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All right, all right.

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Feeney talks with friends, episode 129.

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This is a good one.
How are you doing, Anthony? Very well.

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How are you?

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Anthony's a in the house. Yes, sir.

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I'm very excited to talk with Anthony.

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But first let me review.

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Episode 128 was a good one.

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We talked with the Rotary Club
of West Hartford.

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We talked with my friends
Patrice, Victor and Kyle.

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Go back and check it out.

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As you can see,
this is Feeney talks with friends.

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My name is Eric Feeney, founder
and president, friends of Feeney.

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Friends and Feeney is a nonprofit,
and we help children and families

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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 great people

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in the community
that are doing great things.

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And you've been helping people
in the community for ten years.

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Maybe. 11 going on 11 years now.

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Going on 11.

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That's right.
Yeah, it's a. Big part of what we do.

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And you went to Connor.

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So you're a West Hartford guy.

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That in southern Connecticut, in New Haven
and back home to West Hartford and.

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Yeah, started the first company.
What elementary school?

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Duffy middle school.

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Sedgwick.

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Nice shout out to the West
Hartford Public Schools.

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Yeah, it's great man.

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I mean, I was very lucky to grow up
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And the school systems. Excellent. Yeah.

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That's so cool.

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I went to southern.

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Yeah. Let's go.

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Nice go, owls.

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So I graduated in 2012.

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Nice. Yeah, I. Was 2000.

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So it's a fun spot. Yeah. Yeah.

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New haven. What dorm did you stay at?

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Oh, jeez. What a great question.

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I was in Jordan Wilkerson.

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What a memory on you.

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I remember, yeah. Wilk. Then Brownell.

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And then I was off campus.

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So I went Neff.

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Brownell on campus. Cool.

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I was a refugee. Yep.

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That's how that name stuck in 2012.

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They were Neff.

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Same thing.

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Yeah. And the Wilke was the wool.

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If you went to Wilkerson,
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Chase's the place. Farnum courts.

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We were. Wilk boys.

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Wilk boys.
And I don't. Really remember the others.

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You got a great memory.

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Brownell has a nice little spot.

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Yeah, that was like coed.
That's where I met my wife.

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No way.

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Her. My dorm
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Yeah. The thin cement walls. Right? Yeah.

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So I bang on the wall and, like, you know.

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Okay. Like you. Why don't you like me?

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That was my pick up line. Yeah.

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Let's see.

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And it worked good.

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And we've been married
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Oh, I mean, at Southern Brownell Hall.

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How about that moving day?

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I hear Kokomo by the Beach Boys,
and I'm like, who's playing Kokomo?

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Yeah, I'm.

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On a college campus.

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I go in and I see like this.

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She has short, fiery red hair, long sleeve
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And I was like, that's it.
How about the. One?

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Oh, I love that. Pretty cool. Yeah.

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Anthony's abatement.

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So I teach third grade.

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Yes. Abatement is a big word
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Yeah. How do you explain abatement.

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For a lot of people?

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So, I mean, abatement tech
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to slow down the process of whatever
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In terms of what we do.

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Is this abatement
led abatement, mold remediation.

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We want to stop the problem
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So if it's especially this, we're
removing it or we're encapsulating it,

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if it's lead, we're removing it.

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And if it's mold we're removing it.

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Gotcha. Yeah.

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Yeah I see that here that you do.

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Asbestos abatement, lead paint removal,
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water damage restoration,
material testing, oil tank.

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Removal. And demolition services.

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Yeah, that's right.

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So oil tank like that's
that's got to be a huge process.

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I don't I don't understand how do they get
these oil tanks in the basement.

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And they do
they build a house around it some.

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And then how do we get them out?

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Yeah. How does what's the
what's the trick?

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Oil tanks are. Tough.

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Each one is different.

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So we clean out the we we pump out
the oil, we clean out the sludge.

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And normally
we have to cut the tank up to get it out.

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Cut it into pieces. Yeah.

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And, it's a nasty process.

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The oil stains, everything it touches.

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The smell is aggressive.

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So, when we take it out of your home,
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just to do that,
just to carry out the waste.

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Yeah, because the smell is so pungent.

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And then there's a good clean up
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You know, it's a nasty material,
so we don't want to leave anything behind.

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You know, the mission of Anthony's
abatement is to create

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healthy building schools, homes
for the children of Connecticut.

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And, you know,
that is near and dear to our heart.

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So we stick to that
with everything that we do.

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Yeah. Now,
you said near and dear to your how?

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Helping the children.

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Yeah. You know,
I want to thank you personally.

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You helped friends of Feeney on multiple
fundraisers.

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You sponsored our golf tournament
with two, not just one sign.

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Maybe 2 or 3 tee signs. So thank you.

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And then a wonderful, wonderful event.

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It was a community
event at your alma mater.

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Yeah.

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Conard
and I randomly talked to you, right?

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We just bumped into each other
once at Beach Little Tavern,

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and you're like, you overheard
something. You're like, what?

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What do you do?
You help children and families.

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You're in West Hartford.

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I'm a West Hartford guy.
You're a West Hartford guy.

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And I had this idea.

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Hey, do you want a sponsor?

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Riley Foxx scoring his 2000 point.

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And we were going to give friends of Fox
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And here, here's our friends at Fox.

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Riley's buddy designed it.

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Awesome is really cool design.

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Look at that artwork.

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But we were able
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because look at that
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Anthony's amazing. Yeah,

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that's pretty good.

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And then Riley signed my
thanks for everything.

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He was podcast number 93 at the time.

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He scored 2028 points. What a feat man.

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That is awesome.

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He would take me, I think. I mean, I'm 46.

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I still have scored 2000 points
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Yeah.

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I've been playing since I was ten.

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Even even pick up included walking part.

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Yeah, the. Gym.

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Even. Layups you know.

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But anyway yeah thank you so much.

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That was a huge thing.

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So yeah of course.

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You sponsored I think we gave out like

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500 shirts
or something to up to 500 shirts.

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It's great.

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I go to I go to a couple Yale games
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Well, to show support for Riley.

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Oh, I love to hear.
That people are wearing these at the gym.

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And so it was huge.

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And thank you so much, man. Yeah,
you took care about the community.

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And I'm very glad
to get to talk with you. Yeah.

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You seem like a really good doc.

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Good guy.

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You have some cool,
bulletin boards and billboards, right?

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And, dude, this is the coolest.

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I'm watching the Super Bowl.

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Come on. Halftime.

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Yeah. You had a halftime commercial?

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We did.

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Can we talk about that?

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It, it. Was nerve racking.

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So we did it last year, and we did it
this year.

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It's just five seconds,
you know, it's real quick, but,

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it help get it helps get the word out.

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And, you know, it's it's amazing
notoriety.

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I sold my girls and my wife and,
like, Anthony's abatement.

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Yeah, that's my guy. He'd helped us
do the Friends of Hockey.

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Yeah. I love
we get a lot of feedback like that.

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Like say, hey, I saw you.

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I told all my friends, and,
you know, it brings a smile to my face.

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It's. I love seeing that. Yeah.

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The community around us is excellent,
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And, you know, we just try to give back.

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That's so cool. Very cool.

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Do you want to get into ranges and cause,
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Super Bowl commercial.

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Is it a lot. Is it a little bit. Is it.

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It's a lot.

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For five seconds.

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Five seconds. Yeah.

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like the national broadcasts,
those things are like 30 million bucks.

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20 million bucks. Right?

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Our we're just local.

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We cover the state of Connecticut.

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That's it. But still. It.

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Yeah, it got out there,
and that's pretty cool.

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Yeah. It's interesting.

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So, I haven't seen the numbers for
this year, but last year, the day after,

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well, I guess the night of and the day
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got 19,700 hits on the website

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where we're normally at like 100 a day.

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So. So it works.

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It worked. Wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

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It's amazing.

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Cool.

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Yeah, it was a good halftime. Show and.

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Yeah. Pretty solid game. So that. Helps.

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It worked out.

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Yeah. No, I was cool.

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I was like
I got to ask Super Bowl commercial.

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Yeah yeah I want to
I. Want to be friends with Feeney.

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Super Bowl
commercial. Can we. Collaborate.

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You know we can maybe we can get. The logo
up there. For next year.

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Be a good friend. Yeah.

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Use Anthony's abatement. Boom boom.

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Yeah I like that logo. Logo.

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Absolutely I like it, I like it.

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So yeah.

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No. Speaking on your website,
Anthony's abatement.com. Yes.

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Some really good stuff.

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Who runs that. Who updates that.
Because that's I.

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Like that's a great question
because he does deserve a shout out.

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His name is Evan with Upstream Agency
and he runs the website.

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He updates it monthly and yeah,
I love our website.

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He started it back in 2020,

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I want to say, and it's a huge reason
why people trust us,

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because the first thing they see
is a professional well built website.

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Yeah.

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And 100
plus five star Google reviews helps.

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Yes, I saw that to leave a Google review.

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Yeah, that's smart.

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And they're all positive. All five stars.

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Yeah I saw a bunch of them today.

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And then you could be reached
at (860) 385-8501.

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Yes. That's correct. That's the number.

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Yeah.

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And Carla, I've been going back and forth
with Carla about the.

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Carla's incredible.
Sponsorship. Right. Yeah.

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Okay. Very cool.

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So it's Carla at at companies.com.

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Yeah. Carla at ATR companies.com.

252
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Atr. And, Yeah she's excellent.

253
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She's our office manager
and she makes everything go.

254
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And then you're located
right off of Talcott Road.

255
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Yeah. West Hartford.

256
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Yeah. So I go to Uber Dog
and I go to Doctor Rex.

257
00:09:50,856 --> 00:09:52,825
Kyra. Okay,
so I think you're right in the middle.

258
00:09:52,825 --> 00:09:55,795
Yeah, yeah. Well, so yeah,
you go down a little bit. Bang. All right.

259
00:09:55,795 --> 00:09:58,497
And that's our shop. Very nice. Yeah.

260
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How many people do you have employed?

261
00:10:00,900 --> 00:10:01,601
So it

262
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varies depending on the jobs that we have
and the size of them, but,

263
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anywhere from 20 to 25. Yep.

264
00:10:10,810 --> 00:10:13,212
And then do you finish basements?
We don't.

265
00:10:13,212 --> 00:10:16,082
So we don't do anything after the removal.

266
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We don't do the rebuild.

267
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We have excellent contractor
on our referral list that we hand out.

268
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But no, we're solely focused on
going back to our mission statement.

269
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Our goal is to make safe environments
for families and kids.

270
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And that's what we stick to.

271
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Nice. Keep it simple.

272
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We only offer a few services
and we do those really well.

273
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I love it. Yeah. Love to. Hear that.

274
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Do you do, crawl spaces, like,
We work in crawl spaces, and,

275
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we will waterproof them

276
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for certain clients if they need us to.

277
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Or if the crawl space
is a little more demanding

278
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than a normal basement
waterproofing job would be.

279
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We kind of get called in,
like a pinch hitter.

280
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But not often. Okay. Yeah.

281
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Yeah, I was a personal question.

282
00:11:04,330 --> 00:11:06,532
I need a basement
in a crawl space down so.

283
00:11:06,532 --> 00:11:08,000
We can check it out for you. All right.

284
00:11:08,000 --> 00:11:10,536
You would be one of those special
for you. Let's go.

285
00:11:10,536 --> 00:11:12,004
Yeah, yeah.

286
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Thank you for that.

287
00:11:12,672 --> 00:11:15,074
I appreciate it.
And I do love the shirt too.

288
00:11:15,074 --> 00:11:16,642
Good man. I'm glad.

289
00:11:16,642 --> 00:11:18,811
Yeah. Swagged up.
Let's talk about the flags.

290
00:11:18,811 --> 00:11:19,879
We got the.

291
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Got the American flag.

292
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Got the Italian flag
and the Portuguese flag.

293
00:11:24,116 --> 00:11:24,417
All right.

294
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I was blessed with great food growing up

295
00:11:28,120 --> 00:11:31,057
and, culture that I'm really proud of.

296
00:11:31,057 --> 00:11:34,060
Yeah. Nice to eat at, Primavera.

297
00:11:34,160 --> 00:11:37,163
Oh, my gosh, all the time. Chavez.

298
00:11:37,630 --> 00:11:42,234
I love Chavez, I love Primavera and,
Italian restaurants.

299
00:11:42,234 --> 00:11:45,838
You know, they're they're dime a dozen,
but a lot of great ones in West

300
00:11:45,871 --> 00:11:47,206
Everett Center.

301
00:11:47,206 --> 00:11:48,874
Yeah. You want to name one?

302
00:11:48,874 --> 00:11:50,242
I like travel a lot.

303
00:11:50,242 --> 00:11:51,310
Thank you.

304
00:11:51,310 --> 00:11:53,879
Yeah, travel is good. Scott
Miller was a guest.

305
00:11:53,879 --> 00:11:55,548
Freak shows. Excellent.

306
00:11:55,548 --> 00:11:58,084
Frisco probably takes the cake for me.

307
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We did, demolition of the freak show
when they did their renovation last year.

308
00:12:03,723 --> 00:12:06,025
Yeah. So we did the selection of.
Their new kitchen.

309
00:12:06,025 --> 00:12:08,327
Where they did the kitchen,
and they kind of did a facelift

310
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around the whole restaurant.

311
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So all the finishes, bar tops, carpet,

312
00:12:12,932 --> 00:12:16,035
flooring, walls, we stripped it all.

313
00:12:16,035 --> 00:12:21,173
And then, and construction
did a great job on the build up.

314
00:12:21,607 --> 00:12:23,042
Very cool. Yeah. All right. Yeah.

315
00:12:23,042 --> 00:12:26,145
Billy's been saying for years he's
going to be a guest, so come on, Billy.

316
00:12:26,145 --> 00:12:27,279
He's busy man.

317
00:12:27,279 --> 00:12:30,015
Yeah. Great,
though. He's awesome guy to work for.

318
00:12:30,015 --> 00:12:31,751
And then tio the chef. Head chef.

319
00:12:31,751 --> 00:12:34,253
Tito's awesome.
I work with his daughter at work. It's.

320
00:12:34,253 --> 00:12:36,055
Do you? Yeah. He's great. Oh, yeah.

321
00:12:37,089 --> 00:12:38,991
A couple hostess were former students.

322
00:12:38,991 --> 00:12:41,360
Yeah. Going through there, I bet. Yeah.

323
00:12:41,360 --> 00:12:42,728
Great. Great place.

324
00:12:42,728 --> 00:12:47,533
That's what thing about being a teacher
is, you see, so many kids come through.

325
00:12:47,900 --> 00:12:50,803
And then I would imagine you keep a lot
of those relationships afterwards

326
00:12:50,803 --> 00:12:52,004
or you see them around town.

327
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Yeah.

328
00:12:52,538 --> 00:12:56,142
And I just was walking Saturday night.

329
00:12:56,142 --> 00:12:56,609
Yeah.

330
00:12:56,609 --> 00:12:58,644
I was walking to Savoy. Yeah.

331
00:12:58,644 --> 00:13:00,579
And there's a huge line for the bunker.

332
00:13:00,579 --> 00:13:02,181
Okay. All of a. Sudden, I hear. Mr.

333
00:13:02,181 --> 00:13:03,215
Feeney, Mr.

334
00:13:03,215 --> 00:13:03,849
Feeney.

335
00:13:03,849 --> 00:13:06,485
Two of my former fifth graders. Whoa!

336
00:13:06,485 --> 00:13:10,189
Dominic and Kayla come running up to me.

337
00:13:10,222 --> 00:13:11,090
Yeah.

338
00:13:11,090 --> 00:13:12,625
Mr. Feeney, we had to say hi.

339
00:13:12,625 --> 00:13:15,628
Yeah, I'm. Like, you're out. Like,

340
00:13:15,828 --> 00:13:17,563
if they were ten, 12 years ago.

341
00:13:17,563 --> 00:13:19,098
There you go. They're out and about.

342
00:13:19,098 --> 00:13:19,498
Yeah.

343
00:13:19,498 --> 00:13:22,601
It might be tough for you to walk around
going to local gyms and.

344
00:13:22,668 --> 00:13:25,504
Yeah, yeah,
you get seen everywhere. I'm sure.

345
00:13:25,504 --> 00:13:29,809
Just yesterday I'm 46, so I had my first
ever going to talk about it.

346
00:13:29,809 --> 00:13:30,876
But colonoscopy.

347
00:13:30,876 --> 00:13:32,411
Oh I knew I was.

348
00:13:32,411 --> 00:13:32,945
Going to have to.

349
00:13:32,945 --> 00:13:33,946
You said 46.

350
00:13:33,946 --> 00:13:35,714
And then all of a sudden I hear Feeney.

351
00:13:35,714 --> 00:13:37,183
Oh, geez.

352
00:13:37,183 --> 00:13:40,186
The nurse assistant or tech assistant
goes.

353
00:13:40,186 --> 00:13:41,453
Yeah, hey.

354
00:13:41,453 --> 00:13:45,724
I played Cards Against Humanity
with you at John Scripps House.

355
00:13:45,724 --> 00:13:46,158
Get out.

356
00:13:46,158 --> 00:13:51,797
And I'm like, it's my good friend
John's cousin Todd's wife, Erin.

357
00:13:51,831 --> 00:13:54,733
Okay. Probably
breaking all types of hip or loose.

358
00:13:56,302 --> 00:13:57,803
I'm like, tell script.

359
00:13:57,803 --> 00:13:59,205
Yeah, but I was just like.

360
00:13:59,205 --> 00:14:01,140
Like you said,
that was just a funny connection.

361
00:14:01,140 --> 00:14:04,210
That wasn't a former student,
but it was just like, I'm

362
00:14:04,210 --> 00:14:08,147
trying to get a call, and I'm like,
the day before is like, not fun.

363
00:14:08,147 --> 00:14:10,482
Yeah, I've heard. You're going under some.

364
00:14:10,482 --> 00:14:13,319
All my mind is like,
you know, you're kind of nervous about.

365
00:14:13,319 --> 00:14:16,055
Going under, but.

366
00:14:16,055 --> 00:14:17,489
It worked out good.

367
00:14:17,489 --> 00:14:17,957
I'm here.

368
00:14:17,957 --> 00:14:20,693
I'm just helping is good. Yeah,
I try to work out.

369
00:14:20,693 --> 00:14:23,162
I know you work out. Yeah, yeah,
a little bit.

370
00:14:23,162 --> 00:14:24,530
What are you putting up?

371
00:14:24,530 --> 00:14:25,631
Oh, geez.

372
00:14:25,631 --> 00:14:27,032
What do you deadlift? Bench?

373
00:14:27,032 --> 00:14:27,900
Everything.

374
00:14:27,900 --> 00:14:30,236
I don't deadlift much, but I could bench.

375
00:14:30,236 --> 00:14:30,903
The bench.

376
00:14:30,903 --> 00:14:32,304
Yeah. Bench.

377
00:14:32,304 --> 00:14:34,740
I like bench in three, 15, 315.

378
00:14:34,740 --> 00:14:36,242
Yeah. That's fun.

379
00:14:36,242 --> 00:14:37,309
It comes and goes though,

380
00:14:37,309 --> 00:14:40,079
you know, sometimes the shoulders hurt
and you can't even put up.

381
00:14:40,079 --> 00:14:43,082
I just do 135 the other day. Yeah. Twice.

382
00:14:43,082 --> 00:14:44,483
Try to 184.

383
00:14:44,483 --> 00:14:45,751
That did more than that.

384
00:14:45,751 --> 00:14:48,387
I try to do 185 and I got.

385
00:14:48,387 --> 00:14:51,690
A little has it this big sky
that we've come across each other where.

386
00:14:51,690 --> 00:14:53,659
Yeah I go to the JC.

387
00:14:53,659 --> 00:14:55,694
Yeah. I see your stories.

388
00:14:55,694 --> 00:14:57,663
Oh that's what I'm referring to.

389
00:14:57,663 --> 00:14:59,698
I thought I. Walked years ago, I thought.

390
00:14:59,698 --> 00:15:01,967
Maybe the edge.
You ever go to the edge? Yeah. Yeah okay.

391
00:15:01,967 --> 00:15:03,269
I went to the edge for two weeks.

392
00:15:03,269 --> 00:15:06,005
JC is great. Too. Yes. Yeah.

393
00:15:06,005 --> 00:15:07,706
You like to JC you want to try it?

394
00:15:07,706 --> 00:15:09,341
We did I probably will.

395
00:15:09,341 --> 00:15:10,709
Yeah. Three week. Pass. Yeah.

396
00:15:10,709 --> 00:15:13,479
Got an awesome thank you man. Yeah.

397
00:15:14,446 --> 00:15:17,149
Now I've been playing basketball there
for 16 years.

398
00:15:17,149 --> 00:15:19,218
Every Wednesday I just became a member.

399
00:15:19,218 --> 00:15:20,052
It's amazing.

400
00:15:20,052 --> 00:15:23,589
Swimming,
working out sauna, you big sauna guy.

401
00:15:23,622 --> 00:15:25,724
Yeah. I love the song.

402
00:15:25,724 --> 00:15:27,092
Like that changes your whole day.

403
00:15:27,092 --> 00:15:29,795
Oh, yeah? Yeah. Saunas are amazing.

404
00:15:29,795 --> 00:15:32,631
And then if you can follow that up
with a cold shower.

405
00:15:32,631 --> 00:15:34,233
Yeah. Like a. Contrast. Yeah.

