All right, all right.
Feeney talks with friends, episode 146.
We're here with special place, with some special friends.
What's up? Tom, how you doing?
What's up Ryan? Well, how we doing?
What's up Rob? How are we doing? I mean, it's good.
We're here in Bristol, Connecticut.
Yo, yo, Bristol.
We're at Insight plus technology.
Thank you so much.
I'm really looking forward to it. Beautiful conference room.
Thank you. You guys think what color blue is this room?
Oh, boy, I don't even know, but I had, picked it out myself, and,
a lot of us, my wife is like, oh, that's a that's a loud blue.
It's dark.
I don't know, but I like it.
I like.
Flack for. It. Oh I like it.
Yeah Bristol Blues.
I said Bristol Blues blue could be close enough.
Close enough. Cookie monster.
Yes. Cookie.
Cookie is for cookie. All right.
So tell us about Insight plus technology Ryan and Tom.
Tom and Ryan after you.
So insight plus technology,
technology company, meaning we do, alarm
systems, camera systems, fire systems,
card access, anything along the security lines.
And we also do your, your audio video, your digital signage,
surround sound systems.
Distributed audio home automation.
If you want to control your house from your phone, we take care of that.
Nice lights, locks, thermostats, garage doors,
anything you can think of that can be controlled, can be controlled.
And it's all done from one app on your phone
if you really want it to, and it alerts you of anything going on,
you can see people coming to your house before they even get to the door.
I like it, I like it.
Controls the big aspect.
At the end of the day, we do all those systems
and they're all can be controlled by one.
And that's the idea.
Very good.
So this is Insight plus tech.com (860) 845-8564.
The possibilities are endless. Yeah.
So you didn't I was going to say what can't you do.
Can you create the you know Rocky for when you had the robot
went around and cleaning the house like the Jetsons? Rosie.
Okay. Can you create one of those?
You got those going?
Unfortunately, we don't create anything we actually install.
I got enough time in my life, I think I can get there. Maybe.
Maybe that's the next round.
Will, create an R&D, the R&D department.
Now, I love it that it says here you have 30 years of combined experience.
Yes, sir. I mean, you guys aren't even 30 years old.
How about,
I believe he would pass for under 30.
My, no, I don't,
but he you know, if you looked at his dad, he looks younger than he is.
Possibly.
It's impressive, but, yeah, Ryan's been doing it since, what, 18 years old?
Straight out of high school.
Grab me.
When I was 27, I was looking for a career path.
I didn't know what I wanted to do.
He said, come work for me at, old company.
He was with, And as I said, you know what?
Screw it.
I need to do something.
So I jumped ship, went to the apprentice program.
You know, I went to Bristol Tech for a little of some of my classes
and some of the other tech schools around the state to to get my license.
And then we worked
together for 7 or 8 years, I think, at maximum.
And then about a little over eight years now, we started this business ourselves.
Very cool.
I love the logo and the, name where that would
you come up with insight plus technology
or naming?
Maybe a name?
In a very short time is. It's hard to do.
So, Tom and I again worked together for a long time
in a previous company, and, a lot of time sitting in the car
in the van talking about going on our own.
And then, one day I called them and said,
we're going there.
You come let you know.
He said, we're going on our own in a week.
Oh. So I said, okay.
So we had a week to come up with.
We had no time to come up with a name because we needed a name to come up with,
you know, get our LLC, get our insurance, get everything in line.
So where the name had to come within a weekend to, to start
getting the process going.
So the answered question, the idea the name is we're here to give you insight
into all this, this technology that's growing and
growing and growing. And
in this world of Amazon DIY, they just throw stuff out.
They just they're just making product, throwing bells and whistles on
and just hoping you buy.
And they don't care if you have to buy it again.
So the idea where we come in is, is,
let's think about this before we go and buy stuff.
The worst thing is to buy something, find out what it can't do,
what you want it to do, and then throw it away,
or it's great for now, but I want to grow when I can't.
So, the idea is, you know, we're here to kind of give you inside, kind of,
you know, help you through all this and let's go with you.
Let's get a system that you can grow with and find out where you are.
Everybody's pockets different. Everybody's ideas are different.
So, that's the idea of it.
The insight.
Plus to give you insight and then technologies, we're a technology company.
I like and and that's the frequency sign or the.
And just throw a little audio.
Audio video into it.
We were trying not to pigeonhole ourselves into just being security
because we started off as an audio video company,
and trying to slowly build a security company.
But audio video is, is our primary, income
at this point while we slowly build the security end of the business.
Yeah, I would say we didn't start off as primarily we were a security company.
We just had, audio video clients.
Gotcha. With our own company.
I started with zero.
I could I didn't, couldn't take any of those.
So our main focus was that's what we were, you know, that's where we were getting.
So I had that in mind.
But security was always there.
We worked for a security company.
We liked the, the idea, the control.
So a lot of things we do now with the security is it's it.
I like to say it's not just about keeping the bad guys out.
Now, we all know we want to keep the bad guys out.
We all know, want to be safe.
I figure it's like insurance policy.
You got to pay for it. You need it. But
this is a certain policy.
You can play and do some cool stuff with.
Yeah, you know, and use it for other things and keeping the bad guys out.
And that's where, you know, that's kind of where the automation world
and everything came that, you know, I was I was big on them.
Let's get more on it. So the control system.
Yeah.
Just having the alarm system at this point is the start.
Because now you can start setting schedules.
You can set your lights to come on when someone enters your property,
you can set your thermostats to hit certain taps at certain times of the day.
Make sure all your doors are closed and locked at the end of the night.
And you can do all these things by setting it up.
One button press will turn off your lights,
lock your doors, change your temperature on your thermostat
so you don't have to go through the menu and hit each one.
You can just have one button that does all these things at once.
What's the most common purchased feature?
Is it the lights? The security? The.
Those all sound amazing.
I feel like I have the ring doorbell, I have the Nest Thermostat.
A couple other gadgets. What?
And you can put them all on one thing.
Or would I control that?
So the alarm system is the brains of the whole system.
So, nowadays the alarm system does that.
You're used to be a time where you were spending 50 to 100 grand
just for a home automation system that didn't even necessarily do your alarm.
Now, the alarm system can handle so much more.
So you get that as your brains and then you expand from there.
Most commonly, people want cameras.
Second, you know, they want to see what's going on at all times.
Yeah.
And then from there, I think lights are probably the next most common.
And thermostats, actually probably locks door locks or deadbolts,
because, you know,
we can unlock these doors here remotely to get people in if we need to,
you know, garage door openers, I love mine,
that I can just be coming up the road and open it from a distance.
So it's already open when I'm when I'm there, you know, on your way home.
Yeah.
So, yeah, I have a way that, you know, I like to talk about this.
So the, the alarm system is monitoring all your doors and windows
and it has motion detector in there that,
that sees if someone's walking in the house.
So you have this system that knows your house,
it knows what's going out the house. So
you want to automate your house and get all these bells and whistles on it.
You start with something that knows exactly what's going up.
It knows who's supposed to be there, knows who's not supposed to be there.
It knows when someone is there, when when someone's not there.
So now you want to talk about your thermostat.
You want to talk about lights.
Well, when you want to use those,
the alarm system knows when someone's home.
They know your schedule. You know you're leaving or not leaving.
That's why all of this starts with the alarm system.
Gotcha. It knows of the doors left. Open it.
You know, there's there's a few different people, you see.
Some are very security conscious.
They they, you know, when every time they're in the house, they lock the door.
They lock the door behind them, they lock the door all the time.
And there are some people that I don't.
I only do it when I'm sleeping. I only do one on way.
But they still ignored what's going on with their house.
You know, they want to know if they left the heat on.
They want to know if they want a door open for all those different reasons.
And that's that's what this kind of brings.
The person that is not so concerned that someone's coming to rob me,
but I want I want full control of my home.
