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All right, all right.

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Beanie talks with friends.

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Episode 141.

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We're in a special place
with some special people.

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What's up? Teresa?

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Hey, Eric.

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What's up?

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Brian? Hello, Eric, how are ya?

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We're at people's Bank.

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How are we doing? People's bank?

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We are doing great.

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We've had some big news
the last couple of weeks,

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so we're excited to share everything
that's been kind of coming down the pike.

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But it's been a great few weeks
to be a people's bank person,

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so we're really excited.

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Nice, nice. Yep.

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We're on 102 LaSalle.

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102 LaSalle road, right
in the heart of West Hartford Center. Yep.

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Don't mind
the construction. They are open.

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We are open.

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We are here for business,
and so are all the restaurants.

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So everyone should definitely make a point
to come down

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and patronize all of the small businesses
on LaSalle road.

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Right next to the post
office, in between Max Burger and Brisco.

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I can't be.

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It can't be better than. That.

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You know how many times
you hit a brick for lunch?

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We can't disclose that
because it is way too much.

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We are way too often, so we we can't.

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You got to give Billy a good deal.

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I'm like, some financial advice,

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and maybe he can give you a good deal
on some dinner. And some dinner.

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Yeah, that Penny is kind of with chicken.

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With chicken?
Yes. That is the best. So good.

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Well, I'm
very excited to be here at people's Bank.

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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 people in the community

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that are doing great things.

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And you just had a wonderful weekend
in the community doing great things.

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We did.

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So we were lucky enough to spend
the entire weekend within the community.

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People's Bank was the presenting sponsor
for Celebrate West Hartford.

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So it's just a great opportunity
to kind of support

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West Hartford, support the area,
and kind of get as involved as we can.

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Yeah.

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Did you both go?

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Yes, I think I popped 1 million bags.

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At least a million kernels were popped
over the weekend, rain or shine.

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Saturday was a little bit
you know, rainy, but it didn't.

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Great turnout.

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For anyone. Right now.

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Was it postponed at all? No, no.

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They ran business as usual, rain or shine.

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It was open the whole time. 30 minutes.
They shut down. Okay.

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Yeah, there was thunder,
but there's a. Little bit thunder.

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Lightning at one point on Saturday.

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Kind of positive for about 30 minutes.

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But we kept popping popcorn. We did? Yeah.

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We were joking.

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We were saying we were like the
the the Titanic, the band on the Titanic.

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They were still playing as the ship sunk.

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We were stopping popcorn as it was
thunder and lightning out.

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So I love it. It was a fun day.

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Was it your first time going to.

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It was. Yeah, ever.

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Yeah, actually. Nice when you think.

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It was a good turnout.

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Yeah, there was a lot of people.

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It's nice to see everybody,
the community coming out.

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Like,
I know. West Hartford is great for that.

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It's been going for how long now?

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It's been going for decades.

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And then the Geissler,

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she does such an amazing job
kind of organizing it all year round.

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It takes an entire year
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And she just does such a great job.

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She makes it easy

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for us to come in as presenting sponsors
to just kind of plug and play.

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And she just is amazing.

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Yeah, the same artists come out,
it seems like year after year

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two and they kind of
want to be in the same spot.

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So they say, you know,
people will be able to find them.

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Oh, they know like, hey, if I want to see
this person, I go right here.

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Yeah, yeah, we had a booth once.

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We did hugs for a donation.

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It was like, oh fine. Oh that's. Nice.

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That is really. Cool. Hugs. And

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no good time.

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Always a good time.

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Yeah. It's been there for 38 years. 30.

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And you guys have been the sponsor
for how long?

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We have been the last couple of years
we've been the sponsor.

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Last year was my first year
with people's Bank coming in.

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So this is the last few years it's been

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it's been a great opportunity for us,
as you know, a bank coming in.

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We're headquartered in Holyoke,
Massachusetts, set.

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So we're a small community mutual bank.

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So being able to come into West Hartford
and kind of make as big of a splash

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as we've been able to has been such,
you know, a blessing

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and a great opportunity for myself
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to really kind of reinvest
in the community that we live in.

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So it's it's been a great opportunity.

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Cool. No.

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Awesome time.

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What's your favorite carnival
Carnival ride there?

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I can't get on ride. It's because I'm 14.

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You're too short.

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Just wait. You stole my joke.
You stole my joke.

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And I'm on the other end.

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I'm 12 for most of I'm six foot five.

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So we kind of max our admin out
on a lot of things together.

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Yeah. What do you.

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What did you eat
while you were there? There.

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They actually had different vendors.

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So I didn't have fair food.

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But there is a place in Hartford
called Van Me or Van Sandwich or.

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Yeah, we had by me and then,
we had spicy garlic noodles.

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Wow. That's. Which was fantastic.
Yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, a little bit of everything there is
so great Thai place that was there.

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The rotary,
they always do their grill out.

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So that's always a great table
to get to. Yeah.

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But I mean, you can't go wrong with
the food, you know, and if you have kids,

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it's a great place to kind of
go get some kids on some rides,

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check out all the vendors.

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They do a great job of having helpful
vendors.

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You know, we're all kind of walks of life,

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whether you need vinyl
siding or solar power.

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Or windows.

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Windows or you're just kind of looking

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to find a nonprofit to give back,
you know, there's a lot of there's like.

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A lot of wellness.

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To out of wellness, which has been
a big thing, which is really awesome.

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You know, we all kind of deserve
to give back to ourselves, which is nice.

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I wonder if Jenny,

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Jenny SRT was there.

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She was my last guest about mental health.

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She is, psychotherapy practitioner.

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What is it?

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Well, psycho therapist
who's lost it for a minute.

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Therapist? So she was definitely there.

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Purple table singing bowl.
Jenny was there.

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I don't know, I didn't go,
Shout out to my wife's cousin, Patrick.

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Congratulations.

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He graduated from Molloy College
in Long Island.

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Very proud of him. Patrick.

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That was really.

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It was cool to go down, but driving to
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No fire.

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No, no, no anything in New York.

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Driving is not fun.

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So I missed it.

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But anything else
to share about celebrate?

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Are you going to
are you going to sponsor again next year?

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I think so if they'll have us,
you know, we're we're definitely committed

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to the community.
We're committed to that event every year.

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So we always have a blast.

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You know, it's it's I'm lucky to have
the team that I have because they come out

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and they say, right, like,
what do you need us to do?

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We have associates from all of our other
branches who want to volunteer their time.

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They want to come
spend the weekend with us.

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So, you know, as long as Linda
and her team allow it, you know,

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I think we are definitely on board
for continuing the tradition

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of being the sponsor.

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We love it.

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And, you know,
I don't think there's any better way

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we can give back to the community. Yeah.

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It's a fun week and.

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There's a fun run.
Do you guys do the fun run?

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No, we did not do the fun run.

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When did you win
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They do.

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They throw color on you or you just runs.

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So on Sunday morning they do their five K
so a walk run five K it was oh that.

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Was Sunday morning.

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Sunday morning. Yeah.

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So that was a little too early for me,
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you know, been at celebrate all weekend.

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I actually my associate Roman
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at the Hartford Boys and Girls Club.

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They had one of their annual events,
so we got the opportunity

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to go to that after.

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So that was an amazing event.

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You know, be downtown Hartford, support
such a great cause.

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They were to raise over half $1 million.
Wow.

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The Boys and Girls Club of Hartford,
you know, another great opportunity.

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As you know, a. Big sponsor of that, too.

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We did? Yeah.
So we had some sponsorship with that.

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So, you know, as we kind of grow
into the Hartford community, we are really

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looking to kind of get as involved
with in the communities that we serve.

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And a lot of that is giving back our time,
our resources, and really just

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being the agent of change
within that area, which is really cool.

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I love it.

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I worked at the Greater Waterbury
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I want to say 6 or 7 years.

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I was the physical director,
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basketball coach,
ran the basketball league so great.

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I seen so many kids
grow and flourish from that program.

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So I'm very sure that Hartford's
the same way. Yeah.

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So you doing good? Thanks.
Keep up the good work. That's awesome.

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Yeah. It was. It was a great night.

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We're here at people's Bank.

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Ryan young, Teresa Le Chardy.

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What are we going to talk about?

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First roles and responsibilities.

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Well, we always say so.

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I have, like, Asterix and I come over
when I have an open position available.

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Just who is lucky enough to take a chance?

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I had to,
you know, take her out to dinner.

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I had to make her home cooked meals.

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So I had her over for a Sunday.

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Sunday sauce?

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Yeah. And dinner.

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It was definitely a courtship. Yeah.

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I definitely had to court her.

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So I was very lucky
when she officially applied.

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And I can see it in ADP and I was like,
all right, I got I got her.

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I'm going to be great.

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So it was, you know, the timing
of everything just kind of went perfectly.

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And you know, when I got promoted
last fall and I knew I needed a strong,

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competent assistant manager,
I was like, I know, I know who I want.

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So we had always kind of we previously
worked together in a different capacity,

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so it was nice to keep in touch and,
you know, reach out when, you know,

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I had that opportunity.

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And I think she was in a place where she
was ready to kind of grow and progress.

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So, you know,
we the stars kind of aligned.

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And it worked out perfectly.

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And at the end of the day,
I just needed a bad cop because I was

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my team on the test like I am.

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I am the nice guy, which is kind of good
and bad for a lot of things.

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So I was like,
all right, so we got Theresa.

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She will be the hammer.

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So hold down
the gantlet for other groups.

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So small.

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But mighty.

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Small but.

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Mighty right
small. I'm just a big pushover.

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So I was very lucky to get her.

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I don't think. So.

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Assistant manager. Nice.
How long have you been here? Now?

243
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December. So almost, six months.

244
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Yeah.

245
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Yeah, yeah,
you definitely make your presence felt

246
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because it feels like you've been here
longer.

247
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Yeah, at the parties,
you know, very, social and welcoming.

248
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And you're a good friend.

249
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You got a great hoodie on.

250
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I do, yes.

251
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Representing today.

252
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So a little too hot for the winter hand.

253
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I know, yeah I know, yeah.

254
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I do have a hat too. Yeah, yeah,
we got all this way.

255
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What you take on people's bank. So far.

256
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How do you think it's going?
I think it's going well.

257
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I the culture speaks for itself.

258
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I think when people walk through the door,
you really feel that community feel,

259
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It's like the. Cheers.

260
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I'm probably dating ourselves, but
you know, where everybody knows your name.

261
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It it does feel like that here.

262
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And it feels like that

263
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when you go to really any banking
center, it's not just in West Hartford

264
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and it's the culture.

265
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So I think that makes a big difference
for people

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because you're kind of earning that trust,

267
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you know, helping them financially,
but also just being a good friend. Do.

268
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So yeah. Yeah.

269
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You're like, Norm. Norm. Yeah.

270
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Rest in peace to your way
home, George Wendt.

271
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Yeah. Brought up cheers. Yeah.
I don't. Know.

272
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So back to our
we got a big congratulations to Ryan.

273
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Yes. Huge congratulations.

274
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But first let's talk about the manager
position. Right. Yeah.

275
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So it's almost a year now, right? Yeah.

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Just about a year old last, October,
I was officially promoted

277
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to bank center manager here
in West Hartford under sort of the the,

278
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supports and, the support of,
my regional manager, Roma O'Dowd.

279
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She's been a great sort of mentor
and colleague since I joined.

280
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You know, when I came here
for my first couple interviews,

281
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you walk through the door,
you see, you know, you're immediately

282
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greeted by our associate, Neelam,
who has been here for years.

283
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She is kind of the fixture here, you know,
everybody knows.

284
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Neil, it's great to always be that person
next to Neil.

285
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And, you know, she's.

286
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She's fantastic.

287
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So the moment I walked in, it was like
we said, like,

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you know, we are friends with everyone
we knew.

289
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Everybody knows.
Hey, can we get you a water?

290
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Would you like a coffee?

291
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Did you park in our loft
so you're not going to get a ticket,

292
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you know,
and it just was that immediate kinship.

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Friendship.

294
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And just meeting Roma, it was almost like
we were kind of pinching ourselves

295
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that, like, you know, we as a bank,
we win all of these awards

296
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for our best place
to work and kind of best culture.

297
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And, you know, when you're trying to make
a change and go somewhere else, like,

298
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you know, you want to believe whatever
one says in the video, but it's hard.

299
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But when I met Roma and Neil,
it was just like, wow.

300
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Like, why didn't I,
you know, look into this sooner.

301
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It was that immediate warmth and support
and just knowing that,

302
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you know, we have your back
and we're not going to let you fail.

303
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So it's been a seamless transition.

304
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And it's been a simple one,
you know, essentially,

305
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you know, kind of transitioning
from being center manager

306
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when I was first hired to
then kind of taking the reins

307
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and being the manager where you're like,
oh, gosh.

308
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Like, you know, everything
kind of is on your shoulders in a sense.

309
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And so it was a nice tour,

310
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kind of a transition, knowing
I had an alum support and Roma support.

311
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And of course, the bank has been nothing
but supportive since all of the changes.

312
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So can't can't speak more highly.

313
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Ryan Young doing things.

314
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Big things. Big things. Yeah.

315
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Ryan Young,
the young professional of the year

316
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from the West Hartford
Chamber of Commerce.

317
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Congratulate. Thank you.

318
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I like to say I am the oldest
young professional and they just,

319
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you know, had to give it to me
because I was about to age out of it.

320
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And we're going to pull up
this purple picture right here.

321
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Boom.

322
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That guy.

323
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So yeah there's Ryan.

324
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So young professional of the year.

325
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What a fancy picture.

326
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There's a lot of that.

327
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So, I'll take the picture.

328
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It was professional headshots,
that, you know, people's bank.

329
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You know, took care of for us.

330
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So they were great to kind of empower us
to come and get them done

331
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just for our professional growth
and development.

332
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So it was a great opportunity.

333
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A lot of faith.

334
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A lot of you know, Photoshop went on.

335
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Look at Ryan took.

336
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A both and it when you guys
don't see on the back as our hair

337
00:13:48,961 --> 00:13:52,565
and makeup team here
that I've been here since the morning

338
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tirelessly spackling our faces
and getting us ready to roll.

