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all right, all right, all right.
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The a lot cooler if you did.
Friends.
Feeney podcast number 7407.
Perfect.
Ten years running. Don't do that.
Take one.
Look at these coasters.
So hot.
Those are hot. It's sweet.
It's a sweet mug.
A special place with some special friends today.
Are you ready?
Oh, you're going to hit it. Are we?
We were going to do the intro. We're going to.
Well, I just did the intro. Wasn't that.
Was that not good enough?
Shall we start over?
Try again. Okay. Try again.
Get your glasses.
Oh, okay. Oh, no. No. You got. Oh, okay.
I can't say all right, all right.
And not give a third. All right.
All right, all right.
I'll just have you point it out.
I got to pour it ice.
Now we could get started. All right, some plans.
Well, letters on that. Blatant.
This is an A.
And we collected them all. No.
I don't.
I'm not much of a collector.
Well, this is Feeney talks with friends, episode 149.
We're at a special place on 45 South Main suite 203.
Excellent. 203.
You know, area code that is.
In New Haven.
Haven, Connecticut.
Waterbury, Connecticut. Waterbury.
Here's to Waterbury, boys. Cheers.
What a beer. Cheers to a great podcast.
Cheers to having to edit that sound and clank.
Clink, clink. No, just no table.
This is for the blends.
I told you, no glasses already.
All right.
I want to tell you.
This is round two with these guys.
They were so good on their podcast. I invited them back.
These guys are spies. I think I think I got.
Yeah. No, maybe.
I mean, if they don't want to send us some money.
So I don't know which one's Lloyd Christmas.
Which one's Harry Dunn?
You know, that is reference
Mark.
Saying, do you know, Batman?
Who's Robin.
Bird?
Yeah. Oh,
Batman and Robin.
I think we're both Batman or both Robin.
Like, I don't I don't. Our dynamic is not.
Yeah.
You know, we're we're just the same at like I said, I just.
But yeah, I never know who's Robin.
How much should I put you back?
Yeah. Too much.
No, this is great.
We have previous guests.
Eric Burdon, to my right.
Possibly your left, depending on where you're looking from.
Episode 9494 Brian McGuinness.
Episode 133 let's a number.
Ryan.
Soft wash number 31, 33 and 94.
Those numbers significant to you at all?
Yeah, it was my episode.
Hello. You have that tattoo, a friend?
You don't have that tattooed on your arm? Yes, on my ankle.
It's actually over my camera.
Nice, nice, nice.
Anything that's stuck, stuck out that you want to point out.
So on, if we noticed on Ryan's podcast, we talked about burden.
We did. Yeah. But unfortunately on air.
I don't think Bergen knew me.
We didn't talk about, you know, not before a relationship.
It wasn't that long ago. But that's unfortunate.
I mean, it wasn't like it was.
It was that one year.
It wasn't that long ago, but it was long enough ago.
It wasn't.
I wouldn't be as offended if you
we nerds at selling.
I was I thought 94 was number two for me.
There's a lot of, you know, cream in 94.
Where else it would've been earlier.
Maybe in the 40s.
I got the second one tattooed.
That's all that matters. Okay, that's. That's the most opposite.
I think it's me.
I don't know, before I met you,
maybe I could be conflating it with being a days podcaster. Yes.
You were behind the brand.
Damn, I feel I feel not like a good friend.
I don't remember, I did, I did behind the brand
when I launched my business,
and it was just like, purely coincidental that that's when it worked.
To do it.
So anyway, well, shout out to our guy day from Direct Line Media.
None of this would be possible without him.
Thank you you for being here. Thank you.
Thanks. Some other sponsors here. We got,
maximum beverage, Luna pizza, the fix IV float 41.
Stop me if you've been to any of these.
Have a float. 4141.
I did a whole, I did a whole, video on float 41 that's on social media.
If you find us on it, I think it berg and on Instagram.
Yep. Scrolled back through our, reels.
There's a whole reel. I was talking about floating.
Isn't it amazing? Yeah.
Whoever did that video, it was great. They did.
They cut to like, we all float down here with a red balloon.
Now Sarah's great.
Sarah. Tiana.
Sarah. Last.
I'll you locations now. Yep.
Army vet our veteran of the military.
Maybe not army, but good person. Yeah.
She has float 41 exhale and crown.
Well, that has the,
coal plunge.
Have you ever tried that?
No. Oh, guys.
Sometimes I, I, sometimes I'll do a cold shower, and I.
That's what made me realize I couldn't do a cold plunge.
I mean, I've jumped into some very cold water before.
Yeah, I absolutely adding it to my daily regimen, though.
I have been I shower, turn it off cold to cold
every day for three months now.
And that's that's. Changes my. Life.
That's how you look. So yeah.
This is the the skin is great.
Just like you're said. Yeah.
They Tim says I'm bringing sexy back. You know.
Yeah.
You guys both have beards. Yeah.
You know, my beard goes from Thanksgiving to Saint Patty's Day.
Yeah.
You shaved it like the day before our podcast or something.
Two days before. That's right.
Is it after the parade? Right after the parade?
Yeah. Yeah.
I didn't recognize that at all.
A diet orange or green. Yeah.
And you got to get rid of it. And shave it.
You can wash it too.
You can wash it too. Yeah. That's true.
He had his orange. It never came back. Yes. Right.
Yeah. Twice.
He was a leprechaun during the parade.
Two and three. Classic video tastic.
And we just. Oh, we just had some wonderful.
Oh, a couple more, but, Popcorn. Yes.
Sponsors. Yeah.
Brook Golf law group, Parkville management.
People's bank. People's bank.
We just like.
That's all. Right. Yeah.
So young shot. Here's to Ryan. Ryan.
Well if you're listening. We just took a picture of your car.
We looked out.
You could look out Burton's window.
We saw you get in your car.
We're going to show. Us you didn't see us, but we saw.
Yeah. Manager of people's bank.
Fantastic person. He's a good friend.
He's a good friend.
He going to, Ryan Young?
Well, deserve what? That award.
And anytime you talk people's bank, have you experienced their coffee machine?
Of course I not.
Yeah, it's the biggest Keurig there in the world.
It's NASA. NASA built. It.
Yeah, NASA built back.
Eric, you push it first.
Vanilla, whatever flavor you want.
It's this. Big. They're touchscreen. Yeah. Touchscreen.
There's a touchscreen I mean there's like hoppers of pods.
It's it's good to think about it.
No no no.
It's like a vending machine of pods that pop out from the back.
And he I asked you guys three keys to make your business great.
And I said, Ryan, there's a fourth key here.
Yeah. This coffee machine is amazing. So.
McGuinness, you got. To get over there and try it.
Yeah. Make a note. That make a make a note.
Keating agency of the street.
How's Ryan Keating? You know him?
I mean, I know Ryan, I know Ryan.
What really matters is how's agent?
You're his agent.
No no no no no, agent. The dots.
Agent Shannon.
You're getting Agent Shamrock. Yeah. Yes.
Beautiful. Golden.
Yeah. Good guy, good guy, good guy.
They are.
Keating. Agency is, Good boy.
He's episode 23.
I joke that he's the, Michael Jordan of insurance.
You guys.
And, they sponsored our beer for the golf tournament, so let's get right to it.
Where's the golf. To a golf tournament.
Oh, funny. Now, you asked.
We're going to put it right here.
Boom.
Saturday, September 13th.
You get breakfast, lunch and dinner at this podcast, which.
Is at this after a month and all day event.
What did I say? Podcast.
But because I kind of want breakfast, lunch, dinner right now.
Yeah.
That's for later on. Oh, we do have dinner.
All right. Fantastic.
It gets better. Sally and Bob.
Smiley and Bob selling Bob.
Oh, there I forget.
I love both Sally and Bob. Yes.
Sally. Amazing person. I love you, Sally.
8 a.m..
So, Yeah.
Doro. Breakfast sandwiches.
Okay. New England coffee guy.
Oh, yeah.
And, on the course you'll have long drink whiskey.
School of rock. Connor. Game day. Connor.
After you get lunch from Texas, sponsored by King of drinks.
After that,
there's nothing but cakes.
I mean, whatever you want. It's here.
All day. Nice.
You're in, you're in.
You said nothing but kings or kings.
Nothing but cake.
Cakes, cakes?
Nothing but bundt cake.
I thought it was getting better.
Okay. Yeah.
Okay.
Because nothing been said.
If you can get that out, that's fine.
Dinner and awards.
So, what time's the second concert?
9:00. Okay.
What's the long drive? All.
Oh, I want to say 2 or 7.
One can't. Be two.
One more. 17.
Okay.
One will have.
Oh, golf lounge set up.
He'll he'll record your swing.
Okay. They will also be there, tell you your speed.
All that good stuff. Where are they at it.
Good question.
I'll check.
Golf lounge. All lounge. Yeah.
Texan amateur.
Golf techs. Amazing person. Dave.
He should be there.
I did a podcast there. Wants to. Go.
Golf tech. Go check him out.
Tell him I sent you.
You get a fucking free swing analysis, right?
There we go.
That was do down the chairs to get.
To Golf Tech to swing analyzes.
Yeah I'm looking forward to the golf trim.
It should be fun.
I, I always like to ask in front of other people which the long drive hole is.
So people think that, like I've got in Florida for competition, it's funny.
