Episode #145: Feeney Talks with Heather Colp

#BeAGoodFriend and check out episode #145 of #FeeneyTalksWithFriends featuring Heather Colp.

It was great to talk with my #friend, Heather! 

Heather is the Owner of Colp Building Consulting. 

We talked about:
Avi #91 & #119 (minute 1)
Colp Building Consulting sponsors Friends of Feeney (minute 2)
Explain “Designing and Consulting” to a 3rd Grader  (minute 4)
Glastonbury Education Foundation (minute 6)
Living and working in Japan, Taiwan and China (minute 8)
Guanxi (minute 11)
Projects: First, Last, Best, Worst (minute 12)
Heather’s husband, Dave (minute 19)
Heather played high school basketball (minute 23)
Podcast sponsors (minute 27)
3 Keys (Sponsored by New England Door & Security) for being an owner (minute 27)
High Meadow Day Camp (minute 30)
Heather’s sons, Jai and Quinn (minute 33)
Contemporary Design (minute 33)
Architect or Teacher? (minute 37)
Neila’s homemade cookies (minute 38)
Arthur Murray Dance Studio (minute 41)
Heather’s first restaurant in CT was Luna Pizza (minute 45)
Heather’s favorite restaurant (minute 49)
Larry “The Legend” Bird #33 (minute 51)
What makes David a good #friend? (minute 53)
Recommendations (minute 55)
Visiting Philadelphia (minute 58)
Upcoming events (minute 59)
Closing remarks (minute 1.02)

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Creators and Guests

Host

Eric Feeney

After teaching for nearly a decade at his alma mater in Waterbury, in 2014, Eric Feeney began teaching at Wolcott Elementary in West Hartford. Shortly following, Sam Sohn, the father of one of his students, passed away suddenly from a heart attack. He left behind four beautiful children and a loving wife, Nancy Wallace-Sohn. Eric saw first-hand the toll this took on the family as they navigated their way through this unthinkable tragedy. The following year, Rashad Collier Sr., another father of a student in Eric’s class, passed away in Hartford as a result of gun violence. Rashad left behind two fantastic children and a loving wife, Denise Villegas. The impact of these tragedies weighed on Eric and motivated him to build an organization that could provide assistance for similar situations. With that, Friends of Feeney was born. In 2019, Friends of Feeney Inc. became an official 501©(3) nonprofit organization, allowing more funds to be raised and expanding the range of services provided to children and families in need. Today, over a decade since Eric’s idea to build a community organization dedicated to supporting our friends in need, Friends of Feeney has burgeoned into a reputable and recognized organization capable of providing financial and resource support to numerous families and individuals across greater Hartford and beyond. Through this work, an incredible community of children and families has been recognized, who care for and appreciate each other’s kindness.

Producer

David Chmielewski

David started his video career in the early 1990s working on video crews as an independent contractor for such companies as Martha Stewart Living, IBM and Xerox. After graduating Southern Connecticut State University with the degree in Corporate Communications, David continued his video production career and accepted a position at WFSB in Hartford, CT. Within a few years the news and production studios became his charge and David designed, installed and maintained the televisions sets for the various programs at the station. At the end of 2013 David founded DirectLine Media, a video production company that specializes in creating memorable and compelling video content for businesses.

Editor

Stefania Sassano

Stefania's acting journey began as early as the fourth grade, where she took on the role of Scarlett O'Hara in a stage production of Gone With the Wind. This early experience sparked a lifelong passion for the arts. With a background in musical theater fueled by her love of music and singing, Stefania stepped into larger roles, such as Fraulein Kost in Cabaret during her sophomore year at the University of New Haven. This performance earned her a nomination for the prestigious Irene Ryan Acting Award at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival—an honor she would receive again in her junior year.

What is Feeney Talks With Friends?

Eric Feeney talks with #friends! Eric is the founder of the nonprofit organization Friends of Feeney. Their mission is to help children and families who need assistance after heartbreak and tragedy. www.friendsoffeeney.com

All right, all right.

Feeney talks with friends episode 145.

I'm with a great guest.

How you doing, Heather? I'm great.

Doing really well.

Heather. Colt.

Colt. Building. Consulting.

Yes. Formerly known as Colt Design
and Consulting.

That's right.

But I want to just start off.

This means the world.

We're actually getting to know each other,
right?

We've interacted a few times.

But I started

by thanking you
for your extreme generosity.

You have been a sponsor again,
not even knowing me.

You're like,
hey, that friendly Feeney looks cool.

And I asked.

You know, you're like,
I'll sponsor the parade.

I'll sponsor the golf tournament.

So I'm here to thank you in person for
your thoughtfulness and your generosity.

It truly means the world.
So thank you so much.

Yeah. My pleasure.

I mean, I think we are.

We is the one that introduced me,
you know, to your organization.

And when we moved back here from Asia,

really
my goal was to get rooted in my community.

And that doesn't necessarily mean
just Glastonbury

where we live, but,
Hartford, surrounding area.

And, you know, the opportunity came up
and I was like, heck yeah.

So it's it's my pleasure.

Thank you. Ivy. Abby.

Episode 91 and 119

we eat hot wings and we burn our face
off. Yes!

Yeah. At Luna pizza. Yeah.

Thank you.

Go back and check that out.

Abby's a great guy. Texted with him today.

Swim with him.

Sometimes sauna with him,
sometimes at the JCC.

Full disclosure, but he's a great guy.

Yeah. The, happy hour.

Is he just trying to make the world
a better place?

So thank you for connection, Abby.

And thank you again for your generosity.

I got a couple of the shirts.

So the Memorial Day parade.

Let's see.

Oh, boy.

Here's your cold corpse on the back
somewhere.

Yeah. Can you find it?

Right there. Boom.

That's Memorial Day for,

Park house,

Park road parade.

Last one. Sad face.
You got to cry a little bit.

Going on forever.
It's not happening anymore.

But before we did graphics,

we had the cult design at Cult Design
Consulting.

Dot com.

Is your website still the same?

No, it's cult building.com. No.

Gotcha. Yep.

And then the Saint Patrick's Day parade,

boat building, consulting

and cool.
What's what's a little graphic in there?

Those building.

Buildings. Yeah, I like it. Yeah.
Well done.

What you think of that.

Yeah I call building.

So you put the building in there.
It's like a mess. Yeah, yeah.

Reminds me. Of.

Yeah. The first logo had that as well.

It was you know
obviously the wording was different, but

Yeah I thought it came out really well.

Yeah. Yeah.

That shout out anyone that did it
or did you guys create it yourself and.

No, it's, nobody that we know did it.

You know, when I first moved here,
I kind of just found somebody

to help out with it. And then,

when I did the rebranding, I did

use, Danielle Hunter of Hunter
Design Studio.

Okay.

A lot of people are familiar with her.

She's out of Glastonbury.

