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Tor and Traci join the show · Day Drinking With Dog

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  Viva Tequila Seltzer, the number one hard Seltzer in the world, and the
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  official heart Seltzer of Day Drinking with Dog. Ditch them all, add tequila.
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  Welcome back to a special Sunday edition of Day Drinking with Dog. It
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  is November twelfth, twenty twenty three. Normally I'd be watching football right now
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  in Germany. My knew and Patriots are just god awful. You know.
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  I'm so happy that I'm actually doing this show instead of watching this putrid product
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  they put out in the field. But today I have coming back Tracy Gallagher.
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  Now you are off screen unfortunately on YouTube, but you were have the
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  mic, so we will hear you. And I just met you and I
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  could tell your full ball of energy over there, Tour Blackstead. What's that
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  correctly? All right? Well, thank you for both coming on. I
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  Tracey, I met you through Milford Helping Hands. How is that going?
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  By the way, it's great. We are sort of we took the summer
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  off and we were reconvening in the fall and we're going to pick great Milford
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  community service projects get involved with. That's why we're here today today. Awesome,
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  so great, yeah, yeah, yeah, I mean the whole the
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  whole show is the plug for the Turkey Trot. She still slipped one in
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  there. So the Turkey Trot has been This is the third annual. And
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  you are the founder, right, I think that's the word. Yeah,
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  I mean it's it's you know, I'm the guy who's the Milford one.
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  Anyway, we need to start doing something more formal, and yeah, it
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  works out, founder race director. Yeah, so I've been I read the
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  Milford Patch article and uh, there's a bunch of ways you can get involved,
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  right, Virtually, you could do a one mile, a two mile,
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  a three mile, something like that. Right. It's a great event
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  and we just want to bring people from the community together. So we're looking
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  to find a way to get people in Milford together, looking to do good
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  in the community. That's our main goal in mission. But on the event,
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  on the day of it's Thanksgiving morning. Of course, if you're not
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  a big runner and you say, oh, I don't want to run,
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  especially at nine in the morning on the holiday, yeah, thank you,
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  thank you. Right there, We've got a one mile at work. I'll
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  be at work at nine thirty the one on that day. No, you
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  can come join us, watch the rum runners, grab a few free beers.
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  Come on, should I open one of these? Now? Yes?
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  Yes, call out for Viva a little plug too. I like that.
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  There we go. Yeah, but you can show up and it's there's a
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  one mile. People typically walk that with their dogs, with their kids and
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  strollers right beach on a nice day, it's beautiful. The one mile only
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  goes down to Willbars that turn on golf and let's do the two mile.
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  People, come on, start you start at the Natatorium or Milford Academy or
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  what else United Way. There's so many different names for that parking lot right
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  there. Oh you know, I read the Natatorium and I didn't know what
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  that meant, but now exactly. Yeah, it's a swimming yeah. So
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  it's right at Golf and New Haven on that yeah corner. So we've got
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  all the soccer fields. We're all set up. It's a great time.
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  And then thee you go down to that bend in Golf and come back.
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  Yeah, that's where I live Willbar, that's my turn. Then the two
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  mile is go down to Goodies on Golf Beach and it's also a simple walk
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  slash jog. But for those diehard, awesome people that want to get three
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  plus miles and you can run all the way down to where caf pen is,
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  turn left on Buckingham and then you continue out to where Jimmy's is and
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  you turn left on New Haven and that's a nice loop and it's so beautiful,
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  so beautiful to see the community and the scenery and everything that we've got.
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  But it's wonderful. And if you're not in town, you can be
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  virtual. You can run anywhere. I had to do that a couple times
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  when I was out in California on the California Turkey Trot. I'd go to
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  my in laws in Washington, or I go see my parents in Minnesota,
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  and I wouldn't be able to be there, but every morning it was a
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  tradition that we did for twelve years, and I would get out and run
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  and it feels so good too. On the original version of the yard sign,
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  which you may or may not have seen because they're hidden behind all the
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  political signs, well they're also run now gobble later. So you get out
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  in the morning, run and you feel great, and we're all going to
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  indulge in you too much on Thanksgiving, but at least you feel a little
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  bit better. About it, and you did some good so that people that
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  don't have that opportunity and aren't in a position have the chance to get some
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  food because there's a food drive involved, there's a bunch of fundraising. It's
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  a great time and whoever you want to be, you can show up,
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  even if you don't want to run. You can just hang out, drink
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  some beer. Patch the rum Runners where the rum Runners playing on the soccer
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  fields. We set them up. We get some generators going. Last year
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  it was Jim Pino and just three people that he found because we didn't get
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  the whole rum Runners together in time. And he loved it so much because
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  we had over what last year was over eight hundred and fifty, he had
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  fifty people. So I'll tell I'll tell I like to talk a lot,
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  cut me off whenever you want. But the first year I worked last night.