339
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So June 25th, fourth, fourth.

340
00:14:00,906 --> 00:14:03,075
The award ceremony?
Yep. The award ceremony. Yeah.

341
00:14:03,075 --> 00:14:06,245
The West Hartford Chamber,
their annual dinner is the

342
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the 24th Tuesday amazing event.

343
00:14:09,315 --> 00:14:12,284
You know, if you're a chamber member,
please get your tickets.

344
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If not, you can still go.

345
00:14:13,752 --> 00:14:16,088
It's it's a great event every year.

346
00:14:16,088 --> 00:14:18,357
Big shout out to Chris Conway.

347
00:14:18,357 --> 00:14:21,560
And, 
Kate Cobb is at the chamber. Since me

348
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joining people's Bank, they have been
nothing but a great resource.

349
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You know, sounding board.

350
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They have been able to kind of uplift and
kind of empower myself and people's bank.

351
00:14:31,170 --> 00:14:35,941
You know, we work really well with them
and they have such a great team,

352
00:14:35,941 --> 00:14:39,511
I think, within the chamber,
where I believe

353
00:14:39,545 --> 00:14:43,582
the largest single town chamber
in the state of Connecticut. Wow.

354
00:14:43,682 --> 00:14:48,387
So they do an amazing job
with community outreach and making sure

355
00:14:48,387 --> 00:14:52,324
that, you know, the businesses within
the chamber are supported and empowered.

356
00:14:52,658 --> 00:14:54,426
Yeah, kudos to Chris and Kate.

357
00:14:54,426 --> 00:14:55,327
They're wonderful people.

358
00:14:55,327 --> 00:14:58,230
They're future podcast guests. Loves.

359
00:14:58,230 --> 00:14:59,798
Actually,
they were supposed to be previous

360
00:14:59,798 --> 00:15:04,069
podcast guests, but my daughter's softball
game got rained out and postponed

361
00:15:04,069 --> 00:15:07,806
to the game day of the podcast,
and they were very flexible

362
00:15:08,173 --> 00:15:10,676
and thoughtful,
and they said, we'll do it in July.

363
00:15:10,676 --> 00:15:13,212
So I look forward to Chris and Kate.

364
00:15:13,212 --> 00:15:15,714
Even though Chris has been on before

365
00:15:15,714 --> 00:15:18,717
episode 91, he was in Hot Wings.

366
00:15:18,751 --> 00:15:19,585
Oh. Wow.

367
00:15:19,585 --> 00:15:22,021
How hot were the hot wings?
Like ghost pepper.

368
00:15:22,021 --> 00:15:24,123
Ghost pepper? It's called the bomb.

369
00:15:24,123 --> 00:15:24,990
Oh, okay.

370
00:15:24,990 --> 00:15:26,492
Yeah. It's hot.

371
00:15:26,492 --> 00:15:30,562
Well, nuclear the scale
like it's from hot ones.

372
00:15:30,729 --> 00:15:32,464
Yeah, it's
actually we did the hot. Yeah, yeah.

373
00:15:32,464 --> 00:15:34,633
Like love. That.
We did hot ones. We started off

374
00:15:35,868 --> 00:15:36,568
the bomb was that.

375
00:15:36,568 --> 00:15:39,104
We're signing up for that. You're
in? Yes. Deal.

376
00:15:39,104 --> 00:15:40,172
Abby runs it.

377
00:15:40,172 --> 00:15:43,142
It'll be our third annual one. Yes,
we have.

378
00:15:43,509 --> 00:15:45,711
They are in. We're saying he does that.

379
00:15:45,711 --> 00:15:49,982
Over the holidays, he was eating the raw
horseradish with his brother.

380
00:15:49,982 --> 00:15:50,816
Yeah. Oh.

381
00:15:50,816 --> 00:15:51,784
The spoonful. Yeah.

382
00:15:51,784 --> 00:15:52,651
I saw that video.

383
00:15:52,651 --> 00:15:53,452
Oh, yeah?

384
00:15:53,452 --> 00:15:55,955
Yeah. I do not. Wish that I love him.

385
00:15:55,955 --> 00:15:56,422
Hot ones.

386
00:15:56,422 --> 00:15:59,591
There has been some funny,
funny guys I know.

387
00:15:59,591 --> 00:16:00,659
I didn't know about it.

388
00:16:00,659 --> 00:16:02,795
Well, I knew about it, but I was like,
oh, that's not worth watching.

389
00:16:02,795 --> 00:16:03,595
I know it is.

390
00:16:03,595 --> 00:16:06,265
I'm like, did the Hot Ones contest?

391
00:16:06,265 --> 00:16:07,900
I'm like hooked. Yeah.

392
00:16:07,900 --> 00:16:08,667
Okay. All right.

393
00:16:08,667 --> 00:16:11,670
Like Conan O'Brien did one.

394
00:16:11,737 --> 00:16:12,805
All of them are great.

395
00:16:12,805 --> 00:16:15,741
Billie Eilish even like I'm
learning about people I wouldn't really.

396
00:16:15,741 --> 00:16:17,743
Maya Rudolph, you have to watch.
That was a good one.

397
00:16:17,743 --> 00:16:19,678
Yeah. I'll have to ask that.

398
00:16:19,678 --> 00:16:20,179
She's great.

399
00:16:20,179 --> 00:16:21,680
Yeah. No.

400
00:16:21,680 --> 00:16:23,682
Thank you so much. People's Bank.

401
00:16:23,682 --> 00:16:25,484
You are very thoughtful.

402
00:16:25,484 --> 00:16:29,755
Speaking of thoughtful and generous,
you have been so supportive to friends.

403
00:16:29,755 --> 00:16:30,356
Afeni.

404
00:16:30,356 --> 00:16:36,061
You are an exclusive whole sponsor
for our golf tournament,

405
00:16:36,061 --> 00:16:38,697
our fourth annual,
which I'm going to pull up a flier.

406
00:16:38,697 --> 00:16:42,301
Oh, ask at the
flier. Our brand new fliers.

407
00:16:43,369 --> 00:16:45,671
Color copy for you guys on hard nights.

408
00:16:45,671 --> 00:16:46,005
Pay what?

409
00:16:46,005 --> 00:16:46,572
We're going to put it right.

410
00:16:46,572 --> 00:16:49,108
Here we go. Boom, boom.

411
00:16:49,108 --> 00:16:50,676
But yeah.

412
00:16:50,676 --> 00:16:53,045
So you've been, exclusive whole sponsor.

413
00:16:53,045 --> 00:16:54,146
This is going to be your second year

414
00:16:54,146 --> 00:16:57,149
in a row out of the four, so I can't
thank you enough.

415
00:16:57,149 --> 00:17:01,387
It's going to be on Saturday,
September 13th at this country club.

416
00:17:01,487 --> 00:17:02,221
You have a table.

417
00:17:02,221 --> 00:17:04,456
So, yeah, feel free to come hang out.

418
00:17:04,456 --> 00:17:07,459
We'll be there,
share some swag, talk to golfers.

419
00:17:08,360 --> 00:17:10,295
Start. No popping popcorn? No.

420
00:17:10,295 --> 00:17:11,196
No popcorn.

421
00:17:11,196 --> 00:17:12,331
No popcorn allowed.

422
00:17:12,331 --> 00:17:12,765
Be cool.

423
00:17:12,765 --> 00:17:14,166
No, not until out.

424
00:17:14,166 --> 00:17:17,102
We do not know. Open. Okay, okay.

425
00:17:17,102 --> 00:17:19,304
We miss place. Now

426
00:17:19,304 --> 00:17:21,106
I'm back to Holyoke, so we start.

427
00:17:21,106 --> 00:17:22,274
Doesn't come out until December.

428
00:17:22,274 --> 00:17:24,877
Those courses don't have this,
but you get breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

429
00:17:24,877 --> 00:17:26,445
Dang. All round.

430
00:17:26,445 --> 00:17:28,180
Longest drive contest.

431
00:17:28,180 --> 00:17:30,249
Hole in one contest, closest to the pin.

432
00:17:30,249 --> 00:17:33,619
Special vendors will have a long drink
hole a whiskey hole.

433
00:17:33,986 --> 00:17:36,755
School of Rock hole
will be at the hole bank.

434
00:17:36,755 --> 00:17:37,222
Hole,

435
00:17:38,390 --> 00:17:40,125
and it's our largest fundraiser.

436
00:17:40,125 --> 00:17:42,528
The first year we raised $10,000.

437
00:17:42,528 --> 00:17:45,531
Then it went to $18,000, then to 23.

438
00:17:45,664 --> 00:17:47,032
Our goal is 30 this year.

439
00:17:47,032 --> 00:17:50,369
So to help us reach our goal,
we had game day.

440
00:17:50,369 --> 00:17:51,336
Connor from the yard goats.

441
00:17:51,336 --> 00:17:54,039
He's a heck of a hole, so he'll tell you
like your shorts are too tight.

442
00:17:54,039 --> 00:17:56,508
Your socks don't match 
in the middle of your swing.

443
00:17:56,508 --> 00:17:57,443
Oh my goodness.

444
00:17:57,443 --> 00:17:59,945
And then school of Rock plays
music during your swing.

445
00:17:59,945 --> 00:18:02,714
So it's really fun.
It's like the Happy Gilmore of.

446
00:18:02,714 --> 00:18:04,349
Love that government and. Love.

447
00:18:04,349 --> 00:18:05,884
So that's our fourth one.

448
00:18:05,884 --> 00:18:07,586
Check that flier out. Check.

449
00:18:07,586 --> 00:18:10,055
That's your copy, please.
You have a community center or a board.

450
00:18:10,055 --> 00:18:13,025
So we do leave it right in the office
for everyone to kind of see these are.

451
00:18:13,025 --> 00:18:15,260
The better golfer, Theresa or Ryan.

452
00:18:15,260 --> 00:18:19,331
I would probably have to say Theresa
only because I have never played

453
00:18:19,331 --> 00:18:20,833
golf in my life. I'm me.

454
00:18:20,833 --> 00:18:21,800
Not many golf.

455
00:18:21,800 --> 00:18:22,601
Yeah, yeah.

456
00:18:22,601 --> 00:18:24,203
Many Theresa men in golf.

457
00:18:24,203 --> 00:18:25,471
Yeah, yeah I'm sitting.

458
00:18:25,471 --> 00:18:26,371
Yeah, yeah.

459
00:18:26,371 --> 00:18:28,674
I wouldn't need to be fit for kids clubs.

460
00:18:28,674 --> 00:18:30,109
I can't use regular clubs and.

461
00:18:30,109 --> 00:18:31,910
My clubs are like ten feet long. Yeah.

462
00:18:31,910 --> 00:18:33,178
So that. Would be a great.

463
00:18:33,178 --> 00:18:36,115
Addition to being super supportive
and thoughtful and generous.

464
00:18:36,115 --> 00:18:38,650
You have also sponsored our parades. Yeah.

465
00:18:38,650 --> 00:18:40,719
We have you on the shirt for Memorial Day,

466
00:18:41,787 --> 00:18:44,323
Saint Patrick's Day and Park Road Parade.

467
00:18:44,323 --> 00:18:45,591
So thank you again.

468
00:18:45,591 --> 00:18:47,526
Chrissy Kitty has been amazing.

469
00:18:47,526 --> 00:18:49,628
Yeah, she's a wonderful person.
She's a good friend.

470
00:18:49,628 --> 00:18:50,829
She is a good friend.

471
00:18:50,829 --> 00:18:52,097
Our motto is be a good friend.

472
00:18:52,097 --> 00:18:55,801
Hold the door, pick up trash, 
give compliments and be charitable.

473
00:18:55,801 --> 00:18:58,337
And she knocks off C early embodiment.

474
00:18:58,337 --> 00:19:00,272
She actually reached out
to me, was like, hey,

475
00:19:00,272 --> 00:19:03,575
you didn't fill out
for the sponsorship this year or hey.

476
00:19:03,842 --> 00:19:04,476
So yeah.

477
00:19:04,476 --> 00:19:05,244
Amazing person.

478
00:19:05,244 --> 00:19:07,613
Thank you. Chrissy. Yes. Yeah.

479
00:19:07,613 --> 00:19:11,083
She's been such a great support
down in here because we do so much.

480
00:19:11,116 --> 00:19:13,152
You know, when she sees how much we do.

481
00:19:13,152 --> 00:19:15,254
So it's kind of, whatever you guys need.

482
00:19:15,254 --> 00:19:17,756
She's been always just so supportive,

483
00:19:17,756 --> 00:19:20,192
you know,
kind of seeing the value in what we do.

484
00:19:20,192 --> 00:19:22,327
And even if it is like a late submission
or something,

485
00:19:22,327 --> 00:19:25,364
you know,
she always finds a way to make these,

486
00:19:25,531 --> 00:19:28,901
you know, big impacts within the community
almost out of nothing.

487
00:19:28,901 --> 00:19:31,170
You know, she always tends
to pull something out of a hat

488
00:19:31,170 --> 00:19:32,571
and just really surprise us.

489
00:19:32,571 --> 00:19:35,774
And, you know, her and Matt Bannister,
we couldn't be more grateful

490
00:19:35,774 --> 00:19:37,075
to have them on our team.

491
00:19:37,075 --> 00:19:39,378
You know,
they're just such a great support team.

492
00:19:39,378 --> 00:19:42,147
And it's,
you know, all hands on deck with that.

493
00:19:42,147 --> 00:19:43,715
So I. Have a Chrissy Kitty. Post.

494
00:19:43,715 --> 00:19:45,751
Oh, it's only. Kitty post.

495
00:19:46,685 --> 00:19:49,855
Team Spotlight Ryan Young, West
Hartford Banking Center manager

496
00:19:49,855 --> 00:19:53,825
I'm honored to work alongside Brian Young,
banking center manager, people's

497
00:19:53,825 --> 00:19:54,893
bank was Hartford

498
00:19:54,893 --> 00:19:57,963
Ryan is one of those special people
you meet who's not only an absolute

499
00:19:57,963 --> 00:20:01,466
expert in his field,
but also a generally good human being.

