1 00:00:00,066 --> 00:00:01,368 All right, all right. 2 00:00:01,368 --> 00:00:02,702 Feeney talks with friends. 3 00:00:02,702 --> 00:00:06,272 Episode 121 Where Joey Bats. 4 00:00:06,806 --> 00:00:09,809 Joey Bats is my best friend, right? 5 00:00:10,510 --> 00:00:12,012 This is Feeney. Talks with friends. 6 00:00:12,012 --> 00:00:14,748 My name is Eric Feeney, founder and president of Friends of Feeney. 7 00:00:14,748 --> 00:00:15,548 Our mission is to help 8 00:00:15,548 --> 00:00:18,551 children and families that need assistance after heartbreak or tragedy. 9 00:00:18,651 --> 00:00:21,654 And I use this podcast to talk to wonderful friends 10 00:00:21,788 --> 00:00:24,157 that are doing great things. What's up Joey? 11 00:00:24,157 --> 00:00:25,592 What is good buddy? 12 00:00:25,592 --> 00:00:27,594 Yo, thank you so much for having me, man. 13 00:00:27,594 --> 00:00:29,396 With the man, the myth, the legend. Right here. 14 00:00:29,396 --> 00:00:29,629 There it. 15 00:00:29,629 --> 00:00:31,064 Is. There it is. 16 00:00:31,064 --> 00:00:34,067 He's on a sticker. Get the stickers, people. 17 00:00:34,501 --> 00:00:36,302 Best thing I ever did, bro. 18 00:00:36,302 --> 00:00:38,705 Best thing I ever did was put my face on a sticker. 19 00:00:38,705 --> 00:00:40,440 Man. A lot stop signs. 20 00:00:40,440 --> 00:00:42,642 West Hartford, Hartford. 21 00:00:42,642 --> 00:00:44,077 And then we got another cool sticker. 22 00:00:44,077 --> 00:00:46,980 We're going to talk about the hip hop for homeless. 23 00:00:46,980 --> 00:00:47,914 Hip hop for the homeless. 24 00:00:47,914 --> 00:00:49,916 Absolutely. We're in year 11. 25 00:00:49,916 --> 00:00:51,751 Your lives. Is exciting. 26 00:00:51,751 --> 00:00:53,420 I'm so excited to talk with you. 27 00:00:53,420 --> 00:00:55,021 This is a long time coming. 28 00:00:55,021 --> 00:00:55,655 I want to thank you, 29 00:00:55,655 --> 00:00:59,692 our common friend Matt Conway, for putting us together to connection. 30 00:01:00,293 --> 00:01:04,531 I knew I wanted to talk to you just when I saw your nonprofit, 31 00:01:04,531 --> 00:01:08,101 like, launch, and I was like, I'm everybody's best friend. 32 00:01:08,735 --> 00:01:10,070 This is friends with Feeney. 33 00:01:10,070 --> 00:01:12,305 Like this makes. Sense. Yup. 34 00:01:12,305 --> 00:01:13,873 Like the stars aligned. 35 00:01:13,873 --> 00:01:16,776 Like we'd be idiots to not be in the same room. 36 00:01:16,776 --> 00:01:17,577 You know what I'm saying? 37 00:01:17,577 --> 00:01:19,379 So it's a long time coming. 38 00:01:19,379 --> 00:01:21,347 I love it. I'm excited. 39 00:01:21,347 --> 00:01:24,684 I hope that we could continue to collaborate for years to come in. 40 00:01:24,717 --> 00:01:27,620 This is. This is a great start. Yeah. Very excited yet? 41 00:01:27,620 --> 00:01:28,855 This is a long time coming. 42 00:01:28,855 --> 00:01:31,124 It is meant to be your best friend. 43 00:01:31,124 --> 00:01:31,791 Friends of Feeney. 44 00:01:31,791 --> 00:01:33,159 You said it. 45 00:01:33,159 --> 00:01:35,595 Hip hop for the homeless, year 11. Yeah. 46 00:01:35,595 --> 00:01:36,262 How are we doing? 47 00:01:37,230 --> 00:01:37,864 We excited. 48 00:01:37,864 --> 00:01:39,966 Yo, we're we're super excited. 49 00:01:39,966 --> 00:01:41,267 We're super excited. 50 00:01:41,267 --> 00:01:43,870 We're in some markets that we've been in before. 51 00:01:43,870 --> 00:01:46,106 We're in some new markets. 52 00:01:46,106 --> 00:01:49,843 I have some amazing artists performing, and I got some new people coming out. 53 00:01:49,843 --> 00:01:50,310 It's just. 54 00:01:50,310 --> 00:01:52,745 It's just going to be incredible, man. I'm excited. 55 00:01:52,745 --> 00:01:54,647 Every year I get geeked. Every. 56 00:01:54,647 --> 00:01:57,217 It never gets old, you know what I mean? Every year. 57 00:01:57,217 --> 00:01:58,551 Where does idea come from? 58 00:01:58,551 --> 00:02:01,554 What was the inspiration? 59 00:02:01,721 --> 00:02:05,758 I had been like playing and I, you know, I've been gigging out 60 00:02:05,758 --> 00:02:08,928 with my band Joey Bats and them and we, you know, we were we were crushing it. 61 00:02:08,962 --> 00:02:12,332 We were killing it, you know, and and I getting gigs 62 00:02:12,332 --> 00:02:16,469 was was no hard thing, you know, but I just was like, 63 00:02:16,769 --> 00:02:20,573 year round, I'm playing, I'm making music, I'm making money. 64 00:02:20,573 --> 00:02:24,210 And it's just it was very like, selfish or like, self-involved. 65 00:02:24,577 --> 00:02:25,912 But I always wanted to do more. 66 00:02:25,912 --> 00:02:28,515 And, you know, we've always heard the concept of like, benefit concerts. 67 00:02:28,515 --> 00:02:31,084 I was like, you know, I want to do. That, right? 68 00:02:31,084 --> 00:02:32,619 Let me put a beacon out there. 69 00:02:32,619 --> 00:02:34,454 I didn't know what it was, but 70 00:02:34,454 --> 00:02:37,724 when I threw the beacon out there, everybody came out the woodworks. 71 00:02:38,091 --> 00:02:38,791 Yo, I got you. 72 00:02:38,791 --> 00:02:39,559 What do you need? 73 00:02:39,559 --> 00:02:42,562 The venue owners. The bar managers. 74 00:02:42,862 --> 00:02:46,766 The bartenders, people who wanted to sponsor, people who wanted to perform. 75 00:02:46,766 --> 00:02:50,103 People who were just willing to, like, volunteer themselves in any way possible. 76 00:02:50,637 --> 00:02:53,640 So the second part of that plan was, 77 00:02:54,007 --> 00:02:56,476 what do I want to benefit? 78 00:02:56,476 --> 00:03:01,080 And, at the time, this was this was 2014. 79 00:03:01,681 --> 00:03:05,852 At the time, I was having conversations with with students and, 80 00:03:07,620 --> 00:03:09,522 you know, in passing, a student was like, 81 00:03:09,522 --> 00:03:12,525 oh, yeah, you know, I've been couch surfing for, you know, a month now. 82 00:03:12,725 --> 00:03:14,427 And like, dude, I'm like. 83 00:03:14,427 --> 00:03:15,295 In high school, right? 84 00:03:15,295 --> 00:03:17,263 Like, you know what I'm saying to my buddies, how's this week? 85 00:03:17,263 --> 00:03:18,865 And I'm doing this this weekend. 86 00:03:18,865 --> 00:03:20,900 But then I was like, when are you going to go home? 87 00:03:20,900 --> 00:03:23,403 It was like, home. There's there's no home. 88 00:03:23,403 --> 00:03:26,839 So it wasn't like that was the first time, like the archetype 89 00:03:27,140 --> 00:03:29,175 of like the homeless person was like 90 00:03:29,175 --> 00:03:33,012 shattered my mind and like, caused me to, like, reboot, you know what I mean? 91 00:03:33,012 --> 00:03:35,582 Where I was just like, yo, homelessness. 92 00:03:35,582 --> 00:03:40,353 Houselessness being displaced affects so many, you know? 93 00:03:40,353 --> 00:03:44,390 And much like yourself, like, I spend such a such a big part of my day, 94 00:03:44,390 --> 00:03:47,393 a big part of my life with, with, with younger people, with students. 95 00:03:48,027 --> 00:03:51,030 And that's when I was like, if these people really are being affected 96 00:03:51,030 --> 00:03:55,368 by something and impacted by something, I could use my reach 97 00:03:55,368 --> 00:03:59,339 and my fame, my local fame for for something really good. 98 00:03:59,339 --> 00:04:02,041 And, that was like the second piece of the puzzle. 99 00:04:02,041 --> 00:04:03,476 And then we just kind of hit the ground running. 100 00:04:05,178 --> 00:04:06,713 That's an awesome, awesome story. 101 00:04:06,713 --> 00:04:09,015 And you never know why and how. 102 00:04:09,015 --> 00:04:13,286 Some things just come naturally, you know, and then or or organically. 103 00:04:13,319 --> 00:04:15,188 Yeah. And, this is cool. Yeah. 104 00:04:15,188 --> 00:04:16,322 A lot in common. 105 00:04:16,322 --> 00:04:19,292 I'm a teacher. You're a teacher? Yeah. 106 00:04:19,359 --> 00:04:21,661 Both started nonprofits. Yeah. 107 00:04:21,661 --> 00:04:22,895 I was yours. 108 00:04:22,895 --> 00:04:25,798 Congratulations. November 15th. Manchester. 109 00:04:25,798 --> 00:04:26,532 Yeah. Happened? 110 00:04:26,532 --> 00:04:29,535 Yeah. Yeah. 111 00:04:29,669 --> 00:04:30,303 We had our. 112 00:04:30,303 --> 00:04:33,339 Big ribbon cutting ceremony. It was awesome. 113 00:04:33,606 --> 00:04:36,609 So even though we've been doing this for ten years, 114 00:04:36,609 --> 00:04:39,612 it has been officially grassroots. 115 00:04:40,747 --> 00:04:45,251 Both due to my this inability to to understand the inner 116 00:04:45,251 --> 00:04:49,455 workings of a nonprofit and both because, like, that big packet of paperwork. 117 00:04:49,455 --> 00:04:50,957 Was just so ominous. 118 00:04:50,957 --> 00:04:52,458 I was like, I'm not messing with that. 119 00:04:52,458 --> 00:04:54,494 You know what I mean? 120 00:04:54,494 --> 00:04:57,230 But I had some people who helped me out. 121 00:04:57,230 --> 00:04:58,298 You mentioned Matt Conway. 122 00:04:58,298 --> 00:05:00,533 He was just like, hey, I know some people who help me. 123 00:05:00,533 --> 00:05:02,702 Why don't you talk to my lawyer? 124 00:05:02,702 --> 00:05:03,870 Shout out to my lawyer. 125 00:05:03,870 --> 00:05:05,638 My guy Bernie. He's awesome. 126 00:05:05,638 --> 00:05:06,773 He was like, yo, I got you. 127 00:05:06,773 --> 00:05:09,375 I'll help you with whatever you need. We'll make this happen. 128 00:05:09,375 --> 00:05:11,311 Because I knew Feeney. 129 00:05:11,311 --> 00:05:15,114 I knew, I knew after last year, I was like, we're going to stay right here. 130 00:05:15,114 --> 00:05:17,750 We're going to vibrate here like, this is our ceiling. 131 00:05:17,750 --> 00:05:19,585 And it was a good thing, right? 132 00:05:19,585 --> 00:05:21,120 But we want. More. 133 00:05:21,120 --> 00:05:23,823 And you need to be legitimate, right? 134 00:05:23,823 --> 00:05:25,091 You need to be on paper. 135 00:05:25,091 --> 00:05:26,526 You need people to know. 136 00:05:26,526 --> 00:05:28,961 Even if they trust the hell out of you. 137 00:05:28,961 --> 00:05:31,230 They need to know where the money's going. 138 00:05:31,230 --> 00:05:34,167 And a lot of people want to see paper trails, and a lot of people want, 139 00:05:34,167 --> 00:05:34,834 you know, if you're applying 140 00:05:34,834 --> 00:05:38,971 for grants and stuff like that, you need that legitimacy of a nonprofit. 141 00:05:38,971 --> 00:05:43,276 So I stopped dragging my, my tail and and we got it going. 142 00:05:43,643 --> 00:05:48,581 And, this will be our first official tour as an official incorporated nonprofit. 143 00:05:48,581 --> 00:05:48,881 Yeah. 144 00:05:48,881 --> 00:05:51,751 So I expect huge, huge, tremendous things. 145 00:05:51,751 --> 00:05:56,656 But I'm also staying in my stratosphere and and remaining realistic, you know. 146 00:05:56,956 --> 00:05:59,492 Congratulations. Thank you bro. Thank you. This feels good. 147 00:05:59,492 --> 00:06:00,059 Yeah. 148 00:06:00,059 --> 00:06:04,297 2019 we went official but we started 2014 families. 149 00:06:05,131 --> 00:06:07,166 But then when official 2019. 150 00:06:07,166 --> 00:06:09,869 Yeah again with some advice from friends. 151 00:06:09,869 --> 00:06:12,372 And Johnny's job kind of helped us dope. 152 00:06:12,372 --> 00:06:15,274 Fellow nonprofit in West Hartford. 153 00:06:15,274 --> 00:06:16,442 So you're doing great things. 154 00:06:16,442 --> 00:06:17,043 Thank you. Man. 155 00:06:17,043 --> 00:06:19,145 And a lot of people told me that's the way to do it. 156 00:06:19,145 --> 00:06:22,382 Instead of just, like, having nothing, having no foundation 157 00:06:22,382 --> 00:06:24,751 and just being like, I'm a nonprofit, this is what I do. 158 00:06:24,751 --> 00:06:28,888 So, like, I've had a decade, you had a half a decade to realize, like. 159 00:06:29,155 --> 00:06:29,989 Oh, this is what. 160 00:06:29,989 --> 00:06:33,760 It looks like, or this is what we do, or this is where I want our energy to go 161 00:06:33,760 --> 00:06:36,028 to, in our power to go to, in our strength they go to. 162 00:06:36,028 --> 00:06:38,030 So we got that all figured out. 163 00:06:38,030 --> 00:06:40,500 So I feel like I mean, it's perfect. 164 00:06:40,500 --> 00:06:42,135 You know, I don't have to rewrite anything. 165 00:06:42,135 --> 00:06:43,302 And what's your official mission? 166 00:06:44,537 --> 00:06:46,005 Just to benefit, 167 00:06:46,005 --> 00:06:49,008 to benefit the homeless and the houses and the people displaced, 168 00:06:49,542 --> 00:06:52,545 with a series of hip hop concerts and also change the, 169 00:06:52,945 --> 00:06:57,116 the view of the homeless folks, as well as the view of, hip hop. 170 00:06:57,417 --> 00:06:59,919 It's great. Yeah. 171 00:06:59,919 --> 00:07:02,021 What about your board of directors? 172 00:07:02,021 --> 00:07:04,557 Who do you got? Who we shout out? Yeah, these are the good. These are. 173 00:07:04,557 --> 00:07:06,993 These are my bros. These are awesome guys. 174 00:07:06,993 --> 00:07:08,027 A lot of them are dudes 175 00:07:08,027 --> 00:07:12,298 that have been been riding with me for that ten years, 11 years now. 176 00:07:12,298 --> 00:07:16,035 So, a lot of the board members are guys who were integral in 177 00:07:16,035 --> 00:07:19,939 helping me plan things because we got so many shows, right. 178 00:07:19,939 --> 00:07:21,641 So shout out to sketch. 179 00:07:21,641 --> 00:07:25,511 He's the guy who always helps him with the New Haven shows or the Bridgeport shows. 180 00:07:25,511 --> 00:07:27,413 He's down there in the 203. 181 00:07:27,413 --> 00:07:28,915 We got my guy, Mugsy, 182 00:07:28,915 --> 00:07:32,018 a New Britain native who always helps me with the New Britain shows. 183 00:07:32,351 --> 00:07:34,053 We got strife. He's on the board. 184 00:07:34,053 --> 00:07:36,122 He helps him with the Norwich and the new London shows. 185 00:07:37,223 --> 00:07:38,958 Greg Rivers is on the board. 186 00:07:38,958 --> 00:07:39,992 That's my guy Rudy. 187 00:07:39,992 --> 00:07:42,361 He helps me with, like, the Hartford shows. 188 00:07:42,361 --> 00:07:45,331 And he's been performing for ten years. 189 00:07:45,665 --> 00:07:48,668 We have Dave Greco, who's, who's a local guy, 190 00:07:48,701 --> 00:07:50,770 not a performer, but just someone who's been around 191 00:07:50,770 --> 00:07:53,272 since the jump who has, like, every single shirt. 192 00:07:53,272 --> 00:07:56,275 Every single one. He's been great. 193 00:07:56,509 --> 00:08:00,079 Mark Irvine's part of the board, and Frank Rivera part of the board. 194 00:08:00,079 --> 00:08:02,415 And those are both guys that I've known for a really long time 195 00:08:02,415 --> 00:08:04,283 that are just, like, really solid and help me out. 196 00:08:04,283 --> 00:08:06,018 Yeah, it's very important that you have a good teams. 197 00:08:06,018 --> 00:08:08,354 Yeah. Yeah. Sounds like a good team there. Yeah. 198 00:08:08,354 --> 00:08:10,656 They're good dudes for sure. For sure sure. 199 00:08:10,656 --> 00:08:15,595 I had a podcast guest who was experiencing homelessness. Oh, 200 00:08:16,662 --> 00:08:17,597 let me see. 201 00:08:17,597 --> 00:08:18,531 Chris. 202 00:08:18,531 --> 00:08:19,599 Chris, Chris. 203 00:08:19,599 --> 00:08:22,101 Episode 77. 204 00:08:22,101 --> 00:08:22,535 Okay. 205 00:08:22,535 --> 00:08:25,538 Experiencing homelessness ad on the podcast. 206 00:08:26,172 --> 00:08:29,175 You know, lives in a tent. 207 00:08:30,943 --> 00:08:31,677 Panhandles. 208 00:08:31,677 --> 00:08:32,678 I guess that's. 209 00:08:32,678 --> 00:08:32,845 Yeah. 210 00:08:32,845 --> 00:08:35,848 Is that inappropriate? No. 211 00:08:36,148 --> 00:08:39,151 So it was very good episode, and it got 212 00:08:40,186 --> 00:08:41,988 kind of learned. 