And that's closest to the hole or not.
A straight up drive. Yeah.
Oh, now that we're here, this is great.
We're debating.
Maybe you can help me brainstorm this out loud.
Were debating doing a hole for 20 bucks.
You do a relay race with your buddies, but the relay is you toss the golf ball
so four of your your team spreads down the course.
Okay?
I throw to you.
You throw to the next two, you throw to the next dude.
Wherever that lands, that is your that's where you tee off from.
So you gain.
You have to catch it. You have to catch it
where it drops.
It goes from where it was last toss.
And I bring, like, a baseball glove.
Oh oh. Oh. Okay. Okay.
Definitely not that that seems like a what if it was like a.
No, no. I mean, it's almost as bad.
As it happened to be in your bag.
Wink, wink.
Right.
Oh, look, you can only use the tools in your bag.
What what a. Coincidence, King.
I have a. Golf.
Can I can I hit it with a wedge if someone catches it?
Oh, yes. Yeah. All right. So options.
Is that worth 20 bucks when people do that.
Well that slow the pace.
It will definitely slow the pace down because it'll get quite unruly.
It might be worth it.
It sounds interesting. Yeah.
You'd have to be somewhere close where someone can monitor it.
Move it along.
Yes. By. So they just put a timer on it.
Also with, you know, I didn't drop it here.
You have to have someone. Hey, you dropped it here.
So we're in the process.
We just met some last week.
We're meeting again next week. The golf team.
Thank you to my golf team.
Matt, Jen, Omar, Miles, Marty,
Ty, Rob, the whole golf team.
I don't ty at the, baseball game.
Yeah, and for.
A lot of work, planning a golf tournament this is a year long, year long process.
So thank you to my team.
This is
the fourth year for the fourth annual.
It's based hunks.
I think I sponsored every year. I don't think I've ever been able to play.
I'm so excited this year. It's going to be great golf.
It's going to be great.
So it's some upcoming events.
Oh, while we're on it
and while we're have it, this oh, that's one for you paying that somewhere.
And here's one for you hanging out somewhere.
The QR code works if you have it.
If you registered. Yeah.
You also yeah we're registered.
We also have another upcoming event two weeks after the golf tournament.
We have a whiskey.
Oh yes. I don't know if you guys like whiskey.
Do you like whiskey?
So you like bourbon hater arrows? Terrible.
What am I?
Cheers. What about.
Happen?
I happen so each bottle in the other room, if you want.
Yeah. Oh, yeah.
When are we going to break into that?
What was your brother gave it to you? Yeah.
What's his name? Tom. Tom Russell.
Tom Russell.
All right, bro,
he's a neurosurgeon in Peoria,
and I don't think I'm going to open it until he's here.
I don't think he's driving for a while.
That. Tom.
Good afternoon.
Are you good, Tom?
He's a he's a great brother.
He's your brother. Brother?
He's my brother in law. He's my step brother. Step brother.
So brother, did you just.
Become best friends.
Before or after the purchase of the body?
Yep. That was something. On your jump.
Did you put something on your drumset? We.
Do. We did become best friends I love that.
All right.
Well seeing that we're not drinking his booze.
Thank you.
What makes him a good friend? Tell him up the camera so we could share.
Know?
Well, first of all, the dude's out there saving lives.
People that are suffering from strokes.
He's doing emergency surgeries, he's removing classes.
This is a he's a he's a brilliant guy.
Sacrificed a lot of his time to save lives.
I know neurosurgeon. You're a surgeon. Yeah.
So, you know, he he's making a difference in a lot of lives.
It's pretty. Cool.
Where I'm very interested because I have twin
girls and one wants to be a neuro scientist.
Okay.
Does he have any information on that or.
Oh, he.
He would. Yeah.
There's, he he I know when he started his med school, he did like an MD PhD.
He ended up not being able like the conflict in Seattle or something.
So the PhD put on all that.
And once you become a surgeon, you don't really have time to do a PhD anymore. But,
but no, he he's interested in.
And his his brother,
my other stepbrother, Chris, also got his undergraduate degree.
He went to Wesleyan.
And Wesleyan has a program where you basically just create your own major.
It's pretty cool.
So he did, like a neuro psychology
major, which similar. Right.
So you pay $92,000 a year to create your own.
Correct academic.
Yeah. Yeah, exactly. Benefits you sign me up.
Yeah.
One of the benefits of spending the extra 50 to $60,000
a year is being able to, you know, create the syllabus for the professors.
The Eric Mangini course Jets.
Yeah.
Coach that Wesleyan did is Ali Belushi's uncle.
I didn't you know. Yeah.
She told me that once.
Now six degrees.
There you go six degree you go Ali Ballou.
There's a couple of.
Yeah. Wellesley is a lot of famous people. Yeah.
As land.
My cousin, one of my favorite cousins of all time, went there.
Yeah.
There's a famous movie director that likes to blow things up a lot.
Hillary affiliated him was one. Jason Day
is a transformer guy.
Michael Bay, Michael Bay.
Jason Bass, the baseball player.
He went there.
Oh, you know who else did a concert there?
I don't even know.
The guys names are, but they're like, I'll try to sing it.
They're like, I can't even.
Mgmt Mumford and Sons.
No, that one is it, like, electronic didn't fit into.
There's sing it, sing it. Hit me. Oh.
God. Was. Yeah. The kids. Kids get kids.
Kids. Yeah.
Do you ever see the video.
Of the, I'm like, oh, I don't like the singing.
Yeah. That song. Yeah, I saw that video.
They're performing at. Wesleyan.
Yeah, they they met at Wesleyan.
And then next, you know, they're big.
Yeah. You ever see like I think. That clip went viral recently.
I saw it. Recently.
You see like Weezer or like, those guys playing in a high school gym, I love it.
Yeah. You got to start somewhere, you know?
Gotta start. Song.
I think Dave Matthews had a clip recently of like, him playing it 93, I saw it.
I got a strawberries or something. Yeah, yeah.
One of the record stores.
Yeah. Record stores.
Like out of the crowd. Just not into it.
Yeah, it's worth it. You're just like who?
Yeah. Who's this guy?
He's playing.
Satellite perfectly. Yes. Yeah.
When's that guy stop touring DMV?
He's pretty young. Is he?
Do they don't stop?
No. No, no.
He always makes a joke. He's like, we have 30,000 fans.
He's like, they just travel all around.
I can name, like, four songs.
And I'm not the biggest fan, but I've been to over ten concerts.
Yeah, you don't even realize.
The live shows now. And it's like.
And the crowd is like, you got one guy, like losing his mind.
Then you got one dude chilling.
Family over there. Yeah, you got families.
Well, right here is, I don't know where they are over here.
Some of them dancing, spinning in circles.
Yeah.
I mean, there you go.
It's all people 40 or older.
Oh, there's no the young people crowd is out.
Yeah.
No one follows Dave. Anyway, let's call them at.
Six Flags in Philly.
I saw them at the casino Spac.
I asked bunch of different places and I'm like,
not even realize I'm like, that's my most seen guy.
Yeah. What's what's your most answer?
I. Don't if you like. The guy. I'm a big Dave Matthews Band.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's it. We've been out of the gorge.
But they're
a bunch of times I see another Seattle or. No.
Washington state.
Yeah, yeah, on the Columbia River Gorge.
Okay.
Yeah, it's on the desert side of the state, if you're familiar
with the geography.
Yeah, I was close to Seattle.
So. I know it's close.
It's a big city, but so.
Is that the one?
There's another one that you have to, like, rent the RV.
So there's Red Rock.
Can't really pop.
Yeah, that one's in Colorado.
The Gorge, I think, is, I think less known, but better in my opinion.
The gorge is known by like, yeah, serious music fans.
I, I've always gotten up.
I think that's usually Labor Day or like.
Correct. Is it the same I down here?
Yeah. I look at the clock because we call it labor. Dave.
For the so the weirdos out there like Sam old I live.
And how many times have you been to the Gorge?
Maybe five times farther.
And here I am thinking I'm a fan.
Yeah, it's like I've seen them ten times.
I see them five times at this random place in Washington state.
No. Beautiful with the rocks. Gorgeous.
Does that. Affect that?
I've read that's red rocks.
But yeah, you do get nice light there.
What? The gorge. Is it.
It's like a hill. It trickles down.
You have the stage, and then you literally see the Columbia River.
It's just huge, right? Yeah.
And it always has, like, really nice sunsets to the west of using them.
Granite. Yes.
Yeah. Red rocks I've been, but I haven't seen that concert.
Yeah.
There's a beautiful vineyard there.
There's like a high end campground.
You can, like, pay more money for that.
Can we? Plans ready or 20.
You go. There you go. Next year. Yeah, yeah.
I'm serious.
It's great.
And it's a desert, but mile and a virtual evenings.
There's no humidity. And it was good.
They boss a bunch of, chefs in from Seattle to cook for the weekend.
It's awesome.
Yeah.
They do a camping excursion at Saratoga, too.
There's, like, all these campgrounds around, and they cost you in.
Yeah.
Yeah, I didn't do that.
But, People. Oh, great. East coast venue.
It's probably one of the, one of the cooler for sure.
And he there's three days in a row and he doesn't repeat a song.
That's amazing. That's quite the playlist.