500
00:20:01,900 --> 00:20:04,269
Man. That's good. He's a good fast. Again,
I have to brag.

501
00:20:04,269 --> 00:20:05,737
Good human people.

502
00:20:05,737 --> 00:20:07,739
How much did you pay in two months?

503
00:20:07,739 --> 00:20:11,043
From guiding associates to finding
creative solutions for his customers?

504
00:20:11,043 --> 00:20:12,177
He always got our backs.

505
00:20:12,177 --> 00:20:13,579
He does it with a big smile.

506
00:20:13,579 --> 00:20:16,448
Give the camera your big smile. Okay?

507
00:20:16,448 --> 00:20:18,684
Shout out for my mom for my braces.

508
00:20:18,684 --> 00:20:21,119
Those are some good chompers,

509
00:20:21,119 --> 00:20:23,622
Everything you do at people's
Bank, our associates and our community,

510
00:20:23,622 --> 00:20:24,656
your leadership and kindness

511
00:20:24,656 --> 00:20:28,627
and unwavering commitment makes this team
and bank better every single day.

512
00:20:28,627 --> 00:20:31,697
Next time you're West Hartford, swing
by LaSalle road for your banking needs.

513
00:20:31,697 --> 00:20:34,233
And don't forget
to say hi to Ryan sidekick

514
00:20:35,367 --> 00:20:35,834
Burke.

515
00:20:35,834 --> 00:20:37,536
We'll put this on purpose.

516
00:20:37,536 --> 00:20:40,839
Yes, my my son, Bertram Marino young,

517
00:20:41,940 --> 00:20:44,243
I said. I said, which one's cuter?

518
00:20:44,243 --> 00:20:45,577
Something really a top.

519
00:20:45,577 --> 00:20:48,513
He's definitely
has a better beard than I do. You guys.

520
00:20:48,513 --> 00:20:49,248
You know the Bowser.

521
00:20:49,248 --> 00:20:51,483
Is he down now? So was when the humans.

522
00:20:51,483 --> 00:20:53,051
Started to look like the dog?

523
00:20:53,051 --> 00:20:56,054
No. I'm tired. I have a dog. Barkley.

524
00:20:56,088 --> 00:20:57,522
I should pull up that picture, too.

525
00:20:57,522 --> 00:20:58,523
I had the beard.

526
00:20:58,523 --> 00:21:00,726
Well, sometimes I have the beard,
and he has a gray beard.

527
00:21:00,726 --> 00:21:03,362
And I had a gray beard.
And we're like. Twins.

528
00:21:03,362 --> 00:21:04,963
When Bowser's.

529
00:21:04,963 --> 00:21:06,598
Both constantly in the doghouse.

530
00:21:06,598 --> 00:21:08,600
Or just you. Oh.

531
00:21:08,600 --> 00:21:08,800
Yeah.

532
00:21:08,800 --> 00:21:11,803
We share the dog, Barkley and I.

533
00:21:12,104 --> 00:21:14,339
But now and then you have some really good
comments.

534
00:21:14,339 --> 00:21:16,375
Okay. Al Marino.

535
00:21:16,375 --> 00:21:17,843
Oh how nice. Right.

536
00:21:17,843 --> 00:21:19,745
Thank for shout out to.

537
00:21:19,745 --> 00:21:21,146
He just retired. He's dead.

538
00:21:21,146 --> 00:21:23,215
Good friend
Al Marino. Cher is going to miss you.

539
00:21:23,215 --> 00:21:25,350
We're all going to miss.
We all going to miss South.

540
00:21:25,350 --> 00:21:28,320
Ryan's a good man who's gotten to know
through the West Hartford Chamber.

541
00:21:28,687 --> 00:21:32,190
And he's done hashtags
to look at Al Marino, do hashtags.

542
00:21:32,257 --> 00:21:35,260
Oh, hell,
I don't have you as a hashtag guy.

543
00:21:35,694 --> 00:21:36,228
He does it.

544
00:21:36,228 --> 00:21:39,865
I was just Teresa, the charity
assistant baking man.

545
00:21:39,865 --> 00:21:41,466
And this couldn't be any cuter.

546
00:21:41,466 --> 00:21:43,568
Honestly. Honestly, it could.

547
00:21:43,568 --> 00:21:46,571
It could really. Be somebody else. Oh, no.

548
00:21:46,938 --> 00:21:48,540
No, the dog couldn't be any cute.

549
00:21:48,540 --> 00:21:50,442
Yeah, yeah, that's for sure.
Maybe I'll put him.

550
00:21:50,442 --> 00:21:52,344
Maybe I'll put my Bowser pick later.

551
00:21:52,344 --> 00:21:54,379
Bother. Pick? Yeah. Bauer's about.

552
00:21:55,781 --> 00:21:56,515
Also.

553
00:21:56,515 --> 00:21:59,851
Yeah, the thank you's continue
our, sponsor of this podcast.

554
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So on the intro page, you're like, right
here.

555
00:22:03,488 --> 00:22:05,624
Ben Fuchs on his cover page.

556
00:22:05,624 --> 00:22:10,195
You could see, oh, people's bank here of, 
And then when Dave shares

557
00:22:10,195 --> 00:22:14,666
in our intro page,
we have float people's Bank, Luna Pizza,

558
00:22:14,700 --> 00:22:18,704
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559
00:22:18,804 --> 00:22:22,040
Parkville Management,
Keating Agency Insurance,

560
00:22:22,507 --> 00:22:25,243
and West Hartford lock lovers.

561
00:22:25,243 --> 00:22:27,746
You know when you're a good friend,
it comes back, you know.

562
00:22:27,746 --> 00:22:30,182
And I think that's so important with that.

563
00:22:30,182 --> 00:22:32,984
You know, the karma in the world
that if you do good things,

564
00:22:32,984 --> 00:22:36,221
you know, it's going to come back
and it takes a village.

565
00:22:36,221 --> 00:22:39,424
And I'm glad that I have an amazing
village here because,

566
00:22:40,158 --> 00:22:43,695
you know, you give and you got
and it's just been an amazing journey.

567
00:22:43,862 --> 00:22:45,330
You know, you get good, you got good.

568
00:22:45,330 --> 00:22:47,199
And with West Hartford Lock,
watch what I do.

569
00:22:47,199 --> 00:22:49,034
Watch what I do with West Hartford Lock.

570
00:22:49,034 --> 00:22:52,471
What are three keys that make you
a great manager of this thing?

571
00:22:52,471 --> 00:22:54,806
So we were kind of talking about that
collectively.

572
00:22:54,806 --> 00:22:58,043
You know, I think I love to be
as collaborative as possible.

573
00:22:58,043 --> 00:23:00,545
So I'm always asking my team
kind of to help me,

574
00:23:00,545 --> 00:23:03,548
you know, because I need as much help
as I can get from my own team.

575
00:23:03,915 --> 00:23:05,250
So kind of just

576
00:23:06,184 --> 00:23:06,852
the most kind of

577
00:23:06,852 --> 00:23:10,288
simple first kind of prong
to being successful

578
00:23:10,288 --> 00:23:13,058
or trying to be successful,
you know, because we're all just,

579
00:23:13,058 --> 00:23:16,895
you know, trying to keep our head down
and just kind of make it through

580
00:23:16,895 --> 00:23:20,932
life, 
is just we're customer service based job.

581
00:23:20,932 --> 00:23:24,803
You know, Teresa and I, we both come
from service industry backgrounds.

582
00:23:24,803 --> 00:23:26,905
You know, we didn't major in finance.

583
00:23:26,905 --> 00:23:33,011
We weren't set out to be bankers,
but we kind of got there

584
00:23:33,011 --> 00:23:37,249
by hook or by crook or whatever
kind of roads lead us here.

585
00:23:37,249 --> 00:23:42,187
But yeah, kind of the crux of this job
is building relationships and.

586
00:23:42,187 --> 00:23:43,955
And that's really important to both of us.

587
00:23:43,955 --> 00:23:44,289
Yeah.

588
00:23:44,289 --> 00:23:47,893
And just delivering that customer service
and just being treated

589
00:23:47,893 --> 00:23:50,629
how you want to be treated
and being heard.

590
00:23:50,629 --> 00:23:53,365
With, White glove service. Right.

591
00:23:53,365 --> 00:23:54,699
White glove service. Yeah.

592
00:23:54,699 --> 00:23:59,037
I mean, that's always kind
of been kind of part of our philosophy,

593
00:23:59,037 --> 00:24:02,040
whether it's working in a restaurant,
bartending,

594
00:24:02,174 --> 00:24:06,111
you know, merchandizing at a mall, it's
having that customer service,

595
00:24:06,111 --> 00:24:09,548
creating those relationships,
especially in a town like West Hartford,

596
00:24:09,548 --> 00:24:13,652
you know, it's all about kind of who
you know and what connections you have.

597
00:24:13,652 --> 00:24:15,554
And, you know, it's.

598
00:24:15,554 --> 00:24:17,456
How you feel when you're here
and when you leave

599
00:24:17,456 --> 00:24:19,958
because there are so many banks
around. Yeah, right.

600
00:24:19,958 --> 00:24:20,959
Even in this area.

601
00:24:20,959 --> 00:24:24,062
The eternal struggle
where you walk outside, there's ten banks

602
00:24:24,062 --> 00:24:25,564
within a two second walk.

603
00:24:25,564 --> 00:24:28,166
So what kind of sets us aside? Yeah.

604
00:24:28,166 --> 00:24:30,402
You know,
first off is our customer service.

605
00:24:30,402 --> 00:24:32,537
I don't care if you're giving money away.

606
00:24:32,537 --> 00:24:35,106
If you go in
and you have a bad experience,

607
00:24:35,106 --> 00:24:37,108
all the money in the world doesn't matter,
you know?

608
00:24:37,108 --> 00:24:40,846
So the first prong
I think for us is customer service.

609
00:24:40,846 --> 00:24:43,048
You know, it's
what we live and breathe every day.

610
00:24:43,048 --> 00:24:46,318
We deliver to our customers,
we deliver to our internal associates.

611
00:24:46,318 --> 00:24:50,155
I think that's a big thing, too,
that when you're talking to,

612
00:24:50,288 --> 00:24:53,225
you know, a different department
or someone else within the bank

613
00:24:53,225 --> 00:24:57,429
that you kind of deliver
that same type of service that we do.

614
00:24:57,729 --> 00:24:59,564
You know, people coming
in, the brands, you know,

615
00:24:59,564 --> 00:25:01,766
we have a care
standard here at people's Bank.

616
00:25:01,766 --> 00:25:05,337
And it's really kind of keeping
all of those values.

617
00:25:05,504 --> 00:25:06,438
Living the values.

618
00:25:06,438 --> 00:25:08,840
Living the values,
and just really kind of,

619
00:25:08,840 --> 00:25:11,142
you know, being treated
how you want to treat people.

620
00:25:11,142 --> 00:25:14,446
You know, it's easy and simple
when you kind of think of it like that.

621
00:25:14,479 --> 00:25:14,779
Yeah.

622
00:25:14,779 --> 00:25:20,352
You know, I would say, I mean,
kind of second we were kind of talking,

623
00:25:20,352 --> 00:25:24,089
it's when you wake up in the morning,
do you want to come to work?

624
00:25:24,356 --> 00:25:27,626
You know, and I think a lot of that
has to do with the work culture

625
00:25:28,059 --> 00:25:30,695
and kind of being like, hey,
I know today may be a challenging day.

626
00:25:30,695 --> 00:25:32,964
I have a lot of things
coming down the pike, but like,

627
00:25:32,964 --> 00:25:35,734
I know I have Neal,
I know I have Linda, our newest

628
00:25:35,734 --> 00:25:37,802
associate,
dummy, has been a great addition.

629
00:25:37,802 --> 00:25:41,273
And I know that, like, you know,
if we head into a storm that I have

630
00:25:41,273 --> 00:25:46,344
my team behind us, and just that work
culture makes such a big difference.

631
00:25:46,344 --> 00:25:47,746
You know, it really does.

632
00:25:47,746 --> 00:25:50,749
And, you know, Teresa
and I, we put in a lot of hours.

633
00:25:50,749 --> 00:25:54,519
Our team puts in a lot of hours,
and we do a lot of after work events,

634
00:25:54,519 --> 00:25:55,620
before work events.

635
00:25:55,620 --> 00:26:00,625
And we couldn't do it without our team
and having that working culture that,

636
00:26:01,359 --> 00:26:04,529
you know, we're empowered to get out
and to attend these events

637
00:26:04,529 --> 00:26:08,366
and make time for it because we all see
the value in it, you know?

638
00:26:08,366 --> 00:26:12,571
So being empowered,
I think we say empowered

639
00:26:12,571 --> 00:26:16,174
a lot here at people's Bank,
because we do empower ourselves

640
00:26:16,174 --> 00:26:20,512
and our associates to really do
the things that kind of spark joy,

641
00:26:20,512 --> 00:26:23,882
and that will kind of better
the communities that we serve us.

642
00:26:24,249 --> 00:26:28,019
So it's all about our empowerment here.

643
00:26:28,019 --> 00:26:31,723
And then I think kind of lastly, what's,
you know, all three are important.

644
00:26:31,723 --> 00:26:34,726
But I think for being locals
here in the area,

645
00:26:34,993 --> 00:26:38,396
the desire to give back to your community
and kind of,

646
00:26:38,930 --> 00:26:41,433
you know, be a good friend and not just,

647
00:26:41,433 --> 00:26:44,469
you know, go home and shut your door
and kind of realize that, you.

648
00:26:44,469 --> 00:26:48,239
Know, work doesn't like
we don't just shut the door and go home.

649
00:26:48,406 --> 00:26:49,574
We're still in the community.

650
00:26:49,574 --> 00:26:51,743
We're still a community that. But.

651
00:26:51,743 --> 00:26:53,278
You know,
I've had people that say, you know,

652
00:26:53,278 --> 00:26:57,215
they're challenging, like living
and working within the same town.

653
00:26:57,215 --> 00:27:01,119
And I, you know, I think I love it,
you know, I love West Hartford.

