1 00:00:00,266 --> 00:00:01,634 All right, all right. 2 00:00:01,634 --> 00:00:05,071 Feeney talks with friends. Episode 120. 3 00:00:05,338 --> 00:00:07,841 I have a wonderful guest here. Tracy, how are you doing? 4 00:00:07,841 --> 00:00:10,543 Phenomenal. Phenomenal. Thank you for having me. 5 00:00:10,543 --> 00:00:13,546 Tracy Carter, the executive director of camp. 6 00:00:13,947 --> 00:00:14,647 Inc.. 7 00:00:14,647 --> 00:00:19,619 Acres camp executive director Tracy Carter, so happy that you're here. 8 00:00:19,919 --> 00:00:22,055 Don't forget to check out 119. 9 00:00:22,055 --> 00:00:26,192 We did a hot wings challenge for breast cancer awareness. 10 00:00:26,226 --> 00:00:27,827 Very hot, hot wings. 11 00:00:27,827 --> 00:00:30,063 Yeah. The bomb. Like sweating. 12 00:00:30,063 --> 00:00:32,732 Yeah, yeah, you could do that. Yeah, I can't do it. 13 00:00:32,732 --> 00:00:34,000 But we'll get some right now. 14 00:00:34,000 --> 00:00:37,003 Now we can skip that. 15 00:00:37,170 --> 00:00:40,340 But my name is Eric Feeney, founder and president of Friends of Feeney. 16 00:00:40,340 --> 00:00:41,107 Our mission is to help 17 00:00:41,107 --> 00:00:44,177 children and families that need assistance after heartbreak or tragedy. 18 00:00:44,244 --> 00:00:45,445 And I use this podcast. 19 00:00:45,445 --> 00:00:47,881 Feeney talks with friends, and I talk to wonderful people 20 00:00:47,881 --> 00:00:49,783 that are doing great things in the community, 21 00:00:49,783 --> 00:00:50,283 and we're going to get 22 00:00:50,283 --> 00:00:53,353 into all the wonderful things that Tracy does in the community. 23 00:00:54,087 --> 00:00:55,221 He has a great story. 24 00:00:56,322 --> 00:00:57,357 And you're doing great things. 25 00:00:57,357 --> 00:00:58,491 So thank you for being here. 26 00:00:58,491 --> 00:01:01,294 Thank you. Family is truly a blessing to be here with you guys. 27 00:01:01,294 --> 00:01:04,597 And I know you had 11 points, nine rebounds 28 00:01:04,597 --> 00:01:08,435 against Baylor in round one of the NCAA tournament. 29 00:01:08,435 --> 00:01:09,069 Yeah. 30 00:01:09,069 --> 00:01:11,004 But today I had three touchdowns. 31 00:01:11,004 --> 00:01:14,174 O killer ball versus the Raiders killing them. 32 00:01:14,374 --> 00:01:16,209 Compare 33 00:01:16,209 --> 00:01:19,212 more I can't take it easy on. 34 00:01:20,313 --> 00:01:23,316 I know you're the American all these championship team 35 00:01:23,516 --> 00:01:27,587 American east all conference second team American east all defensive team. 36 00:01:27,587 --> 00:01:30,623 Yet 60 steals you average like two steals a game. 37 00:01:31,257 --> 00:01:32,325 All for coach Gallagher. 38 00:01:32,325 --> 00:01:35,128 How was the University of Hartford hoop game? 39 00:01:35,128 --> 00:01:38,131 You know it was a it was a great time to be there. 40 00:01:38,231 --> 00:01:41,301 You know I was there you know through you know the 41 00:01:42,435 --> 00:01:43,937 right before Covid started 42 00:01:43,937 --> 00:01:48,808 and then to 2022, 2021, 2022 and, 43 00:01:49,375 --> 00:01:51,811 you know, it was just such a great time to be there with great people. 44 00:01:51,811 --> 00:01:55,682 You know, I was in I was at a time in my life where, you know, 45 00:01:57,350 --> 00:01:58,985 I needed a change, 46 00:01:58,985 --> 00:02:01,988 you know, and my scenery and my environment. 47 00:02:02,188 --> 00:02:06,159 You know, I needed inspiration, and, you know, you heart. 48 00:02:06,159 --> 00:02:08,695 And John Gallagher gave that to me. 49 00:02:08,695 --> 00:02:12,031 Yeah, it was just, you know, it was a fun period in general, you know what I mean? 50 00:02:12,065 --> 00:02:16,336 Just to be, you know, a kid and, you know, focus on basketball and. 51 00:02:17,003 --> 00:02:18,371 You know, 52 00:02:18,371 --> 00:02:20,673 I know you're A61 guard from Philly. 53 00:02:20,673 --> 00:02:21,407 Yes, sir. 54 00:02:21,407 --> 00:02:22,142 How was that? 55 00:02:22,142 --> 00:02:22,575 How's that? 56 00:02:22,575 --> 00:02:25,311 How does that help translate to your game? 57 00:02:25,311 --> 00:02:29,182 Well, you know, they say, Philly guards have, like, it's Philly toughness. 58 00:02:30,116 --> 00:02:31,851 I think I'm body that for sure. 59 00:02:33,419 --> 00:02:33,753 You know, 60 00:02:33,753 --> 00:02:36,756 just the environment I grew up, you know, 61 00:02:37,023 --> 00:02:39,659 I use that to feel, 62 00:02:39,659 --> 00:02:42,462 my game and, 63 00:02:42,462 --> 00:02:45,298 you know, it was is really a blessing coming from, 64 00:02:45,298 --> 00:02:49,135 you know, so many being from a place where so many legends that come. 65 00:02:49,302 --> 00:02:51,104 I came out of it, you know what I mean? 66 00:02:51,104 --> 00:02:51,538 Donny? 67 00:02:51,538 --> 00:02:54,541 Cars, Colby's, you know, 68 00:02:54,908 --> 00:02:58,244 guys that, you know, even, like, you know, Allen Iverson, he from there. 69 00:02:58,244 --> 00:03:01,247 But, you know, 70 00:03:01,381 --> 00:03:03,316 he embodied Philly toughness. 71 00:03:03,316 --> 00:03:04,417 You know what I mean? 72 00:03:04,417 --> 00:03:07,820 Yeah, you know, I was a is a hero. 73 00:03:07,987 --> 00:03:09,189 Yeah. You know, and I was. 74 00:03:09,189 --> 00:03:12,792 Yeah, he's definitely my favorite player growing up him and Isaiah Thomas. 75 00:03:12,792 --> 00:03:14,794 Oh nice. Yeah. 76 00:03:14,794 --> 00:03:16,729 And then Gallagher was supposed to be a guest. So 77 00:03:16,729 --> 00:03:20,233 if Gallagher if you end up watching this, I'm still waiting for you to come on. 78 00:03:20,533 --> 00:03:21,534 He had one time. 79 00:03:21,534 --> 00:03:24,204 He canceled his kid's little league game was rescheduled. 80 00:03:25,772 --> 00:03:28,341 And you just never really followed up. 81 00:03:28,341 --> 00:03:30,043 Yeah, yeah, we're going to make sure we get him on. 82 00:03:30,043 --> 00:03:31,711 Yes, we got to go down in New York. 83 00:03:31,711 --> 00:03:33,046 Deal? Yeah, yeah, yeah. 84 00:03:33,046 --> 00:03:34,881 Go to a game and then get him after. 85 00:03:34,881 --> 00:03:37,650 Okay. Where is he now? Manhattan, man. Yeah, yeah. 86 00:03:37,650 --> 00:03:39,652 They doing well this year. Doing pretty well. 87 00:03:39,652 --> 00:03:40,687 We're still. In contact. 88 00:03:40,687 --> 00:03:43,690 Yeah. Yeah we talk talk a lot about my guy. 89 00:03:44,123 --> 00:03:44,791 Friends and Feeney. 90 00:03:44,791 --> 00:03:46,326 Our mission is to help. 91 00:03:46,326 --> 00:03:48,795 Our motto, be a good friend. 92 00:03:48,795 --> 00:03:52,565 So hold the door, pick up trash, give a compliment, be charitable. 93 00:03:52,765 --> 00:03:53,233 What makes. 94 00:03:53,233 --> 00:03:56,236 I know John Gallagher was your coach, but what makes him a good friend? 95 00:03:57,570 --> 00:03:59,539 He's supportive, you know. 96 00:03:59,539 --> 00:04:02,542 You do anything for his friends. 97 00:04:03,476 --> 00:04:06,179 He's obviously very intelligent individual. 98 00:04:06,179 --> 00:04:09,182 He's, you know, he's caring, he's compassionate. 99 00:04:09,482 --> 00:04:09,949 You know, 100 00:04:11,317 --> 00:04:14,053 it's probably two of his best qualities. 101 00:04:14,053 --> 00:04:17,056 Yeah. 102 00:04:17,090 --> 00:04:17,490 Yeah. 103 00:04:17,490 --> 00:04:20,693 And he's, you know, like, he shows you he really cares about you 104 00:04:20,693 --> 00:04:22,462 as an individual. 105 00:04:22,462 --> 00:04:25,431 And what do you need in order for you to succeed? 106 00:04:25,431 --> 00:04:26,299 And that's not just. 107 00:04:26,299 --> 00:04:26,933 You know what I mean? 108 00:04:26,933 --> 00:04:33,106 It's not just me being a, like, you know, one of his players that was as a friend, 109 00:04:33,106 --> 00:04:36,843 I see that he does that for friends, family, you know what I mean? 110 00:04:36,843 --> 00:04:38,344 So he's he's just a great individual. 111 00:04:38,344 --> 00:04:41,347 And I learned so much from him. 112 00:04:41,781 --> 00:04:43,182 In my short amount of time 113 00:04:43,182 --> 00:04:46,185 spent and with him, you know, every day, consecutive days together. 114 00:04:46,252 --> 00:04:48,221 Yeah. You know. 115 00:04:48,221 --> 00:04:49,022 You played for him. 116 00:04:49,022 --> 00:04:50,857 Did you end up coaching with him too? No. 117 00:04:50,857 --> 00:04:52,892 Join the staff as a coach? No, no. 118 00:04:52,892 --> 00:04:55,862 The only coaching I did with him was coaching Little leagues, 119 00:04:55,995 --> 00:04:58,531 Little League baseball with him coaching his son. 120 00:04:59,666 --> 00:05:00,967 Nice. 121 00:05:00,967 --> 00:05:05,004 And now you are the executive director of the anchor camp? 122 00:05:05,371 --> 00:05:07,874 Yep. Which is in upstate. Is it upstate New York or state? 123 00:05:07,874 --> 00:05:08,608 New York? Yup. 124 00:05:08,608 --> 00:05:11,878 Founder and executive director of Anchors Camp. Yep. 125 00:05:12,445 --> 00:05:14,647 It's in Madison, New York. Yes, sir. 126 00:05:14,647 --> 00:05:19,352 So what happened in your childhood or what happened in your path 127 00:05:19,352 --> 00:05:23,523 that led you to becoming the executive director of Anchors Camp? 128 00:05:24,957 --> 00:05:25,425 Excuse me? 129 00:05:25,425 --> 00:05:28,828 Well, I always knew I wanted to help and just, You know, I know how, 130 00:05:30,496 --> 00:05:32,732 my my, 131 00:05:32,732 --> 00:05:35,635 my ways of helping was very narrow. 132 00:05:35,635 --> 00:05:38,638 And then, my little brother passed due to, 133 00:05:39,305 --> 00:05:42,308 being killed. 134 00:05:42,608 --> 00:05:45,211 You know, it's the difference between, you know, 135 00:05:45,211 --> 00:05:48,548 you know, dying and being killed, right? 136 00:05:49,148 --> 00:05:52,051 And, my little brother had an engineering mind 137 00:05:52,051 --> 00:05:55,021 where he could take anything apart and put it back together. 138 00:05:55,021 --> 00:05:55,955 And, fortunately, 139 00:05:55,955 --> 00:05:59,759 didn't get to live out his talents in a, you know, greater, humane way. 140 00:06:01,160 --> 00:06:02,595 And he passed short, 141 00:06:02,595 --> 00:06:05,598 you know, short lived life at 21, 142 00:06:05,832 --> 00:06:08,201 21 years old, 143 00:06:08,201 --> 00:06:11,738 again due to gun violence and, you know, the 144 00:06:12,038 --> 00:06:15,041 you can go to every corner and find sports team, 145 00:06:15,041 --> 00:06:19,846 a basketball team or soccer team or football team 146 00:06:19,879 --> 00:06:22,882 every corner and find some kind of sports team. 147 00:06:23,483 --> 00:06:26,185 But what you can't find is, 148 00:06:26,185 --> 00:06:29,188 some type of academic team. 149 00:06:29,555 --> 00:06:31,791 What is engineering? Right, right. 150 00:06:31,791 --> 00:06:33,326 There's architecture. 151 00:06:33,326 --> 00:06:34,093 Right? 152 00:06:34,093 --> 00:06:37,096 You, you know. 153 00:06:38,231 --> 00:06:39,031 There's very hard 154 00:06:39,031 --> 00:06:42,001 to find places to develop talent like that, 155 00:06:42,602 --> 00:06:44,937 especially in a community that I live in. 156 00:06:44,937 --> 00:06:47,940 It's almost like it's nonexistent. 157 00:06:49,509 --> 00:06:50,743 So I wanted to create 158 00:06:50,743 --> 00:06:53,746 something for kids who could do that, 159 00:06:54,714 --> 00:06:56,349 who had a talent 160 00:06:56,349 --> 00:06:59,352 that you necessarily couldn't see through sports. 161 00:06:59,886 --> 00:07:01,988 And I wanted to find ways that we can hone that, 162 00:07:01,988 --> 00:07:07,727 because there are a lot of kids who, you know, are much more privy to being, 163 00:07:08,795 --> 00:07:10,730 you know, 164 00:07:10,730 --> 00:07:13,032 Steve Jobs or Elon Musk 165 00:07:13,032 --> 00:07:15,701 versus a LeBron and Kobe Bryant. 166 00:07:15,701 --> 00:07:18,871 And I wanted to, you know, create something that could 167 00:07:20,206 --> 00:07:23,209 lend help in that area. 168 00:07:23,676 --> 00:07:27,480 So when he passed, my, 169 00:07:29,582 --> 00:07:31,751 John Gallagher again 170 00:07:31,751 --> 00:07:34,153 told me to come down to his beach house for a couple of days 171 00:07:34,153 --> 00:07:37,790 before the funeral and every morning we would get up at like 5 a.m. 172 00:07:37,790 --> 00:07:42,662 and go for walks on the beach, and we'd just talk to a bunch of different things. 173 00:07:42,662 --> 00:07:47,166 So what is a couple friends of, you know, gals and we would talk 174 00:07:47,166 --> 00:07:51,237 and we would talk about what what was needed in the community, what was lacking. 175 00:07:51,938 --> 00:07:55,208 And we stumbled upon a conversation of what was needed and what was lacking 176 00:07:56,042 --> 00:07:56,909 and what I thought, 177 00:07:58,845 --> 00:07:59,846 and, you know, my 178 00:07:59,846 --> 00:08:02,849 business partner Jim knew from, 179 00:08:03,749 --> 00:08:06,752 who was the chair of Anchors camp, 180 00:08:07,086 --> 00:08:09,722 you know, said he had a form. 181 00:08:09,722 --> 00:08:12,091 And I said, well, I always wanted 182 00:08:12,091 --> 00:08:15,061 one of the things I said that was needed was change of environment. 