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#BeAGoodFriend and check out episode #133 of #FeeneyTalksWithFriends featuring Ryan McGinnis.
It was great to talk with my #friend, Ryan!
He is the owner of Ryan’s Softwash.
We talked about:
Thank you card from Christina from Empower (minute 1)
Ryan donated $2000 worth of toys to our Toy Drive (minute 2)
Webster Hill School and the West Hartford community (minute 5)
The softwash business (minute 7)
“Feeney giving me a shoutout” Instagram reel (minute 9)
Podcast sponsors (minute 10)
Our newest podcast sponsor, Sally and Bob’s! (minute 11)
3 Keys (sponsored by West Hartford Lock) to running Ryan’s Softwash (minute 13)
Ryan’s Softwash flyer (minute 15)
Matt Dicks (minute 17)
Phone call from “Wife of Feeney” (minute 22)
Softwash Jobs: First, Last, Best, Worst (minute 24)
Pro & Cons of Softwashing (minute 28)
Jeff Webster (minute 31)
Eric Bergenn (minute 32)
Allie Belluci (minute 35)
The Dancing Leprechaun (minute 36)
Mark from First Tee (minute 38)
FoF Collaboration with Eric Bergenn (minute 39)
Upcoming events (minute 40)
Sully Shamrock’s Pasta Dinner (minute 41)
Ryan’s favorite restaurants (minute 42)
Ryan’s favorite teacher (minute 44)
Eggs Benedict (minute 45)
Recommendations (minute 46)
Homemade hot sauce! (minute 49)
Thai Tran, our newest director on the board
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Creators and Guests
Host
Eric Feeney
After teaching for nearly a decade at his alma mater in Waterbury, in 2014, Eric Feeney began teaching at Wolcott Elementary in West Hartford. Shortly following, Sam Sohn, the father of one of his students, passed away suddenly from a heart attack. He left behind four beautiful children and a loving wife, Nancy Wallace-Sohn. Eric saw first-hand the toll this took on the family as they navigated their way through this unthinkable tragedy. The following year, Rashad Collier Sr., another father of a student in Eric’s class, passed away in Hartford as a result of gun violence. Rashad left behind two fantastic children and a loving wife, Denise Villegas. The impact of these tragedies weighed on Eric and motivated him to build an organization that could provide assistance for similar situations. With that, Friends of Feeney was born. In 2019, Friends of Feeney Inc. became an official 501©(3) nonprofit organization, allowing more funds to be raised and expanding the range of services provided to children and families in need. Today, over a decade since Eric’s idea to build a community organization dedicated to supporting our friends in need, Friends of Feeney has burgeoned into a reputable and recognized organization capable of providing financial and resource support to numerous families and individuals across greater Hartford and beyond. Through this work, an incredible community of children and families has been recognized, who care for and appreciate each other’s kindness.
Producer
David Chmielewski
David started his video career in the early 1990s working on video crews as an independent contractor for such companies as Martha Stewart Living, IBM and Xerox. After graduating Southern Connecticut State University with the degree in Corporate Communications, David continued his video production career and accepted a position at WFSB in Hartford, CT. Within a few years the news and production studios became his charge and David designed, installed and maintained the televisions sets for the various programs at the station. At the end of 2013 David founded DirectLine Media, a video production company that specializes in creating memorable and compelling video content for businesses.
Editor
Stefania Sassano
Stefania's acting journey began as early as the fourth grade, where she took on the role of Scarlett O'Hara in a stage production of Gone With the Wind. This early experience sparked a lifelong passion for the arts. With a background in musical theater fueled by her love of music and singing, Stefania stepped into larger roles, such as Fraulein Kost in Cabaret during her sophomore year at the University of New Haven. This performance earned her a nomination for the prestigious Irene Ryan Acting Award at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival—an honor she would receive again in her junior year.
What is Feeney Talks With Friends?
Eric Feeney talks with #friends! Eric is the founder of the nonprofit organization Friends of Feeney. Their mission is to help children and families who need assistance after heartbreak and tragedy. www.friendsoffeeney.com
All right, all right.
Feeney talks with friends, episode 133.
How are you doing, Ryan? Doing well.
Thanks for having. Me.
This is great, Ryan. Soft wash. Yeah.
Ryan's soft wash dot com..
What the hell?
Handsome coat.
Dude, you looking good.
Yeah.
Some swagger.
No dress.
Good work. Good. Clean. Good. Yeah.
This is awesome.
My name is Eric Feeney, founder
and president of Friends of Feeney.
Our mission is to help
children and families that need assistance
after heartbreak or tragedy.
And I use this podcast.
Feeney talks with friends,
and I talk to wonderful
people that are doing great things.
And today we're here with Ryan McGinnis.
Excellent name.
Last podcast was also great.
We had the Empire in power.
We are in power.com.
And that's Christina and Tommy.
And, Adam, if you ever listen.
I am a big, big, big proponent.
Big fan of the handwritten note.
So, Christina wrote me a note.
Dear Eric, thank you
so much for having us on your podcast.
We appreciate the opportunity
to share our mission of empower
with you and your audience.
Looking forward to many more chances
to collaborate in the future.
With gratitude.
Christina, Tommy and Katie.
That's wonderful.
Well, I want to write someone
a handwritten note.
We'll make a mental note of that.
I always do that.
So my friend Chris is always sending me
postcards.
Handwritten.
I love getting them. It's great.
It's a dying art.
Yes. And I try to do that.
Try to send a few a week.
So it's great.
It's a good. It's
definitely better than an email.
Yeah. Text.
It's getting you a better habit
of doing that.
See today
we learn some new or 133 with my guy Ryan.
Excellent. How are you doing, buddy?
I'm doing really well.
Thanks. So, yeah, you do great things.
So many things to talk about today, but,
number one.
First off, I want to thank you,
that you helped us during our toy drive.
Our fifth annual toy drive, just finished.
Will not just finish.
That happened in December. Yeah.
We, you know, we need a few more toys.
And I don't know how and why
you reached out to Friends of Feeney.
But it was amazing.
And you were so thoughtful.
And I'm so grateful.
You were very generous.
I think alone,
you had about 50 boxes of Jenga.
The game Jenga?
Easily. Yeah.
So it was crazy.
So, we'd roughly.
We'll talk about a little bit.
Yeah. Did you do that?
Why did you do that?
We had roughly around about run
$2,000 worth of toys.