654
00:27:01,119 --> 00:27:04,122
I grew up in, a West Hartford

655
00:27:04,356 --> 00:27:07,225
type town north of Boston
and Massachusetts.

656
00:27:07,225 --> 00:27:10,395
And coming here
has just been kind of like a coming home.

657
00:27:10,395 --> 00:27:14,499
You know, everyone's so welcoming
and just the community is so great,

658
00:27:14,499 --> 00:27:17,569
and we're given the opportunity
to make a big impact

659
00:27:17,569 --> 00:27:21,272
that as bankers,
you're really not often able to do.

660
00:27:21,306 --> 00:27:24,309
You know, it's
much more kind of rigid and boring.

661
00:27:24,509 --> 00:27:24,843
Yeah.

662
00:27:24,843 --> 00:27:28,013
I did notice that banking this
these days are totally different

663
00:27:28,013 --> 00:27:28,980
than back in the day.

664
00:27:28,980 --> 00:27:29,514
Oh yeah.

665
00:27:29,514 --> 00:27:32,150
I didn't know who my bankers were, were
nice to me.

666
00:27:32,150 --> 00:27:34,452
I went in cash, my check I left right.

667
00:27:34,452 --> 00:27:36,921
Did you guys, like,
consider you guys friends the.

668
00:27:36,921 --> 00:27:38,156
We're in an opportunity.

669
00:27:38,156 --> 00:27:42,193
Like we're given that opportunity
to get out into the community

670
00:27:42,260 --> 00:27:45,230
and just put our money and opportunities

671
00:27:45,230 --> 00:27:48,500
where our mouth is
and just, you know, be a presence.

672
00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:51,903
And I think that makes a big difference
when you have ten

673
00:27:51,903 --> 00:27:54,873
different options
to to bank with fourth key.

674
00:27:55,106 --> 00:27:57,742
If I have to add one, the coffee machine.

675
00:27:57,742 --> 00:27:59,077
Yes. The coffee shout.

676
00:27:59,077 --> 00:28:01,413
Out to the coffee machine. It's
absolutely amazing.

677
00:28:01,413 --> 00:28:05,817
I joke it's like NASA, you press a button
French vanilla, it's press.

678
00:28:05,817 --> 00:28:07,085
And you want coffee?

679
00:28:07,085 --> 00:28:08,820
Expreso hot cocoa.

680
00:28:08,820 --> 00:28:10,422
Steffen, you want something?

681
00:28:10,422 --> 00:28:12,390
No. Not yet. And I will get you some.

682
00:28:12,390 --> 00:28:14,125
What's your what's your drink of choice?

683
00:28:14,125 --> 00:28:17,195
I'm pretty generic,
so I usually kind of toggle back

684
00:28:17,195 --> 00:28:22,000
and forth
between decaf coffee and hot tea.

685
00:28:22,967 --> 00:28:24,035
Decaf coffee.

686
00:28:24,035 --> 00:28:25,303
What's the point of that?

687
00:28:25,303 --> 00:28:29,507
I know, I know, all the coffee haters
are gonna hate me or all the coffees.

688
00:28:29,507 --> 00:28:31,209
And that sounds fun.

689
00:28:31,209 --> 00:28:34,212
But what a snooze fest, right?

690
00:28:34,279 --> 00:28:35,947
I'm not a boring, but I promise.

691
00:28:35,947 --> 00:28:36,414
You're not.

692
00:28:36,414 --> 00:28:38,083
Right. What's fun?

693
00:28:38,083 --> 00:28:40,318
I switched a mushroom coffee.

694
00:28:40,318 --> 00:28:40,952
Is that here?

695
00:28:40,952 --> 00:28:44,189
No. Not yet.
My wife loves that, actually.

696
00:28:44,189 --> 00:28:46,291
Yeah, like it's good for your brain.

697
00:28:46,291 --> 00:28:47,792
Like six different.

698
00:28:47,792 --> 00:28:50,095
Yeah. Logan. My,
I tried it. It's really. Good.

699
00:28:50,095 --> 00:28:51,262
It's really got a real.

700
00:28:51,262 --> 00:28:53,231
Unique taste, but you get used to it.

701
00:28:53,231 --> 00:28:55,433
Oh, well,
I love mushroom. I like. Oh, yeah.

702
00:28:55,433 --> 00:28:56,134
No matter.

703
00:28:56,134 --> 00:28:58,403
What. Brand do you use? Rice. Okay.

704
00:28:58,403 --> 00:28:59,504
I think we use that one too.

705
00:28:59,504 --> 00:29:01,473
Very cool. Yeah, well that's her.

706
00:29:01,473 --> 00:29:04,175
So I mean, so if it's here, I'm doing
the green tea like I

707
00:29:04,175 --> 00:29:07,912
do, I do use it and it comes out of that,
that we have the hot water.

708
00:29:08,146 --> 00:29:09,214
Roger. Yeah. That's right.

709
00:29:09,214 --> 00:29:09,481
Yeah.

710
00:29:09,481 --> 00:29:12,283
So we, we definitely encourage
your viewers to come and check out.

711
00:29:12,283 --> 00:29:15,220
We also have hot chocolate for kids
too. It's not just a coffee machine.

712
00:29:15,220 --> 00:29:16,621
So adults like hot chocolate.

713
00:29:16,621 --> 00:29:18,323
I know, but bring the kids.

714
00:29:18,323 --> 00:29:21,025
Like my bring them Saturday morning
when I need to mail stuff out.

715
00:29:21,025 --> 00:29:23,595
Like beat someone, buy swag, I park here.

716
00:29:23,595 --> 00:29:24,062
Yeah, come.

717
00:29:24,062 --> 00:29:26,231
And go to the post office,
get my drink first.

718
00:29:26,231 --> 00:29:27,932
Yeah, because the line is usually long.

719
00:29:27,932 --> 00:29:30,168
Yeah. You need. A coffee?
I had it my friends, my peeps.

720
00:29:30,168 --> 00:29:33,171
Hang out,
go to the post office, mail my thing.

721
00:29:33,171 --> 00:29:33,872
Oh it's amazing.

722
00:29:33,872 --> 00:29:37,909
So I highly suggest if you have the mail
letter, come get a coffee for me.

723
00:29:37,942 --> 00:29:40,411
I love it. Meet
my people's down at people's Bank. Yeah.

724
00:29:40,411 --> 00:29:40,745
They're good.

725
00:29:40,745 --> 00:29:41,946
There's one.

726
00:29:41,946 --> 00:29:44,115
Or two LaSalle. 1 or 2 LaSalle road.

727
00:29:44,115 --> 00:29:46,651
Then go over and see Luann and Dan
at the post office.

728
00:29:46,651 --> 00:29:49,921
Yeah. Wow. Great. Oh, yeah.
We got office.

729
00:29:49,921 --> 00:29:51,756
I love those are good friends.
Those are our good friends.

730
00:29:51,756 --> 00:29:54,526
You know, you gotta get in with the people
locally, you know?

731
00:29:54,526 --> 00:29:55,059
Yeah.

732
00:29:55,059 --> 00:29:57,929
They're always
they're good supporters of us.

733
00:29:57,929 --> 00:30:00,064
People's bank. Yeah. 1 or 2

734
00:30:01,132 --> 00:30:02,801
we'll sell.

735
00:30:02,801 --> 00:30:08,339
Oh bank at people's dot
com 86023183 6:05 a.m.

736
00:30:08,373 --> 00:30:08,873
I correct.

737
00:30:08,873 --> 00:30:09,841
You are correct.

738
00:30:09,841 --> 00:30:11,576
I. Check them out bank at people's.

739
00:30:11,576 --> 00:30:12,844
Now how come you don't.

740
00:30:12,844 --> 00:30:15,113
How come you not people's bank.com.

741
00:30:15,113 --> 00:30:16,781
Because. So yeah. What happened.

742
00:30:16,781 --> 00:30:18,383
There was a long opportunity.

743
00:30:18,383 --> 00:30:20,118
So we were given that opportunity.

744
00:30:20,118 --> 00:30:23,688
So kind of our it's a great teaching

745
00:30:23,822 --> 00:30:28,526
a teachable moment
as my partner would say, is that, you

746
00:30:28,526 --> 00:30:32,397
know, 100 years ago there was the people's
Bank out of Bridgeport, Connecticut.

747
00:30:32,964 --> 00:30:35,633
They through all bank mergers,
all of that jazz,

748
00:30:35,633 --> 00:30:38,837
merged with United Bank
to become People's United Bank.

749
00:30:39,337 --> 00:30:43,641
And then maybe 4 or 5 years ago
at this point, Marty, from upstate

750
00:30:43,641 --> 00:30:44,442
New York came in.

751
00:30:44,442 --> 00:30:49,047
They gobbled up everything,
and they all became, M-A Bank.

752
00:30:49,047 --> 00:30:53,218
So we're lucky, you know, we're a small,
mutually held community bank.

753
00:30:53,218 --> 00:30:54,986
We've been around since 1885.

754
00:30:54,986 --> 00:30:56,955
We're headquartered in Holyoke,
Massachusetts.

755
00:30:56,955 --> 00:30:59,224
So big shout out Holyoke, mass.

756
00:30:59,224 --> 00:31:03,461
And we're, you know, we're one of those

757
00:31:03,461 --> 00:31:06,497
last true kind of community banks
where we really are

758
00:31:06,497 --> 00:31:10,835
kind of smaller in that sense,
where we really can make a big impact.

759
00:31:10,835 --> 00:31:16,507
So when those mergers
happened, you know, that,

760
00:31:17,542 --> 00:31:19,544
what is that?

761
00:31:19,544 --> 00:31:24,148
The the web address became available,
you know, and from kind of

762
00:31:24,148 --> 00:31:26,751
what I've heard in the past,
because it makes sense. Why is it.

763
00:31:26,751 --> 00:31:28,620
You can talk and explain matters here.

764
00:31:28,620 --> 00:31:29,120
Let me.

765
00:31:29,120 --> 00:31:30,321
Yeah. Go let me go.

766
00:31:30,321 --> 00:31:32,724
So it was we were given the opportunity.

767
00:31:32,724 --> 00:31:36,194
But you know we're always trying to pivot
and kind of get out

768
00:31:36,194 --> 00:31:40,098
of that sort of connotation of people's
bank, People's United Bank.

769
00:31:40,098 --> 00:31:44,335
So we've they've kind of pivoted
and it's bank at people's dot com,

770
00:31:44,335 --> 00:31:49,207
which is a really great, web address
that brings you to our beautiful website.

771
00:31:49,207 --> 00:31:52,610
And because there's no space
between bank and people.

772
00:31:52,644 --> 00:31:55,713
Yeah, we we've removed the space
between the bank and the people.

773
00:31:55,713 --> 00:31:58,983
So it's, bank of people's dot
com people's bank.

774
00:31:58,983 --> 00:32:00,318
One word

775
00:32:00,318 --> 00:32:03,187
which we think is really important
because there's like this said, no space

776
00:32:03,187 --> 00:32:04,622
in between banking and people.

777
00:32:04,622 --> 00:32:05,623
Oh well done.

778
00:32:05,623 --> 00:32:07,792
No space in between banking or people.

779
00:32:07,792 --> 00:32:08,726
Did you make that up?

780
00:32:08,726 --> 00:32:11,162
I did not I will take credit for it.

781
00:32:11,162 --> 00:32:12,563
You make that up.

782
00:32:12,563 --> 00:32:14,732
She might have Neelam.

783
00:32:14,732 --> 00:32:15,133
Neil.

784
00:32:15,133 --> 00:32:16,868
I mean, yeah, I'm a big pusher of it,

785
00:32:16,868 --> 00:32:19,704
you know, she's always,
you know, bank of peoples.com.

786
00:32:19,704 --> 00:32:22,273
Neelam love her name.
My daughter's name is Neil.

787
00:32:22,273 --> 00:32:23,641
Oh, okay. Very cool.

788
00:32:23,641 --> 00:32:27,078
So Neil and Neil, we talk all the time
about the great name we had.

789
00:32:27,412 --> 00:32:29,881
Brahma, good peoples. Linda, Linda. We.

790
00:32:29,881 --> 00:32:30,548
Have a great team.

791
00:32:30,548 --> 00:32:33,384
We Matt Bannister,
we. Have an amazing team.

792
00:32:33,384 --> 00:32:37,622
I couldn't be more more blessed
and supported by them.

793
00:32:37,622 --> 00:32:44,295
And we like to say, you know, I am so
lucky to have a team that is women leads.

794
00:32:44,295 --> 00:32:47,298
You know,
I have an amazing team of women here,

795
00:32:47,865 --> 00:32:50,301
mostly minority as well.

796
00:32:50,301 --> 00:32:53,338
So it's we it's a great representation
of the area, great

797
00:32:53,338 --> 00:32:56,808
representation
of what West Hartford is nowadays.

798
00:32:56,808 --> 00:33:00,712
You know, it's a it's
a melting pot of melting pot of cultures

799
00:33:00,712 --> 00:33:03,047
and shared experiences.

800
00:33:03,047 --> 00:33:06,417
So I'm lucky to have all of these amazing,

801
00:33:06,851 --> 00:33:10,021
brilliant,
smart women by my side every single day.

802
00:33:10,555 --> 00:33:12,590
Good people, good peoples.

803
00:33:12,590 --> 00:33:15,994
So we talked about, oh, Matt Bannister
also walked in the UConn parade.

804
00:33:15,994 --> 00:33:17,295
Yeah. Did you guys do that there?

805
00:33:17,295 --> 00:33:19,731
We did not walk into that. You Matt.

806
00:33:19,731 --> 00:33:21,666
How did Matt get in there?

807
00:33:21,666 --> 00:33:22,967
Can you call me next time?

808
00:33:22,967 --> 00:33:24,102
Matt. Matt.

809
00:33:24,102 --> 00:33:26,671
Come give us a ring.
I spoke to him a little bit earlier.

810
00:33:26,671 --> 00:33:28,339
He's like,
just don't go off the rails on this.

