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All right, all right.

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Feeney talks with friends, episode 136.

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We're in a special place
with a special person.

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What's up? Greg? It's happening.
This is great.

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

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And I use this podcast.

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Feeney talks with friends, and I talk to
wonderful people that are in the community

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doing great things.

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And you've been in the community.

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Well, Cricket press
has been in the community for 54 years.

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That's amazing.

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And how long have you been
a part of Cricket press?

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I've been. Well, I was since birth.

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Since birth?

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Yeah.

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I started kind of like, actually a lot
of the guys that have been here forever.

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I started by taking out the trash,
bringing in boxes,

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breaking down the juice boxes, stuff
like that.

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And then,

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throughout middle school, high school,
college, I was on and off part time.

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And then, after graduation,

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is when I joined full time.

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Awesome.

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So, yeah, we're here at Cricket
press on 236 Park Road,

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and we're with my friend Greg Khan for.

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Sorry.

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That confused. Sorry.

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My guy Greg.

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I want to thank you.

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I don't even know where to start.

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We have so much

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thank yous histories, but I want to start
with a huge congratulations.

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These balloons are for you. Thank you.

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Can we get a round of applause?

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A round of applause.

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Greg and Cricket press.

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You want to share? Can I share? Share it.

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You are small business of the year.

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That is an amazing honor
from the Hartford Business Journal.

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Oh. Here's a nice handwritten card.

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Great.
Talk about writing a handwritten card.

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This is for Greg.

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Maybe you open it or read it later, but.

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Or. No, thank you. But,

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small business of the year.

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That's a huge honor.

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Please elaborate and talk about this.

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How do you feel?

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You know, it's funny,
when I got the initial phone call,

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I actually hung up because I'm like,

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no way.

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We always jokingly say behind the scenes,
we don't do anything different

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than anybody else.

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We just do what we can from
a business perspective,

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from a professional perspective,
we're just like anybody else.

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We don't you know, there's a lot of secret
that kind of goes behind the scenes.

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But, quite later

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when I got the phone call, I hung up
thinking, there's no way this is real.

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It's like, oh, yeah,
you won the Australian lottery.

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It's like, yeah, no, I didn't know what
I don't know, I don't play.

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They ended up calling back and I'm like,
really?

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That's, pretty incredible.

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Wow. Wow.

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And the celebrations May 8th. Yep.

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That's in a couple days.

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Seventh and eighth.
Yeah. Later. You go. What are you wearing?

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You know,

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I thought I was going to be
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the agenda, and I got to have a 4
to 5 minute acceptance speech ready.

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I'm like, okay, so this is this big deal.

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All right. Wow.

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They gave you a time? Yeah.

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They want 4 to 5 minutes.
4 to 5 minutes at most.

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So it won't be,
won't be too bad, but won't bother me.

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So cool. So cool.

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No. You've been helping out again
54 years here.

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Park road.

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Your contact number is Cricket
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What is Cricket press?

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Say I teach third grade.

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You do that.

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Say you're explaining to a third grader
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Yep. Ready? Go.

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Easiest way I always describe it.

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It's, It's a motto that, we haven't
officially created as the tagline.

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But you think it. We ink it.

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You have a logo, you put it,
you can put a logo on it.

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We can do it.

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And that kind of applies
for pretty much anything.

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When we first started as a business,

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traditional paper, business
cards, letterhead, all that kind of stuff.

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And the technology's just evolved
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Even in the last ten years I've been here.

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We've gone far beyond that now.

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And now it's stuff like the yard
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Like I said, you think it, we ink it.

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But, I mean, it really comes down to
if you can put your logo on it,

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it's possible. Yeah. In a nutshell.

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So and there's a lot of different areas
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But we've really done our best

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to keep up with the technology
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We've continued to kind of stay current
on a lot of that stuff.

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And then we've also relied heavily
on, some of the other print

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shops in the area where it's not possible
to own all of the equipment.

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So you have to learn to rely
and trust the other guys in the area

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where a lot of people will say,
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another shop in the area?

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And they're kind of

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feeding into the expectation me to say,
oh, they're arrival.

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No, they're not.

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Because on multiple fronts, number one,
I want them to succeed

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because they're helping lift our craft,
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And then also, if they've got technology
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we rely heavily on them.

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Which for us, it always comes down
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So with our customers, we take pride
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to some of those places or the customers
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We'll say, we can handle it for you.

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We'll go talk to that other shop and
just make it a one stop solution for you.

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So that's been always
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We get that question probably weekly.

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How do you feel about x, y, z,
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or whether it's a shop that's not around
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The more the merrier.

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We are fully supportive

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of all the other shops out there
and kind of lifting that craft.

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Which, you know, I just talked
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and he said to same thing his
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that does the soft wash business
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They bounce questions off of each other
ideas, suggestions, new things.

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So that's you know,
how are things. Together learn together.

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That's kind of
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I like it,
I like it, think together, learn together.

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You started to go into it, so I was

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I mean, I know he's doing it,
but I like to ask three keys.

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What are.

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So let me go over some sponsors first.

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We have Keating agency insure insurance.

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hit the mic.

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people's bank, Parkville management,
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And West Hartford lock.

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So with West Hartford Lock
what are your three keys

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that make you great
at the vice President of Cricket press?

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What are three keys? Because you
I caught yourself.

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You did one a minute ago.

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So a key I thought a. Key three key.

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Right. Yeah.
What makes you good at being a vice?

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What makes this place run?

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What are three keys that keep this place?

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Number one and probably number two.

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And number three are
the people got to start there

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because our team, I mean, I put our team
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We've got guys. We.

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If you go back to the beginning,
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was just running around a minute ago.

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Dom has been here well over 30 years.

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Marvin, has been over here 40 years.

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And then we had a couple of years
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But Peter had been here
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And then Carol, the original, owner,
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who started the business,
she was here right up until Covid.

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And she she just passed in the fall,
but in the early 90s.

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So she was here for almost 50 years.

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I know, I just saw a picture of you

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in the Hartford Business Journal
with Marvin and Carol. Yep.

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When was that picture taken?

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That was tail end of Covid.

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Tail end of Covid. Yep. Yeah.

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And that was before.

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So the other three that we've got on board
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shot and oh, and so Scott, he's
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We've known him for I've known him for now
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We were fortunate enough
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He was working for one of the brokers
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He went back to school,
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those guys, had a great conversation,
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It was a really open dialog conversation,
and it's been mutually fantastic.

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Was that Sean or Scott? That was Scott.

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Yep. So, Scott, I've emailed with Sean.

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I just met Sean.

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We just brought on, about a year and a
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He's been he's an absolute workhorse.

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We brought him on.

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We really needed the extra hands
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So we brought him on.

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We kind of showed him pretty much anything
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And by the day, as we buy new stuff,

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Sean's always looking to learn
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So he's been an absolute workhorse.

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Oh, and same thing we brought on on
we brought on on middle of Covid, tail

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end of Covid
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and we were kind of looking at things
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We got to bring somebody on
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We were out the parking lot
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And she just happened to say,
hey, I've got a son that just,

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just finished school.
He's looking for a job.

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Even if it's just part time.
Are you open to it?

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I mean, it's been the hire of a lifetime
now, and the rest is history.

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So he's been on now almost four years.

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Oh, wow.

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So, I mean, again,
the key has always been the people

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without fail
that mean that we talk about keys.

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Three keys.

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I'll give two of them to the people.
Nice, nice.

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Outside of that, I think,

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it goes
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When I took over,

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the, the short version of it was my.

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I had just graduated.

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We found out my dad was sick with stage
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So I had just graduated, and, August

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went down and worked at Disney
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By mid-January, we found out he was sick.

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So I was applying to go do
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We found out he was sick, and I said,
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Let's figure out what's going on here.

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And he ended up passing
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So that transition window was six months.

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I mean, you want to talk about
healthy months, three, maybe four.

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And that's where I go back to saying,
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here, we wouldn't have made it through.
No way.

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I mean, I was able to rely

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on the guys that have been here forever
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not just my dad,
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those relationships
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So loyalty from our customer base,
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comes back to just doing good, honest,
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So I would say that's key.

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Number three, if we want to do a third
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I think it would go back to the
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the willingness from our perspective
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I think in our industry it's really easy
in many, many industries, as is the case,

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but really easy to kind of stay complacent
with where technology is.

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But I mean, it's no secret most people

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kind of know the print is dying.

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I think that our people have bought into
the concept.

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Print is changing. It's
changing by the day, and it's changing.

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I'm sure it will be different tomorrow
than it is today.

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But the technology and our adoption

247
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has really set us, up for long term
success.

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Right?

249
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So for keys, I gotta make a note for keys.

250
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People for two, people for two.

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Longevity. I'm.

252
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I call it longevity people.

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Relationship, for.

254
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Sure.

255
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And fourth one you threw in was.

256
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I don't even remember.

257
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Now, we don't want to ever lock. We,
need our lock change.

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We lost a key.

259
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Great. Guys, those guys are awesome.

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So our motto. Be a good friend.

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Pick up trash, hold the door,
give compliments.

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You know, what makes Dom a good friend?

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I know you mentioned
he's been here a long time.

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Long time running around. Yep.

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He was another one.
He started right at a counter.

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He started. He came in and he he.

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What he saw was kind of that culture of

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being a good friend, wanting to kind of go
the extra mile he's been.

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I mean, Dom's a people person, no doubt.

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He gets to see every day
being one of the front counter guys.

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The satisfaction of helping people
in their projects and understanding.

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We never know what the end usage of
a project is, but we find everything from

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it might be something
for a simple business occasion to,

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we'll do a project.

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Come to find out, it's
going to be a surprise for a kid

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that's going into surgery.

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So I know he's thoroughly
enjoyed the satisfaction of kind of the

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the outcome of the projects.

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And he's been key in terms of helping
along the way of the behind the scenes

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stuff.

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But, I know that his gratification

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from seeing the customer smile,

283
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regardless of what
the purpose of the project is,

284
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has really been that motivating factor.
That's awesome.

285
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That's cool
that you brought that up. Projects.

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So we do another game, your first project,
your last project, your best project.

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In your worst project, any order you want.

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First project I ever did.

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Let's start there.

290
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The first project I did was unfortunately
one of the last projects

291
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I did with my dad,
but it's one that I have in my office,

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where it was just a

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simple sticker
and it said, this box is recycled.

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And it was really the last project
that my dad ever did with the shop.

295
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So that one's a small
but important one to me.

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Yeah.

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Last project, something we did today.

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We're actually one of the new machines
we got is a flatbed,

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so it can do stuff like yard
signs, golf balls, tumbler.

300
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So we were just working
on some cigar boxes,

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where we can print directly on the wood
now, which is pretty cool.

302
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So that'll be more to come on that front
so people know we have it,

303
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but we haven't really kind of publicized
it quite yet.

304
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What were the other two.

305
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Best and.

306
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Worst? Best and worst

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best project? We've done

308
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best.

309
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In what sense.

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Could be satisfaction financially?

311
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Important to you?

312
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Totally up to you.

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How are you on? How do you,

314
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That's tough.

315
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I mean, you.

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You got a few, got a few faves.

317
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I think it more so.

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Man, that's,

319
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a million projects are running
through my head in terms of worse.

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There's,

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there's really not a ton that we.

322
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Would label as worst,
I mean, I yeah, there's always good days.

323
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There's always bad days.

324
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I would say best project we've ever done

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was when we.

326
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Tried I think what the circumstance was.

327
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We do a lot of stuff
with the aerospace groups in the area.

328
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So a few times we've had to go on site

329
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and kind of hand off some stuff
and seeing some of the other facilities.

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That's one of my favorite parts of the job

331
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is being able to say,
oh, you need me to come out and see you.

332
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Awesome. I love going out
and seeing other facilities.

333
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So there's a couple that we

334
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hand it off to some of the aerospace
groups in the area,

335
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and just seeing the inside
and having a sign

336
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that you won't say what you saw,
we saw some really cool stuff.

337
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I'll leave it at that.

338
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Go on and tell us what you see.

339
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What'd you see? Yeah, right.

340
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I saw the exit sign on my way out.

341
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So were you and Raytheon and Pratt
and Whitney in.

342
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Which that that whole transition's
been interesting?

343
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We worked directly with or

344
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I should say indirectly with a lot of them
through Cushman Wakefield.

345
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So Cushman Wakefield,
was kind of the managing partner.

346
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So a lot of the stuff we would do

347
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would end up going through the middle
man of Cushman Wakefield.

348
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But they the group that was at the coffee
shop or the, the mailroom, so to speak,

349
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they were good for

350
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a lot,
but the in-depth nuts and bolts of print,

351
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they were not shy to hand off and say,
hey, this is completely out of the realm

352
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of what I know.

353
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We need you to come in and you'll know
exactly what the user's looking for.

354
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We're just going to know what to call you.

355
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We're not going to know
the actual technology.

356
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So we worked with them now for

357
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seven years or so.

358
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We've done stuff for them indirectly,
but directly.

359
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We've done it now for about seven years.

360
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So some of the stuff
just to see inside of those facilities,

361
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I mean, it's an engineering marvel
and some of them, it's

362
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just really cool stuff to see.

363
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Oh, what's your background,
your extra interest in. Right.

364
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Yeah. Okay.

365
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Because you're a mechanical engineer
background I see you.

366
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All right.

367
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So some of that stuff
in terms of worst project,

368
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I mean,

369
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nothing really comes to mind as in worst,
I think in general,

370
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what usually
we will find the worst scenario to be

371
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will be when,

372
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everybody's an expert in printing.

373
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When it's a rush, I'll say that.

374
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So whenever something last minute
hits our plate, of course,

375
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we're doing what
we can to go above and beyond.

376
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But we always remind people

377
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we may not be the complete experts,
but we know a thing or two about print.

378
00:16:00,893 --> 00:16:03,762
Sometimes. Just trust our judgment.

379
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Trust our expectations.

380
00:16:06,799 --> 00:16:09,802
A lot of people
will have these grand visions.

381
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And that really goes back to
when I say worst.

382
00:16:12,004 --> 00:16:14,506
I use that term loosely
because that's where again,

383
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like Dom,
I know has a lot of fun in saying, okay,

384
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here's your vision, that's great,
but let's get that back down into reality.

385
00:16:21,146 --> 00:16:24,316
Here's what we can actually do, or here's
what we've got tools to provide.

386
00:16:25,084 --> 00:16:26,552
Because some of this stuff,
quite literally,

387
00:16:26,552 --> 00:16:30,322
people envision projects that I don't know
if that theory even doable at any shop,

388
00:16:30,522 --> 00:16:31,423
which is not a bad thing.

389
00:16:31,423 --> 00:16:34,093
Again, that goes back
to fueling the growth, fueling the vision,

390
00:16:34,093 --> 00:16:37,296
understanding, well, what
technology can help us get to that point?

391
00:16:38,564 --> 00:16:41,433
So I'd
say the worst project are the ones where

392
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we can't necessarily get to the goal
that the customer is looking for,

393
00:16:44,703 --> 00:16:48,240
but usually it ends up somewhere the old,
what's it shoot for?

394
00:16:48,240 --> 00:16:49,608
The moon land among the stars.

395
00:16:49,608 --> 00:16:52,411
Usually it's something along those lines
where, okay, we couldn't get exactly

396
00:16:52,411 --> 00:16:55,414
what they're looking for, but
we've got a pretty wide range of options.

397
00:16:56,281 --> 00:16:57,916
What's your thoughts on X, y, Z?

398
00:16:57,916 --> 00:17:00,452
Most times it'll work out.

399
00:17:00,452 --> 00:17:01,720
And confirm or deny.