So,
my buddy Nate, we,
we collaborated this time around.
I usually, cmmc is usually,
what we've donated our toys
to in the past.
They change their policy.
I'm not sure if they had received
too many toys or whatever the case may be,
but they were requesting, like, more gift
cards this year,
and we really were big on the toys.
My daughter had some hip surgeries,
a few years ago.
Several years ago now. But.
So Cmmc was just kind of close
to our hearts and we and really enjoyed
giving back to them.
And so
we wanted to continue giving away toys.
So for that instance, we had,
I think I had reached out to Avi
and asked, he was like, you know,
reach out to Eric Feeney and just,
you know, you
you guys should connect anyway.
And we did that.
And one thing led to another,
and we had all our toys ready to go
because I, I usually donate a toy
per housewares that we do every year.
So we kind of my wife and I collect them
throughout the year in the season,
and then we give them away
at the end of the year or so.
So we ended up with the, you.
Know,
maybe like six bags, big heavy boxes.
You had a nice table display.
It was on Instagram.
We'll share it.
We'll have it posted right next to it
here.
I got it saved.
Yeah. My mother had given me some advice,
about.
Oh, yeah,
that you and your buddy Nate? Yep.
Yeah.
So that's up. Someone's call on me.
But, yeah, you can see a lot of Jenga.
A lot of Legos.
I used my mother's influence.
She said that a lot of older kids
get forgotten about with toy drives.
So she said find something
for some of the older kids.
Dog man book classic. Yeah.
Then the throwback slinky. Oh! Come on.
Uno. Green bear. No.
Mickey.
Then you brought it to my school.
That's right. Yeah.
That was great.
So that's.
I think that was the first time.
That was the first time we met. Yeah,
it was short.
You were on your, lunch break? Yeah.
But, No.
And it's so funny
that, your Ryan's software qcom.
You say, you know, use software
so it doesn't hurt.
Harm the environment or harm the roof
or the decks, and.
Right, your key line was like, at
the bottom was like,
I like to give back to the community.
And I was like, oh that guy really does
because he gave back on that toy drive.
Extremely generous.
Were there any other times or cmmc
any other times or that you've given back
to the community before?
Yeah. So my kids go to Webb Hill.
So Gary and Lauren
and they're the PGA presidents over there.
They're great.
I should connect the two of you guys.
Their turkey trot.
The run.
Run? Yep.
Every year. So we gave back.
We donated to them.
All little organizations
will try to give us the.
Give what we can.
What made you throw that line in there?
Because you don't see that
many, many times on businesses.
I loved it, and I it's stuck out to me.
Stuck out?
Stuck out.
So I moved around a lot as a child.
Like, every two years,
we moved to a different state.
You know,
my father was getting promotion,
so we were very fortunate in that realm.
But as far as, like, community
based aspect, we moved around a lot when I
didn't really have a sense of community
growing up.
My wife grew up in West Hartford
throughout middle school,
and then they moved to Farmington.
So she has her heart set in West Hartford.
And then, we were out in canton
for a number of years.
We had our first child out there.
Addie's she's seven now.
And, when we were thinking
about the second, we needed a move and,
both sets of parents are in Farmington,
which is great to have locally.
We wanted to be close.
You know, we're big foodies,
so we wanted to be close to West Hartford
because every weekend
we were going to eat Ong's
or Corner pug or Hartford Bacon Companies
to be in Elmwood.
We were all over there every weekend.
And so, yeah, we just ended
up in West Hartford and we bought a duplex
right during the pandemic,
like March 2020,
like when everything was falling apart.
And, yeah, we've been there ever since.
Very cool.
Well, welcome to West Hartford.
So happy to have you again.
Your generosity thoughtfully
meant the world to our nonprofit.
Can't thank you enough. Excellent.
And it's really cool that you're here.
Again.
You're. Ryan. Soph, wash at Ryan.
Soph, wash.com (860) 830-0040.
Lot of zeros to.
That number since I was 17. Nice.
It just turned into the business line.
And you've been in the soft wash business
for about three and a half years. Yes.
Yeah.
So I started this during the
pandemic, as a side hustle.
Home service
based industries were really doing well,
and this didn't really require any
licensors or anything along those lines.
So, it was just a low barrier to entry.
Job to start.
I wanted to start a business out of it.
I have a physical therapy backgrounds.
I've been in the health care industry
for a number of years,
and, started this during the side
and then,
you know, we went through the pandemic,
which was challenging in itself.
My wife and I both work in health care,
so we work through the pandemic,
which presented challenges in itself.
Child care, you know, you name it.
I'm sure presented some interesting
challenges in a school teacher
as well, but, but yeah, my company
had sold to a venture capital firm.
I worked for them for a year,
which is pretty awful.
And then I decided to take a break,
so I quit, a couple weeks before
Christmas, and then I took the winter off,
and then I started full time
a couple of years ago. Wow.
I asked my wife, I go, hey, do you okay
with me, doing this full time?
Sure. Let's let's give it a shot.
So, yeah, we just started our third year,
you know.
And you're comfortable walking on roofs?
Yes, for the most part.
And it's.
You caught me walking
on, like, a ranch style.
So I like to access a roof from, like,
the first floor.
I don't walk, like, 2 or 3 storey homes
if I can avoid it.
Most of my equipment, I can shoot from
the ground or like, using a ladder. So,
we're an
exterior cleaning company,
a residential base, pretty much.
So we don't clean cars, which is confused
when I'm just driving the truck around.
I don't have the trailer.
So, yeah, I, become more comfortable
walking routes.
Yeah. Now, it's so funny that you are.
You text you like I'm going to be right
near Wolcott.
So I'm like, all right, let me.
And I saw that you took a picture
of the school, so I knew what angle.
So I went out the door.
Yeah. Took a selfie.
And I was like, hey,
I had the background. I'm at the Wolcott.
And then I was like, I.
I went out the front door on my way.
No, no, no, he's towards the right.
So I go out
and I see your truck and I'm like, right.
Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yes.
It was great.
I just happened to be filming.
I'm like,
yeah, it's got a shout out from me. You.
I'm like, come up to the top
and I'm from a distance.
Yeah.
It was a bunch of branches on the way.
Yeah.
It's terrible.
Do another picture for the zoom in.
There's a zoom in.
Did your, daughter show
you how to do that shake feature on it?
I don't know, I was impressed.
They just offer that. I didn't know.
That's funny.
Yeah. There's another you on the roof.