183 00:08:16,462 --> 00:08:22,201 And, he was like, oh, I got a farm, sits on 200 acres, 184 00:08:22,201 --> 00:08:26,138 and I always wanted to do something with it and give back. 185 00:08:26,572 --> 00:08:28,908 Maybe this is something we do. 186 00:08:28,908 --> 00:08:31,110 So he challenged, he challenged me 187 00:08:31,110 --> 00:08:34,113 and said, you know, 188 00:08:34,313 --> 00:08:37,149 bring five kids up 189 00:08:37,149 --> 00:08:39,318 or we 190 00:08:39,318 --> 00:08:41,988 he said, let's continue the conversation. 191 00:08:41,988 --> 00:08:45,625 I came back down a week later, met him at his beach house right next to girls. 192 00:08:46,492 --> 00:08:49,929 And, we went over what was needed 193 00:08:50,062 --> 00:08:53,399 a plan, put together a plan, a schedule, and, 194 00:08:54,200 --> 00:08:57,403 he said, bring five kids up and, I said, all right, 195 00:08:57,403 --> 00:08:59,839 I don't know if he thought I was, you know, serious or not. 196 00:08:59,839 --> 00:09:02,742 So I brung eight and I showed up. 197 00:09:02,742 --> 00:09:03,743 He was like, what is going on? 198 00:09:04,810 --> 00:09:07,246 Well, I don't know if we can fit this. 199 00:09:07,246 --> 00:09:09,081 Any kids in house. 200 00:09:09,081 --> 00:09:12,084 And, and, you know, 201 00:09:12,285 --> 00:09:15,621 from near anchors camp was born, you know, after we got done with that week, 202 00:09:15,621 --> 00:09:19,258 we went from Sunday midday to, 203 00:09:19,992 --> 00:09:22,995 Friday early morning and 204 00:09:23,729 --> 00:09:26,866 we like we got something here, see if we can continue this. 205 00:09:26,866 --> 00:09:30,303 So we went back and did all the work to get, you know, the father, 206 00:09:30,303 --> 00:09:33,306 once he started on an anchor camp, was built in. 207 00:09:34,073 --> 00:09:35,508 It's an eight. That's amazing story. 208 00:09:35,508 --> 00:09:37,443 Where did you think of the name Anchors Camp? 209 00:09:37,443 --> 00:09:40,646 You know, the anchors camp came from, one of my good friends back 210 00:09:40,646 --> 00:09:43,649 home, and, 211 00:09:44,917 --> 00:09:45,918 You know how 212 00:09:45,918 --> 00:09:49,322 an anchor holds a boat down and keeps it from floating away? 213 00:09:49,455 --> 00:09:50,456 All right, all right. 214 00:09:50,456 --> 00:09:53,392 You know, we want kids to be an anchor for themselves, 215 00:09:55,061 --> 00:09:58,164 and then you can be anchor for anyone else. 216 00:09:58,164 --> 00:09:58,764 You know what I mean? 217 00:09:58,764 --> 00:10:01,200 Like, I'm sure you're the anchor for your family. 218 00:10:01,200 --> 00:10:01,867 Yep. Right. 219 00:10:01,867 --> 00:10:03,869 You hold your family down like I used to be. 220 00:10:03,869 --> 00:10:06,505 Like you hold their family down. 221 00:10:06,505 --> 00:10:10,443 I know you anchors camp offers breakfast, lunch and dinner. Yes. 222 00:10:10,676 --> 00:10:11,611 Horseback riding. 223 00:10:11,611 --> 00:10:14,547 What are some other things? Yeah. I mean, can I join? 224 00:10:14,547 --> 00:10:15,348 We'll see. Of course. 225 00:10:15,348 --> 00:10:18,050 45 year old Willis. And we love to have you. 226 00:10:18,050 --> 00:10:19,151 We love to have you. 227 00:10:19,151 --> 00:10:22,154 I don't know if you will be winning the football games up there. 228 00:10:23,723 --> 00:10:27,226 We, so we offer, you know, a whole host of things, 229 00:10:27,226 --> 00:10:30,596 honestly, we offer, you know, breakfast, lunch and dinner, 230 00:10:31,831 --> 00:10:34,834 horseback riding, 231 00:10:35,534 --> 00:10:38,537 therapy, group therapy sessions, 232 00:10:38,571 --> 00:10:41,574 ATV writing, 233 00:10:41,807 --> 00:10:43,342 financial literacy classes. 234 00:10:44,410 --> 00:10:47,413 This past year, we did aquaponics. Wow. 235 00:10:51,884 --> 00:10:53,519 Hiking, 236 00:10:53,519 --> 00:10:55,388 you know, and just a whole host of other things. 237 00:10:55,388 --> 00:10:57,823 Fishing. Right. 238 00:10:57,823 --> 00:11:00,993 So we offer, you know, to a whole host of things where, you know, 239 00:11:00,993 --> 00:11:02,094 we want kids to be able to. 240 00:11:02,094 --> 00:11:05,731 And that's, you know, not I didn't speak about what our core was, 241 00:11:05,731 --> 00:11:08,701 which is plumbing, electrical, carpentry. 242 00:11:09,835 --> 00:11:12,605 All introductions to, you know, for trades, 243 00:11:12,605 --> 00:11:16,275 for quarter plumbing, electric carpentry and auto mechanics. Oh, 244 00:11:17,476 --> 00:11:20,479 so they leave with the skill of or the. 245 00:11:20,713 --> 00:11:23,115 Some some type of knowledge, 246 00:11:23,115 --> 00:11:26,118 some beginner knowledge of four trades. 247 00:11:26,185 --> 00:11:26,786 Right. 248 00:11:26,786 --> 00:11:30,456 And you know, what we hope to do is build confidence by learning things. 249 00:11:31,090 --> 00:11:34,093 You know, it's a special kind of confidence comes when you learn 250 00:11:34,794 --> 00:11:36,662 and when you begin to learn things. 251 00:11:39,231 --> 00:11:40,066 You know, that's that's what 252 00:11:40,066 --> 00:11:43,069 you know, what tends to happen in my community 253 00:11:43,903 --> 00:11:47,873 is we die well before we're put in a 254 00:11:49,075 --> 00:11:50,443 the grave. 255 00:11:50,443 --> 00:11:53,312 Well, it's unfortunate, but, you know, that's what happens. 256 00:11:53,312 --> 00:11:56,582 So yeah, you're giving them exposure that they want to get right. 257 00:11:56,615 --> 00:11:58,417 Right. 258 00:11:58,417 --> 00:11:59,385 That's amazing stuff. 259 00:11:59,385 --> 00:12:01,921 No, I'm honored to, learn more about this. 260 00:12:01,921 --> 00:12:05,791 Anchors camp and it's anchors camp.org to learn more. 261 00:12:05,891 --> 00:12:07,860 And you're looking for donations. 262 00:12:07,860 --> 00:12:10,563 You're looking for campers and counselors. 263 00:12:10,563 --> 00:12:11,731 Yep, yep. 264 00:12:11,731 --> 00:12:14,800 Donations, camp and counselors, in-kind donations. 265 00:12:15,668 --> 00:12:16,535 You know. 266 00:12:16,535 --> 00:12:18,237 It's in Madison, New York. 267 00:12:18,237 --> 00:12:20,072 And they offer ATVs, horseback. 268 00:12:20,072 --> 00:12:21,841 Do you get on horses? Yeah. Yeah, yeah you do. 269 00:12:21,841 --> 00:12:23,976 Yeah. I'm I'm like a pro at it now. 270 00:12:23,976 --> 00:12:25,111 Really? Yeah. 271 00:12:25,111 --> 00:12:27,980 I could go play polo now. 272 00:12:27,980 --> 00:12:29,248 A nice. 273 00:12:29,248 --> 00:12:31,984 Nice fishing and hiking I could get. Yeah. 274 00:12:31,984 --> 00:12:32,485 And then the. 275 00:12:32,485 --> 00:12:35,521 Carpentry, auto, plumbing, painting and electrician. Yes. 276 00:12:35,521 --> 00:12:36,822 Amazing. Yeah. 277 00:12:36,822 --> 00:12:38,924 That's a skill. Lifelong skill. 278 00:12:38,924 --> 00:12:41,861 Or, you know, that's a it's a dying trade to, 279 00:12:41,861 --> 00:12:43,996 like, everyone says, hey, go to college, go to college. 280 00:12:43,996 --> 00:12:47,433 But the trades are, you know, just recently, my toilet 281 00:12:48,634 --> 00:12:52,138 clogged problem, you know, that's $80 an hour 282 00:12:52,138 --> 00:12:55,307 to some guy for a guy to come check my toilet just to look at it. 283 00:12:55,341 --> 00:12:56,408 Right? Right. 284 00:12:56,408 --> 00:12:59,111 So I thought it was very expensive. 285 00:12:59,111 --> 00:13:01,981 Yeah. You know, you they're always working. 286 00:13:01,981 --> 00:13:02,581 He got there. 287 00:13:02,581 --> 00:13:03,349 He was on the phone. 288 00:13:03,349 --> 00:13:05,985 He was like, oh, I got to go to another call. 289 00:13:05,985 --> 00:13:07,920 When he was leaving, he got another call. 290 00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:09,822 So he's like, there's. 291 00:13:09,822 --> 00:13:10,723 It's always work. 292 00:13:10,723 --> 00:13:13,592 There's always work. Oh there's always a toilet clogged. 293 00:13:13,592 --> 00:13:14,160 Or there's. 294 00:13:14,160 --> 00:13:16,729 Always paint that needed or something to be fixed. 295 00:13:16,729 --> 00:13:19,732 And you know, you know, especially with the 296 00:13:19,832 --> 00:13:24,069 especially with the, lack of houses, 297 00:13:25,337 --> 00:13:29,642 you know, there is and there's a shortage of, people in the trades as well. 298 00:13:29,642 --> 00:13:31,410 There's a shortage on trades, right now. 299 00:13:32,344 --> 00:13:35,080 You know, so we're doing a few things where, you know, help improve a lot, 300 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:40,019 but we also add into the economy and, you know, building, you know, well, 301 00:13:41,153 --> 00:13:43,055 or you citizens. 302 00:13:43,055 --> 00:13:46,058 Yeah. And, and into the working economy. 303 00:13:46,091 --> 00:13:47,026 That's awesome. 304 00:13:47,026 --> 00:13:48,194 That's awesome. 305 00:13:48,194 --> 00:13:49,762 Well, we have some sponsors here. 306 00:13:49,762 --> 00:13:51,997 Our newest one, float 41. You ever float? 307 00:13:51,997 --> 00:13:53,732 Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 308 00:13:53,732 --> 00:13:56,402 Was that the, is that the, in the salt water? 309 00:13:56,402 --> 00:13:57,937 Yeah. Yeah, yeah. 310 00:13:57,937 --> 00:14:00,239 And the egg. 311 00:14:00,239 --> 00:14:02,074 Where is it? They do like an egg. 312 00:14:02,074 --> 00:14:04,143 Oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. 313 00:14:04,143 --> 00:14:04,476 Thank you. 314 00:14:04,476 --> 00:14:05,277 Direct Line Media. 315 00:14:05,277 --> 00:14:08,280 Stefania and Dave people's Bank right down the street. 316 00:14:08,647 --> 00:14:10,683 Golf law group love it. 317 00:14:10,683 --> 00:14:12,518 Keating agency insurance. 318 00:14:12,518 --> 00:14:15,921 Parkville market hosted our wing fest. 319 00:14:15,921 --> 00:14:19,225 We're here at Luna pizza at 999 Farmington Avenue. 320 00:14:19,325 --> 00:14:21,660 Yes sir. The fix is right across the street. 321 00:14:21,660 --> 00:14:23,996 You ever get a fix? I ain't never been there yet. 322 00:14:23,996 --> 00:14:24,630 They love it, though. 323 00:14:24,630 --> 00:14:25,698 Some people I know when we. 324 00:14:25,698 --> 00:14:29,001 Have roasting and brewing and West Hartford lock. 325 00:14:29,001 --> 00:14:30,502 So West Hartford lock. 326 00:14:30,502 --> 00:14:32,972 Thank you Eric and Yuri with West SA for lock. 327 00:14:32,972 --> 00:14:36,175 What are three keys that make you great at it? 328 00:14:36,175 --> 00:14:40,312 Being the executive director of Anchors Camp, what are three keys? 329 00:14:40,312 --> 00:14:42,114 They need it to be the executive director. 330 00:14:45,117 --> 00:14:47,620 You know, number one is discipline. 331 00:14:47,620 --> 00:14:48,053 You know, it 332 00:14:48,053 --> 00:14:52,291 takes discipline to get up every day and, you know, find new ways to raise money, 333 00:14:52,291 --> 00:14:55,294 which is you know, you know, like, I know it's very. Yup. 334 00:14:56,161 --> 00:14:59,164 So whoever's listening, you know, go to anchor's camp, donate, 335 00:14:59,365 --> 00:15:02,368 go to Friends of Feeney, donate. 336 00:15:02,968 --> 00:15:05,971 You know, I think, 337 00:15:07,506 --> 00:15:07,907 You know, 338 00:15:07,907 --> 00:15:11,944 I think you have to have the you have to be consistent. 339 00:15:12,611 --> 00:15:15,614 Disciplined, consistent consistency. 340 00:15:17,483 --> 00:15:19,919 The thing that I find to ring 341 00:15:19,919 --> 00:15:23,389 true across all successful people is your persistence. 342 00:15:23,656 --> 00:15:26,659 Yeah. And their consistency. 343 00:15:26,825 --> 00:15:29,895 And then you just got to be willing to to continue to learn, 344 00:15:30,963 --> 00:15:33,933 and you got to be willing to adjust. 345 00:15:35,100 --> 00:15:38,704 And I think there were those three things those get you they, 346 00:15:38,737 --> 00:15:43,375 those give me the keys to be able to run, you know, anchors camp, you know, 347 00:15:44,576 --> 00:15:45,210 it's a great keys. 348 00:15:45,210 --> 00:15:46,545 I always say I'm a lifelong learner. 349 00:15:46,545 --> 00:15:48,247 You learn something new every day. 350 00:15:48,247 --> 00:15:50,215 Right? Right, right, right, right. 351 00:15:50,215 --> 00:15:54,954 And, you know, last one I would honestly say on those three, but this is for is, 352 00:15:56,555 --> 00:15:59,558 you know, the ability. 353 00:16:01,093 --> 00:16:04,096 To continue to take a step back 354 00:16:04,663 --> 00:16:06,932 and see where you at, where you want to 355 00:16:06,932 --> 00:16:09,935 go. Yep. 356 00:16:10,803 --> 00:16:12,304 You know. Yeah. 357 00:16:12,304 --> 00:16:14,239 Discipline to keep moving forward. 358 00:16:14,239 --> 00:16:17,576 Consistency and, take a step back and have vision. 359 00:16:17,843 --> 00:16:20,412 Right. The vision piece. 360 00:16:20,412 --> 00:16:20,646 All right. 361 00:16:20,646 --> 00:16:24,516 Those are three keys sponsored by West Hartford Lock being the executive 362 00:16:24,516 --> 00:16:27,519 director here with Tracy Carter. 363 00:16:28,020 --> 00:16:30,422 Another game. 364 00:16:30,422 --> 00:16:33,392 So anchors camp has been around since 2020. 365 00:16:33,525 --> 00:16:34,827 Right. So you're going into your fourth. 366 00:16:34,827 --> 00:16:36,862 Is it only a summer camp or is it a year long camp. 367 00:16:36,862 --> 00:16:39,698 Only a summer camp at the moment. Gotcha. Yeah. How many weeks? 368 00:16:41,033 --> 00:16:41,567 I need two weeks. 