213 00:08:41,988 --> 00:08:44,323 Why the how's the who's it was? 214 00:08:44,323 --> 00:08:46,058 It was a very educational podcast. 215 00:08:46,058 --> 00:08:50,663 So, Chris, episode 77 and our guy Matt Conway. 216 00:08:50,663 --> 00:08:53,866 Yeah. So 71. Good friend. Rise ups. 217 00:08:53,866 --> 00:08:57,236 I saw Rise Up Arts, I saw he's, Yeah, he's a sponsor. 218 00:08:57,236 --> 00:08:58,971 He's been a sponsor for the last seven years. 219 00:08:58,971 --> 00:09:00,439 Absolutely. Yep. 220 00:09:00,439 --> 00:09:03,442 So in addition to that, you're a teacher? 221 00:09:03,676 --> 00:09:05,912 Yeah. Long you been a teacher? Where? You've been a teacher. 222 00:09:05,912 --> 00:09:06,546 What subject? 223 00:09:06,546 --> 00:09:11,250 Yeah, I've been a teacher for 17 years, bro. 17. 224 00:09:11,250 --> 00:09:12,318 Kind of 21. 225 00:09:13,553 --> 00:09:16,522 So. Yeah, you get it, you get it. 226 00:09:16,522 --> 00:09:19,725 I did my first 12 in the Hartford public school system 227 00:09:19,992 --> 00:09:22,995 with, Opportunity High and with Hartford High. 228 00:09:23,162 --> 00:09:26,432 Then I spent the last, three and a half years at Manchester High. 229 00:09:26,732 --> 00:09:28,334 And recently this year, 230 00:09:28,334 --> 00:09:31,470 I came back to Hartford, and now I'm at Breakthrough Magnet South. 231 00:09:32,371 --> 00:09:34,040 Is that, middle school. Middle school? 232 00:09:34,040 --> 00:09:35,441 Yeah. Kate. Kate. Two eight. 233 00:09:35,441 --> 00:09:37,476 So I got I got middle schoolers. 234 00:09:37,476 --> 00:09:39,178 Oh, you're. It's K-8. Yeah, yeah. 235 00:09:39,178 --> 00:09:40,413 You teach history or English? 236 00:09:40,413 --> 00:09:41,814 I teach English, sorry. 237 00:09:41,814 --> 00:09:44,717 Yeah, I teach English language arts. Ela. 238 00:09:44,717 --> 00:09:46,786 I've been doing that. That's the only thing I got. 239 00:09:46,786 --> 00:09:51,257 My, got my undergrad in secondary ed and creative writing. 240 00:09:51,257 --> 00:09:55,094 I got my master's in philosophy and literature, and I got my own nine two 241 00:09:55,094 --> 00:09:56,395 recently. So. Really? 242 00:09:56,395 --> 00:09:58,831 Yeah. Maybe I'll get into Ed leadership. 243 00:09:58,831 --> 00:09:59,732 I'm not sure yet. 244 00:09:59,732 --> 00:10:02,635 I still have a lot of fun in the classroom and I still really like it. 245 00:10:02,635 --> 00:10:05,104 You know, that's awesome. I have my own nine too. 246 00:10:05,104 --> 00:10:07,106 Yeah, same with you. 247 00:10:07,106 --> 00:10:08,541 I like the classroom. 248 00:10:08,541 --> 00:10:09,775 And still looking. 249 00:10:09,775 --> 00:10:12,445 It's nice to have the option. Right? We got options. 250 00:10:12,445 --> 00:10:14,780 I got options now. That's pretty cool. 251 00:10:14,780 --> 00:10:15,915 Very cool, very cool. 252 00:10:15,915 --> 00:10:16,916 I love the shirt. 253 00:10:16,916 --> 00:10:19,318 I'm rocking the number nine edition. 254 00:10:19,318 --> 00:10:20,186 Yeah. 255 00:10:20,186 --> 00:10:21,454 Hip hop for the homeless. 256 00:10:21,454 --> 00:10:23,823 I loved that I was one of I look at. 257 00:10:23,823 --> 00:10:26,559 That font, that print that's like a. Little volt yellow. 258 00:10:26,559 --> 00:10:28,794 Really, really popular in the yellow. 259 00:10:28,794 --> 00:10:31,430 That looked really good with the black lights. 260 00:10:31,430 --> 00:10:35,901 And then we had our classic year ten shirt, which was a white anniversary. 261 00:10:36,369 --> 00:10:37,503 And this is this year's. 262 00:10:37,503 --> 00:10:42,141 We got a safety orange with the tiger camo for 11 local. 263 00:10:42,141 --> 00:10:44,310 Good shout out to my guy Jose. 264 00:10:44,310 --> 00:10:46,479 We can finally print patterns. 265 00:10:46,479 --> 00:10:50,316 So you're going to start seeing a lot of crazy patterns coming out. 266 00:10:50,349 --> 00:10:53,252 Oh what do we call that a camel Tiger camel. 267 00:10:53,252 --> 00:10:55,621 Oh I like that for Memorial Day. 268 00:10:55,621 --> 00:10:57,523 Maybe I'll have to hit up the guy. 269 00:10:57,523 --> 00:10:59,825 Oh good. Do it man. He's he's awesome. 270 00:10:59,825 --> 00:11:03,262 And he and he's, you know, he's I've been with him a long way. 271 00:11:03,262 --> 00:11:07,366 He used to go, with the DNA shop, but now he rebranded and it's called local 272 00:11:07,366 --> 00:11:08,167 goods and, 273 00:11:09,235 --> 00:11:11,370 real solid dude out of Hartford. 274 00:11:11,370 --> 00:11:12,104 Who did it? 275 00:11:12,104 --> 00:11:15,641 Who designed the, the print hip hop for the homeless? 276 00:11:15,641 --> 00:11:16,275 Yeah, man. 277 00:11:16,275 --> 00:11:19,145 That's, that's all Jose right there, baby. 278 00:11:19,145 --> 00:11:22,148 That's local goods right there. 279 00:11:22,348 --> 00:11:24,183 Okay, 280 00:11:24,183 --> 00:11:25,685 that's not what you said earlier, but. 281 00:11:25,685 --> 00:11:27,820 Okay, we'll leave that there. 282 00:11:27,820 --> 00:11:29,922 We got some dates here. 283 00:11:29,922 --> 00:11:30,990 Yeah. So what we do. 284 00:11:30,990 --> 00:11:32,558 For the for the for the listeners 285 00:11:32,558 --> 00:11:36,362 and for the watchers every year we, we create a new shirt. 286 00:11:36,562 --> 00:11:41,167 This is primarily where the funds that we collect come from. 287 00:11:41,167 --> 00:11:44,770 So what we do is we always ask sponsors to come out, 288 00:11:45,004 --> 00:11:48,507 help us offset the cost and the production of the t shirts. 289 00:11:48,774 --> 00:11:53,345 So we're able to print 4 or 5, 600 shirts, and then we sell those at each show. 290 00:11:53,579 --> 00:11:57,917 And that's how we make money that we can give and donate to those nonprofits. 291 00:11:58,150 --> 00:12:01,687 So every different shirt has all of our sponsors for that year, 292 00:12:01,921 --> 00:12:04,890 as well as all the shows and all the dates that we do 293 00:12:06,859 --> 00:12:09,328 now. First show New Haven. 294 00:12:09,328 --> 00:12:11,297 Yeah, yeah, the first. Week. Is the. 295 00:12:11,297 --> 00:12:14,700 Fifth is New Haven, Hartford and Norwich. 296 00:12:14,700 --> 00:12:16,635 Those are all three venues 297 00:12:16,635 --> 00:12:19,839 that we've played before, all three cities that we've played for. 298 00:12:20,473 --> 00:12:24,543 The New Haven Show benefits the downtown soup kitchen in New Haven. 299 00:12:24,977 --> 00:12:27,246 The Hartford show benefits hands on Hartford. 300 00:12:27,246 --> 00:12:28,347 They've been awesome with us. 301 00:12:28,347 --> 00:12:30,783 They've been with us this whole journey. 302 00:12:30,783 --> 00:12:33,786 And the Norwich show goes to the TVA shelter, 303 00:12:33,853 --> 00:12:36,856 down there in, like, Norwich, New London, Seward City. 304 00:12:36,922 --> 00:12:38,724 You have. Yeah. Town. Hartford. Yeah. Yeah. 305 00:12:38,724 --> 00:12:39,759 You can pay what you want. 306 00:12:39,759 --> 00:12:42,128 Absolutely. That's that's their restaurant. 307 00:12:42,128 --> 00:12:45,064 55 get yeah. Other 55. 308 00:12:45,064 --> 00:12:47,366 So hands on Hartford also even has a food pantry 309 00:12:47,366 --> 00:12:50,369 behind there, like a little grocery store that you could go shopping. 310 00:12:50,436 --> 00:12:54,473 They've, they've they've done so many things, but their recent, most, 311 00:12:54,774 --> 00:12:57,877 popular thing is gather 55, exactly where you pay what you want. 312 00:12:57,877 --> 00:12:59,945 They always bring in some guest chefs. 313 00:12:59,945 --> 00:13:02,248 Yeah. Very cool. But they're great. They're great. 314 00:13:02,248 --> 00:13:03,315 And we're in Middletown. 315 00:13:03,315 --> 00:13:06,685 We haven't played Middletown in a while, so I love that we're back there. 316 00:13:06,919 --> 00:13:09,755 This is our first year playing a show in Northampton. 317 00:13:09,755 --> 00:13:12,458 Our second year doing something outside of CT. 318 00:13:12,458 --> 00:13:15,961 So who knows man, in the future we might be all over the place, right? 319 00:13:15,961 --> 00:13:17,163 And might not longer. 320 00:13:17,163 --> 00:13:19,832 Might no. Longer be a Connecticut thing. 321 00:13:19,832 --> 00:13:21,667 And then. Like, this is the first time going to mass. 322 00:13:21,667 --> 00:13:24,870 Our second second, we had one last year, but it was in Holyoke. 323 00:13:25,171 --> 00:13:27,773 Nice. So I'm pumped to be in Northampton. 324 00:13:27,773 --> 00:13:30,709 Amazing venue, the Iron Horse classic, classic venue. 325 00:13:30,709 --> 00:13:33,345 I've seen a bunch of bands there, bunch of rappers there. 326 00:13:33,345 --> 00:13:35,281 So I'm really happy to be there. 327 00:13:35,281 --> 00:13:37,783 And then year, week two ends with New Britain 328 00:13:37,783 --> 00:13:41,520 and New London and those are both, amazing, amazing shows. 329 00:13:41,520 --> 00:13:42,855 And great, great venues. 330 00:13:43,956 --> 00:13:45,491 So I'm really excited. 331 00:13:45,491 --> 00:13:48,828 And then we've been doing three weeks for the last three years. 332 00:13:49,128 --> 00:13:50,596 It gets kind of crazy, bro. 333 00:13:50,596 --> 00:13:53,032 I'm gonna be honest. It gets it gets a little bit crazy. 334 00:13:53,032 --> 00:13:57,303 Especially with teaching and, you know, keeping the hours that I keep. 335 00:13:58,904 --> 00:14:01,674 But we're playing a second show in Hartford at Parkville Market, which is 336 00:14:01,674 --> 00:14:05,077 part of my third Thursday throw downs that I've been doing over there. 337 00:14:05,778 --> 00:14:09,782 And then we're in Simsbury, and then it closes in Manchester on the 21st. 338 00:14:10,182 --> 00:14:10,950 Hoops and hops. 339 00:14:10,950 --> 00:14:11,784 I've been there. 340 00:14:11,784 --> 00:14:14,420 Yeah, I will market. I'm going to try to make that one. Yeah, man. 341 00:14:14,420 --> 00:14:16,589 You should come in. Black eye sallies. 342 00:14:16,589 --> 00:14:18,324 Which one are you performing. 343 00:14:18,324 --> 00:14:19,825 Oh okay. Good form. 344 00:14:19,825 --> 00:14:20,559 Good question. 345 00:14:20,559 --> 00:14:23,562 I'll probably end up exclusive. Exclusive? 346 00:14:23,562 --> 00:14:24,964 This is exclusive, folks. 347 00:14:24,964 --> 00:14:26,866 You've heard it here first. 348 00:14:26,866 --> 00:14:29,535 I'll probably end up getting on a mic on Manchester. 349 00:14:29,535 --> 00:14:31,770 I'll probably get on a mic in Hartford, 350 00:14:31,770 --> 00:14:35,307 probably get on the mic in New London, probably get on the mic in Norwich. 351 00:14:35,641 --> 00:14:39,678 They'll probably make me get on the mic and new and I don't get to chill on these. 352 00:14:39,678 --> 00:14:41,247 Unfortunately. People are just like. 353 00:14:41,247 --> 00:14:44,083 Yo, I came out, I'm here for you, you better rap bro. 354 00:14:45,150 --> 00:14:46,819 King some bars. 355 00:14:46,819 --> 00:14:48,921 Yeah, yeah, for real. 356 00:14:48,921 --> 00:14:51,690 For real lyrics for days. Yeah. 357 00:14:51,690 --> 00:14:53,659 You want to hear me my flow. Let's hear it bro. 358 00:14:53,659 --> 00:14:55,461 Let's hear. 359 00:14:55,461 --> 00:14:56,295 My name is Mr. 360 00:14:56,295 --> 00:14:59,932 Feeney I teach grade three and walk it elementary. 361 00:15:00,232 --> 00:15:01,700 Can't see me. Well. 362 00:15:01,700 --> 00:15:04,036 In the place to be, That's it. 363 00:15:04,036 --> 00:15:06,739 Oh my God, bro. Oh my God, let's go. 364 00:15:06,739 --> 00:15:09,742 Do do do do do do do 365 00:15:10,509 --> 00:15:12,444 doo doo doo doo doo. 366 00:15:12,444 --> 00:15:14,380 You're a big hip hop hip hop guy, right? 367 00:15:14,380 --> 00:15:16,482 Yeah, I know you're live. 368 00:15:16,482 --> 00:15:18,450 So that very excited to talk with you. 369 00:15:18,450 --> 00:15:19,685 Yeah. 370 00:15:19,685 --> 00:15:20,319 What? Yeah. 371 00:15:20,319 --> 00:15:23,322 Who? Let's let's talk rapped. And who? What? 372 00:15:23,555 --> 00:15:25,491 Who? Some rappers that inspired you. 373 00:15:25,491 --> 00:15:26,625 Oh, man. All right. 374 00:15:26,625 --> 00:15:29,628 So I've been I've been rapping for a really, really long time. 375 00:15:29,628 --> 00:15:32,364 Like really really long time. 376 00:15:32,364 --> 00:15:34,033 Grew up in New York, strong island. 377 00:15:35,968 --> 00:15:38,170 So that was right around the time where, 378 00:15:38,170 --> 00:15:41,974 where those guys were like, we're talking like 92, 93. 379 00:15:42,675 --> 00:15:46,145 So I was really big on, like, not even like early Wu-Tang. 380 00:15:46,145 --> 00:15:47,479 First it was Grave Diggers. 381 00:15:47,479 --> 00:15:49,315 I was really big on, like, grave diggers. 382 00:15:49,315 --> 00:15:52,318 And then obviously like when, like, Cash Rules came out 383 00:15:52,318 --> 00:15:55,321 and like, protecting that came out, it was all woo! 384 00:15:55,354 --> 00:15:56,989 That was really major for me. 385 00:15:56,989 --> 00:15:58,657 Like, Method Man. 386 00:15:58,657 --> 00:16:02,061 I remember like coming up with a rap using the Method Man flow. 387 00:16:02,227 --> 00:16:03,095 You know what I'm saying? 388 00:16:03,095 --> 00:16:06,098 Like, I thought it was the best. 389 00:16:07,399 --> 00:16:11,170 Like bust of Busta Rhymes, Busta, Busta Rhymes. 390 00:16:11,170 --> 00:16:13,772 So, like, leaders at a new school, you know what I mean? 391 00:16:13,772 --> 00:16:16,742 That that was major. That was major. 392 00:16:16,875 --> 00:16:21,013 And then a little bit, a little bit down the line, like pun dropped in like 95. 393 00:16:21,013 --> 00:16:22,281 So like that was really cool 394 00:16:22,281 --> 00:16:25,584 to see someone rapping like he was a lot of lyrical dudes. 395 00:16:25,584 --> 00:16:29,688 And then a little bit later, when it when I started really getting out there 396 00:16:29,688 --> 00:16:34,059 and honing my craft, it was a lot more underground, like MF doom, ASAP Rock. 397 00:16:34,860 --> 00:16:35,861 A lot of those guys. 398 00:16:36,829 --> 00:16:38,864 Are you, LP. 399 00:16:38,864 --> 00:16:42,668 Can you do write it down or do you go freestyle or prefer. 400 00:16:43,102 --> 00:16:43,769 Both? 401 00:16:43,769 --> 00:16:48,307 Or how any song that I've ever dropped has been like a written down thing 402 00:16:48,307 --> 00:16:49,742 that I've sat with and like, 403 00:16:49,742 --> 00:16:53,245 written down bars and written down a chorus and written down lyrics. 404 00:16:53,912 --> 00:16:58,450 But if anybody, everybody who knows has seen me live like I incorporate many, 405 00:16:58,450 --> 00:17:02,321 many freestyles because I grew up just doing like, ciphers, you know what I mean? 406 00:17:02,321 --> 00:17:04,857 So I can definitely do both. 407 00:17:04,857 --> 00:17:07,860 I definitely like freestyle in more, 408 00:17:08,460 --> 00:17:08,961 but I do. 409 00:17:08,961 --> 00:17:11,430 I definitely do both. 410 00:17:11,430 --> 00:17:11,730 Yeah. 411 00:17:11,730 --> 00:17:13,799 But I've never I've never been like they say, like, 412 00:17:13,799 --> 00:17:16,135 Jay-Z doesn't write it down, little Wayne doesn't write it down. 413 00:17:16,135 --> 00:17:18,771 I've never been able to do. How many songs do you have? 414 00:17:18,771 --> 00:17:19,872 Do you have albums and stuff? 415 00:17:19,872 --> 00:17:21,774 Yeah, of course I got albums, man. 416 00:17:21,774 --> 00:17:23,942 I of course I got Spotify. Yeah. 417 00:17:23,942 --> 00:17:25,577 Which is Spotify name? Tell everyone. 418 00:17:25,577 --> 00:17:27,279 Joey. Bats. That's it. 419 00:17:27,279 --> 00:17:28,747 Instagram is rap me. 420 00:17:28,747 --> 00:17:33,385 Rap Joey Bats, but iTunes, Joey Hibberd, BTS. 421 00:17:34,086 --> 00:17:36,255 That's on Spotify. That's on iTunes. 