00:11:12,605 --> 00:11:14,206
So about 40 teams going.

288
00:11:14,206 --> 00:11:17,209
And I think the one of the funniest things
about the way we run

289
00:11:17,209 --> 00:11:20,413
things is
we always have a theatrical, presence.

290
00:11:20,413 --> 00:11:22,581
So there's a costume contest.

291
00:11:22,581 --> 00:11:25,718
So everyone wears
just the craziest things they can find.

292
00:11:25,718 --> 00:11:29,321
And it's usually a full team,
like two sides on the same costume.

293
00:11:29,522 --> 00:11:33,659
And there's just there's wigs and scarves
and just all sorts of things

294
00:11:33,659 --> 00:11:35,161
that everybody's wearing. And it makes it.

295
00:11:35,161 --> 00:11:37,930
Yeah, it makes it a great time.
I'm there, I love it.

296
00:11:37,930 --> 00:11:41,133
We're getting a team Saturday
after we're bowling

297
00:11:41,634 --> 00:11:44,437
Bowl for a cure I love it.

298
00:11:44,437 --> 00:11:46,205
Geez. Well, we're talking events.

299
00:11:46,205 --> 00:11:47,273
We might as well keep them going.

300
00:11:47,273 --> 00:11:49,341
So how I got a game.

301
00:11:49,341 --> 00:11:51,644
You want to play a game or you want to
talk about some upcoming events?

302
00:11:51,644 --> 00:11:54,080
So we know ball for ball for sure.

303
00:11:54,080 --> 00:11:55,381
Is that your next.

304
00:11:55,381 --> 00:11:56,015
That's our next.

305
00:11:56,015 --> 00:11:56,348
Oh yeah.

306
00:11:56,348 --> 00:11:58,350
So we're we're competitive guys.

307
00:11:58,350 --> 00:12:00,586
So we like the game.
So if you got one for.

308
00:12:00,586 --> 00:12:04,957
Us who won the bowling last year
and what was the score.

309
00:12:05,558 --> 00:12:07,660
The bowling lab. We'll start. Training.

310
00:12:08,761 --> 00:12:11,230
They were they were in the two hundreds.

311
00:12:11,230 --> 00:12:12,331
Was it final frame?

312
00:12:12,331 --> 00:12:14,467
I think that was the name of their team.
Like, oh, is that the.

313
00:12:14,467 --> 00:12:17,369
That's your nail. Yeah. Yeah, yeah,
I think they did one.

314
00:12:17,369 --> 00:12:19,772
They have a couple of competitive bowlers
on that team. Yeah.

315
00:12:19,772 --> 00:12:23,175
And the trophy is something did take pride
and you get to take it home.

316
00:12:23,175 --> 00:12:26,312
It's a bowling pin
and it's it's on a nice platform.

317
00:12:26,912 --> 00:12:29,949
So if you, when you get to take home
the ball for your trophy,

318
00:12:29,949 --> 00:12:32,952
put it on the mantel for a year
and bring it back next year and defend it.

319
00:12:33,119 --> 00:12:34,253
Yeah. I'm not much of a bowler.

320
00:12:34,253 --> 00:12:37,256
I just go for the costumes.

321
00:12:37,923 --> 00:12:38,724
That's awesome.

322
00:12:38,724 --> 00:12:41,227
All right, I'm there.

323
00:12:41,227 --> 00:12:42,128
Oh. Stick around.

324
00:12:42,128 --> 00:12:44,897
We got to tell you. Stick
around after the podcast.

325
00:12:45,965 --> 00:12:47,600
Lonesome Eddie in the bird box.

326
00:12:47,600 --> 00:12:48,901
We got to get into those guys.

327
00:12:48,901 --> 00:12:51,871
I'm very excited. Eddie's a great guy.

328
00:12:51,871 --> 00:12:53,806
Lonesome Eddie, though. He's like,
he has a lot of friends.

329
00:12:53,806 --> 00:12:56,308
Why is he lonesome Eddie? Is this.
Is that a question for him?

330
00:12:56,308 --> 00:12:58,410
Yeah. You know, that's one.
And the bird, he's out of that.

331
00:12:58,410 --> 00:13:00,412
Thought about that. Before.
What's a bird? Why the bird?

332
00:13:00,412 --> 00:13:01,547
I think they're all friends.

333
00:13:01,547 --> 00:13:04,550
And Eddie's just in the band, you know?

334
00:13:04,817 --> 00:13:05,551
But. Eddie.

335
00:13:05,551 --> 00:13:07,186
Eddie cars is the man.

336
00:13:07,186 --> 00:13:11,791
And, you know, I think I grew up
playing basketball in his backyard

337
00:13:11,791 --> 00:13:13,025
as, like, a little kid.

338
00:13:13,025 --> 00:13:14,660
And then they started that band,

339
00:13:14,660 --> 00:13:18,564
and they are by far
just a staple of the Hartford community.

340
00:13:18,564 --> 00:13:20,099
They've played at one of our events

341
00:13:20,099 --> 00:13:23,369
every single year, I think, since we,
we started getting going.

342
00:13:23,369 --> 00:13:25,805
So all the guys in that band are awesome.

343
00:13:25,805 --> 00:13:28,641
And Matt obviously has a lot of blood
relationship to some of the guys.

344
00:13:28,641 --> 00:13:30,476
In the band.
Yeah, I know anybody in the band.

345
00:13:30,476 --> 00:13:32,912
Yeah, yeah. My dad is the,
my dad's the bass player.

346
00:13:32,912 --> 00:13:36,582
My, my uncle is the rhythm guitarist and
and singer as well.

347
00:13:36,582 --> 00:13:39,685
So it is super cool just to have that

348
00:13:39,685 --> 00:13:42,688
family presence, at all of our events.

349
00:13:43,155 --> 00:13:44,557
How's your musical talent?

350
00:13:44,557 --> 00:13:45,124
I don't have.

351
00:13:45,124 --> 00:13:48,260
I've got nothing but my dance moves.

352
00:13:48,360 --> 00:13:50,129
You ask me.
Cut it up out there. You'll see.

353
00:13:50,129 --> 00:13:51,397
All right.

354
00:13:51,397 --> 00:13:54,366
And stick around,
because we will be filming some of the of,

355
00:13:54,366 --> 00:13:56,702
his couple opening songs,
and we're really excited.

356
00:13:56,702 --> 00:13:58,003
Eddie. Car.

357
00:13:58,003 --> 00:14:01,140
I was honored to get the honoree
for the Saint Patty's Day

358
00:14:01,140 --> 00:14:02,675
parade a couple years ago.

359
00:14:02,675 --> 00:14:04,243
And Eddie car got the marshal.

360
00:14:04,243 --> 00:14:06,078
So I'm ever connected.

361
00:14:06,078 --> 00:14:08,581
He's Batman, and I'm Robin. Yep, yep.

362
00:14:08,581 --> 00:14:12,218
And we're both really good looking,
athletic daughters named Bridget.

363
00:14:12,251 --> 00:14:14,820
I mean, it's it's we're connected forever.
Love that guy. Oh.

364
00:14:14,820 --> 00:14:15,421
Thanks, Eddie.

365
00:14:15,421 --> 00:14:18,290
Stick around
for the concert after Lonesome Eddie,

366
00:14:19,458 --> 00:14:22,328
we talked about your inspiration
for A ball for a cure.

367
00:14:22,328 --> 00:14:24,096
So our game.

368
00:14:24,096 --> 00:14:28,968
First, last, best, worst events.

369
00:14:28,968 --> 00:14:30,436
Your first event.

370
00:14:30,436 --> 00:14:33,873
Your last event, your best event
and your worst event.

371
00:14:33,873 --> 00:14:36,876
Like something went wrong or missing,
you know.

372
00:14:37,576 --> 00:14:38,310
It's hard to say. We.

373
00:14:38,310 --> 00:14:40,880
I don't know if we have a worst event.

374
00:14:40,880 --> 00:14:43,682
But I think I think the best event,

375
00:14:43,682 --> 00:14:46,752
I think the best event, honestly,
is, is jam for a cure.

376
00:14:46,752 --> 00:14:48,921
I think it's it's the most fun.

377
00:14:48,921 --> 00:14:50,522
I think everyone gets together again.

378
00:14:50,522 --> 00:14:53,058
We do another costume contest there.

379
00:14:53,058 --> 00:14:54,994
So everyone's wearing funky outfits.

380
00:14:54,994 --> 00:14:57,997
We've had theme, so we've done,

381
00:14:58,030 --> 00:15:01,300
we've done the 60s,
the 80s, we've go rock and roll.

382
00:15:01,767 --> 00:15:02,635
What else have we done?

383
00:15:02,635 --> 00:15:06,005
We've done, Western, disco.

384
00:15:06,005 --> 00:15:08,574
Western, disco. Y. In. Yeah, yeah.

385
00:15:09,541 --> 00:15:12,711
And it's and I think that one is the best
because

386
00:15:12,912 --> 00:15:16,415
that one's like any of you get at a sport,
you don't need to do anything.

387
00:15:16,415 --> 00:15:19,051
You just need to show up
and just listen to great music.

388
00:15:19,051 --> 00:15:22,087
And then par for markets
also just an incredible venue to be at.

389
00:15:22,421 --> 00:15:24,723
And they are they're truly great.

390
00:15:24,723 --> 00:15:27,192
And then,

391
00:15:27,192 --> 00:15:28,260
my. Just missed it.

392
00:15:28,260 --> 00:15:30,396
The man the men have been real quick.

393
00:15:30,396 --> 00:15:32,831
Any car? Eddie, car is here.

394
00:15:32,831 --> 00:15:34,533
What? Some give it up for Eddie. Car.

395
00:15:34,533 --> 00:15:37,036
Maybe. Honey,

396
00:15:37,036 --> 00:15:39,238
honey, how are you doing?

397
00:15:39,238 --> 00:15:41,073
So you're missing a 10 to 1.

398
00:15:41,073 --> 00:15:42,574
I know. Want to do a live set right now?

399
00:15:42,574 --> 00:15:44,176
I'm gonna sing a song I.

400
00:15:44,176 --> 00:15:46,412
Always, always good to see these two.

401
00:15:46,412 --> 00:15:47,446
Awesome.

402
00:15:47,446 --> 00:15:48,814
Yeah, we're we're very excited.

403
00:15:48,814 --> 00:15:52,051
Thank you for letting us partner up
and collab and join your party.

404
00:15:52,051 --> 00:15:54,453
You're amazing for a. Great cause, man.
You walked in.

405
00:15:54,453 --> 00:15:56,188
We were just giving you so much kudos.

406
00:15:56,188 --> 00:15:58,424
You just missed it by, like, two minutes.
So rewind.

407
00:15:58,424 --> 00:15:59,925
You got a big question I was listening.

408
00:15:59,925 --> 00:16:01,627
We do got a big question for you.

409
00:16:01,627 --> 00:16:02,027
Oh, yeah.

410
00:16:02,027 --> 00:16:03,829
Why are you so lonesome?

411
00:16:03,829 --> 00:16:05,631
I got too many friends.

412
00:16:05,631 --> 00:16:08,634
It just keeps on so. So. Yeah,
I don't know.

413
00:16:08,634 --> 00:16:11,303
You know what? It's just you do some.

414
00:16:11,303 --> 00:16:16,408
Your never George Gobel lonesome
George Gobel who's an old comedian stuff.

415
00:16:16,442 --> 00:16:17,810
And he was just a funny guy on the guy.

416
00:16:17,810 --> 00:16:18,544
It'd be kind of cool.

417
00:16:18,544 --> 00:16:21,613
Nickname lonesome for one of the lonesome
Eddie in the bird dogs.

418
00:16:21,647 --> 00:16:22,915
We kicked around. Bird dogs.

419
00:16:22,915 --> 00:16:24,483
We do jailbirds we don't anymore.

420
00:16:24,483 --> 00:16:26,752
Yeah, but we ended up on bird dogs, so.

421
00:16:26,752 --> 00:16:27,820
Got a logo and everything.

422
00:16:27,820 --> 00:16:30,956
Thanks to, call hall and call
mic and stuff.

423
00:16:30,956 --> 00:16:31,590
So. Yeah.

424
00:16:31,590 --> 00:16:35,327
And you guys,
you guys also had a, a, a brass section.

425
00:16:35,394 --> 00:16:38,130
The the brass puppies. Brass
puppies. Yeah.

426
00:16:38,130 --> 00:16:42,001
And Connor's,
coached AEW girls basketball.

427
00:16:42,001 --> 00:16:44,570
And one of the girls in there,
Molly, was a,

428
00:16:44,570 --> 00:16:47,740
was a trombone
player, so, yeah, the whole jazz band.

429
00:16:47,740 --> 00:16:50,075
So we said get any friends
that might want to play.

430
00:16:50,075 --> 00:16:54,213
And so she grabbed McGee, trumpet player
and a couple others and stuff,

431
00:16:54,213 --> 00:16:55,414
but those were the two ones.

432
00:16:55,414 --> 00:16:58,183
But we would play a dozen songs
or so with the brass.

433
00:16:58,183 --> 00:16:59,251
Poppy's with us some stuff.

434
00:16:59,251 --> 00:17:03,822
Now, about five years ago,
we're playing club.

435
00:17:03,889 --> 00:17:05,657
Yeah,
about five years ago we're playing at,

436
00:17:06,792 --> 00:17:08,794
at, the Red Rock.

437
00:17:08,794 --> 00:17:08,994
Yeah.

438
00:17:08,994 --> 00:17:11,997
And they were home for Thanksgiving.

439
00:17:12,564 --> 00:17:14,900
Molly is now a doctor

440
00:17:14,900 --> 00:17:17,903
and now a lawyer, and Maggie's
now a doctor.

441
00:17:18,203 --> 00:17:20,572
And so we said, hey, welcome back to Brass
Puppies.

442
00:17:20,572 --> 00:17:21,540
Molly's a doctor,

443
00:17:21,540 --> 00:17:25,110
Maggie's a lawyer, and we're still playing
in the same crappy bars.

444
00:17:25,511 --> 00:17:28,247
This. Year. Later.

445
00:17:28,247 --> 00:17:30,082
They're awesome. They were awesome.
We miss them.

446
00:17:30,082 --> 00:17:32,618
We miss them. They're great kids.
They were great friends.

447
00:17:32,618 --> 00:17:34,753
But we've been better to get a longer
than the Beatles.

448
00:17:34,753 --> 00:17:37,022
So, you know, that's not to brag,
but I love it.

449
00:17:37,022 --> 00:17:38,290
Absolutely.

450
00:17:38,290 --> 00:17:38,791
And we love.

451
00:17:38,791 --> 00:17:40,626
Playing for, for ball for a cure.

452
00:17:40,626 --> 00:17:42,061
That's an awesome.

453
00:17:42,061 --> 00:17:44,530
Thank you. That's an awesome, awesome.

454
00:17:44,530 --> 00:17:49,802
I mean, I just we always think about
what we were doing at these kids ages,

455
00:17:49,802 --> 00:17:53,772
and I don't want to talk about it,
but you guys, you guys are, are awesome.

456
00:17:53,772 --> 00:17:55,340
And you've been doing it
since high school.

457
00:17:55,340 --> 00:17:56,642
Yeah. Yeah, we're so much.

458
00:17:56,642 --> 00:17:58,310
So you probably already spoken
about this stuff.

459
00:17:58,310 --> 00:17:59,745
So ten year, ten years.

460
00:17:59,745 --> 00:18:00,079
Yeah.

461
00:18:00,079 --> 00:18:03,415
And, I mean, it started with basketball
that we all played in,

462
00:18:03,482 --> 00:18:07,719
then morphed into the bowling
and into the ball for the jam for a cure.

463
00:18:07,719 --> 00:18:10,923
And and you do the things
superheroes, superheroes and stuff.

464
00:18:11,156 --> 00:18:12,191
So it's awesome.

465
00:18:12,191 --> 00:18:15,060
It really is great and great. So,
and we love playing for you guys.

466
00:18:15,060 --> 00:18:16,361
It's always fun.

467
00:18:16,361 --> 00:18:18,764
And Eric, your thing,
you and I, we go back to you

468
00:18:18,764 --> 00:18:20,999
on the Saint Patrick's Day heroes. He's.

469
00:18:20,999 --> 00:18:22,868
It's just saying. That's it. Yeah. So,

470
00:18:23,936 --> 00:18:26,939
as I said, I
was the marshal and you were the honoree.