369 00:16:41,567 --> 00:16:45,270 Very each, summer. But we've been improving. 370 00:16:45,270 --> 00:16:47,906 We've been a proven on weeks. 371 00:16:47,906 --> 00:16:49,808 Gotcha. Summer. 372 00:16:49,808 --> 00:16:51,844 But it runs from, you know, 373 00:16:51,844 --> 00:16:56,148 Sunday, mid day where we pick the kids up, drive them up to Madison, New York. 374 00:16:56,148 --> 00:16:58,450 We got some kids that come from Connecticut as well. 375 00:16:58,450 --> 00:17:00,019 Nice. 376 00:17:00,019 --> 00:17:04,456 And they get we get there probably about, 3 p.m. 377 00:17:04,456 --> 00:17:06,058 mid day. 378 00:17:06,058 --> 00:17:10,129 We start off with, you know, kids get introductions. 379 00:17:10,629 --> 00:17:11,397 They got to go. 380 00:17:11,397 --> 00:17:14,133 You know, figure out where room they stand. 381 00:17:14,133 --> 00:17:17,136 And then we come down and we do a introductory, 382 00:17:18,137 --> 00:17:20,406 where, you know, we switch it up. 383 00:17:20,406 --> 00:17:24,943 So many, you know, every year we know, for example, one year we were kids 384 00:17:24,943 --> 00:17:30,282 came and got haircuts and they had to tell us, you know, what did they want? 385 00:17:30,582 --> 00:17:35,220 Who made them be here, where they forced to be here, or did they want to come back? 386 00:17:36,221 --> 00:17:40,192 No. So, and then, you know, for dinner, 387 00:17:40,192 --> 00:17:43,862 we start off with, you know, we have a rooftop deck on top of the hill. 388 00:17:44,196 --> 00:17:45,030 Oh, nice. 389 00:17:45,030 --> 00:17:48,033 And, we do a barbecue 390 00:17:48,033 --> 00:17:49,134 cookout. 391 00:17:49,134 --> 00:17:50,436 Oh, yeah. It off? 392 00:17:50,436 --> 00:17:51,904 Yeah. You have to go. 393 00:17:51,904 --> 00:17:54,506 Came up, going against sun. Came up. Yeah. 394 00:17:54,506 --> 00:17:56,742 We had a basketball team come up too early. 395 00:17:56,742 --> 00:17:59,745 Oh, wow. That's great. 396 00:18:00,179 --> 00:18:02,681 And you have a lot of different events and activities. 397 00:18:02,681 --> 00:18:05,684 Yeah, yeah, yeah, we just, So we got a game first. 398 00:18:05,918 --> 00:18:08,020 What was the best activity that you ran? 399 00:18:08,020 --> 00:18:10,456 Anchors camp. The worst activity? 400 00:18:10,456 --> 00:18:11,356 Your first one. 401 00:18:11,356 --> 00:18:13,659 In your last one, the game is best. 402 00:18:13,659 --> 00:18:16,495 Worst first. Last. 403 00:18:16,495 --> 00:18:19,298 Best. 404 00:18:19,298 --> 00:18:20,332 You know, from my perspective 405 00:18:20,332 --> 00:18:23,335 in front of kids what I think the kids. 406 00:18:23,368 --> 00:18:24,169 I'll give you mine. 407 00:18:25,571 --> 00:18:26,939 Because I feel like I'm not. 408 00:18:26,939 --> 00:18:30,142 I feel like I do learn, you know, stuff every time 409 00:18:30,142 --> 00:18:33,145 I'm up there. And, 410 00:18:33,712 --> 00:18:34,313 And we done. 411 00:18:34,313 --> 00:18:35,581 We've done so much, man. 412 00:18:35,581 --> 00:18:38,217 It's like, 413 00:18:38,217 --> 00:18:41,220 one of the one of the, 414 00:18:41,386 --> 00:18:44,389 one of my favorites was we did a, 415 00:18:45,424 --> 00:18:48,427 we did challenge where? 416 00:18:49,461 --> 00:18:52,431 It's two one, two challenge to us. 417 00:18:52,464 --> 00:18:56,001 Two here, two here, two here, two here. 418 00:18:57,703 --> 00:19:00,005 One is in front, 419 00:19:00,005 --> 00:19:02,741 and you all have strings. 420 00:19:02,741 --> 00:19:05,310 And then the middle of the string 421 00:19:05,310 --> 00:19:08,247 connected to a big bucket of water 422 00:19:08,247 --> 00:19:11,250 and award is filled all the way up to the top. 423 00:19:11,383 --> 00:19:15,420 And you got to pull on this string to constantly raise this water up. 424 00:19:15,988 --> 00:19:18,957 Okay, to this top. 425 00:19:18,957 --> 00:19:22,661 And you have to sit the water on top without the water falling. 426 00:19:23,662 --> 00:19:25,297 And then you have to lift it up. 427 00:19:25,297 --> 00:19:25,664 Yeah. 428 00:19:25,664 --> 00:19:29,768 And then bring it back down and put it in such a small circle. 429 00:19:30,702 --> 00:19:33,372 And you have to do it in a time frame. 430 00:19:33,372 --> 00:19:36,108 Nice. The smart teamwork. Very important. 431 00:19:36,108 --> 00:19:37,543 Collaboration is very important. 432 00:19:37,543 --> 00:19:40,546 1,000%. Gotcha 1,000%. That would be. 433 00:19:41,013 --> 00:19:42,714 Like all right, lift a little bit. 434 00:19:42,714 --> 00:19:44,483 Yeah. On a little slow communication. 435 00:19:44,483 --> 00:19:46,385 Yeah that's a great game. 436 00:19:46,385 --> 00:19:48,687 Phenomenal. We have to use that. It's phenomenal. 437 00:19:48,687 --> 00:19:51,623 It spills and it's fun. And exactly. 438 00:19:51,623 --> 00:19:53,859 You get everybody excited okay. 439 00:19:53,859 --> 00:19:55,194 That was my probably one of my best. 440 00:19:55,194 --> 00:19:58,197 We just did that last year. 441 00:19:58,197 --> 00:19:59,164 I want to be honest. 442 00:19:59,164 --> 00:20:02,167 You know I need the worse. 443 00:20:02,401 --> 00:20:04,102 Something to go wrong or missing 444 00:20:04,102 --> 00:20:07,105 or didn't work the way you planned it. 445 00:20:07,506 --> 00:20:09,841 We this is during our early years and, 446 00:20:11,743 --> 00:20:15,147 we, We 447 00:20:15,147 --> 00:20:18,217 usually cook breakfast for the kids or some day. 448 00:20:18,217 --> 00:20:21,420 So we mix it up, we cook breakfast one, and then other days 449 00:20:21,420 --> 00:20:25,057 I say, if we got to be true to form at 5 a.m., we, 450 00:20:26,758 --> 00:20:30,629 give them, like, snacks or like, morning bars. 451 00:20:31,029 --> 00:20:32,965 Right? Water. 452 00:20:32,965 --> 00:20:35,534 And they go here 453 00:20:35,534 --> 00:20:38,537 this time. 454 00:20:39,137 --> 00:20:42,140 I order breakfast. 455 00:20:43,141 --> 00:20:44,209 You know, everything is, like, 456 00:20:44,209 --> 00:20:48,380 pretty far out out there, you know, stores as far out. 457 00:20:48,480 --> 00:20:51,583 Yeah, 20 minutes and most. 458 00:20:52,084 --> 00:20:55,821 So order breakfast from this one place and breakfast sandwiches. 459 00:20:55,821 --> 00:20:59,458 And, you know, I send one of my good friends to go pick it out. 460 00:20:59,458 --> 00:21:03,762 Camp counselors, go pick it up, and, he gets there 461 00:21:04,896 --> 00:21:08,867 and I think he only had, like, $80. 462 00:21:08,867 --> 00:21:12,404 It was like $100. He was so upset and 463 00:21:13,405 --> 00:21:15,340 so upset with me. 464 00:21:15,340 --> 00:21:18,277 And, you know, like, 465 00:21:18,277 --> 00:21:20,779 in order for me to go drive back down there 466 00:21:20,779 --> 00:21:24,416 and then give him the money was, probably like another 40 minutes. 467 00:21:25,150 --> 00:21:27,653 And I was like, ask him, can you bring the money back? 468 00:21:27,653 --> 00:21:30,422 It's like, no, you can't bring the money back. 469 00:21:30,422 --> 00:21:33,091 So, you know, it was it was just good. 470 00:21:33,091 --> 00:21:35,927 It was just, you know, a great story. Yeah. 471 00:21:35,927 --> 00:21:38,363 You know that ain't playing. That ain't go our plan. 472 00:21:38,363 --> 00:21:41,066 I thought I was going to spend less money on them. 473 00:21:41,066 --> 00:21:43,702 And then, you know, we did some you know, some stuff don't work like you 474 00:21:43,702 --> 00:21:46,171 playing or like, you know, I mean, kids don't love the activity. 475 00:21:46,171 --> 00:21:48,573 We did, you know, tree identification last year. 476 00:21:48,573 --> 00:21:51,109 And, you know, they weren't that into it. Yeah. 477 00:21:51,109 --> 00:21:52,311 You know what I mean. 478 00:21:52,311 --> 00:21:53,845 What kind of leaf is that thing? 479 00:21:53,845 --> 00:21:55,847 Care about all that? You know? 480 00:21:58,550 --> 00:22:01,553 Yeah, kids, I know all about it. 481 00:22:02,120 --> 00:22:04,022 And then your first one, and then your last one. 482 00:22:04,022 --> 00:22:04,823 Like your first thing. 483 00:22:04,823 --> 00:22:06,992 You ever try it up there and then your most recent. 484 00:22:06,992 --> 00:22:07,793 You. Yeah. 485 00:22:07,793 --> 00:22:10,629 Your first ever. 486 00:22:10,629 --> 00:22:13,632 The first thing we ever did was, 487 00:22:13,965 --> 00:22:15,600 probably be carpentry. 488 00:22:15,600 --> 00:22:18,270 Nice. Carpentry. 489 00:22:18,270 --> 00:22:22,040 The last thing we done was, aquaponics. 490 00:22:23,108 --> 00:22:24,843 Aquaponics. 491 00:22:24,843 --> 00:22:27,312 That's growing plants inside. Yes. 492 00:22:27,312 --> 00:22:28,513 Yeah. 493 00:22:28,513 --> 00:22:32,951 And then, I can't think of a name right now, but where you were, you were. 494 00:22:32,951 --> 00:22:35,954 They grow fish inside as well. Oh, wow. 495 00:22:36,054 --> 00:22:39,057 And you learned about the fish. 496 00:22:39,091 --> 00:22:40,959 Do you have guest speakers come up 497 00:22:40,959 --> 00:22:43,328 or do you teach it or do we do we have speakers? 498 00:22:43,328 --> 00:22:45,630 We do have guest speakers come up. 499 00:22:45,630 --> 00:22:48,834 One of our biggest donors came up, spoke 500 00:22:50,369 --> 00:22:53,572 and another guys and we have mostly everyone was came 501 00:22:53,572 --> 00:22:57,175 up, has been entrepreneurs in some way, shape or form 502 00:22:58,243 --> 00:23:00,212 like. 503 00:23:00,212 --> 00:23:01,113 Oh, it's a great thing. 504 00:23:01,113 --> 00:23:03,315 I actually met a camper. 505 00:23:03,315 --> 00:23:05,384 Remember? I met the camper? 506 00:23:05,384 --> 00:23:06,685 Oh, I honey. I met him. 507 00:23:06,685 --> 00:23:08,153 Yeah yeah. 508 00:23:08,153 --> 00:23:08,954 Yeah. Yeah. 509 00:23:08,954 --> 00:23:11,623 And then I saw honey on a clip on the website. 510 00:23:11,623 --> 00:23:13,392 So I was like, hey, I met honey. 511 00:23:13,392 --> 00:23:14,092 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 512 00:23:14,092 --> 00:23:17,095 He has similar experiences as you. 513 00:23:17,162 --> 00:23:18,096 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 514 00:23:18,096 --> 00:23:21,099 How do you compare and contrast your experience with his. 515 00:23:22,234 --> 00:23:24,236 You know, 516 00:23:24,236 --> 00:23:27,239 mostly it's not dissimilar at all. 517 00:23:27,339 --> 00:23:30,442 You know, he, come from, you know, a whole host of gun 518 00:23:30,442 --> 00:23:33,445 violence in his environment, 519 00:23:33,512 --> 00:23:35,947 intelligent kids, which most kids are. 520 00:23:35,947 --> 00:23:36,114 Yeah. 521 00:23:36,114 --> 00:23:39,117 I mean, they're products of their environments. 522 00:23:39,885 --> 00:23:41,553 So, you know, his, 523 00:23:41,553 --> 00:23:44,589 he came up to our camp is, is, you know, brother, 524 00:23:45,357 --> 00:23:48,360 passed away due to, 525 00:23:48,860 --> 00:23:49,694 Gun violence as well. 526 00:23:49,694 --> 00:23:52,964 He got killed in downtown as, like, imagine being killed in the, 527 00:23:52,964 --> 00:23:57,202 you know, West Hartford Center or, you know, walking out of a restaurant 528 00:23:59,070 --> 00:24:01,673 and, you know, 529 00:24:01,673 --> 00:24:05,844 but he was one of the kids that we have been, you know, trying to help and, 530 00:24:06,945 --> 00:24:09,181 you know, so one day we was up at the camp 531 00:24:09,181 --> 00:24:13,452 and we'd sit around a fire, and in August we do came in August. 532 00:24:13,452 --> 00:24:14,419 It's pretty cold at night. 533 00:24:14,419 --> 00:24:17,989 It's so chilly at night in upstate New York. And, 534 00:24:19,291 --> 00:24:20,692 we do three things. You learn. 535 00:24:20,692 --> 00:24:20,959 We do. 536 00:24:20,959 --> 00:24:22,260 What did you learn? Sessions that we do. 537 00:24:22,260 --> 00:24:23,995 Three things you learn. Yep. 538 00:24:23,995 --> 00:24:26,465 And then you got to give your favorite part of the day. 539 00:24:26,465 --> 00:24:29,468 It's helping kids understand who they are, what it is that they like. 540 00:24:30,001 --> 00:24:32,170 And one of the things he said when we brought up 541 00:24:32,170 --> 00:24:36,842 one of our biggest donors who runs PHP construction, Bill Hardy. 542 00:24:37,609 --> 00:24:41,313 Bill was when he learned about what Bill done and how much you know, money 543 00:24:41,313 --> 00:24:42,247 makes. 544 00:24:42,247 --> 00:24:45,283 He said, I learned his better to get his exact words. 545 00:24:45,283 --> 00:24:49,087 Was I learned is better to keep change than it is to get. 546 00:24:49,421 --> 00:24:50,188 I mean he said it. 547 00:24:50,188 --> 00:24:54,526 I learned, is better to cop land than it is to get change. 548 00:24:55,293 --> 00:24:59,598 And what he was saying was he he learned it was better to get land property. 549 00:24:59,798 --> 00:25:04,169 Yep. Versus buying jewelry, material things 1,000%. 550 00:25:04,269 --> 00:25:08,607 And we knew we were doing the right things when he said that, you know. 551 00:25:08,874 --> 00:25:11,943 No. When I met him, it was great to seem like he enjoyed it. 552 00:25:11,943 --> 00:25:13,612 He's been to the camp how many times now? 553 00:25:16,147 --> 00:25:17,148 Twice. 554 00:25:17,148 --> 00:25:19,084 And then, three times. 555 00:25:19,084 --> 00:25:21,453 All in all, once as a camp counselor. 