Nice. So, yeah,
she helped with my rebranding.

So cool. Yeah. We're here.

Cool.

Design and consulting.

So I teach third grade.

If you were to explain what building

and consulting is to a third grader,
how would you explain that?

Okay.

So, okay, now you tested me here.

Yeah, yeah.

Basically what I do is at this,

you know, you're coming to me saying
I want a new building.

I'm a, let's say, a doctor.

I want a new building.

I say, I got you,
I'll help you find an architect.

I'll help you find an engineer.

I'll help oversee
the design of that process.

I'll find you a builder,
a general contractor will bid it out.

And then I'm going to help you oversee
the construction all the way to the end.

Until it's time for you to move in.

All right.

Perfect.

So that's essentially an owner's

representative
or owner owner's project manager.

Nice side.

And you only do buildings and like,
corporate stuff.

Commercial work homes.

No. No. Residential.

Got you. Yeah, yeah.

But, my background really varies,
you know, from our time in Asia.

So manufacturing, life sciences
laboratories,

I'm doing some health care
now for UConn health.

I've done school work in the past,
so pretty much everything non residential.

So you'll know where to put things
and set things up.

Doorways hallways.

Yeah. Drawers, dressers shelving.

Like so I also know AutoCAD I know how
to do my own construction drawings.

But that's not the side of the business
that I focus on anymore okay.

So it's more the collaboration
and the implementation.

So cool. Yeah.

Oh well that's great.

Let me just introduce
I forgot to oh, so excited to talk.

When. Thank you.

My name is Eric Feeney, founder
and president of Friends of Feeney.

Our mission is to help
children and families

in need assistance
after heartbreak or tragedy.

I use this podcast.

Feeney talks with friends,
and I talk to wonderful

people that are doing
great things in the community.

So thank you for your work in the Greater
Hartford Glastonbury

community again
with your thoughtfulness and generosity.

You're a member of the chamber, right?

I am West Hartford Chamber.

And another.

Chamber and the River Valley chamber.

Yeah.

Which is no,
just no, no, no, those two chambers.

But I am on the board of the Glastonbury
Education Foundation.

So we provide grants for all things
education.

No, it doesn't have to be actually
with the schools.

It could be something
for the senior center.

Maybe they need something there.

So I've been on that almost two years now.

Yeah. West

Hartford has a West Hartford foundation,
but it's mostly teacher grants.

Okay. Where's yours? You don't.

It doesn't have to be.
No no no no okay. Oh.

Very cool. Yep.

And that was another way
for you to get into the community or.

Yeah, absolutely.

You know, and, you know,
because there's we've got,

I think four elementary schools
in Glastonbury,

you know, some,
you know, one's a fairly new school.

You know,

I think the one that my boys are at
or is a little bit older and they needed

I think the, you know, the GCF
needed a little bit of representation.

Okay. Out of that school.

So now we have three board members
who have children that are at that school.

And and I think it's been very positive.

Very cool. Yeah. So you're busy. Yeah.

Mom of two boys. Yes.

Owner of a business. Yeah.

Been to Asia, I think. Yeah.

And skip over this. That.

That's amazing.

So you were in Japan,
Taiwan and China? Yep.

And doing this exact work over there.
Yeah.

So, yeah, both my husband and I were so

at the time we were living in Denver and,

went to

Corning, who is a former client of ours,
when we were working for an architecture

and engineering
firm, called us up and asked if we wanted

to go over there on their facilities
team on a six month contract.

And this was back in 2004
or 5 somewhere in there.

And we didn't have kids at that time,
and we had just adopted a dog

from a shelter, and I said, I'm not going
unless I can bring chisel.

And they said, okay.

So they helped us,
you know, get them over there.

We packed up our life and within
probably five weeks we were gone.

And and that lasted almost 18 years.

So we were yeah, we were basically owners,

project managers
for Corning's manufacturing facilities.

So they range the smart
on the smaller side, maybe a couple

hundred thousand square feet
all the way up to one point 8,000,000ft².

And we were moving every couple of years.

So we were in Taiwan
a couple of times, Japan once,

and then the majority of our time
was in China.

But phenomenal experience.

Been for our boys.

Were your sons or your sons were born
there and two was the man.

So I yeah, I flew back to the US,

like a couple of months
before each of them were born.

GI was actually born in Colorado,

because we still had a place
there at that time.

Quinn was born in South Weymouth, mass.

And so once we,

got their passports and all that jazz,
within three months, I was back.

So that was really all they knew
until we moved back here three years ago.

And you only been back for three years.

Yeah, yeah.

Holy cow. Yeah. Okay.

So they were going
to international schools,

over there, and we wanted to stay
long enough that we knew they were going

to remember their experience
and pick up another language.

And, so they both learned Mandarin
and they were doing really well

with writing it as well.

But I was itching to get back to work
because I took some time off

and, you know, with GI,
I was there almost 38

when I had him
and then almost 40 when I had Quinn.

So I had been working for a
while before I even had kids.

And I, I told

my husband and I said,
listen, I'm ready to go back to work.

And so, yeah, the summer of 22 was

when we decided to move back here.

But yeah, we were in, in south in Glencoe
when Covid.

Hit, and.

That was a whole thing. Yeah. Oh boy.

Man, this is sheep gone.

This is great. Yeah.

You can speak it on an elementary level.

Yeah, I try to as much as I can.

Like if I hear I've done it at my, my boys

school before, I, you know,
or if I've heard people I try to.

But I'm losing it because I don't use it
that often anymore. But.

And kids,
I'm sure they picked it up a lot sooner.

My daughter went to a, a magnet school
in Waterbury, pre-K.

They were learning Japanese.
They counted to ten.

They were four years old. Yeah.

They do.

They absorb it really fast. Yeah.

Amazing.

It's, But GI is going into sixth
grade and, he's going

they they, offer it in Glastonbury,
so he's going to pick it up again.

I'm really excited. Yeah.

He should have the advantage to it.

He'd been there, done that. Yeah.

Now how do you

compare a quick compare and contrast
Venn diagram teacher talk.

You know, working there or working here.

Can you just explain, you know,
the similarities and differences?

I mean

culturally,
obviously there's a lot of differences.

And I kind of relate it to an onion.

You know, when I was working in China,
certainly appealing back a lot of layers

before you can build that trust, you know,
is anybody watching that might have,

you know, the the Chinese background,

you know, they'll understand
what Gwen she is and building that

trust in that relationship before
we're going to do business together.

And that has always stayed with me.

And that's how I conduct myself.

Is that you and I? Yeah, absolutely.

If you and I meet for the first time.
Right.

We're going to have a coffee.

I'm not talking business. Right.

I'm going to tell me about you. Right.

Tell me about your family.

Very interesting. I like you.

You know, and, and I, and I find myself
being taken aback a little bit.