406
00:15:34,233 --> 00:15:36,535
You're on top of the world.
So I'm floating for the rest of the.

407
00:15:36,535 --> 00:15:37,937
Cold plunge in the backyard.

408
00:15:37,937 --> 00:15:40,940
But it's been frozen
solid for like, a month.

409
00:15:41,340 --> 00:15:42,541
I've been able to use.

410
00:15:42,541 --> 00:15:45,377
It, but the cold plunge gets you going.
Yeah, yeah.

411
00:15:45,377 --> 00:15:46,612
Do you go all the way under?

412
00:15:46,612 --> 00:15:48,380
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
You start all the way under.

413
00:15:48,380 --> 00:15:52,017
I mean, I can't fit all the way under,
but I try.

414
00:15:52,151 --> 00:15:53,319
Do you have the tub or like.

415
00:15:53,319 --> 00:15:53,852
I get.

416
00:15:53,852 --> 00:15:56,822
A little Amazon inflatable. One.

417
00:15:57,056 --> 00:15:58,490
Yeah. Yeah.

418
00:15:58,490 --> 00:16:00,459
And it's outside. So that's, that's.

419
00:16:01,760 --> 00:16:03,929
That's the worst part is getting out.

420
00:16:03,929 --> 00:16:04,730
Oh yeah. Yeah.

421
00:16:04,730 --> 00:16:07,399
So you got to try float 41.

422
00:16:07,399 --> 00:16:10,135
Yes. Over by target. Right over it.

423
00:16:10,135 --> 00:16:10,970
Right over here. Yeah.

424
00:16:10,970 --> 00:16:13,339
But there's one in Cromwell
called float 41.

425
00:16:13,339 --> 00:16:15,541
Exhale where you do the sauna.

426
00:16:15,541 --> 00:16:18,243
Cold plunge. Yeah.
And you do a rotation. Sauna.

427
00:16:18,243 --> 00:16:20,379
Cool plunge on. It's, contrast therapy.

428
00:16:20,379 --> 00:16:21,513
Fire and ice.

429
00:16:21,513 --> 00:16:22,648
Sarah is great.

430
00:16:22,648 --> 00:16:24,049
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431
00:16:24,049 --> 00:16:25,517
Okay, Send her your way.

432
00:16:25,517 --> 00:16:28,320
But again, you feel like
you could run a marathon after that.

433
00:16:28,320 --> 00:16:31,857
Yeah, because, you know,
you do, like, ten minutes in the sauna.

434
00:16:32,725 --> 00:16:33,959
You know, I work my way up.

435
00:16:33,959 --> 00:16:35,794
I do, like,
two minutes in the cold plunge.

436
00:16:35,794 --> 00:16:38,564
And the next round,
I could get to, like, 3 or 4. Yeah.

437
00:16:38,564 --> 00:16:41,133
And then the following round,
I'm like five now.

438
00:16:41,133 --> 00:16:45,070
Is it called the float chamber
where it's totally dark in there.

439
00:16:45,304 --> 00:16:47,239
So that's. Yeah, that's.

440
00:16:47,239 --> 00:16:49,274
They have that as well.
They have that one over here.

441
00:16:49,274 --> 00:16:49,942
Have you done that?

442
00:16:49,942 --> 00:16:51,210
Oh yeah, I love that.

443
00:16:51,210 --> 00:16:52,778
That turns you on. Interested?

444
00:16:52,778 --> 00:16:54,780
That turns you off in like.

445
00:16:54,780 --> 00:16:56,915
The when you say turn it off means like.

446
00:16:56,915 --> 00:16:59,385
Like we have so much. Yeah.
We have so much on our mind.

447
00:16:59,385 --> 00:17:00,352
We're so busy.

448
00:17:00,352 --> 00:17:00,853
Yeah.

449
00:17:00,853 --> 00:17:05,557
It allows you to just decompress
and just think about nothing and flow.

450
00:17:05,557 --> 00:17:08,160
And it puts your body
at the most natural position.

451
00:17:08,160 --> 00:17:10,729
The arch in your neck and back,
like you get out.

452
00:17:10,729 --> 00:17:12,331
You feel taller. Yeah.

453
00:17:12,331 --> 00:17:13,899
And your spine feels straight.

454
00:17:13,899 --> 00:17:16,201
It's better than I think
is better than a chiropractor.

455
00:17:16,201 --> 00:17:17,803
I think that's, you know,
who goes over there?

456
00:17:17,803 --> 00:17:20,005
Dan Hurley. Oh, yeah.
Over there once a month.

457
00:17:20,005 --> 00:17:22,007
Because you see him, he's all fired
up. Yeah.

458
00:17:22,007 --> 00:17:23,175
That he needs to flow.

459
00:17:23,175 --> 00:17:23,842
Yeah.

460
00:17:23,842 --> 00:17:26,311
If anyone needs a float Dan Hurley float.

461
00:17:26,311 --> 00:17:28,881
And he shouted them out
one time at a like a press.

462
00:17:28,881 --> 00:17:31,784
Did some reporters asking me who's.
You know what I need?

463
00:17:31,784 --> 00:17:34,686
I need to get to float 41 to float.
Oh, wow.

464
00:17:34,686 --> 00:17:35,888
So it was like a good little.

465
00:17:35,888 --> 00:17:37,489
Awesome shout. Out for. Her.

466
00:17:37,489 --> 00:17:39,391
I've always been interested
in doing that. Yeah.

467
00:17:39,391 --> 00:17:41,827
So I've actually they do a 60 and a 90.

468
00:17:43,095 --> 00:17:44,363
Minutes. Yes.

469
00:17:44,363 --> 00:17:47,099
So the first time you're like 60
is way too long, right? Yeah.

470
00:17:47,099 --> 00:17:50,436
It's by the time
because the first time you're like,

471
00:17:50,702 --> 00:17:53,539
I got to get comfortable, you can float.

472
00:17:53,539 --> 00:17:55,574
There's so much salt in the water.

473
00:17:55,574 --> 00:17:57,543
10,000 pounds of salt. Yeah.

474
00:17:57,543 --> 00:17:58,177
You're buoyant.

475
00:17:58,177 --> 00:17:59,478
Like you could float.

476
00:17:59,478 --> 00:18:02,481
You can go, I t you can go across the mat.

477
00:18:02,714 --> 00:18:03,882
You're just floating.

478
00:18:03,882 --> 00:18:06,418
And you, you can hit the sides.

479
00:18:06,418 --> 00:18:07,653
It's like. Yeah, dark.

480
00:18:07,653 --> 00:18:09,555
You get music, no music.

481
00:18:09,555 --> 00:18:13,292
You could get a little donut
for your head, which is like a pillow.

482
00:18:13,859 --> 00:18:16,428
And you're just floating. It's so calm.

483
00:18:16,428 --> 00:18:19,765
But then like I said, by the time
I'm like I found it, I was like

484
00:18:20,432 --> 00:18:23,435
the lights went on, 60 minutes were up
and I was like all right.

485
00:18:23,469 --> 00:18:24,169
Okay.

486
00:18:24,169 --> 00:18:26,371
So the next time I'm like,
all right let me try 90. Yeah.

487
00:18:27,339 --> 00:18:28,707
Or was really cool.

488
00:18:28,707 --> 00:18:32,411
I went in with my wife because they have
you could coed float.

489
00:18:32,411 --> 00:18:34,913
Sure. So she felt comfortable.

490
00:18:34,913 --> 00:18:36,849
She said that like knowing that you're
there.

491
00:18:36,849 --> 00:18:39,751
Felt made me feel a little more. Relaxed
I get that. Yeah.

492
00:18:39,751 --> 00:18:43,689
So she actually enjoyed it because they do
ones that like are an eggshell.

493
00:18:43,689 --> 00:18:44,423
Yeah.

494
00:18:44,423 --> 00:18:47,259
You can pull down one person
and then they got this huge one.

495
00:18:47,259 --> 00:18:49,261
It's like a shower. You walk in and.

496
00:18:49,261 --> 00:18:51,530
It's all. Together and Nicole
and I have done it.

497
00:18:51,530 --> 00:18:52,664
We like that one too.

498
00:18:52,664 --> 00:18:54,666
Yeah. Kind of like,
hold hands a little bit.

499
00:18:54,666 --> 00:18:55,734
Sure, sure. Yes.

500
00:18:55,734 --> 00:18:57,102
Flow again.

501
00:18:57,102 --> 00:18:59,671
Like, then you got, like,
some sort kicking up on your chest

502
00:18:59,671 --> 00:19:02,474
and definitely don't
want to rub your eyes. Yeah.

503
00:19:02,474 --> 00:19:05,010
But then you shower after
and have some kombucha.

504
00:19:05,010 --> 00:19:05,944
It's just a great.

505
00:19:05,944 --> 00:19:07,146
I can't talk about it enough.

506
00:19:07,146 --> 00:19:08,780
It sounds it. Yeah, yeah.

507
00:19:08,780 --> 00:19:11,350
I'm over here, Raven, I flow.
You got me a commercial.

508
00:19:11,350 --> 00:19:12,451
Yeah, yeah.

509
00:19:12,451 --> 00:19:13,152
You should try. It.

510
00:19:13,152 --> 00:19:14,353
Yeah. No, I will be.

511
00:19:14,353 --> 00:19:14,953
I'll.

512
00:19:14,953 --> 00:19:16,255
I'll connect you with Sierra.

513
00:19:16,255 --> 00:19:18,223
She'll take care I appreciate. Good.

514
00:19:18,223 --> 00:19:20,893
Well,
you are master of connections as well.

515
00:19:20,893 --> 00:19:21,827
That's.

516
00:19:21,827 --> 00:19:24,730
I got a lot of friends. Yes you do. Yeah.

517
00:19:24,730 --> 00:19:26,865
So back to your favorite restaurant.

518
00:19:26,865 --> 00:19:27,966
You're AB Rico.

519
00:19:27,966 --> 00:19:28,700
Sure.

520
00:19:28,700 --> 00:19:30,836
You can eat with four guests.

521
00:19:30,836 --> 00:19:33,839
Dead or alive. Jeez. Who you in with?

522
00:19:34,106 --> 00:19:35,207
Oh, boy.

523
00:19:36,375 --> 00:19:39,378
I wasn't ready for that.

524
00:19:40,145 --> 00:19:42,881
Let's see.

525
00:19:42,881 --> 00:19:45,851
Dead or alive, Johnny Cash.

526
00:19:45,851 --> 00:19:47,920
I like it.

527
00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:50,923
Jimi Hendrix.

528
00:19:54,593 --> 00:19:57,596
Boy, Vince Lombardi.

529
00:19:57,829 --> 00:19:59,731
Then where am I going?

530
00:19:59,731 --> 00:20:01,867
Gosh,

531
00:20:01,867 --> 00:20:03,735
Tiger Woods, how are you?

532
00:20:03,735 --> 00:20:04,503
Yeah. All right.

533
00:20:04,503 --> 00:20:06,271
Two athletes, two musicians.

534
00:20:06,271 --> 00:20:08,840
Yeah, yeah, that's very cool.
Some people always do.

535
00:20:08,840 --> 00:20:12,010
Like family member, politician, athlete.

536
00:20:12,811 --> 00:20:13,111
Yeah.

537
00:20:13,111 --> 00:20:15,180
I probably should have thought
of the family, but.

538
00:20:15,180 --> 00:20:17,382
Sorry, guys, we go. For the famous people.

539
00:20:17,382 --> 00:20:19,351
We love it. Vince Meyer,
are you a Packers fan?

540
00:20:19,351 --> 00:20:22,654
No, I'm a Jets fan, but,
my dad is Packers fan.

541
00:20:22,654 --> 00:20:23,288
Gotcha.

542
00:20:23,288 --> 00:20:26,291
And, and they Vince Lombardi
that that would just the

543
00:20:26,391 --> 00:20:29,761
I don't know the personality
that at least it seems he had

544
00:20:29,761 --> 00:20:33,398
would be wild to ask him some questions.

545
00:20:33,532 --> 00:20:35,234
Yeah. Great leader coach

546
00:20:36,401 --> 00:20:37,336
fired up guy.

547
00:20:37,336 --> 00:20:40,539
Yeah yeah Tiger. Woods.
Tiger's an easy one.

548
00:20:40,539 --> 00:20:41,773
Do golf. I do.

549
00:20:41,773 --> 00:20:43,642
Oh not well but I play.

550
00:20:43,642 --> 00:20:45,711
You got to play in the tournament
next year. Yes.

551
00:20:45,711 --> 00:20:47,079
So number. 13.

552
00:20:47,079 --> 00:20:49,681
September 13th. Dogs.

553
00:20:49,681 --> 00:20:50,582
Yeah. We're going to go back to that.

554
00:20:50,582 --> 00:20:53,819
I'm going to shout out some sponsorship
opportunities too because I know

555
00:20:54,653 --> 00:20:56,955
you got a good heart and a good game.

556
00:20:56,955 --> 00:20:58,090
Oh yeah. No.

557
00:20:58,090 --> 00:21:01,126
Yeah we love sponsoring and good things.

558
00:21:01,526 --> 00:21:03,929
Giving back to the community a little bit.

559
00:21:03,929 --> 00:21:06,498
I think last year, Anthony's Bateman

560
00:21:06,498 --> 00:21:10,669
donated just over 30,000, 
to different causes.

561
00:21:10,702 --> 00:21:13,705
Wow. You, Friends of Feeney?

562
00:21:13,705 --> 00:21:14,406
Of course.

563
00:21:14,406 --> 00:21:17,409
Covenant Prep,
which is a school in Hartford.

564
00:21:20,045 --> 00:21:22,447
What else we got going on
Connecticut Children's Hospital?

565
00:21:22,447 --> 00:21:23,882
Always.

566
00:21:23,882 --> 00:21:27,119
That's pretty close to us
because, a lot of the lead

567
00:21:27,119 --> 00:21:29,187
poison kids come through there.

568
00:21:29,187 --> 00:21:32,190
And where the contractors
working in their homes, making them safe.

569
00:21:33,125 --> 00:21:37,195
Geez, I'm forgetting our fourth big one.

570
00:21:37,462 --> 00:21:38,463
But, yeah.

571
00:21:38,463 --> 00:21:39,898
Yeah, Johnny grew up with our.

572
00:21:39,898 --> 00:21:41,366
Yeah. Johnny's job for sure.

573
00:21:41,366 --> 00:21:43,001
Yeah, absolutely.

574
00:21:43,001 --> 00:21:43,235
Yeah.

575
00:21:43,235 --> 00:21:48,240
It's great we collaborate with the Cmbc
or Cmbc now for the sunflower kids.

576
00:21:48,240 --> 00:21:50,442
Yeah, kids that need like that
are there for a while.

577
00:21:50,442 --> 00:21:51,977
They need socks, pajamas.

578
00:21:51,977 --> 00:21:54,980
Yeah, t shirts. We we fundraise for them.

579
00:21:55,247 --> 00:21:58,250
Great program over there, obviously.

580
00:21:58,917 --> 00:22:00,452
Covenant Prep, I just sat down

581
00:22:00,452 --> 00:22:04,056
with Dan Clark and Mike Harlan. Yeah.

582
00:22:04,089 --> 00:22:05,657
Do you know those two?
They're on the board.

583
00:22:05,657 --> 00:22:07,859
Yeah, yeah,
they're on the board. Yeah, interesting.

584
00:22:07,859 --> 00:22:09,628
I just met with them at Rockledge
last week.

585
00:22:09,628 --> 00:22:11,096
Yeah. Great, guys.

586
00:22:11,096 --> 00:22:12,097
Dan Clark's awesome.

587
00:22:12,097 --> 00:22:14,933
And my first time meeting him,
it was wonderful chatting with him, too.

588
00:22:14,933 --> 00:22:17,402
Yeah. Great people.
And that school is awesome.

589
00:22:17,402 --> 00:22:19,771
Really I mean thing
what's your. Take on that. One?

590
00:22:19,771 --> 00:22:22,040
It's incredible.
You know, you're giving kids,

591
00:22:22,040 --> 00:22:24,476
opportunities
that they would never even scratch.

592
00:22:24,476 --> 00:22:28,347
And not only are you giving them
the opportunities, those kids are

593
00:22:28,547 --> 00:22:30,315
taking full advantage of them.

594
00:22:30,315 --> 00:22:35,153
Yeah, and they're going to awesome schools
and these insane careers afterwards.

595
00:22:35,153 --> 00:22:38,090
It's. Yeah. Impact is immeasurable.

596
00:22:38,090 --> 00:22:38,790
Okay.

597
00:22:38,790 --> 00:22:42,961
Yeah, I know they go on to,
they're graduating is 100%,

598
00:22:43,862 --> 00:22:46,198
Avon Old Farms.

599
00:22:46,198 --> 00:22:46,565
Yeah.

600
00:22:46,565 --> 00:22:48,500
Ran Brook Loomis.

601
00:22:48,500 --> 00:22:51,570
Yep. Westminster,
all the. Big high schools.

602
00:22:51,903 --> 00:22:54,206
And then they're going on
to even bigger colleges.

603
00:22:54,206 --> 00:22:55,440
Yeah, they got a Yale.

604
00:22:55,440 --> 00:22:56,875
No, not a Yale kid.

605
00:22:56,875 --> 00:22:58,343
They have I mean, there's bc.

606
00:22:58,343 --> 00:23:01,346
That, oh, throughout the years, they,
they.

607
00:23:01,580 --> 00:23:03,048
Send kids to.

608
00:23:03,048 --> 00:23:05,150
Everywhere.
That's great that you do that. Yeah.

609
00:23:05,150 --> 00:23:06,785
Oh, that's so funny. I just met with them.

610
00:23:07,986 --> 00:23:10,155
Met with Mike and, Ryan last time.

611
00:23:10,155 --> 00:23:10,555
Yeah.

612
00:23:10,555 --> 00:23:11,790
March 15th.

613
00:23:11,790 --> 00:23:14,059
Baseball and bow ties is their event.

614
00:23:14,059 --> 00:23:15,527
You going? Oh, yeah.

615
00:23:15,527 --> 00:23:17,896
I just got invited to that, too.
Yeah, I might be there. All right.

616
00:23:17,896 --> 00:23:19,898
Dan invited me. Yeah. Good, good.

617
00:23:19,898 --> 00:23:21,900
Okay, cool.

618
00:23:21,900 --> 00:23:24,403
And what was the other one? So coven.

619
00:23:24,403 --> 00:23:25,404
Of course.

620
00:23:25,404 --> 00:23:27,339
Was great. Dan. Oh, yeah. Dan's great.

621
00:23:27,339 --> 00:23:30,776
Yeah,
I had Laura and Kelly from Johnny's JAG.

622
00:23:30,776 --> 00:23:31,877
Laura moran. Yeah.

623
00:23:31,877 --> 00:23:34,880
They were a podcast guests,
great friends.

624
00:23:35,747 --> 00:23:38,750
We earned the Shamrock, the Clover Club.

625
00:23:38,750 --> 00:23:42,087
So, Johnny Jug, they donate to Covenant
Prep every year.

626
00:23:42,087 --> 00:23:45,257
Yeah, they do three every year,
and then they pick a fourth one

627
00:23:45,257 --> 00:23:49,728
is which changes and friends of Feeney
was honored a couple of years ago.

628
00:23:49,728 --> 00:23:50,962
Oh. So it was huge.

629
00:23:50,962 --> 00:23:54,299
It was really, 
kind catapulted our organization.

630
00:23:54,299 --> 00:23:56,701
It was our biggest one time
grant ever, so.

631
00:23:56,701 --> 00:23:59,004
Oh, thank you again.
Johnny's job. That's incredible.

632
00:24:00,505 --> 00:24:00,739
Oh, yeah.

633
00:24:00,739 --> 00:24:01,840
Let's talk golf.

634
00:24:01,840 --> 00:24:04,843
So golf that September 13th,

635
00:24:05,277 --> 00:24:07,712
we want to thank

636
00:24:07,712 --> 00:24:08,180
golfs.

637
00:24:08,180 --> 00:24:10,382
Already doing some merch.

638
00:24:10,382 --> 00:24:12,884
Keating agency is sponsoring the beer,

639
00:24:12,884 --> 00:24:16,388
and Fuchs Financial is sponsoring a whole
those already.

640
00:24:16,388 --> 00:24:19,291
We have a couple people that,

641
00:24:19,291 --> 00:24:22,294
have sponsored.

642
00:24:22,661 --> 00:24:24,296
You got to get out and golf.

643
00:24:24,296 --> 00:24:25,297
I know it.

644
00:24:25,297 --> 00:24:28,800
Let me just look up some things because
I want to shout out some opportunities.

645
00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:32,704
We got a but a $10,000 one is like the,

646
00:24:35,540 --> 00:24:36,675
what is it called?

647
00:24:36,675 --> 00:24:39,211
Oh, shoot. I'm going to check it out.
Sorry. Excuse me.

648
00:24:39,211 --> 00:24:40,111
Yeah, pull that up.

649
00:24:40,111 --> 00:24:43,114
We'll definitely be attending
that event and sponsoring.

650
00:24:43,148 --> 00:24:44,249
Nice. Again.

651
00:24:44,249 --> 00:24:47,385
Once again, you know, we got a pretty good

652
00:24:47,385 --> 00:24:50,388
little four person squad put together.

653
00:24:50,388 --> 00:24:52,891
We just we're coming off a win
from the West Hartford Chamber.