If you're listening, Dave, can you come back to Hartford?
Because it's kind of ridiculous.
Thanks. Come alive.
Okay.
Oh, I also saw him.
You only go. To the casinos. No.
That's too bad, because I think last time they maced
the entire parking lot to get them to go into the Dave Matthews.
Well, last time, I think it was 1997.
No, it was 98. The riots.
Yeah. Yeah, I was there.
But I've seen Dave there since then. Yeah.
He it was like five years ago.
Two years ago I think he was here.
And then I think the last two years he's just, they just consolidate with
the one up in Massachusetts.
Yeah.
I don't know, but it's just one of them.
Yeah. It's all sponsored.
It's a campground two. Right.
It's almost set up exactly like the accelerator center or.
Yeah, it was.
It just doesn't have the, it has more covering into the one.
Yeah.
All right.
We didn't know where this was going.
We're talking Dave Matthews.
It's a lot of places.
There's still a lot of room for this to go.
Yeah, and a lot of different Irish whiskey.
Be there whiskey festival as well. That's.
I see that one. And you. Hit this. Too. I'm sorry. I signed up for the bathroom.
I went last year. It was great.
You can also volunteer to Keller.
Is there any limit to how much you can taste when you're volunteering?
Yeah, I have to tell you when you get there.
Well, then I'm not volunteer.
The, others,
then Bloomfield. All right.
Tumble, brother.
The country club, right? Yeah.
Maybe next year. You can do it for us.
Don't tell anybody, okay?
Okay, okay. You can taste if you volunteer.
All right.
Keep that between us.
I told you on its own. You did.
So I want to play this game.
This is my daughter's phone.
But this is my wife. Hello?
She called on our podcast. No. That's amazing.
Why? You was calling me during a podcast.
Can we say hi again?
Turn it up.
So don't sound emergency, right?
Hello.
Hello. What's Ryan from? Ryan. Super flash.
How are you?
Oh, hi. How are you?
We spoke the last podcast.
Yeah. Oh, my gosh.
You called during 133.
Everyone's going to think you're like a stalker.
Like you really like me. And you call me. You did. You did.
You did call your daughter's phone for whatever reason.
On the plus side, this is Bridget's phone.
What?
Why do you have Bridget?
We're going to play.
We're going to play band all band was the music game
that got us to Cape Cod and back to Gothic.
It's amazing. Dude, I'm so sorry.
Tonight is not going anywhere for the next couple.
Bridget's like, she's like, I'm just make my phone.
Bridget currently at home looking for her.
I want to explain how to download this app.
So just take my phone. Yeah.
We'll cost. $10.
So he, he got him better.
All right. I love you.
Are we going to be cutting this part of the body now?
No, of course not. Never do. He's now.
Okay, well, then I have a question for Bridget.
So how do I ask her?
Call the podcast, and then she can watch the podcast that she can answer.
Yeah. It's going to be three days.
What's your Friday?
Oh, hold on, I got a question.
If you were to.
Hello.
Yes. If you could eat with
three people, dead or alive, who would it be and why?
And why is it the two of us?
Who do you like better? Ryan?
South wash or Bergen Financial Group, I'll believe.
Okay, I'm not answering that, I gotta go.
All right. Love you.
Too much. Fresh. Perfect.
Yeah.
Oh, wow. She calls me a lot.
She wants me slam the. Table up.
Like she is calling me.
As a reminder.
She called you doll. Yeah, I see, yeah.
Oh, Bridget, did. She text me first?
No, no.
Silence.
Oh, no, I did last calls.
Never. I did get a call from Stefan. You.
There you go. Yes.
Where the hell is this place?
Like, what is going on? How do I get into
45 South Main Street, suite 203
with Bergen Financial Group.
Where were we? Where were we?
Oh, let's let's her some speaking.
Oh, a whiskey fest quickly be their maximum beverage.
Great people I podcast there.
Yeah.
This is our fifth year being the beneficiary of this event.
The witnesses are amazing people.
They'll have a whiskey hole at the golf tournament.
Awesome. Like five different whiskeys.
So when you tee off at night at 9:00, you may start at the whiskey hole.
Are you partaking or are you. Pass it.
Really hope that I.
It's like my 15th hole.
Yeah.
Yeah I'd rather delay is then I'll try every one of them.
All right. I'll line you up.
Is there a way to plot against it?
Can I just, like, skip back to that whole story?
Oh, yeah. It's there. And people do.
You can't revisit. All right.
So plenty of gas on my golf cart and perfect.
Very popular hole and very popular place. Thank you.
Maximum beverage shop at their place they have Tolland, Farmington and
West Hartford.
Is it Bishop's corner, Bishop. Bishop's Bishop's corner.
I always confuse Corbin. I'm in for Bishop's.
By the Farmington were let rip on my parents house.
So I'm at the, Bishop's corner. One on that.
Yeah, it's my go to I like I like that they moved the basement.
They're like, little bit bigger. And in that one, that's the one.
You do the package, right? Yeah.
Good wine selection.
All right, let's do a Venn diagram. I'm a teacher.
We've already asked favorite teachers again in episode 94.
Episode 133.
Do you remember your answer for that?
No, not that memorable.
I'll tell you. No, listen.
Teachers are the worst. Teachers are there? All right.
There.
Okay, then.
Diagram. Do you know what a Venn diagram is?
I do, yes I do. What is it?
A Venn diagram is a diagram of two circles.
Yeah. Right. With with the overlapping in the middle.
And the overlapping is the things that they share characteristics in.
Right. We're going to Venn diagram
Bergen Financial Ryan soft wash.
How are you.
The same. That's interest. How are you different.
We both spray water on things.
Yes I believe so. Right.
Often drinks start I it's to customers.
Oh probably good to talk about community.
Oh local.
Yeah.
We're both less Hartford owned and I owned.
Operated that live in West Side for just a minute. Yeah, totally.
Both serve the community.
Serve the community, both give back to the community.
You know, and you're heavily built on relationships and trust.
Correct.
Both owned by a guy with a glorious beard.
Yeah. That's true.
Yeah.
Beards all day, ginger day walker. Yeah.
So some some people that you can't tell, they think they're Irish.
That might be Norwegian.
You're like, we're not sure. Yeah. Braveheart.
Yeah. That's got a cheese.
That's a whole different watered down with Viking genes.
But yeah. Nonetheless. Yeah. Well, there's a lot of pillaging.
I feel like you both need to explain your service to the client.
Oh, give or take.
Yeah. Walking them through.
Sure. Yeah. Absolutely.
That's important.
You both like supporting charities. We do.
Yeah. Yep. Friends. Do you have a favorite.
Obviously a top on my list view Bergen.
Do you have a favorite.
Oh there's so many to choose from.
You know I'm actually I've got until years later, ten.
Minutes or something.
In our culture, kids and I don't know names or banging on the foundation.
Susie. Foundations.
Right.
Yeah, I, I introduced you to, Yeah, yeah.
Ryan. Matt design and he's right.
Yeah, yeah, he's a good dude. He's a good dude.
But I would have to say. Yeah.
Above all, my favorite nonprofit has got to be Connecticut.
Food check.
Followed by follow by friends.
Very close friends of food. Jason. Yeah.
Good people. Good.
Honestly, we have a great community of of not Johnny's.
Johnny. Johnny.
Johnny.
You love Johnny.
Johnny have you can't do with Fried Matthews.
That was that, Susie Foundation? Yeah.
I introduced them at my at my at your house because.
Yeah, because he he lives two doors down for live tour has done for me.
We were drinking IPAs on your birthday. Was a birthday for he didn't know his.
No, no, no, he didn't know was my birthday.
It's like, oh yeah. If you if you're freestyle.
So he comes by like, we're having a beer and some other people's like start walking
backyard.
Hey, happy happy birthday is so worth it. Yeah.
So yeah, I just wanted. To have a beer while you're here.
Like, how often you used to have a beer with the vaccine.
And I don't want to tell me the secret at my birthday party.
Yeah. My guy was there for an hour.
I would have showed up, you know?
And now I'm supposed to go now?
This was like, five years ago.
Yeah. Oh, this was your reason one. Now.
Where do you invite a lot?
You sneakily invite a lot of people to your birthday.
Is that like your move now?
Oh, technically, his wife invited me.
Yeah, but it didn't matter. He was going to come anyway.
Yeah. Was that.
He was busy.
I needed a list of excuses, and I show up and he wrote them all down.
Text. Yeah. Today.
Word of mouth is very important for your businesses.
Yeah. Word of mouth goes a long way.
We're a podcast, podcast, podcast, a mouth.
Yeah.
It was a friends is, a great community driver.
I think, I love the part that you give back to,
just helping other businesses in town that we, we build reels on Instagram.
We do? Yeah.
His our he's our great.
You. Know, I made the cut on one of those.
That was pretty cool.
He's like, he's giving me a shout out.
I'm never made on your real.
You got to work on that.
So that would be a difference. This was the first time.
The real.
I didn't make the real.
This is the from like it's.
Yeah. Where's Kevin anyway?
Kevin having Kevin's around.
I saw him labeled. Yeah, yeah.
Kevin's got his name tag.
He's a director of janitorial sciences.
Like, brilliant financial good.
He's on the web so I could check him out under a meet the team.
Love it, love it.
A lot of similarities.