If the other person just jumps
right into business because I'm like, oof,

you know, I mean, a lot of my professional
life was over there in Asia.

Yeah. Interesting. Yeah, I like it.

I mean,

I'm very I feel like I'm
a personal person person.

And I like to get to know someone too.
Yeah.

That's awesome. Yeah.

What was the word?

Glenshee. Kwan. Chai? Yeah. All right.

Got to have that Guan Chai.

Yeah, we're doing that now.

Right. Exactly.

This time, first time,
you know, sitting down, getting to know

because you were like,
hey, let's get to get to know each other.

Let's have a coffee.

I'm like, hey, let's have a podcast.

And here we are. Yeah.

So it's great.

No, it's so cool to talk with you.

All right, so we got a game.

Lots of games.
What game do you want to play?

First, I'll give you the choice.

We got the first, last, best, worst.

But we got the three keys.

Okay.

The first last best source.

All right.

So your projects building consulting.
Yeah.

Can you recall your first project.

Your last project.

Your most recent one.

Your best one and your worst one.

We'll see.

That's tough.

I don't want to offend anybody

but wait until or.

Something goes wrong or missing.

No, what I will say
is you learn something from all of them.

Yeah.

And especially being
a, you know, new business owner,

I'm learning things every single day.

My first project, actually,
I'll always be grateful.

Shout out to Leading Edge construction.

I had sat down with surgical.

Where's leading edge?

They're out of Enfield.

Okay.

Yeah, because I know you're
in Denver in Asia, so I'm just doing.

Yeah, well, as a business. Okay.

So are we going back 27 years or what do.

You want to do. Leading edge.

Okay. For my business. Right.

All right. Cool.
We're talking. Yeah. Gotcha. Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

So Serge and I met, and we got along

well, and, he said, you know,
we may have something for you.

There's some synergy there.

And so my first projects with them was,
you know, it was

it was actually a group home.

It was a residential house
being converted to a group home.

And, for me, that was just sort of about
building that relationship with them.

Right.

Do they trust me? And, you know,

and we've actually done
about five projects with them since then.

So we built a really good trust.

They know they can come to us.

We can go to them. Yep.

That was the first one with my company.

I don't know if I can go back
and think 27 years ago what.

Might be a good country
with you and leading it. Go on to.

Yeah, yeah. Want you. Yeah.

Leading edge and you call them Sergio.

Serge. Serge. Yep. Got it. Yep.

Let's see.

First one. Yeah.

So the latest one actually is, with UConn
health.

Nice in Farmington.

We just wrapped up a blood draw
that was in partnership with,

Saracen.

That's around by butchers and bakers. By.

Yeah, the Farmington campus. Oh, yeah.
That's right.

Yeah.

Yeah. All right. Yeah.

Right at the outpatient.

In there. Yeah.

So that was a preexisting building.

Are you doing it? In addition,
are you knocking down and building up or.

What are we doing?

Yeah.

So they, they had a, an empty

first floor space,
an existing bludger on the third floor.

We were actually it's we're doing
three projects simultaneously there,

and the third floor is women's health, but
there's a blood draw on the third floor,

and we had to get the first floor
space ready so they could,

you know, be ready within 24 hours
and keep operating.

And so we just wrapped up that
first floor, third floor is almost done.

And my husband's been leading those.

And then, we're doing a hybrid O.R.

for them now as well.

Now, this is in partnership again
as a project manager

for a GC consultant for them for surgeries
and general contractors.

Phenomenal.

Father daughter team.

Paul Sayers and and Paige.

I just love them
to death. They're amazing.

And, that was an awesome referral
from Chris Able.

Actually, do you know, with ABC.

Now West Hartford?

Yeah.

ABC's Plainville,
associated builders and Contractors.

But it's all sort of full circle for me
because these connections,

like with Abby, with Janice Strasser,
introduced me to Abby.

Janice is with ABC, introduced, you know.

Yeah.

And I genuinely feel like you meet 1 or 2
really good people

that genuinely good want to help you,
and then you find that

that nice,
you know, family of people to work with.

And that's really how it's been with me.

I feel super lucky, honestly, I do.

So ABC leading edge of Stand It Out
stood out

and father daughter pair.

Yeah. Paige and Paul Sayers and.

Yeah. Friends. Right?

Yeah. Yeah, I've had good friends.

You got to be a good friend. So.

Yeah, for sure.

I'm glad you're making
those positive connections. Yeah.

So you got first
and last? Yeah. Best and worst.

Let's see.

I mean, I would have to say overall,

my, my, the work in China

that we did,
I mean, just because it was on a scale

like a this enormous scale,
something that I didn't know

if I would be able to handle, you know,
and it wasn't just me.

It was a big facilities team.

We were all doing different things,

but that whole experience
has got to be best for me, you know?

I mean, we did a lot of projects in
in that time frame,

but for me,
that's got to be best and worst.

I don't know, I.

I don't know I'm positive person.

Rainbows all these but. They're not.

No no but like I said like you know I know
I try to kind of live my life like okay.

Yeah they're they're bumps and you know,
you might have some headaches

and maybe people that you butt heads with,
but in the end it's all good stuff.

So always assume positive intent. Yeah.

Is that a cop out?

Yeah. There you go. You did it.

No business podcast.

On this podcast

it's tough that that's the challenge.

Worst because they're like yeah I don't
want to go oh that guy was such a jerk.

Yeah, yeah.

We I have been able to do a nonprofit up
in Springfield though,

which has been cool.

For Caring Health Center.

Okay.

Oh, you did a couple projects with them
with, first peak construction.

Young guns up and coming.

Were brave enough to hire
somebody 20 years older than them.

And and, very smart group of guys.

So, you know, people somehow are,

you know, finding that trust in and us
and what we do.

And I'm really thankful for that.

Yep. Bill's got to have that rapport and

there's always a relationship.

You never know
where it's going to lead to.

So yeah those guys are shot.

Who knows what they go on to be
and they'll remember you.

So yeah.

Or just the good that you're building.

And Springfield
is also on the bright side.

Yeah. For sure.

Is it near?

I don't know Springfield that much,
but I know the Hall of Fame.

Is it near there?

It's a basketball hall.

Yeah, one of them's only about 5
or 6 minutes from there.

And the other one is more sort of east
east side of Springfield.

But you know, where the Boys and Girls

Club is, are
I think it's Boys and Girls Club.

No. Because two
for one has a camp there too.

Oh, okay.
But they offered me to work there.

But it's like the week before school,
I make up, I need that.

That week is like one long Sunday. Yeah.

So I just need to pray.

Yep. So nice. Oh it's great.

No. Again, so excited that you're here
getting to know you.

Heather Culp
from Colt Design and Consulting.

As David doing.

He's good.

He was supposed to be retired.

He retired from Corning in December,
but he.