When I go on vacation, I love mine.
I'm always looking at, I mean, it gives you a highlight.
Yeah.
And none of what's going on, you know, anything, you know?
So I know my kids are coming home, you know, I know if my kids are home.
Yeah.
I mean, I know if I can stop home on an empty house real quick or, you.
Know, it's all those.
It's nice to. Have secondary, nice features.
You talk about vacation, the water, leak
detection, the water flow valve.
So if you get a leak detection alert, you can turn off your water at the main.
Oh, remotely.
Or it'll it'll. That's a good. Feature to it.
Yeah, yeah, I'm.
Gonna do it as well, but it will automatically do it.
This is come from someone that had their
the tree in the front yard grow into the pipe, clogged up
the pipe washing machine spilled all over the entire place.
So yeah. There you go. That water turn off.
Yeah. Venky.
Yeah, I got a customer.
That, free thing happened and then dumb thing happened.
Someone did something dumb. They left something on.
But those two things.
Now they're having a insurance nightmare.
Oh, yeah?
And then you flooded basements and, you know, a water bug with, let to stop that.
So, you know, for a little bit.
I what's called water bug.
We call it a water bottle. Okay.
I detect there's a lot of water bugs, the old term.
I think that's my two year term.
But you know, it gets the point across, right? Very cool.
So how safe are these systems for someone like my dad, who's a baby boomer,
he's worried about, like, hacking.
How safe are these things so that people feel good about putting them in?
They have,
of the systems we use in there get in there.
But our system has, jam detectors.
So it actually
it's going to frequency hop, it's going to jump around.
So if someone has it, someone has a hard time jamming it.
But not only not only that, it will set off alert.
It will it will bring the central station that you have been jam to.
Oh, wow. Yeah.
So you know, it is a cat and mouse game, right?
You know, people are finding ways to beat it.
We're finding ways to get to, So I can tell my dad it's safe.
Yes. Okay, dad, if you're listening, get it?
Yeah.
We can talk about systems for you.
If you want to go down that road.
You have some cool, cool ways of,
like I said, back
to, you have a system that knows what's going on in your house.
So we have a lot of cool ways of taking that data
and using it for different, different applications and different things.
Again, not necessarily just keeping the bad guys out.
We want to keep mom and dad in their home as long as possible.
We have ways of using that to help.
You know, you have an Airbnb.
We have ways of using that system and you manage
that, you know, not necessarily someone's going to break in.
It'll help you on that. But let's think out of the box.
And how is this going to help my company?
How is this going to help the flow of it?
We can we can do a lot of things with that.
Very cool insight.
Plus, here on 747 Strafford Avenue, Stafford Stafford.
Stafford. Yes.
All right buddy, Matt Stafford.
That's in there.
All right. Cool. So no, this is great.
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And three keys.
So what are three keys that make you great at your job?
Three keys.
The service
we provide to our customers, we're we're always there for them. Yep.
We like to keep them happy, and,
that's what we do.
Yeah.
It starts with,
you know, giving the customer and what they look for, making sure
they feel good about what they what they got, what they're paying for,
and then share and walk around this, committee
with my head of I know when I, when I did the best for everybody.
Nice.
Secondarily, I'd say we don't try to sell you anything you don't need.
We're there to provide what you want.
You know, I'm not trying to be. I'm not a salesman,
and neither is.
Hey, you know, you know, but we're going to provide you with what you need.
We're going to give you recommendations.
We can give you a, you know, three different levels of what you're
looking for, and you decide what you're trying to spend.
And number three, key to success.
Carter.
Carter is actually my nephew.
He went to Bristol Tech.
And he did his, low voltage program.
Actually, it's what, mechatronics his junior year.
So that his senior year, he actually we got him in the apprentice program.
He worked for us three days out of the week, went to school,
two days out of the week.
He's already licensed at 19 years old.
And he's a smart and hard working as they come.
We greatly appreciate him, because anytime we send him somewhere,
we get messages from our customers.
You know, he represents us so well.
He's he's incredible.
He takes his time. He does everything.
He tries to do everything right.
He he wants to be good to people.
Carter.
Yeah. Shout out to Carter if you're listening.
You're a good friend. Carter.
That was the same school I came from.
So maybe it's a shout out to, to Bristol back earlier.
Now, is that a high school?
Is that like Bristol Central Bristol in Bristol Tech or.
No, it's a satellite school.
So you don't you can be I don't know how far it goes,
but you can be from any of the surrounding high schools.
So it was in my day may have changed a little bit.
Do you.
Start at one school and then like. Drive over there or.
So in, in my, in my day we just went there.
Yeah.
We took our core classes if you will.
There now the way Carter did it is he went there I think for what, three days.
So he went and took his, you know, four core classes at central
and then went there. Oh, cool.
So they're still technically, like he was a central student.
He graduated from central.
He just went to Bristol Tech to get a more specialized education
in electrical school.
Yeah, I graduated. With them.
Because I know Waterbury has a Kaner tech.
I mean tech. Well, at Daddy's.
World, those are state.
Schools. Yeah, but that's like, that's where you go.
Yeah, yeah.
Like I said, I wrestles.
I played football for Bristol Central.
I was a Bristol Central student.
Oh interesting.
Claire not know that. Out at the satellite.
They're good programs. They have culinary.
They have I don't even know what else they offer an Hvac program.
So there's a lot of options to really specialize
if you don't think you want to go to college, but
still get an education and a career path, that that takes some skills.
Bristol Tech shout out to Bristol Tech. Yes.
Ready for another game.
So it it's called first last best worst.
We'll do projects.
Okay.
Your first project as insight plus technology.
Your last project you like most recent one your best one.
And then your worst something worst.
Something goes wrong. Something goes missing. Any order?
Shoot our first project is right here.
Okay. Trampoline park. No.
First project is the top right picture there.
That's, back nine tavern.
Stanley Golf Club.
No way.
That the.
Current one that they're using right now? Yeah.
Oh, I just been there. I was just there. Yep.
And it looks just like that.
That's me.
That's me sitting in the chair dressed up.
I don't know what I was doing. Look at that guy. That was.
That was an awesome one.
All the TVs set up came out awesome.
The sound system sounds great.
It's beautiful.
Okay, excellent job to get started on.
How about the bartender when they have to change the remote that they.
There's, like, multiple remotes. So you guys are no remote or.
What are you on? I don't know if the touch screen is.
No it's not. It's on the other side.
There's a touch screen at the bar.
There is a layout of the restaurant of the bar area with all the TVs.
All they have to do is touch the TV on the screen,
and then they can change the channel to the TV.
What's that little contraption called?
That's an RTI remote.
Remote technology is incorporated.
Yeah, that's your control system.
Your shout out to that takes a bunch off course.
Yeah.
Now, beautiful driving range.
This this little this bar air is really cool.
Yeah.
So you did the TVs. Did you do?
Oh, I already hear it's video.
We didn't do security. Gotcha.
That actually came through.
I was a give them a shout out.
Maximum security.
That's where we used to work.
Ralph Campbell Cheryl was an amazing boss to us.
We took the audio video with us.
With his blessing, he hooked us up with the truck
to get started so we didn't have to buy a vehicle.
So we greatly appreciate everything. He.
Yeah, our in numbers.
I had a guy. He's.
Ryan saw flash, and he's like,
you think the other soft wash companies are like my competitor?
But we talk, we're friends.
So yeah.
Shout out to Ralph for helping,
you know, and, working together, power and numbers and collaboration is key.
Yeah.
So that's first or is it is this first? No.
It's first I say that first. Gotcha.
You know, is that we do a lot like that.
I mean, we have countless, of restaurants, bars like that same thing.
Give us a list of some bars, restaurants.
We also did the back under maximum.
We did the back nine in Southington as well.
And, Cycling Country Club.
Yeah, there's a back 9 in 7.
Oh, same owners back.