Any minor. Differences?
Yeah.
Well, like different, more tangible.
Yeah.
Yeah, tangible.
I had that worked out.
He did. He does her in.
A tangible entry in the book.
There he goes.
Good point for. You.
I mean, the thing is, is, though historically
you think of money as tangible, but now it's all digital.
Correct him.
Yeah. But,
you know, I don't I.
You it's a long list. Yeah.
Is this the things that make our businesses different?
Cool. Yours is more immediate.
Yeah. There's probably more ongoing.
Yeah.
He's like his takes a couple days to like, fully.
Yeah.
You know mine takes a couple decades for.
Yeah.
Long term customer acquisition. Yeah.
Challenging for sure. Yeah.
Yeah yeah.
Service plans is probably in my future.
They, something, recurring revenue would be ideal.
Yeah. Do you have guys that come back?
Have you? Yeah, yeah, I've had a lot of repeat customers.
Do you have someone that. Hey, hit me up every three months or.
Well, if you close enough, you hear them?
All right. Close to getting a close enough check. Sorry.
Yeah.
With, I mean, like, gutter cleaning services or annual, house washing.
I get customers to do yearly, or I probably, twice a year sometimes.
It's not necessary, but some people are just one
particular about pile and or their windows cleaned.
You know, so yeah, that's helpful.
I it's you know what? Scratch that. It's necessary.
It's necessary twice a year,
I see if you don't have your house soft wash it twice a year.
You're missing out on many benefits.
And then let's talk about your day to day.
Your day to day. Your day to day.
Want to go first? Would you do would you help.
Oh I mean my day was garbage.
I mean, my truck broke down.
Dead battery it brought to lions for the first time.
Nice. So, take good care of you, I promise.
Yep. So.
I'm sorry. I have a hefty bill. Oh, black dodge ram.
Yeah, yeah, the battery.
Oh, the bad the battered out.
Yeah. So you needing to back. In a new battery?
Yeah, my truck broke down. Might be.
A little.
Hyperbolic. That's it. Yeah. You really scared. Me.
Because all black dodge Ram. It's. Yeah.
It's a nice. No. Yeah, I rode news.
Yeah.
You gave me a ride back from Sally, and I was like, hey,
I happen to the USA bobs the dead.
Yeah, I it's yeah, it's great.
I should have gone sailing Bob today. That would've been great.
I would spend my day off a lot better. What do I do?
Battery died. Battery died.
Do you have a job today?
Yeah, multiple jobs today.
How many and where?
I had four jobs today.
Unionville.
Two in West Hartford and one in Bloomfield.
Geez, that's a great day.
Yeah. What's the most they had in one day?
Jobs.
I mean, I.
Cleaned ten gutters in one day.
I was a bit excessive.
I try to really focus on, like, rather new.
Jobs and house. Ten home.
Yeah. Well, yeah that's impressive.
There is a property management company that I work with
and they have ten homes kind of within a close area.
So I didn't have to travel a lot, and I was able to knock it out pretty quickly.
Smart. Very cool.
And I did interrupt a meeting at Sally and Bob's.
Yeah.
Which we'll get into next before it gets too cold.
The scope of the job, though, if it's a big job, if I'm doing a roof,
Housewives, gutter cleaning, patio cleaning,
I'll usually just do that one job for that day.
So time and revenue
are kind of my factors that I consider for how I want to conduct my day.
Episode 133 still sticks with me that you were like I used to do,
like sides of houses, but now I'm like, no, it's the full house or nothing.
Correct for time and set up and break down.
You got to make it. Worth you're to make it more efficient.
And I'm even thinking about cutting some services that I offered
and just sticking to like 3 or 4 services
just to kind of be more efficient and streamline cause spends.
Depends if I grow or how I'm going to scale.
If I stick with a solo situation, then I might just consolidate
my services versus extending and adding the services with staff.
So lots to think about.
I'm constantly overanalyzing. Everything.
But we'll see.
We'll grow together,
grow together.
Love it.
How about you, Bergen?
I'm pulling up the picture.
Oh, yeah, we do have a picture day.
What did I do today?
I, signed Bob's without me.
Thanks, I Max, so I'm Bob's, Boom, I had I had lunch with Mark.
Sally Bell. Nice.
There we go. I'm going to get the sandwiches.
And who's this guy? I mark? Flynn's familiar.
He's a tax. Tony Cummings and Lockwood,
there, over. The chamber guy. Yeah.
He's.
He's at the onion and is again, his fanny.
Nice. Too.
I killed it in there.
So see me politicking?
Everyone. I saw saw this kid.
Kiss and handshake and babies.
I knew him. Was Helen there today?
Helen was not. I missed it the last couple times I've been there.
And she's. Been traveling. On. Yeah. Good. Good for her.
Yeah.
Yeah. I'm rooting for you, Helen. Keep driving.
No good times.
Sally and Bob's.
So besides meeting with what was his name again?
Mark Viner.
And his wife's a teacher.
His wife's, an administrative,
In Windsor. In Windsor.
She does, like front office administrative work.
And now he he's great.
Yeah.
Business transaction, transition stuff.
You know, figuring out the tax involved in these big,
huge transactions can be pretty hefty.
So you know, paying someone to to get that right can be pretty smart.
He's he's very good. What he does.
And, they also do some really good estate planning work over there, comics and lot.
But they're they're like a private client.
Yeah. Where is that located?
So it's right in Lubec.
Well, does he think you might?
I should have gave him the spiel. You should have. Gave him the.
He didn't respond to it.
Doesn't play a lot of golf, but I bet I can get him. Come drink whiskey.
You could sell sponsor.
You could sponsor. Come on. Mark. Mark.
Mark. Finer.
Or if I'm Mark with the.
More importantly, would you want her to eat?
I don't know anything.
No. As the other when. You wait and Mark.
Oh when I, when I eat with Mark. Good question.
I had that a special today.
It was a,
like a, chicken breast club sandwich with,
some like, honey mustard.
Right? It was very good.
It was very good.
I got,
I got a fruit
on the side, a fruit cup on the side because I wanted to get the fries.
I want to be all healthy.
Then Mark. Mark or the flat fries.
And I was really jealous, to be honest.
Did you pick.
Did I like bro?
Can I have a friend? I can make sure I didn't.
I thought about it. I really the thing is, I thought about it.
I was never going to ask.
I was just going to take one. But then I never got an offer.
They didn't offer. But I think it was implied.
So as Mark's still a good friend, if he doesn't offer a fry, you know,
if your friend doesn't have fries
and you have a whole bunch of fries and you don't offer a fry.
Speaking of fries for how often I go to ask Petersons,
but my wife and I have been ordering the milkshake and fries,
and she's like, did you tell Feeney about this?
I'm like, nothing. I don't know, it's not.
The thing is, as is knows it.
But did you really go after the yard? Go to game?
Yeah. Jeez. Yeah.
That's quite the Feeney day.
You went from the fourth.
The annual Friends of Nicholas game. I see the picture was live, man.
I sent you for fries. The Feeney.
That's like your third or fourth fries.
The Feeney pick that you've sent me.
That can't be true.
I can't. Maybe two.
Yeah, yeah, maybe till you.
Send me a red and a. Yellow.
I think we actually the one that I used in my post.
I never got a chance to use a pic.
I use your pic.
You send me.
Santana really quickly because I.
I got a minute.
I gotta ask, Peterson's a lot.
I love, but I don't know about fry fries.
Oh, they have a little corner. Well.
So we we've Feeney for 15.
We should go to Bermuda. Sends you guys.
In a milkshake. Present a milkshake.
Dipped class and dipped in. The fries.
I say it looks amazing.
Can you get it with the the the the spicy fries? No.
Yeah, it was a curly strangler.
Way to go for the milkshake.
You like the curly with the milkshake?
Oh, no. But last one, you can't
like the I.
So much judgment the way he's like. No, what you think?
I guess you're that kind of person.
I know the knotted up curly fry like. Yeah, big.
They're good. Those are the best. They're good.
I mean, I, I had to disagree with you, but let's go.
Yeah I was I'm not asking about the dipping.
I'm just asking about the I just ask if you can authorize work.
Yeah. All for as work. Yeah.
15 bucks or 20% goes to play house on park fries.
The Feeney we.
It was only supposed to be for January. All right.
You okay? January.
July. Excuse me.
Yeah. Well, they help you all that you know.
Of, August.
Okay, so I got to get there.
I got I got to, like, 11 days. Yeah.
If it was a hit, we may keep it going.
Yeah, just make it permanent for sure.
I don't see why not. We got at least summer months.
Doctor Carroll, Memorial, Labor Day type of thing.
I mean, fries, Afeni fries.
Team. I made a nice video with the tiny barrel.
The singing principal eating the fries a Feeney.
Okay, clearly I'm not.
My algorithm's all messed up.
I'm not seeing all the way to go. Fries.
Feeney. Come on, you're missing out, too.
I'm gonna I'm going to put that hashtag.
It'll help. You're like, oh, we're going for ice cream.
But I like I could save it. So maybe we could hit this up.
It's open till 11 or 10.
I think today's. Tuesday. Well they're open late. Yeah.
All right. Pack up all the equipment.
Let's go ahead and finish this today.
Peter, this podcast
to aspiring writers.
Now, ever goes in the market, I'm buying it.
