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All right, all right.

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Feeney talks with friends, episode 133.

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How are you doing, Ryan? Doing well.

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Thanks for having. Me.

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This is great, Ryan. Soft wash. Yeah.

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Ryan's soft wash dot com..

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What the hell?

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Handsome coat.

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Dude, you looking good.

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Yeah.

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Some swagger.

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No dress.

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Good work. Good. Clean. Good. Yeah.

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This is awesome.

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My name is Eric Feeney, founder
and president of 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

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people that are doing great things.

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And today we're here with Ryan McGinnis.

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Excellent name.

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Last podcast was also great.

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We had the Empire in power.

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We are in power.com.

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And that's Christina and Tommy.

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And, Adam, if you ever listen.

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I am a big, big, big proponent.

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Big fan of the handwritten note.

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So, Christina wrote me a note.

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Dear Eric, thank you
so much for having us on your podcast.

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We appreciate the opportunity

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to share our mission of empower
with you and your audience.

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Looking forward to many more chances
to collaborate in the future.

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With gratitude.
Christina, Tommy and Katie.

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That's wonderful.

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Well, I want to write someone
a handwritten note.

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We'll make a mental note of that.

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I always do that.

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So my friend Chris is always sending me
postcards.

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Handwritten.
I love getting them. It's great.

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It's a dying art.

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Yes. And I try to do that.

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Try to send a few a week.

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So it's great.

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It's a good. It's
definitely better than an email.

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Yeah. Text.

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It's getting you a better habit
of doing that.

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See today
we learn some new or 133 with my guy Ryan.

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Excellent. How are you doing, buddy?

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I'm doing really well.

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Thanks. So, yeah, you do great things.

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So many things to talk about today, but,
number one.

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First off, I want to thank you,
that you helped us during our toy drive.

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Our fifth annual toy drive, just finished.

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Will not just finish.
That happened in December. Yeah.

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We, you know, we need a few more toys.

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And I don't know how and why
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But it was amazing.

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And you were so thoughtful.

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And I'm so grateful.

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You were very generous.

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I think alone,
you had about 50 boxes of Jenga.

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The game Jenga?

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Easily. Yeah.

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So it was crazy.

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So, we'd roughly.
We'll talk about a little bit.

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Yeah. Did you do that?
Why did you do that?

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We had roughly around about run
$2,000 worth of toys.

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So,

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my buddy Nate, we,
we collaborated this time around.

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I usually, cmmc is usually,

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what we've donated our toys
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They change their policy.

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I'm not sure if they had received
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but they were requesting, like, more gift

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cards this year,
and we really were big on the toys.

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My daughter had some hip surgeries,
a few years ago.

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Several years ago now. But.

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So Cmmc was just kind of close
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giving back to them.

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And so
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So for that instance, we had,
I think I had reached out to Avi

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and asked, he was like, you know,
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you know, you
you guys should connect anyway.

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And we did that.

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And one thing led to another,
and we had all our toys ready to go

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because I, I usually donate a toy
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So we kind of my wife and I collect them
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and then we give them away
at the end of the year or so.

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So we ended up with the, you.

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Know,
maybe like six bags, big heavy boxes.

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You had a nice table display.
It was on Instagram.

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We'll share it.

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We'll have it posted right next to it
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I got it saved.

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Yeah. My mother had given me some advice,
about.

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Oh, yeah,
that you and your buddy Nate? Yep.

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So that's up. Someone's call on me.

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But, yeah, you can see a lot of Jenga.

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A lot of Legos.

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I used my mother's influence.

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She said that a lot of older kids
get forgotten about with toy drives.

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So she said find something
for some of the older kids.

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Dog man book classic. Yeah.

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Then the throwback slinky. Oh! Come on.

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Uno. Green bear. No.

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Mickey.

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Then you brought it to my school.

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That's right. Yeah.

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That was great.

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So that's.
I think that was the first time.

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That was the first time we met. Yeah,
it was short.

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You were on your, lunch break? Yeah.

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But, No.

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And it's so funny
that, your Ryan's software qcom.

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You say, you know, use software
so it doesn't hurt.

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Harm the environment or harm the roof
or the decks, and.

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Right, your key line was like, at

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the bottom was like,
I like to give back to the community.

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And I was like, oh that guy really does
because he gave back on that toy drive.

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Extremely generous.

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Were there any other times or cmmc

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any other times or that you've given back
to the community before?

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Yeah. So my kids go to Webb Hill.

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So Gary and Lauren
and they're the PGA presidents over there.

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They're great.

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I should connect the two of you guys.

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Their turkey trot.

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The run.

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Run? Yep.

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Every year. So we gave back.

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We donated to them.

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All little organizations
will try to give us the.

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Give what we can.

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What made you throw that line in there?

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Because you don't see that
many, many times on businesses.

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I loved it, and I it's stuck out to me.

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Stuck out?

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Stuck out.

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So I moved around a lot as a child.

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Like, every two years,
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You know,
my father was getting promotion,

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so we were very fortunate in that realm.

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But as far as, like, community
based aspect, we moved around a lot when I

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didn't really have a sense of community
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My wife grew up in West Hartford

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throughout middle school,
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So she has her heart set in West Hartford.

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And then, we were out in canton
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We had our first child out there.

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Addie's she's seven now.

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And, when we were thinking
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both sets of parents are in Farmington,
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We wanted to be close.

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You know, we're big foodies,
so we wanted to be close to West Hartford

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because every weekend
we were going to eat Ong's

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or Corner pug or Hartford Bacon Companies
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We were all over there every weekend.

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And so, yeah, we just ended

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up in West Hartford and we bought a duplex
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like March 2020,
like when everything was falling apart.

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And, yeah, we've been there ever since.

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Very cool.

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Well, welcome to West Hartford.

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So happy to have you again.

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Your generosity thoughtfully
meant the world to our nonprofit.

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Can't thank you enough. Excellent.

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And it's really cool that you're here.

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Again.

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You're. Ryan. Soph, wash at Ryan.

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Soph, wash.com (860) 830-0040.

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Lot of zeros to.

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That number since I was 17. Nice.

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It just turned into the business line.

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And you've been in the soft wash business
for about three and a half years. Yes.

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So I started this during the
pandemic, as a side hustle.

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Home service
based industries were really doing well,

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and this didn't really require any
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So, it was just a low barrier to entry.

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Job to start.

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I wanted to start a business out of it.

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I have a physical therapy backgrounds.

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I've been in the health care industry
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and, started this during the side
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you know, we went through the pandemic,
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My wife and I both work in health care,
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which presented challenges in itself.

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Child care, you know, you name it.

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I'm sure presented some interesting
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as well, but, but yeah, my company
had sold to a venture capital firm.

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I worked for them for a year,
which is pretty awful.

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And then I decided to take a break,
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Christmas, and then I took the winter off,
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a couple of years ago. Wow.

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I asked my wife, I go, hey, do you okay
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Sure. Let's let's give it a shot.

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So, yeah, we just started our third year,
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And you're comfortable walking on roofs?

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Yes, for the most part.

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And it's.

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You caught me walking
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So I like to access a roof from, like,
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I don't walk, like, 2 or 3 storey homes
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Most of my equipment, I can shoot from
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we're an

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exterior cleaning company,
a residential base, pretty much.

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So we don't clean cars, which is confused
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I don't have the trailer.

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So, yeah, I, become more comfortable
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Yeah. Now, it's so funny that you are.

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You text you like I'm going to be right
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So I'm like, all right, let me.

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And I saw that you took a picture
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So I went out the door.

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Yeah. Took a selfie.

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And I was like, hey,
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And then I was like, I.

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I went out the front door on my way.

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No, no, no, he's towards the right.

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So I go out
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Yeah. Yeah. Right. Yes.

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It was great.

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I just happened to be filming.

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I'm like,
yeah, it's got a shout out from me. You.

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I'm like, come up to the top
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Yeah.
It was a bunch of branches on the way.

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It's terrible.

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Do another picture for the zoom in.

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There's a zoom in.

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Did your, daughter show
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I don't know, I was impressed.
They just offer that. I didn't know.

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That's funny.

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Yeah. There's another you on the roof.

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So there's the yellow house
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And then the video is hilarious.

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I appreciate you sharing the video. Yeah,
that was good.

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The video, you're like,
where's that pretty cool music.

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It's the last Instagram, video. Let's see.

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I think we shared on each other. So,

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Let's see.

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I put rooftop Ryan.

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Let's make.

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It. And I cut the interaction out
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and then I come right back into the
the scene.

249
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Oh. Oh, that was from the like.

250
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It's the best part.

251
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I know. You're like,
I. Got a shot off. The scene.

252
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Come on. Mr. blew it. Blowing it.

253
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Too much pressure.

254
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Boy oh boy.

255
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What song is that?

256
00:10:01,400 --> 00:10:03,436
I was whatever's free on Instagram.

257
00:10:03,436 --> 00:10:06,572
I try to look up like
a beats or rap or something.

258
00:10:08,341 --> 00:10:10,576
Yeah, I don't really have a good theme.

259
00:10:10,576 --> 00:10:11,410
Yeah.

260
00:10:11,410 --> 00:10:13,012
All right, why don't. We go continue?

261
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They make increase.

262
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I'm going to say age.

263
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Son. Like with us.

264
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We're like yelling a good 200ft easily.

265
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Yeah. Screaming easily.

266
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Press this.

267
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He's like.

268
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This feeling.

269
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Give him a shout out.

270
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To give me happy.

271
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Senior. Give me a shout out.
I saw a kid out.

272
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I saw a kid in the hallway.

273
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I'm gonna come here, kid.

274
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Stand right here.

275
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Let me back in when I need to go.

276
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Get back into the school.

277
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Now. I'm like.

278
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Yeah, I'm like, all right, cool.

279
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Like, get back here.

280
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Love to man. Appreciate it. Yeah,
that was good.

281
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Taking the time out of your lunch
break thing.

282
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283
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284
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285
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287
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289
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290
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291
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292
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293
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Helen and Cesar.

294
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We're just episode 126. Oh, yeah.

295
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Same spot again yesterday. Yeah.

296
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Same streets.

297
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So we're on the great.

298
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that she was nervous where she she.

299
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Hiding I know she's hiding.

300
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301
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302
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303
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304
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305
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306
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It, I.

307
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Got, Cesar would have some mezcal
or something for us.

308
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I know he probably got the mescal.

309
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No, he's got.

310
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Modelo on talent.

311
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312
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313
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Great people come down and check them out.

314
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I like the eggs, Benny. With the hash.

315
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You like the eggs, Benny.

316
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With the Syriza. Torres.

317
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Avocado.

318
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Yeah, it's good too.
Stephanie is on board.

319
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We got Stefania.

320
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Benny coming?

321
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Just met. Stefania was great.

322
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I just listened to her, podcast
the other day.

323
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It was great.

324
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You remember what number one 2120 312.

325
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Three.

326
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1234.

327
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Hahaha. Good point.

328
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329
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330
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331
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332
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333
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Or check out our website
and give us an inbox.

334
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Excellent.

335
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And with West Hartford Lock,
what are three keys

336
00:12:39,125 --> 00:12:42,962
that make you great
at being Ryan soft. Wash

337
00:12:44,029 --> 00:12:47,032
three keys.

338
00:12:47,433 --> 00:12:49,201
Well, it's not a difficult business
that I run.

339
00:12:49,201 --> 00:12:51,403
I pretty much follow
manufacturing guidelines.

340
00:12:51,403 --> 00:12:56,108
So, you know, where can you stand
separate from other companies, right.

341
00:12:56,509 --> 00:13:00,146
So collaboration, I think, is key
to collaborating with my clients,

342
00:13:00,613 --> 00:13:03,983
giving them a proper walk through
a really explaining the process to,

343
00:13:04,049 --> 00:13:05,851
like,
really managing expectations overall,

344
00:13:05,851 --> 00:13:08,921
I think is is essential
letting a know what the process is.

345
00:13:08,921 --> 00:13:09,722
How is this different from,

346
00:13:09,722 --> 00:13:13,092
like some gentleman on a pickup truck
with a power washer from Home Depot?

347
00:13:13,092 --> 00:13:15,761
Like, how do we how do we differentiate
ourselves from those people

348
00:13:15,761 --> 00:13:18,764
and just explain the whole process
and what we do to properly protect,

349
00:13:19,098 --> 00:13:20,399
you know, a lot of common concerns

350
00:13:20,399 --> 00:13:23,269
that we have or plant
protection is a safe for my pets.