556 00:25:21,453 --> 00:25:24,189 I was a junior camp counselor. Oh, nice. Yeah. 557 00:25:24,189 --> 00:25:24,990 You know. 558 00:25:24,990 --> 00:25:26,424 That's when, you know, you got a good thing going. 559 00:25:26,424 --> 00:25:29,261 When your campers aspire to be counselors to. 560 00:25:29,261 --> 00:25:30,595 They look up to the kid. I'm like, I want to. 561 00:25:30,595 --> 00:25:32,731 That's what I want to do, right? Right, right. 562 00:25:32,731 --> 00:25:34,833 So he grew into the camp counselor role, right? 563 00:25:34,833 --> 00:25:35,600 Right, right. Yep. Yep. 564 00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:36,902 Job. And he. 565 00:25:36,902 --> 00:25:39,404 Treated. Me. You proud of you. 566 00:25:39,404 --> 00:25:41,673 I think he's coming back to summer. 567 00:25:41,673 --> 00:25:43,642 Yeah. He was there this summer. This past summer. 568 00:25:43,642 --> 00:25:45,343 So what about 2025? 569 00:25:45,343 --> 00:25:48,313 You know, he's working a lot, 570 00:25:48,313 --> 00:25:50,882 so he's actually in the construction field. 571 00:25:50,882 --> 00:25:55,520 So in a young, you know, and that's where we aspire for kids to come up and, 572 00:25:55,520 --> 00:25:59,024 you know, get inspired by one of the trees that we teach. 573 00:25:59,491 --> 00:26:02,994 And then for us to direct them in that tree and, you know, that's what we 574 00:26:02,994 --> 00:26:03,762 done, honey. 575 00:26:03,762 --> 00:26:06,765 Moved them to Connecticut, put them into a carpentry school. 576 00:26:06,998 --> 00:26:09,134 That's awesome. Put them in the carpentry story. 577 00:26:09,134 --> 00:26:09,901 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 578 00:26:09,901 --> 00:26:11,336 And then he's in a carpentry union 579 00:26:11,336 --> 00:26:14,739 working 100% self-sufficient in 20 years, owns a property. 580 00:26:15,473 --> 00:26:17,409 So, you know, he's doing well. 581 00:26:17,409 --> 00:26:19,644 You know what I mean? All right. 582 00:26:19,644 --> 00:26:21,146 Know, I'm really excited that I met you. 583 00:26:21,146 --> 00:26:24,215 Good job, kid, I worked I did a woodshop 584 00:26:24,215 --> 00:26:27,452 class, 1994 summer employment, Waterbury, Connecticut. 585 00:26:27,452 --> 00:26:30,722 They offered it to kids, and I did, summer employment. 586 00:26:30,755 --> 00:26:31,790 I learned about woodshop. 587 00:26:31,790 --> 00:26:33,224 So it's really cool. 588 00:26:33,224 --> 00:26:33,758 Very. 589 00:26:33,758 --> 00:26:35,961 I feel connection with what you're doing. 590 00:26:35,961 --> 00:26:37,362 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 591 00:26:37,362 --> 00:26:40,832 The second family I ever helped when I started friends of Feeney, 592 00:26:40,832 --> 00:26:44,603 my fifth grade student, lost her dad unexpectedly to a heart attack. 593 00:26:44,603 --> 00:26:46,571 Gabby Stone lost her dad. Sam. 594 00:26:48,406 --> 00:26:49,174 They had twins. 595 00:26:49,174 --> 00:26:51,910 I had twins, I felt connected, I had to help the family. 596 00:26:51,910 --> 00:26:53,545 I moved down the following year. 597 00:26:53,545 --> 00:26:54,879 I went to third grade. 598 00:26:54,879 --> 00:26:58,883 My student, Rashad Collier lost his dad, Rashad Collier 599 00:26:58,883 --> 00:27:02,988 senior in Hartford, to gun violence after a boxing event. 600 00:27:02,988 --> 00:27:09,127 So Friends of Feeney has also been affected negatively to gun violence. 601 00:27:09,127 --> 00:27:09,928 Right? Right right. Right. 602 00:27:09,928 --> 00:27:15,166 So I'm feeling that connection and I can't imagine how that felt for you or Haneef. 603 00:27:16,267 --> 00:27:18,103 Do you want to elaborate or do you not? 604 00:27:18,103 --> 00:27:19,871 Do you feel comfortable talking about that? 605 00:27:19,871 --> 00:27:21,239 Do you want to share? 606 00:27:21,239 --> 00:27:23,975 How old were you? 607 00:27:23,975 --> 00:27:25,343 How did it impact you? 608 00:27:25,343 --> 00:27:27,178 Were you playing for you? Ha! At the time? Yeah. 609 00:27:27,178 --> 00:27:28,947 Yeah, I was playing for you hard at the time. 610 00:27:28,947 --> 00:27:30,949 And, you know, it was it was, 611 00:27:32,417 --> 00:27:33,251 such a painful 612 00:27:33,251 --> 00:27:38,556 moment, you know, someone, you know, my my mom been on drugs my entire life, and, 613 00:27:39,224 --> 00:27:43,495 it's it's interesting because, you know. 614 00:27:43,695 --> 00:27:46,698 Oh, I had to take care of him as a kid. 615 00:27:46,865 --> 00:27:49,868 I didn't stop drinking a bottle till I was two years old, 616 00:27:50,068 --> 00:27:53,304 and, I was sneak behind a I was five years old. 617 00:27:53,672 --> 00:27:56,341 I was sneak behind the the 618 00:27:56,341 --> 00:27:59,344 the back door and sip a bottle. 619 00:27:59,344 --> 00:28:04,416 And I would go get a bottle for him and a bottle for me and sit on the couch. 620 00:28:04,416 --> 00:28:05,884 Nobody home but ma'am. 621 00:28:05,884 --> 00:28:07,819 And we'd be watching Teletubbies. 622 00:28:07,819 --> 00:28:10,822 Feet. Dirty, 623 00:28:11,456 --> 00:28:13,692 you know, 624 00:28:13,692 --> 00:28:15,160 But. So I took care of you. 625 00:28:15,160 --> 00:28:16,261 You know what I mean? 626 00:28:16,261 --> 00:28:20,398 And, you know, when you in that circumstance, you know, when you 627 00:28:21,433 --> 00:28:22,534 you have a way out. 628 00:28:22,534 --> 00:28:23,902 Me being a basketball player. 629 00:28:23,902 --> 00:28:26,905 Pretty good. Really good one, actually. 630 00:28:27,005 --> 00:28:30,008 You know, a lot of pressure is put on you to save. 631 00:28:30,041 --> 00:28:33,044 And, you know, to help your family. Yeah. 632 00:28:33,244 --> 00:28:36,247 And, you know, the, 633 00:28:36,681 --> 00:28:40,985 me feeling like I wasn't I felt at doing that at that moment. 634 00:28:41,553 --> 00:28:42,687 You know? 635 00:28:42,687 --> 00:28:43,888 So it was definitely a lot. 636 00:28:43,888 --> 00:28:45,256 You know what I mean? 637 00:28:45,256 --> 00:28:46,191 Yeah. 638 00:28:46,191 --> 00:28:49,327 But, you know, you you find a way to continue, 639 00:28:49,861 --> 00:28:53,665 move on and keep moving forward, you know, continue to help. 640 00:28:53,665 --> 00:28:55,500 I tell, you know, people all the time, 641 00:28:55,500 --> 00:28:58,503 I wasn't able to save my little brother, but. 642 00:28:59,671 --> 00:29:02,640 Maybe I was meant to save another young brother like Hanif. 643 00:29:03,041 --> 00:29:05,710 And you know, we'll never know why 644 00:29:05,710 --> 00:29:09,047 you know that or why that happened or what happened that way. 645 00:29:09,047 --> 00:29:11,015 But we got to trust the process and. 646 00:29:11,015 --> 00:29:13,585 Yeah, you know, and leave it better than we found it. 647 00:29:13,585 --> 00:29:14,652 That's a powerful statement. 648 00:29:14,652 --> 00:29:16,921 Yeah. You could help another someone else. 649 00:29:16,921 --> 00:29:18,223 Yeah yeah yeah, yeah. 650 00:29:18,223 --> 00:29:20,625 And Haneef could go on to do great things. 651 00:29:20,625 --> 00:29:21,993 All thanks to you. 652 00:29:21,993 --> 00:29:24,996 You know, I think that, you know, it takes a village to raise a child. 653 00:29:24,996 --> 00:29:25,497 You know, 654 00:29:26,464 --> 00:29:28,032 it's it's definitely it was definitely a village. 655 00:29:28,032 --> 00:29:32,670 It wasn't, you know, just all of my, you know, thanks to, you know, Yeah. 656 00:29:32,904 --> 00:29:36,708 You know, Jim, thanks to Honey's mom, she raised him to a point 657 00:29:36,708 --> 00:29:37,942 where he was able to learn. 658 00:29:37,942 --> 00:29:40,345 You know what I mean? 659 00:29:40,345 --> 00:29:42,480 But, you know, I had to tell, you know, 660 00:29:42,480 --> 00:29:45,116 with me, it's like speaking about help. 661 00:29:45,116 --> 00:29:47,685 So many people that helped me out. 662 00:29:47,685 --> 00:29:51,222 I could seriously fill up the Excel center with as many people as help me out, 663 00:29:52,457 --> 00:29:54,726 Yeah, 664 00:29:54,726 --> 00:29:56,928 they're definitely someone you need. 665 00:29:56,928 --> 00:29:57,762 You need a good team. 666 00:29:57,762 --> 00:29:59,397 You need some people on your side. 667 00:29:59,397 --> 00:30:01,866 Yeah, I do see the. Positive. In you. 668 00:30:01,866 --> 00:30:03,434 Yeah. Puts you in the right direction. 669 00:30:03,434 --> 00:30:06,437 Yeah. No doubt. No doubt. I know. Thanks. 670 00:30:06,838 --> 00:30:09,274 You were at the Exchange Club. 671 00:30:09,274 --> 00:30:09,974 This is your. 672 00:30:09,974 --> 00:30:12,410 This is your PowerPoint from the Exchange Club. 673 00:30:12,410 --> 00:30:13,411 Yes, sir. 674 00:30:13,411 --> 00:30:16,114 Marty was nice enough to share your exchange clubs. 675 00:30:16,114 --> 00:30:17,882 PowerPoint. Shout out to Marty. 676 00:30:17,882 --> 00:30:21,519 Marty, one of the reasons I got you here to Marty was he goes, 677 00:30:21,920 --> 00:30:24,789 Marty goes like, you got to meet this guy Tracy. 678 00:30:24,789 --> 00:30:27,458 Tracy has a wonderful idea, wonderful story. 679 00:30:27,458 --> 00:30:29,661 He's doing great things. 680 00:30:29,661 --> 00:30:31,996 He goes, I told him my friends at Feeney, he goes, and he. 681 00:30:31,996 --> 00:30:33,398 He didn't remember me. 682 00:30:33,398 --> 00:30:34,132 You didn't remember me? 683 00:30:34,132 --> 00:30:36,401 What happened? No, no, I did, I knew I told him that 684 00:30:36,401 --> 00:30:39,704 I told him I knew where I could never forget. 685 00:30:40,004 --> 00:30:42,373 We met at the Sweeney's, Christmas party. 686 00:30:42,373 --> 00:30:44,642 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hartford Baking company. 687 00:30:44,642 --> 00:30:46,044 Yeah, yeah. 688 00:30:46,044 --> 00:30:48,646 We did a, remember we did the fashion show. 689 00:30:48,646 --> 00:30:49,480 Yeah, yeah yeah. 690 00:30:49,480 --> 00:30:52,083 Yeah, yeah, at the BCC became. 691 00:30:52,083 --> 00:30:54,352 Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was on Facebook Live. 692 00:30:56,521 --> 00:30:58,990 Facebook Live, a model. 693 00:30:58,990 --> 00:30:59,991 That was I believe. 694 00:30:59,991 --> 00:31:02,460 I got the YouTube. I got the Facebook clip here. 695 00:31:02,460 --> 00:31:05,230 Oh, you got the Facebook group? Yeah. 696 00:31:05,230 --> 00:31:06,264 It's unbelievable. 697 00:31:06,264 --> 00:31:08,366 That was great. You were good. 698 00:31:08,366 --> 00:31:10,335 Hey, man, I was just trying to live up to your standards. 699 00:31:10,335 --> 00:31:12,203 So here's the BCC owners. 700 00:31:12,203 --> 00:31:14,372 Oh, wow. 701 00:31:14,372 --> 00:31:16,407 And see if they get into us right here. 702 00:31:16,407 --> 00:31:17,275 That was a fun night. 703 00:31:17,275 --> 00:31:18,943 I was like, mom, I'm a model. 704 00:31:18,943 --> 00:31:19,410 Feeney said. 705 00:31:19,410 --> 00:31:22,280 I gotta keep this one. Yeah, I just found that I. 706 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:25,416 I sent it to my mom, so I was like, I went back in a text message like. 707 00:31:25,650 --> 00:31:26,584 And yeah. 708 00:31:26,584 --> 00:31:29,587 When was it? It was last year. 709 00:31:30,088 --> 00:31:31,956 December 606. 710 00:31:31,956 --> 00:31:33,691 Wow. 2023. 711 00:31:33,691 --> 00:31:35,927 Time flies, doesn't it? Time flies, I know that. 712 00:31:35,927 --> 00:31:38,196 Couldn't imagine that was almost a year for one full year ago. 713 00:31:38,196 --> 00:31:40,531 Yeah, we can't believe our models. 714 00:31:40,531 --> 00:31:42,600 And now, one year later you're on the podcast. 715 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:45,136 Hey man, it's a blessing to be here. How's it feel to be. 716 00:31:45,136 --> 00:31:46,971 On the Feeney Talks With Friends podcast? 717 00:31:46,971 --> 00:31:48,539 Listen, it's a blessing to be on here. 718 00:31:48,539 --> 00:31:51,542 You know, conversation with you, learning more. 719 00:31:52,210 --> 00:31:54,345 You know, I'm just enjoying the conversation. 720 00:31:55,380 --> 00:31:56,881 So many conversations. 721 00:31:56,881 --> 00:31:59,550 You know, we don't have enough conversations no more. Yeah. 722 00:31:59,550 --> 00:32:02,520 You know. About life. 723 00:32:02,587 --> 00:32:02,820 Yeah. 724 00:32:02,820 --> 00:32:05,790 The listening, the, personal connections 725 00:32:06,057 --> 00:32:09,961 lost, possibly because of social media or the world is busy. 726 00:32:09,961 --> 00:32:12,764 Yeah, yeah. I'm glad to sit down and talk with you. 727 00:32:12,764 --> 00:32:14,265 I think you're a role model. 728 00:32:14,265 --> 00:32:16,100 I think you're doing great things. 729 00:32:16,100 --> 00:32:18,303 And I'm honored to know you and happy to help you. 730 00:32:18,303 --> 00:32:20,805 Same, same here, brother, let me know. We can do. 731 00:32:20,805 --> 00:32:21,973 Same here, brother. 732 00:32:21,973 --> 00:32:23,508 Let's get into Jim. New frock. 733 00:32:23,508 --> 00:32:25,109 How's Jim? New frock? 734 00:32:25,109 --> 00:32:28,112 Jim new frock is doing well, 735 00:32:28,513 --> 00:32:30,148 he's, 736 00:32:30,148 --> 00:32:34,986 up there on the farm, and we just added some cattle sort of form. 737 00:32:35,553 --> 00:32:38,823 So you got his hands full with the cattle up there. Wow. 738 00:32:39,390 --> 00:32:40,892 The kids get. To interact with the cattle. 