654
00:24:52,891 --> 00:24:54,860
So you want. It. Yeah. Oh wow.

655
00:24:54,860 --> 00:24:57,696
Yeah I had nothing to do with me.
But I had good team members.

656
00:24:59,130 --> 00:24:59,397
Oh yeah.

657
00:24:59,397 --> 00:25:01,900
Keating. Look at that. Keating
and Fuchs are already on there.

658
00:25:01,900 --> 00:25:04,236
So you get your web,
you get your logo on the website.

659
00:25:04,236 --> 00:25:07,239
Yeah.

660
00:25:07,339 --> 00:25:09,608
Golf law group presenting sponsor.

661
00:25:09,608 --> 00:25:12,043
So you get the foursome, you get,

662
00:25:12,043 --> 00:25:14,713
when everyone puts their scoring,
you get your logo on the app.

663
00:25:14,713 --> 00:25:17,148
Yeah. Signage everywhere.

664
00:25:17,148 --> 00:25:20,085
Cocktail hour sponsorship,

665
00:25:20,085 --> 00:25:23,188
T-shirt
sponsorship, exclusive whole sponsorship.

666
00:25:23,188 --> 00:25:26,191
You could set up a table hole in one

667
00:25:26,458 --> 00:25:27,626
closest to the pin.

668
00:25:27,626 --> 00:25:29,794
All in one longest drive.

669
00:25:29,794 --> 00:25:30,595
Beer sponsor.

670
00:25:30,595 --> 00:25:32,063
Just mulligan sponsorship.

671
00:25:32,063 --> 00:25:33,632
So everyone buys the mulligans.

672
00:25:33,632 --> 00:25:36,167
Yeah, we have, like, this cute kid
that goes around selling them.

673
00:25:36,167 --> 00:25:37,469
I almost didn't do it last year.

674
00:25:37,469 --> 00:25:40,171
We raised 400 bucks off the mulligan. Wow.

675
00:25:40,171 --> 00:25:43,141
But then people are like,
people abuse it or use too many.

676
00:25:43,141 --> 00:25:44,042
Well, yeah. Enough.

677
00:25:44,042 --> 00:25:46,111
But I'm a culprit of that.

678
00:25:46,111 --> 00:25:48,079
I'll buy
as many mulligans as I can. Afford.

679
00:25:49,080 --> 00:25:50,282
To sign sponsor.

680
00:25:50,282 --> 00:25:53,285
So these are some really wonderful
opportunities to get involved.

681
00:25:53,685 --> 00:25:54,753
And again, thank you again.

682
00:25:54,753 --> 00:25:57,522
I know you will sponsor
you sponsored last course.

683
00:25:57,522 --> 00:25:58,290
Yeah.

684
00:25:58,290 --> 00:25:59,024
Without a doubt.

685
00:25:59,024 --> 00:26:01,259
Will be sponsor
and some presenting sponsor.

686
00:26:01,259 --> 00:26:04,829
Yeah a couple of these come with foursomes
like the cocktail hour sponsor.

687
00:26:05,397 --> 00:26:07,132
Shout out to King of Dings.

688
00:26:07,132 --> 00:26:10,135
There are our t pin,

689
00:26:10,268 --> 00:26:13,672
pin flags, pin flag
sponsors and lunch sponsors.

690
00:26:14,105 --> 00:26:14,706
Excellent.

691
00:26:14,706 --> 00:26:16,007
His wife was pregnant last year,

692
00:26:16,007 --> 00:26:18,243
and he's, like, around the turn,
there was no lunch.

693
00:26:18,243 --> 00:26:20,612
She's like, you know what? I'm hungry.

694
00:26:20,612 --> 00:26:22,013
Next year I'm sponsoring lunch.

695
00:26:22,013 --> 00:26:23,415
Oh, I love like you're the man.

696
00:26:23,415 --> 00:26:25,283
Yeah, you're the man.

697
00:26:25,283 --> 00:26:27,752
Very good.

698
00:26:27,752 --> 00:26:28,420
Yeah.

699
00:26:28,420 --> 00:26:30,622
And you mentioned key Keating agency.

700
00:26:30,622 --> 00:26:33,758
I've known the Keating since I was a kid.

701
00:26:33,758 --> 00:26:35,627
Oh, I went to school with Kevin.

702
00:26:35,627 --> 00:26:37,796
Ryan's a little older and,

703
00:26:38,930 --> 00:26:39,731
more, I

704
00:26:39,731 --> 00:26:42,734
mean, I hung out with them
almost every day of school.

705
00:26:42,934 --> 00:26:45,103
Really? Cool. Yeah, yeah.

706
00:26:45,103 --> 00:26:49,174
The. As a nonprofit,
we need directors and officer insurance.

707
00:26:49,174 --> 00:26:50,809
I use Keating. Yep.

708
00:26:50,809 --> 00:26:52,077
They have sponsor.

709
00:26:52,077 --> 00:26:54,846
They sponsor the podcast.
Shout out to the Keatings.

710
00:26:54,846 --> 00:26:58,917
I had Ryan Keating on episode 23 because
he was the Michael Jordan of insurance.

711
00:26:59,017 --> 00:27:00,018
Okay, good.

712
00:27:00,018 --> 00:27:03,154
I want big Mike

713
00:27:03,154 --> 00:27:06,191
just sponsored the cocktail today, so.

714
00:27:06,191 --> 00:27:08,526
Oh, thank you, Mike Keating agency.

715
00:27:08,526 --> 00:27:09,260
Good guy.

716
00:27:09,260 --> 00:27:10,295
And Matt already put it up.

717
00:27:10,295 --> 00:27:12,964
Do you already got the Keating logo
on the website?

718
00:27:12,964 --> 00:27:14,599
And it's got to play around.

719
00:27:14,599 --> 00:27:17,002
I say you got a great team. Great team.

720
00:27:17,002 --> 00:27:18,837
That's Matt and Jen.

721
00:27:18,837 --> 00:27:20,972
This is Anthony.

722
00:27:20,972 --> 00:27:21,873
We're talking them into it.

723
00:27:21,873 --> 00:27:23,975
We're trying to get them
to be the presenting sponsor

724
00:27:23,975 --> 00:27:26,044
or the cocktail sponsor. Yep.

725
00:27:26,044 --> 00:27:27,045
He's greasing the wheels.

726
00:27:27,045 --> 00:27:28,813
It's freezing it up grease. No.

727
00:27:30,915 --> 00:27:31,750
So back to it.

728
00:27:31,750 --> 00:27:33,184
What?

729
00:27:33,184 --> 00:27:34,252
Anthony's abatement.

730
00:27:34,252 --> 00:27:37,255
So where'd you get the inspiration

731
00:27:37,255 --> 00:27:40,592
to create this organization and company?

732
00:27:40,592 --> 00:27:42,727
And where did you learn about it?

733
00:27:42,727 --> 00:27:45,296
Yeah, I'm. Interested
as being a third grade teacher.

734
00:27:45,296 --> 00:27:46,765
You can have any job in the world.

735
00:27:46,765 --> 00:27:47,432
Yeah, and.

736
00:27:47,432 --> 00:27:49,834
Your job is
you want to take care of people's houses

737
00:27:49,834 --> 00:27:53,672
and make sure it's clean, efficient,
and you're concerned about kids.

738
00:27:53,672 --> 00:27:56,675
I love that, absolutely. So,

739
00:27:57,342 --> 00:27:59,177
the inspiration started when I was a kid.

740
00:27:59,177 --> 00:28:03,448
My dad owned his own electrical business,
and I wanted to be just like him.

741
00:28:03,481 --> 00:28:06,484
I didn't know what it was going to be,
but I wanted to be a business owner.

742
00:28:07,085 --> 00:28:10,588
That blossomed into

743
00:28:11,523 --> 00:28:14,826
starting my first company,
which we did only commercial stuff.

744
00:28:15,293 --> 00:28:18,563
And I didn't love that because there was
no real connection with the clients.

745
00:28:18,563 --> 00:28:22,500
It was, you know, the lowest bidder eats,
and that's it.

746
00:28:22,500 --> 00:28:25,203
Get the job done as fast as you can
for as cheap as you can.

747
00:28:25,203 --> 00:28:26,404
Keep it moving.

748
00:28:26,404 --> 00:28:30,575
So I didn't have any really, like,
fulfillment through that.

749
00:28:31,242 --> 00:28:35,947
So I, I broke off from that company,
I started Anthony's abatement,

750
00:28:35,947 --> 00:28:39,517
and we only attacked the residential,
which is what I cared about.

751
00:28:40,251 --> 00:28:44,055
And, I knew there was a lot of

752
00:28:45,290 --> 00:28:47,225
holes in the industry,

753
00:28:47,225 --> 00:28:51,963
so I, we tried to take advantage of those
and provide the level of customer service

754
00:28:51,963 --> 00:28:55,767
that you would get from your Hvac guy
or your carpenter

755
00:28:55,767 --> 00:28:59,337
or your kitchen remodeler
that didn't really exist in our industry.

756
00:28:59,337 --> 00:29:02,040
So I tried to bring that to the forefront.

757
00:29:02,040 --> 00:29:07,112
And, you know, seemed to it seemed to
work out based off referrals and stuff.

758
00:29:07,112 --> 00:29:09,314
So once we got some traction,

759
00:29:09,314 --> 00:29:12,283
then we were able to market
like a real business.

760
00:29:12,283 --> 00:29:13,818
And now we're here.

761
00:29:13,818 --> 00:29:14,519
That's awesome.

762
00:29:14,519 --> 00:29:16,855
Yeah, it's kind of it.

763
00:29:16,855 --> 00:29:19,190
You know, growth is always on our horizon.

764
00:29:19,190 --> 00:29:21,192
We're never going to stop growing.

765
00:29:21,192 --> 00:29:23,361
And,

766
00:29:23,361 --> 00:29:26,364
like I said,
our mission is just try to make as many,

767
00:29:27,332 --> 00:29:31,536
healthy buildings
and homes and schools as we can, you know?

768
00:29:32,670 --> 00:29:33,138
Very cool.

769
00:29:33,138 --> 00:29:34,405
Where'd you come up with the logo?

770
00:29:34,405 --> 00:29:36,174
I like that the. Logo is great.

771
00:29:36,174 --> 00:29:40,445
So, the inspiration from
that was a company

772
00:29:40,445 --> 00:29:43,448
in the UK called the UK Asbestos Fighters.

773
00:29:43,815 --> 00:29:47,986
So they have like a whole action
figure of a guy soaring through the air.

774
00:29:48,586 --> 00:29:51,422
And, I had a graphic designer just.

775
00:29:51,422 --> 00:29:53,691
I was like, look, I like this.

776
00:29:53,691 --> 00:29:56,060
Give me something similar,
but just the head.

777
00:29:56,060 --> 00:29:57,695
And he came up with that.

778
00:29:57,695 --> 00:30:00,398
And, 
yeah, that gets a lot of good feedback.

779
00:30:00,398 --> 00:30:03,401
Yeah. That's cool. Yeah, yeah,

780
00:30:03,601 --> 00:30:05,270
yeah. That reminds me of G.I. Joe.

781
00:30:05,270 --> 00:30:08,173
The logo was great.
Yeah, G.I. Joe was giving up G.I. Joe.

782
00:30:08,173 --> 00:30:11,576
But we get a lot of,
Are you a firefighter?

783
00:30:11,810 --> 00:30:16,014
Just because of the way our our shirt is
and the badge and the placement of.

784
00:30:16,014 --> 00:30:17,015
Not yet, but. Yeah.

785
00:30:17,015 --> 00:30:18,583
No, the logo sticks.

786
00:30:18,583 --> 00:30:20,451
Oh, I. Definitely yeah, we got lucky.

787
00:30:20,451 --> 00:30:21,719
That was like one hit wonder.

788
00:30:22,720 --> 00:30:22,954
Yeah.

789
00:30:22,954 --> 00:30:26,024
First try, first proof. Boom. Nailed it.

790
00:30:26,524 --> 00:30:28,326
Very cool. Yeah, yeah.

791
00:30:28,326 --> 00:30:31,329
And then is your dad's still working?

792
00:30:31,462 --> 00:30:32,096
He is.

793
00:30:32,096 --> 00:30:35,099
He is the, building official
for the city of Hartford.

794
00:30:35,600 --> 00:30:35,900
Yeah.

795
00:30:35,900 --> 00:30:39,637
He, he stopped working with his hands.

796
00:30:40,438 --> 00:30:42,473
Oh, I say like, 7 or 8 years ago.

797
00:30:42,473 --> 00:30:44,509
Became an inspector
for the city of Hartford.

798
00:30:44,509 --> 00:30:47,579
And then, you know, he
he works his butt off.

799
00:30:47,579 --> 00:30:50,348
So he worked his way up and.

800
00:30:50,348 --> 00:30:54,018
Yeah, now he's trying
to, make it super efficient.

801
00:30:54,219 --> 00:30:56,554
Permits, inspections, stuff like that.

802
00:30:56,554 --> 00:30:58,189
It's a tough it's tough spot.

803
00:30:58,189 --> 00:31:00,692
Yeah. You know. There's so much quantity.

804
00:31:00,692 --> 00:31:02,594
Does he check in on restaurants
or is that.

805
00:31:02,594 --> 00:31:04,863
No fire marshal stuff? Yeah. That's true.

806
00:31:04,863 --> 00:31:07,632
I think that's more like,
health department. Health department?

807
00:31:07,632 --> 00:31:07,999
Yeah.

808
00:31:07,999 --> 00:31:10,668
No, he's like,
code of the building permit.

809
00:31:10,668 --> 00:31:11,269
Gotcha.

810
00:31:11,269 --> 00:31:13,671
How's the project looking? Inspection.

811
00:31:13,671 --> 00:31:14,606
Final inspection.

812
00:31:14,606 --> 00:31:17,942
Rough in and, Yeah, yeah.

813
00:31:18,209 --> 00:31:20,245
So he's got that place home and now.

814
00:31:20,245 --> 00:31:22,380
Nice. Yeah. Yeah, he's a good guy.

815
00:31:23,915 --> 00:31:25,984
Yeah.

816
00:31:25,984 --> 00:31:26,985
All right, so our motto.

817
00:31:26,985 --> 00:31:28,386
Be a good friend,

818
00:31:28,386 --> 00:31:32,023
you know, hold the door, pick up trash,
give a compliment, be charitable.

819
00:31:32,190 --> 00:31:33,124
Yeah, I know your dad.

820
00:31:33,124 --> 00:31:36,127
But what makes your dad a good friend
or a good dad?

821
00:31:36,594 --> 00:31:39,030
That guy

822
00:31:39,030 --> 00:31:42,033
care so much about people.

823
00:31:42,133 --> 00:31:44,335
And it goes from people that he knows

824
00:31:44,335 --> 00:31:47,338
extremely well to people
that he doesn't know at all.

825
00:31:48,072 --> 00:31:50,308
I mean,

826
00:31:50,308 --> 00:31:51,576
just because of the weather.

827
00:31:51,576 --> 00:31:54,579
Lately
I've been thinking about when I used to,

828
00:31:55,113 --> 00:31:57,715
snow blow with him and

829
00:31:57,715 --> 00:32:00,385
I would hate the fact
that we'd have to walk down

830
00:32:00,385 --> 00:32:03,988
and do our neighbor's driveway three doors
down.

831
00:32:03,988 --> 00:32:06,524
And, yeah, I we finished an hour ago.

832
00:32:06,524 --> 00:32:08,092
Why are we still going?

833
00:32:08,092 --> 00:32:10,795
Why are we cleaning people's
aprons and sidewalks?

834
00:32:10,795 --> 00:32:13,932
And why are we driving to all
the grandparents doing their driveways?

835
00:32:13,932 --> 00:32:15,600
And why can't they get something to do?

836
00:32:15,600 --> 00:32:19,203
Now? I see the value of that.

837
00:32:19,704 --> 00:32:21,439
So he was just helping everyone

838
00:32:22,740 --> 00:32:25,376
and in his business

839
00:32:25,376 --> 00:32:28,279
he helped people

840
00:32:28,279 --> 00:32:30,014
so much that it

841
00:32:30,014 --> 00:32:33,518
probably was to a fault where he didn't
grow it the way he could.

842
00:32:34,519 --> 00:32:38,756
So that instilled in me,
okay, that's people before profits.

843
00:32:39,357 --> 00:32:40,825
And it's pretty simple.

844
00:32:40,825 --> 00:32:44,329
And to be totally honest with you,
I didn't even realize I was doing it.

845
00:32:44,329 --> 00:32:47,598
It was kind of subconscious,
but it was just built into me through him.

846
00:32:48,333 --> 00:32:50,401
So why is he a good friend?

847
00:32:50,401 --> 00:32:53,037
He helps everyone he sees.

848
00:32:53,037 --> 00:32:54,872
Yeah. Very cool.

849
00:32:54,872 --> 00:32:56,274
I'm lucky to be his son.

850
00:32:56,274 --> 00:32:58,843
That's awesome. Well, many are we?
I to remember that.

851
00:32:58,843 --> 00:32:59,744
That's a good one.

852
00:32:59,744 --> 00:33:01,746
Four minutes, 34 minutes.

853
00:33:01,746 --> 00:33:02,780
Shout out to. Pops.

854
00:33:02,780 --> 00:33:05,183
Shout out to pops.
What's his name right now?

855
00:33:05,183 --> 00:33:07,218
Well, outdoor male.

856
00:33:07,218 --> 00:33:09,487
Alto or male. Good guy. Yeah.

857
00:33:09,487 --> 00:33:11,289
And mom's great too.

858
00:33:11,289 --> 00:33:14,058
Gross. She's awesome. She's done.

859
00:33:14,058 --> 00:33:17,628
I think she's going on her 40th year
at Saint Francis Hospital.

860
00:33:18,062 --> 00:33:19,263
Yeah.

861
00:33:19,263 --> 00:33:21,532
She started, and met

862
00:33:21,532 --> 00:33:25,436
my dad and dietary and, worked their way

863
00:33:25,436 --> 00:33:28,673
up to, like, medical secretary
and to pack you and everything.

864
00:33:28,673 --> 00:33:31,843
And shout out to mom, too,
because she's the backbone of everything.

865
00:33:32,210 --> 00:33:33,911
Rose and al. Yeah.

866
00:33:33,911 --> 00:33:34,712
Yep. That's right.

867
00:33:34,712 --> 00:33:37,015
Brothers or sisters? Yeah. Two sisters.

868
00:33:37,015 --> 00:33:37,648
Two sisters.

869
00:33:37,648 --> 00:33:38,116
I'm lucky.

870
00:33:38,116 --> 00:33:39,350
I got a great family.

871
00:33:39,350 --> 00:33:41,753
And Jean Elena.

872
00:33:41,753 --> 00:33:43,388
Elena's a teacher.

873
00:33:43,388 --> 00:33:48,292
And Angela is,
working at Connecticut Children's,

874
00:33:49,027 --> 00:33:52,030
as the right hand woman to the CFO.

875
00:33:52,196 --> 00:33:56,768
And, I mean, I don't know anyone
with more drive and work ethic than and

876
00:33:57,101 --> 00:34:00,338
and I don't know anyone smarter
than my little sister Elaine.

877
00:34:00,938 --> 00:34:02,673
What school system?

878
00:34:02,673 --> 00:34:05,176
So she gc killing me. Now.

879
00:34:05,176 --> 00:34:06,644
I should remember this.

880
00:34:06,644 --> 00:34:08,079
I want to say it's Thomaston.

881
00:34:08,079 --> 00:34:10,681
Okay. Yeah. God, I hope I get that right.

882
00:34:10,681 --> 00:34:12,750
We got that up. I did. Yeah, of course.

883
00:34:14,218 --> 00:34:14,819
Let me know out.

884
00:34:14,819 --> 00:34:15,653
Yeah. She's great.

885
00:34:15,653 --> 00:34:18,456
Middle school, social studies.

886
00:34:18,456 --> 00:34:19,457
Nice again.

887
00:34:19,457 --> 00:34:21,125
She just cares so much.

888
00:34:21,125 --> 00:34:23,061
And I am sure you can relate to this.

889
00:34:23,061 --> 00:34:24,262
Being a teacher.

890
00:34:24,262 --> 00:34:27,265
You know, I've told her,

891
00:34:28,066 --> 00:34:31,836
regrettably,
I was like, Elaina, you're too smart.

892
00:34:31,836 --> 00:34:33,838
You should be a superintendent. You you.

893
00:34:33,838 --> 00:34:36,007
I see so much potential in her.

894
00:34:36,007 --> 00:34:39,210
And she brings you back down to earth,
and she's like Anthony, I don't care.

895
00:34:39,210 --> 00:34:42,080
I want to impact a kid's day to day.

896
00:34:42,080 --> 00:34:42,747
Yeah. No. Yeah.

897
00:34:42,747 --> 00:34:45,583
It took me a while to get that
when I was in my mid 20s, I.

898
00:34:45,583 --> 00:34:46,617
Elaina, what are you doing?

899
00:34:46,617 --> 00:34:48,219
You can move up, move up, move up.

900
00:34:48,219 --> 00:34:50,555
She's like that's not my motive.

901
00:34:50,555 --> 00:34:53,391
But now, you know, I get it.

902
00:34:53,391 --> 00:34:55,560
It makes sense. Nice. And she's great at.

903
00:34:56,494 --> 00:34:57,695
The Tamayo family.