422 00:17:36,255 --> 00:17:40,292 I did the seven Deadly Sins manifesto, so I dropped the album for each 423 00:17:40,292 --> 00:17:44,663 one of the seven Deadly Sins I've done, the Elements Manifesto. 424 00:17:44,663 --> 00:17:49,935 So I've dropped like Earth and Air, and I'm working on Water and Fire. 425 00:17:50,402 --> 00:17:53,739 I have the Joey Bats in them albums, I got albums. 426 00:17:53,739 --> 00:17:54,706 Are you zoo? 427 00:17:54,706 --> 00:17:57,643 Yeah, man, my discography is very, very long. 428 00:17:57,643 --> 00:17:58,744 I love it. Yeah. 429 00:17:59,912 --> 00:18:01,747 If you were to do 430 00:18:01,747 --> 00:18:04,817 I'm going to play this game a lot, but this is a good game. 431 00:18:04,817 --> 00:18:09,288 So your songs that you dropped your first one, your last one. 432 00:18:09,521 --> 00:18:11,824 Your best one in your worst one? 433 00:18:11,824 --> 00:18:14,827 First last best worst. 434 00:18:16,862 --> 00:18:18,063 My first was Joey Best. 435 00:18:18,063 --> 00:18:20,199 My first was best friend. 436 00:18:20,199 --> 00:18:21,200 At first is best friend. 437 00:18:21,200 --> 00:18:22,668 That's where the sticker comes from. 438 00:18:22,668 --> 00:18:24,236 And we can be the best of friends. 439 00:18:24,236 --> 00:18:26,905 And if you know me, then you love me. I'm your bestest friends. 440 00:18:26,905 --> 00:18:29,074 Rich ones, poor ones and all the ends. 441 00:18:29,074 --> 00:18:30,242 Put your money on you. 442 00:18:30,242 --> 00:18:31,710 I'm your bestest friend. 443 00:18:31,710 --> 00:18:33,378 So that's. That was best friend. 444 00:18:33,378 --> 00:18:34,680 That was probably my first one. 445 00:18:34,680 --> 00:18:37,683 Under like that, Joey bats Monica. 446 00:18:38,050 --> 00:18:40,986 My most recent one was a song 447 00:18:40,986 --> 00:18:43,989 that I did called, God Box. 448 00:18:44,490 --> 00:18:45,290 Reggie Blue. 449 00:18:45,290 --> 00:18:47,226 I was like, technically, it's a Reggie Blue song, 450 00:18:47,226 --> 00:18:49,828 but I really like my verse on it. That's a lot of fun. 451 00:18:51,563 --> 00:18:52,197 My best. 452 00:18:52,197 --> 00:18:53,866 Song. 453 00:18:53,866 --> 00:18:56,702 Oh my gosh. Man, 454 00:18:56,702 --> 00:18:57,903 It's like picking your favorite kid. 455 00:18:57,903 --> 00:19:00,372 I it's. Tough, it's tough, it's tough. 456 00:19:00,372 --> 00:19:01,406 I did, I did an. 457 00:19:01,406 --> 00:19:03,742 Album with Greg Rivers, who I mentioned. 458 00:19:03,742 --> 00:19:05,611 Before, 459 00:19:05,611 --> 00:19:06,378 Called Roy G. 460 00:19:06,378 --> 00:19:10,682 Biv, where we, where we would like, we talked a lot about, 461 00:19:10,682 --> 00:19:13,819 like, synesthesia and, like, being able to, like, see colors. 462 00:19:13,819 --> 00:19:16,155 And we got, like, really hyper focused on that. 463 00:19:16,155 --> 00:19:19,324 And he did an amazing production and he and he like 464 00:19:19,725 --> 00:19:21,627 he's all over the track, you know, singing, 465 00:19:21,627 --> 00:19:24,663 doing production, rapping, doing some weird things with sounds and, 466 00:19:24,930 --> 00:19:27,933 and a lot of those verses I really, really liked. 467 00:19:28,167 --> 00:19:31,537 So those are, those are some of my favorites like favorites, 468 00:19:31,537 --> 00:19:34,540 favorites, favorites. 469 00:19:34,940 --> 00:19:36,008 That was my, 470 00:19:36,008 --> 00:19:39,011 my least favorite, my least favorite. 471 00:19:39,344 --> 00:19:41,446 I wrote a sellout song, bro. 472 00:19:41,446 --> 00:19:44,750 Sellout sellout calls called bestie. 473 00:19:45,150 --> 00:19:48,253 You missed you was the dumbest. 474 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:49,254 It was the. 475 00:19:49,254 --> 00:19:54,927 Dumbest song, but I made the most money off of it like it was on ESPN. 476 00:19:55,093 --> 00:19:57,129 They played it at the SBS. 477 00:19:57,129 --> 00:19:58,664 It was just like I made a. 478 00:19:58,664 --> 00:20:03,835 Bag off of that song, and it was just like we would play it live and. 479 00:20:03,835 --> 00:20:04,836 I would take my phone out. 480 00:20:04,836 --> 00:20:08,073 And just run around the audience and taking selfies with people, 481 00:20:09,241 --> 00:20:09,875 oh man. 482 00:20:09,875 --> 00:20:11,143 How's it go? 483 00:20:11,143 --> 00:20:14,780 I was like, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, yo, my bestie. 484 00:20:15,480 --> 00:20:18,951 So let's, let's, let's, let's take a selfie. 485 00:20:20,752 --> 00:20:22,888 Yo. So commercial bro. 486 00:20:22,888 --> 00:20:24,489 And so against. 487 00:20:24,489 --> 00:20:27,125 Like the rap and rapping that I really be. 488 00:20:27,125 --> 00:20:29,194 Doing. You know what I'm saying? Like it's not. 489 00:20:29,194 --> 00:20:33,031 Grimy at all, but like, it was accessible and like people loved it. 490 00:20:33,599 --> 00:20:35,767 You know times you. Got to do that. And like it was. 491 00:20:35,767 --> 00:20:38,070 Very tongue in cheek when you saw. It live. 492 00:20:38,070 --> 00:20:40,772 But like, if you didn't know me and you just discovered me, you'd be like, yo. 493 00:20:40,772 --> 00:20:43,242 Who's this cornball with this song? 494 00:20:43,242 --> 00:20:44,309 Like, what the hell? 495 00:20:44,309 --> 00:20:47,012 So I would say that that's one of the ones. 496 00:20:47,012 --> 00:20:48,180 That I don't regret it. 497 00:20:48,180 --> 00:20:49,915 But it's definitely one of those one of my. 498 00:20:49,915 --> 00:20:51,583 Best with myself. Yeah. 499 00:20:51,583 --> 00:20:53,719 Let's do a selfie. Actually, now that you. Brought that up. 500 00:20:55,487 --> 00:20:57,055 Boom. 501 00:20:57,055 --> 00:20:58,190 Selfie. 502 00:20:58,190 --> 00:21:01,159 Let's take a selfie. Yeah. 503 00:21:01,159 --> 00:21:03,028 No. Great. 504 00:21:03,028 --> 00:21:05,130 Wait, so you did best worst first. 505 00:21:05,130 --> 00:21:08,000 Less. Yeah. No. You played the game, right? Yeah. Right. Perfect. 506 00:21:08,000 --> 00:21:09,901 All right. I got to check out the Spotify list now. 507 00:21:09,901 --> 00:21:12,671 I didn't do my research there. Yeah, we saw drop the ball. 508 00:21:12,671 --> 00:21:14,873 No you didn't. Bro. Could have you didn't. Should have. 509 00:21:14,873 --> 00:21:16,108 You did up some bars from. 510 00:21:16,108 --> 00:21:19,111 Your like I got some tracks that make their way in your running playlist. 511 00:21:19,144 --> 00:21:21,013 I got some tracks. Absolutely, bro. 512 00:21:21,013 --> 00:21:22,814 I know you'd be out here. Right? 513 00:21:22,814 --> 00:21:24,816 What'd you go, you little. You little marathon. Bitch? 514 00:21:24,816 --> 00:21:25,150 You know. 515 00:21:25,150 --> 00:21:28,654 I was we were going to ask how we did over the what we did over the Thanksgiving. 516 00:21:28,654 --> 00:21:30,922 I ran the gobble wobble. 517 00:21:30,922 --> 00:21:32,958 Is this the one that this isn't the one in Manchester, right? 518 00:21:32,958 --> 00:21:35,961 No, this was actually Glenn Falls. Oh, okay. 519 00:21:36,528 --> 00:21:37,863 Ten inches of snow. 520 00:21:37,863 --> 00:21:41,066 Yo, you're lying for real. Still ran a 27. 521 00:21:41,066 --> 00:21:43,268 Come on. Bro, my nephew beat me. Touch me. 522 00:21:43,268 --> 00:21:44,903 This is good stuff. 523 00:21:44,903 --> 00:21:49,775 13 year old nephew Nick ran like a 26, but this is our third year in a row. 524 00:21:49,808 --> 00:21:51,410 That's a full or a half. 525 00:21:51,410 --> 00:21:52,644 It's just three miles. 526 00:21:52,644 --> 00:21:54,279 Okay, five K, three. 527 00:21:54,279 --> 00:21:57,215 Miles, 5.2. I'm proud of you, bro. 528 00:21:57,215 --> 00:21:59,718 Just stay active. That's dope. 529 00:21:59,718 --> 00:22:00,986 I love it, I love it. 530 00:22:00,986 --> 00:22:02,287 How was your how was your Thanksgiving? 531 00:22:02,287 --> 00:22:03,989 Yeah, my Thanksgiving was cool, man. 532 00:22:03,989 --> 00:22:05,390 We we played it. 533 00:22:05,390 --> 00:22:07,292 We played a really low, really low key. 534 00:22:07,292 --> 00:22:08,660 I don't have any family in CT. 535 00:22:09,928 --> 00:22:11,730 So my mom came up 536 00:22:11,730 --> 00:22:14,333 and my girl's mom came through, and it was just the four of us. 537 00:22:14,333 --> 00:22:16,601 Man, I'm really happy just watching. 538 00:22:16,601 --> 00:22:19,071 Football. And relaxing. 539 00:22:19,071 --> 00:22:22,407 And like, my year has been, like, a little bit tumultuous. 540 00:22:22,407 --> 00:22:24,676 Just like change in schools and mid year 541 00:22:24,676 --> 00:22:27,212 instead of, like at the beginning of a year. 542 00:22:27,212 --> 00:22:30,482 So like I've just wanted to like, just really chill and relax 543 00:22:30,682 --> 00:22:34,286 and like the tour itself is just like a storm 544 00:22:34,286 --> 00:22:37,756 of energy and like, sometimes you just need to reset. 545 00:22:38,256 --> 00:22:41,226 So like, I was like, yo, I'm really okay just doing this. 546 00:22:41,226 --> 00:22:44,096 I usually cook Christmas Eve and Christmas. 547 00:22:44,096 --> 00:22:46,832 So my girl was like, I got Thanksgiving, I'm cool with it. 548 00:22:46,832 --> 00:22:48,433 And she just let me chill and vibe. 549 00:22:48,433 --> 00:22:50,135 And it was peaceful. Man, I loved it. 550 00:22:50,135 --> 00:22:51,570 Sometimes you need that reset. 551 00:22:51,570 --> 00:22:53,805 Oh man, it was the best reset. My girl. 552 00:22:53,805 --> 00:22:57,843 My girl's all about the Thanksgiving sandwiches with the leftovers. 553 00:22:57,843 --> 00:22:59,144 She's a big fan of that. 554 00:22:59,144 --> 00:23:01,012 Okay, brand bread. 555 00:23:01,012 --> 00:23:04,116 We do like the the sesame seeds for Melina 556 00:23:05,117 --> 00:23:05,784 okay. 557 00:23:05,784 --> 00:23:07,786 Really really nice key berry. 558 00:23:07,786 --> 00:23:09,154 So keep it. Classy. 559 00:23:09,154 --> 00:23:10,722 She does a turkey. 560 00:23:10,722 --> 00:23:12,157 I do the mac and cheese. 561 00:23:12,157 --> 00:23:14,726 Oh, then I do the turkey with some hot sauce. 562 00:23:14,726 --> 00:23:17,229 Then I do this stuffing. 563 00:23:17,229 --> 00:23:19,498 What kind of hot sauce? 564 00:23:19,498 --> 00:23:21,199 I'm a Frank's red hot guy. 565 00:23:21,199 --> 00:23:22,801 But I'll do Tallulah. 566 00:23:22,801 --> 00:23:24,035 I'm okay with that. 567 00:23:24,035 --> 00:23:24,403 You know? 568 00:23:24,403 --> 00:23:26,938 So ratchet doesn't really fit the flavor profile. 569 00:23:26,938 --> 00:23:29,007 But yeah, I have scratch right now in my class. 570 00:23:29,007 --> 00:23:31,576 Yeah, I just went through a Frank's already. 571 00:23:31,576 --> 00:23:34,012 Okay. In your classroom. Whoa. For lunch. 572 00:23:34,012 --> 00:23:35,680 Okay. Gets it, I love it. 573 00:23:35,680 --> 00:23:37,582 I love it down a bottle. 574 00:23:37,582 --> 00:23:40,585 Franks. Dill pickle. You ever try that? No. 575 00:23:40,652 --> 00:23:42,354 For real? Really good. Okay. 576 00:23:42,354 --> 00:23:44,256 Dill pickle hint of. I love, I love pickle. 577 00:23:44,256 --> 00:23:46,191 I'm all about. It. And hot sauce, too. My favorite. 578 00:23:46,191 --> 00:23:47,459 I was going to say, sign me up. 579 00:23:47,459 --> 00:23:48,427 It's like they've been reading my. 580 00:23:48,427 --> 00:23:50,629 Diary of that. 581 00:23:50,629 --> 00:23:51,563 That's amazing. 582 00:23:51,563 --> 00:23:53,932 Yeah I love Pickles and Brett. 583 00:23:53,932 --> 00:23:55,934 Dear diary, one day please invent. 584 00:23:55,934 --> 00:23:58,970 A hot sauce that incorporates dill pickles. 585 00:23:59,504 --> 00:24:01,106 It sounds like a wrap. You should draft. 586 00:24:02,207 --> 00:24:04,142 Pickles. 587 00:24:04,142 --> 00:24:06,378 So I'm going to shout out my sponsors of the podcast. 588 00:24:06,378 --> 00:24:08,513 But before we do that, would you like to shout out some 589 00:24:08,513 --> 00:24:09,948 and thank some sponsors of yours? 590 00:24:09,948 --> 00:24:11,583 Yeah man. Absolutely. 591 00:24:11,583 --> 00:24:13,018 So this is. A fire. Shirt. 592 00:24:13,018 --> 00:24:15,854 Thank you bro. Thank you I love it man. 593 00:24:15,854 --> 00:24:18,857 It's the coolest thing about being like the president 594 00:24:18,857 --> 00:24:22,327 and being the guy who gets to run it like I sometimes. 595 00:24:22,327 --> 00:24:23,995 Fini. I'll be real with you. 596 00:24:23,995 --> 00:24:25,697 I'm already thinking about next year. 597 00:24:25,697 --> 00:24:28,700 Yeah, and it stinks that I gotta make it a whole calendar year. 598 00:24:28,700 --> 00:24:29,534 You know what I mean? 599 00:24:29,534 --> 00:24:30,469 But, like, 600 00:24:30,469 --> 00:24:33,271 I've been wanting to do something with the camo and the orange 601 00:24:33,271 --> 00:24:36,007 and the hunting season vibe, so I'm really excited about it. 602 00:24:36,007 --> 00:24:38,510 That's the best thing about having a nonprofit. Yeah, yeah. 603 00:24:38,510 --> 00:24:39,277 Create a t shirt. 604 00:24:39,277 --> 00:24:42,013 Yeah. So I mean we got we it's I don't I. 605 00:24:42,013 --> 00:24:43,381 Can't just run through all of these. 606 00:24:43,381 --> 00:24:46,351 I apologize ahead of time for the people that I'm going to slate. 607 00:24:46,351 --> 00:24:49,354 But like Hartford Health Care came through in a major way. 608 00:24:49,354 --> 00:24:51,223 They're a major sponsor this year. 609 00:24:51,223 --> 00:24:54,226 I've been I've been talking to the Yard Goats for a while. 610 00:24:54,693 --> 00:24:57,963 I did we had a really good year with them and they, they 611 00:24:57,963 --> 00:25:00,298 we established a really lovely relationship. 612 00:25:00,298 --> 00:25:01,967 So shout out to them Lou. 613 00:25:01,967 --> 00:25:03,301 It audio has been great. 614 00:25:03,301 --> 00:25:06,271 They're they make microphones like the microphone company. 615 00:25:06,571 --> 00:25:09,040 Hearts of Hartford pizza garden is great. 616 00:25:09,040 --> 00:25:11,977 El Pollo Guapo been down since the jump Adams 617 00:25:11,977 --> 00:25:15,580 World blog has been down to since the jump through Penny tattoo. 618 00:25:15,580 --> 00:25:17,482 That's where I get all of my work done. 619 00:25:17,482 --> 00:25:21,786 Philly cheesesteak is great in New Haven and Norwich location. 620 00:25:22,554 --> 00:25:26,458 Hartford, Police Athletic League, Hartford Fire Department. 621 00:25:27,192 --> 00:25:27,826 They're great. 622 00:25:27,826 --> 00:25:29,794 Gold burgers has been down since the jump. 623 00:25:29,794 --> 00:25:31,696 Bears has been around for the longest. 624 00:25:31,696 --> 00:25:34,165 You mentioned rise up a couple of big sponsors 625 00:25:34,165 --> 00:25:39,771 this year, the Kent O'Hara Agency and Edge City Public Radio came through. 626 00:25:39,771 --> 00:25:45,310 So going back to the whole nonprofit thing, the more legitimate we've become, 627 00:25:45,544 --> 00:25:50,282 the more people sponsors specifically are willing to attach their name to. It. 628 00:25:50,715 --> 00:25:51,516 Because you get it. 629 00:25:51,516 --> 00:25:53,685 It's not just a business thing 630 00:25:53,685 --> 00:25:56,621 some people are worried about, like the stigma of hip hop. 631 00:25:56,621 --> 00:25:58,723 So like but us being official, 632 00:25:58,723 --> 00:26:02,561 they understand that, like we're not playing around and 633 00:26:02,761 --> 00:26:07,732 they're allowed to take this chance on us because the shows are going to be safe. 634 00:26:07,866 --> 00:26:09,834 We're going to get great press. 