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  So you take the floor, buddy. I thought that I could peer
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  pressure of fifty friends, neighbors, people because I had just moved to Milford.
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  I thought I could hear pressure fifty people into running early on Thanksgiving morning.
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  I thought, this is no big deal, let's let's go for it.
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  Would I would have laughed at you right. A lot of people did.
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  I would have a lot of people did, especially in my circle that
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  enjoyed day drinking. Yeah, viva, that is yeah. And I started
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  up and night said, hey, to see your address in one time,
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  then maybe I'll just get a couple of cases set to your door. Well,
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  it is known as Trot Headquarters. To go to the website www dot
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  Milford, Turkey trot dot com and you'll see my address all over it.
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  But I thought this would be great, and then I realized, hey,
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  it's a new world. There's a lot of liability, there's a lot of
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  junk out there. I need to make sure I do the shright. So
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  I went to the city. I got some permits. They said you have
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  to get insurance. I went, I bought insurance and then all these hoops
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  that I had to jump through, I got it to work and I said,
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  great, we're going. I'm I'm into this way more than I thought
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  I would. To get fifty friends together to run right advertise this. But
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  he's elf funded the first or it happened. He don't tell my wife,
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  but he did spend a fair amount of his own money to get it off
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  the ground. The first year. So as it moved forward, we made
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  it a big quest. First of all, we wanted to include a lot
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  of local businesses, and so we really pushed to get sponsorships to cover the
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  costs of the insurance, the permitting, the police, the toilets that I'm
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  required to ranch. Now, is that like per uh? Is there like
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  a minimum like heads that you have there? Is you need that many portlets
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  or well, I'm not one to negotiate with like the health department or the
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  police department. If they say here's what you need, I'll say, okay,
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  Yeah, I'm from Minnesota. Everyone's honest, everyone's truthful, everyone's nice.
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  From Minnesota, yeah, sure you bet you. And I thought I
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  thought, okay, this is what it is. I found out later you
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  can say no, I'm not going to do that and they'd be okay with
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  it. But anyways, we did it by the book. It was all
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  good. And it quickly escalated from these fifty randoms I was going to pull
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  together to over six hundred people that showed up on the day of the first
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  year, and we were able to donate eight thousand dollars to Calfpens Pta,
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  a local elementary school where my son just started in kindergarten, which is where
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  I met Tracy. She was the PTA president at the time. No I
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  was not yet. She was the next year, but I still met Tracy
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  there and it was great to see the community come together. In the last
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  minute. I had to pull together so many volunteers and people to make this
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  happen, because it went from hey, it's fifty of us, let's have
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  a good time and go to We need to have early packet pickup, we
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  need to have toilets, we need to have signs on the street because we're
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  not going to fit on the sidewalk. We're not goosing any streets. And
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  it was amazing. And then it added in the Purple Pantry Boxes, which
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  is the local nonprofit of the year the last two years in a row for
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  food and security. So we had a big trailer donations of food and it
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  was amazing. And then the second year we learned a lot and Tracy was
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  then the PTA president and I said, and I feel its a little guilty
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  taking all of Tour's money and not giving him anything in return. So our
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  PTA partnered with him and we helped to get more sponsors. We helped just
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  to drum up interest around town with our own community, and we went from
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  six hundred to eight hundred and fifty seven. It was six oh seven to
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  eight fifty seven is where it went, and it was great. It was
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  so much fun, and Tour said to me, my goal is I want
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  to take this city wide. So we've been pushing this year to get more
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  schools involved. So now we have I think seven of Milford's schools who are
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  helping and so they're pushing it in their community as we're getting a bunch of
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  volunteers and a bunch of runners and some more sponsorships. We have some new
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  sponsors to show that we didn't have in the past. So yeah, it's
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  going really well. We're so excited about what we have and in the last
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  week and a half we always get a lot of last minute sign ups.
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  So we have a goal of a thousand participants this year and we're pretty optimistic
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  that we're going to make it. Now, are you guys shutting that road
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  down or what? So it is a fun run slash walk. All road
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  rules must be followed. If you read the website, it is not competitive,
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  so no one's shoved off the sidewalk and people ease into it, so
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  it's not like a ready sick out people shove each other out of the way.
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  It's pretty calm and contained, and we try to do it by waves.
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  Like you mentioned. If you want to do a one mile, okay,
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  you're going to start last. If you want to do a two mile,
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  if you're gonna do the three miles, break you up into three or
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  four different and you're all congregated up at the parking lot. And we've got
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  barricades set up. And this year a new addition is going to because we
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  have so many that roads redone because of you. I think so. I
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  think so. So. When I when I was out in Connecticut looking at
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  houses, looking at places to move, we're moving from San Jose, California.
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  The sidewalks were ripped up and gone, and the road the road look
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  almost knew, but there was still that half inch or inch before you get
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  to the curb, and it's like, well, it's really new asphalt.
