1
00:00:00,033 --> 00:00:01,801
All right, all right.

2
00:00:01,801 --> 00:00:03,036
Feeney talks with friends.

3
00:00:03,036 --> 00:00:05,605
Episode 122.

4
00:00:05,605 --> 00:00:08,041
This is great. I'm with a good friend,
Stephen. What's up buddy?

5
00:00:08,041 --> 00:00:09,642
What's going on? How are you?

6
00:00:09,642 --> 00:00:14,147
Stephen Aspinall, account
executive for universal Connectivity.

7
00:00:15,181 --> 00:00:16,082
Makes right.

8
00:00:16,082 --> 00:00:17,984
What is that?
Talk to me like I'm a third grader.

9
00:00:17,984 --> 00:00:20,754
What is telecommunications?

10
00:00:20,754 --> 00:00:23,189
It's a great question. It's a loaded one.

11
00:00:23,189 --> 00:00:24,257
It has to do with everything.

12
00:00:24,257 --> 00:00:25,592
With your network and phones.

13
00:00:25,592 --> 00:00:30,163
I like to tell people
Tesla means distance and communications.

14
00:00:30,163 --> 00:00:31,664
Obviously means to communicate.

15
00:00:31,664 --> 00:00:35,568
So it's taking information back and forth
between different interfaces

16
00:00:35,802 --> 00:00:36,903
or softwares.

17
00:00:36,903 --> 00:00:38,872
So email computer.

18
00:00:38,872 --> 00:00:41,875
It integrates texting 365 email

19
00:00:42,042 --> 00:00:45,045
your phone's internet and a new product

20
00:00:45,045 --> 00:00:48,048
we just launched was the emergency
notification system for schools.

21
00:00:48,081 --> 00:00:50,016
Okay. Security cameras or.

22
00:00:50,016 --> 00:00:51,084
No security cameras. Yep.

23
00:00:52,986 --> 00:00:54,621
Again, I teach third grade, so.

24
00:00:54,621 --> 00:00:56,222
But we're here with Stephen.

25
00:00:56,222 --> 00:00:56,923
All right.

26
00:00:56,923 --> 00:00:59,993
I'm Eric Feeney, founder
and president of Friends of Feeney.

27
00:01:00,060 --> 00:01:01,828
Our mission is to help
children and families

28
00:01:01,828 --> 00:01:03,830
in need assistance
after heartbreak or tragedy.

29
00:01:03,830 --> 00:01:04,964
And I use this podcast.

30
00:01:04,964 --> 00:01:07,200
Feeney talks with friends,
and I talk to a wonderful people

31
00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:09,302
in the community
that are doing great things.

32
00:01:09,302 --> 00:01:11,137
And Stephen,
I'm really excited to talk to you.

33
00:01:11,137 --> 00:01:12,839
I've known you quite some time.

34
00:01:12,839 --> 00:01:14,574
That's right. Go way back.

35
00:01:14,574 --> 00:01:15,141
That's right.

36
00:01:15,141 --> 00:01:16,476
House grew up on the same street.

37
00:01:16,476 --> 00:01:18,978
Yeah, not grew up, but.

38
00:01:18,978 --> 00:01:20,346
You grew up on that street? Yes.

39
00:01:20,346 --> 00:01:23,349
I just moved in when you were about ten.

40
00:01:23,416 --> 00:01:26,119
Yeah. 27. 27.

41
00:01:26,119 --> 00:01:27,353
So I think you were 12 then.

42
00:01:27,353 --> 00:01:29,355
I was done 16 years ago.

43
00:01:29,355 --> 00:01:31,124
Do the math. 11.

44
00:01:31,124 --> 00:01:32,192
You were 11.

45
00:01:32,192 --> 00:01:33,993
I known you for 16 years.

46
00:01:33,993 --> 00:01:36,162
Soccer player in a while. Yeah.

47
00:01:36,162 --> 00:01:37,297
How's the soccer game going?

48
00:01:38,398 --> 00:01:39,032
Soccer.

49
00:01:39,032 --> 00:01:40,667
It inexistent right now.

50
00:01:40,667 --> 00:01:43,870
Currently, I took my skill set
and brought it over to coaching,

51
00:01:43,870 --> 00:01:47,707
so I'm currently playing or currently
coaching for West Hartford Travel.

52
00:01:47,707 --> 00:01:51,811
So I've been doing that
for close to a decade now actually.

53
00:01:51,811 --> 00:01:53,046
Yeah, yeah.

54
00:01:53,046 --> 00:01:55,415
Awesome. Awesome. No, you're a good guy.

55
00:01:55,415 --> 00:01:56,449
I'm very excited.

56
00:01:56,449 --> 00:01:59,452
Again, like I said, this is episode 122.

57
00:01:59,719 --> 00:02:02,722
Go back and check out 121 with Joey Bats.

58
00:02:03,323 --> 00:02:05,158
That he does hip hop for the homeless.

59
00:02:05,158 --> 00:02:06,693
Nice to have you spit some bars.

60
00:02:06,693 --> 00:02:07,560
You want to rap a little bit?

61
00:02:07,560 --> 00:02:10,563
I cannot rap.

62
00:02:10,563 --> 00:02:11,831
How about Tracy Carter?

63
00:02:11,831 --> 00:02:12,632
Go back and check out.

64
00:02:12,632 --> 00:02:15,201
Tracy Carter
is the executive director of Anchor Camps.

65
00:02:15,201 --> 00:02:17,237
He played basketball
at University of Hartford.

66
00:02:17,237 --> 00:02:20,240
How's your hoop game?

67
00:02:20,373 --> 00:02:21,107
It's getting there.

68
00:02:21,107 --> 00:02:23,042
What's better,
your rap game or your hoop game?

69
00:02:23,042 --> 00:02:25,812
Probably my hoop game, for sure.

70
00:02:25,812 --> 00:02:27,247
Do you play pick up hoop?

71
00:02:27,247 --> 00:02:30,483
I used to a little bit here and there,
but it was a few times

72
00:02:30,483 --> 00:02:34,320
during the summer with a couple friends,
but nothing to, rigorous.

73
00:02:34,320 --> 00:02:36,222
Do you play pickup soccer?

74
00:02:36,222 --> 00:02:38,224
I used to in my family, but nice.

75
00:02:38,224 --> 00:02:39,993
Like I said, not.
Not really too much anymore.

76
00:02:39,993 --> 00:02:42,462
It's me who's. A better soccer player.
You or your dad.

77
00:02:42,462 --> 00:02:44,297
Or me, for sure.

78
00:02:44,297 --> 00:02:45,932
That's not a question.

79
00:02:45,932 --> 00:02:47,033
At. Is that a challenge?

80
00:02:48,034 --> 00:02:48,568
So back

81
00:02:48,568 --> 00:02:51,571
to, we have sponsors, we're here
at Maximum Beverage.

82
00:02:51,638 --> 00:02:54,674
Come out and check out this wonderful
selection of beverages.

83
00:02:55,041 --> 00:02:56,643
Thank you for hosting us.

84
00:02:56,643 --> 00:02:58,645
And thank you, Direct Line Media.

85
00:02:58,645 --> 00:02:59,612
Stephania and Dave,

86
00:02:59,612 --> 00:03:02,682
this would not be possible
without Stephania and Dave and some other,

87
00:03:03,583 --> 00:03:05,752
podcast sponsors The Fix

88
00:03:05,752 --> 00:03:09,522
IV, Luna Pizza, Parkville Management,
Golf Law, people's

89
00:03:09,522 --> 00:03:13,459
Bank, float 41 and Keating
Agency and West Hartford Lock.

90
00:03:13,459 --> 00:03:16,663
So with West Hartford Lock being said,
what are three keys

91
00:03:16,663 --> 00:03:21,034
that make you an a great account
executive for universal connectivity?

92
00:03:21,034 --> 00:03:23,436
What are three keys
that make you good at your job?

93
00:03:23,436 --> 00:03:26,439
That's a great question as well.

94
00:03:26,472 --> 00:03:29,342
There's actually four things
that we pride ourselves in, okay.

95
00:03:29,342 --> 00:03:30,310
Universal connectivity.

96
00:03:30,310 --> 00:03:31,411
So when you

97
00:03:31,411 --> 00:03:34,948
go through the interviewing process you're
supposed to help these four key areas.

98
00:03:35,715 --> 00:03:36,482
For the company.

99
00:03:36,482 --> 00:03:37,684
One is human touch.

100
00:03:37,684 --> 00:03:40,420
So how involved are you with the customer?

101
00:03:40,420 --> 00:03:41,988
And engaged in the community.

102
00:03:41,988 --> 00:03:43,623
Two is pragmatic creativity.

103
00:03:43,623 --> 00:03:45,692
So how creative can we be
with our solution

104
00:03:45,692 --> 00:03:48,461
to cater towards our customer's needs?

105
00:03:48,461 --> 00:03:50,496
Three is thoroughness.

106
00:03:50,496 --> 00:03:54,000
So how thorough are we
with our documentation processes?

107
00:03:54,901 --> 00:03:57,904
And making sure that our clients
are taken care of.

108
00:03:58,338 --> 00:04:02,942
And four is being happy, you know,
are we going to present ourselves

109
00:04:02,942 --> 00:04:07,480
properly and, you know, acts
like we do what we love. So.

110
00:04:07,580 --> 00:04:08,681
All right. Very nice. Thank you.

111
00:04:08,681 --> 00:04:11,851
I think that translates to a lot of jobs
I could as a teacher,

112
00:04:12,385 --> 00:04:15,421
you know, building that rapport
and relationships is very important

113
00:04:15,421 --> 00:04:17,991
where your students
and your coworkers happiness.

114
00:04:17,991 --> 00:04:19,559
I always come in with a positive attitude.

115
00:04:19,559 --> 00:04:23,363
No one wants to learn from or work
with someone that's miserable, right?

116
00:04:25,231 --> 00:04:25,965
Thoroughness.

117
00:04:25,965 --> 00:04:28,968
You want to do your job
to the best of your ability.

118
00:04:29,135 --> 00:04:30,336
And what was pragmatic?

119
00:04:30,336 --> 00:04:32,305
Pragmatic, pragmatic creativity?

120
00:04:32,305 --> 00:04:33,773
Pragmatic creativity?

121
00:04:33,773 --> 00:04:37,076
Yes. I try to bring in engaging in fun
lessons and,

122
00:04:37,543 --> 00:04:41,214
and make sure my,
my students are having a good time.

123
00:04:41,314 --> 00:04:42,181
Yeah. All right.

124
00:04:42,181 --> 00:04:42,849
Very cool.

125
00:04:42,849 --> 00:04:44,884
That was our I asked for three.

126
00:04:44,884 --> 00:04:46,786
Steven your go getter. You gave us four.

127
00:04:46,786 --> 00:04:49,555
There you go, man.
How long you been at the job?

128
00:04:49,555 --> 00:04:51,591
I'm going on six months now. Nice.

129
00:04:51,591 --> 00:04:53,326
Yeah. So,

130
00:04:53,326 --> 00:04:55,295
still gaining my own accounts, you know,

131
00:04:55,295 --> 00:04:58,464
learning about the industry,
the ins and outs of everything.

132
00:04:59,098 --> 00:05:01,434
But I came from a previous sales role.

133
00:05:01,434 --> 00:05:03,303
So I have experience in that respect.

134
00:05:03,303 --> 00:05:04,504
Very nice, very nice.

135
00:05:04,504 --> 00:05:06,306
And where are you located?

136
00:05:06,306 --> 00:05:07,540
We're right in West Hartford Center.

137
00:05:07,540 --> 00:05:12,045
So right below the Bank of America,
which is next to the Chamber of Commerce,

138
00:05:12,045 --> 00:05:14,380
West Hartford Chamber of Commerce, West
Hartford Chamber.

139
00:05:14,380 --> 00:05:15,381
Are you guys a member?

140
00:05:15,381 --> 00:05:18,318
We are nice friends, a Feeney's a member.

141
00:05:18,318 --> 00:05:21,321
What's how how was your interactions
with the chamber?

142
00:05:21,654 --> 00:05:22,455
Oh, I love it.

143
00:05:22,455 --> 00:05:23,022
Yeah, I love it.

144
00:05:23,022 --> 00:05:26,392
It's there's no better
local networking and,

145
00:05:26,392 --> 00:05:29,062
you know, support that you can get from,
you know, a business chamber.

146
00:05:29,062 --> 00:05:32,699
It's the largest in the state, largest non
single town in the state.

147
00:05:32,932 --> 00:05:34,100
Yeah. 119 oh yeah.

148
00:05:34,100 --> 00:05:37,303
You were there
Chris Conway Abby Rappaport Smith.

149
00:05:37,837 --> 00:05:39,405
Hooray! Castro.

150
00:05:39,405 --> 00:05:41,441
We're our guests for a hot wing challenge.

151
00:05:41,441 --> 00:05:43,476
You stopped in. You had the the bomb.

152
00:05:43,476 --> 00:05:46,212
How was that experience?
Oh, that was pleasure.

153
00:05:46,212 --> 00:05:47,747
Really miserable.

154
00:05:47,747 --> 00:05:48,681
Yeah.

155
00:05:48,681 --> 00:05:50,583
It's good to get on the podcast.

156
00:05:50,583 --> 00:05:52,652
Under those circumstances.

157
00:05:52,652 --> 00:05:55,088
It didn't really sit
well on my stomach, but that's all good.

158
00:05:55,088 --> 00:05:55,555
Yeah, we

159
00:05:56,522 --> 00:05:59,225
could feel it twice, you know.

160
00:05:59,225 --> 00:06:00,727
Oh, it was. It was. Landing.

161
00:06:00,727 --> 00:06:02,895
Burn out. Burn. Oh.

162
00:06:02,895 --> 00:06:03,563
The bomb.

163
00:06:03,563 --> 00:06:04,530
The bomb is no joke.

164
00:06:04,530 --> 00:06:07,500
I would go back and watch 119
Chris Conway great.

165
00:06:07,500 --> 00:06:09,001
Guest, great episode to.

166
00:06:09,001 --> 00:06:11,838
Conway, also
the executive director of the chamber.

167
00:06:11,838 --> 00:06:15,608
And he mentioned during the podcast
that you are parking lot buddies.

168
00:06:15,608 --> 00:06:17,510
So that's we. Are I see him all the. Time.

169
00:06:17,510 --> 00:06:18,378
I see him all the time.

170
00:06:18,378 --> 00:06:21,381
Chris Conway good, good guy.

171
00:06:22,382 --> 00:06:24,584
So telecommunications,

172
00:06:24,584 --> 00:06:27,353
not like I think a teleporting

173
00:06:27,353 --> 00:06:31,090
tell a telecommunications tell you
because you, you broke it down.

174
00:06:31,357 --> 00:06:32,725
Teller and communications.

175
00:06:32,725 --> 00:06:35,027
Well done. Like I if I was a third grader.

176
00:06:35,027 --> 00:06:37,263
I think you did a great job
explaining that.

177
00:06:37,263 --> 00:06:37,497
Thanks.

178
00:06:37,497 --> 00:06:37,697
Yeah.

179
00:06:37,697 --> 00:06:40,700
So one example to give actually,
just a little sidebar.

180
00:06:41,200 --> 00:06:43,803
The earliest form
of telecommunications was back

181
00:06:43,803 --> 00:06:47,039
when tribes would have to communicate
from a large distance.