635 00:26:09,834 --> 00:26:11,770 We're going to have people talking about us, 636 00:26:11,770 --> 00:26:14,272 and it's just going to be an all around good idea 637 00:26:14,272 --> 00:26:17,108 for them to kind of attach themselves to, to our vehicle. 638 00:26:18,176 --> 00:26:20,545 It's great to, you can write the donation receipt. 639 00:26:20,545 --> 00:26:23,281 Yeah. Tax deductible. Absolutely. 640 00:26:23,281 --> 00:26:24,783 Yeah. Taxes. 641 00:26:24,783 --> 00:26:27,085 Oh, I want to 642 00:26:27,085 --> 00:26:28,653 where is it? Where is it. 643 00:26:28,653 --> 00:26:31,256 Oh yeah. No yard. Goats are great game day. Connor. 644 00:26:31,256 --> 00:26:32,490 Yeah, he's been a guest. 645 00:26:32,490 --> 00:26:34,426 Yeah. Connor's awesome. 646 00:26:34,426 --> 00:26:36,728 Their announcer. Okay. Nice. 647 00:26:36,728 --> 00:26:37,796 And then. 648 00:26:37,796 --> 00:26:39,064 Yeah. Tim and Mike are amazing. 649 00:26:39,064 --> 00:26:39,731 Yeah. 650 00:26:39,731 --> 00:26:41,232 Yeah, I tried out for that gig. 651 00:26:41,232 --> 00:26:43,501 I tried out for the announcer gig. Really? 652 00:26:43,501 --> 00:26:46,271 I was ready to quit at all. I was ready to quit it all, bro. 653 00:26:46,271 --> 00:26:48,173 I did it again. I did it a daily. 654 00:26:48,173 --> 00:26:50,342 I missed the, 655 00:26:50,342 --> 00:26:51,810 ten years. These guys are amazing. 656 00:26:51,810 --> 00:26:53,178 Yeah, yeah. 657 00:26:53,178 --> 00:26:55,113 My wife's, my daughter's favorite. 658 00:26:55,113 --> 00:26:55,380 Yeah. 659 00:26:55,380 --> 00:26:56,114 Zephyrs. 660 00:26:56,114 --> 00:26:58,783 Zephyrs is a new one of our sponsors. 661 00:26:58,783 --> 00:27:01,453 Shout out to Chef Dante. He's amazing. 662 00:27:01,453 --> 00:27:04,456 They're right down the street in West Hartford, in the center. 663 00:27:04,522 --> 00:27:06,558 Be a podcast guest soon. Oh, I love that. 664 00:27:06,558 --> 00:27:07,826 I love that. 665 00:27:07,826 --> 00:27:08,159 Philly. 666 00:27:08,159 --> 00:27:10,261 I think Stephen King Jr is in on that. 667 00:27:10,261 --> 00:27:12,697 Okay, King was running for something in South Windsor. 668 00:27:12,697 --> 00:27:15,300 He was a guest. Yeah. Jamie, I want him to be a guest. 669 00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:16,134 Jamie's dope. 670 00:27:16,134 --> 00:27:18,703 Yeah, they're dealing with a lot of stuff happening in Asheville, 671 00:27:18,703 --> 00:27:20,805 so they've been kind of, like, above their heads. 672 00:27:20,805 --> 00:27:22,207 Yeah, they got a Bears in Asheville. 673 00:27:22,207 --> 00:27:24,843 So they've been above their head with some stuff. 674 00:27:26,411 --> 00:27:27,278 Very cool shirt. 675 00:27:27,278 --> 00:27:28,680 Thank you for your sponsorship. 676 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:30,315 Yeah, for being good friends. Yeah. 677 00:27:30,315 --> 00:27:32,717 Everybody. Seriously, thank you so much, man. 678 00:27:32,717 --> 00:27:34,586 My best friend. Yeah. 679 00:27:34,586 --> 00:27:34,853 Of course. 680 00:27:34,853 --> 00:27:35,920 That's got to be gotta. 681 00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,356 Be, gotta be I love it. 682 00:27:38,356 --> 00:27:38,657 Yeah. 683 00:27:38,657 --> 00:27:42,193 And dead center, Coliseum media, they're doing, 684 00:27:42,627 --> 00:27:45,930 they actually were awarded a grant, so we're going to have a documentary 685 00:27:45,930 --> 00:27:48,933 crew following us during our all of our shows. 686 00:27:49,134 --> 00:27:51,903 So hopefully we'll have, like, a sizzle reel documentary 687 00:27:51,903 --> 00:27:55,440 coming in January 2025 that hopefully. 688 00:27:55,440 --> 00:27:58,443 Yeah, that hopefully gets us more sponsorship. 689 00:27:58,743 --> 00:27:59,744 That's a new sponsor. 690 00:27:59,744 --> 00:28:01,413 Rochester coach and a consultant. 691 00:28:01,413 --> 00:28:04,049 Shout out to Drake. My guy. 692 00:28:04,049 --> 00:28:05,617 Gardens that. Pizza garden. 693 00:28:05,617 --> 00:28:07,419 That's where you met me. Yeah that's that's. 694 00:28:07,419 --> 00:28:10,088 Troy style with this spicy honey. That was. Really good. 695 00:28:10,088 --> 00:28:12,557 Yeah, yeah. No one else making a Detroit around here. 696 00:28:12,557 --> 00:28:14,659 So shout out to Pep Man. Shout out to pep. 697 00:28:17,295 --> 00:28:17,762 Let's see. 698 00:28:17,762 --> 00:28:18,730 Yeah. Good dudes. 699 00:28:18,730 --> 00:28:21,466 Kent O'Hara agency in Manchester. 700 00:28:21,466 --> 00:28:22,600 Don't ship recordings. 701 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:23,735 That's my guy, Nick Rose. 702 00:28:23,735 --> 00:28:25,236 He'll be performing in Hartford. 703 00:28:25,236 --> 00:28:27,872 He'll be performing in Northampton. 704 00:28:27,872 --> 00:28:29,674 He's great. Blue earth compost. 705 00:28:29,674 --> 00:28:32,677 They do a bunch of recycling stuff in Hartford County. 706 00:28:33,511 --> 00:28:34,512 Oh. Public access. 707 00:28:34,512 --> 00:28:35,146 How'd you get that one? 708 00:28:35,146 --> 00:28:38,149 That was a good. Yeah, yeah. 709 00:28:38,683 --> 00:28:38,983 They. 710 00:28:38,983 --> 00:28:42,721 Were sponsors back in, year four, year four and. 711 00:28:42,721 --> 00:28:43,722 Five. 712 00:28:43,722 --> 00:28:46,191 And then we kind of like, 713 00:28:46,191 --> 00:28:47,192 just lost. 714 00:28:47,192 --> 00:28:48,259 Lost contact 715 00:28:48,259 --> 00:28:49,728 and I just reached out on a whim 716 00:28:49,728 --> 00:28:52,931 and just was like, I still was very cordial and real friendly 717 00:28:52,931 --> 00:28:55,433 and connected with social media with one of the people there. 718 00:28:55,433 --> 00:28:58,737 And I reached out and I was like, hey, I love to talk to you a little bit more. 719 00:28:58,737 --> 00:29:01,706 Same thing now that we're legitimate. 720 00:29:01,706 --> 00:29:04,242 And now that you could actually have a receipt for all you're doing 721 00:29:04,242 --> 00:29:07,579 instead of just like, because in the past, all of my sponsors 722 00:29:07,579 --> 00:29:10,982 like, seriously shout out to them because they just believed in me. 723 00:29:10,982 --> 00:29:12,684 Like the man like Joey Bats. 724 00:29:12,684 --> 00:29:16,321 Like they were writing checks to me and hopes that I wasn't like 725 00:29:16,955 --> 00:29:18,690 buying a plane ticket. 726 00:29:18,690 --> 00:29:20,391 Getting some more sneakers. You know what I mean? 727 00:29:20,391 --> 00:29:25,163 Like they really believed in me, before any of this stuff was legit. 728 00:29:25,163 --> 00:29:27,065 So shout out to them. 729 00:29:27,065 --> 00:29:31,669 And and that's being being able to do the tax write off 730 00:29:31,669 --> 00:29:35,306 and being able to send receipts that like firmed up my backbone 731 00:29:35,306 --> 00:29:38,977 a little bit more where I was just like, I could really just cold call some people 732 00:29:38,977 --> 00:29:43,114 and go after some big dogs who I know would support something like this, 733 00:29:43,114 --> 00:29:46,117 but who didn't want to write me a personal check. 734 00:29:46,484 --> 00:29:47,252 Nice. 735 00:29:47,252 --> 00:29:50,622 Yeah, yeah, that means a lot that they trusted you that much. 736 00:29:50,622 --> 00:29:51,422 Yeah. 737 00:29:51,422 --> 00:29:52,824 Yeah, I started off the same way. 738 00:29:52,824 --> 00:29:53,925 I remember getting checks. 739 00:29:53,925 --> 00:29:57,195 Yeah, my guy Jason Ryan would just write whatever you need. 740 00:29:57,195 --> 00:29:58,863 Feeney. Yeah, you. Know what I mean? 741 00:29:58,863 --> 00:30:00,598 And that's one of those things where like. 742 00:30:00,598 --> 00:30:04,435 And I'm thankful for that as a musician, as a rapper, as a businessman. 743 00:30:04,435 --> 00:30:07,839 Like, people believed in me as a person and they knew that I didn't do 744 00:30:07,839 --> 00:30:09,107 bad business, you know? 745 00:30:09,107 --> 00:30:12,677 And I'm sure you and all the people on that long list of podcasters 746 00:30:12,677 --> 00:30:16,381 all the 120 people before me, like they believed in you. 747 00:30:16,581 --> 00:30:18,883 And that says so much about us. 748 00:30:18,883 --> 00:30:21,986 Like that's that is the code that I know you 749 00:30:21,986 --> 00:30:25,323 teach your kids both your own kids and your and your class kids. 750 00:30:25,323 --> 00:30:27,659 And same with me. Like every student I've ever had. 751 00:30:27,659 --> 00:30:29,694 That's numero uno, you know what I mean? 752 00:30:29,694 --> 00:30:32,197 Like, I don't care if you can't write an essay. 753 00:30:32,197 --> 00:30:34,699 I don't care if you struggle reading and writing, you know what I mean? 754 00:30:34,699 --> 00:30:37,969 Like, we got to develop good humans, right? 755 00:30:38,169 --> 00:30:42,407 We got to create a society, and we need to be pillars of our community first. 756 00:30:42,574 --> 00:30:42,874 Yeah. 757 00:30:42,874 --> 00:30:44,843 And I think people recognize that in me. 758 00:30:44,843 --> 00:30:46,644 And I think that has helped me, 759 00:30:47,679 --> 00:30:48,680 where I am now. 760 00:30:48,680 --> 00:30:50,548 And that's why I'm able not only to sit here with you, 761 00:30:50,548 --> 00:30:53,985 but to do everything that I'm doing so far with no bumps in the road. 762 00:30:54,185 --> 00:30:57,188 That's great. Yeah. Well said, I like it. 763 00:30:57,255 --> 00:30:58,489 Honored to be speaking with you. 764 00:30:58,489 --> 00:30:59,190 You're my best friend. 765 00:30:59,190 --> 00:31:01,593 Yeah, man. Hell yeah, bro, let me know, man. 766 00:31:01,593 --> 00:31:04,028 You go, you get a flat tire. You know what I'm saying? 767 00:31:04,028 --> 00:31:06,564 You need a wingman. Like I'm here, bro. I'm here. 768 00:31:06,564 --> 00:31:08,132 Hit the sticker up. 769 00:31:08,132 --> 00:31:09,968 With the sticker with that. 770 00:31:09,968 --> 00:31:12,971 Oh, we got this one, two. 771 00:31:14,205 --> 00:31:15,240 There are some I used to. 772 00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:16,341 So what I would do 773 00:31:16,341 --> 00:31:18,943 the way that it started is I got these stickers made, 774 00:31:18,943 --> 00:31:22,280 and people would come to a live show, and they would either buy a shirt 775 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:24,449 and I give them a sticker or they would just, you know, throw me a buck. 776 00:31:24,449 --> 00:31:26,451 I'd be like, here's a sticker, here's one for you. 777 00:31:26,451 --> 00:31:29,921 And the other one I need you to put up somewhere in the public. 778 00:31:30,188 --> 00:31:32,690 I don't care where you put it. Put it out in the public. 779 00:31:32,690 --> 00:31:33,658 Yeah, right. 780 00:31:33,658 --> 00:31:34,759 Because I was always scared 781 00:31:34,759 --> 00:31:37,195 that I would be putting a sticker with my own face on it. 782 00:31:37,195 --> 00:31:39,998 And I catch me and I. Go to jail, right? 783 00:31:39,998 --> 00:31:41,099 I would. Lose everything. 784 00:31:41,099 --> 00:31:44,736 I think there's on the corner of South Main in New Brighton Ave, Doro, 785 00:31:45,036 --> 00:31:46,004 Dunkin Donuts. 786 00:31:46,004 --> 00:31:49,407 I walk every day with my dog across the street to Main Road and I wait, 787 00:31:49,607 --> 00:31:51,910 hit the button, I wait and there's a sticker right there. 788 00:31:51,910 --> 00:31:54,112 I swear every. Day I've. Never put one up. 789 00:31:55,213 --> 00:31:56,547 And that's before. 790 00:31:56,547 --> 00:31:57,482 This was years. Ago. 791 00:31:57,482 --> 00:31:59,183 I've never killed one guy. 792 00:31:59,183 --> 00:32:01,252 I've never put one up. 793 00:32:01,252 --> 00:32:01,753 That is. 794 00:32:01,753 --> 00:32:04,055 That has been my campaign for the longest. 795 00:32:04,055 --> 00:32:05,290 Come to a show. 796 00:32:05,290 --> 00:32:07,325 Here's a sticker you put on your laptop. 797 00:32:07,325 --> 00:32:09,694 The other one put it on the street sign to put. 798 00:32:09,694 --> 00:32:10,995 Them up to. You know what I mean? 799 00:32:10,995 --> 00:32:12,330 Maybe you'll start seeing these up. 800 00:32:12,330 --> 00:32:15,967 Do it because you see these magnets on cars. 801 00:32:16,634 --> 00:32:17,869 I've seen him, I love them. 802 00:32:17,869 --> 00:32:19,671 Good friends. Rule. Yeah. 803 00:32:19,671 --> 00:32:21,706 Why did you go with the Kelly Green? 804 00:32:21,706 --> 00:32:23,308 Talk to me a little bit about that. 805 00:32:23,308 --> 00:32:24,809 Just being Irish. 806 00:32:24,809 --> 00:32:26,144 I think that had something to do with it. 807 00:32:26,144 --> 00:32:28,012 Yeah, a good question. 808 00:32:28,012 --> 00:32:30,615 I don't know why I went Kelly Green. It's clean, man. I like it a lot. 809 00:32:30,615 --> 00:32:31,950 It's real. Nice. 810 00:32:31,950 --> 00:32:32,850 It stands out. 811 00:32:32,850 --> 00:32:35,820 Stickers. Stickers need to have an identity. 812 00:32:36,020 --> 00:32:38,256 So so you can see. It. 813 00:32:38,256 --> 00:32:41,059 From 50ft away even if it's not. 814 00:32:41,059 --> 00:32:41,759 Legible. 815 00:32:42,961 --> 00:32:44,595 And you still know what it is. 816 00:32:44,595 --> 00:32:46,998 Okay. You know what I mean? I'm not teaching you. 817 00:32:46,998 --> 00:32:48,132 You already know. 818 00:32:48,132 --> 00:32:51,002 Like this. This stands alone. 819 00:32:51,002 --> 00:32:52,337 You see this on a car. 820 00:32:52,337 --> 00:32:55,239 You know it's not going to be something different when you walk closer 821 00:32:55,239 --> 00:32:56,975 or when you drive closer to it. 822 00:32:56,975 --> 00:32:58,643 That's the cool thing about this logo. 823 00:32:58,643 --> 00:33:01,612 I like that. I like that. 824 00:33:01,612 --> 00:33:04,816 We got some sponsors again, this is Feeney talks with friends. 825 00:33:04,816 --> 00:33:07,118 This is all possible because a direct line media. 826 00:33:07,118 --> 00:33:10,121 Stefania and Dave what's up Stefania 827 00:33:10,755 --> 00:33:11,589 she's here. 828 00:33:11,589 --> 00:33:14,459 We got Luna pizza 9.99 Farmington Ave. 829 00:33:14,459 --> 00:33:16,494 Come check it out. We're going to get in some wings. 830 00:33:16,494 --> 00:33:19,464 This is my favorite. This is my favorite. This is my favorite. 831 00:33:19,464 --> 00:33:22,900 Go on my favorite one I live in Wethersfield now. 832 00:33:23,534 --> 00:33:26,371 So sometimes I go to Luna's in Glastonbury. Yep. 833 00:33:26,371 --> 00:33:27,271 End of sentence. 834 00:33:29,307 --> 00:33:30,842 Read between the lines. 835 00:33:30,842 --> 00:33:32,076 End of sentence. 836 00:33:32,076 --> 00:33:33,478 But I love coming to this. 837 00:33:33,478 --> 00:33:35,913 Luna's right here, man. I came here the other day. 838 00:33:35,913 --> 00:33:36,814 I get a white pie. 839 00:33:36,814 --> 00:33:37,648 That's my favorite. 840 00:33:37,648 --> 00:33:39,917 I get a white pie. They make the best. 841 00:33:39,917 --> 00:33:41,252 They make the best white pie. 842 00:33:41,252 --> 00:33:43,321 I'm sorry, Frank. 843 00:33:43,321 --> 00:33:43,921 Sorry, Mr. 844 00:33:43,921 --> 00:33:46,491 Pepe, they make the best white pie. Man. 845 00:33:46,491 --> 00:33:47,759 I love it here. 846 00:33:47,759 --> 00:33:49,260 You got to give me their information, man. 847 00:33:49,260 --> 00:33:50,395 I want them to be a sponsor. 848 00:33:50,395 --> 00:33:52,997 I've been eating Luna's up to my. 849 00:33:52,997 --> 00:33:54,399 Up to my eyes. 850 00:33:54,399 --> 00:33:55,400 Alex is tatted up. 851 00:33:55,400 --> 00:33:56,300 Yeah, he's got to sleep. 852 00:33:56,300 --> 00:33:57,668 Yeah. But. 853 00:33:57,668 --> 00:33:59,670 But these are my people, man, I love it. 854 00:33:59,670 --> 00:34:01,172 All the pizza shops who pop up. 855 00:34:01,172 --> 00:34:05,143 Man, I still am faithful as heck to Luna's man. 856 00:34:05,143 --> 00:34:06,577 And then we got float 41. 