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Feeny talks with friends. Episode 161.

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We're at maximum beverage.
What a good friend.

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What's up? Rob up.

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Eric, we go way back. Rob. We do.

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This is Rob Perriello in the building
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Let's just start.
It's a lot of support, right?

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It's an a great, 
I'm a third grade teacher.

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You know that, we go way back teaching.

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So, it's great to, in the West
Harvard community to get so much support.

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So I want to thank you for being here.

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Thank you for your donation.

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And I'm really excited to talk with you.

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Where do you want to start?

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And I and your podcast, I'm grateful
you brought me on.

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Yeah. Sit down and talk.

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So I got some cards we could start.

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We'll mix them up. Realtor. Okay.

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Girl. Dad. Kingsbury.

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Jake.

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That stuff.
We have a comment. Right? Right.

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Isn't that cool?

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Everything else.

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This is 161.

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Go back and check out 160 Max and Jake.

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Awesome podcast.

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Do you like movies you like?

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Can you give us your top five?

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Or you hit me with that?

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All right.

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I'm going to go.

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I'm going to go Ace Ventura. Oh, classic.

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I go with that one.

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I'm going to go to Major League.

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Oh, Willie Mays, Hayes Hayes, Ray Finkle.

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Oh, let's go, let's go to Naked gun.

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Oh, naked gun, Lieutenant Drebin
yeah, man.

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I'll do some classics.
Let's see some later in life.

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Those are like, young.
Yeah, those are classics.

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Go back to any time,
you know, rewatchable.

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Let me think.

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Let me think. It's,
you know, I'm the girl you said girl.

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That's.
I'm gonna go. Oh, that's a good one.

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Kids in the family.

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You can't
you can't go wrong there. And nice.

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Oh, man.

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Let me think, trying to hit something
that's not not comedy.

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We talked last fall.

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Did you see sinners? Did not.

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Did you see Frankenstein?

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Did you see?
I don't like I don't do scary.

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Sounds like it.

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Because you're all comedy so far,
you're like me.

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Train dreams.

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And one battle after another.

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And, so we went in depth on 160
about those four movies.

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So go back and if you like,
if you saw those four movies,

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it was all for
I was prepped and ready for the podcast.

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My two guests,
Max and Jake, both gave me two.

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I watched them, with Neil, a girl dad.

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So it's a good bonding experience.

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Sinners was great.

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Oh, yeah.

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If you had to pick one, that's the one.

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Oh, yeah.

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Oh, yeah.

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It's about twins. It's, there's a little.

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I want to give anything
away, but takes a turn.

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No, I'm very excited to talk with you.

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You're the second best basketball player

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that I've had on this podcast
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Oh, okay. All right.

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There's a lot better. Yeah.

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Who is who is that? Anthony Ireland. 
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You know, aren't I?

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I'm not personally but I as a Crosby alum

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of course I've seen him play
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Yep. He's episode 74 Crosby.

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So you went to Crosby High School.

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You're about the 10th best JC player
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Haha I'm kidding, I'm kidding.

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I might want to see that. Yeah.

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Crosby. Yeah.

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So Ty's been on episode 22 and 50.

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Legend. Yep.

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Evan Gilchrist 55, Scott Scotty Mack,

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lefty, 22 and 50 Andy Erling point guard.

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So I played in a couple seasons,
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John Deckers, old school 65.

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Rabbi. Do you know the rabbi? Yes.

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Great player.

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So you're behind him?

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Yeah. He's he's better than you.

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He's 64.

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He's a awesome guy.

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He's one of my favorite teammates
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Ben Fuchs, big guy.

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138 Eric Brown 40.

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Brad Raisin 53.

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He's an old school guy, too.

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So those are guys from the league
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Yeah. You're an exclusive club, right?

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All right.

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So where were we going with this?

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All right. Pluck one.

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Game show.

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Girl. That girl. Dad.

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All right.

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So you have two daughters, right?

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Yeah, I have two daughters.

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What did you do in your life
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I'm kidding.

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Hahahahaha!

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No, no. That's awesome.

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I heard that you're the coach.

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Yeah. So ten and 12.

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Selfishly, I'm lucky
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now, so I'm right in that way.

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Well,
I can add it to it. And yet coaching.

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Coaching where I can
and it's it's a lot of fun, man.

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It's a lot of fun. Cool, cool.

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I heard you had experienced
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Whoa, whoa.

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I didn't say anything.

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What do you mean? What do you mean?

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So, yeah, Thai refs and, I go.

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That's a common theme
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Ty, what's going on here, bud?

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He's got to get the whistle
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I don't know if it's broken up.

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Yeah, the people out.

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I don't know if he's trying to.

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Get that.

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Come on.

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So I, love it.

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No. It's great.

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So that's great coaching the kids.

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And, nothing better than being a girl dad
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But being a girl, dad's extra special.

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Like we have that in common
hundred percent, man.

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Anything else you want to share about?

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Girl? Dad.

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Mona. Melanie.
You know, it's just fun, man.

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I saw you go ahead early in the morning
bringing them to the J.

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Get that hoop in.

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So you said the hoop
and they were there before school.

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Do this thing.
We do 100 shot today, right?

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It's just a little.

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It takes about six,
seven minutes. Doesn't take long.

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And I only know that because
they challenge me on a 1 to 1 shot.

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Today
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because this doesn't take very long.

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But the cumulative effect of that
yeah a couple of years is very impactful.

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Right. So we timed it.

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It takes like six seven minutes,
you know, for one of the girls to do it.

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And so yeah sometimes we go
depending on the schedule.

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Sometimes we'll go in early morning like
530 and then run into you a few times.

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Nice, nice.

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Sometimes you go after school,
but they're good man.

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They you know what?

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Know what's fun about it?

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It's it's like an activity
you do together with exactly anything

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you can do with your kid
that, like, you both enjoy.

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You know what I mean?

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That's that's special.

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You gotta you gotta take whatever it is.

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I 100% agree.

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Do they make the 100 shots?

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You just shoot 100 shots. 100.
So it's not 100 makes.

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We're not there yet.

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What we have at it is now.

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They got a now it's not just shooting
now they got to add a little ball before.

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Oh wow. Okay let's do it.

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But yeah listen Steph Curry that's it's

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all time on task
but yeah time on task though.

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You know it's gonna that'll pan out.

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So good luck are they.

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Who are they hooping for

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the town or for travel team
or they do West West Hartford travel.

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Great.

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You know there's so many great things
in this town.

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Yeah.

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No matter what sport you play,
they have so many choices.

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But, Yeah. Travel league.

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Shout out to Jim O'Sullivan.

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You know him?

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No one's.

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He runs the West Hartford girls Travel.

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What's the what's the name of the flasher?

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Magic. Magic.

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Yeah.

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So, Brendan McClay,
I think, used to be there.

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His his daughter Claire. Is that Connor
now? Cool.

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But he talked very highly of as well.

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Yeah, it's a great program.

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So that's what they're,
they're into right now this time of year.

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Yeah. Cool. Cool.

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All right.

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Flip a new one.

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So new topic new topic.

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Kingsbury.

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Kingsbury. Yes.

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So I attended Kingsbury as a student

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and I taught there as a teacher
for nine years.

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Third grade.

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I think it was 2004

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to 2014 ish, 2005 ish.

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You know, the school year run by Mrs.

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Jerell was my fifth grade teacher.

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She was the principal.
She was the principal that hired me.

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So. Yeah.

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When when were you there?

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I met my guy.

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Rob was the PE teacher.

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This is amazing. That full circle.

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So that was my first.

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That was my first year teaching
and and I was the head teacher.

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So I think I was at that school like
three days a week and four days a week.

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And I was in another school

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a couple days a week
because they used to break them up.

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Yep. And, I was teaching in the hallway.

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Yeah, yeah.

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The hallway.

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That's where the gym was down
by the kindergarten.

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Right as a space, you know?

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And, there's a giant cement pillar
in the middle of the room, and,

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but we knew we had to do that.

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Was it your first year, though, right?

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I think I think you were already there
maybe a few years before I.

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That makes sense.

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But what year?

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So you're probably 2008 or probably

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like, oh, six or 7 or 8 somewhere.

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Not right. Yeah.

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Teaching in the hallway.

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Man, I remember that.

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That's terrible.

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Yeah.

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I text, Emily Summa for some.

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I'm like,
did she go to Crosby with you? You did.

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We were really good friends.
Absolutely. On my.

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Hey, give me some stories, some tidbits,
some anecdotes about my boy Rob.

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She she goes to me nothing. Nothing.

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And then I got another guy.

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He sent me something.

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You want to hear it?

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You want to hear who it is, what it is.

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So I'm like, give me something.

259
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He goes, his birthday, July 15th.

260
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He lived in the east end of Waterbury,
and one of his high school nicknames was.

261
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Parallel.

262
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Oh, that's my last name.
Parallel Perriello.

263
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I don't know who's that.

264
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That's not right. I was like,
that's the worst.

265
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That's top secret.

266
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This is the worst. Mario. You know Mario.

267
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Yeah, yeah, he's a good dude.

268
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Yeah, that's my guy.

269
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Yeah.
We were in the National Guard together.

270
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I know he went to Crosby.

271
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He recently DJ at our toy
drive at Luna Pizza.

272
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Great guy.

273
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He went to canton.

274
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His daughters go to Cannes.

275
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He was the veteran speaker.

276
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He ended up talking about
friends of Feeney during it.

277
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And the principal to pit Bo knows me.

278
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So they started
talking and just, you know,

279
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networking in the spiderweb.

280
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Yeah. How all these dots connect the older
dude the older you get.

281
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You know, I remember when you I didn't,

282
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you know, I moved to West Hartford
maybe 9 or 10 years ago.

283
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And I had
of course, known you from Kingsbury.

284
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I think it was only a couple of years
there.

285
00:10:15,823 --> 00:10:18,618
Yep. I'm driving around town
when we first moved here,

286
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and I see all these stickers.

287
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On people's cars, you know,

288
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like.

289
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And then sure enough, I see you at one of
the parades or something at Eric Beatty.

290
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I'm like, oh my God, it's
just a dude from Waterbury that I.

291
00:10:30,755 --> 00:10:34,550
Yeah, my first year teach it like such
a small world, you know what I mean? Yep.

292
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I hear that a lot. The stickers,
the magnets.

293
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You have one on your car,
I think you. Yes we have.

294
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We got on. My kids have them on
their whiteboards in their room.

295
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Okay. It's good, good, good.

296
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Be a good friend.

297
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Get them out there.
But they're everywhere.

298
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Be a good friend. That's.

299
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Hold the door.

300
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Pick up trash,
give compliments and be charitable.

301
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You know, donate to friends of Feeney
or a nonprofit close to your heart.

302
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So that's our motto.

303
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It's it's a very general and broad model,
and it's easy to get behind.

304
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It's not

305
00:11:02,161 --> 00:11:05,164
you can't say it swings one way
or the other.

306
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Be a good friend. Drive like a friend,

307
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say hi, pick up trash, you know, and,

308
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people have seen them in Hollywood,
California.

309
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It's crazy.

310
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What's that?

311
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Outer Banks, I get people like.

312
00:11:20,721 --> 00:11:23,724
Oh, I pulled up to a spot in Florida.

313
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So you got some.

314
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You're right.

315
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Like, it's so simple. Like,
it's like a simple great.

316
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Cause it's like, no matter who you are,

317
00:11:30,439 --> 00:11:32,692
you almost can't help
but get behind it, right? Yeah.

318
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It's so, so cool.

319
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So. Yeah, it's our.

320
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Well, Friends of Feeney is a nonprofit.

321
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Our mission is to help

322
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children and families that need assistance
after heartbreak or tragedy.

323
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So that's where we raise money
and give back to those that have,

324
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displacement because of a house fire
or loss of a loved one

325
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or some chronic illness or, you know,
some sort of surgery or something.

326
00:11:53,379 --> 00:11:58,008
So, yeah, we, we hope those three things
and we just helped our 140th family,

327
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provided over $275,000.

328
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Now all volunteer.

329
00:12:04,557 --> 00:12:08,060
That's amazing
because I started officially 2019.

330
00:12:08,060 --> 00:12:10,646
So we're on seven years. That's amazing.

331
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Yeah, it's not too long.

332
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Yeah.

333
00:12:12,648 --> 00:12:16,193
My first year teaching in West Hartford
at Wolcott School,

334
00:12:16,402 --> 00:12:18,028
one of my students lost her dad.

335
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So we helped the family.

336
00:12:20,489 --> 00:12:21,741
Yeah, but we use GoFundMe.

337
00:12:21,741 --> 00:12:25,035
But go fund me taxes the recipient
and takes a portion of every donation.

338
00:12:25,703 --> 00:12:28,372
So I was like,
oh, if we start a nonprofit, families

339
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could just go in no way.

340
00:12:29,248 --> 00:12:30,416
Yeah, yeah. They take like,

341
00:12:30,416 --> 00:12:33,836
if you give 6% or something,
so you give a family a hundred bucks.

342
00:12:34,754 --> 00:12:36,839
GoFundMe has taken six bucks,

343
00:12:36,839 --> 00:12:40,676
so I don't know, Go Fund Me really
wins in a lot of these cases.

344
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Like if they're

345
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not to bash GoFundMe but but that's
what kind of spurred.

346
00:12:46,974 --> 00:12:47,224
Yeah.

347
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So then yeah the next year
one of my students lost

348
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his dad got shot,
killed in Hartford at a boxing event.

349
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So I was like, that's it.

350
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We're definitely doing something.

351
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That's what really that first family. And.

352
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And then we've been helping
families ever since. Good,

353
00:13:02,698 --> 00:13:05,659
good old Kingsbury School, Waterbury.

354
00:13:05,659 --> 00:13:07,578
We try to mention Waterbury
every podcast too.

355
00:13:07,578 --> 00:13:09,246
So this is

356
00:13:09,246 --> 00:13:10,247
you grew up there as well, right?

357
00:13:10,247 --> 00:13:11,707
Yeah, yeah.

358
00:13:11,707 --> 00:13:14,418
So I went to Kingsbury
North in and will be okay.

359
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We are not the.

360
00:13:14,877 --> 00:13:17,880
Besides I was Rotella okay

361
00:13:17,963 --> 00:13:20,966
little trailer truck

362
00:13:21,550 --> 00:13:23,052
and I Wallace middle school.

363
00:13:23,052 --> 00:13:24,386
Yeah okay.

364
00:13:24,386 --> 00:13:25,137
Yeah.

365
00:13:25,137 --> 00:13:26,972
Rotella is up by East Mountain now.

366
00:13:26,972 --> 00:13:28,224
It's a magnet school.

367
00:13:28,224 --> 00:13:31,227
So Rotella is like
by the time in mountain.

368
00:13:31,977 --> 00:13:32,770
Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

369
00:13:32,770 --> 00:13:34,063
Now it's in like a magnet school.

