1 00:00:00,233 --> 00:00:01,768 All right, all right. 2 00:00:01,768 --> 00:00:04,771 Feeney talks with friends episode 145. 3 00:00:04,771 --> 00:00:05,672 I'm with a great guest. 4 00:00:05,672 --> 00:00:07,407 How you doing, Heather? I'm great. 5 00:00:07,407 --> 00:00:08,975 Doing really well. 6 00:00:08,975 --> 00:00:09,843 Heather. Colt. 7 00:00:09,843 --> 00:00:12,312 Colt. Building. Consulting. 8 00:00:12,312 --> 00:00:16,216 Yes. Formerly known as Colt Design and Consulting. 9 00:00:16,282 --> 00:00:17,450 That's right. 10 00:00:17,450 --> 00:00:19,352 But I want to just start off. 11 00:00:19,352 --> 00:00:20,387 This means the world. 12 00:00:20,387 --> 00:00:22,655 We're actually getting to know each other, right? 13 00:00:22,655 --> 00:00:25,291 We've interacted a few times. 14 00:00:25,291 --> 00:00:27,560 But I started 15 00:00:27,560 --> 00:00:30,563 by thanking you for your extreme generosity. 16 00:00:30,697 --> 00:00:33,867 You have been a sponsor again, not even knowing me. 17 00:00:33,900 --> 00:00:36,903 You're like, hey, that friendly Feeney looks cool. 18 00:00:37,137 --> 00:00:38,905 And I asked. 19 00:00:38,905 --> 00:00:40,740 You know, you're like, I'll sponsor the parade. 20 00:00:40,740 --> 00:00:42,242 I'll sponsor the golf tournament. 21 00:00:42,242 --> 00:00:46,813 So I'm here to thank you in person for your thoughtfulness and your generosity. 22 00:00:46,846 --> 00:00:49,082 It truly means the world. So thank you so much. 23 00:00:49,082 --> 00:00:50,050 Yeah. My pleasure. 24 00:00:50,050 --> 00:00:51,618 I mean, I think we are. 25 00:00:51,618 --> 00:00:55,655 We is the one that introduced me, you know, to your organization. 26 00:00:55,655 --> 00:00:58,658 And when we moved back here from Asia, 27 00:00:58,792 --> 00:01:01,861 really my goal was to get rooted in my community. 28 00:01:01,861 --> 00:01:05,331 And that doesn't necessarily mean just Glastonbury 29 00:01:05,331 --> 00:01:08,968 where we live, but, Hartford, surrounding area. 30 00:01:09,002 --> 00:01:12,605 And, you know, the opportunity came up and I was like, heck yeah. 31 00:01:12,605 --> 00:01:15,008 So it's it's my pleasure. 32 00:01:15,008 --> 00:01:16,342 Thank you. Ivy. Abby. 33 00:01:16,342 --> 00:01:19,379 Episode 91 and 119 34 00:01:19,379 --> 00:01:22,982 we eat hot wings and we burn our face off. Yes! 35 00:01:23,683 --> 00:01:25,218 Yeah. At Luna pizza. Yeah. 36 00:01:25,218 --> 00:01:25,518 Thank you. 37 00:01:25,518 --> 00:01:26,653 Go back and check that out. 38 00:01:26,653 --> 00:01:29,355 Abby's a great guy. Texted with him today. 39 00:01:29,355 --> 00:01:30,123 Swim with him. 40 00:01:30,123 --> 00:01:33,093 Sometimes sauna with him, sometimes at the JCC. 41 00:01:33,393 --> 00:01:36,362 Full disclosure, but he's a great guy. 42 00:01:36,362 --> 00:01:37,831 Yeah. The, happy hour. 43 00:01:37,831 --> 00:01:39,699 Is he just trying to make the world a better place? 44 00:01:39,699 --> 00:01:41,334 So thank you for connection, Abby. 45 00:01:41,334 --> 00:01:43,670 And thank you again for your generosity. 46 00:01:43,670 --> 00:01:44,671 I got a couple of the shirts. 47 00:01:44,671 --> 00:01:46,106 So the Memorial Day parade. 48 00:01:48,108 --> 00:01:48,508 Let's see. 49 00:01:48,508 --> 00:01:49,442 Oh, boy. 50 00:01:49,442 --> 00:01:52,545 Here's your cold corpse on the back somewhere. 51 00:01:53,346 --> 00:01:54,681 Yeah. Can you find it? 52 00:01:54,681 --> 00:01:57,684 Right there. Boom. 53 00:01:58,184 --> 00:02:01,187 That's Memorial Day for, 54 00:02:04,157 --> 00:02:06,192 Park house, 55 00:02:06,192 --> 00:02:07,260 Park road parade. 56 00:02:07,260 --> 00:02:10,063 Last one. Sad face. You got to cry a little bit. 57 00:02:10,063 --> 00:02:12,232 Going on forever. It's not happening anymore. 58 00:02:12,232 --> 00:02:13,700 But before we did graphics, 59 00:02:13,700 --> 00:02:16,202 we had the cult design at Cult Design Consulting. 60 00:02:16,202 --> 00:02:17,470 Dot com. 61 00:02:17,470 --> 00:02:19,005 Is your website still the same? 62 00:02:19,005 --> 00:02:21,074 No, it's cult building.com. No. 63 00:02:21,074 --> 00:02:22,509 Gotcha. Yep. 64 00:02:22,509 --> 00:02:25,512 And then the Saint Patrick's Day parade, 65 00:02:26,246 --> 00:02:28,515 boat building, consulting 66 00:02:28,515 --> 00:02:30,283 and cool. What's what's a little graphic in there? 67 00:02:30,283 --> 00:02:30,917 Those building. 68 00:02:30,917 --> 00:02:33,620 Buildings. Yeah, I like it. Yeah. Well done. 69 00:02:33,620 --> 00:02:35,121 What you think of that. 70 00:02:35,121 --> 00:02:37,924 Yeah I call building. 71 00:02:37,924 --> 00:02:40,426 So you put the building in there. It's like a mess. Yeah, yeah. 72 00:02:40,426 --> 00:02:40,927 Reminds me. Of. 73 00:02:40,927 --> 00:02:43,997 Yeah. The first logo had that as well. 74 00:02:44,097 --> 00:02:47,066 It was you know obviously the wording was different, but 75 00:02:48,201 --> 00:02:49,636 Yeah I thought it came out really well. 76 00:02:49,636 --> 00:02:50,970 Yeah. Yeah. 77 00:02:50,970 --> 00:02:54,541 That shout out anyone that did it or did you guys create it yourself and. 78 00:02:55,074 --> 00:02:58,044 No, it's, nobody that we know did it. 79 00:02:58,044 --> 00:03:01,981 You know, when I first moved here, I kind of just found somebody 80 00:03:01,981 --> 00:03:04,684 to help out with it. And then, 81 00:03:04,684 --> 00:03:07,020 when I did the rebranding, I did 82 00:03:07,020 --> 00:03:10,023 use, Danielle Hunter of Hunter Design Studio. 83 00:03:10,023 --> 00:03:10,924 Okay. 84 00:03:10,924 --> 00:03:12,358 A lot of people are familiar with her. 85 00:03:12,358 --> 00:03:13,660 She's out of Glastonbury. 86 00:03:13,660 --> 00:03:16,296 Nice. So, yeah, she helped with my rebranding. 87 00:03:16,296 --> 00:03:17,964 So cool. Yeah. We're here. 88 00:03:17,964 --> 00:03:18,665 Cool. 89 00:03:18,665 --> 00:03:19,832 Design and consulting. 90 00:03:19,832 --> 00:03:22,235 So I teach third grade. 91 00:03:22,235 --> 00:03:24,804 If you were to explain what building 92 00:03:24,804 --> 00:03:28,274 and consulting is to a third grader, how would you explain that? 93 00:03:29,042 --> 00:03:29,809 Okay. 94 00:03:29,809 --> 00:03:32,912 So, okay, now you tested me here. 95 00:03:32,912 --> 00:03:33,813 Yeah, yeah. 96 00:03:34,981 --> 00:03:37,450 Basically what I do is at this, 97 00:03:37,450 --> 00:03:41,621 you know, you're coming to me saying I want a new building. 98 00:03:42,021 --> 00:03:44,224 I'm a, let's say, a doctor. 99 00:03:44,224 --> 00:03:45,992 I want a new building. 100 00:03:45,992 --> 00:03:48,795 I say, I got you, I'll help you find an architect. 101 00:03:48,795 --> 00:03:50,496 I'll help you find an engineer. 102 00:03:50,496 --> 00:03:53,499 I'll help oversee the design of that process. 103 00:03:53,600 --> 00:03:57,370 I'll find you a builder, a general contractor will bid it out. 104 00:03:57,770 --> 00:04:01,608 And then I'm going to help you oversee the construction all the way to the end. 105 00:04:01,608 --> 00:04:03,843 Until it's time for you to move in. 106 00:04:03,843 --> 00:04:05,111 All right. 107 00:04:05,111 --> 00:04:05,478 Perfect. 108 00:04:05,478 --> 00:04:06,879 So that's essentially an owner's 109 00:04:06,879 --> 00:04:09,882 representative or owner owner's project manager. 110 00:04:09,949 --> 00:04:11,284 Nice side. 111 00:04:11,284 --> 00:04:14,621 And you only do buildings and like, corporate stuff. 112 00:04:15,021 --> 00:04:16,256 Commercial work homes. 113 00:04:16,256 --> 00:04:17,357 No. No. Residential. 114 00:04:17,357 --> 00:04:18,658 Got you. Yeah, yeah. 115 00:04:18,658 --> 00:04:23,496 But, my background really varies, you know, from our time in Asia. 116 00:04:23,496 --> 00:04:27,533 So manufacturing, life sciences laboratories, 117 00:04:28,368 --> 00:04:31,371 I'm doing some health care now for UConn health. 118 00:04:31,404 --> 00:04:36,509 I've done school work in the past, so pretty much everything non residential. 119 00:04:36,743 --> 00:04:40,246 So you'll know where to put things and set things up. 120 00:04:40,246 --> 00:04:42,015 Doorways hallways. 121 00:04:42,015 --> 00:04:44,984 Yeah. Drawers, dressers shelving. 122 00:04:44,984 --> 00:04:49,489 Like so I also know AutoCAD I know how to do my own construction drawings. 123 00:04:49,489 --> 00:04:53,526 But that's not the side of the business that I focus on anymore okay. 124 00:04:53,526 --> 00:04:56,663 So it's more the collaboration and the implementation. 125 00:04:57,530 --> 00:04:58,798 So cool. Yeah. 126 00:04:58,798 --> 00:05:01,801 Oh well that's great. 127 00:05:01,834 --> 00:05:04,737 Let me just introduce I forgot to oh, so excited to talk. 128 00:05:04,737 --> 00:05:05,972 When. Thank you. 129 00:05:05,972 --> 00:05:08,608 My name is Eric Feeney, founder and president of Friends of Feeney. 130 00:05:08,608 --> 00:05:10,276 Our mission is to help children and families 131 00:05:10,276 --> 00:05:12,412 in need assistance after heartbreak or tragedy. 132 00:05:12,412 --> 00:05:13,613 I use this podcast. 133 00:05:13,613 --> 00:05:15,548 Feeney talks with friends, and I talk to wonderful 134 00:05:15,548 --> 00:05:18,051 people that are doing great things in the community. 135 00:05:18,051 --> 00:05:21,054 So thank you for your work in the Greater Hartford Glastonbury 136 00:05:21,054 --> 00:05:24,057 community again with your thoughtfulness and generosity. 137 00:05:24,424 --> 00:05:25,892 You're a member of the chamber, right? 138 00:05:25,892 --> 00:05:27,627 I am West Hartford Chamber. 139 00:05:27,627 --> 00:05:28,061 And another. 140 00:05:28,061 --> 00:05:30,763 Chamber and the River Valley chamber. 141 00:05:30,763 --> 00:05:31,030 Yeah. 142 00:05:31,030 --> 00:05:34,634 Which is no, just no, no, no, those two chambers. 143 00:05:34,634 --> 00:05:38,171 But I am on the board of the Glastonbury Education Foundation. 144 00:05:38,604 --> 00:05:41,874 So we provide grants for all things education. 145 00:05:41,974 --> 00:05:45,144 No, it doesn't have to be actually with the schools. 146 00:05:45,144 --> 00:05:47,146 It could be something for the senior center. 147 00:05:47,146 --> 00:05:48,548 Maybe they need something there. 148 00:05:49,549 --> 00:05:51,684 So I've been on that almost two years now. 149 00:05:51,684 --> 00:05:52,218 Yeah. West 150 00:05:52,218 --> 00:05:55,621 Hartford has a West Hartford foundation, but it's mostly teacher grants. 151 00:05:55,922 --> 00:05:57,790 Okay. Where's yours? You don't. 152 00:05:57,790 --> 00:06:00,226 It doesn't have to be. No no no no okay. Oh. 153 00:06:00,226 --> 00:06:01,394 Very cool. Yep. 154 00:06:01,394 --> 00:06:04,163 And that was another way for you to get into the community or. 155 00:06:04,163 --> 00:06:05,465 Yeah, absolutely. 156 00:06:05,465 --> 00:06:08,368 You know, and, you know, because there's we've got, 157 00:06:08,368 --> 00:06:11,404 I think four elementary schools in Glastonbury, 158 00:06:11,704 --> 00:06:15,508 you know, some, you know, one's a fairly new school. 159 00:06:15,508 --> 00:06:16,075 You know, 160 00:06:16,075 --> 00:06:20,480 I think the one that my boys are at or is a little bit older and they needed 161 00:06:20,513 --> 00:06:23,950 I think the, you know, the GCF needed a little bit of representation. 162 00:06:24,117 --> 00:06:25,351 Okay. Out of that school. 163 00:06:25,351 --> 00:06:29,422 So now we have three board members who have children that are at that school. 164 00:06:29,422 --> 00:06:32,425 And and I think it's been very positive. 165 00:06:32,558 --> 00:06:35,461 Very cool. Yeah. So you're busy. Yeah. 166 00:06:35,461 --> 00:06:37,830 Mom of two boys. Yes. 167 00:06:37,830 --> 00:06:40,366 Owner of a business. Yeah. 168 00:06:40,366 --> 00:06:41,901 Been to Asia, I think. Yeah. 169 00:06:41,901 --> 00:06:43,002 And skip over this. That. 170 00:06:43,002 --> 00:06:43,703 That's amazing. 171 00:06:43,703 --> 00:06:47,173 So you were in Japan, Taiwan and China? Yep. 172 00:06:47,507 --> 00:06:50,309 And doing this exact work over there. Yeah. 173 00:06:50,309 --> 00:06:53,413 So, yeah, both my husband and I were so 174 00:06:53,413 --> 00:06:56,816 at the time we were living in Denver and, 175 00:06:57,750 --> 00:06:58,451 went to 176 00:06:58,451 --> 00:07:02,221 Corning, who is a former client of ours, when we were working for an architecture 177 00:07:02,221 --> 00:07:06,125 and engineering firm, called us up and asked if we wanted 178 00:07:06,125 --> 00:07:10,163 to go over there on their facilities team on a six month contract. 179 00:07:10,563 --> 00:07:14,400 And this was back in 2004 or 5 somewhere in there. 180 00:07:14,700 --> 00:07:19,172 And we didn't have kids at that time, and we had just adopted a dog 181 00:07:19,172 --> 00:07:23,609 from a shelter, and I said, I'm not going unless I can bring chisel. 182 00:07:25,178 --> 00:07:26,312 And they said, okay. 183 00:07:26,312 --> 00:07:28,981 So they helped us, you know, get them over there. 184 00:07:28,981 --> 00:07:32,718 We packed up our life and within probably five weeks we were gone. 185 00:07:33,252 --> 00:07:36,422 And and that lasted almost 18 years. 186 00:07:37,089 --> 00:07:39,826 So we were yeah, we were basically owners, 187 00:07:39,826 --> 00:07:43,196 project managers for Corning's manufacturing facilities. 