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All right, all right.

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Feeney Talks with friends.

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Episode 135.

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This is great. I'm here with my friend
Michael.

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Hello. Hello.

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How are. You doing? I'm doing great.

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Good. This is great.

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Again, my name is Eric Feeney, founder
and president of Friends of Feeney.

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Our mission is to help
children and families

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that need assistance
after heartbreak or tragedy.

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And I use this podcast.

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Feeney talks with friends,

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and I talk to wonderful people
that do great things in the community.

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And Michael,
you do great things in this community.

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Hartford, Washington, DC.

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Lana.

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Detroit. Houston, Japan.

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Do I go on? Did I miss any?

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A few, a few.

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Amazing stuff, amazing stuff.

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I'm very excited to talk to you.

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Looking forward to it.

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So, you know, I. What grade do I teach?

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You remember? Third grade.
I teach third grade.

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Very good.

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So pretend you're talking to a third
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You got it. Please explain. What?

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Intellectual property.

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What's intellectual property?

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So I'm an IP lawyer, and intellectual

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property is property that's intangible.

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So we know what tangible property is.

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That's a car.

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That's a house. That's a piece of land.

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An intangible property is property
that's really created within the mind.

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And those, our patents and trademarks
and copyrights and trade secrets.

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And that's what I focus
my legal practice on.

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Okay. Well done. You down?

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Yeah.

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Now, so you took a business
from two lawyers to close to 100 lawyers.

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How did that happen?

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Hard work and smarts and and good looks.

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Yeah. Mostly good looks. No.

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No, I was, First of all, I was
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You know, our our economy,
our global economy, used to be

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just about factories and manufacturing
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But starting in the 80s
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there was a transformation
globally where, where IP

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intellectual property became
a real big driver of the global economy.

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And I went to UConn law school.

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I got out in 1983, joined a very small
patent and trademark law firm, an IP firm.

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And, eventually the couple of guys
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and, myself and, another guy,
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We said, hey, let's let's take this firm
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And, 
we wanted to create a global powerhouse IP

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firm, which
which at the time seemed like a pipe dream

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a little bit, but we had our heart set
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And we we thought we could do it
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the biggest IP firms
when large cities like New York or Boston

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or San Francisco or Chicago.

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And we had a new business model.

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We we understood that, companies around
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needed to hire people like us,
but they also had limited budgets.

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So we said, if we stay here in Hartford,
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while some people think it's high
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San Francisco, it's a lot lower.

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So we focused here in Hartford
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There was about a thousand patent firms
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So in the 90s
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And now over the last 10 or 15 years,
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in the top ten of the largest
patent trademark firms in the country.

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That's amazing.

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Amazing stuff.

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Now, when you said tangibles,
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to, something that is like an intangible
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Sure.

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So almost any company who makes products,
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or whether it's a car with a jet engine,
whether they do oil drilling.

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Right, they they, all those products
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they develop them
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so that their competitors
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And the way you protect them
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So a lot of our job is to work
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And they can be at universities.

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They can be at early stage startups
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We work
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and we draft literally
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We send them to the patent office.

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And then there's all this back and forth

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and eventually we get
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So hypothetically, say
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Is that something that the IP
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So so that's an, there's there's an.

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Exciting. Area.

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There's a gray area that's,
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with is whether, like, business
methods can be patentable, or,

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those kinds of esoteric things
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And it's hard to patent
some of that stuff.

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It needs to be more, 
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Because I teach great lessons
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you know, I get the credit,
maybe I can get that.

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But, you know, tools
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will come up with an interesting tool
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their, their students.

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And those kinds of teaching tools
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So when I do small group instruction,
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and then some kids need
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I'll bring them to the it's
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so I can sit in the middle
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Someone created a cloud table.

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So each kid gets not just a circle,
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And they tried to patent that.

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Yeah, but that's a tangible item.
That's a tangible item.

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That's a table. Piece.

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Not your deal, not your.

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Don't we do all that?
Oh, you do that too. No.

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We patent anything.

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Yeah. Yeah.

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We patent anything and everything
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Chemicals to jet engines.

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And rumor has it that you,
Michael Kanter, created you.

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Intellectual property litigation.

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True or false? No, that is not true.

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No, no, I I've been, actively

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involved in intellectual property
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I, I didn't create it.

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It's been around. Did you create a law?

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This is from John Lyons, episode 31.

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Say, let's see John Lyons.

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What did John line say?

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Man, I might be speaking out of turn.

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What do you say?

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I don't have it.

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What if it comes to me?

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Okay,
maybe we'll we'll phone a friend later.

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That's right.
But you did mention Phil Colburn. Yes.

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So our motto, be a good friend.

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You see the bumper stickers around town?

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Absolute signs.

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So that's.

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Hold the door for someone. Pick up
trash is not yours.

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Give compliments. Be charitable.

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What makes Phil a good friend?

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I know is your coworker.
But what makes him a good friend?

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Or is he a good friend?

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Will Phil listen to this?

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You know he.

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Listen. He's a very good business partner.

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And and he's been a and a longtime friend.

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What makes him a good friend is that,
I actually hired Phil when,

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you know, back in the early 90s
when we were a very small firm.

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And what makes him a good friend
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we had a vision,
we both had the same vision.

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And, and we both really supported
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And I would say
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but but one of the things that makes
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is to know
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and let them go and do that,
and only push back if you know it.

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Very rare circumstances
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the rope to,
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always towards the same
when we knew that the vision was shared.

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So trust, 
keeping positive intentions and.

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All of those and confidence.

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In others. Work ethic. Right. Got it.

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Wow. That's a good friend.

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Oh, that's what it was.

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Did you more or less create
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litigation within the legal community?

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I don't no, no, no, no, I just yeah.

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No, I did not.

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How did you grow your firm to be
the one of the largest in that specialty?

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So, you know, the more things change,
the more they stayed the same.

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Growing a business today,
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and with all the fancy stuff out there,
it's all about building relationships.

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Personal relationships.

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So one of the things I started doing
the 90s when we decided

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we want to be bigger,
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There were a lot of small firms like mine

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that were being gobbled up
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We wanted to stay independent,
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So, I started getting on airplanes
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doors, principally in Japan and Korea,

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to try to develop, business there.

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And, it it's it's hard to do that. Right.

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You go there sometimes and you visit
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and you have no idea
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Was that worth the effort in the time
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But over time,
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Our largest client today is Samsung,
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as you know, a huge Korean company.

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And, so it was that kind of thing.

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And then it was also
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So we would have, friends
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a VP of engineering,
that person would go to another company,

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and we had this personal relationship,
and then we would follow them to their

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new company,
and we'd start doing work for them.

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And then as we matured as a law firm,
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what we say going in-house.

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They started going into corporations,
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And, they had great
had a great relationship with us

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and a great time
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So of course, when when they got to
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So we grew continuously from the,
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We never really acquired
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but we did it through
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to high and giving good, high quality
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And also, as I mentioned, that business
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having it, getting a lot
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Can you name a couple other
popular companies that you work with?

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We work some Raytheon Technologies.

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We work with IBM
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Dow Chemical, and then we work
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We work with the University
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And just, it's it's it's a very varied.

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Yeah, clientele.

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And we also do a lot
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So, Ferrari is a client, and,

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we do, work for, 
Major League Baseball and.

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A bunch of way.
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Or we do work for all the minor league
baseball teams we.

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Do nice. For. Yeah,

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include including our local team
in Hartford. Yes.

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Hartford Yard goats. Yes.

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So after this podcast,
I'm heading to Hartford Yard Goats.

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And you have a phone call. With who?

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With Samsung. Actually.

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And what time will it be over there?

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It'll be Wednesday morning.

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That's amazing. Yeah. Good stuff,
good stuff.

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Absolutely. Great spot. Helen and Cesar.

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They were podcast guests recently.

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And then West Hartford Lock.

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So with West Hartford Lock

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saying, what are three keys
that make you great at being.

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Running?

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I want to say co-managing partner, but
that we'll get into that next question.

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A lawyer at Cantor Colburn LLP.

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What are three keys
and make you great at your job?

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Three keys. Wow.

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Well, I

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think
one is, I'm try to be very responsive.

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So when my clients contact me,
whether it's email, text,

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phone call, whatever it is,
I try to respond to them right away.

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In the service business,
we're no different.

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You know,
if you're a plumber in the in your,

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you got a leaky basement and you don't
call, you don't respond to the homeowner.

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They get mad, right?

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Same thing in my business
where we're in the service business.

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No different
than, a lawyer or electrician.

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So I try to be really responsive.

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I try to, be creative and cost effective
in the, in the,

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in when I'm telling my clients
I, what I do is whatever my,

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my issue, my client's dealing with,
I, I put myself in their place.

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What's the best thing to do
given the costs of doing things?

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If there's three options,
what would I do if I were them?

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And I and I try to push them
to do the best thing for them, it's

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not about how much money I'll make.

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It's about what's best for my client.

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Because at the end of the day,
I want to grow old with my clients.

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And you don't do that unless you give them
the right advice all the time.

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Not just the advice.
It puts more money in your pocket.

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And I would say the last thing is, I'm
just try to be a human being with them.

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I just try to be their friend.

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I want to, you know, because my clients
are, like, really good people.

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And I want to get to know them
and get to know their issues,

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get to know their families,
get to know what's driving them,

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what what their desires are,
where they want to be in 5 or 10 years.

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And and when you're a real with somebody,
it's not just business.

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I think people really like that.
Very nice.

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So time cost and being a good friend.

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That's right.

284
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Time. Time is money.

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And we're going to talk about that.

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So your role changed
what happened on December 31st.

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Right. Right. And why
why did that happen. Yeah.

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So I will I'll go back to the 90s
when, Colburn

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and I, formed this we had taken over it.

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We were working for a firm,

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and the two guys retired,
and we were looking out into the future.

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We said, we want to grow this firm,

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and at some point, there's
going to be a lot bigger than we are.

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And what I saw at the time
was that in a lot of law firms,

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especially IP firms like mine,
guys and women.

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But would,
you know, would be in their late 60s,

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their 70s, they're still working
and you had other

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lawyers at the firm were saying,
you know what?

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I'm never I like the leaders of this firm,
but they're never going to leave.

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I'm never going to be able to spread
my wings.

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I'm never going to be able
to take the firm in some other direction.

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And so what would happen
is a lot of these firms sort of blow up

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because lawyers that are 52 say,
they say, you

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know, I'm never going to be in control,
I'm out of here.

305
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I'm going to take my book of businesses
leaves, okay.

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And we said, we don't want that to happen.

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So we're going to so we're we wrote into
our partnership agreement back in the 90s

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that at the end of your when you the year
you turned 66 at the end of that year,

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that you will no longer be
an owner of the firm that you were retire,

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you could still work for the firm,
but you don't own it anymore.

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And so as we started
growing and new partners came in,

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they all knew that at some point, Kanter's
leaving, Coburn's leaving, and everybody

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else will leave at that age
so that the younger, quote

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unquote, people will, will be able
to spread their wings and take control.

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Something to look forward to. Right.
And and at the end of the tunnel.

316
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Exactly. For it's interesting.

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People like to know that someday
they can control the situation.

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So that's what we wrote it in.

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It seemed like 35 years.

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Later that'll happen.

321
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And it honestly seemed like
it was never going to happen.

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It did.

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And they did on and December 31st.

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So as of now, because of your birthday.

325
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Yeah, my birthday,
I turned 66 last year. Eve.

326
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No, no, but it's the year.

327
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It was the year you got you got
you got you at the end of the year.

328
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Yes. Yep.

329
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So. It's a little bit
hard. It's been my baby.

330
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I know it's been my baby. So it's it's.

331
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You know, it's mixed a mixed blessing.

332
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I, I know
it's the right thing to do, but,

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and I've got a lot of other things
on my plate which keeps me busy, so.

334
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But that already happened to Colburn.

335
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Not to. No. He's a year younger.

336
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It's going to happen to him
next, you know.

337
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And do you.

338
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Have someone already filling your shoes?

339
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We have a group of other partners.
Process.

340
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Oh, there's a group of other partners
and they will vote on on leadership

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as things go.

342
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Oh it's a vote.

343
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Yeah. Amongst the
the partners. Right. Wow.

344
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And what are they looking for
when they vote.

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Or I.

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Think clones of my can
or I would. Say no I don't.

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They're going to look for
you know what the best people to lead the

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firm into the future.

349
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That's amazing.

350
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Yeah, that's almost like

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a principal saying or,
you know, superintendents like, all right.

352
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Age wise.

353
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I mean, that goes to being term
limits and age limits on a lot of.

354
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Things it does. Right.

355
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Yeah I think it's a healthy thing.
I think it's healthy too.

356
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So I think that's wonderful that you did
that commend you because.

357
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Yeah. You're handing over your baby. Yeah.

358
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Now does that change with
not to get personal, but like

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how does where does that fall?

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And being an owner and a lawyer
I'm thinking pay right away.

361
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So what's pay
still getting paid the same or do you.

362
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Yeah it's it's it's different.

363
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It's different.

364
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Yeah. Yeah. Interesting. 
Interesting. Wow.

365
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Did I miss anything
about intellectual property?

366
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How long
can you talk about intellectual property?

367
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Oh, I could go on forever.

368
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You know, I taught

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I taught patent law for many years

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at UConn law school,
so I could just talk forever.

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So it's it's what I've done.