Yep. Same name. Yeah, they call it.
It's at Stanley and one's at Southington.
Is that in landing or.
Southington Country Club. Southington Country club.
All right. Cool.
We've done, 5.5 corners, which is just down the road here in Farmington.
Is that a restaurant? Yep. Yeah, I heard good things about it.
It's a nice upscale restaurant he's got.
Yes, he's got some different type of food.
I would say he's got a lot more to it.
It's very kind of elegant and almost. Oh, well.
You've been there.
Yeah. It's really nice because his.
His dad was actually the owner.
Yes. Oasis Pizza in Bristol.
Okay.
To which I've said to him recently, I was like,
can you please just bring the pizza back?
Because that was my favorite pizza in the world.
Best pizza. Yeah.
So, senior Pancho's, we did we've done,
the Elson barrels.
We're currently working on our last story now would be probably Monroe.
Monroe. Right.
Working on the fire system in the new Monterrey, going into Center Square there.
Is that a restaurant? Yeah. Okay. That's in downtown. Bristol.
They're on Riverside right now, but they're moving to the Center
Square apartments that got put up in the side town.
We did Pure Foods. We did digital signage there.
That was cool.
Now we'll move on a blank. Hey.
I'm sorry. We're still playing the game.
First, last best, worst day.
So best,
best would be
in what way? Best for us.
Center square was pretty awesome doing the, the fire system,
the cameras and the access for the 52 apartment buildings over there.
So that was a couple months of work and 52 apartments.
Yeah, yeah. So 52 more. Yeah.
And it's called Center Square.
So that's square bills range. And Town Hall.
Yeah, yeah.
And that's where, yeah.
The 52 apartments with the Pure Foods on the left side.
They moved into that building.
There's Dark Moon, which is a little, shop
with just all sorts of, like knickknacks and stuff.
I don't know what's going in.
And then Monterey. Cool.
So then they're going to do a second mirror building 52 apartments
and some more commercial space down there as well.
And yeah, shout out to Pure Foods because our food is awesome.
Is that like a Whole Foods?
No, it's just a little, lunch, dinner breakfast.
Yeah. But like, yeah, they're.
Clean eating delicious.
Food. Healthy but good.
Yeah, I know, but yeah.
So that system, they can get in with their phone.
This. All the tenants can get in with their phone.
They could, they have a keyfob.
They have a code.
They can give out temporary access to anybody that wants to come in.
If they get an Amazon delivery, they can shoot Amazon.
A call to Amazon will get in.
There's a nice little touch screen and a camera that tenants can talk to.
Some of that come in. So so you guys are living in a high tech lot.
Yeah. You guys are like. Jetsons, right?
Yeah. Yeah.
You know I'm impressed. Yeah.
And then I would say that is, that is you probably the best for our company.
The trampoline park, Extreme Air was probably one of the coolest ones
that we did, that with a lot of a lot of engineering,
a lot of out of the box stuff went into that.
Okay. We made, we did the audio.
We had a DJ station where, you know, they can talk and,
nice sound system.
We got the, the, digital signage.
So we have a sign that you get a wristband for the time that you jump.
So if you have, 1 to 2 or it's a, certain color wristband,
and I made a sign that rolls through that and it gives out
what wristband is allowed to jump right now, who's coming up, who's on ending.
And there's a little ticker.
It's all up on the. TV on a big.
So there's multiple TVs. Where is. That?
Oh, yes, that's in Cheshire.
Let's go to Johnson Road.
Yeah, it's right with, House of doors.
So the big building is House of doors, and in the back is the trampoline park.
You'll see the big Paul Bunyan standing out front. Oh, yeah.
Yeah. You know, it's funny, you do so many of that.
The kind of the that one definitely stands out.
And that was early on in our, our career too.
And then what do we are for worst.
This is my TV. No
kidding.
Oh we are.
Such good people and we get such great.
Clients. You know, I don't even tech.
Not working with technology could be a bear sometimes.
So even on the good ones, you know, for a while, there's some things that are
just going to work the way I wanted to.
For me, the worst is when you have to troubleshoot things that aren't working,
how they should be working, and that happens everywhere.
And that's where he really comes in.
He like he loves to do it.
He'll sit there and have dinner with you
if he's stuck there trying to figure something out.
Yeah, that's the kind of guy he is, you know.
A lot of perseverance.
Says then got to do it. Yeah.
And a lot of stuff that we do, we we
we take all these parts together and we build something.
But sometimes you're installing something that you just take out of a box
and you put up and then it's supposed to work.
And when that doesn't work, that is what drives you crazy, because there's nothing.
So we had. Feeling in the. World.
We had the shading job where we put a lot of shade.
I mean, this guy must have spent, you know, upwards of $20,000 and shades.
And it just was a nightmare.
It just stopped.
It wouldn't work. They the company ended up coming in.
They had to do like this site analysis to find out radio frequencies.
They had to give them a whole new all new shades.
So we had to install those shades.
That was hey, that was probably.
That's what I said.
I don't want to I don't want to install wireless shades anymore.
It's either wired or we don't do it.
Yeah, yeah.
And those are electronic shades where they kind of come up and come down.
Nice promise to the company.
Had like a patent on how quiet they were.
They made no noise.
So they were only option if you wanted
this super quiet quality shade.
Yeah.
They used to make garage door openers
and they made the quiet is garage door opener.
So if you can take that wood shades, it was like whisper quiet.
Oh that's cool.
Yeah, yeah.
And I'm quieting what I said and that.
But if you want to add a category first, last, best or worst,
is there something you said coolest or something else
we're missing that you just want to shout out of a project?
How about the pool project?
Let's talk about the pool project.
And the golfer.
Wait, wait. Yeah.
I you know, these pool projects.
I like these projects. So,
you know, we take,
we take your outdoor living space and then just enhance it.
And, so, we have our buddy good buddy Scott
that, we've been talking about it for a while
because he got his new pool, so I would you about there
when you when you making this place rock out.
So we added,
we added some planters,
these handmade, beautiful white boxes with.
There you can put the, the plants in.
And they had some speakers in there that rock they're made in Connecticut
and Bridgeport handmade. They're nice.
So yeah.
So they're plant,
they put plants in them, but they're also speakers.
Already. Yes.
And they look they look very nice, you know?
I mean, everybody's life's happy.
You know, I. Was, That's why.
Sounds good. Yeah.
And we put up outdoor TV in there, although it's, speakers above their TV
so they can listen to their, their music out there, or they can he's Super Bowl or.
Yeah, he actually played the.
Free, consultations and,
free, like visits to a house and.
Of course. To plan it out.
Get free designs. Free design. And a lot.
You know, people.
Say I'm interested
because the wife has always been telling me, wife of Fini, shout out to Nicole.
Yeah. Always wanted very good one. I want a TV outside.
I used to just haul it outside, put the fire stick in it,
pin a little screen on the, against the house, ask.
Probably there wasn't the. Other hand in my house.
There has to be a.
House door to cover over it.
24 seven it's outside.
During the football season, these guys come over
and we're watching the NFL redzone outside, and I'm watching
my fantasy team tank, and they're watching their fantasy teams do well and.
Watching the Cowboys tank. Because that's how you they're. Always fan.
Oh yeah podcast is over Boise.
But yeah listen you have nothing to fear with Brian Schottenheimer in charge.
I don't think there's any any threat to my Raiders.
Don't do much better.
Yeah. Wow. And Tom, who do you like?
I'm a bears fan. Gee, we're all.
Users in here. I'm a Giants. Fan.
Okay. Oh, for. Losers, right? No.
So we'll see how this year goes.
So, he's probably got the best chance of the team doing.
Well, you'd say that, but, like,
they seem to find ways to to screw it up lately.
Yeah. That all the time. Giants and the bad boys and the Raiders.
Yeah yeah yeah.
Well yeah he's got the crown on now.
With the Raiders.