351
00:13:23,269 --> 00:13:26,405
All this common questions that we get,
we like to just make sure that we manage

352
00:13:26,405 --> 00:13:29,341
all those expectations
and run through that whole process

353
00:13:29,341 --> 00:13:32,311
and just kind of have a collaboration
working together.

354
00:13:32,344 --> 00:13:35,648
I think like community,

355
00:13:35,648 --> 00:13:39,451
like community building,
I think would be number two.

356
00:13:39,618 --> 00:13:39,852
Yeah.

357
00:13:39,852 --> 00:13:44,990
There's actually another kid in town,
that has a business just like mine.

358
00:13:45,891 --> 00:13:47,059
David with Wicked Clean.

359
00:13:47,059 --> 00:13:49,762
Give him a shout out and,

360
00:13:49,762 --> 00:13:52,531
I would consider myself
like, a mentor to him, in a way.

361
00:13:52,531 --> 00:13:54,533
And we kind of just talk and collaborate,

362
00:13:54,533 --> 00:13:57,536
and, you know, people would consider him,
like a direct competitor to me.

363
00:13:57,703 --> 00:14:00,506
But I just like to collaborate and work
with other people in the industry

364
00:14:00,506 --> 00:14:04,677
and kind of learning and, just presenting
that kind of community after giving back.

365
00:14:04,677 --> 00:14:06,111
Obviously that's big for us.

366
00:14:07,112 --> 00:14:08,480
Excuse me.

367
00:14:08,480 --> 00:14:10,482
You know, just not having a community
growing up.

368
00:14:10,482 --> 00:14:13,485
And I just really, really wanted
to establish, like living in an area.

369
00:14:13,819 --> 00:14:16,522
My wife and I found that
to be really important and giving back.

370
00:14:16,522 --> 00:14:18,057
And just like meeting people like you

371
00:14:18,057 --> 00:14:23,062
that have started really great,
nonprofits and organizing

372
00:14:23,062 --> 00:14:26,065
and that kind of stuff is really important
to me.

373
00:14:26,065 --> 00:14:27,666
Number three.

374
00:14:27,666 --> 00:14:29,501
Community collaboration.

375
00:14:29,501 --> 00:14:30,369
I think. And.

376
00:14:30,369 --> 00:14:32,671
Continuous improvement,
you know, in the health care industry,

377
00:14:32,671 --> 00:14:34,907
there's always continuing education
that's required.

378
00:14:34,907 --> 00:14:37,676
You know, we're always trying
to stay on top of like, industry

379
00:14:37,676 --> 00:14:40,679
standards, new equipment
that's coming out.

380
00:14:40,946 --> 00:14:43,082
I think that's just really important.

381
00:14:43,082 --> 00:14:43,883
And like, what's next?

382
00:14:43,883 --> 00:14:46,051
What's in the future
five year plans, you know,

383
00:14:46,051 --> 00:14:49,321
where do we go from here
as far as growing in this industry?

384
00:14:50,322 --> 00:14:51,724
And trying to pick up on those trends?

385
00:14:51,724 --> 00:14:53,859
I think that's really important. Cool.

386
00:14:53,859 --> 00:14:54,360
All right.

387
00:14:54,360 --> 00:14:56,762
Continued growth. Yeah. That's a teacher.

388
00:14:56,762 --> 00:14:57,830
That's right. Yeah.

389
00:14:57,830 --> 00:15:00,633
Continued educational units.

390
00:15:00,633 --> 00:15:02,401
Yeah, I guess units.

391
00:15:02,401 --> 00:15:03,435
That's a while ago.

392
00:15:03,435 --> 00:15:05,537
I like. That anymore.
We have them in health care too.

393
00:15:05,537 --> 00:15:09,174
So physical therapy world
ASM everything looks.

394
00:15:09,975 --> 00:15:11,610
At that right there.

395
00:15:11,610 --> 00:15:14,013
I know it's terrible. Print out blame.

396
00:15:14,013 --> 00:15:17,416
I tried to print from my phone
to my printer, but we cut you off.

397
00:15:17,416 --> 00:15:20,753
It says Ryan off
wash the Friends of Phoenix logos here.

398
00:15:20,953 --> 00:15:22,321
It's call your number.

399
00:15:22,321 --> 00:15:26,258
Call or text (860) 830-0040.

400
00:15:27,159 --> 00:15:29,361
Can we discuss the prices and, what?

401
00:15:29,361 --> 00:15:31,230
That campaign didn't really do
that. Well, so.

402
00:15:31,230 --> 00:15:33,532
So blessed are for neighbors and friends.

403
00:15:33,532 --> 00:15:37,469
They allow, businesses
to market, quarterly,

404
00:15:38,103 --> 00:15:40,606
which is great because then obviously
they want to be flooded with businesses

405
00:15:40,606 --> 00:15:41,473
every single day.

406
00:15:41,473 --> 00:15:42,608
So, you know,

407
00:15:42,608 --> 00:15:46,312
I try to be strategic about posting
when I can do that for my business.

408
00:15:46,712 --> 00:15:48,781
So yeah, we do like a little.

409
00:15:48,781 --> 00:15:50,883
Oh, this is not ongoing. This is over.

410
00:15:50,883 --> 00:15:52,785
Just half the time going on. Oh, yeah,
I know it's all right.

411
00:15:52,785 --> 00:15:55,287
It's ongoing
now. Yeah. It's our spring clean up. Yes.

412
00:15:55,287 --> 00:15:58,290
We're offering 199 gutter
cleaning up to 20 500 square foot homes.

413
00:15:58,490 --> 00:16:01,860
This is just kind of an attempt
to get new clients.

414
00:16:02,061 --> 00:16:02,861
Nice.

415
00:16:02,861 --> 00:16:04,330
In our queue,

416
00:16:04,330 --> 00:16:07,533
because obviously a lot of people
get that done biannually or annually.

417
00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:09,268
Yeah. Warehouse washing.

418
00:16:09,268 --> 00:16:11,003
You know, I do have some clients
that get it done every year,

419
00:16:11,003 --> 00:16:13,539
but you can probably get away with it
for two years or so

420
00:16:13,539 --> 00:16:16,542
and then roof cleanings even,
you know, every three years or so.

421
00:16:16,608 --> 00:16:18,811
We'll pull it up.
I love neighbors and friends.

422
00:16:18,811 --> 00:16:20,813
Oh, Patty Patty's episode.

423
00:16:20,813 --> 00:16:22,414
Yep, yep.

424
00:16:22,414 --> 00:16:24,383
What else do we have?
That was great episode.

425
00:16:24,383 --> 00:16:26,118
I'll we'll share that on here too.

426
00:16:26,118 --> 00:16:27,386
We have this right here.

427
00:16:27,386 --> 00:16:28,721
I don't know, I have
I don't have it on my phone.

428
00:16:28,721 --> 00:16:31,423
But yeah, Neighbors and Friends is a great

429
00:16:31,423 --> 00:16:33,792
been a really, really wonderful resource.

430
00:16:33,792 --> 00:16:34,860
Yeah. Patty's awesome.

431
00:16:34,860 --> 00:16:37,496
They've been building a lot of clients,
through that.

432
00:16:37,496 --> 00:16:40,065
Oh, speaking of clients, neighbors
and friends.

433
00:16:40,065 --> 00:16:41,767
Yeah. My coworker.

434
00:16:41,767 --> 00:16:43,102
Do you know who that was?

435
00:16:43,102 --> 00:16:45,404
You know, I don't. Coworker.

436
00:16:45,404 --> 00:16:47,673
Put it on neighbors and friends. Okay?

437
00:16:47,673 --> 00:16:49,274
You just did it.

438
00:16:49,274 --> 00:16:50,109
Did his house.

439
00:16:50,109 --> 00:16:53,112
Newington teacher. Author.

440
00:16:53,278 --> 00:16:55,547
Did he get into it?
You did his roof. Matt.

441
00:16:55,547 --> 00:16:56,682
Yes. Great.

442
00:16:56,682 --> 00:16:58,317
Yeah. Great guy. Matt. Dicks. Yeah.

443
00:16:58,317 --> 00:17:01,920
I just left a staff meeting with him
and I asked him, hey, how's your roof?

444
00:17:02,721 --> 00:17:04,223
He's like, loved it.

445
00:17:04,223 --> 00:17:06,458
He didn't provide me with, like,
immediate feedback. So I got worried.

446
00:17:06,458 --> 00:17:08,961
I was like, oh no. I'm like, he's
good friends with me.

447
00:17:08,961 --> 00:17:09,695
And I'm like.

448
00:17:09,695 --> 00:17:12,798
So. His wife,
Miss Green, teaches at Webb Hill.

449
00:17:12,931 --> 00:17:15,901
So my daughter
Addie might have her next year too.

450
00:17:15,901 --> 00:17:18,337
And I'm like, oh, great. Listen, you know,
I just get all paranoid about it.

451
00:17:18,337 --> 00:17:21,240
Is she kindergarten? She's third grade.
That's right. She was there.

452
00:17:21,240 --> 00:17:22,207
She was kindergarten.

453
00:17:22,207 --> 00:17:25,210
I think she was in the
maybe pre-K or kindergarten.

454
00:17:25,244 --> 00:17:26,145
One of the other. Yeah.

455
00:17:26,145 --> 00:17:27,613
So, yeah, he's a great guy.

456
00:17:27,613 --> 00:17:30,015
Alicia. Is. Also house wash.

457
00:17:31,316 --> 00:17:31,750
Yeah.

458
00:17:31,750 --> 00:17:32,885
He can give you immediate feedback.

459
00:17:32,885 --> 00:17:34,920
Come on. Matt, no immediate feedback.

460
00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:39,258
No. Episode
one Matt Dicks first, first podcast out.

461
00:17:39,291 --> 00:17:40,092
I'd like to talk to him.

462
00:17:40,092 --> 00:17:43,062
I was checking out his Facebook page,
and he's a storyteller.

463
00:17:43,062 --> 00:17:45,064
Yeah. I read a book.

464
00:17:45,064 --> 00:17:46,231
Multiple. Yeah.

465
00:17:46,231 --> 00:17:49,234
I had a couple nonfiction books.

466
00:17:49,635 --> 00:17:52,638
He wrote a really good one
about imaginary friends.

467
00:17:52,671 --> 00:17:55,207
He wrote one about Caroline Jacobs. Okay.

468
00:17:55,207 --> 00:17:56,508
He has a midlife crisis.

469
00:17:56,508 --> 00:18:00,345
During a PTO meeting, Eric
Feeney makes an appearance in the book.

470
00:18:00,646 --> 00:18:01,680
I'll go check that one out.

471
00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:04,149
Page one and four. Excellent.

472
00:18:04,149 --> 00:18:06,452
It says Eric Feeney ties is already tied.

473
00:18:06,452 --> 00:18:07,319
Shoes. Yeah.

474
00:18:07,319 --> 00:18:10,322
Wearing a Giants jersey because it was a
Thursday night or something.

475
00:18:10,322 --> 00:18:12,591
Where's he
I think he's in my school walk it.

476
00:18:12,591 --> 00:18:14,326
Oh he's like well I went past his room.

477
00:18:14,326 --> 00:18:17,463
So right there his his room with the rocks

478
00:18:17,930 --> 00:18:20,566
was looking at your wherever
you were cleaning.

479
00:18:20,566 --> 00:18:22,034
Got it. So he's on the end.

480
00:18:22,034 --> 00:18:24,970
You mentioned being in a meeting with him.
That makes sense. Matt digs.

481
00:18:25,938 --> 00:18:26,505
He's a good guy.

482
00:18:26,505 --> 00:18:28,073
He's all right.

483
00:18:28,073 --> 00:18:31,076
These are the million, right?

484
00:18:31,110 --> 00:18:33,412
I'm like, you must be good friends
because you're giving them a hard time.

485
00:18:33,412 --> 00:18:36,181
Like no one talks about any of that way.

486
00:18:36,181 --> 00:18:37,749
I love it, I love it, though.

487
00:18:37,749 --> 00:18:40,452
Very true. That's,
you know, someone like they could bust.

488
00:18:40,452 --> 00:18:41,720
Well, we play golf together.

489
00:18:41,720 --> 00:18:43,021
Poker together.

490
00:18:43,021 --> 00:18:45,691
I told a couple stories for him.

491
00:18:45,691 --> 00:18:47,993
He likes to give the jabs.

492
00:18:47,993 --> 00:18:49,094
I give the jabs.

493
00:18:49,094 --> 00:18:50,863
But that's. You know,
when you like someone.