471
00:18:27,005 --> 00:18:29,641
The honoree is, you've done something.

472
00:18:29,641 --> 00:18:34,012
You've actually actually done something
good for the town, which is your your,

473
00:18:35,414 --> 00:18:37,382
your charity, the a marshal.

474
00:18:37,382 --> 00:18:41,520
All I had to do was try not to
get too drunk and get off a parade route.

475
00:18:42,254 --> 00:18:43,789
Hey, that's not an easy task.

476
00:18:43,789 --> 00:18:44,423
No, it's.

477
00:18:44,423 --> 00:18:46,825
I mean, come on, you serve a credit. So.

478
00:18:46,825 --> 00:18:48,827
So anyway. What we gave out Mike to sing.

479
00:18:48,827 --> 00:18:49,928
Come on, give us a little song.

480
00:18:49,928 --> 00:18:52,564
I got, let me think, One week when.

481
00:18:52,564 --> 00:18:54,666
Our monkeys is more than you can say.

482
00:18:54,666 --> 00:18:56,602
And so get monkey's meat products.

483
00:18:56,602 --> 00:18:59,738
Look for this circle lamb brain.

484
00:19:00,305 --> 00:19:02,274
All right. We. Yeah. Go set up. Thank you.

485
00:19:02,274 --> 00:19:03,509
Won't stick around.

486
00:19:03,509 --> 00:19:05,878
Eddie's playlist. Yeah.
Thank you. Eddie. We'll see you.

487
00:19:07,246 --> 00:19:07,913
See you.

488
00:19:07,913 --> 00:19:10,916
Take it easy. Man.

489
00:19:12,317 --> 00:19:15,621
Best worst last first.

490
00:19:15,988 --> 00:19:18,390
So I we were in the middle, George,
for a cure.

491
00:19:18,390 --> 00:19:19,892
Now, do you do costumes at everything?

492
00:19:19,892 --> 00:19:22,427
Do you do costumes
because you guys had themed.

493
00:19:22,427 --> 00:19:24,963
Well, matching foursomes for the golf two.

494
00:19:24,963 --> 00:19:26,632
Is that encouraged?
Yeah. Is there a prize?

495
00:19:26,632 --> 00:19:28,467
There's no prize at golf? No.

496
00:19:28,467 --> 00:19:29,968
We really encourage the prizes.

497
00:19:29,968 --> 00:19:31,136
Just for the jam.

498
00:19:31,136 --> 00:19:33,338
But, you know, we like it
when teams get creado

499
00:19:33,338 --> 00:19:35,941
because you want to let people know
who's on your team. Exactly.

500
00:19:35,941 --> 00:19:40,946
So that the amount of costumes
and like, onesies and wigs

501
00:19:40,946 --> 00:19:45,217
I have in my closet,
you think I'm a huge it's it's insane.

502
00:19:45,217 --> 00:19:48,220
My mom is like, whoa, what are you
what is all this stuff?

503
00:19:48,587 --> 00:19:50,122
It's it's it's hysterical.

504
00:19:50,122 --> 00:19:52,357
And I it's it makes it so much more fun.

505
00:19:53,325 --> 00:19:53,692
Nice.

506
00:19:53,692 --> 00:19:57,296
I think, I think my favorite event,
Superhero Sunday,

507
00:19:57,296 --> 00:20:00,799
super Sunday is a relatively new event
for ball, for sure.

508
00:20:00,799 --> 00:20:03,302
We just had our third,
and we're about to do our fourth.

509
00:20:03,302 --> 00:20:06,305
We partnered directly
with Connecticut Children's Foundation.

510
00:20:06,772 --> 00:20:10,542
And last year we had, over 1500 people

511
00:20:10,542 --> 00:20:14,213
who showed up to do A5K on a Sunday
morning and Super Sunday.

512
00:20:14,813 --> 00:20:17,282
And then we have a big community bash
with everybody.

513
00:20:17,282 --> 00:20:19,117
And my favorite part about this event

514
00:20:19,117 --> 00:20:23,422
is it piggybacks on Connecticut Children's
Superhero Day.

515
00:20:23,422 --> 00:20:26,558
So at the hospital
they have one day every year where

516
00:20:26,558 --> 00:20:29,561
everybody dresses up as a superhero
and reminds

517
00:20:29,661 --> 00:20:33,932
the children how courageous they all are,
how they're the superheroes in our lives.

518
00:20:34,066 --> 00:20:37,603
So they have that event at the hospital,
and we, worked

519
00:20:37,603 --> 00:20:41,373
with Connecticut Children's to kind of
bring that outside of the hospital doors.

520
00:20:41,373 --> 00:20:43,442
And that was the beginning
of Superhero Sunday.

521
00:20:43,442 --> 00:20:46,545
So now every year,
that's a good costume party

522
00:20:46,545 --> 00:20:50,849
because you got people running the five K
and some crazy, outfits.

523
00:20:50,849 --> 00:20:55,020
We have a kids K, so like a kids mile
that the kid younger kids can run.

524
00:20:55,621 --> 00:21:00,125
And then afterwards, we just have tons
of tents and community businesses set up.

525
00:21:00,492 --> 00:21:03,095
We did that Wethersfield Cove last year.

526
00:21:03,095 --> 00:21:04,963
And it's just it's a special day.

527
00:21:04,963 --> 00:21:05,998
It's done in the morning.

528
00:21:05,998 --> 00:21:06,632
It's just it's

529
00:21:06,632 --> 00:21:10,168
a, wholesome way to end your week and,
I guess, start the new week.

530
00:21:10,168 --> 00:21:11,570
Nice. Do you know the date on that?

531
00:21:13,305 --> 00:21:14,940
I, you know, I gotta look at my calendar.

532
00:21:14,940 --> 00:21:16,875
It's usually the last Sunday in April.

533
00:21:16,875 --> 00:21:21,280
Okay, so Sunday maybe, next year, last
Sunday in April, and we'll promote it.

534
00:21:21,947 --> 00:21:24,983
It is, it is a great event to attend
I love it.

535
00:21:26,118 --> 00:21:27,653
All right.
You know, try to make that one too.

536
00:21:27,653 --> 00:21:28,320
I like dressing up.

537
00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:31,323
I think I have a,

538
00:21:31,390 --> 00:21:33,992
what superhero I was.

539
00:21:33,992 --> 00:21:35,727
Spider, Superman. Sure.

540
00:21:35,727 --> 00:21:37,596
Okay, that will. Work, I have one.

541
00:21:37,596 --> 00:21:40,599
Have you ever donned a Spiderman costume?

542
00:21:40,699 --> 00:21:41,900
What is Don?

543
00:21:41,900 --> 00:21:44,603
Don like? Worn it. Don. And. Oh.

544
00:21:44,603 --> 00:21:47,506
Yeah,
we all wear Spider-Man's our first year.

545
00:21:47,506 --> 00:21:49,274
But not Superman.
We haven't done the Superman yet.

546
00:21:49,274 --> 00:21:51,510
We haven't done Superman.
We just done Spider-Man. Spider-Man.

547
00:21:51,510 --> 00:21:55,514
It's like you got to be comfortable
with your body.

548
00:21:55,814 --> 00:21:58,183
There's a lot of me.
We are weird and skin tight.

549
00:21:59,251 --> 00:22:00,719
Though you are, you are we?

550
00:22:00,719 --> 00:22:02,020
We threw some shorts on it. Right.

551
00:22:02,020 --> 00:22:04,723
You got to remember,
this is a family event. Yeah.

552
00:22:04,723 --> 00:22:08,427
And we still believe in,
you know, making everybody feel excited.

553
00:22:08,427 --> 00:22:09,294
Yeah. Oh, yeah.

554
00:22:09,294 --> 00:22:13,098
No, I did it at, at a parade
during a camp, and I was just like.

555
00:22:13,098 --> 00:22:14,900
Oh, but, yeah, maybe.

556
00:22:14,900 --> 00:22:17,903
Maybe, you know. Let's shorts up.

557
00:22:17,903 --> 00:22:18,937
Have some.

558
00:22:18,937 --> 00:22:20,672
So first, last, best, worst.

559
00:22:20,672 --> 00:22:22,174
We got your first one.

560
00:22:22,174 --> 00:22:25,243
That was, the our basketball tournament,
so I was.

561
00:22:25,243 --> 00:22:26,278
Oh, yeah. So you.

562
00:22:26,278 --> 00:22:28,413
I remember your mom
telling me you were like.

563
00:22:28,413 --> 00:22:31,950
She was like,
when Luke had that 1500 bucks, it will.

564
00:22:31,950 --> 00:22:33,652
Could have been a million. It him.

565
00:22:33,652 --> 00:22:34,986
It was so proud.

566
00:22:34,986 --> 00:22:38,190
And and then that, like, lit the fire.
Yeah.

567
00:22:38,223 --> 00:22:40,592
Here you are
ten years later, like growing.

568
00:22:40,592 --> 00:22:42,127
And it's just an amazing story.

569
00:22:42,127 --> 00:22:44,830
Well, I think, you know,
and you get this too,

570
00:22:44,830 --> 00:22:48,800
with your friends, Afeni,
that it's not really just all about

571
00:22:48,900 --> 00:22:51,870
how much money you raise,
but how much money you can

572
00:22:51,870 --> 00:22:54,673
raise is a testament to the community
that you're bringing together.

573
00:22:54,673 --> 00:22:56,108
Right? Like so ball for a cure.

574
00:22:56,108 --> 00:22:59,644
Our our mission is to unite communities
around patients and families.

575
00:22:59,644 --> 00:23:03,782
A pediatric cancer, but,
you know, sometimes we get lost

576
00:23:03,782 --> 00:23:06,985
and we need to, you know, raise
as much money, which is our goal, right?

577
00:23:06,985 --> 00:23:09,855
Is to raise as much money
to help as many families as possible.

578
00:23:09,855 --> 00:23:12,124
But it's also to bring people together

579
00:23:12,124 --> 00:23:15,627
to show people that there's a community
behind them, to stand in solidarity.

580
00:23:15,627 --> 00:23:19,698
So when we got that $1,500 that first
year, I was just like, look at this.

581
00:23:19,698 --> 00:23:22,801
Like we actually did something
with the community that we're a part of.

582
00:23:22,801 --> 00:23:25,771
And I think I was more
proud of the people who showed up

583
00:23:26,037 --> 00:23:30,242
for all of us than I was just to get,
you know, some money.

584
00:23:30,242 --> 00:23:32,377
Right? Like it's like you're proud of it.

585
00:23:32,377 --> 00:23:34,413
Then you're like,
I. Got this for playing hoop.

586
00:23:34,413 --> 00:23:37,416
And then and like, you know,
just we did our,

587
00:23:37,916 --> 00:23:41,319
we did our jam for a cure golfer cure
the other weekend.

588
00:23:41,319 --> 00:23:44,790
And this was just one weekend
and we raised over $35,000.

589
00:23:44,790 --> 00:23:46,892
So, you know, like, you can see that.

590
00:23:46,892 --> 00:23:49,161
Yeah, 1500 has has grown.

591
00:23:49,161 --> 00:23:50,662
And and I think,

592
00:23:50,662 --> 00:23:55,267
in our organization, we're proud to report
that we've raised over $500,000

593
00:23:55,634 --> 00:23:59,371
over ten years
for yeah, it's cool for patients

594
00:23:59,371 --> 00:24:02,340
and families of pediatric cancer
and for the Connecticut children's,

595
00:24:02,340 --> 00:24:04,943
Greatest Needs Fund.
So that's amazing. It's been cool.

596
00:24:04,943 --> 00:24:06,778
Half a mil. Yeah.

597
00:24:06,778 --> 00:24:09,147
Jeez. That's. Well, congratulations.

598
00:24:09,147 --> 00:24:11,149
Cheers to that. It's good. Yeah.

599
00:24:12,484 --> 00:24:18,857
To. All rights go over some spine.

600
00:24:18,857 --> 00:24:20,926
We've got some sponsors
here. Direct line Media.

601
00:24:20,926 --> 00:24:24,930
We talked about golf law group, Parkville
management, Keating agency, people's

602
00:24:24,930 --> 00:24:27,933
Bank, the fix, Ivy float 41,

603
00:24:28,200 --> 00:24:31,770
Sally and Bob's and West Hartford lock.

604
00:24:31,770 --> 00:24:33,505
So with West Hartford Lock,

605
00:24:33,505 --> 00:24:37,442
what are three keys
that make you guys a great nonprofit?

606
00:24:37,442 --> 00:24:40,011
Three keys brought to you by West
Hartford Lock.

607
00:24:40,011 --> 00:24:41,012
Yeah.

608
00:24:41,012 --> 00:24:45,016
I think the first thing is
that you want to be fun, right?

609
00:24:45,016 --> 00:24:48,019
Like the goal of a nonprofit
isn't to just,

610
00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:52,090
you know, drag everybody out
for some event that you're running,

611
00:24:52,090 --> 00:24:52,958
but you want it to be

612
00:24:52,958 --> 00:24:56,094
something that people get excited about
and that they rally behind. So.

613
00:24:56,094 --> 00:24:59,498
So that's number one is we try to make
all of our events a lot of fun.

614
00:24:59,564 --> 00:24:59,731
Yeah.

615
00:24:59,731 --> 00:25:02,801
I mean, one of the best things you hear
is right after an event,

616
00:25:03,134 --> 00:25:05,971
someone will be like, I man, I can't
wait for this year and next year.

617
00:25:05,971 --> 00:25:06,371
Yeah.

618
00:25:06,371 --> 00:25:08,373
And like
they already got in their calendars like.

619
00:25:08,373 --> 00:25:11,676
And people that can't come, they're like,
I got to make sure I make time for this

620
00:25:11,676 --> 00:25:15,146
and set aside that weekend for next year
because it's just always so much fun.

621
00:25:15,180 --> 00:25:15,614
Yeah.

622
00:25:15,614 --> 00:25:19,317
And number two is like in that same
vein is the community partners.

623
00:25:19,317 --> 00:25:23,922
Like, there's no way that a small
nonprofit where 100% volunteer run

624
00:25:24,089 --> 00:25:24,823
grassroots,

625
00:25:24,823 --> 00:25:28,827
there's no way that we could succeed
without community partners like New Park

626
00:25:28,827 --> 00:25:33,031
Brewery, like Parkville Market,
like the people over at Tonks says.

627
00:25:33,031 --> 00:25:34,299
Like all of our sponsors,

628
00:25:34,299 --> 00:25:37,969
fresh, and who does all of our shirts
like the list goes on and on and on.

629
00:25:38,136 --> 00:25:40,272
And you can't be successful
without community partners.

630
00:25:40,272 --> 00:25:41,206
So that's number two.

631
00:25:42,574 --> 00:25:43,742
And then I think

632
00:25:43,742 --> 00:25:48,547
the third point is that, you
just the third key is.

633
00:25:48,547 --> 00:25:49,347
Yeah. All right.

634
00:25:49,347 --> 00:25:52,150
The third key is just to have to build
that community.

635
00:25:52,150 --> 00:25:53,018
Right. Like, yeah.

636
00:25:53,018 --> 00:25:54,920
And friends of Feeney, I mean,

637
00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:58,523
the best thing that you guys did,
I think, is be a good friend.

638
00:25:58,557 --> 00:25:59,157
Oh, right.

639
00:25:59,157 --> 00:26:03,361
Like, how do you build a community more
so than just kind of with a slogan

640
00:26:03,361 --> 00:26:06,231
that we all want to get behind? Yeah.
We want to be like your friend.

641
00:26:06,231 --> 00:26:08,967
And and that's how you become successful.

642
00:26:08,967 --> 00:26:10,101
It's like you build a community

643
00:26:10,101 --> 00:26:12,504
that people might not see each other
throughout the year,

644
00:26:12,504 --> 00:26:14,406
but they'll show back up
for that golf tournament

645
00:26:14,406 --> 00:26:16,741
or for that Saint Patrick's Day
after party,

646
00:26:16,741 --> 00:26:18,510
and they'll show up
and they'll see the same people

647
00:26:18,510 --> 00:26:21,546
and they're just like, get,
you know, proud and excited to be doing

648
00:26:21,546 --> 00:26:25,116
something good for the community,
with the community that they love. So,

649
00:26:26,318 --> 00:26:29,321
if I got that right, community partners,

650
00:26:29,788 --> 00:26:32,791
making your events fun in the community
who actually shows up?