400
00:17:01,720 --> 00:17:04,723
Did you do printing for NASA?

401
00:17:06,091 --> 00:17:06,658
Wow. That's.

402
00:17:06,658 --> 00:17:08,560
I'll show you the sticker out there,
actually. What'd you do?

403
00:17:08,560 --> 00:17:09,261
How did you do it?

404
00:17:09,261 --> 00:17:10,029
It was,

405
00:17:10,029 --> 00:17:13,399
critical space component stickers that had
to go on a lot of their shipments.

406
00:17:14,299 --> 00:17:17,536
We, during Covid,
we kicked up a lot of government bid work.

407
00:17:19,838 --> 00:17:21,373
There's a lot of really cool projects.

408
00:17:21,373 --> 00:17:23,642
The problem we run into,

409
00:17:23,642 --> 00:17:26,678
and I would say this is probably the case
for a lot of the government

410
00:17:26,678 --> 00:17:27,346
work out there.

411
00:17:27,346 --> 00:17:30,449
That is product
base is it's a race to zero.

412
00:17:30,449 --> 00:17:31,884
Everyone thinks it's a cool project,

413
00:17:31,884 --> 00:17:34,053
so everyone goes in
at the absolute lowest price.

414
00:17:34,053 --> 00:17:35,054
So we don't do a ton of it.

415
00:17:35,054 --> 00:17:38,991
We do some stuff for government contracts,
but generally base

416
00:17:38,991 --> 00:17:41,193
got to be given the stuff away.

417
00:17:41,193 --> 00:17:43,095
Which was the lowest bidder. Right.

418
00:17:43,095 --> 00:17:46,965
They almost always shop on price
not quality relationship,

419
00:17:47,166 --> 00:17:50,469
which again, from our business models
perspective, we're building

420
00:17:50,469 --> 00:17:53,472
relationships,
not just filling an Excel sheet.

421
00:17:53,539 --> 00:17:56,809
So a lot of those projects, it's
like you really have to have razor thin

422
00:17:56,809 --> 00:18:00,879
margins in what we found is other areas
of our business, other projects suffered

423
00:18:01,313 --> 00:18:04,650
because we couldn't
devote the equipment power,

424
00:18:04,650 --> 00:18:08,520
the mental capacity,
just kind of that human touch factor.

425
00:18:08,520 --> 00:18:09,221
We could

426
00:18:09,221 --> 00:18:11,256
it was suffering
because we were just strictly

427
00:18:11,256 --> 00:18:14,493
focusing on volume,
volume, volume on razor thin margins.

428
00:18:14,493 --> 00:18:14,793
Really.

429
00:18:14,793 --> 00:18:17,629
That's if you got to do a ton of it
to make it worth it. Yeah.

430
00:18:17,629 --> 00:18:19,431
And we found it was kind of harming our,

431
00:18:20,432 --> 00:18:21,166
mantra.

432
00:18:21,166 --> 00:18:25,170
I mean, our, our through and through kind
of area is short run, short turnaround.

433
00:18:25,337 --> 00:18:27,940
You need a handful of something
and you need it right now.

434
00:18:27,940 --> 00:18:29,041
That's where we're strong.

435
00:18:29,041 --> 00:18:31,376
That's where we're strongest.

436
00:18:31,376 --> 00:18:33,345
And some other fortune 500 companies.

437
00:18:33,345 --> 00:18:35,514
You had a list of a couple more.
Do you know any?

438
00:18:35,514 --> 00:18:35,681
Yeah.

439
00:18:35,681 --> 00:18:40,752
So I mean we right now we do a lot of,
a lot of booklets and training manuals.

440
00:18:40,752 --> 00:18:43,755
So a lot of those
for some of the bigger groups,

441
00:18:44,123 --> 00:18:44,923
end up in the hands.

442
00:18:44,923 --> 00:18:46,458
I mean, we've done stuff.

443
00:18:46,458 --> 00:18:49,461
We just did one actually, recently for all
the Major League Baseball stadiums.

444
00:18:49,561 --> 00:18:52,698
So we sent every team in the league, MLB

445
00:18:52,698 --> 00:18:55,701
network in partnership had,

446
00:18:55,968 --> 00:18:57,903
a whole bunch of different materials,
but we shipped.

447
00:18:57,903 --> 00:18:59,171
Yeah, all at different locations.

448
00:18:59,171 --> 00:19:02,174
We shipped all 50 states, Canada, Mexico.

449
00:19:02,341 --> 00:19:04,843
Decent amount of international work.

450
00:19:04,843 --> 00:19:07,012
Google,
we just sent some stuff out to California.

451
00:19:07,012 --> 00:19:07,713
Apple.

452
00:19:07,713 --> 00:19:11,216
So some of the bigger places,
usually most of the big companies

453
00:19:11,216 --> 00:19:12,584
that we work with are,

454
00:19:14,386 --> 00:19:15,721
either indirect through

455
00:19:15,721 --> 00:19:18,690
brokers or the end customer of somebody
that we're working with.

456
00:19:19,057 --> 00:19:19,892
So a lot of times

457
00:19:19,892 --> 00:19:22,861
these big companies don't even know
that we're doing their stuff for them.

458
00:19:23,896 --> 00:19:25,831
There are a handful that we do directly,

459
00:19:25,831 --> 00:19:28,800
but the majority of stuff we find is
is broker work.

460
00:19:29,401 --> 00:19:31,970
And when you're giving me a tour,
that's awesome.

461
00:19:31,970 --> 00:19:33,238
That's so interesting.

462
00:19:33,238 --> 00:19:35,174
And I don't know
if this might have been off the record.

463
00:19:35,174 --> 00:19:39,511
I'm going to ask
anyway I art or rti, I tr yeah.

464
00:19:39,511 --> 00:19:41,079
What does that stand for?

465
00:19:41,079 --> 00:19:44,082
I'm going to botch international.

466
00:19:44,583 --> 00:19:48,921
I are international trade arms regulation
something along those lines.

467
00:19:48,921 --> 00:19:49,087
Yeah.

468
00:19:49,087 --> 00:19:53,892
So a lot of the aerospace work that we do,
there's a pretty large call out there.

469
00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:59,431
For protected work that can't just simply
sent be sent over an email.

470
00:20:00,766 --> 00:20:03,135
So we're working
on a couple of different things right now.

471
00:20:03,135 --> 00:20:03,902
Certifications.

472
00:20:03,902 --> 00:20:07,539
We got to have, physical areas
that are barriers by,

473
00:20:09,007 --> 00:20:09,942
security measures.

474
00:20:09,942 --> 00:20:12,744
So we're kind of going
through the beginning phases of,

475
00:20:12,744 --> 00:20:15,847
becoming Itar certified
so that we can chase some of that work

476
00:20:15,847 --> 00:20:19,151
where there's a huge shortage
of supply within Connecticut.

477
00:20:19,785 --> 00:20:22,087
Yeah, because it's in two places,
not in Connecticut.

478
00:20:22,087 --> 00:20:22,621
Where are. They?

479
00:20:22,621 --> 00:20:26,225
The two main ones that we find when we get
a call for it are up by the Cape.

480
00:20:27,059 --> 00:20:28,260
Or down in new Jersey.

481
00:20:28,260 --> 00:20:31,263
So being that Connecticut's got as much,

482
00:20:32,097 --> 00:20:34,099
manufacturing as a whole,

483
00:20:34,099 --> 00:20:38,103
specifically in either aerospace
or even some of the, like, Colt,

484
00:20:38,103 --> 00:20:40,105
for example, Colts
right here in West Hartford,

485
00:20:40,105 --> 00:20:42,541
they've got work that they need
to send out of state, because there's

486
00:20:42,541 --> 00:20:46,111
nobody in state that can be certified
to do a lot of that stuff.

487
00:20:46,345 --> 00:20:48,814
Yeah, we're in Cape Cod.
I go there all the time. Don't know.

488
00:20:48,814 --> 00:20:49,748
You don't know I've been out there.

489
00:20:49,748 --> 00:20:52,217
I just know whenever they call, every time
the customer calls and says,

490
00:20:52,217 --> 00:20:54,987
I need it today
and I don't have time to go to the Cape.

491
00:20:54,987 --> 00:20:56,555
Gotcha. Bummer.

492
00:20:56,555 --> 00:20:59,491
And, tell us about the time if you can.

493
00:20:59,491 --> 00:21:03,262
Someone came to watch you print
something like a security clearance.

494
00:21:03,262 --> 00:21:05,697
Watch you print just to make sure.

495
00:21:05,697 --> 00:21:06,932
I thought that was really interesting.
Yeah.

496
00:21:06,932 --> 00:21:10,736
So there's some of that work
where it's it's, it's protected work.

497
00:21:11,470 --> 00:21:12,838
So, you know, top secret.

498
00:21:12,838 --> 00:21:14,873
I don't know a darn
thing. I know none of it.

499
00:21:16,441 --> 00:21:18,343
Or that's what they told me to say.

500
00:21:18,343 --> 00:21:22,080
So some of that work, I mean,
from a timing perspective, some of it's

501
00:21:22,080 --> 00:21:25,317
super important you got officials
coming from all over the place.

502
00:21:26,885 --> 00:21:28,253
And they just need the stuff.

503
00:21:28,253 --> 00:21:28,887
It's one of those.

504
00:21:28,887 --> 00:21:30,255
I don't care what the price is.

505
00:21:30,255 --> 00:21:33,258
We simply need this done right now.

506
00:21:33,292 --> 00:21:35,093
So we've had a couple instances
where people come in and say,

507
00:21:35,093 --> 00:21:38,096
okay, we got to lock the doors,
we've got some files with us.

508
00:21:38,163 --> 00:21:40,432
We're going to take
your specific machine off

509
00:21:40,432 --> 00:21:43,468
of the network,
drop our files on there, produce it.

510
00:21:43,468 --> 00:21:44,236
We're going to take it.

511
00:21:44,236 --> 00:21:47,806
You're going to sign off that you didn't
retain any files and off they go.

512
00:21:47,906 --> 00:21:51,643
But and again, it comes from a shortage
within the state, of places

513
00:21:51,643 --> 00:21:53,845
that have that clearance.
And I know there are a couple

514
00:21:55,280 --> 00:21:56,548
there are a couple that have it

515
00:21:56,548 --> 00:22:00,152
within the state but are very select
in who they work based on contract work.

516
00:22:00,886 --> 00:22:02,821
Sounds like the show
homeland or something.

517
00:22:02,821 --> 00:22:05,824
You know, I like NCIS or

518
00:22:05,924 --> 00:22:07,192
it's another show.

519
00:22:07,192 --> 00:22:10,462
If you ever drive by with
the lights are on at like 2 or 3 a.m.,

520
00:22:11,163 --> 00:22:12,097
don't knock chances.

521
00:22:12,097 --> 00:22:14,066
I were doing some of that stuff.

522
00:22:14,066 --> 00:22:15,534
I got it, I like it.

523
00:22:15,534 --> 00:22:17,669
You heard it here first. That's awesome.

524
00:22:17,669 --> 00:22:22,674
Oh, and based on your back to Sunday, I'm
trying to get some exclusives.

525
00:22:22,674 --> 00:22:25,377
So you do wide, wide format
flatbed printing.

526
00:22:25,377 --> 00:22:26,378
That was the signs.

527
00:22:26,378 --> 00:22:29,381
And the,
you do interactive e-commerce. Yep.

528
00:22:29,414 --> 00:22:34,086
Now can is that when like I asked, can
friends of Feeney get a site on your page?

529
00:22:34,119 --> 00:22:35,287
That's what I'm working on right now.

530
00:22:35,287 --> 00:22:37,055
Any stuff that you work. It's
exactly what we're working on.

531
00:22:37,055 --> 00:22:39,591
Yeah, that's one of the big things.
Will be your first. Definitely.

532
00:22:39,591 --> 00:22:41,460
We'll be your guinea pig. There
we go. Yeah.

533
00:22:41,460 --> 00:22:45,397
So a lot of what we find,
a lot of the work we do is repeat stuff.

534
00:22:45,564 --> 00:22:48,300
So I mean, we still get the fair amount
of, okay, it's a brand new project.

535
00:22:48,300 --> 00:22:49,835
We've never done it before.

536
00:22:49,835 --> 00:22:53,972
A huge chunk of what we do is stuff
that it's like clockwork.

537
00:22:54,506 --> 00:22:56,041
After six months, reorder it.

538
00:22:56,041 --> 00:22:58,110
After six months, reorder it.

539
00:22:58,110 --> 00:23:01,113
We're working on a solution
with our new website.

540
00:23:01,279 --> 00:23:03,315
That'll allow people to go in.

541
00:23:04,716 --> 00:23:07,452
We're talking actually right now
to West Hartford Solar.

542
00:23:07,452 --> 00:23:08,987
I don't know
if you've worked with him yet.

543
00:23:08,987 --> 00:23:11,823
Great group of guys there. Awesome.

544
00:23:11,823 --> 00:23:13,892
Is that Dan Hovey? Yeah it is. Yep, yep.

545
00:23:13,892 --> 00:23:14,426
I know, so.

546
00:23:14,426 --> 00:23:18,230
He, one of the things that he wants
is he's got a whole bunch of sales people

547
00:23:18,230 --> 00:23:19,131
that'll go out

548
00:23:19,131 --> 00:23:21,133
and they need
some sort of new employee kit,

549
00:23:21,133 --> 00:23:23,101
so they'll have a polo,
they'll have a hat.

550
00:23:23,101 --> 00:23:24,636
There's a whole bunch of different
materials.

551
00:23:24,636 --> 00:23:26,238
He wants to set it. Forget it.

552
00:23:26,238 --> 00:23:27,873
Give those individuals access.

553
00:23:27,873 --> 00:23:29,307
So when they go on our website
and they log

554
00:23:29,307 --> 00:23:31,109
in, they can see the t shirt, the holiday.

555
00:23:31,109 --> 00:23:33,111
I get their beginner bag. Right. Exactly.

556
00:23:33,111 --> 00:23:34,713
And it's only specific for them.

557
00:23:34,713 --> 00:23:36,782
He doesn't necessarily
want other people to buy it,

558
00:23:36,782 --> 00:23:39,785
but he wants his people to go
on, purchase it and it'll show up.

559
00:23:41,219 --> 00:23:43,288
So to be able to offer that really

560
00:23:43,288 --> 00:23:47,492
is kind of that rinse and repeat where
once we set it up, once you're golden,

561
00:23:48,126 --> 00:23:49,428
which kind of ties well, to

562
00:23:49,428 --> 00:23:51,263
we were talking about
all the empty space in our building.

563
00:23:51,263 --> 00:23:53,131
We're kind of working
on using that for fulfillment.

564
00:23:53,131 --> 00:23:55,600
That's a great example
where if he wants to order

565
00:23:55,600 --> 00:23:58,603
or anyone wants to order 100 t shirts
or whatever it may be,

566
00:23:59,137 --> 00:24:00,672
but they only need ten of them right
now, great.

567
00:24:00,672 --> 00:24:02,741
Order the hundred, get the bulk discount,

568
00:24:02,741 --> 00:24:06,144
and then we'll release it as needed
to wherever it's going to ship you.

569
00:24:06,545 --> 00:24:09,915
Someone who wants 10,000 packets.

570
00:24:09,915 --> 00:24:12,150
Yeah,
but only wants 1000 at a time, right?

571
00:24:12,150 --> 00:24:14,853
That's the fulfillment service.
That's why we're getting.

572
00:24:14,853 --> 00:24:16,254
We get some extra room. Exactly.

573
00:24:16,254 --> 00:24:18,156
And that pairs really well
with the website stuff

574
00:24:18,156 --> 00:24:21,726
because they can go in filter by whatever
they're looking for and then release it.