370
00:13:34,063 --> 00:13:34,647
They redid it,

371
00:13:34,647 --> 00:13:37,733
but at the time it was like these, like,
it was literally like like a shed.

372
00:13:37,983 --> 00:13:39,235
Yeah. Yeah.

373
00:13:39,235 --> 00:13:42,238
When I went there, 
what's the bar over there?

374
00:13:44,323 --> 00:13:46,992
I, I just went for,

375
00:13:46,992 --> 00:13:50,996
no, that scoreboard was like, on town
on, main road.

376
00:13:51,121 --> 00:13:53,874
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Shoot. Good wings.

377
00:13:55,960 --> 00:13:56,168
Yeah.

378
00:13:56,168 --> 00:13:59,171
But, Crosby, what year were you at
Crosby? 99.

379
00:13:59,380 --> 00:14:00,756
Okay, I was 96.

380
00:14:00,756 --> 00:14:03,467
That will be close. Yeah, yeah.

381
00:14:03,467 --> 00:14:05,511
No, it was great.

382
00:14:05,511 --> 00:14:08,055
And how long were you at Kingsbury?

383
00:14:08,055 --> 00:14:09,974
I think it was 2 or 3 years.

384
00:14:09,974 --> 00:14:11,183
I was 2 or 3 years.

385
00:14:11,183 --> 00:14:13,519
I taught that for 11 years total.

386
00:14:13,519 --> 00:14:15,354
Kingsbury was 2 or 3 years.

387
00:14:15,354 --> 00:14:20,276
And then eventually I got to Bunker Hill
and I was there full time teachers.

388
00:14:20,276 --> 00:14:22,027
I want to do a lot of these inner cities.

389
00:14:22,027 --> 00:14:23,946
You know, the teachers are going
from one school to the next.

390
00:14:23,946 --> 00:14:25,406
I remember I used to have like hula hoops

391
00:14:25,406 --> 00:14:28,409
and balls in the back of my trunk,
you know what I mean? Yep.

392
00:14:29,243 --> 00:14:32,162
And then when it was like, it was like
you made it once you had your own school.

393
00:14:32,162 --> 00:14:35,165
Yeah, yeah, yeah,
you can put your stuff in the closet.

394
00:14:35,249 --> 00:14:35,791
That's how they do it.

395
00:14:35,791 --> 00:14:38,460
It was hard for to kind of like,
pay your dues and work.

396
00:14:38,460 --> 00:14:40,504
You got to bounce around a little bit,
and then, like you

397
00:14:40,504 --> 00:14:42,506
said,
you made it when you got your own school.

398
00:14:42,506 --> 00:14:44,300
Is that how you. They have their own
gym teacher.

399
00:14:44,300 --> 00:14:46,760
Those are like the private schools
or like the veterans.

400
00:14:46,760 --> 00:14:48,762
The good, you know. Yeah. Right. So

401
00:14:49,847 --> 00:14:50,848
but yeah.

402
00:14:50,848 --> 00:14:52,975
How does that compare.

403
00:14:52,975 --> 00:14:54,643
Let's talk about the transition
I don't know.

404
00:14:54,643 --> 00:14:56,770
That's obviously
we're going to flip that card next.

405
00:14:56,770 --> 00:14:59,064
So let's get right into it.
The real estate.

406
00:14:59,064 --> 00:14:59,815
Oh funny.

407
00:14:59,815 --> 00:15:04,194
So what's the difference week is
are you a PE teacher?

408
00:15:04,194 --> 00:15:07,156
Are you a gym teacher?
Are you a real estate agent?

409
00:15:07,156 --> 00:15:08,198
Are you a realtor?

410
00:15:08,198 --> 00:15:10,451
That's good. Let's let's talk about that.

411
00:15:10,451 --> 00:15:13,412
So I mean, that's the politically correct
stuff, right?

412
00:15:13,412 --> 00:15:16,415
I mean, technically
you're a physical education teacher,

413
00:15:16,707 --> 00:15:19,919
but I'm always one like, all right,
look, let's focus on what matters.

414
00:15:19,919 --> 00:15:20,544
Like the name.

415
00:15:20,544 --> 00:15:23,422
The title is not really as important
of like, what you do each day.

416
00:15:23,422 --> 00:15:25,257
Right.
So I don't get caught up in the titles.

417
00:15:25,257 --> 00:15:27,217
Technically,
it's supposed to be for that teacher.

418
00:15:27,217 --> 00:15:27,551
Yeah.

419
00:15:27,551 --> 00:15:30,346
Real tour real estate agent.

420
00:15:30,346 --> 00:15:32,640
That one's kind of similar.

421
00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:37,436
Real tour is you're a member of a board,
an organization that you pay dues to.

422
00:15:37,436 --> 00:15:38,187
It's like an extra

423
00:15:39,438 --> 00:15:41,690
layer of,

424
00:15:41,690 --> 00:15:42,983
training or what have you.

425
00:15:42,983 --> 00:15:43,442
Yeah.

426
00:15:43,442 --> 00:15:46,236
Again, at the end of the day, it's
what are you

427
00:15:46,236 --> 00:15:48,322
what are you able to do for your client
in that moment?

428
00:15:48,322 --> 00:15:52,826
Your title is not going to make or break
your skill set in negotiation

429
00:15:52,826 --> 00:15:54,328
to get your client.

430
00:15:54,328 --> 00:15:56,914
Cool, cool. Are you a realtor?

431
00:15:56,914 --> 00:15:58,999
I am a realtor.
Are you a real estate agent?

432
00:15:58,999 --> 00:16:00,918
But if you ask me, hey,
what do you do for a living?

433
00:16:00,918 --> 00:16:02,127
I would say I sell real estate.

434
00:16:02,127 --> 00:16:02,962
I'm a real estate agent.

435
00:16:02,962 --> 00:16:05,673
I wouldn't say I'm a I'm a realtor.

436
00:16:05,673 --> 00:16:07,883
Okay. Okay, okay.

437
00:16:07,883 --> 00:16:09,385
Very cool. All right. Good to know.

438
00:16:09,385 --> 00:16:12,888
And then I teach third grade,
so please explain.

439
00:16:13,514 --> 00:16:15,849
If I was a third grader, explain to it.

440
00:16:15,849 --> 00:16:17,393
What does a real estate agent do?

441
00:16:18,435 --> 00:16:19,311
It's simplest terms.

442
00:16:19,311 --> 00:16:22,314
We help
someone move from one home to another.

443
00:16:22,982 --> 00:16:24,733
You know, it's

444
00:16:24,733 --> 00:16:27,528
a lot of people don't realize it's
legal to do it, but it is one of

445
00:16:27,528 --> 00:16:29,238
the most stressful thing you can do.

446
00:16:29,238 --> 00:16:31,407
You know, starting a new job.

447
00:16:31,407 --> 00:16:34,076
You know, having a child,

448
00:16:34,076 --> 00:16:38,455
move in is each one of them, you know,
and, people do it maybe 2 or 3 times

449
00:16:38,455 --> 00:16:41,458
in their lifetime, and you don't think
too much of it until you're,

450
00:16:41,875 --> 00:16:44,878
you know, you're you're in the process,
you know? So,

451
00:16:45,671 --> 00:16:49,133
you know, something that I think
any good real estate agent tries to do

452
00:16:49,133 --> 00:16:52,761
is to really be the calming force
for that client.

453
00:16:54,471 --> 00:16:57,933
You know, we do it every day, so
sometimes it becomes second nature to us.

454
00:16:57,933 --> 00:17:02,396
But remembering that person
were taken through the process,

455
00:17:02,813 --> 00:17:04,189
it doesn't do it every day.

456
00:17:04,189 --> 00:17:07,818
And some of the steps
can feel very stressful.

457
00:17:09,028 --> 00:17:09,862
And helping people bring

458
00:17:09,862 --> 00:17:12,865
it down and put it into perspective
and explain,

459
00:17:12,948 --> 00:17:16,535
you know, options next process
from there to really help them.

460
00:17:16,910 --> 00:17:18,328
Okay.

461
00:17:18,328 --> 00:17:20,539
So you're like a guide. Yeah.

462
00:17:20,539 --> 00:17:22,249
What inspired you to do that?

463
00:17:22,249 --> 00:17:23,208
Because you made a switch.

464
00:17:23,208 --> 00:17:23,917
Big switch.

465
00:17:23,917 --> 00:17:26,628
So let's talk about the switch
and why and how.

466
00:17:26,628 --> 00:17:27,379
Yeah. Yeah.

467
00:17:27,379 --> 00:17:30,382
So I was teaching for 11 years.

468
00:17:30,632 --> 00:17:33,052
I had a two year old at the time,
and my wife was pregnant

469
00:17:33,052 --> 00:17:34,720
with our second daughter.

470
00:17:34,720 --> 00:17:38,265
So I had my license, for a few years
prior.

471
00:17:38,265 --> 00:17:42,061
Real estate license, just to get into
investing in reading some books.

472
00:17:42,061 --> 00:17:45,064
That's what initially caught my interest.

473
00:17:45,814 --> 00:17:48,817
So through that process
kind of got more and more into it.

474
00:17:49,109 --> 00:17:51,737
And I got to the point
where we were having

475
00:17:51,737 --> 00:17:54,948
our second child that I
it wasn't enough time to do it.

476
00:17:54,948 --> 00:17:57,326
All right. I'm talking,
you know, I have two kids.

477
00:17:57,326 --> 00:18:00,746
How how great that is and how much energy
and effort goes into it,

478
00:18:00,996 --> 00:18:02,790
you know, having two careers
on top of that.

479
00:18:02,790 --> 00:18:05,584
It's like not, you know, feasible,
especially with young kids.

480
00:18:05,584 --> 00:18:08,337
So, I had to make a choice and,

481
00:18:09,546 --> 00:18:12,800
you know,
it it just kind of took off for me.

482
00:18:12,800 --> 00:18:14,676
It really,

483
00:18:14,676 --> 00:18:17,137
I guess, caught my interest in a way

484
00:18:17,137 --> 00:18:20,140
where you could take real estate
in so many different ways.

485
00:18:21,058 --> 00:18:24,144
Where me being a teacher is hard
because it's it's a lot of the same thing

486
00:18:24,144 --> 00:18:27,147
every day. Yeah.
The kids are are different.

487
00:18:27,773 --> 00:18:29,775
And it's great. It's rewarding.

488
00:18:29,775 --> 00:18:33,278
But as a teacher, I was I was literally
teaching the same subject every day.

489
00:18:33,278 --> 00:18:37,407
So I got to the point where I didn't think
I was given the same value as a teacher,

490
00:18:38,158 --> 00:18:40,702
that I was like early
in my teaching career.

491
00:18:40,702 --> 00:18:43,122
As it got,
I got a little bit more monotonous for me.

492
00:18:43,122 --> 00:18:43,455
Okay.

493
00:18:43,455 --> 00:18:44,665
Where the real estate was,

494
00:18:44,665 --> 00:18:46,333
it was just captivating me,

495
00:18:46,333 --> 00:18:48,794
and it was something that I felt like
I can keep working on and grow.

496
00:18:48,794 --> 00:18:51,213
And, and I finally said,
I have to make a choice.

497
00:18:51,213 --> 00:18:52,631
I went that direction.

498
00:18:52,631 --> 00:18:52,881
Cool.

499
00:18:52,881 --> 00:18:54,424
What year was that move?

500
00:18:54,424 --> 00:18:56,969
It was about 12 years ago.

501
00:18:56,969 --> 00:18:59,972
So like 13,013 ish.

502
00:19:00,097 --> 00:19:01,640
Yeah. Very cool.

503
00:19:01,640 --> 00:19:05,519
And now we're with the number one century
21 agent in Connecticut.

504
00:19:05,811 --> 00:19:10,649
Yes. From 2018 to 2022, four years
running.

505
00:19:10,732 --> 00:19:11,942
Number one.

506
00:19:11,942 --> 00:19:14,736
Yes. Now,
is there only one real estate agent that,

507
00:19:18,949 --> 00:19:21,910
So no, it's been good, man.

508
00:19:21,910 --> 00:19:23,579
Century 21 is a great organization.

509
00:19:23,579 --> 00:19:26,415
And honestly, they're one of the biggest
reasons I was able to make the switch.

510
00:19:26,415 --> 00:19:29,668
I had mentors and coaches that I remember.

511
00:19:29,668 --> 00:19:32,754
I walked into my broker's office and
I was like, so I want to quit teaching.

512
00:19:32,838 --> 00:19:34,131
I'm going to I'm going to do it.

513
00:19:34,131 --> 00:19:36,633
And they're like, you know, you can't
just quit because you need a plan.

514
00:19:36,633 --> 00:19:39,011
Like you
can't just jump off the cliff, right?

515
00:19:39,011 --> 00:19:43,098
So they really helped me, set me down,
make a plan, help guide me through that

516
00:19:43,098 --> 00:19:48,896
plan, early in the process so that I had
the confidence to, to make that switch.

517
00:19:48,896 --> 00:19:51,106
Yeah. Gee. That's good.

518
00:19:51,106 --> 00:19:55,068
So, yeah, just some contact information.

519
00:19:55,068 --> 00:19:59,364
You could be reached at CT Homes
by Robert at gmail.com.

520
00:19:59,865 --> 00:20:00,407
Yeah.

521
00:20:00,407 --> 00:20:01,742
You want to share your phone number?

522
00:20:01,742 --> 00:20:02,159
Yeah.

523
00:20:02,159 --> 00:20:05,120
(860) 935-6588.

524
00:20:05,120 --> 00:20:08,123
That's the best line. To reach,
reach me at.

525
00:20:08,665 --> 00:20:11,668
And you have offices in West Hartford
and Stamford.

526
00:20:11,668 --> 00:20:13,128
Yeah. West Hartford. Stamford.

527
00:20:13,128 --> 00:20:15,923
We also have Southington. Avon.

528
00:20:15,923 --> 00:20:19,176
But primarily, you know, those are the two
that I would talk about it.

529
00:20:19,676 --> 00:20:21,678
And then you have, Perriello.

530
00:20:21,678 --> 00:20:24,681
Realtor.com. Realtor.com. Yep.

531
00:20:24,765 --> 00:20:26,516
Realty. Excuse me.

532
00:20:26,516 --> 00:20:28,143
And then you show your license number.

533
00:20:28,143 --> 00:20:32,064
So as a nonprofit, they say it's good
to share our n number or,

534
00:20:33,774 --> 00:20:34,900
identification number.

535
00:20:34,900 --> 00:20:37,444
And you share your license number
on the website, too. Just. Yeah.

536
00:20:37,444 --> 00:20:39,529
To show, like you're legit.

537
00:20:39,529 --> 00:20:42,658
You know, what's interesting
is, like, this day and age, there's

538
00:20:43,951 --> 00:20:45,202
so many scams out there. Right?