182
00:06:47,206 --> 00:06:51,110
So one tribe or one location, of troops.

183
00:06:51,110 --> 00:06:55,314
Would you put out a smoke signal
and the other group would send

184
00:06:55,314 --> 00:06:58,985
like, a drumming in response to it
so that they know they're coordinated?

185
00:06:59,452 --> 00:07:03,389
So that's the very earliest,
most primitive tale of telecommunication.

186
00:07:03,389 --> 00:07:05,558
Has got a little history lesson here.

187
00:07:05,558 --> 00:07:07,960
Yeah. I'm a lifelong learner.
Say it all the time.

188
00:07:07,960 --> 00:07:09,896
Try to learn something new every day.

189
00:07:09,896 --> 00:07:11,531
Thank you. Stephen,
you just taught me something.

190
00:07:11,531 --> 00:07:12,665
Yeah. You want to learn?

191
00:07:13,633 --> 00:07:14,767
Make that connection.

192
00:07:14,767 --> 00:07:16,602
And so they communicate.

193
00:07:16,602 --> 00:07:18,671
They one didn't do smoke
and the other one did smoke.

194
00:07:18,671 --> 00:07:21,007
One did sound, one did smoke. Correct?

195
00:07:21,007 --> 00:07:21,541
Yep. Nice.

196
00:07:21,541 --> 00:07:25,378
Do you know what tribe or where or just
you just know I just.

197
00:07:25,411 --> 00:07:28,114
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, I just know
that they used to do that back in the.

198
00:07:28,114 --> 00:07:30,750
Where did you get all your degrees?

199
00:07:30,750 --> 00:07:33,753
So I spent some time
at Western New England,

200
00:07:33,886 --> 00:07:37,156
and then some time over at central,
doing mechanical engineering,

201
00:07:37,690 --> 00:07:38,925
which kind of bridged the gap

202
00:07:38,925 --> 00:07:43,062
from the aerospace industry
over to the sales engineering industry,

203
00:07:43,262 --> 00:07:46,232
where I was working with robotics parts
and sourcing them,

204
00:07:46,632 --> 00:07:49,702
from different companies to various
companies were essentially a brokerage,

205
00:07:50,403 --> 00:07:53,673
that brought me full fledged into sales
because I enjoyed the sales industry

206
00:07:53,673 --> 00:07:54,941
so much.

207
00:07:54,941 --> 00:07:57,577
And then, you know,
got picked up by universal connectivity,

208
00:07:59,045 --> 00:08:00,646
8 to 12 months later.

209
00:08:00,646 --> 00:08:01,180
Very cool.

210
00:08:01,180 --> 00:08:04,484
Now, what if someone wanted to connect
with you and reach out to you?

211
00:08:04,484 --> 00:08:07,687
Do you have an email or phone number
you like to share for our listeners

212
00:08:07,687 --> 00:08:11,757
to connect with you if they want to work
with universal connectivity?

213
00:08:11,757 --> 00:08:14,760
Yeah, sure. So, universe connectivity.com.

214
00:08:14,927 --> 00:08:18,364
My email is S Aspinall at Universal
connectivity.com

215
00:08:18,598 --> 00:08:23,102
SSP pinnacle
at Universal connectivity.com.

216
00:08:23,936 --> 00:08:24,704
You heard it here for you.

217
00:08:24,704 --> 00:08:26,739
Go get you some sales.

218
00:08:26,739 --> 00:08:28,774
Do you get commission.

219
00:08:28,774 --> 00:08:30,443
Yes I do yeah.

220
00:08:30,443 --> 00:08:33,446
Should I say I don't know. Maybe maybe.

221
00:08:33,579 --> 00:08:34,447
I don't know.

222
00:08:34,447 --> 00:08:38,050
I when I had a financial advisor on
I can't ask about the stock market.

223
00:08:38,251 --> 00:08:40,920
Yeah. They can't talk stocks. Right.

224
00:08:40,920 --> 00:08:43,356
But I'm guessing you it's your job.

225
00:08:43,356 --> 00:08:45,391
You work. So how are your accounts?

226
00:08:46,559 --> 00:08:47,827
Oh, let's play a game.

227
00:08:47,827 --> 00:08:49,095
Sure.

228
00:08:49,095 --> 00:08:53,766
Your your day at work, your accounts
or your activities or your events.

229
00:08:54,166 --> 00:08:57,670
It's first, last, best or worst,
your first day of work,

230
00:08:58,004 --> 00:08:59,805
your most recent last day of work.

231
00:08:59,805 --> 00:09:02,808
Ooh, your best day at work
and your worst day at work.

232
00:09:03,042 --> 00:09:04,443
Okay.

233
00:09:04,443 --> 00:09:05,311
How do they go?

234
00:09:05,311 --> 00:09:08,114
How do they go? You can any order
you want.

235
00:09:08,114 --> 00:09:10,383
Okay, I guess I'll start with first,
and then I'll go last.

236
00:09:10,383 --> 00:09:12,151
And then I'll do best.

237
00:09:12,151 --> 00:09:13,719
And then worst. Worst.

238
00:09:13,719 --> 00:09:14,954
Okay. At least. Favorite.

239
00:09:14,954 --> 00:09:18,291
Wow. That's a loaded question because
there's not too many bad days at work.

240
00:09:19,058 --> 00:09:21,494
My first day at work started very,
you know, slow

241
00:09:21,494 --> 00:09:24,497
as you do in any job, I guess.

242
00:09:24,630 --> 00:09:26,999
Doing a lot of trainings, a lot of,

243
00:09:26,999 --> 00:09:30,136
you know, grassroots stuff where you're
just learning about the products,

244
00:09:30,369 --> 00:09:34,173
the industry that you're in, the company,
you know, values learning.

245
00:09:34,173 --> 00:09:35,708
Everybody's face at work.

246
00:09:37,810 --> 00:09:40,379
My most recent day was today.

247
00:09:40,379 --> 00:09:41,180
It was a busy day.

248
00:09:41,180 --> 00:09:42,782
I had a couple meetings

249
00:09:42,782 --> 00:09:46,052
doing a lot of emails back and forth
all over the phone or through email.

250
00:09:48,154 --> 00:09:51,924
And yeah, we're actually working on a
solution for a specific client currently.

251
00:09:52,224 --> 00:09:55,227
So we're kind of working in the weeds
with that.

252
00:09:55,461 --> 00:09:57,396
That's something, you know,
that's our pragmatic

253
00:09:57,396 --> 00:10:00,399
creativity approach.

254
00:10:01,100 --> 00:10:04,103
The best day at work
and the worst day work,

255
00:10:04,136 --> 00:10:05,671
best day at work was closing the deal.

256
00:10:05,671 --> 00:10:07,773
I guess.

257
00:10:07,773 --> 00:10:08,708
Worst day at. Work?

258
00:10:08,708 --> 00:10:11,711
You want to elaborate
a little more on the deal?

259
00:10:12,311 --> 00:10:14,880
Well, it's still in process,
so I can't really go into specifics,

260
00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:17,850
but it was a it was a it was a good deal.

261
00:10:17,950 --> 00:10:19,919
Well, congratulations.
Thank you, thank you.

262
00:10:19,919 --> 00:10:20,453
First deal.

263
00:10:21,988 --> 00:10:23,956
That was more of my largest, I guess.

264
00:10:23,956 --> 00:10:25,057
Yeah.

265
00:10:25,057 --> 00:10:27,226
My worst day at work.

266
00:10:27,226 --> 00:10:27,793
So that's the thing.

267
00:10:27,793 --> 00:10:30,796
I don't really have
too many bad days at work, but.

268
00:10:31,397 --> 00:10:32,098
Good answer.

269
00:10:32,098 --> 00:10:34,767
Yeah, yeah, you should ask me.

270
00:10:34,767 --> 00:10:36,502
A lot of my days are terrible.

271
00:10:36,502 --> 00:10:39,505
Not just kidding.

272
00:10:39,639 --> 00:10:40,573
No, that was a game.

273
00:10:40,573 --> 00:10:42,408
So that's a fun game.
You can do it any time.

274
00:10:42,408 --> 00:10:46,779
First, last, best or worst,
you know, vacations, friends, teachers,

275
00:10:48,581 --> 00:10:49,615
whatever you want.

276
00:10:49,615 --> 00:10:52,618
Activities, soccer events. So central.

277
00:10:52,652 --> 00:10:54,920
Do you know Tom pin?

278
00:10:54,920 --> 00:10:56,389
It's pencils.

279
00:10:56,389 --> 00:10:57,390
Yes I. Do.

280
00:10:57,390 --> 00:10:58,858
He went to central. He.

281
00:10:58,858 --> 00:11:00,693
No he didn't went to
he didn't. He didn't go to central.

282
00:11:00,693 --> 00:11:02,461
He currently is the athletic director.

283
00:11:02,461 --> 00:11:04,664
Yeah. Central.
And you had him on your podcast. Yeah.

284
00:11:04,664 --> 00:11:07,667
Of course I know him.
And we both know why.

285
00:11:07,867 --> 00:11:09,101
Oh. He's in the neighborhood.

286
00:11:10,403 --> 00:11:10,836
That's all

287
00:11:10,836 --> 00:11:13,839
that I don't know, I saw weeks ago.

288
00:11:14,040 --> 00:11:14,573
He's probably.

289
00:11:14,573 --> 00:11:18,344
90. Foley's number 94, Tom Pindus, Pences.

290
00:11:18,344 --> 00:11:19,512
I always jack up his name.

291
00:11:19,512 --> 00:11:20,846
I checked it up on the podcast.

292
00:11:20,846 --> 00:11:22,682
And he was number 94,
and he made a reference

293
00:11:22,682 --> 00:11:24,950
to a basketball player
during that episode.

294
00:11:24,950 --> 00:11:26,852
Yep. Right.

295
00:11:26,852 --> 00:11:29,822
94. You do so many of these, maybe it's,

296
00:11:29,922 --> 00:11:32,692
And then Eric Bergen was the central guy.

297
00:11:32,692 --> 00:11:34,560
DJ Joey Oh was a central guy.

298
00:11:34,560 --> 00:11:37,296
Have you ever been to Elmer's? Of course.

299
00:11:37,296 --> 00:11:38,397
Way back in the day.

300
00:11:38,397 --> 00:11:38,731
We could.

301
00:11:38,731 --> 00:11:41,200
We could play our first, first, last,
best worth.

302
00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:42,668
Elmer's ready? Go. No. I'm kidding.

303
00:11:42,668 --> 00:11:44,370
Oh, yeah.

304
00:11:44,370 --> 00:11:46,672
What? D.J., Joey. Oh, was a D.J. Elmer's.

305
00:11:46,672 --> 00:11:48,474
He went to central.

306
00:11:48,474 --> 00:11:51,410
So, you know, Bergen had 100 views.

307
00:11:51,410 --> 00:11:54,380
Tom had 200 views. Joey oh, had 200 views.

308
00:11:54,380 --> 00:11:56,882
How are we looking for views?
What would you promise to me here?

309
00:11:56,882 --> 00:11:58,384
I think we're going to get to a thousand.

310
00:11:58,384 --> 00:12:01,387
Nice. Yeah, nice. Okay, okay.

311
00:12:01,787 --> 00:12:04,457
And then how is that
engineering degree at central?

312
00:12:06,692 --> 00:12:09,161
Car challenging.

313
00:12:09,161 --> 00:12:12,164
What made you choose that path?

314
00:12:12,164 --> 00:12:14,333
Yeah. I mean, from a very early age,
I was.

315
00:12:14,333 --> 00:12:17,436
I loved problem solving,
I loved mathematics, I love science.

316
00:12:18,404 --> 00:12:22,274
So going into a field related to
that was difficult to gauge

317
00:12:22,508 --> 00:12:25,444
as to which one
I wanted to actually pursue.

318
00:12:25,444 --> 00:12:28,080
Whether it was computer
science, engineering,

319
00:12:28,080 --> 00:12:31,083
mathematics, physics,
whatever it may have been.

320
00:12:31,117 --> 00:12:34,286
So I kind of stumbled upon mechanical
just because it was a blend of all of them

321
00:12:34,286 --> 00:12:35,254
together.

322
00:12:35,254 --> 00:12:37,923
You got some,
you know, courses with coding,

323
00:12:37,923 --> 00:12:40,926
got some courses with math, physics,
everything in between.

324
00:12:41,727 --> 00:12:42,728
And then, you know, obviously

325
00:12:42,728 --> 00:12:45,731
with the higher up
you go, the more complex it becomes.

326
00:12:45,765 --> 00:12:48,768
But yeah, I mean, it's
a challenging degree nonetheless.

327
00:12:49,001 --> 00:12:52,037
But you come out of it
and as a more resilient

328
00:12:52,037 --> 00:12:55,040
learner,
I guess that's a good way of putting it.

329
00:12:55,141 --> 00:12:55,941
No joke.

330
00:12:55,941 --> 00:12:58,677
Do you use some of the things
that you learned at central

331
00:12:58,677 --> 00:13:03,415
in your engineering class, currently
in your role as the, account executive?

332
00:13:04,784 --> 00:13:06,385
In my current role, no.

333
00:13:06,385 --> 00:13:10,389
But in adjacent roles to me,
yes, absolutely.

334
00:13:10,689 --> 00:13:13,793
Obviously the engineers over at
the business do work

335
00:13:13,793 --> 00:13:16,896
very hands on with,
you know, low voltage equipment.

336
00:13:16,929 --> 00:13:20,166
So having that physics background
or electricity or,

337
00:13:21,133 --> 00:13:24,770
electrical background definitely is helps
with the knowledge piece.

338
00:13:25,304 --> 00:13:26,939
It's nice. Yeah.

339
00:13:26,939 --> 00:13:31,710
So me being a teacher 21 years,
we're talking education.

340
00:13:32,178 --> 00:13:35,748
Do you have a favorite teacher that stands
out or favorite moment with a teacher?

341
00:13:36,148 --> 00:13:38,317
I knew this question would come up.

342
00:13:38,317 --> 00:13:39,785
Did you do your homework?

343
00:13:39,785 --> 00:13:42,788
I did 90% of the time.

344
00:13:44,023 --> 00:13:47,960
The other 10% may have been at lunch, the,
the period before.

345
00:13:49,261 --> 00:13:52,264
But it's still got done nonetheless. And,

346
00:13:52,765 --> 00:13:56,535
I have a couple favorite teachers,
specifically Connor.

347
00:13:56,735 --> 00:13:58,771
Connor is a great staff, by the way.

348
00:13:58,771 --> 00:13:59,872
I don't know how hands on

349
00:13:59,872 --> 00:14:02,474
you are with Connor stuff
if you have, you know, district's

350
00:14:02,474 --> 00:14:04,443
get togethers or whatnot.
I know a few of them.

351
00:14:04,443 --> 00:14:06,245
They're they're phenomenal.

352
00:14:06,245 --> 00:14:10,249
Specifically, if I want to give some shout
outs to some of my old Connor teachers.

353
00:14:11,217 --> 00:14:14,653
Miss Zango, who is now Miss Brian,
who recently got married.

354
00:14:14,687 --> 00:14:15,521
Not recently actually.

355
00:14:15,521 --> 00:14:18,524
Now, it's
probably been close to a decade as well.