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My whole my whole 40 year career.

373
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Nice. Yeah. What can I get paid?

374
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You want to get something patented?

375
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Well, you've got it.
You've got friends of Feeney.

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Get paid and be a good friend.

377
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So, you know, besides patenting,
we do trademark work, right?

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And trademark
is, is a is any kind of a symbol or a word

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or phrase that designates your goods
or services and distinguishes them?

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Get the. Little T on the. Surface.

381
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Yeah, that little that are in the circle
are the TM.

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The TM means you've that you're
using something as a trademark.

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The R in the circle
means it's been registered,

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you know, through a firm
like Cantor Coburn.

385
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But a way to protect, you know,
like you could with the Feeney thing.

386
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You could probably get
that as a registered trademark

387
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and that you'd be able to stop others
from knocking you off.

388
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I'm sure everybody wants everyone.

389
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So we're afraid the feeling
is the knock off friend, the Feeney.

390
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Yeah.

391
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What are the pros
and cons of getting something trademarked?

392
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There's no there's no con, okay?

393
00:17:38,791 --> 00:17:42,528
It just it's just it's just like patents
in that patents protect you

394
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from your from your competitors
copying your products.

395
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Trademarks
protect you from your competitors,

396
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copying the names of your products
or the name of your company,

397
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or the logo you use, or a phrase,
a tagline that you might use.

398
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And it it gives you a tool to go to court
and say, you've got to stop using that.

399
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Interesting.

400
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Because you're causing
confusion in the marketplace.

401
00:18:05,918 --> 00:18:08,754
Because someone went to London
and there was like,

402
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I think it was like, be a good friend.

403
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Chinese restaurant in London.

404
00:18:12,191 --> 00:18:14,393
And someone said, hey Feeney,
you should sue.

405
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Yeah. Joking.

406
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Yeah.

407
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But but just so you know,

408
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all of these things patents, trademarks,
they're only when you obtain them,

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they're only good in the country
that you apply for them and get them.

410
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So, so for example, our firm for our U.S.

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clients, we obtain patents and trademarks
in countries all over the world.

412
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So I hire other
IP firms in England, in Korea,

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Australia and China,
right to cover that country and those.

414
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And that's by the same token,
those law firms

415
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and all those foreign countries
hire me to do it here in the U.S..

416
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So I'm going in.

417
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May I go to, something called
the International Trademark Association.

418
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There'll be 15,000 people in San Diego,

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lawyers, patent and trademark lawyers
from around the world.

420
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And then we come and

421
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a lot of those lawyers
I do business with, I send them work.

422
00:19:05,010 --> 00:19:07,412
They send me. Work. Nice. Yeah.
Okay. Yeah.

423
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You take care of me in London,
I'll take care of you.

424
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Sure. Yeah.

425
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Interesting, man.

426
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I'm learning.

427
00:19:12,684 --> 00:19:13,685
See, I'm a lifelong learner.

428
00:19:13,685 --> 00:19:16,622
I tell my students
that learn something new every day. Right.

429
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Was this around? So I grabbed I in 1989.

430
00:19:20,225 --> 00:19:22,861
I was in eighth grade and my eighth grade
year book I wrote. I want to be a lawyer.

431
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Could I

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have written an intellectual property.

433
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Was that around.

434
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Yeah.

435
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So IP I mentioned is patents, trademarks,
copyrights, trade secrets.

436
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What's kind of interesting
is the phrase IP.

437
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Okay. Really started
like in the mid to late 80s.

438
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So when I first got into this,
I was a patent attorney,

439
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that did trademark law
on some copyright stuff.

440
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Okay. Nobody used IP.

441
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And then all of a sudden it became a thing
when the global economy,

442
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was supercharged
by intellectual property.

443
00:19:54,626 --> 00:19:56,795
That's when that phrase really came in.

444
00:19:56,795 --> 00:19:59,898
So, I mean, if you Google IP,
maybe it shows up in the 60s.

445
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I but but not much.

446
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It really became a phrase,

447
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I would say in the late 80s
and then not throughout the 90s.

448
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Yeah.

449
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That's when all of a sudden I started
referring to myself as an IP lawyer

450
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and not just. A patent attorney.

451
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Interesting. Yeah.

452
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Well, we'll get we'll get back to IP.

453
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My next question.

454
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You may know how it's related.
Can you do a cartwheel?

455
00:20:22,621 --> 00:20:25,190
Well,
I'm married to a woman who certainly can.

456
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Do a cartwheel.

457
00:20:26,325 --> 00:20:29,461
Who? Just yesterday I'm married
to the mayor of West Hartford. Yep.

458
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And I must say, the best mayor.

459
00:20:32,297 --> 00:20:34,132
Yes, I was going to say
the state of Connecticut,

460
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but I'm going to go more broadly.

461
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The United States of America. Nice.

462
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And certainly the only one who.

463
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Does cartwheels, as far as I know.

464
00:20:41,473 --> 00:20:43,742
But, yeah, just yesterday.

465
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She she had a full day on her plate,

466
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and she threw out the first pitch
for Little League.

467
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And as soon as she throws the pitch out,
she does a series of cartwheels

468
00:20:52,584 --> 00:20:53,852
to go off the field.

469
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And then later that morning,
we, the girls softball

470
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league started their,

471
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their season.

472
00:21:01,360 --> 00:21:03,962
And she threw out the first pitch
there. And again.

473
00:21:03,962 --> 00:21:06,331
They show a series of cartwheels.
Yeah, yeah.

474
00:21:06,331 --> 00:21:08,166
You knew exactly where I was going
with that. Yeah.

475
00:21:08,166 --> 00:21:10,135
Every parade cartwheel.

476
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My 100th podcast.

477
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I have it at Playhouse, Park.

478
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And you know, I'm thanking everyone.
Thank you. Carrie Army.

479
00:21:16,541 --> 00:21:17,309
You want to come back

480
00:21:17,309 --> 00:21:20,445
and I instead of say, say a few words
like, oh, do you want to do a cartwheel?

481
00:21:20,646 --> 00:21:21,480
Without thinking?

482
00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:24,483
Without question, she just wome cartwheel,
high heels and all.

483
00:21:24,783 --> 00:21:27,519
You know,
that goes back to the fact that in

484
00:21:27,519 --> 00:21:31,890
she went to a whole high and at all high,
she was in she was a coach, coach,

485
00:21:31,923 --> 00:21:36,428
co-captain of the of the girls,
the girls, all high gymnasts gymnast.

486
00:21:36,428 --> 00:21:39,231
Okay.
And she was a really, really good gymnast.

487
00:21:39,231 --> 00:21:44,303
Oh. And and and then over the years, 
I'll say two things.

488
00:21:44,303 --> 00:21:46,004
One is whenever we were.

489
00:21:46,004 --> 00:21:47,506
She loves cartwheels.

490
00:21:47,506 --> 00:21:51,943
And whenever we were in a hotel,
that had, like, a long hallway,

491
00:21:52,544 --> 00:21:55,013
with all our kids and everything
she would do, like, cartwheels

492
00:21:55,013 --> 00:21:57,416
all the way down the hallway
if nobody was looking.

493
00:21:57,416 --> 00:22:01,620
And then also when, when our kids

494
00:22:01,620 --> 00:22:04,623
would play one time when our kids
were playing basketball at Hall,

495
00:22:04,823 --> 00:22:08,694
during one of the leagues,
she did a cartwheel.

496
00:22:08,694 --> 00:22:09,361
It's winter. Wintertime.

497
00:22:09,361 --> 00:22:12,197
She had these big boots on with,
like, long heels.

498
00:22:12,197 --> 00:22:14,266
And she slipped
when she did the cartwheel.

499
00:22:14,266 --> 00:22:18,270
And she actually ended up, injuring her
elbow.

500
00:22:18,270 --> 00:22:18,737
Oh, no.

501
00:22:18,737 --> 00:22:18,904
Yeah.

502
00:22:18,904 --> 00:22:22,507
And and ambulance had a combo, so
the cartwheels can be troublesome for her.

503
00:22:22,507 --> 00:22:23,542
And she still does them, too.

504
00:22:23,542 --> 00:22:25,744
Oh, she don't give up. No, no.

505
00:22:25,744 --> 00:22:27,279
Yeah. I, taught again.

506
00:22:27,279 --> 00:22:28,180
Teaching third grade.

507
00:22:28,180 --> 00:22:31,583
My two students, one
sing the national anthem at the softball.

508
00:22:31,750 --> 00:22:33,352
And she was a maid. She goes.

509
00:22:33,352 --> 00:22:38,590
And the mayor was there, and she did
a cartwheel in the dirt in her high heels.

510
00:22:38,590 --> 00:22:39,891
Yeah, I was like. Oh, I know.

511
00:22:39,891 --> 00:22:41,927
Oh, and that girl did a great job.

512
00:22:41,927 --> 00:22:44,062
And yeah, the national anthem.
That's my student.

513
00:22:44,062 --> 00:22:46,331
Oh, she's. I have the video.
She was very cute.

514
00:22:46,331 --> 00:22:49,801
All right, I'm telling the camera
I'll show runner very cute.

515
00:22:50,102 --> 00:22:52,471
Congratulations on the national anthem.

516
00:22:52,471 --> 00:22:53,672
That was so good.

517
00:22:53,672 --> 00:22:55,507
And, another John Lyons quote.

518
00:22:56,608 --> 00:22:58,677
John Lyons says

519
00:22:58,677 --> 00:23:01,680
as Mayor Sherry can see around corners.

520
00:23:01,913 --> 00:23:04,649
What do you think he means by that?

521
00:23:04,649 --> 00:23:07,386
Well, she has superhuman vision,

522
00:23:07,386 --> 00:23:09,154
so she actually doesn't
see around the corner.

523
00:23:09,154 --> 00:23:10,389
She sees through the walls.

524
00:23:10,389 --> 00:23:13,692
So, I think that you means

525
00:23:13,692 --> 00:23:17,763
that she, anticipates
the needs, of the town. Yep.

526
00:23:17,763 --> 00:23:18,930
Going into the future.

527
00:23:18,930 --> 00:23:21,800
I mean, and there's so many examples.

528
00:23:21,800 --> 00:23:25,771
And just when you see all this housing
going up, you know, she saw some years ago

529
00:23:26,071 --> 00:23:29,541
how critical, so many people
wanted to move into the town,

530
00:23:29,908 --> 00:23:31,076
and there wasn't enough housing.

531
00:23:31,076 --> 00:23:35,881
So many, seniors wanted to leave their,
sell their, their bigger homes.

532
00:23:36,281 --> 00:23:38,550
But there was no housing
for them to go into.

533
00:23:38,550 --> 00:23:41,553
They wanted to go into a smaller apartment
or a condo. So.

534
00:23:41,553 --> 00:23:46,158
And she understood that
if we had more housing for even

535
00:23:46,158 --> 00:23:47,859
for our seniors
who wanted to sell their homes,

536
00:23:47,859 --> 00:23:50,796
they would move in the housing,
still stay in town, and younger

537
00:23:50,796 --> 00:23:53,098
families could move into the houses.
They're leaving.

538
00:23:53,098 --> 00:23:55,200
And then, of course,
all the young professionals

539
00:23:55,200 --> 00:23:57,903
that want to live here,
there wasn't enough housing stock.

540
00:23:57,903 --> 00:24:00,539
So she has really pushed
to make that happen.

541
00:24:00,539 --> 00:24:02,073
And at the same time, of course,

542
00:24:02,073 --> 00:24:06,077
it's it's helping and it really will help
in the next couple of years to grow

543
00:24:06,077 --> 00:24:11,116
the grand lifts or grand list of the town,
which, really will help the taxpayers

544
00:24:11,683 --> 00:24:15,220
to help with subduing the burden
that taxpayers have here in town.

545
00:24:16,254 --> 00:24:18,690
We have an exclusive
taxes will go down in West Hartford.

546
00:24:18,690 --> 00:24:21,059
Well, heard of here? Someday. Someday.
There we go.

547
00:24:21,059 --> 00:24:22,661
But this is going to really help.

548
00:24:22,661 --> 00:24:25,330
Always have a job
because kids will compete moving in. Yeah.

549
00:24:25,330 --> 00:24:27,732
So that's all. But all these buildings
you're seeing, they're not.

550
00:24:27,732 --> 00:24:30,869
And you know, once they come online
they pay substantial taxes.

551
00:24:31,203 --> 00:24:34,239
And and that's really going to help lower
the property taxes

552
00:24:34,239 --> 00:24:37,509
for or or help
with property taxes for rent. No.

553
00:24:37,542 --> 00:24:38,710
Right. By French cleaners.

554
00:24:38,710 --> 00:24:39,945
There's two huge ones.

555
00:24:39,945 --> 00:24:41,980
There's that Farmington. Yeah.

556
00:24:41,980 --> 00:24:43,715
That's going to be huge
like a lot of people.

557
00:24:43,715 --> 00:24:45,150
Right.

558
00:24:45,150 --> 00:24:48,153
And then Sherry had had something to do
with those.

559
00:24:48,453 --> 00:24:51,056
She has to want to do. It
behind Luna Pizza.

560
00:24:51,056 --> 00:24:53,091
All the economic development
in tennis. Great.

561
00:24:53,091 --> 00:24:55,260
She's really involved in. Yes.

562
00:24:55,260 --> 00:24:58,296
Well, if you want to learn
more about Sherry, she was episode 35.