739 00:32:40,892 --> 00:32:43,861 Yeah, yeah, well, we interact with them like this past summer, 740 00:32:45,596 --> 00:32:47,665 you know, and, 741 00:32:47,665 --> 00:32:51,002 got to see how the whole system works, you know? 742 00:32:51,002 --> 00:32:53,004 Is it like Yellowstone out there or what? 743 00:32:53,004 --> 00:32:53,738 Close. 744 00:32:53,738 --> 00:32:56,574 Well, close. 745 00:32:56,574 --> 00:32:58,209 You know, so he's doing good. Amazing. 746 00:32:58,209 --> 00:33:01,346 Well, working and, you know, working on the farm. 747 00:33:02,480 --> 00:33:04,282 But he's excited about this upcoming year. 748 00:33:04,282 --> 00:33:05,450 We all are. 749 00:33:05,450 --> 00:33:07,885 Nice. And what does he do for work? 750 00:33:07,885 --> 00:33:10,888 So he was, he's an executive of, 751 00:33:11,222 --> 00:33:14,192 a, search firm. 752 00:33:14,359 --> 00:33:18,329 So he runs a search firm, a lot of hay hunting fan, and. 753 00:33:18,730 --> 00:33:20,932 And then just happened to have this farm. 754 00:33:20,932 --> 00:33:23,935 He bought the farm of maybe 12 years ago. 755 00:33:24,335 --> 00:33:25,670 For the farm 12 years ago. 756 00:33:25,670 --> 00:33:28,272 He's out from that area. Gotcha. 757 00:33:28,272 --> 00:33:29,741 Endicott area. 758 00:33:29,741 --> 00:33:30,475 Oh, okay. 759 00:33:30,475 --> 00:33:30,675 Yeah. 760 00:33:30,675 --> 00:33:33,678 Play the Delaware football quarterback. 761 00:33:34,112 --> 00:33:34,812 Nice. 762 00:33:34,812 --> 00:33:37,882 That a very, you know, fruitful, eventful life for sure. 763 00:33:37,882 --> 00:33:40,885 Working a chain of of maybe ten years. 764 00:33:41,552 --> 00:33:42,887 Yeah. Great guy. 765 00:33:42,887 --> 00:33:47,792 Those, you know, huge, huge special individual. 766 00:33:48,726 --> 00:33:51,029 They don't make them like him no more for sure. 767 00:33:51,029 --> 00:33:52,463 That's great to hear. 768 00:33:52,463 --> 00:33:54,665 Well thank you, Jim, for doing such wonderful things. 769 00:33:54,665 --> 00:33:57,301 And thank you for collaborating with it's a good team. 770 00:33:57,301 --> 00:33:58,770 Good partnership. Yeah. 771 00:33:58,770 --> 00:34:01,105 Which one. Who's Batman and who's Robin? 772 00:34:01,105 --> 00:34:01,906 I would like to say, 773 00:34:03,241 --> 00:34:05,843 I'm Batman. 774 00:34:05,843 --> 00:34:09,414 I'm Batman, you know, so. 775 00:34:09,714 --> 00:34:12,650 So it's been good, though, you know? 776 00:34:12,650 --> 00:34:14,519 I mean, it's been good. 777 00:34:14,519 --> 00:34:15,720 This is almost like you're a teacher. 778 00:34:15,720 --> 00:34:17,822 I'm a teacher. I've been a teacher for 21 years. 779 00:34:17,822 --> 00:34:20,324 I taught nine years in Waterbury, where I went to school, 780 00:34:20,324 --> 00:34:22,627 and I'm in my 12th year in West Hartford. 781 00:34:22,627 --> 00:34:26,264 So you have a very educational background, right? 782 00:34:26,264 --> 00:34:28,266 You're teaching, you're managing the youth. 783 00:34:28,266 --> 00:34:30,268 You're trying to educate them. Right? Right, right. 784 00:34:30,268 --> 00:34:33,271 Do you have a favorite teacher growing up that inspired you? 785 00:34:36,974 --> 00:34:38,443 You know, I look at life 786 00:34:38,443 --> 00:34:41,446 as one big school. 787 00:34:42,180 --> 00:34:43,014 And every person 788 00:34:43,014 --> 00:34:46,017 you come in encounter with is a teacher, 789 00:34:46,150 --> 00:34:50,755 whether it's what not to do or whether it's what to do, 790 00:34:51,756 --> 00:34:53,591 you know? And if you look at life that way, 791 00:34:54,725 --> 00:34:55,893 you'll learn a lot. 792 00:34:55,893 --> 00:34:56,527 Yeah. 793 00:34:56,527 --> 00:34:59,530 And you constantly learn, 794 00:34:59,931 --> 00:35:02,667 you know, so, you know, I can't really pinpoint, you know, 795 00:35:02,667 --> 00:35:05,670 one specific teacher, like school teacher, 796 00:35:06,404 --> 00:35:07,105 maybe Mr. 797 00:35:07,105 --> 00:35:10,108 Hayes, Mrs. Marchetti, 798 00:35:10,341 --> 00:35:13,377 you know, but there's been so many people who came into my life 799 00:35:13,377 --> 00:35:14,779 and taught me so many things. 800 00:35:14,779 --> 00:35:18,216 Donny Carr basically raised me as my stepfather. 801 00:35:20,751 --> 00:35:22,820 You know, 802 00:35:22,820 --> 00:35:25,823 Bill Hardy, John Gallagher, 803 00:35:26,557 --> 00:35:27,758 you know, the list goes on. 804 00:35:27,758 --> 00:35:30,928 So many, you know, I mean, Coach Gal. 805 00:35:31,796 --> 00:35:32,763 Yeah. 806 00:35:32,763 --> 00:35:33,164 All right. 807 00:35:33,164 --> 00:35:35,600 Teachers. Yeah. Teachers make a point role. 808 00:35:35,600 --> 00:35:36,767 We don't you know, 809 00:35:36,767 --> 00:35:39,170 we say they don't make a lot of money but they make a difference. 810 00:35:39,170 --> 00:35:40,771 So yeah. Why is that. 811 00:35:40,771 --> 00:35:42,807 And she wasn't I don't make a lot of money. 812 00:35:42,807 --> 00:35:44,542 Right I don't know. 813 00:35:44,542 --> 00:35:46,711 That's a great, great question. 814 00:35:46,711 --> 00:35:48,713 They should make more right. Right, right. 815 00:35:51,415 --> 00:35:51,949 I don't know. 816 00:35:51,949 --> 00:35:54,485 They. 817 00:35:54,485 --> 00:35:56,287 What's wrong with the system? 818 00:35:56,287 --> 00:35:58,523 I guess maybe because we're funded by tax dollars 819 00:35:58,523 --> 00:36:01,726 and there's so many of us that they can't pay us all high salaries. 820 00:36:01,726 --> 00:36:03,661 I don't know, it's not. 821 00:36:03,661 --> 00:36:05,096 It's union based. 822 00:36:05,096 --> 00:36:07,732 Yeah. 823 00:36:07,732 --> 00:36:09,634 As well as 64% of our kids 824 00:36:09,634 --> 00:36:12,637 reading below their grade level 825 00:36:12,803 --> 00:36:14,172 across the US. 826 00:36:14,172 --> 00:36:17,074 Yeah. No, that's 827 00:36:17,074 --> 00:36:18,543 who knows. 828 00:36:18,543 --> 00:36:20,144 I know we started a new program. 829 00:36:20,144 --> 00:36:25,183 We just got a new reading science based reading program called Fund Nations. 830 00:36:25,183 --> 00:36:26,317 I'm teaching it in third grade. 831 00:36:26,317 --> 00:36:30,188 First time in 21 years where we are marking up sounds 832 00:36:30,188 --> 00:36:33,958 and we're tapping out words so well, hopefully that will improve the reading. 833 00:36:34,525 --> 00:36:36,994 So with that being said, you know, for years people 834 00:36:36,994 --> 00:36:40,298 have had that that research that you said 64%. 835 00:36:40,565 --> 00:36:41,732 So they're trying something new. 836 00:36:41,732 --> 00:36:42,333 So there has. 837 00:36:42,333 --> 00:36:44,235 Been a shift. Right. 838 00:36:44,235 --> 00:36:46,671 So we in Science of reading. 839 00:36:46,671 --> 00:36:48,372 Do you think that'll make a difference? 840 00:36:48,372 --> 00:36:50,708 I like it, I was hesitant and 841 00:36:52,043 --> 00:36:52,910 skeptical. 842 00:36:52,910 --> 00:36:56,781 But I'm starting to see kids making that connections. 843 00:36:57,415 --> 00:36:58,716 Picking up on it. Yeah. 844 00:36:58,716 --> 00:37:02,820 We have two glued sounds digraphs, blends. 845 00:37:03,554 --> 00:37:06,357 The kids mark, if it's a short vowel, they put a breath over it 846 00:37:06,357 --> 00:37:09,360 and then it's a macron for a long vowel. 847 00:37:09,460 --> 00:37:11,062 You know what a nice. 848 00:37:11,062 --> 00:37:11,429 Mush. 849 00:37:11,429 --> 00:37:14,599 Was? An upside down e schwa. 850 00:37:15,166 --> 00:37:18,102 You know, this was Mardi Gras. 851 00:37:18,102 --> 00:37:20,037 It's a it's a letter sound. 852 00:37:20,037 --> 00:37:23,407 It's like habit or. 853 00:37:23,874 --> 00:37:26,510 No, no, no, not a habit. Talent, talent. 854 00:37:26,510 --> 00:37:29,513 So talent sounds like it has an at the end. 855 00:37:29,580 --> 00:37:33,951 That's a schwa sound, because the two consonants are squeezing the n. 856 00:37:33,951 --> 00:37:37,221 If there's a n typically has a schwa, it makes it have the I sound. 857 00:37:37,221 --> 00:37:39,690 It sound. Yeah. And that sound is a schwa. 858 00:37:39,690 --> 00:37:42,927 So kids are learning that a third grade level again, 859 00:37:42,927 --> 00:37:46,130 still still not sure 860 00:37:47,431 --> 00:37:48,933 if it's working, but. 861 00:37:48,933 --> 00:37:50,668 Yeah, I don't know. 862 00:37:50,668 --> 00:37:52,637 I haven't seen a transition from. 863 00:37:52,637 --> 00:37:54,905 And then are they using it in their own writing yet. 864 00:37:54,905 --> 00:37:58,175 Yeah, they still raise their hand and ask and I might tap it out, 865 00:37:58,175 --> 00:38:01,178 sound it out, use the skills that we're learning. 866 00:38:01,779 --> 00:38:04,782 But we do it every day for 30 minutes. 867 00:38:05,082 --> 00:38:08,085 But you can see that they're making the connection. Yes. 868 00:38:08,085 --> 00:38:11,522 It's that, there are some some like it more than others, obviously. 869 00:38:11,522 --> 00:38:12,757 Like, you know, you see it at camp. 870 00:38:12,757 --> 00:38:14,592 You know what? 871 00:38:14,592 --> 00:38:15,826 Some are stronger than others. 872 00:38:15,826 --> 00:38:16,994 So you got to differentiate. 873 00:38:16,994 --> 00:38:20,031 So sometimes after we do the whole group, the kids, I really need it. 874 00:38:20,031 --> 00:38:24,769 I bring them to the table for kids to really pinpoint what their weaknesses are. 875 00:38:25,202 --> 00:38:26,937 And they get a little more extra teaching. 876 00:38:26,937 --> 00:38:27,872 Right. 877 00:38:27,872 --> 00:38:31,509 And then the kids that are higher readers can just off, off they go and go read, 878 00:38:31,709 --> 00:38:32,343 read a book. 879 00:38:33,978 --> 00:38:36,647 And then there's the middle kids that get that, 880 00:38:36,647 --> 00:38:38,616 high level teaching. Right, right. 881 00:38:38,616 --> 00:38:42,787 So always like differentiate got to meet the kid where they are 882 00:38:42,787 --> 00:38:44,021 and, and build off of that. 883 00:38:44,021 --> 00:38:45,089 Right, right right. 884 00:38:45,089 --> 00:38:47,058 Big believer in it. Big believer in it. 885 00:38:47,058 --> 00:38:48,292 Yeah. 886 00:38:48,292 --> 00:38:50,528 What is what is one of your it's 887 00:38:50,528 --> 00:38:53,531 one thing that you want to leave behind when you're done 888 00:38:54,098 --> 00:38:56,967 at your role right now you go work on one thing. 889 00:38:56,967 --> 00:38:57,902 What is it? 890 00:38:57,902 --> 00:38:58,102 Yeah. 891 00:38:58,102 --> 00:39:01,172 I tell all my kids, like, I mentioned it earlier. 892 00:39:01,172 --> 00:39:02,039 Lifelong learner. 893 00:39:02,039 --> 00:39:05,042 Try to learn something new every day. 894 00:39:05,910 --> 00:39:09,180 Just instill a passion for the love of learning. 895 00:39:09,180 --> 00:39:10,414 Love of reading. 896 00:39:10,414 --> 00:39:12,216 You know, I tell the kids, if you don't like reading, 897 00:39:12,216 --> 00:39:14,185 you just haven't found the right book yet. 898 00:39:14,185 --> 00:39:15,152 You know, I grew up reading. 899 00:39:15,152 --> 00:39:17,254 I learned to read because of Sports Illustrated. 900 00:39:17,254 --> 00:39:19,790 I wanted to learn about my players. Or. 901 00:39:19,790 --> 00:39:21,058 What was going on. 902 00:39:21,058 --> 00:39:22,860 So that encouraged me to read. 903 00:39:22,860 --> 00:39:24,695 Or I found something like, oh, I'm going to read this. 904 00:39:24,695 --> 00:39:27,932 But if a teacher assigned a lesson and read about, you know, 905 00:39:29,033 --> 00:39:30,067 Abraham Lincoln 906 00:39:30,067 --> 00:39:34,171 or Possums or something, I'm like, yeah, but it was like sports related. 907 00:39:34,171 --> 00:39:35,740 I was like all into it. 908 00:39:35,740 --> 00:39:38,476 So just find what you're passionate about and then read. 909 00:39:38,476 --> 00:39:40,077 And that's why I try to share with my kids. 910 00:39:40,077 --> 00:39:43,581 I have a huge library in the back of my room, graphic novels. 911 00:39:43,581 --> 00:39:47,051 If the kid like sports, I got the Matt Christophers, I got the graphic novels 912 00:39:47,051 --> 00:39:50,254 Dog Man, diver, Wimpy Kid, I got the science nonfiction, 913 00:39:50,688 --> 00:39:53,991 holidays, all the different genres and levels. 914 00:39:54,392 --> 00:39:55,760 So I try to find something. 915 00:39:55,760 --> 00:39:57,595 I'm like, here, take this home, borrow it. 916 00:39:57,595 --> 00:39:59,964 Right, right, right. 917 00:39:59,964 --> 00:40:02,967 So I'm just trying to, you know, encourage them to 918 00:40:03,601 --> 00:40:05,703 do the best they can. 919 00:40:05,703 --> 00:40:06,270 Yeah. 920 00:40:06,270 --> 00:40:08,072 And and again the motto be a good friend. 921 00:40:08,072 --> 00:40:09,807 You know, I want the world to be a better place. 922 00:40:09,807 --> 00:40:13,411 If everyone was a better friend, if you drove like a friend. 923 00:40:14,311 --> 00:40:15,379 Hold the door for people. 924 00:40:15,379 --> 00:40:17,481 Give a compliment. That goes a long way. Right. 925 00:40:18,449 --> 00:40:20,317 So that's where. So. 926 00:40:20,317 --> 00:40:23,554 You do you think increasing the salary for teachers would bring in more? 927 00:40:24,722 --> 00:40:25,489 Possibly. 