356
00:14:18,824 --> 00:14:21,827
Miss Brian, miss Peretti,

357
00:14:21,827 --> 00:14:23,796
and Mister Noel Wells are my.

358
00:14:23,796 --> 00:14:26,265
Those are my top three.
So two English teachers and Mr..

359
00:14:26,265 --> 00:14:27,900
There was a math teacher.

360
00:14:27,900 --> 00:14:30,903
So I don't know if I've ever heard
those names

361
00:14:31,003 --> 00:14:33,472
there.

362
00:14:33,472 --> 00:14:35,040
Any feedback you get on them.

363
00:14:35,040 --> 00:14:37,910
They're strict but fair
and they're fun when they need to be.

364
00:14:37,910 --> 00:14:42,047
It's like the perfect, most ideal high
school teacher you could really ask for.

365
00:14:42,481 --> 00:14:44,450
Yep. Fair and stern.

366
00:14:44,450 --> 00:14:46,952
But you can also crack some jokes on
occasion.

367
00:14:46,952 --> 00:14:48,287
Yeah, yeah.

368
00:14:48,287 --> 00:14:49,288
Outside of class.

369
00:14:49,288 --> 00:14:49,855
Of course. Mr.

370
00:14:49,855 --> 00:14:52,858
Noel's, What's he look like?

371
00:14:54,493 --> 00:14:54,994
Mustache?

372
00:14:54,994 --> 00:14:57,997
Maybe for reading. But no glasses. Really?

373
00:14:58,497 --> 00:14:59,265
Bald guy?

374
00:15:00,366 --> 00:15:01,800
He's been there for years.

375
00:15:01,800 --> 00:15:03,035
I'd say over 20 years.

376
00:15:03,035 --> 00:15:05,671
Yes, I think I know him. Yeah.

377
00:15:05,671 --> 00:15:08,140
I think I just saw him at the best
at the football game.

378
00:15:08,140 --> 00:15:09,909
He's out a lot at the activities.

379
00:15:09,909 --> 00:15:11,977
Yeah.

380
00:15:11,977 --> 00:15:13,412
All right.

381
00:15:13,412 --> 00:15:15,481
Brian. Noel. Yes. Good guy. Brian.

382
00:15:15,481 --> 00:15:18,050
Noel I'm going to look him up
real quick though.

383
00:15:18,050 --> 00:15:19,418
Yes, I know exactly who that is.

384
00:15:19,418 --> 00:15:21,353
I know everybody. Loves gray hair.

385
00:15:21,353 --> 00:15:23,789
Yeah, a little bit. Yeah, sure. Yeah.

386
00:15:23,789 --> 00:15:25,424
Good guy. Really good guy.

387
00:15:25,424 --> 00:15:28,594
All my friends,
when we were in high school, senior year,

388
00:15:28,594 --> 00:15:32,031
I think when we were taking calculus,
we all loved him.

389
00:15:32,197 --> 00:15:34,233
We all. Nobody hated him.

390
00:15:34,233 --> 00:15:35,834
So really, really good guy.

391
00:15:35,834 --> 00:15:39,471
We had group group collaboration sessions
with, like, little five of us.

392
00:15:39,471 --> 00:15:40,439
We got into our pods.

393
00:15:40,439 --> 00:15:41,840
And this time we'll send it to.

394
00:15:41,840 --> 00:15:44,143
What minute are we, Stefania?

395
00:15:44,143 --> 00:15:47,313
See? 16 16th minute.

396
00:15:47,313 --> 00:15:50,182
Brian. Oh, well, shout out Connor.

397
00:15:50,182 --> 00:15:51,317
Let's see if this is him.

398
00:15:56,121 --> 00:15:59,124
I believe his first name was Brian.

399
00:16:01,126 --> 00:16:04,129
No, no, no,

400
00:16:04,630 --> 00:16:06,198
that's, That's me.

401
00:16:06,198 --> 00:16:07,900
That's Tor Fisk.

402
00:16:07,900 --> 00:16:10,903
Yeah.

403
00:16:11,971 --> 00:16:13,539
Kind of in math.

404
00:16:13,539 --> 00:16:15,741
Yeah,

405
00:16:15,741 --> 00:16:17,042
it's kind of incognito.

406
00:16:17,042 --> 00:16:17,710
He's.

407
00:16:17,710 --> 00:16:18,544
But I think I.

408
00:16:18,544 --> 00:16:21,313
I think it's the person I was thinking of.

409
00:16:21,313 --> 00:16:21,847
Yeah, I.

410
00:16:21,847 --> 00:16:23,749
Know for a fact I very. Confident.

411
00:16:23,749 --> 00:16:26,385
I do know he goes to a lot of,

412
00:16:26,385 --> 00:16:28,087
basketball games or whatever.

413
00:16:28,087 --> 00:16:28,921
Yeah.

414
00:16:28,921 --> 00:16:31,890
We had a couple other Conard grads,

415
00:16:33,092 --> 00:16:34,026
Gavin, Sherry

416
00:16:34,026 --> 00:16:37,262
and Callum Sherry, they were twins.

417
00:16:37,262 --> 00:16:39,765
They were Gatorade
runners of the year, really.

418
00:16:39,765 --> 00:16:42,768
And they got a free ride
and they're running at Stanford now.

419
00:16:42,835 --> 00:16:45,270
So great podcast. That for that.

420
00:16:45,270 --> 00:16:47,639
That's awesome. 45.

421
00:16:47,639 --> 00:16:49,441
That's like 500 views.

422
00:16:49,441 --> 00:16:53,379
Wow Riley Fox played who just graduated.

423
00:16:53,912 --> 00:16:55,681
That's episode 93.

424
00:16:55,681 --> 00:16:57,416
He's at Yale now okay.

425
00:16:57,416 --> 00:16:59,918
And he is up like he's like 600 views.

426
00:16:59,918 --> 00:17:02,354
Wow. Connor. Connor. Guys coming through?
Yeah.

427
00:17:02,354 --> 00:17:07,559
Between your CCU poll and your Connor
pool, we're looking at like, 2000 views.

428
00:17:07,926 --> 00:17:11,330
Okay, I'm here for it I can't wait.

429
00:17:12,131 --> 00:17:12,931
It's going to be great.

430
00:17:12,931 --> 00:17:13,499
Great.

431
00:17:13,499 --> 00:17:16,702
Well, thank you for shouting out
teachers is really cool to hear.

432
00:17:17,736 --> 00:17:18,670
You're appreciative.

433
00:17:18,670 --> 00:17:20,372
You're a teacher.

434
00:17:20,372 --> 00:17:22,875
Us former students appreciate you.

435
00:17:22,875 --> 00:17:26,045
So yeah, I've shared multiple times

436
00:17:26,045 --> 00:17:29,048
when someone mentioned
their favorite teacher out.

437
00:17:29,248 --> 00:17:30,449
You know, is that person still alive?

438
00:17:30,449 --> 00:17:31,283
Can we share it with them?

439
00:17:31,283 --> 00:17:33,452
So it's good to hear.

440
00:17:33,452 --> 00:17:34,286
So, Brian.

441
00:17:34,286 --> 00:17:35,354
Well, we'll be happy to hear that.

442
00:17:35,354 --> 00:17:37,656
And who were the other two, Mrs. Bryant?

443
00:17:37,656 --> 00:17:38,457
Mrs.. Brian.

444
00:17:38,457 --> 00:17:42,261
Brian,
I don't know how, because I never had her

445
00:17:42,261 --> 00:17:45,831
when she was Miss Brian, but I know she
her maiden name is Zango Z

446
00:17:45,998 --> 00:17:50,135
and glue and Peretti PR it pretty.

447
00:17:50,235 --> 00:17:51,970
Teach English.

448
00:17:51,970 --> 00:17:52,871
Yeah.

449
00:17:52,871 --> 00:17:53,338
Very cool.

450
00:17:53,338 --> 00:17:54,473
And all kinds a great school.

451
00:17:54,473 --> 00:17:56,742
My daughters go there.

452
00:17:56,742 --> 00:17:57,709
How are they doing, by the way?

453
00:17:57,709 --> 00:17:57,910
Yeah.

454
00:17:57,910 --> 00:17:59,645
Juniors. Juniors. Wow.

455
00:17:59,645 --> 00:18:01,713
Student council are busy.

456
00:18:01,713 --> 00:18:04,116
They just did black box theater.

457
00:18:04,116 --> 00:18:07,019
One is in mock trial. Okay. With,

458
00:18:07,986 --> 00:18:10,989
Mr. Islam and Miss Esposito.

459
00:18:11,190 --> 00:18:13,258
Okay. Two wonderful teachers
doing a great thing.

460
00:18:13,258 --> 00:18:14,560
Mock trial.

461
00:18:14,560 --> 00:18:18,430
Next week, they're going to present
and and go through out the trial.

462
00:18:18,430 --> 00:18:19,765
They it's a competition.

463
00:18:19,765 --> 00:18:22,401
You you go against a low school
like an athletic event.

464
00:18:22,401 --> 00:18:23,669
And it's really cool.

465
00:18:23,669 --> 00:18:26,371
It's something I've never knew
too much about.

466
00:18:26,371 --> 00:18:29,341
But last year they did it through
New Britain Superior Courts.

467
00:18:29,341 --> 00:18:32,010
Next week they're going to be at Hartford
Superior Courts.

468
00:18:32,010 --> 00:18:35,280
So wonderful problem
solving, public speaking,

469
00:18:35,581 --> 00:18:38,584
thinking on the spot.

470
00:18:38,617 --> 00:18:41,487
Calling out someone for,

471
00:18:41,487 --> 00:18:42,888
what is it? Convention.

472
00:18:42,888 --> 00:18:44,256
It was like objection.

473
00:18:44,256 --> 00:18:47,259
Convention of language
or convention of time.

474
00:18:47,793 --> 00:18:50,929
Just I pick them up on Sundays
and Tuesdays

475
00:18:51,063 --> 00:18:54,166
and they just come in like,
oh, you know, it's like a head

476
00:18:54,166 --> 00:18:57,970
to head competition of words
and just trying to catch someone out.

477
00:18:58,470 --> 00:19:01,473
So, so interesting. You know, I grew up,

478
00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:04,243
didn't have that opportunity
or didn't know about mock trial.

479
00:19:04,243 --> 00:19:08,046
So to see my daughters doing it,
it's very exciting, very proud of them.

480
00:19:08,347 --> 00:19:09,348
They're doing a great job.

481
00:19:09,348 --> 00:19:11,550
Student council is another thing.

482
00:19:11,550 --> 00:19:14,653
They plan
the pep rallies, the homecomings,

483
00:19:16,054 --> 00:19:18,257
pep rallies, model U.N.

484
00:19:18,257 --> 00:19:20,359
so they go to UConn every year

485
00:19:20,359 --> 00:19:23,362
and they represent their country
like the United Nations.

486
00:19:24,096 --> 00:19:27,332
Neela Hummel brag won best delegate.

487
00:19:27,866 --> 00:19:30,869
So she came home with a gavel.

488
00:19:30,869 --> 00:19:32,905
You know, it had engraved on it.

489
00:19:32,905 --> 00:19:35,574
Best delegate.
So it was really cool. Certificate.

490
00:19:35,574 --> 00:19:37,309
I thought of her.

491
00:19:37,309 --> 00:19:38,977
That's awesome.
Yeah. No, it's a great school.

492
00:19:38,977 --> 00:19:39,778
I'm very excited.

493
00:19:39,778 --> 00:19:40,579
Bridgette.

494
00:19:40,579 --> 00:19:43,582
Softball. She's catching.

495
00:19:43,649 --> 00:19:45,083
So she's got. We just went.

496
00:19:45,083 --> 00:19:48,086
She was just went hitting the other day
to get ready for the season.

497
00:19:49,221 --> 00:19:50,989
Yeah, getting ready for golf.

498
00:19:50,989 --> 00:19:52,157
Just a wonderful program.

499
00:19:52,157 --> 00:19:54,626
Great. Like you said,
the staff is wonderful.

500
00:19:54,626 --> 00:19:55,160
Yeah.

501
00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:59,531
From the administration down
to all the teachers, counselors?

502
00:20:00,032 --> 00:20:01,800
Yeah. You can't mess with West Hartford.

503
00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:02,768
Yeah, yeah.

504
00:20:02,768 --> 00:20:03,702
That's why we moved here.

505
00:20:03,702 --> 00:20:06,838
So, yeah, 16 years ago,
we my girls are 16.

506
00:20:06,838 --> 00:20:08,640
So you figure out why we moved here?

507
00:20:08,640 --> 00:20:09,841
My wife was pregnant.

508
00:20:09,841 --> 00:20:13,645
We lived in New Haven, I was going
I was working in Waterbury.

509
00:20:13,645 --> 00:20:15,414
Shoot. My wife was working in Milford.

510
00:20:16,782 --> 00:20:18,917
My, I know were pregnant.

511
00:20:18,917 --> 00:20:21,920
We had to go to a good educations,
school system.

512
00:20:22,821 --> 00:20:26,725
My family, my wife's,
my mother, and lived in Waterbury.

513
00:20:26,725 --> 00:20:28,794
Her mother and dad lived in East Granby.

514
00:20:28,794 --> 00:20:31,797
So West Hartford was right in the middle.

515
00:20:31,997 --> 00:20:34,433
We settled, we saw Wolcott Park,
we saw that

516
00:20:34,433 --> 00:20:38,170
we can go, you know, towards the mall
and towards Dora.

517
00:20:38,170 --> 00:20:39,538
And little Dora wasn't there.

518
00:20:39,538 --> 00:20:40,072
But like with.

519
00:20:40,072 --> 00:20:42,708
Blockbuster at the time,
maybe blockbuster.

520
00:20:42,708 --> 00:20:44,509
Yeah, it. Was a blockbuster. And the.

521
00:20:44,509 --> 00:20:46,411
And the mail slot, it's still there.

522
00:20:46,411 --> 00:20:48,547
Devdas is still there. Yup, yup.

523
00:20:48,547 --> 00:20:49,915
I saw blockbuster.

524
00:20:49,915 --> 00:20:53,252
I remember being a blockbuster
and I remember laser hair

525
00:20:53,252 --> 00:20:56,255
removal was like a Chinese restaurant.

526
00:20:56,755 --> 00:20:59,825
And next to the, American Eagle. Yes.

527
00:20:59,825 --> 00:21:03,161
Yeah, American Eagle
and was one big Chinese restaurant.

528
00:21:03,161 --> 00:21:07,099
But then they they knocked it down
and made it a bank and a hair removal.

529
00:21:07,966 --> 00:21:09,234
And then Bombay olive.

530
00:21:09,234 --> 00:21:10,202
What was Bombay olive?

531
00:21:11,536 --> 00:21:13,872
Well, that old

532
00:21:13,872 --> 00:21:14,306
it was something.

533
00:21:14,306 --> 00:21:15,173
It was an Ihop.

534
00:21:15,173 --> 00:21:16,942
Very good. Like 30 years ago.

535
00:21:16,942 --> 00:21:19,444
Yeah. Yeah.
Before way before I moved here.

536
00:21:19,444 --> 00:21:22,214
But I remember driving to the mall once,

537
00:21:22,214 --> 00:21:25,050
getting lost, taking a wrong turn
and seeing that Ihop.

538
00:21:25,050 --> 00:21:25,584
Yeah.

539
00:21:25,584 --> 00:21:27,753
Because the bamboo was still looks like.