So there's the yellow house
that you were on. Well, that.
And then the video is hilarious.
I appreciate you sharing the video. Yeah,
that was good.
The video, you're like,
where's that pretty cool music.
It's the last Instagram, video. Let's see.
I think we shared on each other. So,
Let's see.
I put rooftop Ryan.
Let's make.
It. And I cut the interaction out
at the top,
and then I come right back into the
the scene.
Oh. Oh, that was from the like.
It's the best part.
I know. You're like,
I. Got a shot off. The scene.
Come on. Mr. blew it. Blowing it.
Too much pressure.
Boy oh boy.
What song is that?
I was whatever's free on Instagram.
I try to look up like
a beats or rap or something.
Yeah, I don't really have a good theme.
Yeah.
All right, why don't. We go continue?
They make increase.
I'm going to say age.
Son. Like with us.
We're like yelling a good 200ft easily.
Yeah. Screaming easily.
Press this.
He's like.
This feeling.
Give him a shout out.
To give me happy.
Senior. Give me a shout out.
I saw a kid out.
I saw a kid in the hallway.
I'm gonna come here, kid.
Stand right here.
Let me back in when I need to go.
Get back into the school.
Now. I'm like.
Yeah, I'm like, all right, cool.
Like, get back here.
Love to man. Appreciate it. Yeah,
that was good.
Taking the time out of your lunch
break thing.
We have sponsors. Sweet.
Let's do let's get into our sponsors.
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Even though she stated
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I know he probably got the mescal.
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Great people come down and check them out.
I like the eggs, Benny. With the hash.
You like the eggs, Benny.
With the Syriza. Torres.
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Yeah, it's good too.
Stephanie is on board.
We got Stefania.
Benny coming?
Just met. Stefania was great.
I just listened to her, podcast
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It was great.
You remember what number one 2120 312.
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Excellent.
And with West Hartford Lock,
what are three keys
that make you great
at being Ryan soft. Wash
three keys.
Well, it's not a difficult business
that I run.
I pretty much follow
manufacturing guidelines.
So, you know, where can you stand
separate from other companies, right.
So collaboration, I think, is key
to collaborating with my clients,
giving them a proper walk through
a really explaining the process to,
like,
really managing expectations overall,
I think is is essential
letting a know what the process is.
How is this different from,
like some gentleman on a pickup truck
with a power washer from Home Depot?
Like, how do we how do we differentiate
ourselves from those people
and just explain the whole process
and what we do to properly protect,
you know, a lot of common concerns
that we have or plant
protection is a safe for my pets.
All this common questions that we get,
we like to just make sure that we manage
all those expectations
and run through that whole process
and just kind of have a collaboration
working together.
I think like community,
like community building,
I think would be number two.
Yeah.
There's actually another kid in town,
that has a business just like mine.
David with Wicked Clean.
Give him a shout out and,
I would consider myself
like, a mentor to him, in a way.
And we kind of just talk and collaborate,
and, you know, people would consider him,
like a direct competitor to me.
But I just like to collaborate and work
with other people in the industry
and kind of learning and, just presenting
that kind of community after giving back.
Obviously that's big for us.
Excuse me.
You know, just not having a community
growing up.
And I just really, really wanted
to establish, like living in an area.
My wife and I found that
to be really important and giving back.
And just like meeting people like you
that have started really great,
nonprofits and organizing
and that kind of stuff is really important
to me.
Number three.
Community collaboration.
I think. And.
Continuous improvement,
you know, in the health care industry,
there's always continuing education
that's required.
You know, we're always trying
to stay on top of like, industry
standards, new equipment
that's coming out.
I think that's just really important.
And like, what's next?
What's in the future
five year plans, you know,
where do we go from here
as far as growing in this industry?
And trying to pick up on those trends?
I think that's really important. Cool.
All right.
Continued growth. Yeah. That's a teacher.
That's right. Yeah.
Continued educational units.
Yeah, I guess units.
That's a while ago.
I like. That anymore.
We have them in health care too.
So physical therapy world
ASM everything looks.
At that right there.
I know it's terrible. Print out blame.
I tried to print from my phone
to my printer, but we cut you off.
It says Ryan off
wash the Friends of Phoenix logos here.
It's call your number.
Call or text (860) 830-0040.
Can we discuss the prices and, what?
That campaign didn't really do
that. Well, so.
So blessed are for neighbors and friends.
They allow, businesses
to market, quarterly,
which is great because then obviously
they want to be flooded with businesses
every single day.
So, you know,
I try to be strategic about posting
when I can do that for my business.
So yeah, we do like a little.
Oh, this is not ongoing. This is over.
Just half the time going on. Oh, yeah,
I know it's all right.
It's ongoing
now. Yeah. It's our spring clean up. Yes.
We're offering 199 gutter
cleaning up to 20 500 square foot homes.
This is just kind of an attempt
to get new clients.
Nice.
In our queue,
because obviously a lot of people
get that done biannually or annually.
Yeah. Warehouse washing.
You know, I do have some clients
that get it done every year,
but you can probably get away with it
for two years or so
and then roof cleanings even,
you know, every three years or so.
We'll pull it up.
I love neighbors and friends.
Oh, Patty Patty's episode.
Yep, yep.
What else do we have?
That was great episode.
I'll we'll share that on here too.
We have this right here.
I don't know, I have
I don't have it on my phone.
But yeah, Neighbors and Friends is a great
been a really, really wonderful resource.
Yeah. Patty's awesome.
They've been building a lot of clients,
through that.
Oh, speaking of clients, neighbors
and friends.
Yeah. My coworker.
Do you know who that was?
You know, I don't. Coworker.
Put it on neighbors and friends. Okay?
You just did it.
Did his house.
Newington teacher. Author.
Did he get into it?
You did his roof. Matt.
Yes. Great.
Yeah. Great guy. Matt. Dicks. Yeah.
I just left a staff meeting with him
and I asked him, hey, how's your roof?
He's like, loved it.
He didn't provide me with, like,
immediate feedback. So I got worried.
I was like, oh no. I'm like, he's
good friends with me.
And I'm like.
So. His wife,
Miss Green, teaches at Webb Hill.
So my daughter
Addie might have her next year too.
And I'm like, oh, great. Listen, you know,
I just get all paranoid about it.
Is she kindergarten? She's third grade.
That's right. She was there.
She was kindergarten.
I think she was in the
maybe pre-K or kindergarten.