You know, I told him, give me two years
to try to get the business in a good spot,

and I don't know, somehow it worked, and,

he retired and, retired,
and now he's working with me.

Yeah.

So, you know, there's days where he's
like, oh, you're keeping me really busy.

But but it's good. It's all good stuff.

He's got over 40 years of experience
in our industry. And,

you know,
I trust him more than anybody else. So.

I know he golfed in the golf tournament.

Yeah.

And then my guy Matt, board of directors,
Matt golfed with him.

Same team during the chamber
golf tournament.

Oh, yeah. Oh that's right. Yes.

Yeah, yeah.

So we had the Friends of Fini
pairing with the Colt.

Yeah.
No, No gun. I didn't win it. Yeah, but

that's okay.

How's David's golf game?

He's actually.

He's a good golfer,
but more than anything, he just has fun.

But this year, he's out

because he's probably going to kill me
for telling this story.

But in January,
he took the boys sledding and,

you know, decided
he was going to try to surf on his sled.

And he wiped out and he tore his bicep
tendon and his rotator cuff.

So he had surgery in late February.

He's still not fully recovered.

David, we're going to miss you.

I was just going to say. Is he playing?

Yeah, I wish, but I.

I can't even tell him about it
because, you know, he'll be tempted.

You got to come volunteer, hang out. Yeah.

We have breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Just come hang out.

It's awful.

Yeah.

No, I, I could see myself doing that.

My wife's always, like,
get down from there.

Don't do that. You're getting too old.

So I'm picking kids up in the pool,
like I get this injury.

Elbow injury?

That's from slamming
my nephew Santo in the pool.

The biggest mistake you could do is slam
one kid in the pool.

Yeah,
you know, they're hanging on your neck

and you're slamming them
for the next four hours.

And then you're sore for a week. And.

Yeah, I can't move my. Neck at night.

Yeah.

That's great.

Do you drink coffee?

I didn't start until I was 41 years old.

Wow, I but the best I do is a latte.

Nice. Nothing strong.

Yeah,
because our last guest is Christina Savin.

Sweet bear coffee.

25% helps people with disabilities,
so go back.

Oh, nice. 144 Christine Savin.

How high can you jump?

I can get up high enough.

Where
to put a piece of paper under my feet.

Nice.
I was going to say I thought, you don't.

I thought you were. Gonna say no.
But I did play basketball.

I can talk sports all day long,
but everyone talk about I love sports.

It's always on on the TV in our house.

Because 143 is jumps, which we have.

You boys check that out, okay, I dunks

he could touch 11ft, dunks through the air
through his legs spins.

Nice. Dunks.

Which cheese a YouTube channel

Instagram TikTok
like hundreds of thousands of followers.

It's pretty interesting.

So about that.
Let's go back to previous guest.

I just want to give a couple shout outs.

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jumps would she.

It maybe I'll have to.

If I'm brave enough, I'll text you
an old photo of me playing basketball.

All right. Cool.

Nice. You met my.

I played basketball. You met my wife
when she picked up Bridget.

She played basketball, too. Oh, nice.

And that's when we met. Oh, okay.
That's why I married her.

Only reason I married her.

She played on the basketball team. That's.

I said, that's that's funny.

I'm like, if my husband had to love
sports hours, I had a no go.

Where'd you play growing up?

Where are you from?

So, so we moved around a little bit,
but my high school

ten through 12 years
were in Sarasota, Florida.

Okay.

And, yeah, played for Riverview
High School and Sarasota.

We were number one in the state
my sophomore year.

For a little while.

My senior year,
we lost in the state semifinals.

You know, it's okay, but I ended up
coming back up to go to Syracuse.

I didn't play basketball there,
but that's where I went to college.

Really? Yeah.

Syracuse. Orange. Yeah.

Cool. Yeah.

Carrier doll.

Yeah, I sorry, but if my boys.

Yeah, if my boys ever go to UConn, it's
going to be tough for me.

I love it talking smack.

That's six over time
UConn versus Syracuse.

That was nuts.

I, we were in we were overseas then

and somehow I got that it was on TV.

I so lucky you.
It wasn't 1:00 in the morning.

Yeah. No me I was exhausted.

Yeah. I work the next day.

Yeah. You were like, yeah, this is midday.

This is great. Yeah.

Did you feel that was crazy watching NFL
baseball like your, your time frame was.

Is that right? Yeah.

But with family.

Is that like a that's a challenge
watching USA TVs with challenge.

Yeah. Mean.

Well in Taiwan Japan wasn't an issue
like we could, you know stream things.

But in China
you know it was a different life there.

And you know, things were blocked.

So we didn't get to see quite
as much there.

But the one thing we did
pretty consistently was

the team of people we worked with
was watch the Super Bowl.

So it would be Monday morning.

Our boss knew that
we were not coming in that day,

and we would try to find the next pair pub

and, you know, say cook us breakfast,
we'll pay.

You have some drinks. On Monday morning.

So if it's like 12 hour time difference.

Yeah. Oh yeah. So
it's like eight in the morning.

Yeah that's crazy.
And it was a blast. Yeah.

We did a few of those.

Come to school
coming to work that day. Right.

That's great.

But yeah being overseas like that
you've got to find you know,

that camaraderie and. Yeah.

Yeah.

Now you said pub like,

is it like an Irish pub or like a pub.

Or somewhere Irish? Yeah.

That's the kind of whatever was available.

Yeah, yeah.

They any city that we ended up
living in there were, there was,

there was always something geared towards
expats.

Nice.

Yeah I know, I couldn't
imagine my good friend lived in China

for years and it's just like,

give you a lot of trying something new,

putting yourself out there, learning
a new culture is just like, you know?

Yeah, learning, lifelong learning
and, yeah, learning by experience.

Yeah, it's funny because I think sometimes
I think, you know,

some of my family just thought it was one
big vacation for us, right?

Oh, you're in another country. And.

But that's this was our life, right?

Like, wherever the project was that
we were working on, this was our home.

And, you know, it's
it was either just the two of us

for a long time, David and I, or,

you know, then the kids came along,
but it definitely was not a vacation.

I mean, I

there were challenges every single day
just with the communication alone.

Right.

And then it can be. A question of mine.

Did you have translators everywhere?

So, At work, we had translators
I picked up enough

to, you know, be able to speak day to day
type of things.

And then eventually, as time went on,
the 21st century got further.

And then we had our translator apps.

So that helped a lot.

But I mean, in general, you know,
I tell anybody if they have an opportunity

to travel outside of
it doesn't even matter if you're

from the U.S., another country,
just travel somewhere else, right? It's

going to open your eyes, open your heart,
open your mind to what's going on.

You know, not in your little corner,
you know?

Yeah.

I've only been in Ireland
for about a week.

It was amazing.

Yeah, I want to go back, but
I also want to venture out to see more.

Spain. Italy?