540
00:21:27,753 --> 00:21:30,722
Yeah, the Ihop shape. It's funny. Yeah.

541
00:21:31,156 --> 00:21:33,592
And then the place,

542
00:21:33,592 --> 00:21:36,528
the Hartford Health Care building
across the street right on the corner

543
00:21:36,528 --> 00:21:38,030
next to the cat.

544
00:21:38,030 --> 00:21:40,799
Yeah. Cats, cats, cats unlimited.

545
00:21:40,799 --> 00:21:41,633
That used to be a restaurant.

546
00:21:41,633 --> 00:21:44,636
To be a pretty famous local one. Yeah.

547
00:21:44,636 --> 00:21:46,972
Do you know the name?
I forget the name. Like an.

548
00:21:46,972 --> 00:21:48,840
Were you born in that house?

549
00:21:48,840 --> 00:21:51,410
Yes. I was. Nice. Yeah.

550
00:21:51,410 --> 00:21:53,211
Very cool.

551
00:21:53,211 --> 00:21:54,579
No. Great neighborhood.

552
00:21:54,579 --> 00:21:56,715
Yeah.
So you went to walk it. And to walk. It.

553
00:21:56,715 --> 00:21:57,649
Did you go to Sedgwick?

554
00:21:57,649 --> 00:21:59,851
Went to Sedgwick. Conard? Yeah.

555
00:21:59,851 --> 00:22:01,486
Very good. Nice.

556
00:22:01,486 --> 00:22:03,021
And how about doctor K?

557
00:22:03,021 --> 00:22:06,224
I never got a chance to work for doctor K,
but obviously, you know,

558
00:22:06,258 --> 00:22:07,659
I'm from the neighborhood.

559
00:22:07,659 --> 00:22:12,964
I moved in and Kathy said, hey,
that's the principal at walk at school.

560
00:22:13,065 --> 00:22:14,733
Maybe you should talk to him. Yeah, go.

561
00:22:14,733 --> 00:22:19,771
Hey, doctor K, I'm a I've been a teacher
for eight years in Waterbury.

562
00:22:20,372 --> 00:22:23,442
You know, I'd be interested
to to go to a walk in, I joked.

563
00:22:23,442 --> 00:22:26,411
I was like, hey, I'll paint your house,
I'll mow your lawn.

564
00:22:26,411 --> 00:22:28,613
He's like, I got someone for that.

565
00:22:28,613 --> 00:22:29,514
That was me.

566
00:22:29,514 --> 00:22:31,883
Yeah. Probably.

567
00:22:31,883 --> 00:22:34,419
And then like five years later,

568
00:22:34,419 --> 00:22:36,655
I'm still driving to Waterbury.

569
00:22:36,655 --> 00:22:38,857
The commute was 35 minutes traffic.

570
00:22:38,857 --> 00:22:39,691
It was awful.

571
00:22:41,760 --> 00:22:42,994
And he was like, hey, I got good news.

572
00:22:42,994 --> 00:22:45,464
Bad news.
Good news is I can get you an interview.

573
00:22:45,464 --> 00:22:47,165
Bad news is I'm retiring.

574
00:22:47,165 --> 00:22:48,567
So I said, I'll take it.

575
00:22:48,567 --> 00:22:51,470
Yeah. And, I got the job.

576
00:22:51,470 --> 00:22:54,072
Doctor Singh came in, jazz

577
00:22:54,072 --> 00:22:57,075
Singh came in, and doctor
K moved to Washington state.

578
00:22:57,242 --> 00:22:59,978
Yeah. So hopefully if you get this, well,
maybe you'll send this to on me.

579
00:22:59,978 --> 00:23:03,281
And my doctor said, well, Plato,
you're the man.

580
00:23:03,281 --> 00:23:06,351
I'm still in contact with them
through Facebook and Instagram, so.

581
00:23:06,351 --> 00:23:08,587
Okay. Yeah.

582
00:23:08,587 --> 00:23:09,855
Thank you for everything. Plato.

583
00:23:09,855 --> 00:23:13,492
And then my daughters babysit his cats,
and he's a great guy.

584
00:23:14,192 --> 00:23:15,427
He wrote in, like, Greek letters.

585
00:23:15,427 --> 00:23:17,829
Yeah, we've seen his handwriting. Yeah.

586
00:23:17,829 --> 00:23:21,333
So weird
that that whole family is is brilliant.

587
00:23:21,533 --> 00:23:23,402
Very artistic, articulate.

588
00:23:24,503 --> 00:23:26,071
Just smart individuals.

589
00:23:26,071 --> 00:23:27,939
Are you run the same age as the twins?

590
00:23:27,939 --> 00:23:29,674
They're two years above me. Above?

591
00:23:29,674 --> 00:23:31,977
Yeah. Acha Chloe and Lexi.

592
00:23:31,977 --> 00:23:32,911
Very cool. Yeah.

593
00:23:32,911 --> 00:23:34,746
So we grew up next to each other.

594
00:23:34,746 --> 00:23:37,315
We played outside together,

595
00:23:37,315 --> 00:23:38,550
and then they moved.

596
00:23:38,550 --> 00:23:40,952
Was a little sad
because they were my neighbors, you know?

597
00:23:40,952 --> 00:23:43,622
Yeah.

598
00:23:43,622 --> 00:23:44,289
And then you got.

599
00:23:44,289 --> 00:23:45,891
Well, Tom's in there now.

600
00:23:45,891 --> 00:23:48,160
Tom's in there now. Yep.

601
00:23:48,160 --> 00:23:50,162
Who you had 94 podcast, 90.

602
00:23:50,162 --> 00:23:53,732
Four cast, 94 or 98. He's 98, 98.

603
00:23:53,832 --> 00:23:55,467
Okay. Well, maybe I do.

604
00:23:55,467 --> 00:23:58,870
We mentioned Jesse Armstead,
maybe then 98 or basketball

605
00:23:58,870 --> 00:24:01,873
and basketball players
usually aren't big numbers like 98.

606
00:24:02,040 --> 00:24:04,543
Maybe he's a football player.

607
00:24:04,543 --> 00:24:06,044
Forget I forget who it was.

608
00:24:06,044 --> 00:24:08,413
But so how's the coaching soccer.

609
00:24:08,413 --> 00:24:12,384
So ten years
coaching at the West Hartford?

610
00:24:13,151 --> 00:24:14,820
Boys or girls or both.

611
00:24:14,820 --> 00:24:17,422
It's been flip flopping year to year.

612
00:24:17,422 --> 00:24:21,593
Currently I have the boys, so I have
the second graders and the fourth graders.

613
00:24:21,593 --> 00:24:23,228
So is it travel?

614
00:24:23,228 --> 00:24:23,862
It is travel.

615
00:24:23,862 --> 00:24:24,963
You always coach.

616
00:24:24,963 --> 00:24:27,332
Travel always goes travel nice.

617
00:24:27,332 --> 00:24:28,733
And where do you travel? To

618
00:24:29,734 --> 00:24:30,569
various places.

619
00:24:30,569 --> 00:24:33,071
It depends on who wants to play us.

620
00:24:33,071 --> 00:24:37,342
So we're entered into a league
that's in the Greater Hartford district.

621
00:24:37,342 --> 00:24:39,144
So you got your Glastonbury's.

622
00:24:39,144 --> 00:24:41,613
Manchester's
all the way to, you know, your Newington

623
00:24:41,613 --> 00:24:43,648
or Simsbury is your grand bees.

624
00:24:43,648 --> 00:24:45,116
You could even play someone like summers.

625
00:24:45,116 --> 00:24:48,119
That's 40 minutes away.

626
00:24:48,153 --> 00:24:51,656
But, you know, once
you get to that certain age point

627
00:24:51,656 --> 00:24:54,059
where you're traveling all over the state,
you could be traveling

628
00:24:54,059 --> 00:24:57,796
to Greenwich one day
and then you know, mystic the next.

629
00:24:58,430 --> 00:25:00,432
So it really depends on who you play.

630
00:25:00,432 --> 00:25:04,302
What, what tournament bracket you're in,
what what league

631
00:25:04,336 --> 00:25:05,971
you enter in and stuff like that.

632
00:25:05,971 --> 00:25:06,238
So you got.

633
00:25:06,238 --> 00:25:09,241
Second grader driving 40 minutes to play.

634
00:25:09,875 --> 00:25:13,411
So that particular example driving to
summers was with the fourth graders.

635
00:25:13,411 --> 00:25:16,348
So still same kind of thing.
They're still very young. Wow.

636
00:25:16,348 --> 00:25:16,948
Oh that's good.

637
00:25:16,948 --> 00:25:19,217
Well,
I mean it's called travel for a reason.

638
00:25:19,217 --> 00:25:21,453
You do. Travel. Hence the name.

639
00:25:22,420 --> 00:25:23,788
Very cool.

640
00:25:23,788 --> 00:25:27,993
No, I've never sponsored a soccer team,
but friends have finally

641
00:25:27,993 --> 00:25:31,062
brought this to me last year,
so maybe it's a good opportunity to share.

642
00:25:31,396 --> 00:25:32,130
We sponsor.

643
00:25:32,130 --> 00:25:34,533
This is our minors. Friends of Feeney.
This is ours.

644
00:25:34,533 --> 00:25:35,600
Oh, nice.

645
00:25:35,600 --> 00:25:36,635
Very nice.

646
00:25:36,635 --> 00:25:39,404
Got the corporate color screen.

647
00:25:39,404 --> 00:25:40,772
There's our. Coach.

648
00:25:40,772 --> 00:25:44,743
So really excited to be the West Hartford
girls softball league.

649
00:25:44,743 --> 00:25:47,212
They made a nice little friendly.
That's really nice.

650
00:25:47,212 --> 00:25:48,313
What are you coach?

651
00:25:48,313 --> 00:25:48,847
You should coach.

652
00:25:48,847 --> 00:25:51,182
I did coach, so you did for soccer.

653
00:25:51,182 --> 00:25:54,152
I was the. Best. Hands down.

654
00:25:54,419 --> 00:25:55,720
Bar none.

655
00:25:55,720 --> 00:25:56,922
The best kindergarten.

656
00:25:56,922 --> 00:25:59,925
The first grade soccer coach ever. Nice.

657
00:25:59,958 --> 00:26:03,361
Once it got to second or third grade
when you had the no positions

658
00:26:03,361 --> 00:26:07,332
and where to go and build strategy,
I lost it.

659
00:26:07,365 --> 00:26:09,467
What about softball?
You know baseball, right.

660
00:26:09,467 --> 00:26:11,336
So I coached my girls and everything.

661
00:26:11,336 --> 00:26:12,637
Okay. T-ball,

662
00:26:14,172 --> 00:26:17,175
softball, soccer.

663
00:26:17,342 --> 00:26:18,043
What else did they do?

664
00:26:18,043 --> 00:26:19,678
Basketball.

665
00:26:19,678 --> 00:26:20,612
Well, then then my

666
00:26:20,612 --> 00:26:23,949
then my wife took over the basketball
head coaching made me assistant coach.

667
00:26:23,982 --> 00:26:24,749
Oh, I didn't know that.

668
00:26:24,749 --> 00:26:28,787
And said, if I, you know,
if I continue to yell, what are you doing?

669
00:26:29,220 --> 00:26:31,156
Where's your. Player?

670
00:26:31,156 --> 00:26:34,159
She's going to I'm
going to sit in the car.

671
00:26:34,292 --> 00:26:35,760
She's like

672
00:26:35,760 --> 00:26:37,996
yelling, what are you doing?

673
00:26:37,996 --> 00:26:39,397
Is not helpful.

674
00:26:39,397 --> 00:26:42,167
Well, you know, but,

675
00:26:42,167 --> 00:26:44,536
no, it was great coaching.

676
00:26:44,536 --> 00:26:48,306
But then after a while,
it's like you try to be coaching.

677
00:26:48,306 --> 00:26:52,711
Your children are definitely a challenging
because they see you all day long.

678
00:26:52,777 --> 00:26:55,780
Yeah,
sometimes they may not agree with you and

679
00:26:55,981 --> 00:26:57,582
they'll tell you that, you know.

680
00:26:57,582 --> 00:26:59,217
So I know that too. Well.

681
00:26:59,217 --> 00:27:00,919
Did your dad coach you?

682
00:27:00,919 --> 00:27:02,654
He tried to give me pointers here
and there.

683
00:27:02,654 --> 00:27:05,991
We would walk over to Wall Park
and it always ended.

684
00:27:06,191 --> 00:27:09,828
I was maybe 5 or 6 years old at the time,
but it always ended in a in

685
00:27:09,861 --> 00:27:11,763
a crying argument. So

686
00:27:13,164 --> 00:27:15,266
those are those are some of the memories
I cherish though.

687
00:27:15,266 --> 00:27:16,301
Of course. Yeah.

688
00:27:16,301 --> 00:27:21,306
So the funniest thing ever is like
I taught third grade at walk at school,

689
00:27:21,873 --> 00:27:25,176
my daughters were in third
grade at walk at school.

690
00:27:25,176 --> 00:27:25,477
Yeah.

691
00:27:25,477 --> 00:27:30,115
They brought home the third grade homework
that I collaborated with my colleagues

692
00:27:30,115 --> 00:27:34,953
and made, and they said, no, dad,
we don't do it this way in school.

693
00:27:35,286 --> 00:27:37,355
And I was like, are you kidding me?

694
00:27:37,355 --> 00:27:41,092
I just sat in a meeting with your teacher,
so I couldn't imagine not.

695
00:27:41,092 --> 00:27:46,231
I had inside source like I was in the mix.

696
00:27:46,665 --> 00:27:47,065
Yeah.

697
00:27:47,065 --> 00:27:49,434
So I couldn't imagine a parent

698
00:27:49,434 --> 00:27:50,468
like, I hear that a lot.

699
00:27:50,468 --> 00:27:52,170
Oh, Mr. Feeney, we don't teach math.

700
00:27:52,170 --> 00:27:53,972
I never I didn't learn math this way.

701
00:27:53,972 --> 00:27:55,106
Mr. Feeney.

702
00:27:55,106 --> 00:27:56,341
The new math. Mr.

703
00:27:56,341 --> 00:27:58,443
Feeney, you common core math.

704
00:27:58,443 --> 00:27:59,411
You know, so a parent

705
00:28:00,779 --> 00:28:01,713
like I don't want

706
00:28:01,713 --> 00:28:04,683
to say a civilian parent or,

707
00:28:04,683 --> 00:28:07,585
hands off parent or someone
that's not in the school system.

708
00:28:07,585 --> 00:28:10,255
Parent. Yeah, I. Couldn't
imagine what the students are saying.

709
00:28:10,255 --> 00:28:12,323
Like, no, dad, we do it this way.

710
00:28:12,323 --> 00:28:13,425
I have my own daughters.

711
00:28:13,425 --> 00:28:15,527
Tell me, when they were in third grade,
it was hilarious.

712
00:28:15,527 --> 00:28:17,395
I was like,

713
00:28:17,395 --> 00:28:17,962
fine.

714
00:28:17,962 --> 00:28:21,666
Well, I remember when I used to
I dogs at Berkeley

715
00:28:21,666 --> 00:28:24,903
or Dog one time and when you guys were.

716
00:28:24,903 --> 00:28:26,404
No, this is actually the different time

717
00:28:26,404 --> 00:28:28,239
I was actually setting up a tent
in your backyard.