928 00:40:25,489 --> 00:40:28,492 And would, 929 00:40:29,660 --> 00:40:31,962 Well, because a lot of teachers don't do it for the money. 930 00:40:31,962 --> 00:40:32,730 Right. 931 00:40:32,730 --> 00:40:34,632 But we do complain about not having the money. 932 00:40:34,632 --> 00:40:37,635 So it's like. 933 00:40:38,235 --> 00:40:38,803 What would I do? 934 00:40:38,803 --> 00:40:41,238 Something else possibly. 935 00:40:41,238 --> 00:40:44,742 My next move is like vice principal management position. 936 00:40:46,410 --> 00:40:48,212 Or who knows? 937 00:40:48,212 --> 00:40:50,014 But I'm in 21 years. 938 00:40:50,014 --> 00:40:52,650 I got to do 37.5. 939 00:40:52,650 --> 00:40:54,218 Wow. It was 30 years. 940 00:40:54,218 --> 00:40:56,520 Then they would. Have to do that to be a principal to. 941 00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:59,523 To retire. With full. Benefits. 942 00:41:00,057 --> 00:41:01,625 37.5. That's across the. 943 00:41:01,625 --> 00:41:03,360 Board, right? Isn't that weird? Yeah. 944 00:41:03,360 --> 00:41:05,729 So it's a long time. 945 00:41:05,729 --> 00:41:06,730 I started at 24. 946 00:41:06,730 --> 00:41:09,733 I'm going to get out at 65. 947 00:41:09,834 --> 00:41:11,902 It's pretty crazy. I mean. 948 00:41:11,902 --> 00:41:16,440 My buddies, all my friends, just all retired CEOs, probation officer and. 949 00:41:16,440 --> 00:41:17,641 Cops, that's what I was. Getting. 950 00:41:17,641 --> 00:41:21,946 All my buddies that have those jobs retired already 20 years and now they say. 951 00:41:21,979 --> 00:41:22,980 25 now. 952 00:41:22,980 --> 00:41:24,782 Now they change it to 25. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 953 00:41:24,782 --> 00:41:28,786 But still I'd be if I was, if I was a or if I worked in a prison 954 00:41:29,553 --> 00:41:32,356 or they'd have state teachers I could have taught 955 00:41:32,356 --> 00:41:35,559 maybe in prison I'd be out in 25, I'd be four more years left. 956 00:41:35,993 --> 00:41:37,561 Yeah, but that's pretty interesting. 957 00:41:37,561 --> 00:41:39,797 Where you possibly teach in the youth. 958 00:41:39,797 --> 00:41:41,131 But the future of tomorrow, 959 00:41:42,466 --> 00:41:44,268 you got 37 years. 960 00:41:44,268 --> 00:41:47,371 And you don't really get to top step until you're in, like, your 20th year. 961 00:41:47,404 --> 00:41:48,138 Right? 962 00:41:48,138 --> 00:41:51,141 Because I started getting paid peanuts my first year. 963 00:41:51,709 --> 00:41:53,177 And that was like the hardest year. 964 00:41:53,177 --> 00:41:55,346 So it's like 965 00:41:55,346 --> 00:41:58,349 but again with all these changes and 966 00:41:58,382 --> 00:42:01,485 different laws and it's not getting easier. 967 00:42:01,752 --> 00:42:03,387 I get back to that new reading. 968 00:42:03,387 --> 00:42:05,389 So every day it's almost scripted too. 969 00:42:05,389 --> 00:42:08,592 So I have to read the book to know what I'm going to teach that day. 970 00:42:08,592 --> 00:42:09,193 Right, right, right. 971 00:42:09,193 --> 00:42:12,196 When that's new snow. 972 00:42:12,496 --> 00:42:14,298 And my grade level partners one 973 00:42:14,298 --> 00:42:17,635 has been teaching for 30 and one has been teaching for 24. 974 00:42:18,168 --> 00:42:21,171 So this reading program is new for all of us. 975 00:42:21,238 --> 00:42:24,108 So every morning we're like or every night you have to either. 976 00:42:24,108 --> 00:42:26,544 So we have homework for yourself. Yeah yeah. Yeah. 977 00:42:26,544 --> 00:42:28,512 To know what I'm going to. Look. 978 00:42:28,512 --> 00:42:30,347 Like today was dictionary work. 979 00:42:30,347 --> 00:42:32,750 You know, finding words in a dictionary. And, 980 00:42:33,717 --> 00:42:36,487 you know, whether it be at the beginning of a dictionary, end of the dictionary, 981 00:42:36,487 --> 00:42:39,623 and if the the first two letters of the same, you look to the second letter 982 00:42:39,790 --> 00:42:41,725 a lot of kids don't know that. So. Right, right, right. 983 00:42:41,725 --> 00:42:43,193 I used to play a dictionary game. 984 00:42:43,193 --> 00:42:44,929 I would get up when I was doing Newhart. 985 00:42:44,929 --> 00:42:48,632 Me and my friend would get up every morning, go have breakfast movies. 986 00:42:48,966 --> 00:42:51,201 We was learning, dominoes too. 987 00:42:51,201 --> 00:42:53,837 So we would go play dominoes. Yeah, we play dominoes. 988 00:42:53,837 --> 00:42:56,874 We would sit and we played a dictionary game where we would find 989 00:42:56,874 --> 00:42:59,877 a word in a dictionary, go down a dictionary, 990 00:43:00,077 --> 00:43:03,581 and we would get you know, we would read a word. Yep. 991 00:43:03,614 --> 00:43:07,918 Figure out is that word has a negative connotation or positive connotation. Yep. 992 00:43:08,218 --> 00:43:10,955 And then, you know, we had to give an example. 993 00:43:10,955 --> 00:43:11,388 That's good. 994 00:43:11,388 --> 00:43:14,558 When we talk about the word and anything and detail. 995 00:43:15,392 --> 00:43:18,362 And that would leads us to so many different conversations. 996 00:43:18,562 --> 00:43:19,496 Yeah. 997 00:43:19,496 --> 00:43:20,130 So you know. 998 00:43:20,130 --> 00:43:22,066 And and try to incorporate it into your vocabulary. 999 00:43:22,066 --> 00:43:24,902 You got to use it like you had a hundred times before. 1000 00:43:24,902 --> 00:43:27,605 It gets ingrained into your vocabulary. 1001 00:43:27,605 --> 00:43:28,172 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1002 00:43:28,172 --> 00:43:29,039 And I do that now. 1003 00:43:29,039 --> 00:43:31,442 One of the words I'm using now is tilt it. Yep. 1004 00:43:32,910 --> 00:43:35,913 That's a good one to tilt it. 1005 00:43:36,180 --> 00:43:37,114 Yeah. So it's good. 1006 00:43:37,114 --> 00:43:38,616 The dictionary game. Yeah that's great. 1007 00:43:38,616 --> 00:43:41,919 We do a so the Rotary Club comes in in a couple of weeks. 1008 00:43:41,919 --> 00:43:45,656 They every third grader in West Hartford gets a dictionary from the Rotary Club. 1009 00:43:45,990 --> 00:43:48,993 And they've been doing it for 20, 30 years. 1010 00:43:49,860 --> 00:43:51,662 So then we play a dictionary scavenger hunt. 1011 00:43:51,662 --> 00:43:55,299 Like, what's the word, what's your guide word on page 119. 1012 00:43:55,299 --> 00:43:56,867 So they got a flip to it. Boom. 1013 00:43:56,867 --> 00:43:59,370 Or what's this word mean? 1014 00:43:59,370 --> 00:44:00,070 Dictionary game. 1015 00:44:00,070 --> 00:44:02,573 Like a little scavenger hunt. Make it fun. Yeah, yeah. 1016 00:44:02,573 --> 00:44:04,608 And then the kid always finds the A word. 1017 00:44:04,608 --> 00:44:07,277 It'll be word because it's the Webster's dictionary. 1018 00:44:07,277 --> 00:44:10,280 So they're like, I am like. 1019 00:44:10,981 --> 00:44:12,449 Wait, I wait for it. Every year. I'm like. 1020 00:44:15,219 --> 00:44:17,287 If they find it yet some, some have not. 1021 00:44:17,287 --> 00:44:18,255 But right, right, right. 1022 00:44:18,255 --> 00:44:20,791 You know, there's a years that they don't find it. 1023 00:44:20,791 --> 00:44:21,158 Yeah. 1024 00:44:21,158 --> 00:44:25,329 You know, the, the, the negative and positive connotation of the word 1025 00:44:25,329 --> 00:44:28,832 I find to be very important because, yeah, everything is about perspective. 1026 00:44:28,832 --> 00:44:33,704 So you really get to see whether, you know what kind of perspective a person 1027 00:44:33,704 --> 00:44:38,208 or a kid is putting on the word, whether that's true or whether it's not, you know. 1028 00:44:38,208 --> 00:44:41,512 Yeah, I think that's important, you know, because all we want to do, 1029 00:44:42,279 --> 00:44:45,282 all I want to do, and I'm sure the same for you, is 1030 00:44:45,516 --> 00:44:48,152 inspire mindset. 1031 00:44:48,152 --> 00:44:49,853 You know, once you inspire mindset 1032 00:44:49,853 --> 00:44:53,524 and you embed the mindset, then you let them go off and run in. 1033 00:44:53,991 --> 00:44:56,660 Know the. Growth mindset. Thousand percent. 1034 00:44:56,660 --> 00:44:59,063 You know, I'm not good at this yet, right? 1035 00:44:59,063 --> 00:45:00,264 I'm going to keep trying. 1036 00:45:00,264 --> 00:45:02,633 I'm I might not good at this yet, but I will keep trying 1037 00:45:02,633 --> 00:45:04,902 till I get better at this. Good. 1038 00:45:04,902 --> 00:45:07,905 And you know, don't try to move the mountain. 1039 00:45:08,405 --> 00:45:09,873 Move a rock by rock, right? 1040 00:45:09,873 --> 00:45:11,041 Little by little. Right. 1041 00:45:11,041 --> 00:45:13,377 A little progress every day, right. Right, right. 1042 00:45:14,945 --> 00:45:16,947 So yeah, it's tell the kids that. 1043 00:45:16,947 --> 00:45:18,982 And if and if 1044 00:45:18,982 --> 00:45:22,252 all the kids like when it gets hard because we did addition 1045 00:45:22,252 --> 00:45:25,055 and subtraction in unit one. Now we're in multiplication and division. 1046 00:45:25,055 --> 00:45:27,091 So there's a little more challenge for the kids. 1047 00:45:27,091 --> 00:45:31,028 And now if things get hard they want to almost like sit back. 1048 00:45:31,095 --> 00:45:31,595 Yeah. 1049 00:45:31,595 --> 00:45:35,165 And hide in their shell or get frustrated. 1050 00:45:35,499 --> 00:45:37,167 That's when the learning takes place. 1051 00:45:37,167 --> 00:45:38,802 When things are hard, that's when you're learning. 1052 00:45:38,802 --> 00:45:42,239 If you went through life and everything's easy, you're not learning anything at. 1053 00:45:42,940 --> 00:45:46,243 You know, you only you truly learn 1054 00:45:46,243 --> 00:45:49,313 more and only out of failures. 1055 00:45:49,613 --> 00:45:52,349 Yeah, yeah. Hard times, hardships. 1056 00:45:52,349 --> 00:45:54,551 You know, if you got the right mindset, you learn. 1057 00:45:54,551 --> 00:45:57,187 Yeah, you definitely learn more from making mistakes 1058 00:45:57,187 --> 00:45:59,356 and you will from just breezing through things. 1059 00:45:59,356 --> 00:45:59,790 Yeah. 1060 00:45:59,790 --> 00:46:02,426 You know, it's just like, you know, if you working out 1061 00:46:03,527 --> 00:46:04,294 and you, you know, 1062 00:46:04,294 --> 00:46:07,297 when you lifting weights, you turn those muscles. 1063 00:46:07,431 --> 00:46:09,066 It's hard. 1064 00:46:09,066 --> 00:46:10,467 You push it. Yeah. 1065 00:46:10,467 --> 00:46:12,903 Sometimes you can't do it. Yep. 1066 00:46:12,903 --> 00:46:16,306 And then the real learning and the rebuilding takes place. 1067 00:46:17,674 --> 00:46:21,011 You sit down and you rest and you relax and rebuild. 1068 00:46:21,011 --> 00:46:23,614 Rebuilding? Yep. And now you become stronger. 1069 00:46:23,614 --> 00:46:25,282 I tell the kids that all the time. 1070 00:46:25,282 --> 00:46:28,285 Your brain is a muscle. Gotta work it out. 1071 00:46:28,352 --> 00:46:30,621 That's great. Funny that you say that. 1072 00:46:30,621 --> 00:46:33,423 Or they, like the butterfly. 1073 00:46:33,423 --> 00:46:37,461 So if, you know, if you have a butterfly in a cocoon or it goes in a caterpillar. 1074 00:46:37,561 --> 00:46:39,463 But if you crack the cocoon, 1075 00:46:39,463 --> 00:46:42,032 the butterfly is just going to fall out and not be able to fly. 1076 00:46:42,032 --> 00:46:42,466 Right. 1077 00:46:42,466 --> 00:46:45,269 But because the butterfly needs to fight out, 1078 00:46:45,269 --> 00:46:46,637 and that's how he builds the muscles. 1079 00:46:46,637 --> 00:46:50,641 He fights out and he breaks out, and then he's got the strength to fly. 1080 00:46:50,674 --> 00:46:55,179 Yes. So if someone cracked him out, he never felt that strength, right? 1081 00:46:55,179 --> 00:46:56,580 Right, right right. 1082 00:46:56,580 --> 00:46:57,714 I use that with the kids too. 1083 00:46:57,714 --> 00:46:59,483 And I'm like, then I tell my kids they're always. 1084 00:46:59,483 --> 00:47:00,450 They're like, nah, Mr. 1085 00:47:00,450 --> 00:47:02,686 Feeney, I'm like, I'm watering you. 1086 00:47:02,686 --> 00:47:04,354 You're my flowers, right? 1087 00:47:04,354 --> 00:47:06,857 You're going to grow your hair. Little seeds. 1088 00:47:06,857 --> 00:47:09,660 And now I'm going to be beautiful flowers at the end of the year. 1089 00:47:09,660 --> 00:47:11,428 Right now, I'm now Mr. Feeney. 1090 00:47:13,130 --> 00:47:15,232 Or you come to me, little babies. 1091 00:47:15,232 --> 00:47:18,235 And now you're going to leave fourth graders 1092 00:47:19,036 --> 00:47:21,104 or butterflies ready to fly. 1093 00:47:21,104 --> 00:47:23,106 Kids are so amazing. Yeah. 1094 00:47:23,106 --> 00:47:25,175 Now it's a great job. 1095 00:47:25,175 --> 00:47:26,743 And a hilarious. 1096 00:47:26,743 --> 00:47:27,244 Oh, yeah. 1097 00:47:27,244 --> 00:47:29,046 You want to know the truth? They tell you the truth. 1098 00:47:29,046 --> 00:47:29,880 Oh, yeah. 1099 00:47:29,880 --> 00:47:32,816 Mr. Feeney, you got a bald spot, Mr. Feeney. 1100 00:47:32,816 --> 00:47:34,651 You got, you. 1101 00:47:34,651 --> 00:47:36,253 Know something. 1102 00:47:36,253 --> 00:47:39,256 On your head, you balding and. Oh, whatever. 