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All right, all right.

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Feeney talks with friends. Episode 131.

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We're here with a good friend.
How are you doing, John?

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I'm doing well.
How are you? Nice to see you.

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Thank you for having me on.

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John Lyons, the local weatherman.

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So, something like that.

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And and many titles.

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Writer,

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car enthusiasts, weatherman.

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Dad, girl. Dad, somebody.

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Somebody has been Google
searching Google, Google, Google,

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what's going on? How are you, sir?

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Pretty good, pretty good.

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My name is Eric Feeney,
founder and president, Friends of Feeney.

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Our mission is to help

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children and families that need assistance
after heartbreak or tragedy.

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And I use this podcast.

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Feeney talks with friends
and I talk to wonderful people

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that do great things in the community.

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And John, you've been in the West
Hartford community for how long now?

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20 years and four months.

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20 years and four months.
You know, for a fact.

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How did you know that? Well,
we moved to town maybe three months.

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We moved to town on December 22nd, 2004,

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and I almost burnt my house
down on December 25th, 2004.

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So I met, that's how I met the West
Hartford Fire Department.

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So you got it down pat?

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Yes, yes.

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So good fire department here
because they saved your house.

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They they absolutely saved my house.

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Very lucky.

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So, yes, shout out to West Hartford.

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Bravest. Absolutely.

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So we had, Marsha McCurdy. McCurdy.

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She was one.

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She was in the crew that saved my house.
Come on.

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Yeah,
she really was, former podcast guest.

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Go back and check it out. Yeah.

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That's great.

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To review episode
130 Ali Baluchi blue Jean creative.

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She does website.

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She does the Friends of Jeannie website.

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And she knows your daughters.

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She said one fosters
dogs and one is involved with outer space.

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Yes, yes. That's amazing. Yes. Wow.

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Yeah.

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My oldest, went to work for a
not for profit that sends people to space,

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and they've sent 2 or 3 people to space,
I think. Wow.

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And then she

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she did that for about seven years,
and now she's doing personal coaching.

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So which is not something I could do.

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But she's good at it and making a living
and not asking me for money.

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So something's working.

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Hey, that's all that really matters
right now.

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And then the day. That's right.

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John and Sydney is, She's a yes.

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She's a dog, foster.
She bought a house here in town.

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She scrimped and saved.

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And, you know,

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you know, what do they call that
loan poor or house poor,

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whatever they call house poor,
I guess the term.

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But, she, bought a house near in town,
and then my son just graduated college

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last spring, and he's here in town working
for a competitor of the establishment.

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We're sitting out here, so I.

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We shall not say their name so.

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Well,

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speaking of which, we're here
at Maximum Beverage.

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This is 340 North Main Street.

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Shout out to our sponsors.

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Thank you for hosting
us. Maximum Beverage.

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And thank you to our podcast host
Direct Line Media.

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This is Stephania and Dave

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there have there in 11
Sycamore Way in Branford, Connecticut.

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And we have some other podcast guests.
Maybe you could do this too.

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When I point to them,
you could point to them

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because we have that new logo
now we're going to add this.

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We're going to try it.

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If I point hearing
like Keating Agency float

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41 The Fix, Ivy Luna Pizza golf log or

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look at this people's Bank, Parkville
Management and West Hartford lock.

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You're going to need another direction.

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Exactly.

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So, Scarecrow, this. Exactly.

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So with our, being the local weatherman,
what inspired you to do that?

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How did you get into that?

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So I've always been
a little bit of a weather nerd.

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I did not majored in college,
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I'm trying

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to remember, but post on my personal page,
my personal Facebook page.

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I resisted Facebook for a long time.

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I was a late adopter,
but late puts me around 2010 or 11.

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I probably joined

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and so I started posting
weather to my page

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and that caught the attention
of Ronni Newton.

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Nice.

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And Ronnie was at patch at the time, and
she said, were you do weather for patch?

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I said, sure, I'll take more distribution.
What the heck?

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And I did one report and they shut the
they shut the place down and fired Ronnie.

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So we all like to think it's
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But by then I kind of caught the eye.

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Patty I'll be,
Who have you had power Patty yet?

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Yep. Okay, good. Patty.

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Where we got Patty?

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I'll be episode 113.

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Look at,
you know, and I'm going to start. Jenny.

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No names that you have pursued. 29.

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Oh, we're going to have some fun
with, numbers here. Okay.

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That'll that'll happen later in our fourth
hour of broadcast.

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We'll we'll, we'll get into the numbers.

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But, so Patty, said, hey,
why don't you start doing it

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on the neighbors and friends page?

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So I did. You know, Patty's great.

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She's been very good to me,
letting me do it.

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Give me the latitude to do it.

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And, you know, Patty's a big part.

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So, Ronnie, big part of a lot of stories
I imagine we're going to

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talk about tonight.

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Because you already mentioned the article
I wrote, which they're

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they're both a big part
of that article, too.

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But we'll we'll get into that.
But very cool. Patty.

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Yeah. Wonderful.

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She's instrumental
on allowing people to get help

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when needed or care for their home
or their children.

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So there's a, there's a
she's got a great, platform.

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It is I'll say this a lot tonight
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sure going to talk about a lot of people
that do this in town.

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She does a lot for the town, for nothing,
meaning for free.

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She does not get paid
and is strictly volunteer.

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And, she's one of a whole list of people
who just gives and gives

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and gives and gives to our community.

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And, it
she needs to be recognized for that.

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Yeah. Patty. Yeah.

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She was the honoree of the Park Road
parade once. Yes.

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Yeah, I actually I'm going to take crowd
nominated her.

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I think a couple other folks did too.

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And I brought I brought a car up for her,

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that she was going to ride in.

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It was all set.
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We couldn't get the top to go down,
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And we ended up not having the the car
on the parade because the top broke.

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But yeah, that was exciting.
That was a lot of fun.

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I'm sad the Park Road parade is no more.

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It just seemed like
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And, but it was such a fun event,

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you know, it was just it was kind of cool
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tied to the Park Road community,
but it was tied to nothing from a holiday.

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Yeah, perspective.

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And I think that made it more
it was nicer that way.

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It was definitely special.

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Like, yeah, the first Saturday in October.

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Yeah.

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Almost to start back to school or,
you know, kick off, clean up the leaves.

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Yeah. Clean up or autumn.

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And they always seem to catch good colors
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leaf colors but bad bad bad weather.

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Certainly the last few friends of Feeney
won best float a couple times this year.

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So congratulations.

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Okay.

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We're excited and we're sad that to see it
got to see it go.

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But I we used and I know

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I'm not supposed to be interviewing you
but I can't help myself.

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Will you be bringing the float
to the Memorial Day parade?

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Absolutely. We will look for that. Yeah.

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So yep.

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And we'll have an after party
at Luna Pizza, please.

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You know what?

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I, we
we had a discussion before we went live.

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Not only pizza. It's good thing
we're not six.

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I'd be eating while I'm talking. So.

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Yeah. So go back and check out 130
we just hosted.

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Allie was her podcast was at Luna Pizza.

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She does the website and social media
for Luna Pizza.

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Okay, so we hosted it there. Okay.

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Luna Pizza is a great sponsor
and supporter of Friends of Feeney.

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So yeah, that's a quick parade.

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Parkville Park Road is pretty quick.

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Yeah. So show up, right?

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Yeah. Well, eighth of a mile,
maybe the route if that.

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But but the Hartford parade, we
we just did the Hartford Saint Patrick's

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Day parade. That's quite a parade.
Yeah, that's a big parade.

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My calves were pretty burning
at the end of that one.

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It's been a long time since I've been to
it because, you know, work

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and things tend to conflict, but, it's,
it's my work.

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I do a lot of weekend travel.

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That's part of the challenge
with what I do.

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I do a lot of weekend travel. So.

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And I'm around during the week to annoy.
What is your job?

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So I, I do a lot of cars.

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Work? Yeah. Vintage cars.

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Somebody.

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It's funny, somebody texted me a referral,
I signed this. Yeah.

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John Lane is a broker, and I'm like,
no, no, no, no, I don't broker.

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No. It's a it's illegal.
And B, I don't do that.

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And but it's no, but I, I consult.

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So if, you know, God forbid,
somebody in your life died

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and they had a collection of classic cars,
I sit down and consult

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with them on the best way
to sell those cars for maximum money.

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I don't do probate.

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That's for, you know,
that's for probate judges.

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But, but I can.

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I know all the ins and outs of title work
and auction law and all of that.

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So that's what I do.

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Yeah. So what's concourse,

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What's that?

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Okay. Now classic.

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Give me give me a text.

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Okay. Well, yeah,
that's exactly what it is.

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Yeah, yeah.

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So, I founded the I'll explain that and.

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Okay. I don't know.

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So you're gonna have to give me

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more context on the notes,
but are you looking at Newport?

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Concord, or what are you looking at?

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I just have to.

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I'm trying
to, New England, Concord, new charities.

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Yeah.

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So what what what I did,
and when I left corporate America in 2004,

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I wanted to do something to give back.

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And I didn't know anybody.

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So I decided to have an event in Hartford,

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the Hartford Concord Elegance, which is a

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I used to know the translation,
but it's basically a display of elegance.

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And cars are judged and all.

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And, you know, somebody sold me
on Hartford being the rising star and,

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you know, worst,
most money ever lost in my life

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and the worst one
I've ever lost in my life.

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I think we got 100 attendees
to a show that we budgeted.

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10,000 attendees.

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You know, I don't want to, so I won't.

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I won't go too far down that rabbit hole,
get myself in trouble.

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So the next year, we moved it to Newport
and, Newport.

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Still running
today? I'm not involved with that.

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I'm divested, but it's, it's, Newport
was a huge success, and it just took off.

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And, it's been a great it's
been a great 20 year run now.

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So, yeah, a lot of interesting stories
not relating to West Hartford, but,

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you know, you get involved
with, Preservation Society in Newport

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County and that's, you know, there's
no more political organization.

241
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And you'll learn a lot about politics,
learn a lot about,

242
00:09:35,107 --> 00:09:36,976
you know, swimming with sharks.

243
00:09:36,976 --> 00:09:39,979
And there was a whole bunch of ex
Clinton administration,

244
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officials that were on the board of,

245
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Preservation

246
00:09:45,351 --> 00:09:48,854
Society of Newport County
when I was doing a show up there.

247
00:09:48,854 --> 00:09:51,857
So it was it was know
the Tennis Hall of Fame is in Newport.

248
00:09:52,024 --> 00:09:53,426
Yeah, the Tennis Hall of Fame.

249
00:09:53,426 --> 00:09:56,462
And then you've got the all train
car museum, which now owns the show.

250
00:09:56,929 --> 00:09:58,097
Newport Newport's.

251
00:09:58,097 --> 00:10:00,032
You know, we're not here
to talk about Newport, but it's beautiful.

252
00:10:00,032 --> 00:10:02,835
I, you know,
I like to get up there whenever I can.

253
00:10:02,835 --> 00:10:05,304
Is he
is he a Newport guy? Okay? Yep. Yeah.

254
00:10:05,304 --> 00:10:07,206
So who else? Yeah. Newport.

255
00:10:07,206 --> 00:10:07,807
Great place.

256
00:10:07,807 --> 00:10:10,543
Yeah, a lot of a lot of West
Hartford folks who do get up there.

257
00:10:10,543 --> 00:10:12,211
We have very close friends that,

258
00:10:12,211 --> 00:10:13,446
you know, lived in West Hartford,

259
00:10:13,446 --> 00:10:16,015
then bought a summer home,
and now they've migrated

260
00:10:16,015 --> 00:10:17,416
and now they're living
full time in Newport.

261
00:10:17,416 --> 00:10:18,618
They sold their West Hartford home,

262
00:10:18,618 --> 00:10:20,620
but we still see them every year
when we get up.

263
00:10:20,620 --> 00:10:24,023
So they have a cape,
the kite store, do they?

264
00:10:24,390 --> 00:10:24,690
Okay.

265
00:10:27,293 --> 00:10:29,595
Like, the
piers that you can walk out on the beach.

266
00:10:29,595 --> 00:10:30,396
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah.

267
00:10:30,396 --> 00:10:32,665
Oh, yeah. It's just beautiful, fun. Fair.
Oh, yeah.

268
00:10:32,665 --> 00:10:35,668
Maybe that's not Newport.

269
00:10:35,768 --> 00:10:38,270
I thought they had a clock tower
designed by. No.

270
00:10:38,270 --> 00:10:40,473
Okay, that's P-Town in P-Town.

271
00:10:40,473 --> 00:10:41,941
Yeah. Provincetown does. Yeah.

272
00:10:41,941 --> 00:10:45,344
Has that built by the same guy
who built the Waterbury clock tower.

273
00:10:45,478 --> 00:10:46,345
Oh fun fact.

274
00:10:46,345 --> 00:10:47,113
Okay, there we go.

275
00:10:47,113 --> 00:10:50,650
Waterbury, hometown Waterbury, friends
of Feeney where you can go to learn

276
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so you know it.

277
00:10:53,686 --> 00:10:54,020
Oh yeah.

278
00:10:54,020 --> 00:10:56,756
Back to so yeah. Auto dealerships.

279
00:10:56,756 --> 00:10:58,190
So you have an eye for cars.

280
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You just know like you can price it.

281
00:11:00,960 --> 00:11:03,229
I can price that. I'm wrong a lot.

282
00:11:03,229 --> 00:11:06,198
It's tricky because the market, you know,
cut off of the sale.

283
00:11:06,198 --> 00:11:11,537
So, yeah, basically I get a consultancy
fee based on a lot of different factors.

284
00:11:12,772 --> 00:11:14,640
Rarely I take on live clients.

285
00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:17,376
I usually my clients are normally

286
00:11:17,376 --> 00:11:20,179
in the netherworld or in the next world,
or whenever I call it.

287
00:11:20,179 --> 00:11:21,247
Yes, on a live.

288
00:11:21,247 --> 00:11:24,250
Yeah. And, but that's how it works. And.

289
00:11:24,283 --> 00:11:25,051
Yeah, it's.

290
00:11:25,051 --> 00:11:27,653
You think, you know, but,
you know, the car

291
00:11:27,653 --> 00:11:31,157
market is very sensitive,
so it's got kind of two.

292
00:11:31,757 --> 00:11:32,692
I don't know how to describe that.

293
00:11:32,692 --> 00:11:34,894
I don't think I've ever tried
to describe this before. There's.

294
00:11:34,894 --> 00:11:39,231
So you get the economy right, the economy
goes up, the economy goes down, whatever.

295
00:11:39,699 --> 00:11:44,637
But with cars you also get
what's in vogue, what's not in vogue,

296
00:11:44,637 --> 00:11:48,407
and recognition of what is truly great
and what's not great.

297
00:11:48,407 --> 00:11:53,045
So like 20 years ago, 2005 six,
right before the Great Recession,

298
00:11:53,846 --> 00:11:57,483
wood bodied cars,
like they call them woody wagons

299
00:11:57,483 --> 00:12:00,686
from like 1930s and 40s for like
all the rage, you can name your price.

300
00:12:01,120 --> 00:12:06,559
And then around the turn of the decade,
2010 or so, that market changed.

301
00:12:06,625 --> 00:12:09,662
And yeah, maybe it changed
due to the Great Recession,

302
00:12:09,995 --> 00:12:13,265
but it hasn't come back at all
while everything else has come back.

303
00:12:13,265 --> 00:12:16,736
So we've you saw it a submarket
within the collector car

304
00:12:17,036 --> 00:12:21,273
market change kind of permanently,
which is heartbreaking.

305
00:12:21,273 --> 00:12:23,476
I love Woody, so beautiful cars and,

306
00:12:23,476 --> 00:12:24,977
I don't know,
maybe maybe you have your staff

307
00:12:24,977 --> 00:12:27,580
pull a photo of one,
or I can send you one. One word.

308
00:12:27,580 --> 00:12:28,114
Yeah. What is it?

309
00:12:29,115 --> 00:12:30,883
Woody wagon, like, you know, pulling back.

310
00:12:30,883 --> 00:12:33,419
Yeah. What, are you lagging? Yeah.

311
00:12:33,419 --> 00:12:35,521
You know Ford. Woody at the Woodside.

312
00:12:35,521 --> 00:12:36,021
Yeah. Correct.

313
00:12:36,021 --> 00:12:36,489
Woodside. Like.

314
00:12:36,489 --> 00:12:39,091
But don't think like 1970 as well.

315
00:12:39,091 --> 00:12:41,994
No, no. Not that I know this is actual
wood. Gotcha.

316
00:12:41,994 --> 00:12:42,661
Yeah yeah yeah.

317
00:12:42,661 --> 00:12:48,434
Die knock was started in about 1948
and went on I'm talking pre 1948.

318
00:12:48,434 --> 00:12:49,735
Gotcha. Yeah.

319
00:12:49,735 --> 00:12:52,204
So how many cars do you own?

320
00:12:52,204 --> 00:12:54,039
You know, sorry, I just did the count.

321
00:12:54,039 --> 00:12:56,609
Just because for insurance,
I have 11 cars.

322
00:12:56,609 --> 00:12:57,676
Collector cars. Right.

323
00:12:57,676 --> 00:12:59,745
11 collector car, 11 collector cars.

324
00:12:59,745 --> 00:13:00,880
Yeah, yeah.

325
00:13:00,880 --> 00:13:02,548
When you store them, orange.

326
00:13:02,548 --> 00:13:04,383
Mostly in orange, Connecticut.

327
00:13:04,383 --> 00:13:07,920
I've got a couple out in Auburn, Indiana,
that are getting ready for an auction

328
00:13:07,920 --> 00:13:09,622
that's going to be out there next month.

329
00:13:09,622 --> 00:13:12,324
But, you know, they photograph them
and catalog them and all that.

330
00:13:12,324 --> 00:13:14,727
So, all right, let's play a game. Okay.

331
00:13:14,727 --> 00:13:17,163
Called first, last best worst. Okay.