494
00:18:50,863 --> 00:18:53,499
Or do you play a poker?
You go. At his house.

495
00:18:53,499 --> 00:18:54,399
Group of guys? Yep.

496
00:18:54,399 --> 00:18:57,336
Yeah. Yeah.
It have has not happened in a long time.

497
00:18:57,336 --> 00:18:59,972
But I want to say with us,
we have a group of guys.

498
00:18:59,972 --> 00:19:02,341
It's hard to collaborate,
get everyone together.

499
00:19:02,341 --> 00:19:03,976
Then I have another coworker.

500
00:19:03,976 --> 00:19:07,479
She's like Feeney
I got priced for 300 bucks to do my deck.

501
00:19:08,247 --> 00:19:09,314
Can your guy beat that?

502
00:19:10,649 --> 00:19:12,117
I mean, can you go on record?

503
00:19:12,117 --> 00:19:13,852
It's in Simsbury.

504
00:19:13,852 --> 00:19:16,822
Do you want to see it is 300 typical.

505
00:19:16,822 --> 00:19:17,890
Too much, not enough?

506
00:19:17,890 --> 00:19:19,358
It depends on the size of the deck.

507
00:19:19,358 --> 00:19:22,294
Yeah, I'm definitely not going to be
the lowest price.

508
00:19:22,294 --> 00:19:26,231
You know, we try to offer
excellent customer service and quality.

509
00:19:26,231 --> 00:19:28,100
So there's always someone out there.

510
00:19:28,100 --> 00:19:29,601
There's going to be a lot of beat price.

511
00:19:29,601 --> 00:19:32,237
So it's never something
we're trying to compete with.

512
00:19:32,237 --> 00:19:32,404
Yeah.

513
00:19:32,404 --> 00:19:37,042
What does it take on that being the lowest
price or, or when someone goes,

514
00:19:38,377 --> 00:19:40,012
oh it only took you ten minutes.

515
00:19:40,012 --> 00:19:41,313
Why do I got to pay this much?

516
00:19:41,313 --> 00:19:45,384
Or there's because you hear that
no matter what the job is.

517
00:19:45,384 --> 00:19:48,153
Plumbers, painters. Like.

518
00:19:48,153 --> 00:19:51,657
Oh, that I'm paying you this much,
but it took you this much time.

519
00:19:51,657 --> 00:19:54,059
Or course,
I mean, you're paying for the experience.

520
00:19:54,059 --> 00:19:55,827
You're paying for the knowledge.

521
00:19:55,827 --> 00:19:58,797
You know, the ten, 15,
20 years of experience

522
00:19:58,797 --> 00:20:00,199
that I know what the problem is.

523
00:20:00,199 --> 00:20:02,134
I have the right tools for it.

524
00:20:02,134 --> 00:20:04,203
You know, my
my wife gives me a hard time. Let's see.

525
00:20:04,203 --> 00:20:05,704
I'm like, I can I'll do this myself.

526
00:20:05,704 --> 00:20:08,073
You know,
I try to, like, price myself out of my.

527
00:20:08,073 --> 00:20:11,076
All right, well, if I value myself at this
dollar amount, I'll just do it myself.

528
00:20:11,243 --> 00:20:13,879
Then I'm going Home
Depot, spending $400 on new tools.

529
00:20:13,879 --> 00:20:15,180
Multiple trips to home.

530
00:20:15,180 --> 00:20:16,014
Multiple trips.

531
00:20:16,014 --> 00:20:18,750
Yeah, plumbing is a is a big one for me
because I'm like, I know better.

532
00:20:18,750 --> 00:20:20,819
But I'm like,
I decided not to call a plumber.

533
00:20:20,819 --> 00:20:22,387
God forbid. You know. The problem.

534
00:20:24,122 --> 00:20:24,823
I've done that.

535
00:20:24,823 --> 00:20:27,159
Yeah. I'm a son of a painter.

536
00:20:27,159 --> 00:20:29,761
My dad painted for years, and I'm like,
I can paint.

537
00:20:29,761 --> 00:20:33,031
But then it's like,
that's six hours of your day to.

538
00:20:33,165 --> 00:20:33,632
Yeah.

539
00:20:33,632 --> 00:20:38,103
Valuing my time, is one of the reasons
I started this business, like,

540
00:20:38,103 --> 00:20:41,240
so I could I drop my kids off
and pick them up at school every day.

541
00:20:41,240 --> 00:20:44,576
So, like, having that quality time
with family is really important to me.

542
00:20:44,576 --> 00:20:46,311
And just valuing your time where,

543
00:20:46,311 --> 00:20:49,047
you know, I was working,
you know, 70 hour weeks before.

544
00:20:49,047 --> 00:20:50,682
It was just like it was draining.

545
00:20:50,682 --> 00:20:53,685
How many jobs do you do in one day to pay?

546
00:20:53,719 --> 00:20:54,853
Depends. Yeah.

547
00:20:54,853 --> 00:20:57,222
You usually have like, anywhere

548
00:20:57,222 --> 00:21:00,392
between like three and four,
depending on the jobs itself.

549
00:21:00,993 --> 00:21:04,329
You know, like Matt's job took,
you know, a few hours

550
00:21:04,329 --> 00:21:07,332
where you know, I could do a house wash,
maybe in an hour, an hour and a half.

551
00:21:07,666 --> 00:21:10,469
So it just depends on the scope of work
that that you.

552
00:21:10,469 --> 00:21:11,737
Yeah. Nice.

553
00:21:11,737 --> 00:21:16,942
And I try to like, be logistical
about where what town we're in,

554
00:21:16,942 --> 00:21:19,945
and what we're working and kind of
just do it that way, be more strategic.

555
00:21:19,945 --> 00:21:21,613
Try to end in West Hartford if I can.

556
00:21:21,613 --> 00:21:23,582
So yeah.

557
00:21:23,582 --> 00:21:26,251
And shout out to Matt again,
this is a storytelling game.

558
00:21:26,251 --> 00:21:26,451
Yeah.

559
00:21:28,487 --> 00:21:31,490
House washes our jobs.

560
00:21:31,590 --> 00:21:33,825
It's called first last best worst.

561
00:21:33,825 --> 00:21:36,228
Your first job.
Your last job your best job.

562
00:21:36,228 --> 00:21:38,497
Your worst job in the in the industry.

563
00:21:38,497 --> 00:21:39,798
Hold on. I got to get this. My wife.

564
00:21:39,798 --> 00:21:42,534
Yeah, yeah. Hello.

565
00:21:42,534 --> 00:21:45,537
You want to be on the podcast? I.

566
00:21:47,139 --> 00:21:47,673
Yeah. What?

567
00:21:47,673 --> 00:21:50,642
Ryan. Soft wash.

568
00:21:51,376 --> 00:21:53,545
And I'm going to golf right after you.

569
00:21:53,545 --> 00:21:55,047
Golf and after jealous.

570
00:21:55,047 --> 00:21:58,050
Yeah. I'm going to give me a. Fake.

571
00:21:58,350 --> 00:22:01,353
Ryan.

572
00:22:02,220 --> 00:22:03,755
He's a power washer.

573
00:22:03,755 --> 00:22:06,558
He donated a bunch of toys. Great guy,

574
00:22:06,558 --> 00:22:09,528
great beard, great beer to.

575
00:22:09,528 --> 00:22:11,029
Yeah.

576
00:22:11,029 --> 00:22:12,497
Oh, you look forward to the episode.

577
00:22:12,497 --> 00:22:14,366
All right. You want to say hi. To Ryan
here? Let's say hi.

578
00:22:14,366 --> 00:22:17,302
Go ahead. You're on speaker now.

579
00:22:17,302 --> 00:22:18,437
Hello, Ryan. Hi.

580
00:22:18,437 --> 00:22:19,738
How are you?

581
00:22:19,738 --> 00:22:21,907
I'm lovely.
How are you? Sorry to interrupt.

582
00:22:21,907 --> 00:22:23,075
No, no, not at all.

583
00:22:23,075 --> 00:22:25,944
Thanks for, allowing
Eric this time to, hang out with me.

584
00:22:28,146 --> 00:22:28,580
Oh, no.

585
00:22:28,580 --> 00:22:31,083
Please enjoy.

586
00:22:31,083 --> 00:22:33,752
Keep him as long as I can.

587
00:22:33,752 --> 00:22:36,121
Yeah, you can have it. Fair enough.

588
00:22:36,121 --> 00:22:37,723
All right. Love you.

589
00:22:37,723 --> 00:22:39,157
Let me do my.

590
00:22:39,157 --> 00:22:40,192
Wife a fini.

591
00:22:40,192 --> 00:22:42,828
How long are you married?

592
00:22:42,828 --> 00:22:43,662
19 years.

593
00:22:43,662 --> 00:22:45,297
So it'll be 20 in October.

594
00:22:45,297 --> 00:22:47,332
Oh, my. 20 years.

595
00:22:47,332 --> 00:22:49,167
And it feels like forever.

596
00:22:49,167 --> 00:22:50,669
Yeah. I'm kidding, I love it.

597
00:22:50,669 --> 00:22:53,171
20 years. Long time.

598
00:22:53,171 --> 00:22:53,605
That's a long time.

599
00:22:53,605 --> 00:22:54,906
It's, It's a decade.

600
00:22:54,906 --> 00:22:56,742
It was 20 years is amazing.

601
00:22:56,742 --> 00:22:58,009
Best thing ever happened to me.

602
00:22:58,009 --> 00:22:59,711
I met her at southern.

603
00:22:59,711 --> 00:23:02,347
I tell that story a like
I told Matt Dicks back to Matt Dick.

604
00:23:02,347 --> 00:23:02,814
Yeah, yeah.

605
00:23:02,814 --> 00:23:04,416
I told the story.

606
00:23:04,416 --> 00:23:07,152
I'll. I'll send it to you. How? I met her.

607
00:23:07,152 --> 00:23:10,355
We were separated by thin walls
at Brownell Hall in southern.

608
00:23:10,355 --> 00:23:11,323
That southern.

609
00:23:11,323 --> 00:23:12,858
I just banged on the wall until she.

610
00:23:12,858 --> 00:23:15,527
She hated me. Until she liked me.
That's fantastic.

611
00:23:15,527 --> 00:23:18,063
You can check it out on YouTube, and,

612
00:23:18,997 --> 00:23:21,533
but, it's
a hard Kokomo when we're moving day,

613
00:23:21,533 --> 00:23:23,468
I heard Kokomo, so I'm like,
who's playing Kokomo?

614
00:23:23,468 --> 00:23:27,873
I go out and there she is with, basketball
shorts, short hair that was.

615
00:23:27,873 --> 00:23:29,207
It was love at first sight.

616
00:23:29,207 --> 00:23:31,109
Yeah, a lot of man. That's great.

617
00:23:31,109 --> 00:23:33,378
That's. Doctor. Yeah. So she liked me.

618
00:23:33,378 --> 00:23:33,945
Okay.

619
00:23:33,945 --> 00:23:37,048
It's a strategy. You.

620
00:23:38,517 --> 00:23:41,987
Know, about, 20 years,
and then every five years,

621
00:23:41,987 --> 00:23:43,455
we got married at the Simsbury Inn.

622
00:23:43,455 --> 00:23:49,194
So coming up, we we we had that wedding
picture at the gazebo of us kissing.

623
00:23:49,294 --> 00:23:49,961
Okay, so.

624
00:23:49,961 --> 00:23:52,197
And our fifth year anniversary,
I brought my girls

625
00:23:52,197 --> 00:23:54,299
and they held up the five.

626
00:23:54,299 --> 00:23:55,500
We kissed in the gazebo.

627
00:23:55,500 --> 00:23:57,602
Then the girls held up the ten.

628
00:23:57,602 --> 00:23:59,838
Then, you know, 15.

629
00:23:59,838 --> 00:24:02,307
Now this year they going
held up to 20. So.

630
00:24:02,307 --> 00:24:03,942
And we have all the picture.

631
00:24:03,942 --> 00:24:04,509
That's great.

632
00:24:04,509 --> 00:24:07,112
So it's pretty cool.
Black and white, just like our original.

633
00:24:08,246 --> 00:24:09,214
Yeah.

634
00:24:09,214 --> 00:24:11,583
She is the senior director of Oak Hill.

635
00:24:11,583 --> 00:24:12,317
Okay.

636
00:24:12,317 --> 00:24:13,885
It was Oak Hill School of the blind.

637
00:24:13,885 --> 00:24:15,921
Yeah, that's Oak Hill centers.