904
00:34:57,695 --> 00:34:59,263
Yeah, yeah.

905
00:34:59,263 --> 00:35:00,298
That's really good. Yeah.

906
00:35:00,298 --> 00:35:02,633
Very cool. We're pretty fortunate. Yep.

907
00:35:02,633 --> 00:35:05,636
Keep up the good work.

908
00:35:05,770 --> 00:35:06,637
Oh, we do a game.

909
00:35:06,637 --> 00:35:08,172
So you're.

910
00:35:08,172 --> 00:35:09,474
I don't know, you know, check your memory.

911
00:35:09,474 --> 00:35:11,876
Your jobs is not good.
My memory is not good.

912
00:35:11,876 --> 00:35:14,312
But go ahead. Your jobs for Anthony's
abatement.

913
00:35:14,312 --> 00:35:19,283
Your first one, your last one,
your best one and your worst one.

914
00:35:19,283 --> 00:35:21,519
It's called first, last, best, worse.

915
00:35:21,519 --> 00:35:23,054
Oh, yeah. Great question.

916
00:35:23,054 --> 00:35:25,323
No banging on the table. All right.

917
00:35:25,323 --> 00:35:26,991
The first job, no shot.

918
00:35:26,991 --> 00:35:29,994
I get this remotely close.

919
00:35:30,194 --> 00:35:32,630
But I do know that Anthony's

920
00:35:32,630 --> 00:35:36,033
abatement started with strictly asbestos,

921
00:35:36,434 --> 00:35:40,138
so I would assume it was definitely
a West Hartford basement.

922
00:35:40,404 --> 00:35:43,808
Removing nine by nine floor
tile and the black glue behind it.

923
00:35:44,709 --> 00:35:49,080
I mean, I'm almost certain it was, 
that was the first one.

924
00:35:49,313 --> 00:35:52,950
Now, if the tiles nine by nine
is automatically asbestos under it, right?

925
00:35:52,984 --> 00:35:56,387
So I can't say automatically,
but nine out of ten times it is

926
00:35:56,921 --> 00:35:59,891
to the point where
if you see a nine inch by nine inch floor

927
00:35:59,891 --> 00:36:03,294
tile, you don't normally
waste the money on sampling it.

928
00:36:03,728 --> 00:36:06,731
You just assume it is
and you treat it like that.

929
00:36:06,764 --> 00:36:10,568
Because like I said,
nine out of ten times it is.

930
00:36:10,568 --> 00:36:13,571
And then the glue under it,
which is black mastic

931
00:36:13,704 --> 00:36:16,741
also is normally hot is what we call it
when into spaces.

932
00:36:16,741 --> 00:36:17,642
It's hot.

933
00:36:17,642 --> 00:36:20,711
Yep. What if it's 12 by 12 by 12?

934
00:36:21,012 --> 00:36:21,646
You got a.

935
00:36:21,646 --> 00:36:24,448
Much better chance of it
not being asbestos. Okay.

936
00:36:24,448 --> 00:36:27,451
But if it's held down by that same
black mastic then the

937
00:36:28,186 --> 00:36:30,087
that leans in the favor of being best.

938
00:36:30,087 --> 00:36:32,156
It's the. Glue. It's the most likely.

939
00:36:32,156 --> 00:36:33,424
Yes. Yeah.

940
00:36:33,424 --> 00:36:35,760
Well the nine by nine
the tile itself will be.

941
00:36:35,760 --> 00:36:38,763
Oh well then the glue is just an added
factor.

942
00:36:38,963 --> 00:36:41,265
Yep. Okay. Interesting. Good stuff.
Yeah. Good to know.

943
00:36:41,265 --> 00:36:44,268
There's a lot I mean, there's
a ton of asbestos materials.

944
00:36:45,002 --> 00:36:46,971
It's a great insulator.

945
00:36:46,971 --> 00:36:49,540
It's just horribly.

946
00:36:49,540 --> 00:36:52,643
I remember I was in like second or third
grade Kingsbury School in Waterbury.

947
00:36:52,643 --> 00:36:54,245
Yeah. You can't eat in the lunch room.

948
00:36:54,245 --> 00:36:56,047
We're eating lunch in the classroom.

949
00:36:56,047 --> 00:36:57,515
The removing a substance.

950
00:36:57,515 --> 00:36:59,283
During the school day.

951
00:36:59,283 --> 00:37:01,385
That's crazy. Well, we're still there.

952
00:37:01,385 --> 00:37:02,820
We're not allowed to do that anymore.

953
00:37:02,820 --> 00:37:05,823
I think. That explains a lot about. Me.

954
00:37:05,957 --> 00:37:06,624
I hope that.

955
00:37:06,624 --> 00:37:09,126
But, Yeah, no longer is that allowed.

956
00:37:09,126 --> 00:37:12,129
You can't do a specialist work in schools
when the school is in session.

957
00:37:12,296 --> 00:37:16,033
Okay, so that's why during the summer,
as best as really ramps up,

958
00:37:16,467 --> 00:37:19,136
because every school in the state
is trying to get their specialist

959
00:37:19,136 --> 00:37:22,139
work done during that or during break.

960
00:37:22,273 --> 00:37:24,875
How many schools have you done? Oh, boy.

961
00:37:26,777 --> 00:37:27,878
A lot of West Hartford schools.

962
00:37:27,878 --> 00:37:31,048
Over 30. For sure. Yeah, yeah.

963
00:37:31,549 --> 00:37:33,517
School projects are normally pretty big.

964
00:37:33,517 --> 00:37:35,419
Nice. Yeah.

965
00:37:35,419 --> 00:37:37,388
So the first one was a West Hartford home.

966
00:37:37,388 --> 00:37:39,590
First one
definitely a West Hartford basement.

967
00:37:39,590 --> 00:37:42,493
Okay, so the best one.

968
00:37:42,493 --> 00:37:45,296
This might be recency bias, but we did

969
00:37:45,296 --> 00:37:48,432
the largest lead abatement job
in the state of Connecticut last year.

970
00:37:48,733 --> 00:37:51,402
That was in Putnam, Connecticut.

971
00:37:51,402 --> 00:37:55,573
Unfortunately, what happens
is they renovated a mill into apartments,

972
00:37:56,340 --> 00:38:01,412
and they didn't address all the leftover
lead paint chips that were on the ceiling.

973
00:38:01,412 --> 00:38:04,548
So, right when people started moving

974
00:38:04,548 --> 00:38:09,020
in, you had kids pop in for lead
poisoning and,

975
00:38:09,754 --> 00:38:12,757
you know, the second that started,
the state got involved, and

976
00:38:13,190 --> 00:38:16,227
we have to come in, move them out,
clean up the apartment

977
00:38:16,227 --> 00:38:20,965
and move them back in and do it
psychically and, try to do as fast as

978
00:38:20,965 --> 00:38:26,003
you can, you know, so you don't interrupt
these people day to day lives.

979
00:38:27,104 --> 00:38:28,272
So that was a big one.

980
00:38:28,272 --> 00:38:30,274
And I was really proud of that one.
So that was probably our.

981
00:38:30,274 --> 00:38:31,742
Best, biggest in the state.

982
00:38:31,742 --> 00:38:33,377
Yeah. That that's the title, right.

983
00:38:33,377 --> 00:38:35,646
Yeah. That was a good one for that. Yeah.
That was last. Year.

984
00:38:35,646 --> 00:38:37,748
Oh last year okay. Yeah that was. Great.

985
00:38:37,748 --> 00:38:38,082
Yeah.

986
00:38:38,082 --> 00:38:38,516
All right.

987
00:38:38,516 --> 00:38:41,519
And then worst was that question.

988
00:38:41,819 --> 00:38:43,888
Geez.

989
00:38:43,888 --> 00:38:46,891
You know.

990
00:38:47,058 --> 00:38:48,592
The worst job.

991
00:38:48,592 --> 00:38:50,594
I don't have a particular job.

992
00:38:50,594 --> 00:38:55,333
But the worst feeling that we have
is when we let a customer down

993
00:38:56,033 --> 00:38:59,036
and they're just not happy
with what we do.

994
00:39:00,271 --> 00:39:03,841
It'll never be something that lasts,
because we will always fix

995
00:39:04,075 --> 00:39:07,712
whatever mistake we might have made
or whatever expectation we then meet.

996
00:39:08,212 --> 00:39:11,148
We'll go back every single day for a year

997
00:39:11,148 --> 00:39:14,185
until it's done right
and the customer's happy.

998
00:39:14,785 --> 00:39:17,521
But that's the worst feeling,
is that initial

999
00:39:17,521 --> 00:39:20,491
call the day after you leave a job
and you say, hey,

1000
00:39:20,858 --> 00:39:23,861
you scratched my floor,
you left my window open.

1001
00:39:24,228 --> 00:39:27,898
You know, mistakes happen and,
that hurts.

1002
00:39:28,332 --> 00:39:31,302
You know, we hate that
because we strive for perfection.

1003
00:39:31,302 --> 00:39:34,038
But we'll never leave a customer unhappy.

1004
00:39:34,038 --> 00:39:35,773
We'll always go back and fix it.

1005
00:39:38,642 --> 00:39:39,176
And like I

1006
00:39:39,176 --> 00:39:42,179
say, we won't leave that job
until they are satisfied.

1007
00:39:42,380 --> 00:39:42,780
Yeah.

1008
00:39:42,780 --> 00:39:44,081
What was the fourth question?

1009
00:39:44,081 --> 00:39:46,650
First. Last best, worst.

1010
00:39:46,650 --> 00:39:49,120
Your last one was your most recent.
Did you do a job today?

1011
00:39:49,120 --> 00:39:49,987
Oh, okay.

1012
00:39:49,987 --> 00:39:51,489
Yeah, we did five jobs today.

1013
00:39:51,489 --> 00:39:54,492
So, we are at,

1014
00:39:55,493 --> 00:39:58,896
an old, old storage facility
in East Windsor

1015
00:39:59,563 --> 00:40:02,967
owned by a gentleman,
a gentleman named Jim, a great guy,

1016
00:40:02,967 --> 00:40:07,538
always smiling,
super happy, good conversationalist.

1017
00:40:07,972 --> 00:40:12,476
And we are ripping down all of his old
particleboard and insulation

1018
00:40:12,843 --> 00:40:15,446
so he can bring the building up
to energy coat.

1019
00:40:15,446 --> 00:40:18,783
And just provide a better spot
for his tenants.

1020
00:40:18,783 --> 00:40:21,419
So, yeah, that's a fun one we're doing.
It's fun.

1021
00:40:21,419 --> 00:40:23,254
We don't do a ton of demolition.

1022
00:40:23,254 --> 00:40:28,092
But it's fun when we get to do a big demo
job because the guys like breaking stuff

1023
00:40:28,092 --> 00:40:32,630
and cleaning it up after,
and you take an ugly space and you make it

1024
00:40:32,630 --> 00:40:36,434
clean and and beautiful and,
you know, it's nice.

1025
00:40:36,434 --> 00:40:37,935
It's rewarding.

1026
00:40:37,935 --> 00:40:38,936
That's cool. Yeah.

1027
00:40:38,936 --> 00:40:41,205
You do have a nice before
and after pictures, right?

1028
00:40:41,205 --> 00:40:43,607
You could see it before. Oh, yeah.
It looks like this.

1029
00:40:43,607 --> 00:40:46,243
And then after you're like,
wow. Yeah. It's a big change. So that's

1030
00:40:47,211 --> 00:40:48,512
something that.

1031
00:40:48,512 --> 00:40:49,613
Yeah. Motivating.

1032
00:40:49,613 --> 00:40:49,880
Yeah.

1033
00:40:49,880 --> 00:40:53,417
And we see a lot of nasty places.

1034
00:40:53,417 --> 00:40:57,288
You know we're in a lot of nasty buildings
and it's wet and damp and dark

1035
00:40:57,288 --> 00:40:58,956
and smells like mold.

1036
00:40:58,956 --> 00:41:01,959
And when we leave,
it smells like Mr. Clean.

1037
00:41:02,193 --> 00:41:05,095
Yeah.

1038
00:41:05,095 --> 00:41:05,329
Yeah.

1039
00:41:05,329 --> 00:41:08,132
So, yeah. Water damage, lead paint.

1040
00:41:08,132 --> 00:41:12,503
So when you said part, like how long
that would lead have to be in the ceiling.

1041
00:41:12,870 --> 00:41:15,539
Yeah. For a kid to test.

1042
00:41:15,539 --> 00:41:16,040
Yeah.

1043
00:41:16,040 --> 00:41:18,509
How long do you have to be around
lead? It's an excellent question.

1044
00:41:18,509 --> 00:41:21,812
So, a child's blood lead level

1045
00:41:21,812 --> 00:41:25,216
can be elevated within a matter of days.

1046
00:41:25,249 --> 00:41:28,252
Probably a week, I'd say is more common.

1047
00:41:29,153 --> 00:41:31,589
Definitely. Just for being on the ceiling.

1048
00:41:31,589 --> 00:41:34,592
It gives off,
and they don't have to eat the paint.

1049
00:41:34,592 --> 00:41:35,726
Well, so.

1050
00:41:35,726 --> 00:41:37,862
Because I like to joke,
you eat lead paint.

1051
00:41:37,862 --> 00:41:39,763
Yeah. Yeah. No, I'll get into that.

1052
00:41:39,763 --> 00:41:44,635
So, the most common cause of lead
poisoning is definitely lead dust.

1053
00:41:45,135 --> 00:41:45,936
So it's not the lead.

1054
00:41:45,936 --> 00:41:47,972
See, lead painted ceiling itself.

1055
00:41:47,972 --> 00:41:52,877
It's when those paint chips fall
and get walked over and moved around.

1056
00:41:52,877 --> 00:41:56,547
And it's a traffic area
and the kids toys are there and a kid's

1057
00:41:56,547 --> 00:42:00,251
crawling around,
and then his hand is touching his mouth

1058
00:42:00,251 --> 00:42:04,088
and she's chewing on her toy,
which is on the ground.

1059
00:42:04,288 --> 00:42:08,025
So it's the lead dust,
which comes from a lot of things. So.

1060
00:42:08,025 --> 00:42:11,562
And lead abatement, 
big things are friction points.

1061
00:42:11,562 --> 00:42:16,066
So a window that opens and closes
all the time, a door that opens and closes

1062
00:42:16,066 --> 00:42:19,470
all the time creates a friction point,
which leads to that lead dust.

1063
00:42:20,237 --> 00:42:25,009
And, that's what we try to avoid
and prevent before

1064
00:42:25,009 --> 00:42:29,179
we get to the point of lead abatement,
which is a sick child. Yep.

1065
00:42:30,447 --> 00:42:31,882
I think

1066
00:42:31,882 --> 00:42:35,219
my school also we weren't allowed to open
and close the windows, I swear.

1067
00:42:36,086 --> 00:42:37,021
Same reason.

1068
00:42:37,021 --> 00:42:40,190
Yeah, we had a special Sydney cafe.

1069
00:42:40,224 --> 00:42:42,026
Yeah. And our windows had led.

1070
00:42:42,026 --> 00:42:44,762
I swear the teachers like,
don't open a window.

1071
00:42:44,762 --> 00:42:45,663
It's the same thing.

1072
00:42:45,663 --> 00:42:47,731
Friction. Absolutely.

1073
00:42:47,731 --> 00:42:49,033
Yeah. And oh, how about that?

1074
00:42:49,033 --> 00:42:50,501
Times have changed.

1075
00:42:50,501 --> 00:42:51,402
Big time.

1076
00:42:51,402 --> 00:42:51,769
Right?

1077
00:42:51,769 --> 00:42:54,772
Like I know workers

1078
00:42:55,339 --> 00:42:56,640
are like my dad's friend.

1079
00:42:56,640 --> 00:43:00,144
My dad painted and his friend was like,
oh, that's just, you know, it's best.

1080
00:43:00,177 --> 00:43:01,378
It's like we didn't care, right?

1081
00:43:01,378 --> 00:43:03,714
Just picked it up and like, carried it
anyway.

1082
00:43:03,714 --> 00:43:04,882
No masks.

1083
00:43:04,882 --> 00:43:08,686
But nowadays you're in full wet suits.

1084
00:43:08,686 --> 00:43:10,955
Mask full moon suit looking.

1085
00:43:10,955 --> 00:43:13,891
Yeah. So it's so weird.

1086
00:43:13,891 --> 00:43:16,760
I mean, this guy also drink and smoke,
so I don't know if this

1087
00:43:16,760 --> 00:43:18,829
was his biggest concern. Yeah.

1088
00:43:18,829 --> 00:43:20,731
No, I mean, you're absolutely right.

1089
00:43:20,731 --> 00:43:23,901
So a lot of the cut offs are 1979.

1090
00:43:24,501 --> 00:43:27,438
Like pain is bad 1980 for asbestos.

1091
00:43:27,438 --> 00:43:30,774
They didn't allow you to
well some companies still

1092
00:43:30,774 --> 00:43:33,277
were allowed to produce it
for certain applications.

1093
00:43:33,277 --> 00:43:36,280
But you weren't allowed to sell it
and stall it.

1094
00:43:36,880 --> 00:43:39,483
And that's when they started

1095
00:43:39,483 --> 00:43:43,053
the movement of removing
these things from public places.

1096
00:43:45,589 --> 00:43:46,724
The issue,

1097
00:43:46,724 --> 00:43:49,360
you know, when they were installing it
back in the 40s

1098
00:43:49,360 --> 00:43:52,363
and 50s is they're good materials
and they were cheap,

1099
00:43:52,563 --> 00:43:55,566
you know,
they didn't know the repercussions of it.

1100
00:43:56,800 --> 00:43:58,602
You know, you had guys in submarines

1101
00:43:58,602 --> 00:44:03,173
slapping on asbestos on, you know, wet
asbestos, slapping it on pipes,

1102
00:44:03,474 --> 00:44:07,411
molding it around the pipe
so it would insulate this steam pipe

1103
00:44:07,978 --> 00:44:11,215
and, yeah, it's nasty stuff.

1104
00:44:12,149 --> 00:44:13,150
I got some sponsors.

1105
00:44:13,150 --> 00:44:14,418
Can I shut up some sponsors?

1106
00:44:14,418 --> 00:44:15,519
And I got a follow up question.

1107
00:44:15,519 --> 00:44:18,522
We already talked about Keating agency
and float.

1108
00:44:18,889 --> 00:44:19,623
We have the fix.

1109
00:44:19,623 --> 00:44:23,727
Evie Luna pizza, golf law group, people's
bank, Parkville market,

1110
00:44:23,727 --> 00:44:25,696
West Hartford lock, maximum beverage.

1111
00:44:25,696 --> 00:44:28,132
We're here at 340 North main Street.

1112
00:44:28,132 --> 00:44:30,067
Hopefully my my guy Matt.

1113
00:44:30,067 --> 00:44:34,438
Whitney shows up later and then Direct
Line Media, we got Stephanie and Dave.

1114
00:44:34,571 --> 00:44:37,841
The Direct Line Media's in Branford on 11
Sycamore Way.

1115
00:44:37,841 --> 00:44:39,810
So thank you for all of our sponsors.

1116
00:44:39,810 --> 00:44:43,113
If you're interested in being a podcast
sponsor, please let me know.

1117
00:44:43,647 --> 00:44:47,818
I think Sally and Bob's is coming on
soon as a podcast sponsor.

1118
00:44:48,285 --> 00:44:51,121
Who knows, maybe Anthony's abatement
will come on as a podcast.

1119
00:44:51,121 --> 00:44:52,322
I think. We should.

1120
00:44:52,322 --> 00:44:55,592
But with that being said, West Hartford
Lock is one of our sponsors.

1121
00:44:55,959 --> 00:44:59,163
What are three keys
that make you great at being?

1122
00:44:59,396 --> 00:45:01,031
Are you the CEO and president?

1123
00:45:01,031 --> 00:45:02,232
No, just president.

1124
00:45:02,232 --> 00:45:05,102
Just the president and CEO.
We don't have a board.

1125
00:45:05,102 --> 00:45:05,969
Yeah.

1126
00:45:05,969 --> 00:45:08,138
Are you not only a president,
your client, or.

1127
00:45:08,138 --> 00:45:10,808
I'm not only the client, I'm
the player. President.

1128
00:45:10,808 --> 00:45:12,543
Yeah. You know, that's from.

1129
00:45:12,543 --> 00:45:13,877
What is that from?

1130
00:45:13,877 --> 00:45:15,145
I think it's a biggie. Small song.

1131
00:45:15,145 --> 00:45:17,481
Okay. There you go. Yeah.

1132
00:45:17,481 --> 00:45:18,182
You know, that's from.

1133
00:45:19,149 --> 00:45:21,018
I'm not only a client, I'm the player.

1134
00:45:21,018 --> 00:45:23,087
President.

1135
00:45:23,087 --> 00:45:25,022
I'll always love Big.

1136
00:45:25,022 --> 00:45:25,723
Pie, but.

1137
00:45:25,723 --> 00:45:28,726
No different song anyway.

1138
00:45:29,293 --> 00:45:31,228
Is that memory yours?

1139
00:45:31,228 --> 00:45:33,731
So it's phase two. Yep, yep.

1140
00:45:33,731 --> 00:45:36,934
Three keys that make you great at being
the president of Anthony's abatement.

1141
00:45:37,801 --> 00:45:38,569
All right.

1142
00:45:38,569 --> 00:45:39,036
Yeah.