332
00:13:17,163 --> 00:13:21,033
Your first car, your last car,
your best car and your worst car.

333
00:13:21,767 --> 00:13:23,135
Okay.

334
00:13:23,135 --> 00:13:26,739
Well,
my first car I bought from a blind woman.

335
00:13:28,140 --> 00:13:28,941
I was in high school.

336
00:13:28,941 --> 00:13:30,242
I did my license, yet

337
00:13:30,242 --> 00:13:33,212
I had a wicked stepmother
who did not want me to get my license.

338
00:13:33,212 --> 00:13:35,915
And, of course,
I was not very accepting of that.

339
00:13:35,915 --> 00:13:38,617
So I bought a car anyway and drove it
anyway.

340
00:13:38,617 --> 00:13:41,620
And, but it was 1966 Dodge Dart,

341
00:13:42,021 --> 00:13:45,191
four door sedan, 225 slant six engine.

342
00:13:45,691 --> 00:13:48,694
And, that car was more rust than metal.

343
00:13:48,894 --> 00:13:52,231
A car lasted me five years and,

344
00:13:52,331 --> 00:13:55,367
I sold it to my roommate and erect it
three days after I sold it to him,

345
00:13:55,401 --> 00:13:59,672
I was heartbroken,
but my first car was a 1988 Dodge Dart.

346
00:13:59,672 --> 00:14:00,940
Okay.

347
00:14:00,940 --> 00:14:02,508
88. Okay, that's the small one.

348
00:14:02,508 --> 00:14:04,910
The gas miser. Yeah, a little tiny.

349
00:14:04,910 --> 00:14:06,712
Yeah, a little, little tiny.
Yeah, a little tiny.

350
00:14:06,712 --> 00:14:09,081
You would have been a real fuel miser.

351
00:14:09,081 --> 00:14:11,250
Yeah, it would have been like 40 miles
a gallon. 88.

352
00:14:11,250 --> 00:14:12,985
Completely different car, I'm sure.

353
00:14:12,985 --> 00:14:14,820
Yeah, yeah, they they evolved a lot.

354
00:14:14,820 --> 00:14:15,120
All right.

355
00:14:15,120 --> 00:14:17,957
So first,
what was the best worst and last.

356
00:14:17,957 --> 00:14:19,592
Yeah. Okay. So best

357
00:14:21,493 --> 00:14:23,729
I'm going to go daily driver here
because it's just

358
00:14:23,729 --> 00:14:26,732
it's like picking among your kids
when you talk about the classics.

359
00:14:28,000 --> 00:14:29,869
But I, I had so I had

360
00:14:29,869 --> 00:14:32,872
I was doing a lot of work in Newport and,

361
00:14:33,572 --> 00:14:37,476
they part of the deal was like, you know,
I had a good budget for a good car,

362
00:14:37,743 --> 00:14:42,214
so I bought, a, a Genesis G90.

363
00:14:43,382 --> 00:14:44,383
Best car on the road.

364
00:14:44,383 --> 00:14:47,119
If you're looking for a car
that's a luxury car.

365
00:14:47,119 --> 00:14:48,354
Best car on the road.

366
00:14:48,354 --> 00:14:50,222
They still make them.
They're fantastic cars.

367
00:14:50,222 --> 00:14:51,624
No one's ever heard of a good model.

368
00:14:51,624 --> 00:14:53,659
What's the Genesis G90?

369
00:14:53,659 --> 00:14:55,628
Genesis is the upmarket brand.

370
00:14:55,628 --> 00:14:57,296
Never heard of it.

371
00:14:57,296 --> 00:14:58,931
They're fantastic cars.

372
00:14:58,931 --> 00:15:01,934
So Genesis is the upmarket
brand of Hyundai. Kia?

373
00:15:02,368 --> 00:15:04,303
Okay, Hyundai and Kia are fabulous cars.

374
00:15:04,303 --> 00:15:06,572
They're fantastic cars.

375
00:15:06,572 --> 00:15:07,873
People like to judge.

376
00:15:09,008 --> 00:15:10,976
I judge cars for the merits.

377
00:15:10,976 --> 00:15:13,979
And Hyundai and Kia,
they make fantastic safety, durability.

378
00:15:13,979 --> 00:15:15,447
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

379
00:15:15,447 --> 00:15:17,483
Just when you put the whole package
together, it's just great cars.

380
00:15:17,483 --> 00:15:19,218
That's the girls.

381
00:15:19,218 --> 00:15:20,486
Yeah. With their permit.

382
00:15:20,486 --> 00:15:23,088
Okay. Looking for a car? Okay.

383
00:15:23,088 --> 00:15:23,923
Maybe we'll finish.

384
00:15:23,923 --> 00:15:25,324
Yeah, we can, we can chat.

385
00:15:25,324 --> 00:15:27,626
We can chat in a non podcast.

386
00:15:27,626 --> 00:15:30,462
I'm happy to help you on and on podcast
environment. See if we can find you.

387
00:15:30,462 --> 00:15:33,299
You're not going to buy him G90. Yes.
Because no no Genesis but yeah.

388
00:15:33,299 --> 00:15:33,966
No. Yeah.

389
00:15:33,966 --> 00:15:39,438
So but so
so the G90 did come out on 2018 and

390
00:15:40,639 --> 00:15:41,540
nobody knew what it was.

391
00:15:41,540 --> 00:15:43,208
They weren't selling.

392
00:15:43,208 --> 00:15:47,846
So I went to a dealer and the sticker on
it was 76 six for the car I wanted,

393
00:15:48,147 --> 00:15:52,051
and I bought it for 53,000,
because there were so many discounts.

394
00:15:52,651 --> 00:15:54,920
Factory at 10,000, the dealer 10,000.

395
00:15:54,920 --> 00:15:56,755
And then there was some other big discount
on the car.

396
00:15:56,755 --> 00:15:57,990
Remember what it was?

397
00:15:57,990 --> 00:16:01,493
I drove it, got rid of it during Covid
and got my money back and then some

398
00:16:01,493 --> 00:16:02,661
because the market had.

399
00:16:02,661 --> 00:16:06,231
But now, unfortunately,
the Genesis G90 is now 110 grand, which

400
00:16:06,231 --> 00:16:07,499
I would never spend on a car.

401
00:16:08,701 --> 00:16:10,235
Not certainly a daily driver.

402
00:16:10,235 --> 00:16:14,673
And they are, people now recognize
what great cars they are

403
00:16:14,673 --> 00:16:17,142
and they're really hard to get.
Not a daily driver.

404
00:16:17,142 --> 00:16:19,011
Is this the car that you drive
every day? Yep.

405
00:16:19,011 --> 00:16:19,878
That's just to determine.

406
00:16:19,878 --> 00:16:23,515
So that's so that's first best, worst.

407
00:16:24,049 --> 00:16:25,050
I two really bad ones.

408
00:16:25,050 --> 00:16:28,220
So one of my goals in life
I always wanted to own a Jaguar.

409
00:16:28,253 --> 00:16:33,359
By the time I was 35 and I was working
in corporate America, I was doing

410
00:16:34,860 --> 00:16:38,130
well enough,
but probably not to justify the Jaguar.

411
00:16:38,130 --> 00:16:43,035
I was 1999, I was about to turn 35
and my wife approved it.

412
00:16:43,035 --> 00:16:46,438
Jaguar reintroduced
the S type Google search in 1999.

413
00:16:46,438 --> 00:16:47,339
S type

414
00:16:47,339 --> 00:16:50,843
they came out in the middle of the summer
and they were not ready for prime time.

415
00:16:50,843 --> 00:16:54,046
And I went right at least one
and what a crap show.

416
00:16:54,079 --> 00:16:55,180
It was terrible.

417
00:16:55,180 --> 00:16:56,248
Oh, lemon law.

418
00:16:56,248 --> 00:16:58,217
Yeah. The car ended up being lemon law.

419
00:16:58,217 --> 00:16:59,518
They ended up handing me another one.

420
00:16:59,518 --> 00:17:02,521
I took it to a dealer, traded in,
and just never looked back.

421
00:17:02,821 --> 00:17:05,824
Yeah, they were really, really,
really bad early on.

422
00:17:06,225 --> 00:17:08,060
Interesting. So that's my worst.

423
00:17:08,060 --> 00:17:10,396
And what's the last? I'm sorry.
What was the first?

424
00:17:10,396 --> 00:17:13,866
Last best worst first car? Okay. Last car.

425
00:17:13,866 --> 00:17:14,433
Meaning the car.

426
00:17:14,433 --> 00:17:15,300
I'm driving right now.

427
00:17:15,300 --> 00:17:17,436
You're laughing
more or less when you were driving.

428
00:17:17,436 --> 00:17:18,270
Yeah. So you're laughing at me?

429
00:17:18,270 --> 00:17:20,739
So my wife had a.

430
00:17:20,739 --> 00:17:24,076
So one of the challenges with cars
today is,

431
00:17:24,376 --> 00:17:28,981
the tech is so advanced
and it's so computer software based.

432
00:17:29,081 --> 00:17:29,581
Yeah.

433
00:17:29,581 --> 00:17:32,751
That very often when there's a recall the,

434
00:17:33,919 --> 00:17:34,887
the, the car

435
00:17:34,887 --> 00:17:37,890
manufacturers don't have the software
to fix the recall.

436
00:17:38,457 --> 00:17:42,594
So my wife drove a VW Arteon,
which I love.

437
00:17:42,594 --> 00:17:43,796
I love a good deal.

438
00:17:43,796 --> 00:17:44,963
We bought the Australian.

439
00:17:44,963 --> 00:17:51,203
We bought it wholesale and we it on
Arteon is an Audi A5 and VW clothing,

440
00:17:51,203 --> 00:17:53,639
and it's about two thirds
the price of an A5.

441
00:17:53,639 --> 00:17:55,040
So this car was great.

442
00:17:55,040 --> 00:17:56,942
So you bought the car? Would love it.

443
00:17:56,942 --> 00:18:01,113
We were going we were driving to Florida
on December 1st this past December 1st,

444
00:18:01,380 --> 00:18:05,250
and on November 29th
my wife says, oh, by the way,

445
00:18:05,250 --> 00:18:08,987
the airbag light's been on for
the last week and the car's beeping at me.

446
00:18:09,455 --> 00:18:12,458
I'm like, okay, that doesn't sound good.

447
00:18:12,591 --> 00:18:15,928
So we bring it to the dealer
and the dealer.

448
00:18:15,928 --> 00:18:17,663
You know,
I know that I know that Mitchell VW.

449
00:18:17,663 --> 00:18:18,630
I'll give them a plug. They're great.

450
00:18:18,630 --> 00:18:20,532
They're just they're
they've always treated us very, very well.

451
00:18:20,532 --> 00:18:22,835
And, Scott Dale is their service manager.

452
00:18:22,835 --> 00:18:23,635
He's a good friend.

453
00:18:23,635 --> 00:18:26,071
Have known him
for as long as I've been up here.

454
00:18:26,071 --> 00:18:29,374
And, he looked at me, says, John,
you're not gonna like my answer.

455
00:18:29,408 --> 00:18:34,546
He says, you need a part, but we have like
40,000 VW is across the country.

456
00:18:34,546 --> 00:18:37,983
They need the part
and there's like 14 parts in the country.

457
00:18:38,250 --> 00:18:40,919
I said, call another deal,
see if we can buy one. He laughed at me.

458
00:18:40,919 --> 00:18:43,789
They said no. So I'm like I said,
what do I do?

459
00:18:43,789 --> 00:18:46,892
He said, well, can somebody sit
in the back for the whole trip?

460
00:18:46,925 --> 00:18:49,561
I'm like, no. I said,
how about you give me a loaner?

461
00:18:49,561 --> 00:18:51,163
Who's going away for a month?

462
00:18:51,163 --> 00:18:53,198
He's like, John,
I'm not giving you a loaner.

463
00:18:53,198 --> 00:18:54,433
Come on, get real.

464
00:18:54,433 --> 00:18:57,503
So long story short,
it was the sitting in the back.

465
00:18:57,503 --> 00:18:59,071
What was that gonna solve?

466
00:18:59,071 --> 00:19:03,976
Could someone sit in the back because the
airbag deployment or lack of deployment.

467
00:19:03,976 --> 00:19:06,078
It's not the moment somebody sat in front.

468
00:19:07,579 --> 00:19:09,815
Oh, there's
like there's going to be liability

469
00:19:09,815 --> 00:19:11,083
because we know there's a problem.

470
00:19:11,083 --> 00:19:13,252
We know there's a serious airbag fault.
Yeah.

471
00:19:13,252 --> 00:19:16,221
So so long story short,

472
00:19:16,221 --> 00:19:18,891
they made some calls
and they cut us a deal

473
00:19:18,891 --> 00:19:20,125
that I'm not really supposed
to talk about.

474
00:19:20,125 --> 00:19:22,995
We ended up with a Jetta 2025
Jetta crashed.

475
00:19:22,995 --> 00:19:23,896
Beautiful.

476
00:19:23,896 --> 00:19:27,299
Gets 40 miles to the gallon,
has satellite radio.

477
00:19:27,499 --> 00:19:27,833
Nice.

478
00:19:27,833 --> 00:19:29,401
The car is beautiful. It's a Jetta.

479
00:19:29,401 --> 00:19:32,171
It's a 20, whatever. $1,000 car.

480
00:19:32,171 --> 00:19:34,072
And I couldn't, you know,
I couldn't be happier.

481
00:19:34,072 --> 00:19:36,341
It's a great car.
So that's my last night. Sorry.

482
00:19:36,341 --> 00:19:39,278
That was ten minutes there. First I could
I could do too long on this.

483
00:19:39,278 --> 00:19:40,212
I'm sorry about that.

484
00:19:40,212 --> 00:19:41,880
So we're on your time.

485
00:19:41,880 --> 00:19:43,715
It's all good. Yeah, yeah. All right.

486
00:19:45,450 --> 00:19:45,784
All right.

487
00:19:45,784 --> 00:19:48,353
When we're on the games and. Okay.

488
00:19:48,353 --> 00:19:51,857
Three keys that make you a great local
weatherman for.

489
00:19:52,191 --> 00:19:55,260
We had.com and friends and neighbors
on Facebook.

490
00:19:55,460 --> 00:19:57,529
I don't know if I'm great. Three weeks.

491
00:19:57,529 --> 00:19:58,730
I think plenty of good.

492
00:19:58,730 --> 00:20:01,600
I think plenty of people would say
I'm not I'm nowhere near great.

493
00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:03,468
Probably including myself.

494
00:20:03,468 --> 00:20:06,238
I get so frustrated I make a mistake.

495
00:20:06,238 --> 00:20:08,073
It's just I just don't.

496
00:20:08,073 --> 00:20:10,342
Most weathermen make mistakes or weather.

497
00:20:10,342 --> 00:20:11,376
Yeah, yeah, they do.

498
00:20:11,376 --> 00:20:14,379
But when you're doing hyperlocal,
should be a little easier.

499
00:20:14,546 --> 00:20:16,315
Got. Should be a little easier.

500
00:20:16,315 --> 00:20:17,983
And then people misunderstand too.

501
00:20:17,983 --> 00:20:19,751
Like,

502
00:20:19,751 --> 00:20:21,420
we had a big windstorm happen.

503
00:20:21,420 --> 00:20:22,754
We had a windstorm happened two days ago.

504
00:20:22,754 --> 00:20:25,057
I posted about it,
but we had a windstorm 2 or 3 weeks ago

505
00:20:25,057 --> 00:20:26,258
where the winds were coming from
the south.

506
00:20:26,258 --> 00:20:28,493
I don't get nervous
with winds from the northwest.

507
00:20:28,493 --> 00:20:32,664
That is a typical
that's typical weather behavior.

508
00:20:32,965 --> 00:20:34,132
The trees are used to it.

509
00:20:34,132 --> 00:20:35,701
Things aren't going to blow down.

510
00:20:35,701 --> 00:20:38,303
But when the winds come,
the south and southeast,

511
00:20:38,303 --> 00:20:40,038
the trees and stuff aren't used to it.

512
00:20:40,038 --> 00:20:41,173
That's when damage happen.

513
00:20:41,173 --> 00:20:42,975
They're not used to predicting that angle
that.

514
00:20:42,975 --> 00:20:45,210
Yes. Yeah.
They're just they blow in that direction.

515
00:20:45,210 --> 00:20:47,946
So they used to I mean I know it's silly
opposite way though.

516
00:20:47,946 --> 00:20:49,014
They're not used to it.

517
00:20:49,014 --> 00:20:50,282
I think there's more layers

518
00:20:50,282 --> 00:20:53,885
and they're more likely to follow
100% more, more likely to be damage.

519
00:20:54,286 --> 00:20:57,956
October 29th Superstorm in 2011.

520
00:20:58,357 --> 00:20:58,857
What?

521
00:20:58,857 --> 00:20:59,791
That's what I remember.

522
00:20:59,791 --> 00:21:02,394
That's what got me noticed by Romney,
was that storm

523
00:21:02,394 --> 00:21:04,963
was because I made
I mean, I canceled Halloween.

524
00:21:04,963 --> 00:21:06,098
I'll give you an example.

525
00:21:06,098 --> 00:21:09,001
I got that forecast wrong,

526
00:21:09,001 --> 00:21:12,704
but the comment I made in my weather
forecast caught everybody's attention.

527
00:21:12,704 --> 00:21:16,141
I said, I can't believe we're going to
get a foot of snow on the end of October.

528
00:21:16,141 --> 00:21:17,643
I just can't think it's possible.

529
00:21:17,643 --> 00:21:20,178
But if we do,
the damage will be beyond imagination.

530
00:21:20,178 --> 00:21:23,181
And it's that line
that got the attention of Romney.

531
00:21:23,215 --> 00:21:25,284
That's that's
that's the part of the story I left out.