718
00:28:28,239 --> 00:28:29,941
Do you remember that

719
00:28:29,941 --> 00:28:32,777
for a gathering that you had one summer?

720
00:28:32,777 --> 00:28:33,244
Okay.

721
00:28:33,244 --> 00:28:37,415
But anyways, I was setting up the tent
and I just see your two daughters

722
00:28:37,415 --> 00:28:41,019
just sitting there reading for hours,
and that's all they did.

723
00:28:41,519 --> 00:28:45,323
So if you can imagine if they read their
entire childhood how smart they would be.

724
00:28:45,323 --> 00:28:47,692
So maybe, maybe they did know
something that you didn't.

725
00:28:47,692 --> 00:28:50,395
Oh no, they're smarter than me for sure.

726
00:28:50,395 --> 00:28:54,566
They've said words like ad hoc, adherent,
and ad hoc.

727
00:28:54,599 --> 00:28:57,001
It just the other
day I should make a list.

728
00:29:02,741 --> 00:29:04,309
A camp met

729
00:29:04,309 --> 00:29:07,512
a a camp met like, I don't know.

730
00:29:07,645 --> 00:29:09,481
There's so many words. I'm like, what?

731
00:29:09,481 --> 00:29:11,950
It's a new vocab word.
Like it's a new word.

732
00:29:11,950 --> 00:29:13,952
They still have,
but they drop them like it's nothing.

733
00:29:13,952 --> 00:29:14,919
You know? It's like.

734
00:29:14,919 --> 00:29:17,388
But no, my girls, like you said, I.

735
00:29:17,388 --> 00:29:19,457
I don't want to take credit.

736
00:29:19,457 --> 00:29:22,460
But when my wife was pregnant,
I read to the belly,

737
00:29:22,861 --> 00:29:26,931
my wife's belly, read a book every day
and I just read.

738
00:29:26,931 --> 00:29:29,701
And then when I came out,
I read to them every day.

739
00:29:29,701 --> 00:29:30,902
Yeah.

740
00:29:30,902 --> 00:29:31,503
Picture books.

741
00:29:31,503 --> 00:29:34,472
Because I'm really good
at reading picture books.

742
00:29:34,472 --> 00:29:38,209
But then again, being great kindergarten
first grade soccer

743
00:29:38,209 --> 00:29:41,212
coach, I'm a really good kindergarten
first grade reader.

744
00:29:41,346 --> 00:29:43,882
And then when they got into Harry
Potter and stuff,

745
00:29:43,882 --> 00:29:45,450
I read the first chapter, Harry Potter.

746
00:29:45,450 --> 00:29:49,387
And I was it's like,
what are these names or what's going on.

747
00:29:49,888 --> 00:29:51,122
You know.

748
00:29:51,122 --> 00:29:55,260
So but Harry Potter was they read
Harry Potter like second grade really.

749
00:29:55,627 --> 00:29:56,528
Or maybe even

750
00:29:58,062 --> 00:29:59,664
I want to say second or third grade to me.

751
00:29:59,664 --> 00:30:02,200
To me, those books are daunting
because as a fifth grader,

752
00:30:02,200 --> 00:30:04,769
even if you're looking at those
and those are like 300 pages long.

753
00:30:04,769 --> 00:30:07,772
Yeah, 500, 500. Some of them. Yeah.

754
00:30:07,872 --> 00:30:13,077
And my sister once waited at Barnes
and Noble to get the book.

755
00:30:13,611 --> 00:30:17,115
When she got the book, she went home
and read it throughout the night.

756
00:30:17,615 --> 00:30:19,584
Oh, and read the whole book.

757
00:30:19,584 --> 00:30:21,219
Wow. So maybe they get the reading for my.

758
00:30:21,219 --> 00:30:23,822
Which one was that?
Was that Deathly Hallows?

759
00:30:23,822 --> 00:30:25,890
I think it might have been the first one
or the second one.

760
00:30:25,890 --> 00:30:28,326
I don't know,

761
00:30:28,326 --> 00:30:30,461
but that's funny that you say
my daughters were reading.

762
00:30:30,461 --> 00:30:31,963
They still love reading.

763
00:30:31,963 --> 00:30:34,065
That's all they did. Yeah.

764
00:30:34,065 --> 00:30:34,966
They're really good. Readers.

765
00:30:34,966 --> 00:30:39,170
So that's what, that's what happens
when their father's a teacher, you know?

766
00:30:40,104 --> 00:30:41,339
No, I think, yeah, it's still.

767
00:30:41,339 --> 00:30:43,308
Those good habits. Reading is.

768
00:30:43,308 --> 00:30:44,242
Reading is important.

769
00:30:44,242 --> 00:30:47,111
Reading is fun.
Reading will take you places. Absolutely.

770
00:30:48,279 --> 00:30:50,582
It's high courage that I encourage
all my listeners.

771
00:30:50,582 --> 00:30:53,551
And, that's that's a good recommendation.

772
00:30:53,651 --> 00:30:54,752
Read.

773
00:30:54,752 --> 00:30:57,255
You have any recommended books, podcasts,

774
00:30:57,255 --> 00:31:00,491
movies, TV shows we recommend
are on the recommendation for.

775
00:31:00,491 --> 00:31:03,394
I don't have any books that you know
your viewers would like.

776
00:31:03,394 --> 00:31:07,765
They're more so like business books and,
and, telecommunications books. But,

777
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,803
yeah,
I mean, I'd love the Harry Potter series.

778
00:31:12,003 --> 00:31:14,973
I read the first book of Game of Thrones.

779
00:31:15,640 --> 00:31:18,109
So as far as novels
go, that's what I've read, really,

780
00:31:18,109 --> 00:31:21,112
but it's typically business related books.

781
00:31:21,179 --> 00:31:24,883
I suggested reading Who Moved My Cheese
last podcast.

782
00:31:24,883 --> 00:31:30,121
I gave it a copy to Joey Bats who move
my cheese the Inner Game of Tennis.

783
00:31:30,488 --> 00:31:31,990
Another great book.

784
00:31:31,990 --> 00:31:36,928
It's about achieving a goal, and
it could be the inner game of anything.

785
00:31:36,928 --> 00:31:39,430
Inner game of interviewing, inner game of,

786
00:31:41,132 --> 00:31:44,135
I wrote my my Neil a does rivalry

787
00:31:44,936 --> 00:31:46,204
and so rivalry.

788
00:31:46,204 --> 00:31:47,705
Yeah like shooting. Yeah.

789
00:31:47,705 --> 00:31:50,708
Really like the mental

790
00:31:50,875 --> 00:31:51,943
portion of that.

791
00:31:51,943 --> 00:31:54,846
It's like very physical
draining and mentally.

792
00:31:54,846 --> 00:31:55,513
Yeah.

793
00:31:55,513 --> 00:31:59,250
You have to squeeze the trigger
the same time you have to hold your breath

794
00:31:59,250 --> 00:32:02,220
and pause at the same time every time.

795
00:32:02,887 --> 00:32:03,655
It's challenging.

796
00:32:03,655 --> 00:32:07,992
Speaking of which, you see that Olympian
that did the the one arm pistol?

797
00:32:07,992 --> 00:32:09,727
Oh, yeah. The turkey barrel.

798
00:32:09,727 --> 00:32:11,963
Yeah, yeah, yeah. That was funny.

799
00:32:11,963 --> 00:32:14,766
I someone dressed as him as Halloween
or Brian's.

800
00:32:14,766 --> 00:32:16,200
Brian had a party.

801
00:32:16,200 --> 00:32:16,935
Your other neighbor.

802
00:32:16,935 --> 00:32:17,602
Oh yeah.

803
00:32:17,602 --> 00:32:21,806
And someone rolled in a couple rolled in
is the Australian breakdancer

804
00:32:22,006 --> 00:32:25,243
and the Turkish shooter,
and they pulled it off.

805
00:32:25,243 --> 00:32:27,745
It was so good.
Yeah, it was. Really cool to see.

806
00:32:30,114 --> 00:32:31,582
Yeah.

807
00:32:31,582 --> 00:32:32,550
So recommendation.

808
00:32:32,550 --> 00:32:35,253
So I recommend recommended Yellowstone.

809
00:32:35,253 --> 00:32:38,222
You ever watch Yellowstone.

810
00:32:38,256 --> 00:32:39,891
Bits and pieces here or there.

811
00:32:39,891 --> 00:32:42,427
But I haven't sat down and actually.

812
00:32:42,427 --> 00:32:45,763
You know, you ever play John
Madden football growing up

813
00:32:46,130 --> 00:32:47,632
John Madden, the football game.

814
00:32:47,632 --> 00:32:49,801
Oh, mad John yeah, yeah.

815
00:32:49,801 --> 00:32:52,804
Met my dad when he said John Madden
I was like, okay,

816
00:32:53,137 --> 00:32:55,540
I thought that's you meant,
but you just pull. Them out.

817
00:32:55,540 --> 00:32:57,075
A little bit, a little bit here.

818
00:32:57,075 --> 00:32:58,776
There's a as a FIFA guy though.

819
00:32:58,776 --> 00:33:01,779
Oh yeah. There's a documentary on Madden.

820
00:33:02,013 --> 00:33:03,181
On Amazon.

821
00:33:03,181 --> 00:33:04,382
Okay. Oh, I loved it.

822
00:33:04,382 --> 00:33:06,985
Like Madden raised me.

823
00:33:06,985 --> 00:33:08,419
Like I think it was 89.

824
00:33:08,419 --> 00:33:12,523
The first one came out for Sega had it
and I had them all.

825
00:33:12,890 --> 00:33:15,760
I think I stopped playing around like

826
00:33:15,760 --> 00:33:18,129
2008 or 2010, who knows?

827
00:33:18,129 --> 00:33:20,331
But it was a great documentary.

828
00:33:20,331 --> 00:33:21,332
So yeah. Yeah.

829
00:33:21,332 --> 00:33:21,866
So funny.

830
00:33:21,866 --> 00:33:24,602
People, kids
don't even realize that he's a person.

831
00:33:24,602 --> 00:33:27,672
They just think Madden as like a
a concept or a game.

832
00:33:27,672 --> 00:33:31,376
But like a FIFA or like an NHL or whatever
video game.

833
00:33:31,376 --> 00:33:32,043
Yeah.

834
00:33:32,043 --> 00:33:36,314
I remember the first time I played FIFA
freshman year, Southern Connecticut State,

835
00:33:36,314 --> 00:33:40,084
my buddy Jeff
Craig's room, I think it was Nintendo 64.

836
00:33:42,086 --> 00:33:44,455
Inc diagonal screen.

837
00:33:44,455 --> 00:33:47,025
You know,
you could kick it up to yourself.

838
00:33:47,025 --> 00:33:48,693
Corner kicks.

839
00:33:48,693 --> 00:33:50,228
What's a diagonal screen.

840
00:33:50,228 --> 00:33:50,995
Didn't run.

841
00:33:50,995 --> 00:33:53,998
Didn't it run this way
or did you go side to side

842
00:33:54,265 --> 00:33:55,500
to go left to right.

843
00:33:55,500 --> 00:33:58,036
Or did it go like on an angle.
What do you mean like.

844
00:33:58,036 --> 00:34:01,039
The the gameplay, the flow?

845
00:34:01,305 --> 00:34:04,042
I don't know what you mean,
but the, you know.

846
00:34:04,042 --> 00:34:06,344
Like Matt and you go up and down,
you're going north.

847
00:34:06,344 --> 00:34:08,379
Oh. Oh, that's what you mean.

848
00:34:08,379 --> 00:34:08,880
Okay.

849
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:10,681
You're kind of going.

850
00:34:10,681 --> 00:34:12,750
Yeah. You're going, you're going up.

851
00:34:12,750 --> 00:34:15,186
If you're on offense, you go up.

852
00:34:15,186 --> 00:34:16,888
But if you're playing someone, if.

853
00:34:16,888 --> 00:34:19,891
Then they're facing down. You sure?

854
00:34:20,058 --> 00:34:22,560
I thought so, at least the newer ones.

855
00:34:22,560 --> 00:34:23,194
When I maybe.

856
00:34:23,194 --> 00:34:25,596
Was new,
maybe they, they maybe they rotated it.

857
00:34:25,596 --> 00:34:27,765
But back in the day,
I swear I could be wrong.

858
00:34:27,765 --> 00:34:30,234
Now you're making me question myself.

859
00:34:30,234 --> 00:34:31,002
Almost like,

860
00:34:32,904 --> 00:34:35,339
what was the game, NBA live?

861
00:34:35,339 --> 00:34:37,675
What kind of went on an angle, really?

862
00:34:37,675 --> 00:34:39,510
FIFA, I thought, started on an angle.

863
00:34:39,510 --> 00:34:42,313
I could be wrong. Up and down.

864
00:34:42,313 --> 00:34:45,316
So I haven't played them in

865
00:34:45,349 --> 00:34:48,686
close to like 5 or 6 years
now, but FIFA one side to side.

866
00:34:49,587 --> 00:34:51,722
I think Madden went up and down.

867
00:34:51,722 --> 00:34:54,725
The same with two guy NBA two K.

868
00:34:55,293 --> 00:34:56,761
Went up and down. Went up and down.

869
00:34:56,761 --> 00:34:59,764
And then it like once you lost possession
it would flip flop.

870
00:34:59,831 --> 00:35:02,834
And then the other person
from the bottom up okay.

871
00:35:02,967 --> 00:35:04,802
Yeah that'll get you dizzy though.

872
00:35:04,802 --> 00:35:06,904
It does. It's a couple turnovers in a row.

873
00:35:06,904 --> 00:35:08,072
I remember that actually.

874
00:35:08,072 --> 00:35:10,374
He was like oop then.

875
00:35:10,374 --> 00:35:12,310
Well it has like a little pause.

876
00:35:12,310 --> 00:35:12,844
Yeah like a.

877
00:35:12,844 --> 00:35:16,347
Little a little do a freeze frame
and then it'll rotate the screen.

878
00:35:16,347 --> 00:35:18,783
And then you'll have the ball after

879
00:35:20,218 --> 00:35:21,953
technology man

880
00:35:21,953 --> 00:35:24,956
these games are getting more sophisticated
and new added

881
00:35:25,490 --> 00:35:28,559
My little nephew Nick,
I played last Christmas,

882
00:35:28,559 --> 00:35:31,362
so you don't even have to buy the game
anymore. You pay for it.

883
00:35:31,362 --> 00:35:33,231
They send it right to your box.

884
00:35:33,231 --> 00:35:35,166
I'm probably telling you something,
you know?

885
00:35:35,166 --> 00:35:37,034
Wait, what do you.
What do you mean? They send it.

886
00:35:37,034 --> 00:35:39,270
Like you just send it to your sister.

887
00:35:39,270 --> 00:35:41,072
Oh, you download the file. Download it?
Yeah.

888
00:35:41,072 --> 00:35:41,472
My bad.

889
00:35:41,472 --> 00:35:44,475
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's how the loop I am.

890
00:35:45,409 --> 00:35:46,310
Download the file.

891
00:35:46,310 --> 00:35:48,880
They send it to your box, you know.
You know what I'm talking about.

892
00:35:48,880 --> 00:35:51,649
But I used to have to wait in line
at GameStop.

893
00:35:51,649 --> 00:35:52,583
Pay in advance.