1143
00:45:39,036 --> 00:45:42,039
That's good.

1144
00:45:44,641 --> 00:45:46,744
Belief in people,

1145
00:45:46,744 --> 00:45:49,680
my employees, I don't micromanage.

1146
00:45:49,680 --> 00:45:52,750
I believe in them to get things done.

1147
00:45:52,750 --> 00:45:56,286
And they are way smarter than I am.

1148
00:45:56,286 --> 00:46:00,224
They are way better at what they do than I
am, and I trust them to do it.

1149
00:46:00,224 --> 00:46:03,327
So, you know,
you got to believe in other people

1150
00:46:03,594 --> 00:46:06,463
and let them reach their potential,

1151
00:46:06,463 --> 00:46:08,665
personally. Discipline.

1152
00:46:08,665 --> 00:46:11,335
I wish my diet

1153
00:46:11,335 --> 00:46:14,338
discipline was a little better, but,
no, my work ethic is pretty good.

1154
00:46:14,738 --> 00:46:16,874
You know, I'm
not afraid of early mornings.

1155
00:46:19,476 --> 00:46:21,311
Another key

1156
00:46:21,311 --> 00:46:23,747
is you have to be understanding

1157
00:46:23,747 --> 00:46:26,750
of people and their situations.

1158
00:46:26,850 --> 00:46:31,955
You know, it goes back to,
if you walk by a stranger on the street,

1159
00:46:31,955 --> 00:46:34,124
you don't know what kind of day
they're having.

1160
00:46:34,124 --> 00:46:37,261
You got to be understanding of clients
and their situations

1161
00:46:37,761 --> 00:46:40,764
and try to mold the scope of work
to best fit them.

1162
00:46:41,498 --> 00:46:44,501
And just reach the outcome
that makes everyone happy.

1163
00:46:45,035 --> 00:46:47,070
Yeah, yeah.
So you got to understand people.

1164
00:46:47,070 --> 00:46:48,672
You got to believe in people,

1165
00:46:48,672 --> 00:46:50,340
and you gotta have a little discipline
to go along.

1166
00:46:50,340 --> 00:46:52,042
With all of it. Yeah.

1167
00:46:52,042 --> 00:46:52,543
That's very good.

1168
00:46:52,543 --> 00:46:53,644
Those are three keys.

1169
00:46:53,644 --> 00:46:56,213
Helpful. As a teacher,
I like those. Discipline.

1170
00:46:56,213 --> 00:46:58,315
The 5:00 Am club is a book,

1171
00:46:58,315 --> 00:47:01,151
and you say your world and your life
will be so much more productive.

1172
00:47:01,151 --> 00:47:03,086
If you can start your day at 5 a.m..

1173
00:47:03,086 --> 00:47:05,255
Easier said than done. Yes.

1174
00:47:05,255 --> 00:47:06,523
430 is even better.

1175
00:47:06,523 --> 00:47:08,058
Ooh. Are you up at 430?

1176
00:47:08,058 --> 00:47:10,561
Oh, yeah. 430. Yeah.

1177
00:47:10,561 --> 00:47:11,895
I'm also a dad by eight.

1178
00:47:12,963 --> 00:47:13,564
So before

1179
00:47:13,564 --> 00:47:16,800
30, do you do you get some me
time with the coffee first?

1180
00:47:16,867 --> 00:47:19,803
No workout?
No, man, I, You're up and out.

1181
00:47:19,803 --> 00:47:24,441
I shower up,
I get to the shop, like 515 and just start

1182
00:47:24,441 --> 00:47:28,045
plugging away on the computer guy
show up around six,

1183
00:47:28,712 --> 00:47:33,083
get them going out to the job sites,
and then it's like meetings

1184
00:47:33,083 --> 00:47:36,086
till ten, 11 a.m..

1185
00:47:36,153 --> 00:47:39,489
And then I'm fortunate I get to hit
the gym little early when it's less

1186
00:47:39,489 --> 00:47:43,460
crowded and back to the office
when, the crews come home.

1187
00:47:44,194 --> 00:47:45,996
Yeah, that's the best time.

1188
00:47:45,996 --> 00:47:48,165
You're very fortunate to hit the gym.

1189
00:47:48,165 --> 00:47:48,999
11 to 12.

1190
00:47:48,999 --> 00:47:54,137
That's the optimal time because the edge
at five in the morning, it's a zoo.

1191
00:47:54,137 --> 00:47:55,873
Yeah, there's a million people there.

1192
00:47:55,873 --> 00:47:57,274
Yeah. And.

1193
00:47:57,274 --> 00:47:59,843
Then I actually,
I mean, and then. Afterwards. Worse.

1194
00:48:02,012 --> 00:48:04,381
AC automotive, do you know Aldo Carducci?

1195
00:48:04,381 --> 00:48:06,683
I don't, but I mean, I know AC,
I drive by.

1196
00:48:06,683 --> 00:48:08,518
Great, great guy, great person.

1197
00:48:08,518 --> 00:48:10,621
He also does CrossFit midday.

1198
00:48:10,621 --> 00:48:11,755
So he does.

1199
00:48:11,755 --> 00:48:14,024
He goes to, West Hartford job.

1200
00:48:14,024 --> 00:48:16,760
Then he goes to CrossFit,
then he goes checks the new brand.

1201
00:48:16,760 --> 00:48:18,228
Yeah. Yeah. It's neat.

1202
00:48:18,228 --> 00:48:20,197
He's midday workouts.

1203
00:48:20,197 --> 00:48:20,864
Teachers.

1204
00:48:20,864 --> 00:48:21,198
There's no.

1205
00:48:21,198 --> 00:48:21,932
Midday working.

1206
00:48:21,932 --> 00:48:24,434
On, well, during the summer you can get.

1207
00:48:24,434 --> 00:48:28,005
Actually, today
I did ten push ups three different times.

1208
00:48:28,005 --> 00:48:31,041
Yeah. I got a couple kids. There's, Alana.

1209
00:48:31,074 --> 00:48:32,009
I call her. Luna.

1210
00:48:32,009 --> 00:48:33,377
Yeah, a bell.

1211
00:48:33,377 --> 00:48:37,014
I call her Bella. And I l
I call Ella, so I.

1212
00:48:37,014 --> 00:48:38,782
If I mess up their name, I do push ups.

1213
00:48:38,782 --> 00:48:41,652
And the Clara that I call Clara.
So three times. Today.

1214
00:48:41,652 --> 00:48:45,489
So ten push ups every time
I mess up a kid's name, Feeling,

1215
00:48:46,490 --> 00:48:47,057
feeling good.

1216
00:48:47,057 --> 00:48:49,493
Yeah. That's good. Yeah.
I see you got the pump.

1217
00:48:49,493 --> 00:48:51,094
Got some pump at the pump.

1218
00:48:51,094 --> 00:48:51,662
Yeah.

1219
00:48:51,662 --> 00:48:52,963
I've been swimming.

1220
00:48:52,963 --> 00:48:54,998
I just swam a miles on Saturday.

1221
00:48:54,998 --> 00:48:56,767
That's the best exercise they say.

1222
00:48:56,767 --> 00:48:57,834
Yeah, yeah, because.

1223
00:48:57,834 --> 00:48:59,670
It's it's great on your back, knees

1224
00:48:59,670 --> 00:49:03,907
and shoulders because playing basketball
is just getting to be too much.

1225
00:49:03,907 --> 00:49:06,243
Yeah, I might be retiring soon.

1226
00:49:06,243 --> 00:49:07,277
It's hard on your knees.

1227
00:49:07,277 --> 00:49:09,346
Well,
that's why we shift to golf, because.

1228
00:49:09,346 --> 00:49:11,815
Oh, yeah, it's a lot easier on the body.

1229
00:49:11,815 --> 00:49:13,951
Yeah. Are you a member anywhere?

1230
00:49:13,951 --> 00:49:14,685
Yeah. Whomp.

1231
00:49:14,685 --> 00:49:15,652
Oh. You are? Yep.

1232
00:49:15,652 --> 00:49:18,655
Cool. Yeah. Just joined up.

1233
00:49:18,689 --> 00:49:20,691
Excited to get new clubhouse.

1234
00:49:20,691 --> 00:49:22,826
Probably in a year. And.

1235
00:49:22,826 --> 00:49:24,761
Yeah.
And you won the West Hartford Chamber.

1236
00:49:24,761 --> 00:49:27,564
Want we. Did. Who was awesome.

1237
00:49:27,564 --> 00:49:31,201
So, our sales guy lawn, my buddy Max,

1238
00:49:31,201 --> 00:49:34,805
and then Lomb brought his friend
who turned out to be a ringer.

1239
00:49:35,272 --> 00:49:38,141
And, and then he won it for us. Yes.

1240
00:49:38,141 --> 00:49:39,176
The best. The scramble.

1241
00:49:39,176 --> 00:49:42,145
You need one good guy to on. Yeah.
It's fun.

1242
00:49:42,145 --> 00:49:44,915
That allows you to like or motivate you.

1243
00:49:44,915 --> 00:49:47,617
Well, you could be. The bad guy,
which was me.

1244
00:49:47,617 --> 00:49:48,285
And just.

1245
00:49:48,285 --> 00:49:50,921
If you come through on a putter, too,
then you're.

1246
00:49:50,921 --> 00:49:52,656
Saving Grace. Yeah, yeah.

1247
00:49:53,790 --> 00:49:54,424
Scramble.

1248
00:49:54,424 --> 00:49:54,992
Yeah.

1249
00:49:54,992 --> 00:49:58,195
I didn't play this year,
but I did playing the womp a couple times.

1250
00:49:59,029 --> 00:50:01,231
The West Hartford Chamber.

1251
00:50:01,231 --> 00:50:03,066
Yeah. Great place.
Are you a member of the chamber?

1252
00:50:03,066 --> 00:50:04,167
Oh, yeah. Absolutely.

1253
00:50:04,167 --> 00:50:04,801
Yeah, yeah.

1254
00:50:04,801 --> 00:50:07,170
Great network to be.
Oh, isn't it great? Yeah.

1255
00:50:07,170 --> 00:50:10,907
They were vital to Friends of Success.

1256
00:50:10,907 --> 00:50:12,709
Like, I don't be here.

1257
00:50:12,709 --> 00:50:15,379
With Dave without the chamber.

1258
00:50:15,379 --> 00:50:17,214
You know, meeting
so many different people.

1259
00:50:17,214 --> 00:50:20,217
Luna pizza donut crazy.

1260
00:50:20,851 --> 00:50:21,051
Yeah.

1261
00:50:21,051 --> 00:50:22,853
The list goes on and on from the chamber.

1262
00:50:22,853 --> 00:50:26,223
Kate and Chris are great future guests.

1263
00:50:26,656 --> 00:50:27,691
That, captured the.

1264
00:50:27,691 --> 00:50:30,994
Concept is that, That's the, 
they're the presidents of. The.

1265
00:50:30,994 --> 00:50:32,896
Oh, yeah, but. Capture
the concept is great, too.

1266
00:50:32,896 --> 00:50:33,730
You work with them?

1267
00:50:33,730 --> 00:50:34,297
Yeah.

1268
00:50:34,297 --> 00:50:36,767
I don't,
but I mean, they get they do good stuff.

1269
00:50:36,767 --> 00:50:38,135
I can just tell from afar.

1270
00:50:38,135 --> 00:50:39,870
Yeah,
they're they're good at what they do.

1271
00:50:39,870 --> 00:50:41,505
Yeah. Yeah.

1272
00:50:41,505 --> 00:50:43,807
But no, I can name. Yeah.
So many good people.

1273
00:50:43,807 --> 00:50:46,877
It's definitely where we are
a part of a number chamber's around

1274
00:50:46,877 --> 00:50:49,880
Connecticut, and West Hartford
is definitely one of the best ones.

1275
00:50:50,247 --> 00:50:52,649
Oh. Can you compare
and contrast some things that you see?

1276
00:50:52,649 --> 00:50:53,150
Yeah.

1277
00:50:53,150 --> 00:50:58,789
West Hartford has a much more feel of,
togetherness and a group

1278
00:50:58,789 --> 00:51:04,694
and being tight knit and a ton of events
that a lot of people actually show up to.

1279
00:51:05,062 --> 00:51:07,764
The other chambers are a little more.

1280
00:51:07,764 --> 00:51:10,333
I don't know if this is the right word,
but commercialized where it's.

1281
00:51:11,568 --> 00:51:12,235
It just

1282
00:51:12,235 --> 00:51:15,872
it doesn't feel as homey
and it's more just business centric

1283
00:51:15,872 --> 00:51:19,643
networking like that, which I understand
is, you know, it's the goal.

1284
00:51:19,643 --> 00:51:23,080
But, yeah, no West Hartford Chamber
just does so many other things

1285
00:51:23,580 --> 00:51:25,248
that aren't just networking.

1286
00:51:25,248 --> 00:51:27,984
That I really love about Tony.

1287
00:51:27,984 --> 00:51:28,218
You know,

1288
00:51:28,218 --> 00:51:31,988
Tony from the Ron Foley Foundation,
I don't know, you got to meet Tony.

1289
00:51:31,988 --> 00:51:32,556
Yeah.

1290
00:51:32,556 --> 00:51:34,291
Tony's got a good name. Tony.

1291
00:51:34,291 --> 00:51:36,159
Yeah. Forget about it, Tony. Yeah.

1292
00:51:36,159 --> 00:51:36,960
You go by Tony.

1293
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:37,861
No. Anthony.

1294
00:51:37,861 --> 00:51:40,130
You never been. Born
to use my grandfather.

1295
00:51:40,130 --> 00:51:41,865
Yeah. Yeah.

1296
00:51:41,865 --> 00:51:44,367
Anthony. Tell Amara, tell them more.

1297
00:51:44,367 --> 00:51:45,302
Oh, yeah.

1298
00:51:45,302 --> 00:51:47,304
Forget about it. Yeah, I got five fingers.

1299
00:51:47,304 --> 00:51:48,004
Best friends.

1300
00:51:48,004 --> 00:51:51,007
I can only use three.

1301
00:51:52,642 --> 00:51:53,810
I was waiting to see that.

1302
00:51:53,810 --> 00:51:57,114
So, being a West Hartford teacher. Yes.

1303
00:51:57,781 --> 00:51:59,749
Teachers are important. Extreme.

1304
00:51:59,749 --> 00:52:00,951
Do you have a favorite teacher?

1305
00:52:02,052 --> 00:52:03,420
Oh, boy, that's tough.

1306
00:52:03,420 --> 00:52:06,423
Because my favorite teacher,

1307
00:52:06,890 --> 00:52:08,592
if I'm being honest, is probably Mr.

1308
00:52:08,592 --> 00:52:10,827
Wells because he played football
with us at recess.

1309
00:52:10,827 --> 00:52:13,997
But wait, doctor Wells, Rick wells. Yeah.

1310
00:52:13,997 --> 00:52:15,932
Webster hill.

1311
00:52:15,932 --> 00:52:17,701
No, you said Duffy for a little bit.

1312
00:52:17,701 --> 00:52:19,970
Maybe he was at Duffy.
Yeah. Was he a marine?

1313
00:52:19,970 --> 00:52:21,204
Yeah, yeah. For real?

1314
00:52:21,204 --> 00:52:22,172
He was your teacher?

1315
00:52:22,172 --> 00:52:23,206
Well, one of my teach.

1316
00:52:23,206 --> 00:52:25,742
But at recess, he was my teacher.

1317
00:52:25,742 --> 00:52:26,643
Right. Gotcha.

1318
00:52:26,643 --> 00:52:30,547
And, But that just that impact me
because it made the school day so great.

1319
00:52:30,547 --> 00:52:31,281
So fun.

1320
00:52:31,281 --> 00:52:32,749
You look for a picture.

1321
00:52:32,749 --> 00:52:35,418
Well, he remember you? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

1322
00:52:35,418 --> 00:52:37,220
We got a thing that that Mr.

1323
00:52:37,220 --> 00:52:39,589
Wells and I, we sent pictures. Do you?

1324
00:52:39,589 --> 00:52:41,825
Oh, yeah. Great guy.

1325
00:52:41,825 --> 00:52:42,592
You know that.

1326
00:52:42,592 --> 00:52:45,996
He's always been in great shape,
but he was a young man back then.

1327
00:52:45,996 --> 00:52:47,764
Back when I was in freaking third grade.

1328
00:52:47,764 --> 00:52:50,767
So, he still had a lot of the marine
in him,

1329
00:52:51,301 --> 00:52:54,271
and, he was great at recess.

1330
00:52:54,271 --> 00:52:55,572
Yeah. That's so funny.

1331
00:52:55,572 --> 00:52:59,543
Yeah, but, Miss Moran, fifth grade.

1332
00:52:59,543 --> 00:53:00,210
Duffy,

1333
00:53:03,079 --> 00:53:06,082
really instilled a lot of discipline
in me,

1334
00:53:06,082 --> 00:53:10,320
to the levels that, like, playing
in football later on, instilled in me.

1335
00:53:10,921 --> 00:53:16,193
She's just,
you know, no nonsense type of woman.

1336
00:53:16,193 --> 00:53:19,262
And she was great because, you know,
she did it with kindness,

1337
00:53:19,596 --> 00:53:21,064
but she made her point.

1338
00:53:21,064 --> 00:53:25,235
And, you know, I was
I was a little rascal, and she kind of

1339
00:53:25,669 --> 00:53:28,672
straighten me out a little,
so definitely most impactful.

1340
00:53:29,406 --> 00:53:31,341
Nice. Yeah. No.

1341
00:53:31,341 --> 00:53:33,310
Mr. Wells
have come up a bunch of times, actually.

1342
00:53:33,310 --> 00:53:33,944
Yeah.

1343
00:53:33,944 --> 00:53:35,445
Luna pizza, I bet.

1344
00:53:35,445 --> 00:53:37,714
I asked PJ Foley's kid.

1345
00:53:37,714 --> 00:53:40,717
PJ Foley teaches at Connor. He has a son.

1346
00:53:40,951 --> 00:53:42,786
I don't know, PJ Foley, Irish name.

1347
00:53:42,786 --> 00:53:43,720
Yeah, he's a coach.

1348
00:53:43,720 --> 00:53:45,121
He was a tight end coach right now.

1349
00:53:45,121 --> 00:53:47,624
Oh, yeah, he's a tight end in college.
I think too. Yeah.

1350
00:53:47,624 --> 00:53:49,359
Yeah. Great. Got guys at Unit.

1351
00:53:49,359 --> 00:53:49,893
Oh yeah.

1352
00:53:49,893 --> 00:53:50,493
Oh yeah.

1353
00:53:50,493 --> 00:53:52,862
He still plays.
Who still. Oh I believe. Yeah.

1354
00:53:53,863 --> 00:53:56,866
Plays Irish

1355
00:53:57,033 --> 00:53:58,468
Gaelic football too.

1356
00:53:58,468 --> 00:53:59,236
Really. Yeah.

1357
00:53:59,236 --> 00:54:01,571
Grew up playing Gaelic football. Coaches
Gaelic football.

1358
00:54:01,571 --> 00:54:03,907
Great guy PJ Foley. Amazing person.

1359
00:54:03,907 --> 00:54:05,976
But his son said Doctor Wells too.

1360
00:54:05,976 --> 00:54:06,543
Yeah, yeah.

1361
00:54:06,543 --> 00:54:09,512
Doctor Wells
actually to my wife does rivalry.

1362
00:54:09,613 --> 00:54:12,616
And there was an awards

1363
00:54:12,616 --> 00:54:17,921
celebration at orange, Connecticut
at the golf course and they wanted someone

1364
00:54:17,921 --> 00:54:21,558
to be the guest speaker
and well, showed up in his marine suit.

1365
00:54:21,591 --> 00:54:21,992
Yeah.

1366
00:54:21,992 --> 00:54:26,162
Had, you know, two books
and we just did a wonderful presentation

1367
00:54:26,162 --> 00:54:30,166
and talking about when
does your school day start in the morning.

1368
00:54:30,166 --> 00:54:31,201
At night before,

1369
00:54:31,201 --> 00:54:34,204
when you're getting your stuff together,
you're getting your homework together.

1370
00:54:34,271 --> 00:54:36,006
You know, he had a golf club.

1371
00:54:36,006 --> 00:54:38,241
He did a little golf club. Yeah, but.

1372
00:54:38,241 --> 00:54:39,309
He was a really interesting.

1373
00:54:39,309 --> 00:54:41,011
And he's a great speaker, a great person.

1374
00:54:41,011 --> 00:54:42,445
Oh, excellent role model, that guy.

1375
00:54:42,445 --> 00:54:43,980
He's gonna be a guest doctor.

1376
00:54:43,980 --> 00:54:45,682
Wells. Oh, yeah. Rick Wells

1377
00:54:47,817 --> 00:54:48,785
so I'll send that picture.

1378
00:54:48,785 --> 00:54:51,454
I'll see what he says.
Please send us anything. Yeah.

1379
00:54:51,454 --> 00:54:54,224
And then it's a long time ago.

1380
00:54:54,224 --> 00:54:55,091
That's so funny.

1381
00:54:55,091 --> 00:54:57,694
I remember, I still remember my.

1382
00:54:57,694 --> 00:54:59,562
There's a graduating class right now.

1383
00:54:59,562 --> 00:55:01,231
They're in 12th grade.

1384
00:55:01,231 --> 00:55:06,369
When I was in third grade, it was the most
serious to hand touch football.