539
00:20:45,202 --> 00:20:48,497
And, I think whenever you're working
with someone in the business world,

540
00:20:48,497 --> 00:20:49,665
having some type of,

541
00:20:49,665 --> 00:20:52,542
you know, authenticity to what they do,
which is really important,

542
00:20:52,542 --> 00:20:55,545
especially in a big transaction,
like when real estate

543
00:20:56,129 --> 00:20:59,967
and then how many, how many houses
do you think you sell like a month a year.

544
00:21:00,509 --> 00:21:00,801
Yeah.

545
00:21:00,801 --> 00:21:05,180
So my my best year was 108, 108 houses
in one year.

546
00:21:05,472 --> 00:21:06,473
In a single year.

547
00:21:06,473 --> 00:21:08,767
Oh on average 60, 70.

548
00:21:08,767 --> 00:21:11,019
Geez, 100 houses.

549
00:21:11,019 --> 00:21:14,815
Now lawyers get like 33% of the case.

550
00:21:15,232 --> 00:21:18,986
Is there a number for realty
or is that agreed upon prior,

551
00:21:18,986 --> 00:21:21,989
or is it, is it one realty?

552
00:21:21,989 --> 00:21:26,451
Is it or do you make that percentage
yourself or everyone get the same?

553
00:21:26,576 --> 00:21:27,577
Good question, good question.

554
00:21:27,577 --> 00:21:30,580
So you know lawyers are negotiable to

555
00:21:30,747 --> 00:21:33,083
any real estate
agent is negotiable at some level.

556
00:21:33,083 --> 00:21:33,375
Right.

557
00:21:33,375 --> 00:21:36,169
They have their fee based on the value
they provide.

558
00:21:36,169 --> 00:21:37,296
You know, the marketplace,

559
00:21:39,131 --> 00:21:40,173
there is no standard.

560
00:21:40,173 --> 00:21:44,177
And that was what a lot of this
big lawsuit was about a couple years back

561
00:21:44,303 --> 00:21:47,306
or a year and a half ago or so back is,

562
00:21:48,473 --> 00:21:49,558
lawyers, authorities.

563
00:21:49,558 --> 00:21:53,228
The government wanted people to know
that, you know, real estate agents

564
00:21:53,729 --> 00:21:55,522
don't have a set fee, right?

565
00:21:55,522 --> 00:21:58,317
Anyone you go to provide your own service,
their own value,

566
00:21:58,317 --> 00:22:02,321
and you as the consumer,
you know, get to make that choice.

567
00:22:02,988 --> 00:22:05,240
So any realtor that telling you,
oh, this is the standard fee.

568
00:22:05,240 --> 00:22:07,492
Everyone charges the same. That's
that's not accurate.

569
00:22:07,492 --> 00:22:08,952
You want to sit down with the agent,

570
00:22:08,952 --> 00:22:11,163
look at what they provide
compared to some others.

571
00:22:11,163 --> 00:22:13,081
Compare the results. Right.

572
00:22:13,081 --> 00:22:14,207
That's just like anything else.

573
00:22:14,207 --> 00:22:15,417
You know

574
00:22:15,417 --> 00:22:17,794
someone that has great results
might charge different than someone that's

575
00:22:17,794 --> 00:22:19,379
that's the first time right.

576
00:22:19,379 --> 00:22:22,591
And and you want to factor all that
in as a consumer and make a decision.

577
00:22:23,175 --> 00:22:25,093
Okay. Great.

578
00:22:27,679 --> 00:22:30,724
Oh so
we do something on Friends of Feeney.

579
00:22:30,724 --> 00:22:32,934
And Feeney talks with friends. Excuse me.

580
00:22:32,934 --> 00:22:35,937
What are three keys
that make you a great real estate agent?

581
00:22:36,229 --> 00:22:37,606
053 key.

582
00:22:37,606 --> 00:22:40,650
So one, I think being a teacher
really, really helped me.

583
00:22:41,735 --> 00:22:42,778
It's for a couple of reasons.

584
00:22:42,778 --> 00:22:46,990
So one, one key would be that educating,

585
00:22:46,990 --> 00:22:51,119
a student in a child, the same principles
apply to an adult, right?

586
00:22:51,411 --> 00:22:53,163
No one wants to be told to do anything.

587
00:22:53,163 --> 00:22:55,290
I think you, as a teacher,
when you tell your third graders,

588
00:22:55,290 --> 00:22:56,875
if you say,
if I don't get very far, right,

589
00:22:56,875 --> 00:22:58,835
you got to ask them questions,
you got to educate them,

590
00:22:58,835 --> 00:23:02,881
and that gets them to buy in
and do the right thing.

591
00:23:02,881 --> 00:23:03,131
Right.

592
00:23:03,131 --> 00:23:07,219
So having that understanding as a teacher
and bring it into

593
00:23:07,219 --> 00:23:10,222
the world has really helped me.

594
00:23:10,430 --> 00:23:14,059
To, I would say patience as a teacher,
you you've got to be patient.

595
00:23:14,059 --> 00:23:16,228
Right. And, easier said than done.

596
00:23:16,228 --> 00:23:17,687
But yeah, I

597
00:23:18,730 --> 00:23:19,314
parent right.

598
00:23:19,314 --> 00:23:20,023
That's the thing.

599
00:23:20,023 --> 00:23:23,110
Especially like early years, I would joke

600
00:23:23,110 --> 00:23:26,321
like my first couple of years, I don't,
you know, I wasn't a very good relatable

601
00:23:26,530 --> 00:23:29,866
one thing that I would
I was good at is I was patient.

602
00:23:29,866 --> 00:23:34,079
I would listen right when you're talking,
instead of me telling you,

603
00:23:34,079 --> 00:23:38,291
I would sit there and listen and really
hear what the client wanted to accomplish.

604
00:23:38,291 --> 00:23:41,169
And then I would backpedal
and try to make that happen. Right.

605
00:23:41,169 --> 00:23:43,880
So I think patience is really important.

606
00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:46,883
And the third one, again

607
00:23:47,384 --> 00:23:50,846
related to teaching
is everybody learns different, right?

608
00:23:51,221 --> 00:23:53,473
Same thing with adults. It's
not just a kid thing. Yeah.

609
00:23:53,473 --> 00:23:56,726
So I can't approach each client
with the same

610
00:23:56,726 --> 00:24:00,313
rigid way or each home sales situation.

611
00:24:00,313 --> 00:24:00,772
Right?

612
00:24:00,772 --> 00:24:05,152
I have to be versatile in the way
that I do not only deal with people

613
00:24:05,152 --> 00:24:08,155
like the way I market properties,
every property's not going to have

614
00:24:08,155 --> 00:24:09,406
the exact same approach.

615
00:24:09,406 --> 00:24:13,118
So I think that versatility,
understanding, we all learn differently,

616
00:24:13,702 --> 00:24:14,744
all that came from teaching.

617
00:24:14,744 --> 00:24:17,664
And I think that those are things
that have helped me. Great.

618
00:24:17,664 --> 00:24:18,331
All right.

619
00:24:18,331 --> 00:24:21,376
Good listener.
Patience and being versatile.

620
00:24:21,418 --> 00:24:22,794
Yeah. Cool. Yeah.

621
00:24:22,794 --> 00:24:25,797
Teaching teaching listening comes up
it almost

622
00:24:26,006 --> 00:24:29,634
when I ask three kids any profession
career being a good listener

623
00:24:30,177 --> 00:24:33,263
always comes up so keeps that good.

624
00:24:33,889 --> 00:24:35,515
Oh another game.

625
00:24:35,515 --> 00:24:37,392
Let's do your house sales.

626
00:24:37,392 --> 00:24:40,395
Do you remember your first, last,
best or worst?

627
00:24:40,729 --> 00:24:41,813
Your first one?

628
00:24:41,813 --> 00:24:42,564
Your last one?

629
00:24:42,564 --> 00:24:45,233
Most recent, your best one
and maybe your worst one.

630
00:24:45,233 --> 00:24:47,486
Something going wrong or missing? Okay.

631
00:24:47,486 --> 00:24:51,865
And your situation of selling, selling
or buying a home okay.

632
00:24:52,199 --> 00:24:53,700
So let's start with first. Sure.

633
00:24:53,700 --> 00:24:54,826
Because that's
the one that popped in my head

634
00:24:54,826 --> 00:24:56,411
when you were
when you're going through that.

635
00:24:57,537 --> 00:24:59,915
So the first I remember,

636
00:24:59,915 --> 00:25:01,875
so being at being a good real estate
agent, you have to

637
00:25:01,875 --> 00:25:03,210
you have to get out there
and talk to people.

638
00:25:03,210 --> 00:25:05,670
And that that was uncomfortable for me.
I'm more introverted. Right.

639
00:25:05,670 --> 00:25:08,798
So like this whole idea of, like,
put yourself out

640
00:25:08,798 --> 00:25:11,843
there was something that was
is still uncomfortable.

641
00:25:11,843 --> 00:25:15,472
But, in the early years especially, so,

642
00:25:16,056 --> 00:25:18,266
you know, door knocking is I think you go
knock on people's doors

643
00:25:18,266 --> 00:25:20,018
certain neighborhoods,
you give them some value,

644
00:25:20,018 --> 00:25:20,810
you tell them about

645
00:25:20,810 --> 00:25:23,813
what's going on in the market,
you know, you see if they need any help.

646
00:25:23,813 --> 00:25:24,064
Right.

647
00:25:24,064 --> 00:25:29,236
So I remember early on in history,
first couple of months, knocking on doors

648
00:25:29,236 --> 00:25:33,490
and I knock on this older gentleman
door and, you know, he's really gruff.

649
00:25:33,823 --> 00:25:34,282
What do you want?

650
00:25:34,282 --> 00:25:36,618
And I shared a little insight
about the market.

651
00:25:36,618 --> 00:25:37,827
Ask him if he

652
00:25:37,827 --> 00:25:41,039
if he's thinking about selling his home
and what a lot of people do is, you know,

653
00:25:41,039 --> 00:25:43,625
they'll they'll politely decline
or shut the door or whatever you guys do

654
00:25:43,625 --> 00:25:44,209
next time.

655
00:25:44,209 --> 00:25:45,585
And this guy was like, yeah, come on.

656
00:25:45,585 --> 00:25:48,046
Is this like it caught me off
guard. I was like, whoa, okay.

657
00:25:49,214 --> 00:25:50,340
So he comes, he invites me in.

658
00:25:50,340 --> 00:25:51,716
I'm there's like an hour we're talking.

659
00:25:51,716 --> 00:25:54,719
And it was I didn't really know
what to say at that point.

660
00:25:54,844 --> 00:25:58,473
But, long story short,
you know, I, I met the guy,

661
00:25:59,099 --> 00:26:01,685
signed him up to sell his home, marketed
the home, sold it.

662
00:26:01,685 --> 00:26:05,063
It was a home that at the time,
a few other agents had it.

663
00:26:05,397 --> 00:26:06,773
You know, sometimes

664
00:26:06,773 --> 00:26:10,193
if you if you don't have, like, this
cookie cutter, all updated home, sometimes

665
00:26:10,193 --> 00:26:12,320
agents write it off.
They don't want to deal with it.

666
00:26:12,320 --> 00:26:13,280
This guy was a smoker.

667
00:26:13,280 --> 00:26:15,115
The whole house smelled like
I didn't care.

668
00:26:15,115 --> 00:26:17,033
I was like,
I was so excited to invite him in.

669
00:26:17,033 --> 00:26:19,077
Right. But,

670
00:26:19,077 --> 00:26:19,995
so, you know.

671
00:26:19,995 --> 00:26:23,582
But I got after him,
we sold it, and, it was just

672
00:26:23,748 --> 00:26:25,041
it gave me the confidence to keep going.

673
00:26:25,041 --> 00:26:27,836
Great experience, great guy. And,
where was it?

674
00:26:27,836 --> 00:26:29,421
Southington. Oh, nice.

675
00:26:30,589 --> 00:26:33,049
Wow. So you just go in and you say, hey,
you want to sell your home,

676
00:26:33,049 --> 00:26:35,927
and you just continue the conversation,
you end up selling that house.

677
00:26:35,927 --> 00:26:36,595
And that was.

678
00:26:36,595 --> 00:26:39,889
I would tell him something, you know,
that was happening in the market, like,

679
00:26:39,889 --> 00:26:42,892
you know, a couple homes that sold
in the neighborhood, what they sold for.

680
00:26:43,143 --> 00:26:44,394
See if he had any questions.

681
00:26:44,394 --> 00:26:46,521
You know,
if you plan on moving in the future

682
00:26:46,521 --> 00:26:49,608
and he's here, he's moved to Las Vegas
in his situation way back when.

683
00:26:49,608 --> 00:26:52,319
But, Yeah. Cool.

684
00:26:52,319 --> 00:26:52,777
Worked out.

685
00:26:52,777 --> 00:26:54,487
That's all
you need to get the ball rolling.

686
00:26:54,487 --> 00:26:56,740
You need that
first ball to go in the hoop.

687
00:26:56,740 --> 00:26:58,992
I talk to my daughters
all the time. Just get miss a couple.

688
00:26:58,992 --> 00:27:00,493
That keeps you once one goes in.

689
00:27:00,493 --> 00:27:05,332
Yes, I agree, I, I do like a couple public
speaking and talk.

690
00:27:05,332 --> 00:27:07,959
And sometimes I'm like, I just need that
first laugh or that first.

691
00:27:08,960 --> 00:27:11,046
And I'm like,

692
00:27:11,046 --> 00:27:11,755
yeah, yeah.

693
00:27:11,755 --> 00:27:15,634
Because after a while you get up there
and you're like, yeah, okay, keep going.

694
00:27:15,675 --> 00:27:18,678
Never just be persistent. Right.

695
00:27:18,845 --> 00:27:20,180
Numbers play the numbers.

696
00:27:20,180 --> 00:27:22,390
Like, listen, some are not,
you know. Well, that's okay.

697
00:27:22,390 --> 00:27:25,393
The ones that are supposed to work, work

698
00:27:25,435 --> 00:27:26,770
first, last, best, worst.

699
00:27:26,770 --> 00:27:28,104
Oh, we're doing them all.

700
00:27:28,104 --> 00:27:29,022
Okay. Oh, okay. Okay.

701
00:27:29,022 --> 00:27:32,025
So first I was my first.

702
00:27:32,067 --> 00:27:33,026
You can go out of order.

703
00:27:33,026 --> 00:27:34,194
Whatever comes to you.

704
00:27:34,194 --> 00:27:35,111
Worst.

705
00:27:35,111 --> 00:27:36,863
Okay.

706
00:27:36,863 --> 00:27:39,532
Best.

707
00:27:39,532 --> 00:27:42,535
Let's go. Best.
So this was. Let's go best.