188 00:07:43,196 --> 00:07:47,600 So they range the smart on the smaller side, maybe a couple 189 00:07:47,600 --> 00:07:51,170 hundred thousand square feet all the way up to one point 8,000,000ft². 190 00:07:51,504 --> 00:07:53,673 And we were moving every couple of years. 191 00:07:53,673 --> 00:07:57,810 So we were in Taiwan a couple of times, Japan once, 192 00:07:57,810 --> 00:08:00,813 and then the majority of our time was in China. 193 00:08:01,080 --> 00:08:03,149 But phenomenal experience. 194 00:08:03,149 --> 00:08:04,083 Been for our boys. 195 00:08:05,384 --> 00:08:08,054 Were your sons or your sons were born there and two was the man. 196 00:08:08,054 --> 00:08:11,858 So I yeah, I flew back to the US, 197 00:08:12,892 --> 00:08:15,995 like a couple of months before each of them were born. 198 00:08:16,329 --> 00:08:19,098 GI was actually born in Colorado, 199 00:08:19,098 --> 00:08:21,267 because we still had a place there at that time. 200 00:08:21,267 --> 00:08:24,270 Quinn was born in South Weymouth, mass. 201 00:08:25,605 --> 00:08:28,107 And so once we, 202 00:08:28,107 --> 00:08:32,011 got their passports and all that jazz, within three months, I was back. 203 00:08:32,011 --> 00:08:36,782 So that was really all they knew until we moved back here three years ago. 204 00:08:37,316 --> 00:08:38,751 And you only been back for three years. 205 00:08:38,751 --> 00:08:39,719 Yeah, yeah. 206 00:08:39,719 --> 00:08:42,722 Holy cow. Yeah. Okay. 207 00:08:42,788 --> 00:08:45,491 So they were going to international schools, 208 00:08:45,491 --> 00:08:48,895 over there, and we wanted to stay long enough that we knew they were going 209 00:08:48,895 --> 00:08:52,398 to remember their experience and pick up another language. 210 00:08:52,698 --> 00:08:56,536 And, so they both learned Mandarin and they were doing really well 211 00:08:56,536 --> 00:08:58,771 with writing it as well. 212 00:08:58,771 --> 00:09:02,041 But I was itching to get back to work because I took some time off 213 00:09:02,542 --> 00:09:06,712 and, you know, with GI, I was there almost 38 214 00:09:06,712 --> 00:09:09,715 when I had him and then almost 40 when I had Quinn. 215 00:09:10,583 --> 00:09:13,819 So I had been working for a while before I even had kids. 216 00:09:15,121 --> 00:09:16,055 And I, I told 217 00:09:16,055 --> 00:09:19,892 my husband and I said, listen, I'm ready to go back to work. 218 00:09:19,892 --> 00:09:22,929 And so, yeah, the summer of 22 was 219 00:09:22,929 --> 00:09:25,932 when we decided to move back here. 220 00:09:26,966 --> 00:09:30,436 But yeah, we were in, in south in Glencoe when Covid. 221 00:09:30,436 --> 00:09:31,604 Hit, and. 222 00:09:31,604 --> 00:09:34,540 That was a whole thing. Yeah. Oh boy. 223 00:09:34,540 --> 00:09:35,908 Man, this is sheep gone. 224 00:09:35,908 --> 00:09:36,742 This is great. Yeah. 225 00:09:36,742 --> 00:09:39,745 You can speak it on an elementary level. 226 00:09:39,912 --> 00:09:42,682 Yeah, I try to as much as I can. 227 00:09:42,682 --> 00:09:45,918 Like if I hear I've done it at my, my boys 228 00:09:45,918 --> 00:09:49,021 school before, I, you know, or if I've heard people I try to. 229 00:09:49,021 --> 00:09:52,892 But I'm losing it because I don't use it that often anymore. But. 230 00:09:53,192 --> 00:09:55,461 And kids, I'm sure they picked it up a lot sooner. 231 00:09:55,461 --> 00:09:59,432 My daughter went to a, a magnet school in Waterbury, pre-K. 232 00:09:59,799 --> 00:10:02,134 They were learning Japanese. They counted to ten. 233 00:10:02,134 --> 00:10:03,903 They were four years old. Yeah. 234 00:10:03,903 --> 00:10:04,403 They do. 235 00:10:04,403 --> 00:10:06,339 They absorb it really fast. Yeah. 236 00:10:06,339 --> 00:10:06,739 Amazing. 237 00:10:06,739 --> 00:10:11,277 It's, But GI is going into sixth grade and, he's going 238 00:10:11,410 --> 00:10:15,948 they they, offer it in Glastonbury, so he's going to pick it up again. 239 00:10:15,948 --> 00:10:17,550 I'm really excited. Yeah. 240 00:10:17,550 --> 00:10:19,085 He should have the advantage to it. 241 00:10:19,085 --> 00:10:20,620 He'd been there, done that. Yeah. 242 00:10:21,654 --> 00:10:22,321 Now how do you 243 00:10:22,321 --> 00:10:26,325 compare a quick compare and contrast Venn diagram teacher talk. 244 00:10:26,792 --> 00:10:28,527 You know, working there or working here. 245 00:10:28,527 --> 00:10:32,064 Can you just explain, you know, the similarities and differences? 246 00:10:33,032 --> 00:10:34,734 I mean 247 00:10:34,734 --> 00:10:37,470 culturally, obviously there's a lot of differences. 248 00:10:37,470 --> 00:10:41,273 And I kind of relate it to an onion. 249 00:10:42,274 --> 00:10:46,412 You know, when I was working in China, certainly appealing back a lot of layers 250 00:10:46,412 --> 00:10:52,051 before you can build that trust, you know, is anybody watching that might have, 251 00:10:52,084 --> 00:10:54,820 you know, the the Chinese background, 252 00:10:54,820 --> 00:10:58,391 you know, they'll understand what Gwen she is and building that 253 00:10:58,391 --> 00:11:01,861 trust in that relationship before we're going to do business together. 254 00:11:02,161 --> 00:11:04,463 And that has always stayed with me. 255 00:11:04,463 --> 00:11:06,699 And that's how I conduct myself. 256 00:11:06,699 --> 00:11:09,902 Is that you and I? Yeah, absolutely. 257 00:11:09,902 --> 00:11:12,872 If you and I meet for the first time. Right. 258 00:11:12,872 --> 00:11:13,973 We're going to have a coffee. 259 00:11:13,973 --> 00:11:15,608 I'm not talking business. Right. 260 00:11:15,608 --> 00:11:18,077 I'm going to tell me about you. Right. 261 00:11:18,077 --> 00:11:19,412 Tell me about your family. 262 00:11:19,412 --> 00:11:20,513 Very interesting. I like you. 263 00:11:20,513 --> 00:11:24,950 You know, and, and I, and I find myself being taken aback a little bit. 264 00:11:24,950 --> 00:11:28,120 If the other person just jumps right into business because I'm like, oof, 265 00:11:28,554 --> 00:11:33,259 you know, I mean, a lot of my professional life was over there in Asia. 266 00:11:33,259 --> 00:11:35,361 Yeah. Interesting. Yeah, I like it. 267 00:11:36,629 --> 00:11:36,962 I mean, 268 00:11:36,962 --> 00:11:39,965 I'm very I feel like I'm a personal person person. 269 00:11:39,965 --> 00:11:42,168 And I like to get to know someone too. Yeah. 270 00:11:42,168 --> 00:11:43,369 That's awesome. Yeah. 271 00:11:43,369 --> 00:11:44,370 What was the word? 272 00:11:44,370 --> 00:11:47,373 Glenshee. Kwan. Chai? Yeah. All right. 273 00:11:47,640 --> 00:11:48,908 Got to have that Guan Chai. 274 00:11:48,908 --> 00:11:50,710 Yeah, we're doing that now. 275 00:11:50,710 --> 00:11:51,610 Right. Exactly. 276 00:11:51,610 --> 00:11:55,081 This time, first time, you know, sitting down, getting to know 277 00:11:55,081 --> 00:11:58,451 because you were like, hey, let's get to get to know each other. 278 00:11:58,451 --> 00:11:59,218 Let's have a coffee. 279 00:11:59,218 --> 00:12:02,221 I'm like, hey, let's have a podcast. 280 00:12:02,321 --> 00:12:04,023 And here we are. Yeah. 281 00:12:04,023 --> 00:12:04,890 So it's great. 282 00:12:04,890 --> 00:12:07,893 No, it's so cool to talk with you. 283 00:12:08,594 --> 00:12:10,229 All right, so we got a game. 284 00:12:10,229 --> 00:12:11,931 Lots of games. What game do you want to play? 285 00:12:11,931 --> 00:12:12,865 First, I'll give you the choice. 286 00:12:12,865 --> 00:12:15,868 We got the first, last, best, worst. 287 00:12:16,268 --> 00:12:17,470 But we got the three keys. 288 00:12:19,672 --> 00:12:20,106 Okay. 289 00:12:20,106 --> 00:12:21,574 The first last best source. 290 00:12:21,574 --> 00:12:21,874 All right. 291 00:12:21,874 --> 00:12:25,244 So your projects building consulting. Yeah. 292 00:12:25,277 --> 00:12:27,713 Can you recall your first project. 293 00:12:27,713 --> 00:12:28,848 Your last project. 294 00:12:28,848 --> 00:12:30,049 Your most recent one. 295 00:12:30,049 --> 00:12:32,718 Your best one and your worst one. 296 00:12:32,718 --> 00:12:33,052 We'll see. 297 00:12:33,052 --> 00:12:33,686 That's tough. 298 00:12:33,686 --> 00:12:36,689 I don't want to offend anybody 299 00:12:36,822 --> 00:12:38,657 but wait until or. 300 00:12:38,657 --> 00:12:40,126 Something goes wrong or missing. 301 00:12:40,126 --> 00:12:44,230 No, what I will say is you learn something from all of them. 302 00:12:44,230 --> 00:12:44,430 Yeah. 303 00:12:44,430 --> 00:12:48,434 And especially being a, you know, new business owner, 304 00:12:48,801 --> 00:12:51,437 I'm learning things every single day. 305 00:12:51,437 --> 00:12:55,374 My first project, actually, I'll always be grateful. 306 00:12:55,374 --> 00:12:58,377 Shout out to Leading Edge construction. 307 00:12:58,611 --> 00:13:01,614 I had sat down with surgical. 308 00:13:01,680 --> 00:13:03,182 Where's leading edge? 309 00:13:03,182 --> 00:13:04,083 They're out of Enfield. 310 00:13:04,083 --> 00:13:04,817 Okay. 311 00:13:04,817 --> 00:13:07,820 Yeah, because I know you're in Denver in Asia, so I'm just doing. 312 00:13:07,887 --> 00:13:09,889 Yeah, well, as a business. Okay. 313 00:13:09,889 --> 00:13:12,158 So are we going back 27 years or what do. 314 00:13:12,158 --> 00:13:14,360 You want to do. Leading edge. 315 00:13:14,360 --> 00:13:15,961 Okay. For my business. Right. 316 00:13:15,961 --> 00:13:18,464 All right. Cool. We're talking. Yeah. Gotcha. Yeah, yeah. 317 00:13:19,832 --> 00:13:20,232 Yeah. 318 00:13:20,232 --> 00:13:24,003 So Serge and I met, and we got along 319 00:13:24,003 --> 00:13:27,840 well, and, he said, you know, we may have something for you. 320 00:13:27,840 --> 00:13:29,141 There's some synergy there. 321 00:13:29,141 --> 00:13:32,378 And so my first projects with them was, you know, it was 322 00:13:32,411 --> 00:13:33,813 it was actually a group home. 323 00:13:33,813 --> 00:13:36,782 It was a residential house being converted to a group home. 324 00:13:37,049 --> 00:13:41,821 And, for me, that was just sort of about building that relationship with them. 325 00:13:41,821 --> 00:13:42,421 Right. 326 00:13:42,421 --> 00:13:45,424 Do they trust me? And, you know, 327 00:13:45,658 --> 00:13:49,061 and we've actually done about five projects with them since then. 328 00:13:49,061 --> 00:13:51,730 So we built a really good trust. 329 00:13:51,730 --> 00:13:53,299 They know they can come to us. 330 00:13:53,299 --> 00:13:55,167 We can go to them. Yep. 331 00:13:55,167 --> 00:13:57,369 That was the first one with my company. 332 00:13:57,369 --> 00:14:00,072 I don't know if I can go back and think 27 years ago what. 333 00:14:00,072 --> 00:14:02,608 Might be a good country with you and leading it. Go on to. 334 00:14:02,608 --> 00:14:05,044 Yeah, yeah. Want you. Yeah. 335 00:14:05,044 --> 00:14:07,146 Leading edge and you call them Sergio. 336 00:14:07,146 --> 00:14:09,481 Serge. Serge. Yep. Got it. Yep. 337 00:14:11,984 --> 00:14:12,484 Let's see. 338 00:14:12,484 --> 00:14:13,853 First one. Yeah. 339 00:14:13,853 --> 00:14:17,256 So the latest one actually is, with UConn health. 340 00:14:17,423 --> 00:14:19,725 Nice in Farmington. 341 00:14:19,725 --> 00:14:23,462 We just wrapped up a blood draw that was in partnership with, 342 00:14:24,463 --> 00:14:25,631 Saracen. 343 00:14:25,631 --> 00:14:27,833 That's around by butchers and bakers. By. 344 00:14:27,833 --> 00:14:30,102 Yeah, the Farmington campus. Oh, yeah. That's right. 345 00:14:30,102 --> 00:14:30,669 Yeah. 346 00:14:30,669 --> 00:14:31,837 Yeah. All right. Yeah. 347 00:14:31,837 --> 00:14:34,073 Right at the outpatient. 348 00:14:34,073 --> 00:14:35,307 In there. Yeah. 349 00:14:35,307 --> 00:14:36,976 So that was a preexisting building. 350 00:14:36,976 --> 00:14:39,745 Are you doing it? In addition, are you knocking down and building up or. 351 00:14:39,745 --> 00:14:40,412 What are we doing? 352 00:14:40,412 --> 00:14:40,779 Yeah. 353 00:14:40,779 --> 00:14:43,816 So they, they had a, an empty 354 00:14:43,816 --> 00:14:47,286 first floor space, an existing bludger on the third floor. 355 00:14:47,553 --> 00:14:51,223 We were actually it's we're doing three projects simultaneously there, 356 00:14:51,457 --> 00:14:56,228 and the third floor is women's health, but there's a blood draw on the third floor, 357 00:14:56,495 --> 00:15:00,165 and we had to get the first floor space ready so they could, 358 00:15:00,466 --> 00:15:03,702 you know, be ready within 24 hours and keep operating. 359 00:15:03,702 --> 00:15:08,407 And so we just wrapped up that first floor, third floor is almost done. 360 00:15:08,407 --> 00:15:10,876 And my husband's been leading those. 361 00:15:10,876 --> 00:15:13,312 And then, we're doing a hybrid O.R. 362 00:15:13,312 --> 00:15:14,914 for them now as well. 363 00:15:14,914 --> 00:15:18,417 Now, this is in partnership again as a project manager 364 00:15:18,417 --> 00:15:22,421 for a GC consultant for them for surgeries and general contractors. 365 00:15:22,922 --> 00:15:24,423 Phenomenal. 366 00:15:24,423 --> 00:15:25,457 Father daughter team. 367 00:15:25,457 --> 00:15:26,959 Paul Sayers and and Paige. 