575
00:24:21,726 --> 00:24:24,262
At that point, all we really need at
that point is the shipping address.

576
00:24:25,230 --> 00:24:26,364
Very cool,

577
00:24:26,364 --> 00:24:29,401
eco friendly product lines, eco friendly

578
00:24:29,401 --> 00:24:32,404
like biodegrade, all like paper. Yep.

579
00:24:32,437 --> 00:24:34,473
Which paper is the obvious one?

580
00:24:34,473 --> 00:24:37,476
We're getting more and more into,

581
00:24:37,642 --> 00:24:39,978
the nitty gritty of the technology,
so to speak.

582
00:24:39,978 --> 00:24:42,981
We had for years
the offset press was kind of the,

583
00:24:44,716 --> 00:24:47,786
claim to fame, so to speak,
where it was the traditional offset inks.

584
00:24:47,786 --> 00:24:51,756
It was you walk into any print shop, say,
15, 20 years ago on that very distinct

585
00:24:51,756 --> 00:24:52,891
smell that hits you.

586
00:24:52,891 --> 00:24:53,191
Yeah.

587
00:24:53,191 --> 00:24:56,161
Chances are that was some form of offset.

588
00:24:56,361 --> 00:25:00,065
We got rid of our offset press
about now, two years ago

589
00:25:00,065 --> 00:25:03,902
now, and we got into an inkjet,
which is water based inks,

590
00:25:04,870 --> 00:25:07,172
which are

591
00:25:07,172 --> 00:25:07,672
different.

592
00:25:07,672 --> 00:25:10,342
I wouldn't say it's even better
or worse than offset.

593
00:25:10,342 --> 00:25:11,076
It's almost

594
00:25:12,077 --> 00:25:13,778
too hard to compare the two.

595
00:25:13,778 --> 00:25:18,116
But in terms of the eco
side, much friendlier,

596
00:25:18,149 --> 00:25:22,354
no harsh chemicals,
which has been tremendous for us.

597
00:25:22,420 --> 00:25:26,157
We're even finding to the point
where, a lot of our equipment actually

598
00:25:26,157 --> 00:25:30,061
runs better as a result of not
having the offset press in here anymore.

599
00:25:30,095 --> 00:25:32,197
The vapors that it gave off the VOCs
would.

600
00:25:32,197 --> 00:25:34,432
Affect the other machines.

601
00:25:34,432 --> 00:25:35,667
Yeah. And then going back.

602
00:25:35,667 --> 00:25:37,068
So these are eco friendly.

603
00:25:37,068 --> 00:25:39,571
Everything here? Yep.

604
00:25:39,571 --> 00:25:43,275
And then, even,
the toners that we use now,

605
00:25:43,275 --> 00:25:46,278
which are like the plastic base,
a lot of them have

606
00:25:47,045 --> 00:25:49,681
component of corn actually.

607
00:25:49,681 --> 00:25:53,418
Same thing actually with the later
newer offset inks transition.

608
00:25:53,418 --> 00:25:57,489
So a lot of it is,
either soy based or corn components to it.

609
00:25:58,089 --> 00:26:00,825
And then in terms of the materials
that we can do now,

610
00:26:00,825 --> 00:26:04,563
the range of stuff is just unbelievable
now compared to what it used to be.

611
00:26:04,596 --> 00:26:07,599
That really goes towards the evolution
of a lot of the equipment,

612
00:26:08,266 --> 00:26:11,670
where like, I just said,
we can print on, cardboard boxes now

613
00:26:11,670 --> 00:26:16,174
where it's a water based ink, we can print
on all kinds of different wood.

614
00:26:16,174 --> 00:26:17,809
We're working on a sticker project
right now

615
00:26:17,809 --> 00:26:21,580
where it's, it's a thin layer of bamboo,
so we can print directly on it.

616
00:26:21,580 --> 00:26:23,048
It's all biodegradable, which is great.

617
00:26:24,149 --> 00:26:25,150
That's awesome.

618
00:26:25,150 --> 00:26:28,153
And then you had a big secret
that you're not ready to share yet.

619
00:26:28,787 --> 00:26:30,188
Can you share it on the podcast?

620
00:26:30,188 --> 00:26:31,122
An exclusive?

621
00:26:31,122 --> 00:26:32,857
Come on, give us. A couple secrets.

622
00:26:32,857 --> 00:26:34,593
So which one are we talking?

623
00:26:34,593 --> 00:26:38,697
You alluded to it in the in the Hartford
Business Journal article on 50.

624
00:26:38,697 --> 00:26:40,365
Five, which, which, it.

625
00:26:40,365 --> 00:26:43,368
Ended with big secret. Not ready to share?

626
00:26:43,768 --> 00:26:45,103
Come on, give me some. Well,
I'll give you one.

627
00:26:45,103 --> 00:26:46,605
I'll give you the first secret.

628
00:26:46,605 --> 00:26:49,074
First secret is where I'm having a baby
at the end of the month.

629
00:26:49,074 --> 00:26:49,441
Okay?

630
00:26:49,441 --> 00:26:50,942
There's there's there's the big secret.

631
00:26:50,942 --> 00:26:53,612
Anything else is less than that.

632
00:26:53,612 --> 00:26:55,981
So. Yeah, we're having a baby.

633
00:26:55,981 --> 00:26:56,581
Wife and I.

634
00:26:56,581 --> 00:26:59,851
Brittany, we're having a baby
on, right now, it's May 27th.

635
00:27:00,885 --> 00:27:02,954
But that may shift up to the 19th.

636
00:27:02,954 --> 00:27:05,657
So wait. Like,
maybe like a couple days? Two weeks.

637
00:27:05,657 --> 00:27:07,392
Oh, okay. So. Wow. We're right.

638
00:27:07,392 --> 00:27:08,593
They've known about this for a while.

639
00:27:08,593 --> 00:27:11,196
Yeah, we have,
but it's. Been for like nine months.

640
00:27:11,196 --> 00:27:13,398
And I pretty much
eat. Yeah, eat and change.

641
00:27:14,866 --> 00:27:15,300
Brittany.

642
00:27:15,300 --> 00:27:17,636
Congratulations, boy. Girl.

643
00:27:17,636 --> 00:27:19,938
Do you know girl girl? Indie rock.

644
00:27:19,938 --> 00:27:21,740
Indie rock.
You got the name already too? Yep.

645
00:27:21,740 --> 00:27:24,743
I love it, girl.
That time. Let's go. Right

646
00:27:24,776 --> 00:27:25,910
first baby.

647
00:27:25,910 --> 00:27:27,078
Oh that's beautiful.

648
00:27:27,078 --> 00:27:28,980
So that's that's the biggest secret.

649
00:27:28,980 --> 00:27:30,348
Yep. Cat's out of the bag.

650
00:27:30,348 --> 00:27:33,284
Other than that, a lot of the secrets
now stem from a website,

651
00:27:33,284 --> 00:27:36,287
which is the big one
that it's officially live right now.

652
00:27:36,421 --> 00:27:37,122
Soft launch.

653
00:27:37,122 --> 00:27:39,090
So there's still a couple things
we're working on.

654
00:27:39,090 --> 00:27:42,427
One of the big tools that we're it's now

655
00:27:42,494 --> 00:27:45,530
also live has been,
for a lot of the different stickers.

656
00:27:45,530 --> 00:27:46,831
So it's a tool where you can go

657
00:27:46,831 --> 00:27:49,801
in, you can drop a logo, it's
going to provide you with a cut line.

658
00:27:50,568 --> 00:27:52,737
So a lot of one of our biggest delays is

659
00:27:52,737 --> 00:27:55,740
we didn't have an on staff
graphic designer.

660
00:27:56,007 --> 00:27:56,608
We've got,

661
00:27:57,942 --> 00:28:00,178
a couple
freelance guys that they're tremendous.

662
00:28:00,178 --> 00:28:01,813
We have nothing
but good things to say about them,

663
00:28:01,813 --> 00:28:02,981
but we only have them some days.

664
00:28:02,981 --> 00:28:03,915
We only have them

665
00:28:03,915 --> 00:28:06,918
two days a week, three days a week,
depending on their workload elsewhere.

666
00:28:07,052 --> 00:28:08,987
So one of our big hang
ups has always been,

667
00:28:08,987 --> 00:28:12,991
if we get a project and artwork has to be
done, if we catch them on the wrong day,

668
00:28:12,991 --> 00:28:15,960
it's like, yeah, we'll have artwork
ready in three days.

669
00:28:16,227 --> 00:28:19,230
It's not the end of the world
in most cases. But

670
00:28:19,664 --> 00:28:22,500
being that we're always a short run, short
turnaround, guys

671
00:28:22,500 --> 00:28:23,935
saying on a rush project

672
00:28:23,935 --> 00:28:27,238
we need three days just to get artwork
set up has always been kind of a

673
00:28:27,972 --> 00:28:29,507
that's problem. Yeah.

674
00:28:29,507 --> 00:28:33,111
So that is officially we'll say
there's probably ten steps

675
00:28:33,111 --> 00:28:34,446
involved on the website front.

676
00:28:34,446 --> 00:28:36,281
We've got probably three live the rest.

677
00:28:36,281 --> 00:28:37,615
There's some really cool stuff
that I don't

678
00:28:37,615 --> 00:28:40,051
I can't share yet, but all right,
all right, we're getting it out.

679
00:28:40,051 --> 00:28:40,752
It's coming along.

680
00:28:40,752 --> 00:28:44,389
And it's it's going to be big stuff
for hopefully everyone involved.

681
00:28:44,422 --> 00:28:46,424
Our side. It's
going to make production easier.

682
00:28:46,424 --> 00:28:49,961
The customer side, it's
going to make things hopefully a whole

683
00:28:49,961 --> 00:28:50,862
heck of a lot easier.

684
00:28:51,896 --> 00:28:52,931
Well I want to thank you.

685
00:28:52,931 --> 00:28:54,899
You got into it.
We're going to do a little show and tell.

686
00:28:54,899 --> 00:28:57,435
You know, I'm a teacher, I love this.
This is a cup.

687
00:28:57,435 --> 00:28:58,570
So this is our second.

688
00:28:58,570 --> 00:29:02,006
We had a, glow in the dark green
one that were a huge hit.

689
00:29:02,006 --> 00:29:05,944
As you can see, it
bends silly for the peach beach or pool.

690
00:29:05,944 --> 00:29:08,313
I said peach pool or beach?

691
00:29:08,313 --> 00:29:08,713
Look at that.

692
00:29:08,713 --> 00:29:11,649
What are they called? Silly pints.
Silly pints.

693
00:29:11,649 --> 00:29:12,250
So that was good.

694
00:29:12,250 --> 00:29:12,817
These were a hit.

695
00:29:12,817 --> 00:29:13,918
Sold out quickly.

696
00:29:13,918 --> 00:29:16,621
The the glow in the dark
ones were amazing.

697
00:29:16,621 --> 00:29:17,522
But the white ones are great.

698
00:29:17,522 --> 00:29:19,157
To glow in the dark
when you can find them.

699
00:29:19,157 --> 00:29:20,358
They're hard to find.

700
00:29:20,358 --> 00:29:22,327
They are hard to find blanks.

701
00:29:22,327 --> 00:29:23,528
Oh, okay. Good.

702
00:29:23,528 --> 00:29:25,530
And then you had you did our newest.

703
00:29:26,498 --> 00:29:26,998
We have a

704
00:29:26,998 --> 00:29:31,770
mural on Parkville market up in the local
designed by Rise

705
00:29:31,770 --> 00:29:34,773
Up and our friend Zoe.

706
00:29:35,507 --> 00:29:37,442
Teagan and,

707
00:29:37,442 --> 00:29:40,445
and Jack did this,
as you can see, Starry Night

708
00:29:41,346 --> 00:29:44,983
and our friend, from Rise Up
and it was awesome.

709
00:29:44,983 --> 00:29:47,252
So we got these printed.

710
00:29:47,252 --> 00:29:50,822
These are going these are our
these are on sale to it daily.

711
00:29:51,122 --> 00:29:54,092
The daily grind in Farmington
right over there.

712
00:29:54,092 --> 00:29:56,728
So check them out. They're eight
bucks. We're doing a little fundraiser.

713
00:29:56,728 --> 00:29:57,128
Thank you.

714
00:29:57,128 --> 00:30:00,131
Zoe, Jack, Teagan and Hannah.

715
00:30:01,065 --> 00:30:02,100
And that's.

716
00:30:02,100 --> 00:30:03,802
You made these.

717
00:30:03,802 --> 00:30:05,970
You made our business cards. Look at that.

718
00:30:05,970 --> 00:30:08,773
Now I want to thank you
because these business cards, if we go to

719
00:30:08,773 --> 00:30:11,776
what, like a lot of chamber
events, have a fishbowl. Yep.

720
00:30:11,943 --> 00:30:14,445
These one of our team gets picked
almost every time.

721
00:30:14,445 --> 00:30:14,779
Really?

722
00:30:14,779 --> 00:30:15,446
Jen. Matt.

723
00:30:15,446 --> 00:30:17,115
Marty or myself. Lucky. It's got to be.

724
00:30:17,115 --> 00:30:20,084
Because of the shape it's got.
It's that unique shape.

725
00:30:20,084 --> 00:30:24,122
But as you can see
it's like Eric Feeney, founder all right.

726
00:30:24,155 --> 00:30:24,756
Has our mission.

727
00:30:24,756 --> 00:30:26,324
Our mission is to help
children and families

728
00:30:26,324 --> 00:30:28,293
who need assistance
after heartbreak or tragedy.

729
00:30:29,260 --> 00:30:32,030
I love it, it's really just good quality.

730
00:30:32,030 --> 00:30:35,033
The cut is nice and,
you know, as the circle's nice and even,

731
00:30:36,134 --> 00:30:37,569
the fat is great.

732
00:30:37,569 --> 00:30:38,970
So thank you for that.

733
00:30:38,970 --> 00:30:41,272
So what else we got? Stickers.

734
00:30:41,272 --> 00:30:43,908
Look at that. So this is awesome.

735
00:30:43,908 --> 00:30:46,744
You gave us I want to say 5000, 2000.

736
00:30:46,744 --> 00:30:47,712
A crazy amount. Yeah.

737
00:30:47,712 --> 00:30:51,216
2000 for the, for the Saint Patrick's Day
parade.

738
00:30:51,216 --> 00:30:53,885
Yep. And,

739
00:30:53,885 --> 00:30:55,119
we had it everywhere.

740
00:30:55,119 --> 00:30:56,221
So the park, the,

741
00:30:56,221 --> 00:31:00,191
I always say park row, but the, Saint
Patrick's Day parade is an amazing event.

742
00:31:00,191 --> 00:31:01,459
It was beautiful weather.

743
00:31:01,459 --> 00:31:03,194
We go down by the Bushnell.

744
00:31:03,194 --> 00:31:05,096
It's family friendly.

745
00:31:05,096 --> 00:31:08,433
Then we cut the corner,
then you start to see downtown.

746
00:31:08,433 --> 00:31:12,403
It gets progressively
more like spring break in Cancun.

747
00:31:12,570 --> 00:31:12,871
Right.

748
00:31:12,871 --> 00:31:18,243
By the time you hit Black Eye, Sally's
and the other spot it's like.

749
00:31:18,843 --> 00:31:19,410
Free for all.

750
00:31:19,410 --> 00:31:24,148
Pretty raunchy but
but anyway these we passed out everywhere

751
00:31:24,249 --> 00:31:27,285
and our you and our website
we checked hits.

752
00:31:28,152 --> 00:31:30,922
We had a thousand hits in one day,
like maybe 2000.