Yeah, yeah.
Essie Peterson, she owns the building of Cricket press.
Oh. She does.
She owns the building that leads into it. She owns.
I'm assuming that all used to be part of it.
Right.
Was originally we have the 20th I.
She owns above Playhouse on Park.
She was the Cricket press building, which was the original land
factoring for the ice cream. Right all around.
Yeah, she's.
Here for her.
I took a tour back there. I was like, oh. That's awesome.
You can definitely film like The Blair Witch Project back there.
What did she acquire that property? Do know of the token?
It might be in the family.
Okay, the original AC Peterson farm is Whitten Berry golf course.
Yeah. Yes. Yeah.
I didn't know that.
I don't know if they there was an and I.
Think they stopped production their own ice cream production years ago.
Yeah yeah yeah.
Now now all the cows on that golf course are just purely for, vanity and present.
Yeah.
For petting zoo. No, I don't think it goes.
All right. So we trying another flavor or.
Yeah, yeah, we're all gonna.
Play the music game or do you want to get into the Sally and Bob's?
We could do both, but, although I do.
All right.
Let's try something.
Give us some eagle rare talk about this.
Let's talk.
I never had it.
This is, an eagle rare ten year.
It's, where the tasting notes on the dirk.
Yeah. Is it, vanilla caramel?
It's got a kind of smooth and, honey finish.
I believe this is all accurate, actually,
I don't know.
I there's a lot of things I don't burn in there.
Yeah.
Spell on the pants, but that's okay.
It's, This I actually got, from my neighbor.
Shout out Maggie, Jojo! Jojo!
Well, across the hall at the hall there.
She she brought that as a, Cheers.
Maggie definitely opened up. Cheers to Maggie. Here's the Maggie.
Maggie. Georgia.
Maggie.
Here's a collaboration and, competition.
That's right, that's right.
She's a fantastic resource for us.
And hopefully the vice versa.
Shockingly smooth.
Can you compare it to the bland. It.
Eagle rare, I would say, is much more like, approachable.
It's a little bit smoother. Way smoother.
Blanton's is,
you know, a bourbon drinker's.
Bourbon is really, really good.
We also talk about the logos.
The logos. Be be.
BFF. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.
Yeah. Right.
Love it.
See how that comes out?
I'd be terrible.
Yeah. Very blurry. Yeah. It's not going to work at all.
Not in focus on it.
You got one like right here.
Yeah.
Oh that's wonderful.
The b in the f,
who does real quick?
Samantha.
I'm blanking on her last name. This is bad.
I'm on a podcast. Okay.
Costa, and she, she also,
does some some,
it work and, we have our, copier,
and she set up our, like, internet and kind of centers our office up.
But she's an artist, so she offered to to do that.
And I really, like there were so many iterations of ideas I over.
Well, wanted to sample,
Dan Hovey.
Yeah, that's Robert Zoller.
Yep. Jonathan hovey, and he's a big shout out to Harvey.
Cheers a Dan is it?
Dan, you just puts all our on my house.
Can we talk about under my.
Did it? I'm sure we did.
Yeah. Dan Hovey Dan Hobby notes.
He's he's.
So if you look you you probably can't see it on the camera, but on the wall,
like the way it's designed is the F is essentially a cut out.
So when, when Dan Hovey sees the the logo.
Yeah. This is all berg. No finance.
Which I like it.
I'm sure he means. And do the. Funny guy
real nice. He makes a lot of jokes.
Makes a lot of jokes.
Aren't it funny.
How funny.
How do I amuse you know my my. Clown
like, haha.
Funny is your.
Is this your first podcast with two business owners that have no affiliation?
Yeah, yeah.
Two repeaters
on the same podcast.
Speaking of which, I want to thank you for your continued support
and your generosity.
You guys both are very supportive of friends of Fini.
So truly means the world.
If it's sponsoring, making donations, coming up with ideas.
I thank you guys. So thank you for being here.
I'm really excited to be talking with you.
So I have a gift.
Oh, this is.
Sweet.
I thought it was food. Oh.
That's some Tony sister.
You good old Tony.
Nice.
Tony, I don't know, he must have attended a golf tournament
within the past 8 to 10 years.
Like it? But there's some teas and a ball.
I'm going to hit this on the hole in one hole. Yes.
He has a long drive. One right there. Yeah.
When a BMW or something.
Oh, maybe I won't give this to you, but you'll get this at the golf tournament.
This is a hat clip, so. Oh, where's your Bergen hat?
Oh, we'll see a Bergen. And we're going to try this on a hats.
So this is a hat lip ball. Mark this this.
We'll start wearing the hat. That one's for you.
Oh, we're in the clip right now. See? All right.
Everyone gets a hat.
A hello, all Bergen. All financial. Right. Hova.
So there's a hat clip.
So you put on the back, you clip it on the back.
This is going to be our swag giveaway.
Okay.
Oh, look at that.
It fits.
Nice all about that.
And then you got a little slow over the back ball.
Our ball marker. Now we're talking.
So if you're good.
It's like a magic trailer again to us.
Oh I got to you know you know you got to do is
you got to pull that ball marker if someone else's hat.
So it's like a magic wand out of there year.
Yeah. Oh, right.
Like it.
You're going to have to, do a couple of these.
Got a kick ball head.
All right, I got. Yeah, I have my you've.
Got the bigger head. And then I got to go.
I got it.
I got to be competing.
But look at the guys on the last one.
He's got the John Stamos. Go on. This guy's got a good head.
On the last.
The last one I'm on, too. I'm on to.
I tried three, didn't I?
Cut off my circulation a little bit. So now I got a big dome.
My name is Jeff.
Look at that.
I got a guy that looks that looks really nice.
Shout out to Goff.
She sponsored her swag and this is what we collaborated on.
But you get the ball Mark. Yeah we'll take our swag girl.
That's how often do you
use a ball marker.
Have you ever played yesterday.
Yeah.
And used a quarter cuz I forgot my ball marker.
This is a nice fitting for nice and I.
I like the crown. Yeah it's important.
The trucker style.
You know, you can wear a lot of styles.
I like a lot of places. Gabe. It fantastic.
He's the heck out of the Yankees.
Out you're wearing earlier.
Shout out Red Sox.
You know listen, can I get out of your office?
Kick out of my own office?
Yeah, that's a thing. All right. We'll give it to you on level two.
But yeah. This is.
Thank you again, Brooke.
Golf. She's a sponsor.
And, this is our swag. Okay. Now. All right.
I'm just going to put that in there. That's for you.
I just want to meet Brooke to talk about her, billboard campaign.
She'll be at the golf tournament. Good.
And did you see she.
There's a video of a guy.
She. It's like a side by side video, and she and the guys.
Oh, yeah.
I saw that today.
Kind of about the, It was like a conspiracy theory guy.
Yeah, yeah, I was he's just doing the.
I was it was interesting that she played into that.
Well, it was weird because it was also she kind of kept audio in her end
a little bit. So it was a little confusing.
I wasn't sure if she was reacting to his car.
What does that mean? Or that if I was her, I don't know.
But she I think I listen any press is good press.
Yeah I think that guy has a good amount of followers.
So it was probably a good a good choice on her part, but really interesting.
And I'm going to go one bigger now this thing just drinks it a little bit.
I'm going to last last two I'm going to I'm going to be the last one now.
Yeah Lisa covers up.
Your head so big you don't have dreams.
You have movies.
What if I go this way and sponsors and they'll maybe.
Oh, now that's better. Yeah.
You know, the problem is, is,
when your hairline starts receding really badly,
then you put your cap on backwards, and then you just see there's no hair left.
It's okay.
All right?
I've been there, I'm there, I'm there. I'm on the way.
Yeah. Let's see.
Yeah.
No, you got a lot of hair sticking out still.
Oh, geez. Your whole.
Poof. There's a piece.
I like this hat over here.
Well done. Where'd you get these?
I got these at, budget printers and embroiderers in Hartford, Park Road.
Nice.
Oh, yeah.
They they collaborate with Cricket press. Yeah.
The good people, good chamber members.
On the chamber members. You know,
Are we going to eat?
We're all. Tonight. What time? What do we have here? What are we on?
40? You go to 48.
Oh 48.
Well, there's two guests.
We can go two hours. That's true. Yeah. They pay.
Yeah. We're going to get the Petersons after this, right? Yeah.
Turkey club.
You don't have to be home tonight. Right? Yeah.
Turkey club on white with avocado.
Nice. All right.
A burger.
They did cut that 130 ways that.
Look at there.
That president's a. Third grade teacher.
I teach fractions and the fractions need to be equal.
Yeah, they should have cut it into a piece of it.
But that's a beautiful looking burger.
Pizza style cut would have been.
Well, then we. Got,
Oh. Reuben ramyeon rye, no fries.
Boiled real fine. Oh.
Also separated soon catch up.
Yeah. Pickle.
So we're all going to do one of each.
We get chip.
But gosh.
So we'll just,
We got to go one at a time here. All right.
Got it. Right. So what do we start if.
You have the choice, if you can choose to look at these.
Oh show them on real quick though.
That's Sally and Bob's.
That's a great looking turkey club.
Yeah. They're going to go into the trick.
Look at all that bacon.
Look at the bacon. Bacon up my bacon.
You know what I like? Bacon wrapped bacon.