Yeah. For sure.

Yeah. Oh, I want to see, see it all. Yeah.

Yeah.

We talked about because I mentioned
I'm turning 50 this year.

And my husband and I talked about,
you know,

would we be able to go back to Italy.

And because we did that for our honeymoon,

I don't know if it's going to happen.

It's tough leaving when you got
the business and the kids and all that.

We don't have family here in Connecticut.

So, you know, if I can bribe my sister

to come out for 4 or 5 days,
maybe we'll get away.

Yeah. That's great.

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So you mentioned your boys.

Where where were your boys today?

They a high meadow, actually.

Today is their first day
of their two weeks there.

They're super excited.

They did it last year for the first time.

You met them? Yep.

Oh, you met maybe just joy,
I think. Yeah. Did you meet?

I don't think you met Quinn.
I met them both.

Did you okay? Yeah. But, I got a picture.

I know you just show me how much he has
grown in that one year, but yeah, I.

Yeah.

Shout out to my guy.

Who is this guy right here

who show this picture.

That's Quinn.

Quinn. Yeah. That's right.

I forgot about the ring.

Yes. My guy. Game day.

Connor came.

Yeah, and visited the camp. Yeah.

He's grown about two and a half,
three inches.

So I mean.

That's gi that's giant Quinn.

All right. Yeah. Oh,
there they go. Boom! Yeah.

Aaron. Friends of Feeney shirts
for friends of Feeney.

Dad camp. Good kids right there. Yeah.

So if he's he's at my shoulder
now where do you think he is?

Oh, he's he's he's at your chin.

Yeah.

He's like he's,
How tall are you now I tell you.

Six two. Six two.

Yeah.

So he's he's five
at least five six right now.

Yeah,

yeah.

Growing like a weed.

And he's got the the UConn championship.

Yeah. Ring.

Congrats. My God.

Game day Connor did you hear the good news
about game day Connor.

He is now doing the on field

host for the New England Patriots.

Oh awesome.

So he was UConn

women's basketball men's

basketball men's football yard goats.

And now he's got call.

He's like New England. Big time.

Great time.

So congrats my guy he's a podcast guest
great friend.

He visits the camp
because it's my classroom.

Awesome guy. That's awesome.

He lets people hold the ring.

Yeah. Like just say a kid. Take the ring.

So, they're like in High Meadow.

They love it. Yeah, they love it.

They knew, this weekend, I said they like
what, what's coming up this week?

And I said, hi, meadow.

And they were very excited.

Very excited. Yeah.

So yeah. Hi, Matt.
I was there for ten years.

It was an amazing place
for myself and my daughters.

But after
ten years, we got to try something new.

You know, I have this week off.

It's amazing.

After 21 years of teaching,
this is like the first summer

I've ever had off where I'm not working.

It's like, this is. This is living.

That's great. I worked out,
I mowed the lawn.

I watched a documentary on Ed Sullivan.

I just had a wonderful day.
I'm talking with you.

So it was it was the time
was right to move on from High Meadow.

But I absolutely love everyone there
and, miss them.

I'm August 11th, friends of Feeney Day,

and I got some swag left over.

So do you boys hold on. Let's
see if this is.

We got some bucket hats.

Oh, nice.

Bracelets. Bag of.

So. Yeah.

They, You think to wear them?

Absolutely. What?

We want to show them all,
but thank you. Hi, Matt. Oh.

Thank you.

Now, Jai.

Jai? Yep.

How do you spell that? Is that. Guy?

Is that his birth certificate? Name? Yeah.

Short for James. No. Jack.

Oh, it's actually, Yeah, I love it.

My husband and I put a lot of thought
into our boys names, and,

It's actually in India,
it's pronounced a J.

It's a very popular name in India.

And it means, like, victorious
or champion.

But we pronounce it Jai. Yeah.

And then he has a native
American middle name from the Sioux tribe.

It's, to Kota with a t. Wow.

And that means a friend to everyone.

I love it.
So that is perfect, right? Yeah.

And then Quinn obviously is an Irish name,
but he is is one.

And it's the original male version.

Irish version? Yeah.

And that's wise means wise.

And then he has a Japanese middle name.

It's Takeo, Takeo.

And it means strong, like bamboo.

And, that really fits him too.

So it worked out so cool.

So right from birth,
it was important to us

that they were aware of other cultures,
other countries, and have an open heart.

So. And they could
and you could say, hey, I lived in China.

Japan. Yeah.

I want to know how long
the boys lived there.

Until three years ago.

So guys, 11 so,
you know, until he was eight

and, you know,
they're 19 months apart, so.

Yeah. And I love it.

Nila means virtuous and champion.

Bridget is like Saint Bridget, Irish baby,
but but yeah.

That's cool. Yeah.
These are so important. Yeah.

And you feel like they all live
and that path is created.

Hopefully. You know, they're

they're going to work.

You know, their name will suit them.

How you doing?

So cool.

That's awesome.

Yeah.

So how's it going?

Anything you want to. Did I miss anything?

Anything you want to share
about building and consulting?

Oh, another one.

Have you already explained
some do a third grader?

So pretend you what's explained to me
then, because I need some.

What's contemporary design?

Contemporary design?

Yeah, it's a little bit more modern.

For business can be because I when I,

when I think contemporary design
I'm thinking like snazzy windows.

Right. Color.

Yeah. Flash of color.

Bright color. Sure. Lighting.

Yeah I on the right track.
Yeah. Definitely.

Yeah.

Modern contemporaries,
you know, basically the same thing like.

Like,

extra large windows or just.

You know, you know, maybe
clean, clean lines, you know,

not as much like text,
like this textured wall here,

maybe not so much like that, but a lot of,

you know, geometric shapes, clean lines.

Yeah. Yeah.

Oh, and then

I know part of me,

ninth grade doctor
sure will be high school.

I took, drafting and architecture.

Yeah, it was amazing.

I had the t square.

I was drawing lines and measuring
and being precise.

And Doctor Shaw was an architect,

and he was like,
you know, this is, it's a great job.

And, I don't know,
I just didn't think back in the day.

I didn't think it was cool or something.

I don't know why, but I kind of regret
not pursuing it a little more.

So were I better off being an architect
or a third grade teacher?

Oh, I don't know. Teaching.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Okay, I'm making it.

They're saying that impact.
Yeah. For sure.

Making a difference. Yes.

But don't think.

Yeah. No. Architects.

That's a big misconception.

Architects do not make a lot of money.

Interesting.

Yeah. Yeah.

Does it depend where they work.

Really only like the big top tier.

You know architects are really, you know,
and then if maybe

you become a principal with a firm,
you know, you're doing better.

But I would say in general, you know,
I think for whatever reason, people think

architects, you know, make a lot of money,
but they really don't. You.

Who are you doing this?

You'll pop out and say,
what up with the Podcasts Up podcast,

she talks with friends.