894
00:35:52,583 --> 00:35:54,018
Oh, I still remember those days.

895
00:35:54,018 --> 00:35:57,021
I used to go to Funko land
and put a $50 deposit down,

896
00:35:57,088 --> 00:35:58,623
wait in line to get the Madden.

897
00:35:58,623 --> 00:36:00,591
Yeah, go. Home and play with my buddy BG.

898
00:36:00,591 --> 00:36:04,495
I mean, Madden was
there was a line, but now no line.

899
00:36:04,495 --> 00:36:08,132
No wait you just again
download it. My bad.

900
00:36:08,132 --> 00:36:10,034
Send it to your back and then.

901
00:36:11,569 --> 00:36:14,405
But so I haven't played in a while.

902
00:36:14,405 --> 00:36:17,408
This is a Madden store I now for you guys
going to be interested but

903
00:36:17,542 --> 00:36:21,779
and the first time I played
it was last Christmas, my nephew Nick,

904
00:36:21,779 --> 00:36:25,983
he would kick off, come down, pummel me,
I would fumble, he'd get it.

905
00:36:25,983 --> 00:36:29,187
He laugh at me,
he score, I throw an interception.

906
00:36:29,187 --> 00:36:31,789
He run it back. He'd run around.

907
00:36:31,789 --> 00:36:34,358
And you know, I was still trying
to figure out the buttons.

908
00:36:34,358 --> 00:36:35,092
It's been a while.

909
00:36:35,092 --> 00:36:38,095
He beat me like 35 six.

910
00:36:38,262 --> 00:36:40,765
Then I was like,
all right, let's keep playing.

911
00:36:40,765 --> 00:36:44,101
Got it down to like 2814.

912
00:36:44,368 --> 00:36:47,505
Finally I learned the buttons
and I got Derrick Henry

913
00:36:47,838 --> 00:36:52,777
and I grind it out, pound in ground
like ran the ball first down,

914
00:36:52,944 --> 00:36:56,047
waste some time, pound the ball
first time.

915
00:36:56,581 --> 00:36:58,149
Wasted all the clock.

916
00:36:58,149 --> 00:36:58,849
I beat him.

917
00:36:58,849 --> 00:37:03,287
It was like 14 to 12
or 14 to 13 or something.

918
00:37:03,287 --> 00:37:05,089
Somehow. So I kicked a field goal.

919
00:37:05,089 --> 00:37:06,891
I don't know what it was, but I beat them.

920
00:37:08,292 --> 00:37:08,593
And I

921
00:37:08,593 --> 00:37:12,063
kind of said, hey, you know,
I beat you or whatever.

922
00:37:12,496 --> 00:37:13,531
Maybe I teased him a little bit.

923
00:37:13,531 --> 00:37:15,499
He starts crying, oh, boy.

924
00:37:15,499 --> 00:37:16,901
And then everyone's mad at me.

925
00:37:16,901 --> 00:37:19,737
I'm like,
he didn't tell you the first five times.

926
00:37:19,737 --> 00:37:23,574
He's laughing at me,
mocking me, beat me by 50 points,

927
00:37:23,574 --> 00:37:26,711
and then finally, when I win
and I say something, I'm the bad guy.

928
00:37:28,012 --> 00:37:30,248
But funny Nick story on Christmas.

929
00:37:30,248 --> 00:37:31,749
Madden.

930
00:37:31,749 --> 00:37:33,851
Nick's every year
he's going to be a guest.

931
00:37:33,851 --> 00:37:35,453
I'm like, come on Nick.

932
00:37:35,453 --> 00:37:36,721
He likes fantasy sports.

933
00:37:36,721 --> 00:37:40,758
So I'm like, In August
we'll do a fantasy football preview.

934
00:37:40,758 --> 00:37:42,393
Like, hey, who we drafted.

935
00:37:42,393 --> 00:37:45,796
What are we going to draft
Nick for three summers?

936
00:37:45,796 --> 00:37:50,768
Oh uncle EA, I got, I got sports,
I got to go to school.

937
00:37:50,768 --> 00:37:52,870
We're going on vacation.

938
00:37:52,870 --> 00:37:55,172
So Nick I mean, here's
your chance, buddy. Let's go.

939
00:37:55,172 --> 00:37:56,307
Should he do it?

940
00:37:56,307 --> 00:37:58,175
How's your. Fantasy game?
Do you play fantasy football?

941
00:37:58,175 --> 00:38:01,178
I don't my my dad, actually,
surprisingly enough,

942
00:38:01,178 --> 00:38:04,582
just entered in the fantasy soccer League,
though for players.

943
00:38:04,582 --> 00:38:05,616
Surprise me.

944
00:38:05,616 --> 00:38:07,318
You get players, Or teams.

945
00:38:07,318 --> 00:38:08,552
It's a weird. Yeah.

946
00:38:08,552 --> 00:38:10,621
I think it's teams.
I don't really know how it works.

947
00:38:10,621 --> 00:38:12,590
He sent me the file and says,
hey, enter in this.

948
00:38:12,590 --> 00:38:14,392
But it's like it's too late.

949
00:38:14,392 --> 00:38:18,029
But I think it's like, you bet each week
on a certain team to win.

950
00:38:18,029 --> 00:38:20,998
And then at the end of the season
you accumulate all the points.

951
00:38:20,998 --> 00:38:21,532
Very cool.

952
00:38:21,532 --> 00:38:24,135
So I don't
I don't know exactly how that works, but.

953
00:38:24,135 --> 00:38:25,736
So what are the two license plates?

954
00:38:25,736 --> 00:38:28,472
Your dad has two football license plates,
I think. One.

955
00:38:28,472 --> 00:38:30,174
Oh on the car. Yeah, yeah.

956
00:38:31,208 --> 00:38:32,410
One is Barcelona.

957
00:38:32,410 --> 00:38:34,278
Yep. Do you know the other one.

958
00:38:34,278 --> 00:38:36,414
Manchester United. No.

959
00:38:36,414 --> 00:38:37,682
Real Madrid?

960
00:38:37,682 --> 00:38:39,083
No, it's another EPL team.

961
00:38:39,083 --> 00:38:40,785
Do you know your EPL teams? No.

962
00:38:40,785 --> 00:38:42,653
Maybe you have to break that down
Liverpool.

963
00:38:42,653 --> 00:38:46,123
Oh yeah. So that that's his team.

964
00:38:46,123 --> 00:38:49,126
So he loves Barcelona
like the style that they play.

965
00:38:49,260 --> 00:38:51,762
And so he really enjoys
watching Barcelona.

966
00:38:51,762 --> 00:38:54,932
He's he's a good fan
but he's really truly a Liverpool fan.

967
00:38:55,499 --> 00:38:57,968
So that's his
that's his right or die team.

968
00:38:57,968 --> 00:39:02,506
And and Liverpool's
major rival is Everton.

969
00:39:02,873 --> 00:39:05,676
Everton not Manchester not match.

970
00:39:05,676 --> 00:39:07,578
Oh they're all really. In different
leagues.

971
00:39:07,578 --> 00:39:09,046
They're in the same league.

972
00:39:09,046 --> 00:39:11,716
So the way that European soccer
is different

973
00:39:11,716 --> 00:39:15,486
than American sports in general is
they have what's called a relegation zone.

974
00:39:15,786 --> 00:39:17,254
So if you're in the top bottom

975
00:39:17,254 --> 00:39:21,258
or in the bottom two teams
in the top league, then you move down

976
00:39:21,258 --> 00:39:25,963
and the top two teams from the B league
move up to the A-League. So,

977
00:39:27,331 --> 00:39:28,065
I don't know where I will.

978
00:39:28,065 --> 00:39:29,467
I don't know where I was going
with this, but.

979
00:39:29,467 --> 00:39:32,536
I've heard that and I looked into
a little bit because that's Ted Lasso.

980
00:39:32,970 --> 00:39:35,973
Oh, Ted Lasso in the season

981
00:39:35,973 --> 00:39:39,710
like they win to go up or
and then Deadpool.

982
00:39:39,710 --> 00:39:42,179
Ryan Reynolds owns a team. For real.

983
00:39:42,179 --> 00:39:45,182
Yes. And his team finally made it up

984
00:39:45,916 --> 00:39:46,917
Ryan or. Yes.

985
00:39:46,917 --> 00:39:47,618
Yeah.

986
00:39:47,618 --> 00:39:50,988
They they were allowed to like be
regulated.

987
00:39:50,988 --> 00:39:53,257
Regulated is called

988
00:39:53,257 --> 00:39:55,559
relegated. Relegated. When you go down.

989
00:39:55,559 --> 00:39:57,561
Oh I don't know promoted. Okay.

990
00:39:57,561 --> 00:39:58,462
What did I think.

991
00:39:58,462 --> 00:39:59,830
And that constantly happens every.

992
00:39:59,830 --> 00:40:01,365
Year every single. Season.

993
00:40:01,365 --> 00:40:04,769
So that's good
because I think NFL should do that

994
00:40:04,769 --> 00:40:07,471
because you got teams like the Giants. I'm
a Giants fan.

995
00:40:07,471 --> 00:40:09,607
As of maybe

996
00:40:09,607 --> 00:40:12,143
two more days
because I might be done with them.

997
00:40:12,143 --> 00:40:14,779
But but they should. Get done
like a relegated fan.

998
00:40:14,779 --> 00:40:19,083
They should get relegated to down
to play with like lower level

999
00:40:19,083 --> 00:40:22,119
and then a motivate
the last place teams to get better.

1000
00:40:22,253 --> 00:40:22,953
Right.

1001
00:40:22,953 --> 00:40:25,156
Because it's not just hey,
you made the playoffs.

1002
00:40:25,156 --> 00:40:26,190
You're good.

1003
00:40:26,190 --> 00:40:30,361
Well the bad teams have some motivation
to not be so bad right?

1004
00:40:30,694 --> 00:40:32,129
That's it. It works. In the.

1005
00:40:32,129 --> 00:40:36,100
NFL. Teams try to get last play
so they get first pick, right? Yes.

1006
00:40:36,100 --> 00:40:38,869
Isn't that a thing.
And how does that work for soccer?

1007
00:40:38,869 --> 00:40:41,338
Do they get first paid or it's all paid
right.

1008
00:40:41,338 --> 00:40:42,239
It's all paid.

1009
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:46,710
So once you're eligible to play,
you could be eligible at 14 years old

1010
00:40:46,710 --> 00:40:47,278
if you want to.

1011
00:40:47,278 --> 00:40:51,849
Although there's some now
some legal issues with hiring kids.

1012
00:40:52,550 --> 00:40:55,052
Like, this is one kid
named Calvin Sullivan, who's

1013
00:40:55,052 --> 00:40:58,122
I think in Pennsylvania or something.

1014
00:40:58,122 --> 00:41:00,658
I forget where exactly he's American.

1015
00:41:00,658 --> 00:41:04,728
But he was purchased by Manchester City,
another EPL team.

1016
00:41:05,629 --> 00:41:08,065
So that when he becomes of age 18, he's

1017
00:41:08,065 --> 00:41:11,101
going to transfer
over to their academy program.

1018
00:41:11,435 --> 00:41:12,803
Yeah, Freddie Adu did that.

1019
00:41:12,803 --> 00:41:15,806
Freddie
Beckham started a little younger, right?

1020
00:41:15,873 --> 00:41:17,942
There's Landon Donovan. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

1021
00:41:19,844 --> 00:41:21,879
Taylor
Tolman, maybe may maybe one of them.

1022
00:41:21,879 --> 00:41:24,315
There's a couple others for sure. Yeah.

1023
00:41:24,315 --> 00:41:27,818
Everyone's saying, like soccer will never
make in America because of commercials.

1024
00:41:28,886 --> 00:41:29,687
What's your take on that?

1025
00:41:29,687 --> 00:41:31,622
True or false.

1026
00:41:31,622 --> 00:41:33,357
Because we need. False on that point.

1027
00:41:33,357 --> 00:41:35,726
But it eventually will for TV wise.

1028
00:41:35,726 --> 00:41:38,596
I mean, yeah,

1029
00:41:38,596 --> 00:41:40,064
Oh, that's a loaded question.

1030
00:41:40,064 --> 00:41:41,265
I can go down a whole rabbit hole.

1031
00:41:41,265 --> 00:41:46,904
But long story short, the reason
why soccer argument keep going both ways.

1032
00:41:47,371 --> 00:41:48,939
I think that it well,

1033
00:41:48,939 --> 00:41:51,909
but there's an argument that's saying that
it won't because it doesn't

1034
00:41:51,909 --> 00:41:56,247
have that drive from a youth standpoint
that other countries do.

1035
00:41:56,514 --> 00:42:00,050
So if you look at any inner city
basketball court, they're all filled

1036
00:42:00,050 --> 00:42:02,386
with kids just shooting hoops all day
right after school.

1037
00:42:02,386 --> 00:42:04,388
They go from 2 to 8, six hours.

1038
00:42:04,388 --> 00:42:06,924
They're just shooting hoops
or over and over and over again.

1039
00:42:06,924 --> 00:42:09,693
So the love for the game
is there for soccer.

1040
00:42:09,693 --> 00:42:11,462
It's all fueled by money.

1041
00:42:11,462 --> 00:42:12,796
So the more money you have,

1042
00:42:12,796 --> 00:42:15,799
the better team
that you can get on from an early stage.

1043
00:42:15,966 --> 00:42:18,569
So there's a conflict of interest
with money.

1044
00:42:18,569 --> 00:42:22,039
And you know your cultural upbringing
and there's a whole lot of different

1045
00:42:22,039 --> 00:42:23,307
factors that go into it.

1046
00:42:24,675 --> 00:42:27,678
Where you could create the argument
that soccer won't be as big

1047
00:42:27,945 --> 00:42:31,382
as it is in Europe or South America
or whatever other country.

1048
00:42:33,017 --> 00:42:33,217
Yeah.

1049
00:42:33,217 --> 00:42:36,387
Because, well, my take was for to play,

1050
00:42:37,254 --> 00:42:39,990
I guess it's bad argument,
but to play basketball,

1051
00:42:39,990 --> 00:42:42,960
you just need sneakers and a ball
and you go to a park

1052
00:42:43,494 --> 00:42:46,530
because people will be gathering
at this park like, say, walk in park

1053
00:42:46,530 --> 00:42:49,266
every time I walk my dog.
Sunday nights is jam.

1054
00:42:49,266 --> 00:42:53,170
Yeah, there's at least when I moved in
16 years ago, I went to play there.

1055
00:42:53,537 --> 00:42:57,541
I was like,
they call me old man or the custodian

1056
00:42:58,642 --> 00:43:01,011
because I cleaned up the glass.

1057
00:43:01,011 --> 00:43:02,880
It was up.
Make me self-proclaimed nickname.

1058
00:43:02,880 --> 00:43:06,183
But I was cleaning up and I'm like,
no one wanted to pick me.

1059
00:43:06,617 --> 00:43:08,719
And then at the end,
I played a couple games

1060
00:43:08,719 --> 00:43:10,955
and I swear, this is
this is build my confidence.

1061
00:43:10,955 --> 00:43:14,825
I was ready to leave and some guy goes,
hey old man, you.

1062
00:43:14,825 --> 00:43:15,859
Want to play?

1063
00:43:15,859 --> 00:43:18,162
And I was like, whoa,
he could asked anyone?