I don't know.
You didn't let the best running back go.
The Giants.
Saquon Barkley stills the worst move ever.
History of.
And then he went and turned and paid the guy some the receiver
the same amount of money they would have paid Saquon Barkley.
Yeah. But it sounds like we were talking earlier.
He used I to to ask who he should draft this year.
Yeah me and and one of the options was Daniel Jones.
So apparently I agree that Daniel Jones is better.
That's good training camp all right.
Yeah I mean Jones is false.
So no that was a joke.
It was a joke.
I mean, that name alone makes me quiver.
But he will have an MVP and, you know, MVP season
just because he's a former giant, you know.
So so before we move on, there's a funny story of what we were talking about.
The Oh was.
Scott the outdoor speakers and Scott.
Doing in there.
Friends have been in any tournament with us last year. Yep.
And then he had called me this winter wanting to play again next year.
This year.
So I told him, sorry, man.
You know, I, I invite customers.
I was like, you have us do the pool system.
Maybe I'll get you a spot.
Hey, he finally had us put in the pool system for.
So he's on the team this year for nice.
You know, I had a good time last year. He wants to come back.
Yeah, I was on that sales call
and he was having and hawing, and he said, you know what?
Tell Tom to get me into that tournament and just go, just year.
Listen, ladies and gentlemen, the tournament sold a pool.
We get breakfast, lunch and dinner.
We got game day, Connor. We got a whiskey hole.
We got a long drink hole.
We got a school of rock hole.
You know, not many people have breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Longest drive.
All types of contests, all types of beverages.
It was one of. Got
your smart man for throwing us in the deal.
Scott.
Last year I actually won one of the closest to the pens.
No way. Yeah. Nice.
What was. Your key? I gave you a nip for it, too.
What was your prize? Do you remember?
A little plaque I played?
Why is it not on the mantle? Oh, it's. Up in the office.
It's up in the ice. Okay, we got a winner here.
See, even though he's a bears fan, he's still a winner.
Yeah. No, I hope yeah, I hope.
Are you signed in now? Is it official?
Are you currently registered right now? You there?
Ready? Yep.
All right.
Tom is in. Ryan, are you in this year? Yes.
It's on the calendar as we talked about. Yes.
Make sure it's on the calendar.
I couldn't go last year because a family thing that sprung up on me.
So you and Scott are the threesome?
Rob, I don't want to play.
I get to drive the golf cart. You know my role.
Yeah. And it's got liver beverages.
Exactly. The beverage. He's got to keep bringing them around.
I've ever. Custody.
We have a fourth that might need to back out.
So, We will.
Yeah, we'll get somebody in there.
We usually go to upcoming events, but again, you mentioned it to us
this is our fourth annual.
We're trying to break 30,000 bucks.
So help us you know we looking for sponsors
want to thank all the sponsors that have already sponsored
so yeah cool.
Looking forward to seeing you guys. Everybody said I missed a great time.
Oh, there was a lot there was a lot of people talk
I ever heard, you know, we all we do golf tournaments all the time.
And this one is the most chatter I've heard of.
Yeah, we have people come from New Hampshire,
gentleman that I've never really met, but he's like, this is my favorite.
I will never miss it.
So people come from all over and then we have a good crew,
so we will sell out, I promise you that.
So register ASAP.
You know, last year you guys had these desserts there.
The nothing bundt cake.
No. Yeah.
Yeah I've been going there. My wife loves them.
They do gluten free ones. They're incredible.
Yeah. Ever since that I, I we buy that.
Where do you. Go to which one.
The one in West Hartford.
Oh yeah. Yep, yep. She's a good friend.
Future podcast guest. Oh, okay. Awesome person.
Yeah, yeah.
It's amazing. No, none.
Nothing. But cakes. Yeah. They're awesome.
Bundt cakes.
Oh, yeah. They're like moist.
Yeah. So good.
Those went like this. Oh I know I got one.
She is sponsored and delivered product three years in a row.
So she's an amazing person.
Another buddy who golf with us that time.
Andy, we're sitting there
because all of them are gone in no time, and we're eyeball.
Another one's at the table, so I'm like, Indigo, just take it.
Take it from the kids over there.
Let's go look.
No. Nothing. Bonking. Yeah.
Shout out to nothing but cakes.
Thank you for doing it.
That was awesome. Yeah, I forgot about that.
Where we golf.
Okay, so I did a little googling research.
What do you think?
Do my research.
Your top four services
here.
Insight plus technology.
What are your top four services offered?
The number one service? Yes.
Whether it truly is number one on our list or not, I want it to be is alarms.
Alarms, alarms. Let's see.
Yeah. Alarm alarm systems.
Yeah. Cameras.
Cameras.
So that's going to fall under number one.
Smart home and commercial security okay.
Alarm systems camera surveillance keyless entry smart automation integration.
That's a that's a lot.
What's that a lot of explain that to a third grader.
The automation and integration is, is the the controlling your home
with your phone.
Well that's your lighting thermostats. And actually.
Number two, they talk about.
The automation integration.
Probably redundant just to two ways depending on how you look at it.
Control I like to call.
Yeah integrate look at integration is to.
Also offer wellness environmental monitoring including flood
detection seal smoke alarms and medicine cabinets sensors.
Yeah. Oh that's that's crazy.
So the well. In like an older giant.
Yeah. Like mom and dad in their.
System for my dad with that can detect if he hasn't moved.
Right. You were talking talking about this.
Tell us about motion like.
Yeah.
So so basically, the idea is really to detect,
detect, depression
in the sense of the slowing down, you know?
So, so are they moving in?
And it actually will give you a graph on if their movements are,
are going in the red, whether it's like anything moving in wet weather, whether
they're manically moving around a lot or they're not moving.
And so that's the graph that gives you the overall graph.
So you can see how they're doing.
And you can kind of catch some states before they happen.
On top of the fact of being able to check
in, and, see how they're doing.
If you're looking for mom and she's not answering,
you can look on your, on your system and see Will.
She is moving around the house.
That's awesome. And you currently have that for your dad.
I'm talking to my dad about it. Yeah, this is my dad.
So, you know, you're, like. Going in the basement.
You're not really supposed to go in the basement anymore, right?
If you go to my dad.
Oh, boy, oh, boy.
Who made him a. Song playing.
At. Sound?
I'll get it after. For me at your conference. Yeah, and
we haven't yet, but.
I think I'll. Get one in a second.
Keep going.
So smart home commercial security oh one.
Thank you so much. Thank you.
What do you got next?
Audio, video, audio, video.
Multimedia, heating centers, home theaters, outdoor entertainment system
was what was the range for the outdoor
for say like,
what?
For a price range?
Yeah, like an outdoor TV like mine. Yeah.
You know what? I'm on the mall budget.
I don't know if we can get any lower than a couple, 2 or 3 grand.
I mean, that's that's. Yeah, that's sounds about right.
Well, that's, you know.
Like, you know, we we. Supply everything.
Everything.
Yeah. The TV, the speakers there should.
No not for three.
Yeah I don't that's get that that that's getting low.
Yeah. Friends affinity discount. All right.
We can certainly work something out.
Hey now we're talking. Yeah.
And then I mean they can get up to the sky's the limit.
I mean.
Because the sun. Right.
That's what I have.
The sun can range from, I think 2500.
That's the type of TV.
So the name is Sun Bright.
So it's outside 24 seven in like January
if it's cold and I want to be out there watching the game, my wife is mad at me.
Which, you know, my wife happens a lot.
No, no. And I get sent outside.
I could watch that TV and it's -30 degrees with wind chill and outside.
Bright. So, yeah.
Sunrise that I'm the weather? No.
So then again, there's different levels. There are.
There's a full shade, one which is meant for outside when it's very light out.
But it's in the shade.
And then there's up to a full sun that it can be in the sun,
and you'll still be able to see the screen.
Yeah.