651
00:26:33,024 --> 00:26:33,425
Love it.

652
00:26:33,425 --> 00:26:36,361
Three keys. Three keys. And yeah.
Thank you. Yeah.

653
00:26:36,361 --> 00:26:39,331
Like you pointed out, to be a good friend,
this is like,

654
00:26:39,731 --> 00:26:42,634
everyone should be able to get behind
us, drive like a friend,

655
00:26:42,634 --> 00:26:45,837
you know, like I say, we hold the door,
pick up trash is not yours.

656
00:26:45,837 --> 00:26:47,105
Just anything. Be a good friend.

657
00:26:47,105 --> 00:26:47,539
Call it.

658
00:26:47,539 --> 00:26:48,573
Check in on a buddy.

659
00:26:48,573 --> 00:26:51,576
Yeah. Write a handwritten note to someone.

660
00:26:51,676 --> 00:26:52,911
Thank you. Cards.

661
00:26:52,911 --> 00:26:53,745
All different ways to.

662
00:26:53,745 --> 00:26:54,613
Be a laugh.

663
00:26:54,613 --> 00:26:56,414
Ask somebody how their day's
going and actually,

664
00:26:56,414 --> 00:26:58,216
like, mean it and want to hear the answer.

665
00:26:58,216 --> 00:27:00,452
Yeah, you know, like start there.

666
00:27:00,452 --> 00:27:03,521
Also huge thank you to Fresh up Fresh

667
00:27:03,521 --> 00:27:06,558
ink day from Fresh ink involve
all of our sweet.

668
00:27:06,558 --> 00:27:07,125
Yeah cheers.

669
00:27:07,125 --> 00:27:09,995
And they've asked that he loves the ball.

670
00:27:09,995 --> 00:27:10,962
Jam for a cure.

671
00:27:10,962 --> 00:27:12,931
Loves that guy. Knows his music.

672
00:27:12,931 --> 00:27:15,667
Sure loves jam for a cure.

673
00:27:15,667 --> 00:27:16,201
Now he did.

674
00:27:16,201 --> 00:27:18,570
He did cold design that
and send it to Dave.

675
00:27:18,570 --> 00:27:19,070
Yeah.

676
00:27:19,070 --> 00:27:22,073
No, I think I think, I mean,
we had another set of T-shirts, but

677
00:27:22,073 --> 00:27:25,810
I think Dave just kind of
just printed these just on his own accord

678
00:27:25,810 --> 00:27:28,313
and then this and gave us a couple
extra shirts, which is great.

679
00:27:28,313 --> 00:27:32,083
And I saw him rocking the hand,
the ball for cure hat. Wow.

680
00:27:32,617 --> 00:27:35,020
So he's a good guy big time. Oh, yeah.

681
00:27:35,020 --> 00:27:37,155
We got some pizza coming
in. We'll do a better heals.

682
00:27:37,155 --> 00:27:39,257
He's been with us all ten years, right,
I think.

683
00:27:39,257 --> 00:27:41,526
Wasn't he the one who did the shirts
our first year too?

684
00:27:41,526 --> 00:27:42,560
Yeah.

685
00:27:42,560 --> 00:27:43,528
He's he's great man.

686
00:27:43,528 --> 00:27:46,665
And he he truly enjoys it and loves
going to our events,

687
00:27:46,665 --> 00:27:48,266
which is all we can ask for.

688
00:27:48,266 --> 00:27:50,669
Yeah. And his partner
Tom, shout out to us.

689
00:27:50,669 --> 00:27:51,369
Yes, yes.

690
00:27:51,369 --> 00:27:52,771
Hatchets. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

691
00:27:52,771 --> 00:27:53,905
That guy's funny.

692
00:27:53,905 --> 00:27:55,674
Yeah. When you call and talk with him.

693
00:27:55,674 --> 00:27:58,543
Tom touched on
Tommy, I call him I love Tom.

694
00:27:59,711 --> 00:28:00,111
It's gone.

695
00:28:00,111 --> 00:28:01,012
Touchdown. Tom.

696
00:28:01,012 --> 00:28:04,015
I will,

697
00:28:04,282 --> 00:28:05,216
yeah. Awesome.

698
00:28:05,216 --> 00:28:07,285
Awesome stuff you got going on there. So.

699
00:28:07,285 --> 00:28:10,188
Oh, French
Cleaners is our presenting sponsor.

700
00:28:10,188 --> 00:28:12,924
I cannot not think French cleaners.

701
00:28:12,924 --> 00:28:14,392
You ever connect with them or use them?

702
00:28:14,392 --> 00:28:16,027
I got to use a suit all the time.

703
00:28:16,027 --> 00:28:19,597
They're my dry cleaning them in Park Road
or my dry cleaning.

704
00:28:19,597 --> 00:28:21,366
Go to love those guys. Yes.

705
00:28:21,366 --> 00:28:23,501
French
cleaner can get the stain out of anything.

706
00:28:23,501 --> 00:28:26,504
Yeah, I drop wing sauce on a pink shirt.

707
00:28:26,638 --> 00:28:29,374
I got a dirt on a hat once.

708
00:28:29,374 --> 00:28:31,543
Bring it to French.
We need that. Eric. You?

709
00:28:31,543 --> 00:28:32,410
Yeah. Like. Yeah.

710
00:28:32,410 --> 00:28:34,179
I was going to say I could have. Really?

711
00:28:34,179 --> 00:28:36,481
Is that since I somehow
stain everything that I wear.

712
00:28:36,481 --> 00:28:39,084
I cannot wear something
without getting food on it, so.

713
00:28:39,084 --> 00:28:41,553
Yeah.
So then we got some questions. Just like,

714
00:28:42,887 --> 00:28:47,192
what was a moment that you guys sat back
and we're like, man.

715
00:28:47,192 --> 00:28:51,629
Like got emotional about like I'm sure
I'm going to guess it was like the run.

716
00:28:51,629 --> 00:28:53,198
Your five k run sounds like that.

717
00:28:53,198 --> 00:28:55,800
You're really passionate about that one.
But that would be my guest.

718
00:28:55,800 --> 00:28:57,936
Letter to Matt first
and I'll think of mine.

719
00:28:57,936 --> 00:28:59,304
Or Jim on the hot seat.

720
00:28:59,304 --> 00:29:02,040
Yeah. Put me on the hot seat.

721
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:03,708
I mean, as a tough question,

722
00:29:03,708 --> 00:29:06,711
I guess, because, you know,
I think, I think we,

723
00:29:06,745 --> 00:29:11,082
we have, like, a team meeting and like,
and like a collaborative, you know,

724
00:29:11,082 --> 00:29:14,152
sort of, like dinner or something
after all of our events.

725
00:29:14,152 --> 00:29:19,591
And I think every time it's just, wow,
I just can't believe that this is so.

726
00:29:19,591 --> 00:29:21,392
And there's endless opportunities, right?

727
00:29:21,392 --> 00:29:23,628
So just keep spitballing.

728
00:29:23,628 --> 00:29:25,530
After lights
keeps growing and growing and growing.

729
00:29:25,530 --> 00:29:27,999
And I just don't know
if there's an actual moment.

730
00:29:27,999 --> 00:29:29,534
But every time after the event,

731
00:29:30,502 --> 00:29:31,536
we all get together and just

732
00:29:31,536 --> 00:29:35,640
kind of like, just take it all in, like,
all right, well, I guess we just got.

733
00:29:35,640 --> 00:29:36,841
We gotta keep going. We gotta.

734
00:29:36,841 --> 00:29:39,477
We gotta find new ways
to get creative and grow.

735
00:29:39,477 --> 00:29:42,480
So I can't think of a specific event, but,

736
00:29:43,414 --> 00:29:43,982
What I'm.

737
00:29:43,982 --> 00:29:46,251
Going to see
now that I had a minute to think about if,

738
00:29:46,251 --> 00:29:48,386
you know,
you did mention that Super Sunday

739
00:29:48,386 --> 00:29:51,489
and this is an event that really
we get good buy in from the hospital

740
00:29:51,489 --> 00:29:55,126
where a lot of patients and their families
and the staff, the doctors and nurses,

741
00:29:55,126 --> 00:29:56,127
they show up.

742
00:29:56,127 --> 00:29:59,197
And I remember I ran the five K this year.

743
00:29:59,964 --> 00:30:00,799
What were we in?

744
00:30:00,799 --> 00:30:03,368
Incredible costumes this year?
We did Incredibles this year.

745
00:30:03,368 --> 00:30:05,837
No no no no, we were flash this year
right where we were. Flash.

746
00:30:05,837 --> 00:30:08,072
So I, we ran in in a flash costume.

747
00:30:08,072 --> 00:30:11,242
I crossed the finish line
and I see my dad's watching everybody.

748
00:30:11,242 --> 00:30:13,945
So I go and I stand next to my dad,
which is cool, by the way, right?

749
00:30:13,945 --> 00:30:15,747
Like when your whole family gets involved.

750
00:30:15,747 --> 00:30:19,117
And that's how we've been so lucky, is
we got like the best families

751
00:30:19,117 --> 00:30:21,619
who always show up for our events
and help out.

752
00:30:21,619 --> 00:30:24,622
So I'm standing next to my dad
and we're watching people cross,

753
00:30:24,956 --> 00:30:28,159
and there's a little boy
must have been less than five years old,

754
00:30:28,560 --> 00:30:32,730
and he was receiving care at Connecticut
Children's, and he was in a full walker.

755
00:30:32,964 --> 00:30:36,201
And his mom was kind of helping him
get towards the finish line.

756
00:30:36,534 --> 00:30:39,971
And then she let go of the walker
and he started,

757
00:30:39,971 --> 00:30:41,940
you know, walking on his own and slow.

758
00:30:41,940 --> 00:30:44,108
And everybody realized
what was going on. Right?

759
00:30:44,108 --> 00:30:47,111
So everybody just starts
clapping him on at the finish line

760
00:30:47,212 --> 00:30:49,714
and he's going
and he's kind of looking back at mom.

761
00:30:49,714 --> 00:30:52,383
He's smiling,
and he crosses the finish line.

762
00:30:52,383 --> 00:30:53,551
Everybody erupts, right?

763
00:30:53,551 --> 00:30:56,287
Like they're so excited for this kid
who's receiving care.

764
00:30:56,287 --> 00:30:59,123
He has a lot of mobility impairments.

765
00:30:59,123 --> 00:31:01,960
And just like the joy that you saw
on this little kid's face.

766
00:31:01,960 --> 00:31:04,863
And I turned to my dad,
and I was like, that's why we do it.

767
00:31:04,863 --> 00:31:06,130
Yeah, right. There. She's.

768
00:31:06,130 --> 00:31:08,099
Get me in my feels, man. Yeah.

769
00:31:08,099 --> 00:31:09,400
Yeah. Your breath.

770
00:31:10,468 --> 00:31:11,169
That was awesome.

771
00:31:11,169 --> 00:31:11,870
That was great.

772
00:31:11,870 --> 00:31:12,270
That's great.

773
00:31:12,270 --> 00:31:15,273
Sharing that personal experience. Yeah,

774
00:31:15,340 --> 00:31:16,407
I'm a third grade teacher.

775
00:31:16,407 --> 00:31:20,612
So, you know, I've been working with kids
for the past 22 years, and it's a help.

776
00:31:20,612 --> 00:31:23,281
I'm in and out of the classroom.
It's like it's an amazing thing.

777
00:31:23,281 --> 00:31:24,382
You see stuff like that

778
00:31:24,382 --> 00:31:28,052
and just puts a perspective on your life,
you know, like what?

779
00:31:28,052 --> 00:31:31,322
You could be having a bad day
and you're like, that was truly amazing.

780
00:31:31,322 --> 00:31:34,993
So no, nobody makes a bigger impact
on the community

781
00:31:34,993 --> 00:31:37,262
and future generations than teachers.
Yeah.

782
00:31:37,262 --> 00:31:39,364
So like,
shout out to the teachers out there.

783
00:31:39,364 --> 00:31:41,699
You guys are the ones who make it happen.

784
00:31:41,699 --> 00:31:42,600
Absolutely. Thank you.

785
00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:44,802
Thank you.

786
00:31:44,802 --> 00:31:45,336
Oh, yeah.

787
00:31:45,336 --> 00:31:48,339
Speaking of which,
why didn't you become a teacher then?

788
00:31:48,840 --> 00:31:51,843
I made that silly decision.

789
00:31:51,976 --> 00:31:55,246
I went to law school, became a lawyer,
but my mom's a teacher.

790
00:31:55,246 --> 00:31:58,082
My dad's a teacher, my sister's a teacher.

791
00:31:58,082 --> 00:31:59,217
It's just in the bloodline.

792
00:31:59,217 --> 00:32:01,352
So, you know, hopefully I'm still young.

793
00:32:01,352 --> 00:32:03,621
Maybe one day
I'll get back and get into the classroom.

794
00:32:03,621 --> 00:32:04,722
You never know.

795
00:32:04,722 --> 00:32:06,557
Doing this whole law thing, though. First.

796
00:32:06,557 --> 00:32:07,058
Yeah.

797
00:32:07,058 --> 00:32:08,326
Shout out to Coach Reynolds.

798
00:32:08,326 --> 00:32:11,462
Great coach
teacher. Great guy, awesome guy.

799
00:32:11,462 --> 00:32:14,299
Luke and I were actually a camp counselors
that run, right? Yeah.

800
00:32:14,299 --> 00:32:18,403
Together for we went to camp together
and then we became camp counselors

801
00:32:18,403 --> 00:32:22,006
for years after, after
we were too old to actually go to camp.

802
00:32:22,006 --> 00:32:24,208
But the best. Summer job of all time.
Was incredible.

803
00:32:24,208 --> 00:32:26,911
I remember a summer adventure camp and it.
Yeah.

804
00:32:26,911 --> 00:32:30,315
But yeah, we actually, Brian and
Shay was also a camp counselor with us.

805
00:32:31,182 --> 00:32:33,117
Max Kramer
showed up for one day, one time.

806
00:32:34,752 --> 00:32:35,853
Bring your buddy to work day.

807
00:32:35,853 --> 00:32:38,656
I don't know if the camp were,
approved of that one, but.

808
00:32:38,656 --> 00:32:40,291
No, no.

809
00:32:40,291 --> 00:32:42,160
That's great. No. So, yeah.

810
00:32:42,160 --> 00:32:44,095
Camp counselors
halfway to being a teacher.

811
00:32:44,095 --> 00:32:44,896
You're there. You did it.

812
00:32:44,896 --> 00:32:47,198
You experienced it sure is not listening.

813
00:32:47,198 --> 00:32:48,399
Yeah, yeah.

814
00:32:48,399 --> 00:32:51,069
So now. No, I don't want to.
All right. Fun.

815
00:32:51,069 --> 00:32:53,237
No. It's great.

816
00:32:53,237 --> 00:32:57,308
Oh, so that's a question
I ask my favorite teacher, Mrs.

817
00:32:57,308 --> 00:32:57,775
Giraud.

818
00:32:57,775 --> 00:33:00,645
My fifth grade teacher,
practically changed my life.

819
00:33:00,645 --> 00:33:02,947
My parents were going through a divorce.
I was in a tough spot.

820
00:33:02,947 --> 00:33:04,983
She met with my mom. She met with me.

821
00:33:04,983 --> 00:33:06,250
She let me play.

822
00:33:06,250 --> 00:33:06,884
Where in the world?

823
00:33:06,884 --> 00:33:09,187
In Carmen, San Diego,
the Oregon Trail, you know.

824
00:33:09,187 --> 00:33:12,223
And then next, you know, I was sitting
by myself because of my behavior.

825
00:33:12,223 --> 00:33:15,226
But then I got to join a group she like,

826
00:33:15,226 --> 00:33:19,230
and then she became a principal
and then hired me to be a teacher.

827
00:33:19,230 --> 00:33:23,334
So I taught at the same school I went to
as a kid, Kingsbury School in Waterbury.

828
00:33:23,334 --> 00:33:24,836
Wow. My favorite teacher.

829
00:33:24,836 --> 00:33:26,771
So who's your favorite teacher?

830
00:33:27,739 --> 00:33:29,340
I think I'd have to go with, Mr.

831
00:33:29,340 --> 00:33:30,108
Coleman.

832
00:33:30,108 --> 00:33:30,775
He was actually.

833
00:33:30,775 --> 00:33:33,211
George Coleman, but, As you say, Coleman.