1385
00:55:06,369 --> 00:55:09,239
Yeah. Kids went in crying. Oh, yeah.
It was a Super Bowl.

1386
00:55:09,239 --> 00:55:10,974
Every game was the Super Bowl.

1387
00:55:10,974 --> 00:55:12,342
Yes, you nailed it.

1388
00:55:12,342 --> 00:55:17,280
Clinton plays on the whoop team
BC is that Suffield Academy?

1389
00:55:17,280 --> 00:55:19,883
He's going to Nicholls
State to play, baseball.

1390
00:55:19,883 --> 00:55:24,020
The twins Anthony and Ryan
Ethan was a six soccer player.

1391
00:55:24,621 --> 00:55:27,590
All these kids were like,
what's his name?

1392
00:55:29,192 --> 00:55:32,162
Austin Austin's a quarterback, RKO.

1393
00:55:32,395 --> 00:55:33,963
And these kids will come in.

1394
00:55:33,963 --> 00:55:34,998
I was Tom Brady.

1395
00:55:34,998 --> 00:55:36,733
Yeah, I threw. Through a thousand yards.

1396
00:55:36,733 --> 00:55:39,269
Yeah, touchdowns.
I was the autumn doctor.

1397
00:55:39,269 --> 00:55:42,138
Wells was doing. Crazy.
The automatic quarterback, I loved it.

1398
00:55:42,138 --> 00:55:44,607
I could see it hit.
Me and the same thing. Yeah.

1399
00:55:45,809 --> 00:55:46,343
But they were

1400
00:55:46,343 --> 00:55:49,479
like, always, you know,
and I'm putting the ball on the money.

1401
00:55:49,479 --> 00:55:50,980
I'm not.

1402
00:55:50,980 --> 00:55:54,217
We're throwing touchdowns, but some kids
would get upset and then we like.

1403
00:55:54,217 --> 00:55:55,251
All right, fourth quarter.

1404
00:55:55,251 --> 00:55:58,254
Do we go on to like two minute
drill. Yeah.

1405
00:55:58,288 --> 00:56:01,291
To get the tie or you know this team wins.

1406
00:56:01,825 --> 00:56:03,259
But it was amazing.

1407
00:56:03,259 --> 00:56:05,829
This is how long. Half a half an hour.
Yeah.

1408
00:56:05,829 --> 00:56:07,731
Best half an hour. That changed it right.

1409
00:56:07,731 --> 00:56:10,133
You thought about that. You're like, man,
what's going on?

1410
00:56:10,133 --> 00:56:11,468
I still got this recess.

1411
00:56:11,468 --> 00:56:16,239
Yeah, I wasn't the greatest,
school kid, but, that.

1412
00:56:16,239 --> 00:56:17,107
Yeah.

1413
00:56:17,107 --> 00:56:19,876
And then this year,
what does my school do to me?

1414
00:56:19,876 --> 00:56:22,645
They gave me two lunch duties,
no recess duties.

1415
00:56:22,645 --> 00:56:25,982
Oh, man. I you know who those. Recess me?

1416
00:56:25,982 --> 00:56:27,183
Yeah.

1417
00:56:27,183 --> 00:56:28,118
Forget the kids.

1418
00:56:28,118 --> 00:56:28,351
It was.

1419
00:56:28,351 --> 00:56:31,554
Probably a good place to connect
with kids on a different in a different.

1420
00:56:31,554 --> 00:56:33,156
Environment. Yeah, yeah.

1421
00:56:33,156 --> 00:56:34,591
I there's the playscape.

1422
00:56:34,591 --> 00:56:37,560
I do a chin up contest. Yeah. Pom pom.

1423
00:56:37,560 --> 00:56:38,862
Then I would throw the football.

1424
00:56:40,130 --> 00:56:41,965
So not.

1425
00:56:41,965 --> 00:56:44,267
It's hilarious

1426
00:56:44,267 --> 00:56:46,136
teaching teaching and playing football.

1427
00:56:46,136 --> 00:56:49,072
That's great. No,
but you've been instrumental.

1428
00:56:49,072 --> 00:56:51,741
And a great friend to friends of Feeney.

1429
00:56:51,741 --> 00:56:54,611
You supported us multiple times.

1430
00:56:54,611 --> 00:56:56,846
Got any questions for me?

1431
00:56:56,846 --> 00:56:59,082
Recommendations.

1432
00:56:59,082 --> 00:57:01,918
Anything that you feel I didn't share
that you would like to talk about?

1433
00:57:01,918 --> 00:57:04,754
Recommendations?
No. I do have questions, though.

1434
00:57:04,754 --> 00:57:07,757
And it's in terms of like mentorship
because

1435
00:57:09,659 --> 00:57:12,662
we can always give to,

1436
00:57:13,596 --> 00:57:16,232
nonprofits like yourself.

1437
00:57:16,232 --> 00:57:19,068
But we'd also love to start
fundraising ourselves

1438
00:57:19,068 --> 00:57:21,971
and give even more
to Connecticut Children's.

1439
00:57:21,971 --> 00:57:26,075
And I just, you know, I'm starting a
I have a gentlemen's

1440
00:57:26,075 --> 00:57:29,612
dinner we're doing,
which, a friend of mine, Johnny

1441
00:57:29,879 --> 00:57:33,450
Russo, is a realtor down in Milford,
is helping me put together.

1442
00:57:34,184 --> 00:57:36,686
But, you know,
that's the tip of the iceberg.

1443
00:57:36,686 --> 00:57:41,724
How do you put together
such a force of fundraising?

1444
00:57:42,425 --> 00:57:44,527
And, you know, where do you start?

1445
00:57:44,527 --> 00:57:47,330
And how do you get the raffle items?

1446
00:57:47,330 --> 00:57:51,334
And you're calling everybody
and inviting people, and you don't know

1447
00:57:51,334 --> 00:57:53,503
if it's going to pan out or not?

1448
00:57:53,503 --> 00:57:54,437
Yeah, I know you do that.

1449
00:57:54,437 --> 00:57:58,208
So many concerns and hesitations
when you're like, we have this wonderful

1450
00:57:58,208 --> 00:58:01,211
event. Will people show up? Yeah.

1451
00:58:01,344 --> 00:58:04,380
It's so far, knock on wood,
everything has been working out.

1452
00:58:04,747 --> 00:58:07,484
But you know, a lot of people
don't like to RSVP.

1453
00:58:07,484 --> 00:58:08,351
They don't want to let you know.

1454
00:58:08,351 --> 00:58:11,154
They don't want to buy the ticket
until the day of. Sure.

1455
00:58:11,154 --> 00:58:12,655
They're always waiting on the weather.

1456
00:58:12,655 --> 00:58:15,258
If there's something else,
they have children, so we get that.

1457
00:58:15,258 --> 00:58:17,794
But, you just hope for the best.

1458
00:58:17,794 --> 00:58:20,129
And yeah, you know, we have a good team.

1459
00:58:20,129 --> 00:58:22,499
Like I said, Marty, Jen, Matt, Rob.

1460
00:58:24,701 --> 00:58:25,201
Marty. Jen.

1461
00:58:25,201 --> 00:58:26,035
Matt. Rahm.

1462
00:58:26,035 --> 00:58:27,103
That's the team.

1463
00:58:27,103 --> 00:58:29,706
So right now we all have it.

1464
00:58:29,706 --> 00:58:31,441
Like Jen runs the raffle. Yeah.

1465
00:58:31,441 --> 00:58:35,311
So Jen will organize
and make these wonderful signs

1466
00:58:35,512 --> 00:58:37,580
with the container that matches it.

1467
00:58:37,580 --> 00:58:40,116
We call you know,
we call a lot of people for donations.

1468
00:58:40,116 --> 00:58:40,984
And yeah, gift.

1469
00:58:40,984 --> 00:58:43,987
Cards like salute gift card travel gift

1470
00:58:43,987 --> 00:58:48,291
cards are a gift card,
Lumina Pizza gift card, Sally and Bob's.

1471
00:58:48,291 --> 00:58:49,559
All these wonderful organizations.

1472
00:58:49,559 --> 00:58:51,661
Like you say, West Hartford Cares.

1473
00:58:51,661 --> 00:58:53,363
West Hartford wants to help.

1474
00:58:53,363 --> 00:58:56,633
Just today, you know,
for the Saint Patrick's Day parade,

1475
00:58:56,799 --> 00:58:58,067
we need t shirt sponsors.

1476
00:58:58,067 --> 00:58:59,569
Yeah, I'm shooting out some text.

1477
00:58:59,569 --> 00:59:02,372
Yeah, I got that DM. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

1478
00:59:02,372 --> 00:59:03,373
DM some some.

1479
00:59:03,373 --> 00:59:05,542
I have to text some. I have the DMs. Yeah.

1480
00:59:05,542 --> 00:59:07,944
So yeah. Thank you for that.
Well this will be great.

1481
00:59:07,944 --> 00:59:10,947
Another time of the Anthony that.
Sure sure.

1482
00:59:10,947 --> 00:59:12,115
Yeah. Love it.

1483
00:59:12,115 --> 00:59:15,218
I would imagine
you find that organizations and people

1484
00:59:15,218 --> 00:59:18,721
are far more giving
than you could even think of.

1485
00:59:18,721 --> 00:59:20,256
Yeah. Expect.

1486
00:59:20,256 --> 00:59:24,060
And then we have, you know, a mission
that's easy to buy into.

1487
00:59:24,427 --> 00:59:24,894
We're helping

1488
00:59:24,894 --> 00:59:27,931
children and families that need assistance
after heartbreaking tragedy.

1489
00:59:27,931 --> 00:59:29,732
It's hard to say, like, I don't know.

1490
00:59:29,732 --> 00:59:31,200
I really don't believe in that one.

1491
00:59:31,200 --> 00:59:34,170
Or it's against my politics
or some reason.

1492
00:59:34,170 --> 00:59:35,004
There's no. Excuse.

1493
00:59:35,004 --> 00:59:37,373
Yeah, we're. Helping people that need it.

1494
00:59:37,373 --> 00:59:37,941
Yeah, right.

1495
00:59:37,941 --> 00:59:42,245
So I'm a teacher, you know,
I don't make an extraordinary amount,

1496
00:59:42,245 --> 00:59:45,248
but I have a roof over my head, and,
you know, I'm happily,

1497
00:59:45,315 --> 00:59:49,385
housed in everything I need,
so I want to help as many people as I can.

1498
00:59:50,053 --> 00:59:51,321
I've been doing it in the classroom.

1499
00:59:51,321 --> 00:59:53,823
Now I want to do it
outside of the classroom. Yeah.

1500
00:59:53,823 --> 00:59:55,792
And I'm very fortunate right now.

1501
00:59:55,792 --> 01:00:00,630
We've helped up over 90 families
and raise over $230,000.

1502
01:00:00,630 --> 01:00:02,432
That's incredible. Yeah.

1503
01:00:02,432 --> 01:00:03,333
All in 12 years.

1504
01:00:03,333 --> 01:00:06,803
All volunteer based, community
based grassroots organization.

1505
01:00:07,337 --> 01:00:09,872
Just helping,

1506
01:00:09,872 --> 01:00:12,575
you know, we're talking about school.

1507
01:00:12,575 --> 01:00:15,011
Kingsbury school. Reminds me of Dwayne
Hunter.

1508
01:00:15,011 --> 01:00:18,948
Was in my third grade class
in my fifth grade class, last year.

1509
01:00:18,948 --> 01:00:21,184
He's crossing the street
and got hit by a car.

1510
01:00:21,184 --> 01:00:21,818
Oh, no.

1511
01:00:21,818 --> 01:00:25,488
So his father,
you know, paid for the funeral

1512
01:00:25,688 --> 01:00:30,893
and his his baby mom and his daughter
need some funds, so we helped that family.

1513
01:00:30,893 --> 01:00:32,161
That was most recently,

1514
01:00:34,797 --> 01:00:35,932
there was an unfortunate event.

1515
01:00:35,932 --> 01:00:38,968
A Bloomfield football player, 13 years
old, died at practice.

1516
01:00:39,002 --> 01:00:41,971
Oh, we hope that family. Yeah.

1517
01:00:42,205 --> 01:00:45,708
Yeah,
you name it, we've helped fires cancer.

1518
01:00:46,809 --> 01:00:47,343
Whatever.

1519
01:00:47,343 --> 01:00:50,346
We have a system
now where we have a donation request form.

1520
01:00:50,847 --> 01:00:53,016
We. There was a fire in Harrisville.

1521
01:00:53,016 --> 01:00:55,051
They went to the,

1522
01:00:55,051 --> 01:00:59,522
like, services,
civil services or human resources,

1523
01:00:59,889 --> 01:01:02,692
and they referred
friends of Feeney to them.

1524
01:01:02,692 --> 01:01:05,028
How about that? Right.
And this is in Terry ville.

1525
01:01:05,028 --> 01:01:07,263
We've been helping the family.
Yeah. We've helped.

1526
01:01:07,263 --> 01:01:11,234
We gave them, you know,
I think like $5,000,

1527
01:01:12,568 --> 01:01:15,104
maybe ten boxes of Amazon items.

1528
01:01:15,104 --> 01:01:17,940
Yeah. Toys for Christmas coats.

1529
01:01:17,940 --> 01:01:19,042
Oh, like so many things.

1530
01:01:19,042 --> 01:01:20,109
Which is huge.

1531
01:01:20,109 --> 01:01:22,178
Oh yeah. Especially at that time.

1532
01:01:22,178 --> 01:01:23,980
Yeah. So it's been great.

1533
01:01:23,980 --> 01:01:26,049
We have some things looking forward to.

1534
01:01:26,049 --> 01:01:27,583
Like the Saint Patrick's Day parade.

1535
01:01:27,583 --> 01:01:29,852
We have a wolf pack
game. Our golf tournament.

1536
01:01:30,787 --> 01:01:33,489
Yeah.

1537
01:01:33,489 --> 01:01:35,825
Memorial day parade.

1538
01:01:35,825 --> 01:01:37,193
We're honoring a veteran.

1539
01:01:37,193 --> 01:01:39,662
I tried to honor Rick Wells last year.

1540
01:01:39,662 --> 01:01:40,730
He was going to Martha's

1541
01:01:40,730 --> 01:01:43,232
Vineyard for his wife
because his wife writes books.

1542
01:01:43,232 --> 01:01:44,467
Yeah, and. He couldn't make it.

1543
01:01:44,467 --> 01:01:47,503
So maybe I'll have him back
because we have a guest of honor.

1544
01:01:47,503 --> 01:01:48,538
Yeah, yeah, a veteran.

1545
01:01:48,538 --> 01:01:51,607
So maybe Rick Wells will be our guest
this year.

1546
01:01:51,708 --> 01:01:53,810
Yeah, it's all incredible stuff.

1547
01:01:53,810 --> 01:01:55,778
Yeah. But like you said,
that's that's great.

1548
01:01:55,778 --> 01:01:57,814
You have a great heart, great family.

1549
01:01:57,814 --> 01:02:01,117
Sounds like you have wonderful parents
and you're doing great things.

1550
01:02:01,117 --> 01:02:04,120
So, I would happily

1551
01:02:04,253 --> 01:02:08,191
maybe talk to you more about how to help
you start your own organization or.

1552
01:02:08,191 --> 01:02:10,593
Yeah, let me know the data.
That gentlemen's dinner.

1553
01:02:10,593 --> 01:02:11,427
Yeah. Well, you know, I'm.

1554
01:02:11,427 --> 01:02:13,129
I think I'm a gentleman, so maybe I.

1555
01:02:13,129 --> 01:02:15,631
Invited, I'd be honored to have.

1556
01:02:15,631 --> 01:02:15,932
I have.

1557
01:02:15,932 --> 01:02:18,334
The grab the right fork on the right side
of the plate and stuff, but,

1558
01:02:18,334 --> 01:02:21,037
you know, You me. Two of my mouth closed.

1559
01:02:21,037 --> 01:02:21,938
Yeah.

1560
01:02:21,938 --> 01:02:24,273
Yeah. No, I definitely bend you here.

1561
01:02:24,273 --> 01:02:26,476
Yeah. Cool.

1562
01:02:26,476 --> 01:02:27,777
What's the connection, Milford?

1563
01:02:27,777 --> 01:02:28,945
Is that the New Haven connection?

1564
01:02:28,945 --> 01:02:33,182
So the guy who is kind of teaching me up
how to do an event,

1565
01:02:33,549 --> 01:02:36,519
that's where he's at. Gotcha. Yeah, yeah.

1566
01:02:37,720 --> 01:02:38,521
Very cool.

1567
01:02:38,521 --> 01:02:41,758
Yeah, well, I we talked recommendations.

1568
01:02:41,758 --> 01:02:42,992
I just recommend I always say it.

1569
01:02:42,992 --> 01:02:46,496
I say the same thing, write
a handwritten note and take a cold shower.

1570
01:02:46,496 --> 01:02:49,265
Those are my two recommendations.
But this is really cool.

1571
01:02:49,265 --> 01:02:51,567
Anthony,
my neighbor Anthony had a birthday,

1572
01:02:51,567 --> 01:02:54,337
so he wrote me a thank you card.
I want to read it. Fini.

1573
01:02:54,337 --> 01:02:55,171
This is funny to me.

1574
01:02:55,171 --> 01:02:56,806
Maybe a little backstory.

1575
01:02:56,806 --> 01:03:00,777
His wife wanted to trick him to get down
to West Hartford brewing and roasting.

1576
01:03:00,777 --> 01:03:04,213
Yeah, and his whole family
was there to surprise him, so she used me.

1577
01:03:04,213 --> 01:03:05,848
She's like, hey, can you text us?

1578
01:03:05,848 --> 01:03:06,182
Yeah.

1579
01:03:06,182 --> 01:03:11,320
And say, hey, Feeney, we really did win
Best Nonprofit three years in a row.

1580
01:03:11,320 --> 01:03:12,855
But tell him there's a celebration

1581
01:03:12,855 --> 01:03:16,259
of feeney's nonprofit winning,
and we want it to go.

1582
01:03:16,626 --> 01:03:19,862
So I'm like, hey,
I kind of cut and paste whatever she said.

1583
01:03:19,862 --> 01:03:20,897
I'm like, yeah, yeah, come down.

1584
01:03:20,897 --> 01:03:23,533
Friday seven free drink.

1585
01:03:23,533 --> 01:03:26,536
Feeney won
best nonprofit Haley and Anthony

1586
01:03:27,203 --> 01:03:29,405
and he's like, he goes, Feeney,
I should have known.

1587
01:03:29,405 --> 01:03:32,408
You're pulling some strings
to plan my surprise party.

1588
01:03:32,508 --> 01:03:34,944
The most surprising part
of the night that you weren't

1589
01:03:36,012 --> 01:03:36,512
were in a

1590
01:03:36,512 --> 01:03:39,515
room full of people trying to sell merch.

1591
01:03:39,715 --> 01:03:41,851
Appreciate it all.
Thanks for the gift cards to.

1592
01:03:41,851 --> 01:03:42,752
Cheers to 30.

1593
01:03:42,752 --> 01:03:44,987
So happy 30th birthday Anthony.

1594
01:03:44,987 --> 01:03:46,589
Yeah, he's like all his friends are there.

1595
01:03:46,589 --> 01:03:48,291
He's like,
he thought I was going to go to the car

1596
01:03:48,291 --> 01:03:50,993
and try to sell, like get your fini shirt
that. You feel you.

1597
01:03:50,993 --> 01:03:52,762
Want a magnet. Hat.

1598
01:03:52,762 --> 01:03:55,398
Then I'm like, darn it, I missed
the golden opportunity I should have.

1599
01:03:55,398 --> 01:03:58,067
Yeah, pushing merch at a birthday. Yeah.

1600
01:03:58,067 --> 01:04:01,871
Anthony, I
oh, this is with heartfelt gratitude.

1601
01:04:01,871 --> 01:04:04,440
This is the Sunshine
the Sunflower Kids program.

1602
01:04:04,440 --> 01:04:06,909
We're so grateful to your kindness
and thinking of our team

1603
01:04:06,909 --> 01:04:09,312
and our sunflower kids.

1604
01:04:09,312 --> 01:04:10,680
And a bunch of kids signed it.

1605
01:04:10,680 --> 01:04:12,982
Thank you so much.
Thank you for the generous things.

1606
01:04:12,982 --> 01:04:13,950
Thank you for thinking.

1607
01:04:13,950 --> 01:04:16,953
Thank you for finding the family
some sunshine.

1608
01:04:17,253 --> 01:04:19,622
And then this is my guy, scion.

1609
01:04:19,622 --> 01:04:20,690
I like Mr. Feeney.

1610
01:04:21,858 --> 01:04:22,291
Look at that.

1611
01:04:22,291 --> 01:04:23,259
Thank you, Mr. Feeney.

1612
01:04:23,259 --> 01:04:25,428
He calls me Eric in parentheses.

1613
01:04:25,428 --> 01:04:27,163
That's
like a huge thing for a third grader.

1614
01:04:27,163 --> 01:04:27,830
Oh, yeah.

1615
01:04:27,830 --> 01:04:30,266
They're like Eric's name. And I'm like.

1616
01:04:30,266 --> 01:04:33,736
Well, first you gotta figure, well,
figure out what their name is, right?

1617
01:04:33,803 --> 01:04:36,072
I don't want you to get that information.
Yeah.