Your most cost effective one is as long as you keep the sun off of it, you're good.
If you get rain, it could get rain.
Now with the box they put it go in a box.
I don't do the ones.
They don't ask you.
Where it's outside. Here's your ring. It.
It's very there's like a cover on it but it's I'm like it's under my patio.
Yeah. It's like a grill cover. It's under my patio.
So are my. Deck and also has roof on. Yeah.
So it gets where it's not like monsoon rain.
Well I could get it right now. I think it rained on. Yeah.
It can't be submerged. Right, right.
You know they have a level that can be submerged
but is really this sucked.
So if you keep the sun off it, you can get away with a pretty cost
effective TV when you start introducing the sun to it.
That's when we kind of change the game a little bit, because number one,
it washes out your TV and it just kills that.
It kills the plastic.
So they have to design this to be beaten by the sun, you know.
And then they have some that you can put like next your pool.
And you know you could just shoot it with a hose all day long.
You know, you're getting pretty pretty pricey at that point in time.
But yeah good to know. Last two. Yeah.
Two left.
We're in one.
That's a clue. They're networking.
Oh. With their conference rooms we do the conference.
So you rent this?
We offer it up to be rented by the hour.
Yep. We're doing, 30 bucks an hour.
You can go to our website, Insight Plus Telecom, for meeting here.
Let's do it.
All right.
Out here in Bristol.
Yeah, I can I always got my staffer.
Yeah, I know I can act now to log in.
I'll be here.
In. We're at 747 Stafford Avenue.
You have a conference room rental with a 65 Samsung display, Bose sound board,
multiple function printer, 65 inch, both soundbar printer right there.
Water bubbler.
Come on up for zoom meetings.
Most you need. Yep, yep.
Yeah.
We had a, real estate attorney who would use it pretty often
just to simply come in and sign paperwork and have a professional spot.
Yeah. I can see that. Yeah.
Cool.
Yeah.
She actually gave up her, she was renting a place for,
like, $1,100 a month for 30 bucks an hour here.
Now, you know, a couple times a month needed.
Yeah, yeah, as needed to.
And when you do it, we're able to put a code in for you,
whether we're here or not.
Remotely unlock the door if we need to. For you.
You can get in, do your thing. Leave.
Code has gone.
Very cool, very cool.
You hit the tap for. I'm going to rent this place.
Let's do it. Again. Our friends.
You need discount? Of course.
Absolutely. 89.99. Okay.
Put it in my hand for five.
Also five stars on Google.
So much positive praise and feedback
for your professionalism, your system quality, customer support.
You are trustworthy, reliable.
You're a great company.
You even had some buddies on there on the website.
You're like, hey, I hear from my friends, how much did you pay those guys?
You did.
Nothing.
Well, I'd like to say I know these guys personally, and I, besides being great
at what they do, and I don't understand half of what they do, they're genuinely
two of the most awesomest human beings in the world.
And when my family was going through heartbreak and tragedy,
they both stepped up and helped as much as they could.
And I can appreciate that more.
So these are genuine guys, and I can tell everyone out there,
you want someone who's not going to rip you off and treat you well
and do the best for your what your needs, whatever that is.
These are the guys right here. Yeah, yeah.
Thank you. I goes a long way. Thanks, Rob. That's awesome.
Rob's a good friend.
Be a good friend here.
New game. We're sponsored by people's Bank.
We're going to go around the table, be a good friend and hold the door.
Pick up trash. It's not yours.
Give compliments. Be charitable.
We're going to go around the room and tell what makes Rob a good friend.
Then what makes Ryan a good friend and what makes Tom a good friend?
You guys can start any way you want, but I think Rob already started,
so you gave me the idea.
So Rob in already? All right.
I don't know if you guys want to go.
Go ahead.
Whoever you want.
Put you on the spot first. Yeah. Oh.
All right.
So we pick who we want to say about.
Sure. You know what I'm going to.
It's easy. I'm going to I'm going to say Ryan's a good friend.
Oh, Ryan.
Ryan opened me up to a career path in life.
Trusting me to come work with him, where he was.
He trusts me to be his business partner.
I tend to handle the financial end of the business.
I try to keep him in the loop as much as possible,
and he doesn't seem to be worried about any of it.
So he trusts me to, handle things, and I appreciate that.
And he's a good friend, and I hope I always do right by him.
Good answer, good answer.
All right, so I'm going to give back and say,
you know, really.
This is so. Sweet.
So cute. Hello.
You had me at hello eight here.
Brothers. Oh, hi.
Five brothers hug.
Oh, go back to where we.
Just become best friends.
Is this like a Coldplay concert or something?
Yeah.
So you don't.
That was supposed to be a private moment, right?
I'm sorry.
I'm in love.
Good one.
We'll go back to when I called them and said, dude, we're going on our own.
And zero questions. Yes.
He, said, were you right behind me?
We're doing it.
Really? Didn't ask much.
Said, you're going. I'm going with you.
That's all she has said, Molly.
And you know, what else can I ask for? I mean that, you know.
Ultimate trust fall right there. Yes, yes.
And when was that? When you asked.
When I asked it was.
It was. Did you propose?
February of 2017.
It's simple.
Like that was the day we started your anniversary.
Yeah, yeah.
It works out.
Covid February 2017 is the business anniversary.
July 1st, 2017 is my wedding.
Oh, makes makes it very easy to remember both things.
That's impressed.
You know by. 17. Was a good year.
Sometimes we forget some of those anniversary.
I know, but it all lines up together so makes it very easy.
Your turn. Fini.
Rob? Yeah.
By default.
Sorry. Yeah, sorry, I get it.
All right.
I'm Rob.
All that now. Rob, you're an amazing human being.
Ever since I met you, I've known you for a long time, through ups and downs.
And, you're just an amazing person. You care.
You're thoughtful,
and your empathy is a huge one.
And just perseverance and strength.
You know, I look up to you, and, I'm so happy that you're on friends and,
you know, you truly, added something special to our team.
And I'm really thankful for you.
So thank you, Matt friend. Appreciate it. Thank you.
You know what good friends do when we're all together?
Let's talk about bourbon.
Yes, it's bourbon time.
Let's do it.
So this is a Friends of Afeni special ten year you can't get.
You can only get nine year in Connecticut.
But this is a ten year.
Oh, this is the little tab is broken.
The tab broke off.
Okay. Here we go.
It's not that I'm not. Go for it.
That's on top. Yeah.
Another tab broke off. There was.
Oh, this isn't the tab.
There you go. Oops. Sorry.
See? Rookie move.
Technology guys. You guys gotta make things.
Ryan, you're.
A good friend.
Shockingly, Ryan has had, I think, bourbon before that on.
Technology and bourbon.
This man can do it all.
He's the Mike trout of, There you. Go.
There, I got it. Now get this cool.
So thank you for.
Yeah, this is a great podcast.
Oh, yeah.
We had to mention very cool a long time coming.
We started this talk in December at a and let's grab lunch.
The she was at the shoe on.
Oh no. Come on Stefan. Yeah.
Oh yeah.
We're going to do a little something.
But again, Fini talks of friends.
Bourbon.
Thank you.
Signature wine and spirits in Simsbury.
My friend Vinnie, we tasted this barrel and picked it out ourself.
We're only going to do a little something.
Something because it's gas.
One. Hundred 20 proof. Well, okay. Thanks.
Ten person. It's ten years.
So for the sake of everyone involved with this good stuff.
Take that right up to your office when we're done with this today.
Yeah. Thank you. Let's do a cheers.
This was awesome.
To good friends.
Good friend Nick who brought us to Nick.
All the other here.
Absolutely.
I breathe in fire. Oh.
That's really good.
Not very.
Cool.
All right, so we're in Bristol.
I got a prize. We're gonna do some Bristol trivia.
Oh, boy. Oh, we're gonna feature.
We did the good friends stuff.