708
00:27:42,535 --> 00:27:45,538
It was one of my,

709
00:27:45,538 --> 00:27:47,791
It was one of my first higher end sales.

710
00:27:47,791 --> 00:27:48,958
And it was actually in West Hartford.

711
00:27:48,958 --> 00:27:51,628
So this was
when I was living in South East.

712
00:27:51,628 --> 00:27:53,755
I wasn't even living
in West Hartford yet. So,

713
00:27:55,048 --> 00:27:57,300
for a
brokerage had sold a home in the area.

714
00:27:57,300 --> 00:27:59,427
So same thing
I was calling call the Neighborhood

715
00:27:59,427 --> 00:28:02,180
and just letting you know about a home
we sold.

716
00:28:02,180 --> 00:28:04,974
And this woman, really nice,

717
00:28:04,974 --> 00:28:07,977
really nice woman. And,

718
00:28:08,019 --> 00:28:10,021
because, again, something
when you're calling people like this,

719
00:28:10,021 --> 00:28:13,024
you know, a lot of people who, you know,
and which is fine, I get it.

720
00:28:13,650 --> 00:28:16,820
We're strangers reaching out,
but this woman was just super nice.

721
00:28:16,820 --> 00:28:19,280
We had a great conversation. 
She was planning on moving.

722
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:22,283
Invited, invited me over, and,

723
00:28:23,118 --> 00:28:25,578
I needed to sell the house, move
to Pennsylvania.

724
00:28:25,578 --> 00:28:27,997
And, you know, it was so nervous.

725
00:28:27,997 --> 00:28:32,001
I was so nervous because it was my first
major sale, you know, and a lot of agents,

726
00:28:33,712 --> 00:28:35,880
you know, kind of get in their own head
with that.

727
00:28:35,880 --> 00:28:36,923
You know, our home is a home.

728
00:28:36,923 --> 00:28:39,926
The process is often very similar,
no matter what, what price range.

729
00:28:39,926 --> 00:28:41,970
And, but you get a bigger cut,

730
00:28:41,970 --> 00:28:44,222
you do get a bigger cut,
which is because that's your percentage.

731
00:28:44,222 --> 00:28:46,307
That's where the nerves kick in. Exactly.

732
00:28:46,307 --> 00:28:48,351
And it's and again,
it's unchartered territory.

733
00:28:48,351 --> 00:28:50,353
Right. It's
something you're on your comfort zone.

734
00:28:50,353 --> 00:28:51,771
It's something you haven't done before.

735
00:28:51,771 --> 00:28:55,400
So you know just long story short.

736
00:28:55,525 --> 00:28:57,277
Sold the home.
Everything went really well.

737
00:28:57,277 --> 00:28:59,654
Communication was well, she was happy.

738
00:28:59,654 --> 00:29:04,200
And, Yeah, man, it just felt good to,
you know, do something that you see some

739
00:29:04,200 --> 00:29:07,704
other veteran agents doing at the time,
I was younger, earlier in my career.

740
00:29:08,455 --> 00:29:11,875
And it was another stepping stone for me
that I would say is, is one of the best

741
00:29:11,875 --> 00:29:15,462
because, it was it was like another notch

742
00:29:15,754 --> 00:29:19,132
that, another area of growth,
like within the career.

743
00:29:19,132 --> 00:29:20,759
Even though I have established myself
a little bit,

744
00:29:20,759 --> 00:29:23,636
it was another area of growth
that kind of helped build confidence.

745
00:29:23,636 --> 00:29:26,222
Now comparison where I was comparing who.

746
00:29:26,222 --> 00:29:26,723
But like,

747
00:29:28,057 --> 00:29:29,476
are you like,

748
00:29:29,476 --> 00:29:33,772
tiers of realtors, like JV tiers,
you sell this kind of level house,

749
00:29:33,772 --> 00:29:35,064
then you go to varsity,

750
00:29:35,064 --> 00:29:37,817
then you then you hit the NBA
and you're selling big time homes.

751
00:29:37,817 --> 00:29:42,238
It does it work that way or you obviously
dabble up and down or are you in

752
00:29:43,156 --> 00:29:43,865
how does that work?

753
00:29:43,865 --> 00:29:47,786
So I think it's more of a mindset thing,
you know,

754
00:29:47,786 --> 00:29:51,289
and I think this is probably the same
in almost any business profession.

755
00:29:52,040 --> 00:29:55,460
Again, at the time
that that meant a big deal to me.

756
00:29:55,668 --> 00:29:58,922
But now looking back,
that I sold homes like to this day, like

757
00:29:59,798 --> 00:30:03,468
if your home's worth $100,000,
you even help help you, right?

758
00:30:03,468 --> 00:30:06,012
And if your home's worth 2 million, great.
I'm gonna help you. Then.

759
00:30:06,012 --> 00:30:07,722
It's the exact same process.

760
00:30:07,722 --> 00:30:10,350
Like when I wake up, I'm
going to do my job, by the way.

761
00:30:10,350 --> 00:30:10,934
Right? What?

762
00:30:10,934 --> 00:30:14,020
Even if nobody comes to sell their home,
I'm still going to make my calls,

763
00:30:14,020 --> 00:30:15,939
which I will do
my daily activities. Right.

764
00:30:15,939 --> 00:30:21,444
So I think having that mindset,
is the difference between varsity JV.

765
00:30:21,611 --> 00:30:25,240
I think having that mindset is your,
you know, professional year to year

766
00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,116
MBA mindset. Right. Gotcha.

767
00:30:27,116 --> 00:30:31,287
And, you know, the high school mindset
is probably you're you're still learning.

768
00:30:31,287 --> 00:30:32,205
You're selling houses.

769
00:30:32,205 --> 00:30:34,457
You're a little bit intimidated
by certain situations.

770
00:30:34,457 --> 00:30:35,208
Right?

771
00:30:35,208 --> 00:30:38,044
You know you could hit a three,
but you're playing the big game.

772
00:30:38,044 --> 00:30:39,337
You nervous and you're
you're not shooting.

773
00:30:39,337 --> 00:30:40,088
You're passing. Right.

774
00:30:40,088 --> 00:30:42,799
Yeah. So
yeah I think it's more of a mindset thing.

775
00:30:42,799 --> 00:30:45,218
And it comes with time like any anything.

776
00:30:45,218 --> 00:30:47,303
Yeah. Interesting. Yeah.

777
00:30:47,303 --> 00:30:49,889
Now do you have a worst in your last house

778
00:30:49,889 --> 00:30:53,726
that you sold your most recent
I have worst, I have, I have.

779
00:30:57,564 --> 00:30:57,730
Yeah.

780
00:30:57,730 --> 00:31:01,943
I mean, listen, sometimes for the worst
was to say that sometimes it doesn't.

781
00:31:02,569 --> 00:31:05,697
You don't click like, you sit down
and meet with someone you know,

782
00:31:05,697 --> 00:31:08,658
you have a good interview,
you think you're on the same page.

783
00:31:08,783 --> 00:31:11,244
You try to get everything out
you can to prep,

784
00:31:11,244 --> 00:31:14,247
and then you get in the, in the weeds and,
and all of a sudden

785
00:31:15,498 --> 00:31:17,208
expectations

786
00:31:17,208 --> 00:31:21,379
or questions or the way someone thinks
the process should be done

787
00:31:21,713 --> 00:31:25,300
isn't isn't aligned as it is
when you when you first meet

788
00:31:25,300 --> 00:31:26,426
like you think you know someone.

789
00:31:26,426 --> 00:31:29,178
And so you get in there sometimes and

790
00:31:29,178 --> 00:31:31,055
and again this is a

791
00:31:31,055 --> 00:31:34,058
you're usually with people two, 3
or 4 months, right.

792
00:31:34,350 --> 00:31:36,477
When you list the house,

793
00:31:36,477 --> 00:31:37,770
you know,
even if you sell it, they want it.

794
00:31:37,770 --> 00:31:39,564
There's a pending process. Right?

795
00:31:39,564 --> 00:31:40,023
Okay.

796
00:31:40,023 --> 00:31:42,442
You're you're talking
to these people often. Right.

797
00:31:42,442 --> 00:31:46,821
So if you're not clicking in here,
you're butting heads.

798
00:31:47,280 --> 00:31:49,741
It can be, it can be tough.

799
00:31:49,741 --> 00:31:52,869
So, I've had a few of those and,

800
00:31:53,578 --> 00:31:56,080
you know, I would say each
one's made me better because what I what

801
00:31:56,080 --> 00:31:59,876
I really try to do over the years, now,
when we work together, I

802
00:31:59,876 --> 00:32:00,543
always say, listen,

803
00:32:01,586 --> 00:32:02,545
you know,

804
00:32:02,545 --> 00:32:05,214
one of three things are going to happen
right when we meet today.

805
00:32:05,214 --> 00:32:07,133
One, you're going to list your home
with me, right?

806
00:32:07,133 --> 00:32:09,719
It's going to you may decide
not to list your home with me.

807
00:32:09,719 --> 00:32:11,095
That's okay. Two, three.

808
00:32:11,095 --> 00:32:14,933
I may decide not to take the listing
because we absolutely

809
00:32:14,933 --> 00:32:16,643
want to be on the same page together here.

810
00:32:16,643 --> 00:32:18,770
If not,
there's a lot of great realtors out there.

811
00:32:18,770 --> 00:32:21,689
If we're not perfectly aligned, it's not.

812
00:32:21,689 --> 00:32:22,899
Let's not get into this.

813
00:32:22,899 --> 00:32:24,859
Let's make sure you're in here
with someone that's aligned.

814
00:32:24,859 --> 00:32:26,694
Because, yeah,
you can be with each other a while

815
00:32:26,694 --> 00:32:29,906
and you want to make sure
what I do is what you expect, right?

816
00:32:30,198 --> 00:32:34,869
So I try to do a really good job
of sharing what I do

817
00:32:34,869 --> 00:32:39,457
now to make sure that the other side
knows what to expect.

818
00:32:39,457 --> 00:32:41,501
Is that all right? All right. Okay.

819
00:32:42,669 --> 00:32:44,587
And in your most recent home.

820
00:32:44,587 --> 00:32:47,882
Most recent home,
I just put one under deposit on 169

821
00:32:47,882 --> 00:32:50,218
Arnold out here in town to family.

822
00:32:50,218 --> 00:32:52,136
Oh. Did you post that on Instagram?

823
00:32:52,136 --> 00:32:52,971
It was on Instagram.

824
00:32:52,971 --> 00:32:54,555
Yeah. Six days ago.

825
00:32:54,555 --> 00:32:56,975
Yes it is to 549.

826
00:32:56,975 --> 00:32:57,809
Look at you man.

827
00:32:57,809 --> 00:33:00,728
Did my research into Arundell.

828
00:33:00,728 --> 00:33:03,147
But that's my next question.

829
00:33:03,147 --> 00:33:04,899
Teaching and real estate.

830
00:33:04,899 --> 00:33:08,695
A lot of people do that with the summers
off, weekends, afternoons.

831
00:33:08,695 --> 00:33:10,947
What do I got to do to be a real realtor?

832
00:33:10,947 --> 00:33:13,074
Do you vouch for me?
Can you just open up the books?

833
00:33:13,074 --> 00:33:14,742
It's not that simple.

834
00:33:14,742 --> 00:33:17,745
So, you know,
you have to take your coursework.

835
00:33:17,745 --> 00:33:19,372
There's a couple different ways to do it.

836
00:33:19,372 --> 00:33:21,165
There's some online options.

837
00:33:21,165 --> 00:33:22,500
There's some in-person options.

838
00:33:22,500 --> 00:33:25,503
You can, you know, pick
the one that best suits your needs.

839
00:33:25,628 --> 00:33:29,674
Once you take the coursework,
you have to take a test.

840
00:33:30,049 --> 00:33:32,010
Test and state test.

841
00:33:32,010 --> 00:33:34,220
And then once you pass the test, then

842
00:33:34,220 --> 00:33:37,348
you have to align yourself
with with a brokerage or a team.

843
00:33:38,641 --> 00:33:40,810
So yes, at this point, I am

844
00:33:40,810 --> 00:33:43,813
at the point in my career where, you know,
there's been people that have helped me.

845
00:33:44,188 --> 00:33:47,150
So I, I've been growing my team
over the years

846
00:33:47,150 --> 00:33:50,987
trying to share a lot of the things
that helped me get started early on

847
00:33:52,113 --> 00:33:53,781
with realtors
who coming into the business,

848
00:33:53,781 --> 00:33:56,784
or even realtors
who are feeling a little stuck

849
00:33:57,118 --> 00:33:58,244
because, you know, with the inventory low,

850
00:33:58,244 --> 00:33:59,954
it's it's
challenging out there for a lot of agents.

851
00:33:59,954 --> 00:34:04,375
So, really coaching them up
and mentoring them with the systems

852
00:34:04,375 --> 00:34:07,754
that I've used over the years
to do you have how big is your team?

853
00:34:08,212 --> 00:34:09,589
We have eight agents, right.

854
00:34:09,589 --> 00:34:11,340
So do they kind of work under you?

855
00:34:11,340 --> 00:34:12,759
They do those eight work under them.

856
00:34:14,927 --> 00:34:17,013
Do you
get like a percentage of their sales?

857
00:34:17,013 --> 00:34:17,889
Yeah, absolutely.

858
00:34:17,889 --> 00:34:19,098
Because they're your team. Yeah.

859
00:34:19,098 --> 00:34:23,978
So my goal with them is to teach them
we have weekly coaching calls.

860
00:34:23,978 --> 00:34:26,397
We do business planning.
We do quarterly check ins.

861
00:34:26,397 --> 00:34:28,941
We do call days together.

862
00:34:28,941 --> 00:34:30,443
Well, we're in there helping each other.

863
00:34:30,443 --> 00:34:33,154
So agents
you know, environment matters, right.

864
00:34:33,154 --> 00:34:36,115
Like I bring it back to basketball.

865
00:34:36,115 --> 00:34:40,578
You know, there are great players on bad
teams and their skill sets going down.

866
00:34:40,620 --> 00:34:43,289
Then there's average
players on great teams.

867
00:34:43,289 --> 00:34:45,666
Those great players bring them up. Right.

868
00:34:45,666 --> 00:34:46,542
Same thing in real estate.

869
00:34:46,542 --> 00:34:48,086
Like I'm putting together

870
00:34:48,086 --> 00:34:50,004
a group of agents
that can bring each other

871
00:34:50,004 --> 00:34:52,507
up, want to grow together
and create a good environment.

872
00:34:52,507 --> 00:34:54,509
They can all help each other
and grow their career.

873
00:34:54,509 --> 00:34:55,384
That's good teaching.

874
00:34:55,384 --> 00:34:58,387
Also professional development,
I hear, I hear

875
00:34:58,387 --> 00:35:02,642
100% like the best is when you ask
a teammate, a colleague, a teacher,

876
00:35:03,059 --> 00:35:05,812
a friend is like,
hey, what's working for you in your class?