532
00:21:25,284 --> 00:21:28,320
So, so I, I, I talked about the winds

533
00:21:28,320 --> 00:21:31,490
coming from the south and they didn't
quite get a strong they got to 35.

534
00:21:31,490 --> 00:21:33,358
We thought they going to get to 40.
No big deal.

535
00:21:33,358 --> 00:21:35,160
But then a day later
they're blowing hard from the north.

536
00:21:35,160 --> 00:21:36,795
People are like
why aren't you reporting on these winds?

537
00:21:36,795 --> 00:21:38,630
I'm like, because they're from the North.

538
00:21:38,630 --> 00:21:41,533
And that frustrates me because it's
like I'm no, I don't worry about winds

539
00:21:41,533 --> 00:21:44,369
from the north and northwest
because we're used to it. Okay.

540
00:21:44,369 --> 00:21:45,337
You know, not even.

541
00:21:45,337 --> 00:21:47,272
But the winds from the south are nasty.

542
00:21:47,272 --> 00:21:51,310
That's why hurricanes if the
if the center tracks to our west. So.

543
00:21:51,510 --> 00:21:53,578
All right,
not at all answering your question.

544
00:21:53,578 --> 00:21:54,880
Okay. Three keys, three keys.

545
00:21:54,880 --> 00:21:56,782
I don't know if I can give you three keys.

546
00:21:56,782 --> 00:21:59,184
What I focus on is map analysis.

547
00:21:59,184 --> 00:22:01,553
And I understand, you know, magnets.

548
00:22:01,553 --> 00:22:02,287
We all know magnets.

549
00:22:02,287 --> 00:22:05,257
If you put the opposite end together,
they repel. Right. So,

550
00:22:06,525 --> 00:22:08,694
weather, weather systems like that,
you put a low and a high.

551
00:22:08,694 --> 00:22:11,096
They repel. They do not they're not
going to be drawn to each other.

552
00:22:11,096 --> 00:22:11,930
They're going to repel.

553
00:22:11,930 --> 00:22:15,000
And what happens in between is going to be
what we're talking about.

554
00:22:15,067 --> 00:22:18,570
And so that's so it's just really map
analysis

555
00:22:18,570 --> 00:22:22,507
and understanding
how weather systems react.

556
00:22:22,607 --> 00:22:25,877
I do not use
computer based modeling at all.

557
00:22:25,877 --> 00:22:27,779
I read some of these.
I can't even talk the language.

558
00:22:27,779 --> 00:22:29,381
I don't even understand the language.

559
00:22:29,381 --> 00:22:31,717
The computer based

560
00:22:31,717 --> 00:22:34,920
modeling that, you know, the smart guys
because I'm not one of them.

561
00:22:34,953 --> 00:22:37,923
The smart guys like Ryan Hanrahan
and Gill.

562
00:22:38,223 --> 00:22:40,125
Forgive me. I'm sorry, Gill,
I'm forgetting your last name.

563
00:22:40,125 --> 00:22:43,462
And but the
the professionals that are on TV use

564
00:22:44,796 --> 00:22:47,065
are so above my pay grade.

565
00:22:47,065 --> 00:22:50,936
You know, they've got these powerful
computers that the networks have invested

566
00:22:50,936 --> 00:22:55,774
in or these powerful subscriptions
that, like the town is invested in that

567
00:22:55,774 --> 00:22:59,811
that offer really fantastic,
very high end computer data.

568
00:23:00,245 --> 00:23:03,482
And it's, I just I just look at the maps.

569
00:23:03,482 --> 00:23:05,083
I just look at the maps. So interesting.

570
00:23:05,083 --> 00:23:08,153
I don't know, that's 2 or 3 things,
but it's very cool what I do.

571
00:23:08,186 --> 00:23:08,820
Yeah.

572
00:23:08,820 --> 00:23:11,990
Now, can you dispel, dispel a rumor?

573
00:23:12,057 --> 00:23:13,725
Okay. About who?

574
00:23:13,725 --> 00:23:16,261
Someone says that you just call a friend.

575
00:23:16,261 --> 00:23:18,730
So a meteorologist, a phone,
a friend, phone a friend.

576
00:23:18,730 --> 00:23:21,099
I do like meteorologists
in the South, I do.

577
00:23:21,099 --> 00:23:23,902
I have a host.
We set up a giant game show studio.

578
00:23:23,902 --> 00:23:25,704
It's really great. Blue
with a lot of lights.

579
00:23:25,704 --> 00:23:28,407
And we play the music
in the background and, and,

580
00:23:28,407 --> 00:23:32,477
And then I'm offered a chance to phone
a friend, a friend, or I can narrow it

581
00:23:32,477 --> 00:23:35,480
down to two possible forecasts from four,

582
00:23:35,981 --> 00:23:38,316
or we have an audience, a live audience.

583
00:23:38,316 --> 00:23:40,252
I can ask the audience what they think.

584
00:23:40,252 --> 00:23:44,256
So I do those three things,
and that's, Yeah, that's what I want to be

585
00:23:44,256 --> 00:23:45,123
a weather millionaire.

586
00:23:45,123 --> 00:23:47,325
Yeah, exactly. Exactly, exactly.

587
00:23:47,325 --> 00:23:48,760
And then we mentioned rainy a lot.

588
00:23:48,760 --> 00:23:49,561
Yes, again.

589
00:23:49,561 --> 00:23:52,898
Episode 3029. Tune in.

590
00:23:52,898 --> 00:23:54,332
Come on, 29. Go back.

591
00:23:54,332 --> 00:23:55,534
Check out watching this. Come on.

592
00:23:55,534 --> 00:23:57,803
And I didn't know that
Ronnie just saw your comment

593
00:23:57,803 --> 00:24:01,907
and then you became friends because
you guys host a lot of we ha roundtables.

594
00:24:02,207 --> 00:24:03,074
You seem very friendly.

595
00:24:03,074 --> 00:24:05,243
I thought you guys were friends for like,
a very long.

596
00:24:05,243 --> 00:24:06,945
So way back, or did you meet?

597
00:24:06,945 --> 00:24:07,279
All right.

598
00:24:07,279 --> 00:24:10,649
Ronnie has different memories
of how we met than I do.

599
00:24:11,383 --> 00:24:13,985
My first memory of meeting her

600
00:24:14,953 --> 00:24:16,888
is, There was a

601
00:24:16,888 --> 00:24:19,891
coach fired from Hall High School,

602
00:24:19,958 --> 00:24:22,394
and the kids wanted to have

603
00:24:22,394 --> 00:24:25,397
a rally outside of,

604
00:24:25,831 --> 00:24:28,500
board of Ed one night, one by town hall.

605
00:24:28,500 --> 00:24:31,136
And this is the time
when rallies weren't happening.

606
00:24:31,136 --> 00:24:33,738
Every 15 minutes
was kind of a special thing

607
00:24:33,738 --> 00:24:34,873
when there was a rally in town.

608
00:24:34,873 --> 00:24:37,876
I don't mean to say that,
but it really is the truth.

609
00:24:39,010 --> 00:24:41,279
So. And Nancy DePalma is a dear
friend of mine,

610
00:24:41,279 --> 00:24:44,549
had a huge influence on where
I've gone politically.

611
00:24:44,549 --> 00:24:47,552
She was, at the time
the assistant superintendent,

612
00:24:48,687 --> 00:24:52,090
working for Karen List,
I think it was before Tom Moore.

613
00:24:52,691 --> 00:24:57,762
So, the kids came to my house
and a couple of them

614
00:24:57,762 --> 00:25:02,000
who wanted to organize,
and I kind of walked them through.

615
00:25:02,000 --> 00:25:06,104
I said, look, this is what I would do,
and I'm not an organizer,

616
00:25:06,104 --> 00:25:08,507
but it just, you know,
these were 16 or 17 year

617
00:25:08,507 --> 00:25:10,675
old kids, 15 year old kids,
they just didn't know.

618
00:25:10,675 --> 00:25:12,210
And man,
they pulled together quite thoroughly.

619
00:25:12,210 --> 00:25:14,846
I was so moved by it.
It wasn't a pro firing or antifa.

620
00:25:14,846 --> 00:25:17,449
They were
they did not want the coach fired.

621
00:25:17,449 --> 00:25:20,552
And it was a situation where, you know,
a lot of sensitive things happened

622
00:25:20,552 --> 00:25:24,523
with schools and board of Ed and certain
things, you know, you don't want to share.

623
00:25:24,523 --> 00:25:26,825
I don't know the details.
I'll never know the details.

624
00:25:26,825 --> 00:25:29,294
But obviously there were some details
that were not shared,

625
00:25:29,294 --> 00:25:31,263
you know, for whatever reason.

626
00:25:32,464 --> 00:25:34,766
So they had this huge rally outside town

627
00:25:34,766 --> 00:25:38,904
hall and Nancy called me furious,
feeling like I put it all together.

628
00:25:38,904 --> 00:25:40,272
I said, Nancy, they did it.

629
00:25:40,272 --> 00:25:43,275
I just told them how to do it. And,

630
00:25:44,042 --> 00:25:47,546
and, but my first memory of

631
00:25:47,546 --> 00:25:50,582
meeting Ronnie was standing out
on the sidewalk at the end of that rally.

632
00:25:50,615 --> 00:25:52,751
We chatted for like a half an hour
just getting to know each other.

633
00:25:52,751 --> 00:25:54,386
That was my first memory.

634
00:25:54,386 --> 00:25:56,021
Her first memory.

635
00:25:56,021 --> 00:25:58,356
We didn't meet in person,
but I think she thinks we did.

636
00:25:58,356 --> 00:25:59,958
I don't know, but it was terrible.

637
00:25:59,958 --> 00:26:01,760
A child disappeared.

638
00:26:01,760 --> 00:26:02,627
West Hartford child.

639
00:26:02,627 --> 00:26:04,863
I don't want to mention
names. Disappeared.

640
00:26:04,863 --> 00:26:06,698
Who went to school with one of my kids.

641
00:26:06,698 --> 00:26:10,402
And like, when that happens,
you just think the worst.

642
00:26:11,102 --> 00:26:14,706
And, Ronnie, we roped Ronnie in to help.

643
00:26:15,607 --> 00:26:16,408
To help. And she.

644
00:26:16,408 --> 00:26:20,111
I think she did a story on it
and that that's so that.

645
00:26:20,111 --> 00:26:21,346
But that was before I met her.

646
00:26:21,346 --> 00:26:23,281
That was maybe 2011 or 12.

647
00:26:23,281 --> 00:26:24,516
So I lose track of time.

648
00:26:24,516 --> 00:26:28,053
Remember I met Doctor De Palma,
my first interview for West Hartford?

649
00:26:28,520 --> 00:26:31,156
Captain Slater was the principal of Hall.

650
00:26:31,156 --> 00:26:32,891
I was in the National Guard with him.

651
00:26:32,891 --> 00:26:34,693
Okay. And I taught in Waterbury.

652
00:26:34,693 --> 00:26:36,027
And I said, hey, Captain Slater,

653
00:26:36,027 --> 00:26:38,463
I was hoping to get into the West
Hartford school system.

654
00:26:38,463 --> 00:26:40,665
He's like,
you ought to meet my friend Nancy.

655
00:26:40,665 --> 00:26:42,567
Shit Whiting Lane.
She was at Whiting Plane.

656
00:26:42,567 --> 00:26:43,335
We met,

657
00:26:43,335 --> 00:26:47,272
I think, maybe even on a Saturday,
but sat down, talked about West Hartford.

658
00:26:47,339 --> 00:26:47,973
She's awesome.

659
00:26:47,973 --> 00:26:51,242
And just, like, opening my eyes
to get to know West Hartford

660
00:26:51,242 --> 00:26:55,847
and then, like, maybe a year or two later,
I was hired at Walk It.

661
00:26:56,281 --> 00:26:58,750
My doctor. Okay, so it was doctor DePalma.

662
00:26:58,750 --> 00:27:01,586
So wonderful person the first time I met.

663
00:27:01,586 --> 00:27:03,989
And I made a lot of enemies
with this meeting.

664
00:27:03,989 --> 00:27:06,992
First time I met Nancy DePalma,
we were brand new to town,

665
00:27:07,592 --> 00:27:11,730
and the my kids
were going to school in flip flops,

666
00:27:11,730 --> 00:27:15,467
and it was pissing me off. And,

667
00:27:16,668 --> 00:27:17,335
I was

668
00:27:17,335 --> 00:27:20,338
and I
was not get having any luck with my wife.

669
00:27:20,572 --> 00:27:22,407
It was a battle
that she did not want to fight.

670
00:27:22,407 --> 00:27:24,542
And I get it, you know, with the kids.

671
00:27:24,542 --> 00:27:26,611
So I walked in and r-n.c the office.

672
00:27:26,611 --> 00:27:29,547
No appointments, literally marched in.

673
00:27:29,547 --> 00:27:30,148
And I said,

674
00:27:30,148 --> 00:27:33,418
you've got to stop letting these kids
wear flip flops to school children issues.

675
00:27:33,451 --> 00:27:34,653
John Lines, you're absolutely right.

676
00:27:34,653 --> 00:27:38,757
She sent a note home
the next day to every family

677
00:27:38,757 --> 00:27:41,326
at Whiting Lane
said, effective immediately.

678
00:27:41,326 --> 00:27:43,094
No more flip flops. Nice.

679
00:27:43,094 --> 00:27:45,230
So she was my rock star.

680
00:27:45,230 --> 00:27:49,100
But meanwhile, you know,
I made enemies a half a half the fit

681
00:27:49,134 --> 00:27:53,071
because it's like these moms
and they just want it as easy as possible.

682
00:27:53,071 --> 00:27:55,006
It's like, I just put your thumbs
up, like, get out of my hair.

683
00:27:55,006 --> 00:27:55,740
I want you to school.

684
00:27:55,740 --> 00:27:56,474
I need to get to work.

685
00:27:56,474 --> 00:27:59,044
Whatever. Well,
if you're playing recess or PE.

686
00:27:59,044 --> 00:28:01,179
Well, we we had an argument at that, so.

687
00:28:01,179 --> 00:28:03,114
Yeah. Exactly right. That's a camp.

688
00:28:03,114 --> 00:28:05,984
So what they were doing in PE is
they were going barefoot.

689
00:28:05,984 --> 00:28:09,454
I'm like so I had a big fight
with I'd love to know who it was.

690
00:28:09,454 --> 00:28:14,225
But in Nancy's office a year later,
because my son came in with a broken toe

691
00:28:14,659 --> 00:28:18,563
and, they're having the kids
participate in PE barefoot.

692
00:28:19,164 --> 00:28:21,466
And Nancy called somebody at the town,
the town center.

693
00:28:21,466 --> 00:28:23,601
Just. And I just tore heard.
I don't even know who it was.

694
00:28:23,601 --> 00:28:26,071
I would love to. I would love to
if I got to ask Nancy who that was.

695
00:28:26,071 --> 00:28:27,105
I see Nancy every once

696
00:28:27,105 --> 00:28:30,842
while I bumped into her a week ago,
and I got to find out, but it was just.

697
00:28:30,842 --> 00:28:32,077
Yeah, I have very strong opinions

698
00:28:32,077 --> 00:28:34,646
when it comes to like,
kids safety and common sense.

699
00:28:34,646 --> 00:28:36,014
What I feel is common sense.

700
00:28:36,014 --> 00:28:39,884
So be a good friends are model,
you know, pick up trash, hold the door,

701
00:28:40,051 --> 00:28:41,720
be charitable, give compliments.

702
00:28:41,720 --> 00:28:43,655
What makes Ronnie a good friend so.

703
00:28:43,655 --> 00:28:45,090
Oh, she's just super loyal.

704
00:28:45,090 --> 00:28:48,693
I mean, she's she's incredibly
like she's always got your back.

705
00:28:48,727 --> 00:28:51,096
Yeah. She's the most competitive person
I've ever met.

706
00:28:51,096 --> 00:28:51,796
Holy cow.

707
00:28:51,796 --> 00:28:54,232
I would not want to get caught
in her crosshairs.

708
00:28:54,232 --> 00:28:56,935
I think she's one of the two hardest
working people in West Hartford.

709
00:28:56,935 --> 00:28:59,671
I think the other is, Cherie. Nice.

710
00:28:59,671 --> 00:29:00,572
Yeah. And I just.

711
00:29:00,572 --> 00:29:03,742
I've never seen to harder

712
00:29:03,742 --> 00:29:07,412
working people give more hours for less.

713
00:29:07,412 --> 00:29:09,047
Now, Ronnie, she earns money.

714
00:29:09,047 --> 00:29:10,548
But on my business, what's yours?

715
00:29:10,548 --> 00:29:12,050
But the amount of hours she works,

716
00:29:12,050 --> 00:29:14,719
I guarantee it ain't a very good hourly
rate.

717
00:29:14,719 --> 00:29:16,020
And Cherie does it for nothing.

718
00:29:16,020 --> 00:29:19,924
You know, she's an unpaid volunteer
that puts up with a lot of crap.

719
00:29:19,924 --> 00:29:22,694
And she's been a transformative mayor
for the town of West Hartford.

720
00:29:22,694 --> 00:29:25,797
Yeah,
I mean, just Cherie Canter, episode 35.

721
00:29:25,797 --> 00:29:26,664
Oh, there we go.

722
00:29:26,664 --> 00:29:28,099
I was going to go there.
I was going to quiz you,

723
00:29:28,099 --> 00:29:30,935
but you got a future podcast guest,
her husband Michael.

724
00:29:30,935 --> 00:29:32,971
Oh, are you going to have him? Okay.
All right, all right.

725
00:29:32,971 --> 00:29:34,639
Michael, Michael,
Michael's great is great.

726
00:29:34,639 --> 00:29:37,208
Any questions lined up for me?
What should I ask him?

727
00:29:37,208 --> 00:29:40,578
He. I got to tell you,
what he does for a living is fascinating.

728
00:29:40,612 --> 00:29:42,680
Talk to him about, intellectual property.