857 00:34:06,577 --> 00:34:08,813 You ever float in a a dark? 858 00:34:08,813 --> 00:34:10,081 No, but I've heard of this. 859 00:34:10,081 --> 00:34:11,616 Of 10,000 pounds of salt. 860 00:34:11,616 --> 00:34:13,951 Heard of this perfect boy. Yeah. 861 00:34:13,951 --> 00:34:17,355 It's supposed to be, like, help center you spiritually and mentally, right? 862 00:34:17,422 --> 00:34:18,056 Yeah. 863 00:34:18,056 --> 00:34:21,059 Dan Hurley does it once a month if you can't tell he needs it. 864 00:34:21,426 --> 00:34:24,662 So, yeah, you should try Sierra over there in Bishop's Corner. 865 00:34:24,662 --> 00:34:27,665 Okay. Newest sponsor. She's a great friend. 866 00:34:27,899 --> 00:34:29,934 Podcast guest. 867 00:34:29,934 --> 00:34:30,868 You've done it. Float. 868 00:34:30,868 --> 00:34:32,637 Oh, I love it. Yeah, you can do. 869 00:34:32,637 --> 00:34:34,539 Do you lose track of time? Do you fall. Asleep? 870 00:34:34,539 --> 00:34:35,373 So here's the thing. 871 00:34:35,373 --> 00:34:35,807 You could do 872 00:34:35,807 --> 00:34:39,043 60 minutes or 90 minutes and you're like, oh, 90 minutes is way too long. 873 00:34:39,577 --> 00:34:42,146 By the time you finally, because your mind's racing, 874 00:34:42,146 --> 00:34:47,018 got a million things going throughout the day, you finally find your relaxation. 875 00:34:47,919 --> 00:34:50,021 The lights go on. It's crazy how. 876 00:34:50,021 --> 00:34:51,989 Well, toss and turn. Yeah. 877 00:34:51,989 --> 00:34:56,094 And you finally find it and the lights go on, so I. 878 00:34:56,661 --> 00:34:58,796 I tried 90 minutes. 879 00:34:58,796 --> 00:35:00,431 I've tried it with my wife. 880 00:35:00,431 --> 00:35:03,301 You can go in the couples. Okay. Really cool too. 881 00:35:03,301 --> 00:35:05,670 You kind of like do you like, hold hands like otters. 882 00:35:05,670 --> 00:35:08,673 Float around you? Yup. Yeah. Yep. 883 00:35:08,840 --> 00:35:11,008 We, interlock arms like otters. 884 00:35:11,008 --> 00:35:13,511 I love that, definitely. 885 00:35:13,511 --> 00:35:17,148 Then they do a salt cave, and then now they have something in Cromwell. 886 00:35:18,116 --> 00:35:20,384 Contrast therapy, cold plunge. 887 00:35:20,384 --> 00:35:23,488 Well, sauna. Okay. Cold plunge. Sauna. 888 00:35:23,554 --> 00:35:24,455 Yeah. You times. 889 00:35:24,455 --> 00:35:26,991 They like ripping open your cells and and healing them back. 890 00:35:26,991 --> 00:35:28,292 Right. I'm nervous. 891 00:35:28,292 --> 00:35:29,894 Like your bones feel young. 892 00:35:29,894 --> 00:35:31,629 You want to run a marathon? 893 00:35:31,629 --> 00:35:33,297 You're young, you're rejuvenated. 894 00:35:33,297 --> 00:35:35,099 Like you said, you just want to sit and reset. 895 00:35:35,099 --> 00:35:35,466 Yeah. 896 00:35:35,466 --> 00:35:38,803 Maybe after this tour, you should go hook up with the firewood. 897 00:35:38,803 --> 00:35:40,805 Man, I definitely want to float. That's. 898 00:35:40,805 --> 00:35:43,574 That's amazing. Bro. I'll connect you. That sounds great. 899 00:35:43,574 --> 00:35:46,010 And then the fix ivy across the street. Okay. 900 00:35:46,010 --> 00:35:49,013 You get an IV or a B12 shot or the rocket. 901 00:35:49,046 --> 00:35:51,916 They'll fix you right up with an Ivy. 902 00:35:51,916 --> 00:35:53,184 Can anybody get that? 903 00:35:53,184 --> 00:35:55,253 Or do they recommend it for everybody? 904 00:35:55,253 --> 00:35:58,256 Or do you have to have, like, a vitamin deficiency? 905 00:35:58,322 --> 00:36:00,258 Anyone? Any time? Yep. 906 00:36:00,258 --> 00:36:03,261 So B12 is, a lot of people lack B12. 907 00:36:03,461 --> 00:36:05,730 I take B12 love B12. 908 00:36:05,730 --> 00:36:07,798 You can just get the shot. They go right into you. 909 00:36:07,798 --> 00:36:08,666 Yeah, bang. 910 00:36:08,666 --> 00:36:11,302 And then you just dunk. That's pretty dope. 911 00:36:11,302 --> 00:36:12,136 And you're just running. 912 00:36:12,136 --> 00:36:12,537 I was going to. 913 00:36:12,537 --> 00:36:15,072 Say I was going to say, then you're ready for the NBA. 914 00:36:15,072 --> 00:36:16,707 That should be their logo. 915 00:36:16,707 --> 00:36:18,743 Don't get B12 and try out for the Lakers. 916 00:36:20,912 --> 00:36:22,747 Yes. That is in theory. 917 00:36:22,747 --> 00:36:25,750 Yeah. Popeye's spinach right. 918 00:36:25,783 --> 00:36:27,218 My name and my. 919 00:36:27,218 --> 00:36:30,221 Golf lore group. Brook Golf is a sponsor. 920 00:36:30,254 --> 00:36:31,222 Great sponsor. 921 00:36:31,222 --> 00:36:32,557 You know I've seen their commercials. 922 00:36:32,557 --> 00:36:35,259 Are they really related to Jared Goff. No relation. 923 00:36:35,259 --> 00:36:38,029 What a dope dope commercial that is. 924 00:36:38,029 --> 00:36:39,330 That was pretty dope to them. 925 00:36:39,330 --> 00:36:41,465 It was brilliant. Brilliant marketing her name. 926 00:36:41,465 --> 00:36:43,034 I love to see brilliant. Mark her new one. 927 00:36:43,034 --> 00:36:46,170 She's got the whole cast of the Christmas vacation Chevy 928 00:36:46,170 --> 00:36:49,140 Chase, Randy Quaid and the wife. 929 00:36:49,240 --> 00:36:50,675 She's got flavor. Flavor. 930 00:36:50,675 --> 00:36:52,076 I saw him on a billboard. 931 00:36:52,076 --> 00:36:54,645 Yeah, Jared Goff 932 00:36:54,645 --> 00:36:55,947 she's she knows what she's doing. 933 00:36:55,947 --> 00:36:58,416 That's great sponsor. Great friend. 934 00:36:58,416 --> 00:36:59,550 Christmas party is coming up. 935 00:36:59,550 --> 00:37:02,220 Can't wait. Dope. Did you know them before? 936 00:37:02,220 --> 00:37:03,020 They were a law firm. 937 00:37:03,020 --> 00:37:06,524 No TV agency. Insurance is a sponsor. 938 00:37:06,524 --> 00:37:07,258 Great people. 939 00:37:09,160 --> 00:37:09,594 Let's see. 940 00:37:09,594 --> 00:37:11,195 Keating agency. 941 00:37:11,195 --> 00:37:13,531 Think I hit them all. 942 00:37:13,531 --> 00:37:14,532 Kidding. Agency. 943 00:37:14,532 --> 00:37:16,534 We got. 944 00:37:16,534 --> 00:37:18,035 We're hitting them up, talking to each one. 945 00:37:18,035 --> 00:37:18,936 So we got to make sure. 946 00:37:18,936 --> 00:37:20,037 What do they do? 947 00:37:20,037 --> 00:37:20,404 Kidding. 948 00:37:20,404 --> 00:37:23,407 Agency insurance to fix. I v 949 00:37:24,675 --> 00:37:24,976 they do. 950 00:37:24,976 --> 00:37:26,944 Our directors in officer insurance. 951 00:37:26,944 --> 00:37:30,514 You probably need that as a nonprofit to hook you up. 952 00:37:31,115 --> 00:37:34,085 People's bank is great. People's bank. Okay. 953 00:37:34,085 --> 00:37:36,087 And Parkville management. 954 00:37:36,087 --> 00:37:38,756 Carlos Carlos Carlos Mota. 955 00:37:38,756 --> 00:37:41,192 Yes, Muto was a great podcast guest. 956 00:37:41,192 --> 00:37:43,361 Got a lot of views to his popular guy. 957 00:37:43,361 --> 00:37:45,062 He's a real popular guy, man. 958 00:37:45,062 --> 00:37:47,732 I go way back with Carlos, man. He's awesome. 959 00:37:47,732 --> 00:37:50,701 Golf with 62 year interested. 960 00:37:50,735 --> 00:37:53,237 Alex from Luna was 70. 961 00:37:53,237 --> 00:37:56,240 Yeah, this. 962 00:37:56,274 --> 00:37:59,343 Let's see when Carlos was your 121. 963 00:37:59,343 --> 00:38:00,144 How do you feel about that? 964 00:38:00,144 --> 00:38:00,811 I like that man. 965 00:38:00,811 --> 00:38:03,781 It was a good numbers. I traditionally hate. 966 00:38:03,814 --> 00:38:04,849 Numbers. 967 00:38:04,849 --> 00:38:05,283 I'm not. 968 00:38:05,283 --> 00:38:07,985 I'm not a whole. I'm not a big fan. 969 00:38:07,985 --> 00:38:09,720 But I don't think it's a prime number. 970 00:38:10,988 --> 00:38:12,790 I don't I don't think it is. 971 00:38:12,790 --> 00:38:15,259 73 was, 972 00:38:15,259 --> 00:38:17,228 Carlos Muto got you? 973 00:38:17,228 --> 00:38:18,562 That's prime, isn't it? 70. 974 00:38:18,562 --> 00:38:20,564 Yeah, 73 is prime. 975 00:38:20,564 --> 00:38:22,199 How about Doctor Miguel Cardona? 976 00:38:22,199 --> 00:38:22,867 You know who that is? 977 00:38:22,867 --> 00:38:26,404 Yeah. Podcast guess. Yeah. I was like great. 978 00:38:26,570 --> 00:38:27,271 It was a zoom. 979 00:38:27,271 --> 00:38:28,005 Yeah. 980 00:38:28,005 --> 00:38:29,707 He's our he's our boss's boss's. 981 00:38:29,707 --> 00:38:31,208 Boss's boss. Okay. 982 00:38:31,208 --> 00:38:33,644 I believe that the secretary of education. 983 00:38:33,644 --> 00:38:36,580 Yeah. He's the man right there. One man, one away. 984 00:38:36,580 --> 00:38:38,282 I knew you would know who that was. 985 00:38:38,282 --> 00:38:40,251 Yeah. So. 986 00:38:40,251 --> 00:38:42,520 Oh, and West Hartford, Locke, West Hartford. 987 00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:43,621 Locke is a sponsor. Okay. 988 00:38:43,621 --> 00:38:44,188 Can you agree? 989 00:38:44,188 --> 00:38:48,326 With that being said, what are three keys that make you great at being 990 00:38:48,326 --> 00:38:54,632 the president of the nonprofit Hip hop for homeless slash being a teacher? 991 00:38:55,533 --> 00:38:57,601 Yeah. Three keys that are keys. Yeah. 992 00:38:59,403 --> 00:39:01,906 I think I touched upon one of them already. 993 00:39:01,906 --> 00:39:05,109 I do good business, and I hold relationships 994 00:39:05,109 --> 00:39:07,978 very firm and very seriously. 995 00:39:07,978 --> 00:39:09,680 Loyal to a fault. 996 00:39:09,680 --> 00:39:12,183 So people know that they could count on me. 997 00:39:12,183 --> 00:39:13,451 People know that I'm reliable. 998 00:39:13,451 --> 00:39:16,220 People know that, like, my word is my bond. 999 00:39:16,220 --> 00:39:18,222 And that's how I was raised. 1000 00:39:18,222 --> 00:39:19,490 Old school Italian. 1001 00:39:19,490 --> 00:39:22,493 That that's how I've always lived my whole life. 1002 00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:27,164 So that has benefited me the most in any business that I ever do, 1003 00:39:27,798 --> 00:39:31,168 both with peers, both with supervisors, both with people 1004 00:39:31,168 --> 00:39:34,171 above me, below me on the same level as me. 1005 00:39:35,973 --> 00:39:37,274 I think, recently 1006 00:39:37,274 --> 00:39:40,277 I've been called unflappable. 1007 00:39:40,277 --> 00:39:40,778 That's a good one. 1008 00:39:40,778 --> 00:39:42,713 Which I thought that was a really good adjective. 1009 00:39:42,713 --> 00:39:44,115 Yeah. 1010 00:39:44,115 --> 00:39:47,385 One of the district coaches of Hartford met me for the first time, 1011 00:39:47,752 --> 00:39:50,254 and they were talking about, like, the challenges of middle school 1012 00:39:50,254 --> 00:39:54,024 and the challenges of, of of, you know, being in this realm 1013 00:39:54,024 --> 00:39:57,795 after teaching high school for so long and they were just like, you know. 1014 00:39:58,763 --> 00:39:59,497 I get the vibe. 1015 00:39:59,497 --> 00:40:01,031 That you're like pretty unflappable. 1016 00:40:01,031 --> 00:40:05,903 And I was just like, yeah, I mean, I guess I am, you know, I, I learned to, 1017 00:40:06,337 --> 00:40:09,940 I studied a lot of eastern philosophy and a lot of, eastern medicine. 1018 00:40:09,940 --> 00:40:14,311 And, like, I've learned to just let go of this stuff that we can't control. 1019 00:40:14,979 --> 00:40:19,583 And a lot of times we get so angry and we get so anxious and we get so tense, 1020 00:40:19,817 --> 00:40:21,419 and we get so overwhelmed 1021 00:40:21,419 --> 00:40:24,588 and we get so stressed over things that we cannot control. 1022 00:40:25,055 --> 00:40:28,759 But as soon as you realize that you have no control, it's just Husar 1023 00:40:29,393 --> 00:40:34,031 and you send it and you part it and you move it and it's just, it's 1024 00:40:34,198 --> 00:40:38,769 it's clarity, you know, it's air and it's energy and it's clear. 1025 00:40:38,936 --> 00:40:39,570 Right. 1026 00:40:39,570 --> 00:40:41,539 But in reality it's not that clear. 1027 00:40:41,539 --> 00:40:41,939 Right? 1028 00:40:41,939 --> 00:40:44,742 It's opaque and it's translucent and it fogs your mind 1029 00:40:44,742 --> 00:40:46,010 and it fogs your eyesight. 1030 00:40:46,010 --> 00:40:49,547 So you move that to the left and you move that to the right, and you part it. 1031 00:40:50,147 --> 00:40:52,516 And I just, I just sometimes I just sit in class 1032 00:40:52,516 --> 00:40:55,186 and I'll just yeah, I'll fold my arms and I'll just stare at people. 1033 00:40:56,687 --> 00:40:59,290 For minutes on end and Mr.. 1034 00:40:59,290 --> 00:41:00,090 What are you looking at? 1035 00:41:00,090 --> 00:41:02,827 And I'll just be like nothing, man. 1036 00:41:02,827 --> 00:41:05,830 I'm vibing, I'm chillin, you know. 1037 00:41:06,697 --> 00:41:07,364 Yeah. 1038 00:41:07,364 --> 00:41:10,367 And I think the third one is, 1039 00:41:10,901 --> 00:41:13,070 I believe in people. 1040 00:41:13,070 --> 00:41:14,972 I believe in what people can do. 1041 00:41:14,972 --> 00:41:19,443 And as much as I've been doing everything, and as egotistical 1042 00:41:19,443 --> 00:41:23,247 as it is to put my ugly mug on a sticker, I believe in the people that 1043 00:41:23,247 --> 00:41:27,017 that I believe in, and everybody that meets me 1044 00:41:27,017 --> 00:41:30,120 has a chance with me, and everybody that meets me has an opportunity with me. 1045 00:41:30,120 --> 00:41:32,323 And I think that 1046 00:41:32,323 --> 00:41:37,194 we lose sight with the technology, with the social media, with the digital world. 1047 00:41:37,461 --> 00:41:42,266 We lose sight of how important this is and the capital that people possess 1048 00:41:42,666 --> 00:41:47,838 in, in community and in communication and in language and in conversation. 1049 00:41:49,306 --> 00:41:52,309 But I, I hold that to the utmost. 1050 00:41:52,877 --> 00:41:57,181 And I think that people feel that and I think that on a very subconscious, 1051 00:41:57,181 --> 00:42:00,618 even lower than that, on a very animalistic Ed level, 1052 00:42:01,051 --> 00:42:04,788 I think people become empowered by that. 1053 00:42:05,589 --> 00:42:09,126 And it's almost like, you know, when you're activating someone's 1054 00:42:09,126 --> 00:42:12,596 psyche for them and alongside them. 1055 00:42:13,130 --> 00:42:19,036 And a lot of times I, I'm able to to tap into some talent or some skill 1056 00:42:19,036 --> 00:42:22,873 or some abilities that they weren't even confident with and comfortable with. 1057 00:42:22,873 --> 00:42:23,240 Yeah. 1058 00:42:23,240 --> 00:42:24,375 And and same goes for. 1059 00:42:24,375 --> 00:42:25,876 Students quality of a good. 1060 00:42:25,876 --> 00:42:27,745 Teacher, you know. 1061 00:42:27,745 --> 00:42:28,746 Have a good night. 1062 00:42:28,746 --> 00:42:29,813 Feeney talks with friends. 1063 00:42:29,813 --> 00:42:31,282 All right on my watch. 1064 00:42:31,282 --> 00:42:33,984 Take care folks. 1065 00:42:33,984 --> 00:42:36,787 So that's that's one of those things, you know? 1066 00:42:36,787 --> 00:42:37,621 Great answer. 1067 00:42:37,621 --> 00:42:39,924 Three keys. Yeah, it was really good. 1068 00:42:39,924 --> 00:42:40,558 Lock it up. 1069 00:42:42,693 --> 00:42:45,095 But the key in it, lock it up. 1070 00:42:45,095 --> 00:42:46,730 All right, so next question fit. 1071 00:42:46,730 --> 00:42:47,798 Well, speaking of which. 1072 00:42:47,798 --> 00:42:49,800 So you're Italian. Yes. 1073 00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:53,070 What's your is bats short for your last name but Talia. 1074 00:42:53,437 --> 00:42:56,140 But Talia. Yeah the g silent. 