877
00:35:05,812 --> 00:35:07,730
Something I haven't thought about.

878
00:35:07,730 --> 00:35:11,067
She suggests something and I'm like, oh,
let me try it.

879
00:35:11,067 --> 00:35:13,736
It works. I'm like, thank you for that.

880
00:35:13,736 --> 00:35:15,363
Because sometimes
you just stay in your lane.

881
00:35:15,363 --> 00:35:17,365
You're just like teaching.
And, you know, it's good to

882
00:35:18,533 --> 00:35:19,909
have that open discussion.

883
00:35:19,909 --> 00:35:21,452
Nothing stays the same, right? Yeah.

884
00:35:21,452 --> 00:35:22,161
Whether you're teaching.

885
00:35:22,161 --> 00:35:25,164
So in real estate
the world is changing, right.

886
00:35:25,373 --> 00:35:27,416
You learn how real estate sounds like.

887
00:35:27,416 --> 00:35:29,836
So to just kind of,

888
00:35:29,836 --> 00:35:31,838
you know, be a lone wolf in anything.

889
00:35:31,838 --> 00:35:32,672
Yeah.

890
00:35:32,672 --> 00:35:33,923
How long have you been doing it now?

891
00:35:33,923 --> 00:35:35,842
Since 2011.

892
00:35:35,842 --> 00:35:38,427
13. So 12 years on my own.

893
00:35:38,427 --> 00:35:39,428
On my own.

894
00:35:39,428 --> 00:35:41,139
Nice. Nice.

895
00:35:41,139 --> 00:35:44,016
Where do you see yourself in five years?

896
00:35:44,016 --> 00:35:46,853
Oh, I'm going to be doing this
for a while, and,

897
00:35:46,853 --> 00:35:49,856
it's something different every day.

898
00:35:50,606 --> 00:35:53,151
I there's not really a ceiling
on what you can do.

899
00:35:53,151 --> 00:35:54,068
Yeah.

900
00:35:54,068 --> 00:35:55,736
You make your own hours, right?

901
00:35:55,736 --> 00:35:57,238
I can I can coach my kids.

902
00:35:57,238 --> 00:35:59,782
I can, you know, grow my team.

903
00:35:59,782 --> 00:36:01,284
I can help my clients.

904
00:36:02,410 --> 00:36:04,579
I'm really
enjoying because I was a teacher.

905
00:36:04,579 --> 00:36:07,582
I'm really enjoying this teaching
and leading other agents piece.

906
00:36:07,874 --> 00:36:10,877
And I also like that
because I still sell real estate.

907
00:36:11,377 --> 00:36:14,547
It's not just, some talking head
that's telling you what to do.

908
00:36:14,547 --> 00:36:18,843
I'm actually doing what I teach
so they can see that at work.

909
00:36:18,843 --> 00:36:20,803
So I think there's a lot of synergies
right now.

910
00:36:20,803 --> 00:36:22,972
And I'm just enjoying them.

911
00:36:22,972 --> 00:36:26,559
Know, I think, you know, probably be
in the same situation just hopefully

912
00:36:26,601 --> 00:36:28,978
with a few more agents
to help by that point.

913
00:36:28,978 --> 00:36:31,939
How big do you want your team
optimal number?

914
00:36:32,231 --> 00:36:34,567
I'm not I'm not focused on a number.

915
00:36:34,567 --> 00:36:36,736
I'm focused on

916
00:36:36,736 --> 00:36:38,362
the agents themselves.

917
00:36:38,362 --> 00:36:43,451
So if an agent is motivated
to grow and coachable,

918
00:36:44,035 --> 00:36:45,328
I feel motivated, not coachable.

919
00:36:45,328 --> 00:36:47,663
Doesn't matter what I tell you, right?
So that's probably not the right fit.

920
00:36:47,663 --> 00:36:49,332
But if you're motivated
and you're coachable,

921
00:36:50,374 --> 00:36:52,752
that's that's the type of agent
I want to be around

922
00:36:52,752 --> 00:36:56,339
and that I think, can benefit
from being around others that are similar.

923
00:36:57,006 --> 00:36:58,341
Very cool.

924
00:36:58,341 --> 00:37:01,344
Not having a good team means a lot.

925
00:37:01,344 --> 00:37:03,054
And then why West Hartford

926
00:37:03,054 --> 00:37:06,265
and what what's the
what's the market in West Hartford?

927
00:37:06,265 --> 00:37:07,099
What's going on?

928
00:37:07,099 --> 00:37:09,685
What brought you here and how's it going?

929
00:37:09,685 --> 00:37:11,646
So teach and man my wife.

930
00:37:11,646 --> 00:37:14,523
So my wife was a
teacher is a teacher in West Hartford.

931
00:37:14,523 --> 00:37:18,694
For a long time at the time,
our kids were young,

932
00:37:18,694 --> 00:37:21,864
and they were going to daycare up here
because it was closer to her work.

933
00:37:21,864 --> 00:37:23,991
Right. You could try to bring them up.
That was a lot.

934
00:37:23,991 --> 00:37:27,912
We live in Southington at the time,
so it was funny because I didn't want

935
00:37:29,330 --> 00:37:29,538
there.

936
00:37:29,538 --> 00:37:30,248
This is fine.

937
00:37:30,248 --> 00:37:32,959
You know, she really wanted. So I said,
all right, let's let's try it.

938
00:37:32,959 --> 00:37:35,962
I was open minded
now that we're here, man.

939
00:37:36,003 --> 00:37:38,089
So I wouldn't go back, right? Me too.

940
00:37:38,089 --> 00:37:39,799
I was so hesitant. Yeah.

941
00:37:39,799 --> 00:37:41,968
And now I'm like, best move
I've ever made.

942
00:37:41,968 --> 00:37:44,262
Met my friends at the J.

943
00:37:44,262 --> 00:37:46,764
Very close to my school.

944
00:37:46,764 --> 00:37:48,266
Get to run back into you.

945
00:37:48,266 --> 00:37:51,769
You know, it reminds me a lot of Waterbury
because, like, everything's close,

946
00:37:51,769 --> 00:37:54,772
and there's no matter what you're into
hobbies, there's.

947
00:37:54,814 --> 00:37:55,856
There's something for everybody.

948
00:37:55,856 --> 00:37:57,942
So. Yeah. Culture.
So many different. Like.

949
00:37:57,942 --> 00:37:58,901
And it's all close.

950
00:37:58,901 --> 00:38:01,654
Like, you don't have to drive 20 minutes
to have to get somewhere.

951
00:38:01,654 --> 00:38:02,697
Yeah, yeah.

952
00:38:02,697 --> 00:38:05,032
And your community agreed.

953
00:38:05,032 --> 00:38:07,535
It's. Yeah. Very diverse. I love that.

954
00:38:09,829 --> 00:38:12,540
What makes

955
00:38:12,540 --> 00:38:16,877
houses in West Hartford
stand out above surrounding towns?

956
00:38:17,336 --> 00:38:17,586
Yeah.

957
00:38:17,586 --> 00:38:20,298
So there's a lot of good
surrounding towns.

958
00:38:20,298 --> 00:38:22,383
You know, the valley in general
is always pretty popular,

959
00:38:22,383 --> 00:38:25,386
I think, from what I hear,
just people say,

960
00:38:26,887 --> 00:38:29,473
you know, it's the things to do that we,
we just talked about.

961
00:38:29,473 --> 00:38:33,019
It gives people like that Boston,
New York vibe with the center of town,

962
00:38:34,395 --> 00:38:36,480
you know, all the places to go out to eat.

963
00:38:36,480 --> 00:38:37,106
Yeah.

964
00:38:37,106 --> 00:38:38,733
Everything is,

965
00:38:38,733 --> 00:38:41,944
school systems are always ranked
pretty high, which is important to people.

966
00:38:43,070 --> 00:38:46,699
And I sure there's, there's a lot of, it's
not even just public schools.

967
00:38:46,699 --> 00:38:48,743
There's a lot of private schools
like, all in this.

968
00:38:48,743 --> 00:38:48,993
There's a lot.

969
00:38:48,993 --> 00:38:51,954
Yeah. Colleges. Right. Yep.
So much business around us that,

970
00:38:52,913 --> 00:38:53,914
you know, the location I

971
00:38:53,914 --> 00:38:57,793
think plays just a big factor
in some of the other stuff we mentioned.

972
00:38:58,210 --> 00:39:00,212
It's right in the middle of New York
and Boston, right?

973
00:39:00,212 --> 00:39:01,589
Yeah.

974
00:39:01,589 --> 00:39:04,675
You know, so it's it's
kind of got a little bit of everything.

975
00:39:05,426 --> 00:39:07,428
And I see Hartford's growing.

976
00:39:07,428 --> 00:39:10,431
I just saw something in the news or

977
00:39:10,473 --> 00:39:14,018
it's like the prime spot to,
to move to now Harford, Harford County.

978
00:39:14,060 --> 00:39:16,354
And again this is depending
on where you read online.

979
00:39:16,354 --> 00:39:19,857
But, you know, the county in general
is the number one county

980
00:39:19,899 --> 00:39:23,569
according to a lot of these follow
Realtor.com polls in the United States.

981
00:39:23,569 --> 00:39:25,571
Yeah, yeah.

982
00:39:25,571 --> 00:39:27,323
Yeah. Went up. Cut. Sorry. Yeah.

983
00:39:27,323 --> 00:39:28,699
Our price point.

984
00:39:28,699 --> 00:39:30,242
You know, anybody
that's lived in Connecticut,

985
00:39:30,242 --> 00:39:32,453
you know,
we feel like the prices are expensive.

986
00:39:32,453 --> 00:39:34,538
It's just human nature or taxes or,

987
00:39:34,538 --> 00:39:36,999
you know, people
that to think those are expensive. Yeah.

988
00:39:36,999 --> 00:39:40,544
But if you look at some of the surrounding
states, the new York's in Massachusetts,

989
00:39:40,795 --> 00:39:42,213
they come here and our prices

990
00:39:42,213 --> 00:39:44,840
and our taxes are oftentimes
depending on where they live, cheaper.

991
00:39:44,840 --> 00:39:46,884
So these people see a lot of value here.

992
00:39:46,884 --> 00:39:49,595
And they yeah,
they come for that reason too.

993
00:39:49,595 --> 00:39:52,640
How many times have you had
someone come from New York

994
00:39:52,848 --> 00:39:55,851
or Massachusetts buy a house sight unseen?

995
00:39:56,519 --> 00:39:58,771
Waive the inspection.

996
00:39:58,771 --> 00:40:00,564
Just throw the down payment and move.

997
00:40:00,564 --> 00:40:02,274
I heard that was happening a lot
during Covid.

998
00:40:02,274 --> 00:40:06,487
True or false I mean a lot is a
is is a great word you know.

999
00:40:06,695 --> 00:40:08,572
Does it happen. Yes.

1000
00:40:08,572 --> 00:40:10,616
I would argue not a lot.

1001
00:40:10,616 --> 00:40:13,619
You know
most people still want to see them.

1002
00:40:13,828 --> 00:40:16,122
You know what I mean?
It absolutely happens.

1003
00:40:16,122 --> 00:40:20,292
And I would, you know, argue
a lot of the people,

1004
00:40:20,292 --> 00:40:23,462
I'm sure not everybody
that buy a home that way.

1005
00:40:24,505 --> 00:40:27,633
I feel like in hindsight when you talk,
because a lot of my clients,

1006
00:40:27,633 --> 00:40:30,761
you know, I don't just talk to them
when they sell their house.

1007
00:40:30,761 --> 00:40:33,305
I keep in touch, checking with them
throughout the years.

1008
00:40:33,305 --> 00:40:36,267
And, and a lot of the people that,

1009
00:40:36,267 --> 00:40:38,352
you know, have bought homes
that way, you know,

1010
00:40:38,352 --> 00:40:41,480
felt like maybe, maybe that wasn't
the best, you know, choice.

1011
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:44,692
So I, I would caution people
to be careful that,

1012
00:40:44,900 --> 00:40:47,903
but yeah, I would say
that's not a lot here and there. Yes.

1013
00:40:47,903 --> 00:40:49,989
Definitely not a lot of

1014
00:40:49,989 --> 00:40:53,576
cool, cool website two
I put in, I put in, I signed in my,

1015
00:40:53,742 --> 00:40:57,455
my Eric Feeney 12 at gmail, got an email.

1016
00:40:57,455 --> 00:40:58,873
I got my house.

1017
00:40:58,873 --> 00:41:01,167
I know how much I could sell my house for.

1018
00:41:01,167 --> 00:41:03,002
I'm making money. There you go.

1019
00:41:03,002 --> 00:41:04,670
I'm making a lot of money.

1020
00:41:04,670 --> 00:41:05,504
But where am I moving?

1021
00:41:05,504 --> 00:41:08,507
Is the question
the that everybody I wish I

1022
00:41:08,966 --> 00:41:12,553
there's only 19 single family as of today
the podcast.

1023
00:41:12,970 --> 00:41:15,973
There's only 19 single family homes
for sale in West Hartford.

1024
00:41:16,098 --> 00:41:19,101
Geez, 64,000 people
that live there, right?

1025
00:41:19,310 --> 00:41:20,186
So that's why

1026
00:41:21,187 --> 00:41:24,231
if you're selling,
that's why that price is great, right?

1027
00:41:24,231 --> 00:41:26,775
Because it's supply demand

1028
00:41:26,775 --> 00:41:28,194
only 19 $0.19.

1029
00:41:28,194 --> 00:41:31,030
I mean, just condos,
people talking single family 19.

1030
00:41:31,030 --> 00:41:34,033
And I heard
we're like the 19th best place to live

1031
00:41:34,283 --> 00:41:37,703
in the United States or something
crazy or Connecticut.

1032
00:41:38,120 --> 00:41:39,205
They're, you know, again,

1033
00:41:39,205 --> 00:41:41,248
depending on what you're looking
usually there in West Hartford

1034
00:41:41,248 --> 00:41:44,543
is number one in Connecticut behind
some of these websites that rank those.

1035
00:41:45,628 --> 00:41:48,923
And I typed in the website in century 21,
All Points Realty.

1036
00:41:48,923 --> 00:41:51,425
Lucie, the support agent goes, hi there.

1037
00:41:51,425 --> 00:41:52,968
Did you find what you're looking for?

1038
00:41:52,968 --> 00:41:55,387
And I was like,
oh, that's really nice, Lucy.

1039
00:41:55,387 --> 00:41:58,516
I didn't follow up with Lucy,
but good job Lucy.

1040
00:41:58,974 --> 00:42:00,309
No. Great website.

1041
00:42:00,309 --> 00:42:03,270
You know what's,

1042
00:42:04,480 --> 00:42:07,066
what's all Points Realty like?