1103 00:47:39,289 --> 00:47:42,259 Big fat belly, big head. 1104 00:47:42,259 --> 00:47:43,493 And I'm like, thanks, kids. 1105 00:47:43,493 --> 00:47:44,061 Thank you. 1106 00:47:44,061 --> 00:47:49,566 The truth is, I think the kids up at camp, man, you know, they do things, 1107 00:47:50,033 --> 00:47:53,503 and they, you know, you got to come down to that level. 1108 00:47:54,705 --> 00:47:58,108 You know, you got to they'll teach you a lot if you willing to learn. 1109 00:47:58,475 --> 00:47:58,876 Yeah. 1110 00:47:58,876 --> 00:48:01,879 You know all I kept hearing was no Diddy. 1111 00:48:02,412 --> 00:48:04,581 No. To pay up. 1112 00:48:04,581 --> 00:48:05,916 No Diddy got. 1113 00:48:05,916 --> 00:48:07,784 Sports. Got to learn the slang too. 1114 00:48:07,784 --> 00:48:08,919 It's so funny cause. 1115 00:48:08,919 --> 00:48:11,722 The pause. Game is unbelievable. 1116 00:48:13,590 --> 00:48:14,024 I like this. 1117 00:48:14,024 --> 00:48:15,726 Podcast as long. 1118 00:48:15,726 --> 00:48:18,729 Oh no. Pause. Yeah yeah yeah. 1119 00:48:18,896 --> 00:48:21,899 Oh no Diddy no. 1120 00:48:23,600 --> 00:48:25,302 So funny. 1121 00:48:25,302 --> 00:48:28,305 You got any upcoming events for Anchors Camp 1122 00:48:28,472 --> 00:48:30,407 or any fundraising events during the year? 1123 00:48:30,407 --> 00:48:33,911 Nah. Right now, no, not not any on the calendar right now, but, 1124 00:48:34,978 --> 00:48:37,981 we, we planning a few things. 1125 00:48:39,750 --> 00:48:42,719 We're really going into planning mode in January. 1126 00:48:42,719 --> 00:48:43,487 You know. 1127 00:48:43,487 --> 00:48:45,522 Is there a social media for anchors camp? 1128 00:48:45,522 --> 00:48:48,191 Yeah. Anchors underscore camp. 1129 00:48:48,191 --> 00:48:49,559 Instagram. Okay. 1130 00:48:49,559 --> 00:48:50,460 We on Facebook. 1131 00:48:50,460 --> 00:48:51,561 Anchors camp. 1132 00:48:51,561 --> 00:48:54,564 All right, I'll write that down. Yes. 1133 00:48:54,831 --> 00:48:57,067 And then, of course, the website anchors camp 1134 00:48:57,067 --> 00:49:00,971 for you to, you know, we we, you know, 1135 00:49:00,971 --> 00:49:05,075 we just trying to change one kid life at a time 1136 00:49:06,243 --> 00:49:10,213 sounds cliche, but, you know, that's what really works like something. 1137 00:49:11,348 --> 00:49:12,382 That's what really works. 1138 00:49:13,583 --> 00:49:14,451 One at a time. 1139 00:49:14,451 --> 00:49:16,853 Can't help them out. Can't help them all sometimes. 1140 00:49:16,853 --> 00:49:17,888 But you could help. 1141 00:49:17,888 --> 00:49:18,956 You know I mean, try. 1142 00:49:18,956 --> 00:49:19,890 The best you can. 1143 00:49:19,890 --> 00:49:20,424 Listen. 1144 00:49:20,424 --> 00:49:23,427 The world is made up of haves and have nots. 1145 00:49:23,460 --> 00:49:24,995 You know. 1146 00:49:24,995 --> 00:49:27,097 And to have some 1147 00:49:27,097 --> 00:49:30,100 have is a have not to another have. 1148 00:49:30,534 --> 00:49:31,468 Okay. 1149 00:49:31,468 --> 00:49:34,104 And I believe the world would always be there. 1150 00:49:34,104 --> 00:49:37,107 Yeah but you definitely can affect 1151 00:49:37,574 --> 00:49:40,110 make more haves. 1152 00:49:40,110 --> 00:49:42,479 You know you know people talk about this thing equal 1153 00:49:42,479 --> 00:49:45,482 you know like nothing has never been equal. 1154 00:49:45,949 --> 00:49:48,952 Same reason why we in Connecticut and we ain't in Gaza. 1155 00:49:49,686 --> 00:49:50,921 Yeah. 1156 00:49:50,921 --> 00:49:54,758 You know, the world has never been equal, has never been fair. 1157 00:49:55,993 --> 00:49:56,560 Yeah. 1158 00:49:56,560 --> 00:49:59,563 But you got to do the best for what you got. 1159 00:50:00,163 --> 00:50:03,100 And you agree, you know, you got to create luck to get luck. 1160 00:50:06,103 --> 00:50:08,972 And you know, you know why I don't know. 1161 00:50:08,972 --> 00:50:11,575 It's just how the world is trying to do the best you can. 1162 00:50:11,575 --> 00:50:14,311 Do what your circumstance of your situation 1163 00:50:14,311 --> 00:50:17,314 and then move forward to go in and help others. 1164 00:50:17,681 --> 00:50:19,716 You got to create luck to, to get luck. 1165 00:50:19,716 --> 00:50:22,019 I like that, 1166 00:50:22,019 --> 00:50:22,419 you know. 1167 00:50:22,419 --> 00:50:25,422 You know, just like you know, you would never 1168 00:50:25,489 --> 00:50:28,392 you would never hit the lottery if you don't play. 1169 00:50:28,392 --> 00:50:30,027 Good point. 1170 00:50:30,027 --> 00:50:31,595 You know. 1171 00:50:31,595 --> 00:50:32,262 All right. 1172 00:50:32,262 --> 00:50:34,531 Coming up camp, what do you, plan? 1173 00:50:34,531 --> 00:50:38,168 What are you going to do different this year for camp than last year? 1174 00:50:38,935 --> 00:50:41,938 You know, this year we focus more on, 1175 00:50:42,005 --> 00:50:45,008 this year we went away from 1176 00:50:45,409 --> 00:50:48,278 focusing on the core trades a little bit, 1177 00:50:48,278 --> 00:50:51,281 and we went to aquaponics and, 1178 00:50:53,316 --> 00:50:55,819 and a whole host of other things. 1179 00:50:58,021 --> 00:50:58,822 So I want to definitely 1180 00:50:58,822 --> 00:51:03,060 get back to the, you know, the, core traits. 1181 00:51:03,093 --> 00:51:05,562 Okay. 1182 00:51:05,562 --> 00:51:07,030 I mean, working. On that construction. 1183 00:51:07,030 --> 00:51:09,099 We doing residential construction. 1184 00:51:09,099 --> 00:51:12,302 You know, this year we went from stand on a form to stand. 1185 00:51:12,302 --> 00:51:17,340 We outsource everything to stand at a school called, Suny Milledgeville. 1186 00:51:18,308 --> 00:51:21,511 And, fun fact, they have, like, one of the few 1187 00:51:22,779 --> 00:51:25,715 and only, 1188 00:51:25,715 --> 00:51:27,717 football fields that's black. 1189 00:51:27,717 --> 00:51:28,385 Oh, wow. 1190 00:51:28,385 --> 00:51:30,454 Turf is black, grass is black. 1191 00:51:30,454 --> 00:51:31,655 Absorbs the heat, though. 1192 00:51:31,655 --> 00:51:34,624 It's got to get hot. Yet not down. 1193 00:51:34,624 --> 00:51:36,226 They set it down. 1194 00:51:36,226 --> 00:51:37,661 It's pretty cool. It's like all black. 1195 00:51:37,661 --> 00:51:41,098 And they got different color lines because for different, 1196 00:51:41,665 --> 00:51:43,300 you know, sports and all that. 1197 00:51:43,300 --> 00:51:43,967 Cool. It's pretty cool. 1198 00:51:43,967 --> 00:51:46,970 Is it a million hits on ESPN? 1199 00:51:47,671 --> 00:51:49,706 So we end up staying there is in upstate New York. 1200 00:51:51,408 --> 00:51:54,211 And they live like the dorm and a college life. 1201 00:51:54,211 --> 00:51:58,014 And while we was up there was a, EOP program up there with them. 1202 00:51:58,014 --> 00:52:00,917 So they got to interact with different Kim 1203 00:52:00,917 --> 00:52:03,420 and, you know, so I think we're going to keep it. 1204 00:52:03,420 --> 00:52:04,354 He continued. 1205 00:52:04,354 --> 00:52:07,057 Our source that we spent a lot of time back on the farm as well. 1206 00:52:07,057 --> 00:52:11,128 So nice, learned how to, you know, do a fire, create a fire 1207 00:52:11,862 --> 00:52:16,333 with just stuff in the woods, racks, magnifying glass. 1208 00:52:16,666 --> 00:52:17,267 Oh, yeah. 1209 00:52:17,267 --> 00:52:18,268 A whole bunch of other things. 1210 00:52:18,268 --> 00:52:20,937 Did a little challenge with that. 1211 00:52:20,937 --> 00:52:23,607 You know, but I'm excited for 1212 00:52:23,607 --> 00:52:24,107 the future. 1213 00:52:24,107 --> 00:52:24,841 Thanks, camp. 1214 00:52:24,841 --> 00:52:27,410 I'm excited for the kids that will be pumping out of there. 1215 00:52:27,410 --> 00:52:28,912 And we'll be making. Yeah. 1216 00:52:28,912 --> 00:52:31,248 Maybe we'll take the podcast on the road and take. 1217 00:52:31,248 --> 00:52:31,915 You have to. 1218 00:52:31,915 --> 00:52:34,351 Take a tour. You have to, You got to get involved. We, 1219 00:52:35,552 --> 00:52:38,522 you know, we always do a, water gun fight. 1220 00:52:38,522 --> 00:52:40,790 Okay, now you're talking. 1221 00:52:40,790 --> 00:52:41,925 So we, you know, we do. 1222 00:52:41,925 --> 00:52:44,461 We have some fun, and but we also learn. 1223 00:52:44,461 --> 00:52:46,796 That's it. Yeah. That's what life is about. 1224 00:52:46,796 --> 00:52:49,166 I try to make every lesson engaging and fun. Yep. 1225 00:52:49,166 --> 00:52:52,169 I'm totally full agreement. Yep, yep yep. 1226 00:52:52,502 --> 00:52:55,172 What about when we got shot on my God to swanny 1227 00:52:55,172 --> 00:52:58,375 MJ MJ he was our he he really introduce me to you. 1228 00:52:58,375 --> 00:52:59,109 So you want. 1229 00:52:59,109 --> 00:53:01,545 To thank MJ for making it to connection? 1230 00:53:01,545 --> 00:53:04,981 Marty to following through and making sure that this podcast happened. 1231 00:53:05,515 --> 00:53:07,918 But MJ, what makes him a good friend? 1232 00:53:07,918 --> 00:53:09,853 You know, he's just 1233 00:53:09,853 --> 00:53:12,856 you know, I met MJ, 1234 00:53:13,590 --> 00:53:16,593 just being in West Hartford. 1235 00:53:16,626 --> 00:53:18,962 Me like in fashion. I will go in there. 1236 00:53:20,397 --> 00:53:21,164 And then, you know, I 1237 00:53:21,164 --> 00:53:25,669 came to him one day and say, you know, and I just started let's do a partnership 1238 00:53:26,269 --> 00:53:29,639 that is and, you know, y'all eventually sell as do it. 1239 00:53:30,106 --> 00:53:31,942 And, you know, we end up doing it. 1240 00:53:31,942 --> 00:53:36,546 And I our partnership which continues well, after I was done playing basketball 1241 00:53:37,314 --> 00:53:39,916 and, I know I'm shocked that you're in a hoodie right now. 1242 00:53:39,916 --> 00:53:42,018 Yeah. The first. Time I've ever seen you in a. Hoodie. 1243 00:53:42,018 --> 00:53:42,619 Well, you know. 1244 00:53:42,619 --> 00:53:45,622 I usually wear in blazers and matching suits, and. 1245 00:53:45,689 --> 00:53:48,491 I wanted to shout out the state police. 1246 00:53:48,491 --> 00:53:53,797 I, but, you know, MJ is, you know, especially a individual. 1247 00:53:54,030 --> 00:53:55,532 Such a great person. 1248 00:53:55,532 --> 00:53:57,934 You know what I mean? 1249 00:53:57,934 --> 00:53:59,269 A great friend. Yeah. 1250 00:53:59,269 --> 00:53:59,970 You know what I mean? 1251 00:53:59,970 --> 00:54:02,405 We became more friends and business partners. 1252 00:54:02,405 --> 00:54:03,006 Yeah. 1253 00:54:03,006 --> 00:54:06,710 You know, and then, you know, I'm blessed to call him a friend. 1254 00:54:06,776 --> 00:54:07,877 Yeah, he's an amazing person. 1255 00:54:07,877 --> 00:54:10,046 He made these little lapels for our suits. 1256 00:54:10,046 --> 00:54:11,414 Be a good friend. Yeah, yeah. 1257 00:54:11,414 --> 00:54:14,384 You got one. Come on. We got to get you on. And I ain't get one. 1258 00:54:14,384 --> 00:54:15,552 But I know he may want. 1259 00:54:15,552 --> 00:54:16,486 And then we. 1260 00:54:16,486 --> 00:54:20,490 We work there one Saturday and met people that came in. 1261 00:54:20,490 --> 00:54:23,326 And if they donated, I think 50 bucks to friends of Fini. 1262 00:54:23,326 --> 00:54:25,962 They got 20% off their purchase. 1263 00:54:25,962 --> 00:54:27,797 Yeah, yeah, I was there that day. Yeah. Oh, yeah. 1264 00:54:27,797 --> 00:54:29,165 That's the day we saw you. Yeah. That's right. 1265 00:54:29,165 --> 00:54:30,900 My man and I met, Haneef. 1266 00:54:33,670 --> 00:54:35,272 What was I going and then. 1267 00:54:35,272 --> 00:54:38,575 Yeah, just made, like, 300 bucks off that one two hour visit. 1268 00:54:38,708 --> 00:54:42,779 Some people are so generous and thoughtful, and MJ talks us 1269 00:54:42,779 --> 00:54:44,047 up, and I got to meet people. 1270 00:54:44,047 --> 00:54:45,949 It was a great interaction. 1271 00:54:45,949 --> 00:54:46,916 You know, he's a great. 1272 00:54:46,916 --> 00:54:48,752 Person, no person, nominal person. 1273 00:54:48,752 --> 00:54:51,254 And he obviously has a world all you business. 1274 00:54:51,254 --> 00:54:54,991 Yep. You know and you know if you listen and shop 1275 00:54:54,991 --> 00:54:57,961 at the salon ecom, 1276 00:54:59,062 --> 00:55:01,164 maybe you can get some gear like me and Eric. 1277 00:55:01,164 --> 00:55:03,900 Yes. You know, but, yeah. 1278 00:55:03,900 --> 00:55:05,135 You know, he's he's a great friend. 1279 00:55:05,135 --> 00:55:07,237 I'm blessed to call him a friend for sure. 1280 00:55:07,237 --> 00:55:10,440 I spent some time with his family for Thanksgiving last year. 1281 00:55:10,440 --> 00:55:12,075 Oh, nice. 1282 00:55:12,075 --> 00:55:14,911 So that's a that's a phenomenal to do. 1283 00:55:14,911 --> 00:55:16,079 Smart. 1284 00:55:16,079 --> 00:55:18,214 Yep. To knows the business. 1285 00:55:18,214 --> 00:55:19,349 Well, yeah. 1286 00:55:19,349 --> 00:55:21,751 I mean, you can look at your and just tell your size. 1287 00:55:21,751 --> 00:55:22,519 Yeah. It's pretty good. 1288 00:55:22,519 --> 00:55:24,888 Yeah. Yeah yeah he's a great guy. 1289 00:55:24,888 --> 00:55:28,024 And you know more importantly in my eyes yeah. 1290 00:55:28,024 --> 00:55:28,591 Style. 1291 00:55:29,793 --> 00:55:30,827 Definitely a good dresser. 1292 00:55:30,827 --> 00:55:33,930 Yeah I got the vest I got the new vest. 1293 00:55:34,431 --> 00:55:35,165 It zips up. 1294 00:55:35,165 --> 00:55:36,266 From the bottom now too. 1295 00:55:36,266 --> 00:55:38,201 So when you see it it doesn't get all bunched and bulky. 