729
00:29:42,680 --> 00:29:47,252
Oh, my God, I know that sounds boring,
but it's amazing what he does.

730
00:29:47,619 --> 00:29:48,853
I know he got to a certain age.

731
00:29:48,853 --> 00:29:51,589
He had to step down from being president,
but he still works there.

732
00:29:51,589 --> 00:29:54,259
He was in the Hartford business app.

733
00:29:54,259 --> 00:29:58,696
Or he basically he basically create
the kind of law that they do.

734
00:30:01,166 --> 00:30:04,235
I like there's so much I know
and I don't know what I can say safely.

735
00:30:04,669 --> 00:30:06,771
So now, nothing illegal, nothing illicit.

736
00:30:06,771 --> 00:30:07,438
All good.

737
00:30:07,438 --> 00:30:10,742
But I just don't know what they like
to share and they don't like to share.

738
00:30:10,742 --> 00:30:13,745
But he literally invented

739
00:30:14,846 --> 00:30:17,015
the type of law that he does.

740
00:30:17,015 --> 00:30:17,982
And it's huge.

741
00:30:17,982 --> 00:30:20,985
It's a call intellectual property law.
Okay.

742
00:30:21,052 --> 00:30:21,853
Geez.

743
00:30:21,853 --> 00:30:22,453
It's amazing.

744
00:30:22,453 --> 00:30:25,123
He's brilliant and he's so down to earth.

745
00:30:25,123 --> 00:30:27,091
Like he's just like

746
00:30:27,091 --> 00:30:29,761
like a lot of these, you know,

747
00:30:29,761 --> 00:30:33,598
highfalutin types
are not down to earth at all.

748
00:30:33,598 --> 00:30:35,133
He's just like, oh, he's just super cool.

749
00:30:35,133 --> 00:30:36,801
He's just like a regular guy.

750
00:30:36,801 --> 00:30:38,736
So, you know, I'm looking forward to him.

751
00:30:38,736 --> 00:30:40,672
He works with my friend Lauren.

752
00:30:40,672 --> 00:30:42,807
I'm looking forward to talking with them.

753
00:30:42,807 --> 00:30:43,808
Sherry gave me his number.

754
00:30:43,808 --> 00:30:45,376
I got to reach out to him.

755
00:30:45,376 --> 00:30:47,011
We saw each other at a Christmas party.

756
00:30:47,011 --> 00:30:49,247
So good people, great family. Yeah.

757
00:30:49,247 --> 00:30:50,181
Big UConn fans.

758
00:30:50,181 --> 00:30:53,184
Yes. Well, she's on she's on the board.

759
00:30:53,251 --> 00:30:54,719
Which can be tough at times.

760
00:30:54,719 --> 00:30:57,021
I'm going to have something
named Kanter. Right?

761
00:30:57,021 --> 00:31:00,592
I hope so, if not, they better start soon
because she's been at least

762
00:31:00,592 --> 00:31:01,726
as far as West Hartford goes.

763
00:31:01,726 --> 00:31:04,762
She's been I'm look,
I've been in town 20 years.

764
00:31:04,762 --> 00:31:05,663
I've had three mayors.

765
00:31:07,832 --> 00:31:10,201
And the other two, you
know, one of them were good friends with.

766
00:31:10,201 --> 00:31:13,371
And the other one,
I don't know real well, but great guy.

767
00:31:13,371 --> 00:31:16,841
But the way Sherry led us through Covid

768
00:31:17,242 --> 00:31:21,212
and the way the development
that she's overseen, the responsible

769
00:31:21,212 --> 00:31:25,083
development and growth of West Hartford
has been amazing.

770
00:31:25,483 --> 00:31:27,452
Yeah, I could
I could spend an hour on sure.

771
00:31:27,452 --> 00:31:28,987
We could do an hour on Sherry.

772
00:31:28,987 --> 00:31:32,023
She's said, yeah, we had
we played a game on our podcast.

773
00:31:32,023 --> 00:31:32,790
Go back and check it out.

774
00:31:32,790 --> 00:31:35,260
She's she's a great guest, great friend.

775
00:31:35,260 --> 00:31:37,395
She could cartwheel still. Yes she can.

776
00:31:37,395 --> 00:31:38,029
Yes she can.

777
00:31:38,029 --> 00:31:41,032
I had one of the biggest reasons
why I'm missing the Park Road parade

778
00:31:42,066 --> 00:31:43,134
100th podcast.

779
00:31:43,134 --> 00:31:46,871
We did a big celebration
and I had Javier Colon, Frank Whaley,

780
00:31:48,273 --> 00:31:50,275
and I'm like, Sherry's here, Sherry
come up.

781
00:31:50,275 --> 00:31:51,743
And I was, you know, instead of saying,

782
00:31:51,743 --> 00:31:54,746
hey, say a few words, I'm like,
can you cartwheel?

783
00:31:54,779 --> 00:31:55,980
Did you boom!

784
00:31:55,980 --> 00:31:58,149
It was amazing. Then I'm like, Ben,
do you want to say something?

785
00:31:58,149 --> 00:31:59,384
She's like, no, no, thank you.

786
00:31:59,384 --> 00:32:02,020
So when we when we interview Sherry
and we've been lucky enough

787
00:32:02,020 --> 00:32:05,189
to interview her
a bunch of times, is I always,

788
00:32:05,189 --> 00:32:08,726
you know, we'll get to the issues and
then I always try to book five minutes.

789
00:32:08,726 --> 00:32:10,728
Sorry, Sherry.
What's on your mind? Because.

790
00:32:10,728 --> 00:32:11,963
Because she.

791
00:32:11,963 --> 00:32:15,266
All right, so here's the way I describe
Sherry is there's

792
00:32:15,266 --> 00:32:18,269
I think there's levels
of brilliance and leadership.

793
00:32:18,403 --> 00:32:19,570
And to me the apps.

794
00:32:19,570 --> 00:32:22,540
Okay. Self-actualization. Maslow's
hierarchy of needs. Okay.

795
00:32:22,540 --> 00:32:26,010
In that little tiny triangle, the very,
very top is seeing around corners.

796
00:32:26,778 --> 00:32:28,012
Sherry can see around corners,

797
00:32:29,113 --> 00:32:30,815
she can see around corners.

798
00:32:30,815 --> 00:32:34,552
And that that to me is it's
brilliance and leadership.

799
00:32:35,186 --> 00:32:36,955
And that's what that's what Sherry is.

800
00:32:36,955 --> 00:32:39,691
She can literally see around corners
like it.

801
00:32:39,691 --> 00:32:42,760
Yeah, well,
we did a lot of Weehawken talk.

802
00:32:42,760 --> 00:32:44,629
You brought up Covid.

803
00:32:44,629 --> 00:32:47,131
There's an exclusive wood just dropped
yesterday.

804
00:32:47,131 --> 00:32:49,500
Yeah. Exclusive? Yeah. Exclusive breaking.

805
00:32:49,500 --> 00:32:52,470
Do you have a breaking news
sound effect that we can follow? And

806
00:32:53,938 --> 00:32:56,341
all politics is local. Yes.

807
00:32:56,341 --> 00:32:59,377
Covid,
five years later, part one just dropped it

808
00:32:59,377 --> 00:33:02,580
on March 17th, 2025.

809
00:33:02,580 --> 00:33:03,181
That was yesterday.

810
00:33:03,181 --> 00:33:06,284
Yes, yes, my Saint Patrick's Day
and it was great.

811
00:33:06,284 --> 00:33:09,287
We had our com shout out to Ronnie
and everyone over there. And

812
00:33:10,388 --> 00:33:12,023
who is it? Time?

813
00:33:12,023 --> 00:33:14,692
Don't ask me all their names,
Tom, Bob Carr.

814
00:33:14,692 --> 00:33:17,128
And don't ask me the last gentleman's
name. I cannot pronounce it.

815
00:33:17,128 --> 00:33:17,662
Oh, yeah.

816
00:33:17,662 --> 00:33:20,665
So, But they have it
where it can be read to you now.

817
00:33:20,732 --> 00:33:25,303
Yes, I was, I was listening to a story
the other day, and I was working,

818
00:33:25,303 --> 00:33:28,306
and I was having it be read to me like
I was watching, listen to a podcast or.

819
00:33:28,606 --> 00:33:31,609
Great, I listen to yours today. Okay.

820
00:33:31,609 --> 00:33:33,344
With the playback, it was awesome.

821
00:33:33,344 --> 00:33:34,379
And I thought it was really good.

822
00:33:34,379 --> 00:33:36,414
So Covid, five years later,
you want to get into it

823
00:33:36,414 --> 00:33:38,349
and don't give away the whole article.
Yeah.

824
00:33:38,349 --> 00:33:39,951
Why don't I, I don't care.

825
00:33:39,951 --> 00:33:42,520
I was first of all it's a cliffhanger,
so you gotta tune in anyway.

826
00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:44,389
So tune in next month. Yeah.

827
00:33:44,389 --> 00:33:45,289
I haven't even written it yet.

828
00:33:45,289 --> 00:33:46,524
I'm like, okay, now what?

829
00:33:46,524 --> 00:33:48,359
So, you know, now I'm obligated.

830
00:33:48,359 --> 00:33:52,563
So I, you know, we were doing the TV show
and then when Covid kind of calmed down,

831
00:33:52,563 --> 00:33:54,632
we just didn't have as much,
you know, it's town.

832
00:33:54,632 --> 00:33:57,235
We're not doing statewide.
So we just didn't have enough.

833
00:33:57,235 --> 00:34:00,571
I don't want to say,
but as much stuff to talk about.

834
00:34:00,571 --> 00:34:02,874
So the TV shows became less and less.

835
00:34:02,874 --> 00:34:06,544
And I like contributing to we
are we all like it when I contribute.

836
00:34:06,544 --> 00:34:10,715
So I, started to do a monthly car article,
which.

837
00:34:11,315 --> 00:34:12,617
So that was going in life.

838
00:34:12,617 --> 00:34:14,285
Life was kind of the lead on
that was going on in

839
00:34:14,285 --> 00:34:17,622
life, West Hartford Life Magazine
or whatever that is called.

840
00:34:17,622 --> 00:34:20,391
And and then let's just say
there was an issue.

841
00:34:20,391 --> 00:34:23,194
So Ronnie and I resigned in protest.

842
00:34:23,194 --> 00:34:25,863
And I was actually really happy because,

843
00:34:27,231 --> 00:34:30,535
I just it's hard to write about cars
when you kind of live cars.

844
00:34:30,535 --> 00:34:32,603
It's like,
what am I going to write about this month?

845
00:34:32,603 --> 00:34:33,971
So I've done the Genesis. Okay.

846
00:34:33,971 --> 00:34:37,375
I've done the catalog, I've done
the Tesla, I've done this, I've done that.

847
00:34:38,009 --> 00:34:40,578
You know, Keech Griffin,

848
00:34:40,578 --> 00:34:42,213
he gets a car every two weeks.

849
00:34:42,213 --> 00:34:44,782
Oh, so he's a member of Empire,
and then he writes about.

850
00:34:44,782 --> 00:34:47,785
Yeah. Okay.
Was he the current or something?

851
00:34:47,785 --> 00:34:49,387
I'm not exactly sure. Yeah.

852
00:34:49,387 --> 00:34:50,822
If you
if you're going to be a member of Empire,

853
00:34:50,822 --> 00:34:53,758
you got to be like,
you got to write something.

854
00:34:53,758 --> 00:34:55,059
Keep Griffin.

855
00:34:55,059 --> 00:34:58,062
So, anyway, long story short, you know,

856
00:34:58,162 --> 00:35:01,866
we had this kind of sudden and abrupt end
maybe six months ago to the life deal.

857
00:35:02,366 --> 00:35:05,636
And so I started to do something,
and I, you know, I love politics.

858
00:35:05,636 --> 00:35:08,206
So I'm like, all right, Ronnie,
I have an idea for for an article.

859
00:35:08,206 --> 00:35:10,408
And she was here's
what I love about Ronnie.

860
00:35:10,408 --> 00:35:13,578
Ronnie will resist, but I love Ronnie

861
00:35:13,578 --> 00:35:17,415
because she can be sold
if you're doing it for the right reason.

862
00:35:17,415 --> 00:35:20,251
With Ronnie, she can be sold.

863
00:35:20,251 --> 00:35:21,619
And I hope she listens. This part.

864
00:35:23,121 --> 00:35:24,322
And I always tell Ronnie, like,

865
00:35:24,322 --> 00:35:26,290
if I need her to do something,
I'll call and say, Ronnie,

866
00:35:26,290 --> 00:35:28,693
I'm asking you this, but I'm asking you
for the right reason, and I.

867
00:35:28,693 --> 00:35:31,696
I'm at a point with her where I can say
that she just knows that's the case.

868
00:35:32,096 --> 00:35:34,732
But I will also tell her, Irani,
I'm asking you to do this,

869
00:35:34,732 --> 00:35:36,200
but it's for selfish reasons.

870
00:35:36,200 --> 00:35:37,502
You're like,
all right, let's talk about it.

871
00:35:37,502 --> 00:35:40,037
Whatever. So,

872
00:35:40,037 --> 00:35:43,341
you know, it's a level of trust
thing, but, you know, don't you know,

873
00:35:44,408 --> 00:35:46,410
you don't want to burn that bridge,
you know, that's not

874
00:35:46,410 --> 00:35:48,513
Ronnie is not somebody
you want to burn in town.

875
00:35:48,513 --> 00:35:52,517
So, so I had this idea,
and she was really resistant to.

876
00:35:52,517 --> 00:35:55,286
And I said, look,
I said, I think I can do it.

877
00:35:55,286 --> 00:35:56,721
I'm on the town DTC.

878
00:35:56,721 --> 00:36:00,024
I don't know if you know that the town
Democratic Committee I I'm I'm a member.

879
00:36:00,024 --> 00:36:02,026
I was a district chair for a while now.

880
00:36:02,026 --> 00:36:03,127
I'm a member.

881
00:36:03,127 --> 00:36:05,830
And, so she was nervous and I said,

882
00:36:05,830 --> 00:36:09,033
look, we'll put a disclaimer and let's
just try it once if it doesn't work.

883
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:11,969
So she's okay, you know, she trusts me.

884
00:36:11,969 --> 00:36:13,771
She knows.
I'm really just trying to be helpful.

885
00:36:13,771 --> 00:36:16,140
So I started writing
this. All politics is local,

886
00:36:17,475 --> 00:36:19,277
every month, and I'm trying to.

887
00:36:19,277 --> 00:36:22,313
I can't remember what I've written about,
but this month, I was really.

888
00:36:22,313 --> 00:36:24,615
This is a monthly. It's a monthly?
Yeah, it's a monthly.

889
00:36:24,615 --> 00:36:25,049
Gotcha.

890
00:36:25,049 --> 00:36:29,287
So, so this month
I decided at Covid five years later,

891
00:36:29,287 --> 00:36:31,422
and it was such an interesting time.

892
00:36:31,422 --> 00:36:34,425
And I had such, you know,
interesting memories from that time.

893
00:36:34,525 --> 00:36:38,763
And then kind of like there was a certain
look, Covid was horrible,

894
00:36:38,763 --> 00:36:41,199
but there was a certain innocence to it
back in the day.

895
00:36:41,199 --> 00:36:42,900
I mean, let's not forget,

896
00:36:42,900 --> 00:36:46,737
Trump was the one who said,
okay, Operation Warp Speed, let's do it.

897
00:36:47,038 --> 00:36:49,240
And everybody was on board.

898
00:36:49,240 --> 00:36:51,042
Trump's supporters were on board.

899
00:36:51,042 --> 00:36:54,312
Democrats wanted the vaccine,
Republicans wanted the vaccine.

900
00:36:54,779 --> 00:36:58,416
And then what it really gave rise to which
I'm going to talk about in the next up,

901
00:36:58,482 --> 00:37:01,452
next article, is it gave rise
to a lot of these social media

902
00:37:01,452 --> 00:37:04,922
influencers,
which started probably April of 2020, May.

903
00:37:05,523 --> 00:37:10,428
And a lot of these influencers,
let's be honest, were dumb as a rock.

904
00:37:10,695 --> 00:37:13,331
They have no infectious disease.

905
00:37:13,331 --> 00:37:17,101
See me, I have no infectious disease
knowledge whatsoever,

906
00:37:17,568 --> 00:37:21,439
but I understand I'm able to admit
that I do not have any.

907
00:37:21,572 --> 00:37:22,673
So I'm going to go seek

908
00:37:22,673 --> 00:37:26,110
an expert who has a ton like we did
with Doctor Bennett for the show,

909
00:37:26,777 --> 00:37:29,113
and we're going to I'm
going to bring in an expert,

910
00:37:29,113 --> 00:37:31,415
and I'm going to listen to his advice
because he's an expert for a reason.

911
00:37:31,415 --> 00:37:33,918
Because he did, you know, college.

912
00:37:33,918 --> 00:37:36,254
He did post-grad. He did, medical.

913
00:37:36,254 --> 00:37:37,588
He did his residency.

914
00:37:37,588 --> 00:37:39,056
He he has the training.

915
00:37:39,056 --> 00:37:42,660
And we've got people who are online
who don't have college degrees

916
00:37:42,660 --> 00:37:45,930
or are from very,
shall we say, suspect universities,

917
00:37:45,930 --> 00:37:49,900
schools that are giving and dispensing

918
00:37:49,900 --> 00:37:53,004
medical advice
that they have no business giving.

919
00:37:53,004 --> 00:37:56,540
And we started to see a move toward
that in the middle of 2020.

920
00:37:56,941 --> 00:38:00,511
And it's you know, there's no doubt
in my mind that really impacted the 2024.

921
00:38:00,511 --> 00:38:03,581
I think that
and then obviously the whole dei,

922
00:38:04,715 --> 00:38:07,652
you know, pronouns thing,
I think those are the two biggest things

923
00:38:07,652 --> 00:38:10,888
that really impacted the 2024 election.