I love it as my dude.

One good. All right.

Good good good good. You going?

I taught his brother.

I taught you a little brother
I never taught you though.

He used to do pick up.

Oh, cool.

Matyas, my guy matters
if you watch when you watch this.

That's your big bro. Oh. Oh. That's cool.

See, now I know.

That's okay.

It's all right.

Let's talk about questions for me.

Friends?

Yeah.

I mean,

you know, is it odd this is the first time
we're really sitting there talking.

I'm like, hey, tell me.

Yeah,
tell me more about you or your family.

Yeah, yeah. So it was funny that you met.

So you met Bridget.
I have twin girls. Oh, okay.

So that's why camp was great for us.

I was a teacher off in the summer.

My wife works full time.

We needed something to do.

They were campers.

I was the program director.

It was beautiful for us.

Now they're at the age
where they can work.

So we took a job at two for one.

Their counselors there.

I'm a sports director there.

Neela

makes cookies.

Oh, she made you cookies,
but I know I want to show them off.

I know, yeah, I try.

Yeah, for sure.

I didn't know she made them.

Yeah, I'm going to.

I'll have to. Then.

Okay, so Mila makes cookies.

Bridget plays softball.

So do you want to know anything about me?

Oh, there.

She's Bridget. Play softball, and it.

Neil is also the captain of the golf team.

She does rivalry, for Blue Trails.

Bridget is the vice president,

school council.

She's like the prom chair.

They do so much stuff.

Model U.N.

mock trial, student council.

I'm very proud of them.

And I'm very honored to be their dad.

So it's like they work really hard.
They're good kids.

They help our friends of Feeney.
That's awesome.

Good role models, obviously.

With you and your wife.
Yeah, that's for me.

Like bald and bro and annoying. Oh, yeah.

Bro, all day long. Bro.

So good job, Mila.

I'll grab one. All right? Yeah. Try one.

All right, here we go.

The fun.

You want to try a cookie from Mila?

Chocolate chip. She,

She fries the butter.

I can tell it's so.

Good you fry the butter.

Nice job. Try.

Yeah, it's got a caramel taste to it.

It's really good.

This is my cheat day. Now.

That's awesome.

Good job. Neela.

Here, let me see.

I got two for the boys

with the boy little.

Oh, yeah?

Yeah.

Jay's eating about every hour now.

Nonstop for,

for David's win.

But I love that you know about your
daughters, because for our boys, we just.

We don't want them just sports.

Focus, you know?

And we want them
to be very well-rounded. And,

Quinn's playing cello.

He's in his second year now.

Is going in his third year of percussion.

And he's takes,

dance lessons at Arthur Murray.

Okay.

He's done that for almost two years
now. And,

just to kind of get them out of his.

Mustache a little bit.

Arthur Murray, dance champion right here.

I saw that. That's right.

Shout out to my partner, Juniper Holmes.

Zoey.

We won,

I put in we we practiced.

It's it's so

it's so rewarding
and like hard work and memory.

It it it was something new,
totally new for me.

I couldn't even clap on beat.

So, is it Quinn or Jai?

Jai. Keep it up, dude. Yeah.

It took a little break for the summer.

Was there an Arthur Murray in Glastonbury?

Okay.

Yeah.

All right.

In the, Glen Larkin
Building and Glastonbury.

Phenomenal people there.

I think my boss, John Stangl and his wife,
Kelly Stengel.

Are they there? They.

I think they own it. Yeah, yeah.

But that's not.

They have a manager of the Glastonbury
one, right?

Yeah. That is. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

But yeah, his teacher is,

Miss Izzy and he started he was like

this much shorter than her, you know, a
year and a half or two years ago.

And now he's taller than her.

So it's kind of fun to see that growth.

And he leads now. And

I know that was challenging
for me to to to lead.

And it was challenging for my partner Zulu
who always wanted to lead.

But the male

dance partner supposed to laugh.

Yeah.

Yeah, but so excited I did it. Yeah.

We had it on video, so done happened.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You like zone out?

It's like a minute of 30s.

Took us eight weeks.

Yeah, to do a minute.

Know, I know 30s. I know,

I know, it's funny.

He's done a couple of the,

I'll call him a competition,
but not really over by the airport.

And, you know, you do.

You spend so much time
and in 90s, it's over.

Like, that's it.

But he loves it,
and that's all that matters. And.

Yeah. Yeah.

All right.

I'm very happy.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fans of Arthur Murray.

So shout out to Arthur Murray
and everyone there.

My dance coach.

It was an amazing experience I loved it.

I actually did a,

like a

a night
out, which I want to do again. Now.

I want to do it with my wife too,
because it's like,

you definitely form a bond
then like partnership because you're.

Yeah, we got to step at the same time
in the same direction.

So you kind of got to be
on the same wavelength.

So it was a great experience.

Yeah.

Yeah. Cool.

How you done it. Will you try.

I mean I like to dance more freestyle

so but you know maybe at some point
I mean the, you know

the instructors keep asking me to jump in
and maybe learn to dance with Jay.

So I might do.

That because what I did, I joined like a,

like a fun little dancing with the stars
contest through the West Hartford.

And I could get you in.

Yeah, you can get in.

I told her.

Very representation. Yeah. There you go.

If we're going to partner, it's.

I got a dance to Footloose. Yes.

And I joked that wanted
to have her run at me and pick her up.

Oh, dancing with, Dirty Dancing. Yeah.

I want to be Swazi. That's funny.

And. Oh, that's cool.

So we're here at Luna Pizza.

Do you have a favorite restaurant
anywhere in the world?

Favorite restaurant.

And there's a follow up question.

Okay.

Oh. Fun facts.

First about Luna Pizza. Okay.

It was the very first restaurant
we ever went to

when we were looking for houses
in Connecticut.

And I have this phenomenal chicken
pesto pizza here.

This. No lie.

This one in Glastonbury.

Oh, nice. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah.

We want a pizza.

Favorite restaurant?

Oh, how are Alex?

I know he owned the Wethersfield one.

Okay. It's currently shut down.

I don't know about the Glastonbury one.

And then there's also one in Naugatuck,
Connecticut.

Oh, okay. Not related.

So I don't wonder
if the Glastonbury is related.

Does it look the same font and print
and everything or.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah.

May not be. Yeah.

Luna Pizza,
your first ever restaurant in Connecticut.

Yeah.

So we actually we're looking.

What year we think it's we're 16. Okay.

Yeah.

So yeah,
before we even moved back from Asia,

we were trying to figure out
where we wanted to live,

buy a house, and,

we actually at first

we started in Western Mass
because my husband's from Stoughton, mass.

South of Boston,
and then I have my Syracuse family.

And so we were trying
to find a middle ground.

And then we kept trickling
further down into Connecticut.