753
00:31:30,922 --> 00:31:33,091
We went from averaging like 7 to 10.

754
00:31:33,091 --> 00:31:36,895
Yeah, we had a, like, a bar graph
and it was like, boom, spike.

755
00:31:37,061 --> 00:31:39,163
So everyone look these up.

756
00:31:39,163 --> 00:31:40,832
I remember you had a parade.

757
00:31:40,832 --> 00:31:44,035
There were probably
I think there were at least four people

758
00:31:44,035 --> 00:31:47,906
that I knew from either high school
or college that posted on their Facebook.

759
00:31:47,906 --> 00:31:49,507
And I'm like, hey, I did that.

760
00:31:49,507 --> 00:31:51,276
I did that after like the third or fourth.

761
00:31:51,276 --> 00:31:53,011
I'm like,
I feel like they're targeting me.

762
00:31:53,011 --> 00:31:56,881
I mean, I know this is you guys, but
I kept seeing specifically the sticker.

763
00:31:56,881 --> 00:31:59,651
I'm like, wow, how many of those are we
do? I think it was 5000.

764
00:31:59,651 --> 00:32:01,653
We gave one out to every person.

765
00:32:01,653 --> 00:32:02,787
That was it. Attendee.

766
00:32:02,787 --> 00:32:06,391
And then if I saw, like a student of mine
or a friend, I'm like, here,

767
00:32:06,391 --> 00:32:07,492
pass these out to your friends.

768
00:32:07,492 --> 00:32:10,862
Give a stack like, I don't have time
to give them here, I trust you.

769
00:32:10,862 --> 00:32:12,063
Be a good friend, pass them out.

770
00:32:13,064 --> 00:32:15,033
So very cool and it worked.

771
00:32:15,033 --> 00:32:19,537
I was like, shocked that we have data
to prove that passing out these these

772
00:32:19,570 --> 00:32:24,842
stickers raised awareness and, visibility
to our website and to our brand.

773
00:32:24,842 --> 00:32:27,278
So I want to thank you
and look at that. Good.

774
00:32:27,278 --> 00:32:29,013
I didn't know
I thought it was gonna be a challenge

775
00:32:29,013 --> 00:32:31,049
because it was not like
a flat color. Right.

776
00:32:31,049 --> 00:32:34,419
But you had every detail
because these kids made it themselves.

777
00:32:34,419 --> 00:32:36,587
Julie from Rise Up was the other person.

778
00:32:36,587 --> 00:32:38,089
She was the the main person.

779
00:32:38,089 --> 00:32:42,327
And Zoe, Jack and and Hannah
and Teagan were, you know, touching it up.

780
00:32:43,027 --> 00:32:44,429
Yeah. Right. And the the local.

781
00:32:44,429 --> 00:32:48,666
So check it out and write a daily grind
if you want these we have a square app.

782
00:32:49,634 --> 00:32:51,736
But again the business cards are great.

783
00:32:51,736 --> 00:32:54,572
Recently went to this pancake breakfast.

784
00:32:54,572 --> 00:32:56,040
I tried to find mine.

785
00:32:56,040 --> 00:32:59,477
You did our 50th podcast
at Playhouse on Park.

786
00:32:59,911 --> 00:33:02,680
Color copy, right? Yep. Beautiful quality.

787
00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:03,681
And I looked everywhere.

788
00:33:03,681 --> 00:33:04,682
I was, like, in my basement.

789
00:33:04,682 --> 00:33:07,185
I'm like,
I know I have the brochure somewhere.

790
00:33:07,185 --> 00:33:09,420
Couldn't find it,
but I recently went to this.

791
00:33:09,420 --> 00:33:11,522
But you can see good quality, you know,

792
00:33:12,757 --> 00:33:14,726
staple

793
00:33:14,726 --> 00:33:17,729
got the front page, paid
big bucks for that.

794
00:33:19,297 --> 00:33:20,431
Let's see. So, you know, it's always.

795
00:33:20,431 --> 00:33:23,401
Amazing
to see what the different programs.

796
00:33:23,401 --> 00:33:24,235
You know that guy.

797
00:33:24,235 --> 00:33:25,703
I heard of them.

798
00:33:25,703 --> 00:33:27,739
Heard of him? Heard. He's a good guy.

799
00:33:27,739 --> 00:33:30,742
He's a good friend.

800
00:33:31,476 --> 00:33:32,210
Now, what are you going to say?

801
00:33:32,210 --> 00:33:33,611
I'm sorry.

802
00:33:33,611 --> 00:33:34,846
Oh. With with programs.

803
00:33:34,846 --> 00:33:37,849
It's always amazing the number of,

804
00:33:38,383 --> 00:33:41,386
supporters that we see.

805
00:33:42,053 --> 00:33:43,221
It doesn't matter. The event.

806
00:33:43,221 --> 00:33:45,556
Like I can tell you, a keating's one.
You guys are another.

807
00:33:45,556 --> 00:33:48,726
It's like every single program
we do, we flip through.

808
00:33:48,993 --> 00:33:53,398
You know, you're going to see the same,
like 5 or 6 local, logos.

809
00:33:53,698 --> 00:33:55,233
It's crazy. No kidding.

810
00:33:55,233 --> 00:33:56,334
They're extremely.

811
00:33:56,334 --> 00:33:56,734
Everywhere.

812
00:33:56,734 --> 00:34:01,339
They're extremely they sponsor
little league teams, sporting teams.

813
00:34:02,106 --> 00:34:04,742
Any event, any fundraiser. The.

814
00:34:04,742 --> 00:34:06,511
Oh, you said you're
getting into that this year.

815
00:34:07,645 --> 00:34:10,648
The event down in June celebration.

816
00:34:10,982 --> 00:34:13,985
Keating's always in. Yep.

817
00:34:14,118 --> 00:34:15,887
That's really exciting.

818
00:34:15,887 --> 00:34:16,387
No kidding.

819
00:34:16,387 --> 00:34:18,723
It is fun. Every time we do a program,
we always go through.

820
00:34:18,723 --> 00:34:20,758
And I always find
I don't pick up on typos.

821
00:34:20,758 --> 00:34:23,294
That's one thing. People always think,

822
00:34:23,294 --> 00:34:25,196
somebody will come back to us
after we printed something like,

823
00:34:25,196 --> 00:34:27,598
you made a typo.
It's like, no, we just printed it.

824
00:34:27,598 --> 00:34:28,766
We didn't make any typos.

825
00:34:28,766 --> 00:34:31,202
Most times
we don't even read what it says.

826
00:34:31,202 --> 00:34:33,404
Okay. Usually we'll thumb through.
We're looking for quality.

827
00:34:33,404 --> 00:34:36,707
We're looking at the technical things.

828
00:34:36,707 --> 00:34:40,011
But we could be staring a major typo
right in the face.

829
00:34:40,311 --> 00:34:41,179
We don't even realize it.

830
00:34:41,179 --> 00:34:43,081
But usually we'll go through
and we'll look at the logos

831
00:34:43,081 --> 00:34:44,782
and be like,
oh, this person supporting again.

832
00:34:44,782 --> 00:34:47,652
Oh, this person,
they were in this booklet last year too.

833
00:34:47,652 --> 00:34:47,852
Yeah.

834
00:34:47,852 --> 00:34:51,055
My daughters were in a, an event
at Bristow, a play. Yep.

835
00:34:51,055 --> 00:34:52,290
You did that one. Yep.

836
00:34:52,290 --> 00:34:54,459
You do all the schools too, right?
Pretty much. Yeah.

837
00:34:54,459 --> 00:34:55,526
Especially this time of year.

838
00:34:55,526 --> 00:34:57,895
The, graduation yard signs.

839
00:34:57,895 --> 00:35:00,731
Most of the schools,
if there, if not already.

840
00:35:00,731 --> 00:35:04,335
Most of them in the next couple of weeks
will say, hey, we need graduation signs.

841
00:35:04,335 --> 00:35:05,169
Which that was another thing.

842
00:35:05,169 --> 00:35:06,404
During Covid, we never did.

843
00:35:06,404 --> 00:35:08,973
And it's really gone crazy now.

844
00:35:08,973 --> 00:35:10,007
The yard signs are ahead.

845
00:35:10,007 --> 00:35:10,575
Big time.

846
00:35:10,575 --> 00:35:13,311
Yep, I had oh, speaking of yard signs,

847
00:35:13,311 --> 00:35:17,582
we had the ones with the white
we were on rectangular. Yep.

848
00:35:17,949 --> 00:35:20,284
But now come on in. Come on. You're good.

849
00:35:20,284 --> 00:35:23,688
We had the regulars,
but now you cut the oval.

850
00:35:24,021 --> 00:35:24,355
Right.

851
00:35:24,355 --> 00:35:28,693
And I had my buddy Rob was like, hey,
I want the cut oval one. Yep.

852
00:35:28,759 --> 00:35:30,962
I don't want the rectangular one
with the white. Yep.

853
00:35:30,962 --> 00:35:33,831
So that was a wonderful idea. And it was.
It was like the golf ball ones.

854
00:35:33,831 --> 00:35:36,501
Two for the golf tournament. Right.
Where those cut to circle. Yep.

855
00:35:36,501 --> 00:35:38,169
Cut to the shape of
a. Golf was on brand too.

856
00:35:38,169 --> 00:35:38,803
That was perfect.

857
00:35:38,803 --> 00:35:41,472
Oh yeah. Our signs every every hole. Yep.

858
00:35:41,472 --> 00:35:44,041
It was a golf ball. Yep.
Perfect circle. Yeah.

859
00:35:44,041 --> 00:35:44,775
So that's cool.

860
00:35:44,775 --> 00:35:46,911
It adds a little flair a little extra.

861
00:35:46,911 --> 00:35:48,846
Right. So thank you for that.

862
00:35:50,915 --> 00:35:51,782
Oh. These are nice, too.

863
00:35:51,782 --> 00:35:54,752
I gotta get some reflective.

864
00:35:54,819 --> 00:35:56,587
What are these guys? Coasters?

865
00:35:56,587 --> 00:35:59,190
Beer coasters.

866
00:35:59,190 --> 00:36:00,625
Beer coasters.

867
00:36:00,625 --> 00:36:01,559
More beer coasters.

868
00:36:01,559 --> 00:36:04,095
So you got this one?

869
00:36:04,095 --> 00:36:06,297
Feels like waterproof, right? Yeah,
most of them are.

870
00:36:06,297 --> 00:36:09,033
Unless you go with one of the crazy
eco ones and some of the.

871
00:36:09,033 --> 00:36:12,069
You got the, even
the ones that are not necessarily paper.

872
00:36:12,069 --> 00:36:13,437
Some of them. Yeah.

873
00:36:13,437 --> 00:36:17,208
And I did notice I, I send stuff
through the, the washing machine.

874
00:36:17,208 --> 00:36:19,343
The sticker stays. Yep.

875
00:36:19,343 --> 00:36:21,345
Good quality stuff here.

876
00:36:21,345 --> 00:36:23,748
I think you guys did
the temporary tattoos too.

877
00:36:23,748 --> 00:36:25,449
And those,
those stay on for quite a while.

878
00:36:25,449 --> 00:36:27,185
Those were a hit.

879
00:36:27,185 --> 00:36:28,953
That was two years ago.

880
00:36:28,953 --> 00:36:31,923
And my foolish don't have any tats.

881
00:36:31,923 --> 00:36:33,024
Do you have any tats? Nope.

882
00:36:33,024 --> 00:36:35,359
No tats. So I'm like
it was to be a good friend.

883
00:36:35,359 --> 00:36:37,762
So I'm like,
oh, know, let me slap it on my neck.

884
00:36:39,497 --> 00:36:41,966
And then I did for days.

885
00:36:41,966 --> 00:36:43,968
I'm rubbing. It. Yeah.

886
00:36:43,968 --> 00:36:44,835
But it came off.

887
00:36:44,835 --> 00:36:46,170
Eventually.

888
00:36:46,170 --> 00:36:48,739
And I was like, oh, this is great.

889
00:36:48,739 --> 00:36:51,075
But, Don't make that mistake twice.

890
00:36:51,075 --> 00:36:53,077
That I was like,
at least I didn't get a real tattoo.

891
00:36:53,077 --> 00:36:53,544
Yeah, right.

892
00:36:53,544 --> 00:36:56,280
We got to do that again.
Tattoos were two in.

893
00:36:56,280 --> 00:36:57,615
A row, but we'll do some.

894
00:36:57,615 --> 00:36:59,984
Yeah, we're marching in the.

895
00:36:59,984 --> 00:37:01,852
We're really expanding into Bristol now.

896
00:37:01,852 --> 00:37:04,055
So we're doing the mom fest parade. Yep.

897
00:37:04,055 --> 00:37:06,991
Because unfortunately Park Road
Parade's not happening anymore.

898
00:37:06,991 --> 00:37:07,792
That's sad.

899
00:37:07,792 --> 00:37:09,427
Yeah. How do you feel about
this? Is the first year right.

900
00:37:09,427 --> 00:37:11,229
Yeah. The first year.

901
00:37:11,229 --> 00:37:12,830
That's not cool.

902
00:37:12,830 --> 00:37:14,765
But it's not too late to bring it back.

903
00:37:14,765 --> 00:37:15,533
Let's do it.

904
00:37:15,533 --> 00:37:17,201
They need a new team.

905
00:37:17,201 --> 00:37:19,170
Start fresh new faces. Menu.

906
00:37:19,170 --> 00:37:19,737
Let's do it.

907
00:37:19,737 --> 00:37:22,306
Well, then we'll refurbish up top here.

908
00:37:22,306 --> 00:37:24,675
We got ideas for a here too.

909
00:37:24,675 --> 00:37:26,911
Wonderful tour, but I keep this in my car.

910
00:37:26,911 --> 00:37:29,013
This is my go to scratch pads.

911
00:37:29,013 --> 00:37:31,549
Scratch pad is perfect and

912
00:37:32,817 --> 00:37:33,985
I want to.

913
00:37:33,985 --> 00:37:36,420
Recommendations
usually come at the end, but

914
00:37:36,420 --> 00:37:40,891
this pen in erasable
pen means the world to me.

915
00:37:40,891 --> 00:37:45,463
You know how many errors and how sloppy
my handwriting is to erase a pen.

916
00:37:45,463 --> 00:37:49,734
Because I wrote
you can't write full, full.

917
00:37:49,834 --> 00:37:52,703
True story.
Usually I'm writing like for cars.

918
00:37:52,703 --> 00:37:57,208
I'm like, oh, I made a spelling error
or my spacing is not well in crib now.

919
00:37:57,208 --> 00:38:00,211
It's just like erase. And it works well.

920
00:38:00,211 --> 00:38:01,012
That's so cool.

921
00:38:01,012 --> 00:38:04,815
So I highly suggest these erasable pens
and it's like good quality.

922
00:38:04,815 --> 00:38:06,384
Yeah. My students love them.

923
00:38:06,384 --> 00:38:08,419
Like these are huge prizes.

924
00:38:08,419 --> 00:38:10,087
The kid one kid was like, Mr.

925
00:38:10,087 --> 00:38:13,090
Feeney, if you're going,
can you get some for our prize box?

926
00:38:13,190 --> 00:38:15,860
These kids will sit like best behaved.

927
00:38:15,860 --> 00:38:17,662
It's like the best prize ever.

928
00:38:17,662 --> 00:38:19,230
So thank you so much for that.

929
00:38:19,230 --> 00:38:21,232
Minor
victory. Victories is nothing better.

930
00:38:21,232 --> 00:38:22,733
And then you mentioned golf balls.

931
00:38:22,733 --> 00:38:23,968
Yep. Printing golf balls.