368 00:15:26,959 --> 00:15:29,528 I just love them to death. They're amazing. 369 00:15:30,863 --> 00:15:34,033 And, that was an awesome referral from Chris Able. 370 00:15:34,033 --> 00:15:37,036 Actually, do you know, with ABC. 371 00:15:38,070 --> 00:15:39,838 Now West Hartford? 372 00:15:39,838 --> 00:15:40,472 Yeah. 373 00:15:40,472 --> 00:15:43,776 ABC's Plainville, associated builders and Contractors. 374 00:15:43,776 --> 00:15:48,047 But it's all sort of full circle for me because these connections, 375 00:15:48,047 --> 00:15:52,751 like with Abby, with Janice Strasser, introduced me to Abby. 376 00:15:52,751 --> 00:15:55,387 Janice is with ABC, introduced, you know. 377 00:15:55,387 --> 00:15:55,688 Yeah. 378 00:15:55,688 --> 00:16:00,726 And I genuinely feel like you meet 1 or 2 really good people 379 00:16:01,160 --> 00:16:04,797 that genuinely good want to help you, and then you find that 380 00:16:04,830 --> 00:16:08,067 that nice, you know, family of people to work with. 381 00:16:08,067 --> 00:16:10,970 And that's really how it's been with me. 382 00:16:10,970 --> 00:16:13,973 I feel super lucky, honestly, I do. 383 00:16:14,306 --> 00:16:17,343 So ABC leading edge of Stand It Out stood out 384 00:16:17,376 --> 00:16:20,679 and father daughter pair. 385 00:16:21,080 --> 00:16:23,382 Yeah. Paige and Paul Sayers and. 386 00:16:23,382 --> 00:16:24,483 Yeah. Friends. Right? 387 00:16:24,483 --> 00:16:26,352 Yeah. Yeah, I've had good friends. 388 00:16:26,352 --> 00:16:27,653 You got to be a good friend. So. 389 00:16:27,653 --> 00:16:28,420 Yeah, for sure. 390 00:16:28,420 --> 00:16:30,923 I'm glad you're making those positive connections. Yeah. 391 00:16:30,923 --> 00:16:33,759 So you got first and last? Yeah. Best and worst. 392 00:16:34,827 --> 00:16:36,362 Let's see. 393 00:16:36,362 --> 00:16:39,331 I mean, I would have to say overall, 394 00:16:40,833 --> 00:16:42,935 my, my, the work in China 395 00:16:42,935 --> 00:16:46,805 that we did, I mean, just because it was on a scale 396 00:16:46,805 --> 00:16:49,908 like a this enormous scale, something that I didn't know 397 00:16:49,908 --> 00:16:53,212 if I would be able to handle, you know, and it wasn't just me. 398 00:16:53,212 --> 00:16:54,780 It was a big facilities team. 399 00:16:54,780 --> 00:16:56,582 We were all doing different things, 400 00:16:56,582 --> 00:17:00,853 but that whole experience has got to be best for me, you know? 401 00:17:00,853 --> 00:17:04,890 I mean, we did a lot of projects in in that time frame, 402 00:17:04,890 --> 00:17:08,994 but for me, that's got to be best and worst. 403 00:17:09,862 --> 00:17:12,865 I don't know, I. 404 00:17:13,332 --> 00:17:15,434 I don't know I'm positive person. 405 00:17:15,434 --> 00:17:16,969 Rainbows all these but. They're not. 406 00:17:16,969 --> 00:17:22,808 No no but like I said like you know I know I try to kind of live my life like okay. 407 00:17:23,042 --> 00:17:27,613 Yeah they're they're bumps and you know, you might have some headaches 408 00:17:27,613 --> 00:17:32,217 and maybe people that you butt heads with, but in the end it's all good stuff. 409 00:17:32,518 --> 00:17:34,920 So always assume positive intent. Yeah. 410 00:17:36,188 --> 00:17:37,089 Is that a cop out? 411 00:17:37,089 --> 00:17:39,324 Yeah. There you go. You did it. 412 00:17:39,324 --> 00:17:40,959 No business podcast. 413 00:17:40,959 --> 00:17:42,961 On this podcast 414 00:17:42,961 --> 00:17:44,396 it's tough that that's the challenge. 415 00:17:44,396 --> 00:17:47,866 Worst because they're like yeah I don't want to go oh that guy was such a jerk. 416 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:49,701 Yeah, yeah. 417 00:17:49,701 --> 00:17:53,138 We I have been able to do a nonprofit up in Springfield though, 418 00:17:53,138 --> 00:17:54,673 which has been cool. 419 00:17:54,673 --> 00:17:56,141 For Caring Health Center. 420 00:17:56,141 --> 00:17:56,442 Okay. 421 00:17:56,442 --> 00:18:00,646 Oh, you did a couple projects with them with, first peak construction. 422 00:18:01,013 --> 00:18:03,382 Young guns up and coming. 423 00:18:03,382 --> 00:18:06,318 Were brave enough to hire somebody 20 years older than them. 424 00:18:06,318 --> 00:18:09,388 And and, very smart group of guys. 425 00:18:09,621 --> 00:18:12,791 So, you know, people somehow are, 426 00:18:13,892 --> 00:18:16,862 you know, finding that trust in and us and what we do. 427 00:18:16,862 --> 00:18:19,098 And I'm really thankful for that. 428 00:18:19,098 --> 00:18:22,201 Yep. Bill's got to have that rapport and 429 00:18:23,168 --> 00:18:24,870 there's always a relationship. 430 00:18:24,870 --> 00:18:26,271 You never know where it's going to lead to. 431 00:18:26,271 --> 00:18:28,273 So yeah those guys are shot. 432 00:18:28,273 --> 00:18:30,409 Who knows what they go on to be and they'll remember you. 433 00:18:30,409 --> 00:18:30,909 So yeah. 434 00:18:30,909 --> 00:18:33,812 Or just the good that you're building. 435 00:18:33,812 --> 00:18:36,315 And Springfield is also on the bright side. 436 00:18:36,315 --> 00:18:37,583 Yeah. For sure. 437 00:18:37,583 --> 00:18:38,217 Is it near? 438 00:18:38,217 --> 00:18:41,153 I don't know Springfield that much, but I know the Hall of Fame. 439 00:18:41,153 --> 00:18:42,187 Is it near there? 440 00:18:42,187 --> 00:18:43,155 It's a basketball hall. 441 00:18:43,155 --> 00:18:46,291 Yeah, one of them's only about 5 or 6 minutes from there. 442 00:18:46,291 --> 00:18:50,496 And the other one is more sort of east east side of Springfield. 443 00:18:50,496 --> 00:18:51,864 But you know, where the Boys and Girls 444 00:18:51,864 --> 00:18:54,867 Club is, are I think it's Boys and Girls Club. 445 00:18:55,667 --> 00:18:58,170 No. Because two for one has a camp there too. 446 00:18:58,170 --> 00:19:00,539 Oh, okay. But they offered me to work there. 447 00:19:00,539 --> 00:19:03,542 But it's like the week before school, I make up, I need that. 448 00:19:03,909 --> 00:19:05,911 That week is like one long Sunday. Yeah. 449 00:19:05,911 --> 00:19:07,412 So I just need to pray. 450 00:19:07,412 --> 00:19:10,048 Yep. So nice. Oh it's great. 451 00:19:10,048 --> 00:19:13,051 No. Again, so excited that you're here getting to know you. 452 00:19:13,152 --> 00:19:15,787 Heather Culp from Colt Design and Consulting. 453 00:19:16,955 --> 00:19:18,223 As David doing. 454 00:19:18,223 --> 00:19:20,159 He's good. 455 00:19:20,159 --> 00:19:21,527 He was supposed to be retired. 456 00:19:21,527 --> 00:19:25,264 He retired from Corning in December, but he. 457 00:19:25,531 --> 00:19:29,535 You know, I told him, give me two years to try to get the business in a good spot, 458 00:19:29,601 --> 00:19:33,172 and I don't know, somehow it worked, and, 459 00:19:33,405 --> 00:19:37,576 he retired and, retired, and now he's working with me. 460 00:19:38,310 --> 00:19:38,877 Yeah. 461 00:19:38,877 --> 00:19:42,614 So, you know, there's days where he's like, oh, you're keeping me really busy. 462 00:19:42,614 --> 00:19:46,051 But but it's good. It's all good stuff. 463 00:19:46,051 --> 00:19:50,389 He's got over 40 years of experience in our industry. And, 464 00:19:51,490 --> 00:19:54,726 you know, I trust him more than anybody else. So. 465 00:19:56,662 --> 00:19:58,096 I know he golfed in the golf tournament. 466 00:19:58,096 --> 00:19:59,198 Yeah. 467 00:19:59,198 --> 00:20:03,502 And then my guy Matt, board of directors, Matt golfed with him. 468 00:20:03,802 --> 00:20:06,471 Same team during the chamber golf tournament. 469 00:20:06,471 --> 00:20:08,640 Oh, yeah. Oh that's right. Yes. 470 00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:09,274 Yeah, yeah. 471 00:20:09,274 --> 00:20:11,510 So we had the Friends of Fini pairing with the Colt. 472 00:20:11,510 --> 00:20:15,013 Yeah. No, No gun. I didn't win it. Yeah, but 473 00:20:16,348 --> 00:20:17,182 that's okay. 474 00:20:17,182 --> 00:20:18,917 How's David's golf game? 475 00:20:18,917 --> 00:20:19,585 He's actually. 476 00:20:19,585 --> 00:20:22,588 He's a good golfer, but more than anything, he just has fun. 477 00:20:22,621 --> 00:20:23,889 But this year, he's out 478 00:20:23,889 --> 00:20:26,525 because he's probably going to kill me for telling this story. 479 00:20:26,525 --> 00:20:31,263 But in January, he took the boys sledding and, 480 00:20:31,863 --> 00:20:35,834 you know, decided he was going to try to surf on his sled. 481 00:20:36,168 --> 00:20:41,306 And he wiped out and he tore his bicep tendon and his rotator cuff. 482 00:20:42,074 --> 00:20:44,042 So he had surgery in late February. 483 00:20:44,042 --> 00:20:46,245 He's still not fully recovered. 484 00:20:46,245 --> 00:20:48,680 David, we're going to miss you. 485 00:20:48,680 --> 00:20:50,449 I was just going to say. Is he playing? 486 00:20:50,449 --> 00:20:51,984 Yeah, I wish, but I. 487 00:20:51,984 --> 00:20:55,020 I can't even tell him about it because, you know, he'll be tempted. 488 00:20:55,621 --> 00:20:58,090 You got to come volunteer, hang out. Yeah. 489 00:20:58,090 --> 00:20:59,358 We have breakfast, lunch and dinner. 490 00:20:59,358 --> 00:21:00,726 Just come hang out. 491 00:21:00,726 --> 00:21:01,760 It's awful. 492 00:21:01,760 --> 00:21:02,427 Yeah. 493 00:21:02,427 --> 00:21:05,430 No, I, I could see myself doing that. 494 00:21:05,731 --> 00:21:07,532 My wife's always, like, get down from there. 495 00:21:07,532 --> 00:21:09,868 Don't do that. You're getting too old. 496 00:21:09,868 --> 00:21:13,105 So I'm picking kids up in the pool, like I get this injury. 497 00:21:13,338 --> 00:21:15,073 Elbow injury? 498 00:21:15,073 --> 00:21:17,609 That's from slamming my nephew Santo in the pool. 499 00:21:18,744 --> 00:21:21,747 The biggest mistake you could do is slam one kid in the pool. 500 00:21:21,780 --> 00:21:23,415 Yeah, you know, they're hanging on your neck 501 00:21:23,415 --> 00:21:26,418 and you're slamming them for the next four hours. 502 00:21:27,052 --> 00:21:28,754 And then you're sore for a week. And. 503 00:21:28,754 --> 00:21:30,455 Yeah, I can't move my. Neck at night. 504 00:21:30,455 --> 00:21:32,491 Yeah. 505 00:21:32,491 --> 00:21:34,326 That's great. 506 00:21:34,326 --> 00:21:36,395 Do you drink coffee? 507 00:21:36,395 --> 00:21:39,498 I didn't start until I was 41 years old. 508 00:21:39,631 --> 00:21:42,601 Wow, I but the best I do is a latte. 509 00:21:42,734 --> 00:21:44,903 Nice. Nothing strong. 510 00:21:44,903 --> 00:21:47,739 Yeah, because our last guest is Christina Savin. 511 00:21:47,739 --> 00:21:49,341 Sweet bear coffee. 512 00:21:49,341 --> 00:21:52,244 25% helps people with disabilities, so go back. 513 00:21:52,244 --> 00:21:55,247 Oh, nice. 144 Christine Savin. 514 00:21:55,847 --> 00:21:58,050 How high can you jump? 515 00:21:58,050 --> 00:21:59,584 I can get up high enough. 516 00:21:59,584 --> 00:22:01,753 Where to put a piece of paper under my feet. 517 00:22:01,753 --> 00:22:03,722 Nice. I was going to say I thought, you don't. 518 00:22:03,722 --> 00:22:06,191 I thought you were. Gonna say no. But I did play basketball. 519 00:22:06,191 --> 00:22:09,895 I can talk sports all day long, but everyone talk about I love sports. 520 00:22:10,662 --> 00:22:12,831 It's always on on the TV in our house. 521 00:22:13,799 --> 00:22:16,568 Because 143 is jumps, which we have. 522 00:22:16,568 --> 00:22:19,304 You boys check that out, okay, I dunks 523 00:22:19,304 --> 00:22:23,342 he could touch 11ft, dunks through the air through his legs spins. 524 00:22:23,575 --> 00:22:24,309 Nice. Dunks. 525 00:22:24,309 --> 00:22:25,777 Which cheese a YouTube channel 526 00:22:25,777 --> 00:22:29,881 Instagram TikTok like hundreds of thousands of followers. 527 00:22:29,881 --> 00:22:30,749 It's pretty interesting. 528 00:22:30,749 --> 00:22:33,118 So about that. Let's go back to previous guest. 529 00:22:33,118 --> 00:22:34,319 I just want to give a couple shout outs. 530 00:22:34,319 --> 00:22:37,522 144 sweet Beer coffee 143 531 00:22:38,990 --> 00:22:40,559 jumps would she. 532 00:22:40,559 --> 00:22:41,560 It maybe I'll have to. 533 00:22:41,560 --> 00:22:44,763 If I'm brave enough, I'll text you an old photo of me playing basketball. 534 00:22:44,963 --> 00:22:46,531 All right. Cool. 535 00:22:46,531 --> 00:22:47,799 Nice. You met my. 536 00:22:47,799 --> 00:22:50,168 I played basketball. You met my wife when she picked up Bridget. 537 00:22:50,168 --> 00:22:51,970 She played basketball, too. Oh, nice. 538 00:22:51,970 --> 00:22:54,706 And that's when we met. Oh, okay. That's why I married her. 539 00:22:54,706 --> 00:22:55,507 Only reason I married her. 540 00:22:55,507 --> 00:22:57,476 She played on the basketball team. That's. 541 00:22:57,476 --> 00:22:58,677 I said, that's that's funny. 542 00:22:58,677 --> 00:23:02,280 I'm like, if my husband had to love sports hours, I had a no go. 543 00:23:03,448 --> 00:23:04,516 Where'd you play growing up? 544 00:23:04,516 --> 00:23:05,584 Where are you from? 545 00:23:05,584 --> 00:23:09,721 So, so we moved around a little bit, but my high school 546 00:23:09,721 --> 00:23:12,224 ten through 12 years were in Sarasota, Florida. 