924
00:38:11,822 --> 00:38:16,560
But it's you know, what
what Republicans have done here we go.

925
00:38:17,028 --> 00:38:19,664
Political is they've

926
00:38:19,664 --> 00:38:23,734
they've managed to create these platforms
where people like Tucker

927
00:38:23,734 --> 00:38:27,938
Carlson and, who's the guy in the the guy
in, Oh, God.

928
00:38:27,938 --> 00:38:30,775
Charlie Kirk. And,

929
00:38:30,775 --> 00:38:33,778
I'm trying to remember
the one in, Steve Bannon,

930
00:38:34,011 --> 00:38:37,014
you know, and a million other
Laura Loomer.

931
00:38:38,082 --> 00:38:39,884
I won't comment,
so I'll just go like this.

932
00:38:39,884 --> 00:38:41,986
So anyone listening
doesn't know how I'm reacting.

933
00:38:41,986 --> 00:38:44,989
My facial expression here, who

934
00:38:45,856 --> 00:38:48,125
they have no understanding

935
00:38:48,125 --> 00:38:51,128
of infectious diseases, and yet they're

936
00:38:51,362 --> 00:38:52,363
out there going on.

937
00:38:52,363 --> 00:38:56,534
You know, I don't understand what
causation versus, what what's the about?

938
00:38:56,567 --> 00:38:59,370
You didn't read any of this in the article
that's going to come next.

939
00:38:59,370 --> 00:39:02,573
I'm going to get I'm going to get in
and, it's all right.

940
00:39:02,606 --> 00:39:07,211
It's, you know, I just it's
just it's really it's really this is.

941
00:39:07,378 --> 00:39:08,679
Yeah. Yeah.

942
00:39:08,679 --> 00:39:10,981
So this is the exclusive part then? Yes.

943
00:39:10,981 --> 00:39:12,917
There we go. There now
we have exclusive now please.

944
00:39:12,917 --> 00:39:14,418
More breaking
news. Music, please. Thank you.

945
00:39:15,419 --> 00:39:18,422
So we, you know, it's I just,

946
00:39:18,622 --> 00:39:21,625
you know, I just think it's, it's
there was like a certain

947
00:39:22,226 --> 00:39:24,895
we're all in this together innocence
to it.

948
00:39:24,895 --> 00:39:27,264
Kind of like we were after 911
and kind of like

949
00:39:27,264 --> 00:39:30,267
we were after the challenger
and kind of like after we were, you know,

950
00:39:30,501 --> 00:39:34,405
when other momentous when Kennedy was shot
and other momentous

951
00:39:34,972 --> 00:39:38,442
moments in the history and and now that

952
00:39:39,377 --> 00:39:42,880
like I feel like that just can't happen
like, like there was a plane

953
00:39:42,880 --> 00:39:46,016
crash and like,
within ten minutes of the plane crashing,

954
00:39:46,951 --> 00:39:49,854
it's a, you know, because of a desire,

955
00:39:49,854 --> 00:39:52,289
you know, you know, and, and like that,

956
00:39:52,289 --> 00:39:55,393
that's not at all construct of at all.

957
00:39:55,893 --> 00:39:57,995
It's not constructive.

958
00:39:57,995 --> 00:39:59,497
So agreed.

959
00:39:59,497 --> 00:40:03,601
We'll check it out on
we had.com and look out for part two.

960
00:40:03,868 --> 00:40:05,403
Yes. What day you think going to drop it.

961
00:40:05,403 --> 00:40:09,273
Oh come on, come on now you're
putting the pressure on a guarantee.

962
00:40:09,273 --> 00:40:10,274
It'll be in April

963
00:40:10,274 --> 00:40:14,111
I promise being promised April
I'm actually I don't travel a whole lot.

964
00:40:14,111 --> 00:40:16,781
I'm actually speaking of the Covid.
Do you remember this event?

965
00:40:17,748 --> 00:40:18,482
I need to see.

966
00:40:18,482 --> 00:40:19,950
I need to pull this over.

967
00:40:19,950 --> 00:40:22,553
Okay. That is, Wow.

968
00:40:22,553 --> 00:40:25,556
That's Mary Faye on the left. Me. Ronnie.

969
00:40:25,990 --> 00:40:26,524
Oh, wow.

970
00:40:26,524 --> 00:40:26,991
What now?

971
00:40:26,991 --> 00:40:28,826
Wait, I don't know.

972
00:40:28,826 --> 00:40:30,828
It's at a coffee shop.

973
00:40:30,828 --> 00:40:31,896
I need help with this.

974
00:40:31,896 --> 00:40:32,997
Okay, we're going to.

975
00:40:32,997 --> 00:40:35,499
I'm in the photo, so clearly I was there.

976
00:40:35,499 --> 00:40:37,301
This was friends of Fini.

977
00:40:37,301 --> 00:40:39,870
We had a celebrity server event.

978
00:40:39,870 --> 00:40:43,741
Oh. Come on,
come on on Park Road at, no, no.

979
00:40:43,808 --> 00:40:46,010
Nope, nope. Try again.

980
00:40:46,010 --> 00:40:46,744
I gotta look now.

981
00:40:46,744 --> 00:40:48,946
This is the owner of the establishment
right here.

982
00:40:48,946 --> 00:40:51,816
Oh, was it Germany or no? Nope.
Keep going.

983
00:40:51,816 --> 00:40:53,884
I don't know, this is donut crazy.

984
00:40:53,884 --> 00:40:56,287
Oh, I remember that. That's right.
Ronnie was nice.

985
00:40:56,287 --> 00:40:58,322
She kind of pulled me in on that.
I was like, the last second.

986
00:40:58,322 --> 00:41:00,124
Add to that.
That's why I didn't remember it.

987
00:41:00,124 --> 00:41:02,660
Because Ronnie was nice enough
to come on serve donuts with me.

988
00:41:02,660 --> 00:41:02,993
It's all right.

989
00:41:02,993 --> 00:41:04,862
So this is Irene on our.

990
00:41:04,862 --> 00:41:07,832
Okay, donut crazy episode ten. Yeah.

991
00:41:08,199 --> 00:41:11,235
Brooke daily
I know Brookdale shoot for sure.

992
00:41:11,235 --> 00:41:14,438
Fin she lawyer or she, real soon.

993
00:41:14,438 --> 00:41:17,174
She's an advocate for Down's
syndrome and autism.

994
00:41:17,174 --> 00:41:18,642
Oh, good for her.

995
00:41:18,642 --> 00:41:20,678
Okay. Her son
Finn, was my third grade student.

996
00:41:20,678 --> 00:41:21,178
Okay.

997
00:41:21,178 --> 00:41:21,645
Very fair.

998
00:41:21,645 --> 00:41:24,482
You know, she's on the podcast,
so you come up,

999
00:41:24,482 --> 00:41:27,051
what episode number is Mary say?

1000
00:41:27,051 --> 00:41:27,485
I want to say

1001
00:41:29,487 --> 00:41:31,088
75. Okay.

1002
00:41:31,088 --> 00:41:31,355
All right.

1003
00:41:31,355 --> 00:41:32,289
80. Okay.

1004
00:41:32,289 --> 00:41:35,192
Go back and check it out. 80. Okay.

1005
00:41:35,192 --> 00:41:36,360
You gonna watch it?

1006
00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,395
So yeah, I'm going to watch I'm
definitely gonna watch that.

1007
00:41:38,395 --> 00:41:40,397
But you complete you complete all this.

1008
00:41:40,397 --> 00:41:42,466
You're the last missing piece.
There we go.

1009
00:41:42,466 --> 00:41:46,136
But this date was March 8th, 2020.

1010
00:41:46,136 --> 00:41:47,271
Yeah, I remember it was right.

1011
00:41:47,271 --> 00:41:50,174
It was the Sunday
before they closed school. Remember that?

1012
00:41:50,174 --> 00:41:51,375
That was our last week of school.

1013
00:41:51,375 --> 00:41:53,277
This was the last Friends of Feeney event.

1014
00:41:53,277 --> 00:41:54,478
Yeah, pre-COVID.

1015
00:41:54,478 --> 00:41:57,381
So, yeah, it was a cold, windy day.

1016
00:41:57,381 --> 00:42:00,050
We have Mike Golic,
my gold junior, showed up.

1017
00:42:00,050 --> 00:42:03,020
We had,

1018
00:42:03,020 --> 00:42:03,687
what's his name?

1019
00:42:03,687 --> 00:42:05,623
Kenny Mayne showed up from ESPN.

1020
00:42:05,623 --> 00:42:07,992
Okay, Dennis. How's Scott?

1021
00:42:07,992 --> 00:42:09,727
I love donut crazy, but I don't go.

1022
00:42:09,727 --> 00:42:11,562
I can't eat it. Donut crazy.

1023
00:42:11,562 --> 00:42:12,530
Yeah, we had be a good friend.

1024
00:42:12,530 --> 00:42:14,865
Donuts, friends, a few donuts.

1025
00:42:14,865 --> 00:42:15,633
It was a great event.

1026
00:42:15,633 --> 00:42:19,570
But yeah I
it kind of connects to the Covid okay.

1027
00:42:19,837 --> 00:42:21,171
All right. Thanks. So we had.com.

1028
00:42:21,171 --> 00:42:24,008
That was a crazy week.
That was that was a crazy week.

1029
00:42:24,008 --> 00:42:27,144
I flew back into town that day
so I yeah I remember now

1030
00:42:27,177 --> 00:42:29,046
I flew in to make that event.

1031
00:42:29,046 --> 00:42:30,981
I flew in that day to make the event.

1032
00:42:30,981 --> 00:42:32,550
Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah.

1033
00:42:32,550 --> 00:42:34,952
Sorry I didn't remember where
it was I apologize.

1034
00:42:34,952 --> 00:42:35,452
All good.

1035
00:42:37,555 --> 00:42:38,522
It was great that.

1036
00:42:38,522 --> 00:42:41,492
Oh, no, it was not great that it was
it was scary that they're like,

1037
00:42:41,492 --> 00:42:43,961
oh, we're just going to close schools
for two weeks to clean.

1038
00:42:43,961 --> 00:42:44,995
They said two weeks.

1039
00:42:44,995 --> 00:42:47,631
They said two week leech and clean.

1040
00:42:47,631 --> 00:42:50,634
And then it was not one

1041
00:42:50,668 --> 00:42:54,038
it was not I mean, it's just yeah.

1042
00:42:54,038 --> 00:42:55,339
You said the NBA.

1043
00:42:55,339 --> 00:42:57,408
Then I remember Rudy Gobert.

1044
00:42:57,408 --> 00:43:00,811
He was a French player
for he plays for the Timberwolves now.

1045
00:43:00,811 --> 00:43:03,781
But he said he got diagnosed
with Covid right.

1046
00:43:03,781 --> 00:43:05,916
And he touched the mic.

1047
00:43:05,916 --> 00:43:06,917
He touched all the mics.

1048
00:43:06,917 --> 00:43:09,620
And then next
you know they canceled the NBA season.

1049
00:43:09,620 --> 00:43:12,156
It was like five years ago. Crazy week.

1050
00:43:12,156 --> 00:43:15,359
It was it was just like you mentioned
NBA closing.

1051
00:43:15,359 --> 00:43:17,828
It was so on on the 12th.

1052
00:43:17,828 --> 00:43:20,230
Like it was nuts.

1053
00:43:20,230 --> 00:43:22,366
It was every five minutes.

1054
00:43:22,366 --> 00:43:24,268
It was a major story.

1055
00:43:24,268 --> 00:43:29,106
And I think while we were on air,
MLB canceled, if I remember correctly.

1056
00:43:29,607 --> 00:43:33,077
And we had at one point
we handed the mic to Ronnie

1057
00:43:33,077 --> 00:43:35,212
and said, Ronnie, just give us an update.

1058
00:43:35,212 --> 00:43:36,380
Talk for ten minutes.

1059
00:43:37,414 --> 00:43:39,183
Like it was insane.

1060
00:43:39,183 --> 00:43:41,452
Insane. And yeah, the school closing.

1061
00:43:41,452 --> 00:43:43,554
And then like,
I know it's a little thing, but Patty,

1062
00:43:43,554 --> 00:43:46,657
I remember distinctly the conversation
with Patty about going to approval

1063
00:43:47,191 --> 00:43:49,927
for her page like that was a huge deal.

1064
00:43:49,927 --> 00:43:51,061
That page was fine.

1065
00:43:51,061 --> 00:43:53,831
You know, all the Wild West stuff
that used to go on it still.

1066
00:43:53,831 --> 00:43:56,100
But but she had to approve
every approval she.

1067
00:43:56,100 --> 00:43:58,769
So she made that when they announced.

1068
00:43:58,769 --> 00:44:01,772
So what happened is
I don't want to get in trouble, but

1069
00:44:02,673 --> 00:44:05,342
so basically,

1070
00:44:05,342 --> 00:44:08,445
do you know what it means
when a story is embargoed?

1071
00:44:08,445 --> 00:44:09,546
Do you know the term?

1072
00:44:09,546 --> 00:44:10,648
Yeah, Ronnie told me that.

1073
00:44:10,648 --> 00:44:13,183
So stories embargoed one it's like,
okay, you're in the media.

1074
00:44:13,183 --> 00:44:15,085
I'm telling you
what the story is going to be,

1075
00:44:15,085 --> 00:44:16,754
but I'm not allowing you to share it.

1076
00:44:16,754 --> 00:44:18,122
And so trusting.

1077
00:44:18,122 --> 00:44:21,091
So, Ronnie,
when we were getting ready to go on air,

1078
00:44:21,425 --> 00:44:24,428
the school closure was embargoed.

1079
00:44:24,795 --> 00:44:29,433
So Patty and I had a, like, a sidebar,
and I said, look, Patty, you can't.

1080
00:44:29,433 --> 00:44:31,368
I remember
I was like four, 430 in the afternoon.

1081
00:44:31,368 --> 00:44:34,471
And I said, Patty, you can't tell anybody,
but they're going to close schools.

1082
00:44:35,205 --> 00:44:38,942
And she says she was worried about model
because people were scared

1083
00:44:39,276 --> 00:44:42,946
and they were posting
appropriately scared comments.

1084
00:44:43,681 --> 00:44:45,749
And she said, should I put on my approval?

1085
00:44:45,749 --> 00:44:48,752
I said, look, I would, I was too figured
it'd be off in two weeks.

1086
00:44:48,752 --> 00:44:50,320
Students are my model moderator.

1087
00:44:50,320 --> 00:44:51,655
So basically,

1088
00:44:51,655 --> 00:44:53,190
if you post on neighbors and friends,

1089
00:44:53,190 --> 00:44:55,359
it doesn't go live
until somebody looks at it.

1090
00:44:55,359 --> 00:44:57,161
Make sure the administrators approve.

1091
00:44:57,161 --> 00:44:59,830
It agrees with their rules and regs.

1092
00:44:59,830 --> 00:45:02,566
Yeah, yeah, Sandy, Patty
and I forget who the other one is.

1093
00:45:02,566 --> 00:45:03,701
Have you had Cindy on yet? No.

1094
00:45:03,701 --> 00:45:05,602
Iraqi Rocky. Oh, you got a Rocky?

1095
00:45:05,602 --> 00:45:08,572
What episode number
come on. 110. Oh. Whoa.

1096
00:45:08,672 --> 00:45:13,677
You know, he could be lying to me and
I'll never know, so I'm really impressed.

1097
00:45:14,445 --> 00:45:16,080
So ten special episode.

1098
00:45:16,080 --> 00:45:17,881
We did a a special collab.

1099
00:45:18,916 --> 00:45:21,385
Two guys and a lot of wine slash friends.

1100
00:45:21,385 --> 00:45:22,953
That's cool at the same time.

1101
00:45:22,953 --> 00:45:24,688
Did you do it at the studio? Do.

1102
00:45:24,688 --> 00:45:25,289
That's cool.

1103
00:45:25,289 --> 00:45:26,690
They typically go 30 minutes.

1104
00:45:26,690 --> 00:45:28,358
Yes, we went about 60. Yeah.

1105
00:45:28,358 --> 00:45:30,060
You got to go along with that.

1106
00:45:30,060 --> 00:45:31,095
And Bobby P loved it.

1107
00:45:31,095 --> 00:45:32,996
It was great when we did it.

1108
00:45:32,996 --> 00:45:35,933
The 30 minutes, like we blinked our eyes
and then we hung around

1109
00:45:35,933 --> 00:45:37,468
the studio and finished the bottles.

1110
00:45:37,468 --> 00:45:38,769
Yeah, I love the game.

1111
00:45:38,769 --> 00:45:41,105
I brought a bottle of,

1112
00:45:41,105 --> 00:45:42,573
bread and butter. Pinot noir.

1113
00:45:42,573 --> 00:45:46,343
I know Rocky is like,
he knew where he knows stuff.

1114
00:45:46,610 --> 00:45:48,011
He's amazing press.

1115
00:45:48,011 --> 00:45:50,948
He knows he he absolutely knows the stuff.

1116
00:45:50,948 --> 00:45:51,982
Yeah, he's in there. Good.

1117
00:45:51,982 --> 00:45:54,451
And then I saw you at the event
in November there.

1118
00:45:54,451 --> 00:45:56,720
45th. The 45th anniversary.

1119
00:45:56,720 --> 00:45:56,954
Yeah.

1120
00:45:56,954 --> 00:46:00,424
I mean, I made an appearance, I had
we had to be somewhere.

1121
00:46:00,491 --> 00:46:01,658
We were double booked that night.

1122
00:46:01,658 --> 00:46:03,560
We were going to a birthday party
that night.

1123
00:46:03,560 --> 00:46:05,295
This is like three months ago.
Right through from us.

1124
00:46:05,295 --> 00:46:05,629
Yeah.

1125
00:46:05,629 --> 00:46:08,165
Yeah,
that was a really fun and sound issues

1126
00:46:08,165 --> 00:46:10,400
that night,
which was such a bummer for the broadcast.