1296 00:55:38,201 --> 00:55:39,536 You could zip it a little bit. 1297 00:55:39,536 --> 00:55:41,538 Opens on the bottom and it zips on the top. 1298 00:55:41,538 --> 00:55:43,707 Yeah. Work well for Thanksgiving right now. 1299 00:55:43,707 --> 00:55:45,909 Perfect for Thanksgiving. 1300 00:55:45,909 --> 00:55:48,278 Yeah. Definitely go to Farmington. 1301 00:55:48,278 --> 00:55:51,881 Have family owned business, been there forever to Swanny clothier. 1302 00:55:51,981 --> 00:55:54,150 You know, a good person, no doubt. 1303 00:55:54,150 --> 00:55:56,553 Good golfer two. He is a good golfer. Yeah. 1304 00:55:56,553 --> 00:55:57,754 So we got some upcoming events. 1305 00:55:57,754 --> 00:56:00,523 We have a holiday stroll next week December 5th. 1306 00:56:00,523 --> 00:56:02,225 We have a toy drive here at Luna Pizza. 1307 00:56:02,225 --> 00:56:04,260 We're collecting toys and coats. 1308 00:56:04,260 --> 00:56:05,528 We have a pond house event. 1309 00:56:05,528 --> 00:56:07,964 You around the December 10th. 1310 00:56:07,964 --> 00:56:09,165 Great networking event. 1311 00:56:09,165 --> 00:56:11,167 I am, Let's grab lunch. 1312 00:56:11,167 --> 00:56:15,372 There's a bunch of guys and they're having an event, so. 1313 00:56:15,372 --> 00:56:16,873 And proceeds go to Friends of Feeney. 1314 00:56:16,873 --> 00:56:18,541 So thank you. Let's grab lunch. 1315 00:56:18,541 --> 00:56:20,210 That's at the pond House December 10th. 1316 00:56:21,244 --> 00:56:23,913 And, you know, that's about it. 1317 00:56:23,913 --> 00:56:26,850 Any recommendations? Books, 1318 00:56:26,850 --> 00:56:29,853 movies, podcasts? 1319 00:56:30,653 --> 00:56:32,322 You know, 1320 00:56:32,322 --> 00:56:34,824 a couple podcasts I watch frequently. 1321 00:56:34,824 --> 00:56:37,227 Just my interest. 1322 00:56:37,227 --> 00:56:38,728 All in podcast. 1323 00:56:38,728 --> 00:56:42,766 All in all in podcasts for guys who, are in a venture 1324 00:56:42,766 --> 00:56:45,769 capitalist space and private equity world, 1325 00:56:45,802 --> 00:56:48,772 and they talk about current events. 1326 00:56:48,772 --> 00:56:49,005 Okay. 1327 00:56:49,005 --> 00:56:52,542 And it goes always from political all the way to, 1328 00:56:53,209 --> 00:56:57,714 you know, the, money markets, business untitled. 1329 00:56:57,947 --> 00:57:00,950 They bring on a bunch of different entrepreneurs or, 1330 00:57:02,352 --> 00:57:05,355 CEOs. 1331 00:57:05,522 --> 00:57:08,491 And they even have actors, 1332 00:57:10,260 --> 00:57:11,995 movies. 1333 00:57:11,995 --> 00:57:15,398 You know, I, I think that if I was in another life, I would be a CIA agent. 1334 00:57:16,633 --> 00:57:19,102 I'm in the CIA. Yeah. 1335 00:57:19,102 --> 00:57:20,370 Movies and. 1336 00:57:20,370 --> 00:57:23,373 Okay, you know, for movies and all that, 1337 00:57:24,140 --> 00:57:25,909 lioness. It's pretty good. 1338 00:57:25,909 --> 00:57:27,277 That's on Paramount. 1339 00:57:27,277 --> 00:57:29,279 Is that a series? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 1340 00:57:29,279 --> 00:57:33,383 Alex Cross, which is on Amazon Prime. 1341 00:57:33,483 --> 00:57:34,017 Gotcha. 1342 00:57:35,518 --> 00:57:36,719 And then I'm a loverboy. 1343 00:57:36,719 --> 00:57:39,556 So, you know, one of my favorite movies of all time is hitch. 1344 00:57:39,556 --> 00:57:40,990 Hitch? 1345 00:57:40,990 --> 00:57:43,793 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. 1346 00:57:43,793 --> 00:57:45,228 That's, 1347 00:57:45,228 --> 00:57:46,362 I'll be Kevin James. 1348 00:57:46,362 --> 00:57:47,730 Don't ever do that again. 1349 00:57:47,730 --> 00:57:50,333 Hahaha. Yep. 1350 00:57:50,333 --> 00:57:51,100 Classic. 1351 00:57:51,100 --> 00:57:54,103 And then books right now. 1352 00:57:54,137 --> 00:57:56,606 I just got this book, that popular. 1353 00:57:56,606 --> 00:58:00,109 Oh, yeah, I just got this book is called, Former White Black. 1354 00:58:01,311 --> 00:58:04,514 Right now I'm looking about some, cashmere goats and, 1355 00:58:05,315 --> 00:58:07,684 okay, alpacas. 1356 00:58:07,684 --> 00:58:08,685 Up for the farm. 1357 00:58:08,685 --> 00:58:10,620 Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah. 1358 00:58:10,620 --> 00:58:13,156 I didn't use them for business. Yeah, yeah. 1359 00:58:13,156 --> 00:58:14,023 Okay. Okay. 1360 00:58:14,023 --> 00:58:17,727 Yeah, yeah, yeah, but they just beautiful animals too, you know? 1361 00:58:17,727 --> 00:58:21,264 I mean, hopefully I can get a cashmere sweater out of it, right? 1362 00:58:21,831 --> 00:58:24,834 You know, or I'll pack a sweater. 1363 00:58:26,369 --> 00:58:28,972 They only, 1364 00:58:28,972 --> 00:58:30,306 It's exotic and unique. 1365 00:58:30,306 --> 00:58:33,009 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Get the money to start selling them. 1366 00:58:35,111 --> 00:58:38,114 Now you're talking my language. 1367 00:58:38,114 --> 00:58:40,383 You know, one of my favorite books is called the 5 a.m. 1368 00:58:40,383 --> 00:58:43,386 club. 1369 00:58:44,287 --> 00:58:45,822 And, that's a book about. 1370 00:58:45,822 --> 00:58:49,325 It's goes in a great detail, and it tells a phenomenal story 1371 00:58:50,193 --> 00:58:54,063 about why you get up at 5 a.m., why you should get up at 5 a.m.. 1372 00:58:54,063 --> 00:58:55,632 What, 5 a.m.? Club. 1373 00:58:55,632 --> 00:58:56,299 Club? 1374 00:58:56,299 --> 00:58:59,769 Yeah, it's definitely one of my favorite books. 1375 00:58:59,769 --> 00:59:01,671 It took, 1376 00:59:01,671 --> 00:59:04,841 the artist, of four years to write it. 1377 00:59:05,375 --> 00:59:07,877 Yeah. And, and 1378 00:59:07,877 --> 00:59:11,414 and do you think what's the best part about waking up at 5 a.m.? 1379 00:59:12,782 --> 00:59:15,151 What's what's the most helpful? 1380 00:59:15,151 --> 00:59:16,252 Oh, well. 1381 00:59:16,252 --> 00:59:19,255 And adds more time in a day 1382 00:59:19,322 --> 00:59:20,924 and more time for yourself. 1383 00:59:20,924 --> 00:59:24,427 You know, most people are not up at 5 a.m., so you get up 1384 00:59:24,427 --> 00:59:28,398 and you ain't really checking your phone because you ain't nobody hitting you up. 1385 00:59:28,665 --> 00:59:29,866 Okay. Yeah. Okay. 1386 00:59:29,866 --> 00:59:33,002 And then if you disciplined enough, you get your you can get your workout in. 1387 00:59:33,269 --> 00:59:33,903 Okay. 1388 00:59:33,903 --> 00:59:36,873 Go for a walk and read 1389 00:59:38,374 --> 00:59:39,075 and watch a 1390 00:59:39,075 --> 00:59:42,812 podcast and then meditate and then start your day. 1391 00:59:42,812 --> 00:59:43,346 Okay. 1392 00:59:43,346 --> 00:59:48,017 I've been seeing Instagram things, read a page, get up early workout. 1393 00:59:48,117 --> 00:59:50,687 Definitely don't touch the phone. Yeah. 1394 00:59:50,687 --> 00:59:53,957 Get some fresh air, meditate, read a page from a book 1395 00:59:55,291 --> 00:59:56,926 and, you know, start your day. Yeah, yeah. 1396 00:59:56,926 --> 00:59:58,227 It's a great way. 1397 00:59:58,227 --> 01:00:00,830 Yeah. Just a 5 a.m. club. That makes sense. 1398 01:00:00,830 --> 01:00:01,898 And cold showers. 1399 01:00:01,898 --> 01:00:04,500 You you ever take a cold shower? You see that now? Yeah. Yeah. 1400 01:00:04,500 --> 01:00:05,435 And then I. 1401 01:00:05,435 --> 01:00:07,770 Take a shower and turn it real cold. Yeah. 1402 01:00:07,770 --> 01:00:11,140 So I get in the, sauna a lot. Okay. 1403 01:00:11,140 --> 01:00:14,077 And then I get out of the sauna, 1404 01:00:14,077 --> 01:00:15,511 Straight into cold, cold shower. 1405 01:00:15,511 --> 01:00:19,182 Yeah, yeah, I can only do it for a couple seconds, you know? 1406 01:00:19,182 --> 01:00:21,784 But the sauna is really good. Yeah. 1407 01:00:21,784 --> 01:00:23,252 You know, they say sauna. 1408 01:00:23,252 --> 01:00:25,989 I'm getting in a sauna, you know, reduces all diseases. 1409 01:00:25,989 --> 01:00:27,757 About 40%. Yep. 1410 01:00:27,757 --> 01:00:30,526 So, you know. Interesting. 1411 01:00:30,526 --> 01:00:31,160 I was a little loud. 1412 01:00:31,160 --> 01:00:33,429 I'm sweat when I'm feeling lazy. 1413 01:00:33,429 --> 01:00:34,797 And, What's your streak? 1414 01:00:34,797 --> 01:00:37,133 How many consecutive days have you gotten up at 5 a.m.? 1415 01:00:39,602 --> 01:00:40,069 I'm not. 1416 01:00:40,069 --> 01:00:42,405 You know what 1417 01:00:42,405 --> 01:00:43,773 the. One of my biggest problems is? 1418 01:00:43,773 --> 01:00:45,241 I feel I'm not consistent. 1419 01:00:45,241 --> 01:00:45,842 Yeah. 1420 01:00:45,842 --> 01:00:47,844 I probably say on a days. 1421 01:00:47,844 --> 01:00:50,113 Oh, nice. Yeah. 1422 01:00:50,113 --> 01:00:51,314 Narcosis thing. 1423 01:00:51,314 --> 01:00:54,317 So, you know, I mean, I want to get more consistent. 1424 01:00:54,350 --> 01:00:56,085 No. It's good. Five and club I'm going to join. 1425 01:00:56,085 --> 01:00:59,088 You motivated me tomorrow 5 a.m. 1426 01:00:59,122 --> 01:01:02,125 workout I try to wake up six a. M 1427 01:01:03,226 --> 01:01:07,096 and then the new thing that everybody's doing is, for rocking. 1428 01:01:08,131 --> 01:01:09,932 Whereas walking with a weight. 1429 01:01:09,932 --> 01:01:12,702 This, Yeah, I have a lot of a. 1430 01:01:12,702 --> 01:01:14,537 Yeah, yeah, my wife just got one too. 1431 01:01:14,537 --> 01:01:14,904 Because we. 1432 01:01:14,904 --> 01:01:17,907 We have a dog, so it's called Rock. 1433 01:01:17,974 --> 01:01:19,676 Yeah, yeah, we do a lot of walking anyway. 1434 01:01:19,676 --> 01:01:21,310 So you put the vest on. 1435 01:01:21,310 --> 01:01:23,613 Actually hurt my lower back. So I kind of stop messing with it. 1436 01:01:23,613 --> 01:01:25,448 But yeah I try it again. 1437 01:01:25,448 --> 01:01:27,483 Yeah. New thing everybody's doing. 1438 01:01:29,018 --> 01:01:31,320 I want to shout out Juniper Homes. 1439 01:01:31,320 --> 01:01:32,522 Juniper Home Care. 1440 01:01:32,522 --> 01:01:35,525 My dance partner Zulily gave me this. 1441 01:01:35,858 --> 01:01:40,430 I just won dancing With the stars best at West Hartford at the JCC. 1442 01:01:41,330 --> 01:01:44,734 We beat Dennis house, Ronnie New and the mayor, 1443 01:01:45,234 --> 01:01:48,805 Sherry Canter and Victor, my bank. 1444 01:01:48,805 --> 01:01:50,973 Victor. The branch manager just paid his dues. 1445 01:01:50,973 --> 01:01:57,246 We bet on the last podcast he was podcast 116 and we bought a case of beer. 1446 01:01:57,246 --> 01:01:58,981 He just paid up. 1447 01:01:58,981 --> 01:01:59,716 I want to. 1448 01:01:59,716 --> 01:02:01,984 Thank. You for the shirt. 1449 01:02:01,984 --> 01:02:04,587 Juniper homes down on New Brighton Avenue. 1450 01:02:04,587 --> 01:02:06,389 I love that and, we worked hard. 1451 01:02:06,389 --> 01:02:08,725 Thank you, Arthur Murray. It was a great time. 1452 01:02:08,725 --> 01:02:11,360 You ever do ballroom dancing? What do you do? Ballroom dancing? 1453 01:02:11,360 --> 01:02:12,195 Yeah, I would do ballroom. 1454 01:02:12,195 --> 01:02:15,198 Yeah. I never done it before it. Oh. Cool. 1455 01:02:15,331 --> 01:02:17,133 Definitely can get my groove on a little bit. 1456 01:02:17,133 --> 01:02:19,702 Yeah. Duh, duh. 1457 01:02:19,702 --> 01:02:21,003 What was it? What was your score? 1458 01:02:22,038 --> 01:02:23,072 Oh, so you had. 1459 01:02:23,072 --> 01:02:25,308 They had for the for dancers. 1460 01:02:25,308 --> 01:02:28,511 All the, the audience got a dime and they had to put it in one jar, 1461 01:02:28,845 --> 01:02:31,414 and we just had the most dimes in our jar. 1462 01:02:31,414 --> 01:02:34,016 Yeah, I did bring a roll of dimes from the bank, 1463 01:02:34,016 --> 01:02:37,019 but I'm kidding. 1464 01:02:37,320 --> 01:02:40,289 I had nothing. 1465 01:02:40,289 --> 01:02:42,058 Any final closing remarks? 1466 01:02:42,058 --> 01:02:43,659 I had a great time talking with you. 1467 01:02:43,659 --> 01:02:45,461 We usually shoot for 50 minutes. 1468 01:02:45,461 --> 01:02:48,464 Stefania, what are we on? And. 1469 01:02:50,133 --> 01:02:52,502 Hoof hour and three. 1470 01:02:52,502 --> 01:02:53,870 Love that. I love that. 1471 01:02:53,870 --> 01:02:55,204 We could talk to you forever. 1472 01:02:55,204 --> 01:02:57,974 Same here. Great conversation. 1473 01:02:57,974 --> 01:02:58,908 Doing great things. 1474 01:02:58,908 --> 01:03:01,043 Like I said, this is Feeney talks of friends. 1475 01:03:01,043 --> 01:03:04,046 This whole podcast is about talking to great people in the community, 1476 01:03:04,113 --> 01:03:04,781 doing great things. 1477 01:03:04,781 --> 01:03:07,083 So, Tracy, keep up the good work. 1478 01:03:07,083 --> 01:03:08,551 Honor to speak with you. 1479 01:03:08,551 --> 01:03:11,354 Please keep me in the loop of all the great things that you're doing, 1480 01:03:11,354 --> 01:03:13,656 and we'll be in connection going forward. 1481 01:03:13,656 --> 01:03:14,423 With the world. 1482 01:03:14,423 --> 01:03:15,191 Thanks for having me. 1483 01:03:15,191 --> 01:03:16,926 I really appreciate the conversation. 1484 01:03:16,926 --> 01:03:20,429 Oh, the closing remarks. We're done. Now. 1485 01:03:21,597 --> 01:03:22,198 Yeah. 1486 01:03:22,198 --> 01:03:25,168 On three will say be a good friend. 1 to 3. 1487 01:03:25,168 --> 01:03:26,068 Be a good friend.