638
00:24:15,921 --> 00:24:18,056
They have a New England
assistive technology.

639
00:24:18,056 --> 00:24:19,891
They have a chapter 126.

640
00:24:19,891 --> 00:24:20,959
They do.

641
00:24:20,959 --> 00:24:23,562
It's the largest nonprofit
for people with disabilities.

642
00:24:23,562 --> 00:24:26,398
Do great things over there, Good stuff.

643
00:24:26,398 --> 00:24:27,766
Well, back to Matt Dixon.

644
00:24:27,766 --> 00:24:30,769
Matt Dick story, Matt Dick
storytelling game.

645
00:24:30,902 --> 00:24:33,972
So your soft wash, your first job
I'm going to.

646
00:24:33,972 --> 00:24:35,307
Meet up with Matt is interesting.

647
00:24:35,307 --> 00:24:38,677
Last job, first job, worse job.

648
00:24:39,010 --> 00:24:41,346
First job was family friend.

649
00:24:41,346 --> 00:24:43,715
Single side of the house,
which I don't do anymore.

650
00:24:43,715 --> 00:24:45,083
Was just first job.

651
00:24:45,083 --> 00:24:47,419
So I was great. Real supportive.

652
00:24:47,419 --> 00:24:48,887
Last job was. Now.

653
00:24:48,887 --> 00:24:50,956
What do you mean, why?
Why don't you do single side?

654
00:24:50,956 --> 00:24:53,758
It's whole house or not? Yeah.
Just it just.

655
00:24:53,758 --> 00:24:55,427
To get the all the equipment there.

656
00:24:55,427 --> 00:24:56,928
Set up and breakdowns of pain.

657
00:24:56,928 --> 00:25:00,232
I like to have, like a set number
in my head for per hour.

658
00:25:00,232 --> 00:25:03,335
I like to be at 
and then revenue for the day.

659
00:25:03,668 --> 00:25:06,204
And, you know, now that we're,
you know, busier than we can handle,

660
00:25:06,204 --> 00:25:08,039
that's kind of where
we're at at that point.

661
00:25:08,039 --> 00:25:11,042
I was looking for experience and anyone
willing to let me work on their home.

662
00:25:11,042 --> 00:25:12,944
So shout out to them.

663
00:25:12,944 --> 00:25:16,414
Last job was today.

664
00:25:17,549 --> 00:25:21,586
Actually TMZ, magic carpet cleaning.

665
00:25:21,586 --> 00:25:22,687
I think this is business.

666
00:25:22,687 --> 00:25:25,290
Daniel is, Brazilian guy. He's on what?

667
00:25:25,290 --> 00:25:26,925
Neighbors and friends. Awesome. Dude.

668
00:25:26,925 --> 00:25:29,427
You know, need
your carpets are repulsor cleaned.

669
00:25:29,427 --> 00:25:30,762
He just moved into a new house,

670
00:25:30,762 --> 00:25:33,732
and he asked me to go clean it,
so I did that today. Did some videos.

671
00:25:33,732 --> 00:25:35,133
I'll post that tomorrow.

672
00:25:35,133 --> 00:25:38,637
And what is a best and worst? Yep.

673
00:25:39,871 --> 00:25:40,939
Best job.

674
00:25:40,939 --> 00:25:43,241
I mean, anything that films really.

675
00:25:43,241 --> 00:25:47,312
Well, I really like, really cool roof
that's safe, but it looks dangerous,

676
00:25:47,913 --> 00:25:49,414
so that's always fun.

677
00:25:49,414 --> 00:25:50,782
Lots of different angles.

678
00:25:50,782 --> 00:25:52,684
Worst job.

679
00:25:52,684 --> 00:25:55,921
I mean, it's rare that we mess
something up at a property, but

680
00:25:55,987 --> 00:26:00,058
occasionally will ruin some flowers
or something like that.

681
00:26:00,792 --> 00:26:02,460
So that stresses me out big time.

682
00:26:03,662 --> 00:26:06,398
But I think the important thing
a business, everyone makes mistakes.

683
00:26:06,398 --> 00:26:10,769
So I think fixing those mistakes, I think,
is where you stand, apart from others,

684
00:26:11,836 --> 00:26:13,772
this lady, I, I had,

685
00:26:13,772 --> 00:26:17,108
ruined a couple of her flowers,
and they were on their last legs anyway.

686
00:26:17,642 --> 00:26:21,079
And I just went to, What's that place?

687
00:26:22,380 --> 00:26:23,448
Mascara. Mascara?

688
00:26:23,448 --> 00:26:24,883
Yeah. Really?

689
00:26:24,883 --> 00:26:25,216
Field? Yeah.

690
00:26:25,216 --> 00:26:26,084
Really high. Place.

691
00:26:26,084 --> 00:26:26,384
Nice.

692
00:26:26,384 --> 00:26:30,155
44. And I just got a $200 gift
card, and I handed it to her and go

693
00:26:30,188 --> 00:26:31,222
pay for next spring.

694
00:26:31,222 --> 00:26:34,526
Just redo your entire house
and just get whatever you want.

695
00:26:35,327 --> 00:26:37,696
I mean, I might,
I think I burned a $20 plant or something

696
00:26:37,696 --> 00:26:39,264
that was on its last leg, so, like, just,

697
00:26:39,264 --> 00:26:41,733
I think making a difference
and doing something along those lines.

698
00:26:43,368 --> 00:26:43,602
Yeah.

699
00:26:43,602 --> 00:26:47,172
And she's always doing shout out to
neighbors and friends for me all the time.

700
00:26:47,172 --> 00:26:48,640
I mean, anyway, she was visibly upset

701
00:26:48,640 --> 00:26:51,142
if something bothered her
and I was upset that it happened.

702
00:26:51,142 --> 00:26:52,611
And, you know,

703
00:26:52,611 --> 00:26:53,378
I think it's just important

704
00:26:53,378 --> 00:26:56,381
to address those mistakes and,
you know, make up for them.

705
00:26:56,681 --> 00:26:57,315
Awesome.

706
00:26:57,315 --> 00:26:59,551
First worst is the stress part of it.

707
00:26:59,551 --> 00:27:01,486
But yeah, ended up being, really good.

708
00:27:01,486 --> 00:27:03,054
Anthony's abatement mentioned that too.

709
00:27:03,054 --> 00:27:06,758
He's like, if we happen to make a mistake,
it doesn't happen often,

710
00:27:06,758 --> 00:27:08,860
but we will work hard to fix it.

711
00:27:08,860 --> 00:27:11,930
And yeah, buy the gift card
or do whatever you got to do.

712
00:27:11,930 --> 00:27:13,398
Exactly. Yeah.

713
00:27:13,398 --> 00:27:14,299
Yeah, I liked his episode.

714
00:27:14,299 --> 00:27:16,701
He was, interesting.

715
00:27:16,701 --> 00:27:17,035
Yeah.

716
00:27:17,035 --> 00:27:20,038
My wife support job, too. So.

717
00:27:20,472 --> 00:27:24,476
I like all the, talking about Chavez and,
primavera.

718
00:27:24,476 --> 00:27:26,811
Yeah, yeah, all the all the spots.

719
00:27:26,811 --> 00:27:27,712
I love it. Yeah.

720
00:27:29,180 --> 00:27:30,015
All right, so we got

721
00:27:30,015 --> 00:27:33,018
pros and cons of cleaning the roof.

722
00:27:33,151 --> 00:27:35,153
This is from a from the website.

723
00:27:35,153 --> 00:27:37,088
Oh, from. Website. Okay. From a website?

724
00:27:37,088 --> 00:27:38,790
Yeah. Pros and cons. What do you think?

725
00:27:38,790 --> 00:27:41,793
What are some pros of getting your roof
cleaned?

726
00:27:42,961 --> 00:27:44,663
Just extending the life of your shingles.

727
00:27:44,663 --> 00:27:47,666
Boom. Longer roof lifespan.

728
00:27:47,999 --> 00:27:49,134
Yeah. 5 to 7 years.

729
00:27:49,134 --> 00:27:52,137
Roughly on average,
depending on how old that roof is.

730
00:27:52,170 --> 00:27:55,173
Obviously,
a roof replacement is very expensive.

731
00:27:55,507 --> 00:27:57,442
If it's needed,
it will inform the customer

732
00:27:57,442 --> 00:28:00,311
that, you know,
it's really just beyond expectations, but,

733
00:28:00,311 --> 00:28:02,480
you know, are a lot of lime
composite and roof shingles.

734
00:28:02,480 --> 00:28:06,284
So bacteria, there's, you know, see,
like those black streaks on roofs.

735
00:28:06,284 --> 00:28:09,287
Everyone thinks it looks dirty
and it's called glo caps of magma.

736
00:28:09,287 --> 00:28:11,056
It's a bacteria
that feeds off of those lime,

737
00:28:12,090 --> 00:28:12,691
shingles.

738
00:28:12,691 --> 00:28:14,492
The composite in the lime.

739
00:28:14,492 --> 00:28:16,261
Lime. Yeah. All right, there's one.

740
00:28:16,261 --> 00:28:17,128
There's four for each.

741
00:28:17,128 --> 00:28:18,930
For pros, for cons.

742
00:28:18,930 --> 00:28:20,865
What do you think?

743
00:28:20,865 --> 00:28:23,001
I mean, just esthetics.

744
00:28:23,001 --> 00:28:25,937
Better
looking curb appeal is is key, right.

745
00:28:25,937 --> 00:28:28,573
And just just property
management in general is just making sure

746
00:28:28,573 --> 00:28:29,941
that you're maintaining your home.

747
00:28:29,941 --> 00:28:32,944
I mean that's a that's
probably one of your more expensive,

748
00:28:33,378 --> 00:28:35,780
replacement features in a home.

749
00:28:35,780 --> 00:28:38,783
It's not a kitchen
or bathroom that you can enjoy every day.

750
00:28:40,285 --> 00:28:41,319
Cons I mean, there's

751
00:28:41,319 --> 00:28:44,322
not that many cons to that.

752
00:28:45,090 --> 00:28:48,093
I'm going to say
there's no cons to cleaning your.

753
00:28:48,393 --> 00:28:50,128
Get your roof cleaned for sure.

754
00:28:50,128 --> 00:28:51,663
Oh, I did see that.

755
00:28:51,663 --> 00:28:53,264
What makes. Well, give you a hint.

756
00:28:53,264 --> 00:28:55,100
You use soft wash. Yes.

757
00:28:55,100 --> 00:28:57,302
So what would be a con?

758
00:28:57,302 --> 00:28:59,637
So we use a chlorine based product.

759
00:28:59,637 --> 00:29:03,775
So, you know,
that is a concern for some customers.

760
00:29:04,142 --> 00:29:07,479
You know, traditional power
washing is not ideal for siding.

761
00:29:07,479 --> 00:29:10,648
It can really expedite oxidation and start

762
00:29:10,648 --> 00:29:14,119
deteriorating that siding and also doesn't
kill any of the mold spores either.

763
00:29:14,119 --> 00:29:18,256
So we use a very low concentration
chlorine based with a commercial grade,

764
00:29:18,790 --> 00:29:21,359
so and then it's a low pressure solution.

765
00:29:21,359 --> 00:29:24,429
So a traditional pressure
washer is like 3000 psi.

766
00:29:24,429 --> 00:29:27,232
We're hovering below 300 psi.

767
00:29:27,232 --> 00:29:30,668
So it's a little bit stronger
than an, a garden hose that we use, like

768
00:29:30,668 --> 00:29:34,172
special guns and hoses that I can allow me
to shoot like 50ft in the air.

769
00:29:34,606 --> 00:29:37,509
So there's also a reduction
in liabilities.

770
00:29:37,509 --> 00:29:41,679
We don't they use a lot of ladders
as social media has it.

771
00:29:41,679 --> 00:29:43,481
I mean,
I don't really go on a lot of roofs.

772
00:29:43,481 --> 00:29:47,085
I do a lot of roofs for videos
if I if I need to and I inform customers,

773
00:29:47,585 --> 00:29:48,253
most of the time

774
00:29:48,253 --> 00:29:52,323
I can just clean this from the ground or
we A-frame a ladder in front of the house.

775
00:29:52,690 --> 00:29:54,692
That way we're not damaging the home.

776
00:29:54,692 --> 00:29:57,095
So those are some
of the the benefits there.

777
00:29:59,130 --> 00:30:00,098
Gotcha.

778
00:30:00,098 --> 00:30:03,168
Well, it said if the water is too hard,
it could damage the roof.