834
00:33:33,211 --> 00:33:36,280
Now, he was,
I took ancient Greek in high school

835
00:33:36,280 --> 00:33:39,884
as my language and just kind of like
to try something new.

836
00:33:39,884 --> 00:33:42,887
And he was just super awesome. Super just.

837
00:33:43,021 --> 00:33:43,321
And he.

838
00:33:43,321 --> 00:33:43,955
Oh, we actually.

839
00:33:43,955 --> 00:33:46,958
Yeah, we also went on a, a trip to,

840
00:33:48,393 --> 00:33:50,061
to Europe with him as well, actually.

841
00:33:50,061 --> 00:33:52,397
Well, Dorsey
joined me on the trip as well, but,

842
00:33:52,397 --> 00:33:54,132
basically,
he was the one who convinced me to do it,

843
00:33:54,132 --> 00:33:56,401
and it was one of the coolest experiences
that I've, that I've had.

844
00:33:56,401 --> 00:33:59,370
So, yeah. Dynamic guy. Yeah. He's great.

845
00:33:59,904 --> 00:34:01,639
I got to go with Doug Crampton.

846
00:34:01,639 --> 00:34:03,574
And if you're listening to this,
shout out to Mr.

847
00:34:03,574 --> 00:34:07,678
C, not only was he,
my baseball coach back in the day,

848
00:34:07,678 --> 00:34:09,547
but he was my history
teacher in eighth grade.

849
00:34:10,748 --> 00:34:12,417
One phenomenal teacher.

850
00:34:12,417 --> 00:34:15,820
But he he really instilled the importance
of learning our history

851
00:34:15,820 --> 00:34:18,790
and how that shapes
who you can be as an individual

852
00:34:18,790 --> 00:34:21,793
and what you might want to do based off,
you know, history.

853
00:34:21,959 --> 00:34:24,462
And he taught us
more than just being a student,

854
00:34:24,462 --> 00:34:27,632
but he, you know, showed us how to be
a good person, which is nice, little guy.

855
00:34:27,632 --> 00:34:30,234
So Coach C's men.

856
00:34:30,234 --> 00:34:32,303
Women. And are we very far?

857
00:34:32,303 --> 00:34:34,472
All right, well, coach C,
watch this minute 35.

858
00:34:34,472 --> 00:34:36,641
Coach C right. Mr. C is this red bro?

859
00:34:36,641 --> 00:34:39,410
Mr. C yeah. Red Brook you think? Is
he still there? Is he still around?

860
00:34:39,410 --> 00:34:39,777
Oh, he.

861
00:34:39,777 --> 00:34:40,945
Knows he's retired.

862
00:34:40,945 --> 00:34:43,147
He's taking care of his grandchild up
in Boston.

863
00:34:43,147 --> 00:34:45,216
He moved up there,
but I saw him a few weeks ago.

864
00:34:45,216 --> 00:34:47,919
And I'd be remiss to say Mrs.

865
00:34:47,919 --> 00:34:50,721
Cramp and his wife,
my first grade teacher.

866
00:34:50,721 --> 00:34:54,759
Man, she she
she taught me how to count, how to start.

867
00:34:54,826 --> 00:34:57,295
Right?
Like she was the best teacher she was.

868
00:34:57,295 --> 00:34:58,763
She was fun.

869
00:34:58,763 --> 00:35:01,833
So I think the two of them,
probably they might outshine

870
00:35:01,833 --> 00:35:05,803
my own parents as teachers
for the best couple teachers, Award.

871
00:35:05,803 --> 00:35:06,070
Yeah.

872
00:35:06,070 --> 00:35:07,071
I actually have to change my answer

873
00:35:07,071 --> 00:35:10,074
to just every teacher
that ever had to deal with me as soon.

874
00:35:10,308 --> 00:35:10,508
Yeah,

875
00:35:11,876 --> 00:35:12,376
I know, I

876
00:35:12,376 --> 00:35:13,044
like I said, I

877
00:35:13,044 --> 00:35:16,747
went back to teach at Kingsbury School
and a couple of teachers were still there,

878
00:35:16,781 --> 00:35:20,017
like Miss Wise, that she was like,
you're a teacher.

879
00:35:20,017 --> 00:35:21,819
Like she remember me as a kid.

880
00:35:21,819 --> 00:35:24,956
I was just like, oh, yeah, I was scared.

881
00:35:24,956 --> 00:35:28,759
I mean, it's wise as a student,
and I was scared of her as a teacher.

882
00:35:28,759 --> 00:35:30,862
So you understand
what I had to go through?

883
00:35:30,862 --> 00:35:31,796
Yeah. Yeah.

884
00:35:31,796 --> 00:35:34,265
I know all the tricks

885
00:35:34,265 --> 00:35:35,133
now. Cool.

886
00:35:35,133 --> 00:35:38,302
So ten years coming up. So congrats.

887
00:35:38,302 --> 00:35:41,339
Where do you see
you guys self in like five years from now?

888
00:35:41,339 --> 00:35:43,441
Ten years from now?

889
00:35:43,441 --> 00:35:47,578
You're all high school
buddies, you know, getting up there.

890
00:35:47,578 --> 00:35:48,813
You guys are so old now.

891
00:35:48,813 --> 00:35:50,348
Getting up there, dude. Come on.

892
00:35:50,348 --> 00:35:52,150
I got my best years in front of me.

893
00:35:53,251 --> 00:35:53,851
Come on.

894
00:35:53,851 --> 00:35:54,752
Don't make me feel that way.

895
00:35:54,752 --> 00:35:57,321
You know, we're about to hit 30, so we're,

896
00:35:57,321 --> 00:35:59,891
we're we're a year away from that,
so we're starting to feel it.

897
00:35:59,891 --> 00:36:00,892
I can tell you that much.

898
00:36:00,892 --> 00:36:03,060
We're not playing basketball anymore.

899
00:36:03,060 --> 00:36:05,863
So. 30. Yeah.

900
00:36:05,863 --> 00:36:07,865
But I think we're excited
about the future.

901
00:36:07,865 --> 00:36:10,868
Like Matt was saying, we've grown
every single year since starting.

902
00:36:11,269 --> 00:36:15,773
And I think what we want to do
next is kind of expand our mission,

903
00:36:16,340 --> 00:36:19,210
into different communities
that are doing philanthropic events

904
00:36:19,210 --> 00:36:21,812
and might not know what cause
they want to get behind.

905
00:36:21,812 --> 00:36:25,216
So we actually rolled out,
a college initiative that we've done at

906
00:36:25,750 --> 00:36:28,853
Uri at Michigan and at Maryland now,

907
00:36:28,953 --> 00:36:30,488
where we partner with fraternities

908
00:36:30,488 --> 00:36:33,891
and sororities to kind of like
take our blueprints of our events,

909
00:36:34,692 --> 00:36:37,428
and roll it out in their community
to support patients

910
00:36:37,428 --> 00:36:40,431
and families and pediatric cancer
within their community.

911
00:36:40,731 --> 00:36:45,303
But I think to really execute that well,
I think the next step is hiring

912
00:36:45,303 --> 00:36:49,006
an executive director or somebody
who can devote a lot more time to it.

913
00:36:49,840 --> 00:36:54,145
And really seeing this model,
which is based off community

914
00:36:54,145 --> 00:36:57,648
and bringing people together
for the people within their own community,

915
00:36:57,648 --> 00:37:01,519
kind of rolling that out in other areas
of, the state, in the country.

916
00:37:01,519 --> 00:37:04,889
So I think that that's our lofty five,
ten year goals.

917
00:37:04,889 --> 00:37:08,492
I like, and we're on our way, but,
we just got to get there.

918
00:37:08,526 --> 00:37:09,493
I don't bob the kids.

919
00:37:09,493 --> 00:37:11,829
I like the idea colleges and. Right.

920
00:37:11,829 --> 00:37:14,465
Because the whole thing is about, like,
we started when we were in high school.

921
00:37:14,465 --> 00:37:17,702
And that's not to say that you can't start
at 60 years old doing what we're doing,

922
00:37:17,902 --> 00:37:21,272
but it's a great time to,
you know, bring a group together.

923
00:37:21,272 --> 00:37:24,809
And we have the luxury of saying,
not only will you feel like you're

924
00:37:24,809 --> 00:37:28,412
doing great things in the community, but
you'll never feel closer to your friends

925
00:37:28,713 --> 00:37:31,983
than if you do something with them year
over year to help other people?

926
00:37:33,451 --> 00:37:34,352
I like it.

927
00:37:34,352 --> 00:37:37,321
Yeah. Man.

928
00:37:37,388 --> 00:37:39,724
I'm I'm just happy to finally.

929
00:37:39,724 --> 00:37:40,891
We're, like, connected.

930
00:37:40,891 --> 00:37:43,327
We play hoop together. Yeah.

931
00:37:43,327 --> 00:37:45,129
I can't believe you're only.
You're not there. Yet.

932
00:37:45,129 --> 00:37:47,598
Eric. Sneaky.
Pretty quick. Up and down the court.

933
00:37:47,598 --> 00:37:49,800
All right. Yeah.

934
00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:53,571
Now, funny, when, You likes
to post on the, the block, though.

935
00:37:53,604 --> 00:37:54,739
He love Oreo. Which.

936
00:37:54,739 --> 00:37:56,040
Tom. Oreo. Yeah, yeah.

937
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:59,043
Oreo called me
Feeney. Reese. Feeney. Reese.

938
00:37:59,143 --> 00:38:00,378
Angel. Feeney. Yeah.

939
00:38:00,378 --> 00:38:03,914
Because I, I missed all these layups
that I kept getting my rebound.

940
00:38:03,914 --> 00:38:05,783
Oh, I didn't say
you actually made the shots.

941
00:38:05,783 --> 00:38:07,118
You just post up down there, all.

942
00:38:07,118 --> 00:38:10,021
Right, it's ten in a row.
But I kept getting my board.

943
00:38:10,021 --> 00:38:11,222
He goes, Feeney. Reese.

944
00:38:11,222 --> 00:38:13,791
Yeah, I was like, wow,
that kind of hurt. Just padding.

945
00:38:13,791 --> 00:38:14,825
Mario got me

946
00:38:16,060 --> 00:38:17,695
and time the guy there, right?

947
00:38:17,695 --> 00:38:19,897
Yeah. The shooter.
Yeah yeah yeah yeah. Shoot it.

948
00:38:19,897 --> 00:38:21,999
I mean, when you have to go to that guy
on a Sunday morning

949
00:38:21,999 --> 00:38:25,002
after going out Saturday,
it's it's a nightmare.

950
00:38:25,202 --> 00:38:26,370
Yeah, truly a nightmare.

951
00:38:26,370 --> 00:38:29,273
He keeps
you also very generous. Donated cigars.

952
00:38:29,273 --> 00:38:31,409
Does he donate cigars? Yeah. Yeah.
He donated.

953
00:38:31,409 --> 00:38:34,679
He was out of town this year,
but he donated last year for the cigars.

954
00:38:34,679 --> 00:38:36,213
Great guy, great guy.

955
00:38:36,213 --> 00:38:36,981
And then James and.

956
00:38:36,981 --> 00:38:38,883
Dude, don't mess with Damon on the court.

957
00:38:38,883 --> 00:38:40,985
Yeah, well, you got to remember
Draymond played college ball.

958
00:38:40,985 --> 00:38:41,252
All right.

959
00:38:41,252 --> 00:38:44,255
He's got a little like you know
fundamental leg up on us.

960
00:38:44,255 --> 00:38:44,422
Yeah.

961
00:38:44,422 --> 00:38:47,191
But I'll never be intimidated by that guy.

962
00:38:47,191 --> 00:38:47,758
You can't.

963
00:38:47,758 --> 00:38:48,392
All right I.

964
00:38:48,392 --> 00:38:51,395
Was talking to Jameson last night
at the bunker after the golf tournament.

965
00:38:51,395 --> 00:38:54,498
We were out and he was laying him
a chopping up about how we can get

966
00:38:54,498 --> 00:38:57,635
a New York league and,
maybe doing a tournament there.

967
00:38:58,235 --> 00:39:00,671
And he was just he was like,
he's just got to do he's like,

968
00:39:00,671 --> 00:39:04,008
get those, get those lazy
guys up in New York, get them together.

969
00:39:04,008 --> 00:39:06,310
You guys can said,
you guys can send it to him out there.

970
00:39:06,310 --> 00:39:07,044
And I'll see. He's right.

971
00:39:07,044 --> 00:39:09,447
We should we should get back to our roots.

972
00:39:09,447 --> 00:39:12,016
Yeah I like you know Jamie love that guy.

973
00:39:12,016 --> 00:39:14,618
Now, I think I filed him
once or something.

974
00:39:14,618 --> 00:39:16,620
He's like, Fini looked me dead in pieces.

975
00:39:16,620 --> 00:39:19,824
Don't ever do that again
or it's going to be on kind of like that.

976
00:39:19,824 --> 00:39:22,593
And I was like, okay, got all serious.

977
00:39:22,593 --> 00:39:24,695
Or he said, a screen,
and I ran through it, or

978
00:39:24,695 --> 00:39:28,032
I moved the screen or something
where my shoulder hit his stern.

979
00:39:28,032 --> 00:39:30,935
I he'll, he'll, he'll tell you, yeah. He,
he can take over a game.

980
00:39:30,935 --> 00:39:32,002
Oh yeah, he can do that.

981
00:39:32,002 --> 00:39:35,373
And then oh he's got a great shot. Okay.

982
00:39:35,439 --> 00:39:36,307
Yeah, yeah.

983
00:39:36,307 --> 00:39:38,876
He, he's he's good.
He like that turnaround.

984
00:39:38,876 --> 00:39:41,846
He thinks he's Paul Pierce out the corner
over there. Yeah.

985
00:39:41,846 --> 00:39:42,480
Good.

986
00:39:42,480 --> 00:39:44,115
That's guy I like to guard. Yeah.

987
00:39:44,115 --> 00:39:46,250
Not just because you got some inches I.

988
00:39:46,250 --> 00:39:47,351
That's it. Yeah.

989
00:39:49,053 --> 00:39:49,720
So no.

990
00:39:49,720 --> 00:39:51,889
And then you do some really cool stuff.

991
00:39:51,889 --> 00:39:53,758
We talked yesterday. Longest putt.

992
00:39:53,758 --> 00:39:55,159
I love that stuff.

993
00:39:55,159 --> 00:39:57,661
Yeah. I didn't think about that.
You know we have a golf tournament.

994
00:39:57,661 --> 00:39:58,696
We do longest drive.

995
00:39:58,696 --> 00:40:01,198
We do closest to the whole hole in one,
of course.

996
00:40:01,198 --> 00:40:03,434
But the longest putt.
Like you got to be creative.

997
00:40:03,434 --> 00:40:05,770
Yeah. We are.

998
00:40:05,770 --> 00:40:06,837
It's actually not us.

999
00:40:06,837 --> 00:40:08,639
Like, we lack the creativity here.

1000
00:40:08,639 --> 00:40:11,542
There's other guys on our team
that are amazing, but also our volunteers.

1001
00:40:11,542 --> 00:40:13,310
So each year at our golf tournament.

1002
00:40:13,310 --> 00:40:16,580
And this is why you should play, whether
you're a good golfer or a hacker like us.

1003
00:40:16,714 --> 00:40:17,248
Yeah.

1004
00:40:17,248 --> 00:40:18,949
Because each hole,

1005
00:40:18,949 --> 00:40:20,184
there's something different going on.

1006
00:40:20,184 --> 00:40:24,088
We got all these volunteers out there
who are coming up with new creative

1007
00:40:24,088 --> 00:40:24,422
things.

1008
00:40:24,422 --> 00:40:27,391
Like on one hole
this year, totally not planned.

1009
00:40:27,391 --> 00:40:32,062
They had a handstand competition, and
they had somebody for doing photographs.

1010
00:40:32,163 --> 00:40:35,399
So each team, they get up there,
they're getting up to the tee box

1011
00:40:35,399 --> 00:40:37,201
and they're just like,
hey, we're doing a. Handstand.

1012
00:40:37,201 --> 00:40:39,503
Handstand and everybody was like, what?

1013
00:40:39,503 --> 00:40:41,172
And they all did it and they got pictures.

1014
00:40:41,172 --> 00:40:44,275
And then they put all the pictures off
next to each other of all these people.

1015
00:40:44,275 --> 00:40:48,412
So like our volunteers are the ones who
just keep on thinking of fun things to do.