563
00:24:58,997 --> 00:25:02,267
And you notice Michael is episode 135.

564
00:25:02,267 --> 00:25:02,801
Yeah.

565
00:25:02,801 --> 00:25:06,905
So 100 podcasts
it took to get from Sherry to Mike.

566
00:25:06,905 --> 00:25:09,207
Well, listen,
that's something about you. Or versus.

567
00:25:09,207 --> 00:25:10,208
Everything about me.

568
00:25:10,208 --> 00:25:11,776
I just ride her coattails.

569
00:25:11,776 --> 00:25:14,980
My claim to fame is I'm
the husband of Sherry Canter.

570
00:25:14,980 --> 00:25:17,282
That's. That's about the best thing.
Oh, great.

571
00:25:17,282 --> 00:25:20,318
And, so do you offer

572
00:25:20,318 --> 00:25:23,688
do you offer suggestions, advice to mayor?

573
00:25:23,688 --> 00:25:26,424
You do you let her do her thing?
I will, don't listen.

574
00:25:26,424 --> 00:25:30,428
We we have a we have a
I will say we have an amazing marriage.

575
00:25:30,428 --> 00:25:32,397
We're very close.
We're each other's best friends.

576
00:25:32,397 --> 00:25:36,601
And we do we do share,
you know, some some marriages.

577
00:25:36,601 --> 00:25:39,604
People don't know what's going on at work
and vice versa.

578
00:25:39,738 --> 00:25:40,472
That's not us.

579
00:25:40,472 --> 00:25:41,306
We share a lot.

580
00:25:41,306 --> 00:25:47,078
So, when I said about growing my firm
and all that getting on airplanes,

581
00:25:47,312 --> 00:25:49,447
there was
there was something that I didn't mention

582
00:25:49,447 --> 00:25:51,816
and that is
that Sherry was always by my side.

583
00:25:51,816 --> 00:25:54,819
So I would go to international conferences
and there's,

584
00:25:55,053 --> 00:25:57,889
there's one that I'm going
to, in San Diego next month.

585
00:25:57,889 --> 00:25:59,791
Sherry comes with me to all those

586
00:25:59,791 --> 00:26:03,862
and my clients around the world
like Sherry better than they like me.

587
00:26:03,862 --> 00:26:07,832
So she's really helped me
grow my firm, without question.

588
00:26:08,099 --> 00:26:11,503
And by the same token, I'm
I'm really trying to support her

589
00:26:11,503 --> 00:26:12,537
in everything she does.

590
00:26:12,537 --> 00:26:14,973
You know, we're
both on a lot of other boards and things,

591
00:26:14,973 --> 00:26:17,976
but with the town, I mean,
I watch every town council meeting.

592
00:26:18,209 --> 00:26:22,380
Sometimes I text her all kinds of things,
you know, because I see her face.

593
00:26:22,681 --> 00:26:25,383
Sometimes I see her
look down at the at the,

594
00:26:25,383 --> 00:26:27,452
it's sometimes
I'm texting things that are inappropriate.

595
00:26:27,452 --> 00:26:30,121
And she looks down
and I get try to get a smile out of her.

596
00:26:30,121 --> 00:26:32,958
So, Yeah. So.
But we really. Do support. Each other.

597
00:26:32,958 --> 00:26:35,226
That's amazing.
Yeah. You're a power couple.

598
00:26:35,226 --> 00:26:36,361
Sure.

599
00:26:36,361 --> 00:26:40,231
To both in the Hall of Fame at UConn.

600
00:26:40,365 --> 00:26:41,066
We are.

601
00:26:41,066 --> 00:26:42,667
I don't I'm

602
00:26:42,667 --> 00:26:44,235
I don't know
if there's another couple there,

603
00:26:44,235 --> 00:26:48,106
but maybe there must be or I'm in the
the School of Engineering Hall of Fame

604
00:26:48,106 --> 00:26:50,141
and she's in the School of Business
Hall of Fame.

605
00:26:50,141 --> 00:26:52,143
That's fantastic.
Yeah, yeah. That's great.

606
00:26:53,578 --> 00:26:54,579
Yeah, we bleed blue.

607
00:26:54,579 --> 00:26:55,447
Just for the record.

608
00:26:55,447 --> 00:26:58,450
We're we're. Huge UConn. People.

609
00:26:58,917 --> 00:27:03,622
So can you get Geno or Hurley
on my podcast?

610
00:27:03,622 --> 00:27:05,323
I'll work on it. All right.

611
00:27:05,323 --> 00:27:05,890
We're really.

612
00:27:05,890 --> 00:27:09,160
Sherry has more pull than I think
because Sherry is a trustee

613
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:10,161
at the University of Connecticut.

614
00:27:10,161 --> 00:27:13,832
So both have verbally confirmed with me.

615
00:27:14,332 --> 00:27:18,436
I saw Hurley at the Children's

616
00:27:18,436 --> 00:27:23,375
Community Gala in Hartford,
and I say, hey, I give him the spiel, hey.

617
00:27:23,441 --> 00:27:25,910
Coach. I'm Eric Feeney.
I teach third grade.

618
00:27:25,910 --> 00:27:28,146
I do a nonprofit.
It's called Friends of Feeney.

619
00:27:28,146 --> 00:27:30,615
We help children.
He starts slapping me on the chest.

620
00:27:30,615 --> 00:27:32,350
That's good. Beep.

621
00:27:32,350 --> 00:27:34,019
That's good.

622
00:27:34,019 --> 00:27:35,186
Yeah. And I'm like.

623
00:27:35,186 --> 00:27:37,188
And I'm like,
so will you come on the podcast?

624
00:27:37,188 --> 00:27:39,991
Yep, definitely. How about. This?
How about Hurley's wife?

625
00:27:39,991 --> 00:27:41,793
Would you like Hurley's wife on the.
That'll work too.

626
00:27:41,793 --> 00:27:43,294
Because she works with Sherry.

627
00:27:43,294 --> 00:27:46,331
Sherry? 
She and Sherry are together on the.

628
00:27:47,399 --> 00:27:49,834
The, Children's hospital.

629
00:27:49,834 --> 00:27:51,936
Yeah, she's.
Really involved. With that. Yeah.

630
00:27:51,936 --> 00:27:52,337
She has.

631
00:27:52,337 --> 00:27:53,304
It's Sherry. Sherry. Cheers.

632
00:27:53,304 --> 00:27:56,141
Okay. There. They're.

633
00:27:56,141 --> 00:27:57,242
They're board for raising.

634
00:27:57,242 --> 00:27:59,411
She's good friends with Matt. Me.
Matt, me.

635
00:27:59,411 --> 00:28:03,348
My friend Scott, Matt and his wife runs
the children's

636
00:28:03,348 --> 00:28:06,885
community hospital,
so she's good friends with Hurley.

637
00:28:07,085 --> 00:28:09,688
Andrea. Is it? Yes. And she.
And she's a hoot.

638
00:28:09,688 --> 00:28:11,389
She would be great. Okay. Podcast.

639
00:28:11,389 --> 00:28:12,057
Center up.

640
00:28:12,057 --> 00:28:13,358
Let's do it, coach.

641
00:28:13,358 --> 00:28:15,226
And then Geno also said too.

642
00:28:15,226 --> 00:28:19,397
So and I joked with Geno
I go Geno, will you come on the podcast?

643
00:28:19,464 --> 00:28:22,300
Hurley said he would
and Lobo said she would.

644
00:28:22,300 --> 00:28:23,234
He goes, oh that's great.

645
00:28:23,234 --> 00:28:26,237
You got one that speaks English
and one that doesn't.

646
00:28:26,237 --> 00:28:27,872
And I was like, Geno never misses.

647
00:28:27,872 --> 00:28:29,040
Yeah he's hilarious.

648
00:28:30,075 --> 00:28:31,710
So yeah big bleeding blue.

649
00:28:31,710 --> 00:28:34,713
So you went to four Final Fours in a row.

650
00:28:34,879 --> 00:28:35,480
Yeah. Yeah.

651
00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:38,183
We were in Tampa
that for the women's just now.

652
00:28:38,183 --> 00:28:40,151
We did the two men's before that.

653
00:28:40,151 --> 00:28:42,420
And we were at the women's before that.

654
00:28:42,420 --> 00:28:45,423
That was in Minneapolis when they lost
to South Carolina in the finals.

655
00:28:45,423 --> 00:28:46,591
So you definitely bleed blue.

656
00:28:46,591 --> 00:28:48,460
Oh yeah. Yes. Four Final Fours.

657
00:28:48,460 --> 00:28:49,894
And then two of your kids went there.

658
00:28:49,894 --> 00:28:51,830
Two out of the four. Yes.

659
00:28:51,830 --> 00:28:55,500
Yep. My son Ben, who is a trademark
attorney at my law firm,

660
00:28:55,500 --> 00:28:58,937
he went to UConn undergrad
and then UConn law school.

661
00:28:58,937 --> 00:29:02,974
And my son Josh, it went to,
the School of Business, got an MBA.

662
00:29:03,141 --> 00:29:05,910
Nice.
And what are your other two kids? Who?

663
00:29:05,910 --> 00:29:09,514
So the other two boys, the two boys
I just mentioned live here

664
00:29:09,514 --> 00:29:10,248
in West Hartford.

665
00:29:10,248 --> 00:29:12,751
The other two boys live in Chicago. My.

666
00:29:12,751 --> 00:29:14,452
And they both went to Tufts University.

667
00:29:14,452 --> 00:29:17,088
And my son Sam is a singer songwriter.

668
00:29:17,088 --> 00:29:17,889
I know what he's got.

669
00:29:17,889 --> 00:29:20,024
He's. It plays in a few bands,
but he has his own band.

670
00:29:20,024 --> 00:29:21,426
It's called Minor Moon.

671
00:29:21,426 --> 00:29:24,429
Minor moon. Go on Spotify, check it out.

672
00:29:24,429 --> 00:29:25,830
Great music.

673
00:29:25,830 --> 00:29:28,633
Is it indie? Is an indie rock band.

674
00:29:28,633 --> 00:29:31,836
And my other son, Jacob, is a lawyer,

675
00:29:32,437 --> 00:29:36,608
working with, and,
working with housing issues in Chicago.

676
00:29:36,741 --> 00:29:38,309
Nice. So two in Chicago.

677
00:29:38,309 --> 00:29:40,545
You gotta go. The hang out.
Are they near each other?

678
00:29:40,545 --> 00:29:41,546
They hang out.

679
00:29:41,546 --> 00:29:42,647
They are very close.

680
00:29:42,647 --> 00:29:45,016
All four of our sons are very close.

681
00:29:45,016 --> 00:29:47,519
They love each other, see each other
whenever they can.

682
00:29:47,519 --> 00:29:49,754
And the two in Chicago
definitely hang out together a lot.

683
00:29:49,754 --> 00:29:50,622
That's amazing. Yeah.

684
00:29:50,622 --> 00:29:53,158
I have my sister in law has three boys.

685
00:29:53,158 --> 00:29:55,226
I couldn't imagine four boys.

686
00:29:55,226 --> 00:29:57,662
They the youngest slaps the oldest.

687
00:29:57,662 --> 00:30:03,101
He goes, cries, tells and and you know
they he the oldest gets yelled at.

688
00:30:03,101 --> 00:30:04,469
The youngest goes back in fights.

689
00:30:04,469 --> 00:30:07,205
The oldest again
I'm like you just complain. Ready. But

690
00:30:08,273 --> 00:30:10,708
it's just crying breaking stuff I'm sure.

691
00:30:10,708 --> 00:30:12,911
Is that. Was that the experience.

692
00:30:12,911 --> 00:30:14,579
I tell you they they would.

693
00:30:14,579 --> 00:30:16,848
Know hit it pretty. Good.
Yeah they were. Pretty good kids.

694
00:30:16,848 --> 00:30:20,852
My oldest son, Josh, is was,
you know, sort of they took his lead.

695
00:30:20,852 --> 00:30:23,588
He was a really sweet little boy.

696
00:30:23,588 --> 00:30:26,591
And they
it was not as bad as one would think.

697
00:30:26,958 --> 00:30:27,926
Yeah.

698
00:30:27,926 --> 00:30:29,060
Four boys, but they.

699
00:30:29,060 --> 00:30:30,995
All credit to the West
Hartford school system.

700
00:30:30,995 --> 00:30:31,996
They went to Morley.

701
00:30:31,996 --> 00:30:33,331
That explains. It. Yeah.

702
00:30:33,331 --> 00:30:36,334
And that's why.
They had great teachers and.

703
00:30:36,501 --> 00:30:38,603
Great education. They really did.

704
00:30:38,603 --> 00:30:40,371
Only they only hire the best out here.

705
00:30:40,371 --> 00:30:41,906
Only the best. Yeah.

706
00:30:41,906 --> 00:30:43,908
Which goes to set humble brag.

707
00:30:43,908 --> 00:30:45,376
But this also brings it back to Sherry.

708
00:30:45,376 --> 00:30:46,978
And I'm just an amazing person.

709
00:30:46,978 --> 00:30:49,881
A couple years ago
I was a finalist for teacher of the year.

710
00:30:49,881 --> 00:30:53,084
Unfortunately didn't get it,
but it was still an honor and I'm so proud

711
00:30:53,518 --> 00:30:54,419
and humbled.