779
00:30:03,701 --> 00:30:04,569
Is it dangerous? Yeah.

780
00:30:04,569 --> 00:30:06,171
You don't want to pressure wash,

781
00:30:06,171 --> 00:30:09,174
you know, roof shingles or pressure wash
siding like,

782
00:30:09,841 --> 00:30:13,678
I don't know where it became an industry
norm, but painters utilize pressure

783
00:30:13,678 --> 00:30:17,048
washing in preparation for painting,
whether they're painting vinyl

784
00:30:17,048 --> 00:30:20,151
siding or not,
which is an argument, in the industry

785
00:30:20,151 --> 00:30:24,055
or like wood shingles or cedar siding
shake or anything along those lines.

786
00:30:24,255 --> 00:30:26,591
Pressure washing is a common,

787
00:30:26,591 --> 00:30:30,595
tool to utilize to clean those surfaces
before prepping for paint.

788
00:30:31,129 --> 00:30:31,596
Yeah.

789
00:30:31,596 --> 00:30:32,797
So that kind of has become this

790
00:30:32,797 --> 00:30:35,333
this is really if you just follow
manufacturing guidelines,

791
00:30:35,333 --> 00:30:38,803
this is the solution that we use,
a low pressure solution with chlorine

792
00:30:38,970 --> 00:30:39,838
mixed with the soap.

793
00:30:39,838 --> 00:30:42,073
And that's what we utilize for
roofing shingles.

794
00:30:42,073 --> 00:30:44,475
Just a slightly higher concentration
for roofs

795
00:30:44,475 --> 00:30:47,145
and a lower concentration
for house washing for vinyl siding

796
00:30:48,179 --> 00:30:49,948
and other materials.

797
00:30:49,948 --> 00:30:50,114
Yeah.

798
00:30:50,114 --> 00:30:53,852
My dad again being a painter, he he helped
paint my house when we first moved in.

799
00:30:54,385 --> 00:30:55,920
And they're very common products.

800
00:30:55,920 --> 00:30:58,990
From not stick
because the wood was always so moist

801
00:30:59,190 --> 00:31:01,459
and someone suggests
and then the kept chipping.

802
00:31:01,459 --> 00:31:04,295
He was like someone was like
you should pressure wash it.

803
00:31:04,295 --> 00:31:06,097
Yeah, well he's like the water.

804
00:31:06,097 --> 00:31:07,899
The wood already has water in it.

805
00:31:07,899 --> 00:31:10,869
Why are we going to force more water
into it?

806
00:31:10,869 --> 00:31:12,070
Yes. Defeats the purpose.

807
00:31:12,070 --> 00:31:13,137
It'll never dry.

808
00:31:13,137 --> 00:31:15,907
Correct?
We did. We chose not to pressure wash.

809
00:31:15,907 --> 00:31:18,943
He was always against pressure
washing the wood.

810
00:31:19,110 --> 00:31:21,212
Yeah for sure. Yeah, especially with wood.

811
00:31:21,212 --> 00:31:23,681
And wood's very damaging. So.
But now I have siding.

812
00:31:23,681 --> 00:31:27,418
Shout out to Webster
siding and building construction.

813
00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:29,554
Jeff.

814
00:31:29,554 --> 00:31:30,889
Yeah. You know Jeff Webster.

815
00:31:30,889 --> 00:31:33,625
I know of him, I don't,
I don't know him personally but yeah.

816
00:31:33,625 --> 00:31:36,127
They're Farmington guys. Yep yep yep.

817
00:31:36,127 --> 00:31:36,828
Good guy.

818
00:31:36,828 --> 00:31:39,831
Yeah. He, he's a sponsor.

819
00:31:39,998 --> 00:31:42,634
He's a sponsor. He's on the parade shirt.

820
00:31:42,634 --> 00:31:44,502
I was gonna.
Say he's the concert operator.

821
00:31:44,502 --> 00:31:45,837
We're on the parade.

822
00:31:45,837 --> 00:31:48,273
Our brand new mural at Parkville Market.

823
00:31:48,273 --> 00:31:48,573
Okay.

824
00:31:48,573 --> 00:31:49,674
He sponsored the excellent.

825
00:31:49,674 --> 00:31:52,377
His daughter and son help actually
paint it.

826
00:31:52,377 --> 00:31:52,977
That's cool.

827
00:31:52,977 --> 00:31:57,382
And our murals are in
because he is in, invested

828
00:31:57,382 --> 00:32:01,319
in or owns some of the, daily grind, so.

829
00:32:01,419 --> 00:32:03,154
Oh, he does selling our max. Oh, nice.

830
00:32:03,154 --> 00:32:05,790
Okay. Excellent.
Thanks. Jeff. Webster. Good guy.

831
00:32:05,790 --> 00:32:06,024
Yeah.

832
00:32:06,024 --> 00:32:09,894
Their son was in, our daughter's
pre-K class because they all the schools

833
00:32:09,894 --> 00:32:12,897
kind of collaborate well, for the pre-K
program. So.

834
00:32:13,064 --> 00:32:15,466
Great guy, great guy. Thanks, Jeff.

835
00:32:15,466 --> 00:32:17,068
What's up with Eric Bergen?

836
00:32:17,068 --> 00:32:18,236
You kind of talk like him.

837
00:32:18,236 --> 00:32:19,904
Do you hang out with him a lot or. No.

838
00:32:19,904 --> 00:32:21,873
Do I talk like him
a. Little bit, interest a little bit?

839
00:32:21,873 --> 00:32:24,208
I like Eric a lot. He's great,
really smart. Dude.

840
00:32:24,208 --> 00:32:29,414
Eric is kind of one of the first reasons
I got connected with a bunch of people.

841
00:32:29,414 --> 00:32:31,182
So he's obviously. Well,

842
00:32:32,884 --> 00:32:34,385
well connected on neighbors and friends

843
00:32:34,385 --> 00:32:37,388
or within the community in general.

844
00:32:38,256 --> 00:32:40,291
Someone was asking for recommendations

845
00:32:40,291 --> 00:32:43,594
for pressure washing or washing a siding,
and he had put my name out there.

846
00:32:43,594 --> 00:32:45,930
You should reach out to Ryan
Soft Wash and he.

847
00:32:45,930 --> 00:32:49,100
I never met him before,
and I just sent him a private message

848
00:32:49,100 --> 00:32:51,135
and just thanked him.
I think I really appreciate that.

849
00:32:51,135 --> 00:32:52,837
You know,
we should grab a coffee sometime.

850
00:32:52,837 --> 00:32:56,040
And we met up
and yeah, one thing led to another.

851
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:58,843
And then I met Obie through him
and a bunch of other guys.

852
00:32:58,843 --> 00:33:00,545
Yeah, through through Eric.

853
00:33:00,545 --> 00:33:02,981
So shout out to Eric

854
00:33:02,981 --> 00:33:05,984
Rich at his networking, capabilities.

855
00:33:06,384 --> 00:33:07,819
Oh, yeah. He's good.

856
00:33:07,819 --> 00:33:09,520
Another one
we got to do. But we don't hang out.

857
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:10,621
As much as I'd like to.

858
00:33:12,991 --> 00:33:14,392
Sally and Bob's.

859
00:33:14,392 --> 00:33:16,394
This. This gets posted later
anyway. Right.

860
00:33:16,394 --> 00:33:18,663
February 17th. We're coming up here.

861
00:33:18,663 --> 00:33:18,963
Right here.

862
00:33:18,963 --> 00:33:19,964
We're sitting right there.

863
00:33:19,964 --> 00:33:21,432
That's right. Yeah. Boom.

864
00:33:21,432 --> 00:33:23,234
Share that picture with you.

865
00:33:23,234 --> 00:33:25,303
There's my guy Rob, your buddy.

866
00:33:25,303 --> 00:33:27,071
That's right. My buddy
Pat was there that day I right.

867
00:33:27,071 --> 00:33:29,007
Yeah. Eric John Decker.

868
00:33:29,007 --> 00:33:30,241
That lives across the street from you.

869
00:33:30,241 --> 00:33:33,244
Yeah I look for him now
when I walk your dog,

870
00:33:34,212 --> 00:33:35,313
but, we'll have to send this.

871
00:33:35,313 --> 00:33:36,981
I'm going to send this to Stephania

872
00:33:36,981 --> 00:33:40,351
now, before I forget,
John Decker was a podcast.

873
00:33:40,785 --> 00:33:41,119
Oh, yeah.

874
00:33:41,119 --> 00:33:41,819
We had to do that, right?

875
00:33:41,819 --> 00:33:44,155
Yeah, yeah, we'll do that too.

876
00:33:44,155 --> 00:33:46,057
Little podcast action.

877
00:33:46,057 --> 00:33:47,792
She throws that podcast, she'll do.

878
00:33:47,792 --> 00:33:49,894
I mean selfie.

879
00:33:49,894 --> 00:33:53,731
Let's get that in there
and then that we'll add that on there too.

880
00:33:55,066 --> 00:33:58,336
Oh. Oh man.

881
00:33:58,870 --> 00:33:59,971
First camera.

882
00:33:59,971 --> 00:34:02,206
Yeah. Look at it this first time.

883
00:34:02,206 --> 00:34:07,345
Yeah I'm also gonna I have.

884
00:34:07,345 --> 00:34:07,945
No I forgot.

885
00:34:07,945 --> 00:34:10,748
That, Helen and Cesar for her saying
open late I appreciate it.

886
00:34:10,748 --> 00:34:13,284
Oh, I no,
you usually close cooking for us too.

887
00:34:13,284 --> 00:34:14,052
You guys are the best.

888
00:34:14,052 --> 00:34:17,055
Yeah.

889
00:34:18,890 --> 00:34:20,191
I like the Joey Bats episode.

890
00:34:20,191 --> 00:34:22,226
Are you good friends with him? No.

891
00:34:22,226 --> 00:34:24,796
You're not okay.
All right. Do you know him?

892
00:34:24,796 --> 00:34:27,932
No. No, I just, I enjoyed his,
He's really good.

893
00:34:27,932 --> 00:34:29,100
I like him a lot.

894
00:34:29,100 --> 00:34:29,700
He was funny.

895
00:34:29,700 --> 00:34:32,403
Philosophy, backgrounds up to

896
00:34:32,403 --> 00:34:34,672
history teacher.

897
00:34:34,672 --> 00:34:36,074
Either
you had a lot in common, or I was. What?

898
00:34:36,074 --> 00:34:37,809
I'm like, oh,
they got all these guys friends?

899
00:34:37,809 --> 00:34:40,545
No, I think the,

900
00:34:40,545 --> 00:34:42,580
the urban

901
00:34:42,580 --> 00:34:44,582
or something, that we hit it off.

902
00:34:44,582 --> 00:34:46,751
Yeah. Hartford and the music.

903
00:34:46,751 --> 00:34:47,185
Yeah.

904
00:34:47,185 --> 00:34:48,786
Yeah, it was cool.

905
00:34:48,786 --> 00:34:51,322
Rapper and rap music, which I got.

906
00:34:51,322 --> 00:34:54,192
I love the Wu-Tang. Yeah, the rap music.
He's supposed to write me up

907
00:34:55,460 --> 00:34:56,060
an intro.

908
00:34:56,060 --> 00:34:58,863
He's supposed to rap an intro.
Oh, speaking of which, you be growly.

909
00:34:58,863 --> 00:35:00,465
Baluchi or Joe?

910
00:35:00,465 --> 00:35:02,733
Oh, I reached out to Ali.
I think we're trying to.

911
00:35:02,733 --> 00:35:05,336
We're trying to get together for a coffee
or something like that. Nice.

912
00:35:05,336 --> 00:35:08,005
But because that was the first time
I think you mentioned me,

913
00:35:08,005 --> 00:35:09,107
I was listening to her podcast.

914
00:35:09,107 --> 00:35:11,576
I oh, they mentioned me at the end.

915
00:35:11,576 --> 00:35:13,945
Yep. That's great.

916
00:35:13,945 --> 00:35:16,948
I'm trying to find out how do I get to.

917
00:35:17,949 --> 00:35:18,449
All right.

918
00:35:18,449 --> 00:35:20,351
Oh, here we go, here we go, here
we go, here we go.

919
00:35:20,351 --> 00:35:22,987
I saved you as my favorites.

920
00:35:22,987 --> 00:35:26,491
Shout out to this to nothing beats that.

921
00:35:28,392 --> 00:35:31,362
Can we get a zoom in on the.