811
00:33:28,339 --> 00:33:30,942
He said, all right,
now I'm going to shave my head.

812
00:33:30,942 --> 00:33:33,044
We want buffalo scraps, you know.

813
00:33:33,044 --> 00:33:34,912
Like you say, good walk in the parade.
Ryan.

814
00:33:34,912 --> 00:33:35,880
What? Matt and.

815
00:33:35,880 --> 00:33:37,715
I. We're going to sign you up.

816
00:33:37,715 --> 00:33:40,051
We'll send an email.
You heard he here. Matt banister.

817
00:33:40,051 --> 00:33:42,353
When they win again, when I can walk.
Yeah.

818
00:33:42,353 --> 00:33:44,222
Ryan said it's okay.

819
00:33:44,222 --> 00:33:45,189
All right. Thanks, Matt.

820
00:33:45,189 --> 00:33:48,793
Well, well, either starter finish
at the new people's Bank arena downtown.

821
00:33:48,826 --> 00:33:51,863
Ooh. Glad you brought that up.
That's huge.

822
00:33:52,163 --> 00:33:54,632
Congratulations.
Thank you. It's been kind of nice.

823
00:33:54,632 --> 00:33:56,768
Got courtside seats yet? Yeah.

824
00:33:56,768 --> 00:33:59,737
I think we're gonna have, like, names
with our plaque seats with Teresa.

825
00:33:59,737 --> 00:34:00,571
Nice name on them.

826
00:34:00,571 --> 00:34:02,140
I'm a block. We're going to be in a.

827
00:34:02,140 --> 00:34:03,674
Yeah, yeah. Bank arena.

828
00:34:03,674 --> 00:34:06,477
Do you know about that? Before
it was announced. We can't talk about.

829
00:34:06,477 --> 00:34:08,846
Oh, come on, give us give us an exclusive.

830
00:34:08,846 --> 00:34:12,850
So we always say, you know, it's
a very tall ladder and I'm in position.

831
00:34:12,850 --> 00:34:16,487
I'm on the first rung of the ladder,
so I, I'm usually the last one to find out

832
00:34:16,487 --> 00:34:18,556
which is good
because I can't keep a secret.

833
00:34:18,556 --> 00:34:20,425
So Theresa knows. Roman knows.

834
00:34:20,425 --> 00:34:21,225
Don't tell Ryan.

835
00:34:21,225 --> 00:34:23,494
It's great
if you want it to stay a secret.

836
00:34:23,494 --> 00:34:27,031
So I was told
I had to show up downtown Hartford

837
00:34:27,031 --> 00:34:30,435
at the former
Excel Arena for just something.

838
00:34:30,435 --> 00:34:33,638
So I got there and lo
and behold, a ribbon cutting.

839
00:34:33,638 --> 00:34:34,539
And it was ours.

840
00:34:34,539 --> 00:34:35,106
It was.

841
00:34:35,106 --> 00:34:36,741
Oh, it was our unveiling.

842
00:34:36,741 --> 00:34:37,642
That's amazing.

843
00:34:37,642 --> 00:34:38,976
It's exciting, you know, and.

844
00:34:38,976 --> 00:34:40,778
I think amazing opportunity for. Us.

845
00:34:40,778 --> 00:34:44,282
It is, you know,
and as we grow into Connecticut,

846
00:34:44,282 --> 00:34:45,783
we've had a commercial presence

847
00:34:45,783 --> 00:34:48,920
in the Hartford County region
for the last 20 years.

848
00:34:48,920 --> 00:34:54,492
So kind of the last piece of the pie was
getting our retail kind of in the area.

849
00:34:54,492 --> 00:34:58,396
And so we've made a huge commitment
to Hartford,

850
00:34:58,396 --> 00:35:02,733
downtown Hartford, with this, 
naming of the people's Bank arena.

851
00:35:03,067 --> 00:35:04,469
So we couldn't be more excited.

852
00:35:04,469 --> 00:35:08,506
You know, and I think as a bank
based out of Massachusetts

853
00:35:08,506 --> 00:35:12,710
coming into Hartford, we've been embraced,
we've been empowered,

854
00:35:13,111 --> 00:35:17,315
and it's just really a big commitment
from us and our executive leadership

855
00:35:17,315 --> 00:35:20,485
team that, you know, we believe in
Hartford, we believe in Connecticut.

856
00:35:20,485 --> 00:35:23,154
And we're excited to make a big splash.

857
00:35:23,154 --> 00:35:25,356
And, Let me know when you get the suite.

858
00:35:25,356 --> 00:35:28,292
Yes, we will get you to
this three rows max.

859
00:35:28,292 --> 00:35:30,394
Yeah. Billy Joel, come on.

860
00:35:30,394 --> 00:35:32,096
We got some good people coming.
Yeah, well.

861
00:35:32,096 --> 00:35:35,099
So we have wrestling. Wrestling?

862
00:35:35,133 --> 00:35:35,733
What are they?

863
00:35:35,733 --> 00:35:38,703
Ali is coming for Andre. Bo. Charlie?

864
00:35:38,970 --> 00:35:40,404
Yeah.

865
00:35:40,404 --> 00:35:41,172
You got to get to.

866
00:35:41,172 --> 00:35:42,106
Give that to him for.

867
00:35:42,106 --> 00:35:44,442
The the monster. Truck monster trophy.

868
00:35:44,442 --> 00:35:45,943
That fun? Fun? Yeah.

869
00:35:45,943 --> 00:35:46,210
We're head.

870
00:35:46,210 --> 00:35:47,645
That was, like, super loud. Really?

871
00:35:47,645 --> 00:35:48,412
It's fun though.

872
00:35:48,412 --> 00:35:49,313
Yeah, yeah.

873
00:35:49,313 --> 00:35:50,348
People's bank arena.

874
00:35:50,348 --> 00:35:52,517
That is amazing.
Congratulations. That's exciting.

875
00:35:52,517 --> 00:35:54,852
I know, you know,
they're doing a big renovation to it.

876
00:35:54,852 --> 00:35:57,455
I think it's going to be a great draw
for Hartford.

877
00:35:57,455 --> 00:36:01,325
You know, in addition to Pratt Street
and, Duncan Stadium, you know

878
00:36:01,425 --> 00:36:02,760
Hartford, it's it's kind of.

879
00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:04,629
How much do you think the sponsorship
you got?

880
00:36:04,629 --> 00:36:06,063
Numbers don't.

881
00:36:06,063 --> 00:36:06,764
Have any.

882
00:36:06,764 --> 00:36:09,200
Well, the only number I have
is as a ten year commitment.

883
00:36:09,200 --> 00:36:12,203
So, you know, committed
at least for the next ten years,

884
00:36:12,503 --> 00:36:16,407
to be having this impact,
within the community.

885
00:36:16,407 --> 00:36:20,511
So we're excited and we will be having
some sort of a physical presence

886
00:36:20,511 --> 00:36:23,514
with some sort of banking center,

887
00:36:23,548 --> 00:36:27,151
kind of a setup within downtown
Hartford also,

888
00:36:27,151 --> 00:36:30,121
you know, so we're more than just kind
of slapping our names up.

889
00:36:30,121 --> 00:36:33,691
We're going to have a physical presence
down there to help the community.

890
00:36:33,691 --> 00:36:33,925
You know,

891
00:36:33,925 --> 00:36:37,828
we have a lot of unique banking products
that you don't see within banking.

892
00:36:37,828 --> 00:36:40,898
You know,
we do a lot of fee free accounts.

893
00:36:41,098 --> 00:36:45,770
We keep it kind of some of our slogan is, 
real simple banking, you know, so

894
00:36:45,770 --> 00:36:51,809
we're not in kind of the business to fill
you up the wazoo, make it challenging.

895
00:36:51,809 --> 00:36:56,147
We're able to really kind of meet
our customers with their wants and needs,

896
00:36:56,147 --> 00:36:56,914
and we see it.

897
00:36:56,914 --> 00:37:00,851
And, you know, we're live
in kind of the culture that we breathe.

898
00:37:00,885 --> 00:37:03,421
So you said there will be a bank
presence. Yeah.

899
00:37:03,421 --> 00:37:05,323
So we. Are, you know, a street or aware.

900
00:37:05,323 --> 00:37:07,291
Don't know yet.

901
00:37:07,291 --> 00:37:08,159
They're not selling me.

902
00:37:08,159 --> 00:37:09,827
They don't tell me anything.

903
00:37:09,827 --> 00:37:11,629
You know, I, I tend to tell a few people.

904
00:37:11,629 --> 00:37:17,635
So we will be having some sort of, 
kind of a hybrid brick and mortar downtown

905
00:37:17,635 --> 00:37:23,174
for residents in the area to come and,
you know, be a part of people's Bank.

906
00:37:23,174 --> 00:37:25,343
So we're excited for that presence.

907
00:37:25,343 --> 00:37:29,080
It's it's really important to have
a presence in a, in a capital city.

908
00:37:29,080 --> 00:37:32,984
And I think as a lot of banks
are moving out of Hartford,

909
00:37:32,984 --> 00:37:37,255
you know, we've seen a great opportunity
to pick up that slack and say, hey,

910
00:37:37,255 --> 00:37:40,424
you know, we're here, we're committed,
and we're ready to make an impact.

911
00:37:40,725 --> 00:37:42,059
Yeah, great big things.

912
00:37:42,059 --> 00:37:45,062
You hosted Celebrate sponsored celebrate

913
00:37:45,463 --> 00:37:48,933
young professional
about to have your year anniversary.

914
00:37:48,966 --> 00:37:50,701
Yeah we're coming up man.

915
00:37:50,701 --> 00:37:54,905
Sponsoring what's what's better
Theresa having her year anniversary.

916
00:37:55,306 --> 00:37:56,674
We're getting people's bank arena.

917
00:37:57,875 --> 00:37:59,810
You know what I mean?

918
00:37:59,810 --> 00:38:03,180
Selfishly, for me
and is having Theresa here

919
00:38:03,180 --> 00:38:07,818
because it was a lot of back and forth,
a lot of meals.

920
00:38:07,818 --> 00:38:10,621
I had to, commitment issues.

921
00:38:10,621 --> 00:38:11,622
But I'm here now.

922
00:38:11,622 --> 00:38:13,858
Yeah. So now she's committed to me.

923
00:38:13,858 --> 00:38:17,061
I have and committed to, people's Bank.

924
00:38:17,061 --> 00:38:18,863
So we're excited for that.

925
00:38:18,863 --> 00:38:19,363
And, you know,

926
00:38:19,363 --> 00:38:23,701
on the gratuitous side, we're excited for,
you know, people's Bank arena.

927
00:38:23,701 --> 00:38:23,968
Yeah.

928
00:38:23,968 --> 00:38:28,172
Now, will you still have sponsorship money
for guys like Friends of Feeney

929
00:38:28,172 --> 00:38:29,473
and nonprofits?

930
00:38:29,473 --> 00:38:31,208
You know, the little guys, of course.

931
00:38:31,208 --> 00:38:35,613
You know,
and I think what is kind of a testament

932
00:38:35,613 --> 00:38:39,650
to Christy and Matt
and kind of the philosophy within,

933
00:38:39,650 --> 00:38:44,021
and the culture and within people's Bank
is that we're not kind of that flashy

934
00:38:44,021 --> 00:38:49,026
will sponsor you a year, you know, kind of
wave a check around and make it look.

935
00:38:49,026 --> 00:38:52,630
Like a people's bank arena
and then not give back to the community.

936
00:38:52,797 --> 00:38:55,433
Yeah. So,
I mean, we're we're committed to it.

937
00:38:55,433 --> 00:39:00,071
And, you know, we love to work
with the same nonprofits year after year.

938
00:39:00,071 --> 00:39:01,505
We love to see that grow.

939
00:39:01,505 --> 00:39:02,106
And, you know,

940
00:39:02,106 --> 00:39:06,911
if we've supported you one year, we
we love to be continued supporters of it.

941
00:39:06,911 --> 00:39:08,612
You know, it's not just,

942
00:39:08,612 --> 00:39:11,849
All right, next year,
on to the new next flashy nonprofit

943
00:39:11,849 --> 00:39:12,917
that people are talking about.

944
00:39:12,917 --> 00:39:16,520
You know, we're invested
in what we contribute to

945
00:39:16,520 --> 00:39:18,689
and support and, participate in.

946
00:39:18,689 --> 00:39:19,790
So don't you worry.

947
00:39:19,790 --> 00:39:22,326
Are you going to
we will still be here supporting you

948
00:39:23,394 --> 00:39:23,761
ever.

949
00:39:23,761 --> 00:39:26,797
You need to allow us to say the country.

950
00:39:26,931 --> 00:39:28,666
Will always be a good friend.

951
00:39:28,666 --> 00:39:30,101
Thank you, thank you. Yeah.

952
00:39:30,101 --> 00:39:32,069
Some events so those are past events.

953
00:39:32,069 --> 00:39:33,771
Some events coming up. Pride event.

954
00:39:33,771 --> 00:39:36,440
And you want to talk about that. And,
Tracy's run. Yep.

955
00:39:36,440 --> 00:39:37,241
Tracy's ride.

956
00:39:37,241 --> 00:39:40,811
It's Tracy's
ride is coming up this Thursday.

957
00:39:40,878 --> 00:39:42,413
What is today? Today's the 10th.

958
00:39:42,413 --> 00:39:48,619
So this Thursday, the 12th at the bicycle
is where we are kind of starting off.

959
00:39:48,619 --> 00:39:51,989
And it is just a great remembrance
charity run.

960
00:39:51,989 --> 00:39:56,293
So if you're around in that area,
this Thursday, please come check us out.

961
00:39:56,293 --> 00:39:59,997
Myself and the rest of the board of West
Hartford Pride will be there,

962
00:40:00,264 --> 00:40:03,000
and we are gearing up for the 2025,

963
00:40:03,000 --> 00:40:06,537
Pride Festival,
which will be Saturday, June 21st.

964
00:40:06,837 --> 00:40:11,041
We are doing a rally at Town Hall at 1030,
and then the actual festival

965
00:40:11,041 --> 00:40:14,812
itself, goes from noon to 6 p.m.