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  But I don't think they did it right. There's a little section. No,
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  they were just waiting for us to move in. And I still don't
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  understand the bike lane in the oh well, coming from California, I use
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  how they do it out there. I use it all the time. I
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  mean, biking around here is so beautiful. If you start on golf,
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  I understand what a bike lane is, but just how they positioned it out
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  it could have been done differently. But something is better than better. And
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  I mean the fact that I lived across the street or across golf from Ben
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  wasn't bad for me. But I'm excited to see what's coming in the new
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  administration and see what's coming in in the next generation. And there's a lot
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  of things that Milford has done really, really well. I've only been around
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  for three and a half almost four years, and I've seen great things.
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  And the community involvement. Tracy mentioned its that come out of the woodwork and
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  say I want to be a part of this. I want to do good.
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  And I reach out to them and say, great, how can I
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  get the most exposure for you? How can I make this sponsorship worth it
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  so that next year when you're looking at your marketing budget, you think of
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  us and they say none at all. Many small businesses downtown that are incredible
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  and they really do support all the charitable stuff. They're so generous, including
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  Stonebroosh who has really pulled out this year for us, which we're excited about.
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  Yeah, but our restaurants are incredible, our shops are incredible, and
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  not chains. We've got a lot of mom and pops right and a lot
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  of the companies are saying, no, I don't need to get anything out
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  of this. I just want to get back to the community. And it's
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  a good cause because we're Folcus. It's three different categories of charities that we
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  go after. The first one and the biggest one from the beginning Milford Public
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  Schools. I'm a big fan of public schools. I went to public school
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  my whole life in Minnesota. I went to the University of Minnesota, paid
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  my own school, everything along the way. Parents are awesome, love them,
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  just not in a financial situation, so I had to pay for it
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  myself. It changed how I look at school. When you realize what every
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  Thursday morning, Friday morning eight am class costs you, you're gonna make it.
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  It doesn't matter what happened the night before. So Milford Public Schools is
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  a big one. Then Purple Pantry Boxes. Sue Brown. I don't know
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  if you know her, but she is phenomenal and I saw her at a
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  talk at Athletic Brewing, and I was pulled in the passion, the excitement,
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  the fact that a third of Milford residents are and living in a food
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  insecure situation unbelievable. I just like keeping Milford warm on earlier in the week,
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  and like the people that need oil. You're shocking, shocking, And
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  I'm so fortunate in my life to have never been in that specific situation of
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  needing food, needing heat. But I'm in a position where I can help,
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  So i want to push back or support and that's where Purple Pantry comes
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  in. And then there's of course Avery's Little Army for the Cure Starts Now
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  for pediatric brain cancer. Pediatric brain cancer. We have a local chapter of
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  the Cure Starts Now which raises funds for research and a high percentage of the
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  money goes directly to the research for pediatric brain cancer. And it was started
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  by a Milford parent whose young adult daughter passed away from brain cancer. And
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  we have in our community a fantastic family who is going through it right now.
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  Actually I think there's several. I'm very close to the Lafferty's and their
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  daughter, Avery is a sixth grader at herberside and they are fighting the big
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  fight right now. So they got us hooked up with the care starts now
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  and they do incredible work. So they're one of our charities that we like
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  to give to so that they can continue. And I got connected through Tracy
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  obviously because last year Avery was a fifth grader, a cat Ben, and
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  my son was going into first grade and median Avery. She's such an amazing
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  young she's the spunkiest I say, young girl. Is that yeah, lady,
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  whatever you call it, but she's amazing tween. I've got a seven
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  year old year old six six okay, but but those are the three charities,
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  awesome foundations and focuses and and it's so amazing to see again the community.
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  These sponsors are reaching out saying, hey, I'll give you this money.
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  I said, what what can I do for you? Nothing? I
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  just want you're doing a good thing. Here's money, take it. And
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  I said, okay, well that's amazing and wonderful, but we uh it's
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  now. I've had countless you know, charity things or fundraisers or you know,
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  community stuff in Milford and like you know, I I know I've seen
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  the signs for this before, but you know, yeah, yeah, yeah,
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  but until Tracy reached out to me, I you know, wasn't really
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  too aware of it, you know. But obviously, I mean, of
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  course I'm in a different lifestyle. You know. I work Wednesday night before
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  Thanksgiving till you know, two in the morning, till two in the morning,
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  and I got to be back at work for nine point thirty to work
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  a double on Thanksgiving Day. So like I would love to hang out there
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  or go to a football game or you know, actually sit out. But
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  it's just, you know, I'm just so used to this, you know,
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  side of life, so I don't, you know, pay too much
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  attention to what all the people that have the whole weekend off are doing,
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  you know what I mean. Yeah, that's day drinking while I'm day working,
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  you know, on the holidays. But I think it's awesome what you're
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  doing. And I could, you know, just see in you your passion
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  for helping and that that's the main thing. And that's what I see in
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  the show so much is you know, I had you guys on and it's
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  just it's so good to see and you guys couldn't make the point any better.