And I said, let's look in West Hartford,

because I've read a lot of great things.

We looked looked look,
I wanted so badly to be here

because I just I love the vibe here.

I mean, it's like, I love it.

I love coming here.

And but we just couldn't find anything
that was quite right for us at that time.

And then it was a few days
before we were getting ready to move back,

head back to Beijing
and we found this, you know,

very simple ranch
that went up for sale, like that.

And the knight in the evening.

And, I said, let's go look at it
the next morning.

And, we did, and we ended up buying that.

Thank God we bought it in 2016.

And that when we moved back
three years ago.

Hey, you lucked out. Yeah.

And I was like, the best thing for us.

We were.

My girls are 16,
so we've been here for 16 years.

I met my wife in southern
when she played basketball.

I was the knucklehead.

We were actually next door
neighbors, split by a thin wall.

I would bang on the wall, I like you.

Why don't you like me?

That was my pick up line.

Surprisingly.

It worked.

That we lived in New Haven,
found out she was pregnant with twins,

and my mom was in Waterbury at the time,
and her parents were in East Granby.

So we settled on West Hartford
right by Waukee Park.

So we love the fact that there was a park,

which I spent almost every morning there
with the kids, pushing them on the swings.

And one way the mall was then you had,

you know,

Doro like being off.

Last week I went to Dora with my dog
and had an espresso

for six days in a row while living.

It was seven in the morning
when they opened, but we hang out,

so my wife goes to work,

with that espresso with the dog,
and then we get the Berkeley,

we get Berkeley,
a Papa Chino, Papa chinos.

When you put whipped cream in the cup
for the dog.

Nice.

At like, day four,
they just knew to get our orders ready.

Yeah.

When the waitresses were just bringing out
Papa chinos for the dogs.

I love the neighborhood.
Love West Hartford.

Yeah. Saying it's like 19.

Best place to live in either in in the
world or in the nation. Or

maybe the world closed somewhere.

It's just a great place.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know for sure.

Every time I come here
I like, have a smile on my face because I

just, I love this, the whole area
and where you are too.

That's a great location.

I'm at d'Oro pretty consistently too.

I schedule meetings there sometimes,
so I'm right.

Yeah. Straight. Yeah.

I'll meet you there any time. Yeah.

We're pretty close.

To Addison Park.

So now the boys are at an age
where they can ride their bikes. Yep.

Yeah,
that's an option. And play a little bit.

I guess you learn the number one
place a kid learns a school,

the number two places, the park or home,
and then the park or something.

But the parks are
parks are important, okay?

Because kids aren't doing,
like, the free play anymore.

It's like all structured.

Yeah. So it's to get them at the park

is important.

Yeah, yeah I like suggestions encourage

take advantage of all parks for sure.

Favorite restaurant?

Yeah.

Back to that follow up question.

Okay.

You just want to tell me
your favorite meal.

So there is no, no. No, not at all.

The I can't remember the name of it.

That was the problem.

So after my husband and I got married,
we drove.

We got married,
Canandaigua Lake, upstate New York.

And then we drove from there
back to Denver,

and we stopped in Fort Smith, Arkansas.

This pizza place and had the best

pesto pizza we've ever had in our life.

We're very simple people
we don't need, like the filet mignon.

Even though I like filet, you know?

But I'll never forget that one,
because it was like

we had just gotten married
and we were on highs.

Right? And.

Yeah.

Never would have thought
in a million years,

you know, New York, New Haven, Boston.

So. All right, you're having pesto pizza?

Yeah.

You can eat with four people, dead
or alive, anywhere in the world.

Any time of history.

Yeah, we in way.

My grandmother.

Yeah.

Michelle Obama.

My husband definitely.

He's my best friend.

For person.

So I'm a chef Larry Bird.

Yes. High five for the birds

Larry Legend bird number 33.

Yeah.

Fun facts when I take tests.

So for a teacher not to get outside.

But you brought up Larry Bird, I have
I had a Larry Bird shrine growing up.

Posters, bobbleheads.

And I'm a Knicks fan, too, but,

but, I know,

and then anytime I took a test,
I either wrote on the desk or on the back.

Larry the Legend bird number 33
state test to become a teacher.

The state test to be a principal,

any test.

And then my
my buddy was taking some tests.

He's like, you got any strategies?

I'm like, here's what you got to do.

Go right, Larry the legend bird number 33.

He wrote me back.

He goes, you worked.

How did that start?

I was just like a good luck.

So if you're ever taking a test out there,
you write Larry

the Legend bird number
number 33 has to be number 33.

But I don't know how we.
All became Boston.

Our family, my my grandfather

was a Red Sox fan and a Celtics fan.

And so that went to my dad
and that went to us.

So we're Boston fans,
even though, you know, upstate

New York family and my grandfather.

Last fun fact for you was a lefty,

his only left handed grandchild out of.

16, 18

grandkids and numerous great grandkids.

You're a lefty.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

The advantage to lefty.

So shooting hoops back in the day it was.

Yeah I think that's an advantage.

Yeah. Because it comes off a different.

Yeah.

That's why I when I balk

when as a shot blocker most are righty.

So you should go up with your left.

It's easier to block a right hand shooter.

Which left hand I don't know whatever.

Yeah I still played
the JC over 30 men's league.

Nice shout out to the JCC
and all my friends there.

It's just amazing.

Keeps me active.

It keeps the community of friends.

It keeps the competition going.

We have jerseys, refs.

So I love it.

Yeah, yeah.

I always wanted to coach
and my dad always said, why?

Why didn't you?

And then I finally
got the opportunity in China.

The school my boys were attending,
it was k-through-12.

So, you know, small classrooms,
maybe 15 kids.

And they needed, a middle school coach.

I'm like, yes, I had all this stuff

in my brain
that I finally was able to to teach.

So I coached, middle school in high school
for two seasons, and it was so much fun.

And it was just amazing seeing the growth
from one year to the next.

Yeah. I loved. It.

I coached and the, Waterbury

Boys and Girls Club, but again,
great bonding.

Still kids I still talk with. Yeah.

Oh, you mentioned this to David
as your friend.

So this is a new, new sponsored
by people's Bank.

What makes David a good friend?

Our motto is be a good friend.

Hold the door,
give compliments, be charitable.

All things that you are, you charitable,
you give compliments, you do pick up

trash is not yours.
And hold the door for people.

So this is actually my business card.

I don't know if you have ever gotten
one of those, but awesome.

What makes I know he's your husband?

I know he's the father of my children,
but what makes him also a good friend?

Yeah, David is extremely patient.

Also, he

cares about himself last, you know,

he always puts us first as a family.

Just extremely positive person. Right?

And we balance each other really well.

So over the almost 25 years

that we've been together, he's pulled me
in his direction a lot more.

And that's been really beneficial for me.

So very, very just a genuinely good

person works very hard.