1075 00:42:56,140 --> 00:42:59,577 So b b a a g. 1076 00:42:59,643 --> 00:43:01,145 La. La. 1077 00:43:01,145 --> 00:43:04,248 Yeah it's Italian for battalion and battle. 1078 00:43:04,815 --> 00:43:07,751 That's where we get like the term for battalions in the army. 1079 00:43:07,751 --> 00:43:10,020 We get that from battalion, 1080 00:43:10,020 --> 00:43:10,187 Yeah. 1081 00:43:10,187 --> 00:43:13,190 Interesting. Yep. 1082 00:43:13,791 --> 00:43:14,825 And Joseph. 1083 00:43:14,825 --> 00:43:17,828 Joseph. Joseph William Valentine battalion. 1084 00:43:17,962 --> 00:43:18,429 Forget them. 1085 00:43:18,429 --> 00:43:19,763 Yes. Forget about. It. 1086 00:43:19,763 --> 00:43:21,665 I got five fingers and Alex tree. 1087 00:43:21,665 --> 00:43:24,668 Yeah, I know you treat him. 1088 00:43:24,868 --> 00:43:25,302 Yeah it's. 1089 00:43:25,302 --> 00:43:26,203 Cool man. It's cool. 1090 00:43:26,203 --> 00:43:29,206 My my father. Rest in peace Salvatore. 1091 00:43:29,340 --> 00:43:30,774 Salvatore battalion. 1092 00:43:30,774 --> 00:43:34,411 That was his that when he was in Rikers Island everybody called him Sally Beth. 1093 00:43:35,312 --> 00:43:38,282 So I knew when I went up when I, you know 1094 00:43:38,282 --> 00:43:41,218 in middle school I had coaches they'll call me Joey Bats. 1095 00:43:41,218 --> 00:43:43,687 And I was like, oh, this is a no brainer. 1096 00:43:43,687 --> 00:43:46,490 I don't need a rap name. Yeah. 1097 00:43:46,490 --> 00:43:47,424 You know, I don't need a right. 1098 00:43:47,424 --> 00:43:49,259 Hey, man, I want you to call me this. 1099 00:43:49,259 --> 00:43:51,462 Now, man. You just go by what's you're called. 1100 00:43:51,462 --> 00:43:52,696 You know what I mean? 1101 00:43:52,696 --> 00:43:54,064 So it made sense. 1102 00:43:54,064 --> 00:43:56,133 It's like, oh, betray us. Real name, no gimmicks. 1103 00:43:57,601 --> 00:43:59,803 Oh, we tried. 1104 00:43:59,803 --> 00:44:02,306 Love. 1105 00:44:02,306 --> 00:44:04,508 And then you mentioned something else. 1106 00:44:04,508 --> 00:44:06,043 Italian. Oh, bear season. 1107 00:44:06,043 --> 00:44:07,111 How's my bear look? It's almost. 1108 00:44:07,111 --> 00:44:09,513 Yeah. Was looking good. Be like you. It's looking. Good. 1109 00:44:09,513 --> 00:44:10,714 When I grow up, I want to be like you. 1110 00:44:10,714 --> 00:44:13,384 That's a that's a nice beard. How long? The beard. 1111 00:44:13,384 --> 00:44:14,551 How long have I had the beard? 1112 00:44:14,551 --> 00:44:17,254 Like, forever. 1113 00:44:17,254 --> 00:44:18,822 I mean, stickers beard. 1114 00:44:18,822 --> 00:44:19,623 Not as long. 1115 00:44:19,623 --> 00:44:20,724 Stickers. Beard. 1116 00:44:20,724 --> 00:44:23,394 I can't shave it, bro, I look crazy. 1117 00:44:23,394 --> 00:44:24,962 I look, I look crazy. 1118 00:44:24,962 --> 00:44:27,631 I look like a chubby John Stamos. 1119 00:44:27,631 --> 00:44:28,666 I can't do it. 1120 00:44:28,666 --> 00:44:30,100 I can't do. It, uncle Jesse. 1121 00:44:30,100 --> 00:44:31,802 Uncle Jesse, I can't do it. 1122 00:44:31,802 --> 00:44:34,038 So yeah, the beard has been something that 1123 00:44:34,038 --> 00:44:36,140 that that I've just kept for a long time. 1124 00:44:36,140 --> 00:44:37,574 I don't like being clean shaven. 1125 00:44:37,574 --> 00:44:39,410 I don't really like shaving that much. 1126 00:44:39,410 --> 00:44:40,110 You know what I mean? 1127 00:44:40,110 --> 00:44:43,614 I don't I don't that the razor kind of irritates me. 1128 00:44:43,614 --> 00:44:46,050 So I just, you know, shaved down here, you know what I mean? 1129 00:44:46,050 --> 00:44:49,987 So I could put the button up on, But, yeah, I just kind of rock the beard. 1130 00:44:49,987 --> 00:44:53,257 Sometimes it gets a little bit long and out of control, 1131 00:44:54,291 --> 00:44:54,958 but I don't. 1132 00:44:54,958 --> 00:44:58,095 Want to do first and next first, last, best. 1133 00:44:58,095 --> 00:45:01,432 But how about some tats to show off a favorite tat or these buttons? 1134 00:45:01,432 --> 00:45:03,067 What's with the buttons? 1135 00:45:03,067 --> 00:45:03,901 Little show and tell. 1136 00:45:03,901 --> 00:45:06,904 Oh my buttons. Are you verified? Check. 1137 00:45:07,571 --> 00:45:09,273 This is when you sit back and you're chillin. 1138 00:45:09,273 --> 00:45:11,975 Everything's fine. I just just. When I sit back. 1139 00:45:11,975 --> 00:45:13,343 This is my little dog. 1140 00:45:13,343 --> 00:45:15,412 When the dumpster. Fire. 1141 00:45:15,412 --> 00:45:16,380 This is fun. 1142 00:45:16,380 --> 00:45:18,449 Yeah, it's a joke between me and my sister. 1143 00:45:18,449 --> 00:45:20,150 She's also a school teacher. 1144 00:45:20,150 --> 00:45:20,384 Okay. 1145 00:45:20,384 --> 00:45:23,220 And we'll be like, man, some days you're just like, yeah. 1146 00:45:23,220 --> 00:45:24,555 This is fine. 1147 00:45:24,555 --> 00:45:25,322 This is fun. 1148 00:45:25,322 --> 00:45:26,557 I like whether it's the kids. 1149 00:45:26,557 --> 00:45:29,259 Whether it's the admin, you're just like, okay. 1150 00:45:29,259 --> 00:45:30,594 Here I am, I'm alive. 1151 00:45:30,594 --> 00:45:33,597 Let me sit this coffee and figure it out. 1152 00:45:33,764 --> 00:45:34,665 Black lives matter. 1153 00:45:34,665 --> 00:45:35,599 That's obvious. 1154 00:45:35,599 --> 00:45:38,502 I have different pins on all of my vests. 1155 00:45:38,502 --> 00:45:42,039 It was 20 degrees when I left for school today, so I got the heavy vest on. 1156 00:45:42,873 --> 00:45:43,640 But I like it, man. 1157 00:45:43,640 --> 00:45:47,911 It's a it's a nice way of being able to, to celebrate the things that I care about. 1158 00:45:47,911 --> 00:45:50,481 And, I like that flash, 1159 00:45:51,749 --> 00:45:52,382 tattoos. 1160 00:45:52,382 --> 00:45:52,850 My first. 1161 00:45:52,850 --> 00:45:54,218 My first tattoo, I. 1162 00:45:54,218 --> 00:45:57,087 Waited, I didn't get any in high school. 1163 00:45:57,087 --> 00:45:58,489 I waited till my 21st. 1164 00:45:58,489 --> 00:46:00,591 But this is a wild story. There's a wild story. 1165 00:46:00,591 --> 00:46:02,192 We had time for. A wild story. One. 1166 00:46:02,192 --> 00:46:03,660 Yeah, yeah, we got time for a while. 1167 00:46:03,660 --> 00:46:03,861 Right? 1168 00:46:03,861 --> 00:46:06,864 We love wild stories. 1169 00:46:07,197 --> 00:46:08,866 I had just turned 1170 00:46:08,866 --> 00:46:12,603 21 in May, and it was, it was. 1171 00:46:12,603 --> 00:46:14,671 It was the next week I had left. 1172 00:46:14,671 --> 00:46:17,074 I was coming home from college a sophomore year. 1173 00:46:17,074 --> 00:46:18,842 College? Yes. 1174 00:46:18,842 --> 00:46:20,577 Senior year of college. 1175 00:46:20,577 --> 00:46:22,713 At 21. Yeah. 1176 00:46:22,713 --> 00:46:23,847 Okay. 1177 00:46:23,847 --> 00:46:26,083 Yeah, yeah. 1178 00:46:26,083 --> 00:46:29,086 Because graduation was my 21st birthday. 1179 00:46:30,454 --> 00:46:31,688 That can't be true. 1180 00:46:31,688 --> 00:46:32,556 I don't know, I'm 21. 1181 00:46:32,556 --> 00:46:35,359 It's kind of early. Did you start at 17? Yeah. 1182 00:46:35,359 --> 00:46:37,261 November. December birthday. You're young. 1183 00:46:37,261 --> 00:46:38,762 You're 22. 1184 00:46:38,762 --> 00:46:40,230 So this was my junior year. 1185 00:46:40,230 --> 00:46:41,732 Gotcha. My junior year. Right. 1186 00:46:42,933 --> 00:46:45,936 I had my I had to get my wisdom teeth pulled. 1187 00:46:46,170 --> 00:46:48,705 But I had been reading this is my first time reading. 1188 00:46:48,705 --> 00:46:50,474 Like the hot Vegeta. 1189 00:46:50,474 --> 00:46:53,744 It was my first time really getting into like, Hinduism and Buddhism, and. 1190 00:46:53,744 --> 00:46:55,646 I was like, all about it. 1191 00:46:55,646 --> 00:46:58,115 And like Siddartha teaches us 1192 00:46:58,115 --> 00:47:01,118 like, emotions are not real, right? 1193 00:47:01,118 --> 00:47:06,323 Like pain is the only reality that that you can really feel right. 1194 00:47:06,423 --> 00:47:07,925 Because your happiness is your happiness. 1195 00:47:07,925 --> 00:47:09,560 Your happiness is my happiness, right? 1196 00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:12,296 Emotions are subjective, right? But pain is not. 1197 00:47:12,296 --> 00:47:13,997 Pain is pain. 1198 00:47:13,997 --> 00:47:17,668 And I was like, yo, get in my wisdom teeth pull with no drugs. 1199 00:47:19,102 --> 00:47:20,370 Okay, that's wild. 1200 00:47:20,370 --> 00:47:21,572 Wild? You're not kidding. 1201 00:47:21,572 --> 00:47:24,575 I had to sign a waiver 1202 00:47:24,641 --> 00:47:27,845 the whole night that I wouldn't like punch the dentist right? 1203 00:47:29,413 --> 00:47:31,114 I got three wisdom teeth 1204 00:47:31,114 --> 00:47:34,284 extracted, sewn up nothing. 1205 00:47:35,252 --> 00:47:38,222 And I and I left there and walked 1206 00:47:38,322 --> 00:47:41,024 to a tattoo shop 1207 00:47:41,024 --> 00:47:44,027 and got and got pain tattooed on me, 1208 00:47:44,661 --> 00:47:47,664 bro. And I looked so crazy because I got the guy's. 1209 00:47:47,898 --> 00:47:49,733 I gotta go. 1210 00:47:49,733 --> 00:47:52,936 I got tacos in my mouth until contract night. 1211 00:47:53,370 --> 00:47:55,372 And I got the blood like dripping. 1212 00:47:55,372 --> 00:47:57,841 It's on my shirt. And they were like, what the hell? 1213 00:47:57,841 --> 00:47:58,475 Whatever, bro. 1214 00:47:58,475 --> 00:48:01,478 Sign a waiver because I had two waivers that day. 1215 00:48:02,646 --> 00:48:03,180 And that was cool. 1216 00:48:03,180 --> 00:48:03,480 So, like, 1217 00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:05,282 these are the four noble Truths of Buddhism, 1218 00:48:05,282 --> 00:48:08,252 but they teach you that you can't you don't. 1219 00:48:08,452 --> 00:48:11,154 You get them over time. 1220 00:48:11,154 --> 00:48:12,589 No one has true wisdom. 1221 00:48:12,589 --> 00:48:14,691 No one really, you know, manifest truth. 1222 00:48:14,691 --> 00:48:17,761 And until you have gotten to that point in life. 1223 00:48:18,395 --> 00:48:22,332 So I waited and at the time when I felt like I hit all of those. 1224 00:48:22,332 --> 00:48:23,967 So for a while, I just had pain on me. 1225 00:48:25,135 --> 00:48:25,502 Yeah. 1226 00:48:25,502 --> 00:48:28,138 Until I mastered karma. 1227 00:48:28,138 --> 00:48:28,972 Yeah. 1228 00:48:28,972 --> 00:48:30,340 So what is. It? Pain. Karma? 1229 00:48:30,340 --> 00:48:33,143 What's the other one? Truth and wisdom. Truth and wisdom. 1230 00:48:33,143 --> 00:48:33,844 All right. 1231 00:48:33,844 --> 00:48:34,611 And then. 1232 00:48:34,611 --> 00:48:35,145 And. Yeah. 1233 00:48:35,145 --> 00:48:35,913 And then that's like 1234 00:48:35,913 --> 00:48:38,916 the four Noble Truths, which eventually leads you turn nirvana. 1235 00:48:39,049 --> 00:48:42,052 And that's no longer when you need to be reincarnated 1236 00:48:42,152 --> 00:48:45,155 because you've mastered your life. 1237 00:48:45,289 --> 00:48:46,290 Okay? 1238 00:48:46,290 --> 00:48:49,293 So you don't your soul can finally be at rest. 1239 00:48:51,628 --> 00:48:52,062 Pain. 1240 00:48:52,062 --> 00:48:55,065 Karma. Truth. Wisdom. 1241 00:48:55,232 --> 00:48:56,633 Nirvana. 1242 00:48:56,633 --> 00:48:58,201 Then you don't need. To be reincarnated. 1243 00:48:58,201 --> 00:48:59,303 Then you're done. 1244 00:48:59,303 --> 00:49:01,038 What teachings is this? 1245 00:49:01,038 --> 00:49:03,774 That's Buddhism. Buddhism? Yeah, right. 1246 00:49:03,774 --> 00:49:05,676 Because they teach that, you know God is in us. 1247 00:49:05,676 --> 00:49:06,643 But God is a light. 1248 00:49:06,643 --> 00:49:09,646 So it's up to us to keep that light really bright. 1249 00:49:09,680 --> 00:49:14,217 Sometimes it's very dim, but you keep coming back if you keep getting it wrong. 1250 00:49:14,785 --> 00:49:17,587 Oh, man, I was really mean to this kind of person, man. 1251 00:49:17,587 --> 00:49:18,822 I was really mean to animals. 1252 00:49:18,822 --> 00:49:21,291 Let me come back and really figure it out. Let me get it right. 1253 00:49:21,291 --> 00:49:22,326 Let me get it right. 1254 00:49:22,326 --> 00:49:24,328 And then when you get it right, you know, 1255 00:49:25,529 --> 00:49:28,165 and then I just, I went, 1256 00:49:28,165 --> 00:49:30,300 I went Saturday, I got some, I got some little Keith 1257 00:49:30,300 --> 00:49:33,303 Haring guys wear on my legs. 1258 00:49:33,403 --> 00:49:35,739 And I went, yeah, on my leg. I'll show you. 1259 00:49:35,739 --> 00:49:37,741 Give Shin. I'm pretty flexible. 1260 00:49:37,741 --> 00:49:39,843 With shin tats because shin tats look like they hurt. 1261 00:49:39,843 --> 00:49:42,179 Oh, you got Papa Smurf? 1262 00:49:42,179 --> 00:49:42,746 Yeah. 1263 00:49:42,746 --> 00:49:45,749 Oh, we just got some new Keith Haring little blinkers in there. 1264 00:49:46,116 --> 00:49:47,951 Got the boombox, got the little robot. 1265 00:49:47,951 --> 00:49:50,454 Oh, keep that up. Let's see. We got Brutus. 1266 00:49:50,454 --> 00:49:53,790 Luigi, Bluto, Luigi or Coco from here. 1267 00:49:54,658 --> 00:49:56,727 Let's go. Is that. Zelda? Yeah, yeah. 1268 00:49:56,727 --> 00:50:00,497 Link, Barney, Wade, Barney and the Flintstones. 1269 00:50:00,497 --> 00:50:00,897 Yeah. 1270 00:50:00,897 --> 00:50:04,534 Going from the Flintstones published Franken berries on the other side. 1271 00:50:05,435 --> 00:50:07,971 Is that the Lorax, Scrooge McDuck, the Lorax? 1272 00:50:07,971 --> 00:50:09,039 Yeah, yeah. 1273 00:50:09,039 --> 00:50:10,941 That was my. That was my my right legs. 1274 00:50:10,941 --> 00:50:12,042 My old to the 80s. 1275 00:50:12,042 --> 00:50:14,044 My my left legs are old to the 90s. 1276 00:50:15,045 --> 00:50:15,579 That's pretty. 1277 00:50:15,579 --> 00:50:17,381 Cool. Yeah. So that's my recent one man. 1278 00:50:17,381 --> 00:50:18,682 My buddy doc. 1279 00:50:18,682 --> 00:50:20,550 Two penny tattoo. Shout out to them. 1280 00:50:20,550 --> 00:50:21,752 They did them all. Yeah. 1281 00:50:21,752 --> 00:50:23,220 No no no no they did not. 1282 00:50:23,220 --> 00:50:25,922 They did the last 4 or 5 years. 1283 00:50:25,922 --> 00:50:28,892 This guy do you like I want to shout him out. 1284 00:50:28,892 --> 00:50:30,594 Podcast. Guess most views. 1285 00:50:30,594 --> 00:50:33,463 He's he's in a band. Okay. 1286 00:50:33,463 --> 00:50:34,631 What band. 1287 00:50:34,631 --> 00:50:36,400 It's called Higgins in a general. 1288 00:50:36,400 --> 00:50:36,666 Okay. 1289 00:50:36,666 --> 00:50:39,669 So we got Higgins and the general tatted up dope, 1290 00:50:39,669 --> 00:50:42,806 and he says, you know, most people treat their body like a church. 1291 00:50:43,407 --> 00:50:45,709 Me, I treat my body like an amusement park. 1292 00:50:45,709 --> 00:50:48,678 He's tatted up, so. I like that. 1293 00:50:48,678 --> 00:50:49,246 You got any? 1294 00:50:49,246 --> 00:50:50,580 You don't go. 1295 00:50:50,580 --> 00:50:53,183 Whoa, I know I want. 1296 00:50:53,183 --> 00:50:56,186 That's more rare, right. Shout out to. You. 1297 00:50:56,753 --> 00:50:59,423 But that's more rare I. Do you want any. 1298 00:50:59,423 --> 00:51:02,426 Yeah, I want the Notre Dame. Fine Irish guy. 1299 00:51:02,726 --> 00:51:04,261 Casper the friendly ghost. 1300 00:51:04,261 --> 00:51:05,962 Okay. Map of Ireland. 1301 00:51:05,962 --> 00:51:08,031 My girls nicknames somewhere. 1302 00:51:09,900 --> 00:51:12,502 You know, why would you do the Fighting Irish? 1303 00:51:12,502 --> 00:51:14,271 Just maybe that one right there. 1304 00:51:14,271 --> 00:51:16,339 Joey Best, my best friend. Ha! 1305 00:51:16,339 --> 00:51:18,642 I love that. On a heart. 