712
00:30:54,419 --> 00:30:56,654
I got a handwritten note mailed to me.

713
00:30:57,689 --> 00:30:58,923
Open up, Sherry Kanter.

714
00:30:58,923 --> 00:31:00,124
Congratulations, Eric.

715
00:31:00,124 --> 00:31:03,127
You do so good in school
and such good things for the community.

716
00:31:03,261 --> 00:31:04,596
So it really meant a lot.

717
00:31:04,596 --> 00:31:07,866
And that just shows
what kind of person and mayor she.

718
00:31:07,866 --> 00:31:08,299
Is like.

719
00:31:08,299 --> 00:31:09,133
Yeah, I will tell you.

720
00:31:09,133 --> 00:31:12,103
I mean, to that end,
whether it's handwritten notes

721
00:31:12,103 --> 00:31:16,341
or whether it's responding to emails
from constituents, she does it.

722
00:31:16,341 --> 00:31:18,877
So like at night
where we'll be watching TV

723
00:31:18,877 --> 00:31:22,981
and like she's buried in her phone
and it's not because she's shopping.

724
00:31:23,281 --> 00:31:25,984
I and I'll say like,
what are you doing, hun?

725
00:31:25,984 --> 00:31:27,452
You know, because we're watching the show.

726
00:31:27,452 --> 00:31:29,587
And she's like,
I got to get back to these people.

727
00:31:29,587 --> 00:31:33,858
And that a lot of times it's things
that would be unpleasant to get back to,

728
00:31:33,892 --> 00:31:35,760
you know, somebody
complaining about this or that.

729
00:31:35,760 --> 00:31:40,598
And, but she, she feels it's
so important to respond to everybody

730
00:31:40,598 --> 00:31:43,601
so that everybody knows that they
she hears them.

731
00:31:43,801 --> 00:31:45,436
That's amazing. Yeah. No.

732
00:31:45,436 --> 00:31:46,504
You want to make sure every

733
00:31:46,504 --> 00:31:50,275
like a teacher or a parent when I do
teacher parent relationships are students.

734
00:31:50,575 --> 00:31:52,644
You want to treat everyone
like a VIP, right?

735
00:31:52,644 --> 00:31:54,979
So everyone gets your full attention.

736
00:31:54,979 --> 00:31:56,481
And if they have an issue or an email,

737
00:31:56,481 --> 00:31:58,182
you try to get back to them
at the best spot.

738
00:31:58,182 --> 00:31:59,450
I think that's so important.

739
00:31:59,450 --> 00:32:03,454
I know in my own career,
whether it's, you know, the janitor

740
00:32:03,454 --> 00:32:06,691
that's cleaning up your office at night,
you treat everybody with respect.

741
00:32:06,691 --> 00:32:10,528
In my clients, you know, it's
not just the vice presidents

742
00:32:10,528 --> 00:32:13,731
or, you know, or the top engineers,
but it's the admin.

743
00:32:13,731 --> 00:32:15,466
It's everybody in that client.

744
00:32:15,466 --> 00:32:18,469
Every single person
needs to be treated with respect.

745
00:32:18,703 --> 00:32:20,672
And not only does it

746
00:32:20,672 --> 00:32:23,675
pay dividend for your business,
but it's the right thing to do.

747
00:32:23,675 --> 00:32:24,676
Interesting.

748
00:32:24,676 --> 00:32:28,112
So as a politician in the digital age,

749
00:32:28,212 --> 00:32:30,882
some people get a lot of backlash
on social media.

750
00:32:30,882 --> 00:32:33,184
Do you do you feel like.

751
00:32:33,184 --> 00:32:37,255
I mean, sometimes it's it's
mostly always unfairly treated.

752
00:32:37,255 --> 00:32:38,923
Do you offer suggestions?

753
00:32:38,923 --> 00:32:41,793
How does she feel about that
or do you see it?

754
00:32:41,793 --> 00:32:42,994
Do you hear about it?

755
00:32:42,994 --> 00:32:44,462
I do, I do. There's not.

756
00:32:44,462 --> 00:32:47,332
Me. Quite frankly,
she's pretty well liked.

757
00:32:47,332 --> 00:32:48,733
Yeah. And rightly so.

758
00:32:48,733 --> 00:32:54,238
And so it's not as bad as I'm sure it is
for some people, but it's out there and,

759
00:32:54,772 --> 00:33:00,244
I, I think the mostly the best thing to do
is completely ignore it and not engage.

760
00:33:00,611 --> 00:33:03,247
She's really she's really good at

761
00:33:03,247 --> 00:33:06,617
ignoring it and not engaging,
because I'm a lawyer, maybe.

762
00:33:06,617 --> 00:33:07,118
And I just.

763
00:33:07,118 --> 00:33:09,921
And she's my wife, and I love her,
and I get pissed off.

764
00:33:09,921 --> 00:33:11,089
I'm the one who says, don't you?

765
00:33:11,089 --> 00:33:12,657
You can't let that go unanswered.

766
00:33:12,657 --> 00:33:17,261
You know, whether it's a letter
to Weehawken or something or some other,

767
00:33:17,762 --> 00:33:20,531
something else on Facebook or.

768
00:33:20,531 --> 00:33:24,435
And she's really good at
just letting it go because it goes away.

769
00:33:24,435 --> 00:33:27,605
And I
if it was me, I would be engaging more in

770
00:33:27,605 --> 00:33:30,842
it would not be pretty and it would not be
the right thing to do long term.

771
00:33:30,842 --> 00:33:32,243
Yeah. But she, she, she gets it.

772
00:33:32,243 --> 00:33:34,712
It's tough as a public figure
or a politician.

773
00:33:34,712 --> 00:33:36,948
You're always
there's always gonna be haters.

774
00:33:36,948 --> 00:33:37,615
Oh yeah. No, no.

775
00:33:37,615 --> 00:33:42,153
So I mean when I taught my course
at UConn for many, many years

776
00:33:42,153 --> 00:33:45,256
and they get the evaluations, you know,
if you have a class with 28 people,

777
00:33:45,590 --> 00:33:47,792
you're not going to get 28.
People said you did great.

778
00:33:47,792 --> 00:33:50,261
You know, there's always a couple people,
right? Mad at this?

779
00:33:50,261 --> 00:33:52,196
I used to bring my four boys.

780
00:33:52,196 --> 00:33:56,000
I used to bring them to the final class
of the year at UConn Law school,

781
00:33:56,200 --> 00:33:59,804
because I would bring in food and we would
it would be more of a question

782
00:33:59,804 --> 00:34:01,806
to answer
about getting ready for the final exam.

783
00:34:01,806 --> 00:34:05,943
And I'd bring my boys in and I, I remember
I even had like an evaluation

784
00:34:05,943 --> 00:34:06,344
where they said,

785
00:34:06,344 --> 00:34:09,580
I don't think it was appropriate for you
to bring your kids to this and like.

786
00:34:09,580 --> 00:34:11,949
Are you kidding me? You know,
and it's like.

787
00:34:11,949 --> 00:34:14,819
Yeah, next time I will bring food
either. Right? Right, right.

788
00:34:14,819 --> 00:34:15,720
Yeah. Back to UConn.

789
00:34:15,720 --> 00:34:18,723
So you serve on the engineering advisory
board.

790
00:34:18,790 --> 00:34:21,793
You are an adjunct professor
for more than 20 years,

791
00:34:22,026 --> 00:34:23,528
so you're no longer doing that.

792
00:34:23,528 --> 00:34:25,196
Right? Okay. Right.

793
00:34:25,196 --> 00:34:28,499
Former
member of the UConn Foundation. Yes.

794
00:34:28,499 --> 00:34:30,301
Bleeding blue for good. Yes.

795
00:34:30,301 --> 00:34:32,703
I was one of the founding members.
That was the no.

796
00:34:32,703 --> 00:34:33,971
That organization now

797
00:34:33,971 --> 00:34:36,974
has been merged into the university
because of the change in the law.

798
00:34:36,974 --> 00:34:41,446
But I was a founding member
of that group, Bleeding Blue for good,

799
00:34:41,446 --> 00:34:46,818
which was the first official Nil group,
to start paying playing our athletes.

800
00:34:46,818 --> 00:34:49,020
Yeah. What's your take
on paying college athletes?

801
00:34:50,922 --> 00:34:52,590
You know, it's funny, I was just talking

802
00:34:52,590 --> 00:34:56,027
to guys at lunch about it today
because everybody is talking about it.

803
00:34:56,027 --> 00:34:59,130
You know, I, I don't have a take
because it's it's the reality.

804
00:34:59,330 --> 00:35:01,432
Yeah. It's this is here to stay.

805
00:35:01,432 --> 00:35:04,502
It's it's completely changed the game.

806
00:35:04,502 --> 00:35:05,970
It's changed how coaches coach. Right.

807
00:35:05,970 --> 00:35:08,306
Because now
at the end of their professional coaches,

808
00:35:08,306 --> 00:35:11,042
now they got to restock their team
at the end of every year.

809
00:35:11,042 --> 00:35:13,744
Really all these players
are on a one year contract.

810
00:35:13,744 --> 00:35:14,612
If you will.

811
00:35:14,612 --> 00:35:16,848
Are there parts of it
I don't like? Of course.

812
00:35:16,848 --> 00:35:17,582
Are there parts of it

813
00:35:17,582 --> 00:35:21,285
that that I think are the right thing
to do for these players? Yes.

814
00:35:21,619 --> 00:35:25,423
But it's just when, you know, when the,
when the train has left the station,

815
00:35:25,656 --> 00:35:29,794
there's not much of a point of saying,
oh, I want to go back to the old way

816
00:35:29,894 --> 00:35:31,129
because it's never going to happen.

817
00:35:31,129 --> 00:35:34,132
It is what it is.
Yeah, right. Agreed. Okay.

818
00:35:34,232 --> 00:35:37,235
The Dean's advisory Council
for a school of engineer.

819
00:35:37,702 --> 00:35:38,236
Right. School?

820
00:35:38,236 --> 00:35:38,769
Yeah.

821
00:35:38,769 --> 00:35:42,406
Actually, we have, dinner Thursday night,
and there's a new dean of

822
00:35:42,406 --> 00:35:43,107
School of Engineering.

823
00:35:43,107 --> 00:35:46,010
We have a meeting all day on Friday
with that. Right.

824
00:35:46,010 --> 00:35:47,945
Nice bleeding below.

825
00:35:47,945 --> 00:35:50,281
So, yeah,
my girls are juniors, and they're.

826
00:35:50,281 --> 00:35:54,785
They do, what's it model un every year.

827
00:35:54,819 --> 00:35:55,620
Oh that's great.

828
00:35:55,620 --> 00:35:57,355
At, UConn.

829
00:35:57,355 --> 00:35:59,657
So we go and get the tour.
They really enjoy it.

830
00:35:59,657 --> 00:36:01,225
One's really interested in attending.

831
00:36:01,225 --> 00:36:02,126
So we'll see.

832
00:36:02,126 --> 00:36:04,262
Maybe I'll be bleeding blue soon too.

833
00:36:04,262 --> 00:36:08,666
I'm twin girls
so they do mock trial model U.N.

834
00:36:08,666 --> 00:36:11,002
Unified Theater Student Council.

835
00:36:11,002 --> 00:36:12,637
That's why all the fun stuff.

836
00:36:12,637 --> 00:36:13,070
Yeah.

837
00:36:13,070 --> 00:36:15,773
And you know, UConn is,
a phenomenal school.

838
00:36:15,773 --> 00:36:17,241
It's that great value.

839
00:36:17,241 --> 00:36:18,843
Definitely growing.
When I was in high school

840
00:36:18,843 --> 00:36:21,345
looking at UConn, it was like,
I feel like it was a farm.

841
00:36:21,345 --> 00:36:22,780
It was in the middle of the woods. Yeah.

842
00:36:22,780 --> 00:36:27,318
And now it's like a beautiful campus
and just it's what's changed in a lot.

843
00:36:27,351 --> 00:36:31,055
When I went there,
my parents didn't really have much money.

844
00:36:31,055 --> 00:36:32,990
And so back then,

845
00:36:32,990 --> 00:36:35,626
if you were a good student,
you were going to get in no matter what.

846
00:36:35,626 --> 00:36:37,461
You know, that's completely changed.

847
00:36:37,461 --> 00:36:42,333
It's much harder to get in and,
so when I was a senior

848
00:36:42,333 --> 00:36:45,236
and I went to Ellington High School
in Ellington, Connecticut,

849
00:36:45,236 --> 00:36:47,271
my parents said, we can only afford UConn.

850
00:36:47,271 --> 00:36:49,807
So I applied to a single school.
I applied to UConn.

851
00:36:49,807 --> 00:36:52,944
I knew I was going to get in,
it was just a real different era.

852
00:36:53,177 --> 00:36:56,414
I applied to one school to, oh, did
you live in Connecticut State University?

853
00:36:56,581 --> 00:36:57,181
Okay.

854
00:36:57,181 --> 00:36:59,684
Same thing I,
I, my parents really can afford.

855
00:36:59,684 --> 00:37:03,020
I joined the Army National Guard, went
away for six months for all the training,

856
00:37:03,554 --> 00:37:06,357
and I promised for six years
I a week and a month,

857
00:37:06,357 --> 00:37:08,426
and I got the GI Bill tuition waiver.

858
00:37:08,426 --> 00:37:10,861
And yeah, my buddy Jeff was at southern.