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  With the businesses in town. You know, they really are, and
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  they're reaching out. Yeah, don't get me wrong. I try to go
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  door to of course, I've got supporters now that are reaching out and going
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  door to door, but they're the ones coming in saying we want to do
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  more good. That's so I love Milford. I love Milford, and we
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  love the idea of trying to do something that crosses the whole town. R
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  you know, if we can give some money to every school, if every
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  school in Milford wants to help, well, I mean, you guys are
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  on year three and you're already like just leaps and bounds from the year before
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  and the year before it was eight thousand dollars donated to charity the first year,
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  twenty thousand last year, and we're already well over twenty one thousand right
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  now. But our goal is thirty, which doesn't sound like a lot.
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  And if you can't race, or you can't attend, you can always donate
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  on the There's a button right there when you go to the website donate or
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  just register virtually because again you want your free shirt. They're amazing. Look
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  at this is the original Tracy's wearing last year's. This year should I say,
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  oh, nobody knows, but I found it's gonna be so great.
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  I got a local another sponsor, a local guy right at next to Fortelly's
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  in that strip mall I print seth amazing guy. I met up with him
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  through other sponsors saying, oh, go to him, he'll help you out.
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  And he's gonna do all the shirts. He did a ton of those
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  yard signs that you can see around town. He's doing race bibs this year.
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  Oh, you've got one right there, it's beautiful. Here we go,
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  there we go, live, music, free beer. What more do
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  you need? Who's supplying the beer? So Nepko has been a part of
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  the Turkey Trot from the beginning. Super super awesome guys. Rob Marty Giuliano
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  is my neighbor and that's how I really got connected in And also try was
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  with us last year and they're committed to be with us again this year.
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  So there was there was a certain amount of beer that they brought last year,
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  and when the band was kind of wrapping up around ten forty five eleven,
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  the last few beers were handed out, and this year they said,
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  hey, we're not going to run out, We're going to take care of
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  this. They didn't believe me that runners at nine in the morning on days
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  Giving morning would enjoy a beer. Clearly don't know runners local beer. My
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  mother when she was when I was, you know, teenager, was a
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  runner and we lived out and uh, welly didn't live but we vacationed out
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  in Cape Cod and she always like made sure we went out there when it
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  was like the five k for Brewster or whatever the town was. And she
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  finished the race and I was like the water boy, you know, for
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  one of the checkpoints. And then she'd be like, all right, you
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  can go home now. I'm like, what are you doing? So we're
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  staying and drinking. It's a great youality. I'm like, oh, okay.
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  Runners are at I'm not the body type. They're a little wacky that
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  are not looking at camera like I'm us. Dwarfs are very effective at short
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  distances. Lord of the Ring. If I if I have Thanksgiving off,
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  I'm doing the one mile walk. But my wife is run on. People
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  might say a little loco, and she does the Iron Man. It's she.
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  She does the fifty k trail runs, she does the Ironman competitions.
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  She does all this stuff. And when we were dating. I saw her
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  drinking Wells this I'm always drinking Vivas, don't get me wrong. She Hey,
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  I will try to make Viva a sponsor for you guys next year.
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  That'd be amazing. That'd be amazing. But but yeah, what I flew
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  out to Madison as I was living in California. She was living in Portland.
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  And she's doing an iron Man, a full iron Man, which is
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  an insane distance, right, two something miles swim, yeah, one hundred
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  and thirteen miles bike ride, and then a full marathon? Is it full
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  marathon? A full marathon? And I was at my buddy's wedding on the
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  coast of Michigan the night before. I left early, and I drove the
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  down Michigan through Indiana up into Chicago. Stopped down a couch in Chicago for
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  about two hours because I just god't make it. Another friend. I just
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  found one that somebody left it outside. Another another friend, and then and
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  then I kept going. I got another parking lot at four am, and
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  I'm sleeping in the rental car and her dad knocks on the window at like
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  four thirties, like tour, we we gotta go. She needs to get
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  ready, I'm I'm up. What's going on? So I went and I
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  watched her do this iron Man in Madison, and I was hooked at this
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  feeling, this vibe, this excitement of this mass group of people going out
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  and doing an exciting thing. Her her stinking father took a picture of me
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  passed out in the grass as she's doing her one hundred and some mile bike
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  ride. Here's the boyfriends stopped in the grass. I wasn't drinking, I
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  wasn't day drinking, but you were freaking driving the night. I just couldn't
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  do it. So I figured this is the best time. She's gonna be
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  a like for what four hours? Eight hours? But also that gave me,
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  that gave me the vibe one hundred and thirteen miles if I'm not mistaken,
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  sh it, So how long, like right like an average person?