1306 00:51:18,642 --> 00:51:20,444 Fighting Irish always like Notre Dame. 1307 00:51:20,444 --> 00:51:22,245 Did you go there? No. Have you been? 1308 00:51:22,245 --> 00:51:23,580 Yes. Okay. 1309 00:51:23,580 --> 00:51:24,347 I want my girls. 1310 00:51:24,347 --> 00:51:26,716 One of my kids got to go. Oh, man, that's so dope. 1311 00:51:26,716 --> 00:51:28,919 So dope. Did you go into the church? Did you worship there? 1312 00:51:28,919 --> 00:51:30,020 Did you pray there? Oh, no. 1313 00:51:30,020 --> 00:51:34,491 No, I touched down Jesus, the grotto, the Joy center. 1314 00:51:34,491 --> 00:51:35,826 Nice. And a game. 1315 00:51:35,826 --> 00:51:37,027 I saw him play back. 1316 00:51:37,027 --> 00:51:40,030 I saw him play Stanford. 1317 00:51:41,932 --> 00:51:42,499 And I saw him 1318 00:51:42,499 --> 00:51:45,769 play Navy, a giant stadium army at Yankee Stadium. 1319 00:51:45,769 --> 00:51:47,637 Okay, I remember that. The Pinstripe Bowl. 1320 00:51:47,637 --> 00:51:49,840 Yeah, I remember that. Yeah, that was a good one. 1321 00:51:49,840 --> 00:51:51,842 And then that's it. 1322 00:51:51,842 --> 00:51:53,543 That's dope man. Where did you go? You. 1323 00:51:53,543 --> 00:51:54,511 Southern. Southern. 1324 00:51:54,511 --> 00:51:55,378 Southern Connecticut. 1325 00:51:55,378 --> 00:51:57,581 New Haven or New Haven show 1326 00:51:58,682 --> 00:51:59,649 cafe nine. 1327 00:51:59,649 --> 00:52:01,351 Yeah. Where is that cafe nine? 1328 00:52:01,351 --> 00:52:02,986 It's right there on Crown Street. 1329 00:52:02,986 --> 00:52:03,720 Crown. Right. 1330 00:52:03,720 --> 00:52:06,089 I think it's Crown State Street. 1331 00:52:06,089 --> 00:52:07,424 Line. 1332 00:52:07,424 --> 00:52:08,692 Oh, State Street. 1333 00:52:08,692 --> 00:52:09,192 Yeah, that's right 1334 00:52:09,192 --> 00:52:12,429 next to Christopher Martin's in Modern Pizza's on State Street. 1335 00:52:12,429 --> 00:52:13,396 Yeah. 1336 00:52:13,396 --> 00:52:16,399 Yeah, a little bit down the further down the road from like barcade. 1337 00:52:16,533 --> 00:52:18,735 Oh yeah. Yeah. 1338 00:52:18,735 --> 00:52:21,538 We got a follow up question, but the first question is favorite restaurant. 1339 00:52:21,538 --> 00:52:22,472 Which favorite restaurant? 1340 00:52:22,472 --> 00:52:24,941 Oh, bro, you're killing me, man. 1341 00:52:24,941 --> 00:52:27,644 I told you like I got my sponsors. Everyone says that. 1342 00:52:27,644 --> 00:52:29,613 Why does it have to be in West Hartford? 1343 00:52:29,613 --> 00:52:31,348 Doesn't have to be in Hartford. 1344 00:52:31,348 --> 00:52:34,017 You can name a few 1345 00:52:34,017 --> 00:52:36,853 favorite restaurants. 1346 00:52:36,853 --> 00:52:39,856 My girl, my girl's big on sushi. 1347 00:52:40,390 --> 00:52:42,359 My girl's big on sushi. 1348 00:52:42,359 --> 00:52:44,728 So? So we do Ginza. Okay. 1349 00:52:45,662 --> 00:52:46,329 We do Ginza. 1350 00:52:46,329 --> 00:52:47,697 They have a couple different restaurants. 1351 00:52:47,697 --> 00:52:49,399 We do the Ginza bar house on the southwest. 1352 00:52:49,399 --> 00:52:52,202 Dean. Amazing food class one. 1353 00:52:52,202 --> 00:52:53,003 In Hartford, okay. 1354 00:52:53,003 --> 00:52:54,004 Street? No, no, no. 1355 00:52:54,004 --> 00:52:56,606 Parallel to Pabst, Pratt street. 1356 00:52:56,606 --> 00:52:58,141 Yeah. I don't know what you're talking about. 1357 00:52:58,141 --> 00:53:00,744 Fang. Yeah. You said. Yeah, I used to go there to. 1358 00:53:00,744 --> 00:53:03,580 Yeah. No, it's the same. I think it's the same business world. 1359 00:53:03,580 --> 00:53:04,014 Oh, okay. 1360 00:53:04,014 --> 00:53:07,017 Yeah. Yeah, yeah. 1361 00:53:07,350 --> 00:53:09,352 So that that's that's major for me. 1362 00:53:09,352 --> 00:53:11,721 I'm also a big fan of Indian, 1363 00:53:11,721 --> 00:53:15,458 and I've been going to Bombay Olive for, like, maybe 25 years now. 1364 00:53:15,525 --> 00:53:18,328 Yeah, yeah. They're bringing back the buffet. 1365 00:53:18,328 --> 00:53:21,064 That's my guy bro. Yeah. Shout out to him. 1366 00:53:21,064 --> 00:53:22,098 Got to go around the corner. 1367 00:53:22,098 --> 00:53:24,935 My guy Rinku brings me over there. Okay. 1368 00:53:24,935 --> 00:53:28,471 My students dad is the chef, so I got the Bombay out. 1369 00:53:28,471 --> 00:53:31,141 Yeah. Let's go make. That's fire. 1370 00:53:31,141 --> 00:53:32,943 That's my next interview. Mimosas. 1371 00:53:34,077 --> 00:53:34,377 Oh, no. 1372 00:53:34,377 --> 00:53:35,612 Some of Moses. 1373 00:53:35,612 --> 00:53:36,146 My bad. 1374 00:53:36,146 --> 00:53:38,582 Some. No, it's all good. Yeah. So Moses with the. 1375 00:53:38,582 --> 00:53:40,483 Oh my God, with the mango. 1376 00:53:40,483 --> 00:53:43,353 Oh, and the rice with, the spinach. 1377 00:53:43,353 --> 00:53:44,554 Yeah. Okay. So you do the spinach. 1378 00:53:44,554 --> 00:53:45,889 Was that the korma? 1379 00:53:45,889 --> 00:53:47,090 Oh yeah. Yeah, yeah. 1380 00:53:47,090 --> 00:53:49,292 You do the. Korma. 1381 00:53:49,292 --> 00:53:50,093 Lamb. 1382 00:53:50,093 --> 00:53:51,494 Yeah, I like this, I like. 1383 00:53:51,494 --> 00:53:53,096 This, he the Saheed paneer. 1384 00:53:53,096 --> 00:53:55,632 We'll do shahi paneer like a spicy. 1385 00:53:55,632 --> 00:53:56,132 Yeah. 1386 00:53:56,132 --> 00:53:58,635 Got to get the sweats going, man. Uncomfortable. 1387 00:53:58,635 --> 00:53:59,603 I live right there too. 1388 00:53:59,603 --> 00:54:00,604 Yeah I could oh, yeah. 1389 00:54:00,604 --> 00:54:02,472 You told me that's where you walk your dog. Yeah, yeah. 1390 00:54:02,472 --> 00:54:03,573 Oh yeah. Right there. That's. 1391 00:54:03,573 --> 00:54:05,709 Yeah. Dora was great, man. Dora reached out to me. 1392 00:54:05,709 --> 00:54:06,910 Dora is actually a sponsor. 1393 00:54:06,910 --> 00:54:10,213 They're just not like they just sponsored our raffle, which is awesome. 1394 00:54:10,814 --> 00:54:13,483 I think they're waiting to see, like, how well this year goes, and 1395 00:54:13,483 --> 00:54:14,217 and maybe we'll be able 1396 00:54:14,217 --> 00:54:18,121 to continue that conversation and they'll be, like, a shirt sponsor, so. 1397 00:54:18,121 --> 00:54:20,156 Oh, yeah, I'm happy for them. They do great stuff. 1398 00:54:20,156 --> 00:54:21,091 Dora is phenomenal. 1399 00:54:21,091 --> 00:54:21,458 Yeah. 1400 00:54:21,458 --> 00:54:23,593 Scott Miller, owner okay. 1401 00:54:23,593 --> 00:54:24,894 Podcast guess word. 1402 00:54:24,894 --> 00:54:26,463 Yeah. They sponsor our golf tournament. 1403 00:54:26,463 --> 00:54:29,266 They price 150 egg sandwiches in the coffee. 1404 00:54:29,266 --> 00:54:32,035 Oh that's. So they go like this. The egg sandwiches, they're gone. 1405 00:54:32,035 --> 00:54:33,770 They're right here I believe it. Brioche bread. 1406 00:54:33,770 --> 00:54:35,905 Oh. Mint buttery. Just. Yeah. 1407 00:54:35,905 --> 00:54:37,140 I might have to come out for that, man. 1408 00:54:37,140 --> 00:54:39,943 I'm a. Scratch. I'm a scratch golfer. Okay, 1409 00:54:41,044 --> 00:54:41,578 well, wait, wait. 1410 00:54:41,578 --> 00:54:44,147 Hold on. What a timeout. What a scratch golfer for me. 1411 00:54:44,147 --> 00:54:45,348 I mean, it's like you're good. 1412 00:54:45,348 --> 00:54:48,351 You're really okay. I'm not. 1413 00:54:48,551 --> 00:54:49,653 I'm not, I'm not, I'm not. 1414 00:54:49,653 --> 00:54:50,420 But I'm also not. 1415 00:54:50,420 --> 00:54:52,889 Putting up sevens and eights. Every hole. Okay. 1416 00:54:52,889 --> 00:54:53,590 We can use you. 1417 00:54:53,590 --> 00:54:55,091 Maybe you want to wrap out a hole. 1418 00:54:55,091 --> 00:54:57,761 I'll. Hey. Wrap all their their golf. I'll do it. 1419 00:54:57,761 --> 00:54:59,696 Yeah. And I could just, like, make fun of them. 1420 00:54:59,696 --> 00:55:00,597 I got heckle them. 1421 00:55:00,597 --> 00:55:01,298 I got I'll do that. 1422 00:55:01,298 --> 00:55:03,867 We had Connor game day. Connor. Yeah. 1423 00:55:03,867 --> 00:55:05,402 Does the heckle hole. Oh. 1424 00:55:05,402 --> 00:55:06,870 Maybe you could split the day. 1425 00:55:06,870 --> 00:55:09,339 I mean, we can't do it. You do it, I love it. 1426 00:55:09,339 --> 00:55:10,273 Yeah. Just tap. Yeah. 1427 00:55:10,273 --> 00:55:13,009 So we can go. In shorts and look at this guy. Sponsor. Oh. 1428 00:55:13,009 --> 00:55:14,778 Rosita's. Nike. 1429 00:55:14,778 --> 00:55:17,047 You know. Oh. Roast him. Okay. Yeah. You're right. 1430 00:55:17,047 --> 00:55:18,782 And then they pay you to be quiet, 1431 00:55:18,782 --> 00:55:21,418 or they pay you extra to get on their board to get on that. Most 1432 00:55:22,652 --> 00:55:24,487 game day, Connery is like 400 bucks. 1433 00:55:24,487 --> 00:55:25,522 That's cool. 1434 00:55:25,522 --> 00:55:27,657 That's awesome. Oh. You're in. We got you. 1435 00:55:27,657 --> 00:55:28,892 Perfect for that. I would love that. 1436 00:55:28,892 --> 00:55:30,760 That's so much fun. 1437 00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:32,562 Yeah. So you're again. So. 1438 00:55:32,562 --> 00:55:32,929 Yeah. 1439 00:55:32,929 --> 00:55:33,763 Ginza Bombay 1440 00:55:33,763 --> 00:55:37,600 I love I think I like top like when I talk about, like, sushi and Indian, but. 1441 00:55:37,600 --> 00:55:39,169 Like, I'm on the out of. Great. 1442 00:55:39,169 --> 00:55:43,306 Yeah, actually, I did a podcast, I did, I did it taste of India, 1443 00:55:44,174 --> 00:55:48,078 but I, I did a podcast in there bit laugh love. 1444 00:55:48,478 --> 00:55:51,281 He is a Nepali 1445 00:55:51,281 --> 00:55:55,218 world famous judo international champion. 1446 00:55:55,218 --> 00:55:57,087 That's fine. I'm on the podcast. That's great. 1447 00:55:57,087 --> 00:55:58,822 You got a proclamation? 1448 00:55:58,822 --> 00:56:00,990 Proclamation from the mayor that day. Okay. 1449 00:56:00,990 --> 00:56:02,759 And he came on the podcast. Oh, I love this. 1450 00:56:02,759 --> 00:56:04,227 Really cool. I should check that one out. 1451 00:56:04,227 --> 00:56:05,395 Have you gotten one yet? 1452 00:56:05,395 --> 00:56:08,565 As a man, what's hard for giving you anything they gotta give you, you know? 1453 00:56:08,565 --> 00:56:09,499 Come on. 1454 00:56:09,499 --> 00:56:11,868 What's up with that? What's up with I got a day. 1455 00:56:11,868 --> 00:56:14,137 They gave me a day. Star. Yeah, we're. 1456 00:56:14,137 --> 00:56:14,971 Yeah. Little ronin, 1457 00:56:16,139 --> 00:56:16,639 the brony. 1458 00:56:16,639 --> 00:56:18,641 Give me. That today. Absolutely. 1459 00:56:18,641 --> 00:56:19,709 No, that's what I'm saying. 1460 00:56:19,709 --> 00:56:21,578 You got it. You got to put in a put in a call. 1461 00:56:21,578 --> 00:56:24,180 We got to give me a day and what's. I was on the podcast. 1462 00:56:24,180 --> 00:56:24,581 All right? 1463 00:56:24,581 --> 00:56:27,951 I got a, honoree of the. 1464 00:56:28,284 --> 00:56:33,123 Yeah, West Hartford committees, Saint Patrick's Day parade. 1465 00:56:33,390 --> 00:56:36,092 So I got the honoree. I got something for that. That's cool. 1466 00:56:36,092 --> 00:56:37,460 But I want to come. Hop on the float. 1467 00:56:37,460 --> 00:56:38,695 They put you on a float? Yeah. 1468 00:56:38,695 --> 00:56:41,464 Nice wave. 1469 00:56:41,464 --> 00:56:43,533 I got to get to be a good friend. 1470 00:56:43,533 --> 00:56:44,267 Dude. What? 1471 00:56:44,267 --> 00:56:46,403 That's that's that's it right there. 1472 00:56:46,403 --> 00:56:47,904 All right, so you're at Bombay Olive? 1473 00:56:47,904 --> 00:56:49,739 Yeah. For guests that are alive. 1474 00:56:49,739 --> 00:56:51,574 Who you and what. 1475 00:56:51,574 --> 00:56:53,076 Do these are? Great. 1476 00:56:53,076 --> 00:56:55,345 These are great. 1477 00:56:55,345 --> 00:56:57,480 And we'll do recommendations. 1478 00:56:57,480 --> 00:56:58,982 Closing remarks. 1479 00:56:58,982 --> 00:57:01,651 For. Guests. For guests that are live. 1480 00:57:01,651 --> 00:57:02,685 Oh, my. Even with. 1481 00:57:06,289 --> 00:57:08,324 What time are we? 1482 00:57:08,324 --> 00:57:09,192 Stefania. Yeah. 1483 00:57:09,192 --> 00:57:12,128 How are we doing? 1484 00:57:12,128 --> 00:57:13,563 I'm going to hate my I'm going to I'm. 1485 00:57:13,563 --> 00:57:14,664 No I'm going to hate my answer. 1486 00:57:14,664 --> 00:57:17,667 This is going to be I'm going to. 1487 00:57:18,701 --> 00:57:20,336 90. Yeah. 1488 00:57:20,336 --> 00:57:22,572 Between 90. 690. 1489 00:57:22,572 --> 00:57:24,874 Wow. Hour and a half. 1490 00:57:24,874 --> 00:57:27,410 We talking that much 56. 1491 00:57:27,410 --> 00:57:29,712 Oh okay. I was like an hour and a half. 1492 00:57:29,712 --> 00:57:30,013 All right. 1493 00:57:30,013 --> 00:57:32,916 No, I like this guy. My phone is getting cold. 1494 00:57:32,916 --> 00:57:33,383 Let's go. 1495 00:57:33,383 --> 00:57:34,451 Socrates. 1496 00:57:34,451 --> 00:57:37,420 Okay. 1497 00:57:37,620 --> 00:57:38,788 Because you're a philosophy guy. 1498 00:57:38,788 --> 00:57:41,791 Let's go, Malcolm X. 1499 00:57:46,429 --> 00:57:46,763 Let's go. 1500 00:57:46,763 --> 00:57:49,065 Reza. 1501 00:57:49,065 --> 00:57:50,300 Bobby. Digital. Bobby. 1502 00:57:50,300 --> 00:57:51,668 Do do do do do do do do do. 1503 00:57:51,668 --> 00:57:53,536 What was his grave digger? Same. 1504 00:57:53,536 --> 00:57:54,904 The resurrected. 1505 00:57:54,904 --> 00:57:56,673 That's where it came from. 1506 00:57:56,673 --> 00:57:59,042 No, no. Grave diggers was first. Yeah. 1507 00:57:59,042 --> 00:58:01,377 You sure? Positive. 1508 00:58:01,377 --> 00:58:02,946 I don't know about that 100%, bro. 1509 00:58:02,946 --> 00:58:05,882 What are you talking about? You don't know about that? I'll flip this table. 1510 00:58:08,551 --> 00:58:09,419 Yeah, I love the game. 1511 00:58:09,419 --> 00:58:11,888 Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was me. Yeah. The resurrected. 1512 00:58:11,888 --> 00:58:12,422 Absolutely. 1513 00:58:12,422 --> 00:58:15,425 Six feet deep came out maybe like 11 months 1514 00:58:16,392 --> 00:58:19,395 before into the 36 chambers. 1515 00:58:20,830 --> 00:58:23,533 I'm my fourth, 1516 00:58:23,533 --> 00:58:24,133 right? 1517 00:58:24,133 --> 00:58:25,835 Oh, man. 1518 00:58:25,835 --> 00:58:28,771 Maybe like Mother Teresa. 1519 00:58:28,771 --> 00:58:30,006 Okay. I would love to. 1520 00:58:30,006 --> 00:58:30,440 I would love. 1521 00:58:30,440 --> 00:58:33,376 To just give her an audience and lay her at the table. 1522 00:58:33,376 --> 00:58:35,345 You know, she's very soft spoken. 1523 00:58:35,345 --> 00:58:38,448 And sometimes she could get steamrolled by the other people that she was alive 1524 00:58:38,448 --> 00:58:42,318 with in the time of her, really her heaviest left in, like, her peaceful life. 1525 00:58:42,318 --> 00:58:46,322 But I want to make sure there's some good women representation at that table. 1526 00:58:47,090 --> 00:58:49,125 Risa, 1527 00:58:49,125 --> 00:58:50,460 Mother Teresa. 1528 00:58:50,460 --> 00:58:53,463 Malcolm X, Malcolm X Socrates. 1529 00:58:53,596 --> 00:58:55,765 Interesting. Yeah, I like it. Yeah. 1530 00:58:55,765 --> 00:58:58,768 We need a translator. Yes. 1531 00:58:59,435 --> 00:59:02,105 What language is Italian for Mother Teresa? 1532 00:59:02,105 --> 00:59:03,406 Yeah. Greek? 1533 00:59:03,406 --> 00:59:06,509 Yeah. Greek are a dead language. Yeah. 1534 00:59:08,111 --> 00:59:08,878 No reason. 1535 00:59:08,878 --> 00:59:11,548 Whatever. He speaks not to, 1536 00:59:11,548 --> 00:59:13,149 you gotta diversify your bomb. 1537 00:59:13,149 --> 00:59:16,152 Yo. Facts. 1538 00:59:17,820 --> 00:59:18,721 Do you want to kick some bar? 1539 00:59:18,721 --> 00:59:20,290 Speaking of bars, get a little something. 1540 00:59:20,290 --> 00:59:23,226 Say something about the Friends of Fini podcast. 