547 00:23:12,224 --> 00:23:12,858 Okay. 548 00:23:12,858 --> 00:23:17,129 And, yeah, played for Riverview High School and Sarasota. 549 00:23:17,596 --> 00:23:22,134 We were number one in the state my sophomore year. 550 00:23:22,334 --> 00:23:23,101 For a little while. 551 00:23:23,101 --> 00:23:27,005 My senior year, we lost in the state semifinals. 552 00:23:27,773 --> 00:23:32,644 You know, it's okay, but I ended up coming back up to go to Syracuse. 553 00:23:32,644 --> 00:23:35,447 I didn't play basketball there, but that's where I went to college. 554 00:23:35,447 --> 00:23:36,214 Really? Yeah. 555 00:23:36,214 --> 00:23:37,983 Syracuse. Orange. Yeah. 556 00:23:37,983 --> 00:23:38,917 Cool. Yeah. 557 00:23:38,917 --> 00:23:39,851 Carrier doll. 558 00:23:39,851 --> 00:23:42,854 Yeah, I sorry, but if my boys. 559 00:23:42,988 --> 00:23:46,591 Yeah, if my boys ever go to UConn, it's going to be tough for me. 560 00:23:48,460 --> 00:23:51,463 I love it talking smack. 561 00:23:51,663 --> 00:23:54,399 That's six over time UConn versus Syracuse. 562 00:23:54,399 --> 00:23:55,434 That was nuts. 563 00:23:55,434 --> 00:23:58,403 I, we were in we were overseas then 564 00:23:58,403 --> 00:24:02,641 and somehow I got that it was on TV. 565 00:24:02,641 --> 00:24:05,076 I so lucky you. It wasn't 1:00 in the morning. 566 00:24:05,076 --> 00:24:07,579 Yeah. No me I was exhausted. 567 00:24:07,579 --> 00:24:08,747 Yeah. I work the next day. 568 00:24:08,747 --> 00:24:10,515 Yeah. You were like, yeah, this is midday. 569 00:24:10,515 --> 00:24:11,716 This is great. Yeah. 570 00:24:11,716 --> 00:24:17,823 Did you feel that was crazy watching NFL baseball like your, your time frame was. 571 00:24:17,823 --> 00:24:18,690 Is that right? Yeah. 572 00:24:18,690 --> 00:24:19,591 But with family. 573 00:24:19,591 --> 00:24:23,428 Is that like a that's a challenge watching USA TVs with challenge. 574 00:24:24,262 --> 00:24:25,063 Yeah. Mean. 575 00:24:25,063 --> 00:24:29,768 Well in Taiwan Japan wasn't an issue like we could, you know stream things. 576 00:24:29,768 --> 00:24:33,071 But in China you know it was a different life there. 577 00:24:33,071 --> 00:24:35,640 And you know, things were blocked. 578 00:24:35,640 --> 00:24:37,709 So we didn't get to see quite as much there. 579 00:24:37,709 --> 00:24:41,012 But the one thing we did pretty consistently was 580 00:24:41,012 --> 00:24:44,416 the team of people we worked with was watch the Super Bowl. 581 00:24:44,416 --> 00:24:46,218 So it would be Monday morning. 582 00:24:46,218 --> 00:24:49,221 Our boss knew that we were not coming in that day, 583 00:24:49,254 --> 00:24:52,257 and we would try to find the next pair pub 584 00:24:52,491 --> 00:24:55,193 and, you know, say cook us breakfast, we'll pay. 585 00:24:55,193 --> 00:24:57,863 You have some drinks. On Monday morning. 586 00:24:57,863 --> 00:25:00,665 So if it's like 12 hour time difference. 587 00:25:00,665 --> 00:25:02,868 Yeah. Oh yeah. So it's like eight in the morning. 588 00:25:02,868 --> 00:25:05,103 Yeah that's crazy. And it was a blast. Yeah. 589 00:25:05,103 --> 00:25:06,471 We did a few of those. 590 00:25:06,471 --> 00:25:09,007 Come to school coming to work that day. Right. 591 00:25:09,007 --> 00:25:10,175 That's great. 592 00:25:10,175 --> 00:25:13,712 But yeah being overseas like that you've got to find you know, 593 00:25:13,712 --> 00:25:15,413 that camaraderie and. Yeah. 594 00:25:16,648 --> 00:25:16,848 Yeah. 595 00:25:16,848 --> 00:25:19,851 Now you said pub like, 596 00:25:19,918 --> 00:25:22,120 is it like an Irish pub or like a pub. 597 00:25:22,120 --> 00:25:24,122 Or somewhere Irish? Yeah. 598 00:25:24,122 --> 00:25:26,191 That's the kind of whatever was available. 599 00:25:26,191 --> 00:25:27,392 Yeah, yeah. 600 00:25:27,392 --> 00:25:30,662 They any city that we ended up living in there were, there was, 601 00:25:30,662 --> 00:25:33,632 there was always something geared towards expats. 602 00:25:33,765 --> 00:25:34,232 Nice. 603 00:25:34,232 --> 00:25:39,371 Yeah I know, I couldn't imagine my good friend lived in China 604 00:25:39,371 --> 00:25:42,374 for years and it's just like, 605 00:25:42,707 --> 00:25:45,710 give you a lot of trying something new, 606 00:25:46,378 --> 00:25:50,882 putting yourself out there, learning a new culture is just like, you know? 607 00:25:51,316 --> 00:25:55,020 Yeah, learning, lifelong learning and, yeah, learning by experience. 608 00:25:55,320 --> 00:25:58,323 Yeah, it's funny because I think sometimes I think, you know, 609 00:25:58,323 --> 00:26:01,493 some of my family just thought it was one big vacation for us, right? 610 00:26:01,493 --> 00:26:02,894 Oh, you're in another country. And. 611 00:26:02,894 --> 00:26:04,930 But that's this was our life, right? 612 00:26:04,930 --> 00:26:09,634 Like, wherever the project was that we were working on, this was our home. 613 00:26:09,634 --> 00:26:13,438 And, you know, it's it was either just the two of us 614 00:26:13,438 --> 00:26:15,507 for a long time, David and I, or, 615 00:26:15,507 --> 00:26:19,277 you know, then the kids came along, but it definitely was not a vacation. 616 00:26:19,277 --> 00:26:20,579 I mean, I 617 00:26:20,579 --> 00:26:24,516 there were challenges every single day just with the communication alone. 618 00:26:24,516 --> 00:26:25,317 Right. 619 00:26:25,317 --> 00:26:26,818 And then it can be. A question of mine. 620 00:26:26,818 --> 00:26:28,687 Did you have translators everywhere? 621 00:26:28,687 --> 00:26:32,290 So, At work, we had translators I picked up enough 622 00:26:32,290 --> 00:26:35,694 to, you know, be able to speak day to day type of things. 623 00:26:36,328 --> 00:26:40,365 And then eventually, as time went on, the 21st century got further. 624 00:26:40,365 --> 00:26:42,667 And then we had our translator apps. 625 00:26:42,667 --> 00:26:44,369 So that helped a lot. 626 00:26:44,369 --> 00:26:48,907 But I mean, in general, you know, I tell anybody if they have an opportunity 627 00:26:49,174 --> 00:26:51,910 to travel outside of it doesn't even matter if you're 628 00:26:51,910 --> 00:26:55,180 from the U.S., another country, just travel somewhere else, right? It's 629 00:26:55,180 --> 00:27:00,418 going to open your eyes, open your heart, open your mind to what's going on. 630 00:27:00,752 --> 00:27:03,655 You know, not in your little corner, you know? 631 00:27:03,655 --> 00:27:04,222 Yeah. 632 00:27:04,222 --> 00:27:07,225 I've only been in Ireland for about a week. 633 00:27:07,492 --> 00:27:08,259 It was amazing. 634 00:27:08,259 --> 00:27:11,296 Yeah, I want to go back, but I also want to venture out to see more. 635 00:27:11,830 --> 00:27:13,999 Spain. Italy? 636 00:27:13,999 --> 00:27:15,300 Yeah. For sure. 637 00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:18,303 Yeah. Oh, I want to see, see it all. Yeah. 638 00:27:18,503 --> 00:27:18,703 Yeah. 639 00:27:18,703 --> 00:27:23,041 We talked about because I mentioned I'm turning 50 this year. 640 00:27:24,275 --> 00:27:26,611 And my husband and I talked about, you know, 641 00:27:26,611 --> 00:27:28,480 would we be able to go back to Italy. 642 00:27:28,480 --> 00:27:31,483 And because we did that for our honeymoon, 643 00:27:31,716 --> 00:27:32,751 I don't know if it's going to happen. 644 00:27:32,751 --> 00:27:36,721 It's tough leaving when you got the business and the kids and all that. 645 00:27:36,755 --> 00:27:39,758 We don't have family here in Connecticut. 646 00:27:39,924 --> 00:27:42,360 So, you know, if I can bribe my sister 647 00:27:42,360 --> 00:27:45,530 to come out for 4 or 5 days, maybe we'll get away. 648 00:27:45,730 --> 00:27:48,733 Yeah. That's great. 649 00:27:49,100 --> 00:27:50,735 Well, let me thank some sponsors here where? 650 00:27:50,735 --> 00:27:53,738 Aluminum pizza and 999 Farmington Avenue 651 00:27:53,738 --> 00:27:56,741 saying to my guy Alex, he's episode 70. 652 00:27:56,741 --> 00:27:59,511 It's great podcast. We got Direct Line Media. 653 00:27:59,511 --> 00:28:02,981 Thank you, Stephanie and Dave for everything you're helping us record. 654 00:28:03,715 --> 00:28:06,851 We have the fix IV float 41, 655 00:28:07,686 --> 00:28:11,890 Parkville management, Keating agency, insurance, golf law Group, 656 00:28:12,857 --> 00:28:16,695 Sally and Bob's Great Breakfast Spot I. 657 00:28:18,963 --> 00:28:20,131 Think I got them all. 658 00:28:20,131 --> 00:28:20,565 That's good. 659 00:28:20,565 --> 00:28:22,867 I'm always looking for a good breakfast place. 660 00:28:22,867 --> 00:28:23,702 Sally and Bob. 661 00:28:23,702 --> 00:28:26,337 Yeah. 662 00:28:26,337 --> 00:28:28,473 Helen and Cece are the best. 663 00:28:28,473 --> 00:28:30,709 They have, 664 00:28:30,709 --> 00:28:32,744 their eggs Benedict. Phenomenal. 665 00:28:32,744 --> 00:28:35,213 And then he makes a, 666 00:28:35,213 --> 00:28:38,283 He's Mexican, so he he makes, like, ranchos. 667 00:28:39,217 --> 00:28:42,787 I haven't I haven't had them, but they're special, and I missed it. 668 00:28:42,787 --> 00:28:44,055 And we talked about it on the podcast. 669 00:28:44,055 --> 00:28:47,058 I had a podcast at their place, but there's, 670 00:28:48,526 --> 00:28:51,029 I forgot what it's called, but you got to try it, okay? 671 00:28:51,029 --> 00:28:51,996 Everyone talks about it. 672 00:28:51,996 --> 00:28:54,999 Swears by it. Yeah. So, 673 00:28:55,734 --> 00:28:57,936 and then with aux 674 00:28:57,936 --> 00:29:01,940 and then West Hartford Lock, but which now had they rebranded. 675 00:29:02,073 --> 00:29:04,976 So they're New England Dawn security now. 676 00:29:04,976 --> 00:29:07,979 Okay. Yeah. That's no Uri. Yeah. 677 00:29:08,279 --> 00:29:09,414 Through Avi right. Yeah. 678 00:29:09,414 --> 00:29:11,783 Uri. So with New England, 679 00:29:12,884 --> 00:29:14,219 Dawn security. 680 00:29:14,219 --> 00:29:18,423 What are three keys that make you great at being designing 681 00:29:18,423 --> 00:29:21,693 and consulting or building consulting at cope? 682 00:29:22,193 --> 00:29:24,162 Yeah. Three things. 683 00:29:24,162 --> 00:29:27,165 Yeah. Okay. Listening. 684 00:29:27,398 --> 00:29:28,299 Great. Listener. 685 00:29:28,299 --> 00:29:28,833 Yeah. 686 00:29:28,833 --> 00:29:30,702 Good. One collaborator. Right. 687 00:29:30,702 --> 00:29:32,771 That goes back to my basketball days. Right? 688 00:29:32,771 --> 00:29:33,404 Teamwork. 689 00:29:33,404 --> 00:29:36,741 That's why it's really important for my boys to be on teams. 690 00:29:37,108 --> 00:29:40,111 Know, About our. 691 00:29:40,111 --> 00:29:41,713 Patients. 692 00:29:41,713 --> 00:29:42,881 Love it. Patients. 693 00:29:42,881 --> 00:29:44,115 That's helps me as a teacher. 694 00:29:44,115 --> 00:29:47,118 Helps you in a relationship or as a parent 695 00:29:47,519 --> 00:29:50,522 collaborator, listener. 696 00:29:51,122 --> 00:29:51,656 Patients? 697 00:29:51,656 --> 00:29:53,591 Patients? Yeah. 698 00:29:53,591 --> 00:29:56,294 For sure. Perfect. Well done. Three keys. 699 00:29:56,294 --> 00:29:59,831 That was three keys brought to you by New England Dawn security. 700 00:30:00,298 --> 00:30:01,432 So you mentioned your boys. 701 00:30:01,432 --> 00:30:04,435 Where where were your boys today? 702 00:30:04,769 --> 00:30:06,304 They a high meadow, actually. 703 00:30:06,304 --> 00:30:09,340 Today is their first day of their two weeks there. 704 00:30:09,607 --> 00:30:11,943 They're super excited. 705 00:30:11,943 --> 00:30:13,778 They did it last year for the first time. 706 00:30:13,778 --> 00:30:14,712 You met them? Yep. 707 00:30:14,712 --> 00:30:17,282 Oh, you met maybe just joy, I think. Yeah. Did you meet? 708 00:30:17,282 --> 00:30:20,118 I don't think you met Quinn. I met them both. 709 00:30:20,118 --> 00:30:23,221 Did you okay? Yeah. But, I got a picture. 710 00:30:23,221 --> 00:30:26,691 I know you just show me how much he has grown in that one year, but yeah, I. 711 00:30:26,691 --> 00:30:27,425 Yeah. 712 00:30:27,425 --> 00:30:28,760 Shout out to my guy. 713 00:30:28,760 --> 00:30:31,062 Who is this guy right here 714 00:30:32,330 --> 00:30:33,765 who show this picture. 715 00:30:33,765 --> 00:30:34,833 That's Quinn. 716 00:30:34,833 --> 00:30:36,000 Quinn. Yeah. That's right. 717 00:30:36,000 --> 00:30:37,535 I forgot about the ring. 718 00:30:37,535 --> 00:30:39,504 Yes. My guy. Game day. 719 00:30:39,504 --> 00:30:40,638 Connor came. 720 00:30:40,638 --> 00:30:43,374 Yeah, and visited the camp. Yeah. 721 00:30:43,374 --> 00:30:45,810 He's grown about two and a half, three inches. 722 00:30:45,810 --> 00:30:47,178 So I mean. 723 00:30:47,178 --> 00:30:49,113 That's gi that's giant Quinn. 724 00:30:49,113 --> 00:30:51,416 All right. Yeah. Oh, there they go. Boom! Yeah. 725 00:30:51,416 --> 00:30:53,718 Aaron. Friends of Feeney shirts for friends of Feeney. 726 00:30:53,718 --> 00:30:56,321 Dad camp. Good kids right there. Yeah. 727 00:30:56,321 --> 00:30:59,190 So if he's he's at my shoulder now where do you think he is? 728 00:30:59,190 --> 00:31:02,160 Oh, he's he's he's at your chin. 729 00:31:03,061 --> 00:31:03,461 Yeah. 730 00:31:03,461 --> 00:31:06,698 He's like he's, How tall are you now I tell you. 731 00:31:06,698 --> 00:31:08,333 Six two. Six two. 732 00:31:08,333 --> 00:31:08,666 Yeah. 733 00:31:08,666 --> 00:31:11,836 So he's he's five at least five six right now. 734 00:31:12,403 --> 00:31:14,539 Yeah, 735 00:31:14,539 --> 00:31:15,006 yeah. 736 00:31:15,006 --> 00:31:16,774 Growing like a weed. 737 00:31:16,774 --> 00:31:18,977 And he's got the the UConn championship. 