Yeah.

All the good stuff that you could think.

That's him for sure. David.

Oh, I remember he golf with Matt.

That's out over there.

Oh, man. Heather, I see you again. Yeah.

And and how you and David golf together
at the chamber event.

Yeah.

I said you probably didn't win. Yeah. But

but he he was all about the fun.

He, you know, he's
he's doesn't take it too serious.

So that's good.

Yeah.

So thank you for that
sharing about David being a good friend.

Yeah.

Do you have any recommendations?

Jobs, podcasts, concerts,

books, movies, recommendation portion.

All right.

Let me think about this one.

Well, we did get out to a movie
for the first time in forever.

We saw F1O, and that was pretty sweet.

That was a good movie.

The whole fam.

No, just my husband and I. Yeah.

Yeah, that is it.

A true story
based on an F1 driver or is it?

I don't think so. Okay. I could be wrong.

Don't quote me.

All right.

Yeah, it looked interesting. But but yeah.

No, it was good.

I thought

going to mentioned Superman
having two boys, but.

What do I just see
Elio with the younger one with Quinn.

And, Disney show. It's a. Movie.

I don't know if it's Disney or.

Yeah, but I don't recommend that one.

Not so good.

I mean, I like I like kids movies,
you know, they're, you know,

there's always a good story behind them.

But he actually left that one
and he was like,

there's too many like,
negative points in the movie.

And it was interesting to hear him
say that at ten years old.

Right?

He's like,

something bad just kept happening
and happening again and happening again.

And then it ended on a positive note.

But it was, for ten years old.

Him picking up on that.

I like that. That's cool. Yeah.

You can't have rainbows without some rain.

Yeah, but not a lot of rain. Yeah.

I just finished.

Oh, you like basketball?

Running the point on Netflix. Okay.

Kate Hudson.

Oh, take over our basketball team.

Being a leader, being a former basketball
player, I think you really like it.

Yeah.

Our former OG podcast, Michael Kanter,
Sherry Kanter's husband, Sherry

Kanter's, the mayor, Michael Kanter,
was on this podcast and suggested it.

And I just finished the entire season
with my wife.

We love it.

It's like Ted Lasso for basketball. Yeah.

So if you like basketball
running the point nice.

And I'm watching the Bear on Hulu.

The chef. Yep. With my daughters.

A little late to the game.

It's 2022, but I'm late to the game.

I haven't seen that either.

But honestly, like,
it's pretty much all sports

or like kids
shows at this point on our TV.

And the boys just did a, overnight
soccer camp

at DeSales University in Pennsylvania.

So they stayed in dorms,
and it was the first time in forever

that David and I actually had Monday
through Friday to ourselves.

So we spent a few days in Philly,

did some touristy stuff,
some good restaurants there.

Yeah.

And by the end of the week, we didn't
have anything else to say to each other.

Yeah, cool.

I was down there for 4th of July, saw
the Liberty Bell for the first time ever.

Yeah.

Waited in line for about 20 to 30 minutes.

It's well worth it.

Yeah. Same.

Had a cheesesteak from Escobedo.

Escobedo?

Another recommendation
from a podcast guest game day.

Connor, who I showed you on his podcast,
said that's his favorite cheesesteak,

so I wish. I had known.

Yeah, yeah,
yeah, mine is Steve's Prince of Steaks.

Okay.

But a lot of people like,
did you, Pat's or Geno's?

We didn't had either of those. Yeah, yeah.

There's, Alexandros,
there's Jim's, Ted's, Mike's.

There's so many out there.

So we hit this restaurant.

I think it was called the Mechanics.

It's right near where the Liberty Bell
was, maybe a couple blocks away.

Nice spa, good music.

You know, we had adult beverages.

Just relaxed. It was good. Yeah.

Not. Philly's a great place.

We were actually there during the trash.

Striped. Oh. Were you there?

No. No,

but it was crazy. Yeah.

Trash was everywhere I was.

But that was I would definitely go back
and I would bring the boys.

That was a great city to visit.

Absolutely. Yeah.

Oh, let me share some upcoming events.

Whiskey might be going out of order, but,

yeah, this is out of order,
but I want to thank maximum Beverage

for the fifth year in a row,
we are the beneficiary of their Whiskey

and Spirits Festival. This year.

It's going to be at tumble Brook
September 27th.

Do you drink whiskey?

I don't, but I'll try.

Yard Goats game.

Friday, August 15th is our fourth
annual Friends of Nicholas game.

This is the Parente family.

This is Nicholas.

Margo, Rob.

Alex.

This was actually Nicholas
last family event

with surrounded by 200 friends and family.

So we honor him now
every year with the game.

Yeah. So please check it out.

And then our fourth annual golf
tournament.

And again,
you were so generous and thoughtful.

You sponsored a t sign.

Hopefully you could do that again
or definitely come hang out and just,

most, most golf tournaments
don't have breakfast, lunch and dinner.

So if you want to swing by
for one of those, that'd be great.

Abby is going to come by,
so connect with him.

Yeah.

And you guys can maybe meet up, hang out,
we'll give you a golf cart.

Just drive around. Yeah,
and say hi to people.

Yeah, I probably won't be playing
at that time. I'm having,

cervical surgery on the August 14th.

Ouch. So.

So then you're out for the golf.

You're out for golf,
you're out for a yard. Go.

I might, yeah,

but I might be able to come by that
I won't play, but I can come by.

Yeah. And then.

Oh, this is podcast.

Guess 142 elbow bump, kid.

They're looking for people
to vote for them

at the Red Sox Nation.

So if you could vote, it ends soon.

It it closed.

Thanks for your vote.

No. Again, we had a great time.

You know, we've talked
for an hour already.

You know that, right?

Yeah. No, I yeah, awesome.

It was wonderful getting to know you.
Same.

Yeah. What was the Chinese word again?

Guan xi. Guan xi. Yeah.

We have some Guan XI going,
so yeah, for sure.

I definitely

I said it earlier, I thank you so much
and I appreciate I'm so grateful.

Your support means the world
to our nonprofit friends.

Afeni is a nonprofit, volunteer based,

grassroots, community based organization,
and our mission is to help

children and families that need assistance
after heartbreak or tragedy.

And you made it all possible.

And with your donations and your sponsors
chips in your, generosity.

So thank you so much.
Thank you David. Thank you. Heather.

My guys, Jai and, Jai. Yep.

And, Quinn,

hopefully you're having fun
at the High Meadow Day camp.

So, any closing remarks?

Anything you want to say?

No, I just thanks for having me on.

I appreciate it.

And, you know, you know,
you continue to reach out and we'll help.

So it's been our pleasure.

Truly means the world here.

Let's do a cheers with Milos cookies.
Yeah. There you go.

Cheers.
We'll say be a good friend on three.

One, two, three.

Be a. Good friend. Awesome.