922
00:35:34,832 --> 00:35:35,733
Dancer McLaren.

923
00:35:35,733 --> 00:35:37,835
There we go. Let's go.
What are you got to talk about?

924
00:35:37,835 --> 00:35:38,603
Highlight of the day.

925
00:35:38,603 --> 00:35:40,972
That was fun. Yeah,
it was the last minute decision.

926
00:35:42,306 --> 00:35:43,441
Someone you had.

927
00:35:43,441 --> 00:35:44,375
You were a rockstar.

928
00:35:44,375 --> 00:35:46,878
The kids loved it.
That was a great day. No.

929
00:35:46,878 --> 00:35:48,246
Tell everyone,

930
00:35:48,246 --> 00:35:51,249
all of our listeners, like,
if you're ever going to march in a parade,

931
00:35:51,616 --> 00:35:53,384
is this not the move?
That's the way to do it.

932
00:35:53,384 --> 00:35:55,953
You wear the leprechaun
that looks like you're sitting on his.

933
00:35:55,953 --> 00:35:58,356
Shoulders, think,

934
00:35:58,356 --> 00:36:00,224
oh yeah,

935
00:36:00,224 --> 00:36:01,959
yeah, the full suit.

936
00:36:01,959 --> 00:36:04,962
That's a lot of selfie requests,
during that parade.

937
00:36:05,329 --> 00:36:06,764
So that to you.

938
00:36:06,764 --> 00:36:09,767
I didn't get offered as many whiskey shots
as I was hoping for.

939
00:36:13,104 --> 00:36:16,107
So, on that one to you?

940
00:36:16,374 --> 00:36:17,808
Yeah, that was a fun. That weather.

941
00:36:17,808 --> 00:36:20,311
It was great, too. Great.
Cooperative. Beautiful family.

942
00:36:20,311 --> 00:36:21,279
Yeah.

943
00:36:21,279 --> 00:36:24,215
Melissa, my wife, Ronen and Adi.

944
00:36:24,215 --> 00:36:25,283
Oh, yeah.

945
00:36:25,283 --> 00:36:26,851
Less. Less. About me.

946
00:36:26,851 --> 00:36:29,954
Back to him,
kids. Yeah. We love what Bill?

947
00:36:31,589 --> 00:36:32,256
No, it was great.

948
00:36:32,256 --> 00:36:35,193
Thank you again. You are a sponsor.
You're on the back of the shirt.

949
00:36:35,193 --> 00:36:36,761
You marched. You were.

950
00:36:36,761 --> 00:36:39,297
You were the leprechaun. Were.
You were not a rock star.

951
00:36:39,297 --> 00:36:40,364
It was great.

952
00:36:40,364 --> 00:36:43,234
It was. It was awesome.

953
00:36:43,234 --> 00:36:44,635
We had a great time.

954
00:36:44,635 --> 00:36:46,604
Yeah. Happy to do it.

955
00:36:46,604 --> 00:36:48,940
I'm assuming you didn't win number one.

956
00:36:48,940 --> 00:36:51,542
There's no I'm right. You know,
I think. We would have heard about it by.

957
00:36:51,542 --> 00:36:55,413
Now. Set up my guy Josh,
we didn't set up early enough.

958
00:36:55,680 --> 00:36:56,881
It's what we were scattered around.

959
00:36:56,881 --> 00:36:59,317
Yeah,
when they were walking around, of course.

960
00:36:59,317 --> 00:37:03,254
So my guy next year, I'm going to say,
hey, we got to get there early. Yep.

961
00:37:04,021 --> 00:37:05,923
Go to Mike Johnson's house and hang out.

962
00:37:05,923 --> 00:37:06,791
Perfect.

963
00:37:06,791 --> 00:37:09,193
So we're going to get there early pregame.

964
00:37:09,193 --> 00:37:10,161
Yeah yeah.

965
00:37:10,161 --> 00:37:13,397
Be set up ready to go and then walk around

966
00:37:13,397 --> 00:37:16,500
enjoy the day because we kind of
just got there hectic early.

967
00:37:16,534 --> 00:37:19,937
Put your stuff up I mean it looked great
during the parade was awesome.

968
00:37:19,937 --> 00:37:20,404
Yeah.

969
00:37:20,404 --> 00:37:21,806
We got a bubble machine or something.

970
00:37:21,806 --> 00:37:23,374
Yes. Yeah. Bubble.

971
00:37:24,809 --> 00:37:25,943
Some more visual.

972
00:37:25,943 --> 00:37:28,145
Maybe a DJ. It would be great.

973
00:37:28,145 --> 00:37:30,615
You swinging dressed as a leprechaun?

974
00:37:30,615 --> 00:37:33,618
Easily. Yeah, I can handle that.

975
00:37:33,751 --> 00:37:35,753
At least for a few minutes.

976
00:37:35,753 --> 00:37:36,854
If you're going golfing after this.

977
00:37:36,854 --> 00:37:39,590
No, no, my daughter plays
golf. Oh. She does.

978
00:37:39,590 --> 00:37:41,892
She's on the golf team.
That's awesome. Yeah.

979
00:37:41,892 --> 00:37:43,361
So when did you start doing this?

980
00:37:43,361 --> 00:37:46,097
Golfing. Yeah.

981
00:37:46,097 --> 00:37:48,532
I want to say maybe 3 or 4 years ago.

982
00:37:48,532 --> 00:37:50,434
Okay. That's 16.

983
00:37:50,434 --> 00:37:52,503
16. Okay. Juniors.

984
00:37:52,503 --> 00:37:54,572
Yeah.
I want to get my daughter involved in it.

985
00:37:54,572 --> 00:37:56,774
I think she'd be good at it.
But you're never sure.

986
00:37:56,774 --> 00:37:58,509
How, The an offer.

987
00:37:58,509 --> 00:38:01,412
Range or first tee.

988
00:38:01,412 --> 00:38:04,482
Okay, go back and watch my podcast
with First tee.

989
00:38:04,548 --> 00:38:05,349
All right.

990
00:38:05,349 --> 00:38:07,218
Mark Moriarity, my dude.

991
00:38:07,218 --> 00:38:08,552
Shout out to Mark. Mark

992
00:38:09,687 --> 00:38:12,223
first see I came in expecting

993
00:38:12,223 --> 00:38:16,560
to talk, you know, Eric Bergen and Helen
and just threw me a curveball.

994
00:38:16,560 --> 00:38:21,932
Mark Moriarty first tee but no great
podcast and great, organization there

995
00:38:21,932 --> 00:38:26,671
into the schools there getting people,
you know, motivated to play golf.

996
00:38:26,671 --> 00:38:27,638
So it's a good thing.

997
00:38:27,638 --> 00:38:29,073
Yeah. Shout out to Eric again
I mean it. Yeah.

998
00:38:29,073 --> 00:38:30,641
I mean kind of touched on that a lot.

999
00:38:30,641 --> 00:38:32,043
But he's just really well connected.

1000
00:38:32,043 --> 00:38:35,813
He's so fun to look up to
as far as networking and and capabilities

1001
00:38:35,813 --> 00:38:37,882
in the, on the town.
Yeah, I mentioned it on the air.

1002
00:38:37,882 --> 00:38:41,152
I think it was the Ali Baluchi one
where he is

1003
00:38:41,152 --> 00:38:44,922
smooth and he gives recommendations.

1004
00:38:44,922 --> 00:38:47,625
He's constantly recommends. People. Yep.

1005
00:38:47,625 --> 00:38:51,629
So it's like, oh, this guy's a good source
because trust his word

1006
00:38:51,929 --> 00:38:53,397
and he goes out on a limb for people.

1007
00:38:53,397 --> 00:38:55,166
And I think he's great.

1008
00:38:55,166 --> 00:38:57,835
He's you inspired him too.

1009
00:38:57,835 --> 00:38:59,036
You inspired him

1010
00:39:00,004 --> 00:39:01,806
to do something very similar.

1011
00:39:01,806 --> 00:39:05,343
They're going to buy a toy
or make a donation per

1012
00:39:05,343 --> 00:39:10,081
every sale or financial advice
that they get to a client.

1013
00:39:10,081 --> 00:39:12,950
That's great. Thanks to you.
He was he was crediting you.

1014
00:39:12,950 --> 00:39:18,122
I talked with, Shelby and Eric,
and they're going to.

1015
00:39:18,189 --> 00:39:19,323
Shelby's great.

1016
00:39:19,323 --> 00:39:20,791
They're starting in April.

1017
00:39:20,791 --> 00:39:24,395
Actually, this is their new, session.

1018
00:39:24,395 --> 00:39:26,130
Our new market, our new quarter.

1019
00:39:26,130 --> 00:39:27,531
Yeah. New quarter.

1020
00:39:27,531 --> 00:39:28,332
Financial talk.

1021
00:39:28,332 --> 00:39:30,067
I'm a third grader, third grade teacher.

1022
00:39:30,067 --> 00:39:32,336
Anyway,
you know, want to talk to Eric right now?

1023
00:39:32,336 --> 00:39:34,905
The market's not doing too well.

1024
00:39:34,905 --> 00:39:35,740
So their new quarter.

1025
00:39:35,740 --> 00:39:37,508
But when they make a sale or

1026
00:39:37,508 --> 00:39:40,544
get a new client,
they will donate or buy a toy.

1027
00:39:40,611 --> 00:39:42,813
That's awesome. As awesome
you you started that.

1028
00:39:42,813 --> 00:39:44,482
I'm in a small networking group with Eric.

1029
00:39:44,482 --> 00:39:47,084
So yeah, we
we collaborate on a lot of things

1030
00:39:47,084 --> 00:39:49,754
and just kind of feed off each other,
which is real. Oh, yeah, he did.

1031
00:39:49,754 --> 00:39:50,888
Dad's in business.

1032
00:39:50,888 --> 00:39:53,124
I got in there and now he started his own.

1033
00:39:53,124 --> 00:39:54,291
Some dibs.

1034
00:39:54,291 --> 00:39:57,428
He started his own little like,
business, West Hartford business.

1035
00:39:57,728 --> 00:39:59,163
Yeah, yeah. The Facebook page right.

1036
00:39:59,163 --> 00:40:00,798
Yeah. Yeah, I love that because

1037
00:40:01,766 --> 00:40:02,666
I make a note of that.

1038
00:40:02,666 --> 00:40:05,202
And neighbors and friends,
you know, we live in West Hartford.

1039
00:40:05,202 --> 00:40:07,972
Our business operated out of West
Hartford.

1040
00:40:07,972 --> 00:40:10,808
You know, I don't know,
I don't mind supporting other other towns.

1041
00:40:10,808 --> 00:40:13,944
There is a happy hour
next Wednesday at Luna Pizza.

1042
00:40:14,011 --> 00:40:17,281
It's, based on Eric's new page. Okay.

1043
00:40:17,314 --> 00:40:19,383
You saw that. Or you can make it.

1044
00:40:19,383 --> 00:40:21,786
But do my best. Yeah,

1045
00:40:21,786 --> 00:40:24,021
yeah,
it gets the kids, so it's always hard.

1046
00:40:24,021 --> 00:40:26,056
It's the upcoming events.

1047
00:40:26,056 --> 00:40:28,125
You like pancakes? Bring the kids.

1048
00:40:28,125 --> 00:40:30,661
Yeah, bring the kids to pancakes.
Oh, I got this one here.

1049
00:40:30,661 --> 00:40:31,762
Pancake breakfast.

1050
00:40:31,762 --> 00:40:34,231
8 to 12, Farmington at Baptist church.

1051
00:40:34,231 --> 00:40:36,934
All right, that's, April 26th.

1052
00:40:36,934 --> 00:40:38,903
We got a blue Jean mill at Bushnell Park.

1053
00:40:38,903 --> 00:40:41,238
We're collaborating with two for one
sports.

1054
00:40:41,238 --> 00:40:42,773
That's. Yeah, I listen to his episode two.

1055
00:40:42,773 --> 00:40:43,908
That was. Steve. Boyle.

1056
00:40:43,908 --> 00:40:46,710
You know, the blue
Jean run is an interesting bingo.

1057
00:40:46,710 --> 00:40:49,713
Okay. Family bingo at, Raymore.

1058
00:40:49,713 --> 00:40:52,283
Flanagan on New Park Road, 530 to 8.

1059
00:40:52,283 --> 00:40:53,884
Interesting. 12 bucks a person.

1060
00:40:53,884 --> 00:40:55,753
That's going to be a good, good time.