You ever try it? It's pretty. Good. Bacon wrapped bacon.
I feel like I got the order.
Amazing.
Greco club pastrami.
Burger and that pastrami with the rye.
Right. So.
I think Brian made is is, A lean on bacon.
It's a good.
Yeah. We get a plate.
All right.
Sound effects plate.
Play.
Does it give me a camera for us?
Yeah,
we'll just take a couple bites.
But, I mean, we could go to the wings.
That's true.
Oh, yeah.
Wing challenge. Hey, that's that's coming up, isn't it?
You're in this time.
Oh, I'm in the wing challenge.
Is that, I saw Abby today.
Speaking of which, you did, and I shouted him out.
Heather. Colt.
The devil is so 145 sheep.
Heather. Coach. Good people, good people.
So go back and watch. Heather. Colt.
We mentioned Abby.
Love.
All right.
Well, that a turkey
auto club.
I we'll get us.
Some avocado in here.
I got napkins.
That's the good fat.
You know it's a superfood but it's a good stuff.
All right.
That was the Turkey club.
Is it something I said Ryan.
Is it something I said.
It went to him real fat. Is it me?
I could change?
You're up to 50, you know, 50, 50.
I'm skipping here or go home.
All right.
Turkey club.
Amazing.
Again.
Great bacon. Well done.
Cheers. Compliments to the ship.
Hey, here's a Caesar.
The Caesar. To Caesar.
They don't mess around with.
Caesar loves modelo.
So if you ever want it, you got Caesar.
A little gift.
Six pack of modelo.
12 pack of modelo. Let's go, let's go.
Oh, yeah.
30 pack. Take a cheap kegger.
Suitcase.
The next two cases I'm going to actually get instead of 24 track.
It's pickles. Pickles are great.
I gotta, I gotta, I gotta wait till the end of the pickle.
Pickle.
Big part of it.
I'm gonna I'm going to pickle back the pastrami.
So I was
I was,
I was debating
corned beef or pastrami.
Claudia.
Sally and Bob suggested
the pastrami, so.
Thank you. Claudia.
Sofia. Help me.
Thank you.
Sofia. She was great.
Everyone in there's great.
All right.
Sofia is like,
local celebrity.
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
That's a pretty big piece of bread that they could cut this in pretty well.
Thanks. Diesel trick. Oh, yeah.
SAT for a little bit.
Well, what a moist on the bottom, a little moist.
But Sara acidic. It's all right because. Oh.
Oh, Hannah, I must try this pastrami. Here.
Let's try me time now.
We're eating on the podcast here.
My good friends Eric and Ryan.
Hope you're first as well. Bergman Financial.
Do you drink coffee?
Sweet bear coffee.
Check it out.
They help people with disabilities.
That was episode 144.
I just watched your house.
Did you come. In Sunset. Farms?
Really good people.
Good people eat bear coffee.
If she gets like 25% of the profits.
The drew where that connection.
Did I have anything to do with this connection.
Lie to me.
Yes. It was absolutely a forensic fini connection.
She called him and I just heard your podcast.
Yeah, yeah, I just I had all this free time. So.
Amazing podcast.
Yeah,
yeah. Washer house a couple weeks ago.
Yeah. Let's get the let's get a selfie.
We'll send it to you.
Boom.
And then Stefan is going to put it right here.
Selfie. Boom. My boys.
Brian, Eric.
Really?
We're here.
It's amazing.
How many good.
Christina. It.
Yeah.
Very cool. That's awesome.
And then if you want it, if you need alarms,
monitors, if you want to turn on the lights, you want an outside TV.
Episode 146 Insight Plus technology.
If you have a family member that's elderly and then, like,
if they're still for a long time, it'll alert you later.
They do wonderful things.
That's cool.
147 Jamie Arbor from the Supported Living Group.
They help people with, traumatic brain injuries.
Do you play fantasy football?
I do not,
I do.
148 my nephew Nick's picks Uzbeks.
You know, he's a 14, 15 year old kid going into freshman year at Suffield Academy.
And he's really good in fantasy podcasts.
So he gave all his research and knowledge on last podcast.
148 I think it.
Was doing there, perfect to draft. The draft and see what I did there.
Timing.
I like it next picks and then how how.
It's on Stephania to get this produced by that.
Yeah we got to chop chop. It's out.
To chop. Stephania.
How high can you jump.
Oh how high can I drive a five foot vertical.
I can get my feet off the ground when I drop.
Amazing.
Yeah like you could a whole piece of paper under there.
We call that a credit card. Hops. Yeah. Can jump over.
I credit card, hops.
Jumps by cheat. I, when I was.
This is a long time ago, I think when I was maybe
to probably a solid 20 years ago
when I worked at Castro, I was I was a little short of them right now.
It took me a long time to get all the way up.
And my, my, my brother could corroborate this.
I would be able to come home
after working a day in construction with steel toed boots
and just barely dunk a ball. Really?
Yeah, I had hops.
Yeah. Nowadays I got credit card hops.
Yeah, that's something I don't think I'll ever go back years again. Yeah.
It's amazing the stuff we could do with 20.
Yes. Yeah.
This guy won 43 jumps by G.
So jumps like 11ft.
And he has like.
100,000 followers on. TikTok to dunk.
That's pretty amazing.
Great podcast. So that's what sounds like a lot of fun.
Did you do that again? Sounds familiar.
He doesn't have Walker Park.
He can do he does bag flips anything. What, you see a guy jumping?
Yeah, yeah.
Connor guy. Okay.
All right. Pretty cool. Good guy.
Oh, then we got to talk about the yard.
Goats every time. Yeah.
I was my first event with you guys there. Yeah, yeah.
Oh, speaking of which, we got a picture in pull up.
Kids loved it. Ryan. Boom.
Holding the Friends of Feeney banner right here.
I like it.
Let's see if you can see it and I'll I'll show you I.
Am I going to dial I guess it's the bang is on. Point, bro.
Oh yeah.
Look at that.
I saw I saw pictures of that on so many people's Instagram.
Really? Really.
So I said, you posted something Ali Baluchi posts up.
I think Anthony from Anthony is a Bateman.
Yeah.
Because I gave him a shout out because I saw his sign out there.
Anthony, to our email. He's a good dude. He's a good dude. Yeah.
Great podcast. We're actually glad you bro.
I met him through the podcast.
That was a legitimate meet through.
Yeah.
I reached out to him after I listen to his podcast.
That's right. When I was researching. We're doing branded bills.
Be a good friend.
Anthony's abatement on the side.
Guys.
And then check the coolest picture.
We got to pull that up somehow.
I'm not gonna be able to find it now, but I'll send it to you later.
My dude.
Ryan goes get a haircut on a Saturday.
Boom.
Oh yeah, he's wearing his Saturdays or for friends shirt.
Anthony is wearing.
His Saturdays are for a friend's. Shirt, and that's fantastic.
Two friends getting a cut on wood, right?
Yeah. And wood. Baldwin barber shop in New Brighton Avenue.
I got to get more, more Phoenix swag.
If. You.
It was so random
because he didn't look familiar from when I saw him on social media.
And I had just saw the podcast a couple weeks ago.
I was going to be on your podcast literally the next day,
because I was getting a haircut for the podcast.
No way.
And, I go, hey, friend, our friend's opinion.
I lifted up the the cape and we started chatting.
I'm like, oh yeah, I actually reached out to you a couple weeks ago
where we're already trying to connect and meet up for coffee and stuff, so yeah.
Good, dude.
Great for business. Yeah. Thank you Anthony.
And so funny.
We didn't realize this till after the podcast.
His mother works with my mother in law at Hartford Hospital.
Yeah. Hartford hospital.
Anthony's little sister
was my, like,
they call like a nanny helper when, like, the mom is still home.
But the little kid plays that.
The baby's mother's helper, mother's helper, mother's helper.
Anthony's little sister, who's now a teacher.
Shout out to teachers.
Was the nanny helper.
Mama helper to my twins. What?
That's crazy.
Where's your mother in law? I do have heard.
She ran a floor.
I'm not sure.
She actually just retired last week.
Congratulations to retire. Hey. Cheers to.
I wonder if my wife knows. There we go.
Yeah. Cheers to Janie.
Oh, I guess we got to try another flavor. Oh.
One at a time.
Anyway, I'm. Going to go a little longer, if that's okay.
The funny. Thing is.
All right. 20, 23 minutes. All right.
We had a hard cutoff, so we gotta we gotta eat a burger and pour a drink. And,
Yep. I'm
calling the wife because she is a big Hartford health care.
I'm a my wife or assistant.
Picks, Connecticut children's part of Harvard out here. Yeah.
She knows Jeannie, darling.
And while you do that one.
She never picks up the phone, so I don't, know why I'm calling.
I it's getting awkward.
If she does pick up, can I talk? Yeah. Yeah, please.
Yeah, I hope you.
Yeah. My wife calls me all the time.
His wife doesn't pick up the phone.
If I call my wife, she would absolutely pick up.
But you just hear my kids screaming, so I'm not going to do that to everyone.
I used to do that.
It's that time of day right now where I would normally be getting home.
So they are they're like used up right now.
Yeah. Okay.
All right. Ready to go. You have three now and three kids under.
No no no, my oldest is six.
She's going in first grade.