859
00:37:10,861 --> 00:37:12,063
I said, I'll go there.

860
00:37:12,063 --> 00:37:13,998
It's great. I applied to one school.

861
00:37:13,998 --> 00:37:15,600
That's cool.
You do apply to one school, too?

862
00:37:16,667 --> 00:37:17,969
No. Great stuff going on.

863
00:37:17,969 --> 00:37:20,972
How do you balance the work?

864
00:37:21,172 --> 00:37:23,307
Life, you know.

865
00:37:23,307 --> 00:37:25,543
Yeah. Family. So work. Travel.

866
00:37:25,543 --> 00:37:28,913
I will tell you that,
I was a little nervous when I took this

867
00:37:28,913 --> 00:37:32,083
new turn from the law firm
because, you know, managing a law firm,

868
00:37:32,350 --> 00:37:35,720
it's every single day emails,
you know, cash reports, all that stuff.

869
00:37:35,987 --> 00:37:38,289
I was a little nervous that I would.

870
00:37:38,289 --> 00:37:41,325
Would I fill my time
appropriately and be happy,

871
00:37:41,492 --> 00:37:46,564
but I've got a lot going on which
I like to be busy, so I chair some boards.

872
00:37:46,564 --> 00:37:49,166
I'm chairman of the board
of Connecticut Innovations.

873
00:37:49,166 --> 00:37:51,235
That's the state's venture capital fund.

874
00:37:51,235 --> 00:37:55,006
I chaired the board of the Connecticut
Museum of Culture and History, in the West

875
00:37:55,006 --> 00:37:56,040
End of Hartford.

876
00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,242
I'm on the Greater
Hartford Jewish Federation board.

877
00:37:58,242 --> 00:38:00,344
So, those.

878
00:38:00,344 --> 00:38:00,911
Those.

879
00:38:00,911 --> 00:38:05,583
Keep me really busy
and keep me really interested in things.

880
00:38:05,583 --> 00:38:09,020
I'm also in, quite involved
in a couple of early stage companies.

881
00:38:11,822 --> 00:38:13,924
Once a
technology company, once a restaurant.

882
00:38:13,924 --> 00:38:15,960
And so that also keeps me busy.

883
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:20,097
So, I like that I need to stay busy.

884
00:38:20,097 --> 00:38:22,199
So I've got that in between.

885
00:38:22,199 --> 00:38:24,902
I'm trying to take bike rides,
see my grandchildren.

886
00:38:24,902 --> 00:38:26,070
But what about a soccer team?

887
00:38:26,070 --> 00:38:27,605
Do you have a soccer team?

888
00:38:27,605 --> 00:38:30,374
I do, I have a small interest.

889
00:38:30,374 --> 00:38:32,143
In a soccer team in Italy.

890
00:38:32,143 --> 00:38:33,878
Yeah. So nice. Yeah. Why?

891
00:38:33,878 --> 00:38:34,712
Why Italy?

892
00:38:34,712 --> 00:38:36,480
And what are you, Italian?

893
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:39,450
No, no.

894
00:38:39,650 --> 00:38:40,951
The worst investment I ever made.

895
00:38:40,951 --> 00:38:43,587
But, A good friend.

896
00:38:43,587 --> 00:38:44,755
A good friend of mine.

897
00:38:44,755 --> 00:38:48,826
Got a group of guys, I

898
00:38:48,859 --> 00:38:52,596
when I say I have a small investment,
I it's infinitesimal right there.

899
00:38:52,596 --> 00:38:58,536
A couple of really wealthy New York
guys, bought a team, in Italy and,

900
00:38:59,570 --> 00:39:01,038
and then.

901
00:39:01,038 --> 00:39:02,239
Do you have a jersey?

902
00:39:02,239 --> 00:39:05,142
I do, and then and then, 
and then a few other

903
00:39:05,142 --> 00:39:09,714
a bunch of other people came in
with very small amounts, right.

904
00:39:09,714 --> 00:39:14,819
So and they were in, you know, they have
series A, B, C, D, they were in series C,

905
00:39:14,819 --> 00:39:17,822
and now they actually are now in series B,
they went up.

906
00:39:18,155 --> 00:39:20,324
Oh. Because if you win, you go up.
Yeah. Yeah.

907
00:39:20,324 --> 00:39:22,360
Exactly. Just like,
how many more do they have to go up.

908
00:39:22,360 --> 00:39:25,062
Well if they, if they went up
to the next one to be the top one.

909
00:39:25,062 --> 00:39:27,498
Oh no way. Yeah. Like the. Premiere.
What's the name of the team.

910
00:39:27,498 --> 00:39:29,900
Yeah. That's good. I'm like losing. The.

911
00:39:29,900 --> 00:39:33,537
You're like LeBron Brian has stake
in a soccer team LeBron James.

912
00:39:33,537 --> 00:39:36,273
Yeah we're like what's the team in wax.

913
00:39:36,273 --> 00:39:37,808
Oh and then Ted Lasso and

914
00:39:39,076 --> 00:39:39,610
Deadpool.

915
00:39:39,610 --> 00:39:42,546
The guy plays. Deadpool. Yeah exactly.
Yeah yeah that's awesome.

916
00:39:42,546 --> 00:39:43,681
Just like all of them.

917
00:39:43,681 --> 00:39:46,584
Yeah I know you, Ryan Reynolds. That's it.

918
00:39:46,584 --> 00:39:48,853
You got that wrong. Look on YouTube.
Yeah. That's it.

919
00:39:48,853 --> 00:39:49,754
Good looking. Do that.

920
00:39:49,754 --> 00:39:50,821
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

921
00:39:50,821 --> 00:39:52,156
No, it's great though.

922
00:39:52,156 --> 00:39:52,823
You're busy.

923
00:39:52,823 --> 00:39:56,026
Busy. And, just an interesting life and.

924
00:39:56,026 --> 00:39:56,160
Yeah.

925
00:39:56,160 --> 00:40:00,164
And I was just actually in India,
a month ago with our governor,

926
00:40:00,164 --> 00:40:03,901
with Governor Lamont, as as board
chair of Connecticut Innovations,

927
00:40:04,101 --> 00:40:05,269
our state's venture capital fund.

928
00:40:05,269 --> 00:40:08,672
I went to India with the governor, 
and we went to a whole bunch

929
00:40:08,672 --> 00:40:11,842
of cities and met with all kinds
of companies, big ones, small ones.

930
00:40:11,842 --> 00:40:12,643
That was great.

931
00:40:12,643 --> 00:40:17,415
I know my I have students, big time
Indian population, and I have houses,

932
00:40:17,415 --> 00:40:21,752
and I'm open and I'm invited
to go to India to stay with them.

933
00:40:21,752 --> 00:40:23,387
And I might take them up on it.

934
00:40:23,387 --> 00:40:24,789
I want to learn.

935
00:40:24,789 --> 00:40:26,357
Is it your first time over there?
Second, how.

936
00:40:26,357 --> 00:40:30,161
Many times I've been to India about,
I think 3 or 4 other times.

937
00:40:30,161 --> 00:40:31,462
We have clients in India.

938
00:40:31,462 --> 00:40:33,197
We do a lot of work in

939
00:40:33,197 --> 00:40:36,634
India, has a huge pharmaceutical industry,
on the generic side.

940
00:40:36,901 --> 00:40:39,470
And we represent a number
of generic drug companies.

941
00:40:39,470 --> 00:40:42,740
And I also represented,
Agricultural Chemical Company.

942
00:40:42,973 --> 00:40:45,743
So I've been to Mumbai and I've been to

943
00:40:45,743 --> 00:40:48,779
some other cities before, but never with.

944
00:40:49,013 --> 00:40:50,881
It's different
when you travel with a governor.

945
00:40:50,881 --> 00:40:51,882
How's net.

946
00:40:51,882 --> 00:40:52,850
Net good.

947
00:40:52,850 --> 00:40:54,485
Net net travel with net just great.

948
00:40:54,485 --> 00:40:58,088
I out a couple of years ago a net and I
and another group went to Israel

949
00:40:58,255 --> 00:41:00,691
and and another business development trip.

950
00:41:00,691 --> 00:41:02,560
So it's fun to travel with net.

951
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:05,129
He's a he's he's a very, very nice man.

952
00:41:05,129 --> 00:41:06,530
Very down to earth.

953
00:41:06,530 --> 00:41:09,333
And what you see on TV is what you get.

954
00:41:09,333 --> 00:41:11,068
He's just a very good guy.

955
00:41:11,068 --> 00:41:14,071
I got multiple emails
going back and forth with Carmen Colon.

956
00:41:14,138 --> 00:41:15,573
She's his scheduler.

957
00:41:15,573 --> 00:41:18,008
Okay. Can I come in on the pod?
Get him in here.

958
00:41:18,008 --> 00:41:18,843
I'm going through you now.

959
00:41:18,843 --> 00:41:20,778
All right,
Michael, we're going to make it happen.

960
00:41:20,778 --> 00:41:22,279
We got Hurley, Geno.

961
00:41:23,647 --> 00:41:25,216
Hurley's wife, Hurley's wife?

962
00:41:25,216 --> 00:41:28,352
Yeah. And then Governor Lamont. Yeah.

963
00:41:28,486 --> 00:41:29,253
He's a friend of Feeney.

964
00:41:29,253 --> 00:41:31,021
I'm multiple pictures with him.

965
00:41:31,021 --> 00:41:33,257
Going back to when I worked at the.

966
00:41:33,257 --> 00:41:36,126
Oh, well, as a teacher,
I worked in the CA, the Connecticut

967
00:41:36,126 --> 00:41:39,964
Education Association,
but I was a local political coordinator,

968
00:41:40,197 --> 00:41:45,336
so we helped elect politicians
that would help and support teachers.

969
00:41:45,636 --> 00:41:48,339
So we would meet in Hartford
and interview everyone.

970
00:41:48,339 --> 00:41:51,442
So I interviewed Ned and Dan Malloy.

971
00:41:52,643 --> 00:41:56,881
At that time they went with Malloy, but
Ned came back to following and was hired.

972
00:41:56,947 --> 00:41:59,950
And he's doing a great job,
so I'd love to talk with him.

973
00:42:01,352 --> 00:42:03,420
He's a good, good guy.

974
00:42:03,420 --> 00:42:04,889
Let's talk about recently. So I. Yeah.

975
00:42:04,889 --> 00:42:08,359
You brought up I was going to say,
hey, recently you went to India with Ned.

976
00:42:08,959 --> 00:42:12,029
And then just most recently
Saturday night, we were hanging out.

977
00:42:12,162 --> 00:42:13,130
Yeah, we were.

978
00:42:13,130 --> 00:42:14,398
Hanging out together.

979
00:42:14,398 --> 00:42:16,133
Yeah. We'll show a picture.

980
00:42:16,133 --> 00:42:17,368
This is where the picture is going to go.

981
00:42:17,368 --> 00:42:20,204
Stephania boom. Me.

982
00:42:21,305 --> 00:42:22,506
Me in the middle.

983
00:42:22,506 --> 00:42:24,942
Michael and Victor.

984
00:42:24,942 --> 00:42:27,344
Victor. Me Michael. Okay.

985
00:42:27,344 --> 00:42:28,879
I'm dressed up.

986
00:42:28,879 --> 00:42:29,914
What were you dressed up as?

987
00:42:29,914 --> 00:42:30,614
Billy Joel?

988
00:42:30,614 --> 00:42:32,716
You were Billy Joel.

989
00:42:32,716 --> 00:42:35,486
I see it now. Yeah yeah yeah yeah, yeah.

990
00:42:35,486 --> 00:42:36,620
I joked to it.

991
00:42:36,620 --> 00:42:39,623
Yeah,
I was a rock star, so it was Pop Rocks.

992
00:42:39,823 --> 00:42:41,725
What an amazing event.

993
00:42:41,725 --> 00:42:43,661
It was incredible.

994
00:42:43,661 --> 00:42:44,295
So fun.

995
00:42:44,295 --> 00:42:47,431
The people who were singing that,
the voices were.

996
00:42:47,431 --> 00:42:48,866
Just so super.

997
00:42:48,866 --> 00:42:50,968
And then, like, it was like American Idol.

998
00:42:50,968 --> 00:42:53,771
They brought a new person
to sing a different song, right?

999
00:42:53,771 --> 00:42:54,138
And then.

1000
00:42:54,138 --> 00:42:55,639
Then they would give an award.

1001
00:42:55,639 --> 00:42:58,642
New person sing. The food was great.

1002
00:42:58,742 --> 00:43:01,111
They. Had, It was a beautiful venue.

1003
00:43:01,111 --> 00:43:02,546
I had never been there before.

1004
00:43:02,546 --> 00:43:03,747
I think it's a pretty new venue and.

1005
00:43:03,747 --> 00:43:06,183
Brand new Bristol Event Center.

1006
00:43:06,183 --> 00:43:08,919
I think it's called honors prom is going
to be there at the end of the month.

1007
00:43:08,919 --> 00:43:12,022
No first prom that they're ever
hosting is going to be Connor kidding.

1008
00:43:12,423 --> 00:43:13,757
Yeah. And we were there first.

1009
00:43:13,757 --> 00:43:14,024
Yeah.

1010
00:43:14,024 --> 00:43:16,760
Of course the Playhouse on Park
is such a phenomenal.