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  Does it take them them completely? I think they someone's going to google this
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  and correct me. I think they started around six am or seven am or
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  something like that, and you have to finish by midnight. So she finished
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  well early because she's like swim has got to be right long. That's the
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  scariest for most I've done a few halves You've done a number of half iron
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  Man's because she hooked me and I wanted I want to drink like me,
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  So I was like, yeah, I could do this. Oh you're one
• 21:42
  of those guys. Yeah, I might always do half what my wife can
• 21:47
  do at all times. What was that movie with Ben Stiller already went and
• 21:51
  ate Indian food? Oh, something about Polly Yes along came, Yeah,
• 21:57
  something about He's like, no, I'm good, I'm good. He's got
• 22:03
  I b S or something. It was just a disaster. See, I
• 22:08
  I can relate with Ben. Yeah, you're probably like having a many heart
• 22:11
  attack. You're like, no, I'm good, this is great. I
• 22:12
  love running. It was yeah. Oh it took a lot of work and
• 22:18
  I don't know how I tricked her. But ye oh she's incredible. She's
• 22:22
  incredible. But how many kids time too? So I've got to shout him
• 22:26
  out. Jackson's seven, he's uh, he's in Miss d L's class right
• 22:30
  now. Cap pen, amazing teacher, amazing kid. Oh my gosh,
• 22:33
  she's so fun. He was on baseball. We just got into this whole
• 22:37
  little league, the Milford Little League, which is super. He's doing basketball.
• 22:45
  Come up in a few months. It was super fun. And my
• 22:47
  daughter Zoe, she she's in kindergarten with Miss Buckeye where Jackson was with Miss
• 22:52
  Buckyite and Queen Kindergarten Queen Bee, Oh my goodness. She's also what is
• 22:56
  she She's in charge of the Irish Festival or some thing like get her on
• 23:00
  here to talk about the Queen Bee on the parade committee and she is like
• 23:08
  the top of the Irish Kindred. I retired my services from New Haven Parade.
• 23:18
  But but Zoe, Zoe just went to her first gymnastics class at g
• 23:22
  c A and it was so great because there I am. My wife was
• 23:26
  traveling for work doing things. She's an incredible engineer. And there I am
• 23:30
  at GCA and I'm like, oh, I know that bar next door and
• 23:34
  I walk in. I've got my son with me, and then she's in
• 23:37
  there and I'm talking to the people and I'm like, so is it taboo?
• 23:41
  If I leave? Am I supposed to stay? I recognize some of
• 23:45
  the moms from the PTA caf pen I'm like, hey, good to see
• 23:48
  you, and oh that's the place that's it's a gossip center we would go
• 23:52
  to. That's not my scene, not necessarily mine either, But we did
• 23:56
  some ninja classes at g C A and my daughter is now just from twelve
• 24:00
  a couple of days ago, but a couple of years ago, there was
• 24:03
  a ninja class followed by a hip hop class, so that's two long hours
• 24:07
  of GCA. So we had a little cluster of parents that would hop on
• 24:11
  over to the bar. I couldn't get any of them to join me,
• 24:14
  but I went over there with my son. We had his reading books for
• 24:18
  the week, and we're sitting at the bar and he's reading through his books
• 24:21
  and he's writing down all his answers, and I'm so proud of this little
• 24:23
  second grader doing all this stuff on his own. He's like, no,
• 24:26
  Dad, I'll do it. I'll do it. Shout out to Milford Public
• 24:29
  schools, which wait, they're thirteen and bar three thirty three and oh we
• 24:33
  can't say that show edit, but it was. It was great to see
• 24:41
  him be so excited about doing his homework and getting it done. Wait wait,
• 24:45
  wait, hold on, time out, timeout, time out. He
• 24:48
  has homework, of course, he does. It's weekly. He gets like
• 24:52
  four books. He's supposed to My girlfriend's son I've been living with for four
• 24:57
  years I've never seen him do any home work. Now, this is like
• 25:00
  that might be a He says, what's what's the thing in school called?
• 25:04
  It's like we called it, like uh like study period? Yes, yes,
• 25:11
  in middle school and high school, I think they get even more time,
• 25:14
  but they do get some time where all of their teachers are available to
• 25:18
  them. So if they're having trouble with something, they can go to their
• 25:21
  main core teachers and get help, or they can sit and do their work
• 25:26
  that they weren't able to finish in class. Right, So yeah, so
• 25:27
  he will say, oh, I did it and whatever they call it,
• 25:30
  and I'm like, but then it's weird now though, like when we grew
• 25:36
  up and you know, we get report cards and we like now the parents
• 25:40
  can like it's on their phone. They're behind on assignments. In middle school,
• 25:45
  you'll get a little alone Oh my god, it's like so then like
• 25:48
  my girlfriend will put me and him in the you know, in our little
• 25:52
  group chat, and she'll just post like, you know, he has an
• 25:55
  F because he hasn't turned anything, but once he turns it in, it's
• 25:57
  an a you know. But like and I'm like, I'm like, would
• 26:00
  you stop including me in these until he gets his grades at the end of
• 26:07
  each semester or whoever they do it, like, just it, I get
• 26:10
  it, but he's never I mean everyone's in a while's gotta do an assignment
• 26:12
  because he's late on it. But what gree did they start doing letters?