1016
00:40:48,412 --> 00:40:50,981
But, yeah. And then we got the longest
putt competition.

1017
00:40:50,981 --> 00:40:52,450
I think it was like 28ft.

1018
00:40:52,450 --> 00:40:54,385
Somebody sunk it this year.

1019
00:40:54,385 --> 00:40:55,052
For ten feet?

1020
00:40:55,052 --> 00:40:57,154
Yeah, for like a birdie at longest.

1021
00:40:57,154 --> 00:40:59,623
No, no, there's one hole. One hole.

1022
00:40:59,623 --> 00:41:03,761
And then we've, we've dabbled with,
a shotgun hole where the entire

1023
00:41:03,794 --> 00:41:06,831
the entire team has a shotgun, a beer,
and then you time it nice.

1024
00:41:06,897 --> 00:41:07,731
Yeah. That that's,

1025
00:41:08,732 --> 00:41:10,034
that one's optional, folks.

1026
00:41:10,034 --> 00:41:11,836
All right.

1027
00:41:11,836 --> 00:41:15,272
We thought of one
where your team spreads out down

1028
00:41:15,272 --> 00:41:18,209
and you toss the ball,
and that's your, like, a reel out.

1029
00:41:18,209 --> 00:41:21,111
Yeah, really? I say I throw to you,
I catch. It as cool.

1030
00:41:21,111 --> 00:41:23,481
But if we drop it, we hit from here
our first shot.

1031
00:41:23,481 --> 00:41:26,684
But if I catch it, go to my third dude
and then the fourth guy.

1032
00:41:26,717 --> 00:41:27,952
You can start your first shot.

1033
00:41:27,952 --> 00:41:30,054
Yeah. Way ahead. So. Wow.

1034
00:41:30,054 --> 00:41:32,323
You got to get some soft mitts in there.

1035
00:41:32,323 --> 00:41:33,190
Water balloon.

1036
00:41:33,190 --> 00:41:35,793
I want those high school receivers
I might need.

1037
00:41:35,793 --> 00:41:36,760
You know.

1038
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:38,462
We had this guy jumps by key.

1039
00:41:38,462 --> 00:41:41,632
He's like, TikTok. You one. Yeah,
yeah. Yes.

1040
00:41:41,665 --> 00:41:43,133
He he can touch 11ft.

1041
00:41:43,133 --> 00:41:44,435
He brought that jump the vert.

1042
00:41:44,435 --> 00:41:46,237
So we were testing vert on. All right.

1043
00:41:46,237 --> 00:41:48,806
Now you got to tell us
what did you get me.

1044
00:41:48,806 --> 00:41:49,373
Yeah. You

1045
00:41:50,574 --> 00:41:53,577
do I can't even jump over a dollar bill.

1046
00:41:53,777 --> 00:41:54,645
I'm in the video.

1047
00:41:54,645 --> 00:41:57,648
I'm like hanging my head in shame,
swinging and missing.

1048
00:41:57,681 --> 00:41:58,849
No hops whatsoever.

1049
00:41:58,849 --> 00:42:00,684
Yeah, I got lead, lead feet too.

1050
00:42:00,684 --> 00:42:05,189
So we've also had, we brought a guy out
one time, has, like, a golf ball launcher

1051
00:42:05,189 --> 00:42:06,857
where you. Can hand it
the can and. Hit and.

1052
00:42:06,857 --> 00:42:10,528
Yeah, and it shoots at like 300
freaking yards on a par five.

1053
00:42:10,995 --> 00:42:13,264
I was thinking. About doing that, too.
That's a good one. Yeah.

1054
00:42:13,264 --> 00:42:15,566
And there's just fun ways
to get people involved.

1055
00:42:15,566 --> 00:42:16,767
We have a whole fortune hole.

1056
00:42:16,767 --> 00:42:19,770
So, like, if you want to step up and play,
you spin the wheel,

1057
00:42:20,070 --> 00:42:21,038
and it might be great, right?

1058
00:42:21,038 --> 00:42:25,342
It might be like you shoot from the red
tees or like you get a pack of balls,

1059
00:42:25,342 --> 00:42:28,646
but it also might be like, oh,
you have to shoot with a pitching wedge,

1060
00:42:28,646 --> 00:42:32,850
or you have to, you know, move back to the
the tips that the furthest tee box back.

1061
00:42:32,850 --> 00:42:34,752
So it's, it's a whole fortune.

1062
00:42:34,752 --> 00:42:36,353
And we have we have good sponsors.

1063
00:42:36,353 --> 00:42:40,591
I think this year we were, Wentworth
sponsored that or car insurance agency.

1064
00:42:40,891 --> 00:42:41,959
Hoffman was the sponsor.

1065
00:42:41,959 --> 00:42:44,194
Yeah, yeah. So it's, Gavin Wentworth.

1066
00:42:45,896 --> 00:42:48,032
Is. I know Ned is the one who runs it.

1067
00:42:48,032 --> 00:42:50,701
I'm not sure if, you know, he has a son
on all of his name's Gavin and I.

1068
00:42:50,701 --> 00:42:51,602
Oh, great.

1069
00:42:51,602 --> 00:42:53,003
Great. It's the same one.

1070
00:42:53,003 --> 00:42:55,139
Yeah. Great guy. Yeah.

1071
00:42:55,139 --> 00:42:56,740
Yeah.
What else do we do? That was a good one.

1072
00:42:56,740 --> 00:42:58,442
No, those are great. I've seen them, too.

1073
00:42:58,442 --> 00:43:01,412
You sit in a recliner
and you have the drive from sitting down.

1074
00:43:01,612 --> 00:43:03,113
I've never seen that, but that's awesome.

1075
00:43:03,113 --> 00:43:04,682
Does that come with you the whole round?

1076
00:43:04,682 --> 00:43:07,518
You know, you every hole.

1077
00:43:07,518 --> 00:43:07,985
Oh, yeah.

1078
00:43:07,985 --> 00:43:10,721
We get game day,
Connor from the yard goats to heckle.

1079
00:43:10,721 --> 00:43:13,157
And you pay him the shut up
or you pay him to heckle more.

1080
00:43:13,157 --> 00:43:15,859
Yeah that one a popular.
And shout out to game day. Connor.

1081
00:43:15,859 --> 00:43:20,831
He just did a, a tournament over at,
tumble Brook in honor of his dad. Yep.

1082
00:43:21,498 --> 00:43:23,968
And, I heard it was spectacular.
The dinner.

1083
00:43:23,968 --> 00:43:27,605
I had school that day, but
I went to the after party, for the rally.

1084
00:43:27,605 --> 00:43:28,172
For it?

1085
00:43:28,172 --> 00:43:31,041
Yeah, I couldn't I'm sick.

1086
00:43:31,041 --> 00:43:32,910
Yeah. Like, see,
you know, there's pictures of me golfing.

1087
00:43:32,910 --> 00:43:34,078
Yeah, yeah.

1088
00:43:34,078 --> 00:43:36,347
Yeah, but I went to the dinner after.

1089
00:43:36,347 --> 00:43:39,216
It was a great time. He's a great guy.
I love that dude. Game day. Connor.

1090
00:43:39,216 --> 00:43:41,218
Podcast guests go back and check it out.

1091
00:43:41,218 --> 00:43:43,454
And, so good stuff.

1092
00:43:43,454 --> 00:43:44,989
All right. So.

1093
00:43:44,989 --> 00:43:46,890
Oh, this is sponsored by Sally and Bob's.

1094
00:43:46,890 --> 00:43:49,326
You guys get the gift cards involved.

1095
00:43:49,326 --> 00:43:49,760
Thank you.

1096
00:43:49,760 --> 00:43:51,362
Helen and Cesar.

1097
00:43:51,362 --> 00:43:54,031
You can gift cards to Sally and Bob's.
I don't have them. But why?

1098
00:43:54,031 --> 00:43:55,833
Getting chocolate chip pancakes?

1099
00:43:55,833 --> 00:43:57,101
That's. That's dynamite.

1100
00:43:57,101 --> 00:43:59,937
So what's your go to at Sally and Bob?

1101
00:43:59,937 --> 00:44:01,905
I love I'm I'm a simple guy.

1102
00:44:01,905 --> 00:44:05,576
I like the two eggs, two things
a bacon and some, two.

1103
00:44:05,576 --> 00:44:06,343
Two, two. Yeah.

1104
00:44:06,343 --> 00:44:08,712
The chocolate chip pancakes
I swap for the chocolate chip.

1105
00:44:08,712 --> 00:44:11,215
You know,
I pay a couple extra bucks for the chips,

1106
00:44:11,215 --> 00:44:13,717
but my, my girlfriend,
she loves the, eggs Benedict.

1107
00:44:13,717 --> 00:44:15,753
Oh, yes. That's what I get. I'm
the eggs Benedict.

1108
00:44:15,753 --> 00:44:18,122
Yeah, I mean. Benny with the hash.

1109
00:44:18,122 --> 00:44:20,124
Yeah, yeah. That's you. Yes.

1110
00:44:21,525 --> 00:44:23,260
One year I made Belize.

1111
00:44:23,260 --> 00:44:25,696
I introduced the class, and I'm like,
hey, Mr.

1112
00:44:25,696 --> 00:44:26,730
Eric Feeney, bye bye bye.

1113
00:44:26,730 --> 00:44:29,400
My favorite food is tacos. My least
favorite food?

1114
00:44:29,400 --> 00:44:31,602
Chocolate chip pancakes.

1115
00:44:31,602 --> 00:44:32,670
The whole year, Mr.

1116
00:44:32,670 --> 00:44:35,339
Feeney, we're going to make you eat
chocolate chip pancakes.

1117
00:44:35,339 --> 00:44:36,440
Sure. Problem, man.

1118
00:44:36,440 --> 00:44:37,441
What's wrong with some chocolate?

1119
00:44:37,441 --> 00:44:40,611
I separate you have to separate
your desserts in your breakfast.

1120
00:44:40,878 --> 00:44:43,614
Chocolate as a dessert pancake is a brick.

1121
00:44:43,614 --> 00:44:45,282
All right, now, let me add your question.

1122
00:44:45,282 --> 00:44:47,685
Do you have a donut
every once in a while? True.

1123
00:44:47,685 --> 00:44:50,688
All right,
come on. Case closed, your honor.

1124
00:44:50,688 --> 00:44:53,223
Who brought the lawyer? Who got him?

1125
00:44:53,223 --> 00:44:54,358
Who brought the lawyer?

1126
00:44:54,358 --> 00:44:57,061
So I said,
and then we do. I, aspect testing.

1127
00:44:57,061 --> 00:45:00,531
So I will tell all the kids
if you really work hard and eat the dude,

1128
00:45:00,564 --> 00:45:03,801
do well at the aspect testing out,
eat chocolate chip pancakes.

1129
00:45:03,901 --> 00:45:04,802
That's all.

1130
00:45:04,802 --> 00:45:08,272
Dude, I, I had 20 kids bring in pancakes
and I had to eat

1131
00:45:08,272 --> 00:45:09,873
like a little bit of each one.

1132
00:45:09,873 --> 00:45:12,876
Somewhere in Ziploc bag,
somewhere in like, plates.

1133
00:45:12,910 --> 00:45:17,581
One worked at Avon Country Deli,
so those were like buttery and tasty.

1134
00:45:17,581 --> 00:45:18,716
Melted. That was awesome.

1135
00:45:18,716 --> 00:45:20,851
I feel so bad for you. Horrible.

1136
00:45:20,851 --> 00:45:22,886
And one kid would goes this if he did.

1137
00:45:22,886 --> 00:45:24,588
Did you just do this for free lunch?

1138
00:45:24,588 --> 00:45:26,657
And I was like, well, kind of.

1139
00:45:26,657 --> 00:45:28,158
But I can answer pancakes.

1140
00:45:28,158 --> 00:45:30,461
But Sally and Bob's
back to its favorite restaurant,

1141
00:45:30,461 --> 00:45:32,429
and there's a follow up
question favorite restaurant?

1142
00:45:32,429 --> 00:45:35,432
Anyone in the world doesn't
have to be West Hartford Beetle Tavern.

1143
00:45:35,699 --> 00:45:36,333
Oh, nice.

1144
00:45:37,835 --> 00:45:40,471
That is a crazy question.

1145
00:45:40,471 --> 00:45:44,274
I think right now, Savoy, I go to several
times one of my favorite places to go.

1146
00:45:44,608 --> 00:45:46,744
Nice. They had a Tommy cutlet pizza.

1147
00:45:46,744 --> 00:45:47,377
Did you ever try that?

1148
00:45:47,377 --> 00:45:51,615
Oh, I haven't, I usually get the,
the Betty Rivet as my go to.

1149
00:45:51,615 --> 00:45:53,717
And the salsa prieto with the hot oil,

1150
00:45:53,717 --> 00:45:56,787
and I'm probably saying that wrong,
but I got salsa pizza pizza over here.

1151
00:45:57,287 --> 00:45:58,655
They say that right around.

1152
00:45:58,655 --> 00:46:02,025
So it's so, so proud of,
All right, so you're Ashton?

1153
00:46:02,025 --> 00:46:02,893
No, I'm in town.

1154
00:46:02,893 --> 00:46:05,562
You're at beach Lou.
You can eat for guests, dead

1155
00:46:05,562 --> 00:46:08,565
or alive, anywhere in the world,
who you eat and what.

1156
00:46:08,632 --> 00:46:10,267
And we'll go to you next for guests.

1157
00:46:10,267 --> 00:46:13,270
Anyone in the world, man.

1158
00:46:15,339 --> 00:46:17,641
Probably throwing Larry
Bird up there right away.

1159
00:46:17,641 --> 00:46:19,276
Yes. Gonna say, like.

1160
00:46:19,276 --> 00:46:20,978
One of my favorite
basketball players ever.

1161
00:46:23,147 --> 00:46:24,248
I have a Larry Bird shrine.

1162
00:46:24,248 --> 00:46:25,983
Oh, I used to have a shrine in my house.

1163
00:46:25,983 --> 00:46:28,619
I'm gonna ask. To pray to it.

1164
00:46:28,619 --> 00:46:30,754
I'm gonna throw a George Washington
on that list.

1165
00:46:30,754 --> 00:46:33,423
I think it would be interesting,
but pre wooden teeth. Right?

1166
00:46:33,423 --> 00:46:36,426
I don't know if I can eat with that
all day.

1167
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:39,263
And then

1168
00:46:39,263 --> 00:46:40,397
who is the third one?

1169
00:46:40,397 --> 00:46:43,734
I got a probably my boy Tom Brady.

1170
00:46:43,734 --> 00:46:45,235
I know that
might be controversial out there,

1171
00:46:45,235 --> 00:46:50,040
but he's my guy, so I'm going
Brady Bird in Washington.

1172
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:52,509
You get one more for oh or if you want.

1173
00:46:52,509 --> 00:46:53,911
Probably Eric.

1174
00:46:53,911 --> 00:46:56,914
Eric Feeney. Yeah let's go.

1175
00:46:57,014 --> 00:46:59,683
Guy. Keep the conversation. Going as.

1176
00:46:59,683 --> 00:47:00,384
I don't.

1177
00:47:00,384 --> 00:47:03,520
I during recess I throw
we used to do two hand touch.

1178
00:47:03,654 --> 00:47:03,821
Yeah.

1179
00:47:03,821 --> 00:47:07,457
And the Tom Brady of recess
I threw for a million yards zero

1180
00:47:07,457 --> 00:47:12,429
interceptions all touchdowns
I put the put it on the target snap now.

1181
00:47:12,796 --> 00:47:13,163
Yeah.

1182
00:47:13,163 --> 00:47:14,631
You know just oh I'm.

1183
00:47:14,631 --> 00:47:16,800
On both teams I'm very fair
and I'm just so.

1184
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:18,969
Accurate Eric as I mentioned this. Yeah.

1185
00:47:18,969 --> 00:47:23,006
But I grew up across the street
from Wolcott to where he threw these dimes

1186
00:47:23,006 --> 00:47:24,041
during recess.

1187
00:47:24,041 --> 00:47:25,943
And that's really my old turf.

1188
00:47:25,943 --> 00:47:29,746
I clocked like a good 18 years
on that turf at Wolcott.

1189
00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:30,647
So I don't know.

1190
00:47:30,647 --> 00:47:32,883
I mean, I. Had my I had a little workout
challenge there too.

1191
00:47:32,883 --> 00:47:35,185
I think I do career. On either of goals.