1011
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:18,228
Amazing, amazing. Yeah.

1012
00:43:18,228 --> 00:43:20,397
So as you can see,
Pop Rocks was the theme.

1013
00:43:20,397 --> 00:43:22,199
So everyone dressed as rock stars.

1014
00:43:22,199 --> 00:43:24,602
I guess last year it was the Roaring 20s.

1015
00:43:24,602 --> 00:43:26,003
People dressed like that.

1016
00:43:26,003 --> 00:43:28,172
But it was a great event.

1017
00:43:28,172 --> 00:43:29,073
I'm so happy to go.

1018
00:43:29,073 --> 00:43:31,976
Tracy Tracy does
wonderful work at the Playhouse.

1019
00:43:31,976 --> 00:43:32,910
Park. She's a good friend.

1020
00:43:32,910 --> 00:43:35,145
Thank you, Tracy,
for everything you're doing over there.

1021
00:43:35,145 --> 00:43:36,747
I hope you raised a lot of money.

1022
00:43:36,747 --> 00:43:42,286
We had my 50th podcast,
at Playhouse on Park. No.

1023
00:43:42,353 --> 00:43:44,154
And my 100th podcast.

1024
00:43:44,154 --> 00:43:46,523
I had Harvey Air Cologne saying.
Oh, that's great.

1025
00:43:46,523 --> 00:43:47,424
Frank Whaley.

1026
00:43:47,424 --> 00:43:51,428
Frank Whaley plays
Moonlight Graham and Field of Dreams,

1027
00:43:51,829 --> 00:43:55,733
and he also gets shot by Samuel Jackson
in Pulp Fiction. Wow.

1028
00:43:55,833 --> 00:43:56,834
Frank Whaley.

1029
00:43:56,834 --> 00:43:59,436
So he was my also
the guest at the hundredth podcast.

1030
00:43:59,436 --> 00:43:59,937
Great.

1031
00:43:59,937 --> 00:44:03,307
But, they were
so you know that the lights, the sound.

1032
00:44:03,407 --> 00:44:04,441
Tracy.

1033
00:44:04,441 --> 00:44:07,945
Donated all the revenue
raised to Friends of Genius.

1034
00:44:07,945 --> 00:44:09,079
So thank you again. Tracy.

1035
00:44:09,079 --> 00:44:10,948
Thank you for such a wonderful night.

1036
00:44:10,948 --> 00:44:13,050
I mean, the food, the drinks.

1037
00:44:14,051 --> 00:44:15,686
The raffles were great.

1038
00:44:15,686 --> 00:44:18,122
It was fantastic.
I want to raffle check this raffle out.

1039
00:44:18,122 --> 00:44:20,190
I won at AC Peterson.

1040
00:44:20,190 --> 00:44:22,660
I get to put a food on the menu.

1041
00:44:22,660 --> 00:44:23,427
Oh. That's cool.

1042
00:44:23,427 --> 00:44:25,496
Isn't that great?
What are you going to call it?

1043
00:44:25,496 --> 00:44:26,764
Fries with Fini.

1044
00:44:26,764 --> 00:44:29,433
Nice little friends of Fini.

1045
00:44:29,433 --> 00:44:31,201
Fries of fini, fries of Fini.

1046
00:44:31,201 --> 00:44:33,203
So it's going to be fries.
And this is all brainstorm?

1047
00:44:33,203 --> 00:44:35,239
Yeah, you're going to me
how we talk through this. What do you.

1048
00:44:35,239 --> 00:44:36,573
Yeah, yeah, we can try to patent it.

1049
00:44:36,573 --> 00:44:39,576
Oh, yeah. Yeah. See, now we're talking go.

1050
00:44:39,643 --> 00:44:40,644
But I am going to have to charge.

1051
00:44:40,644 --> 00:44:43,981
You starting, Now go look.

1052
00:44:44,014 --> 00:44:45,382
At his watch, I love it.

1053
00:44:45,382 --> 00:44:46,917
I got to talk fast.

1054
00:44:46,917 --> 00:44:49,920
Is is like Shark Tank.

1055
00:44:50,187 --> 00:44:53,390
Fries in an ice cream,
and you dip the fries in the ice cream.

1056
00:44:53,557 --> 00:44:56,093
I love that. Done. Fries a fini.

1057
00:44:56,093 --> 00:44:56,827
That's pretty good, right?

1058
00:44:56,827 --> 00:44:57,428
Oh, yeah.

1059
00:44:57,428 --> 00:44:59,797
Yeah, dude, it fries salty. Sweet.

1060
00:44:59,797 --> 00:45:01,899
Everybody loves all of that.
So you ever dip a frying the ice cream?

1061
00:45:01,899 --> 00:45:02,599
I have not.

1062
00:45:02,599 --> 00:45:04,034
Oh, that's the move, Nicole.

1063
00:45:04,034 --> 00:45:06,937
Come on, you got to try it. We'll do.
Good stuff. So. Yeah.

1064
00:45:06,937 --> 00:45:07,604
Thank you.

1065
00:45:07,604 --> 00:45:10,674
I'm so excited
that I won that I tried to win Billy Joel.

1066
00:45:11,942 --> 00:45:13,510
But then didn't win.

1067
00:45:13,510 --> 00:45:16,980
My friend, my buddy Rob friend won.

1068
00:45:17,114 --> 00:45:18,782
He goes, I go, congrats.

1069
00:45:18,782 --> 00:45:20,651
He goes, I didn't win,
but I'm the plus one.

1070
00:45:20,651 --> 00:45:21,752
I got lucky.

1071
00:45:21,752 --> 00:45:24,688
My wife and I just went to a Billy Joel
concert two months ago.

1072
00:45:24,688 --> 00:45:25,856
Oh. Nice sun.

1073
00:45:25,856 --> 00:45:27,424
Oh, Mohegan. Yeah. We.

1074
00:45:27,424 --> 00:45:30,794
And we wanted that, you know,
Sterling physicians, you know, that's,

1075
00:45:31,361 --> 00:45:32,196
a group around here.

1076
00:45:32,196 --> 00:45:35,432
They have a foundation,
they raise money to do good things.

1077
00:45:35,432 --> 00:45:40,904
And we went to the their foundation
dinner gala, and we won the.

1078
00:45:40,904 --> 00:45:41,972
Billy Joel tickets there.

1079
00:45:41,972 --> 00:45:44,942
I saw him at Hartford, a while ago.

1080
00:45:44,942 --> 00:45:45,976
Hartford?

1081
00:45:45,976 --> 00:45:47,411
Oh, yeah, XL center.

1082
00:45:47,411 --> 00:45:49,980
Yeah. Well, he's great,
even though he's old.

1083
00:45:49,980 --> 00:45:51,682
Older than me, even. But he's great.

1084
00:45:51,682 --> 00:45:52,983
I mean, talent,

1085
00:45:52,983 --> 00:45:55,185
you know, once you have it,
I know it takes a while to lose

1086
00:45:55,185 --> 00:45:56,687
Mick Jagger still out there, right?

1087
00:45:56,687 --> 00:45:58,956
Billy Joel's still out there.

1088
00:45:58,956 --> 00:46:01,158
I'm sure Willie
Nelson's still out there doing something.

1089
00:46:02,126 --> 00:46:02,993
No good stuff.

1090
00:46:02,993 --> 00:46:05,796
Smoking pot.

1091
00:46:05,796 --> 00:46:06,530
The piano man.

1092
00:46:06,530 --> 00:46:08,398
Yeah, I was singing along
when they did the Piano Man.

1093
00:46:08,398 --> 00:46:09,333
That's that's a go to.

1094
00:46:09,333 --> 00:46:11,735
You got to sing along.

1095
00:46:11,735 --> 00:46:13,170
So we talked about Playhouse on Park.

1096
00:46:13,170 --> 00:46:16,173
We talked about Ned.

1097
00:46:16,507 --> 00:46:18,308
Oh, I always talk.

1098
00:46:18,308 --> 00:46:20,944
Do you have a favorite restaurant?

1099
00:46:20,944 --> 00:46:23,680
I know it's going to be tough
because, you're eating out a lot,

1100
00:46:23,680 --> 00:46:25,616
but it doesn't have to be in West
Hartford, right?

1101
00:46:25,616 --> 00:46:27,751
To be anywhere in the world.
You're, well, travel guy.

1102
00:46:27,751 --> 00:46:29,620
Yeah, yeah.

1103
00:46:29,620 --> 00:46:31,989
Where'd you eat in India with Ned Lamont?

1104
00:46:31,989 --> 00:46:35,025
We ate, all over.

1105
00:46:35,025 --> 00:46:36,460
We ate mostly at,

1106
00:46:36,460 --> 00:46:40,397
I guess we probably mostly ate at, hotels
we were staying at, you know, in India.

1107
00:46:40,397 --> 00:46:42,432
You got to be careful. Where you eat.

1108
00:46:42,432 --> 00:46:42,766
Yeah.

1109
00:46:42,766 --> 00:46:46,036
Because otherwise it's easy to get ill.

1110
00:46:46,470 --> 00:46:49,173
You know, if you just eat
in any restaurant because you're are.

1111
00:46:49,173 --> 00:46:50,440
You don't get the street food.

1112
00:46:50,440 --> 00:46:51,675
Do not get the street food.

1113
00:46:51,675 --> 00:46:54,378
No. Because, you know, in the water, too,
you have to be really careful

1114
00:46:54,378 --> 00:46:56,647
because our systems aren't
aren't red, you.

1115
00:46:56,647 --> 00:46:59,883
Know, adjusted to the, Indian. Stuff.

1116
00:46:59,983 --> 00:47:03,654
Well,
I like so many restaurants, here in town.

1117
00:47:04,121 --> 00:47:04,955
Name a few.

1118
00:47:04,955 --> 00:47:07,524
I like Max's Oyster bar. Very nice.

1119
00:47:07,524 --> 00:47:08,959
I like Brickhouse.

1120
00:47:08,959 --> 00:47:09,159
I mean.

1121
00:47:09,159 --> 00:47:12,462
I like them all, you know, and,
I like them all.

1122
00:47:12,462 --> 00:47:14,832
My wife likes them all equally.

1123
00:47:14,832 --> 00:47:17,100
She loves them.
That's a good answer. Yes, yes.

1124
00:47:17,100 --> 00:47:17,401
And I.

1125
00:47:17,401 --> 00:47:20,304
Like what she likes,
you know. Happy wife, happy. Life.

1126
00:47:20,304 --> 00:47:22,506
I love it. So that's the motto
I live by. That's it man.

1127
00:47:22,506 --> 00:47:24,908
So you're eating
at your favorite restaurant

1128
00:47:24,908 --> 00:47:27,911
and you can invite four guests, dead
or alive.

1129
00:47:27,978 --> 00:47:29,913
Wow. Who you in with?

1130
00:47:29,913 --> 00:47:32,316
Four guests. Dead or. Alive? Anyone?

1131
00:47:32,316 --> 00:47:33,917
Anywhere. We in? What?

1132
00:47:35,219 --> 00:47:36,386
Well, I'm going to invite.

1133
00:47:36,386 --> 00:47:37,154
This is I.

1134
00:47:37,154 --> 00:47:38,989
It doesn't sound exciting.

1135
00:47:38,989 --> 00:47:41,525
I'm going to invite my grandmother,
Betty Bassett.

1136
00:47:41,525 --> 00:47:42,025
Okay.

1137
00:47:42,025 --> 00:47:45,028
Who I was very, very close to. And,

1138
00:47:46,263 --> 00:47:48,832
I would love to chat with her
for a few minutes.

1139
00:47:48,832 --> 00:47:50,234
I hate to say this.

1140
00:47:50,234 --> 00:47:51,768
I'd also invite my dad.

1141
00:47:51,768 --> 00:47:54,304
Who died in, in, 2001.

1142
00:47:54,304 --> 00:47:56,106
And I'm like, keep mr..

1143
00:47:56,106 --> 00:47:58,442
He was very involved
watching my business grow, and.

1144
00:47:58,442 --> 00:48:00,711
He missed so much of it.

1145
00:48:00,711 --> 00:48:02,012
So. Yeah.

1146
00:48:02,012 --> 00:48:06,149
And then I guess I would invite some,
who else?

1147
00:48:06,149 --> 00:48:08,919
What I invite maybe,

1148
00:48:08,919 --> 00:48:11,755
I think maybe John F Kennedy.

1149
00:48:11,755 --> 00:48:13,190
Okay. Yeah.

1150
00:48:13,190 --> 00:48:13,657
It's a good one.

1151
00:48:13,657 --> 00:48:17,494
Yeah, maybe John F Kennedy,
because he was, And maybe

1152
00:48:17,494 --> 00:48:21,798
I love politics and all that, so
I maybe I would invite Franklin Roosevelt.

1153
00:48:22,165 --> 00:48:23,767
Okay. Yeah, I'm going to. Go with that.

1154
00:48:23,767 --> 00:48:24,534
It's a great. Dinner.

1155
00:48:24,534 --> 00:48:26,803
Yeah, it's a great dinner, grandma.

1156
00:48:26,803 --> 00:48:27,604
Yeah, dad.

1157
00:48:27,604 --> 00:48:30,607
Yeah. JFK FDR. Yeah.

1158
00:48:30,641 --> 00:48:32,776
Love it. Okay. Love it.