738 00:31:18,977 --> 00:31:20,311 Yeah. Ring. 739 00:31:20,311 --> 00:31:21,279 Congrats. My God. 740 00:31:21,279 --> 00:31:24,282 Game day Connor did you hear the good news about game day Connor. 741 00:31:24,682 --> 00:31:27,652 He is now doing the on field 742 00:31:29,787 --> 00:31:31,689 host for the New England Patriots. 743 00:31:31,689 --> 00:31:32,423 Oh awesome. 744 00:31:32,423 --> 00:31:35,426 So he was UConn 745 00:31:35,493 --> 00:31:37,295 women's basketball men's 746 00:31:37,295 --> 00:31:40,298 basketball men's football yard goats. 747 00:31:40,598 --> 00:31:41,966 And now he's got call. 748 00:31:41,966 --> 00:31:44,302 He's like New England. Big time. 749 00:31:44,302 --> 00:31:44,869 Great time. 750 00:31:44,869 --> 00:31:47,939 So congrats my guy he's a podcast guest great friend. 751 00:31:47,939 --> 00:31:50,341 He visits the camp because it's my classroom. 752 00:31:50,341 --> 00:31:51,943 Awesome guy. That's awesome. 753 00:31:51,943 --> 00:31:53,278 He lets people hold the ring. 754 00:31:53,278 --> 00:31:56,147 Yeah. Like just say a kid. Take the ring. 755 00:31:56,147 --> 00:31:58,950 So, they're like in High Meadow. 756 00:31:58,950 --> 00:32:00,518 They love it. Yeah, they love it. 757 00:32:00,518 --> 00:32:04,322 They knew, this weekend, I said they like what, what's coming up this week? 758 00:32:04,322 --> 00:32:05,356 And I said, hi, meadow. 759 00:32:05,356 --> 00:32:07,358 And they were very excited. 760 00:32:07,358 --> 00:32:08,893 Very excited. Yeah. 761 00:32:08,893 --> 00:32:11,195 So yeah. Hi, Matt. I was there for ten years. 762 00:32:11,195 --> 00:32:13,965 It was an amazing place for myself and my daughters. 763 00:32:15,333 --> 00:32:17,468 But after ten years, we got to try something new. 764 00:32:17,468 --> 00:32:19,270 You know, I have this week off. 765 00:32:19,270 --> 00:32:21,072 It's amazing. 766 00:32:21,072 --> 00:32:24,175 After 21 years of teaching, this is like the first summer 767 00:32:24,175 --> 00:32:27,178 I've ever had off where I'm not working. 768 00:32:27,679 --> 00:32:29,514 It's like, this is. This is living. 769 00:32:29,514 --> 00:32:31,983 That's great. I worked out, I mowed the lawn. 770 00:32:31,983 --> 00:32:34,452 I watched a documentary on Ed Sullivan. 771 00:32:34,452 --> 00:32:37,155 I just had a wonderful day. I'm talking with you. 772 00:32:37,155 --> 00:32:40,525 So it was it was the time was right to move on from High Meadow. 773 00:32:40,525 --> 00:32:44,562 But I absolutely love everyone there and, miss them. 774 00:32:44,562 --> 00:32:47,565 I'm August 11th, friends of Feeney Day, 775 00:32:48,366 --> 00:32:49,867 and I got some swag left over. 776 00:32:49,867 --> 00:32:52,570 So do you boys hold on. Let's see if this is. 777 00:32:52,570 --> 00:32:55,006 We got some bucket hats. 778 00:32:55,006 --> 00:32:57,041 Oh, nice. 779 00:32:57,041 --> 00:32:59,310 Bracelets. Bag of. 780 00:33:01,179 --> 00:33:04,816 So. Yeah. 781 00:33:04,816 --> 00:33:07,352 They, You think to wear them? 782 00:33:07,352 --> 00:33:10,288 Absolutely. What? 783 00:33:10,288 --> 00:33:12,457 We want to show them all, but thank you. Hi, Matt. Oh. 784 00:33:12,457 --> 00:33:13,024 Thank you. 785 00:33:13,024 --> 00:33:14,559 Now, Jai. 786 00:33:14,559 --> 00:33:15,326 Jai? Yep. 787 00:33:15,326 --> 00:33:17,095 How do you spell that? Is that. Guy? 788 00:33:17,095 --> 00:33:18,730 Is that his birth certificate? Name? Yeah. 789 00:33:18,730 --> 00:33:20,331 Short for James. No. Jack. 790 00:33:20,331 --> 00:33:23,201 Oh, it's actually, Yeah, I love it. 791 00:33:23,201 --> 00:33:26,504 My husband and I put a lot of thought into our boys names, and, 792 00:33:28,406 --> 00:33:30,742 It's actually in India, it's pronounced a J. 793 00:33:30,742 --> 00:33:33,745 It's a very popular name in India. 794 00:33:33,778 --> 00:33:36,781 And it means, like, victorious or champion. 795 00:33:37,115 --> 00:33:39,017 But we pronounce it Jai. Yeah. 796 00:33:39,017 --> 00:33:42,420 And then he has a native American middle name from the Sioux tribe. 797 00:33:42,420 --> 00:33:44,989 It's, to Kota with a t. Wow. 798 00:33:44,989 --> 00:33:46,891 And that means a friend to everyone. 799 00:33:46,891 --> 00:33:50,194 I love it. So that is perfect, right? Yeah. 800 00:33:51,562 --> 00:33:54,532 And then Quinn obviously is an Irish name, but he is is one. 801 00:33:54,532 --> 00:33:56,667 And it's the original male version. 802 00:33:56,667 --> 00:33:58,469 Irish version? Yeah. 803 00:33:58,469 --> 00:34:00,204 And that's wise means wise. 804 00:34:00,204 --> 00:34:02,407 And then he has a Japanese middle name. 805 00:34:02,407 --> 00:34:05,543 It's Takeo, Takeo. 806 00:34:05,543 --> 00:34:07,945 And it means strong, like bamboo. 807 00:34:07,945 --> 00:34:10,181 And, that really fits him too. 808 00:34:10,181 --> 00:34:12,917 So it worked out so cool. 809 00:34:12,917 --> 00:34:16,020 So right from birth, it was important to us 810 00:34:16,020 --> 00:34:21,359 that they were aware of other cultures, other countries, and have an open heart. 811 00:34:21,859 --> 00:34:25,596 So. And they could and you could say, hey, I lived in China. 812 00:34:25,596 --> 00:34:26,664 Japan. Yeah. 813 00:34:26,664 --> 00:34:29,400 I want to know how long the boys lived there. 814 00:34:29,400 --> 00:34:30,468 Until three years ago. 815 00:34:30,468 --> 00:34:34,372 So guys, 11 so, you know, until he was eight 816 00:34:34,372 --> 00:34:37,375 and, you know, they're 19 months apart, so. 817 00:34:38,109 --> 00:34:39,944 Yeah. And I love it. 818 00:34:39,944 --> 00:34:43,247 Nila means virtuous and champion. 819 00:34:44,148 --> 00:34:48,286 Bridget is like Saint Bridget, Irish baby, but but yeah. 820 00:34:48,386 --> 00:34:50,822 That's cool. Yeah. These are so important. Yeah. 821 00:34:50,822 --> 00:34:55,326 And you feel like they all live and that path is created. 822 00:34:55,393 --> 00:34:56,427 Hopefully. You know, they're 823 00:34:57,628 --> 00:34:58,863 they're going to work. 824 00:34:58,863 --> 00:35:00,631 You know, their name will suit them. 825 00:35:00,631 --> 00:35:02,133 How you doing? 826 00:35:02,133 --> 00:35:03,301 So cool. 827 00:35:03,301 --> 00:35:04,035 That's awesome. 828 00:35:04,035 --> 00:35:06,537 Yeah. 829 00:35:06,537 --> 00:35:07,238 So how's it going? 830 00:35:07,238 --> 00:35:09,207 Anything you want to. Did I miss anything? 831 00:35:09,207 --> 00:35:12,310 Anything you want to share about building and consulting? 832 00:35:13,711 --> 00:35:16,681 Oh, another one. 833 00:35:16,681 --> 00:35:18,549 Have you already explained some do a third grader? 834 00:35:18,549 --> 00:35:22,753 So pretend you what's explained to me then, because I need some. 835 00:35:23,187 --> 00:35:25,623 What's contemporary design? 836 00:35:25,623 --> 00:35:26,791 Contemporary design? 837 00:35:26,791 --> 00:35:29,760 Yeah, it's a little bit more modern. 838 00:35:29,760 --> 00:35:32,630 For business can be because I when I, 839 00:35:32,630 --> 00:35:36,901 when I think contemporary design I'm thinking like snazzy windows. 840 00:35:37,335 --> 00:35:38,836 Right. Color. 841 00:35:38,836 --> 00:35:40,505 Yeah. Flash of color. 842 00:35:40,505 --> 00:35:42,607 Bright color. Sure. Lighting. 843 00:35:42,607 --> 00:35:44,976 Yeah I on the right track. Yeah. Definitely. 844 00:35:44,976 --> 00:35:45,409 Yeah. 845 00:35:45,409 --> 00:35:48,846 Modern contemporaries, you know, basically the same thing like. 846 00:35:49,213 --> 00:35:51,149 Like, 847 00:35:51,149 --> 00:35:53,951 extra large windows or just. 848 00:35:53,951 --> 00:35:57,388 You know, you know, maybe clean, clean lines, you know, 849 00:35:57,388 --> 00:36:00,391 not as much like text, like this textured wall here, 850 00:36:00,558 --> 00:36:03,561 maybe not so much like that, but a lot of, 851 00:36:03,794 --> 00:36:06,797 you know, geometric shapes, clean lines. 852 00:36:07,632 --> 00:36:08,566 Yeah. Yeah. 853 00:36:11,035 --> 00:36:12,570 Oh, and then 854 00:36:12,570 --> 00:36:14,906 I know part of me, 855 00:36:14,906 --> 00:36:17,508 ninth grade doctor sure will be high school. 856 00:36:17,508 --> 00:36:20,011 I took, drafting and architecture. 857 00:36:20,011 --> 00:36:21,445 Yeah, it was amazing. 858 00:36:21,445 --> 00:36:22,647 I had the t square. 859 00:36:22,647 --> 00:36:25,950 I was drawing lines and measuring and being precise. 860 00:36:26,450 --> 00:36:29,220 And Doctor Shaw was an architect, 861 00:36:29,220 --> 00:36:33,391 and he was like, you know, this is, it's a great job. 862 00:36:33,391 --> 00:36:36,060 And, I don't know, I just didn't think back in the day. 863 00:36:36,060 --> 00:36:37,595 I didn't think it was cool or something. 864 00:36:37,595 --> 00:36:41,966 I don't know why, but I kind of regret not pursuing it a little more. 865 00:36:43,134 --> 00:36:46,170 So were I better off being an architect or a third grade teacher? 866 00:36:47,071 --> 00:36:48,706 Oh, I don't know. Teaching. 867 00:36:48,706 --> 00:36:50,741 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 868 00:36:50,741 --> 00:36:52,510 Okay, I'm making it. 869 00:36:52,510 --> 00:36:54,545 They're saying that impact. Yeah. For sure. 870 00:36:54,545 --> 00:36:55,580 Making a difference. Yes. 871 00:36:56,681 --> 00:36:57,648 But don't think. 872 00:36:57,648 --> 00:36:59,016 Yeah. No. Architects. 873 00:36:59,016 --> 00:37:00,952 That's a big misconception. 874 00:37:00,952 --> 00:37:03,955 Architects do not make a lot of money. 875 00:37:04,188 --> 00:37:04,922 Interesting. 876 00:37:04,922 --> 00:37:06,591 Yeah. Yeah. 877 00:37:06,591 --> 00:37:09,594 Does it depend where they work. 878 00:37:11,329 --> 00:37:14,332 Really only like the big top tier. 879 00:37:14,332 --> 00:37:17,768 You know architects are really, you know, and then if maybe 880 00:37:17,768 --> 00:37:21,806 you become a principal with a firm, you know, you're doing better. 881 00:37:21,806 --> 00:37:26,344 But I would say in general, you know, I think for whatever reason, people think 882 00:37:26,344 --> 00:37:30,581 architects, you know, make a lot of money, but they really don't. You. 883 00:37:30,615 --> 00:37:32,717 Who are you doing this? 884 00:37:32,717 --> 00:37:35,720 You'll pop out and say, what up with the Podcasts Up podcast, 885 00:37:35,953 --> 00:37:37,455 she talks with friends. 886 00:37:37,455 --> 00:37:38,689 I love it as my dude. 887 00:37:38,689 --> 00:37:39,757 One good. All right. 888 00:37:39,757 --> 00:37:42,760 Good good good good. You going? 889 00:37:42,960 --> 00:37:43,761 I taught his brother. 890 00:37:43,761 --> 00:37:46,764 I taught you a little brother I never taught you though. 891 00:37:47,064 --> 00:37:48,633 He used to do pick up. 892 00:37:48,633 --> 00:37:49,300 Oh, cool. 893 00:37:49,300 --> 00:37:53,070 Matyas, my guy matters if you watch when you watch this. 894 00:37:53,604 --> 00:37:56,240 That's your big bro. Oh. Oh. That's cool. 895 00:37:59,810 --> 00:38:01,479 See, now I know. 896 00:38:01,479 --> 00:38:02,380 That's okay. 897 00:38:02,380 --> 00:38:02,847 It's all right. 898 00:38:02,847 --> 00:38:05,783 Let's talk about questions for me. 899 00:38:05,783 --> 00:38:06,851 Friends? 900 00:38:06,851 --> 00:38:07,218 Yeah. 901 00:38:07,218 --> 00:38:08,552 I mean, 902 00:38:08,552 --> 00:38:12,723 you know, is it odd this is the first time we're really sitting there talking. 903 00:38:12,723 --> 00:38:14,258 I'm like, hey, tell me. 904 00:38:14,258 --> 00:38:16,294 Yeah, tell me more about you or your family. 905 00:38:16,294 --> 00:38:18,562 Yeah, yeah. So it was funny that you met. 906 00:38:18,562 --> 00:38:21,265 So you met Bridget. I have twin girls. Oh, okay. 907 00:38:21,265 --> 00:38:23,601 So that's why camp was great for us. 908 00:38:23,601 --> 00:38:25,303 I was a teacher off in the summer. 909 00:38:25,303 --> 00:38:27,305 My wife works full time. 910 00:38:27,305 --> 00:38:29,340 We needed something to do. 911 00:38:29,340 --> 00:38:30,941 They were campers. 912 00:38:30,941 --> 00:38:32,710 I was the program director. 913 00:38:32,710 --> 00:38:34,645 It was beautiful for us. 914 00:38:34,645 --> 00:38:36,480 Now they're at the age where they can work. 915 00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,417 So we took a job at two for one. 916 00:38:39,417 --> 00:38:40,851 Their counselors there. 917 00:38:40,851 --> 00:38:42,420 I'm a sports director there. 918 00:38:43,854 --> 00:38:45,589 Neela 919 00:38:45,589 --> 00:38:46,390 makes cookies. 920 00:38:46,390 --> 00:38:48,626 Oh, she made you cookies, but I know I want to show them off. 921 00:38:48,626 --> 00:38:50,695 I know, yeah, I try. 922 00:38:50,695 --> 00:38:52,363 Yeah, for sure. 923 00:38:52,363 --> 00:38:53,431 I didn't know she made them. 924 00:38:53,431 --> 00:38:53,798 Yeah, I'm going to. 925 00:38:53,798 --> 00:38:54,899 I'll have to. Then. 926 00:38:54,899 --> 00:38:57,601 Okay, so Mila makes cookies. 