Another. Yeah.
Three under six.
It's crazy.
It's a lot.
Yeah it's a lot. And you have two under.
Six, 7 in 4 four. Yeah.
So that's I just went back for more punishment.
We have kids from the same age playing.
Man to man defense.
We're playing zone. You're playing prevent.
And you know what happens when you go in the eyes.
It never. Works. Yeah.
No you give up those big chunks up the middle.
And he just can't, you know, you're here.
Jim Gaffigan, on bet on adding multiple children.
No, but we have 13 minutes.
Is this a good way to spend it?
No, I got it, though.
Okay, okay.
Imagine you have five children in your swimming.
That's it.
And someone hands you a baby?
Yeah. Or something, right?
You're drowning at someone.
Hands to another. Baby. Yes, I love Gaffigan.
It's so funny. Jim Gaffigan is the king.
He's great.
I love it.
Yeah. No, it's it's a lot.
It's a lot. Oh. Oh, let's talk about the game.
So I'll continue to talk about them.
Oh. Which all we got to talk about.
Stefan, you have the game. Oh. My.
Oh I have a cold. Play moment or dying.
Cold play moment. Valerius.
She's like no. Yeah. Yes.
How much do you want us to talk about this?
Stefan? You're a little awkward and you're fine.
No one's going to listen to this anyways. Yeah.
Kiss cam going.
Cam came around. Yeah. Stefan, you popped up.
We don't have it on video, do we?
I wish, I wish I got a screenshot.
It took me a second to recognize her and I'm like, oh,
my God, you're like a few seats away from. I might be able to get that.
Yeah, I'm going to get that.
Actually, no audio, but we'll get it.
I was just in kid and not a, not a kissable or maybe not accessible friend.
Maybe I kissed school friend in that moment.
Yeah. It happened. Yeah.
843 there. We go.
I feel like I remember texting you.
I go, so you're here? Yeah.
I'm sure we can get that.
Because she. Was with.
She came with the crew,
but we were like, I'm walking around meeting everyone and I see.
Oh, tell my wife she wasn't wearing.
Yeah, she does my best.
She's like this.
Cut it.
No. Literally.
Stop, stop, stop me.
She's like, yeah, lol. I'm in my seat.
I can't believe they did the kiss cam.
So skull face emoji, skull face emoji.
Skull face emoji.
That's a triple. Skull.
That's triple skull. Full.
That's like that's the that's life.
That's like rum on a boat. Yeah.
Hey, I'm with Fenian, Bergen Mel.
So some Hartford hospital references.
Who do you now? Janey dowling.
Whitney Harper to Harper house.
Little references. Yeah, yeah, we're.
We're going to name two people out of the 30,000.
You know, Regina.
I don't.
Oh, bummer.
That's.
Yeah, I thought this would go better, so.
All right. And who was the other person that was that? Miss,
We can cut this out.
All right,
all right. I think that's it.
Love you, love you.
But I love you. My baby.
My my twins were born there.
Were your children born there?
Children's. Yeah. Children.
They birthed children.
That.
Well, they're they're born in Hartford.
Well, yeah. The.
But the children.
Well, yes. Hartford.
Yeah. But my. Yeah. Sorry.
The my kids went my,
Nikki. The. Nikki. Nikki. Yeah. You.
So they went right? Yeah. After.
Yeah. Yeah. Immediately. Okay.
We had some complications in the beginning, but yes.
Technically. Hartford. My my wife works in the Nikki.
The nurse there. Yeah.
Shout out to Nikki. Nurses there.
Yeah, I was dealing with really weird stuff every day.
Yeah, yeah.
The worst possible scenarios.
Yeah, yeah.
No nurses and anyone in the medical field love it.
Yeah.
Tough heroes.
Wish you could be heroes.
Then we're gonna have enough time for a vandal.
We end up, we get we.
We got to do a burger and we gotta do a burger.
We got one more bottle of bourbon and a whole game to play in.
What, seven minute? Grab this end right here. Okay?
This is the burger you have to make.
So why do you think Sally and Bob's just does breakfast?
As you can see, they do turkey clubs, burgers, pastrami.
Oh, God.
This is, Oh, God.
I feel bad for whoever has to clean this table.
Oh. Hold on.
This is my boy B lock d lock.
You, me, you. Oh, you're on the podcast.
No way.
What up?
Yo is eating up?
Do we got a date and time and everything for the draft?
Yeah.
This Saturday at Parkville Market.
Are you around?
Yeah. I'll be. I'll be there.
I just had to make sure. You were making me nervous.
You weren't calling us back.
You only been in the league for 20 years.
I. Dude, I've been last. I was in Minnesota.
I spoke last week. I still haven't recovered.
I've been a mess. We're just. Killing me.
And you're the defending champ.
You're the defending champ.
No doubt, no doubt.
And you have the most views on the Fini Talks With Friends podcast.
What up?
I stood up. And actually don't got the belt.
We're going to make you a belt or a plaque.
All right.
No. What do you want?
To meet a. Guy over a thousand.
He has over 1000 views.
Oh, he's still talking fantasy.
Why? We're on the, Oh, yeah, we got you.
Well, we're going to make that belt happen.
I got to talk to stats.
I got out, I think I'll, I'll see you Saturday.
See you Saturday. There.
We filmed at Direct Line Media in Branford.
And his band did, like four, four songs.
Get a set.
Higgins in the general killed on, YouTube.
Like 15 under 2000 views.
Awesome. It's amazing.
Let's I'm using this going to using makes it happen.
So you do play fantasy football.
Turns out of them
I do I'm thinking 30 to 40,000.
Yeah I mean we can make this viral somehow, right? Yeah.
At least as many people that fit in the gorge.
Yeah. Gorge please play away.
They.
Matthews got nothing.
On this podcast.
No. So we did the bird eye burger was delicious.
Burger was very good at the spot.
All right.
So everyone's favorite sandwich from Sal and Bob's.
Did we cheers.
This this actually to be honest, I've only been a breakfast guy over there.
Oh you're missing out eggs.
Benny's my favorite. Eggs.
Somebody had any other lunch items? I know. Well,
I'm impressed.
Delicious.
I don't normally order parameters for a slam.
I do a good job.
I love a turkey club.
Yeah, I mean, that's what you got. Was amazing.
And it held up for, like, a couple hours.
Yeah, that's like, we're can say, like 30 minutes.
And I picked up it like that too.
I picked it up around 215 to 30. It's a good point.
Yeah.
Brought it in the house because I don't want to leave it in the car.
So this they it lasted far.
Yeah.
It is almost 615 right now.
So thank you Sally and Bob's.
Sally Helen Bob Cesar. Yep.
Oh we don't
and play game little we got we got a lot of their food.
It's so good. So good.
All right.
Oh but just on a more serious note, this is really meant the world to.
And thank you, yard goats for everything.
Nicholas Parente, four years ago.
Spent his last time with friends and family.
He actually. Passed away two weeks after our event.
So we honor him every year.
And this is actually something he wrote to incoming
second graders not knowing about Friends of Feeney.
Yeah. That was. Wow.
This is the craziest connection I've ever heard.
Rob told me.
Rob, now his dad joined our board, had to give back.
Felt like this was it was a sign for him to give back that Nicholas wrote.
Be a good friend and be kind.
And he took really hard time with his handwriting.
The second grade, the third grade teacher framed it.
So they actually the parents had this framed in their house.
So truly means the world.
And also, I want to thank all the sponsors on the back.
I'm going to try to show them my arm.
Can you see those? I don't know, yeah, I can I Ryan.
I see something.
See something up there.
Direct line.
No, no. Luna pizza. No. Go.
Two, four. Leave.
That's a blue jean Chris first, microphone.
Sure as well.
Oh, well.
Mike. Yeah.
Okay. Move the mic.
Dollars for a sponsor.
Shirt, right. Yeah.
Nice. There's Ryan soft.
Wash on there then if anyone is recused is pronounced blue Jean.
I know not blue Jean.
Not blue now.
Blue balloon and beluga whale.
Her first time on a tee. Shout out to Allie.
And she made a wonderful video.
We did it.
We copied the Savannah bananas where I'm, like, in an empty stadium.
And then it snaps to.
And I'm surrounded by people for that. That's cool.
Very good. It was awesome. So shout out to Allie.
She's if you needed someone to do your website or social media.
A lot of your favorite restaurants in town.
And check this out. Just yesterday I go,
oh shoot, I'm going to jack up caviar.
Caviar.
Is this for the new giant, Jewish place on?
Oh, no.
A gavina gavina.
Yeah, I was, fresh.
I was. Gouveia, which was that winery, and.
What makes this t shirt for me?
So I'm visiting fresh ink.
I know that fresh ink. Dave.
His favorite restaurant is caviar.
So I swing by and get a beet ravioli for Dave.
Nice.
I see Ali back there, video and pizzas
and watch and video and stuff come out of the oven and awesome.
So I do a De Portnoy pizza review.
You know, I had a slight squeeze in there.
I say, of course you say one bite and then take seven bites
because that's his gimmick. Yeah.
The crust, of course, included. Yeah.
So shout out to blue Jean.
Shout out to everyone that came. Insight plus is on their
again.
You saw them right? Yeah.
Thank you for again for your tremendous support.
He's all right. He's a good friend.