1159
00:48:32,776 --> 00:48:35,679
And then me being a teacher
for 21 years, do

1160
00:48:35,679 --> 00:48:38,949
you have a favorite teacher that inspired
you or someone that stands out?

1161
00:48:40,317 --> 00:48:41,985
I had so many great teachers.

1162
00:48:41,985 --> 00:48:45,422
You know, I went to this small high school
in Arlington, but it was fantastic.

1163
00:48:45,422 --> 00:48:47,824
I had I got a great education.

1164
00:48:47,824 --> 00:48:50,827
I, you know, and then
but I would say in college,

1165
00:48:51,028 --> 00:48:54,631
I majored in chemical engineering.

1166
00:48:54,898 --> 00:48:56,600
And there was one professor in particular.

1167
00:48:56,600 --> 00:48:59,836
His name was Jim Bell, and I was
I was doing

1168
00:48:59,970 --> 00:49:03,540
I was in this honors program at UConn,
and I was able to

1169
00:49:03,540 --> 00:49:06,677
he worked in a place
called the Institute of Material Sciences.

1170
00:49:06,677 --> 00:49:11,848
He was an expert on epoxy resins,
and I got to work in his lab

1171
00:49:11,848 --> 00:49:14,318
with a bunch of graduate students
for a whole year.

1172
00:49:14,318 --> 00:49:16,353
And then because of him,

1173
00:49:16,353 --> 00:49:20,190
I got interviewed by Shell Oil Company,
and I took a job in Houston with them.

1174
00:49:20,190 --> 00:49:23,894
But this guy, Jim Bell really impacted
my life in many, many ways,

1175
00:49:24,227 --> 00:49:26,763
and helped me in my career
as a patent attorney.

1176
00:49:26,763 --> 00:49:29,733
Patent attorneys
all have technical, technical backgrounds.

1177
00:49:29,733 --> 00:49:32,703
Every patent attorney you meet
is an engineer or,

1178
00:49:32,703 --> 00:49:35,739
or a biotech person or a physicist.

1179
00:49:35,906 --> 00:49:37,941
All of us, you have to be we have to take.

1180
00:49:37,941 --> 00:49:38,976
Especially now you're.

1181
00:49:38,976 --> 00:49:40,410
Reaching out more, right?

1182
00:49:40,410 --> 00:49:43,780
I said,
I read an article, it non it used to be

1183
00:49:43,780 --> 00:49:47,317
a lot of engineers and scientists,
but now you're doing, non-organic.

1184
00:49:47,851 --> 00:49:51,655
So I was like, just reaching out,
like everyone has to have that special.

1185
00:49:51,722 --> 00:49:53,423
Oh yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely.

1186
00:49:53,423 --> 00:49:55,959
Software engineers.
Everybody has to have something. So.

1187
00:49:55,959 --> 00:49:58,061
So your team is like
almost like the X-Men.

1188
00:49:58,061 --> 00:50:00,030
Everyone has their own. Well,
yeah, exactly.

1189
00:50:00,030 --> 00:50:03,300
So when we hire, we never just say
we need a new patent attorney.

1190
00:50:03,300 --> 00:50:05,869
You say I need a
an an electrical engineer.

1191
00:50:05,869 --> 00:50:07,404
I need a software engineer.

1192
00:50:07,404 --> 00:50:11,541
I need a small molecule chemist
or I need a polymer scientist.

1193
00:50:11,641 --> 00:50:12,709
That's how we hire.

1194
00:50:12,709 --> 00:50:12,943
Yeah.

1195
00:50:12,943 --> 00:50:16,013
So then so when we. It's
very. Specialized.

1196
00:50:16,513 --> 00:50:16,913
Yeah. Well,

1197
00:50:18,482 --> 00:50:20,083
learn something new.

1198
00:50:20,083 --> 00:50:21,585
Is it too late for me to.

1199
00:50:21,585 --> 00:50:22,352
You know.

1200
00:50:22,352 --> 00:50:23,353
It's never too late.

1201
00:50:23,353 --> 00:50:25,989
A third. Grade teacher.
It's never too late. Well, you can be.

1202
00:50:25,989 --> 00:50:28,258
You can become a trademark and copyright
lawyer. Just.

1203
00:50:28,258 --> 00:50:30,093
You got to go to law school, though. Okay?
You can go.

1204
00:50:30,093 --> 00:50:30,961
You can go at night.

1205
00:50:30,961 --> 00:50:32,929
You can has a great evening program.

1206
00:50:32,929 --> 00:50:34,931
How long would that take me for years.

1207
00:50:34,931 --> 00:50:37,067
Okay. Yeah, but you can keep your day job.

1208
00:50:37,067 --> 00:50:40,437
I know my buddy is a teacher, Shawn Mosley
in Waterbury did it.

1209
00:50:41,104 --> 00:50:42,839
And he's like, Feeney,
you can do it. Oh yeah.

1210
00:50:42,839 --> 00:50:45,242
And then my kids I again
I wrote it in eighth grade.

1211
00:50:45,242 --> 00:50:47,577
You're the kind of.
Yeah exactly. You said in eighth grade.

1212
00:50:47,577 --> 00:50:49,980
I can't like you can still. Fulfill
that. Dream.

1213
00:50:49,980 --> 00:50:50,580
I have to.

1214
00:50:50,580 --> 00:50:51,815
I'll be your mentor if you. Want.

1215
00:50:51,815 --> 00:50:54,785
Oh now I love it.
And I'm. I'm motivated. Okay.

1216
00:50:54,785 --> 00:50:57,988
My daughter wants to be a lawyer,
so maybe it's a race.

1217
00:50:57,988 --> 00:51:00,323
She's a junior in high school.

1218
00:51:00,323 --> 00:51:02,059
I'm 46. Who's going to get it first?

1219
00:51:02,059 --> 00:51:02,759
Yeah. That's right.

1220
00:51:04,161 --> 00:51:04,594
All right.

1221
00:51:04,594 --> 00:51:05,228
For years.

1222
00:51:05,228 --> 00:51:06,830
That's it. Yeah. At night.

1223
00:51:06,830 --> 00:51:08,298
At night. Right. Three years.

1224
00:51:08,298 --> 00:51:09,666
If you like a thesis.

1225
00:51:09,666 --> 00:51:10,934
Is there a big test?

1226
00:51:10,934 --> 00:51:12,669
No. Oh, they're just the bar exam.

1227
00:51:12,669 --> 00:51:14,871
Bar exam? Yeah, I got to. Yeah.

1228
00:51:14,871 --> 00:51:16,473
I got my principal degree.

1229
00:51:16,473 --> 00:51:18,308
I got my 092. I could do. Oh that's great.

1230
00:51:18,308 --> 00:51:18,542
So I.

1231
00:51:18,542 --> 00:51:20,410
Got my administration
a supervision six year.

1232
00:51:20,410 --> 00:51:21,545
Degree.

1233
00:51:21,545 --> 00:51:23,346
I could do that

1234
00:51:23,346 --> 00:51:24,815
I don't know
it might be too old for school.

1235
00:51:24,815 --> 00:51:26,950
I love it, love it.

1236
00:51:26,950 --> 00:51:30,821
So we did favorite teachers is your
is your favorite teacher Jim Roy Jim.

1237
00:51:30,821 --> 00:51:31,354
Jim Bell.

1238
00:51:31,354 --> 00:51:33,757
Jim Bell. Is he still around? No.

1239
00:51:33,757 --> 00:51:35,225
I was going to say we love to share.

1240
00:51:35,225 --> 00:51:37,027
We love to share.

1241
00:51:37,027 --> 00:51:38,695
You. Know, you get to be my. Age.

1242
00:51:38,695 --> 00:51:41,364
All those teachers you had,
most of them are not still around.

1243
00:51:41,364 --> 00:51:42,232
True, true,

1244
00:51:43,333 --> 00:51:45,902
man. So I got some upcoming events,
if you don't mind me sharing.

1245
00:51:45,902 --> 00:51:47,337
No, please.

1246
00:51:47,337 --> 00:51:48,505
Bingo at Raymore.

1247
00:51:48,505 --> 00:51:51,241
Flanagan, May 16th. Bingo.

1248
00:51:51,241 --> 00:51:53,009
Sully. Shamrock pasta dinner.

1249
00:51:53,009 --> 00:51:55,979
That's my good friend
who has Ms.. They're doing a pasta dinner.

1250
00:51:55,979 --> 00:51:57,481
Memorial day parade. We're marching.

1251
00:51:57,481 --> 00:51:59,382
Friends of Feeney's
marching in the Memorial Day parade.

1252
00:51:59,382 --> 00:52:02,752
That's Monday, May 26th after party
at Luna Pizza.

1253
00:52:02,953 --> 00:52:07,390
Okay, I'll be there sharing,
watching my wife, do, do her thing.

1254
00:52:07,657 --> 00:52:09,693
Cartwheel. That is. That's it.

1255
00:52:09,693 --> 00:52:12,696
Hartford athletic soccer on June 6th.

1256
00:52:12,996 --> 00:52:14,764
Bristol Blues.
You ever go to Bristol Blues?

1257
00:52:14,764 --> 00:52:17,134
They they
they're college kids that play in Bristol.

1258
00:52:17,134 --> 00:52:18,001
It's great.

1259
00:52:18,001 --> 00:52:22,038
So we're doing all you can eat, all
you can drink for 25 bucks on July 12th

1260
00:52:23,073 --> 00:52:25,041
and our fourth annual,

1261
00:52:25,041 --> 00:52:29,079
friends of Nicholas, that's Rob parents
son, Rob parentis, a West Hartford

1262
00:52:29,079 --> 00:52:34,317
teacher, Nicholas Parenti, passed away
after like, his eighth or ninth birthday.

1263
00:52:35,018 --> 00:52:37,921
We're celebrating him for the fourth year
in a row at the Yard Goats

1264
00:52:37,921 --> 00:52:41,258
game and our fourth annual golf
tournament.

1265
00:52:41,258 --> 00:52:41,958
Do golf.

1266
00:52:41,958 --> 00:52:43,293
I do okay.

1267
00:52:43,293 --> 00:52:46,296
Do around
check the calendar September 13th.

1268
00:52:46,630 --> 00:52:47,864
I will check the calendar.

1269
00:52:47,864 --> 00:52:50,400
Cantor Colburn yeah, would be a wonderful.

1270
00:52:50,400 --> 00:52:51,601
Yeah, I can see the sponsor.

1271
00:52:51,601 --> 00:52:53,370
I can see that presenting sponsor.

1272
00:52:53,370 --> 00:52:54,671
Yeah, big time sponsor.

1273
00:52:56,273 --> 00:52:56,907
Like here.

1274
00:52:56,907 --> 00:52:58,375
Right.

1275
00:52:58,375 --> 00:53:01,378
We'll give you mic time free for some.

1276
00:53:01,478 --> 00:53:01,912
We'll talk.

1277
00:53:01,912 --> 00:53:04,047
Want to talk after we'll follow up. Sure.

1278
00:53:04,047 --> 00:53:06,950
Cantor Colburn. That's it.

1279
00:53:06,950 --> 00:53:09,953
The best place for IP.

1280
00:53:10,987 --> 00:53:13,990
And our seventh annual makerspace
event makerspaces.

1281
00:53:14,191 --> 00:53:15,625
Seven years in a row.

1282
00:53:15,625 --> 00:53:19,663
We went to Elmwood Senior Center
and put out 1,000

1283
00:53:19,663 --> 00:53:22,666
pounds of cardboard and duct tape
and just watch the kids create.

1284
00:53:22,799 --> 00:53:24,601
Oh that's amazing. That's wonderful.

1285
00:53:24,601 --> 00:53:29,339
It's, pinball machines, claw machines,
you name it.

1286
00:53:29,339 --> 00:53:31,808
The kids are building it.
So there are future engineers there.

1287
00:53:31,808 --> 00:53:34,411
Maybe some IP lawyers.
You should go recruit.

1288
00:53:34,411 --> 00:53:35,645
Yeah, yeah.

1289
00:53:35,645 --> 00:53:38,582
So it was great while
I had a wonderful time talking with you.

1290
00:53:38,582 --> 00:53:39,916
Do you have any recommendations?

1291
00:53:39,916 --> 00:53:43,086
TV shows, podcasts, books?

1292
00:53:44,621 --> 00:53:46,022
Oh, yeah. What's the name of it?

1293
00:53:46,022 --> 00:53:49,025
We're watching my wife
and I watching the show with Kate Hudson.

1294
00:53:49,359 --> 00:53:52,362
She. It's like,
based on the LA Lakers where.

1295
00:53:52,562 --> 00:53:54,731
She. Takes over the team, but it's not.

1296
00:53:54,731 --> 00:53:57,434
They don't call them the LA Lakers
or go on the LA. Something else.

1297
00:53:57,434 --> 00:53:58,702
It's on Netflix.

1298
00:53:58,702 --> 00:54:01,304
Really funny. Really. It was a funny.

1299
00:54:01,304 --> 00:54:02,772
She's like.

1300
00:54:02,772 --> 00:54:03,273
Who is it?

1301
00:54:03,273 --> 00:54:04,107
She's the boss.

1302
00:54:04,107 --> 00:54:04,874
Yeah. Yeah.

1303
00:54:04,874 --> 00:54:07,143
She's, Jeanie Buss. Jeanie Buss.

1304
00:54:07,143 --> 00:54:08,712
I mean, like. A character spin off.