1061
00:40:55,753 --> 00:40:57,822
Sully. Shamrock pasta dinner.

1062
00:40:57,822 --> 00:40:58,789
That's my shirt right here.

1063
00:40:58,789 --> 00:41:00,825
My former coworker in Waterbury.

1064
00:41:00,825 --> 00:41:02,193
It's a Tuesday.

1065
00:41:02,193 --> 00:41:04,695
It's at the ancient order of hard.

1066
00:41:04,695 --> 00:41:07,731
I order of Hibernians,
an Irish club in Waterbury

1067
00:41:07,731 --> 00:41:11,368
where I had my stag sweet,
you know, 91 Golden Hill.

1068
00:41:11,368 --> 00:41:13,504
That's 5 to 7, 25 bucks.

1069
00:41:13,504 --> 00:41:17,741
My guy Irish music is playing Mark James
episode 86.

1070
00:41:17,741 --> 00:41:19,510
He plays for Irish tunes at the end.

1071
00:41:19,510 --> 00:41:20,845
I love that guy.

1072
00:41:20,845 --> 00:41:22,780
He was at the
cocktail hour for my wedding,

1073
00:41:23,747 --> 00:41:26,350
one of my dearest, closest friends.

1074
00:41:26,350 --> 00:41:30,421
And, we we went to go see him
no matter where he was in Waterbury.

1075
00:41:30,421 --> 00:41:32,823
We're like, we're going to Mark James.
We see Mark James.

1076
00:41:32,823 --> 00:41:36,227
So shout out to the Sully Shamrocks
and hopefully you can come Memorial Day

1077
00:41:36,227 --> 00:41:36,627
Parade.

1078
00:41:36,627 --> 00:41:39,630
Hopefully you can sponsor and march
with the kids again.

1079
00:41:39,964 --> 00:41:42,099
Yeah, yeah.
We'll do what we can this year for sure.

1080
00:41:42,099 --> 00:41:43,968
Hartford athletic games February.

1081
00:41:43,968 --> 00:41:46,971
It's February. That's silly guy.

1082
00:41:46,971 --> 00:41:47,771
June 6th.

1083
00:41:47,771 --> 00:41:51,509
It's a Friday Bristol Blues game
which is in Bristol.

1084
00:41:51,509 --> 00:41:53,744
The college kids
that's going to be on the 12th.

1085
00:41:53,744 --> 00:41:56,547
That's going to be at 20 bucks.
All you can eat, all you can drink.

1086
00:41:56,547 --> 00:41:57,648
I'm not familiar with it.

1087
00:41:57,648 --> 00:42:00,150
It's, Babe Ruth played there.

1088
00:42:00,150 --> 00:42:05,456
It's exactly
halfway point from New York and Boston.

1089
00:42:05,489 --> 00:42:07,491
Boston okay. Have the same splits.

1090
00:42:07,491 --> 00:42:08,225
It's pretty cool.

1091
00:42:08,225 --> 00:42:10,861
And they have a Babe
Ruth son continental divide. Yep.

1092
00:42:11,996 --> 00:42:13,330
Fourth annual

1093
00:42:13,330 --> 00:42:16,967
Friends of Nicholas game
at the Yard Goats on August 16th.

1094
00:42:17,635 --> 00:42:19,236
Our golf tournament. Do you golf?

1095
00:42:19,236 --> 00:42:20,804
Yeah, yeah.

1096
00:42:20,804 --> 00:42:22,907
Or we're figuring that out. Yeah.

1097
00:42:22,907 --> 00:42:25,009
You have some sponsorship
categories we're looking at.

1098
00:42:25,009 --> 00:42:25,876
Nice, nice.

1099
00:42:25,876 --> 00:42:28,879
That's September 13th

1100
00:42:29,013 --> 00:42:31,315
and our seventh annual makerspace event.

1101
00:42:31,315 --> 00:42:33,817
Bring the kids
that building with cardboard.

1102
00:42:33,817 --> 00:42:35,553
Good stuff. Sounds good.

1103
00:42:35,553 --> 00:42:37,054
Yeah.

1104
00:42:37,054 --> 00:42:38,689
Do it so that that's our.

1105
00:42:38,689 --> 00:42:40,758
You have any upcoming events?

1106
00:42:40,758 --> 00:42:42,459
No, no we don't.

1107
00:42:42,459 --> 00:42:44,094
Do you have a favorite restaurant?

1108
00:42:44,094 --> 00:42:46,130
Lots of favorite restaurants. Yes.

1109
00:42:46,130 --> 00:42:47,264
Name one.

1110
00:42:47,264 --> 00:42:49,233
Trevor's a great restaurant.

1111
00:42:49,233 --> 00:42:51,902
We love, pasties on point.

1112
00:42:51,902 --> 00:42:54,204
They have a good brunch game, too.

1113
00:42:54,204 --> 00:42:57,207
We love Rico's,

1114
00:42:57,942 --> 00:42:59,510
I could talk food for an hour.

1115
00:42:59,510 --> 00:43:00,311
All right, all right.

1116
00:43:00,311 --> 00:43:01,912
Where do you guys go?

1117
00:43:01,912 --> 00:43:04,582
Rico? Yeah. Rico's great.

1118
00:43:04,582 --> 00:43:07,484
And if you want to go outside of West,
our saloon.

1119
00:43:07,484 --> 00:43:08,319
Yeah. In Hartford.

1120
00:43:08,319 --> 00:43:09,753
My wife loves a Jimmy.

1121
00:43:09,753 --> 00:43:11,755
I love that guy. But, all. What?

1122
00:43:11,755 --> 00:43:14,124
I just went to Sahara the other day
with my daughter.

1123
00:43:14,124 --> 00:43:16,493
She's a vegetarian.
The golfer is a vegetarian?

1124
00:43:16,493 --> 00:43:18,762
Yeah,
the roasted cauliflower dish is awesome.

1125
00:43:18,762 --> 00:43:20,230
Yeah. The pita.

1126
00:43:20,230 --> 00:43:23,801
Good cocktail list to the carrot,
24 karat.

1127
00:43:23,801 --> 00:43:25,936
It's great. Yeah.

1128
00:43:25,936 --> 00:43:27,871
Been to the bunker.
That's usually where it's usually.

1129
00:43:27,871 --> 00:43:30,774
I found the finish the night
with the guys, and I love that we go out.

1130
00:43:30,774 --> 00:43:32,776
Yeah, it's like a 90s dive bar.

1131
00:43:32,776 --> 00:43:34,211
Speakeasy. Yeah.

1132
00:43:34,211 --> 00:43:36,480
Yeah, until, like 11:00 and then.

1133
00:43:36,480 --> 00:43:38,616
Well, no,
I mean, I'm there from like 5 to 6.

1134
00:43:38,616 --> 00:43:40,451
Yeah. I gotta get out of there. Yeah.

1135
00:43:40,451 --> 00:43:41,018
You got I'm over.

1136
00:43:41,018 --> 00:43:44,021
40, so I by ten
I cannot be there after eight.

1137
00:43:44,088 --> 00:43:45,522
Especially when I see former students.

1138
00:43:45,522 --> 00:43:47,491
I walked to Savoy the other day
and I heard Mr.

1139
00:43:47,491 --> 00:43:51,362
Phoenix, I'm like,
oh my God, it's Kayla and Dominic.

1140
00:43:51,362 --> 00:43:54,365
My former fifth grade students are in line
for the bunker, right?

1141
00:43:54,932 --> 00:43:55,966
I like Savoy, too.

1142
00:43:55,966 --> 00:43:58,569
They're so. Pesetas. Fantastic.

1143
00:43:58,569 --> 00:43:58,969
Yeah.

1144
00:43:58,969 --> 00:44:02,106
This was Dante's place. Yep.

1145
00:44:03,173 --> 00:44:04,274
So we did a lot of last.

1146
00:44:04,274 --> 00:44:06,043
Hour being a teacher in 21 years.

1147
00:44:06,043 --> 00:44:06,510
Yeah.

1148
00:44:06,510 --> 00:44:09,513
Do you have a favorite teacher?

1149
00:44:10,347 --> 00:44:11,548
Yeah.

1150
00:44:11,548 --> 00:44:14,885
Green was his last name.

1151
00:44:16,353 --> 00:44:17,821
What town?

1152
00:44:17,821 --> 00:44:18,989
Where'd you grow up?

1153
00:44:18,989 --> 00:44:21,692
So I guess it was moved around it.

1154
00:44:21,692 --> 00:44:24,695
Yeah, yeah, I'm not going to know it
anyway, but he,

1155
00:44:25,596 --> 00:44:29,033
sophomore year, I was going through a hard
time, and, he was.

1156
00:44:29,333 --> 00:44:31,735
I think he just picked up on it
without having to say anything.

1157
00:44:31,735 --> 00:44:33,704
Just some non-verbal cues.

1158
00:44:33,704 --> 00:44:35,472
And, 
he was just kind of always there for me.

1159
00:44:35,472 --> 00:44:37,374
Just kind of just checked up on me

1160
00:44:37,374 --> 00:44:40,678
and, Yeah, really kind of helped me
get through, like, an awkward year.

1161
00:44:40,711 --> 00:44:43,714
So, Yeah. Shut it down. Nice. Yeah. Nice.

1162
00:44:44,281 --> 00:44:46,450
21 years now, Yeah. 21.

1163
00:44:46,450 --> 00:44:48,218
And how long you been at Wolcott?

1164
00:44:48,218 --> 00:44:50,187
12. 12. Yeah. Okay.

1165
00:44:52,923 --> 00:44:54,491
We'll
bring over the food, one to the food,

1166
00:44:54,491 --> 00:44:55,959
and then some closing remarks.

1167
00:44:55,959 --> 00:44:58,762
We're going to show the food
first. Let's show the food again.

1168
00:44:58,762 --> 00:45:05,035
Shout out to our our host and our newest
sponsor, Sally sailing and Bob's.

1169
00:45:05,135 --> 00:45:07,271
Thank you, Helen and Cesar
for staying open.

1170
00:45:07,271 --> 00:45:08,572
Cesar. Mexican food.

1171
00:45:08,572 --> 00:45:09,273
Eggs. Benny.

1172
00:45:09,273 --> 00:45:10,340
We're going to show him off.

1173
00:45:10,340 --> 00:45:12,609
Doing some mezcal after.

1174
00:45:12,609 --> 00:45:13,477
Yeah. Oh.

1175
00:45:13,477 --> 00:45:13,844
Thank you.

1176
00:45:13,844 --> 00:45:16,246
Have, Wow.

1177
00:45:16,246 --> 00:45:18,082
Any recommendation, any closing remarks?

1178
00:45:18,082 --> 00:45:21,085
Anything you want to say?
Oh, look at that.

1179
00:45:21,752 --> 00:45:24,321
Are we finishing?

1180
00:45:24,321 --> 00:45:26,623
We're going to finish up,
but let's show off here.

1181
00:45:26,623 --> 00:45:28,926
Oh. She knows. See,
I don't even have to ask.

1182
00:45:28,926 --> 00:45:30,327
Eleanor. Homemade hot sauces.

1183
00:45:30,327 --> 00:45:32,629
Fantastic. Homemade hot sauce.

1184
00:45:32,629 --> 00:45:35,466
You know, in books, podcasts. Yeah.

1185
00:45:35,466 --> 00:45:38,469
TV shows, books, podcasts.

1186
00:45:39,803 --> 00:45:40,771
Anxious generation.

1187
00:45:40,771 --> 00:45:42,172
Have you read that one? Yep. No,

1188
00:45:43,173 --> 00:45:45,576
that's a good one.

1189
00:45:45,576 --> 00:45:46,777
Anxious generation.

1190
00:45:46,777 --> 00:45:48,178
Yeah.

1191
00:45:48,178 --> 00:45:50,481
Is that a TV show? No, it's a book.

1192
00:45:50,481 --> 00:45:52,616
Yeah.

1193
00:45:52,616 --> 00:45:55,619
Explores the links between,
like, rising mental health and,

1194
00:45:56,353 --> 00:45:58,288
the prevalence of,
like, online social lives.

1195
00:45:58,288 --> 00:46:02,392
And so, kind of compares our generation
to like, the up and coming generation.

1196
00:46:02,392 --> 00:46:05,529
I'm sure you're probably dealing
with that issue now,

1197
00:46:06,196 --> 00:46:08,332
but 16 year old girls
phones, social media.

1198
00:46:08,332 --> 00:46:09,767
The demise. Of.

1199
00:46:09,767 --> 00:46:10,434
Yeah.