1618
01:04:36,072 --> 01:04:37,740
But back in the day, you're like,
you don't ever.

1619
01:04:37,740 --> 01:04:39,075
You call your teacher Mr..

1620
01:04:39,075 --> 01:04:41,110
So I'm like, call me whatever.

1621
01:04:41,110 --> 01:04:44,113
Yeah, yeah, I don't care. Yeah. Eric.

1622
01:04:44,413 --> 01:04:44,847
Yeah.

1623
01:04:44,847 --> 01:04:48,384
You know, out of respect,
don't call me like names.

1624
01:04:49,518 --> 01:04:50,853
Oh, you see, that happens too.

1625
01:04:50,853 --> 01:04:52,588
Yeah, yeah.

1626
01:04:52,588 --> 01:04:54,490
Oh, yeah. It's so cool you had.

1627
01:04:54,490 --> 01:04:56,359
How are you feeling on this podcast?

1628
01:04:56,359 --> 01:04:57,493
You're very nervous.

1629
01:04:57,493 --> 01:04:58,928
Not not not not nervous at all.

1630
01:04:58,928 --> 01:05:01,030
You're like calm, cool, collective.

1631
01:05:01,030 --> 01:05:02,798
Yeah, well,
you can't tell what's going on inside.

1632
01:05:03,933 --> 01:05:06,302
Reminds me of the
time that you were on with Karen Scott.

1633
01:05:06,302 --> 01:05:07,904
They're all dude, Scot Haney.

1634
01:05:07,904 --> 01:05:10,306
Yeah. Channel three, better day.

1635
01:05:10,306 --> 01:05:10,907
Connecticut.

1636
01:05:10,907 --> 01:05:11,908
Great day. Connecticut.

1637
01:05:11,908 --> 01:05:13,142
I was that very good.

1638
01:05:13,142 --> 01:05:15,077
No nerve wracking.
That was a little nervous.

1639
01:05:15,077 --> 01:05:18,047
I mean, you got a lot of cameras on you
tight.

1640
01:05:18,047 --> 01:05:22,485
But, Scott and Kara make it very easy,
just like you have today.

1641
01:05:22,952 --> 01:05:26,555
Yeah, they're super welcoming, and,
you know,

1642
01:05:26,555 --> 01:05:29,592
they you gotta go in prepped a little
so you know what you're doing.

1643
01:05:29,592 --> 01:05:31,661
You can't just get stuck on the
on the screen.

1644
01:05:31,661 --> 01:05:33,062
I watched. That was. Really good. Yeah.

1645
01:05:33,062 --> 01:05:34,730
How did you. Set that up?
Do you reach out to them?

1646
01:05:34,730 --> 01:05:35,865
Do they reach out to you?

1647
01:05:35,865 --> 01:05:36,098
Yeah.

1648
01:05:36,098 --> 01:05:39,235
So, We have a,

1649
01:05:39,235 --> 01:05:44,640
a marketing rep with channel three,
and she reaches out and she tries

1650
01:05:44,640 --> 01:05:47,610
to let us know when good times might be
and invites us on.

1651
01:05:48,377 --> 01:05:52,248
And, you know, we try to do it
probably like three times a year

1652
01:05:52,248 --> 01:05:57,153
because you get to talk to people
more than just a commercial.

1653
01:05:57,853 --> 01:06:00,856
And, 
we get a lot of great feedback with that.

1654
01:06:00,856 --> 01:06:01,524
Yeah. That's cool.

1655
01:06:01,524 --> 01:06:02,224
That was great.

1656
01:06:02,224 --> 01:06:03,726
So maybe I'll share the link.

1657
01:06:03,726 --> 01:06:05,561
But Karen Scott.

1658
01:06:05,561 --> 01:06:07,096
Yeah, we already think.

1659
01:06:07,096 --> 01:06:09,565
We already think, maximum beverage.

1660
01:06:10,967 --> 01:06:12,969
You know, my guy Matt Whitney.

1661
01:06:12,969 --> 01:06:15,972
Matt Anthony.

1662
01:06:16,906 --> 01:06:17,606
You ready for us?

1663
01:06:17,606 --> 01:06:19,141
You're going to come on.
You want to come back.

1664
01:06:19,141 --> 01:06:20,042
To find. My channel?

1665
01:06:20,042 --> 01:06:23,045
Okay, we'll give you a couple minutes.

1666
01:06:23,145 --> 01:06:26,148
That Happy Gilmore check.

1667
01:06:28,851 --> 01:06:32,221
Oh, so as a thank you
and you swagged me up.

1668
01:06:32,221 --> 01:06:34,123
I love my shirt. Yeah.

1669
01:06:34,123 --> 01:06:36,158
The Portuguese and the Italian flag.

1670
01:06:36,158 --> 01:06:37,560
Yeah. Embroidered in there.

1671
01:06:37,560 --> 01:06:37,994
Yeah, yeah.

1672
01:06:37,994 --> 01:06:39,762
Does your shirts, Dave freshening.

1673
01:06:39,762 --> 01:06:42,465
You. Know, the West.

1674
01:06:42,465 --> 01:06:45,167
I forget. Park Road. That's right.

1675
01:06:45,167 --> 01:06:47,470
Funny that you see that. Could
guess who does my shirt.

1676
01:06:47,470 --> 01:06:48,771
There you go.

1677
01:06:48,771 --> 01:06:50,573
Fresh ink, fresh ink.

1678
01:06:50,573 --> 01:06:53,042
Shout out the fresh. Yeah. Keep it local.

1679
01:06:53,042 --> 01:06:55,144
Keep it local.

1680
01:06:55,144 --> 01:06:56,846
I want to give you a shirt. Thank.

1681
01:06:56,846 --> 01:06:59,849
Thank you for. Being a good friend I.

1682
01:07:00,049 --> 01:07:02,218
Love it I love that's the OG shirt.

1683
01:07:02,218 --> 01:07:04,653
Correct. Yeah. Good friend.

1684
01:07:04,653 --> 01:07:05,855
You talk about my design.

1685
01:07:05,855 --> 01:07:08,491
Yours is excellent. As well right. Yeah.

1686
01:07:08,491 --> 01:07:11,360
And that's another thing. Motto is
you can't you can't beat the motto.

1687
01:07:11,360 --> 01:07:12,194
Be your friend.

1688
01:07:12,194 --> 01:07:15,197
No drive like a friend. Hold the door.

1689
01:07:15,231 --> 01:07:16,999
Give compliments, be charitable.

1690
01:07:16,999 --> 01:07:18,701
Yeah, I love that.

1691
01:07:18,701 --> 01:07:20,403
Good color to the gym.

1692
01:07:20,403 --> 01:07:22,304
You bet. Don't rip out of it.
You like rip out?

1693
01:07:22,304 --> 01:07:23,606
I like the Hulk, though.

1694
01:07:23,606 --> 01:07:26,409
David Banner, that shirt. Yeah. I wish.

1695
01:07:26,409 --> 01:07:28,644
Putting up 315 or 350.

1696
01:07:28,644 --> 01:07:31,814
Three
1503 is a little three. 15 for a few.

1697
01:07:32,281 --> 01:07:34,417
Yeah. Geez.

1698
01:07:34,417 --> 01:07:35,451
That's nothing.

1699
01:07:35,451 --> 01:07:36,152
It's nothing.

1700
01:07:36,152 --> 01:07:38,821
Now, now they're gonna put up more.

1701
01:07:38,821 --> 01:07:40,589
Have you ever put up more? Nope.

1702
01:07:40,589 --> 01:07:42,491
Now probably stronger there, but really?

1703
01:07:42,491 --> 01:07:45,294
Yeah. Yeah,
that's really cool. Discipline, man.

1704
01:07:45,294 --> 01:07:46,095
Goes a long way.

1705
01:07:47,096 --> 01:07:48,264
Take creatine or.

1706
01:07:48,264 --> 01:07:50,499
Any lots of. Great. Yeah, yeah.

1707
01:07:50,499 --> 01:07:51,300
Lots creatine.

1708
01:07:51,300 --> 01:07:54,537
Pre-workout out, amino acids.

1709
01:07:54,537 --> 01:07:56,472
I take it all magnesium.

1710
01:07:56,472 --> 01:07:58,307
Are you up to peptides yet or. No. No.

1711
01:07:58,307 --> 01:08:00,743
Not yet.
I think I will be soon though, right?

1712
01:08:00,743 --> 01:08:02,445
I don't know,
I hear cuz that. Game day West.

1713
01:08:02,445 --> 01:08:03,979
Hartford. Yeah, I should talk with that.

1714
01:08:03,979 --> 01:08:06,482
I met the guy there. I met the guy. Yeah.

1715
01:08:06,482 --> 01:08:07,616
I've heard. Good. Thanks.

1716
01:08:07,616 --> 01:08:10,453
He's talking
very high on the peptides. Yeah.

1717
01:08:10,453 --> 01:08:12,888
Hydrogen water, mineralized water.

1718
01:08:12,888 --> 01:08:15,891
Yeah, they're doing it all now.

1719
01:08:16,158 --> 01:08:16,992
It's got a job.

1720
01:08:16,992 --> 01:08:19,161
Some labs is, and we'll do yours.

1721
01:08:19,161 --> 01:08:24,166
I take calcium, vitamin
C, and like, kosa mine for my knee.

1722
01:08:24,166 --> 01:08:24,900
Yeah.

1723
01:08:24,900 --> 01:08:26,602
But I don't take anything yet.

1724
01:08:26,602 --> 01:08:29,238
Our protein. Protein powder.

1725
01:08:29,238 --> 01:08:30,372
I want to get on this creatine.

1726
01:08:30,372 --> 01:08:32,074
Do you do gummies? Greetings. Great.

1727
01:08:32,074 --> 01:08:34,577
I do both gummies in the powder.

1728
01:08:34,577 --> 01:08:37,113
Cheese every day? Oh, yeah.

1729
01:08:37,113 --> 01:08:38,781
Every day. Even if I'm not going to gym.

1730
01:08:39,782 --> 01:08:41,350
I heard
creatine is also good for your brain.

1731
01:08:41,350 --> 01:08:44,353
Do you feel good with memory
or recall. Or.

1732
01:08:44,453 --> 01:08:47,189
No, but I've always been deficient
in that.

1733
01:08:47,189 --> 01:08:49,058
I'm not the smartest guy.

1734
01:08:49,058 --> 01:08:52,761
Yeah, no, but, it
definitely helps with recovery and growth.

1735
01:08:52,795 --> 01:08:54,029
Yeah, yeah.

1736
01:08:54,029 --> 01:08:57,032
When you stop taking it,
you see how much it helps?

1737
01:08:57,199 --> 01:08:58,067
Yeah.

1738
01:08:58,067 --> 01:09:00,402
I agree with that. Then
I'm getting some creatine. Great things.

1739
01:09:00,402 --> 01:09:03,405
Great. Yeah. Creatine. Yes, sir.

1740
01:09:03,706 --> 01:09:04,473
But we have this.

1741
01:09:04,473 --> 01:09:05,374
How about Jordan juice.

1742
01:09:05,374 --> 01:09:06,909
You have a drink Jordan juice.

1743
01:09:06,909 --> 01:09:08,711
This is Knob Creek.

1744
01:09:08,711 --> 01:09:10,746
I got to get this in before
Matt comes back.

1745
01:09:10,746 --> 01:09:14,950
Signature Wine and Spirits in Simsbury
did a collab with us.

1746
01:09:14,950 --> 01:09:19,421
They picked the barrel signature
wine spirits, and this is a cool label.

1747
01:09:19,421 --> 01:09:21,257
Oh, shelf.

1748
01:09:21,257 --> 01:09:22,091
Thank you Vinnie.

1749
01:09:22,091 --> 01:09:23,626
Thank you Omar, our co-president.

1750
01:09:23,626 --> 01:09:25,161
Vinnie, put this together.

1751
01:09:25,161 --> 01:09:26,428
You get to scan our code.

1752
01:09:26,428 --> 01:09:26,762
Yeah.

1753
01:09:26,762 --> 01:09:29,765
Go to and go to Vinnie's code. QR code.

1754
01:09:30,032 --> 01:09:31,534
But you see the golf theme?

1755
01:09:31,534 --> 01:09:33,402
Yeah. Friends of. Feeney.

1756
01:09:33,402 --> 01:09:35,938
You can't get ten year
knob creep in Connecticut.

1757
01:09:35,938 --> 01:09:38,240
Really? The only one you could get nine
year.

1758
01:09:38,240 --> 01:09:40,109
Yeah, this is. The only ten year. Wow.

1759
01:09:40,109 --> 01:09:42,444
So this is an exclusive.
There were 90 bottles.

1760
01:09:42,444 --> 01:09:45,848
There's only 20 bottles left,
so get it while you can.

1761
01:09:46,048 --> 01:09:47,349
It's 85 bucks.

1762
01:09:47,349 --> 01:09:50,219
20 of it goes to Friends of Feeney. Okay.

1763
01:09:50,219 --> 01:09:51,220
So it's really cool.

1764
01:09:52,421 --> 01:09:54,089
But thank you, Vinnie.

1765
01:09:54,089 --> 01:09:56,025
And again,
thank you all for this wonderful idea.

1766
01:09:56,025 --> 01:09:57,393
And they move fast too.

1767
01:09:57,393 --> 01:10:00,296
Oh I believe yeah. So

1768
01:10:00,296 --> 01:10:01,063
check it out.

1769
01:10:01,063 --> 01:10:03,065
Look at that smart collab.

1770
01:10:03,065 --> 01:10:08,237
I like it I know
we're we like collabing on, fundraisers.

1771
01:10:08,237 --> 01:10:10,639
You know, we're doing a hockey game.

1772
01:10:10,639 --> 01:10:12,608
We sold over 100 tickets.

1773
01:10:12,608 --> 01:10:15,578
Yeah,
I think we're getting five bucks a ticket,

1774
01:10:15,578 --> 01:10:16,111
maybe more.

1775
01:10:16,111 --> 01:10:18,113
We get 5 or 4.

1776
01:10:18,113 --> 01:10:19,048
Four bucks a ticket.

1777
01:10:19,048 --> 01:10:19,882
It's pretty good.

1778
01:10:19,882 --> 01:10:22,384
400 bucks just to go to a game. Yeah.

1779
01:10:22,384 --> 01:10:25,020
We got ten kids that are going to line up
and do the high five tunnel.

1780
01:10:25,020 --> 01:10:28,023
Yeah. It's fun. So it's pretty cool.

1781
01:10:28,557 --> 01:10:30,292
That wolf pack. Yeah.

1782
01:10:30,292 --> 01:10:30,893
Very good.

1783
01:10:30,893 --> 01:10:33,896
Pack.

1784
01:10:33,963 --> 01:10:36,932
Also want to recommend,

1785
01:10:37,333 --> 01:10:38,200
do you like basketball?

1786
01:10:38,200 --> 01:10:40,369
You like that? Sure.
There's a Netflix special.

1787
01:10:40,369 --> 01:10:42,538
I just watched it. Six episodes.

1788
01:10:42,538 --> 01:10:44,073
About the Olympics.

1789
01:10:44,073 --> 01:10:44,607
Oh, yeah.

1790
01:10:44,607 --> 01:10:47,543
It didn't just focus on the USA,
which was really cool.

1791
01:10:47,543 --> 01:10:49,678
I learned so much about Team Canada.

1792
01:10:49,678 --> 01:10:51,280
Stacked with NBA players.

1793
01:10:51,280 --> 01:10:53,582
Yeah, team France stacked.

1794
01:10:53,582 --> 01:10:55,651
They're going to win it next year when me.

1795
01:10:55,651 --> 01:10:58,020
Because. When me. On if he's not hurt. 
Yeah.

1796
01:10:58,020 --> 01:11:01,023
If he's not hurt but yeah even Serbia

1797
01:11:01,090 --> 01:11:04,226
amazing amazing team Serbia with Jokic.

1798
01:11:04,893 --> 01:11:06,061
But it was really cool.

1799
01:11:06,061 --> 01:11:08,364
And then R.J. Barrett. He's Canadian.

1800
01:11:08,364 --> 01:11:09,064
He's Canadian.

1801
01:11:09,064 --> 01:11:12,635
His dad he's he's Rohan Jr Barrett.

1802
01:11:12,635 --> 01:11:17,239
His dad was the Canadian coach and played
with Steve Nash I didn't know that. Oh

1803
01:11:18,307 --> 01:11:20,075
who else is the Canadian.

1804
01:11:20,075 --> 01:11:23,078
What's his initials SK J oh yeah.

1805
01:11:23,312 --> 01:11:24,680
I mean he's a stud.

1806
01:11:24,680 --> 01:11:27,049
He's going to be MVP this. Year,
I think. Yeah.

1807
01:11:27,049 --> 01:11:27,483
What's his name?

1808
01:11:27,483 --> 01:11:32,121
I just watched him last night
OKC versus Timberwolves on NBA TV.

1809
01:11:32,121 --> 01:11:33,622
I watched.

1810
01:11:33,622 --> 01:11:34,657
You big. Basketball game.

1811
01:11:34,657 --> 01:11:36,925
Yeah yeah. And I didn't have YouTube TV.

1812
01:11:36,925 --> 01:11:38,294
So now I do.

1813
01:11:38,294 --> 01:11:40,129
And I'm like I'm watching this game.

1814
01:11:40,129 --> 01:11:41,630
It goes to overtime.

1815
01:11:41,630 --> 01:11:44,266
OKC makes it 12

1816
01:11:44,266 --> 01:11:47,269
point comeback
with like five minutes left.

1817
01:11:47,303 --> 01:11:48,037
Now the other way around.

1818
01:11:48,037 --> 01:11:51,040
Timberland Timberwolves come back. Yes.

1819
01:11:51,507 --> 01:11:53,208
What's his name. Yeah.

1820
01:11:53,208 --> 01:11:54,910
Jarius. Alexan.

1821
01:11:54,910 --> 01:11:56,679
But they call him

1822
01:11:56,679 --> 01:11:58,013
SGA. Yes.

1823
01:11:58,013 --> 01:12:00,182
That's it SGA.

1824
01:12:00,182 --> 01:12:02,351
Yeah. You know.

1825
01:12:02,351 --> 01:12:03,452
Oh, great.

1826
01:12:03,452 --> 01:12:06,422
And I swear they called the,

1827
01:12:07,656 --> 01:12:11,760
they called the USAA team, the Avengers
right there in the whole time.

1828
01:12:11,760 --> 01:12:15,898
Yeah, I swear they ended it with me
looking like Thanos going.

1829
01:12:15,931 --> 01:12:18,400
They may have lost, but you're going to.

1830
01:12:18,400 --> 01:12:19,968
I'm calling out, everyone watch me.

1831
01:12:19,968 --> 01:12:21,370
From now on. And it ends.

1832
01:12:21,370 --> 01:12:22,237
And it ends.

1833
01:12:22,237 --> 01:12:25,140
It was crazy. Like, yeah,
he called out the world. Yeah.

1834
01:12:25,140 --> 01:12:27,910
And it ended. It was like,
when he's going to be the man.

1835
01:12:27,910 --> 01:12:29,244
That good Olympics.

1836
01:12:29,244 --> 01:12:31,046
It was coming up in school.

1837
01:12:31,046 --> 01:12:33,749
He's seven one goes between the legs.

1838
01:12:33,749 --> 01:12:35,718
Threes. Yeah.

1839
01:12:35,718 --> 01:12:37,486
Oh, there's another guy who's French.

1840
01:12:37,486 --> 01:12:38,754
He's the French captain.

1841
01:12:41,156 --> 01:12:41,790
What's his name?

1842
01:12:41,790 --> 01:12:44,193
I don't know as well as you do not Tatum.

1843
01:12:44,193 --> 01:12:47,196
It's like shoot.

1844
01:12:47,463 --> 01:12:49,832
But his dad, he was three.

1845
01:12:49,832 --> 01:12:51,166
He was watching his dad play basketball.

1846
01:12:51,166 --> 01:12:54,169
His dad passed, passed away on the court.

1847
01:12:54,870 --> 01:12:55,471
Gosh.

1848
01:12:55,471 --> 01:12:57,573
Button.

1849
01:12:57,573 --> 01:12:59,007
Peter Nico.

1850
01:12:59,007 --> 01:13:01,910
Batum is it. But Batum

1851
01:13:01,910 --> 01:13:03,445
but I highly suggest.

1852
01:13:03,445 --> 01:13:03,879
The same.

1853
01:13:03,879 --> 01:13:06,281
Batum that we knew growing up between. It.

1854
01:13:06,281 --> 01:13:07,716
I think.

1855
01:13:07,716 --> 01:13:10,719
Yeah there's that that

1856
01:13:10,986 --> 01:13:11,553
I don't know I.

1857
01:13:11,553 --> 01:13:13,455
Think that's we know that we know the.

1858
01:13:13,455 --> 01:13:16,458
Kid. Yeah. No I learned a lot.

1859
01:13:16,458 --> 01:13:19,695
Yeah a lot of that is from the Dream
Team.

1860
01:13:19,928 --> 01:13:22,631
Yeah. Their imprint all over the world.

1861
01:13:22,631 --> 01:13:26,335
They said that comes back in front of all
these excellent international players.

1862
01:13:26,402 --> 01:13:28,804
Dirk was ten when he saw that Dream team.

1863
01:13:28,804 --> 01:13:30,305
And he's like, that's it.
That's what I want to do.