1305
00:54:08,712 --> 00:54:10,480
Character spin off of Jeanie Buss.

1306
00:54:10,480 --> 00:54:12,549
Her and her family.
My wife loves Kate Hudson.

1307
00:54:12,549 --> 00:54:12,849
So, yeah.

1308
00:54:12,849 --> 00:54:14,818
No, no, it's wheelchair basketball.

1309
00:54:14,818 --> 00:54:17,587
A lot of basketball talk.
And tons of basketball talk.

1310
00:54:17,587 --> 00:54:19,556
So if you're into sports and it's.

1311
00:54:19,556 --> 00:54:20,590
And it's just really funny.

1312
00:54:20,590 --> 00:54:22,425
Oh I got to write that one. Yeah.
That's a great one.

1313
00:54:22,425 --> 00:54:24,961
If we Google it we'll we'll get it

1314
00:54:24,961 --> 00:54:27,297
I don't remember names of things.

1315
00:54:27,297 --> 00:54:28,365
Come on, come on.

1316
00:54:28,365 --> 00:54:28,798
It's fine.

1317
00:54:28,798 --> 00:54:31,067
You're going to Google that for us
Kate Hudson Netflix.

1318
00:54:31,067 --> 00:54:32,602
Kate Hudson that basketball.

1319
00:54:34,738 --> 00:54:36,039
It's two words.

1320
00:54:36,039 --> 00:54:37,941
The name

1321
00:54:37,941 --> 00:54:39,643
and then that's it. Right.

1322
00:54:39,643 --> 00:54:41,511
Running point. Running point. Really good.

1323
00:54:41,511 --> 00:54:42,345
Stephania yeah.

1324
00:54:42,345 --> 00:54:44,681
Running point yep yep.

1325
00:54:44,681 --> 00:54:47,984
Proud I'm Mary my wife because she scored
a thousand points in high school.

1326
00:54:47,984 --> 00:54:50,220
So wow she's at East Grammy.

1327
00:54:50,220 --> 00:54:51,154
She's played Ellington.

1328
00:54:51,154 --> 00:54:51,688
You married. Her.

1329
00:54:51,688 --> 00:54:54,090
Yeah pretty much

1330
00:54:54,090 --> 00:54:55,158
East Granby. Yeah.

1331
00:54:55,158 --> 00:54:57,294
When I when she played
Ellie Ellington. Yep. Yeah.

1332
00:54:57,294 --> 00:54:59,429
That was part of our
that was sent in. Our.

1333
00:54:59,429 --> 00:55:02,032
Her biggest rival
I think was at Ellington back in the. Day.

1334
00:55:02,032 --> 00:55:06,303
I'm sure Ellington has always had
great sports and I notice they still do.

1335
00:55:06,369 --> 00:55:07,470
Yeah. Yeah. Good stuff.

1336
00:55:07,470 --> 00:55:08,204
Yeah.

1337
00:55:08,204 --> 00:55:12,542
So we're watch that I, we try to, 
follow up with my recommendations.

1338
00:55:12,876 --> 00:55:15,879
Any questions for me?

1339
00:55:16,413 --> 00:55:17,080
What makes you.

1340
00:55:17,080 --> 00:55:18,048
Such a good person?

1341
00:55:19,582 --> 00:55:20,884
You know, I don't know.

1342
00:55:20,884 --> 00:55:22,419
That's a great question.

1343
00:55:22,419 --> 00:55:25,922
I don't know, well, I try my best.

1344
00:55:25,922 --> 00:55:26,790
That's all. That's.

1345
00:55:26,790 --> 00:55:30,894
And, you know, had a rough,
not rough childhood, but you know, maybe.

1346
00:55:32,429 --> 00:55:33,063
Who knows?

1347
00:55:33,063 --> 00:55:34,731
That's a great. Question. Yeah, I.

1348
00:55:34,731 --> 00:55:36,499
I like giving back.

1349
00:55:36,499 --> 00:55:39,102
I like helping children.

1350
00:55:39,102 --> 00:55:40,970
I was a big brother. My whole life, so.

1351
00:55:40,970 --> 00:55:43,707
And then we talked.
My parents got divorced.

1352
00:55:43,707 --> 00:55:45,742
So I knew how it was not to see my dad.

1353
00:55:45,742 --> 00:55:48,311
So I empathize
with anyone that loses a parent.

1354
00:55:48,311 --> 00:55:51,314
Because I couldn't
imagine never seeing them again.

1355
00:55:51,448 --> 00:55:54,050
So we're just trying to help
as many families as we can.

1356
00:55:54,050 --> 00:55:56,252
Again, friends of Feeney,
our mission is to help

1357
00:55:56,252 --> 00:55:59,222
children and families that need assistance
after heartbreak or tragedy.

1358
00:55:59,255 --> 00:56:02,926
We've helped over 90 families
and raised over $250,000,

1359
00:56:03,226 --> 00:56:06,763
all volunteer based, working
with wonderful people in the community

1360
00:56:07,163 --> 00:56:11,067
like Luna Pizza, Maximum Beverage,
Sally and Bob's, you name it.

1361
00:56:12,268 --> 00:56:13,336
You know, soon to be working

1362
00:56:13,336 --> 00:56:16,339
with Kanter and Colburn.

1363
00:56:17,107 --> 00:56:17,974
It sounds great.

1364
00:56:17,974 --> 00:56:19,209
Thank you for the question.

1365
00:56:19,209 --> 00:56:22,645
Oh, so I got the cantor Colburn.

1366
00:56:22,812 --> 00:56:25,815
Oh. Do you know a Lauren Griner?

1367
00:56:26,015 --> 00:56:27,517
Lauren carmody?

1368
00:56:27,517 --> 00:56:30,420
She's the executive in residence
and marketing at Connecticut

1369
00:56:30,420 --> 00:56:31,921
Innovative Innovation.

1370
00:56:31,921 --> 00:56:32,655
So, Connecticut?

1371
00:56:32,655 --> 00:56:35,658
Yes, I'm chairman of the board
of Connecticut Innovations.

1372
00:56:36,159 --> 00:56:38,628
And she is, our head of marketing.

1373
00:56:38,628 --> 00:56:40,296
She's phenomenal at what she does.

1374
00:56:40,296 --> 00:56:42,565
And, you know, Sy is,

1375
00:56:42,565 --> 00:56:45,802
one of the most active venture
capital firms in the United States,

1376
00:56:45,802 --> 00:56:46,870
certainly on the East Coast.

1377
00:56:46,870 --> 00:56:50,774
And we, 
we invest in companies here in Connecticut

1378
00:56:50,774 --> 00:56:53,710
or companies that from around the globe
that want to come to Connecticut

1379
00:56:53,710 --> 00:56:57,347
or companies that are spun out of Yale
or UConn, you know, we have around

1380
00:56:57,347 --> 00:57:01,117
250 companies in our portfolio,
and she does all of our marketing.

1381
00:57:01,418 --> 00:57:02,919
She's 250.

1382
00:57:02,919 --> 00:57:05,054
No. For our for our venture capital firm.

1383
00:57:05,054 --> 00:57:06,156
She's amazing.

1384
00:57:06,156 --> 00:57:08,224
And we do this bike ride every year.

1385
00:57:08,224 --> 00:57:12,695
This four day bike ride that she bikes
with us on it and plans the whole thing.

1386
00:57:12,695 --> 00:57:14,964
Yeah. It's great.
Yeah. No, she's a good friend.

1387
00:57:14,964 --> 00:57:17,500
Oh, yeah. She's great.
I sent a selfie of me and her to sharing.

1388
00:57:17,500 --> 00:57:18,268
Sure you liked it?

1389
00:57:18,268 --> 00:57:21,938
I'm sure she knew exactly who it was,
but I was hoping that got to you.

1390
00:57:22,305 --> 00:57:25,308
But, 
I'm good friends with her husband, Eric.

1391
00:57:25,675 --> 00:57:27,811
She's amazing. Yeah, he's all right.

1392
00:57:27,811 --> 00:57:29,846
I don't know where she is. Amazing,
but she's amazing.

1393
00:57:29,846 --> 00:57:30,547
Yeah, yeah.

1394
00:57:30,547 --> 00:57:31,881
He's a big fan of the podcast.

1395
00:57:31,881 --> 00:57:33,750
Oh. I love him, too. All right.

1396
00:57:35,285 --> 00:57:35,985
Thank you.

1397
00:57:35,985 --> 00:57:37,153
Lauren.

1398
00:57:37,153 --> 00:57:39,923
Any closing remarks?

1399
00:57:39,923 --> 00:57:41,925
Well, it's a pleasure to be here.

1400
00:57:41,925 --> 00:57:45,829
Honestly, this is an amazing community.

1401
00:57:46,095 --> 00:57:49,098
I see it from the inside,
you know, being married to the mayor.

1402
00:57:49,265 --> 00:57:51,334
And and.

1403
00:57:51,334 --> 00:57:53,770
What what. What makes a community amazing?

1404
00:57:53,770 --> 00:57:56,773
It's easy to say a community is amazing,
but what makes it amazing?

1405
00:57:56,773 --> 00:57:58,775
And it's it's people like you, right?

1406
00:57:58,775 --> 00:58:01,144
I mean, it's
not just going to work every day

1407
00:58:01,144 --> 00:58:03,546
and dropping your kids off at school.
You got it.

1408
00:58:03,546 --> 00:58:07,517
You got to have some people that go above
and beyond and make the place so special,

1409
00:58:07,851 --> 00:58:10,687
and warm and, and are empathetic.

1410
00:58:10,687 --> 00:58:13,189
You've got all those, attributes.

1411
00:58:13,189 --> 00:58:15,625
And the other people do too,
in this town. Yeah.

1412
00:58:15,625 --> 00:58:17,227
And it makes this town.

1413
00:58:17,227 --> 00:58:20,997
There's a reason why we keep being listed
as the best place in Connecticut to live,

1414
00:58:20,997 --> 00:58:24,601
and one of the best places in the country
to live because of people like you.

1415
00:58:24,601 --> 00:58:27,203
And, 
And I'm just honored to be here today.

1416
00:58:27,203 --> 00:58:29,072
Thank you.
It was wonderful talking with you.

1417
00:58:29,072 --> 00:58:30,740
We shot for 50 minutes with Feeney.

1418
00:58:30,740 --> 00:58:32,542
We're probably at 60 minutes.

1419
00:58:32,542 --> 00:58:36,679
I appreciate that your kind words
truly mean a lot.

1420
00:58:36,679 --> 00:58:38,581
I'm just trying the best that I can.

1421
00:58:38,581 --> 00:58:41,251
Again. I'm a teacher.
I have a roof over my head.

1422
00:58:41,251 --> 00:58:45,488
But I would like to give back, and, 
just help those that need it, all right?

1423
00:58:45,889 --> 00:58:47,557
Model being a good friend.

1424
00:58:47,557 --> 00:58:49,859
Because if everyone was a good friend,
the world would be a better place.

1425
00:58:49,859 --> 00:58:51,528
Absolutely. Drive like a friend.

1426
00:58:51,528 --> 00:58:54,030
Hold the door for someone there.
Real simple to hold a door.

1427
00:58:54,030 --> 00:58:54,397
Pick up.

1428
00:58:54,397 --> 00:58:55,031
I said it earlier.

1429
00:58:55,031 --> 00:58:58,034
Pick up trash,
give compliments and be charitable.

1430
00:58:58,134 --> 00:58:59,469
You know, give the friends of Feeney.

1431
00:59:00,470 --> 00:59:01,471
We had this wonderful thing.

1432
00:59:01,471 --> 00:59:06,309
Birdies for charity going on Webster Banks
matching 15% for all donations.

1433
00:59:06,309 --> 00:59:09,312
So I'll set the link up at birdies
for Charity.

1434
00:59:09,946 --> 00:59:12,815
And then

1435
00:59:12,815 --> 00:59:14,517
closing remarks. Yeah we're good.

1436
00:59:14,517 --> 00:59:16,953
All right I had a blast. Talk with you.
Tell Shari I said hi.

1437
00:59:16,953 --> 00:59:18,421
She's amazing. Oh, back to it.

1438
00:59:18,421 --> 00:59:21,424
She wrote me the handwritten note
and then also I won.

1439
00:59:21,925 --> 00:59:26,262
Not I, the honoree for the West
Hartford committee for the Saint Patrick's

1440
00:59:26,262 --> 00:59:29,432
Day parade, and she wrote something
really nice and sweet in my, like,

1441
00:59:30,667 --> 00:59:33,369
what's that called when you get that nice
print with the stamp from the

1442
00:59:33,369 --> 00:59:35,905
from the mayor. Right, right, right.

1443
00:59:35,905 --> 00:59:39,242
But she was like, you'll recognize the
be a good friend stickers all over town.

1444
00:59:39,242 --> 00:59:40,910
And it was just meant the world.

1445
00:59:40,910 --> 00:59:42,979
So her handwritten note was amazing.

1446
00:59:42,979 --> 00:59:43,980
That's what I tell.

1447
00:59:43,980 --> 00:59:47,283
I suggest every podcast write
the handwritten note that she did that.

1448
00:59:47,283 --> 00:59:50,653
So, And you're all right, too. Okay.

1449
00:59:50,653 --> 00:59:53,222
Thank you so much. On three will say
be a good friend.

1450
00:59:53,222 --> 00:59:55,124
One, two, three. Be a good friend.