966
00:40:14,812 --> 00:40:18,816
at 50 South Main row, our street vendor.

967
00:40:19,950 --> 00:40:20,651
So Main

968
00:40:20,651 --> 00:40:23,521
Street, Main Street, right at Town Hall.

969
00:40:23,521 --> 00:40:26,390
So if you're in the neighborhoods,
please come check us out.

970
00:40:26,390 --> 00:40:29,794
We'll have lots of vendors,
lots of supports.

971
00:40:29,794 --> 00:40:32,930
And it's just it's it's an amazing event.

972
00:40:32,930 --> 00:40:36,233
Every year I'm lucky to be able
to, be a part of it.

973
00:40:36,767 --> 00:40:39,937
And it's definitely something
that now more than ever,

974
00:40:39,970 --> 00:40:41,439
you know, we need people to come together,

975
00:40:41,439 --> 00:40:45,476
be good friends, be there for each other,
and just support the community.

976
00:40:45,476 --> 00:40:48,212
Yeah, we had a booth, 20, 21.

977
00:40:48,212 --> 00:40:49,447
We made these shirts, as you can see.

978
00:40:49,447 --> 00:40:52,416
The elaboration. Friends of Feeney, West
Hartford Pride.

979
00:40:52,416 --> 00:40:54,752
Be a good friend in the rainbow
colors. Love it.

980
00:40:54,752 --> 00:40:57,021
Like you said, you can help me sell a few.
You like.

981
00:40:57,021 --> 00:40:58,823
You see, Ryan, they're only 20 bucks.

982
00:40:59,790 --> 00:40:59,924
What?

983
00:40:59,924 --> 00:41:02,393
All these colors.
We. We did have to sell them for 25.

984
00:41:02,393 --> 00:41:05,362
But if you're a friend of Ryan, 20.
But come on.

985
00:41:05,362 --> 00:41:07,398
Good afternoon and see us now.

986
00:41:07,398 --> 00:41:07,798
It was great.

987
00:41:07,798 --> 00:41:08,466
I have some pictures.

988
00:41:08,466 --> 00:41:09,467
We had a wonderful.

989
00:41:09,467 --> 00:41:12,870
We had, a raffle.

990
00:41:12,870 --> 00:41:17,241
We had pride, legos, pride, bracelets,
a pride flag.

991
00:41:17,641 --> 00:41:18,976
It was a great raffle.

992
00:41:18,976 --> 00:41:21,645
We had a a little booth,
I don't know where's,

993
00:41:21,645 --> 00:41:23,948
there's Berry and some people call.

994
00:41:23,948 --> 00:41:25,616
Out, shout out to Mary and Johanna.

995
00:41:25,616 --> 00:41:26,984
I love that.

996
00:41:26,984 --> 00:41:27,952
We had some.

997
00:41:27,952 --> 00:41:30,421
Oh, there's a raffle.
There's some people were just.

998
00:41:30,421 --> 00:41:32,823
Thank you for that support. Yeah,
it was 2021.

999
00:41:32,823 --> 00:41:36,727
I feel like we haven't done in a while
because it's the day

1000
00:41:36,727 --> 00:41:39,129
after the last day of school
and it's just a lot.

1001
00:41:39,129 --> 00:41:41,332
And sometimes we travel.

1002
00:41:41,332 --> 00:41:43,534
We've been going to Lake George
right after,

1003
00:41:43,534 --> 00:41:46,136
but, there's my good peeps,
all my good friends.

1004
00:41:46,136 --> 00:41:47,271
It was a great time.

1005
00:41:47,271 --> 00:41:51,108
Barry, Barry, Walter's amazing person,
episode 56.

1006
00:41:51,809 --> 00:41:54,011
He is the president of the.

1007
00:41:54,011 --> 00:41:59,750
Yeah, so he is he runs, West Hartford
Pride with, his co-chair, Joanna.

1008
00:41:59,850 --> 00:42:02,520
So they do. It's just an amazing work.

1009
00:42:02,520 --> 00:42:05,222
I don't know how they find the time
to do it.

1010
00:42:05,222 --> 00:42:06,957
On top of all of the other

1011
00:42:06,957 --> 00:42:09,026
selfless community stuff
that they're involved with.

1012
00:42:09,026 --> 00:42:12,930
So thank you guys for kind of bearing
that burden of getting everything

1013
00:42:12,930 --> 00:42:13,998
kind of up and running.

1014
00:42:13,998 --> 00:42:16,133
But, you know, it's it's a labor of love.

1015
00:42:16,133 --> 00:42:19,603
And you can really tell that Joe and Barry
really love what they do.

1016
00:42:19,603 --> 00:42:21,639
And yeah,
you know. Shout out to John Barry.

1017
00:42:21,639 --> 00:42:23,107
Shout out to Joe and Barry.

1018
00:42:23,107 --> 00:42:25,676
Go back
and watch 56 with Barry. Barry's great.

1019
00:42:27,511 --> 00:42:30,414
When will this when will this podcast air?

1020
00:42:30,414 --> 00:42:32,216
Maybe two. Weeks. Two weeks ago.

1021
00:42:32,216 --> 00:42:34,251
When I say June 21st,
we didn't try to get it out.

1022
00:42:34,251 --> 00:42:35,986
I would normally do a plug for volunteers.

1023
00:42:35,986 --> 00:42:38,155
We're still,
you know, actively looking for volunteers.

1024
00:42:38,155 --> 00:42:42,092
But no worries, you can always hit us back
for, 2026.

1025
00:42:42,092 --> 00:42:44,662
So they'll be looking
for volunteers on as well.

1026
00:42:44,662 --> 00:42:45,963
And then June is pride month.

1027
00:42:45,963 --> 00:42:47,698
And then June is pride month. Yes.

1028
00:42:47,698 --> 00:42:48,866
Or excited.

1029
00:42:48,866 --> 00:42:52,903
And then shout out, we talked about Tracy
Wilson, a doctor Tracy Wilson's book,

1030
00:42:53,304 --> 00:42:56,373
Amazing Person near and dear, 
a role model.

1031
00:42:56,740 --> 00:43:00,411
Just you know,
she was a teacher for 38 years.

1032
00:43:00,411 --> 00:43:04,815
I'm in my 21st year, so,
God bless her thinking about her.

1033
00:43:05,115 --> 00:43:09,720
She taught at Conard for out of the 38,
I think 36, all at Conard,

1034
00:43:09,720 --> 00:43:13,057
she created a program,
African-American studies,

1035
00:43:13,057 --> 00:43:17,027
that's been going on since, 
she celebrated.

1036
00:43:17,027 --> 00:43:17,795
We have a nice picture.

1037
00:43:17,795 --> 00:43:20,297
We celebrated West Hartford's
teacher union.

1038
00:43:20,297 --> 00:43:22,366
I wouldn't mind
putting a picture of Doctor Tracy.

1039
00:43:22,366 --> 00:43:26,303
Let's see Eric Feeney in the middle
and Best Buy right here.

1040
00:43:26,303 --> 00:43:29,306
West Hartford icon. Icon and legend.

1041
00:43:29,306 --> 00:43:30,774
She wrote this book.

1042
00:43:30,774 --> 00:43:33,010
She's a she was our town historian,

1043
00:43:33,010 --> 00:43:36,780
and I had her host
a trivia event at the 100th podcast.

1044
00:43:36,780 --> 00:43:39,416
So I'm so honored that she was there.

1045
00:43:39,416 --> 00:43:43,253
It was, Park Road Association
versus West Hartford Chamber of Commerce.

1046
00:43:43,253 --> 00:43:46,357
So Tracy did West Hartford history.

1047
00:43:47,424 --> 00:43:48,125
So it was amazing.

1048
00:43:48,125 --> 00:43:52,096
And this is like going to
but she had signed this for me.

1049
00:43:52,796 --> 00:43:54,264
I love that.

1050
00:43:54,264 --> 00:43:58,002
There you represent so much
what makes Hartford a great community.

1051
00:43:58,002 --> 00:44:01,438
Read page 178. Best regards, Tracy Wilson.

1052
00:44:01,572 --> 00:44:03,407
So like if you put the ones that way.

1053
00:44:03,407 --> 00:44:05,609
Once every. Day is a.

1054
00:44:05,609 --> 00:44:08,612
Is it going to be a high school
mugshot of you.

1055
00:44:08,612 --> 00:44:09,079
Walk.

1056
00:44:09,079 --> 00:44:12,449
It's school
where I teach at fast point facts.

1057
00:44:13,017 --> 00:44:16,787
And walk a park where I,
you know, spend a lot of time

1058
00:44:16,787 --> 00:44:21,225
walking my dog or sledding or playing
pickleball basketball.

1059
00:44:21,692 --> 00:44:25,162
So she told me to turn to her so
she knows it was really important to me.

1060
00:44:25,162 --> 00:44:27,131
So it's like I'll treasure this forever.

1061
00:44:27,131 --> 00:44:28,098
I love. That, yeah.

1062
00:44:28,098 --> 00:44:30,234
I'm Tracy Wilson, thinking of you always.

1063
00:44:30,234 --> 00:44:33,871
I know I'm
so honored and proud to have this.

1064
00:44:33,871 --> 00:44:36,373
And so honored
that she was on episode 100.

1065
00:44:36,373 --> 00:44:38,609
So, thinking of you, Tracy and I.

1066
00:44:38,609 --> 00:44:44,581
I really want to do this 9.59.5 on a bike.

1067
00:44:44,915 --> 00:44:47,017
Yeah, it's a long I mean, I wanna I think.

1068
00:44:47,017 --> 00:44:49,186
I could do it, I think to honor.

1069
00:44:49,186 --> 00:44:51,722
Yeah. On a. Bike.
Absolutely can do it. On a bike. Right.

1070
00:44:51,722 --> 00:44:54,158
Do you like a basket?
I could say it's on and I can do it.

1071
00:44:54,158 --> 00:44:54,692
Oh, you do.

1072
00:44:54,692 --> 00:44:56,460
Yeah I mean stationary.

1073
00:44:56,460 --> 00:44:56,927
But if I.

1074
00:44:56,927 --> 00:44:59,730
Get pegs will you sit on the front
and you write on the back.

1075
00:44:59,730 --> 00:45:00,931
What a motley crew that would be.

1076
00:45:00,931 --> 00:45:02,800
What about a. Side to the basket
like. Eating.

1077
00:45:02,800 --> 00:45:05,502
There's a side car
like a side by the side. Best I.

1078
00:45:05,502 --> 00:45:07,471
Want to be on the side. Burton.
The side that.

1079
00:45:07,471 --> 00:45:09,406
Well that's true. That's true. Yeah.

1080
00:45:09,406 --> 00:45:10,607
Cute little. Helmet.

1081
00:45:10,607 --> 00:45:11,842
Yeah, I got a cat.

1082
00:45:11,842 --> 00:45:14,611
It looks so cool with the helmet on.

1083
00:45:14,611 --> 00:45:16,780
Love you. Could definitely do a 9.5.

1084
00:45:16,780 --> 00:45:19,116
Yeah. Oh, speaking of. So, we always do

1085
00:45:20,084 --> 00:45:20,851
three keys.

1086
00:45:20,851 --> 00:45:22,820
Sponsored. Excuse me. Whatsoever.

1087
00:45:22,820 --> 00:45:24,455
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1088
00:45:24,455 --> 00:45:26,857
And want a pizza? Sponsors.
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1089
00:45:26,857 --> 00:45:30,394
People's Bank now is going to sponsor
what makes him a good friend.

1090
00:45:30,527 --> 00:45:31,729
What makes her a good friend?

1091
00:45:31,729 --> 00:45:33,664
We're going to play right now
starting today.

1092
00:45:33,664 --> 00:45:35,199
People's bank.

1093
00:45:35,199 --> 00:45:37,601
Teresa, what makes Ryan a good friend?

1094
00:45:37,601 --> 00:45:39,369
And same question to you when she's done.

1095
00:45:39,369 --> 00:45:40,170
Or do you want to go first?

1096
00:45:40,170 --> 00:45:42,606
Ryan no, I would love to see my assassin
go first.

1097
00:45:42,606 --> 00:45:45,609
Yeah, I'd like to see your answer.

1098
00:45:47,111 --> 00:45:50,047
I think Matt Ryan's dependability.

1099
00:45:50,047 --> 00:45:52,015
I think that if you call on Ryan

1100
00:45:52,015 --> 00:45:55,018
and you need something
that he is always going to show up.

1101
00:45:55,152 --> 00:45:56,720
I think that makes you.

1102
00:45:56,720 --> 00:45:59,123
That's what I was going
to say about Teresa. Just,

1103
00:46:00,557 --> 00:46:03,060
Yeah, I think that you're reliable
and you're dependable.

1104
00:46:03,060 --> 00:46:07,064
And I think that you have made quite
a name for yourself in this community

1105
00:46:07,064 --> 00:46:11,101
and not only just as a banker,
but I think that anywhere we go

1106
00:46:11,101 --> 00:46:15,105
and in the chamber
or any local business knows who you are,

1107
00:46:15,639 --> 00:46:17,074
it also helps that your six five.

1108
00:46:17,074 --> 00:46:18,142
But thank.

1109
00:46:18,142 --> 00:46:19,710
You. You're you know, you do.

1110
00:46:19,710 --> 00:46:21,879
You have made your presence very known.

1111
00:46:21,879 --> 00:46:23,147
Thank you, thank you.

1112
00:46:23,147 --> 00:46:25,349
What makes Tre so good, friend?

1113
00:46:25,349 --> 00:46:26,950
There's so many, so many.

1114
00:46:26,950 --> 00:46:30,788
Qualities and reasons that make Teresa
a good friend.

1115
00:46:31,121 --> 00:46:35,058
She's done a great job at giving me
a lot more gray hairs in the last,

1116
00:46:35,125 --> 00:46:38,128
you know, almost the year
that she's been here.

1117
00:46:38,195 --> 00:46:41,431
But when I was looking,
you know, when I had the assistant manager

1118
00:46:41,431 --> 00:46:44,701
position open
and I was, you know, got a ton

1119
00:46:44,701 --> 00:46:48,105
of external people applying,
and I was like, who are these people?