1864
01:13:30,305 --> 01:13:32,908
Dirk and Vince
and they interviewed him. There you go.

1865
01:13:32,908 --> 01:13:35,577
So many people were like,
that was the inspiration over the world.

1866
01:13:35,577 --> 01:13:35,944
Sure,

1867
01:13:36,979 --> 01:13:39,181
absolutely.

1868
01:13:39,181 --> 01:13:42,184
Greatest sports team ever assembled.

1869
01:13:42,251 --> 01:13:45,821
Freshman year, my first day of school off,
it was a Charles Barkley.

1870
01:13:45,854 --> 01:13:49,792
Yeah, matching up to Charles Barkley.

1871
01:13:49,792 --> 01:13:51,493
Yeah. Shorts and shorts.

1872
01:13:51,493 --> 01:13:53,729
Shirts set with air Max.

1873
01:13:53,729 --> 01:13:55,664
And that vintage
look is back in style in the.

1874
01:13:55,664 --> 01:13:59,001
Vintage thing because I was like,
I want to buy the Barkley jersey again.

1875
01:13:59,034 --> 01:14:01,937
Yeah, it was number 1414.

1876
01:14:01,937 --> 01:14:03,205
Yeah, I know they do.

1877
01:14:03,205 --> 01:14:04,606
And Jordan was number nine.

1878
01:14:04,606 --> 01:14:07,309
Yeah, yeah. I remember that.

1879
01:14:07,309 --> 01:14:08,410
I forgot what bird was.

1880
01:14:08,410 --> 01:14:09,411
Bird was like, maybe.

1881
01:14:09,411 --> 01:14:11,046
It wasn't what I think.

1882
01:14:11,046 --> 01:14:13,081
Oh yeah. Yeah.

1883
01:14:13,081 --> 01:14:15,684
But that yeah that 92 team was amazing.

1884
01:14:15,684 --> 01:14:17,886
Greatest team ever assembled.
Greatest team ever assembled.

1885
01:14:17,886 --> 01:14:20,823
Change the way
I. I mean, I fell in love with sports.

1886
01:14:20,823 --> 01:14:21,557
Yeah.

1887
01:14:21,557 --> 01:14:24,159
I was already in love with sports,
but that was like.

1888
01:14:24,159 --> 01:14:26,962
And then, like the patriotism
and the pride.

1889
01:14:26,962 --> 01:14:27,596
Yeah.

1890
01:14:27,596 --> 01:14:29,565
Destroying people. USA is that. Bad?

1891
01:14:29,565 --> 01:14:32,434
It's always fun to win, too. Yeah, yeah.

1892
01:14:34,069 --> 01:14:35,370
So you're Anthony's a

1893
01:14:35,370 --> 01:14:39,708
family owned,
operated for in CT for ten years.

1894
01:14:39,842 --> 01:14:42,211
Have you ever done a job
outside of Connecticut?

1895
01:14:42,211 --> 01:14:43,712
Yeah. We do southern mass.

1896
01:14:43,712 --> 01:14:46,648
Okay. Yep.

1897
01:14:46,648 --> 01:14:47,216
Yeah. It's not.

1898
01:14:47,216 --> 01:14:50,219
It's a it's a quick right.

1899
01:14:50,552 --> 01:14:53,555
We do a lot of Greenwich and Stamford,
Fairfield County, too.

1900
01:14:54,122 --> 01:14:57,593
It's definitely a tough ride for us, but,
we covered a whole state.

1901
01:14:58,260 --> 01:14:59,328
Yeah.

1902
01:14:59,328 --> 01:15:02,331
Where do you see
Anthony's abatement in five years?

1903
01:15:02,965 --> 01:15:04,399
That's a great question.

1904
01:15:04,399 --> 01:15:07,402
Five years?

1905
01:15:07,736 --> 01:15:10,105
I would probably say

1906
01:15:10,105 --> 01:15:12,741
more than doubled in size.

1907
01:15:12,741 --> 01:15:15,244
And,

1908
01:15:15,244 --> 01:15:18,514
probably a
another branch in Fairfield County

1909
01:15:19,448 --> 01:15:21,650
and, yeah, yeah,

1910
01:15:21,650 --> 01:15:25,921
doing the same services,
sticking to the same things we're doing,

1911
01:15:25,921 --> 01:15:30,492
keeping it simple and,
just doing it at a larger volume.

1912
01:15:31,927 --> 01:15:34,096
Yeah. Very good place to go.

1913
01:15:34,096 --> 01:15:38,233
I know someone said that asked that where
would friends of Feeney be in five years?

1914
01:15:38,233 --> 01:15:42,004
And I was like, I don't really know,
but I hope that we're raised,

1915
01:15:42,471 --> 01:15:46,074
you know, over close
to $1 million for families. Yes.

1916
01:15:46,308 --> 01:15:49,945
Because if we're at a quarter of a mill
now, yeah, five years,

1917
01:15:49,945 --> 01:15:52,614
we hope to get to
a mill. Yeah. And maybe get

1918
01:15:54,216 --> 01:15:55,817
to over like 60

1919
01:15:55,817 --> 01:15:59,588
families or 75 family would be great
or no, not worried at 90.

1920
01:15:59,588 --> 01:16:01,590
So it would be great
to be like 500 families.

1921
01:16:01,590 --> 01:16:02,858
That is an awesome goal.

1922
01:16:02,858 --> 01:16:05,127
The million is huge. In $1 million.

1923
01:16:05,127 --> 01:16:08,130
Yeah. Would get a golden check. Yeah.

1924
01:16:08,130 --> 01:16:09,164
Big happy. Gilmore.

1925
01:16:09,164 --> 01:16:11,199
I don't see why not.

1926
01:16:11,199 --> 01:16:13,335
The growth that you've done.

1927
01:16:13,335 --> 01:16:15,804
So I'm PA.

1928
01:16:15,804 --> 01:16:17,005
Yeah. We just had this wonderful.

1929
01:16:17,005 --> 01:16:19,841
Event at. Parkville Market.

1930
01:16:19,841 --> 01:16:23,045
My buddy band showed up. We were.

1931
01:16:23,045 --> 01:16:24,446
We collaborated with them.

1932
01:16:24,446 --> 01:16:26,515
It's called Rock the local. Yeah.

1933
01:16:26,515 --> 01:16:29,518
We worked with the Hartford Greater Arts.

1934
01:16:29,618 --> 01:16:32,621
Greater Hartford arts.

1935
01:16:33,288 --> 01:16:37,292
And we have the concert series,
and then we got this beautiful

1936
01:16:37,292 --> 01:16:41,263
mural inside the local,
which my students helped paint.

1937
01:16:41,496 --> 01:16:43,131
And it's like the starry night.

1938
01:16:43,131 --> 01:16:46,201
So it's like the magnet,
but Starry Night, the Van Gogh painting.

1939
01:16:46,201 --> 01:16:48,770
Yeah. And my buddy doc.

1940
01:16:48,770 --> 01:16:51,306
Episode 58. Great podcast.

1941
01:16:51,306 --> 01:16:55,811
Most viewed, put on a band,
put on a show with his band.

1942
01:16:55,811 --> 01:16:56,445
It was amazing.

1943
01:16:56,445 --> 01:16:57,346
So it was a great time.

1944
01:16:57,346 --> 01:16:59,748
I saw friends I haven't seen in a while.

1945
01:16:59,748 --> 01:17:01,750
My buddy Justin showed up green.

1946
01:17:01,750 --> 01:17:02,484
He showed up.

1947
01:17:03,518 --> 01:17:03,785
And. It's

1948
01:17:03,785 --> 01:17:06,788
funny,
my guy Seth, this guy lives in California.

1949
01:17:06,788 --> 01:17:09,324
I swear I see him more

1950
01:17:09,324 --> 01:17:10,092
than some of my friends.

1951
01:17:10,092 --> 01:17:12,527
I live in. Connecticut.
Yeah. Isn't that weird how that works?

1952
01:17:12,527 --> 01:17:14,696
It is.
Because when he's around, he'll come by.

1953
01:17:14,696 --> 01:17:15,964
Right? Right.

1954
01:17:15,964 --> 01:17:17,766
He was like, at the casino,
and I just threw it out.

1955
01:17:17,766 --> 01:17:21,203
Hey, I'm here 7 to 10.
Yeah, and it's weird.

1956
01:17:21,203 --> 01:17:22,471
He's like, I'll be there in ten minutes.

1957
01:17:22,471 --> 01:17:24,606
I'm like, haha, you're in California.

1958
01:17:24,606 --> 01:17:25,507
And he really showed up.

1959
01:17:25,507 --> 01:17:29,378
It was like a wonderful surprise
to see good friends like that.

1960
01:17:29,378 --> 01:17:30,312
So it was good together.

1961
01:17:30,312 --> 01:17:31,546
You know, a good. Venue there.

1962
01:17:31,546 --> 01:17:32,614
And, yeah.

1963
01:17:32,614 --> 01:17:33,415
You like Parkville?

1964
01:17:33,415 --> 01:17:33,882
Oh yeah.

1965
01:17:33,882 --> 01:17:36,885
What's your go to food
at Parkville Market?

1966
01:17:36,952 --> 01:17:39,855
I would probably say Mofongo. Right. Yeah.

1967
01:17:40,822 --> 01:17:43,091
It's tough to get out Saturday night.

1968
01:17:43,091 --> 01:17:45,227
My phone go. Yeah. Very good. Yeah.

1969
01:17:45,227 --> 01:17:51,366
And then actually had mofongo
and a beef patty and some curry.

1970
01:17:51,566 --> 01:17:53,101
Jamaican food was really good.

1971
01:17:53,101 --> 01:17:54,469
I kept it diverse.

1972
01:17:54,469 --> 01:17:55,137
Yeah. Looks good.

1973
01:17:55,137 --> 01:17:57,506
Listen, I got a daughter
that's a vegetarian.

1974
01:17:57,506 --> 01:17:58,540
Yeah. Like me.

1975
01:17:58,540 --> 01:17:59,975
You go there with a family.

1976
01:17:59,975 --> 01:18:00,942
Everyone's happy.

1977
01:18:00,942 --> 01:18:01,410
Yeah.

1978
01:18:01,410 --> 01:18:03,979
You can't say, oh,
I don't like what I see.

1979
01:18:03,979 --> 01:18:06,148
And something.
So it's an amazing place. It's.

1980
01:18:06,148 --> 01:18:07,549
What's cool about that place?

1981
01:18:07,549 --> 01:18:09,985
Used to be a ladder supply place.

1982
01:18:09,985 --> 01:18:10,752
Yeah, they have that.

1983
01:18:10,752 --> 01:18:12,988
Our mural is next to the ladder supply.

1984
01:18:12,988 --> 01:18:14,990
Yeah. There's an old bishop's ladder.

1985
01:18:14,990 --> 01:18:15,724
Yeah, yeah.

1986
01:18:15,724 --> 01:18:17,926
It's a yellow. Says Bishop's ladder. Yep.

1987
01:18:17,926 --> 01:18:18,960
You remember that?

1988
01:18:18,960 --> 01:18:20,996
Yeah. We gutted the place.

1989
01:18:20,996 --> 01:18:22,431
Did you do the abatement of.

1990
01:18:22,431 --> 01:18:23,498
We didn't do the abatement.

1991
01:18:23,498 --> 01:18:26,268
We did some of the demo. On the way. Yeah.

1992
01:18:26,268 --> 01:18:29,104
And Carlos is big on preserving
some of this stuff.

1993
01:18:29,104 --> 01:18:29,805
Portuguese?

1994
01:18:31,373 --> 01:18:32,307
Yeah.

1995
01:18:32,307 --> 01:18:34,076
Mozambique. He's from Mozambique.

1996
01:18:34,076 --> 01:18:37,145
Yeah, but he's Portuguese. Yep.

1997
01:18:37,145 --> 01:18:38,213
Carlos moto? Yep.

1998
01:18:38,213 --> 01:18:40,382
Carlos mode, a podcast guest.

1999
01:18:40,382 --> 01:18:42,417
The other person? Yeah. Oh, yeah.

2000
01:18:42,417 --> 01:18:43,452
We needed storage.

2001
01:18:43,452 --> 01:18:45,020
He gave us storage out.

2002
01:18:45,020 --> 01:18:46,722
Yeah,

2003
01:18:46,722 --> 01:18:48,857
40 Arbor Street.

2004
01:18:48,857 --> 01:18:50,826
We're in the basement of 40 Arbor Street.

2005
01:18:50,826 --> 01:18:52,594
Put a lot of our parade equipment there.

2006
01:18:52,594 --> 01:18:54,396
Yeah, he's smart guy.

2007
01:18:54,396 --> 01:18:56,164
He is owning half of Hartford.

2008
01:18:56,164 --> 01:18:59,167
Yeah, right. Yeah. And so did you.

2009
01:18:59,267 --> 01:19:03,004
Did he tell you to preserve some things,
like keep the vintage look like

2010
01:19:03,004 --> 01:19:06,007
he wanted some of the,
We weren't working directly for him.

2011
01:19:06,007 --> 01:19:08,510
We were working
for his general contractor.

2012
01:19:08,510 --> 01:19:11,179
Yeah, we were doing, like,

2013
01:19:11,179 --> 01:19:14,449
just a overall clean out
and taking down, like, shelving and stuff.

2014
01:19:15,050 --> 01:19:17,219
Yeah. Because he likes to build around it.

2015
01:19:17,219 --> 01:19:17,519
If he.

2016
01:19:17,519 --> 01:19:20,555
If the wood could be preserved,
he likes to have that shown.

2017
01:19:20,555 --> 01:19:23,225
Yeah. Even in his apartments,
he was, smart.

2018
01:19:23,225 --> 01:19:26,561
And he kept, he kept, he kept
a lot of woods to make the picnic table.

2019
01:19:26,561 --> 01:19:27,262
Yeah.

2020
01:19:27,262 --> 01:19:30,332
He had that Bishop ladder sign still,
which he thought it was really cool.

2021
01:19:30,932 --> 01:19:34,035
He's big into,
like, holding on to and keeping it,

2022
01:19:35,070 --> 01:19:36,538
authentic and vintage, which is.

2023
01:19:36,538 --> 01:19:40,709
Good for an investor like him, because
too many of them lose sight of that.

2024
01:19:40,942 --> 01:19:42,043
And just want to demo.

2025
01:19:42,043 --> 01:19:44,412
Yeah. Yeah, it's
good to keep the character.

2026
01:19:44,412 --> 01:19:46,248
Yeah, he's a great guy. He is.

2027
01:19:46,248 --> 01:19:46,581
Oh yeah.

2028
01:19:46,581 --> 01:19:50,418
So do you know PD PD
then that PD Q the Portuguese place.

2029
01:19:50,652 --> 01:19:52,954
I don't know. P2P.
Oh you got to check that out.

2030
01:19:52,954 --> 01:19:53,955
They opened up.

2031
01:19:53,955 --> 01:19:57,159
They were in Parkville market but now
they have their own location on Parkville.

2032
01:19:57,292 --> 01:19:58,560
Oh Portuguese.

2033
01:19:58,560 --> 01:20:00,996
Okay I got check that they got a. Special.

2034
01:20:00,996 --> 01:20:03,398
Sauce. Yeah.

2035
01:20:03,398 --> 01:20:04,766
We did a hot dog contest there.

2036
01:20:04,766 --> 01:20:05,901
They came in third place.

2037
01:20:05,901 --> 01:20:07,869
Really? Second place.

2038
01:20:07,869 --> 01:20:09,871
But interesting.

2039
01:20:09,871 --> 01:20:11,640
Yeah.
I'm gonna have to check them out. So.

2040
01:20:11,640 --> 01:20:14,943
So who do you like?
Messi. Ronaldo? I mean,

2041
01:20:15,944 --> 01:20:18,213
boy, I have to say

2042
01:20:18,213 --> 01:20:22,117
Ronaldo, but, I can admit
Messi is probably the best player ever.

2043
01:20:22,317 --> 01:20:24,386
Yeah. Really? Yeah,
I think I can say that.

2044
01:20:24,386 --> 01:20:26,655
That you were just gonna
automatically go with. The tomboy.

2045
01:20:26,655 --> 01:20:29,157
I got to. I mean, it's my favorite, but.

2046
01:20:29,157 --> 01:20:32,160
Yeah,
she's a little different than everyone.

2047
01:20:32,527 --> 01:20:33,328
True. Yeah.

2048
01:20:33,328 --> 01:20:36,331
Did you like soccer now?

2049
01:20:36,531 --> 01:20:39,467
I was this size when I was three, so,

2050
01:20:39,467 --> 01:20:42,470
soccer wasn't really in my repertoire.

2051
01:20:42,871 --> 01:20:43,772
Nope.

2052
01:20:43,772 --> 01:20:47,542
I was, Oh, line
football and goalie in lacrosse.

2053
01:20:47,542 --> 01:20:49,177
And that's about it.

2054
01:20:49,177 --> 01:20:50,779
Yeah. We're here at maximum.

2055
01:20:50,779 --> 01:20:51,913
Maximum beverage.

2056
01:20:51,913 --> 01:20:54,482
Good friend. Coach, come say hi.
Come say hi.

2057
01:20:54,482 --> 01:20:55,984
Tell us how you feel.

2058
01:20:55,984 --> 01:20:57,118
Yeah. All right.

2059
01:20:57,118 --> 01:20:59,254
That's my guy right here.
You know. Anthony. That's nice.

2060
01:20:59,254 --> 01:21:00,355
Hey how you doing Anthony.

2061
01:21:00,355 --> 01:21:02,390
What's up. My meet you
are you man. Good good.

2062
01:21:02,390 --> 01:21:03,625
Anthony's abatement.

2063
01:21:03,625 --> 01:21:05,260
Oh nice. That a. Branded. Bills.

2064
01:21:05,260 --> 01:21:06,027
Yeah. That's a amazing.

2065
01:21:06,027 --> 01:21:06,561
Oh look at. That.

2066
01:21:06,561 --> 01:21:09,297
That's a nice. Hat. With the shades on.

2067
01:21:09,297 --> 01:21:10,298
Yeah it's America baby.

2068
01:21:10,298 --> 01:21:12,868
People asking me
are you a Philadelphia Eagles fan?

2069
01:21:12,868 --> 01:21:15,604
What about this says Philadelphia Eagles?

2070
01:21:15,604 --> 01:21:16,571
Recency bias.

2071
01:21:17,973 --> 01:21:18,907
It's like

2072
01:21:18,907 --> 01:21:21,910
I'm like, all right, I'm not a Eagles fan.

2073
01:21:22,210 --> 01:21:24,512
Although I did root for them to win

2074
01:21:24,512 --> 01:21:26,014
I think Chiefs go down.

2075
01:21:26,014 --> 01:21:27,849
Yeah it's better than that. Yeah.

2076
01:21:27,849 --> 01:21:29,317
Not much okay.

2077
01:21:29,317 --> 01:21:32,153
So yeah. No big check.

2078
01:21:32,153 --> 01:21:33,321
Got a small check in my pocket.

2079
01:21:33,321 --> 01:21:34,656
I can give you that.

2080
01:21:34,656 --> 01:21:35,523
All right.

2081
01:21:35,523 --> 01:21:38,426
You want to, but, we could do it.

2082
01:21:38,426 --> 01:21:41,129
Another one.
All right, we'll do another one.

2083
01:21:41,129 --> 01:21:42,063
We'll do some. It.

2084
01:21:42,063 --> 01:21:43,798
We got to get the.
You got to get the big check.

2085
01:21:43,798 --> 01:21:46,334
Can't can't do a check presentation
with the check.

2086
01:21:46,334 --> 01:21:48,236
It's this. Big. Yeah. It's not cute.
All right.

2087
01:21:48,236 --> 01:21:49,337
Well, we'll we'll find it.

2088
01:21:49,337 --> 01:21:51,773
Well, thanks for everything, man.

2089
01:21:51,773 --> 01:21:54,042
Good to meet you. Sweet. You guys. Yeah.

2090
01:21:54,042 --> 01:21:55,844
All right. We're at our 20.

2091
01:21:55,844 --> 01:21:58,280
We usually shoot for 50 minutes
for Feeney.

2092
01:21:58,280 --> 01:21:58,747
Yeah, but.

2093
01:21:58,747 --> 01:22:00,215
So we're, our 20.

2094
01:22:00,215 --> 01:22:02,150
We got any closing remarks?

2095
01:22:02,150 --> 01:22:04,152
I had a wonderful time talking with you.

2096
01:22:04,152 --> 01:22:06,821
I could talk with you forever.
No, I. Know you have the gift. Of the gab.

2097
01:22:06,821 --> 01:22:08,156
Yeah, it was good.

2098
01:22:08,156 --> 01:22:08,590
It's great.

2099
01:22:08,590 --> 01:22:10,992
You know,
you made me feel very welcome here. And,

2100
01:22:11,960 --> 01:22:14,396
you know, your cause is incredible.

2101
01:22:14,396 --> 01:22:18,266
I mean, it's what we aspire to be like
is the cause that you're putting forth.

2102
01:22:18,266 --> 01:22:20,268
So, I'm just honored to be on here.

2103
01:22:20,268 --> 01:22:21,603
Thank you for having me.

2104
01:22:21,603 --> 01:22:22,504
All right.

2105
01:22:22,504 --> 01:22:24,806
So on three will say be a good friend.

2106
01:22:24,806 --> 01:22:26,975
One, two, three, be a. Good friend.