927 00:38:57,601 --> 00:39:00,571 Bridget plays softball. 928 00:39:00,571 --> 00:39:02,373 So do you want to know anything about me? 929 00:39:02,373 --> 00:39:02,807 Oh, there. 930 00:39:02,807 --> 00:39:05,810 She's Bridget. Play softball, and it. 931 00:39:05,943 --> 00:39:08,045 Neil is also the captain of the golf team. 932 00:39:08,045 --> 00:39:11,182 She does rivalry, for Blue Trails. 933 00:39:12,750 --> 00:39:16,287 Bridget is the vice president, 934 00:39:18,022 --> 00:39:19,090 school council. 935 00:39:19,090 --> 00:39:21,592 She's like the prom chair. 936 00:39:21,592 --> 00:39:22,793 They do so much stuff. 937 00:39:22,793 --> 00:39:23,761 Model U.N. 938 00:39:23,761 --> 00:39:26,764 mock trial, student council. 939 00:39:28,199 --> 00:39:29,333 I'm very proud of them. 940 00:39:29,333 --> 00:39:32,536 And I'm very honored to be their dad. 941 00:39:32,536 --> 00:39:35,473 So it's like they work really hard. They're good kids. 942 00:39:35,473 --> 00:39:38,409 They help our friends of Feeney. That's awesome. 943 00:39:38,409 --> 00:39:39,877 Good role models, obviously. 944 00:39:39,877 --> 00:39:42,546 With you and your wife. Yeah, that's for me. 945 00:39:42,546 --> 00:39:45,649 Like bald and bro and annoying. Oh, yeah. 946 00:39:46,250 --> 00:39:48,219 Bro, all day long. Bro. 947 00:39:49,553 --> 00:39:51,255 So good job, Mila. 948 00:39:51,255 --> 00:39:53,224 I'll grab one. All right? Yeah. Try one. 949 00:39:53,224 --> 00:39:54,325 All right, here we go. 950 00:39:54,325 --> 00:39:54,658 The fun. 951 00:39:54,658 --> 00:39:57,661 You want to try a cookie from Mila? 952 00:39:58,195 --> 00:40:01,198 Chocolate chip. She, 953 00:40:01,966 --> 00:40:04,502 She fries the butter. 954 00:40:04,502 --> 00:40:05,970 I can tell it's so. 955 00:40:05,970 --> 00:40:07,338 Good you fry the butter. 956 00:40:07,338 --> 00:40:10,341 Nice job. Try. 957 00:40:10,641 --> 00:40:12,710 Yeah, it's got a caramel taste to it. 958 00:40:12,710 --> 00:40:15,212 It's really good. 959 00:40:15,212 --> 00:40:18,215 This is my cheat day. Now. 960 00:40:19,950 --> 00:40:21,252 That's awesome. 961 00:40:21,252 --> 00:40:22,353 Good job. Neela. 962 00:40:22,353 --> 00:40:22,853 Here, let me see. 963 00:40:22,853 --> 00:40:25,823 I got two for the boys 964 00:40:25,823 --> 00:40:26,857 with the boy little. 965 00:40:26,857 --> 00:40:27,992 Oh, yeah? 966 00:40:27,992 --> 00:40:29,260 Yeah. 967 00:40:29,260 --> 00:40:31,862 Jay's eating about every hour now. 968 00:40:31,862 --> 00:40:34,832 Nonstop for, 969 00:40:35,533 --> 00:40:36,901 for David's win. 970 00:40:36,901 --> 00:40:42,406 But I love that you know about your daughters, because for our boys, we just. 971 00:40:42,573 --> 00:40:43,774 We don't want them just sports. 972 00:40:43,774 --> 00:40:45,242 Focus, you know? 973 00:40:45,242 --> 00:40:47,711 And we want them to be very well-rounded. And, 974 00:40:49,313 --> 00:40:50,514 Quinn's playing cello. 975 00:40:50,514 --> 00:40:53,050 He's in his second year now. 976 00:40:53,050 --> 00:40:56,053 Is going in his third year of percussion. 977 00:40:56,520 --> 00:40:59,490 And he's takes, 978 00:40:59,824 --> 00:41:01,725 dance lessons at Arthur Murray. 979 00:41:01,725 --> 00:41:02,993 Okay. 980 00:41:02,993 --> 00:41:06,130 He's done that for almost two years now. And, 981 00:41:07,198 --> 00:41:09,133 just to kind of get them out of his. 982 00:41:09,133 --> 00:41:10,201 Mustache a little bit. 983 00:41:10,201 --> 00:41:12,470 Arthur Murray, dance champion right here. 984 00:41:12,470 --> 00:41:14,338 I saw that. That's right. 985 00:41:14,338 --> 00:41:17,341 Shout out to my partner, Juniper Holmes. 986 00:41:17,374 --> 00:41:18,642 Zoey. 987 00:41:18,642 --> 00:41:20,511 We won, 988 00:41:20,511 --> 00:41:22,446 I put in we we practiced. 989 00:41:22,446 --> 00:41:25,115 It's it's so 990 00:41:25,115 --> 00:41:29,787 it's so rewarding and like hard work and memory. 991 00:41:29,787 --> 00:41:32,289 It it it was something new, totally new for me. 992 00:41:32,289 --> 00:41:33,390 I couldn't even clap on beat. 993 00:41:33,390 --> 00:41:36,060 So, is it Quinn or Jai? 994 00:41:36,060 --> 00:41:39,063 Jai. Keep it up, dude. Yeah. 995 00:41:39,230 --> 00:41:42,233 It took a little break for the summer. 996 00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:44,702 Was there an Arthur Murray in Glastonbury? 997 00:41:44,702 --> 00:41:45,002 Okay. 998 00:41:46,504 --> 00:41:47,071 Yeah. 999 00:41:47,071 --> 00:41:47,371 All right. 1000 00:41:47,371 --> 00:41:50,374 In the, Glen Larkin Building and Glastonbury. 1001 00:41:51,175 --> 00:41:52,510 Phenomenal people there. 1002 00:41:52,510 --> 00:41:56,013 I think my boss, John Stangl and his wife, Kelly Stengel. 1003 00:41:56,013 --> 00:41:57,147 Are they there? They. 1004 00:41:57,147 --> 00:42:00,150 I think they own it. Yeah, yeah. 1005 00:42:00,551 --> 00:42:01,619 But that's not. 1006 00:42:01,619 --> 00:42:04,021 They have a manager of the Glastonbury one, right? 1007 00:42:04,021 --> 00:42:06,824 Yeah. That is. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. 1008 00:42:06,824 --> 00:42:09,660 But yeah, his teacher is, 1009 00:42:09,660 --> 00:42:13,531 Miss Izzy and he started he was like 1010 00:42:13,531 --> 00:42:17,234 this much shorter than her, you know, a year and a half or two years ago. 1011 00:42:17,234 --> 00:42:19,603 And now he's taller than her. 1012 00:42:19,603 --> 00:42:21,605 So it's kind of fun to see that growth. 1013 00:42:21,605 --> 00:42:24,608 And he leads now. And 1014 00:42:25,576 --> 00:42:28,679 I know that was challenging for me to to to lead. 1015 00:42:29,246 --> 00:42:32,049 And it was challenging for my partner Zulu who always wanted to lead. 1016 00:42:32,049 --> 00:42:33,284 But the male 1017 00:42:34,285 --> 00:42:36,220 dance partner supposed to laugh. 1018 00:42:36,220 --> 00:42:37,321 Yeah. 1019 00:42:37,321 --> 00:42:39,890 Yeah, but so excited I did it. Yeah. 1020 00:42:39,890 --> 00:42:43,260 We had it on video, so done happened. 1021 00:42:43,360 --> 00:42:46,063 Yeah. 1022 00:42:46,063 --> 00:42:46,263 Yeah. 1023 00:42:46,263 --> 00:42:47,531 You like zone out? 1024 00:42:47,531 --> 00:42:49,233 It's like a minute of 30s. 1025 00:42:49,233 --> 00:42:50,935 Took us eight weeks. 1026 00:42:50,935 --> 00:42:51,902 Yeah, to do a minute. 1027 00:42:51,902 --> 00:42:54,872 Know, I know 30s. I know, 1028 00:42:55,039 --> 00:42:55,839 I know, it's funny. 1029 00:42:55,839 --> 00:42:58,142 He's done a couple of the, 1030 00:42:58,142 --> 00:43:01,412 I'll call him a competition, but not really over by the airport. 1031 00:43:01,712 --> 00:43:03,814 And, you know, you do. 1032 00:43:03,814 --> 00:43:07,217 You spend so much time and in 90s, it's over. 1033 00:43:07,384 --> 00:43:09,987 Like, that's it. 1034 00:43:09,987 --> 00:43:12,756 But he loves it, and that's all that matters. And. 1035 00:43:12,756 --> 00:43:13,290 Yeah. Yeah. 1036 00:43:13,290 --> 00:43:13,490 All right. 1037 00:43:13,490 --> 00:43:14,124 I'm very happy. 1038 00:43:14,124 --> 00:43:17,261 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Fans of Arthur Murray. 1039 00:43:17,695 --> 00:43:20,264 So shout out to Arthur Murray and everyone there. 1040 00:43:20,264 --> 00:43:21,832 My dance coach. 1041 00:43:21,832 --> 00:43:24,234 It was an amazing experience I loved it. 1042 00:43:24,234 --> 00:43:24,835 I actually did a, 1043 00:43:25,803 --> 00:43:27,271 like a 1044 00:43:27,271 --> 00:43:29,006 a night out, which I want to do again. Now. 1045 00:43:29,006 --> 00:43:32,009 I want to do it with my wife too, because it's like, 1046 00:43:32,309 --> 00:43:35,679 you definitely form a bond then like partnership because you're. 1047 00:43:35,679 --> 00:43:38,916 Yeah, we got to step at the same time in the same direction. 1048 00:43:39,717 --> 00:43:41,952 So you kind of got to be on the same wavelength. 1049 00:43:41,952 --> 00:43:44,388 So it was a great experience. 1050 00:43:44,388 --> 00:43:45,322 Yeah. 1051 00:43:45,322 --> 00:43:46,256 Yeah. Cool. 1052 00:43:46,256 --> 00:43:49,193 How you done it. Will you try. 1053 00:43:49,193 --> 00:43:52,196 I mean I like to dance more freestyle 1054 00:43:52,563 --> 00:43:56,200 so but you know maybe at some point I mean the, you know 1055 00:43:56,200 --> 00:44:00,004 the instructors keep asking me to jump in and maybe learn to dance with Jay. 1056 00:44:00,004 --> 00:44:00,838 So I might do. 1057 00:44:00,838 --> 00:44:05,142 That because what I did, I joined like a, 1058 00:44:05,175 --> 00:44:08,979 like a fun little dancing with the stars contest through the West Hartford. 1059 00:44:09,446 --> 00:44:10,581 And I could get you in. 1060 00:44:10,581 --> 00:44:12,516 Yeah, you can get in. 1061 00:44:12,516 --> 00:44:13,550 I told her. 1062 00:44:13,550 --> 00:44:15,753 Very representation. Yeah. There you go. 1063 00:44:15,753 --> 00:44:17,287 If we're going to partner, it's. 1064 00:44:17,287 --> 00:44:19,623 I got a dance to Footloose. Yes. 1065 00:44:21,825 --> 00:44:24,962 And I joked that wanted to have her run at me and pick her up. 1066 00:44:25,129 --> 00:44:28,098 Oh, dancing with, Dirty Dancing. Yeah. 1067 00:44:28,098 --> 00:44:30,434 I want to be Swazi. That's funny. 1068 00:44:30,434 --> 00:44:33,437 And. Oh, that's cool. 1069 00:44:34,038 --> 00:44:36,173 So we're here at Luna Pizza. 1070 00:44:36,173 --> 00:44:39,176 Do you have a favorite restaurant anywhere in the world? 1071 00:44:39,343 --> 00:44:41,612 Favorite restaurant. 1072 00:44:41,612 --> 00:44:43,280 And there's a follow up question. 1073 00:44:43,280 --> 00:44:45,683 Okay. 1074 00:44:45,683 --> 00:44:46,617 Oh. Fun facts. 1075 00:44:46,617 --> 00:44:49,053 First about Luna Pizza. Okay. 1076 00:44:49,053 --> 00:44:52,056 It was the very first restaurant we ever went to 1077 00:44:52,156 --> 00:44:55,159 when we were looking for houses in Connecticut. 1078 00:44:55,526 --> 00:44:58,829 And I have this phenomenal chicken pesto pizza here. 1079 00:44:58,829 --> 00:44:59,763 This. No lie. 1080 00:44:59,763 --> 00:45:01,165 This one in Glastonbury. 1081 00:45:01,165 --> 00:45:03,634 Oh, nice. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, yeah. 1082 00:45:03,634 --> 00:45:06,637 We want a pizza. 1083 00:45:07,471 --> 00:45:08,672 Favorite restaurant? 1084 00:45:08,672 --> 00:45:09,473 Oh, how are Alex? 1085 00:45:09,473 --> 00:45:12,476 I know he owned the Wethersfield one. 1086 00:45:12,643 --> 00:45:14,745 Okay. It's currently shut down. 1087 00:45:14,745 --> 00:45:16,046 I don't know about the Glastonbury one. 1088 00:45:16,046 --> 00:45:18,182 And then there's also one in Naugatuck, Connecticut. 1089 00:45:18,182 --> 00:45:20,584 Oh, okay. Not related. 1090 00:45:20,584 --> 00:45:22,553 So I don't wonder if the Glastonbury is related. 1091 00:45:22,553 --> 00:45:24,688 Does it look the same font and print and everything or. 1092 00:45:24,688 --> 00:45:26,657 Yeah. Okay. Yeah. 1093 00:45:26,657 --> 00:45:28,592 May not be. Yeah. 1094 00:45:28,592 --> 00:45:33,130 Luna Pizza, your first ever restaurant in Connecticut. 1095 00:45:33,130 --> 00:45:33,630 Yeah. 1096 00:45:33,630 --> 00:45:35,265 So we actually we're looking. 1097 00:45:35,265 --> 00:45:38,268 What year we think it's we're 16. Okay. 1098 00:45:38,702 --> 00:45:39,069 Yeah. 1099 00:45:40,037 --> 00:45:42,506 So yeah, before we even moved back from Asia, 1100 00:45:42,506 --> 00:45:45,576 we were trying to figure out where we wanted to live, 1101 00:45:45,609 --> 00:45:48,612 buy a house, and, 1102 00:45:48,645 --> 00:45:50,581 we actually at first 1103 00:45:50,581 --> 00:45:54,318 we started in Western Mass because my husband's from Stoughton, mass. 1104 00:45:54,318 --> 00:45:57,521 South of Boston, and then I have my Syracuse family. 1105 00:45:57,955 --> 00:45:59,923 And so we were trying to find a middle ground. 1106 00:45:59,923 --> 00:46:03,160 And then we kept trickling further down into Connecticut. 1107 00:46:03,627 --> 00:46:06,196 And I said, let's look in West Hartford, 1108 00:46:06,196 --> 00:46:09,199 because I've read a lot of great things. 1109 00:46:09,500 --> 00:46:12,636 We looked looked look, I wanted so badly to be here 1110 00:46:12,636 --> 00:46:14,705 because I just I love the vibe here. 1111 00:46:14,705 --> 00:46:17,641 I mean, it's like, I love it. 1112 00:46:17,641 --> 00:46:20,244 I love coming here. 1113 00:46:20,244 --> 00:46:25,149 And but we just couldn't find anything that was quite right for us at that time. 1114 00:46:25,582 --> 00:46:29,052 And then it was a few days before we were getting ready to move back, 1115 00:46:29,319 --> 00:46:32,589 head back to Beijing and we found this, you know, 1116 00:46:32,589 --> 00:46:36,493 very simple ranch that went up for sale, like that. 1117 00:46:36,493 --> 00:46:38,362 And the knight in the evening. 1118 00:46:38,362 --> 00:46:41,365 And, I said, let's go look at it the next morning. 1119 00:46:41,799 --> 00:46:44,134 And, we did, and we ended up buying that. 1120 00:46:44,134 --> 00:46:46,136 Thank God we bought it in 2016. 