One of the other. Yeah.
So, yeah, he's a great guy.
Alicia. Is. Also house wash.
Yeah.
He can give you immediate feedback.
Come on. Matt, no immediate feedback.
No. Episode
one Matt Dicks first, first podcast out.
I'd like to talk to him.
I was checking out his Facebook page,
and he's a storyteller.
Yeah. I read a book.
Multiple. Yeah.
I had a couple nonfiction books.
He wrote a really good one
about imaginary friends.
He wrote one about Caroline Jacobs. Okay.
He has a midlife crisis.
During a PTO meeting, Eric
Feeney makes an appearance in the book.
I'll go check that one out.
Page one and four. Excellent.
It says Eric Feeney ties is already tied.
Shoes. Yeah.
Wearing a Giants jersey because it was a
Thursday night or something.
Where's he
I think he's in my school walk it.
Oh he's like well I went past his room.
So right there his his room with the rocks
was looking at your wherever
you were cleaning.
Got it. So he's on the end.
You mentioned being in a meeting with him.
That makes sense. Matt digs.
He's a good guy.
He's all right.
These are the million, right?
I'm like, you must be good friends
because you're giving them a hard time.
Like no one talks about any of that way.
I love it, I love it, though.
Very true. That's,
you know, someone like they could bust.
Well, we play golf together.
Poker together.
I told a couple stories for him.
He likes to give the jabs.
I give the jabs.
But that's. You know,
when you like someone.
Or do you play a poker?
You go. At his house.
Group of guys? Yep.
Yeah. Yeah.
It have has not happened in a long time.
But I want to say with us,
we have a group of guys.
It's hard to collaborate,
get everyone together.
Then I have another coworker.
She's like Feeney
I got priced for 300 bucks to do my deck.
Can your guy beat that?
I mean, can you go on record?
It's in Simsbury.
Do you want to see it is 300 typical.
Too much, not enough?
It depends on the size of the deck.
Yeah, I'm definitely not going to be
the lowest price.
You know, we try to offer
excellent customer service and quality.
So there's always someone out there.
There's going to be a lot of beat price.
So it's never something
we're trying to compete with.
Yeah.
What does it take on that being the lowest
price or, or when someone goes,
oh it only took you ten minutes.
Why do I got to pay this much?
Or there's because you hear that
no matter what the job is.
Plumbers, painters. Like.
Oh, that I'm paying you this much,
but it took you this much time.
Or course,
I mean, you're paying for the experience.
You're paying for the knowledge.
You know, the ten, 15,
20 years of experience
that I know what the problem is.
I have the right tools for it.
You know, my
my wife gives me a hard time. Let's see.
I'm like, I can I'll do this myself.
You know,
I try to, like, price myself out of my.
All right, well, if I value myself at this
dollar amount, I'll just do it myself.
Then I'm going Home
Depot, spending $400 on new tools.
Multiple trips to home.
Multiple trips.
Yeah, plumbing is a is a big one for me
because I'm like, I know better.
But I'm like,
I decided not to call a plumber.
God forbid. You know. The problem.
I've done that.
Yeah. I'm a son of a painter.
My dad painted for years, and I'm like,
I can paint.
But then it's like,
that's six hours of your day to.
Yeah.
Valuing my time, is one of the reasons
I started this business, like,
so I could I drop my kids off
and pick them up at school every day.
So, like, having that quality time
with family is really important to me.
And just valuing your time where,
you know, I was working,
you know, 70 hour weeks before.
It was just like it was draining.
How many jobs do you do in one day to pay?
Depends. Yeah.
You usually have like, anywhere
between like three and four,
depending on the jobs itself.
You know, like Matt's job took,
you know, a few hours
where you know, I could do a house wash,
maybe in an hour, an hour and a half.
So it just depends on the scope of work
that that you.
Yeah. Nice.
And I try to like, be logistical
about where what town we're in,
and what we're working and kind of
just do it that way, be more strategic.
Try to end in West Hartford if I can.
So yeah.
And shout out to Matt again,
this is a storytelling game.
Yeah.
House washes our jobs.
It's called first last best worst.
Your first job.
Your last job your best job.
Your worst job in the in the industry.
Hold on. I got to get this. My wife.
Yeah, yeah. Hello.
You want to be on the podcast? I.
Yeah. What?
Ryan. Soft wash.
And I'm going to golf right after you.
Golf and after jealous.
Yeah. I'm going to give me a. Fake.
Ryan.
He's a power washer.
He donated a bunch of toys. Great guy,
great beard, great beer to.
Yeah.
Oh, you look forward to the episode.
All right. You want to say hi. To Ryan
here? Let's say hi.
Go ahead. You're on speaker now.
Hello, Ryan. Hi.
How are you?
I'm lovely.
How are you? Sorry to interrupt.
No, no, not at all.
Thanks for, allowing
Eric this time to, hang out with me.
Oh, no.
Please enjoy.
Keep him as long as I can.
Yeah, you can have it. Fair enough.
All right. Love you.
Let me do my.
Wife a fini.
How long are you married?
19 years.
So it'll be 20 in October.
Oh, my. 20 years.
And it feels like forever.
Yeah. I'm kidding, I love it.
20 years. Long time.
That's a long time.
It's, It's a decade.
It was 20 years is amazing.
Best thing ever happened to me.
I met her at southern.
I tell that story a like
I told Matt Dicks back to Matt Dick.
Yeah, yeah.
I told the story.
I'll. I'll send it to you. How? I met her.
We were separated by thin walls
at Brownell Hall in southern.
That southern.
I just banged on the wall until she.
She hated me. Until she liked me.
That's fantastic.
You can check it out on YouTube, and,
but, it's
a hard Kokomo when we're moving day,
I heard Kokomo, so I'm like,
who's playing Kokomo?
I go out and there she is with, basketball
shorts, short hair that was.
It was love at first sight.
Yeah, a lot of man. That's great.
That's. Doctor. Yeah. So she liked me.
Okay.
It's a strategy. You.
Know, about, 20 years,
and then every five years,
we got married at the Simsbury Inn.
So coming up, we we we had that wedding
picture at the gazebo of us kissing.
Okay, so.
And our fifth year anniversary,
I brought my girls
and they held up the five.
We kissed in the gazebo.
Then the girls held up the ten.
Then, you know, 15.
Now this year they going
held up to 20. So.
And we have all the picture.
That's great.