1127
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,403
Like, we could hear them,
but it was such a fun night.

1128
00:46:14,037 --> 00:46:15,839
Interesting, interesting moment.

1129
00:46:15,839 --> 00:46:18,842
That night,
I met Sean Daly for the first time.

1130
00:46:18,976 --> 00:46:20,744
We had Sean Daly on. Yeah. No. Okay.

1131
00:46:22,613 --> 00:46:24,748
And we shared ideas.

1132
00:46:24,748 --> 00:46:27,751
And an idea he brought up was a good one,

1133
00:46:28,018 --> 00:46:31,321
about helping, the registrars out
and get them a little more pay.

1134
00:46:31,321 --> 00:46:34,925
And, you know, it was nice to see the two
parties work together and get it done.

1135
00:46:35,425 --> 00:46:35,692
Nice.

1136
00:46:35,692 --> 00:46:37,394
I know you just,

1137
00:46:37,394 --> 00:46:39,763
girls basketball in town, so.

1138
00:46:39,763 --> 00:46:41,732
So he's he's he's passionate.

1139
00:46:41,732 --> 00:46:42,866
Whether you agree with him or not.

1140
00:46:42,866 --> 00:46:45,769
He's a passionate guy,
so gotta appreciate the past.

1141
00:46:45,769 --> 00:46:47,704
Yeah, yeah I know. Yep, yep.

1142
00:46:47,704 --> 00:46:50,040
Should I have him on?

1143
00:46:50,040 --> 00:46:51,241
You're asking me.

1144
00:46:51,241 --> 00:46:53,410
Yeah. I don't know him all enough.

1145
00:46:53,410 --> 00:46:55,245
He he will.

1146
00:46:55,245 --> 00:46:56,713
The people will listen.

1147
00:46:56,713 --> 00:47:00,284
You know, he has no shortage of,
I think, opinions and thoughts or let's

1148
00:47:00,284 --> 00:47:02,119
hear some upcoming guests.
Should I have him on or not?

1149
00:47:02,119 --> 00:47:03,153
Let's go. Oh, boy.

1150
00:47:03,153 --> 00:47:05,155
Michael Kanter,
we talked about. Absolutely.

1151
00:47:05,155 --> 00:47:07,858
Lieutenant Foley police, right. Yep.

1152
00:47:07,858 --> 00:47:08,759
Yeah. Yeah.

1153
00:47:08,759 --> 00:47:09,726
Yeah, definitely. Yeah.

1154
00:47:09,726 --> 00:47:11,762
Officer Barrett, it's great.

1155
00:47:11,762 --> 00:47:15,165
He is part of the homeless division
of Hartford.

1156
00:47:15,299 --> 00:47:15,933
Great person.

1157
00:47:15,933 --> 00:47:16,667
Oh. That's interesting.

1158
00:47:16,667 --> 00:47:19,503
Aaron Fox owns fix Ivy.

1159
00:47:19,503 --> 00:47:21,271
Okay. Never get a fix.

1160
00:47:21,271 --> 00:47:24,107
No, you hold on. Let's go back to that.

1161
00:47:24,107 --> 00:47:25,108
Yeah, I'll fix you.

1162
00:47:25,108 --> 00:47:26,510
Oh, yeah. They're amazing.

1163
00:47:26,510 --> 00:47:27,077
Amazing.

1164
00:47:27,077 --> 00:47:29,980
They freaking give you an IV,
and it's not, like, medically required.

1165
00:47:29,980 --> 00:47:32,749
They're not sticking a needle in me
unless it's in Medicare Part.

1166
00:47:32,749 --> 00:47:34,151
Oh, it's a registered nurse.

1167
00:47:34,151 --> 00:47:35,619
So what are they? We're.

1168
00:47:35,619 --> 00:47:40,924
What are you sit and just chill on a
couch and you get vitamin C?

1169
00:47:42,125 --> 00:47:44,761
Magnesium, zinc, all types of good stuff.

1170
00:47:44,761 --> 00:47:46,663
And does it make run a marathon? Do you?

1171
00:47:46,663 --> 00:47:48,031
You feel really?

1172
00:47:48,031 --> 00:47:49,399
Yeah. Do you sleep well that night?

1173
00:47:49,399 --> 00:47:50,200
Sleep like a baby.

1174
00:47:50,200 --> 00:47:52,769
And what do they charge for this service?

1175
00:47:52,769 --> 00:47:55,772
Don't say 75 to 100 bucks. Wow.

1176
00:47:55,973 --> 00:47:57,374
We get a shot.

1177
00:47:57,374 --> 00:48:00,377
Okay, in the bottom,

1178
00:48:00,410 --> 00:48:03,647
there's the power shot, the relaxed shot
and the rocket shot.

1179
00:48:03,647 --> 00:48:05,883
Oh, God. Okay, I gotta try it.

1180
00:48:05,883 --> 00:48:08,252
Okay, I'll not going to try. Okay.

1181
00:48:08,252 --> 00:48:09,953
Maybe
we'll maybe we'll do a special podcast.

1182
00:48:09,953 --> 00:48:13,123
I'll do it live on air and I can
I can talk about what's happening.

1183
00:48:13,123 --> 00:48:15,292
It's like, you know, the, you know,
the news guys who like, get their,

1184
00:48:15,292 --> 00:48:19,563
you know, their heart test or
their colonoscopy or whatever live on air.

1185
00:48:19,663 --> 00:48:21,331
It's like, we'll do it, we'll do it.

1186
00:48:21,331 --> 00:48:22,866
It's right across from a pizza.

1187
00:48:22,866 --> 00:48:24,635
Okay. Go get your pizza. Thank you.

1188
00:48:24,635 --> 00:48:27,204
You got pizza there for me?
I'll be there to get a slice in.

1189
00:48:27,204 --> 00:48:29,373
And I've yet to see
who else is on this list.

1190
00:48:29,373 --> 00:48:34,578
Rich Coppola was sports
on, channel eight for 20 years.

1191
00:48:34,578 --> 00:48:37,214
Oh, that's cool, that's cool. Yeah.

1192
00:48:37,214 --> 00:48:39,716
Ryan McGinnis. Ryan. Soft wash.

1193
00:48:39,716 --> 00:48:40,918
You need any power washing?

1194
00:48:42,319 --> 00:48:44,454
Ben Fuchs, Fuchs financial.

1195
00:48:44,454 --> 00:48:47,190
Okay. If you if you just.

1196
00:48:47,190 --> 00:48:49,526
He related to my, rabbi.

1197
00:48:49,526 --> 00:48:50,260
Yep. That's his dad.

1198
00:48:50,260 --> 00:48:50,794
Oh, neat.

1199
00:48:50,794 --> 00:48:52,229
Oh, it's his kid. Okay. Yeah.

1200
00:48:52,229 --> 00:48:54,364
Okay. Okay. Okay.

1201
00:48:54,364 --> 00:48:56,166
My, my my first child went.

1202
00:48:56,166 --> 00:48:56,633
Oh, no.

1203
00:48:56,633 --> 00:48:58,468
Sydney went through her.

1204
00:48:58,468 --> 00:49:00,971
Wait, I don't I get this wrong.
No. I'm wrong.

1205
00:49:00,971 --> 00:49:03,173
No, none of my kids had Rabbi Fuchs.

1206
00:49:03,173 --> 00:49:05,042
They had all they all had Michael Pincus.

1207
00:49:05,042 --> 00:49:06,410
I've had Michael Pincus on yet.

1208
00:49:06,410 --> 00:49:08,312
No. Michael would be a great guest.

1209
00:49:08,312 --> 00:49:12,582
Rabbi Stephen, chat Nova okay,
episode number four.

1210
00:49:13,283 --> 00:49:14,284
Kidding. I'm just thinking on.

1211
00:49:14,284 --> 00:49:16,119
Yeah, yeah, 70.

1212
00:49:16,119 --> 00:49:16,987
They're all 70. Yeah.

1213
00:49:16,987 --> 00:49:19,523
I was gonna say, wasn't Mary Fey 70?

1214
00:49:19,523 --> 00:49:20,624
She might have been 60.

1215
00:49:20,624 --> 00:49:23,627
Now that I think of it. Okay.

1216
00:49:23,760 --> 00:49:26,797
Oh, my friend
Thomas and Ryan, they're from Bristol.

1217
00:49:26,797 --> 00:49:29,466
They're insight plus technology.
They want it in a raffle.

1218
00:49:29,466 --> 00:49:30,901
So we're raffling off podcast.

1219
00:49:30,901 --> 00:49:31,435
All right.

1220
00:49:31,435 --> 00:49:36,139
Okay, okay, so I just I'm like one level
above the raffle, but I'm like four levels

1221
00:49:36,139 --> 00:49:42,145
below, like town council and like the,
the real media and a ace

1222
00:49:42,179 --> 00:49:46,216
has been on trying to think
Liam has been have you had,

1223
00:49:47,484 --> 00:49:49,987
have you had
how about oh, you've had Chief Reddick.

1224
00:49:49,987 --> 00:49:51,455
Yeah. Amazing guy. He's great.

1225
00:49:51,455 --> 00:49:53,757
How about,
how about the chief fire department?

1226
00:49:53,757 --> 00:49:56,293
Oh, you gotta get get ahead, Marcia.

1227
00:49:56,293 --> 00:49:57,861
But she was the deputy, okay?

1228
00:49:57,861 --> 00:49:58,595
She's retired.

1229
00:49:58,595 --> 00:50:01,798
She she did grad school,
and it's doing other things she has.

1230
00:50:02,032 --> 00:50:04,468
How about agent Billings Smith? Yep.

1231
00:50:04,468 --> 00:50:05,736
That's ace. That's.

1232
00:50:05,736 --> 00:50:07,471
Yeah. She's. Yep.

1233
00:50:07,471 --> 00:50:08,605
All right. How about bored of it?

1234
00:50:08,605 --> 00:50:09,806
Have you had any board of Ed members?

1235
00:50:09,806 --> 00:50:12,909
No, but I want Lorna. Do you. Okay.

1236
00:50:13,343 --> 00:50:14,945
Her daughter and my daughter,
our good friends.

1237
00:50:14,945 --> 00:50:17,914
Okay. Lorna has committed,
but we just have worked it out.

1238
00:50:17,914 --> 00:50:18,849
All right, say on it.

1239
00:50:18,849 --> 00:50:19,883
If I see her, I'll.

1240
00:50:19,883 --> 00:50:23,453
I don't know, I'm not sure if I, I think,
I think we have a good board of ed.

1241
00:50:24,421 --> 00:50:26,923
We had we had some bumps in the road
maybe a few years back,

1242
00:50:26,923 --> 00:50:31,695
you know, with outside influences
coming in and speaking on stuff

1243
00:50:31,695 --> 00:50:34,698
that they just didn't know
about during the public comment section.

1244
00:50:34,698 --> 00:50:38,635
And happily, are you guys kind of that's
kind of stuff that a little bit.

1245
00:50:38,869 --> 00:50:41,872
Well, I, I, I oh, they, they modified.

1246
00:50:41,972 --> 00:50:43,273
Well they, yeah,

1247
00:50:43,273 --> 00:50:46,276
there's been a couple of adjustments
to public comment, but it really

1248
00:50:47,244 --> 00:50:48,011
maybe like a time.

1249
00:50:48,011 --> 00:50:51,515
So what was happening now
it's a touchy issue.

1250
00:50:51,515 --> 00:50:54,618
But what was happening is you know, so

1251
00:50:55,719 --> 00:50:58,321
there's always the the enemy
the enemy in the closet.

1252
00:50:58,321 --> 00:51:01,291
Right. And right now that enemy is die.

1253
00:51:01,324 --> 00:51:04,327
Four years ago,
it was, social emotional learning school.

1254
00:51:04,561 --> 00:51:07,564
And you haven't heard us
yell at or uttered in two years.

1255
00:51:07,631 --> 00:51:10,634
So outside forces,
we're talking about how in West Hartford

1256
00:51:10,634 --> 00:51:14,137
is this liberal bastion of ACL
not even understanding what ACL is,

1257
00:51:14,137 --> 00:51:15,839
not even understanding
what West Hartford is,

1258
00:51:15,839 --> 00:51:18,241
and not even understanding
what education in general.

1259
00:51:18,241 --> 00:51:21,445
So you had a lot of folks coming who were,

1260
00:51:22,612 --> 00:51:24,147
I believe, not properly

1261
00:51:24,147 --> 00:51:27,150
informed
and not properly up to speed on the issues

1262
00:51:27,250 --> 00:51:31,455
and talking
quite angrily at the board of Ed.

1263
00:51:31,488 --> 00:51:33,423
Well, not really

1264
00:51:33,423 --> 00:51:36,026
talking about issues
that were related to West Hartford

1265
00:51:36,026 --> 00:51:39,029
and so that caused a change

1266
00:51:39,663 --> 00:51:41,731
in, public comment policy.

1267
00:51:41,731 --> 00:51:44,734
But then they made another change
just recently because

1268
00:51:45,302 --> 00:51:46,636
that's kind of stopped.

1269
00:51:46,636 --> 00:51:50,740
And it seems like the dice stuff
is falling more at the national level.

1270
00:51:50,740 --> 00:51:53,643
They're not coming
after school systems with it.

1271
00:51:53,643 --> 00:51:55,112
They're going after pilots, apparently.

1272
00:51:55,112 --> 00:51:57,280
But but not school systems.

1273
00:51:57,280 --> 00:51:59,749
So yeah.

1274
00:51:59,749 --> 00:52:03,153
Oh, I mean, we got some future events
or past event first.

1275
00:52:03,153 --> 00:52:04,955
Our parade was amazing success.

1276
00:52:04,955 --> 00:52:07,124
We got the shirts,
we had sponsors on the back.

1277
00:52:07,124 --> 00:52:10,127
I just want to shout out a few sponsors,
see if you know, you know, Seth Brown

1278
00:52:10,393 --> 00:52:11,828
ear, Nose and Throat of Connecticut.

1279
00:52:11,828 --> 00:52:12,429
Okay.

1280
00:52:12,429 --> 00:52:15,398
Lyons auto on New Britain
have an unrelated but know them

1281
00:52:15,398 --> 00:52:18,401
well Ryan Keating yep, I know Ryan well.

1282
00:52:18,602 --> 00:52:20,370
Keating agency, French cleaners.

1283
00:52:20,370 --> 00:52:22,772
Yeah. Ryan is on Arapahoe Road,
I believe. Right.

1284
00:52:22,772 --> 00:52:23,039
Oh, yeah.

1285
00:52:23,039 --> 00:52:25,442
You were on their podcast.
What's happening?

1286
00:52:25,442 --> 00:52:27,611
Oh that's right.

1287
00:52:27,611 --> 00:52:28,812
Yeah, that was a while ago.

1288
00:52:28,812 --> 00:52:30,180
What year was that?

1289
00:52:30,180 --> 00:52:30,981
Oh. Are you.

1290
00:52:30,981 --> 00:52:32,983
Do you know the
answer? Okay, don't tell me

1291
00:52:34,718 --> 00:52:36,386
what's hap 2018.

1292
00:52:36,386 --> 00:52:37,420
Very good. Bam.

1293
00:52:37,420 --> 00:52:38,421
Very good.

1294
00:52:38,421 --> 00:52:39,422
Direct line media.

1295
00:52:39,422 --> 00:52:41,158
Cricket press. You work with.

1296
00:52:41,158 --> 00:52:42,993
I don't read them,
but I'm familiar with them. Yeah.

1297
00:52:42,993 --> 00:52:44,528
Lake George Steamboat Company.

1298
00:52:44,528 --> 00:52:47,531
You ever go on the Minnehaha? No.

1299
00:52:47,631 --> 00:52:50,634
Anthony's abatement? No.

1300
00:52:50,700 --> 00:52:52,369
Imma feel bad. These are all good.

1301
00:52:52,369 --> 00:52:53,470
These are all good folks.

1302
00:52:53,470 --> 00:52:55,772
The credit union, American Eagle,
sweet bear coffee.

1303
00:52:55,772 --> 00:52:57,207
Amazing.

1304
00:52:57,207 --> 00:53:00,210
Sweet bear crafts are they is brand new.

1305
00:53:00,644 --> 00:53:03,747
My former students mother started it.

1306
00:53:04,614 --> 00:53:06,783
Proceeds
go and help people with disabilities.

1307
00:53:06,783 --> 00:53:07,517
Nice.

1308
00:53:07,517 --> 00:53:09,352
She was just on the news talking about it.

1309
00:53:09,352 --> 00:53:11,988
So sweet. Bear coffee. Thank you so much.

1310
00:53:11,988 --> 00:53:14,424
My barber lost arts. There
we go. Very nice.

1311
00:53:14,424 --> 00:53:16,293
You got a free haircut out of that deal
occasionally.

1312
00:53:16,293 --> 00:53:17,427
I know, shouldn't I?

1313
00:53:17,427 --> 00:53:19,296
Yeah, I think you should be free. Cut.

1314
00:53:19,296 --> 00:53:20,864
John said so. There we go.

1315
00:53:20,864 --> 00:53:23,366
Greater, greater. Host Lions club.

1316
00:53:23,366 --> 00:53:25,969
You're going to the pancake breakfast
in April?

1317
00:53:25,969 --> 00:53:26,369
That's right.

1318
00:53:26,369 --> 00:53:27,270
They usually do it in April.

1319
00:53:27,270 --> 00:53:29,372
It's usually the last weekend in April.
Right.

1320
00:53:29,372 --> 00:53:30,774
I think it's April 26th.

1321
00:53:30,774 --> 00:53:32,776
Yeah, it's the last weekend in April.
They do it every year.

1322
00:53:32,776 --> 00:53:35,779
I miss it every year because I've got
an event that I have to go to every year.

1323
00:53:35,812 --> 00:53:38,315
Yep. They put a sign right near our house
about a mile from our house.