1120
00:46:48,105 --> 00:46:51,875
And I was like, I know Teresa, you know,
and I know what she's capable.

1121
00:46:51,875 --> 00:46:53,477
You knew I was going to give you
a gray hair.

1122
00:46:53,477 --> 00:46:55,479
Yes. You know, I think it's just like,

1123
00:46:55,479 --> 00:46:58,615
you know, finish out the gray hair
that I have with with Teresa.

1124
00:46:58,615 --> 00:47:04,021
But in all honesty, like knowing her
and just knowing that

1125
00:47:04,421 --> 00:47:07,291
she's the first one to kind of roll up
our sleeves at the end of the day.

1126
00:47:07,291 --> 00:47:10,294
And I know that, you know, I can.

1127
00:47:10,694 --> 00:47:11,829
Go crying on this podcast.

1128
00:47:11,829 --> 00:47:14,031
There's no keep a very short sleeve.

1129
00:47:14,031 --> 00:47:15,566
That I can trust.

1130
00:47:15,566 --> 00:47:18,635
Teresa, you know, to kind of be here,
like she said, like

1131
00:47:18,735 --> 00:47:20,370
she's always going to show up for me.

1132
00:47:20,370 --> 00:47:22,472
And I love and I appreciate that.

1133
00:47:22,472 --> 00:47:26,343
And she's been,
you know, such an amazing friend.

1134
00:47:26,643 --> 00:47:31,381
You know, in the 4 or 5 years that we've
known each other, it was just this.

1135
00:47:31,381 --> 00:47:32,583
She was the first person I thought

1136
00:47:32,583 --> 00:47:35,552
about when,
you know, the position became available.

1137
00:47:35,686 --> 00:47:39,223
And she's just so great,
you know, and she's there for me.

1138
00:47:39,223 --> 00:47:40,490
She's such a great support.

1139
00:47:40,490 --> 00:47:42,759
She works so great with the team,

1140
00:47:42,759 --> 00:47:46,263
and I just couldn't
be more lucky to have with Tre.

1141
00:47:46,263 --> 00:47:47,364
Tre, as we call it.

1142
00:47:47,364 --> 00:47:49,433
For all Tre trees, I call it. Yeah.

1143
00:47:49,433 --> 00:47:50,467
Oh like it?

1144
00:47:50,467 --> 00:47:51,735
Don't just don't call her Terry.

1145
00:47:51,735 --> 00:47:54,271
Yeah. No, no. Terry battled Terry.

1146
00:47:54,271 --> 00:47:56,406
Now back it up Terry I. Can't.

1147
00:47:56,406 --> 00:47:59,243
So we're we're. Like. That was our.

1148
00:47:59,243 --> 00:48:02,012
What makes someone
a good friend sponsored by people's bank.

1149
00:48:02,012 --> 00:48:03,981
I like to have.
And then we're going to do.

1150
00:48:03,981 --> 00:48:06,917
Oh we should do favorite teacher sponsor.
I got to get permission from Beth.

1151
00:48:06,917 --> 00:48:10,587
But maybe favorite teacher
sponsored by doctor Tracy Wilson,

1152
00:48:10,587 --> 00:48:13,991
because I said on the hundredth podcast,
she's your favorite teachers.

1153
00:48:13,991 --> 00:48:15,525
Yeah. Favorite teacher.

1154
00:48:15,525 --> 00:48:19,363
But anyway, so speaking of teachers, 
never had Tracy as a teacher,

1155
00:48:19,363 --> 00:48:21,632
but amazing person.
Did you have a favorite teacher?

1156
00:48:23,734 --> 00:48:24,835
I'll let you go first.

1157
00:48:24,835 --> 00:48:27,604
Tree. Tree.

1158
00:48:27,604 --> 00:48:28,672
School for me?

1159
00:48:28,672 --> 00:48:31,875
I can't say I had a favorite teacher.

1160
00:48:32,476 --> 00:48:34,177
What town did you grow up in? Bethel.

1161
00:48:34,177 --> 00:48:36,079
Nice. Yeah.

1162
00:48:36,079 --> 00:48:37,381
Maybe elementary.

1163
00:48:37,381 --> 00:48:40,350
Miss Armstrong always stuck out to me.
She was my.

1164
00:48:40,350 --> 00:48:42,753
I think she was first grade.

1165
00:48:42,753 --> 00:48:44,621
First or fourth grade, I can't remember.

1166
00:48:44,621 --> 00:48:47,624
It's been a long time, Eric.

1167
00:48:47,858 --> 00:48:49,860
She had really nice handwriting,

1168
00:48:49,860 --> 00:48:53,163
and I always get complimented on my
handwriting and I always think of her, so

1169
00:48:53,163 --> 00:48:55,899
I feel like maybe it was first grade
because that's when you sign up to start.

1170
00:48:55,899 --> 00:48:57,000
Yeah. Very cool.

1171
00:48:57,000 --> 00:48:59,670
Right. And this. Is Armstrong.
Yeah. Shout out to my sister.

1172
00:48:59,670 --> 00:49:00,938
Thank you for the handwriting okay.

1173
00:49:00,938 --> 00:49:03,941
Yes. Bethel school system.

1174
00:49:04,308 --> 00:49:04,474
Yeah.

1175
00:49:04,474 --> 00:49:07,477
We can't talk about Florida.

1176
00:49:08,111 --> 00:49:10,314
I would say I mean I probably wouldn't

1177
00:49:10,314 --> 00:49:12,449
be able to go home tonight
if I didn't say that.

1178
00:49:12,449 --> 00:49:15,218
My partner,
Nick Marino is my favorite teacher.

1179
00:49:15,218 --> 00:49:18,455
He's a professor at Trinity College,
Kerry Hartford.

1180
00:49:19,022 --> 00:49:20,991
So he's. Not out in. That position.

1181
00:49:20,991 --> 00:49:24,861
There is for sure
my favorite teacher that I know.

1182
00:49:24,861 --> 00:49:28,198
I wasn't the biggest fan of school
going through it.

1183
00:49:28,198 --> 00:49:31,001
I was much more of the the talker.

1184
00:49:31,001 --> 00:49:32,169
You know, we can't.

1185
00:49:32,169 --> 00:49:36,573
So, you know, coming into school late
with a bagel

1186
00:49:36,573 --> 00:49:39,576
and an iced coffee that you'd have
to, like, hide in the empty locker

1187
00:49:39,576 --> 00:49:42,212
right before you went in
to get your late pass.

1188
00:49:42,212 --> 00:49:45,315
So Nick lets me slide on a lot of it
because, you know, he doesn't correct

1189
00:49:45,315 --> 00:49:46,249
my grammar.

1190
00:49:46,249 --> 00:49:48,986
He doesn't? Yeah.

1191
00:49:48,986 --> 00:49:50,620
I'm very lucky to have that.

1192
00:49:50,620 --> 00:49:53,857
He's he's a great teacher,
a great partner and a great guy overall.

1193
00:49:53,890 --> 00:49:54,691
Good friend. He's a good.

1194
00:49:54,691 --> 00:49:55,559
If I had to pick one.

1195
00:49:55,559 --> 00:49:57,494
Eric, you're not my teacher,
but you'd be my favorite.

1196
00:49:57,494 --> 00:49:59,296
Oh, thank you, thank you.

1197
00:49:59,296 --> 00:50:01,298
I've heard that a few times. Yeah.
Thank you.

1198
00:50:01,298 --> 00:50:03,000
And I met Nick. Nick's a great guy.

1199
00:50:03,000 --> 00:50:04,034
Nick is a great guy.

1200
00:50:04,034 --> 00:50:07,471
Actually does a class
or he does podcasting at Trinity.

1201
00:50:07,704 --> 00:50:09,406
Or know someone that does. Yeah.

1202
00:50:09,406 --> 00:50:10,841
So they all kind of work together

1203
00:50:10,841 --> 00:50:14,678
to kind of, you know, it's been such a,
such a cool thing,

1204
00:50:14,678 --> 00:50:18,615
you know, podcasting with them last
I mean, decades or so, like,

1205
00:50:18,615 --> 00:50:20,550
that podcast has been kind
of a huge thing.

1206
00:50:20,550 --> 00:50:23,653
And, you know,
Trinity is always kind of on,

1207
00:50:23,820 --> 00:50:27,657
you know, trend on trends with the,
you know, that and they do a great job.

1208
00:50:27,657 --> 00:50:31,294
So they have podcasts and classes
and really cool

1209
00:50:31,294 --> 00:50:34,798
3D printing labs, which is really cool,
which we didn't have in our nick.

1210
00:50:34,798 --> 00:50:37,067
Should be a Feeney guest.

1211
00:50:37,067 --> 00:50:39,536
Yes. Oh, no, it's in the back.
That's in the works.

1212
00:50:39,536 --> 00:50:40,270
Oh, good. Yeah.

1213
00:50:40,270 --> 00:50:42,873
We talked at the let's grab lunch
Christmas party.

1214
00:50:42,873 --> 00:50:45,542
I want to either
try to get involved at the school

1215
00:50:45,542 --> 00:50:47,310
or have him on or both or me.

1216
00:50:47,310 --> 00:50:51,481
I had the interview at the school, and
then I saw him again at Parkville Market.

1217
00:50:51,782 --> 00:50:53,817
Yeah. And talked again.

1218
00:50:53,817 --> 00:50:54,151
Oh, yeah.

1219
00:50:54,151 --> 00:50:56,186
The mural there is fabulous.

1220
00:50:56,186 --> 00:50:57,821
Beautiful. Shout out to Parkville.

1221
00:50:57,821 --> 00:50:59,523
Mom, that is a beautiful here's us.

1222
00:50:59,523 --> 00:51:00,257
Oh, speaking of what?

1223
00:51:00,257 --> 00:51:01,291
Here's some stickers.

1224
00:51:01,291 --> 00:51:02,993
We we honored it with a sticker.

1225
00:51:02,993 --> 00:51:03,894
Less than I.

1226
00:51:03,894 --> 00:51:04,795
Have the stickers.

1227
00:51:04,795 --> 00:51:07,431
On, but we have stickers
all over this branch.

1228
00:51:07,431 --> 00:51:10,133
The magnets are great.
I got one on my car.

1229
00:51:10,133 --> 00:51:12,002
You know,
I've got a sign outside of my house.

1230
00:51:12,002 --> 00:51:15,205
So do you. Hey, do. Yeah. All right. Oh.

1231
00:51:15,705 --> 00:51:19,042
My back there, you guys,
I have a West Hartford Pride sign.

1232
00:51:19,042 --> 00:51:22,145
And then a really nice quote from Doctor
Martin Luther King.

1233
00:51:22,579 --> 00:51:24,047
So I love it.

1234
00:51:24,047 --> 00:51:25,916
Yeah. Love it.

1235
00:51:25,916 --> 00:51:28,919
And then our favorite restaurant,
sponsored by Luna Pizza.

1236
00:51:29,119 --> 00:51:30,954
And we're going to go fast
because we're getting close up.

1237
00:51:30,954 --> 00:51:33,790
You go. First. You go first.
For dinner guests. Favorite restaurant?

1238
00:51:34,891 --> 00:51:36,093
It can be anywhere in the world.

1239
00:51:36,093 --> 00:51:36,760
And their house.

1240
00:51:36,760 --> 00:51:39,763
Guests can be dead or alive.

1241
00:51:40,097 --> 00:51:41,364
Wow. Anywhere in the world?

1242
00:51:41,364 --> 00:51:42,933
I don't know, you know I.

1243
00:51:42,933 --> 00:51:44,367
Here comes the sun.

1244
00:51:44,367 --> 00:51:47,904
Yeah, yeah,
it would be the Beatles for sure.

1245
00:51:48,305 --> 00:51:51,274
And I would say Carmine's
just because it's family style.

1246
00:51:51,274 --> 00:51:53,343
And there would be five of us, so.

1247
00:51:53,343 --> 00:51:55,245
Oh, yeah. Where's Carmine's?

1248
00:51:55,245 --> 00:51:55,679
Nope.

1249
00:51:55,679 --> 00:51:58,915
It would be in, Times
Square in New York City.

1250
00:51:58,915 --> 00:52:00,550
Oh, cool.

1251
00:52:00,550 --> 00:52:02,018
Thanks, Carmen.

1252
00:52:02,018 --> 00:52:04,754
Carmine's in Times
Square with the Beatles.

1253
00:52:04,754 --> 00:52:06,556
Love it.

1254
00:52:06,556 --> 00:52:11,094
So for me, kind of I was thinking all day
kind of like, who do I pick?

1255
00:52:11,528 --> 00:52:14,197
Kind of keeping in theme
with Pride Month.

1256
00:52:14,197 --> 00:52:17,467
I would say the forward probably
be the late, great Whitney Houston.

1257
00:52:17,968 --> 00:52:20,871
If they can be dead or alive,
I would also do

1258
00:52:20,871 --> 00:52:24,074
kind of it would love to kind of sit down
with Harvey Milk.

1259
00:52:24,074 --> 00:52:29,146
He was a Harvey, gay activist
in the time out in San Francisco.

1260
00:52:29,146 --> 00:52:30,881
First mayor. First mayor.

1261
00:52:30,881 --> 00:52:31,848
Absolutely.

1262
00:52:31,848 --> 00:52:35,519
I would love to have dinner
with Kylie Minogue

1263
00:52:35,519 --> 00:52:38,955
and kind of wrap it out with Barry
White's, you know, another late.

1264
00:52:38,955 --> 00:52:39,356
Great.

1265
00:52:39,356 --> 00:52:41,725
Are you going to one restaurant
with all these people

1266
00:52:41,725 --> 00:52:43,493
or a different restaurant
with each of them?

1267
00:52:43,493 --> 00:52:45,795
And unfortunately,
I don't know who Kylie Minogue should.

1268
00:52:45,795 --> 00:52:46,463
I know that.

1269
00:52:46,463 --> 00:52:48,365
You don't know Kylie. My gosh.