932
00:38:23,968 --> 00:38:26,404
Well, our golf tournament September 13th.

933
00:38:27,705 --> 00:38:28,272
At Tonks.

934
00:38:28,272 --> 00:38:30,541
This is our fourth annual.

935
00:38:30,541 --> 00:38:32,143
You did our you did our yard signs.

936
00:38:32,143 --> 00:38:35,079
But we would love to have some golf balls
done. Definitely.

937
00:38:35,079 --> 00:38:36,847
I'll do we get them
and I'll play this year.

938
00:38:36,847 --> 00:38:38,049
Oh, you should play.

939
00:38:38,049 --> 00:38:39,650
You got to play September 13th.

940
00:38:39,650 --> 00:38:42,620
How's your game?

941
00:38:42,620 --> 00:38:42,987
Perfect.

942
00:38:42,987 --> 00:38:45,523
I need balls, if that's the case.

943
00:38:45,523 --> 00:38:48,459
Perfect for a scramble.

944
00:38:48,459 --> 00:38:51,462
That's great.

945
00:38:51,529 --> 00:38:54,532
Anything you like to share
about cricket press?

946
00:38:55,066 --> 00:38:56,267
You think I covered everything?

947
00:38:56,267 --> 00:38:57,468
Is there something I haven't?

948
00:38:57,468 --> 00:39:00,938
I mean, like I said,
the biggest thing I go back to is kind of

949
00:39:01,605 --> 00:39:04,141
in tandem to be a good friend. Yep.

950
00:39:04,141 --> 00:39:07,111
The people have really been the key here.

951
00:39:08,446 --> 00:39:10,715
I cannot stress enough

952
00:39:10,715 --> 00:39:13,884
the success that we have
had as a result of the people.

953
00:39:13,884 --> 00:39:14,852
It really comes down to that.

954
00:39:14,852 --> 00:39:18,155
So, I mean, even with this award
through the SBA, it's great.

955
00:39:18,155 --> 00:39:21,492
It's fun for me to see some recognition,
a lot of that stuff.

956
00:39:21,492 --> 00:39:24,261
But I also know that it's nothing
without the people.

957
00:39:24,261 --> 00:39:27,832
I mean, really,
the tip of the cap goes to the team 100%.

958
00:39:27,932 --> 00:39:29,433
How many of the
team are going to the event?

959
00:39:31,035 --> 00:39:32,169
None.

960
00:39:32,169 --> 00:39:34,505
Limited. We're going.

961
00:39:34,505 --> 00:39:35,573
Limited tickets? Yep.

962
00:39:35,573 --> 00:39:38,042
So Brett and I will be going, both day.

963
00:39:38,042 --> 00:39:40,711
So they're doing the
the main award event is on Thursday.

964
00:39:40,711 --> 00:39:42,146
And then there's a lunch on Friday.

965
00:39:42,146 --> 00:39:44,315
Oh, wow. Where is it?

966
00:39:44,315 --> 00:39:47,318
The the lunch is, I believe, in Bristol.

967
00:39:47,551 --> 00:39:48,486
I don't even know.

968
00:39:48,486 --> 00:39:50,721
Very nice man. That's amazing.

969
00:39:50,721 --> 00:39:53,724
So yeah. Small business of the year.

970
00:39:53,791 --> 00:39:54,692
You got to get a family.

971
00:39:54,692 --> 00:39:56,927
Are you going to get us? Oh, family.

972
00:39:56,927 --> 00:39:58,896
Family business.
Family own small business.

973
00:39:58,896 --> 00:40:01,432
Yes, through the small Business
Administration.

974
00:40:01,432 --> 00:40:02,900
Wow. Yep.

975
00:40:02,900 --> 00:40:04,168
So cool.

976
00:40:04,168 --> 00:40:06,504
I had envelopes
to. You did envelopes for us? Yep, too.

977
00:40:06,504 --> 00:40:08,939
But I had the envelopes.
I had the brochure.

978
00:40:08,939 --> 00:40:10,808
Like I said, if you think it, we ink it.

979
00:40:10,808 --> 00:40:12,176
You think it, you ink it.

980
00:40:12,176 --> 00:40:14,211
And how big can your poster be?

981
00:40:14,211 --> 00:40:20,384
We can do on our machine 54in
by however long the material comes.

982
00:40:20,384 --> 00:40:24,422
So we can do some depending on the
material, like banners is a good example.

983
00:40:25,055 --> 00:40:28,058
Well, we for the town,
a lot of people have an event.

984
00:40:28,125 --> 00:40:29,260
You go through.

985
00:40:29,260 --> 00:40:29,760
What is that?

986
00:40:29,760 --> 00:40:32,163
South main
intersection. North main. Farmington.

987
00:40:32,163 --> 00:40:33,364
Oh, yeah. These big banners are.

988
00:40:33,364 --> 00:40:35,199
Do are those yours? Yeah.

989
00:40:35,199 --> 00:40:35,833
So we do.

990
00:40:35,833 --> 00:40:37,968
And those are. We're going to need more.

991
00:40:37,968 --> 00:40:38,803
Route to everybody.

992
00:40:38,803 --> 00:40:41,472
Everybody comes to us. So like
I don't really know what the in for me.

993
00:40:41,472 --> 00:40:43,140
Don't worry about it.
We do it often enough.

994
00:40:43,140 --> 00:40:45,142
And those are 24ft long.

995
00:40:45,142 --> 00:40:47,244
Geez. 24 of you long, three feet tall.

996
00:40:47,244 --> 00:40:49,213
And you put the little holes in them
so the wind doesn't catch.

997
00:40:49,213 --> 00:40:52,283
Yep. The slits, grommets, every foot
we need.

998
00:40:53,150 --> 00:40:55,186
Yeah. You made one nice for our parades.

999
00:40:55,186 --> 00:40:57,421
Yeah, it's. It took a beating,
so I'm going to need one of those.

1000
00:40:57,421 --> 00:41:00,324
I got a list. For the pole pocket.
Oh, for the wooden dowel through it.

1001
00:41:00,324 --> 00:41:02,660
Oh, we need one of those. Yes. Yep.

1002
00:41:02,660 --> 00:41:04,328
And we also got a little new logo,

1003
00:41:05,629 --> 00:41:07,064
different font.

1004
00:41:07,064 --> 00:41:09,667
So we'll get some new logos on that.

1005
00:41:09,667 --> 00:41:10,835
Definitely.

1006
00:41:10,835 --> 00:41:11,235
Man. Yeah.

1007
00:41:11,235 --> 00:41:12,670
I want to thank you
for being a good friend.

1008
00:41:12,670 --> 00:41:15,673
And I want to say,

1009
00:41:15,873 --> 00:41:19,443
I think the brochures you did for free
for my 50th podcast, too. So,

1010
00:41:20,544 --> 00:41:23,848
that has to be said
that you're very thoughtful, generous,

1011
00:41:23,848 --> 00:41:27,184
and you support local businesses
and local nonprofits.

1012
00:41:27,184 --> 00:41:28,853
So I'm sure huge.

1013
00:41:28,853 --> 00:41:29,653
It means the world.

1014
00:41:29,653 --> 00:41:30,688
Thank you so much.

1015
00:41:30,688 --> 00:41:31,489
Shop local.

1016
00:41:31,489 --> 00:41:34,492
Shop local family owned business
right here.

1017
00:41:34,792 --> 00:41:37,795
Now let's talk about

1018
00:41:38,028 --> 00:41:38,696
a couple things.

1019
00:41:38,696 --> 00:41:39,263
Fun facts.

1020
00:41:39,263 --> 00:41:42,466
Here we got fun
facts about Greg portion of the event. So

1021
00:41:44,201 --> 00:41:44,935
I want to thank you.

1022
00:41:44,935 --> 00:41:49,740
Every day when I go to work
I see these beautiful bluebirds.

1023
00:41:51,509 --> 00:41:53,944
You know where I'm going with this?

1024
00:41:53,944 --> 00:41:54,512
Where am I going?

1025
00:41:54,512 --> 00:41:55,012
Where am I going?

1026
00:41:55,012 --> 00:41:58,015
Boy Scouts troop 163. Yes.

1027
00:41:58,315 --> 00:41:59,717
So why?

1028
00:41:59,717 --> 00:42:02,253
And how do I see
bluebirds on my way to work? Yep.

1029
00:42:02,253 --> 00:42:04,622
So that was when I was a junior.

1030
00:42:04,622 --> 00:42:05,789
Sophomore, junior year,

1031
00:42:05,789 --> 00:42:08,859
I was finishing up troop 163
Boy Scouts here in West Hartford.

1032
00:42:10,294 --> 00:42:13,297
My Eagle Scout project was

1033
00:42:13,831 --> 00:42:17,434
to construct Bluebird houses,
which I came up with the project.

1034
00:42:18,602 --> 00:42:18,836
You know,

1035
00:42:18,836 --> 00:42:20,271
I don't even remember
how we ended up on that

1036
00:42:20,271 --> 00:42:23,340
because we were talking
about other styles, but specifically

1037
00:42:23,340 --> 00:42:26,310
the Blue Bird.

1038
00:42:26,677 --> 00:42:28,546
I don't know about now, but

1039
00:42:28,546 --> 00:42:31,615
12 years ago,
when that was 12 or 13 years ago,

1040
00:42:31,615 --> 00:42:34,652
the population of the Bluebird
specifically was plummeting in the state.

1041
00:42:35,419 --> 00:42:40,724
And a large portion of it is there very
particular on the type of nest they make.

1042
00:42:40,891 --> 00:42:43,694
Not so much
the nest, it's more so the housing.

1043
00:42:43,694 --> 00:42:46,797
So we looked into
and we did a lot of the research of what

1044
00:42:46,830 --> 00:42:50,100
type of Bluebird House specifically does
the construction need to be?

1045
00:42:51,602 --> 00:42:53,971
And we put them up,
we put them up all over town,

1046
00:42:53,971 --> 00:42:56,974
but specifically the majority of them
we put up at Walker Park.

1047
00:42:57,207 --> 00:43:00,411
So we put up
I forget it was probably 50 bird houses.

1048
00:43:00,411 --> 00:43:03,314
Do you know where they are?
They're scattered all over the property.

1049
00:43:03,314 --> 00:43:04,748
All right, I'm going to go look now. Yeah.

1050
00:43:04,748 --> 00:43:07,751
Most of them were within the,
children's forest.

1051
00:43:07,851 --> 00:43:09,286
In the. Forest. In the forest.

1052
00:43:09,286 --> 00:43:11,655
Back by the baseball field,
the tennis courts, the basketball courts.

1053
00:43:11,655 --> 00:43:13,557
I know some of them.
And they're being painted.

1054
00:43:13,557 --> 00:43:14,992
For a reason. Correct.

1055
00:43:14,992 --> 00:43:17,828
Very particular.
And it was the shape of them.

1056
00:43:17,828 --> 00:43:20,831
It's basically, it looks like a shoe box
with a hole on the front,

1057
00:43:21,098 --> 00:43:23,767
but the roof was on an angle that

1058
00:43:23,767 --> 00:43:27,237
any less of an angle, Bluebirds
won't go in any more of an angle.

1059
00:43:27,237 --> 00:43:28,205
The Bluebirds won't go in.

1060
00:43:28,205 --> 00:43:29,640
So it very specific.

1061
00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:31,375
And we yeah we had everything.

1062
00:43:31,375 --> 00:43:33,043
Everything for the project was donated.

1063
00:43:33,043 --> 00:43:34,411
Kind of part of the mission

1064
00:43:34,411 --> 00:43:37,615
was to kind of go around
talk to different organizations, groups.

1065
00:43:38,148 --> 00:43:41,719
The town donated a lot of the,
the posts, the poles themselves.

1066
00:43:41,919 --> 00:43:44,355
Oh, they're on posts.
Yeah. They they're not on the trees.

1067
00:43:44,355 --> 00:43:45,422
That some of them were.

1068
00:43:45,422 --> 00:43:47,825
Most of them were on posts
to walk. My dog over there.

1069
00:43:47,825 --> 00:43:48,392
And I.

1070
00:43:48,392 --> 00:43:51,362
I wonder I mean, I know
there are still some up, but birds are.

1071
00:43:51,362 --> 00:43:52,229
Chirping.

1072
00:43:52,229 --> 00:43:54,765
They are,
they're back. Who was your troop leader?

1073
00:43:54,765 --> 00:43:59,903
Steve Zukowski okay,
which so Steve, his son, John Z.

1074
00:44:00,771 --> 00:44:03,073
He actually worked with us
for the last couple of years.

1075
00:44:03,073 --> 00:44:05,809
So he, he and I were buddies
growing up forever.

1076
00:44:05,809 --> 00:44:06,510
Neighborhood buddies.

1077
00:44:07,845 --> 00:44:11,749
And then,
when we were seniors, our juniors,

1078
00:44:11,749 --> 00:44:14,752
when we both finished our project,
that's when John's dad stepped out.

1079
00:44:15,953 --> 00:44:18,022
But, yeah, John's after graduation.

1080
00:44:18,022 --> 00:44:20,324
He was with us

1081
00:44:20,324 --> 00:44:21,925
for about two years.

1082
00:44:21,925 --> 00:44:25,262
He's in the, He's
a reservist for the Coast Guard.

1083
00:44:25,329 --> 00:44:25,763
Oh, no.

1084
00:44:25,763 --> 00:44:27,464
So he left us

1085
00:44:27,464 --> 00:44:29,867
last January, went out to Seattle,
worked out there,

1086
00:44:29,867 --> 00:44:30,901
and he actually just came back.

1087
00:44:30,901 --> 00:44:33,937
So I don't know if he's kind of
when we say we have 7 or 8 people, he's

1088
00:44:33,937 --> 00:44:36,907
kind of that middle ground.
We seven and a half because John's.

1089
00:44:36,907 --> 00:44:39,243
John's not doctor K, not Plato.

1090
00:44:39,243 --> 00:44:41,078
He somehow involved.

1091
00:44:41,078 --> 00:44:41,812
He was. Yeah.

1092
00:44:41,812 --> 00:44:44,281
So he was where I work,
who I work with at the school.

1093
00:44:44,281 --> 00:44:47,284
He was kind of the pioneer
of what areas would be.

1094
00:44:47,284 --> 00:44:49,319
Because he was the principal at the.
Time. Exactly.

1095
00:44:49,319 --> 00:44:50,721
Yeah. I lived across the street from him.

1096
00:44:50,721 --> 00:44:53,123
Oh, that's how I got hired. Gotcha.

1097
00:44:53,123 --> 00:44:55,192
Went on on my. Hey,
I was driving to Waterbury.

1098
00:44:55,192 --> 00:44:58,162
I'm like, hey, doctor k I, I'm
a third grade teacher.

1099
00:44:58,162 --> 00:44:59,730
You know any openings?

1100
00:44:59,730 --> 00:45:00,764
No. Sorry.

1101
00:45:00,764 --> 00:45:02,566
I said I'll paint your house. I'm
all year long.

1102
00:45:02,566 --> 00:45:03,634
I got someone for that.

1103
00:45:03,634 --> 00:45:05,769
And then like, five years later,
he's like, I got good news.

1104
00:45:05,769 --> 00:45:06,870
Bad news.

1105
00:45:06,870 --> 00:45:08,472
Good news is I can get you an interview.

1106
00:45:08,472 --> 00:45:10,307
Bad news? I'm retiring. Right?

1107
00:45:10,307 --> 00:45:11,642
I never worked for him. That.

1108
00:45:11,642 --> 00:45:14,411
And that was when was that? 2014.

1109
00:45:14,411 --> 00:45:16,547
So that would have been. Yeah. Shortly
after.