• 26:17
  Because I remember growing up in Minnesota and it was checkboxes on a and it
• 26:22
  was like, oh, you're here, you're middle school. He is,
• 26:25
  So he's middle He's at East Shore, so he's eighth grade now, yeah,
• 26:30
  nice, and he's get he gets grades now grade. Yeah, not
• 26:33
  just like past fail or the check boxes. The check boxes where my daughter's
• 26:37
  like, oh she recognized X out of twenty three site words and that doesn't
• 26:41
  sound very good. Yeah, comfortable f grade school is like one, two,
• 26:48
  three, and four? Right, Yeah, so is it? Yeah?
• 26:52
  Like meeting expectations. Yeah, again another reason I just planned to do
• 26:56
  half of what my wife accomplishes in life. I haven't seen those yet.
• 27:02
  Yeah, I don't know. So he's he just applied to Platte today.
• 27:07
  Yeah. The trade. Yeah, that was that was incredible. When I
• 27:11
  moved in and my neighbors took me to Orchard to go play the orchards or
• 27:14
  whatever. You call that golf course. Yeah, yeah, it was get
• 27:17
  to the third hole in the back, and yeah, they were digging it
• 27:18
  out. It was a whole three and a half years ago. And I
• 27:22
  said, guys, what what is going on here? And they're like,
• 27:26
  oh, it's really exciting. It's this, it's that and everything. And
• 27:27
  now that the kids go to the y m c A all the time,
• 27:30
  and that's why they spend the summer camp. I've seen it. Yeah,
• 27:33
  so they I believe what they did was so they had the old school in
• 27:36
  the fields and then they built a new school in the fields, and then
• 27:41
  they flip flopped it. So he took a tour of it. I didn't
• 27:45
  get to go, but he took a tour like two weeks ago, and
• 27:47
  he was just he's big and he's big cars and automotive and stuff. So
• 27:52
  I think I always say, I wish, I wish I went to tech
• 27:55
  school. I wish, you know, And then you know, I did
• 27:57
  to pay I didn't have to pay for I'm in college for plug out.
• 28:00
  I loved college. I loved college too much. I think that I had
• 28:03
  to take a I had to take a second degree so I could stay for
• 28:07
  four years were you Van Wilder? I could see you being like a Van
• 28:11
  Wilder. No, what did he do for like eighteen years? Like twelve
• 28:14
  years or so? My counselor like beginning of junior year, she's like,
• 28:17
  so you're going to finish and graduate at the end of your junior year.
• 28:19
  I was like, no, no, what can we let's talk? How
• 28:22
  do we say? How do we still stay longer? Well, you have
• 28:26
  to pick up a second major, otherwise we gotta kick you out. You
• 28:29
  did everything I was paying for my own girl, like you were like,
• 28:32
  I don't want to leave. Ye, fteen credits. Everything is free.
• 28:34
  And since i'm paying, I'm not taking fifteen credits. I'm taking twenty five
• 28:37
  because I'm paying for what we're here. You in college? What year?
• 28:41
  For years? It was your first two thousand and four to two thousand,
• 28:47
  Yeah, I can't imagine like I went. I was ninety two at University
• 28:51
  of Haven. It was i'd say, like thirteen thousand the first year.
• 28:56
  By the time I graduated ninety six and a half. I've told the story
• 29:02
  before, I'll make it real quick. I took figure drawing as my art
• 29:06
  elective that I had to take to graduate, and they never told me it
• 29:11
  wasn't an art elective. I had to take history of art, so they
• 29:15
  let me. They let me march in graduation, but I had to go
• 29:18
  back the next semester and take one fucking class to get my actual diplomba.
• 29:22
  Oh fuck. I was so mad. And I had to pay for it
• 29:25
  too, you know, I had to be Yeah, it was like twelve
• 29:27
  hundred dollars the first and it was hard, but I wasn't really trying either.
• 29:30
  I'm like, I just want to get a d and get that the
• 29:33
  hell out of here. Yeah, it's turned into a money factory. I
• 29:36
  didn't pay I didn't pay up my loans until I was like thirty eight years
• 29:40
  old. Do you remember when you got the letter the final loan payment.