Rob was explaining, because we we bought some kid T-shirts for the kids,
and, Rob was explaining to the kids in the best way possible.
The meaning behind it was well executed is beautiful.
It's just really nice
because we're going to try to get the kids involved in all this stuff
and giving back and showing what this means to have a good community and,
you know, supporting local businesses, local charities, local community events,
and the whole reason behind this and just kind of just building,
an extended family. Yeah.
Yeah, we're we're brainstorming with a couple different nonprofits.
We might do plug families.
So if a family that in need for both for your toy drive.
Yeah. We drive was extremely generous.
You donated more toys than anyone has ever done.
So thank you again.
I thank you on the podcast. I'll thank you again.
We're doing that again this year too. So boom.
That yeah, that was question one.
He answered.
Question two we're thinking possibly like if a family says age
six boy likes games, I don't know, maybe that's a thought.
But we'll we'll follow up. Okay.
And then and had brainstormed some wonderful ideas with new clients.
Yeah. Involving friends of Phoenix. So.
Well yeah, I might just jump on your toy drive.
Okay, you could do that, I do that, yeah. I'm doing.
Yeah. I already let every client know.
So every time a client,
basically any of my services fall into that radar, we could.
Yeah, we we don't own a toy.
So, my wife very diligent about helping me accumulate them throughout the year,
but there's still a lot of need to purchase.
So it's me you want to work with me with that?
That could be the middle of a Venn diagram.
That is still a reasonable now.
And diagram I thought, wow. Diagram.
That's, that's a teacher thing.
Teacher. Mr. van, how much time we got this?
Because I got a quick little sick.
We're done.
Yeah. It's a trivial lot more than I. Oh, wow.
I've a -ten minutes. Yeah. Cool, though.
What's our for trivia? Quick.
What year did West Hartford officially become separate from the town of Hartford?
1723 1864.
18 something.
All right, you're going to win with 18 some.
There we go. It.
It's the 1854.
It rolls like it's literally this 1854.
I had one of theirs myself by. Getting it right.
Point Bergen. All right.
Who's the famous person that
lived in West Hartford?
Know what?
Mark Twain. And wrote a book.
Called That seller. Yes. Okay.
And also the Webster's Dictionary.
Webster in English. He's all right.
Webster would be a board member. Yeah.
I might have spent six years to remember the Noah.
House or shopping and dining district.
The blue bag squares. Too easy, too easy.
Oh, Elizabeth Park is located in West Hartford.
True. Well. And Hartford Street, also.
Home to the oldest public.
What garden in the United States?
What kind of garden?
Rose garden. Rose. And he's killing me. Brown.
Helen. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. 4 to 0.
Oh. What was the name of the all girls
school founded in West Hartford, 1901?
It was. It was.
Porter's and moved.
The farm. I don't know how to fix that.
I don't.
Know, it's a lot to read, but I think port, we're going to get you going to go.
With the jurors. You're struggling.
We're just going to give that that was a gift.
You a little help there.
What's considered don't have much.
West Hartford is considered one of the top food towns in Connecticut.
What annual event celebrates its restaurants with special menus and deals?
So Restaurant Week, celebrate West Hartford,
just restaurant week or restaurant week?
Yeah.
What's the name of the reservoir?
So that we do math.
It's a New Haven.
Trail system for hiking and walking. The.
Job. It's a reservoir called Over in West Hartford.
MDC, MDC.
But just go.
Oh, I mean, that's not really what it's called. It's I know it.
Yeah, yeah, this is NBC reservoir number six and 11.
Yeah. Number six.
Number four at that.
Bowl.
Can you name the two libraries.
Oh there's no what's it.
All right.
Yeah.
So and then most all of them would call it vaccines.
Yeah okay Ryan give him a poem I read on that.
That two points.
That's two point points.
Get a. Book. Get a borders as borders.
So you're going to win a free week to the JCC.
What family pass.
Hopefully. Pass. Yep.
Nice. Wonderful. They got a gym pool.
Silence. Cool.
Sauna. That is cool thing for the kids.
It's like almost two floors of a rope.
Swing of a rope.
Kids climb. Oh, yeah. Explain that. So.
All right, I notice a JCC notice they have to sign a disclaimer on the back of it.
Oh, of course you do.
Yeah.
We don't accept full responsibility for any apparatus
that makes sense of your brain breathing. Right?
Oh, this guy's in no assurance now.
I thought you were a financial dad.
Yeah.
Send it by Keating.
Any recommendations?
I want to read, but we didn't get the plan. Play.
But this band all game.
Yeah, we're going to try it.
We got that.
We have seven minutes, maybe seven notes.
I've always just.
She's like, what are you doing to me?
Feeney, you're are annoying.
All right, so this game, this song came out in 1969.
It has 112 views, million views on YouTube.
That's the. Drums.
All right, then we go,
1969.
Now, this is drums.
An electric guitar.
You know this.
I know it.
Oh, Simon and Garfunkel.
Oh. Wait,
I'm going to guess that.
I want you back. Oh, it's, Cher.
No, Simon and Garfunkel.
That's weird.
So you.
Start, you start typing in Simon and Garfunkel.
Yeah.
I'm really good.
I'm going to guess to. That's the Jackson five song.
Yeah.
I want you to know, I want you, baby.
No ABC.
No, no, no, it's based on piano.
Yeah, yeah. Like for instance. Okay.
I recognize that.
So now I go guess and it's going to be Jackson five is.
Going to bang that.
Good job baby.
Jackson five that my hair
late.
Crazy.
Oh, I want you back.
Yeah. So then I guess
we're going to keep playing, and then we hopefully get another one.
I'm sure
this is where people got whiskey to the whiskey.
Yeah. Which one? All right, well.
There we go. But this is my recommendation.
All right. We're going to play more, but.
Oh good. Okay. That was the one round. One more.
Got to do one more. One.
2010 4.2 billion views on YouTube.
It's an easy.
So that's the drums.
Now this is the drums in the bass.
This is going to work
well I get copyright.
Yeah.
So don't it's at me.
She knows it. Don't say no.
All right now. So that's drums. Bass.
Now I'm going to put in this synth.
All right.
Ready.
I don't know anything that came out of three 2000.
I know, yeah I know
we'll give you we're going to do vocals.
With that many streams.
I just have to assume that it's either tenants of the company that's, that's
but it's from stranger.
So it's gonna be vocals.
It's gonna be okay.
Yeah.
Hold up.
Dude, it's it's funny how one little sound will trigger you.
Of course it will. Yeah.
We'll do the voice now,
So you get there's five clues,
and then you could get a written.
Clue at the end, secure it.
One that's a brand.
That's the vocal melody.
So, yeah, it's a factory.
And they know what I'm in that, like that's, that's
that's not the actual song either.
Those are like the different parts.
Well, you get copyright a favor for that because it's not this.
Shit. I old out.
Not you try it out even though.
This is shake shake now for Africa.
What we do, you walk. A walker.
It's like a workout.
That was in 2010.
Yeah. Oh, man. My wife's going to kill me for that one.
I should know better.
And she's right.
Yeah, most.
People got it on clue, too.
Oh, come on, be back.
We can't get a room for 4000.
Do some cheers. Cheers. Cheers.
So, Waka. Waka. Yeah.
Hey, hey.
So with my recommendation
being Vandal again got me with my girls from here to Cape Cod.
Yeah, two hours playing a game. Amazing.
Lots of fun.
I always like to do.
How many views? Because you're like.
Like you said, 4.2 billion.
You're like, I have to know this.
Yeah. Is it is in 92 to 96.
That's my heyday of high school.
Yeah. Yeah. Is it.
There you go. 2010 I'm with you.
I was like, kid, does I stop listening to music in 2010?
Like, yeah, easily.
Yeah, maybe long before that.
Actually, I think 2203 I'm running.
Then I'm like, oh, this song was on the John Madden use this song in the.
Video game. Like that. What are you even talking about?
Me. Okay, who's John Madden like I'm sorry.
Recommendations. Closing remarks.
You out three minutes. All right.
So we talk some restaurants.
Food as. Long as we're I mean
God I, we don't have time with all the time tonight after night.
Yeah. This is too much. So recommendations.
Yours is an app to keep your kids busy.
Apparently in a long road trip.
How about an electric bike that'll keep it hidden in the e-bikes.
Great for going around town with the kids. Yeah.
I love the best purchase ever.
Yeah, I might upgrade.
Yeah. Good one. And,
tropic trail.
I mean, there was,
we recently discovered a place called It's Playtime.
Yeah. On Avon. Yeah.
If you need an hour or two of.
Just, like, letting your kids do something else, it's a good place for the price.
Tell you what. It's a great place.
You say a birthday party, that is. Yeah.
That's great. Or class? Birthday.
A very attentive first class birthday was playtime.
It's played.
Ebikes band all app. All right.
Friends of Fini
golf tournament September
13th whiskey Fest September 27th.
Check out Eric Berg and Financial here.
Down at South Main Street, suite 203.
Hit up my guy Ryan soft wash.
Thank you Direct Line Media.
Thank you Stephania and Dave.
Thank you Sally and Bob's food's amazing.
I guess on three will say be a good friend.
Yeah.
You got to gear up. Hats on. Yeah.
Big heads I'm. Sure.
Big heads.
United's in this room 123.
Be a good friend.