1043
00:42:07,066 --> 00:42:08,400
What's the name? All Points Realty.

1044
00:42:08,400 --> 00:42:09,652
Is there a reason for that? Yeah.

1045
00:42:09,652 --> 00:42:12,112
So that's the, great broker.

1046
00:42:12,112 --> 00:42:13,822
I work for our family.

1047
00:42:13,822 --> 00:42:16,116
And brokerage.
Ryan and Kelly, their brother and sister.

1048
00:42:16,116 --> 00:42:18,827
Their mom started the brokerage
first for years.

1049
00:42:18,827 --> 00:42:21,080
So that's their brokerage.

1050
00:42:21,080 --> 00:42:21,747
They created it.

1051
00:42:21,747 --> 00:42:24,416
I don't know exactly why
they took that name. Gotcha.

1052
00:42:24,416 --> 00:42:26,043
But they have 11 offices.

1053
00:42:26,043 --> 00:42:29,255
They have two down in Florida,
11 in Connecticut, two in Florida.

1054
00:42:29,255 --> 00:42:32,174
So they're they've really built
a great, brokerage.

1055
00:42:32,174 --> 00:42:33,509
They like, make it.

1056
00:42:35,636 --> 00:42:36,387
Cool, cool.

1057
00:42:36,387 --> 00:42:36,679
All right.

1058
00:42:36,679 --> 00:42:39,848
So on your Instagrams,
we talked about Aaron Dale.

1059
00:42:39,848 --> 00:42:42,601
It's been on
that post happened six days ago.

1060
00:42:42,601 --> 00:42:45,145
Is that how sold under deposit.

1061
00:42:45,145 --> 00:42:48,148
Under deposit for 549 or more.

1062
00:42:48,315 --> 00:42:51,318
So we can't say That's right.

1063
00:42:51,318 --> 00:42:54,321
But it did go under deposit,
you know, within the first couple of days.

1064
00:42:54,321 --> 00:42:55,406
So yeah.

1065
00:42:55,406 --> 00:42:58,409
And then you can't tell.

1066
00:42:58,534 --> 00:43:00,953
Why is that. Oh, let's talk about that.
That's a great one.

1067
00:43:00,953 --> 00:43:02,871
When two people are bidding on a house.

1068
00:43:02,871 --> 00:43:04,248
Yeah.

1069
00:43:04,248 --> 00:43:07,042
People go 20,000. Over 10,000 over.

1070
00:43:07,042 --> 00:43:11,589
Why can't you say,
hey, this guy has it at the house for 550?

1071
00:43:11,839 --> 00:43:14,300
If you want it, go more. Yeah.

1072
00:43:14,300 --> 00:43:16,677
Why does it blind bidding. So recovery.

1073
00:43:16,677 --> 00:43:16,760
Yeah.

1074
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:20,306
So you're going into some fair
housing stuff like that, right.

1075
00:43:20,306 --> 00:43:21,181
Gotcha.

1076
00:43:21,181 --> 00:43:24,560
Why is he favoring that person versus
someone else?

1077
00:43:24,560 --> 00:43:25,519
Is there a particular reason?

1078
00:43:25,519 --> 00:43:28,731
Because you're giving inside source
that information to the marketplace.

1079
00:43:28,731 --> 00:43:29,773
Right. Okay.

1080
00:43:29,773 --> 00:43:32,610
So that's why a lot of agents do hire.

1081
00:43:32,610 --> 00:43:33,402
It pays the best.

1082
00:43:33,402 --> 00:43:37,072
And now you also want to you know
it's the seller's ultimate decision right.

1083
00:43:37,072 --> 00:43:40,034
Like we're we're advising the seller.
We're pretty we're presenting everything.

1084
00:43:40,034 --> 00:43:43,704
But then the seller is going to go ahead
and make the decision to.

1085
00:43:43,704 --> 00:43:46,999
So, you know, there is no
and this is what's frustrating

1086
00:43:46,999 --> 00:43:48,834
to a lot of people out there.

1087
00:43:48,834 --> 00:43:52,338
There's
no set rules to how a seller has to go

1088
00:43:52,338 --> 00:43:55,341
about doing a multi offer situation,
or even do one.

1089
00:43:55,424 --> 00:43:59,094
You know, we've had situations where,
you know, the homes on the market today.

1090
00:44:00,137 --> 00:44:03,057
A great offer comes in right away

1091
00:44:03,057 --> 00:44:05,976
and we have you know 79 Jones coming up.

1092
00:44:05,976 --> 00:44:09,229
And we tell the seller like it's
probably best to let the marketplace

1093
00:44:09,229 --> 00:44:11,023
come in and do a highest and best.

1094
00:44:11,023 --> 00:44:12,858
And they just say no. You know what?
I don't want to play with this.

1095
00:44:12,858 --> 00:44:14,652
I want that first offer. Right. Whoa.

1096
00:44:14,652 --> 00:44:16,070
And then okay. You can't.

1097
00:44:16,070 --> 00:44:18,781
That's their decision. Right. And then
but they're losing money.

1098
00:44:18,781 --> 00:44:20,032
Possibly. Yeah.

1099
00:44:20,032 --> 00:44:24,620
And then there's other situations where,
you know, most situations where a seller,

1100
00:44:24,620 --> 00:44:26,205
if you got a lot of showings
coming up on interest,

1101
00:44:26,205 --> 00:44:27,289
you're going to do a highest and best

1102
00:44:27,289 --> 00:44:30,292
and try to try to give everybody
a chance to build up.

1103
00:44:30,376 --> 00:44:30,834
Right.

1104
00:44:30,834 --> 00:44:32,002
So now the buyers,

1105
00:44:32,002 --> 00:44:32,628
some buyers

1106
00:44:32,628 --> 00:44:34,463
like to wait to the last minute
to be the last one,

1107
00:44:34,463 --> 00:44:37,049
because they don't want to feel like
they're being shopped around and,

1108
00:44:37,049 --> 00:44:40,135
and others want to be first
to see if the seller will just take it.

1109
00:44:40,135 --> 00:44:43,013
Right. So
there's all this, behind the scenes stuff.

1110
00:44:43,013 --> 00:44:46,016
And because every seller is different,
the most important thing

1111
00:44:46,558 --> 00:44:50,104
that an agent can do
is ask questions to the other side

1112
00:44:50,479 --> 00:44:53,691
to learn what that seller,
yeah, is going to do.

1113
00:44:53,816 --> 00:44:57,152
Don't just assume everything
is going to be the same because it's not.

1114
00:44:57,152 --> 00:44:58,028
And that's what creates

1115
00:44:58,028 --> 00:45:00,698
a lot of frustration
against a lot of consumers really angry

1116
00:45:00,698 --> 00:45:03,701
because they feel like they're treated
unfairly just because there isn't a set.

1117
00:45:04,118 --> 00:45:05,786
What about writing?

1118
00:45:05,786 --> 00:45:09,623
I always want to live in West
Hartford is my I have a family.

1119
00:45:10,124 --> 00:45:12,209
Yeah. You butter up with a letter?

1120
00:45:12,209 --> 00:45:13,544
You guys, do you suggest that?

1121
00:45:13,544 --> 00:45:15,087
Have you fair housing stuff, too?

1122
00:45:15,087 --> 00:45:18,090
I don't let you get yourself
in a lot of trouble, or you can't do that.

1123
00:45:18,173 --> 00:45:19,007
You're not supposed to.

1124
00:45:19,007 --> 00:45:21,051
Do not really do it. Yes.

1125
00:45:21,051 --> 00:45:23,929
Oh, because it happens.
People do it all the time. And sellers,

1126
00:45:25,639 --> 00:45:28,058
some sellers will take with their heart.

1127
00:45:28,058 --> 00:45:29,226
Oh, they have a family.

1128
00:45:29,226 --> 00:45:31,145
I want a family to move into my house.

1129
00:45:31,145 --> 00:45:32,813
Well,
but again, that's a fair housing thing

1130
00:45:32,813 --> 00:45:34,857
where they can actually get themselves
into trouble.

1131
00:45:34,857 --> 00:45:36,817
The seller will get in trouble for that.

1132
00:45:36,817 --> 00:45:39,820
You could if you're discriminating

1133
00:45:39,862 --> 00:45:43,824
when you're selling, 
you know, religion etc..

1134
00:45:43,824 --> 00:45:44,366
Right?

1135
00:45:44,366 --> 00:45:47,578
So when someone's coming
in, you got to clean offer

1136
00:45:47,578 --> 00:45:50,664
on one side that's significantly better
price terms, everything.

1137
00:45:50,873 --> 00:45:53,667
Then you have an offer that's
a little less with this fancy letter.

1138
00:45:53,667 --> 00:45:55,919
Technically, you know, I'm not a lawyer.

1139
00:45:55,919 --> 00:45:58,714
This gets into lawyer stuff,
but as an agent, I advise against that

1140
00:45:58,714 --> 00:46:01,884
because, you know,
technically that, the person

1141
00:46:01,884 --> 00:46:04,928
maybe you have
a, you know, if they didn't,

1142
00:46:06,472 --> 00:46:08,182
I thought that was like the the move.

1143
00:46:08,182 --> 00:46:09,558
Yeah. No, that's the move.

1144
00:46:09,558 --> 00:46:11,602
I said, do people do it?

1145
00:46:11,602 --> 00:46:12,895
Absolutely. People do it.

1146
00:46:12,895 --> 00:46:16,648
And, you know, it's just because
they put it right in with the offer.

1147
00:46:16,648 --> 00:46:21,320
So know, I mean, you have to legally show
the seller what you have, so it's

1148
00:46:22,029 --> 00:46:25,032
you can share, but people are going to do
what they're going to do.

1149
00:46:25,199 --> 00:46:25,699
Yeah.

1150
00:46:25,699 --> 00:46:27,451
But I always advise we,

1151
00:46:27,451 --> 00:46:31,371
we play straight up and cover our basis
because you don't want a nice thing.

1152
00:46:31,371 --> 00:46:31,830
You want to do it.

1153
00:46:31,830 --> 00:46:34,124
Be in your home for a couple of years
and have something come up like that.

1154
00:46:34,124 --> 00:46:36,919
You know what I mean?
Let's, let's, let's do it right.

1155
00:46:36,919 --> 00:46:39,421
Wow. Yeah, that'd be a terrible story.

1156
00:46:39,421 --> 00:46:40,672
That'd be a worst.

1157
00:46:40,672 --> 00:46:41,965
If. Yes.

1158
00:46:41,965 --> 00:46:44,009
Can they be like,
all right. Sorry. You wrote a letter.

1159
00:46:44,009 --> 00:46:45,594
You got to go. Wow.

1160
00:46:45,594 --> 00:46:47,346
What about now?

1161
00:46:47,346 --> 00:46:49,848
I still remember
my girls are just turned 17,

1162
00:46:49,848 --> 00:46:52,893
so I've been in the house
17 years, and we, like,

1163
00:46:52,893 --> 00:46:56,188
signed the paper around the phone
speakerphone with the lady

1164
00:46:56,188 --> 00:47:00,108
and my mother in law's crying,
and it was like a huge day.

1165
00:47:00,150 --> 00:47:01,109
This was like, I'm moving.

1166
00:47:01,109 --> 00:47:03,654
We moved because of close to walk in park.

1167
00:47:03,654 --> 00:47:04,696
There was a school.

1168
00:47:04,696 --> 00:47:07,741
We had a beautiful
backyard is our first home.

1169
00:47:07,741 --> 00:47:12,538
You know, we had so much work to do, but,
you know, and then the lady was like,

1170
00:47:12,955 --> 00:47:14,331
I don't know if we talked to the woman

1171
00:47:14,331 --> 00:47:16,041
or I don't know what happened,
but it was a while ago.

1172
00:47:16,041 --> 00:47:18,377
But it was a special day.

1173
00:47:18,377 --> 00:47:21,630
So you get to be a part of everyone's
special day.

1174
00:47:21,630 --> 00:47:24,383
Like it's like someone's wedding.

1175
00:47:24,383 --> 00:47:25,676
That's their special day.

1176
00:47:25,676 --> 00:47:28,303
A birth of a child
buying a home. It's a big deal.

1177
00:47:28,303 --> 00:47:29,429
And it's for all people.

1178
00:47:29,429 --> 00:47:31,682
It's one of their biggest
financial investments.

1179
00:47:31,682 --> 00:47:34,226
So there's a lot
there's a lot riding on it, right.

1180
00:47:34,226 --> 00:47:35,477
That you want to make sure we're

1181
00:47:36,937 --> 00:47:37,688
protecting.

1182
00:47:37,688 --> 00:47:39,147
You know.

1183
00:47:39,147 --> 00:47:41,733
Now was that
did you go straight from Waterbury today.

1184
00:47:41,733 --> 00:47:43,026
So. Nope.

1185
00:47:43,026 --> 00:47:47,197
I went to southern Connecticut state,
met my wife okay.

1186
00:47:47,948 --> 00:47:50,075
We we rented an apartment in New Haven.

1187
00:47:50,075 --> 00:47:52,077
Okay. So she was teaching in Milford.

1188
00:47:52,077 --> 00:47:56,123
I was driving to Kingsbury from New Haven,
found out where having pregnant with.

1189
00:47:56,874 --> 00:47:58,417
She was having twins.

1190
00:47:58,417 --> 00:48:00,377
We're like,
all right, we're going to move.

1191
00:48:00,377 --> 00:48:04,882
We looked at Cheshire, West Hartford,
and the wife was like, number one rule.

1192
00:48:05,340 --> 00:48:07,634
We're not moving to Waterbury.

1193
00:48:07,634 --> 00:48:09,595
I said, honey, okay, I respect that.

1194
00:48:09,595 --> 00:48:11,096
And I was like,
I don't want to move to West Hartford.

1195
00:48:11,096 --> 00:48:14,600
Those guys that places
that you had messed up and you lost.

1196
00:48:14,808 --> 00:48:16,143
Yeah. And here I am.

1197
00:48:16,143 --> 00:48:18,770
But now we're both exactly very happy.

1198
00:48:18,770 --> 00:48:19,438
Very happy.

1199
00:48:19,438 --> 00:48:21,690
You weren't teaching in West Hartford
and you lived here.

1200
00:48:21,690 --> 00:48:24,443
So then I moved across the street
from my house.

1201
00:48:24,443 --> 00:48:27,446
Is doctor
K, the principal of Orchid School.

1202
00:48:27,487 --> 00:48:29,031
He's been there for 25 years.

1203
00:48:29,031 --> 00:48:31,408
It's like people at the.

1204
00:48:31,408 --> 00:48:33,744
My neighbor Kathy was like,
that's the principal.

1205
00:48:33,744 --> 00:48:35,996
You might want to talk to him,
maybe get a job.