• 29:44
  Oh my gosh, that was the best. It wasn't day, but we
• 29:48
  drank Oh my goodness, and it was so exciting. It was on the
• 29:52
  fridge. Yeah, I was living. This is kind of personal, but
• 29:56
  I was living in my uncle's basement in San Jose, California County. Found
• 30:00
  another I lived there for twelve years, and it was on the fridge for
• 30:06
  over a year because I was so excited and I was like guys, you're
• 30:08
  not touching this. I had. My biggest one was like Sally May,
• 30:11
  I think, and they kept like, I don't know, like I just
• 30:15
  when I was younger, was not good with my money, and so that
• 30:21
  this whole extra half semester like totally screwed me because all of my low you
• 30:26
  know, they give you the six month grace period. Well, all that
• 30:30
  shit got sent to my mom's house and she just stacked it up. And
• 30:33
  then when I went over there to I just went and she goes, oh,
• 30:36
  by the way, their you gotta stack a mail on the fridge over
• 30:37
  there, and it's like this, and it's like the first bill, the
• 30:41
  second bill. Then it's like collections and oh my god. So I opened
• 30:45
  it all up and I got to make a hundred phone calls. I got
• 30:48
  to come up with like one thousand dollars to make everybody happy. And then
• 30:52
  Sally May just like they just kept refining it or you know, so I
• 30:56
  pramatically without telling you no signature enough. But they're sneaky because they're like I
• 31:03
  was paying like let's say one to eighty a month, right, oh,
• 31:06
  it's only one twenty five now, but it gets extended out for three more
• 31:10
  years and I just get writ in the check for I think every kid who
• 31:15
  signs alone should have to have at least a little course on what it means
• 31:18
  when you're signing. I couldn't agree more. You see that that's when they
• 31:22
  don't teach that shit in high school college ye out, yeah right right?
• 31:27
  But now in today's world, I'm sorry. You YouTube that ship yourself,
• 31:33
  right, you google it, you figure it out. I mean, like
• 31:34
  I said, I had to pay my own college. I knew exactly when
• 31:38
  you thought. If I saw Braden was fuing googling and how to pay loans,
• 31:44
  pasted all his TikTok videos and mein goodness, I didn't have TikTok.
• 31:48
  Facebook does have a phone. Now, the Facebook started and the University of
• 31:53
  Minnesota was one of the first couple universities that were allowed again. So we
• 31:57
  were in the original when that homepage was so simple. Do you get your
• 32:01
  settlement check yet? I pushed the button? But I haven't. But I
• 32:07
  mean, you would take your pictures and crop them horizontally so that it would
• 32:10
  take up the entire page because they didn't have the logic in the code then
• 32:15
  to resize everything for you so, yeah, it was. It was a
• 32:19
  different time. I can't I can't imagine going to college now with all the
• 32:22
  cameras. Oh my gosh, we wouldn't be here. I mean, I'm
• 32:24
  older than Jeremy, so I went. I was in the dark ages of
• 32:29
  we bear I had. I started college with a typewriter. Oh wow,
• 32:34
  we had like a computer lab. Very few of my friends actually had their
• 32:37
  own computers in their dorm rooms. Yeah, I am, I'm trying to
• 32:44
  think. I remember. Yeah, I remember, like like high school was
• 32:47
  like the old IBM computers, you know, and you just kind of learned
• 32:50
  to type on them. We had the Apple's not these kids get laptops.
• 32:55
  They bring the school with them, which I'm I'm kind of happy that my
• 33:00
  son comes home with the laptop and my my daughter's got a little pad to
• 33:04
  work on. My son will come home and he's excited to play Prodigy.
• 33:07
  It's a math game. Yeah, he's excited to play Prodigy. So he
• 33:10
  has more points than the other kids in his class. And I'll sit there
• 33:15
  with him on the difficult things because it's a new subject, or he's two
• 33:17
  or three and math has changed since we were he what can you not ask
• 33:22
  Alexa. I'm sure if I said it loud enough, like okay, someone
• 33:28
  is going to start talking to itself like the South Park episode it we'll start
• 33:32
  a nasty conversation. But yeah, it's crazy. I don't Yeah, it's
• 33:37
  it's nuts. And I like when I first moved in, when Nicole Braden
• 33:43
  comes home and he's in fourth grade or fifth grade, he's got these math
• 33:47
  problems. So it's a division thing and I'm looking at it and I do
• 33:52
  it long. He goes He's looking at me like, what are you doing,
• 33:57
  dude, No, that's not it. I'm like, yeah it is.
• 34:00
  So then I have two friends from work that are well. One's a
• 34:02
  math teacher. So I texted her and I'm like, what is this?
• 34:06
  She goes, Oh, it's common core math. I'm like, what is
• 34:07
  it? She goes, oh, yeah, we changed this ship like five
• 34:10
  years ago. I'm like, why where have you been? Yeah? I
• 34:14
  got to go back to school to teach him how to do his school.