1110
00:45:16,547 --> 00:45:16,747
Yeah.

1111
00:45:16,747 --> 00:45:19,216
Because he was there about a year
and a half.

1112
00:45:19,216 --> 00:45:22,152
Two years later we went back. We actually
did some upkeep and maintenance.

1113
00:45:22,152 --> 00:45:24,021
That was right when he was finishing cool.

1114
00:45:24,021 --> 00:45:26,457
He's a good guy.
I like him a lot. Definitely.

1115
00:45:27,691 --> 00:45:30,594
And what about your on base percentage,

1116
00:45:30,594 --> 00:45:34,565
a thousand,
your your housing on base college?

1117
00:45:34,832 --> 00:45:35,099
Yeah.

1118
00:45:35,099 --> 00:45:38,702
So my senior year
ended tragically senior year.

1119
00:45:39,837 --> 00:45:41,772
We were having,

1120
00:45:41,772 --> 00:45:44,675
spring training game in Boston.

1121
00:45:44,675 --> 00:45:47,678
It was February 16th.

1122
00:45:49,413 --> 00:45:51,148
Named a captain,

1123
00:45:51,148 --> 00:45:54,151
I batted second, I walked,

1124
00:45:54,451 --> 00:45:58,088
stole second base, and then on a base
hit up the middle, rounding third base.

1125
00:45:58,088 --> 00:46:02,793
I folded my knee sideways,
torn ACL, torn meniscus, cracked my femur.

1126
00:46:03,060 --> 00:46:05,596
College baseball over.

1127
00:46:05,596 --> 00:46:08,599
So it was a thousand
because I got on my one at.

1128
00:46:08,732 --> 00:46:12,035
Okay, oh,
leave it to Boston baseball on February.

1129
00:46:12,202 --> 00:46:13,670
It was that game.

1130
00:46:13,670 --> 00:46:17,274
Actually, the entire interior
perimeter of the field.

1131
00:46:17,274 --> 00:46:19,676
The fence had about a foot
and a half of snow.

1132
00:46:19,676 --> 00:46:22,980
So pregame, we're literally out there
shoveling snow to clear the field.

1133
00:46:23,013 --> 00:46:25,382
So it's hard as can be slippery.

1134
00:46:25,382 --> 00:46:26,917
Oh yeah. Cleats aren't.

1135
00:46:26,917 --> 00:46:28,552
And it was you know it was my own mistake.

1136
00:46:28,552 --> 00:46:32,689
I wore metal cleats and it was a turf
field, which is it's a no no.

1137
00:46:32,823 --> 00:46:33,924
But it was either that or sneakers.

1138
00:46:33,924 --> 00:46:36,093
And I'm like,
I don't want to slip sneakers.

1139
00:46:36,093 --> 00:46:36,994
But you scored.

1140
00:46:36,994 --> 00:46:39,997
I scored, I army crawled,
I scored, I was safe,

1141
00:46:40,030 --> 00:46:41,732
and that was a wrap on the career.

1142
00:46:41,732 --> 00:46:43,467
Are you. Serious? Yep.

1143
00:46:43,467 --> 00:46:45,369
What grade were you
in? That was. Senior year. College.

1144
00:46:46,570 --> 00:46:47,004
Senior.

1145
00:46:47,004 --> 00:46:49,473
I was wondering why you had one. Your stat
line.

1146
00:46:49,473 --> 00:46:51,809
It's one one, one one and a thousand.

1147
00:46:51,809 --> 00:46:54,511
Wow. Didn't even get a great story.

1148
00:46:54,511 --> 00:46:57,414
I walked, stole second,
and then the first pitch.

1149
00:46:57,414 --> 00:46:59,817
It was like the fifth pitch of our season.

1150
00:46:59,817 --> 00:47:03,453
Base it up the middle, I'm coming around
third and the knee just fall sideways.

1151
00:47:03,887 --> 00:47:06,356
Do you have cleats and screws
and stuff? Yep.

1152
00:47:06,356 --> 00:47:07,991
Right knee.

1153
00:47:07,991 --> 00:47:09,092
That's horrible.

1154
00:47:09,092 --> 00:47:11,128
And that was spring
of senior year of college,

1155
00:47:11,128 --> 00:47:15,132
so I was nothing but a blast
trying to walk around, campus

1156
00:47:15,499 --> 00:47:16,700
for the rest of spring,

1157
00:47:16,700 --> 00:47:19,403
do all the senior activities,
and I'm walking around on crutches.

1158
00:47:19,403 --> 00:47:21,271
Don't mind me, I'll catch up.

1159
00:47:21,271 --> 00:47:23,640
So that's Wentworth
Institute of Technology.

1160
00:47:23,640 --> 00:47:26,210
Correct. And what was your mascot?

1161
00:47:26,210 --> 00:47:26,810
The leopards.

1162
00:47:28,745 --> 00:47:30,314
You're like, that's a great story.

1163
00:47:30,314 --> 00:47:31,515
That's like Field of Dreams.

1164
00:47:31,515 --> 00:47:33,817
Moonlight. Graham. Yeah, I won that bat.

1165
00:47:33,817 --> 00:47:34,952
It was, you know, it was fun.

1166
00:47:34,952 --> 00:47:36,220
You were a captain, too, I was.

1167
00:47:36,220 --> 00:47:38,922
That's awesome. Congrats. That's so cool.

1168
00:47:38,922 --> 00:47:41,925
It was, you know, it really, it
provide a different perspective

1169
00:47:42,159 --> 00:47:43,994
because I knew it was,

1170
00:47:43,994 --> 00:47:45,963
hate to say, a helpless
feeling for the rest of the year,

1171
00:47:45,963 --> 00:47:48,398
but it really was in the sense.
But I still had to.

1172
00:47:48,398 --> 00:47:50,133
All the games, practices,
pretty much everything

1173
00:47:50,133 --> 00:47:52,469
kind of operated as if I was on the team
because it was.

1174
00:47:52,469 --> 00:47:53,036
I mean, it's

1175
00:47:53,036 --> 00:47:56,039
cliche to say it's like any sports team,
you're like brothers out there.

1176
00:47:57,207 --> 00:48:00,911
But from my perspective,
I couldn't do anything between the lines.

1177
00:48:01,745 --> 00:48:02,613
Nothing I could do.

1178
00:48:02,613 --> 00:48:05,916
So starting with West Hartford Youth
League and T-ball and everything else

1179
00:48:05,916 --> 00:48:09,286
work towards
that season, gone in one pitch.

1180
00:48:10,687 --> 00:48:13,690
They are darned are and are now cool.

1181
00:48:15,092 --> 00:48:16,727
But that's an interesting stat line.

1182
00:48:16,727 --> 00:48:18,061
Last forever. And I had a great story.

1183
00:48:18,061 --> 00:48:21,064
I was so wondering, like, oh,
what happened here?

1184
00:48:22,032 --> 00:48:22,833
Tragedy.

1185
00:48:22,833 --> 00:48:25,702
Oh, but I scored like you
said, I was safe.

1186
00:48:25,702 --> 00:48:26,303
You were safe.

1187
00:48:26,303 --> 00:48:29,306
That's all that really matters.

1188
00:48:31,775 --> 00:48:34,411
I usually asked, favorite moment
with a friend or favorite moment

1189
00:48:34,411 --> 00:48:36,580
with a teacher, but due to time,
I want to skip.

1190
00:48:36,580 --> 00:48:38,849
And I know your dad, Tim,
was very important to you.

1191
00:48:38,849 --> 00:48:41,718
Do you want to share
some favorite memories? Yeah.

1192
00:48:41,718 --> 00:48:44,454
I something really.

1193
00:48:44,454 --> 00:48:47,758
The first memory I have being here,

1194
00:48:48,592 --> 00:48:51,595
was actually at the old shop.

1195
00:48:51,962 --> 00:48:55,732
And it's actually working on an account
that we still currently service.

1196
00:48:55,732 --> 00:48:56,667
So this has been,

1197
00:48:56,667 --> 00:48:59,870
we've been when the the company name
is Moab Management Aggressive Behavior.

1198
00:48:59,870 --> 00:49:00,704
We've been in them for

1199
00:49:01,672 --> 00:49:03,240
30 plus years now.

1200
00:49:03,240 --> 00:49:06,009
And I remember
I was pretty much, like I said,

1201
00:49:06,009 --> 00:49:09,012
sweeping up, taking the trash out.

1202
00:49:09,179 --> 00:49:12,649
And my the first project I ever did
was working on these training manuals,

1203
00:49:12,649 --> 00:49:15,652
which they're one of the groups
that we send all over the country for,

1204
00:49:16,253 --> 00:49:18,889
and even actually out of the country
now as well.

1205
00:49:18,889 --> 00:49:21,191
And I just, I distinctly remember

1206
00:49:21,191 --> 00:49:24,661
working on this project, and it really was
a small project at the time, but

1207
00:49:24,995 --> 00:49:29,199
it was kind of the first moment
I ever had of recognizing,

1208
00:49:29,866 --> 00:49:32,469
or idolizing my dad for what he was doing.

1209
00:49:32,469 --> 00:49:35,605
And again, I was so little, I didn't
really even know what was going on.

1210
00:49:35,605 --> 00:49:38,608
You know, I was I was probably

1211
00:49:39,476 --> 00:49:40,844
eight, seven, something like that.

1212
00:49:40,844 --> 00:49:42,612
That was about when I started,

1213
00:49:42,612 --> 00:49:45,382
and then over the years, again,
the amount of fun that we had traveling

1214
00:49:45,382 --> 00:49:47,718
and going to trade shows and stuff
like that, it's something

1215
00:49:47,718 --> 00:49:49,653
I wouldn't
trade those memories for anything.

1216
00:49:49,653 --> 00:49:52,622
I would do anything to get them back
or have watch even one more.

1217
00:49:52,622 --> 00:49:55,959
But man, we had a lot of fun together
over the years working here.

1218
00:49:55,959 --> 00:49:58,061
And again, I didn't at the time.

1219
00:49:58,061 --> 00:50:01,665
I didn't have any intentions of taking
over, was never even in the cards.

1220
00:50:01,665 --> 00:50:03,266
It was something I didn't really even

1221
00:50:03,266 --> 00:50:06,269
consider as an option
because I always viewed it as dad's thing.

1222
00:50:06,303 --> 00:50:06,603
You know?

1223
00:50:06,603 --> 00:50:09,106
It was always, oh,
that's what he does. And I love helping.

1224
00:50:09,106 --> 00:50:10,874
But and then once we found out

1225
00:50:10,874 --> 00:50:14,544
it was sick, it was more and more real
that, okay, wait a minute.

1226
00:50:15,078 --> 00:50:17,714
He is human. And the business

1227
00:50:19,082 --> 00:50:19,583
has to

1228
00:50:19,583 --> 00:50:22,619
either go on or we stay involved somehow.

1229
00:50:23,520 --> 00:50:27,257
And it's been it's been a lot of fun
for me since his passing.

1230
00:50:28,158 --> 00:50:31,328
Interesting to say, fun
in, in his passing, in the same sentence.

1231
00:50:31,328 --> 00:50:33,897
But for me to hear the stories secondhand

1232
00:50:33,897 --> 00:50:35,699
from all the customers
that have come in and said, oh,

1233
00:50:35,699 --> 00:50:38,402
I worked for the ad for 20 years,
so I work for them for 30 years.

1234
00:50:38,402 --> 00:50:39,169
Great guy.

1235
00:50:39,169 --> 00:50:41,204
I mean, I've heard it more and more times.

1236
00:50:41,204 --> 00:50:44,841
It warms my heart hearing
how everyone else perceived him.

1237
00:50:45,509 --> 00:50:47,911
And that's also
what makes it a lot of fun for me

1238
00:50:47,911 --> 00:50:51,214
and kind of a motivating factor
going forward to continue

1239
00:50:51,415 --> 00:50:55,052
not only do the best that I can,
but do it in honor and recognition

1240
00:50:55,052 --> 00:50:58,121
and kind of within the footsteps
of how he ran the business.

1241
00:50:58,989 --> 00:51:01,625
And again, with the guys being here
as long as they have, there's a reason

1242
00:51:01,625 --> 00:51:04,628
that they've been here
this long, up to when I started.

1243
00:51:04,628 --> 00:51:08,098
And now I like to think
at least that I'm hopefully

1244
00:51:08,498 --> 00:51:10,801
helping enable
those guys to feel the same way.

1245
00:51:10,801 --> 00:51:14,538
They did with him in wanting to work here,
kind of making that culture,

1246
00:51:15,305 --> 00:51:18,175
fun, professional, challenging,

1247
00:51:18,175 --> 00:51:21,845
all while still serving the client
and putting smiles on the customer's face.

1248
00:51:22,379 --> 00:51:25,415
So that's kind of we had a lot of fun,
that's for sure.

1249
00:51:25,582 --> 00:51:26,817
That's important.

1250
00:51:26,817 --> 00:51:28,318
Wonderful to hear. Yeah, he's a legend.

1251
00:51:28,318 --> 00:51:29,086
So I did.

1252
00:51:29,086 --> 00:51:31,688
Fall to a, a picture of one that was.

1253
00:51:31,688 --> 00:51:34,624
Oh, yeah. Let's see it. Hold it to
the camera. We'll we'll share it up too.

1254
00:51:35,659 --> 00:51:37,727
So that was at the old shop.

1255
00:51:37,727 --> 00:51:39,162
Wow. Working on one of the late tables.

1256
00:51:39,162 --> 00:51:41,631
So it says,

1257
00:51:41,631 --> 00:51:42,699
it doesn't say the year on.

1258
00:51:42,699 --> 00:51:45,135
There.

1259
00:51:45,135 --> 00:51:45,335
Yeah.

1260
00:51:45,335 --> 00:51:47,337
So this was when we were on Sedgwick Road.

1261
00:51:47,337 --> 00:51:49,306
So that's me looking into the machine.

1262
00:51:49,306 --> 00:51:51,741
So I was yeah,
this was probably second grade.

1263
00:51:51,741 --> 00:51:54,411
Third grade,
maybe somewhere in that range.

1264
00:51:54,411 --> 00:51:58,982
And that was really right around the age
of when I first remember being involved

1265
00:51:59,649 --> 00:52:00,283
at the shop.

1266
00:52:00,283 --> 00:52:01,351
You got any more to share?

1267
00:52:01,351 --> 00:52:04,254
I think I actually we've got,

1268
00:52:04,254 --> 00:52:04,921
Is that Marvin?

1269
00:52:04,921 --> 00:52:06,423
That's Marvin.

1270
00:52:06,423 --> 00:52:08,925
Marvin way back when.

1271
00:52:08,925 --> 00:52:10,127
We've got all kinds of pictures.

1272
00:52:10,127 --> 00:52:13,430
We used to get flooding down
in that building like no other.

1273
00:52:13,430 --> 00:52:17,367
I think there was one of them, dam to see.

1274
00:52:18,668 --> 00:52:19,903
That was Bill Teasdale.

1275
00:52:21,037 --> 00:52:23,773
So his wife Carol was the one that,

1276
00:52:23,773 --> 00:52:27,077
she was our bookkeeper
up to the last few years.

1277
00:52:27,511 --> 00:52:29,212
So there's dam.

1278
00:52:29,212 --> 00:52:30,380
Dam way back when.

1279
00:52:30,380 --> 00:52:32,182
That good looking dude.

1280
00:52:32,182 --> 00:52:34,551
Yep. He's here is actually brown. Wow.

1281
00:52:34,551 --> 00:52:36,219
Way back when.

1282
00:52:36,219 --> 00:52:36,486
Yeah.