So it's pretty cool.
Black and white, just like our original.
Yeah.
She is the senior director of Oak Hill.
Okay.
It was Oak Hill School of the blind.
Yeah, that's Oak Hill centers.
They have a New England
assistive technology.
They have a chapter 126.
They do.
It's the largest nonprofit
for people with disabilities.
Do great things over there, Good stuff.
Well, back to Matt Dixon.
Matt Dick story, Matt Dick
storytelling game.
So your soft wash, your first job
I'm going to.
Meet up with Matt is interesting.
Last job, first job, worse job.
First job was family friend.
Single side of the house,
which I don't do anymore.
Was just first job.
So I was great. Real supportive.
Last job was. Now.
What do you mean, why?
Why don't you do single side?
It's whole house or not? Yeah.
Just it just.
To get the all the equipment there.
Set up and breakdowns of pain.
I like to have, like a set number
in my head for per hour.
I like to be at
and then revenue for the day.
And, you know, now that we're,
you know, busier than we can handle,
that's kind of where
we're at at that point.
I was looking for experience and anyone
willing to let me work on their home.
So shout out to them.
Last job was today.
Actually TMZ, magic carpet cleaning.
I think this is business.
Daniel is, Brazilian guy. He's on what?
Neighbors and friends. Awesome. Dude.
You know, need
your carpets are repulsor cleaned.
He just moved into a new house,
and he asked me to go clean it,
so I did that today. Did some videos.
I'll post that tomorrow.
And what is a best and worst? Yep.
Best job.
I mean, anything that films really.
Well, I really like, really cool roof
that's safe, but it looks dangerous,
so that's always fun.
Lots of different angles.
Worst job.
I mean, it's rare that we mess
something up at a property, but
occasionally will ruin some flowers
or something like that.
So that stresses me out big time.
But I think the important thing
a business, everyone makes mistakes.
So I think fixing those mistakes, I think,
is where you stand, apart from others,
this lady, I, I had,
ruined a couple of her flowers,
and they were on their last legs anyway.
And I just went to, What's that place?
Mascara. Mascara?
Yeah. Really?
Field? Yeah.
Really high. Place.
Nice.
44. And I just got a $200 gift
card, and I handed it to her and go
pay for next spring.
Just redo your entire house
and just get whatever you want.
I mean, I might,
I think I burned a $20 plant or something
that was on its last leg, so, like, just,
I think making a difference
and doing something along those lines.
Yeah.
And she's always doing shout out to
neighbors and friends for me all the time.
I mean, anyway, she was visibly upset
if something bothered her
and I was upset that it happened.
And, you know,
I think it's just important
to address those mistakes and,
you know, make up for them.
Awesome.
First worst is the stress part of it.
But yeah, ended up being, really good.
Anthony's abatement mentioned that too.
He's like, if we happen to make a mistake,
it doesn't happen often,
but we will work hard to fix it.
And yeah, buy the gift card
or do whatever you got to do.
Exactly. Yeah.
Yeah, I liked his episode.
He was, interesting.
Yeah.
My wife support job, too. So.
I like all the, talking about Chavez and,
primavera.
Yeah, yeah, all the all the spots.
I love it. Yeah.
All right, so we got
pros and cons of cleaning the roof.
This is from a from the website.
Oh, from. Website. Okay. From a website?
Yeah. Pros and cons. What do you think?
What are some pros of getting your roof
cleaned?
Just extending the life of your shingles.
Boom. Longer roof lifespan.
Yeah. 5 to 7 years.
Roughly on average,
depending on how old that roof is.
Obviously,
a roof replacement is very expensive.
If it's needed,
it will inform the customer
that, you know,
it's really just beyond expectations, but,
you know, are a lot of lime
composite and roof shingles.
So bacteria, there's, you know, see,
like those black streaks on roofs.
Everyone thinks it looks dirty
and it's called glo caps of magma.
It's a bacteria
that feeds off of those lime,
shingles.
The composite in the lime.
Lime. Yeah. All right, there's one.
There's four for each.
For pros, for cons.
What do you think?
I mean, just esthetics.
Better
looking curb appeal is is key, right.
And just just property
management in general is just making sure
that you're maintaining your home.
I mean that's a that's
probably one of your more expensive,
replacement features in a home.
It's not a kitchen
or bathroom that you can enjoy every day.
Cons I mean, there's
not that many cons to that.
I'm going to say
there's no cons to cleaning your.
Get your roof cleaned for sure.
Oh, I did see that.
What makes. Well, give you a hint.
You use soft wash. Yes.
So what would be a con?
So we use a chlorine based product.
So, you know,
that is a concern for some customers.
You know, traditional power
washing is not ideal for siding.
It can really expedite oxidation and start
deteriorating that siding and also doesn't
kill any of the mold spores either.
So we use a very low concentration
chlorine based with a commercial grade,
so and then it's a low pressure solution.
So a traditional pressure
washer is like 3000 psi.
We're hovering below 300 psi.
So it's a little bit stronger
than an, a garden hose that we use, like
special guns and hoses that I can allow me
to shoot like 50ft in the air.
So there's also a reduction
in liabilities.
We don't they use a lot of ladders
as social media has it.
I mean,
I don't really go on a lot of roofs.
I do a lot of roofs for videos
if I if I need to and I inform customers,
most of the time
I can just clean this from the ground or
we A-frame a ladder in front of the house.
That way we're not damaging the home.
So those are some
of the the benefits there.
Gotcha.
Well, it said if the water is too hard,
it could damage the roof.
Is it dangerous? Yeah.
You don't want to pressure wash,
you know, roof shingles or pressure wash
siding like,
I don't know where it became an industry
norm, but painters utilize pressure
washing in preparation for painting,
whether they're painting vinyl
siding or not,
which is an argument, in the industry
or like wood shingles or cedar siding
shake or anything along those lines.
Pressure washing is a common,
tool to utilize to clean those surfaces
before prepping for paint.
Yeah.
So that kind of has become this
this is really if you just follow
manufacturing guidelines,
this is the solution that we use,
a low pressure solution with chlorine
mixed with the soap.
And that's what we utilize for
roofing shingles.
Just a slightly higher concentration
for roofs
and a lower concentration
for house washing for vinyl siding
and other materials.
Yeah.
My dad again being a painter, he he helped
paint my house when we first moved in.
And they're very common products.
From not stick
because the wood was always so moist
and someone suggests
and then the kept chipping.