1541 00:59:23,226 --> 00:59:24,160 Being a good friend. 1542 00:59:24,160 --> 00:59:25,128 I got nothing. 1543 00:59:25,128 --> 00:59:28,131 Nothing. Okay, fine. I had a gift for you. 1544 00:59:28,331 --> 00:59:29,098 If I rap. 1545 00:59:29,098 --> 00:59:29,766 If you rap. 1546 00:59:29,766 --> 00:59:31,434 Okay, 1547 00:59:31,434 --> 00:59:34,437 I got I got to keep it clean. No, 1548 00:59:34,871 --> 00:59:37,173 we'll put a parental advisory sticker right here. 1549 00:59:37,173 --> 00:59:40,143 Doom. 1550 00:59:40,310 --> 00:59:42,645 Joey Bass with hip hop for the homeless. 1551 00:59:42,645 --> 00:59:45,782 You know, I'm on this channel with my boy Feeney. 1552 00:59:45,782 --> 00:59:47,216 You know we hopeless. 1553 00:59:47,216 --> 00:59:49,052 Just a couple of guys. Podcast. 1554 00:59:49,052 --> 00:59:51,955 And in the pizza shop about to make the pizzas drop. 1555 00:59:51,955 --> 00:59:52,989 We got the stickers. 1556 00:59:52,989 --> 00:59:54,691 We got the blister, the names. 1557 00:59:54,691 --> 00:59:57,193 Everybody. No, we're not playing games. 1558 00:59:57,193 --> 00:59:59,862 Joey Bats talking about the tour that's coming up. 1559 00:59:59,862 --> 01:00:01,931 Three weeks in Connecticut, man. 1560 01:00:01,931 --> 01:00:03,266 That's what's up. 1561 01:00:03,266 --> 01:00:04,534 I'll be your best friend. 1562 01:00:04,534 --> 01:00:07,203 You could be a good friend. We could drink some water. 1563 01:00:07,203 --> 01:00:11,674 We could have some seltzer to the end is ginger ale wings and some meatballs. 1564 01:00:11,674 --> 01:00:14,310 Homie on the stage rocking with Vinny. 1565 01:00:14,310 --> 01:00:16,446 That's why we only. Only a. 1566 01:00:16,446 --> 01:00:20,249 Couple of cats looking for sponsors, trying to do what we can. Man. 1567 01:00:20,249 --> 01:00:22,352 You can go to Barney's 1568 01:00:22,352 --> 01:00:25,421 with the bricks, with the shows, with the raps, with the beats. 1569 01:00:25,722 --> 01:00:28,391 Everybody knows that we do good feet. 1570 01:00:28,391 --> 01:00:32,028 Be a good friend, be a good human to the human being. 1571 01:00:32,028 --> 01:00:34,364 Connecticut. We looking at you? 1572 01:00:34,364 --> 01:00:35,365 Let's go. Yeah. 1573 01:00:37,900 --> 01:00:39,902 Be good friend, be a friend. 1574 01:00:39,902 --> 01:00:42,238 Told you I got something for you. 1575 01:00:42,238 --> 01:00:43,573 You just came in today. 1576 01:00:43,573 --> 01:00:44,941 Yo, come on. 1577 01:00:44,941 --> 01:00:47,910 Be a good friend. Beanies. 1578 01:00:48,044 --> 01:00:51,047 These are cleaned up. 1579 01:00:51,614 --> 01:00:54,450 These are real clean. 1580 01:00:54,450 --> 01:00:54,884 You did. 1581 01:00:54,884 --> 01:00:58,488 You did the the the words and you did the embroidery. 1582 01:00:58,488 --> 01:01:01,124 Yeah. See how it looks on you 1583 01:01:01,124 --> 01:01:04,127 fancy. 1584 01:01:07,430 --> 01:01:09,832 Yeah, 1585 01:01:09,832 --> 01:01:11,200 I'm a look. Good. Looking good. 1586 01:01:11,200 --> 01:01:13,870 You never look better, actually. Looking proper. 1587 01:01:13,870 --> 01:01:14,971 Looking proper. 1588 01:01:14,971 --> 01:01:17,040 I love this, brother. Thank you so much. 1589 01:01:17,040 --> 01:01:18,341 Thank you for being a good friend. 1590 01:01:18,341 --> 01:01:20,843 Thank you for coming on the podcast. 1591 01:01:20,843 --> 01:01:24,947 Episode 121 Joey Bats Big Tour coming up. 1592 01:01:24,947 --> 01:01:26,416 Please go out and support. 1593 01:01:26,416 --> 01:01:28,518 We have all these different dates. 1594 01:01:28,518 --> 01:01:29,519 We'll share the link. 1595 01:01:29,519 --> 01:01:31,521 I got to be your number one interview on here. What? 1596 01:01:31,521 --> 01:01:33,656 What kind of. Numbers I gotta break. 1597 01:01:33,656 --> 01:01:34,457 Number one. 1598 01:01:34,457 --> 01:01:37,293 No speed it 1200. Okay. 600. 1599 01:01:37,293 --> 01:01:38,094 Number two. 1600 01:01:38,094 --> 01:01:39,929 All right, so 1200 was at Dylan Lock. 1601 01:01:39,929 --> 01:01:41,564 Okay. Higgins in the General Herd. 1602 01:01:41,564 --> 01:01:43,533 He had a concert after the rally. 1603 01:01:43,533 --> 01:01:45,702 Fox played at Connor. He's at Yale now. 1604 01:01:45,702 --> 01:01:46,035 All right? 1605 01:01:46,035 --> 01:01:46,803 He's number two. 1606 01:01:46,803 --> 01:01:47,637 Dope. 1607 01:01:47,637 --> 01:01:50,073 Got to either top them or right around. 1608 01:01:50,073 --> 01:01:51,541 What's it going to be on YouTube. 1609 01:01:51,541 --> 01:01:53,509 YouTube, Spotify, Apple? 1610 01:01:53,509 --> 01:01:55,111 Anywhere you could get your podcast. Oh, God. 1611 01:01:55,111 --> 01:01:56,012 Feeney talks with friends. 1612 01:01:56,012 --> 01:01:58,347 Please subscribe. Download. We're going to beat that. 1613 01:01:58,347 --> 01:01:59,315 Beat it. Yeah. 1614 01:02:01,384 --> 01:02:03,252 Got any recommendations before we go out? 1615 01:02:03,252 --> 01:02:06,255 Podcasts, books, 1616 01:02:06,289 --> 01:02:09,292 shows, hip hop concerts. 1617 01:02:09,392 --> 01:02:10,560 Any personal. Recommended? 1618 01:02:10,560 --> 01:02:13,529 I mean, I'm going to recommend myself, man. I'm going to be honest with you, man. 1619 01:02:13,529 --> 01:02:17,633 I mean, the only recommendations I can are try your hardest to come to a show. 1620 01:02:17,967 --> 01:02:20,303 We try to hit every market in Connecticut. 1621 01:02:20,303 --> 01:02:22,705 We're all over this whole little state. 1622 01:02:22,705 --> 01:02:24,240 But please do what you can. 1623 01:02:24,240 --> 01:02:26,476 I know it's tough if you got to find a babysitter, 1624 01:02:26,476 --> 01:02:29,545 if you gotta find some time, if you gotta find a pet sitter, a dogs 1625 01:02:29,579 --> 01:02:31,647 that are cats and do what you can't come out. 1626 01:02:31,647 --> 01:02:33,549 You don't even have to stay the whole night. 1627 01:02:33,549 --> 01:02:34,650 Come with an open mind. 1628 01:02:34,650 --> 01:02:35,985 Come with an open heart. 1629 01:02:35,985 --> 01:02:38,988 Buy a shirt, donate to a good cause. 1630 01:02:38,988 --> 01:02:42,358 It sounds so cliche and it sounds like I'm trying to sell 1631 01:02:42,358 --> 01:02:46,229 you guys on this so much, but you will feel so much better. 1632 01:02:47,130 --> 01:02:49,065 It's so funny how it works. 1633 01:02:49,065 --> 01:02:53,236 I'm telling you, at first I didn't even believe it, but you just feel. 1634 01:02:53,236 --> 01:02:55,371 So different. 1635 01:02:55,371 --> 01:02:57,840 Now. Is it like a typical show? You have a couple acts. 1636 01:02:57,840 --> 01:03:00,343 Guys go up there, does three songs. The next person. 1637 01:03:00,343 --> 01:03:02,512 Goes, yeah, a little bit longer. I'm trying to. 1638 01:03:02,512 --> 01:03:05,615 I'm also trying to change the stigma of hip hop as well. 1639 01:03:05,615 --> 01:03:08,618 So everybody, every performer will have 20 to 25 minutes. 1640 01:03:08,818 --> 01:03:12,255 They get a full chance to to really develop their brand 1641 01:03:12,255 --> 01:03:13,756 and to really let people know 1642 01:03:13,756 --> 01:03:16,559 what kind of artist they are and what kind of performer they are. 1643 01:03:16,559 --> 01:03:20,730 So every show has about 7 or 8 performers. 1644 01:03:22,698 --> 01:03:25,334 And then, you know, we got a DJ keep the vibe going. 1645 01:03:25,334 --> 01:03:27,170 But it's just it's amazing, man. 1646 01:03:27,170 --> 01:03:30,173 Every show is just so positive. 1647 01:03:30,406 --> 01:03:32,675 And people love it, man. So that's my recommendation. 1648 01:03:32,675 --> 01:03:35,678 I like to do a friggin show. 1649 01:03:35,678 --> 01:03:36,612 I'll be there. 1650 01:03:36,612 --> 01:03:38,548 Can't wait. I'm looking forward to it. 1651 01:03:38,548 --> 01:03:40,683 Got my shirt, got my sticker. 1652 01:03:40,683 --> 01:03:42,485 Don't be stylin. I'm a recommend. 1653 01:03:42,485 --> 01:03:45,121 Did you have you read this? Who? Move my cheese. 1654 01:03:45,121 --> 01:03:47,190 Yeah. You read this? Yeah. 1655 01:03:47,190 --> 01:03:49,759 We talked a lot about that in my own little program. 1656 01:03:49,759 --> 01:03:50,827 You see. 1657 01:03:50,827 --> 01:03:51,661 So are you. 1658 01:03:51,661 --> 01:03:52,929 What are you, a ham or. 1659 01:03:52,929 --> 01:03:55,264 Ha, a sniff or a scurry? 1660 01:03:55,264 --> 01:03:56,966 I'm a scary. Scurry. 1661 01:03:56,966 --> 01:03:59,969 What makes you a scary? 1662 01:04:00,369 --> 01:04:01,470 When when people. 1663 01:04:01,470 --> 01:04:03,339 When when people feel unsettled. 1664 01:04:03,339 --> 01:04:07,276 Man, I find the best thing to do is just kind of, like, frantically 1665 01:04:07,276 --> 01:04:09,011 move around and try to shake it. 1666 01:04:09,011 --> 01:04:11,214 Shake something, make it happen. 1667 01:04:11,214 --> 01:04:11,881 You know what I mean? 1668 01:04:13,382 --> 01:04:14,083 So yeah, you got to 1669 01:04:14,083 --> 01:04:17,220 understand that change cheese is like something you're trying to achieve. 1670 01:04:18,120 --> 01:04:19,522 You know, change happens. 1671 01:04:19,522 --> 01:04:24,861 Anticipate change, monitor change, adapt quickly to change, enjoy the change 1672 01:04:25,561 --> 01:04:27,930 and be ready to change quickly and enjoy it again and again. 1673 01:04:27,930 --> 01:04:30,633 Oh yeah, it's on page 71. They always leave notes. 1674 01:04:30,633 --> 01:04:32,501 This guy scary. 1675 01:04:32,501 --> 01:04:35,504 Oh he's leaving positive messages on the wall. Yep. 1676 01:04:36,839 --> 01:04:38,407 I was going to give this to you. 1677 01:04:38,407 --> 01:04:39,242 You want to read it? 1678 01:04:39,242 --> 01:04:41,143 You want to share with a. Friend I was. 1679 01:04:41,143 --> 01:04:42,545 I would love to share it with a friend. 1680 01:04:42,545 --> 01:04:46,282 I mean, like I said, I got a copy because we had to buy it at Wksu 1681 01:04:46,282 --> 01:04:49,652 in my own not two program, but I would love to share the wealth. 1682 01:04:49,652 --> 01:04:50,353 Quick read. 1683 01:04:50,353 --> 01:04:51,287 There's someone. 1684 01:04:51,287 --> 01:04:53,656 There's someone at my school who's in and on on two program, 1685 01:04:53,656 --> 01:04:55,691 so I would definitely give that to them. 1686 01:04:55,691 --> 01:04:57,994 That'll be you just did my Secret Santa for me. 1687 01:04:57,994 --> 01:05:00,663 Oh good idea. 1688 01:05:00,663 --> 01:05:03,666 I want to share this with Joey Bats who move my cheese. 1689 01:05:04,133 --> 01:05:06,402 Jonah Francis recommended it on the podcast. 1690 01:05:06,402 --> 01:05:08,971 Okay. Took me ten episodes. 1691 01:05:08,971 --> 01:05:11,507 I finally read it. So thank you. Jonah. 1692 01:05:11,507 --> 01:05:14,710 But I highly suggested they have a who move like cheese for kids. 1693 01:05:14,710 --> 01:05:16,779 Who who move my cheese for teens. 1694 01:05:16,779 --> 01:05:19,682 There's another book item, the maze. 1695 01:05:19,682 --> 01:05:23,019 Unfortunately, this doctor's doctor, Spencer Johnson, passed away. 1696 01:05:23,352 --> 01:05:24,820 Just found that out. 1697 01:05:24,820 --> 01:05:25,655 All right, that's for you. 1698 01:05:25,655 --> 01:05:27,890 There's a dope one. I got a book for you. 1699 01:05:27,890 --> 01:05:29,325 The book of the samurai. 1700 01:05:29,325 --> 01:05:31,460 By. Haggar. Kiri. 1701 01:05:31,460 --> 01:05:33,396 Check it out. All right, book of the samurai. 1702 01:05:33,396 --> 01:05:35,665 I'm gonna write that down now. Blowing your mind. 1703 01:05:35,665 --> 01:05:37,867 Hagar. Q Ari. 1704 01:05:41,537 --> 01:05:43,372 Book of the samurai. 1705 01:05:43,372 --> 01:05:44,140 Right down the Hagar. 1706 01:05:44,140 --> 01:05:47,877 Carry the Hagar Q Ari. 1707 01:05:49,211 --> 01:05:49,712 Hagar. 1708 01:05:49,712 --> 01:05:52,214 Carry. Yeah. 1709 01:05:52,214 --> 01:05:55,117 Blow your mind, bro. 1710 01:05:55,117 --> 01:05:56,819 Well. 1711 01:05:56,819 --> 01:06:00,456 It's crazy because it's just a bunch of excerpts about how to be like a samurai. 1712 01:06:00,456 --> 01:06:03,459 It's outdated. AF, but. 1713 01:06:03,893 --> 01:06:05,261 Just reading. It. 1714 01:06:05,261 --> 01:06:07,830 It puts you in a wild perspective. 1715 01:06:07,830 --> 01:06:11,100 It'll just it'll just say same thing, really short, really easy to read 1716 01:06:11,133 --> 01:06:13,336 because it doesn't. It's not a cover to cover book. 1717 01:06:13,336 --> 01:06:15,471 It's like the daodejing just little excerpts. 1718 01:06:15,471 --> 01:06:16,505 Okay. Right. 1719 01:06:16,505 --> 01:06:18,808 But it's like a 1720 01:06:18,808 --> 01:06:21,811 don't run in a rainstorm. 1721 01:06:22,345 --> 01:06:23,346 But it means move. 1722 01:06:23,346 --> 01:06:26,349 Move slowly and you will get equally as wet. 1723 01:06:27,016 --> 01:06:28,050 You just think about it. 1724 01:06:28,050 --> 01:06:31,020 You just like, throw what? 1725 01:06:32,121 --> 01:06:33,823 But it's so profound, man. 1726 01:06:33,823 --> 01:06:36,192 It's so profound. Check it out. You'll dig it even if. 1727 01:06:36,192 --> 01:06:38,294 You don't read the whole thing. Yuri! Papa! Papa! 1728 01:06:38,294 --> 01:06:38,594 Papa! 1729 01:06:38,594 --> 01:06:39,362 Book of the samurai. 1730 01:06:39,362 --> 01:06:42,064 Yeah. Rules for a night was pretty good too. 1731 01:06:42,064 --> 01:06:43,232 But I like this. 1732 01:06:43,232 --> 01:06:45,501 I had to carry. Yeah. Books. 1733 01:06:45,501 --> 01:06:47,703 Book. Take it out. Put it on your Christmas list, man. 1734 01:06:47,703 --> 01:06:48,871 Maybe a lady will get it for you. 1735 01:06:50,006 --> 01:06:50,973 Well, thanks for being a good. 1736 01:06:50,973 --> 01:06:52,441 Friend, dude. I got a hat. 1737 01:06:52,441 --> 01:06:55,344 I got a book. It's a good day. We get to break bread. 1738 01:06:55,344 --> 01:06:56,779 This is amazing. 1739 01:06:56,779 --> 01:06:57,213 Joey. 1740 01:06:57,213 --> 01:06:58,280 Thank you so much, brother. 1741 01:06:58,280 --> 01:07:00,049 Closing remarks Joey bats. 1742 01:07:00,049 --> 01:07:00,483 No, man. 1743 01:07:00,483 --> 01:07:03,152 Thank you so much, I appreciate it. I love what you do. 1744 01:07:03,152 --> 01:07:05,721 I think it's really important for us to, 1745 01:07:05,721 --> 01:07:09,125 to help out the people who sometimes know they need help. 1746 01:07:09,525 --> 01:07:11,160 But a lot of times the people who need help 1747 01:07:11,160 --> 01:07:12,762 don't even recognize that they need help. 1748 01:07:12,762 --> 01:07:15,765 And sometimes we just do it quietly and we do silently, 1749 01:07:16,132 --> 01:07:17,833 and we do a lot behind the scenes. 1750 01:07:17,833 --> 01:07:20,970 And because I do so much behind the scenes, I know you do as well. 1751 01:07:21,203 --> 01:07:25,441 So it's nice to be seen from someone who operates just like me. 1752 01:07:25,775 --> 01:07:26,642 I appreciate that. 1753 01:07:26,642 --> 01:07:28,978 I think we both vibrate on similar wavelength, 1754 01:07:28,978 --> 01:07:31,047 and it's just really cool to just chop it up with you. 1755 01:07:31,047 --> 01:07:33,516 Yeah. No, it was a great, great conversation. 1756 01:07:33,516 --> 01:07:36,419 Like, you could have been 90 minutes. Could have been two hours. 1757 01:07:36,419 --> 01:07:38,988 I had a great time talking with you, Joey Bats. 1758 01:07:38,988 --> 01:07:42,491 Ladies and gentlemen, hip hop for the homeless teacher, rapper 1759 01:07:43,159 --> 01:07:44,927 extraordinaire, MC. 1760 01:07:44,927 --> 01:07:47,263 Great person, good friend. He's your best friend. 1761 01:07:47,263 --> 01:07:48,130 Oh yeah. 1762 01:07:48,130 --> 01:07:49,732 On three will say be a good friend. 1763 01:07:49,732 --> 01:07:52,568 The only 1 to 3. Be a good friend.