1283
00:52:36,486 --> 00:52:38,455
So it's it's amazing to really
look through

1284
00:52:38,455 --> 00:52:41,458
some of the old pictures
that we still have.

1285
00:52:43,560 --> 00:52:45,162
Is one of the other guys.

1286
00:52:45,162 --> 00:52:48,765
But yeah, to go through the history that's
rare to to hear a lot of the stories.

1287
00:52:48,765 --> 00:52:50,267
And again,

1288
00:52:50,267 --> 00:52:52,936
I can't think enough
the guys that have been here

1289
00:52:52,936 --> 00:52:56,006
since the beginning, I mean, dam, like
I said, started right out of high school.

1290
00:52:56,006 --> 00:52:57,974
Marvin has been here 40 years.

1291
00:52:57,974 --> 00:53:01,111
I mean, you just don't hear of people
working somewhere for 40 years.

1292
00:53:02,012 --> 00:53:02,946
And he's still here.

1293
00:53:02,946 --> 00:53:06,116
He's still I mean, he's
learned all kinds of different equipment

1294
00:53:06,116 --> 00:53:09,119
that if you asked him 40 years ago,
do you think he'll ever be running Xyzzy?

1295
00:53:09,886 --> 00:53:11,821
That stuff didn't even exist now.

1296
00:53:11,821 --> 00:53:12,589
Right. Progression.

1297
00:53:12,589 --> 00:53:14,324
So for him to continue

1298
00:53:14,324 --> 00:53:17,160
to take on the challenge
of learning the evolution of the business,

1299
00:53:17,160 --> 00:53:18,461
I hope he finds it fun.

1300
00:53:18,461 --> 00:53:21,865
And I think after 40 years he probably
does considering he's still doing it.

1301
00:53:22,199 --> 00:53:23,333
Still here. Yep.

1302
00:53:24,568 --> 00:53:25,769
Wow. That's amazing.

1303
00:53:25,769 --> 00:53:29,673
Yeah, I'm glad we got to learn a little
more about Greg and Cricket press.

1304
00:53:30,540 --> 00:53:32,342
Again, they're at 236 Park Road.

1305
00:53:32,342 --> 00:53:33,443
Where did cricket come from?

1306
00:53:33,443 --> 00:53:36,079
Cricket press. Why cricket?

1307
00:53:36,079 --> 00:53:37,781
Dom could do better. Just smart tube.

1308
00:53:37,781 --> 00:53:39,115
All of them could tell the story better.

1309
00:53:39,115 --> 00:53:43,153
But when we originally were on LaSalle
road, down in the basement,

1310
00:53:43,353 --> 00:53:46,723
a couple of units over from, like,
where Pansy spice is, currently is,

1311
00:53:47,691 --> 00:53:52,262
at the time, the business was called X,
the letter X press.

1312
00:53:52,562 --> 00:53:53,730
Well, they had just started.

1313
00:53:53,730 --> 00:53:55,799
They weren't getting a lot of foot
traffic. They were in a basement.

1314
00:53:55,799 --> 00:53:57,601
So people didn't really know
they were there.

1315
00:53:57,601 --> 00:54:02,038
So Bill and a couple of other guys
went out on LaSalle Road and Farmington,

1316
00:54:02,038 --> 00:54:02,505
and they were kind of

1317
00:54:02,505 --> 00:54:05,508
walking around the center,
and they pretended not to work there.

1318
00:54:05,508 --> 00:54:07,444
And they would say to people,
what do you think that place is?

1319
00:54:07,444 --> 00:54:09,112
And everyone thought the same thing.

1320
00:54:09,112 --> 00:54:12,816
Express, oh, it's got to be an adult movie
or adult magazine company.

1321
00:54:13,149 --> 00:54:14,251
Well, that's why I mean,

1322
00:54:15,318 --> 00:54:15,919
didn't fit

1323
00:54:15,919 --> 00:54:19,022
in with the rest of the environment
of what the center is.

1324
00:54:19,022 --> 00:54:23,660
So they said in that moment, Don,
we're no longer name that cricket happened

1325
00:54:23,660 --> 00:54:24,561
to be what they came up with

1326
00:54:24,561 --> 00:54:27,864
in a couple hours, but they were like,
effective today, that name is gone.

1327
00:54:28,331 --> 00:54:28,999
Very cool.

1328
00:54:28,999 --> 00:54:29,232
All right.

1329
00:54:29,232 --> 00:54:33,837
I was wondering that, but,
yeah, we a shout out on one episode,

1330
00:54:33,837 --> 00:54:35,505
one 28 minute 30.

1331
00:54:35,505 --> 00:54:37,941
We talked about the Rotary Club.

1332
00:54:37,941 --> 00:54:40,510
You did their brochures and their fliers.

1333
00:54:40,510 --> 00:54:42,812
Helen and Cesar left
you a nice Google review.

1334
00:54:42,812 --> 00:54:45,915
They were episode 126
Lucid Productions. Yep.

1335
00:54:45,915 --> 00:54:48,251
Jason Bush left you. Nice one.

1336
00:54:48,251 --> 00:54:50,820
So, no great stuff.

1337
00:54:50,820 --> 00:54:52,555
Again, nice chatting.
We're going to do some.

1338
00:54:52,555 --> 00:54:54,691
We're going to see some machines.
Right? Definitely.

1339
00:54:54,691 --> 00:54:55,892
What machine are we going to see?

1340
00:54:55,892 --> 00:54:58,295
We're going to take a look
at. We've got a label press.

1341
00:54:59,296 --> 00:55:02,699
The two wide formats,
and then one of our color production

1342
00:55:02,699 --> 00:55:05,702
machines that does Swiss Army
Knife does a little bit of everything.

1343
00:55:06,136 --> 00:55:06,836
Can't wait.

1344
00:55:06,836 --> 00:55:07,203
All right.

1345
00:55:07,203 --> 00:55:09,873
This is like Mr. Rogers
going behind the scenes.

1346
00:55:09,873 --> 00:55:11,841
I made a pizza at Luna Pizza with Alex.

1347
00:55:11,841 --> 00:55:14,577
I'm going to go behind the scenes
with Greg. Here we go.

1348
00:55:14,577 --> 00:55:15,779
You're a real man now.

1349
00:55:15,779 --> 00:55:18,048
You're going to be a dad,
so I'm proud of you. Thank you.

1350
00:55:18,048 --> 00:55:19,382
Congratulations on that.

1351
00:55:19,382 --> 00:55:22,585
Congratulations
on being family business of the year.

1352
00:55:23,253 --> 00:55:23,553
Yeah.

1353
00:55:23,553 --> 00:55:24,721
Small business of the year.

1354
00:55:24,721 --> 00:55:27,724
Family owned small business of the year.

1355
00:55:27,857 --> 00:55:29,526
Thank you so much for your support.

1356
00:55:29,526 --> 00:55:32,595
Your continued support
truly means the world to our nonprofit.

1357
00:55:33,229 --> 00:55:35,031
You you're a good friend.
So thank you so much.

1358
00:55:35,031 --> 00:55:36,900
And I had a great time talking with you.

1359
00:55:36,900 --> 00:55:38,501
We shot for 50 minutes with Feeney.

1360
00:55:38,501 --> 00:55:40,403
We're probably at 60.

1361
00:55:40,403 --> 00:55:42,305
So on three will say, be a good friend.

1362
00:55:42,305 --> 00:55:44,507
One, two, three be a good friend.

1363
00:55:45,542 --> 00:55:48,178
Behind the scenes look here at Cricket
press.

1364
00:55:48,178 --> 00:55:49,612
We're with the rolling machine.

1365
00:55:49,612 --> 00:55:51,214
Please talk about this.

1366
00:55:51,214 --> 00:55:51,581
All right.

1367
00:55:51,581 --> 00:55:55,085
So this is a rolling VG 340.

1368
00:55:55,352 --> 00:55:57,053
This is the third generation
of the machine.

1369
00:55:57,053 --> 00:55:59,255
We used to have the VG two.

1370
00:55:59,255 --> 00:56:01,624
Great machine. Just time to upgrade it.

1371
00:56:01,624 --> 00:56:04,361
It's a 54 inch wide,
so we can do a wide range

1372
00:56:04,361 --> 00:56:07,564
of things, ranging from paper
based, posters.

1373
00:56:07,564 --> 00:56:12,435
We can do, banners, a lot of different
sticker materials that can go in there.

1374
00:56:12,435 --> 00:56:15,438
So it's eco solvent based inks.

1375
00:56:15,772 --> 00:56:17,741
We've got Cmyk, which is a traditional,

1376
00:56:17,741 --> 00:56:20,877
like any home printer will have those
for traditional colors.

1377
00:56:21,144 --> 00:56:25,382
And then we've also got orange light cyan,
which is blue, and a light magenta,

1378
00:56:25,382 --> 00:56:28,618
which just really helps us hit
some of those precise colors.

1379
00:56:29,386 --> 00:56:32,989
We get a good amount of,
fine art that comes in

1380
00:56:32,989 --> 00:56:36,993
from museums, different groups
that they have very specific color,

1381
00:56:38,061 --> 00:56:39,462
that they're aiming for.

1382
00:56:39,462 --> 00:56:42,298
So this really allows us to kind of hit
that wide range of stuff.

1383
00:56:42,298 --> 00:56:44,801
We also talked about doing
some of the banners,

1384
00:56:44,801 --> 00:56:46,803
throughout town, whether it's birthday,
whether it's an event,

1385
00:56:46,803 --> 00:56:47,504
something like that.

1386
00:56:47,504 --> 00:56:50,507
This will allow us to print on vinyl.

1387
00:56:51,107 --> 00:56:53,643
And a couple other different types
of materials that are going to withstand

1388
00:56:53,643 --> 00:56:55,412
water,

1389
00:56:55,412 --> 00:56:56,713
humidity, stuff like that.

1390
00:56:56,713 --> 00:56:58,982
So it's really it's a versatile machine.

1391
00:56:58,982 --> 00:57:00,450
It's what we call large format.

1392
00:57:00,450 --> 00:57:01,618
It's our roll fat.

1393
00:57:01,618 --> 00:57:03,420
So this only will do stuff

1394
00:57:03,420 --> 00:57:06,423
that comes on, rolls
the paper, the vinyl, stuff like that.

1395
00:57:07,056 --> 00:57:08,658
So. It's used daily.

1396
00:57:08,658 --> 00:57:09,859
Is this used daily?

1397
00:57:09,859 --> 00:57:12,662
Yep. This is something we use
pretty much every day, especially

1398
00:57:12,662 --> 00:57:15,665
as we get more and more into the stickers.

1399
00:57:16,032 --> 00:57:20,203
There's such a wide range and application
of what we can do with this.

1400
00:57:20,203 --> 00:57:21,938
Really, by the day when we first got it,

1401
00:57:21,938 --> 00:57:23,940
we pretty much
were only using it for blueprints,

1402
00:57:25,542 --> 00:57:28,378
and there's
still a, good calling for that for sure.

1403
00:57:28,378 --> 00:57:32,048
But we have definitely found more
and more in the adhesives.

1404
00:57:32,849 --> 00:57:36,319
We do a fair amount of, decals
that go on yard signs.

1405
00:57:36,820 --> 00:57:40,290
So that's by the day
kind of getting larger and larger.

1406
00:57:40,290 --> 00:57:42,692
And what we use it for.

1407
00:57:42,692 --> 00:57:45,662
So it's going to should start up shortly.

1408
00:57:45,662 --> 00:57:48,131
Warming up. Got it.

1409
00:57:48,131 --> 00:57:48,331
Yeah.

1410
00:57:48,331 --> 00:57:50,533
So then they have these machines
on all different types.

1411
00:57:50,533 --> 00:57:52,502
The other thing
that's nice about this particular one

1412
00:57:52,502 --> 00:57:55,271
for us is we've got what's called
the contour cutting blade in there.

1413
00:57:55,271 --> 00:57:58,975
So when we go to do a lot
of those stickers the printhead will see

1414
00:57:58,975 --> 00:58:02,212
shortly, the printhead travels back
and forth in there as it's printing

1415
00:58:02,979 --> 00:58:05,782
starts
over at that ends on the on the carriage.

1416
00:58:05,782 --> 00:58:08,718
And then off of that
can actually come a specific blade.

1417
00:58:08,718 --> 00:58:12,856
So that blade will do a circle shape
or rectangle or whatever, whatever shape

1418
00:58:12,856 --> 00:58:13,490
you're looking to accomplish.

1419
00:58:13,490 --> 00:58:16,860
It's got a built in blade,
and it'll cut out the individual shape

1420
00:58:17,260 --> 00:58:19,929
of whatever
you're trying to cut down to final size.

1421
00:58:19,929 --> 00:58:22,799
We've had this now about a year.

1422
00:58:22,799 --> 00:58:26,503
Roland had a tremendous program
where they did, a buyback program

1423
00:58:26,703 --> 00:58:28,137
where we had one of the old ones,

1424
00:58:28,137 --> 00:58:31,140
and they gave us a pretty good credit
towards a new one.

1425
00:58:31,241 --> 00:58:33,810
And we actually ended up
keeping the old one.

1426
00:58:33,810 --> 00:58:36,946
But space is an issue around here,
so we didn't end up keeping both.

1427
00:58:38,081 --> 00:58:38,581
So it's

1428
00:58:38,581 --> 00:58:41,851
about a year old, but
the technology itself, the VG three line

1429
00:58:41,851 --> 00:58:46,856
is relatively new, with the VG two,
which is our previous model.

1430
00:58:46,856 --> 00:58:49,859
We actually went ahead
and upgraded the inks, which were

1431
00:58:50,226 --> 00:58:52,829
it was a huge step up
just to hit those colors.

1432
00:58:52,829 --> 00:58:54,564
It actually was improved drying time.

1433
00:58:54,564 --> 00:58:56,499
So the ink is wet.

1434
00:58:56,499 --> 00:58:59,602
And when it comes out,
this machine does a much better.

1435
00:58:59,636 --> 00:59:04,007
This line of inks, the TR two inks,
do a much better job of drying.

1436
00:59:04,674 --> 00:59:08,678
Now, how much of your green packet
will, friends of Fini magnet take up?

1437
00:59:09,078 --> 00:59:09,746
Not a lot.

1438
00:59:09,746 --> 00:59:12,348
So the software will actually tell us
when we bring in a file.

1439
00:59:12,348 --> 00:59:15,351
It'll actually tell us exactly
how much it's going to be used.

1440
00:59:15,552 --> 00:59:18,555
A lot of shops will actually factor
in their pricing.

1441
00:59:18,621 --> 00:59:19,322
We don't bother.

1442
00:59:19,322 --> 00:59:23,192
I mean, it's you talk about splitting
hairs because of how little it truly uses.

1443
00:59:23,560 --> 00:59:26,963
If we were to do the Fini logo
at this particular size,

1444
00:59:26,963 --> 00:59:30,166
we could probably do a couple hundred
of them before we would run out of inks.

1445
00:59:31,034 --> 00:59:33,937
So it really it's sips,
it does a great job.

1446
00:59:33,937 --> 00:59:35,772
That was just a sticker poster.

1447
00:59:35,772 --> 00:59:37,106
This particular one.

1448
00:59:37,106 --> 00:59:40,109
This is a poster based on.

1449
00:59:40,510 --> 00:59:42,478
It's a poster stock
I believe we've got in there.

1450
00:59:42,478 --> 00:59:43,980
Yeah. That's the poster stock.

1451
00:59:43,980 --> 00:59:46,649
Some of the other machines we're going
to show you also do the heat wave.

1452
00:59:46,649 --> 00:59:47,884
So we're gonna do a couple other stickers.