He was like someone was like
you should pressure wash it.
Yeah, well he's like the water.
The wood already has water in it.
Why are we going to force more water
into it?
Yes. Defeats the purpose.
It'll never dry.
Correct?
We did. We chose not to pressure wash.
He was always against pressure
washing the wood.
Yeah for sure. Yeah, especially with wood.
And wood's very damaging. So.
But now I have siding.
Shout out to Webster
siding and building construction.
Jeff.
Yeah. You know Jeff Webster.
I know of him, I don't,
I don't know him personally but yeah.
They're Farmington guys. Yep yep yep.
Good guy.
Yeah. He, he's a sponsor.
He's a sponsor. He's on the parade shirt.
I was gonna.
Say he's the concert operator.
We're on the parade.
Our brand new mural at Parkville Market.
Okay.
He sponsored the excellent.
His daughter and son help actually
paint it.
That's cool.
And our murals are in
because he is in, invested
in or owns some of the, daily grind, so.
Oh, he does selling our max. Oh, nice.
Okay. Excellent.
Thanks. Jeff. Webster. Good guy.
Yeah.
Their son was in, our daughter's
pre-K class because they all the schools
kind of collaborate well, for the pre-K
program. So.
Great guy, great guy. Thanks, Jeff.
What's up with Eric Bergen?
You kind of talk like him.
Do you hang out with him a lot or. No.
Do I talk like him
a. Little bit, interest a little bit?
I like Eric a lot. He's great,
really smart. Dude.
Eric is kind of one of the first reasons
I got connected with a bunch of people.
So he's obviously. Well,
well connected on neighbors and friends
or within the community in general.
Someone was asking for recommendations
for pressure washing or washing a siding,
and he had put my name out there.
You should reach out to Ryan
Soft Wash and he.
I never met him before,
and I just sent him a private message
and just thanked him.
I think I really appreciate that.
You know,
we should grab a coffee sometime.
And we met up
and yeah, one thing led to another.
And then I met Obie through him
and a bunch of other guys.
Yeah, through through Eric.
So shout out to Eric
Rich at his networking, capabilities.
Oh, yeah. He's good.
Another one
we got to do. But we don't hang out.
As much as I'd like to.
Sally and Bob's.
This. This gets posted later
anyway. Right.
February 17th. We're coming up here.
Right here.
We're sitting right there.
That's right. Yeah. Boom.
Share that picture with you.
There's my guy Rob, your buddy.
That's right. My buddy
Pat was there that day I right.
Yeah. Eric John Decker.
That lives across the street from you.
Yeah I look for him now
when I walk your dog,
but, we'll have to send this.
I'm going to send this to Stephania
now, before I forget,
John Decker was a podcast.
Oh, yeah.
We had to do that, right?
Yeah, yeah, we'll do that too.
Little podcast action.
She throws that podcast, she'll do.
I mean selfie.
Let's get that in there
and then that we'll add that on there too.
Oh. Oh man.
First camera.
Yeah. Look at it this first time.
Yeah I'm also gonna I have.
No I forgot.
That, Helen and Cesar for her saying
open late I appreciate it.
Oh, I no,
you usually close cooking for us too.
You guys are the best.
Yeah.
I like the Joey Bats episode.
Are you good friends with him? No.
You're not okay.
All right. Do you know him?
No. No, I just, I enjoyed his,
He's really good.
I like him a lot.
He was funny.
Philosophy, backgrounds up to
history teacher.
Either
you had a lot in common, or I was. What?
I'm like, oh,
they got all these guys friends?
No, I think the,
the urban
or something, that we hit it off.
Yeah. Hartford and the music.
Yeah.
Yeah, it was cool.
Rapper and rap music, which I got.
I love the Wu-Tang. Yeah, the rap music.
He's supposed to write me up
an intro.
He's supposed to rap an intro.
Oh, speaking of which, you be growly.
Baluchi or Joe?
Oh, I reached out to Ali.
I think we're trying to.
We're trying to get together for a coffee
or something like that. Nice.
But because that was the first time
I think you mentioned me,
I was listening to her podcast.
I oh, they mentioned me at the end.
Yep. That's great.
I'm trying to find out how do I get to.
All right.
Oh, here we go, here we go, here
we go, here we go.
I saved you as my favorites.
Shout out to this to nothing beats that.
Can we get a zoom in on the.
Dancer McLaren.
There we go. Let's go.
What are you got to talk about?
Highlight of the day.
That was fun. Yeah,
it was the last minute decision.
Someone you had.
You were a rockstar.
The kids loved it.
That was a great day. No.
Tell everyone,
all of our listeners, like,
if you're ever going to march in a parade,
is this not the move?
That's the way to do it.
You wear the leprechaun
that looks like you're sitting on his.
Shoulders, think,
oh yeah,
yeah, the full suit.
That's a lot of selfie requests,
during that parade.
So that to you.
I didn't get offered as many whiskey shots
as I was hoping for.
So, on that one to you?
Yeah, that was a fun. That weather.
It was great, too. Great.
Cooperative. Beautiful family.
Yeah.
Melissa, my wife, Ronen and Adi.
Oh, yeah.
Less. Less. About me.
Back to him,
kids. Yeah. We love what Bill?
No, it was great.
Thank you again. You are a sponsor.
You're on the back of the shirt.
You marched. You were.
You were the leprechaun. Were.
You were not a rock star.
It was great.
It was. It was awesome.
We had a great time.
Yeah. Happy to do it.
I'm assuming you didn't win number one.
There's no I'm right. You know,
I think. We would have heard about it by.
Now. Set up my guy Josh,
we didn't set up early enough.
It's what we were scattered around.
Yeah,
when they were walking around, of course.
So my guy next year, I'm going to say,
hey, we got to get there early. Yep.
Go to Mike Johnson's house and hang out.
Perfect.
So we're going to get there early pregame.
Yeah yeah.
Be set up ready to go and then walk around
enjoy the day because we kind of
just got there hectic early.
Put your stuff up I mean it looked great
during the parade was awesome.
Yeah.
We got a bubble machine or something.
Yes. Yeah. Bubble.
Some more visual.
Maybe a DJ. It would be great.
You swinging dressed as a leprechaun?
Easily. Yeah, I can handle that.
At least for a few minutes.
If you're going golfing after this.
No, no, my daughter plays
golf. Oh. She does.
She's on the golf team.
That's awesome. Yeah.