1064
00:43:18,162 --> 00:43:20,564
Yeah. Yes. Asked me. Yeah. I was honored.

1065
00:43:21,999 --> 00:43:25,002
Yo, is he that experienced player Park.

1066
00:43:25,002 --> 00:43:28,339
You know, like he saw that I was grabbing
rebounds, playing hard.

1067
00:43:29,773 --> 00:43:31,909
But that playing on pavement hurts.

1068
00:43:31,909 --> 00:43:33,210
I'm too old for that now.

1069
00:43:33,210 --> 00:43:34,778
It's bad on your back and your knees.

1070
00:43:34,778 --> 00:43:38,816
Yeah, but again, back to soccer when you.

1071
00:43:38,816 --> 00:43:41,986
If you were to bring a soccer ball to walk
park per se

1072
00:43:42,419 --> 00:43:45,189
there's not other kids
like maybe occasionally.

1073
00:43:45,189 --> 00:43:47,791
Occasionally there's pickup.

1074
00:43:47,791 --> 00:43:48,692
I play pickup actually.

1075
00:43:48,692 --> 00:43:51,528
Soccer with your dad,
I bought cleats. Did you really? Yeah.

1076
00:43:51,528 --> 00:43:53,297
All his buddies.

1077
00:43:53,297 --> 00:43:54,665
They're all Peruvian dudes, right?

1078
00:43:54,665 --> 00:43:56,767
Yeah, actually,
I think I do remember that.

1079
00:43:56,767 --> 00:43:59,169
And then you had the goalie really close.

1080
00:43:59,169 --> 00:44:01,038
They're really close goals. Yeah.

1081
00:44:01,038 --> 00:44:03,107
Like not why goals like that? Like.

1082
00:44:03,107 --> 00:44:04,508
Well, probably about.

1083
00:44:04,508 --> 00:44:07,144
Yeah. That's. Yeah. Yeah.
I play with your dad. Yeah.

1084
00:44:07,144 --> 00:44:08,345
Now he schooled me.

1085
00:44:08,345 --> 00:44:09,580
That he. I like.

1086
00:44:09,580 --> 00:44:11,882
Well we both kick the ball
at the same time.

1087
00:44:11,882 --> 00:44:15,085
And I thought I broke my toe on my ankle
and he just like powered through.

1088
00:44:15,119 --> 00:44:16,754
Oh boy. He's used to kicking.

1089
00:44:16,754 --> 00:44:17,054
Yeah.

1090
00:44:17,054 --> 00:44:19,823
My kicking. Like, it was almost like
it wasn't really a kick.

1091
00:44:19,823 --> 00:44:23,060
It was like a reach out
and call me in an awkward position

1092
00:44:23,694 --> 00:44:27,264
where he was like in a kicking position,
like he got a lot of force behind it.

1093
00:44:27,264 --> 00:44:30,267
And I kind of just put my toe out there.

1094
00:44:30,334 --> 00:44:31,669
Lesson learned. Yeah.

1095
00:44:31,669 --> 00:44:33,937
Then I was a toe kicker, and.

1096
00:44:33,937 --> 00:44:35,539
But I was good exercise.

1097
00:44:35,539 --> 00:44:36,106
Yeah.

1098
00:44:36,106 --> 00:44:38,542
And wearing cleats for the first time
hurt my feet.

1099
00:44:38,542 --> 00:44:40,210
And it was just. Oh, it was great.

1100
00:44:40,210 --> 00:44:42,413
I want to play again. Let's do it.

1101
00:44:42,413 --> 00:44:44,148
Let's get some pickup. Run going. Yeah.

1102
00:44:44,148 --> 00:44:47,217
Come springtime, springtime into summer,
I'm sure we'll be.

1103
00:44:47,217 --> 00:44:48,686
I think he had family members there.

1104
00:44:48,686 --> 00:44:51,188
Maybe cousins or uncles
that lived in Newington.

1105
00:44:51,188 --> 00:44:52,456
Probably. Yeah. Sounding right.

1106
00:44:52,456 --> 00:44:55,459
Yep, yep. Alex? Tony?

1107
00:44:55,526 --> 00:44:58,295
Yeah. Louis,
I. Wish you were. There. Hello.

1108
00:44:58,295 --> 00:44:59,463
Maybe you were. There.

1109
00:44:59,463 --> 00:45:00,798
I may I might have been younger.

1110
00:45:00,798 --> 00:45:03,434
I might have been in like middle school.
Yeah, that was a while ago.

1111
00:45:03,434 --> 00:45:05,102
This is like my girls were young.

1112
00:45:05,102 --> 00:45:08,572
Yeah, yeah, I think I do remember that
it was over at Wolcott.

1113
00:45:08,672 --> 00:45:10,207
Yeah. And then,

1114
00:45:12,176 --> 00:45:15,179
some,

1115
00:45:15,245 --> 00:45:15,779
Who else?

1116
00:45:15,779 --> 00:45:18,148
My buddy Rinku plays over there.
Oh, you know, Rinku.

1117
00:45:18,148 --> 00:45:20,984
That's what I was going to say.
Back to the, the pickup.

1118
00:45:20,984 --> 00:45:22,786
There's a big Nepalese culture.

1119
00:45:22,786 --> 00:45:24,888
Yeah, community. And and West Hartford.

1120
00:45:24,888 --> 00:45:25,289
Yeah.

1121
00:45:25,289 --> 00:45:26,924
Rinku is obviously one of them, but he.

1122
00:45:26,924 --> 00:45:28,292
Was playing his plays there.

1123
00:45:28,292 --> 00:45:29,026
Now he.

1124
00:45:29,026 --> 00:45:30,494
I wave and I go, hey, let me play.

1125
00:45:30,494 --> 00:45:32,529
He's like, come on, any time. Feeney.

1126
00:45:32,529 --> 00:45:34,865
And I was like, oh, I had my dog with me.

1127
00:45:34,865 --> 00:45:36,533
Yeah, was my excuse. But yeah.

1128
00:45:36,533 --> 00:45:41,171
So all of his, all of his nieces and
nephews and friends, daughters and sons,

1129
00:45:41,171 --> 00:45:45,876
they all go over there and play and like,
I think like weekly if not a few days.

1130
00:45:45,943 --> 00:45:47,077
So there's. The pickup.

1131
00:45:47,077 --> 00:45:49,880
There's the
my argument defeated that pickup.

1132
00:45:49,880 --> 00:45:51,749
Soccer doesn't exist but it does.

1133
00:45:52,683 --> 00:45:53,984
But that was more organized.

1134
00:45:53,984 --> 00:45:57,321
Like, hey, I'm going to call my friends
and get them to the park, right?

1135
00:45:57,354 --> 00:45:57,855
Yeah. Okay.

1136
00:45:57,855 --> 00:46:01,925
You can show up
solo, get on a team with random strangers.

1137
00:46:01,925 --> 00:46:05,229
Yeah, from all different backgrounds,
cultures, upbringings.

1138
00:46:05,229 --> 00:46:08,232
I mean, it's a great sport to just,

1139
00:46:09,833 --> 00:46:12,469
you know, to play and

1140
00:46:12,469 --> 00:46:15,372
you're just trying to best the players.

1141
00:46:15,372 --> 00:46:17,674
I mean, but

1142
00:46:17,674 --> 00:46:19,243
no one passes out walk it.

1143
00:46:19,243 --> 00:46:19,977
That was another thing.

1144
00:46:19,977 --> 00:46:21,578
I was like, that's why I was like,
that's why

1145
00:46:21,578 --> 00:46:25,315
I grab so many rebounds because I'm like,
these guys are not passing at all.

1146
00:46:25,349 --> 00:46:28,352
Yeah, let me just rebound.

1147
00:46:28,519 --> 00:46:29,386
So I grabbed them.

1148
00:46:29,386 --> 00:46:33,757
I just got channeled my inner Dennis
Rodman and grabbed a lot of balls.

1149
00:46:33,757 --> 00:46:34,591
There you go.

1150
00:46:34,591 --> 00:46:37,895
That's why they called me the custodian,
because I was cleaning up the garbage.

1151
00:46:37,961 --> 00:46:40,531
Yeah. The custodian.

1152
00:46:40,531 --> 00:46:42,933
Like I said, you always need
one of those in every sport.

1153
00:46:42,933 --> 00:46:45,135
Yeah, whether it's soccer and soccer.

1154
00:46:46,737 --> 00:46:47,671
Garbage cleanup.

1155
00:46:47,671 --> 00:46:48,839
Dennis Rodman type.

1156
00:46:48,839 --> 00:46:51,175
We defender like a tough defender.

1157
00:46:51,175 --> 00:46:53,243
Or what do we someone.

1158
00:46:53,243 --> 00:46:53,477
It could.

1159
00:46:53,477 --> 00:46:54,545
Be anybody.

1160
00:46:54,545 --> 00:46:57,281
There's a lot of more slide tackles. Yeah.

1161
00:46:57,281 --> 00:47:00,918
Our equivalent of it
would be the garbage goal getter.

1162
00:47:01,618 --> 00:47:05,122
So any rebound that you could just tap
a foot on where you could just push

1163
00:47:05,122 --> 00:47:06,957
the ball on the back of the net. Gotcha.

1164
00:47:06,957 --> 00:47:09,359
So my coach growing up, he was,
he was an Englishman.

1165
00:47:09,359 --> 00:47:10,594
His name is Steve.

1166
00:47:10,594 --> 00:47:14,698
And, he used to say all the time,
I love garbage goals.

1167
00:47:14,932 --> 00:47:16,333
Those are the goals you have to fight for.

1168
00:47:16,333 --> 00:47:17,067
So it's the

1169
00:47:17,067 --> 00:47:20,304
it's the it's the point in your game
where you can show the most passion.

1170
00:47:20,871 --> 00:47:21,104
Yeah.

1171
00:47:21,104 --> 00:47:23,207
It's like knowing
where to be in the right place.

1172
00:47:23,207 --> 00:47:25,976
Yeah. Putting some extra
heart into it. Yeah. Hustle

1173
00:47:27,211 --> 00:47:28,612
the want the drive.

1174
00:47:28,612 --> 00:47:29,479
Yeah. Yeah I like that.

1175
00:47:29,479 --> 00:47:34,384
I remember this one time I was,
this is, I was 12 maybe, so I was U13

1176
00:47:35,252 --> 00:47:37,621
I was around that age
but there was this kid that I played

1177
00:47:37,621 --> 00:47:38,555
with who played at central.

1178
00:47:38,555 --> 00:47:43,260
Actually, his name was Danny,
and he missed a goal scoring opportunity

1179
00:47:43,260 --> 00:47:47,297
at our opponents on and then sprinted
as soon as the other guy got the ball,

1180
00:47:47,965 --> 00:47:50,634
he kicked the ball from their box
to our box.

1181
00:47:50,634 --> 00:47:53,203
And this kid literally
just chase the ball.

1182
00:47:53,203 --> 00:47:56,206
As soon as they got a shot on goal,
he did a bicycle kick off the line

1183
00:47:56,506 --> 00:47:59,509
and our coach pointed to that
and was like, that's who you need to be.

1184
00:47:59,877 --> 00:48:02,880
I was like, crap, I got to do that.

1185
00:48:03,046 --> 00:48:04,214
Yeah, yeah.

1186
00:48:04,214 --> 00:48:06,583
I'll hustle all heart. Yeah.

1187
00:48:08,352 --> 00:48:10,654
Nice.

1188
00:48:10,654 --> 00:48:11,822
Anything you want to add?

1189
00:48:11,822 --> 00:48:13,557
I know we talked your job.

1190
00:48:13,557 --> 00:48:16,560
Universal connectivity, account executive.

1191
00:48:16,560 --> 00:48:19,563
We talk neighborhood, we talk soccer.

1192
00:48:19,763 --> 00:48:22,232
Anything that you want to bring,
any questions for me?

1193
00:48:22,232 --> 00:48:23,700
Any things you want to bring up?

1194
00:48:23,700 --> 00:48:26,236
Well, I'd love to know what's next
for friends of any.

1195
00:48:26,236 --> 00:48:28,572
Yeah. What's next? You did the parade.

1196
00:48:28,572 --> 00:48:29,806
You're doing the podcasts.

1197
00:48:29,806 --> 00:48:33,543
You're doing all these other
charitable events for.

1198
00:48:33,543 --> 00:48:35,579
Yeah, we just had a toy drive.

1199
00:48:35,579 --> 00:48:37,047
You at Luna's Pizza, right, Luna?

1200
00:48:37,047 --> 00:48:38,782
Pizza hut one, two, four.

1201
00:48:38,782 --> 00:48:42,119
It was pretty cold,
but I think we got maybe ten,

1202
00:48:44,054 --> 00:48:45,622
ten garbage bags.

1203
00:48:45,622 --> 00:48:47,724
Oh, wow. Maybe more.

1204
00:48:47,724 --> 00:48:49,459
At least five huge boxes.

1205
00:48:49,459 --> 00:48:51,028
Heavy boxes.

1206
00:48:51,028 --> 00:48:53,363
And those are going to the walk
at Caring Schools Committee.

1207
00:48:53,363 --> 00:48:58,802
Well, welcoming schools committee, coats,
maybe even ten coats.

1208
00:48:58,802 --> 00:49:00,437
That's going to the Chrysalis Center.

1209
00:49:02,406 --> 00:49:04,675
And wear those toys and coats.

1210
00:49:04,675 --> 00:49:06,810
Where do they go to like
where specifically?

1211
00:49:06,810 --> 00:49:08,378
Like, yes, Hartford or.

1212
00:49:08,378 --> 00:49:10,714
The Hartford is it's
called a Chrysalis Center.

1213
00:49:10,714 --> 00:49:13,717
And they help, people trying to

1214
00:49:14,318 --> 00:49:17,321
get back into society based on either

1215
00:49:17,521 --> 00:49:20,691
that experience homelessness
or some sort of

1216
00:49:21,725 --> 00:49:24,728
issues,
you know, with their life or employment.

1217
00:49:25,028 --> 00:49:28,031
So they were going to have coats there

1218
00:49:28,065 --> 00:49:31,034
and then families at school
walk at school.

1219
00:49:31,034 --> 00:49:31,635
Okay. Yeah.

1220
00:49:31,635 --> 00:49:34,638
May or may not be able to afford
some toys.

1221
00:49:34,838 --> 00:49:38,675
Toys R it's really local
helping our community.

1222
00:49:39,176 --> 00:49:42,412
But we have pond house tomorrow.

1223
00:49:42,512 --> 00:49:42,879
This is.

1224
00:49:42,879 --> 00:49:45,515
Well, this is going to air next week,
so this will already pass.

1225
00:49:45,515 --> 00:49:47,017
But, let's grab lunch.

1226
00:49:47,017 --> 00:49:50,020
I like to thank everybody
from the let's Grab Lunch group.

1227
00:49:50,387 --> 00:49:51,121
They're doing,

1228
00:49:52,389 --> 00:49:54,191
their Christmas party, and

1229
00:49:54,191 --> 00:49:57,194
they picked friends
if you need to be their beneficiary.

1230
00:49:57,227 --> 00:49:58,261
Honored for that.

1231
00:49:58,261 --> 00:50:01,164
So thank you so much for that.

1232
00:50:01,164 --> 00:50:01,765
What else do we got?

1233
00:50:01,765 --> 00:50:05,402
We're going to take the chamber party
that we talked about at a villa.