1192
00:47:35,185 --> 00:47:38,322
I, I I've, I
you know, I'll admit it on on the podcast

1193
00:47:38,322 --> 00:47:41,491
I might have embellished
my amount of wins and backyard.

1194
00:47:41,491 --> 00:47:41,892
But I want.

1195
00:47:41,892 --> 00:47:45,696
To say he had some crazy claim on
how many wins he had in backyard football.

1196
00:47:45,696 --> 00:47:49,032
And it was so outlandishly just wrong.

1197
00:47:49,967 --> 00:47:51,468
I don't know, you've had you admitted you.

1198
00:47:51,468 --> 00:47:53,437
I mean, if you were on my team,
you're winning now, is it?

1199
00:47:53,437 --> 00:47:54,271
You've come a long way.

1200
00:47:54,271 --> 00:47:56,306
So I'm glad you admitted that.
I just a little bit in.

1201
00:47:56,306 --> 00:48:01,011
My buddy Ty Tran, board of directors, JC
guy, he says Feeney

1202
00:48:01,245 --> 00:48:04,047
I'm the all time leading scorer at it Park

1203
00:48:05,549 --> 00:48:06,783
and I go on the fast way.

1204
00:48:06,783 --> 00:48:08,619
Take him out. Yeah, yeah.

1205
00:48:08,619 --> 00:48:10,754
So you're the all time leading touchdowns.

1206
00:48:10,754 --> 00:48:13,657
Home runs out with a walk at school.
Yeah. Yeah.

1207
00:48:13,657 --> 00:48:16,960
Ty's got Wolcott Park scoring
okay I got recess.

1208
00:48:16,960 --> 00:48:17,427
Touchdown.

1209
00:48:17,427 --> 00:48:18,228
All right. Fair enough.

1210
00:48:18,228 --> 00:48:21,231
I wasn't out there for recess

1211
00:48:21,331 --> 00:48:22,366
for guests.

1212
00:48:22,366 --> 00:48:25,369
Oh, I probably go Dan Hurley.

1213
00:48:25,903 --> 00:48:27,638
One I'm. Trying to get him on the part.

1214
00:48:27,638 --> 00:48:28,272
I'm all right.

1215
00:48:28,272 --> 00:48:30,841
I'm trying. He said he would. Danny,
what are you waiting for?

1216
00:48:30,841 --> 00:48:31,708
Yeah. Come on, come on.

1217
00:48:31,708 --> 00:48:34,711
Can we give them Philly? Dude,

1218
00:48:34,711 --> 00:48:37,047
These are your people here, all right.

1219
00:48:37,047 --> 00:48:37,247
What?

1220
00:48:37,247 --> 00:48:38,849
Season ticket holder. Damn it.

1221
00:48:38,849 --> 00:48:40,951
Come on. Our events sale.

1222
00:48:40,951 --> 00:48:44,254
But so then I do
Drew Brees on the Saints fan.

1223
00:48:45,322 --> 00:48:47,090
I do Mac Miller, my favorite artist.

1224
00:48:47,090 --> 00:48:47,925
Oh, I like Mac.

1225
00:48:47,925 --> 00:48:52,462
And then, honestly, I'm not on Twitter
by any means, but I think I would do

1226
00:48:52,462 --> 00:48:55,933
Jerry Garcia just because of
just the legends of of who he is.

1227
00:48:56,867 --> 00:48:59,503
I like it. Yeah, not George Washington.

1228
00:48:59,503 --> 00:49:00,637
Did you. See.

1229
00:49:00,637 --> 00:49:02,940
No appreciation of history here.

1230
00:49:02,940 --> 00:49:05,475
Mac Miller, George Washington,

1231
00:49:05,475 --> 00:49:08,078
did you see that line for his bobbleheads
at Pirates Stadium?

1232
00:49:08,078 --> 00:49:08,578
When they did it?

1233
00:49:08,578 --> 00:49:10,580
They did bobbleheads for that.

1234
00:49:10,580 --> 00:49:12,749
I think a corny like Mac Miller Day.

1235
00:49:12,749 --> 00:49:13,917
But yeah, it was crazy.

1236
00:49:13,917 --> 00:49:16,153
It was lined up
like five hours prior to the game.

1237
00:49:17,387 --> 00:49:17,888
All right, all right.

1238
00:49:17,888 --> 00:49:19,323
No no no no no no five.

1239
00:49:19,323 --> 00:49:21,124
You got to. Go. You're four.

1240
00:49:21,124 --> 00:49:23,193
I've always

1241
00:49:23,193 --> 00:49:24,861
Mister Rogers. Okay.

1242
00:49:24,861 --> 00:49:26,330
Love that man.

1243
00:49:26,330 --> 00:49:27,597
That's a wholesome.

1244
00:49:27,597 --> 00:49:28,966
Yeah. Right there. Yeah, yeah.

1245
00:49:28,966 --> 00:49:30,767
Old dirty bastard from the Wu-Tang clan.

1246
00:49:30,767 --> 00:49:32,402
Okay, okay.

1247
00:49:32,402 --> 00:49:35,038
All right. That.

1248
00:49:35,038 --> 00:49:37,007
Abraham Lincoln

1249
00:49:37,007 --> 00:49:40,610
and my wife, Nicole.

1250
00:49:40,644 --> 00:49:43,413
Whoa! Hey. Damn.

1251
00:49:43,413 --> 00:49:44,014
I'm changing.

1252
00:49:44,014 --> 00:49:45,215
I'm changing my mind. Lizzy.

1253
00:49:45,215 --> 00:49:47,684
You're in. Eric. You're out.

1254
00:49:47,684 --> 00:49:48,352
No, I've seen that.

1255
00:49:48,352 --> 00:49:50,887
I've seen a guy do that. Move on.
I was like that smooth.

1256
00:49:50,887 --> 00:49:54,858
Yeah, I got to remember that move, I
or I really meant it from the heart.

1257
00:49:54,858 --> 00:49:55,792
Yeah, yeah.

1258
00:49:55,792 --> 00:49:58,795
My wife, Afeni, I love you.

1259
00:49:59,162 --> 00:50:00,430
Oh, no. No. That's great.

1260
00:50:00,430 --> 00:50:02,399
Do you have any questions for me?

1261
00:50:02,399 --> 00:50:02,833
That was a good.

1262
00:50:02,833 --> 00:50:04,835
I like how you spun that
on me. Well done, well done.

1263
00:50:06,503 --> 00:50:07,637
How did you guys get started?

1264
00:50:07,637 --> 00:50:08,372
Yeah.

1265
00:50:08,372 --> 00:50:09,940
So, yeah, 12 years ago now.

1266
00:50:09,940 --> 00:50:13,443
13 years ago
now, I got my first job at West Hartford.

1267
00:50:13,443 --> 00:50:14,911
I was a fifth grade teacher.

1268
00:50:14,911 --> 00:50:17,247
Gabby Solon was in my class. Unexpectedly.

1269
00:50:17,247 --> 00:50:20,250
Her dad had a heart attack.

1270
00:50:21,051 --> 00:50:21,918
We had to do something.

1271
00:50:21,918 --> 00:50:24,421
I was a new dad at the time.
I'm from a divorce family.

1272
00:50:24,421 --> 00:50:26,656
I know how it is
not to see my dad every once in a while.

1273
00:50:26,656 --> 00:50:28,625
I could never imagine
never seeing him again.

1274
00:50:28,625 --> 00:50:30,327
So we did GoFundMe.

1275
00:50:30,327 --> 00:50:32,295
We marched in the Park Road parade.

1276
00:50:32,295 --> 00:50:33,196
It was like a gag.

1277
00:50:33,196 --> 00:50:34,398
They were like the Friends of Feeney,

1278
00:50:34,398 --> 00:50:37,401
because the kids on a float
is like a rinky dink,

1279
00:50:37,534 --> 00:50:40,370
trailer and,

1280
00:50:40,370 --> 00:50:42,305
but GoFundMe, you come to find out taxes.

1281
00:50:42,305 --> 00:50:44,841
The recipient
takes a portion of every donation.

1282
00:50:44,841 --> 00:50:45,709
The following year.

1283
00:50:45,709 --> 00:50:49,279
I'm teaching third grade
at this time, and Rashad, his dad,

1284
00:50:49,279 --> 00:50:52,282
gets shot
and killed at a boxing event in Hartford.

1285
00:50:52,482 --> 00:50:55,085
So I'm like, oh, this is too much.

1286
00:50:55,085 --> 00:50:57,421
And I think we
I called a couple of lawyers

1287
00:50:57,421 --> 00:50:59,556
and we worked out where we got an,

1288
00:50:59,556 --> 00:51:03,026
nonprofit, and we've been helping families
ever since.

1289
00:51:03,026 --> 00:51:08,498
We just helped our 125th family
and provided over $260,000.

1290
00:51:08,498 --> 00:51:11,234
We're now up to your half a million.
Yeah. You got ten. Years. Yeah,

1291
00:51:12,536 --> 00:51:13,770
yeah.

1292
00:51:13,770 --> 00:51:15,739
That's so that's that's cool man. So yeah.

1293
00:51:15,739 --> 00:51:17,674
So it's it all starts somewhere, right?

1294
00:51:17,674 --> 00:51:19,743
And we just continue to grow.

1295
00:51:19,743 --> 00:51:21,912
And then I saw something
about to be a good friend.

1296
00:51:21,912 --> 00:51:24,981
And I'm like, you know,
I need, like, the friends of senior, like,

1297
00:51:24,981 --> 00:51:29,519
you know, we got a slogan or, you know,
green is our brand of color every day.

1298
00:51:29,519 --> 00:51:32,355
Treat every day like Saint Patty's Day,
you know, green.

1299
00:51:32,355 --> 00:51:34,157
Be a good friend.

1300
00:51:34,157 --> 00:51:35,959
I've said it a million times.

1301
00:51:35,959 --> 00:51:36,493
And again,

1302
00:51:36,493 --> 00:51:41,298
having children of my own, I want to model
that where we don't have everything.

1303
00:51:41,298 --> 00:51:42,232
You know,

1304
00:51:42,232 --> 00:51:46,803
we're getting by, but we have to give back
and they come to events, their help out.

1305
00:51:46,803 --> 00:51:47,871
So I'm so happy.

1306
00:51:47,871 --> 00:51:50,340
My daughters, my wife, family.

1307
00:51:50,340 --> 00:51:53,110
Marty's a retired teacher.
You were talking about teachers earlier?

1308
00:51:54,544 --> 00:51:57,047
Jen is an occupational therapist
at Wolcott.

1309
00:51:57,047 --> 00:51:58,882
So great team I.

1310
00:51:58,882 --> 00:52:01,885
We've been just trying to help
as many families as we can.

1311
00:52:01,885 --> 00:52:04,020
We create a donate request form.

1312
00:52:04,020 --> 00:52:06,990
We're getting, like, at least

1313
00:52:06,990 --> 00:52:09,726
I want to say once a week
someone's requesting.

1314
00:52:09,726 --> 00:52:12,729
There's so much tragedy
and heartbreak in the world.

1315
00:52:13,363 --> 00:52:14,664
So we're just trying to help.

1316
00:52:14,664 --> 00:52:15,632
Yeah. So, yeah.

1317
00:52:15,632 --> 00:52:18,602
Good question.
Thanks for asking. How Reza,

1318
00:52:19,069 --> 00:52:23,106
you know, how do you think
that running this nonprofit

1319
00:52:23,340 --> 00:52:25,609
and working with the families
who are experiencing

1320
00:52:25,609 --> 00:52:28,345
hardship has changed
who you are as a teacher?

1321
00:52:28,345 --> 00:52:31,681
Oh, yeah,
I noticed that, too, at school, too.

1322
00:52:31,681 --> 00:52:34,651
It's like I do that. They're like,
come on.

1323
00:52:34,951 --> 00:52:37,687
I always encourage
you want to be a good classmate.

1324
00:52:37,687 --> 00:52:40,590
You want to be a good learner,
but you also want to be a good friend.

1325
00:52:40,590 --> 00:52:42,526
Encourage the kid to play.

1326
00:52:42,526 --> 00:52:45,996
That is all sitting alone at recess,
or help a friend

1327
00:52:46,096 --> 00:52:49,699
that's struggling in a
in a problem at school or a math equation.

1328
00:52:50,066 --> 00:52:52,969
So I always saw kid walk by trash.

1329
00:52:52,969 --> 00:52:54,504
I'm like, oh, can you pick that up?

1330
00:52:54,504 --> 00:52:56,173
Well, it's not mine. Why?

1331
00:52:56,173 --> 00:52:58,742
I could say, hey,
we'll be a good friend and pick it up.

1332
00:52:58,742 --> 00:53:01,511
And then like, something
triggers and registers like,

1333
00:53:01,511 --> 00:53:04,681
oh, so I use that a lot
actually in the classroom.

1334
00:53:04,681 --> 00:53:05,248
Be a good friend.

1335
00:53:05,248 --> 00:53:08,885
And and now the kids in turn,
some kid in fourth grade

1336
00:53:09,452 --> 00:53:10,921
was running for vice president.

1337
00:53:10,921 --> 00:53:14,057
Moms just sent me the video
and shout out to Hudson.

1338
00:53:14,057 --> 00:53:16,860
My guy was like, warm my heart.

1339
00:53:16,860 --> 00:53:19,663
He's like the ten reasons
I'm good at vice principal.

1340
00:53:19,663 --> 00:53:23,200
I'm going to be a good vice president
for the student council of walk at school.

1341
00:53:23,200 --> 00:53:23,900
He's like one.

1342
00:53:24,935 --> 00:53:26,603
I forgot what they were, but he gets to.

1343
00:53:26,603 --> 00:53:29,539
Then he goes, six, seven.

1344
00:53:29,539 --> 00:53:31,508
I'm going to be a good friend,
just like Mr.

1345
00:53:31,508 --> 00:53:32,342
Feeney taught me.

1346
00:53:32,342 --> 00:53:34,711
And I was like, oh, yeah, fourth grade.

1347
00:53:34,711 --> 00:53:35,712
I had him in 30.

1348
00:53:35,712 --> 00:53:38,148
He remembers that,

1349
00:53:38,148 --> 00:53:40,650
in the six seven gag is like a thing
the kids do now.

1350
00:53:40,650 --> 00:53:41,918
I don't know if you know that trick.

1351
00:53:41,918 --> 00:53:43,153
You probably don't, I?

1352
00:53:43,153 --> 00:53:45,088
I see it on my Twitter.

1353
00:53:45,088 --> 00:53:46,323
I don't understand what it is.

1354
00:53:46,323 --> 00:53:48,391
I don't I don't see it, I see it.

1355
00:53:48,391 --> 00:53:49,392
I know you're talking. Yeah.

1356
00:53:49,392 --> 00:53:52,329
So the kid did it, but I was six seven
and that got

1357
00:53:52,329 --> 00:53:55,532
that automatically got pop from the crowd
because then the kids and then he's like,

1358
00:53:55,532 --> 00:53:57,867
oh, I'm being a good friend.
I should just pull it up.

1359
00:53:57,867 --> 00:54:00,704
But a great video with. All my heart.

1360
00:54:00,704 --> 00:54:02,973
Number six seven I'm a good friend. You

1361
00:54:04,574 --> 00:54:04,908
number.

1362
00:54:04,908 --> 00:54:07,177
Naturally. I love to make people laugh.

1363
00:54:07,177 --> 00:54:08,578
Make love to number.

1364
00:54:08,578 --> 00:54:12,415
Last day last week I was in my honor
to be the best Vice president.

1365
00:54:12,449 --> 00:54:13,683
Spoke at school ever had.

1366
00:54:13,683 --> 00:54:16,953
Vote for the 2025, 20, 26, 67.

1367
00:54:16,953 --> 00:54:19,422
Peace out.

1368
00:54:19,422 --> 00:54:20,490
I mean, it's such a great line.

1369
00:54:20,490 --> 00:54:23,493
And like you said before, there's yeah,
how could you not get behind the.

1370
00:54:23,660 --> 00:54:25,895
Yeah, yeah.

1371
00:54:25,895 --> 00:54:26,463
Cool.

1372
00:54:26,463 --> 00:54:29,332
Well, speaking of my students
and speaking of questions,

1373
00:54:29,332 --> 00:54:31,368
ready for some crazy questions?

1374
00:54:31,368 --> 00:54:32,068
Bring it out.