1324
00:53:38,315 --> 00:53:41,318
I always see it and I love pancakes.

1325
00:53:41,751 --> 00:53:42,953
Yep. April 26th.

1326
00:53:42,953 --> 00:53:45,155
Okay, save the date, people.

1327
00:53:45,155 --> 00:53:48,892
The fix I've talked about West Hartford
lock, Eric Brown. Uri.

1328
00:53:49,092 --> 00:53:51,728
Uri Uri kotlowitz.
I've known you for years. Great.

1329
00:53:51,728 --> 00:53:54,564
Uri. Uri helped me on my car show
when I did it briefly.

1330
00:53:54,564 --> 00:53:57,534
Oh, he likes cars. Yeah, he's dream
he's a big car guy. Yeah.

1331
00:53:57,534 --> 00:54:00,270
You know what
I, I give Uri, there's a couple of guys.

1332
00:54:00,270 --> 00:54:01,905
I give a lot of credit
because they show up at town

1333
00:54:01,905 --> 00:54:04,341
council meetings
and you think they're going to complain,

1334
00:54:04,341 --> 00:54:06,710
and then they get up
and they say, I've looked all the facts.

1335
00:54:06,710 --> 00:54:08,211
I really thought this through.

1336
00:54:08,211 --> 00:54:09,679
I think this is a great idea.

1337
00:54:09,679 --> 00:54:13,283
Or if they disagree,
they've got their ducks in a row.

1338
00:54:13,283 --> 00:54:16,052
And it's not a not in my backyard issue.

1339
00:54:16,052 --> 00:54:17,320
It's something more like

1340
00:54:18,421 --> 00:54:19,389
more substantial

1341
00:54:19,389 --> 00:54:22,392
that you can sink your teeth into
and really give it thought.

1342
00:54:22,392 --> 00:54:24,961
You're he's
one of those guys I Gary I saw 40.

1343
00:54:24,961 --> 00:54:26,930
You had Uri on episode 40.

1344
00:54:26,930 --> 00:54:29,933
There we go. Okay. Brown and Uri
all right.

1345
00:54:30,500 --> 00:54:32,269
Dasani MJ this one.

1346
00:54:32,269 --> 00:54:32,702
Yeah okay.

1347
00:54:32,702 --> 00:54:34,237
I have a suit from the Swanee.

1348
00:54:34,237 --> 00:54:36,573
Right. That's in town, right? Yep yep yep.

1349
00:54:36,573 --> 00:54:38,608
Future podcast guest. Okay.

1350
00:54:38,608 --> 00:54:41,211
Core down drilling.
What do you know about drilling?

1351
00:54:41,211 --> 00:54:43,580
What type of drilling are we drilling?

1352
00:54:43,580 --> 00:54:48,018
And I know nothing
environmental in geochemical.

1353
00:54:48,018 --> 00:54:50,687
Okay. Pink flamingo.

1354
00:54:50,687 --> 00:54:51,921
Why do I know that?

1355
00:54:51,921 --> 00:54:53,123
Right next to Luna Pizza.

1356
00:54:53,123 --> 00:54:55,859
Oh, okay. Ashley. The balloons. Okay.

1357
00:54:55,859 --> 00:54:57,294
Why are BIC property?

1358
00:54:57,294 --> 00:54:58,561
You need your grass mowed.

1359
00:54:58,561 --> 00:55:00,730
Call my guy wire back. Okay.

1360
00:55:00,730 --> 00:55:02,532
Bergen financial. York. Bergen.

1361
00:55:02,532 --> 00:55:04,901
Okay. Sweet chili on park road.

1362
00:55:04,901 --> 00:55:06,836
Okay. Sweet chili time. We had dinner.

1363
00:55:06,836 --> 00:55:09,606
We had dinner. Sweet chili
with Ronnie and Ted three nights ago.

1364
00:55:09,606 --> 00:55:10,607
No way. Yep.

1365
00:55:10,607 --> 00:55:11,808
Would you have?

1366
00:55:11,808 --> 00:55:14,711
I had I got to think this through. Okay.

1367
00:55:14,711 --> 00:55:17,347
My wife had shrimp,
and it was really good.

1368
00:55:17,347 --> 00:55:19,683
I say 1 or 2 of her shrimp.

1369
00:55:19,683 --> 00:55:21,651
I had chicken with rice.

1370
00:55:21,651 --> 00:55:22,752
So what's that? That,

1371
00:55:23,787 --> 00:55:25,822
there's a term for it, but it's like a,
like a stick.

1372
00:55:25,822 --> 00:55:27,590
Oh. Sticky rice. Oh, it's so good.

1373
00:55:27,590 --> 00:55:29,125
Oh, my God, it was so good.

1374
00:55:29,125 --> 00:55:30,760
And then,

1375
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:35,965
Ted had beef and I don't remember what
Ronnie had, but if you look on yesterday's

1376
00:55:35,965 --> 00:55:39,069
business buzz,
you will see pictures of all of our meals.

1377
00:55:39,069 --> 00:55:41,004
So, because Ronnie takes pictures of me,

1378
00:55:41,004 --> 00:55:43,840
I know if I go out to dinner with Ronnie,
if we go out for dinner,

1379
00:55:43,840 --> 00:55:46,810
I don't touch the food
until Ronnie is taking her pictures.

1380
00:55:46,810 --> 00:55:47,911
So anyway.

1381
00:55:47,911 --> 00:55:50,246
And there's food from a Ronnie
Ronnie Newton ism.

1382
00:55:50,246 --> 00:55:52,982
I'm sorry. There's food on sweet chilis.

1383
00:55:52,982 --> 00:55:53,783
Sweet chili.

1384
00:55:53,783 --> 00:55:55,719
What do you mean? Oh, yeah. Yeah,
yeah. Sweet chili.

1385
00:55:55,719 --> 00:55:57,854
Got a plug on yesterday's business buzz.

1386
00:55:57,854 --> 00:55:58,855
Rightfully so.

1387
00:56:00,590 --> 00:56:01,257
Make a note of that.

1388
00:56:01,257 --> 00:56:03,893
Who's good? They've been around
a long time. 20 years plus.

1389
00:56:03,893 --> 00:56:05,495
Really? Yeah,
they've been around a long, long time.

1390
00:56:05,495 --> 00:56:07,731
Sweet chili. Great people. Yeah.

1391
00:56:07,731 --> 00:56:09,232
Sally and Bob's okay.

1392
00:56:09,232 --> 00:56:11,801
We like Sally and Bob's. They're.

1393
00:56:11,801 --> 00:56:13,136
They're like 120.

1394
00:56:13,136 --> 00:56:15,271
They were just on the podcast okay.

1395
00:56:15,271 --> 00:56:17,574
Wings over Helens.
Awesome. Helens for now.

1396
00:56:17,574 --> 00:56:20,577
Yeah I have a buddy of mine
who's in DC that

1397
00:56:20,610 --> 00:56:22,912
we get together for breakfast
so we can bitch.

1398
00:56:22,912 --> 00:56:25,115
And sorry that's so one foul language
I'll use.

1399
00:56:25,115 --> 00:56:26,883
Forgive me.

1400
00:56:26,883 --> 00:56:30,987
But, yeah,
we just bitch about the state of politics.

1401
00:56:30,987 --> 00:56:34,924
So naturally, of course, we would never
complain about local politics.

1402
00:56:34,924 --> 00:56:35,825
Never.

1403
00:56:35,825 --> 00:56:39,095
So anyway, people's Bank, Webster and CPF,

1404
00:56:39,462 --> 00:56:43,066
can you explain to me so People's United
People's Bank was people's Bank.

1405
00:56:43,066 --> 00:56:45,502
Then they became People's United Bank.
Then they went away.

1406
00:56:45,502 --> 00:56:47,103
And now we have a new people's bank.

1407
00:56:47,103 --> 00:56:48,538
It's a totally different entity.

1408
00:56:48,538 --> 00:56:49,773
People's bank together.

1409
00:56:49,773 --> 00:56:51,908
Yes. P and the B cap.

1410
00:56:51,908 --> 00:56:55,578
Yes. So it's not anything to do
with the old people's Bank

1411
00:56:55,578 --> 00:56:58,882
or People's United Bank or the pub,
because we like to call

1412
00:56:59,382 --> 00:57:00,583
a meeting with them tomorrow.

1413
00:57:00,583 --> 00:57:03,153
Ryan super hit them hard. Ha.

1414
00:57:03,153 --> 00:57:05,221
Let them take $10,000 sponsorship level.

1415
00:57:05,221 --> 00:57:06,723
That's a that's a silver level.

1416
00:57:06,723 --> 00:57:07,791
In case you're wondering,

1417
00:57:07,791 --> 00:57:10,360
they sponsor the podcast,
they sponsor the golf tournament,

1418
00:57:10,360 --> 00:57:13,563
and they're sponsoring our next
this parade and next.

1419
00:57:13,563 --> 00:57:14,264
Oh, come.

1420
00:57:14,264 --> 00:57:16,533
Yeah. You've already hidden for the 10th
anniversary.

1421
00:57:16,533 --> 00:57:17,667
Okay. Good for you.

1422
00:57:17,667 --> 00:57:20,770
Good for little less than ten
came close to making you. So

1423
00:57:21,738 --> 00:57:22,372
now that's great.

1424
00:57:22,372 --> 00:57:25,041
And we got some upcoming,
I just mentioned Memorial Day.

1425
00:57:25,041 --> 00:57:25,775
That's.

1426
00:57:25,775 --> 00:57:28,945
Check us out on Farmington to South Main.

1427
00:57:29,279 --> 00:57:32,282
Quick little parade, but wonderful.

1428
00:57:32,515 --> 00:57:34,217
A soccer event, Hartford Athletic.

1429
00:57:34,217 --> 00:57:36,119
Do you ever go to the Hartford Athletic?

1430
00:57:36,119 --> 00:57:39,322
June 6th, please, I feel bad,
I'm shaking my head to too much here.

1431
00:57:39,823 --> 00:57:41,424
So I feel our goats game.

1432
00:57:41,424 --> 00:57:43,059
We've been to yard. Good.

1433
00:57:43,059 --> 00:57:45,028
I went to one last summer.
It was a lot of fun.

1434
00:57:45,028 --> 00:57:47,497
We had our seats, like, in,

1435
00:57:47,497 --> 00:57:48,832
I don't like, in a mezzanine.

1436
00:57:48,832 --> 00:57:51,201
And right
field, like, upper level was really nice.

1437
00:57:51,201 --> 00:57:53,570
They had food and drink,
and it was really cool.

1438
00:57:53,570 --> 00:57:55,438
I felt very fancy.

1439
00:57:55,438 --> 00:57:56,940
So I serve on a couple.

1440
00:57:56,940 --> 00:57:59,375
I serve, so I serve on
zoning and wetlands here in town.

1441
00:57:59,375 --> 00:58:02,378
And then I also serve on, Greater
Hartford Transit.

1442
00:58:02,445 --> 00:58:05,081
And once a year, transit does a yard Goats
game.

1443
00:58:05,081 --> 00:58:08,651
And, we went so there's two
it's a funny story for the transit game.

1444
00:58:08,651 --> 00:58:11,588
So we,
we got a brand new executive director

1445
00:58:11,588 --> 00:58:14,557
that was like one of the very first events
he's going to with us.

1446
00:58:14,557 --> 00:58:15,692
And I've been on for five years.

1447
00:58:15,692 --> 00:58:17,360
My term was five years. And,

1448
00:58:18,528 --> 00:58:21,331
so I decide I'm going to resign.

1449
00:58:21,331 --> 00:58:24,334
So like,
yeah, I'll, I'll talk to Sam's dog.

1450
00:58:24,434 --> 00:58:27,437
I'll talk to dog at the,
the Yard Goats game.

1451
00:58:28,438 --> 00:58:30,640
Low key. We sit down, chat.

1452
00:58:30,640 --> 00:58:34,777
So I sit down dog, you know, really
happier on board, you know, happy.

1453
00:58:34,777 --> 00:58:36,846
I was able to be part of the interview
process.

1454
00:58:36,846 --> 00:58:40,950
And, you know, I was on the
the subcommittee that helped find.

1455
00:58:40,950 --> 00:58:43,052
And, you know, it's been a really great
five years.

1456
00:58:43,052 --> 00:58:47,023
But, you know, I feel like, you know,
it should be somebody else's turn now.

1457
00:58:47,023 --> 00:58:48,958
And so I'm going to
I'm going to step down.

1458
00:58:48,958 --> 00:58:51,728
He goes, John,
we just hanging to the end of the year.

1459
00:58:51,728 --> 00:58:54,597
I just, you know, I was like,
okay, of the end of the year.

1460
00:58:54,597 --> 00:58:57,600
We'll reevaluate five months later.

1461
00:58:57,700 --> 00:58:59,068
I don't want to say his name
because I don't

1462
00:58:59,068 --> 00:59:03,006
I didn't run this story by him, but
two story five and say to the other West

1463
00:59:03,006 --> 00:59:06,543
Hartford person, without any prior
discussion between the two of us,

1464
00:59:06,910 --> 00:59:10,713
walked up to dog and resigned as well,
and Doug gave him the same speech.

1465
00:59:10,880 --> 00:59:12,181
We're both still on the board,

1466
00:59:13,149 --> 00:59:14,484
so but literally

1467
00:59:14,484 --> 00:59:17,587
within five minutes, unrehearsed,
two of us back to back, we resigned.

1468
00:59:17,587 --> 00:59:18,321
It was pretty funny.

1469
00:59:18,321 --> 00:59:19,255
So I don't know.

1470
00:59:19,255 --> 00:59:21,958
Yeah, we're guy so and it's really great.

1471
00:59:21,958 --> 00:59:23,760
Hartford Transit
does a lot of good for the community.

1472
00:59:23,760 --> 00:59:27,330
They do all the paratransit and they just
they do so much for the community.

1473
00:59:27,463 --> 00:59:28,865
But they're based on the Hartford.

1474
00:59:28,865 --> 00:59:31,367
So but they handle
they've got a bunch of member towns.

1475
00:59:31,367 --> 00:59:33,636
And so

1476
00:59:33,636 --> 00:59:36,639
yeah, our our fifth annual game,
August 15th.

1477
00:59:36,739 --> 00:59:37,907
Okay. Tickets are on sale.

1478
00:59:37,907 --> 00:59:40,343
And then Johnny's got you on to
Johnny's dog.

1479
00:59:40,343 --> 00:59:42,211
I'm not a jogger, Ronnie.

1480
00:59:42,211 --> 00:59:44,747
I'll be there. I'll speak for Ronnie
and say she'll be there.

1481
00:59:44,747 --> 00:59:45,782
So how's that?

1482
00:59:45,782 --> 00:59:48,785
Ronnie, do you ever see Ted run?

1483
00:59:49,018 --> 00:59:49,919
He. Ted's a good runner.

1484
00:59:49,919 --> 00:59:53,823
I say, I'll I'll drive by him
and he'll be running, and I'll be like.

1485
00:59:54,691 --> 00:59:57,660
I walked my dog once
and I see this guy just flying.

1486
00:59:57,927 --> 00:59:59,228
Yes. Yeah.

1487
00:59:59,228 --> 01:00:00,563
Like the stride on this guy.

1488
01:00:00,563 --> 01:00:03,333
And he's like the picture of health too.
So yeah, I mean, that's.

1489
01:00:03,333 --> 01:00:04,033
So what did I do?

1490
01:00:04,033 --> 01:00:07,036
I walked a dog, went home,
put on my running stuff.

1491
01:00:07,503 --> 01:00:11,107
Did you see now me, I go home and just
stick my head between my eyes and cry.

1492
01:00:11,107 --> 01:00:14,010
I can't do this. I try running
and I injure myself.

1493
01:00:14,010 --> 01:00:17,080
So I walk, I try to walk
and I'll run up and down a lot of stairs.

1494
01:00:17,080 --> 01:00:18,581
You know, dog, we have to talk.

1495
01:00:18,581 --> 01:00:20,316
Well, no. Hold on.

1496
01:00:20,316 --> 01:00:22,485
I cannot believe I just said that.

1497
01:00:22,485 --> 01:00:23,786
I'm shocked that I said that.

1498
01:00:23,786 --> 01:00:25,922
Hopefully my wife does. Yes,
we have a dog.

1499
01:00:25,922 --> 01:00:30,426
However, a week ago, without my knowledge,
my wife agreed to foster

1500
01:00:31,027 --> 01:00:34,897
a second dog
who is about this big and ten weeks old.

1501
01:00:35,498 --> 01:00:38,167
And so right now we have two dogs,

1502
01:00:38,167 --> 01:00:41,838
but we will not have two dogs for long
or be very clear.

1503
01:00:42,572 --> 01:00:44,374
So that's great. Yeah,

1504
01:00:45,608 --> 01:00:47,043
yeah yeah.

1505
01:00:47,043 --> 01:00:47,844
Our mark.

1506
01:00:47,844 --> 01:00:49,712
Wow. Well don't keep going for another.

1507
01:00:49,712 --> 01:00:52,348
We go for our number two
I mean am I that interesting.

1508
01:00:52,348 --> 01:00:53,116
So this is great.

1509
01:00:53,116 --> 01:00:54,984
See we shot for 50 minutes with Feeney.

1510
01:00:54,984 --> 01:00:56,786
We hit 60.

1511
01:00:56,786 --> 01:00:59,822
Any recommendations for of what podcast TV

1512
01:00:59,822 --> 01:01:02,825
shows, books oh I gotcha

1513
01:01:03,926 --> 01:01:06,295
local politics, cars.

1514
01:01:06,295 --> 01:01:09,298
I mean, I'll talk
local politics all day long with you.

1515
01:01:09,699 --> 01:01:11,100
You know, I get I get,

1516
01:01:11,100 --> 01:01:15,238
you know, I've been on a little bit of a
I made the decision after the election.

1517
01:01:15,238 --> 01:01:19,075
I was not going to quite hold back
the way I was.