1234
00:50:06,269 --> 00:50:09,272
We'll also be collecting toys
for Friends of Fini, so please come.

1235
00:50:09,272 --> 00:50:10,841
I think it's,

1236
00:50:10,841 --> 00:50:13,343
it's going to be next Thursday the 19th.

1237
00:50:13,343 --> 00:50:16,179
Again. We're going to miss this,
but thank you for everyone at the chamber.

1238
00:50:16,179 --> 00:50:19,182
Thank you. Chris and Katie.

1239
00:50:19,416 --> 00:50:20,784
We have a wolf pack.

1240
00:50:20,784 --> 00:50:22,352
Here we go to hockey Wolf pack.

1241
00:50:22,352 --> 00:50:24,488
Yeah. February. This is good.

1242
00:50:24,488 --> 00:50:27,691
More than enough time because
this will air and have time to purchase.

1243
00:50:28,091 --> 00:50:30,027
February 28th.

1244
00:50:30,027 --> 00:50:31,361
Huge group outing, friends.

1245
00:50:31,361 --> 00:50:32,796
A Feeney night at the yard.

1246
00:50:32,796 --> 00:50:35,799
The wolf pack. So please come if you can.

1247
00:50:36,033 --> 00:50:39,002
We're trying to get Frank
to tank from Barstool Sports to join us.

1248
00:50:39,069 --> 00:50:41,938
Oh, really?
I just sent Jenks a text today.

1249
00:50:41,938 --> 00:50:44,007
He hasn't gotten back to me yet,
but let's.

1250
00:50:44,007 --> 00:50:46,943
But we'll see who's jinx. Jinx or jinx?

1251
00:50:46,943 --> 00:50:47,911
Jinx is,

1252
00:50:49,112 --> 00:50:49,413
Matt?

1253
00:50:49,413 --> 00:50:52,449
Jinx is Frank the tanks right hand man.

1254
00:50:52,482 --> 00:50:54,751
You know who Frank tank is? Yeah.

1255
00:50:54,751 --> 00:50:56,353
We had him at Parkville Market.

1256
00:50:56,353 --> 00:50:58,422
Doing the hot dog count.

1257
00:50:58,422 --> 00:51:01,191
The best he. Was rated. Them out. Yeah.

1258
00:51:01,191 --> 00:51:03,794
They were hitting home runs
or they were striking out.

1259
00:51:03,794 --> 00:51:05,796
Then he signed autographs
and took pictures.

1260
00:51:05,796 --> 00:51:08,799
He's a wonderful person. Frank de tank.

1261
00:51:08,965 --> 00:51:10,801
We're huge friends of Frank.

1262
00:51:10,801 --> 00:51:13,470
He's a, you know, cares
a lot about friends.

1263
00:51:13,470 --> 00:51:16,306
A Feeney is a very helpful and thoughtful.

1264
00:51:16,306 --> 00:51:19,276
We're trying to get him to come back again
and set up

1265
00:51:19,276 --> 00:51:22,279
inside of the wolf pack.

1266
00:51:22,379 --> 00:51:25,048
Not it's not happening yet, so.

1267
00:51:25,048 --> 00:51:26,249
But we'll see.

1268
00:51:26,249 --> 00:51:28,652
To get a booth, maybe a little table.

1269
00:51:28,652 --> 00:51:30,253
We got friends of Frank t shirts.

1270
00:51:30,253 --> 00:51:33,090
We got these little things he could sign,
so we'll see.

1271
00:51:33,090 --> 00:51:34,791
That's awesome. It's February 28th.

1272
00:51:36,226 --> 00:51:37,828
Not confirmed yet, though.

1273
00:51:37,828 --> 00:51:40,030
The the wolf packs definitely happening.

1274
00:51:40,030 --> 00:51:42,833
Okay, Frank to Frank.
Thanks. The parents. Gotcha.

1275
00:51:42,833 --> 00:51:44,401
If not, definitely not.

1276
00:51:44,401 --> 00:51:47,337
Not happening yet.

1277
00:51:47,337 --> 00:51:50,107
Yeah. Keyword. Yeah.

1278
00:51:50,107 --> 00:51:51,541
Anything else I got my man Matt.

1279
00:51:51,541 --> 00:51:54,244
Board of directors.
You know Matt. Of course I know Matt.

1280
00:51:54,244 --> 00:51:55,512
That's a great guy.

1281
00:51:55,512 --> 00:51:56,613
I see you, Matt.

1282
00:51:56,613 --> 00:51:59,616
Matt, did I miss any dates?

1283
00:52:00,750 --> 00:52:02,486
It's golf tournament.

1284
00:52:02,486 --> 00:52:04,454
Golf tournament? More than enough time.

1285
00:52:04,454 --> 00:52:05,622
Oh that's September.

1286
00:52:05,622 --> 00:52:07,390
So connectivity should be a sponsor.

1287
00:52:07,390 --> 00:52:10,660
Yeah. September 13th, 2025.

1288
00:52:10,660 --> 00:52:13,830
I think this year
I was a little late to the, the deadline.

1289
00:52:14,231 --> 00:52:15,332
Yeah. I wanted to sign up.

1290
00:52:15,332 --> 00:52:17,367
What was the day before?

1291
00:52:17,367 --> 00:52:20,170
It was, I think to golf to to golf. Yeah.

1292
00:52:20,170 --> 00:52:22,639
I was ready because the chamber event
was the chamber golf

1293
00:52:22,639 --> 00:52:26,243
event at, yeah,
it was Wampanoag was a day or week before.

1294
00:52:27,210 --> 00:52:27,711
Yeah.

1295
00:52:27,711 --> 00:52:28,712
Did you play in that one?

1296
00:52:28,712 --> 00:52:29,779
I did. Oh, nice.

1297
00:52:29,779 --> 00:52:31,915
That was a really good event, too.

1298
00:52:31,915 --> 00:52:32,949
So didn't win.

1299
00:52:32,949 --> 00:52:36,219
But Brooke Golf
said she's going to be a big time sponsor.

1300
00:52:36,786 --> 00:52:39,523
She told me this yesterday or Saturday.

1301
00:52:39,523 --> 00:52:41,291
But golf is going to be a sponsor.

1302
00:52:41,291 --> 00:52:43,994
Amazon will always be our technology
sponsor.

1303
00:52:43,994 --> 00:52:46,963
King of dings will be our lunch sponsor.

1304
00:52:46,963 --> 00:52:49,933
And t flag pin flag sponsors.

1305
00:52:49,933 --> 00:52:52,502
Maximum beverage does a whiskey hole.

1306
00:52:52,502 --> 00:52:56,506
So after your golfing you got to,
you know, get some some liquid

1307
00:52:56,606 --> 00:52:57,908
all in one juice.

1308
00:52:57,908 --> 00:53:00,911
So speaking of which, that's already met.

1309
00:53:01,278 --> 00:53:02,879
That's why I'm on this podcast, right?

1310
00:53:02,879 --> 00:53:05,882
Oh, did we do we tell the viewers
how I got on, tell them.

1311
00:53:06,816 --> 00:53:08,919
The whiskey fest. Let's go whiskey fest.

1312
00:53:08,919 --> 00:53:11,922
I won the raffle,
so that was awesome. Yeah.

1313
00:53:12,255 --> 00:53:13,657
Thank you. Maximum beverage.

1314
00:53:13,657 --> 00:53:15,158
I think the fourth year

1315
00:53:15,158 --> 00:53:18,962
now we've we've been the beneficiary
of their whiskey event.

1316
00:53:19,362 --> 00:53:23,567
200 vendors,
some wonderful whiskeys Litchfield whiskey

1317
00:53:23,567 --> 00:53:27,938
coffee, whiskey, banana whiskey,
you name it, it's there.

1318
00:53:27,938 --> 00:53:29,039
It was at the,

1319
00:53:30,207 --> 00:53:30,540
shoot.

1320
00:53:30,540 --> 00:53:33,376
Where was. That? Farmington
Gardens. Farmington gardens.

1321
00:53:33,376 --> 00:53:35,378
It was at the Hartford Golf Club
for years,

1322
00:53:35,378 --> 00:53:38,381
but Farmington Gardens,
it was a great time.

1323
00:53:39,182 --> 00:53:40,650
And we put out a raffle.

1324
00:53:40,650 --> 00:53:44,221
We have a wonderful raffle
raised up close to $2,000 on our raffle.

1325
00:53:44,221 --> 00:53:48,792
And the first time ever
we said, let's put Feeney Talks of Friends

1326
00:53:49,192 --> 00:53:52,195
podcast guest to be,

1327
00:53:52,696 --> 00:53:55,098
you win this raffle,
you get to be a guest.

1328
00:53:55,098 --> 00:53:58,101
And guess who was our first winner ever?

1329
00:53:58,268 --> 00:54:00,503
There we go. Hi, guys. Stephen Aspinall.

1330
00:54:00,503 --> 00:54:04,107
Well, there's only like,
a couple in there, so I was like 100.

1331
00:54:04,708 --> 00:54:07,911
Well, well, at first, after I,
after I started

1332
00:54:08,378 --> 00:54:10,981
giving it all the attention
that everyone else started putting theirs.

1333
00:54:10,981 --> 00:54:14,417
And so I was very fortunate to win them
all. Yes.

1334
00:54:14,417 --> 00:54:17,520
I mean, you had good odds. Yeah.

1335
00:54:17,554 --> 00:54:18,955
Yeah, pretty good odds. Yeah.

1336
00:54:18,955 --> 00:54:20,957
But you're here. You won your buddy too.

1337
00:54:20,957 --> 00:54:22,058
Who were you with that night?

1338
00:54:22,058 --> 00:54:22,826
Cheater Bay?

1339
00:54:22,826 --> 00:54:26,162
Actually, can I shout on my fourth
cheater bay jump spy key?

1340
00:54:27,297 --> 00:54:28,398
He has an Instagram page.

1341
00:54:28,398 --> 00:54:29,633
He's a social media influencer.

1342
00:54:29,633 --> 00:54:31,468
He does a lot of jumping.

1343
00:54:31,468 --> 00:54:34,804
He ran track and field
that Eastern Connecticut State University,

1344
00:54:35,438 --> 00:54:38,041
now does a lot of dunking
competitions over

1345
00:54:38,041 --> 00:54:41,711
with certain camps,
or does a lot of other, trade shows.

1346
00:54:41,711 --> 00:54:44,714
I actually just came back from one
where they were demoing a,

1347
00:54:45,282 --> 00:54:48,718
what is it like a test your reach thing
where you can ring a bell at the top

1348
00:54:48,718 --> 00:54:50,487
and sort of the different heights,
and it's like, how.

1349
00:54:50,487 --> 00:54:52,689
How can he how high can he jump?

1350
00:54:52,689 --> 00:54:53,757
Does he do exercises?

1351
00:54:53,757 --> 00:54:56,459
Can he teach me how to jump?
He can. Absolutely.

1352
00:54:56,459 --> 00:54:57,627
I can barely. Touch the net.

1353
00:54:57,627 --> 00:54:58,728
He has a jump program

1354
00:54:58,728 --> 00:55:02,132
that you can actually get, or I'm sure
he'll just be willing to help you out.

1355
00:55:02,565 --> 00:55:04,034
So we got to get him on to be a guest.

1356
00:55:04,034 --> 00:55:05,168
He put in for that.

1357
00:55:05,168 --> 00:55:06,303
He did that first.

1358
00:55:06,303 --> 00:55:08,605
You were talking to Come Together collab.

1359
00:55:08,605 --> 00:55:11,308
We could have.
We know we'll. Have a man. Yeah.

1360
00:55:12,842 --> 00:55:13,643
What's his name?

1361
00:55:13,643 --> 00:55:15,945
She cheated by cheat eBay.

1362
00:55:15,945 --> 00:55:18,948
His nickname is Chey.

1363
00:55:19,115 --> 00:55:21,351
I don't know if he can tell
what his name is.

1364
00:55:21,351 --> 00:55:22,018
He's Nigerian.

1365
00:55:22,018 --> 00:55:24,387
So, you know the name?

1366
00:55:24,387 --> 00:55:25,889
The name means something. You know?

1367
00:55:25,889 --> 00:55:27,691
So that'll be your first question
to listen.

1368
00:55:27,691 --> 00:55:30,293
Be a good friend.
Our motto is be a good friend.

1369
00:55:30,293 --> 00:55:31,561
Hold the door for someone.

1370
00:55:31,561 --> 00:55:34,531
Be charitable, give compliments.

1371
00:55:34,998 --> 00:55:38,001
What makes G a good friend?

1372
00:55:38,635 --> 00:55:41,638
He's loyal, he's honest, and he's.

1373
00:55:42,806 --> 00:55:43,740
I don't know, he's just.

1374
00:55:43,740 --> 00:55:45,842
He's just a good friend. Loyal.
Nice of them since kindergarten.

1375
00:55:45,842 --> 00:55:48,178
So you can't get better than that
as you. Walk at school.

1376
00:55:48,178 --> 00:55:49,979
He is. No way. Yeah.

1377
00:55:49,979 --> 00:55:52,082
All right.

1378
00:55:52,082 --> 00:55:53,850
Great way to end on being a good friend.

1379
00:55:53,850 --> 00:55:55,518
Good friends rule.
Do you have the sticker?

1380
00:55:55,518 --> 00:55:56,953
It's a new sticker.

1381
00:55:56,953 --> 00:55:58,321
I think I got that one last time.

1382
00:55:58,321 --> 00:56:00,824
You had those at the Hot Ones
challenge, right?

1383
00:56:00,824 --> 00:56:01,991
Oh, yeah. Hot ones. Yeah.

1384
00:56:01,991 --> 00:56:03,793
Be a good friend again.

1385
00:56:03,793 --> 00:56:05,829
This was the Feeney Talks
with Friends podcast.

1386
00:56:05,829 --> 00:56:07,797
Thank you. Direct Line Media.

1387
00:56:07,797 --> 00:56:08,164
Thank you.

1388
00:56:08,164 --> 00:56:09,366
Maximum beverage.

1389
00:56:09,366 --> 00:56:12,102
Thank you to my guy Steve Raffle winner.

1390
00:56:12,102 --> 00:56:13,002
You heard it here first.

1391
00:56:13,002 --> 00:56:16,473
We're raffling off guest
spots on the Feeney Talks with friends.

1392
00:56:16,473 --> 00:56:20,543
Go ahead and like and subscribe
on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify,

1393
00:56:20,543 --> 00:56:24,114
and all your other, streaming platforms.

1394
00:56:24,514 --> 00:56:27,317
Again, this is episode 122.

1395
00:56:27,317 --> 00:56:29,619
We had a great time talking with you.

1396
00:56:29,619 --> 00:56:30,754
Any closing remarks?

1397
00:56:32,188 --> 00:56:33,156
Be a good friend.

1398
00:56:33,156 --> 00:56:34,290
I don't think it's better than that.

1399
00:56:34,290 --> 00:56:36,426
That's a great closer. Beautiful.

1400
00:56:36,426 --> 00:56:38,161
Well said. Simple. Well said.

1401
00:56:38,161 --> 00:56:39,662
Well on three we're going to say it again.

1402
00:56:39,662 --> 00:56:43,433
So we'll say be a good friend on three
because that's how we end. 123.

1403
00:56:43,566 --> 00:56:44,834
Be a good friend.