So when did you start doing this?
Golfing. Yeah.
I want to say maybe 3 or 4 years ago.
Okay. That's 16.
16. Okay. Juniors.
Yeah.
I want to get my daughter involved in it.
I think she'd be good at it.
But you're never sure.
How, The an offer.
Range or first tee.
Okay, go back and watch my podcast
with First tee.
All right.
Mark Moriarity, my dude.
Shout out to Mark. Mark
first see I came in expecting
to talk, you know, Eric Bergen and Helen
and just threw me a curveball.
Mark Moriarty first tee but no great
podcast and great, organization there
into the schools there getting people,
you know, motivated to play golf.
So it's a good thing.
Yeah. Shout out to Eric again
I mean it. Yeah.
I mean kind of touched on that a lot.
But he's just really well connected.
He's so fun to look up to
as far as networking and and capabilities
in the, on the town.
Yeah, I mentioned it on the air.
I think it was the Ali Baluchi one
where he is
smooth and he gives recommendations.
He's constantly recommends. People. Yep.
So it's like, oh, this guy's a good source
because trust his word
and he goes out on a limb for people.
And I think he's great.
He's you inspired him too.
You inspired him
to do something very similar.
They're going to buy a toy
or make a donation per
every sale or financial advice
that they get to a client.
That's great. Thanks to you.
He was he was crediting you.
I talked with, Shelby and Eric,
and they're going to.
Shelby's great.
They're starting in April.
Actually, this is their new, session.
Our new market, our new quarter.
Yeah. New quarter.
Financial talk.
I'm a third grader, third grade teacher.
Anyway,
you know, want to talk to Eric right now?
The market's not doing too well.
So their new quarter.
But when they make a sale or
get a new client,
they will donate or buy a toy.
That's awesome. As awesome
you you started that.
I'm in a small networking group with Eric.
So yeah, we
we collaborate on a lot of things
and just kind of feed off each other,
which is real. Oh, yeah, he did.
Dad's in business.
I got in there and now he started his own.
Some dibs.
He started his own little like,
business, West Hartford business.
Yeah, yeah. The Facebook page right.
Yeah. Yeah, I love that because
I make a note of that.
And neighbors and friends,
you know, we live in West Hartford.
Our business operated out of West
Hartford.
You know, I don't know,
I don't mind supporting other other towns.
There is a happy hour
next Wednesday at Luna Pizza.
It's, based on Eric's new page. Okay.
You saw that. Or you can make it.
But do my best. Yeah,
yeah,
it gets the kids, so it's always hard.
It's the upcoming events.
You like pancakes? Bring the kids.
Yeah, bring the kids to pancakes.
Oh, I got this one here.
Pancake breakfast.
8 to 12, Farmington at Baptist church.
All right, that's, April 26th.
We got a blue Jean mill at Bushnell Park.
We're collaborating with two for one
sports.
That's. Yeah, I listen to his episode two.
That was. Steve. Boyle.
You know, the blue
Jean run is an interesting bingo.
Okay. Family bingo at, Raymore.
Flanagan on New Park Road, 530 to 8.
Interesting. 12 bucks a person.
That's going to be a good, good time.
Sully. Shamrock pasta dinner.
That's my shirt right here.
My former coworker in Waterbury.
It's a Tuesday.
It's at the ancient order of hard.
I order of Hibernians,
an Irish club in Waterbury
where I had my stag sweet,
you know, 91 Golden Hill.
That's 5 to 7, 25 bucks.
My guy Irish music is playing Mark James
episode 86.
He plays for Irish tunes at the end.
I love that guy.
He was at the
cocktail hour for my wedding,
one of my dearest, closest friends.
And, we we went to go see him
no matter where he was in Waterbury.
We're like, we're going to Mark James.
We see Mark James.
So shout out to the Sully Shamrocks
and hopefully you can come Memorial Day
Parade.
Hopefully you can sponsor and march
with the kids again.
Yeah, yeah.
We'll do what we can this year for sure.
Hartford athletic games February.
It's February. That's silly guy.
June 6th.
It's a Friday Bristol Blues game
which is in Bristol.
The college kids
that's going to be on the 12th.
That's going to be at 20 bucks.
All you can eat, all you can drink.
I'm not familiar with it.
It's, Babe Ruth played there.
It's exactly
halfway point from New York and Boston.
Boston okay. Have the same splits.
It's pretty cool.
And they have a Babe
Ruth son continental divide. Yep.
Fourth annual
Friends of Nicholas game
at the Yard Goats on August 16th.
Our golf tournament. Do you golf?
Yeah, yeah.
Or we're figuring that out. Yeah.
You have some sponsorship
categories we're looking at.
Nice, nice.
That's September 13th
and our seventh annual makerspace event.
Bring the kids
that building with cardboard.
Good stuff. Sounds good.
Yeah.
Do it so that that's our.
You have any upcoming events?
No, no we don't.
Do you have a favorite restaurant?
Lots of favorite restaurants. Yes.
Name one.
Trevor's a great restaurant.
We love, pasties on point.
They have a good brunch game, too.
We love Rico's,
I could talk food for an hour.
All right, all right.
Where do you guys go?
Rico? Yeah. Rico's great.
And if you want to go outside of West,
our saloon.
Yeah. In Hartford.
My wife loves a Jimmy.
I love that guy. But, all. What?
I just went to Sahara the other day
with my daughter.
She's a vegetarian.
The golfer is a vegetarian?
Yeah,
the roasted cauliflower dish is awesome.
Yeah. The pita.
Good cocktail list to the carrot,
24 karat.
It's great. Yeah.
Been to the bunker.
That's usually where it's usually.
I found the finish the night
with the guys, and I love that we go out.
Yeah, it's like a 90s dive bar.
Speakeasy. Yeah.
Yeah, until, like 11:00 and then.
Well, no,
I mean, I'm there from like 5 to 6.
Yeah. I gotta get out of there. Yeah.
You got I'm over.
40, so I by ten
I cannot be there after eight.
Especially when I see former students.
I walked to Savoy the other day
and I heard Mr.
Phoenix, I'm like,
oh my God, it's Kayla and Dominic.
My former fifth grade students are in line
for the bunker, right?
I like Savoy, too.
They're so. Pesetas. Fantastic.
Yeah.
This was Dante's place. Yep.
So we did a lot of last.
Hour being a teacher in 21 years.
Yeah.
Do you have a favorite teacher?