1270
00:52:48,365 --> 00:52:49,866
Should I say that out loud?

1271
00:52:49,866 --> 00:52:50,534
That's okay.

1272
00:52:50,534 --> 00:52:53,170
Be careful. Actress singer. Songwriter.

1273
00:52:53,170 --> 00:52:56,173
Although she is an Australian pop

1274
00:52:56,206 --> 00:52:59,075
gay icon, Australian.

1275
00:52:59,075 --> 00:53:03,380
You're you're going to go flack
for all your gay friends.

1276
00:53:03,380 --> 00:53:04,848
Okay. Come on. Oh.

1277
00:53:04,848 --> 00:53:05,448
All right.

1278
00:53:05,448 --> 00:53:07,584
What's her favorite best song?
I don't know. Gosh.

1279
00:53:07,584 --> 00:53:09,986
Then I'm going to listen to on the way
home. Yeah, yeah.

1280
00:53:09,986 --> 00:53:11,321
Well, maybe we could pull some copyright.

1281
00:53:11,321 --> 00:53:13,990
Maybe YouTube will copyright
us. Hit the banger.

1282
00:53:13,990 --> 00:53:15,625
How about this? Yes.

1283
00:53:15,625 --> 00:53:19,462
What is Whitney Houston's
favorite coordination?

1284
00:53:20,330 --> 00:53:21,464
What do you mean by that?

1285
00:53:21,464 --> 00:53:26,870
Like a coordination like hand. I

1286
00:53:28,138 --> 00:53:29,339
caught a.

1287
00:53:29,339 --> 00:53:30,373
Hand. Eye coordination.

1288
00:53:30,373 --> 00:53:31,775
Oh, he. Didn't get it.

1289
00:53:31,775 --> 00:53:34,744
He's got. It. Hand-eye
coordination. Needs.

1290
00:53:34,744 --> 00:53:34,978
All right.

1291
00:53:34,978 --> 00:53:36,346
It's been a long day.

1292
00:53:36,346 --> 00:53:39,182
Oh, it is Tuesday in the bank.

1293
00:53:39,182 --> 00:53:41,551
Whatever you do, don't
edit this out at all.

1294
00:53:41,551 --> 00:53:43,053
Please keep all of that.

1295
00:53:43,053 --> 00:53:43,920
And so I.

1296
00:53:43,920 --> 00:53:48,425
Can't call yourself a Whitney Houston fan
if you don't know hand-eye coordination.

1297
00:53:48,558 --> 00:53:50,660
Coordination? Because I know the lyrics.

1298
00:53:50,660 --> 00:53:54,698
I don't know the, the joke,
and shout out to Dolly Parton

1299
00:53:54,698 --> 00:53:56,866
for actually writing that song. Oh.

1300
00:53:56,866 --> 00:53:59,102
So yeah. So she's getting very serious.

1301
00:53:59,102 --> 00:54:00,237
And where would I go?

1302
00:54:00,237 --> 00:54:04,274
I don't know, you know what I really
I forgot to keep a low call.

1303
00:54:04,641 --> 00:54:05,842
Oh, we don't know. He's okay.

1304
00:54:05,842 --> 00:54:08,011
Where in the world.
How do you are in the world?

1305
00:54:08,011 --> 00:54:12,182
Carly and Betty White,
thank you for being, friends.

1306
00:54:12,782 --> 00:54:14,351
I would say I would love to go
to, like, a Benny.

1307
00:54:14,351 --> 00:54:15,652
You should go right in.

1308
00:54:15,652 --> 00:54:17,487
Like the height of Benihana, right?

1309
00:54:17,487 --> 00:54:20,123
Like in was a big in the 70s.
Like a hibachi place.

1310
00:54:20,123 --> 00:54:25,228
A Benihana like in Hawaii
with those people drinking my ties.

1311
00:54:25,228 --> 00:54:28,231
I think, you know, having Betty White.

1312
00:54:28,531 --> 00:54:30,867
Whitney Houston, Harvey Milk, and.

1313
00:54:30,867 --> 00:54:31,735
I leave a know, even.

1314
00:54:31,735 --> 00:54:35,005
Though, man, I'm learning something new,
I see I'm a lifelong learner.

1315
00:54:35,071 --> 00:54:36,306
I learn something new every day.

1316
00:54:36,306 --> 00:54:38,041
If you're not learning,
what are you doing.

1317
00:54:38,041 --> 00:54:39,909
As a sister, Kylie Minogue.

1318
00:54:39,909 --> 00:54:41,177
You have to.

1319
00:54:41,177 --> 00:54:43,046
Yeah, I'm going to come in
next time. Bump into. Yeah.

1320
00:54:43,046 --> 00:54:45,181
Not going to be on every pride playlist.

1321
00:54:45,181 --> 00:54:47,317
Please check on out.

1322
00:54:47,317 --> 00:54:48,752
You'll know some of her songs though.

1323
00:54:48,752 --> 00:54:50,887
Okay, I'm not going to tell you
which ones, but you know, them.

1324
00:54:50,887 --> 00:54:52,822
Being a pride. Don't
forget to get your pride shirts.

1325
00:54:52,822 --> 00:54:56,693
Yes, and comes to Town
Hall June 21st, Saturday all.

1326
00:54:56,693 --> 00:54:59,396
Day and do the ride for Tracy Wilson.

1327
00:54:59,396 --> 00:55:01,531
Yes, we'll see you Thursday.

1328
00:55:01,531 --> 00:55:03,900
And thank you again
for being such wonderful sponsors.

1329
00:55:03,900 --> 00:55:06,002
And you're thoughtful and generous.

1330
00:55:06,002 --> 00:55:07,971
Before we go, any recommendations?

1331
00:55:07,971 --> 00:55:10,307
TV shows, movies, books,

1332
00:55:12,175 --> 00:55:12,809
banks to go.

1333
00:55:12,809 --> 00:55:16,546
To, those banks to go to a, you know, one
right on 1 or 2 LaSalle road here

1334
00:55:16,546 --> 00:55:17,580
in West Hartford Center.

1335
00:55:17,580 --> 00:55:20,717
We won't get too much more.

1336
00:55:23,420 --> 00:55:24,954
Shows that I've been really watching.

1337
00:55:24,954 --> 00:55:29,492
There's a lot of good documentaries
going on Netflix.

1338
00:55:30,927 --> 00:55:31,428
Where do we.

1339
00:55:31,428 --> 00:55:32,962
What do we have time to watch shows?

1340
00:55:32,962 --> 00:55:36,166
That's now off with,
you know, all of our after hours stuff?

1341
00:55:37,867 --> 00:55:40,470
I do a lot of Bob's Burgers.

1342
00:55:40,470 --> 00:55:41,371
Oh, what is it?

1343
00:55:41,371 --> 00:55:45,909
Bob's burgers had a disconnect
and disassociate after a long day.

1344
00:55:45,909 --> 00:55:46,776
Love that.

1345
00:55:46,776 --> 00:55:49,045
Abbott elementary.
Do you watch that? Oh, hilarious.

1346
00:55:49,045 --> 00:55:50,280
My daughters love that.

1347
00:55:50,280 --> 00:55:53,116
They put me on for that. Them.
Oh, it's so funny.

1348
00:55:53,116 --> 00:55:55,585
So please.
Watch. They tease me for the guy,

1349
00:55:56,553 --> 00:55:56,886
the white

1350
00:55:56,886 --> 00:56:00,657
kid, the like they they're like that you
that you dad that you you got a little.

1351
00:56:00,657 --> 00:56:02,992
Bit more credit on that guy. Yeah.

1352
00:56:02,992 --> 00:56:05,462
He like, tries to be cool. Yes. Yeah. No.

1353
00:56:05,462 --> 00:56:05,995
That's me.

1354
00:56:05,995 --> 00:56:09,232
That's how I relate with them
I try, All you got to do is try,

1355
00:56:10,333 --> 00:56:12,702
what's his name? I forgot, so there's.

1356
00:56:12,702 --> 00:56:14,371
Everyone hates Chris.

1357
00:56:14,371 --> 00:56:16,773
Everyone hates Chris, and they're dating.

1358
00:56:16,773 --> 00:56:18,041
She wrote the show? Yes.

1359
00:56:18,041 --> 00:56:19,576
Quinta Brunson wrote this.

1360
00:56:19,576 --> 00:56:22,579
Oh. Shout out to Waterbury

1361
00:56:23,747 --> 00:56:24,481
every episode.

1362
00:56:24,481 --> 00:56:25,148
Waterbury.

1363
00:56:25,148 --> 00:56:27,550
Shea Ralph is the kindergarten teacher.

1364
00:56:27,550 --> 00:56:29,085
Oh, she's from Waterbury.

1365
00:56:29,085 --> 00:56:31,921
Over in that show, Abbott
Elementary. It's a great.

1366
00:56:31,921 --> 00:56:32,989
She just won Grammys.

1367
00:56:32,989 --> 00:56:34,891
She's our pride and joy.
Waterbury, Connecticut.

1368
00:56:34,891 --> 00:56:37,060
And it's a great role
that you can kind of pick up and watch.

1369
00:56:37,060 --> 00:56:39,763
You don't have to watch in order.
You can kind of like The Office.

1370
00:56:39,763 --> 00:56:40,764
You can just pick it up.

1371
00:56:40,764 --> 00:56:41,331
It's the best.

1372
00:56:41,331 --> 00:56:42,932
Doesn't matter if it's an order.

1373
00:56:42,932 --> 00:56:45,402
You can watch episode 100 or episode two.

1374
00:56:45,402 --> 00:56:46,669
You know what's going on,
but you know what?

1375
00:56:46,669 --> 00:56:49,672
You should shout out and recommend
the sushi place that I missed.

1376
00:56:49,706 --> 00:56:50,306
Go home.

1377
00:56:50,306 --> 00:56:51,508
Oh yes. Definitely.

1378
00:56:51,508 --> 00:56:53,643
So we're out. Shout out to Gordon.

1379
00:56:55,712 --> 00:56:56,646
I you had the party.

1380
00:56:56,646 --> 00:56:59,282
The best party ever. Yeah.
And I missed it.

1381
00:56:59,282 --> 00:57:01,050
We said, did you forgive me yet or.

1382
00:57:01,050 --> 00:57:04,087
No. No, because you also didn't
come to celebrate either.

1383
00:57:04,087 --> 00:57:06,656
Oh, man. Strike two straight.

1384
00:57:06,656 --> 00:57:07,624
There won't be a strike three.

1385
00:57:07,624 --> 00:57:09,492
There
better not be a trick or treat treat.

1386
00:57:09,492 --> 00:57:12,462
So that fun gone.

1387
00:57:14,497 --> 00:57:16,499
So again,
thank you for being good friends.

1388
00:57:16,499 --> 00:57:18,902
Thank you for your generosity
and continued support.

1389
00:57:18,902 --> 00:57:20,303
Any closing remarks?

1390
00:57:20,303 --> 00:57:24,274
Oh, well, thank you for highlighting,
you know, two boring bankers

1391
00:57:24,274 --> 00:57:26,042
and what we do here
within their community.

1392
00:57:26,042 --> 00:57:30,346
It's been so great to know you over
the last couple of years and kind of see

1393
00:57:30,346 --> 00:57:34,150
your involvement and kind of,
you know, your energy is palpable.

1394
00:57:34,150 --> 00:57:36,653
So it's, you know,
you become a good friend.

1395
00:57:36,653 --> 00:57:38,588
You want to be a good friend, having known

1396
00:57:38,588 --> 00:57:42,625
you and knowing the amazing team
that you have within your organization.

1397
00:57:42,625 --> 00:57:44,494
So you guys killing crush it.

1398
00:57:44,494 --> 00:57:44,828
And we're

1399
00:57:44,828 --> 00:57:48,631
we're glad to be a small part of that
and we appreciate the collaboration.

1400
00:57:48,898 --> 00:57:50,233
Cool.

1401
00:57:50,233 --> 00:57:52,602
Well, please like and share this podcast.

1402
00:57:52,602 --> 00:57:53,937
Subscribe on YouTube.

1403
00:57:53,937 --> 00:57:56,573
Follow us on Instagram,
Facebook, Twitters.

1404
00:57:56,573 --> 00:57:58,041
The website.

1405
00:57:58,041 --> 00:58:00,109
We have a wonderful new website.

1406
00:58:00,109 --> 00:58:01,678
Shout out to blue Jean creative.

1407
00:58:01,678 --> 00:58:02,912
Yeah, shout out to Ali.

1408
00:58:02,912 --> 00:58:05,548
You have Bristol Blues coming up
July 12th.

1409
00:58:05,548 --> 00:58:08,117
All you can eat, all you can drink
25 bucks.

1410
00:58:08,117 --> 00:58:09,085
Can't beat it.

1411
00:58:09,085 --> 00:58:10,253
Yard goats game.

1412
00:58:10,253 --> 00:58:13,790
Friday, August 15th probably 16th.

1413
00:58:14,791 --> 00:58:15,592
Which one.

1414
00:58:15,592 --> 00:58:19,729
And then our fourth annual golf tournament
September 13th.

1415
00:58:19,729 --> 00:58:20,997
Can't wait.

1416
00:58:20,997 --> 00:58:21,865
My friends want to come in.

1417
00:58:21,865 --> 00:58:23,433
Rob and Matt, you want to come in for the

1418
00:58:23,433 --> 00:58:24,767
we're going to say
be a good friend on camera.

1419
00:58:24,767 --> 00:58:26,369
Come on.

1420
00:58:26,369 --> 00:58:29,372
All the people behind the scene
here, people.

1421
00:58:29,372 --> 00:58:32,342
The chairman of the board, Heller

1422
00:58:32,342 --> 00:58:35,578
and my good friend,
probably biggest donor.

1423
00:58:35,578 --> 00:58:36,412
He. Good friend.

1424
00:58:36,412 --> 00:58:37,480
That's great.

1425
00:58:37,480 --> 00:58:39,082
On three
we're going to say be a good friend.

1426
00:58:39,082 --> 00:58:41,217
Okay? One, two three.

1427
00:58:41,217 --> 00:58:42,719
Be a good. Friend.