1375
00:54:32,068 --> 00:54:32,902
I don't know.

1376
00:54:32,902 --> 00:54:35,639
Crazy questions for you.

1377
00:54:35,639 --> 00:54:36,806
Sponsored by Luna Pizza.

1378
00:54:36,806 --> 00:54:37,474
Luna pizza.

1379
00:54:37,474 --> 00:54:40,477
Shout out like I Alex Luna pizza.

1380
00:54:40,677 --> 00:54:43,680
Would you rather break your leg
or break your arm?

1381
00:54:44,447 --> 00:54:46,116
Considering I broke my arm,

1382
00:54:46,116 --> 00:54:49,052
I'd probably rather brave mom in my way,
I guess.

1383
00:54:49,052 --> 00:54:49,653
Yeah.

1384
00:54:49,653 --> 00:54:50,654
Been there, done that three.

1385
00:54:50,654 --> 00:54:52,188
Times now on the arm game.

1386
00:54:52,188 --> 00:54:53,089
You go in arm.

1387
00:54:53,089 --> 00:54:54,224
What's a fourth?

1388
00:54:54,224 --> 00:54:55,292
Yeah, you can walk.

1389
00:54:55,292 --> 00:54:56,259
I'm better now.

1390
00:54:56,259 --> 00:54:59,262
But, you know, back in the day,
I did not drink enough milk.

1391
00:54:59,663 --> 00:55:00,697
Let me eat some milk.

1392
00:55:00,697 --> 00:55:01,197
Yeah.

1393
00:55:01,197 --> 00:55:04,701
Would you rather eat a gummy worms
sandwich or eat a Starburst taco?

1394
00:55:04,701 --> 00:55:07,404
I told you these were crazy.

1395
00:55:07,404 --> 00:55:09,105
Gummy worms. Sandwich.

1396
00:55:09,105 --> 00:55:12,042
Starburst taco. Nice. Nice, nice.

1397
00:55:12,042 --> 00:55:12,942
Oh, and then I,

1398
00:55:12,942 --> 00:55:15,645
knowing that you were here, I was like,
hey, tell us your favorite sport.

1399
00:55:15,645 --> 00:55:18,448
So this kid's favorite sport is football.

1400
00:55:18,448 --> 00:55:19,582
All right. Do you like ice cream?

1401
00:55:20,550 --> 00:55:21,851
I mean, come on.

1402
00:55:21,851 --> 00:55:23,987
What's your favorite ice cream?

1403
00:55:23,987 --> 00:55:25,722
I'm like,

1404
00:55:25,722 --> 00:55:28,725
like, like a Reese's peanut butter
ice cream.

1405
00:55:28,858 --> 00:55:31,094
I'm going to get specific here.

1406
00:55:31,094 --> 00:55:32,796
Oreo Blizzard from dairy Queen.

1407
00:55:32,796 --> 00:55:34,297
Oh. Two is.

1408
00:55:34,297 --> 00:55:38,468
It does not miss, but I'm going to get I'm
going to do a little shout out here

1409
00:55:38,702 --> 00:55:41,538
to the best milkshakes in town.

1410
00:55:41,538 --> 00:55:45,275
AC Petersons and Bill Denton,
who unfortunately recently passed away.

1411
00:55:46,176 --> 00:55:49,579
They got the best milkshakes
and the shout out AC Petersons on that.

1412
00:55:49,579 --> 00:55:53,850
Shout out to AC Petersons from June,
July and August.

1413
00:55:53,850 --> 00:55:56,619
They had fries of Fini on the menu.
Oh, really?

1414
00:55:56,619 --> 00:56:00,223
You got a milkshake and a side of fries
and you dip the fries in the milkshake.

1415
00:56:00,857 --> 00:56:01,891
And I paid money.

1416
00:56:01,891 --> 00:56:06,463
I went to a play house on park fundraiser,
and they were like, for 100 bucks.

1417
00:56:06,463 --> 00:56:07,831
It's like a silent auction.

1418
00:56:07,831 --> 00:56:08,565
Write it down.

1419
00:56:08,565 --> 00:56:09,632
So if I got be.

1420
00:56:09,632 --> 00:56:12,235
But it's like,
if you win this, you can get,

1421
00:56:13,603 --> 00:56:15,538
you can get a,

1422
00:56:15,538 --> 00:56:16,406
a menu item.

1423
00:56:16,406 --> 00:56:17,874
So I was like, I put in for that.

1424
00:56:17,874 --> 00:56:20,810
She's like, what are you doing here? Yeah,
I'm literally back.

1425
00:56:20,810 --> 00:56:23,613
I should do that and make the offer.
Isaiah Feeney AC Peters no.

1426
00:56:23,613 --> 00:56:25,115
Yeah it's good call.

1427
00:56:25,115 --> 00:56:29,486
Shout out to fries a Feeney and AC
Peterson's great place and the cash for it

1428
00:56:29,519 --> 00:56:32,222
I know Catherine. Catherine
Denton. Is she's. Awesome. She's the best.

1429
00:56:32,222 --> 00:56:35,225
Would you rather have a thousand fingers
or a thousand toes?

1430
00:56:38,728 --> 00:56:40,230
I guess fingers.

1431
00:56:40,230 --> 00:56:42,132
I think. Fingers, yeah.

1432
00:56:42,132 --> 00:56:45,402
Would you rather eat
only spaghetti for the rest of your life

1433
00:56:45,402 --> 00:56:48,405
or never be able to eat spaghetti again?

1434
00:56:48,505 --> 00:56:50,573
Never be able to eat spaghetti again?

1435
00:56:50,573 --> 00:56:51,541
I do love spaghetti.

1436
00:56:51,541 --> 00:56:53,576
It will be missed,
but there's too many other.

1437
00:56:53,576 --> 00:56:54,611
Things I can't do.

1438
00:56:54,611 --> 00:56:55,812
Favorite sport is basketball.

1439
00:56:55,812 --> 00:56:57,614
Is Mr. Feeney your friend?

1440
00:56:57,614 --> 00:56:58,681
Mr. football is my friend.

1441
00:56:58,681 --> 00:57:00,150
Unless we're playing on opposite teams.

1442
00:57:00,150 --> 00:57:01,551
When we were playing hoops.

1443
00:57:01,551 --> 00:57:04,487
Yeah. I didn't know. Are you 29? 29?

1444
00:57:05,789 --> 00:57:07,056
I'm about to be 47.

1445
00:57:07,056 --> 00:57:10,727
I got chasing around a 29 year old,
and I'm not well, either.

1446
00:57:11,761 --> 00:57:15,398
When I say chasing, I'm, like,
grasping to catch up with you. You.

1447
00:57:15,432 --> 00:57:18,301
You mentioned Thomas being a good hooper
the other day.

1448
00:57:18,301 --> 00:57:21,738
That guy is the king
of the subliminal foul.

1449
00:57:21,738 --> 00:57:23,139
Just the tug on the.

1450
00:57:23,139 --> 00:57:25,942
Sure thing of it. He hits you with, like,
one of these.

1451
00:57:25,942 --> 00:57:27,844
You'll be there soon,
and then I'll be there soon.

1452
00:57:27,844 --> 00:57:29,279
When I'm playing the 18 year old.

1453
00:57:29,279 --> 00:57:31,080
I start do that too. Yeah.

1454
00:57:31,080 --> 00:57:33,750
I got a bad rap of being a hacker. Yeah.

1455
00:57:33,750 --> 00:57:34,651
Hey, no easy by.

1456
00:57:34,651 --> 00:57:37,520
It's no easy 1996 Knicks defense.

1457
00:57:37,520 --> 00:57:39,055
Exactly.

1458
00:57:39,055 --> 00:57:41,491
All right. Do you love basketball?

1459
00:57:41,491 --> 00:57:43,626
Yeah. What's your favorite sport?

1460
00:57:43,626 --> 00:57:45,061
Basketball. Basketball.

1461
00:57:45,061 --> 00:57:47,697
Which favorite food?

1462
00:57:47,697 --> 00:57:48,331
Chicken parm.

1463
00:57:50,066 --> 00:57:52,402
I honestly, I had no, bagels, everything.

1464
00:57:52,402 --> 00:57:53,403
Bagel, cream cheese.

1465
00:57:53,403 --> 00:57:56,372
Would you rather eat ice cream that tastes
like pizza or pizza that tastes

1466
00:57:56,372 --> 00:57:59,342
like ice cream?

1467
00:57:59,542 --> 00:58:00,543
Pizza that tastes like ice cream.

1468
00:58:00,543 --> 00:58:03,246
I did all. That.

1469
00:58:03,246 --> 00:58:05,248
How old are you? 29.

1470
00:58:05,248 --> 00:58:06,416
Nice. Is your whole crew?

1471
00:58:06,416 --> 00:58:07,917
Pretty much 29. All 29.

1472
00:58:07,917 --> 00:58:10,920
Then I'm 30th birthday celebration
for the whole crew.

1473
00:58:10,920 --> 00:58:13,556
That'd be a good. I know, but one.
All right, there's not a lot.

1474
00:58:13,556 --> 00:58:15,325
There's seven of us who are turning 30.

1475
00:58:15,325 --> 00:58:17,694
We can't do seven. 30th birthday party.
Oh, yeah.

1476
00:58:17,694 --> 00:58:19,062
Just do one one.

1477
00:58:19,062 --> 00:58:24,601
And then Brendan and Aiden, me and Cole's
younger brothers are 26 and 27, 26, 27.

1478
00:58:25,201 --> 00:58:25,802
Nice.

1479
00:58:25,802 --> 00:58:28,805
If you had $10,000,
what would you do with it?

1480
00:58:29,205 --> 00:58:31,040
Donate it, donate it.

1481
00:58:31,040 --> 00:58:32,208
Yeah, I don't know.

1482
00:58:32,208 --> 00:58:33,576
I think I want season ten.

1483
00:58:33,576 --> 00:58:36,312
That was that's actually not
where my mind was. Yeah, yeah.

1484
00:58:36,312 --> 00:58:38,481
I think season tickets to the
Celtics sounds pretty good.

1485
00:58:39,883 --> 00:58:42,685
This guy's favorite sport is golf.

1486
00:58:42,685 --> 00:58:44,521
Yeah. Are you guys from West Hartford?

1487
00:58:44,521 --> 00:58:47,490
How old are you? Got that.

1488
00:58:47,490 --> 00:58:49,559
Oh, okay. Good. Got that one.

1489
00:58:49,559 --> 00:58:50,760
Got that one.

1490
00:58:50,760 --> 00:58:53,763
Oh. Would you rather turn into a monkey
or a pig?

1491
00:58:55,965 --> 00:58:57,433
A monkey. Pig.

1492
00:58:57,433 --> 00:58:58,568
Pigs are the smartest animals.

1493
00:58:58,568 --> 00:58:59,135
Very smart.

1494
00:58:59,135 --> 00:59:02,138
Oh, yeah,
but a monkey, I if it's possible.

1495
00:59:02,372 --> 00:59:04,974
I'm hanging out in the trough.

1496
00:59:04,974 --> 00:59:05,942
Hanging out in the trough.

1497
00:59:05,942 --> 00:59:07,477
I'm getting dirty, dude.

1498
00:59:07,477 --> 00:59:09,112
All right. Yeah, I don't want to do that.

1499
00:59:09,112 --> 00:59:10,213
All right.

1500
00:59:10,213 --> 00:59:12,181
Any recommendations?

1501
00:59:12,181 --> 00:59:14,484
You know, books
that you're reading, podcast.

1502
00:59:14,484 --> 00:59:17,487
Do you listen to the shows that you're
watching?

1503
00:59:18,288 --> 00:59:19,022
New show I'm watching.

1504
00:59:19,022 --> 00:59:20,790
Task is is incredible.

1505
00:59:20,790 --> 00:59:21,224
So, yeah.

1506
00:59:21,224 --> 00:59:22,892
Gruffalo and Taylor Kitsch.

1507
00:59:22,892 --> 00:59:25,862
I believe it's on Amazon Prime. Recommend.

1508
00:59:25,929 --> 00:59:26,696
All right.

1509
00:59:26,696 --> 00:59:28,698
Actually new episode dropped today.

1510
00:59:28,698 --> 00:59:29,599
I gotta get out of here. Actually.

1511
00:59:30,633 --> 00:59:31,668
Yeah.

1512
00:59:31,668 --> 00:59:33,303
So I'm gonna go.

1513
00:59:33,303 --> 00:59:36,439
I just watched the paper on, Peacock.

1514
00:59:36,439 --> 00:59:38,041
Good show.

1515
00:59:38,041 --> 00:59:41,010
It's a spin off of The Office,
which was one of my favorite shows.

1516
00:59:42,445 --> 00:59:47,817
I think that, podcast that I really like
listening to is Ted Talks Daily.

1517
00:59:47,951 --> 00:59:48,952
So if people are looking

1518
00:59:48,952 --> 00:59:52,689
for a little inspiration in their lives,
just throw that on in the car, at the gym,

1519
00:59:52,689 --> 00:59:53,423
whatever you're doing.

1520
00:59:53,423 --> 00:59:56,426
Ted talks daily, interesting conversations
with people around the world.

1521
00:59:56,459 --> 00:59:58,127
I've done a speak up.

1522
00:59:58,127 --> 00:59:59,295
It's like the moth.

1523
00:59:59,295 --> 01:00:00,964
Matt Dicks, a teacher at my school.

1524
01:00:00,964 --> 01:00:02,432
Yeah, yeah. You know him, right?

1525
01:00:02,432 --> 01:00:04,834
Yeah. Somehow you know him
from friends or something? Yeah.

1526
01:00:04,834 --> 01:00:06,402
Everybody talks about Mr. Dixon.

1527
01:00:06,402 --> 01:00:09,839
You know, you always seen with his class
right outside in front of my house?

1528
01:00:09,839 --> 01:00:12,175
Yeah, on the rocks.
So he does something called speak up.

1529
01:00:12,175 --> 01:00:13,676
And I told, like, four stories.

1530
01:00:14,911 --> 01:00:17,780
I got beat up by a guy with no arms
and no legs. How?

1531
01:00:17,780 --> 01:00:19,716
I met my wife in college.

1532
01:00:19,716 --> 01:00:21,985
Knocked on the wall.
We're separated by a cement wall.

1533
01:00:21,985 --> 01:00:24,787
And I'm like, I like you.
Why don't you like me?

1534
01:00:24,787 --> 01:00:26,022
My pickup line. And here she is.

1535
01:00:26,022 --> 01:00:29,292
And just five months later, that,
like she finally just gave in.

1536
01:00:29,559 --> 01:00:31,427
But to celebrate, I'm about to celebrate.

1537
01:00:31,427 --> 01:00:32,929
20 years on that move alone.

1538
01:00:32,929 --> 01:00:35,932
I, your friends are saying,
Eric, stop banging on that wall.

1539
01:00:35,999 --> 01:00:38,101
It's not interesting.
Then I heard about that one day.

1540
01:00:38,101 --> 01:00:40,103
I heard a knock. One day I'm like,
oh, she came over.

1541
01:00:40,103 --> 01:00:43,673
Yeah, yeah, it's the IRA goes, hey, stop
by all the girls.

1542
01:00:44,307 --> 01:00:45,708
They just called to complain.

1543
01:00:45,708 --> 01:00:47,910
They got a noise complaint. Yeah.
You know, shut down and be quiet.

1544
01:00:47,910 --> 01:00:48,711
Sounds about right.

1545
01:00:48,711 --> 01:00:51,114
So but, so I did a couple.

1546
01:00:51,114 --> 01:00:55,952
I did a couple cups saying I want to do a
Ted talk about maybe being a good friend.

1547
01:00:56,152 --> 01:00:57,220
Yeah.

1548
01:00:57,220 --> 01:00:57,654
Eight minute.

1549
01:00:57,654 --> 01:01:00,423
Is it eight minutes or. A Ted talk
I'd certainly listen to.

1550
01:01:00,423 --> 01:01:00,990
Yeah, right.

1551
01:01:00,990 --> 01:01:03,826
They vary. They vary
depending on what Ted stage you're on.

1552
01:01:03,826 --> 01:01:05,995
Because Matt has also done a one of those.

1553
01:01:05,995 --> 01:01:08,998
He might connect me
because I again a speak up I

1554
01:01:09,298 --> 01:01:11,601
if you practice enough
you'd be good at that too.

1555
01:01:11,601 --> 01:01:12,435
You should do a speaker.