1121 00:46:46,136 --> 00:46:49,139 And that when we moved back three years ago. 1122 00:46:49,173 --> 00:46:50,407 Hey, you lucked out. Yeah. 1123 00:46:51,408 --> 00:46:52,709 And I was like, the best thing for us. 1124 00:46:52,709 --> 00:46:53,210 We were. 1125 00:46:53,210 --> 00:46:56,213 My girls are 16, so we've been here for 16 years. 1126 00:46:56,313 --> 00:46:59,383 I met my wife in southern when she played basketball. 1127 00:47:00,417 --> 00:47:01,351 I was the knucklehead. 1128 00:47:01,351 --> 00:47:04,922 We were actually next door neighbors, split by a thin wall. 1129 00:47:04,922 --> 00:47:07,024 I would bang on the wall, I like you. 1130 00:47:07,024 --> 00:47:08,492 Why don't you like me? 1131 00:47:08,492 --> 00:47:10,260 That was my pick up line. 1132 00:47:10,260 --> 00:47:10,928 Surprisingly. 1133 00:47:10,928 --> 00:47:13,130 It worked. 1134 00:47:13,130 --> 00:47:16,800 That we lived in New Haven, found out she was pregnant with twins, 1135 00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:20,904 and my mom was in Waterbury at the time, and her parents were in East Granby. 1136 00:47:21,839 --> 00:47:24,975 So we settled on West Hartford right by Waukee Park. 1137 00:47:25,108 --> 00:47:28,111 So we love the fact that there was a park, 1138 00:47:28,579 --> 00:47:32,182 which I spent almost every morning there with the kids, pushing them on the swings. 1139 00:47:32,282 --> 00:47:34,952 And one way the mall was then you had, 1140 00:47:36,420 --> 00:47:37,955 you know, 1141 00:47:37,955 --> 00:47:40,557 Doro like being off. 1142 00:47:40,557 --> 00:47:45,062 Last week I went to Dora with my dog and had an espresso 1143 00:47:45,429 --> 00:47:48,432 for six days in a row while living. 1144 00:47:48,799 --> 00:47:51,301 It was seven in the morning when they opened, but we hang out, 1145 00:47:51,301 --> 00:47:53,270 so my wife goes to work, 1146 00:47:53,270 --> 00:47:56,273 with that espresso with the dog, and then we get the Berkeley, 1147 00:47:56,440 --> 00:47:58,542 we get Berkeley, a Papa Chino, Papa chinos. 1148 00:47:58,542 --> 00:48:00,444 When you put whipped cream in the cup for the dog. 1149 00:48:00,444 --> 00:48:01,378 Nice. 1150 00:48:01,378 --> 00:48:04,314 At like, day four, they just knew to get our orders ready. 1151 00:48:04,314 --> 00:48:04,615 Yeah. 1152 00:48:04,615 --> 00:48:07,885 When the waitresses were just bringing out Papa chinos for the dogs. 1153 00:48:07,918 --> 00:48:10,821 I love the neighborhood. Love West Hartford. 1154 00:48:10,821 --> 00:48:12,890 Yeah. Saying it's like 19. 1155 00:48:12,890 --> 00:48:18,528 Best place to live in either in in the world or in the nation. Or 1156 00:48:19,529 --> 00:48:21,899 maybe the world closed somewhere. 1157 00:48:21,899 --> 00:48:22,866 It's just a great place. 1158 00:48:22,866 --> 00:48:25,035 Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know for sure. 1159 00:48:25,035 --> 00:48:28,205 Every time I come here I like, have a smile on my face because I 1160 00:48:28,205 --> 00:48:31,708 just, I love this, the whole area and where you are too. 1161 00:48:31,708 --> 00:48:33,810 That's a great location. 1162 00:48:33,810 --> 00:48:36,179 I'm at d'Oro pretty consistently too. 1163 00:48:36,179 --> 00:48:38,815 I schedule meetings there sometimes, so I'm right. 1164 00:48:38,815 --> 00:48:40,984 Yeah. Straight. Yeah. 1165 00:48:40,984 --> 00:48:42,686 I'll meet you there any time. Yeah. 1166 00:48:42,686 --> 00:48:44,521 We're pretty close. 1167 00:48:44,521 --> 00:48:45,422 To Addison Park. 1168 00:48:45,422 --> 00:48:48,992 So now the boys are at an age where they can ride their bikes. Yep. 1169 00:48:49,459 --> 00:48:51,695 Yeah, that's an option. And play a little bit. 1170 00:48:51,695 --> 00:48:54,932 I guess you learn the number one place a kid learns a school, 1171 00:48:55,465 --> 00:48:59,870 the number two places, the park or home, and then the park or something. 1172 00:48:59,870 --> 00:49:02,272 But the parks are parks are important, okay? 1173 00:49:02,272 --> 00:49:04,207 Because kids aren't doing, like, the free play anymore. 1174 00:49:04,207 --> 00:49:05,609 It's like all structured. 1175 00:49:05,609 --> 00:49:07,544 Yeah. So it's to get them at the park 1176 00:49:08,812 --> 00:49:09,546 is important. 1177 00:49:09,546 --> 00:49:12,549 Yeah, yeah I like suggestions encourage 1178 00:49:13,517 --> 00:49:16,353 take advantage of all parks for sure. 1179 00:49:16,353 --> 00:49:18,188 Favorite restaurant? 1180 00:49:18,188 --> 00:49:18,889 Yeah. 1181 00:49:18,889 --> 00:49:21,391 Back to that follow up question. 1182 00:49:21,391 --> 00:49:21,758 Okay. 1183 00:49:21,758 --> 00:49:24,061 You just want to tell me your favorite meal. 1184 00:49:24,061 --> 00:49:26,730 So there is no, no. No, not at all. 1185 00:49:26,730 --> 00:49:28,231 The I can't remember the name of it. 1186 00:49:28,231 --> 00:49:29,132 That was the problem. 1187 00:49:29,132 --> 00:49:32,402 So after my husband and I got married, we drove. 1188 00:49:32,636 --> 00:49:35,639 We got married, Canandaigua Lake, upstate New York. 1189 00:49:36,940 --> 00:49:39,943 And then we drove from there back to Denver, 1190 00:49:40,410 --> 00:49:44,581 and we stopped in Fort Smith, Arkansas. 1191 00:49:45,582 --> 00:49:49,119 This pizza place and had the best 1192 00:49:49,119 --> 00:49:52,122 pesto pizza we've ever had in our life. 1193 00:49:53,290 --> 00:49:56,493 We're very simple people we don't need, like the filet mignon. 1194 00:49:56,493 --> 00:49:59,029 Even though I like filet, you know? 1195 00:49:59,029 --> 00:50:01,631 But I'll never forget that one, because it was like 1196 00:50:01,631 --> 00:50:04,101 we had just gotten married and we were on highs. 1197 00:50:04,101 --> 00:50:05,102 Right? And. 1198 00:50:05,102 --> 00:50:06,036 Yeah. 1199 00:50:06,036 --> 00:50:08,572 Never would have thought in a million years, 1200 00:50:08,572 --> 00:50:10,907 you know, New York, New Haven, Boston. 1201 00:50:13,243 --> 00:50:15,512 So. All right, you're having pesto pizza? 1202 00:50:15,512 --> 00:50:15,912 Yeah. 1203 00:50:15,912 --> 00:50:19,683 You can eat with four people, dead or alive, anywhere in the world. 1204 00:50:19,716 --> 00:50:21,485 Any time of history. 1205 00:50:21,485 --> 00:50:24,154 Yeah, we in way. 1206 00:50:24,154 --> 00:50:25,922 My grandmother. 1207 00:50:25,922 --> 00:50:27,624 Yeah. 1208 00:50:27,624 --> 00:50:30,627 Michelle Obama. 1209 00:50:31,228 --> 00:50:34,031 My husband definitely. 1210 00:50:34,031 --> 00:50:36,566 He's my best friend. 1211 00:50:36,566 --> 00:50:39,569 For person. 1212 00:50:40,504 --> 00:50:43,507 So I'm a chef Larry Bird. 1213 00:50:43,573 --> 00:50:46,576 Yes. High five for the birds 1214 00:50:47,711 --> 00:50:50,147 Larry Legend bird number 33. 1215 00:50:50,147 --> 00:50:50,914 Yeah. 1216 00:50:50,914 --> 00:50:53,917 Fun facts when I take tests. 1217 00:50:54,117 --> 00:50:56,019 So for a teacher not to get outside. 1218 00:50:56,019 --> 00:50:59,189 But you brought up Larry Bird, I have I had a Larry Bird shrine growing up. 1219 00:50:59,556 --> 00:51:01,758 Posters, bobbleheads. 1220 00:51:01,758 --> 00:51:04,561 And I'm a Knicks fan, too, but, 1221 00:51:04,561 --> 00:51:07,230 but, I know, 1222 00:51:07,230 --> 00:51:11,201 and then anytime I took a test, I either wrote on the desk or on the back. 1223 00:51:11,468 --> 00:51:15,439 Larry the Legend bird number 33 state test to become a teacher. 1224 00:51:16,473 --> 00:51:19,009 The state test to be a principal, 1225 00:51:19,009 --> 00:51:19,843 any test. 1226 00:51:19,843 --> 00:51:21,945 And then my my buddy was taking some tests. 1227 00:51:21,945 --> 00:51:23,046 He's like, you got any strategies? 1228 00:51:23,046 --> 00:51:24,915 I'm like, here's what you got to do. 1229 00:51:24,915 --> 00:51:27,484 Go right, Larry the legend bird number 33. 1230 00:51:27,484 --> 00:51:28,051 He wrote me back. 1231 00:51:28,051 --> 00:51:29,319 He goes, you worked. 1232 00:51:29,319 --> 00:51:30,654 How did that start? 1233 00:51:30,654 --> 00:51:32,689 I was just like a good luck. 1234 00:51:32,689 --> 00:51:35,592 So if you're ever taking a test out there, you write Larry 1235 00:51:35,592 --> 00:51:38,595 the Legend bird number number 33 has to be number 33. 1236 00:51:38,995 --> 00:51:41,731 But I don't know how we. All became Boston. 1237 00:51:41,731 --> 00:51:44,701 Our family, my my grandfather 1238 00:51:44,701 --> 00:51:47,471 was a Red Sox fan and a Celtics fan. 1239 00:51:47,471 --> 00:51:50,273 And so that went to my dad and that went to us. 1240 00:51:50,273 --> 00:51:54,144 So we're Boston fans, even though, you know, upstate 1241 00:51:54,144 --> 00:51:58,048 New York family and my grandfather. 1242 00:51:58,048 --> 00:52:00,750 Last fun fact for you was a lefty, 1243 00:52:01,885 --> 00:52:04,888 his only left handed grandchild out of. 1244 00:52:06,456 --> 00:52:07,791 16, 18 1245 00:52:07,791 --> 00:52:10,927 grandkids and numerous great grandkids. 1246 00:52:11,328 --> 00:52:12,162 You're a lefty. 1247 00:52:12,162 --> 00:52:12,562 Yeah. 1248 00:52:12,562 --> 00:52:13,563 Oh, yeah. 1249 00:52:13,563 --> 00:52:16,333 The advantage to lefty. 1250 00:52:16,333 --> 00:52:18,301 So shooting hoops back in the day it was. 1251 00:52:18,301 --> 00:52:19,736 Yeah I think that's an advantage. 1252 00:52:19,736 --> 00:52:22,472 Yeah. Because it comes off a different. 1253 00:52:22,472 --> 00:52:25,442 Yeah. 1254 00:52:25,542 --> 00:52:26,843 That's why I when I balk 1255 00:52:26,843 --> 00:52:30,180 when as a shot blocker most are righty. 1256 00:52:30,180 --> 00:52:32,282 So you should go up with your left. 1257 00:52:32,282 --> 00:52:34,484 It's easier to block a right hand shooter. 1258 00:52:34,484 --> 00:52:36,119 Which left hand I don't know whatever. 1259 00:52:36,119 --> 00:52:40,190 Yeah I still played the JC over 30 men's league. 1260 00:52:40,323 --> 00:52:43,160 Nice shout out to the JCC and all my friends there. 1261 00:52:43,160 --> 00:52:44,261 It's just amazing. 1262 00:52:44,261 --> 00:52:46,363 Keeps me active. 1263 00:52:46,363 --> 00:52:48,999 It keeps the community of friends. 1264 00:52:48,999 --> 00:52:50,400 It keeps the competition going. 1265 00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:52,335 We have jerseys, refs. 1266 00:52:52,335 --> 00:52:53,670 So I love it. 1267 00:52:53,670 --> 00:52:54,304 Yeah, yeah. 1268 00:52:54,304 --> 00:52:58,008 I always wanted to coach and my dad always said, why? 1269 00:52:58,508 --> 00:52:59,342 Why didn't you? 1270 00:52:59,342 --> 00:53:01,611 And then I finally got the opportunity in China. 1271 00:53:03,113 --> 00:53:06,016 The school my boys were attending, it was k-through-12. 1272 00:53:06,016 --> 00:53:09,486 So, you know, small classrooms, maybe 15 kids. 1273 00:53:10,754 --> 00:53:13,323 And they needed, a middle school coach. 1274 00:53:13,323 --> 00:53:16,593 I'm like, yes, I had all this stuff 1275 00:53:16,593 --> 00:53:19,763 in my brain that I finally was able to to teach. 1276 00:53:19,763 --> 00:53:24,701 So I coached, middle school in high school for two seasons, and it was so much fun. 1277 00:53:25,001 --> 00:53:28,672 And it was just amazing seeing the growth from one year to the next. 1278 00:53:28,672 --> 00:53:30,106 Yeah. I loved. It. 1279 00:53:30,106 --> 00:53:33,043 I coached and the, Waterbury 1280 00:53:33,043 --> 00:53:35,912 Boys and Girls Club, but again, great bonding. 1281 00:53:35,912 --> 00:53:38,848 Still kids I still talk with. Yeah. 1282 00:53:38,848 --> 00:53:40,684 Oh, you mentioned this to David as your friend. 1283 00:53:40,684 --> 00:53:44,387 So this is a new, new sponsored by people's Bank. 1284 00:53:44,688 --> 00:53:46,323 What makes David a good friend? 1285 00:53:46,323 --> 00:53:48,391 Our motto is be a good friend. 1286 00:53:48,391 --> 00:53:51,728 Hold the door, give compliments, be charitable. 1287 00:53:52,028 --> 00:53:55,899 All things that you are, you charitable, you give compliments, you do pick up 1288 00:53:55,899 --> 00:53:57,634 trash is not yours. And hold the door for people. 1289 00:53:59,002 --> 00:54:00,804 So this is actually my business card. 1290 00:54:00,804 --> 00:54:03,006 I don't know if you have ever gotten one of those, but awesome. 1291 00:54:03,006 --> 00:54:05,508 What makes I know he's your husband? 1292 00:54:05,508 --> 00:54:08,712 I know he's the father of my children, but what makes him also a good friend? 1293 00:54:09,879 --> 00:54:12,616 Yeah, David is extremely patient. 1294 00:54:12,616 --> 00:54:15,418 Also, he 1295 00:54:15,418 --> 00:54:18,288 cares about himself last, you know, 1296 00:54:18,288 --> 00:54:21,291 he always puts us first as a family. 1297 00:54:22,092 --> 00:54:24,694 Just extremely positive person. Right? 1298 00:54:24,694 --> 00:54:26,663 And we balance each other really well. 1299 00:54:26,663 --> 00:54:29,666 So over the almost 25 years 1300 00:54:29,666 --> 00:54:33,470 that we've been together, he's pulled me in his direction a lot more. 1301 00:54:33,470 --> 00:54:36,172 And that's been really beneficial for me. 1302 00:54:36,172 --> 00:54:38,875 So very, very just a genuinely good 1303 00:54:38,875 --> 00:54:41,878 person works very hard. 1304 00:54:42,445 --> 00:54:42,812 Yeah. 1305 00:54:42,812 --> 00:54:45,048 All the good stuff that you could think. 