1200
00:46:10,434 --> 00:46:14,204
The let them theory and Mel Robbins,
are you familiar with her podcast?

1201
00:46:14,671 --> 00:46:17,674
She's great.

1202
00:46:19,276 --> 00:46:21,612
That's a, the let them theory.

1203
00:46:21,612 --> 00:46:24,615
She's had that out for a number of years,
but she's putting some books out.

1204
00:46:24,915 --> 00:46:25,349
Tomic.

1205
00:46:25,349 --> 00:46:28,352
Abbott's, you know, building
good habits, breaking bad ones.

1206
00:46:29,753 --> 00:46:32,222
It's a popular one.

1207
00:46:32,222 --> 00:46:34,925
Anything Malcolm Gladwell,

1208
00:46:34,925 --> 00:46:36,727
outliers, tipping point.

1209
00:46:36,727 --> 00:46:37,961
All right, that one.

1210
00:46:37,961 --> 00:46:40,164
You read outliers? Yeah, yeah.

1211
00:46:40,164 --> 00:46:42,266
Tipping point. I heard of that one.

1212
00:46:43,200 --> 00:46:45,836
You know,
just viral trends in human behavior.

1213
00:46:45,836 --> 00:46:46,937
So it's an interesting one.

1214
00:46:46,937 --> 00:46:51,241
And then, David and Goliath, that's
another, another popular one by him.

1215
00:46:51,241 --> 00:46:53,710
So I. Definitely try to do.

1216
00:46:53,710 --> 00:46:56,713
Obviously underdogs, 
you know, beating the odds.

1217
00:46:57,848 --> 00:46:59,583
I take my recommendation serious.

1218
00:46:59,583 --> 00:47:01,385
I will read one of these and follow up.

1219
00:47:01,385 --> 00:47:04,388
You know, they're great,
you know, wonderful

1220
00:47:04,588 --> 00:47:06,690
TV shows.

1221
00:47:06,690 --> 00:47:07,357
Breaking bad.

1222
00:47:07,357 --> 00:47:10,360
I mean, that's a classic Game of Thrones.

1223
00:47:10,360 --> 00:47:13,363
Now, I'm really been hooked on any,

1224
00:47:13,463 --> 00:47:16,500
my wife's making me watch a series right
now, and I don't even know

1225
00:47:16,500 --> 00:47:19,503
if I want to talk about it
from her childhood

1226
00:47:20,470 --> 00:47:21,872
vampire slayer.

1227
00:47:21,872 --> 00:47:23,640
Oh, Buffy. Yeah. Buffy.

1228
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:24,241
Yeah.

1229
00:47:24,241 --> 00:47:25,609
Matt. Dicks love Buffy.

1230
00:47:25,609 --> 00:47:26,043
Shout out to.

1231
00:47:26,043 --> 00:47:27,744
My big,

1232
00:47:27,744 --> 00:47:29,947
Yeah, it's.

1233
00:47:29,947 --> 00:47:32,916
My wife is a big fan, so we're, 
we're going through that series now.

1234
00:47:32,916 --> 00:47:35,586
I obviously didn't
watch that when growing up, so.

1235
00:47:37,454 --> 00:47:40,290
Yeah. You.

1236
00:47:40,290 --> 00:47:41,758
One of my currently

1237
00:47:41,758 --> 00:47:44,761
podcast swindled is, Okay.

1238
00:47:45,529 --> 00:47:47,431
It's a little dark,

1239
00:47:47,431 --> 00:47:49,066
swindle.

1240
00:47:49,066 --> 00:47:50,400
What does that entail?

1241
00:47:50,400 --> 00:47:52,135
Just corrupt people.

1242
00:47:52,135 --> 00:47:53,503
Like politicians.

1243
00:47:53,503 --> 00:47:55,806
It's always a fun subject, Yeah, yeah.

1244
00:47:55,806 --> 00:47:56,974
It starts off pretty good.

1245
00:47:56,974 --> 00:47:58,675
And then there's, like, a curveball.

1246
00:47:58,675 --> 00:48:01,678
Yeah.

1247
00:48:01,812 --> 00:48:02,212
What else?

1248
00:48:02,212 --> 00:48:04,915
TV show I'm watching, actually
finishing Ozark.

1249
00:48:04,915 --> 00:48:08,185
Oh, we we put it on pause for a while
because it took a big jump,

1250
00:48:08,185 --> 00:48:10,687
and then someone said, hey,
you got to go back to it.

1251
00:48:10,687 --> 00:48:13,490
We watched the season one
and we never went back to it.

1252
00:48:13,490 --> 00:48:14,625
Yeah, yeah.

1253
00:48:14,625 --> 00:48:17,027
Because it takes a big you're like,
what is going on here?

1254
00:48:17,027 --> 00:48:18,562
I just finished Reacher.

1255
00:48:18,562 --> 00:48:21,231
Yeah. It's
just a guilty pleasure of mine.

1256
00:48:21,231 --> 00:48:24,234
There's, espionage or, you know.

1257
00:48:25,035 --> 00:48:26,937
I see commercials. For that. Yeah.

1258
00:48:26,937 --> 00:48:28,272
Jack Ryan two. It's a good one.

1259
00:48:29,907 --> 00:48:30,240
All right.

1260
00:48:30,240 --> 00:48:32,776
This food looks good, right? Yeah. No,
it smells good.

1261
00:48:32,776 --> 00:48:34,077
Another another photo.

1262
00:48:34,077 --> 00:48:35,212
Go zoom in here.

1263
00:48:35,212 --> 00:48:35,412
Yeah.

1264
00:48:35,412 --> 00:48:38,248
You show yours first. Lets
you talk about yours.

1265
00:48:38,248 --> 00:48:41,251
So we have the, the flat patty

1266
00:48:41,351 --> 00:48:44,521
Teresa with, some avocado eggs.

1267
00:48:44,521 --> 00:48:46,056
Benny.

1268
00:48:46,056 --> 00:48:48,025
Their home fries. Fantastic.

1269
00:48:48,025 --> 00:48:51,028
Yeah.

1270
00:48:51,695 --> 00:48:52,195
My turn.

1271
00:48:52,195 --> 00:48:55,198
Should I just turn to you?

1272
00:48:58,201 --> 00:49:01,171
And I go with the corned beef hash
and Benny

1273
00:49:02,272 --> 00:49:04,141
with the hollandaise sauce.

1274
00:49:04,141 --> 00:49:07,010
Homemade Caesar makes it. Yeah.

1275
00:49:07,010 --> 00:49:12,115
And then the hash I call the Irish penny
and the homemade hot sauce.

1276
00:49:12,282 --> 00:49:14,885
Mom's so good.

1277
00:49:14,885 --> 00:49:18,188
My wife loves the, parfait and the Greek
yogurt with the fresh berries.

1278
00:49:18,655 --> 00:49:20,190
That is a great dish.

1279
00:49:20,190 --> 00:49:24,061
I still have to have the Nuevo store,
the ranch.

1280
00:49:24,061 --> 00:49:27,030
All the way
with some Charles. Rancheros. Is it back?

1281
00:49:28,832 --> 00:49:29,399
I wish I.

1282
00:49:29,399 --> 00:49:31,068
Know it's again.

1283
00:49:31,068 --> 00:49:32,302
I have never had it.

1284
00:49:32,302 --> 00:49:34,071
Yeah, you even had the wavelets. Yeah.

1285
00:49:34,071 --> 00:49:36,273
Oh, that's good one.

1286
00:49:36,273 --> 00:49:38,742
Yeah, well, this goes by quick.

1287
00:49:38,742 --> 00:49:42,346
I know 50 minutes with Finney Feeney
and we pushed that 106.

1288
00:49:42,346 --> 00:49:45,349
So hopefully we'll get some good hits.

1289
00:49:46,583 --> 00:49:48,385
You sure that's 50 minutes?

1290
00:49:48,385 --> 00:49:49,720
I think she's rushing us.

1291
00:49:49,720 --> 00:49:51,054
Tiffany wants us gone.

1292
00:49:51,054 --> 00:49:54,057
Faster because I give you the warning now.

1293
00:49:54,491 --> 00:49:54,891
Interesting.

1294
00:49:54,891 --> 00:49:56,660
I could talk to you all day. Yeah.

1295
00:49:56,660 --> 00:49:58,762
It's wonderful chatting with you.

1296
00:49:58,762 --> 00:50:00,063
You're doing great things.

1297
00:50:00,063 --> 00:50:03,633
Again, thank you for your generosity
and your thoughtfulness with the toys.

1298
00:50:03,900 --> 00:50:06,770
Hopefully, that collaboration
can happen again next year.

1299
00:50:06,770 --> 00:50:08,672
Yeah. We look forward to some toys.

1300
00:50:08,672 --> 00:50:10,474
Call or text.

1301
00:50:10,474 --> 00:50:10,874
Ryan.

1302
00:50:10,874 --> 00:50:15,078
Soft wash (860) 830-0040.

1303
00:50:15,946 --> 00:50:18,582
He's your guy for all your cleaning.

1304
00:50:18,582 --> 00:50:21,184
Socials at Ryan's soft wash. Well.

1305
00:50:22,352 --> 00:50:23,220
Any closing remarks?

1306
00:50:23,220 --> 00:50:25,022
Anything I miss? Any questions for me?

1307
00:50:25,022 --> 00:50:28,225
No, just looking forward
to building a relationship and continuing,

1308
00:50:28,225 --> 00:50:30,594
supporting what you're doing. Well,
we love what you're doing.

1309
00:50:30,594 --> 00:50:32,829
And my wife
and I, we're talking about a nonprofit.

1310
00:50:32,829 --> 00:50:35,032
When we first moved into town,
before we had heard about you.

1311
00:50:35,032 --> 00:50:38,435
And just knowing that you have that
and just supporting that is awesome.

1312
00:50:38,969 --> 00:50:41,238
Where are you looking to
take it in the future?

1313
00:50:41,238 --> 00:50:43,473
You're looking to stay kind of hyper
local.

1314
00:50:43,473 --> 00:50:44,875
Yeah. Yeah.

1315
00:50:44,875 --> 00:50:47,210
Well who knows.
But we added a new board member.

1316
00:50:47,210 --> 00:50:48,211
Hi. Tran.

1317
00:50:48,211 --> 00:50:51,782
Thai is, JC Hall of Famer.

1318
00:50:51,815 --> 00:50:52,549
Okay.

1319
00:50:52,549 --> 00:50:56,520
As he runs the JC, he is a great person.

1320
00:50:56,720 --> 00:50:59,856
He scored 70 in a in a men's league.

1321
00:50:59,856 --> 00:51:02,092
So he's really talented on
and off the court.

1322
00:51:02,092 --> 00:51:02,692
Local legend.

1323
00:51:02,692 --> 00:51:04,161
Local legend for sure.

1324
00:51:04,161 --> 00:51:06,730
But so we're building
our board of directors.

1325
00:51:06,730 --> 00:51:11,935
We have some two other prospective, 
applicants or people that are interested.

1326
00:51:12,002 --> 00:51:12,169
Okay.

1327
00:51:12,169 --> 00:51:15,739
Excited to share maybe next podcast
who those people are.

1328
00:51:16,073 --> 00:51:19,242
And we can we can use an advisory board

1329
00:51:19,242 --> 00:51:22,245
if you want to just participate
when you can.

1330
00:51:22,279 --> 00:51:24,915
We're we love to have you, helping out.

1331
00:51:24,915 --> 00:51:27,050
So the more the merrier.

1332
00:51:27,050 --> 00:51:28,185
More hands. Light work.

1333
00:51:29,853 --> 00:51:30,253
Excellent.

1334
00:51:30,253 --> 00:51:32,422
Thanks for what you do,
I appreciate it. My guy. Really.

1335
00:51:32,422 --> 00:51:34,391
It was wonderful talking with you again.

1336
00:51:34,391 --> 00:51:36,660
This is Ryan McGinnis of Ryan soft wash.

1337
00:51:36,660 --> 00:51:38,995
Ryan soft wash.com.

1338
00:51:38,995 --> 00:51:40,497
I said his number like ten times.

1339
00:51:40,497 --> 00:51:41,531
Good. We're good.

1340
00:51:41,531 --> 00:51:43,567
Haha I appreciate let's see.

1341
00:51:43,567 --> 00:51:45,902
All right
I heard three will say be a good friend.

1342
00:51:45,902 --> 00:51:48,905
123 be a good friend.

1343
00:51:49,172 --> 00:51:49,739
That's a wrap.