1556
01:01:12,435 --> 01:01:16,873
You know it would be cool as if you know
ted talks is like an, global thing.

1557
01:01:16,873 --> 01:01:18,875
They're all around the world.
They do it in Europe.

1558
01:01:18,875 --> 01:01:19,809
But, like, what if we did, like,

1559
01:01:19,809 --> 01:01:23,613
a Ted talks for, like, West
Hartford people, Hartford community.

1560
01:01:23,613 --> 01:01:27,050
Just like leaders who are in the community
doing cool things.

1561
01:01:27,050 --> 01:01:28,718
So, yeah, I was just going.

1562
01:01:28,718 --> 01:01:30,086
To elaborate on that.

1563
01:01:30,086 --> 01:01:33,823
Let's brain I was just listening
to a, remarkable story about a 7

1564
01:01:33,823 --> 01:01:37,493
or 16 year old who wanted to start,
you know, urban farming.

1565
01:01:37,660 --> 01:01:41,130
I called Level International,
and they have a whole farm now on,

1566
01:01:41,330 --> 01:01:42,098
Homestead Avenue.

1567
01:01:42,098 --> 01:01:45,868
And he's now doing work in Mexico
and in Haiti, and he's doing

1568
01:01:45,868 --> 01:01:49,372
urban farming so people can get their,
you know, food source locally.

1569
01:01:49,372 --> 01:01:53,142
Like, there are so many people doing
so many incredible things right here

1570
01:01:53,142 --> 01:01:53,776
in our community.

1571
01:01:53,776 --> 01:01:55,411
So, like, friends with Feeney

1572
01:01:55,411 --> 01:01:58,748
being that good friend that you are, you
you provide that little stage for people

1573
01:01:58,748 --> 01:02:01,851
to kind of promote what they're doing
and remind people that there's

1574
01:02:01,851 --> 01:02:04,854
more that unites us and there's more good
in this world than evil.

1575
01:02:04,854 --> 01:02:06,322
You know, that'd be cool.

1576
01:02:06,322 --> 01:02:08,057
To be a good friend. Ted. Talk.

1577
01:02:08,057 --> 01:02:09,025
We can use Ted talk.

1578
01:02:09,025 --> 01:02:12,328
Obviously, I've seen something to where
it's like a night at the bar, but it's a,

1579
01:02:13,696 --> 01:02:14,430
PowerPoint.

1580
01:02:14,430 --> 01:02:15,998
Everyone has to come with a PowerPoint.

1581
01:02:15,998 --> 01:02:18,935
And PowerPoints are like 2000. Right
on. Like.

1582
01:02:18,935 --> 01:02:20,937
But someone comes with a Ted talk.

1583
01:02:20,937 --> 01:02:23,106
Yeah, I like good friend talks.

1584
01:02:23,106 --> 01:02:25,942
And you guys could talk about ball
balling.

1585
01:02:25,942 --> 01:02:27,744
Question

1586
01:02:27,744 --> 01:02:29,712
one minute I love this.

1587
01:02:29,712 --> 01:02:31,414
This is call I'm sure. Yeah.

1588
01:02:31,414 --> 01:02:34,584
That's a heart with a little basketball
like, worked into it.

1589
01:02:34,584 --> 01:02:35,651
Yeah.

1590
01:02:35,651 --> 01:02:38,321
No. So. Great.

1591
01:02:38,321 --> 01:02:39,288
We're wrapping up.

1592
01:02:39,288 --> 01:02:40,089
Stick around.

1593
01:02:40,089 --> 01:02:41,724
We're going to be watching Lonesome Eddie.

1594
01:02:41,724 --> 01:02:44,260
Oh, we got some pizza quick.

1595
01:02:44,260 --> 01:02:46,896
You want to run over a slice?
We got to show off this pizza.

1596
01:02:46,896 --> 01:02:48,965
This is from Patty's Patties.

1597
01:02:48,965 --> 01:02:50,767
Is John's mom.

1598
01:02:50,767 --> 01:02:53,102
Patty was a teacher.

1599
01:02:53,102 --> 01:02:54,837
They named their pizza after him.

1600
01:02:54,837 --> 01:02:56,906
This is some really good pie, right?
Isn't this great pie?

1601
01:02:56,906 --> 01:02:59,342
It is. You could say some of.
The best in West Hartford.

1602
01:02:59,342 --> 01:03:01,978
West Hartford is blessed with good pizza
joints.

1603
01:03:01,978 --> 01:03:03,780
Yeah, this is right up there
on the top of the list.

1604
01:03:03,780 --> 01:03:06,849
And and also shout out to Nick Park
for the flat clouds.

1605
01:03:06,849 --> 01:03:09,652
Gabe's here.
Oh yeah. The clouds is my favorite. Yeah.

1606
01:03:09,652 --> 01:03:11,053
To find out, it's everyone's favorite.

1607
01:03:11,053 --> 01:03:13,122
I thought I was like, oh,
I like large escape.

1608
01:03:13,122 --> 01:03:15,091
Wow. I'm a double cloud guy.

1609
01:03:15,091 --> 01:03:16,259
This is the cheese.

1610
01:03:17,460 --> 01:03:18,427
I like this style.

1611
01:03:18,427 --> 01:03:21,130
Sorry. Oh, yeah. This water here.

1612
01:03:21,130 --> 01:03:23,232
Whoa. Brussel sprouts.

1613
01:03:23,232 --> 01:03:24,567
And look at that flat.

1614
01:03:24,567 --> 01:03:27,069
Look at that. Chris, this is John.

1615
01:03:27,069 --> 01:03:29,605
The owner's favorite.
Might not even be on the menu.

1616
01:03:29,605 --> 01:03:32,041
Are we doing,
are we doing, like, one out of ten?

1617
01:03:32,041 --> 01:03:33,242
Are we doing, like, a Portnoy review?

1618
01:03:33,242 --> 01:03:36,078
Listen, fractional score is only.

1619
01:03:36,078 --> 01:03:37,246
Look at that flop.

1620
01:03:37,246 --> 01:03:38,281
Is that West Hartford? Flat.

1621
01:03:38,281 --> 01:03:39,315
Good undercarriage.

1622
01:03:39,315 --> 01:03:41,884
Good undercarriage. Outside.

1623
01:03:41,884 --> 01:03:44,887
I was like, I'll go cheese
if you guys are doing all the other ones.

1624
01:03:46,022 --> 01:03:48,291
What's your favorite type of pizza? Yep.

1625
01:03:48,291 --> 01:03:50,693
It's like. Toppings.

1626
01:03:50,693 --> 01:03:53,462
I like the chicken bacon ranch now.

1627
01:03:53,462 --> 01:03:54,397
My guy game day.

1628
01:03:54,397 --> 01:03:57,166
Connor put me out to that
at Luna Chicken Bacon Ranch.

1629
01:03:57,166 --> 01:03:59,902
Or when I come here, I get this
brussel sprouts and bacon again.

1630
01:03:59,902 --> 01:04:00,870
John put me on to this.

1631
01:04:00,870 --> 01:04:03,973
I like getting a suggestion
and then stealing it as my own.

1632
01:04:03,973 --> 01:04:06,142
So thank you. John owner John, we gotta.

1633
01:04:06,142 --> 01:04:07,777
Remember
there's people out there smarter than us.

1634
01:04:07,777 --> 01:04:09,946
Yeah, we just got to listen
to them and then take it off.

1635
01:04:12,415 --> 01:04:14,550
Like delicious.

1636
01:04:14,550 --> 01:04:17,520
Yeah.

1637
01:04:17,920 --> 01:04:19,789
Well, thanks again, New Park brewery.

1638
01:04:19,789 --> 01:04:21,691
Thanks again, Lonesome Eddie.

1639
01:04:21,691 --> 01:04:24,093
I and the bird dogs.
I had a wonderful time.

1640
01:04:24,093 --> 01:04:24,727
And we will be.

1641
01:04:24,727 --> 01:04:27,964
You will see future collaborations
with friends opinion ball for sure.

1642
01:04:27,964 --> 01:04:29,131
You guys are good friends.

1643
01:04:29,131 --> 01:04:32,101
It truly means the world to be here
for 150

1644
01:04:32,468 --> 01:04:33,936
day from Direct Line Media.

1645
01:04:33,936 --> 01:04:37,139
Still with me
and he's this volunteers his time.

1646
01:04:37,139 --> 01:04:37,974
Great person.

1647
01:04:37,974 --> 01:04:38,975
Give it up for Dave again.

1648
01:04:38,975 --> 01:04:41,978
Do live

1649
01:04:43,746 --> 01:04:45,348
and then closing

1650
01:04:45,348 --> 01:04:48,351
remarks from you guys and then we'll say
be a good friend on three.

1651
01:04:48,484 --> 01:04:51,087
Oh we got to score these two.

1652
01:04:51,087 --> 01:04:51,954
Let's score first.

1653
01:04:51,954 --> 01:04:54,156
Add that into your closing remark.

1654
01:04:54,156 --> 01:04:55,191
Eight secs.

1655
01:04:55,191 --> 01:04:56,592
I was gonna give it an eight eight.

1656
01:04:56,592 --> 01:04:58,828
Wow. Nine one on this one.

1657
01:04:58,828 --> 01:04:59,862
Nine is.

1658
01:04:59,862 --> 01:05:02,798
Brussel sprouts
and. Bacon. Wow. All right.

1659
01:05:02,798 --> 01:05:03,266
She took

1660
01:05:05,101 --> 01:05:07,470
2/10 of a part.

1661
01:05:07,470 --> 01:05:08,371
Guilty.

1662
01:05:08,371 --> 01:05:09,038
Yeah. What do you got?

1663
01:05:09,038 --> 01:05:11,307
So they got the we. Got ball for cure.

1664
01:05:11,307 --> 01:05:13,009
November 29th.

1665
01:05:13,009 --> 01:05:14,043
And then we got a little event

1666
01:05:14,043 --> 01:05:17,013
at the governor's mansion
to celebrate our ten years in December.

1667
01:05:17,546 --> 01:05:20,216
And then we start up
the event calendar again in April,

1668
01:05:20,216 --> 01:05:21,150
and then our golf tournament,

1669
01:05:21,150 --> 01:05:24,921
our jam for cure tournament or concert
are going to be in August of next year.

1670
01:05:25,187 --> 01:05:30,126
So, follow us on social media
where Ball Furniture Inc, Instagram.

1671
01:05:30,126 --> 01:05:31,260
We do a lot of posting.

1672
01:05:31,260 --> 01:05:34,263
You'll hear about all of our events
coming up.

1673
01:05:34,497 --> 01:05:37,500
And my only conclusion
remark would be that,

1674
01:05:37,967 --> 01:05:40,803
I've had the time of my life
with some of my best friends

1675
01:05:40,803 --> 01:05:45,374
trying to organize people to do
good for other people in their community.

1676
01:05:45,574 --> 01:05:49,178
And I feel like when you talk to people
in the nonprofit space

1677
01:05:49,178 --> 01:05:52,682
or just good people,
they always say that they get more

1678
01:05:52,682 --> 01:05:55,484
from helping other people
than they actually give to those people.

1679
01:05:55,484 --> 01:05:59,255
So, like, if you're in a similar situation
where you got a good group of friends,

1680
01:05:59,255 --> 01:06:00,556
you got a great family like

1681
01:06:01,590 --> 01:06:05,094
task yourself and challenge your guys self
to do something for other people.

1682
01:06:05,094 --> 01:06:08,998
And I promise you that you'll
get more out of it than you ever receive,

1683
01:06:09,332 --> 01:06:11,133
than you actually give to other people.

1684
01:06:11,133 --> 01:06:12,702
So cheers to that.

1685
01:06:12,702 --> 01:06:15,671
I love it.

1686
01:06:17,573 --> 01:06:20,409
Yeah, I'm so happy to just be able
to share this platform with you.

1687
01:06:20,409 --> 01:06:22,979
And then hopefully, you know, people
that come to our events, people

1688
01:06:22,979 --> 01:06:24,880
to come to your events,
can also collaborate

1689
01:06:24,880 --> 01:06:27,383
and just both,
both of us can grow exponentially.

1690
01:06:27,383 --> 01:06:30,786
So, I think that, I think that's it's
just been a great time.

1691
01:06:31,253 --> 01:06:32,488
Yeah. Cool. Check us out.

1692
01:06:32,488 --> 01:06:34,223
Feeney talks with friends.

1693
01:06:34,223 --> 01:06:37,293
It's on YouTube, Spotify, anywhere
you can podcast.

1694
01:06:37,660 --> 01:06:41,097
Thank you again,
Direct Line Media and check us out on also

1695
01:06:41,130 --> 01:06:44,533
friends of Feeney on Instagram,
Facebook socials

1696
01:06:45,001 --> 01:06:48,137
and we're going to say
be a good friend on 3123.

1697
01:06:48,371 --> 01:06:49,538
Be a good friend.

1698
01:07:02,752 --> 01:07:04,754
Take a load off, Feeny.

1699
01:07:04,754 --> 01:07:07,757
Yeah, take a load off, Feeny.

1700
01:07:08,324 --> 01:07:11,027
Take a load for free.

1701
01:07:11,027 --> 01:07:13,029
No. Thank you so much.
This means the world.

1702
01:07:13,029 --> 01:07:16,032
Give it up for Lonesome Eddie in the bird
dogs.

1703
01:07:16,832 --> 01:07:18,601
Yeah. So excited.

1704
01:07:18,601 --> 01:07:23,439
I just filmed my 150th podcast in the
barrel room back here in New Park Brewery.

1705
01:07:24,540 --> 01:07:25,908
Take out your phones, check it out.

1706
01:07:25,908 --> 01:07:27,143
Feeny talks to the friends.

1707
01:07:27,143 --> 01:07:28,911
We had so many wonderful guests.

1708
01:07:28,911 --> 01:07:31,213
All thanks to Direct Line Media.

1709
01:07:31,213 --> 01:07:33,149
Check it out. And I also run a nonprofit.

1710
01:07:33,149 --> 01:07:36,419
My third grade teacher best job
in the world brings me so much joy.

1711
01:07:36,585 --> 01:07:39,422
But sometimes
there's heartbreaker. Tragedy.

1712
01:07:39,422 --> 01:07:41,257
Because of that, I started a nonprofit.

1713
01:07:41,257 --> 01:07:42,425
It's called Friends of Meaning.

1714
01:07:42,425 --> 01:07:45,661
We help children and families that need
assistance after heartbreak or tragedy.

1715
01:07:46,262 --> 01:07:48,497
Also checked out to be
a good friend is our motto.

1716
01:07:48,497 --> 01:07:51,333
So we're asking you to be a good friend
and join our team.

1717
01:07:51,333 --> 01:07:53,302
Volunteer, support or donate.

1718
01:07:53,302 --> 01:07:56,405
Pick up trash that's not yours.

1719
01:07:56,405 --> 01:07:58,941
Hold the door,
give compliments and be charitable.

1720
01:07:58,941 --> 01:08:02,011
You shout out, Luke Ball for a cure.

1721
01:08:02,011 --> 01:08:04,914
Was the Gus ball for. Your Luke friend?

1722
01:08:08,284 --> 01:08:09,385
And Matt Connors.

1723
01:08:09,385 --> 01:08:12,388
Yeah.

1724
01:08:12,721 --> 01:08:13,622
You heard of them?

1725
01:08:13,622 --> 01:08:14,223
Yeah.

1726
01:08:14,223 --> 01:08:15,091
You heard him here.

1727
01:08:15,091 --> 01:08:18,094
Oh, yeah. Yeah. So,

1728
01:08:18,094 --> 01:08:18,794
and then.

1729
01:08:18,794 --> 01:08:21,130
I'm going to let these guys go.
Thank you so much.

1730
01:08:21,130 --> 01:08:22,031
Be a good friend.

1731
01:08:22,031 --> 01:08:25,034
Give it up for
letting somebody in the bird dogs.

1732
01:08:25,234 --> 01:08:28,037
And Eddie and I go way back.

1733
01:08:28,037 --> 01:08:29,071
Batman and Robin.

1734
01:08:29,071 --> 01:08:31,207
He was the marshal of the Saint Patty's
Day parade.

1735
01:08:31,207 --> 01:08:33,876
I was the honoree.
We're forever connected.

1736
01:08:33,876 --> 01:08:34,810
He's my brother.

1737
01:08:34,810 --> 01:08:37,379
There you go. Go ahead, guys.
Thank you. So much.