Yeah.
Green was his last name.
What town?
Where'd you grow up?
So I guess it was moved around it.
Yeah, yeah, I'm not going to know it
anyway, but he,
sophomore year, I was going through a hard
time, and, he was.
I think he just picked up on it
without having to say anything.
Just some non-verbal cues.
And,
he was just kind of always there for me.
Just kind of just checked up on me
and, Yeah, really kind of helped me
get through, like, an awkward year.
So, Yeah. Shut it down. Nice. Yeah. Nice.
21 years now, Yeah. 21.
And how long you been at Wolcott?
12. 12. Yeah. Okay.
We'll
bring over the food, one to the food,
and then some closing remarks.
We're going to show the food
first. Let's show the food again.
Shout out to our our host and our newest
sponsor, Sally sailing and Bob's.
Thank you, Helen and Cesar
for staying open.
Cesar. Mexican food.
Eggs. Benny.
We're going to show him off.
Doing some mezcal after.
Yeah. Oh.
Thank you.
Have, Wow.
Any recommendation, any closing remarks?
Anything you want to say?
Oh, look at that.
Are we finishing?
We're going to finish up,
but let's show off here.
Oh. She knows. See,
I don't even have to ask.
Eleanor. Homemade hot sauces.
Fantastic. Homemade hot sauce.
You know, in books, podcasts. Yeah.
TV shows, books, podcasts.
Anxious generation.
Have you read that one? Yep. No,
that's a good one.
Anxious generation.
Yeah.
Is that a TV show? No, it's a book.
Yeah.
Explores the links between,
like, rising mental health and,
the prevalence of,
like, online social lives.
And so, kind of compares our generation
to like, the up and coming generation.
I'm sure you're probably dealing
with that issue now,
but 16 year old girls
phones, social media.
The demise. Of.
Yeah.
The let them theory and Mel Robbins,
are you familiar with her podcast?
She's great.
That's a, the let them theory.
She's had that out for a number of years,
but she's putting some books out.
Tomic.
Abbott's, you know, building
good habits, breaking bad ones.
It's a popular one.
Anything Malcolm Gladwell,
outliers, tipping point.
All right, that one.
You read outliers? Yeah, yeah.
Tipping point. I heard of that one.
You know,
just viral trends in human behavior.
So it's an interesting one.
And then, David and Goliath, that's
another, another popular one by him.
So I. Definitely try to do.
Obviously underdogs,
you know, beating the odds.
I take my recommendation serious.
I will read one of these and follow up.
You know, they're great,
you know, wonderful
TV shows.
Breaking bad.
I mean, that's a classic Game of Thrones.
Now, I'm really been hooked on any,
my wife's making me watch a series right
now, and I don't even know
if I want to talk about it
from her childhood
vampire slayer.
Oh, Buffy. Yeah. Buffy.
Yeah.
Matt. Dicks love Buffy.
Shout out to.
My big,
Yeah, it's.
My wife is a big fan, so we're,
we're going through that series now.
I obviously didn't
watch that when growing up, so.
Yeah. You.
One of my currently
podcast swindled is, Okay.
It's a little dark,
swindle.
What does that entail?
Just corrupt people.
Like politicians.
It's always a fun subject, Yeah, yeah.
It starts off pretty good.
And then there's, like, a curveball.
Yeah.
What else?
TV show I'm watching, actually
finishing Ozark.
Oh, we we put it on pause for a while
because it took a big jump,
and then someone said, hey,
you got to go back to it.
We watched the season one
and we never went back to it.
Yeah, yeah.
Because it takes a big you're like,
what is going on here?
I just finished Reacher.
Yeah. It's
just a guilty pleasure of mine.
There's, espionage or, you know.
I see commercials. For that. Yeah.
Jack Ryan two. It's a good one.
All right.
This food looks good, right? Yeah. No,
it smells good.
Another another photo.
Go zoom in here.
Yeah.
You show yours first. Lets
you talk about yours.
So we have the, the flat patty
Teresa with, some avocado eggs.
Benny.
Their home fries. Fantastic.
Yeah.
My turn.
Should I just turn to you?
And I go with the corned beef hash
and Benny
with the hollandaise sauce.
Homemade Caesar makes it. Yeah.
And then the hash I call the Irish penny
and the homemade hot sauce.
Mom's so good.
My wife loves the, parfait and the Greek
yogurt with the fresh berries.
That is a great dish.
I still have to have the Nuevo store,
the ranch.
All the way
with some Charles. Rancheros. Is it back?
I wish I.
Know it's again.
I have never had it.
Yeah, you even had the wavelets. Yeah.
Oh, that's good one.
Yeah, well, this goes by quick.
I know 50 minutes with Finney Feeney
and we pushed that 106.
So hopefully we'll get some good hits.
You sure that's 50 minutes?
I think she's rushing us.
Tiffany wants us gone.
Faster because I give you the warning now.
Interesting.
I could talk to you all day. Yeah.
It's wonderful chatting with you.
You're doing great things.
Again, thank you for your generosity
and your thoughtfulness with the toys.
Hopefully, that collaboration
can happen again next year.
Yeah. We look forward to some toys.
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Ryan.
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Any closing remarks?
Anything I miss? Any questions for me?
No, just looking forward
to building a relationship and continuing,
supporting what you're doing. Well,
we love what you're doing.
And my wife
and I, we're talking about a nonprofit.
When we first moved into town,
before we had heard about you.
And just knowing that you have that
and just supporting that is awesome.
Where are you looking to
take it in the future?
You're looking to stay kind of hyper
local.
Yeah. Yeah.
Well who knows.
But we added a new board member.
Hi. Tran.
Thai is, JC Hall of Famer.
Okay.
As he runs the JC, he is a great person.
He scored 70 in a in a men's league.
So he's really talented on
and off the court.
Local legend.
Local legend for sure.
But so we're building
our board of directors.
We have some two other prospective,
applicants or people that are interested.
Okay.
Excited to share maybe next podcast
who those people are.
And we can we can use an advisory board
if you want to just participate
when you can.
We're we love to have you, helping out.
So the more the merrier.
More hands. Light work.
Excellent.
Thanks for what you do,
I appreciate it. My guy. Really.
It was wonderful talking with you again.
This is Ryan McGinnis of Ryan soft wash.
Ryan soft wash.com.
I said his number like ten times.
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Haha I appreciate let's see.
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123 be a good friend.
That's a wrap.