Now it's time to pit you guys against each other.
Okay? We will just learn.
This is tough.
Where the money is going to go, I don't know, I'm here.
Good whiskey. So knowledge.
I'm questioning how much I know about.
But I want to do a little more. Or.
No, I don't know.
Okay. Hold on a suck.
It's like me. Let them get through the trivia.
Let's get, let's get, let's go.
You gotta, you know, maybe that little drink of bourbon, don't you?
I I'm a whiskey guy, but get it on. Go get a drink.
Oh, all right, then, here's the rules.
If you're going.
To two that don't get it wrong.
And take a sip.
That don't get it wrong.
Don't get it wrong. Don't get it right.
Yeah. So the guy answers it.
The other two got the other two got to drink.
That's like nori drink champs.
All right. We're going to start really easy.
You get shot them out.
What's the famous theme park in Bristol?
They come. I don't.
Winter. Yeah. All right I'll.
We'll keep score that.
Maybe you guys I'll let you I didn't know.
Yeah. You just said it quicker.
I'll let you if you.
I was letting him finish his sentence. Sir.
If you want a drink, you can.
But if I actually in this game or not.
Yeah. Go for all right. So I can call answers. Yeah.
All right, I thought I was just.
What major sports broadcaster. Is coming.
Yes. Where are you? Son of a b?
What is a nickname
often associated with Bristol due to its early industry?
The Bell City, oh.
What is it?
This is bell or spring.
But I think it's bell no. And clock for me.
Oh, oh our souls. Yeah.
All right. I guess it's clock.
What fall event happens.
Every year at one month.
Yes. Which, by the way, go ahead.
Please elaborate.
Year. We're going to be doing it.
Friends of Feeney will be at the mom festival.
Yeah, we're looking forward to that.
We will be at the festival and in the parade with our cool Mr.
Rogers float.
So we hope to see Insight Plus there.
Nice hanging out with us.
We're going to be near the Bristol Blues beer tent right outside,
so hopefully I will get a lot of people coming by asking what we do.
This is an exclusive.
We're in the month fest taking our talents to South Beach.
That's nice.
Yeah, for me it's just a walk down the hill with the wife and kids.
Yeah. So we end up down there in the food trucks.
Friday and Saturday is either Sunday has.
Got to come by.
Have you been to them on foot for you.
Oh yeah. How many times every year.
Yeah. We go way under the year there.
I can't say every year, but it's been a lot.
I know.
Yeah, yeah, it's all our kids would always.
I'm only 23.
All the kids would go.
So, you know, the wiser, take the kids on the rides and buy the tickets.
And somehow the guys always ended up in the in the beer tent.
What the hell?
What's the Elks Club?
Yeah, there's a club on the corner. Yeah. The Elks.
Yeah. Yeah, we might end up there too. So, yeah.
All right.
What's the oldest? Continually continuing.
Come on, that's too easy.
All right. Never mind.
It was a lake compound question again.
What is lake compound?
Let's be serious.
Oh, what is the name of the historic area of Bristol that separate the village?
Federal Hill that still retains its own identity.
It's a separate village for Waterville.
I will give it where I live.
Try going with the fast one. Boom!
All right. We're going to. Give Ryan a point here. Yeah.
Thank you.
Is that a sympathy point or. Yeah. Yeah, definitely.
Yeah. Definitely.
What?
Former president visited Bristol in 1960 on his campaign trail John Kennedy.
Yes, Robert.
He's a teacher.
What's the name of the large museum in Bristol that focuses on clock, clock.
Watch, resume?
Yep. Tom, did I forget the watch? Yep.
Bristol is part of what?
County card photographer.
Rob what year
was the City of Bristol officially incorporated?
17. No.
Oh wow. That's an option I'm. Going to go with.
No, no, that was something else.
So I got. 1785 okay.
1801 1911 or 1920.
1911. 18 time.
So 1911. That was the longest.
Yeah, that's the name Bristol or the as the territory.
And I have a bonus question for.
Oh I think it's up here. Okay.
What name was it before. Yes.
Well I don't know. You're going to get it right. I'm going to get it right.
My son's a historian.
What Bristol inventor is credited with developing
one of the first clock making machines.
Eli. Terry.
Seth. Thomas.
Chauncey. Jerome. Benjamin. Banneker.
Tommy light. Terry.
No. Eli Terry was wrong. That. Nope.
That's wrong.
I high Thomas. Wrong.
Benjamin Banneker wrong.
The last. Chauncey. Chauncey.
Thomas. All right.
Well good job. Chandra. Yeah.
Who grew up and hung out on Bird Road.
Washington. George Washington.
Bird road? No.
As a South wire vet question. Well.
You know, I'm sitting here and I'm like, bird Road Joe.
Swash no. Away at,
at, birds place.
Oh, okay. On,
That's up by chicken.
Bird road is. Yeah Chris bird.
So Chris bird the cemetery.
Like Larry. Bird what's his name?
And not just that stuff.
That grew up on Prairie Row. We have that.
All right. Yeah.
By the way, we have friends with the last name Mike bird who have it in
in Bristol that George Washington state.
And so that was my, bird Washington connection.
What longstanding factory
manufacturer, military goods, kitchen supplies, small engines
before closing in 1980.
Sessions manufacturing, Wallace Burns company,
Ingram company, new departure, high barriers.
How did you know?
Did you really know that one. I did good. What's in it for you?
Good for you.
What's the name of the river that flows through and go Driscoll,
the Quebec Quabbin.
Oh, okay.
We used to go have our parties up in New Departure.
That parking lot lay up there.
No idea what it was until I got older, but.
Is that after 21 right?
Yeah. Of course.
Yeah.
The Bristol Historical Society is housed.
What form or type of building, say Bristol Historic.
A former high school.
It's the original high school in Bristol. The former high school that's what.
All right Ryan two.
Tom five. Rob four. We got a close one here.
What neighborhood in Bristol is known
for its panoramic views of higher elevation fellowship.
And so yeah. Good.
Carl Thomas who was throwing shit out not only.
Good looking but he's also smart.
Not what major event happened in 2022
that led to the outpouring of national support for Bristol?
Two officers were unfortunately.
Yeah.
And down right, right near my house, actually, right down the street.
I heard the shot, you know.
Are you serious? Yeah.
We were outside.
Me, my father in law, I we thought someone would launch, you.
Know, that was a corner of my old my old hollow
where you live the day I closed on my house.
My old house? That happened? Yeah.
So the new people that moved in their first night in Bristol,
right next to them. That's my father in law.
They are outside. And I said it was fireworks.
And my father in law, I give him credit. He said, no, those are.
That's an automatic weapon being discharged.
Gee, little did we know.
That's ground. Wild. Wild.
What name of the.
What's the name of the current mayor?
Got it. Yeah. It has. Yanno
because he them. Well, is he a good friend?
He is a good friend.
Yes, I know him well.
Tie score to left.
What historical Bristol structure
was built in 1911 and now houses City Hall,
Oak Bank, Memorial Boulevard School,
the Bristol Opera House, the Bella Dean mansion.
Opera House Bank.
The Oak Bank.
What were the options?
Were they?
They just redid the City Hall. So just.
Memorial Boulevard.
You don't get. That. Sorry. Yeah, that's not true.
Because I thought Memorial Boulevard.
The school that's veins now. Yeah.
Yeah. Maybe there were houses. Yeah, maybe.
But while they were doing it, that's the.
That's where my son graduated from middle school.
Now I've been waiting for one question I was sure you're going to do.
Where
where do
this is that I don't know, I got a tie score and I got it.
All right. Where do the Bristol Blues play?
Muzzy fields? I have, I have the question.
I was waiting for a Babe Ruth question. Yes.
He will. Finish first. Homer.
Did he hit?
It was its first hole.
I don't know if it was his first, but he did play at Muzzy Field
and hit a home run.