1518
01:01:19,409 --> 01:01:22,145
And, you know, one thing
that's really been on my mind is

1519
01:01:22,145 --> 01:01:24,881
I feel like we are really blessed
in this town.

1520
01:01:24,881 --> 01:01:29,552
I don't know if you know the folks or not,
but our town employees are incredible.

1521
01:01:30,086 --> 01:01:32,321
And our teachers. How about the teacher?

1522
01:01:32,321 --> 01:01:33,723
Aren't you a town employee?

1523
01:01:33,723 --> 01:01:34,257
You're kidding.

1524
01:01:34,257 --> 01:01:34,524
Yeah.

1525
01:01:34,524 --> 01:01:37,393
Okay, so you're included in that, right?

1526
01:01:37,393 --> 01:01:41,497
So I, I, I call
you guys West Hartford smartest and I call

1527
01:01:41,497 --> 01:01:44,333
our kids West Hartford is brightest,
so I don't know what's up.

1528
01:01:44,333 --> 01:01:46,002
All right. Is that the right nomenclature?

1529
01:01:46,002 --> 01:01:46,936
That's what I call you guys.

1530
01:01:46,936 --> 01:01:51,207
So, Yeah, you could go look back
at some transcripts of BOE meetings

1531
01:01:51,207 --> 01:01:52,975
where I've spoken, testified. And that's.

1532
01:01:52,975 --> 01:01:55,745
Those are the terms I use.
Thank you. So I feel like,

1533
01:01:57,447 --> 01:01:58,648
if Board of Ed is not

1534
01:01:58,648 --> 01:02:02,852
focusing on, kids or the budget,
they're doing something wrong.

1535
01:02:02,885 --> 01:02:05,888
I'm very passionate about that. So,

1536
01:02:05,922 --> 01:02:10,193
but, so I see people go after an even

1537
01:02:10,193 --> 01:02:13,963
notable people,
shall we say, go after our town employees.

1538
01:02:13,963 --> 01:02:18,301
And that makes me crazy
because I be because of my role on zoning.

1539
01:02:18,901 --> 01:02:20,103
I get exposure to them all.

1540
01:02:20,103 --> 01:02:24,607
And these guys, they work
70 hour weeks on an average week.

1541
01:02:25,108 --> 01:02:30,246
They they are if half of them,
if they went to the private sector,

1542
01:02:30,613 --> 01:02:34,650
they'd earn ten times as much money
and they'd be in an executive suite

1543
01:02:34,951 --> 01:02:36,452
like they're that good.

1544
01:02:36,452 --> 01:02:39,789
And so it really bothers me when,
and there was

1545
01:02:39,789 --> 01:02:42,725
I don't know if you saw Romney's
admonishment in business Buzz yesterday

1546
01:02:42,725 --> 01:02:44,894
talking about the town employees
and talking about how,

1547
01:02:44,894 --> 01:02:47,764
you know, our Electeds are all volunteers,
unpaid volunteers.

1548
01:02:47,764 --> 01:02:50,133
And because people are
all wound up over the budget,

1549
01:02:51,367 --> 01:02:54,370
because this is the time of year
people get lined up over the budget

1550
01:02:54,737 --> 01:02:58,674
and, you know, they're working hard
to trim it, to try to minimize the impact.

1551
01:02:59,275 --> 01:03:02,278
We're kind of in a weird spot right now
because,

1552
01:03:03,613 --> 01:03:05,014
so we had Arpa funding, you know what?

1553
01:03:05,014 --> 01:03:09,152
Arpa funding was okay, American
Rescue Plan Act funding from Covid.

1554
01:03:09,152 --> 01:03:13,022
So a lot of money from Arpa,
which I do not think there's a mayor

1555
01:03:13,022 --> 01:03:16,225
in the country or a town in the country,
used it more judiciously

1556
01:03:16,959 --> 01:03:19,829
than West Hartford, than Mayor Cantor
Rick Ludwig,

1557
01:03:19,829 --> 01:03:22,832
the town manager
and and the town of West Hartford.

1558
01:03:24,066 --> 01:03:27,003
So Arpa really ran out in 2024.

1559
01:03:27,003 --> 01:03:30,072
We've got some carryover on projects,
you know, shovel ready,

1560
01:03:30,139 --> 01:03:33,509
you know, to use the Obama
term, shovel ready projects.

1561
01:03:34,410 --> 01:03:36,913
So we've got we've got some money.

1562
01:03:36,913 --> 01:03:38,381
We the town of West Hartford, has some.

1563
01:03:38,381 --> 01:03:41,083
So you're going to see
like the beautification of the center,

1564
01:03:41,083 --> 01:03:42,685
you know,
all the trees are going to be replaced.

1565
01:03:42,685 --> 01:03:45,121
A lot of signage
on a lot of beautification.

1566
01:03:45,121 --> 01:03:46,355
You're going to see around town.

1567
01:03:46,355 --> 01:03:49,659
That's going to make the town, you know,
function look nicer and function.

1568
01:03:49,859 --> 01:03:52,862
But Arpa is basically gone.

1569
01:03:53,429 --> 01:03:58,401
But the good news is because of mayor
can't just leadership and vision.

1570
01:03:58,701 --> 01:04:03,339
We have fantastic residential projects
coming online.

1571
01:04:03,339 --> 01:04:07,610
I mean incredible huge
I mean, one park we've got

1572
01:04:07,610 --> 01:04:12,248
I think four and Rick Ludwick
get him on. Yep.

1573
01:04:12,248 --> 01:04:14,217
Get him on as a guest.

1574
01:04:14,217 --> 01:04:18,187
I think we have four projects right now
that are are under construction, ready

1575
01:04:18,187 --> 01:04:22,158
to begin construction, under construction
or just finishing construction.

1576
01:04:22,458 --> 01:04:25,895
That's going to rank
and certainly in the top ten and maybe

1577
01:04:25,895 --> 01:04:29,732
even on the top five grand list
participants in town

1578
01:04:30,566 --> 01:04:33,336
Yukon, one Park Road.

1579
01:04:33,336 --> 01:04:35,404
And there's a bunch of others
I'm forgetting about,

1580
01:04:35,404 --> 01:04:38,341
but there's a two Yukon properties.
Those are two of them.

1581
01:04:38,341 --> 01:04:41,277
There's one Park Road, but and and it's

1582
01:04:41,277 --> 01:04:44,280
it's it's
Mayor Cantor's leadership and vision.

1583
01:04:44,380 --> 01:04:48,751
Talk about her being able
to see around corners that understood that

1584
01:04:48,751 --> 01:04:53,022
the economy where we're between
what things cost and, and

1585
01:04:53,189 --> 01:04:56,792
and the way the economy is right now,
you can't build single family homes.

1586
01:04:56,959 --> 01:04:59,228
It's not about not wanting to.

1587
01:04:59,228 --> 01:05:00,763
You can't afford to do it.

1588
01:05:00,763 --> 01:05:04,400
You can't make money doing it,
certainly for middle income people.

1589
01:05:04,433 --> 01:05:04,734
Yeah.

1590
01:05:04,734 --> 01:05:07,536
You could build a million
and a half dollars, mansions.

1591
01:05:07,536 --> 01:05:10,473
But you can't build the $600,000 home.

1592
01:05:10,473 --> 01:05:11,407
The 500,000 are home.

1593
01:05:11,407 --> 01:05:14,343
It costs too much per square
foot to build.

1594
01:05:14,343 --> 01:05:17,013
So to buy the dirt
and then to build a house,

1595
01:05:17,013 --> 01:05:19,982
it costs a third of an acre in this town
today.

1596
01:05:20,583 --> 01:05:23,419
That's not wetlands and not really

1597
01:05:23,419 --> 01:05:27,023
crappy on, like some terrible street.

1598
01:05:27,056 --> 01:05:27,990
I don't mean terrible

1599
01:05:29,058 --> 01:05:29,525
socio

1600
01:05:29,525 --> 01:05:32,895
economically, I mean terrible,
just terrible view.

1601
01:05:32,895 --> 01:05:35,231
Terrible to get water or other resources.

1602
01:05:35,231 --> 01:05:36,732
Other, other utilities.

1603
01:05:36,732 --> 01:05:39,735
They're terrible traffic,
that sort of thing.

1604
01:05:40,369 --> 01:05:44,073
The dirt is going to cost
you 250 for a third of an acre.

1605
01:05:45,174 --> 01:05:49,478
So your construction costs are going to be
350 to 400 per square foot.

1606
01:05:49,879 --> 01:05:55,284
So that's 400,000 for 1000ft square house.

1607
01:05:55,618 --> 01:05:57,386
Nobody wants a 1000ft square house.

1608
01:05:57,386 --> 01:06:02,491
So you're talking 800,000 under today,
800,000 construction costs, plus another

1609
01:06:02,491 --> 01:06:06,395
250 for the dirt to have a three bedroom,
two and a half baths house.

1610
01:06:06,395 --> 01:06:08,497
That is nice.

1611
01:06:08,497 --> 01:06:11,067
So that's
why all these condos and apartments.

1612
01:06:11,067 --> 01:06:14,403
So, Sherry, recognize Mayor Kantor,

1613
01:06:14,403 --> 01:06:17,406
recognize that we have to do multifamily.

1614
01:06:17,540 --> 01:06:21,377
And to her credit,
she's really, really working hard

1615
01:06:21,544 --> 01:06:25,381
to make sure that there's an affordable
component in everything that is built,

1616
01:06:25,881 --> 01:06:30,252
everything the Yukon properties
are 7.5% between the two.

1617
01:06:31,587 --> 01:06:34,590
This new one,
that vessel which you're going to vote on.

1618
01:06:34,657 --> 01:06:38,828
And let me disclaimer I'm on zoning,
but I did not vote on this.

1619
01:06:38,828 --> 01:06:40,062
This one I did not.

1620
01:06:40,062 --> 01:06:42,064
The way zoning works,
I don't vote on everything.

1621
01:06:42,064 --> 01:06:45,067
So, but vessel is a,

1622
01:06:46,836 --> 01:06:51,907
is, 10% affordable by deed.

1623
01:06:51,907 --> 01:06:53,042
It's deed restricted.

1624
01:06:53,042 --> 01:06:56,045
You're talking
40, 50, 60, 70 years by deed.

1625
01:06:56,245 --> 01:06:58,981
These things are designated
as affordable housing.

1626
01:06:58,981 --> 01:07:02,518
So it's because of that vision.

1627
01:07:03,219 --> 01:07:05,054
We're seeing huge growth in our rentals.

1628
01:07:05,054 --> 01:07:07,623
But for the next year
or two, we're in between.

1629
01:07:07,623 --> 01:07:09,091
We're we're in a we're in a gully

1630
01:07:09,091 --> 01:07:12,094
this is my I've not been told
this is a strictly my opinion.

1631
01:07:12,094 --> 01:07:13,162
Let me be very clear.

1632
01:07:13,162 --> 01:07:14,597
Based on my review of the budget,

1633
01:07:14,597 --> 01:07:17,733
my review of what's going on, no one has
told me anything, but we're in a gully.

1634
01:07:17,733 --> 01:07:18,701
We lost our plan.

1635
01:07:18,701 --> 01:07:20,503
We lost some of the other stuff
that we had.

1636
01:07:20,503 --> 01:07:22,938
We've
got all these great projects happening,

1637
01:07:22,938 --> 01:07:25,141
but the money's not quite online yet.

1638
01:07:25,141 --> 01:07:27,276
It's coming, but it's not quite there yet.

1639
01:07:27,276 --> 01:07:30,946
So we got a year
or two of a little bit of discomfort and,

1640
01:07:30,946 --> 01:07:34,650
and you know, the other thing
that happened is, the I believe

1641
01:07:34,650 --> 01:07:38,287
the teacher contracts and I think fire
police were all renegotiated.

1642
01:07:38,554 --> 01:07:40,623
Yep. I'm not teaching. I'm not speaking.

1643
01:07:40,623 --> 01:07:41,857
I'm not speaking for the town.

1644
01:07:41,857 --> 01:07:43,893
I'm simply offering an opinion.

1645
01:07:43,893 --> 01:07:46,662
And some of it I'm not for teachers,
not was rhetoric.

1646
01:07:46,662 --> 01:07:48,097
I keep hitting the mic. I'm so sorry.

1647
01:07:49,999 --> 01:07:51,467
Retroactive to 2021.

1648
01:07:51,467 --> 01:07:52,535
I was a teacher.

1649
01:07:52,535 --> 01:07:53,569
Okay? Not teachers.

1650
01:07:53,569 --> 01:07:56,105
Okay, so it wasn't teachers
somewhere around. Freeze.

1651
01:07:56,105 --> 01:07:58,107
Maybe the cops were on freeze for so long.

1652
01:07:58,107 --> 01:07:59,942
Perhaps. Yeah, but so.

1653
01:07:59,942 --> 01:08:04,313
So it's it's a little bit
so we have, you know, in past years, when

1654
01:08:04,313 --> 01:08:07,316
I've looked at the board of Ed Budget,
I've looked at the town budget,

1655
01:08:07,516 --> 01:08:08,617
particularly Board of Ed.

1656
01:08:08,617 --> 01:08:11,620
It's like, yeah, okay, we got room,
we got room, we got room.

1657
01:08:12,121 --> 01:08:14,723
I've, I've got through this budget.

1658
01:08:14,723 --> 01:08:16,258
I think I've done a really good job.

1659
01:08:16,258 --> 01:08:21,030
And it's like it's up
7% and there's just now seven, 7.18%.

1660
01:08:21,030 --> 01:08:26,168
I was bustin,
Paul was in his chops as a 7.8%, 7.18%.

1661
01:08:26,168 --> 01:08:30,106
He knew I was just goofing on him,
but, future I want him on the podcast. So.

1662
01:08:30,139 --> 01:08:31,841
Yeah. Paul would be great.

1663
01:08:31,841 --> 01:08:32,942
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, definitely.

1664
01:08:32,942 --> 01:08:36,979
Paul and Dave Kent, Rick
led with Rick, and, you know, another one.

1665
01:08:36,979 --> 01:08:38,280
Maybe he won't do it.

1666
01:08:38,280 --> 01:08:39,515
I'm going to get some trouble here.

1667
01:08:39,515 --> 01:08:40,950
Dallas Dodge.

1668
01:08:40,950 --> 01:08:43,486
He's awesome. He's really tall guy.

1669
01:08:43,486 --> 01:08:44,120
He's tall.

1670
01:08:44,120 --> 01:08:45,588
I don't think
there's our height requirement.

1671
01:08:45,588 --> 01:08:47,556
Yeah okay. So I got to be the tallest.

1672
01:08:47,556 --> 01:08:48,691
Oh yeah okay, okay.

1673
01:08:48,691 --> 01:08:52,061
Because there's a height of height
now, but, you know, yeah.

1674
01:08:52,061 --> 01:08:54,130
Dallas,
I think would be an interesting question.

1675
01:08:54,130 --> 01:08:55,064
We wanted to come on, but.

1676
01:08:55,064 --> 01:08:59,235
Yeah, get get, a LaToya would be,
you'd have fun on the Toya.

1677
01:08:59,235 --> 01:09:01,403
She's on board of Ed. Nice.

1678
01:09:01,403 --> 01:09:03,939
You know, fun with her. She's passionate.

1679
01:09:03,939 --> 01:09:04,740
She'll give you.

1680
01:09:04,740 --> 01:09:06,675
Should give you a good hour. Hour
and a half.

1681
01:09:06,675 --> 01:09:08,210
So perfect. Yeah.

1682
01:09:08,210 --> 01:09:10,980
So not great talking with.
No, this is fun.

1683
01:09:10,980 --> 01:09:13,382
Sorry, I go on, I apologize before we end.

1684
01:09:13,382 --> 01:09:14,116
I'm a teacher.

1685
01:09:15,451 --> 01:09:15,818
Favorite

1686
01:09:15,818 --> 01:09:18,921
teacher, Eleanor Carr,
Greenwich high school.

1687
01:09:18,921 --> 01:09:21,924
Well, senior year, she was awesome.

1688
01:09:21,924 --> 01:09:25,361
Just inspired me to do the writing
that I do.

1689
01:09:26,495 --> 01:09:28,531
And, Yeah, she was just terrific.

1690
01:09:28,531 --> 01:09:30,566
So really great. She died a few years ago.

1691
01:09:30,566 --> 01:09:31,967
She died right at the beginning of Covid.

1692
01:09:31,967 --> 01:09:35,004
Not out of Covid, but like 2018, 19. So.

1693
01:09:35,037 --> 01:09:37,072
And I want to thank you
for volunteering your time.

1694
01:09:37,072 --> 01:09:38,440
Celebrity, sir. Sure.

1695
01:09:38,440 --> 01:09:40,976
Are you just generous donation.
I also want to thank you for that.

1696
01:09:40,976 --> 01:09:42,578
That was very kind of you.

1697
01:09:42,578 --> 01:09:44,013
Thoughtful and kind. Generous.

1698
01:09:44,013 --> 01:09:46,315
Your good friend had a good time
talking with you.

1699
01:09:46,315 --> 01:09:50,352
A lot of politics,
a lot of cars, a lot of Wycombe.

1700
01:09:50,352 --> 01:09:53,055
My next episode, we'll discuss women. Yes.
Okay. Yeah.

1701
01:09:53,055 --> 01:09:53,889
Probably not. Right.

1702
01:09:53,889 --> 01:09:56,759
And then part two,
we're going to cut that out.

1703
01:09:56,759 --> 01:09:57,560
Okay. Make a note.

1704
01:09:57,560 --> 01:10:01,564
Your little notepad there cut out
you know minute 64 to 65.

1705
01:10:01,997 --> 01:10:06,368
So part two coming on the Wycombe
all politics is local. Yes.

1706
01:10:07,069 --> 01:10:09,872
On three will say be a good friend
to to each other.

1707
01:10:09,872 --> 01:10:12,308
Yeah. Okay. 123 be good friend.