1206
00:48:35,996 --> 00:48:38,957
I'm like, hey, doctor
K, I paint your house, I mow your lawn.

1207
00:48:38,957 --> 00:48:42,044
Joking, because I already got someone
for that, because people

1208
00:48:42,044 --> 00:48:45,130
leave me notes on cars, my car for a job.

1209
00:48:45,172 --> 00:48:48,508
Well, former teacher, former students
come back, I want to teach there.

1210
00:48:49,051 --> 00:48:51,053
And then one day, finally, he's like,
I got good news.

1211
00:48:51,053 --> 00:48:53,430
Bad news, good news.

1212
00:48:53,430 --> 00:48:54,389
I could get you an interview.

1213
00:48:54,389 --> 00:48:56,433
Bad news. I'm retiring.

1214
00:48:56,433 --> 00:48:58,310
So I was like, all right, I'll take it.

1215
00:48:58,310 --> 00:49:01,313
And I interviewed, got the job,
he retired.

1216
00:49:01,313 --> 00:49:03,899
I never really worked for him,
but he's an amazing human being.

1217
00:49:03,899 --> 00:49:05,484
Amazing principal.

1218
00:49:05,484 --> 00:49:06,443
He had twins.

1219
00:49:06,443 --> 00:49:08,654
I had twins, so we kind of connected.

1220
00:49:08,737 --> 00:49:09,404
Got me the job.

1221
00:49:09,404 --> 00:49:10,906
Him in my 13th year again.

1222
00:49:10,906 --> 00:49:12,950
My commute is one minute.

1223
00:49:12,950 --> 00:49:14,785
Best school in town I love it.

1224
00:49:14,785 --> 00:49:15,744
I'm not biased.

1225
00:49:15,744 --> 00:49:18,622
So yeah.

1226
00:49:18,622 --> 00:49:20,540
Real estate.

1227
00:49:20,540 --> 00:49:20,874
All right.

1228
00:49:20,874 --> 00:49:23,460
So do you have a podcast?

1229
00:49:23,460 --> 00:49:27,255
So, yes,
I have a podcast called Mindset Talks.

1230
00:49:27,297 --> 00:49:27,965
It's okay.

1231
00:49:27,965 --> 00:49:31,385
YouTube life, not an official podcast
where I do interviews.

1232
00:49:31,385 --> 00:49:35,430
And, as I mentioned earlier with you,
I believe

1233
00:49:35,430 --> 00:49:38,266
mindset is we'll talk about key sports.

1234
00:49:38,266 --> 00:49:39,393
People talk about me

1235
00:49:39,393 --> 00:49:41,645
and you played in the JK,
but we're talking about business.

1236
00:49:41,645 --> 00:49:45,357
Like what's going on up there
I think I think really matters.

1237
00:49:45,357 --> 00:49:45,565
You know.

1238
00:49:45,565 --> 00:49:48,568
Yeah I think a lot of people struggle.

1239
00:49:48,986 --> 00:49:50,487
We all struggle with that. Right.

1240
00:49:50,487 --> 00:49:53,532
And so like
open it up and find out what works people

1241
00:49:53,532 --> 00:49:57,995
and how we, we keep those thoughts
positive mindset talks. Yes.

1242
00:49:58,412 --> 00:50:01,790
And is that the one you have clips of
on Instagram with the mic in front of you.

1243
00:50:01,790 --> 00:50:05,002
Yeah. Hoodie tie I don't think I tie.

1244
00:50:05,043 --> 00:50:05,711
Yeah I got

1245
00:50:05,711 --> 00:50:09,840
no I was one on Pinterest with the with
the black hoodie, black hoodie, declutter.

1246
00:50:11,508 --> 00:50:11,842
You had a

1247
00:50:11,842 --> 00:50:14,845
suit and tie
on but you're talking about the interest.

1248
00:50:15,637 --> 00:50:17,889
Good news talking to agents.

1249
00:50:17,889 --> 00:50:20,434
Lighting is important. Yeah.

1250
00:50:20,434 --> 00:50:23,437
27 Amber place in Waterbury.

1251
00:50:23,645 --> 00:50:26,648
That was on the East End on December 19th.

1252
00:50:26,773 --> 00:50:28,900
Did that sell? That's still on the market.

1253
00:50:28,900 --> 00:50:32,070
That's a good buy for 24,
if anyone's interested.

1254
00:50:32,070 --> 00:50:33,697
Amber place, East End.

1255
00:50:33,697 --> 00:50:36,450
Your kids will go to Crosby and Wallace,
where I grew up.

1256
00:50:36,450 --> 00:50:37,534
Housing park? Yeah.

1257
00:50:37,534 --> 00:50:39,745
The rich was hustlin beat on one of them.

1258
00:50:39,745 --> 00:50:42,664
That was pretty cool.

1259
00:50:42,664 --> 00:50:45,667
This one was really cool,
and I thought I was like, oh,

1260
00:50:46,376 --> 00:50:50,130
A woman sold her house in December
but left the Christmas tree

1261
00:50:50,130 --> 00:50:55,469
lights up, and, you suggested
take them down or suggested put them up.

1262
00:50:55,761 --> 00:50:57,429
I said leave them. So, yeah, leave them.

1263
00:50:57,429 --> 00:51:00,015
And I'm mental ownership.

1264
00:51:00,015 --> 00:51:01,725
That person had this.

1265
00:51:01,725 --> 00:51:04,436
What I mean with people in December,
January every year, you know,

1266
00:51:05,395 --> 00:51:07,647
like if someone has to move their

1267
00:51:07,647 --> 00:51:10,358
they say people think, well, you know,
let's just wait for the snow to melt.

1268
00:51:10,358 --> 00:51:11,985
I got all these Christmas decorations up.

1269
00:51:11,985 --> 00:51:13,695
Nobody wants to see my home that way.

1270
00:51:13,695 --> 00:51:16,531
But what I learned is it actually makes it
a little more warmer.

1271
00:51:16,531 --> 00:51:16,782
Right?

1272
00:51:16,782 --> 00:51:19,785
Yeah, it makes it a little more enjoyable
to walk through.

1273
00:51:20,160 --> 00:51:23,789
So she she this lady, this is one of
the most decorated house I've ever seen.

1274
00:51:23,789 --> 00:51:25,582
It was in Essex.

1275
00:51:25,582 --> 00:51:27,542
You know, the village
there. Really nice area.

1276
00:51:27,542 --> 00:51:28,627
Has all remodeled the house.

1277
00:51:28,627 --> 00:51:30,295
And she has beautiful
Christmas decorations.

1278
00:51:30,295 --> 00:51:31,838
Like,
let's just wait till after Christmas.

1279
00:51:31,838 --> 00:51:33,090
I I'll take them all down.

1280
00:51:33,090 --> 00:51:33,840
I said, trust me.

1281
00:51:33,840 --> 00:51:36,718
Let's just leave them up.

1282
00:51:36,718 --> 00:51:37,677
Let's get the market in there.

1283
00:51:37,677 --> 00:51:40,639
If I'm wrong, we can take it off later.
But sold in a week, people.

1284
00:51:40,639 --> 00:51:44,434
The woman that bought it said, you know,
the deciding factor was that

1285
00:51:44,434 --> 00:51:46,436
I saw how it could be decorated
in the holidays.

1286
00:51:46,436 --> 00:51:49,106
And I pictured myself doing that
every year. Yeah. Right. Yeah.

1287
00:51:50,190 --> 00:51:51,900
You know, people are just more.

1288
00:51:51,900 --> 00:51:54,653
Your boy Mario largely used to sell cars.

1289
00:51:54,653 --> 00:51:55,112
Okay.

1290
00:51:55,112 --> 00:51:58,115
And the trick is,
when you're driving the guy in the car,

1291
00:51:58,323 --> 00:51:59,658
he's selling, he's selling you the car.

1292
00:51:59,658 --> 00:52:01,660
He's like, oh,
what radio stations do you like?

1293
00:52:01,660 --> 00:52:05,372
He starts presenting the radio
while you're driving.

1294
00:52:05,580 --> 00:52:08,375
So the guy's like, oh,
my radio stations are already set.

1295
00:52:08,375 --> 00:52:10,919
I feel myself comfortable in the car.

1296
00:52:10,919 --> 00:52:12,087
They saw the Christmas trees.

1297
00:52:12,087 --> 00:52:13,672
They felt comfortable.

1298
00:52:13,672 --> 00:52:15,090
Yeah. Very cool.

1299
00:52:15,090 --> 00:52:18,176
Did they did three Pilgrim
Road, West Hartford.

1300
00:52:18,176 --> 00:52:20,595
So 535.

1301
00:52:20,595 --> 00:52:23,223
We just closed Cottonwood Road, Newington.

1302
00:52:23,223 --> 00:52:25,684
That one is still under deposit
pending sale.

1303
00:52:25,684 --> 00:52:28,687
Man, you're killing it. Killing it.

1304
00:52:28,728 --> 00:52:31,982
Anything about you think we missed
about the real real estate?

1305
00:52:31,982 --> 00:52:34,860
Because we got to talk JC real quick.
We haven't flipped over that last one.

1306
00:52:34,860 --> 00:52:38,405
I think the only other thing
you know, for West Hartford,

1307
00:52:38,864 --> 00:52:41,074
if we're talking West Hartford specific
real estate,

1308
00:52:41,074 --> 00:52:44,202
I have my YouTube
channel is living in West Hartford, okay.

1309
00:52:44,286 --> 00:52:44,911
Where I

1310
00:52:46,079 --> 00:52:48,248
because we
get people from all over the country here.

1311
00:52:48,248 --> 00:52:49,541
I take them through,

1312
00:52:49,541 --> 00:52:51,084
you know, homes
that are on the market here.

1313
00:52:51,084 --> 00:52:53,211
I take them through market
update every month

1314
00:52:53,211 --> 00:52:55,172
to try to keep people up to date.

1315
00:52:55,172 --> 00:52:58,008
So even if you're not,

1316
00:52:58,008 --> 00:53:01,052
necessarily in the market, you just kind
of want to keep up to date from afar.

1317
00:53:01,303 --> 00:53:03,263
It's a great place
to go for for information.

1318
00:53:03,263 --> 00:53:04,264
All right.

1319
00:53:04,264 --> 00:53:05,098
What was that again?

1320
00:53:05,098 --> 00:53:07,475
Living in West Hartford,
living in West Hartford.

1321
00:53:07,475 --> 00:53:09,269
So after you subscribe to Feeney Talks

1322
00:53:09,269 --> 00:53:12,272
with friends, subscribe
to Living in West Hartford.

1323
00:53:12,689 --> 00:53:14,524
Let me get you one of those two.

1324
00:53:14,524 --> 00:53:16,943
Now, this is great.

1325
00:53:16,943 --> 00:53:19,821
So quickly do this squad
look, we're going to put a boom up.

1326
00:53:19,821 --> 00:53:21,156
We got a boom. You're ready for the boom.

1327
00:53:23,575 --> 00:53:25,869
Ready for the boom.

1328
00:53:25,869 --> 00:53:27,996
We got here.

1329
00:53:27,996 --> 00:53:30,415
Boom squad.

1330
00:53:30,415 --> 00:53:32,375
You know that squad? Yes.

1331
00:53:32,375 --> 00:53:33,418
It's a great group of guys.

1332
00:53:33,418 --> 00:53:36,213
You want to go left to right,
tell the squad or what do you got?

1333
00:53:36,213 --> 00:53:38,131
I say

1334
00:53:38,131 --> 00:53:41,551
okay, okay, so we got Hines Aaron.

1335
00:53:42,886 --> 00:53:43,720
Good.

1336
00:53:43,720 --> 00:53:46,264
Rich three point shooter as Aaron

1337
00:53:46,264 --> 00:53:48,934
Jeff Brand Simpson.

1338
00:53:48,934 --> 00:53:50,101
Oh, man. Good.

1339
00:53:50,101 --> 00:53:53,104
He does it all. Three bodies down low.

1340
00:53:53,313 --> 00:53:56,233
Rob and Horner.

1341
00:53:56,233 --> 00:53:58,276
Oh my God. Right. You ever play.

1342
00:53:58,276 --> 00:54:00,612
So you had Horner Rob he and Jeff.

1343
00:54:00,612 --> 00:54:03,990
That's like they call this
the Ty stop and team right here.

1344
00:54:03,990 --> 00:54:07,410
Yeah we we 
we we try to give them trouble.

1345
00:54:07,410 --> 00:54:08,787
You can only tie.

1346
00:54:08,787 --> 00:54:10,497
Woke up with a stiff neck
that day, though.

1347
00:54:10,497 --> 00:54:12,916
That's what I did.
You hear? I didn't hear it.

1348
00:54:12,916 --> 00:54:14,417
I found that out today.

1349
00:54:14,417 --> 00:54:16,086
Oh, okay. Told him I was coming on.

1350
00:54:16,086 --> 00:54:18,755
He said. Fun fact,
they beat us in the championship.

1351
00:54:18,755 --> 00:54:19,839
I woke up with a stiff neck.

1352
00:54:19,839 --> 00:54:22,092
Couldn't look up until game time.

1353
00:54:22,092 --> 00:54:23,051
No one knew that.

1354
00:54:25,136 --> 00:54:26,346
Listen, you can only hope.

1355
00:54:26,346 --> 00:54:28,473
You can only hope to slow down, right?

1356
00:54:28,473 --> 00:54:30,976
He's going to get 20 regardless.
You just hope he doesn't.

1357
00:54:30,976 --> 00:54:33,603
Yeah, but Jeff Brand's a great supporter.

1358
00:54:33,603 --> 00:54:35,397
Great friend.

1359
00:54:35,397 --> 00:54:35,855
Yeah.

1360
00:54:35,855 --> 00:54:38,525
He put together a squad together
and he's a good coach man.

1361
00:54:38,525 --> 00:54:39,359
Kept everybody.

1362
00:54:39,359 --> 00:54:41,403
He kept us all together and positive.

1363
00:54:41,403 --> 00:54:44,656
And that was a good group of guys
and really did the best.

1364
00:54:45,448 --> 00:54:47,951
Yeah, Simpson's a great guy.

1365
00:54:47,951 --> 00:54:49,744
Horner doesn't stop that. Guys.

1366
00:54:49,744 --> 00:54:52,706
Great defender, great athlete.

1367
00:54:53,498 --> 00:54:55,292
You know he can.

1368
00:54:55,292 --> 00:54:57,294
He hit a free throw though.

1369
00:54:57,294 --> 00:55:00,338
That was a
yeah they should have done the hacker.

1370
00:55:00,964 --> 00:55:02,007
Yeah I don't know.

1371
00:55:02,007 --> 00:55:04,301
Your entire team is free throws.

1372
00:55:04,301 --> 00:55:05,927
You know
we're not the best free throw throw.

1373
00:55:05,927 --> 00:55:08,930
Maybe error free throw shooter.