Yeah, maybe it was the first home run. But.
I feel if you want to go, I don't know. Great.
Great game we had. At Listen to.
Blues last week.
Yeah I mean.
I want to go on record and thank Bristol Blues phenomenal.
Hosts. And that picnic area was amazing.
25 bucks, all you can eat, all you can drink.
The hot dog here. We have 20 people this year.
We have 40. We've doubled it.
Yeah.
And I
they're looking forward to coming back next year and just a lot a lot of fun.
A lot of fun. I missed you guys.
I was in New York City.
I know that Legoland.
Yeah.
One of the things here.
This is a yard.
Goats scarfs for win trivia.
Now, we haven't had that last question.
What was Bristol for?
It was call Bristol. What was the name of Bristol?
I know, I thought I had that on here.
I never even knew there was a do.
So if I, I know the answer.
So I'm going to win.
Yeah. I don't even know. I just make up a rant.
I will give you a hint.
It's the name of a brewery here in town.
Well.
There's only one now. What is?
Well, Firefly. Nope. That's gone.
That's gone.
And is it the new one? You know the name?
We were just there like a couple.
I was just there a couple of weeks ago for, Nick's band was playing.
New Cambridge. New came from Bristol.
Used to be called New Cambridge, and it was first settled.
So when I, when you had that question of when was Bristol incorporated, was it
what was it, Bristol Incorporated or was it, actually new.
You know, when New Cambridge was said?
Yes, it was in 1650.
I was going. To read I thought 19 was very.
Early because my son, who's a historian.
I would have never guessed 19.
Yeah. So that was way too early. Yeah.
But what do I know?
So you guys, trivia, speaking of all this trivia knowledge.
Oh, is this my only page?
Oh, we got star liver. Let's see.
What was the name of the original name of Bristol?
New Cambridge?
There it is. Could have, I could have.
So Rob won.
Rob wins. Out here.
Yeah. Give back, I give you back.
I was going to give it to my kids.
Now. And I'll give you Lisa. Rob, I got something else.
Rob's going to get that address. Me.
I'm we're going to the go to and I'm going to be rob video shot.
Yeah I get no shot. Yeah, yeah.
Boom.
All right.
All this talk. I'm a teacher for 22 years.
Do you have a favorite teacher you'd like to shout out?
Oh. Mine is Mrs.
Parenti.
That's my answer when I do this podcast.
Fifth grade teacher, fifth grade teacher.
Hartford. And my wife.
You know, the first one that comes to mind,
unfortunately, he's passed away at this point was Mister Rogers back
in, eighth grade at Memorial Boulevard Middle School,
because he was also, the soccer and basketball coach.
He was just a really good guy.
Yeah, it was a really good class to be in and a great coach to, to play for.
So yeah. Cool.
You know, my first one that comes to my head is Mrs..
Miss Simpson.
It was like what, fourth grade?
I'm not really sure why I can't explain it all.
But, I guess pepperoni is, would be my next.
Who's that? Really? Is that related to me? Is that related meal?
No, he was a science teacher.
I was always listening.
Kevin's dad. Right.
Costello's like, what to. Eat or not. Guarantee.
I see. Okay.
All right. Okay, I'm asking more.
Yeah, we went to school with Kevin.
Yeah, yeah, I just, I don't know, I just had a connection with the guy
who's our wrestling coach.
I mean, but, But there were a lot of great teachers, like, Mr.
Moylan was the baseball coach at, central and history teacher.
Bunty Ray.
He's still, I think, teachers.
And I know he still coaches, I also know he runs the, And.
What is that?
The.
Armory over in Bristol for for baseball and stuff as well.
I always liked him because he was a fresh teacher.
When I was there, he did criminal justice.
But he knew what it took to win.
And I really appreciated that playing baseball for Bristol Central.
And we were really good team.
And and we had a really some really good years.
You know what's funny though?
That's why it was hard answering the question
because every single teacher I'm naming is a coach.
So I'll try to do this.
Yeah.
Disconnect that.
Was like in my.
Third grade Dodger or missile called sons.
I don't know how you teach because sports is so important.
I know we're trying to, you know, not just for the teacher.
They are.
Yeah, but he coaches our teachers, too.
Yeah. I mean,
you know, from budget cuts in schools and they're cutting sports programs.
It's important to know that that's a very just.
Rattling on coaches. That. Yeah.
But it's a very important part of, of of a young person's life.
Is that sports like. Their teacher for.
Ages, how to grow up and how to act and you know, how to have quite a.
Very athletic teacher. Yeah.
No. Give you discipline.
No. Thank you for sharing your teachers.
And then another favorite.
And then there's a follow up question your favorite restaurant
could be in Bristol, outside of Bristol, anywhere in the world.
Favorites.
Not a big favorite.
I love pizza.
Pizza is absolutely my favorite food in the world.
And, Uncle Sam's is here in Bristol.
Right.
It's the best pizza I never heard. Love their pepperoni.
They have a. Board meeting out here.
I'll bring a couple of pizza for muscle. Sam. Nice.
I know I was thinking about
either bring, I was going to swing by Jay Tim's or a pizza place, but I.
Should have known.
The thing is about them too. It's not just pizza.
Their meatball grinders are awesome.
All their food they're there are family owned, local place.
All their food's fantastic. Yeah.
I like chunky tomatoes.
It's good pizza too.
It is a good pizza. All right.
So follow up question.
You're at Uncle Sam's, you're at Chunky Tomato.
You could eat with four people, dead or alive.
Anybody in the world who you and where in.
Why would the dead or alive? Who would you choose?
Oh, geez.
Number one would be George Washington.
It's an, There's no doubt in my mind he was the greatest president
to ever live.
You can't you can't deny the fact
that he had the opportunity to
take over and be ruler of of the New World as a general,
as the dictator, king, emperor, or whatever he wanted to be.
And the guy walked away and said, I don't want to do it,
which what was allowed the United States to become the Republic?
It is. Good answer, I like it. Yeah.
That's only one. Two.
Oh, are you going back and forth? Oh, are we going?
Are you sure?
Us for all that looks.
Like, you know,
I could sit here and think
there's a lot of people that for your reasons why I want to sit.
But the first one that come to my head was my grandmother, who I,
I only know as a from a kid's lens.
I don't know her through a lens, and I don't know why.
She's the first one in my head that I realized. Mom, her dad's.
My dad's mom. I'd like to sit down with her
and as an adult, know who she was.
And now, two. Very popular. Answers.
And I like that answer because that is make me think, two
and three for me would be my dad and my grandfather.
His dad, I never got a chance to talk to them
about what they had gone through.
My father passed away when I was 20.
So it would have been nice to hear stories of.
He was in the Navy.
My grandfather was in World War two.
To hear all the stories, and I never got around to asking about it.
Yeah. My.
So now that you say that my, my mom's uncle l
was, worked on Navy ships and all that stuff in all those years.
I'm like, hey, you know, whatever.
And he talked and whatever, and now it's like, I could have learned
and talked about all that stuff, and
I just not ignored it was and wrote on.
The air that. He didn't know any better. Yeah. You know.
But like, yeah, like the George Washington I can go on forever about.
Yeah, that would be great. All those different.
Yeah. You know people I make, I'm an analyzer.
That's why
I don't like answering the favorite things because it's hard for me to pick.
There's so many gifts. I noticed that, too. I had a podcast.
The favorites were like,
the, podcast gets kind of shut down and I was like, oh, right.
So in my mind, I'm like, all right,
I got to stop asking the favorite questions because
it's like, it could be anything in the world.
Opinionated. Is that your reasoning or what's your reasoning for the thing.
I just analyzed?
So much that I can't.
Narrow down says. Favorite song?
Well, I don't know what time was my favorite song like there.
You, there was I who was I went. In restaurants.
I like this because of that and this because of that. And who's better?
I don't, I just my mind gets too crazy and I'm.