1453
00:59:49,218 --> 00:59:49,852
Well, I failed to

1454
00:59:49,852 --> 00:59:52,855
mention in the podcast
we have some upcoming events.

1455
00:59:52,922 --> 00:59:57,694
So please join us at bingo
May 16th at Raymore and Flanagan.

1456
00:59:57,694 --> 00:59:59,796
That's bingo at May 16th.

1457
00:59:59,796 --> 01:00:05,268
We have our Hartford Athletic game on June
6th, we have our Yard Goats game.

1458
01:00:05,268 --> 01:00:09,405
On August 15th, we have our fourth annual,

1459
01:00:10,473 --> 01:00:12,809
golf tournament,
which you'll see some cricket yard

1460
01:00:12,809 --> 01:00:17,347
signs and balls at Tunc
fourth Annual on September 13th.

1461
01:00:17,680 --> 01:00:22,051
And also, I'm collaborating with our
neighbors over here, Acey Peterson.

1462
01:00:22,452 --> 01:00:26,255
You will see a menu item
I'm thinking Fries of Feeney.

1463
01:00:26,823 --> 01:00:29,192
Like and share in the comments
if you like that idea.

1464
01:00:29,192 --> 01:00:33,663
Fries of Feeney I won that at a wonderful
Pop Rocks Playhouse on Park.

1465
01:00:34,631 --> 01:00:36,666
Fundraiser. It was awesome.

1466
01:00:36,666 --> 01:00:38,601
It was a great gift. I had to win it.

1467
01:00:39,736 --> 01:00:42,305
And, wife's not happy, but I won.

1468
01:00:42,305 --> 01:00:43,406
I'm adding a menu.

1469
01:00:43,406 --> 01:00:46,009
So AC Peterson,
you will be hearing from me

1470
01:00:46,009 --> 01:00:48,344
fries of Feni,
and we're going to dip them in ice cream.

1471
01:00:48,344 --> 01:00:51,014
You ever dip your fries in ice cream?

1472
01:00:51,014 --> 01:00:53,349
I'm lactose intolerant,
but I've been known.

1473
01:00:53,349 --> 01:00:55,351
I've been known.

1474
01:00:55,351 --> 01:00:56,886
We'll get you that pill to take that.

1475
01:00:56,886 --> 01:00:57,654
You know, he's got all.

1476
01:00:57,654 --> 01:00:59,022
He's got all the secrets.

1477
01:00:59,022 --> 01:01:02,025
Being, alumni of Peterson's

1478
01:01:02,392 --> 01:01:04,494
milk. We'll do milkshake. Smart.

1479
01:01:04,494 --> 01:01:05,695
I was going to have it whipped.

1480
01:01:05,695 --> 01:01:08,431
The ice cream,
but our milkshake would work.

1481
01:01:08,431 --> 01:01:09,265
Would be better.

1482
01:01:09,265 --> 01:01:11,701
All right, we're doing fries, a fini.
Dip it in your milkshake.

1483
01:01:11,701 --> 01:01:12,301
You heard it. Here.

1484
01:01:12,301 --> 01:01:14,671
Thanks, Owen. Friends of Owen.

1485
01:01:14,671 --> 01:01:15,271
Look at this thing.

1486
01:01:15,271 --> 01:01:18,241
It's beautiful.

1487
01:01:21,344 --> 01:01:24,213
This on your lap of the car.

1488
01:01:24,213 --> 01:01:24,681
All right.

1489
01:01:26,649 --> 01:01:28,951
Wow. It's beautiful.

1490
01:01:28,951 --> 01:01:31,721
Tacky still.
Oh, maybe I shouldn't touch it.

1491
01:01:31,721 --> 01:01:32,355
That was so.

1492
01:01:32,355 --> 01:01:34,857
If you reach a hand under here,
there's a flat bed here.

1493
01:01:34,857 --> 01:01:36,159
You'll feel it's nice and hot.

1494
01:01:36,159 --> 01:01:37,960
Nice to use the heat on

1495
01:01:37,960 --> 01:01:41,631
that is used to open the pores
of the sheet so the ink seeps in.

1496
01:01:41,831 --> 01:01:43,366
Dries much quicker that way.

1497
01:01:43,366 --> 01:01:46,302
So that was also an improvement
that they added as the heated bed.

1498
01:01:46,302 --> 01:01:47,370
I just learned something new.

1499
01:01:47,370 --> 01:01:51,340
I never would think that you need to heat
the paper, open the pores

1500
01:01:51,340 --> 01:01:54,343
so the ink can go in. Yep. Wow.

1501
01:01:54,777 --> 01:01:57,613
That's why it looks so pretty fancy.

1502
01:01:57,613 --> 01:01:59,248
Hold it up, hold it up.

1503
01:01:59,248 --> 01:02:00,516
You should be good too.

1504
01:02:00,516 --> 01:02:03,486
I'll grab.

1505
01:02:03,486 --> 01:02:06,489
Look at that.

1506
01:02:08,324 --> 01:02:10,860
Perfect print here at Cricket press.

1507
01:02:10,860 --> 01:02:13,262
Thanks to our rolling machine.

1508
01:02:13,262 --> 01:02:14,864
Look at that 54in,

1509
01:02:17,300 --> 01:02:18,201
pores are opened up.

1510
01:02:18,201 --> 01:02:21,204
Nice. So the ink goes in.

1511
01:02:21,270 --> 01:02:24,273
Good humidity on this print.

1512
01:02:24,807 --> 01:02:25,675
Cricket press.

1513
01:02:25,675 --> 01:02:27,844
There it is.

1514
01:02:27,844 --> 01:02:29,312
Clean.

1515
01:02:29,312 --> 01:02:31,848
We're here at the logo jet plus.

1516
01:02:31,848 --> 01:02:32,281
Oh, no.

1517
01:02:32,281 --> 01:02:36,753
The logo jet UV X40R plus.

1518
01:02:37,620 --> 01:02:39,455
That's mean machine.

1519
01:02:39,455 --> 01:02:41,791
What do you think? Tell us about it.

1520
01:02:41,791 --> 01:02:47,530
So this machine is a flatbed up to 24in
by 18in.

1521
01:02:48,364 --> 01:02:50,066
Is the biggest print size we can do.

1522
01:02:50,066 --> 01:02:53,636
So we can do stuff like yard
signs is the most common acrylic.

1523
01:02:54,003 --> 01:02:55,772
We can do pretty much any kind of plastic.

1524
01:02:55,772 --> 01:02:59,709
So we've done stuff on this,
including the lid of a cooler.

1525
01:02:59,709 --> 01:03:04,714
We've done cigar boxes,
golf balls, glass cups, water bottles.

1526
01:03:04,714 --> 01:03:07,717
Pretty much if it fits in this machine,
it can print on it.

1527
01:03:08,184 --> 01:03:10,486
The other nice part is that the front,
as you can see right here,

1528
01:03:10,486 --> 01:03:11,454
the front is open.

1529
01:03:11,454 --> 01:03:14,290
So when I say if it fits in the machine,
it doesn't even need to entirely fit.

1530
01:03:14,290 --> 01:03:15,591
It just needs to kind of fit.

1531
01:03:15,591 --> 01:03:20,096
As long as the material can fit under
the print head itself, it can print on it.

1532
01:03:21,397 --> 01:03:21,898
And there's

1533
01:03:21,898 --> 01:03:24,901
such a wide array of materials
that this thing can print on.

1534
01:03:25,201 --> 01:03:26,736
We're really just scratching the surface.

1535
01:03:26,736 --> 01:03:29,572
We just tried, stretch canvas
for the first time.

1536
01:03:29,572 --> 01:03:30,706
So we did some canvas prints.

1537
01:03:30,706 --> 01:03:34,143
We did a couple things on the wall
there, some car pictures that we did.

1538
01:03:34,143 --> 01:03:35,645
That's on an acrylic.

1539
01:03:35,645 --> 01:03:38,247
So that's, it's a thick, quarter
inch thick plastic

1540
01:03:38,247 --> 01:03:41,250
we print on the second surface
of the backside of the material.

1541
01:03:41,751 --> 01:03:44,353
And then you can see from the other side
kind of the image come through,

1542
01:03:44,353 --> 01:03:45,721
which is pretty cool.

1543
01:03:45,721 --> 01:03:48,624
That's awesome. That's thick plastic.

1544
01:03:48,624 --> 01:03:49,258
Yeah. So it's good.

1545
01:03:49,258 --> 01:03:51,961
I mean, the other thing you can do is
you can print in multiple layers,

1546
01:03:51,961 --> 01:03:55,698
so we can do stuff like signage for hotels
or hospitals

1547
01:03:55,998 --> 01:03:58,935
where you can have that plaque
that goes outside of an office

1548
01:03:58,935 --> 01:04:01,170
or whatever
it may be, and can actually do res print.

1549
01:04:01,170 --> 01:04:03,639
So we can print Braille on there,
which is really nice.

1550
01:04:03,639 --> 01:04:06,642
So we're still kind of experimenting
on how to accomplish that, but

1551
01:04:06,976 --> 01:04:09,212
once we master
it, it'll be something that's

1552
01:04:10,479 --> 01:04:11,814
something else that we can offer.

1553
01:04:11,814 --> 01:04:13,416
So so what are we printing here.

1554
01:04:13,416 --> 01:04:16,652
So we've got here a cigar box.

1555
01:04:16,819 --> 01:04:20,056
So this is one there's all different wood
finishes that we've tested.

1556
01:04:20,056 --> 01:04:24,927
Printing on this particular one is a tri
color blend is the particular color.

1557
01:04:25,528 --> 01:04:29,198
So I'm just going to go ahead and hit
the start button here that, Let's go.

1558
01:04:29,732 --> 01:04:32,702
We're printing on the logo jet.

1559
01:04:33,002 --> 01:04:35,972
We're printing it a cigar box.

1560
01:04:36,372 --> 01:04:38,908
And any guesses what we're going
to print on this cigar box?

1561
01:04:38,908 --> 01:04:41,911
Stefania. Logo.

1562
01:04:42,044 --> 01:04:43,312
Good job.

1563
01:04:43,312 --> 01:04:44,380
It's going in.

1564
01:04:44,380 --> 01:04:45,481
Tell us side by side.

1565
01:04:45,481 --> 01:04:48,251
Oh, there we go.

1566
01:04:48,251 --> 01:04:51,153
Open the room.

1567
01:04:51,153 --> 01:04:52,255
Open the hood.

1568
01:04:52,255 --> 01:04:54,690
This particular machine
doesn't have a white jewel.

1569
01:04:54,690 --> 01:04:56,792
This one has white and clear.

1570
01:04:56,792 --> 01:04:59,161
So a lot of times
this one I did put right down first.

1571
01:04:59,161 --> 01:05:03,032
But usually what we can do is put printing
on a dark surface, white first,

1572
01:05:03,666 --> 01:05:05,735
then put your color on top of it.

1573
01:05:05,735 --> 01:05:07,703
Inks pretty much all of our machines.

1574
01:05:07,703 --> 01:05:12,241
You want, pretty much all the machines,
the inks themselves are toners act

1575
01:05:12,241 --> 01:05:13,943
almost like a stained glass effect,

1576
01:05:13,943 --> 01:05:16,379
where it's going to take on
whatever the background colors.

1577
01:05:16,379 --> 01:05:18,547
So in this case, we're doing
just a green logo.

1578
01:05:18,547 --> 01:05:20,316
So you're going to see the green,
but you'll also see

1579
01:05:20,316 --> 01:05:22,051
the brown of the would come through it.

1580
01:05:22,051 --> 01:05:22,752
Whereas we can

1581
01:05:22,752 --> 01:05:26,289
also if we did it with white first
it would put down that white layer first.

1582
01:05:26,622 --> 01:05:27,723
Then it would put the ink color

1583
01:05:27,723 --> 01:05:30,793
on top of it so it pop like you would see
on pretty much any other material.

1584
01:05:31,527 --> 01:05:32,962
So this one. Yeah.

1585
01:05:32,962 --> 01:05:35,965
So this has got that strong base of wood
behind it

1586
01:05:36,299 --> 01:05:38,901
rather than having that base of white.

1587
01:05:38,901 --> 01:05:41,070
So there's a couple different ways
to do it and experiment with it really.

1588
01:05:41,070 --> 01:05:43,039
It depends on what
the outcome you're looking for is.

1589
01:05:46,042 --> 01:05:47,643
Very cool.

1590
01:05:47,643 --> 01:05:49,278
Might

1591
01:05:49,278 --> 01:05:51,547
be a good friend.

1592
01:05:51,547 --> 01:05:54,550
Cigars.

1593
01:05:55,418 --> 01:05:57,586
That's awesome.

1594
01:05:57,586 --> 01:05:58,754
Well, I appreciate that too.

1595
01:05:58,754 --> 01:06:00,423
Absolutely.

1596
01:06:00,423 --> 01:06:01,891
Thank you.

1597
01:06:01,891 --> 01:06:03,025
It's a win win.

1598
01:06:03,025 --> 01:06:03,993
Great podcast.

1599
01:06:03,993 --> 01:06:06,262
I'm coming home with some swag.

1600
01:06:06,262 --> 01:06:09,398
I got erasable pens, posters.

1601
01:06:11,100 --> 01:06:14,003
This is beautiful.

1602
01:06:14,003 --> 01:06:15,571
I really enjoyed this podcast.

1603
01:06:15,571 --> 01:06:17,873
Learn so much about Cricket press.

1604
01:06:17,873 --> 01:06:20,343
And my friend Greg.

1605
01:06:20,343 --> 01:06:22,545
We're doing wonderful things over here.

1606
01:06:22,545 --> 01:06:24,080
It's pretty cool.

1607
01:06:24,080 --> 01:06:26,582
So the difference between that one
and this one,

1608
01:06:26,582 --> 01:06:29,685
the main difference between the Roland
and the logo jet is the types of ink.

1609
01:06:29,685 --> 01:06:32,722
So you got on the rolling
the eco solvent based inks.

1610
01:06:33,022 --> 01:06:34,590
So those are just going to dry with air.

1611
01:06:34,590 --> 01:06:37,727
This one actually uses a UV lamp and cures
those inks.

1612
01:06:37,893 --> 01:06:40,963
So instantly
it's already done to the touch.

1613
01:06:40,963 --> 01:06:42,431
Those things are as dry
as they're ever going to be.

1614
01:06:46,035 --> 01:06:49,038
A good friend.

1615
01:06:49,672 --> 01:06:51,273
This is great.

1616
01:06:51,273 --> 01:06:51,874
Very cool.

1617
01:06:51,874 --> 01:06:53,642
This are going to put cigars
in the raffle.

1618
01:06:53,642 --> 01:06:55,811
Here you go. Perfect.
At the golf tournament.

1619
01:06:55,811 --> 01:06:58,814
Definitely put some balls inside of it.

1620
01:06:59,448 --> 01:07:00,349
It's nice and warm, but.

1621
01:07:00,349 --> 01:07:02,118
Yep. You said it keeps the wood finish.

1622
01:07:02,118 --> 01:07:05,121
Yep. With the green on the background.

1623
01:07:05,821 --> 01:07:08,190
Be a good friend

1624
01:07:08,190 --> 01:07:08,457
again.

1625
01:07:08,457 --> 01:07:12,661
This is podcast
episode 136 here at Cricket press.

1626
01:07:13,496 --> 01:07:15,731
Thank you Greg for being a good friend.

1627
01:07:15,731 --> 01:07:17,900
Thank you to all of our friends
and listeners.

1628
01:07:17,900 --> 01:07:20,302
Please like and subscribe and thank you.

1629
01:07:20,302 --> 01:07:22,705
Direct Line Media. Be a good friend.