1374
00:55:08,930 --> 00:55:11,433
Yeah. We're not the best Jeff Brandes.

1375
00:55:11,433 --> 00:55:13,226
All right. Yeah. He's good.

1376
00:55:14,352 --> 00:55:16,354
Oh, I got some.

1377
00:55:16,354 --> 00:55:19,274
Thank you. I have a
thank you card for you.

1378
00:55:19,274 --> 00:55:21,234
So this is for Rob.

1379
00:55:21,234 --> 00:55:23,695
Rob, check it out.

1380
00:55:23,695 --> 00:55:23,945
Good.

1381
00:55:23,945 --> 00:55:25,572
Oh thank you, Curtis from Cricket press.

1382
00:55:25,572 --> 00:55:28,450
Why don't you read it to everybody I know.
All right.

1383
00:55:28,450 --> 00:55:31,453
Let's take a look here.

1384
00:55:31,745 --> 00:55:32,996
I got another one of these.

1385
00:55:32,996 --> 00:55:35,415
Oh. Okay

1386
00:55:35,415 --> 00:55:37,459
Laughs being a good friend in a podcast

1387
00:55:37,459 --> 00:55:40,462
get thanks for being a good friend
and a podcast guest.

1388
00:55:40,503 --> 00:55:43,506
Your donation was very generous
and thoughtful with gratitude.

1389
00:55:44,049 --> 00:55:45,467
There you go. There you go.

1390
00:55:45,467 --> 00:55:47,761
That's from Cricket press and I got some
thank you cards.

1391
00:55:47,761 --> 00:55:48,261
Thank you.

1392
00:55:48,261 --> 00:55:51,097
Writing a handwritten note.
I suggest every podcast.

1393
00:55:51,097 --> 00:55:53,266
Write someone a letter. Write some of the
thank you card.

1394
00:55:53,266 --> 00:55:56,269
Tell someone you're thinking of them,
not in email or text.

1395
00:55:56,269 --> 00:55:59,064
Handwritten is the way to go.
So we've help a lot of families.

1396
00:55:59,064 --> 00:56:02,067
And this is some,
thank you's that we have received.

1397
00:56:02,192 --> 00:56:06,404
Christ was born our our family is
sincerely grateful for your donation.

1398
00:56:06,404 --> 00:56:09,991
There are four people in our family
I husband, two children.

1399
00:56:09,991 --> 00:56:11,576
Thank you again.

1400
00:56:11,576 --> 00:56:12,911
That was one.

1401
00:56:12,911 --> 00:56:15,121
This was a great one. Just for my aunt.

1402
00:56:15,121 --> 00:56:17,165
Thanks for inviting us over
for Thanksgiving.

1403
00:56:17,165 --> 00:56:19,918
It was so nice to see everyone.
It was a wonderful array of food.

1404
00:56:19,918 --> 00:56:21,252
Sorry I couldn't stay for the cake.

1405
00:56:21,252 --> 00:56:23,922
Nicole did an amazing job
cooking and organizing everything

1406
00:56:23,922 --> 00:56:27,008
and that was for my Aunt
Jill and Uncle Louis, I love them.

1407
00:56:28,218 --> 00:56:28,635
This is the

1408
00:56:28,635 --> 00:56:31,805
Sons the Sunflower Kids program at Cmbc.

1409
00:56:32,430 --> 00:56:35,433
Thank you for the ongoing support
and generous donations.

1410
00:56:35,433 --> 00:56:36,351
We appreciate it.

1411
00:56:36,351 --> 00:56:41,398
The team doctor, Carrie Moss,
and a lot of other people signed it.

1412
00:56:41,398 --> 00:56:45,819
All the nursing staff
we helped with socks, shoes and like,

1413
00:56:46,319 --> 00:56:49,864
gift cards and stuff for the kids
and the nurses there.

1414
00:56:51,324 --> 00:56:54,327
Thank you, friends of Feeney,
for the thoughtful gift to blank.

1415
00:56:54,369 --> 00:56:55,537
We are so appreciate it.

1416
00:56:55,537 --> 00:56:57,497
Unexpected. Mom was so overjoyed.

1417
00:56:57,497 --> 00:56:59,916
Thank you again
and thank you for helping this family.

1418
00:56:59,916 --> 00:57:02,877
This was a Hartford teacher. Heard of us.

1419
00:57:02,877 --> 00:57:08,425
One of her students lost their dad's,
reached out, met the woman, the moms.

1420
00:57:08,466 --> 00:57:10,301
She was so thankful crying.

1421
00:57:10,301 --> 00:57:11,886
But thank you notes go a long way.

1422
00:57:11,886 --> 00:57:15,223
So there's my thank you for you
write someone to thank you card.

1423
00:57:15,348 --> 00:57:16,141
Be a good friend.

1424
00:57:17,308 --> 00:57:18,268
Thank you for being a guest.

1425
00:57:18,268 --> 00:57:21,271
This is Sally and Bob's.
You ever been? Yes.

1426
00:57:21,521 --> 00:57:22,981
It's a gift card for you.

1427
00:57:22,981 --> 00:57:23,523
Great. Bob.

1428
00:57:23,523 --> 00:57:26,526
Thank you.

1429
00:57:26,943 --> 00:57:28,319
Oh, kind of a couple events here.

1430
00:57:28,319 --> 00:57:30,238
Oh, bring the kids.

1431
00:57:30,238 --> 00:57:31,322
February 21st.

1432
00:57:31,322 --> 00:57:34,325
It's a Saturday, 30 bucks. It's 90s day.

1433
00:57:34,325 --> 00:57:35,994
We're doing a group outing.

1434
00:57:35,994 --> 00:57:37,954
We did 100 friends last year.

1435
00:57:37,954 --> 00:57:40,623
We'd love to have you pink flamingos
given us,

1436
00:57:40,623 --> 00:57:43,960
had neon headbands and wristbands
right next to our office.

1437
00:57:43,960 --> 00:57:46,296
They're great. Pink flamingo.

1438
00:57:46,296 --> 00:57:46,754
Oh, yeah?

1439
00:57:46,754 --> 00:57:49,174
Yeah, you're over by Luna pizza.

1440
00:57:49,174 --> 00:57:49,632
Yeah, there's.

1441
00:57:49,632 --> 00:57:53,011
We have to offset one by one,
but next to win a pizza pink flamingo.

1442
00:57:53,011 --> 00:57:55,346
And one for me to have in our.

1443
00:57:55,346 --> 00:57:57,182
Oh, cool, cool.

1444
00:57:57,182 --> 00:58:01,519
And then subscribe to the newsletter and,

1445
00:58:03,271 --> 00:58:04,439
subscribe to the newsletter.

1446
00:58:04,439 --> 00:58:06,399
I lost my train of thought and podcast.

1447
00:58:07,609 --> 00:58:10,612
Oh, do you ever, I lost my
uncle this week, so I just want to share.

1448
00:58:10,612 --> 00:58:13,615
Do you have a special uncle
that means a lot to you?

1449
00:58:14,782 --> 00:58:18,369
For that, you know, I mean, I'm sorry.

1450
00:58:18,495 --> 00:58:19,746
Yeah, yeah.

1451
00:58:19,746 --> 00:58:23,458
He had health challenges of recent, but,
he's in a better place.

1452
00:58:23,458 --> 00:58:25,627
And, just thinking of Uncle Joel.

1453
00:58:25,627 --> 00:58:27,003
He got me into wrestling.

1454
00:58:27,003 --> 00:58:28,922
I still remember watching Hulk

1455
00:58:28,922 --> 00:58:32,467
Hogan slam Andre the Giant, WrestleMania
three, and Naugatuck, Connecticut.

1456
00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:35,803
We had to get the cable box from Comcast,

1457
00:58:36,095 --> 00:58:39,807
drive it to Naugatuck to watch
WrestleMania 50 bucks and bring it back.

1458
00:58:39,933 --> 00:58:41,893
Just thinking of Uncle Joel.

1459
00:58:41,893 --> 00:58:44,145
He was the smartest guy I knew.

1460
00:58:44,145 --> 00:58:46,648
He he had the,

1461
00:58:46,648 --> 00:58:49,692
like, almost Albert
Einstein equations on his chalkboard.

1462
00:58:49,692 --> 00:58:53,363
He just read every book
and just so smart and, he's missed.

1463
00:58:53,363 --> 00:58:54,906
So I just want to.

1464
00:58:54,906 --> 00:58:57,033
We're going
to dedicate this podcast to Uncle Joel.

1465
00:58:59,911 --> 00:59:00,662
Anything I missed?

1466
00:59:00,662 --> 00:59:02,580
Any recommendations?

1467
00:59:02,580 --> 00:59:05,583
Final closing thoughts?

1468
00:59:06,376 --> 00:59:07,085
Anything?

1469
00:59:07,085 --> 00:59:09,128
Anything. Oh, my gosh.

1470
00:59:09,128 --> 00:59:11,965
Well, not a recommendation, but I guess

1471
00:59:11,965 --> 00:59:14,968
just,

1472
00:59:16,177 --> 00:59:17,971
an appreciation for what you do.

1473
00:59:17,971 --> 00:59:20,974
Like I was thinking on the way over here,

1474
00:59:21,474 --> 00:59:22,976
like, the amount of energy and effort

1475
00:59:22,976 --> 00:59:26,312
it takes for you,
your teacher, your dad, you know, to.

1476
00:59:27,146 --> 00:59:30,149
As a business owner, I know what it takes

1477
00:59:30,149 --> 00:59:32,277
to, like, run a business,
get the business out there.

1478
00:59:32,277 --> 00:59:34,529
Right.
And you're doing that every day for these.

1479
00:59:34,529 --> 00:59:37,323
For these kids. Like the marketing,
the podcast.

1480
00:59:37,323 --> 00:59:42,036
Like, all this takes time and you're here
and you're present during it.

1481
00:59:42,245 --> 00:59:44,289
That's that's amazing. Thanks, man.

1482
00:59:44,289 --> 00:59:46,708
Thanks a lot of good stuff
I appreciate it.

1483
00:59:46,708 --> 00:59:49,711
Let me know. Cool.
Oh what did you just say?

1484
00:59:49,711 --> 00:59:51,921
Anything I can do to support.
Do you want to buy a winter hat?

1485
00:59:53,590 --> 00:59:55,425
We got two styles of winter hats.

1486
00:59:55,425 --> 00:59:57,844
We got the Feeny beanie,
and we got the cuff one.

1487
00:59:57,844 --> 00:59:59,429
I think I'm more off the cuff.

1488
00:59:59,429 --> 01:00:02,098
20 bucks. PayPal, cash app, Venmo.

1489
01:00:02,098 --> 01:00:03,558
But we appreciate you. Get them out.

1490
01:00:03,558 --> 01:00:05,435
We we have a square app.

1491
01:00:05,435 --> 01:00:06,686
You heard it here, folks. Rob.

1492
01:00:06,686 --> 01:00:08,104
He's buying one.

1493
01:00:08,104 --> 01:00:09,897
And we got a couple guests
that want to meet you.

1494
01:00:09,897 --> 01:00:12,567
Ryan.

1495
01:00:12,567 --> 01:00:15,278
Come on over at eight.

1496
01:00:15,278 --> 01:00:16,821
This is Ryan soft wash.

1497
01:00:16,821 --> 01:00:18,823
Ryan McGinnis is in the building.

1498
01:00:18,823 --> 01:00:20,366
And my friend Addie from Mrs.

1499
01:00:20,366 --> 01:00:22,827
Green's class.

1500
01:00:22,827 --> 01:00:24,621
This could be a good connection. Yeah.

1501
01:00:24,621 --> 01:00:25,622
Great to meet you.

1502
01:00:25,622 --> 01:00:26,956
Yeah, you really do. Right.

1503
01:00:26,956 --> 01:00:28,499
You guys all right?

1504
01:00:28,499 --> 01:00:28,833
Come on.

1505
01:00:28,833 --> 01:00:31,252
Come on to Mike
and tell us about your favorite teacher.

1506
01:00:31,252 --> 01:00:33,296
Who's your favorite teacher?

1507
01:00:33,296 --> 01:00:34,172
That's green.

1508
01:00:34,172 --> 01:00:36,215
Mrs. green, go ahead,

1509
01:00:38,051 --> 01:00:39,260
Miss Green.

1510
01:00:39,260 --> 01:00:40,720
Mrs. green, I know Mrs. Green.

1511
01:00:40,720 --> 01:00:42,347
Do you know, I miss

1512
01:00:42,347 --> 01:00:44,724
I work with her husband.

1513
01:00:44,724 --> 01:00:45,558
Mrs..

1514
01:00:45,558 --> 01:00:47,602
What's what's so good about Mrs. Green?

1515
01:00:47,602 --> 01:00:49,687
She's nice.

1516
01:00:49,687 --> 01:00:52,023
Did she go to your show,

1517
01:00:52,023 --> 01:00:54,275
miss? Yeah. Family with.

1518
01:00:54,275 --> 01:00:57,278
She went to the Nutcracker? No.

1519
01:00:57,820 --> 01:01:00,698
You weren't in the Nutcracker? No.

1520
01:01:00,698 --> 01:01:01,115
So, Mr.

1521
01:01:01,115 --> 01:01:04,077
Green peanut show you a Christmas Carol?

1522
01:01:04,494 --> 01:01:05,411
Christmas carol.

1523
01:01:05,411 --> 01:01:08,414
Oh. It's close.
Nutcracker Christmas carol.

1524
01:01:08,915 --> 01:01:09,540
All right.

1525
01:01:09,540 --> 01:01:12,543
Christmas. See, I was on to something.

1526
01:01:12,627 --> 01:01:15,338
This is their first time
in a cooking wine.

1527
01:01:15,338 --> 01:01:16,881
Oh, yes.

1528
01:01:16,881 --> 01:01:19,884
I'm like, this is an adult store.

1529
01:01:20,176 --> 01:01:23,179
I said cooking no cooking oil, boy.

1530
01:01:23,179 --> 01:01:27,475
Oh, yeah, we cook with oil.

1531
01:01:28,226 --> 01:01:29,852
Did you ask my sweetie
who he's talking to?

1532
01:01:29,852 --> 01:01:32,313
Who's your favorite PE teacher,

1533
01:01:32,313 --> 01:01:33,940
Mr. Joseph?

1534
01:01:33,940 --> 01:01:37,276
Mr. Joseph,
my guy Rob was a PE teacher too.

1535
01:01:38,361 --> 01:01:38,861
We're going to

1536
01:01:38,861 --> 01:01:42,448
we're going to connect Rob and Ryan, 
want to say be a good friend on three.

1537
01:01:43,408 --> 01:01:45,743
We're going to count to three. All right.

1538
01:01:45,743 --> 01:01:47,995
On three of say
be a good friend. One, two, three.

1539
01:01:47,995 --> 01:01:49,288
Be a good friend.