1306 00:54:45,048 --> 00:54:46,983 That's him for sure. David. 1307 00:54:46,983 --> 00:54:48,752 Oh, I remember he golf with Matt. 1308 00:54:48,752 --> 00:54:50,353 That's out over there. 1309 00:54:50,353 --> 00:54:52,589 Oh, man. Heather, I see you again. Yeah. 1310 00:54:52,589 --> 00:54:55,558 And and how you and David golf together at the chamber event. 1311 00:54:55,558 --> 00:54:56,760 Yeah. 1312 00:54:56,760 --> 00:54:59,496 I said you probably didn't win. Yeah. But 1313 00:55:00,664 --> 00:55:02,265 but he he was all about the fun. 1314 00:55:02,265 --> 00:55:05,135 He, you know, he's he's doesn't take it too serious. 1315 00:55:05,135 --> 00:55:06,303 So that's good. 1316 00:55:06,303 --> 00:55:06,703 Yeah. 1317 00:55:06,703 --> 00:55:09,572 So thank you for that sharing about David being a good friend. 1318 00:55:09,572 --> 00:55:10,173 Yeah. 1319 00:55:10,173 --> 00:55:13,176 Do you have any recommendations? 1320 00:55:13,543 --> 00:55:16,646 Jobs, podcasts, concerts, 1321 00:55:17,580 --> 00:55:20,917 books, movies, recommendation portion. 1322 00:55:23,353 --> 00:55:23,920 All right. 1323 00:55:23,920 --> 00:55:26,523 Let me think about this one. 1324 00:55:26,523 --> 00:55:29,559 Well, we did get out to a movie for the first time in forever. 1325 00:55:30,193 --> 00:55:33,330 We saw F1O, and that was pretty sweet. 1326 00:55:33,563 --> 00:55:34,698 That was a good movie. 1327 00:55:34,698 --> 00:55:35,665 The whole fam. 1328 00:55:35,665 --> 00:55:38,501 No, just my husband and I. Yeah. 1329 00:55:38,501 --> 00:55:39,836 Yeah, that is it. 1330 00:55:39,836 --> 00:55:42,572 A true story based on an F1 driver or is it? 1331 00:55:42,572 --> 00:55:45,275 I don't think so. Okay. I could be wrong. 1332 00:55:45,275 --> 00:55:46,209 Don't quote me. 1333 00:55:46,209 --> 00:55:46,676 All right. 1334 00:55:46,676 --> 00:55:49,045 Yeah, it looked interesting. But but yeah. 1335 00:55:49,045 --> 00:55:49,779 No, it was good. 1336 00:55:51,114 --> 00:55:51,448 I thought 1337 00:55:51,448 --> 00:55:54,451 going to mentioned Superman having two boys, but. 1338 00:55:54,784 --> 00:55:58,321 What do I just see Elio with the younger one with Quinn. 1339 00:55:58,855 --> 00:56:01,858 And, Disney show. It's a. Movie. 1340 00:56:01,958 --> 00:56:03,660 I don't know if it's Disney or. 1341 00:56:03,660 --> 00:56:06,496 Yeah, but I don't recommend that one. 1342 00:56:06,496 --> 00:56:07,464 Not so good. 1343 00:56:07,464 --> 00:56:11,234 I mean, I like I like kids movies, you know, they're, you know, 1344 00:56:11,234 --> 00:56:13,103 there's always a good story behind them. 1345 00:56:13,103 --> 00:56:16,106 But he actually left that one and he was like, 1346 00:56:16,606 --> 00:56:21,010 there's too many like, negative points in the movie. 1347 00:56:21,010 --> 00:56:24,013 And it was interesting to hear him say that at ten years old. 1348 00:56:24,013 --> 00:56:24,414 Right? 1349 00:56:24,414 --> 00:56:25,782 He's like, 1350 00:56:25,782 --> 00:56:29,152 something bad just kept happening and happening again and happening again. 1351 00:56:29,152 --> 00:56:31,454 And then it ended on a positive note. 1352 00:56:31,454 --> 00:56:34,491 But it was, for ten years old. 1353 00:56:34,491 --> 00:56:35,792 Him picking up on that. 1354 00:56:35,792 --> 00:56:37,927 I like that. That's cool. Yeah. 1355 00:56:37,927 --> 00:56:39,596 You can't have rainbows without some rain. 1356 00:56:39,596 --> 00:56:42,432 Yeah, but not a lot of rain. Yeah. 1357 00:56:42,432 --> 00:56:43,233 I just finished. 1358 00:56:43,233 --> 00:56:44,434 Oh, you like basketball? 1359 00:56:44,434 --> 00:56:47,370 Running the point on Netflix. Okay. 1360 00:56:47,370 --> 00:56:48,872 Kate Hudson. 1361 00:56:48,872 --> 00:56:51,775 Oh, take over our basketball team. 1362 00:56:51,775 --> 00:56:55,478 Being a leader, being a former basketball player, I think you really like it. 1363 00:56:55,478 --> 00:56:56,179 Yeah. 1364 00:56:56,179 --> 00:57:00,450 Our former OG podcast, Michael Kanter, Sherry Kanter's husband, Sherry 1365 00:57:00,450 --> 00:57:03,653 Kanter's, the mayor, Michael Kanter, was on this podcast and suggested it. 1366 00:57:03,987 --> 00:57:06,423 And I just finished the entire season with my wife. 1367 00:57:06,423 --> 00:57:07,390 We love it. 1368 00:57:07,390 --> 00:57:09,392 It's like Ted Lasso for basketball. Yeah. 1369 00:57:09,392 --> 00:57:12,829 So if you like basketball running the point nice. 1370 00:57:13,296 --> 00:57:15,398 And I'm watching the Bear on Hulu. 1371 00:57:15,398 --> 00:57:17,567 The chef. Yep. With my daughters. 1372 00:57:17,567 --> 00:57:18,334 A little late to the game. 1373 00:57:18,334 --> 00:57:20,703 It's 2022, but I'm late to the game. 1374 00:57:20,703 --> 00:57:21,738 I haven't seen that either. 1375 00:57:21,738 --> 00:57:25,442 But honestly, like, it's pretty much all sports 1376 00:57:25,442 --> 00:57:29,245 or like kids shows at this point on our TV. 1377 00:57:29,245 --> 00:57:33,016 And the boys just did a, overnight soccer camp 1378 00:57:33,016 --> 00:57:36,019 at DeSales University in Pennsylvania. 1379 00:57:36,152 --> 00:57:40,023 So they stayed in dorms, and it was the first time in forever 1380 00:57:40,023 --> 00:57:43,593 that David and I actually had Monday through Friday to ourselves. 1381 00:57:43,593 --> 00:57:46,062 So we spent a few days in Philly, 1382 00:57:46,062 --> 00:57:49,232 did some touristy stuff, some good restaurants there. 1383 00:57:49,232 --> 00:57:49,532 Yeah. 1384 00:57:50,667 --> 00:57:53,703 And by the end of the week, we didn't have anything else to say to each other. 1385 00:57:53,903 --> 00:57:55,171 Yeah, cool. 1386 00:57:55,171 --> 00:57:59,075 I was down there for 4th of July, saw the Liberty Bell for the first time ever. 1387 00:57:59,142 --> 00:57:59,909 Yeah. 1388 00:57:59,909 --> 00:58:02,412 Waited in line for about 20 to 30 minutes. 1389 00:58:02,412 --> 00:58:03,446 It's well worth it. 1390 00:58:03,446 --> 00:58:05,114 Yeah. Same. 1391 00:58:05,114 --> 00:58:07,884 Had a cheesesteak from Escobedo. 1392 00:58:07,884 --> 00:58:08,485 Escobedo? 1393 00:58:08,485 --> 00:58:10,920 Another recommendation from a podcast guest game day. 1394 00:58:10,920 --> 00:58:15,024 Connor, who I showed you on his podcast, said that's his favorite cheesesteak, 1395 00:58:15,058 --> 00:58:16,259 so I wish. I had known. 1396 00:58:16,259 --> 00:58:20,129 Yeah, yeah, yeah, mine is Steve's Prince of Steaks. 1397 00:58:20,129 --> 00:58:20,864 Okay. 1398 00:58:20,864 --> 00:58:25,001 But a lot of people like, did you, Pat's or Geno's? 1399 00:58:25,835 --> 00:58:28,438 We didn't had either of those. Yeah, yeah. 1400 00:58:28,438 --> 00:58:33,009 There's, Alexandros, there's Jim's, Ted's, Mike's. 1401 00:58:33,009 --> 00:58:34,043 There's so many out there. 1402 00:58:34,043 --> 00:58:36,980 So we hit this restaurant. 1403 00:58:36,980 --> 00:58:38,848 I think it was called the Mechanics. 1404 00:58:38,848 --> 00:58:42,519 It's right near where the Liberty Bell was, maybe a couple blocks away. 1405 00:58:43,152 --> 00:58:45,154 Nice spa, good music. 1406 00:58:45,154 --> 00:58:47,223 You know, we had adult beverages. 1407 00:58:47,223 --> 00:58:49,158 Just relaxed. It was good. Yeah. 1408 00:58:49,158 --> 00:58:50,894 Not. Philly's a great place. 1409 00:58:50,894 --> 00:58:52,428 We were actually there during the trash. 1410 00:58:52,428 --> 00:58:53,463 Striped. Oh. Were you there? 1411 00:58:54,397 --> 00:58:56,633 No. No, 1412 00:58:56,633 --> 00:58:58,468 but it was crazy. Yeah. 1413 00:58:58,468 --> 00:58:59,802 Trash was everywhere I was. 1414 00:58:59,802 --> 00:59:02,539 But that was I would definitely go back and I would bring the boys. 1415 00:59:02,539 --> 00:59:04,374 That was a great city to visit. 1416 00:59:04,374 --> 00:59:07,076 Absolutely. Yeah. 1417 00:59:07,076 --> 00:59:10,079 Oh, let me share some upcoming events. 1418 00:59:11,080 --> 00:59:14,083 Whiskey might be going out of order, but, 1419 00:59:14,250 --> 00:59:17,453 yeah, this is out of order, but I want to thank maximum Beverage 1420 00:59:17,453 --> 00:59:20,790 for the fifth year in a row, we are the beneficiary of their Whiskey 1421 00:59:20,790 --> 00:59:22,091 and Spirits Festival. This year. 1422 00:59:22,091 --> 00:59:25,628 It's going to be at tumble Brook September 27th. 1423 00:59:26,429 --> 00:59:27,730 Do you drink whiskey? 1424 00:59:27,730 --> 00:59:29,532 I don't, but I'll try. 1425 00:59:29,532 --> 00:59:30,967 Yard Goats game. 1426 00:59:30,967 --> 00:59:34,938 Friday, August 15th is our fourth annual Friends of Nicholas game. 1427 00:59:35,939 --> 00:59:38,374 This is the Parente family. 1428 00:59:38,374 --> 00:59:39,642 This is Nicholas. 1429 00:59:39,642 --> 00:59:41,077 Margo, Rob. 1430 00:59:41,077 --> 00:59:43,212 Alex. 1431 00:59:43,212 --> 00:59:46,249 This was actually Nicholas last family event 1432 00:59:46,249 --> 00:59:49,285 with surrounded by 200 friends and family. 1433 00:59:49,285 --> 00:59:51,988 So we honor him now every year with the game. 1434 00:59:51,988 --> 00:59:54,691 Yeah. So please check it out. 1435 00:59:54,691 --> 00:59:57,660 And then our fourth annual golf tournament. 1436 00:59:58,328 --> 01:00:00,363 And again, you were so generous and thoughtful. 1437 01:00:00,363 --> 01:00:01,698 You sponsored a t sign. 1438 01:00:01,698 --> 01:00:05,001 Hopefully you could do that again or definitely come hang out and just, 1439 01:00:05,702 --> 01:00:09,205 most, most golf tournaments don't have breakfast, lunch and dinner. 1440 01:00:09,205 --> 01:00:12,075 So if you want to swing by for one of those, that'd be great. 1441 01:00:12,075 --> 01:00:14,477 Abby is going to come by, so connect with him. 1442 01:00:14,477 --> 01:00:14,911 Yeah. 1443 01:00:14,911 --> 01:00:17,947 And you guys can maybe meet up, hang out, we'll give you a golf cart. 1444 01:00:18,581 --> 01:00:20,583 Just drive around. Yeah, and say hi to people. 1445 01:00:20,583 --> 01:00:23,052 Yeah, I probably won't be playing at that time. I'm having, 1446 01:00:24,287 --> 01:00:27,890 cervical surgery on the August 14th. 1447 01:00:27,890 --> 01:00:29,659 Ouch. So. 1448 01:00:29,659 --> 01:00:30,760 So then you're out for the golf. 1449 01:00:30,760 --> 01:00:33,763 You're out for golf, you're out for a yard. Go. 1450 01:00:35,598 --> 01:00:36,299 I might, yeah, 1451 01:00:36,299 --> 01:00:40,136 but I might be able to come by that I won't play, but I can come by. 1452 01:00:40,169 --> 01:00:41,237 Yeah. And then. 1453 01:00:41,237 --> 01:00:42,572 Oh, this is podcast. 1454 01:00:42,572 --> 01:00:45,241 Guess 142 elbow bump, kid. 1455 01:00:45,241 --> 01:00:48,211 They're looking for people to vote for them 1456 01:00:48,211 --> 01:00:50,446 at the Red Sox Nation. 1457 01:00:50,446 --> 01:00:53,449 So if you could vote, it ends soon. 1458 01:00:54,050 --> 01:00:56,319 It it closed. 1459 01:00:56,319 --> 01:00:59,322 Thanks for your vote. 1460 01:01:02,558 --> 01:01:04,894 No. Again, we had a great time. 1461 01:01:04,894 --> 01:01:06,362 You know, we've talked for an hour already. 1462 01:01:06,362 --> 01:01:07,230 You know that, right? 1463 01:01:07,230 --> 01:01:09,399 Yeah. No, I yeah, awesome. 1464 01:01:09,399 --> 01:01:12,402 It was wonderful getting to know you. Same. 1465 01:01:12,869 --> 01:01:14,370 Yeah. What was the Chinese word again? 1466 01:01:14,370 --> 01:01:16,172 Guan xi. Guan xi. Yeah. 1467 01:01:16,172 --> 01:01:18,107 We have some Guan XI going, so yeah, for sure. 1468 01:01:18,107 --> 01:01:19,776 I definitely 1469 01:01:19,776 --> 01:01:23,746 I said it earlier, I thank you so much and I appreciate I'm so grateful. 1470 01:01:24,080 --> 01:01:26,516 Your support means the world to our nonprofit friends. 1471 01:01:26,516 --> 01:01:29,519 Afeni is a nonprofit, volunteer based, 1472 01:01:29,552 --> 01:01:33,022 grassroots, community based organization, and our mission is to help 1473 01:01:33,022 --> 01:01:36,025 children and families that need assistance after heartbreak or tragedy. 1474 01:01:36,693 --> 01:01:38,428 And you made it all possible. 1475 01:01:38,428 --> 01:01:43,232 And with your donations and your sponsors chips in your, generosity. 1476 01:01:43,232 --> 01:01:45,468 So thank you so much. Thank you David. Thank you. Heather. 1477 01:01:46,502 --> 01:01:49,372 My guys, Jai and, Jai. Yep. 1478 01:01:49,372 --> 01:01:51,441 And, Quinn, 1479 01:01:51,441 --> 01:01:54,444 hopefully you're having fun at the High Meadow Day camp. 1480 01:01:54,644 --> 01:01:56,245 So, any closing remarks? 1481 01:01:56,245 --> 01:01:57,747 Anything you want to say? 1482 01:01:57,747 --> 01:01:59,615 No, I just thanks for having me on. 1483 01:01:59,615 --> 01:02:00,416 I appreciate it. 1484 01:02:00,416 --> 01:02:04,387 And, you know, you know, you continue to reach out and we'll help. 1485 01:02:04,921 --> 01:02:06,522 So it's been our pleasure. 1486 01:02:06,522 --> 01:02:07,490 Truly means the world here. 1487 01:02:07,490 --> 01:02:10,126 Let's do a cheers with Milos cookies. Yeah. There you go. 1488 01:02:10,126 --> 01:02:12,695 Cheers. We'll say be a good friend on three. 1489 01:02:12,695 --> 01:02:13,730 One, two, three. 1490 01:02:13,730 --> 01:02:17,066 Be a. Good friend. Awesome.