Trying this sort of thing. You just kind of go with it.
I hear you. Pick who you pick. Do you?
You're for. I'm in over analyze or so it's hard. Oh, God.
No, that's the go.
Back and watch episode 107. Right.
My good friend. Rob. It could have changed by now.
So yeah, it's always a fluid situation.
We're at Luna Pizza.
Yeah.
And Rob was a great podcast guest, a great friend, a great board of director,
just a great person.
And that's where I admitted that
I was at Bristol at LA Compounds in the 1980s with my friends Tom
and Jen and her friends, where Milli Vanilli was caught lip sync.
And yes, I was at that show.
That's my claim to fame.
I know my daughter was at that Coldplay concert, so really, I thought it.
It's going to stay there forever.
I hope whenever that happens, she's going to like I was there, she said.
It was super awkward when it happened there.
She was like,
do they know these guys and didn't know, like the next day it would be blowing
if he. Had just kissed her?
No, I was up some peace like that would just do nothing right.
And as long as nobody saw it.
So we just happened to be recording the cam.
Yeah, yeah.
And then their reaction caused.
Cause like a whole thing was on social media.
Girl in the corner going up.
Because they were obviously doing something wrong.
And even went there and said, hey, you're either.
Very. Very, very shy. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, speaking of any recommendations,
so let's recommend don't cheat.
Yes. That's true.
Simplest way. Don't go see Coldplay.
No I'm kidding. Oh.
Any recommendations?
Podcast movies.
Books that you're reading, sports that you enjoy.
I'm not asking favorites right now just to recommendation to here.
I'll say I'm a huge Star Trek fan.
It's like, wait, which one can. Actually all of them?
Almost all of.
Did you watch the season premiere of.
I was like, I haven't started the new season of Strange New Worlds.
It's rare.
Like I used episode I don't.
It picks up from the last.
I try not to start them right away, because then I just fly through them
because I just get stuck and just want to see what's going on.
So I kind of wait.
And now that I had recently, you know, last two years I had gotten Paramount
Plus, just so I had access to all of it all the time.
I go back and watch some, I guess my favorite,
strange New Worlds has, the possibility
to be my favorite, but Next Generation would be currently my favorite, too.
I do love the original boys be Klingon.
I can't no, I can't. Speak with revitalization.
I know because episode one I. 707I love it.
Yes, the DS9 is.
Great so I can say Kokila low car dom Kai,
which means may you die in battle with honor.
Very nice. Right? Or speak Klingon?
Recommendations.
Star Trek.
Come on. I could do they watch all these podcasts?
You tell me what you. Listen to. In the car.
I listen in podcast on cars.
He'd probably say
like the technical manuals on, I don't know, something electronic.
Yeah. All they really do is technical stuff.
I how will I fixing the problem at that time in my life, that's
all I have.
I am boring, I guess.
Otherwise I'll give another one for sci fi people though.
The Expanse yes, was one of the best shows I've seen.
It definitely competes with Star Trek on that level,
especially for the fact that it was far more realistic.
On its physics of space travel.
They weren't traveling between solar systems until some.
What what.
The Expanse was originally a sci fi.
It's a prime now.
They took it over at, like, season three, six seasons.
They're based off of books. The first five.
It's actually made me want to read the books, because I want to
see the rest of the story.
They finish the show, but there's still more in the books.
Cool. Yeah.
Well, I recommend writing a handwritten note,
taking a cold shower if you shower and put it cold as can be.
Do you do that? No, I don't like that either.
This guy doesn't, like, go.
Oh, I like you. Doesn't like cold showers.
What does Ryan like his wife.
Is so lucky to have.
It's so lucky to have decent.
Go ahead. Your turn.
I don't know now.
All right then we got upcoming events.
I know you guys all like whiskey.
There's a whiskey fest at tumble Brook
on September 27th, weeks after our golf circus.
Recommend the whiskey fest. It's at tumble Brook.
The same weekend as the Mum Fest.
So we will be splitting the team, right?
It's going to be a busy weekend for friends of Phoenix.
I recommend Friends of Phoenix golf Tournament.
Yes, it is an awesome time.
That's what I recommend.
And then upcoming events we have that and then we have the Yard Goats game.
Which is very personal for me.
We're having all new friends and Nicholas t shirts that are going to be very,
heartfelt this year.
Yeah, very heartfelt.
And we want to thank Insight Technology.
Plus they will be a sponsor on the back of that t shirt.
It's our fourth annual year.
It's amazing.
It gets bigger every year, which is wonderful.
Yeah.
The outpouring of support is great.
And, it's good to see everybody.
It's like an end of summer ritual.
Yeah, really?
It's becoming like that, right?
Definitely. Yeah. Yeah.
And what else we have for events?
Mom fest.
Golf tournament, golf tournament.
What's the. When's the cornhole?
Unfortunately, that. May not be app.
All right, all right.
Never mind.
Will delete that scratch scratch scratch that.
This will got to let me know if you do a wolf pack again.
Yeah we will.
Do you guys do that last time my my son going out on the ice.
He loved the. Really high five everyone.
He kind of did.
Granted he was only three years old so. He was a little he had a little.
The guy in your hands. Yeah. Flying out.
All the players flying out. He had to wear a helmet.
No. No.
If I get to the yard goats game where you go down the field
and you can hold the American flag when the anthem.
Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah.
Very cool.
I can't thank you enough.
It was wonderful chatting with Insight Plus technology.
We're here with Ryan and Tom. Rob, thanks for stepping in.
I had a co-host.
Boo. Yes, the director extraordinaire.
Before we close out, do you have any closing remarks?
Anything you like to share final thoughts?
You know, I just want to say, thanks for
thanks for coming down here and setting up and doing this with us.
This is a lot of fun. We've been looking forward to it.
Anybody who is looking for alarms, cameras, audio, video,
control your house, we come out, we talk to you, we get your pricing.
If you don't do it, it doesn't cost you. Anything will come.
We'll Sia, we'll talk, and that's it.
And come on out for the golf tournament.
It's a lot of fun.
You won't you won't miss out and do all the things that you guys have to offer.
Or the smaller company that care.
So it was a chance. Yeah. Yeah.
Good friends.
All right. And all my.
Guys call my. Highly recommend. Them.
My recommendation is be a good friend that.
Hey there you go. He said yeah there you go.
You win the bumper sticker. Nice.
You guys are amazing.
I had a blast.
Thank you Ryan.
Thank you Tom. Thank you. Rod.
Thank you.
Direct Line Media,
thank you to all of our sponsors on three, we're going to say be a good thank you.
Fini. One, two three.
Good friend.
We went to the Sugarland Place in Gatlinburg to.
See this is this.
And oh you've been to this place. Yeah.
And they do.
For five bucks you can do a tasting in their in their moonshine place.
So, You get ten basically you're getting ten half shots of moonshine.
Oh, for five bucks and you get five bucks towards buying stuff.
So it really costs you nothing in the long run.
Me and my wife came out at 10 a.m.
in the morning, like, a little, you know, buzz, but we're on vacation,
you know? Hey.
Ryan head, first of all, is it what you have?
Are we going to be buzzed at 10 a.m.
in a couple weeks?
Probably, yes. Where we're going? Yes.
Where are you going? Nashville.
So me, him and 20 other people are going to Turks and Caicos.
They're all in Missouri for August 1st through, like.
I don't know if.
Yeah, the kid, but they're all teenagers,
so they're going to be one part of the resort.
We're probably going to get in trouble.
Yeah, not the. Kids I didn't know.
The adults.
The adults. The.
Male. Adults. Yeah. You had the male choice.
I went with, banana pudding, why I not?
That reminds me of banana powerbar.
Oh, I got chocolate coffee.
Made chocolate chip.
And then I had last peg, which is peanut butter, which I think I want to get.
Are you sure you have friends? One thing. What do. You.
Feel you don't like other good.