• 34:16
  No, you don't do not have vision the same way anymore. You need
• 34:19
  to catch up second grade math during COVID almost broke. The only thing I
• 34:22
  divide now is a fucking restaurant check and that's easy. How many cards you
• 34:27
  got, I'll pick one. The computer does a form of divide. That
• 34:34
  was one of my favorite games, credit card roulette. Oh yeah, everyone
• 34:37
  at that table throws in a card and they say like, hey, here's
• 34:40
  all eight of them. You pick one. Don't tell us. I don't
• 34:44
  want you to do it here. I want you to after you charge the
• 34:46
  card and then you come back. Is that common? Not common? But
• 34:51
  I've done it a few times. Uh. And I always like, take
• 34:54
  the AMX metal card, no matter what, I just I just gravit it
• 35:00
  right to it. And I'm like, oh, lucky. You see,
• 35:02
  that's funny. That's funny. You say that because I thought it was because
• 35:06
  I have just a messed up name, and I thought, I'm not going
• 35:08
  to go through all eight cards and look at your name. I thought people
• 35:10
  were looking at the names. But you're saying is because it's the silver Amax
• 35:15
  Okay, yeah, which by the way has the best points in all the
• 35:17
  airport one we're here's a plug for American Express if you want to read.
• 35:21
  Uh wow, are they sponsoring Turkey trot? I wish yeah, maybe maybe
• 35:28
  I will listening once once we hit five hundred thousand participants, they might be
• 35:32
  interested. I had the AMX black come by. Oh geez, yeah,
• 35:37
  you're a big spender. No, no, I didn't, it's not mine.
• 35:39
  No, I'm saying in a roulette. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah,
• 35:43
  yeah, that was fue There you go. I'll be like, yeah,
• 35:46
  you want me to call your concierge right now and uh and see how
• 35:50
  much you're gonna tip me. But uh yeah no, let's let's Yeah.
• 35:53
  The kids now though they're they're too shy to play it. Oh really Yeah,
• 35:58
  for the most part, I was introduced to it in New Orleans with
• 36:01
  a group well they don't vent each other now, which is like, well,
• 36:06
  yeah, which is brilliant because if you have the card with the points,
• 36:08
  yep, you take the tab and let everyone vent. I mean,
• 36:10
  as long as you're smart with your money and you're just not like blowing the
• 36:13
  Venmo money somewhere else. But that's how you do it at those points,
• 36:17
  Maybe I yes, do you concur I concurred here? There was arguments years
• 36:28
  ago. I remember reading like I've been in this business my whole life,
• 36:30
  so uh, if like I pay the tab, the three of us go
• 36:35
  out and I pay it and then I ask for cash from you, That's
• 36:37
  like not the right thing to do. Really, Yeah, Like that was
• 36:40
  like a big thing back back in the day. This is before credit cards
• 36:44
  were pretty much the main form of payment, and you're like, oh,
• 36:45
  what are you gonna do with it? It doesn't matter. It's his bill,
• 36:49
  you know, like whatever. If he wants to pay interest on that
• 36:51
  credit card, that's his own problem. But that was like a big conversation
• 36:53
  back But I would say, like twenty years ago, huh yeah, so
• 36:57
  somebody who paid with their credit card. Now, now this is before we
• 37:00
  have the cards too, so it's just a credit card. And then you
• 37:02
  know, say it's three hundred, you give me a hundred, You give
• 37:06
  me a hundred in cash. People would think that's taboo. Yeah yeah,
• 37:12
  that he's in bankruptcy court next day. Oh he kept that. That had
• 37:20
  Calamari really put him over. Yeah, I know, right, So what
• 37:24
  are someone? What do you want to rattle off real quick? All your
• 37:27
  sponsors shout out, shoot, I would love I would love to let me
• 37:34
  let me quickly find this because there's so many. But first I want to
• 37:37
  talk about the charities, because that's what it's for. And before he lists
• 37:40
  the sponsors. We just want to thank them immensely because thanks to the sponsors,
• 37:46
  every dollar in the past two years that we've made from the race entries
• 37:52
  were we've hit it. We've hit it. Yes, that's so exciting.
• 37:54
  So every dollar that you guys out there in the world spend on donations or
• 38:00
  race entries goes directly to our charities, which means all the overhead is covered
• 38:06
  by the sponsors. It's incredible. Wow, that's over sixteen thousand dollars this
• 38:09
  year to make the race happen, just to give you an idea of the
• 38:13
  number, which to me is ridiculous as a cost, but we're talking about
• 38:16
  one thousand, So that's before you donate. Correct. Yes, so we've
• 38:21
  got it. We need sixteen grand to make this event happen. And the
• 38:24
  biggest expense is the beautiful shirts. You see Tracy wearing and I'm wearing the
• 38:29
  one from the original your average crappy events, it's not cotten because performance race
• 38:37
  shirt if you will. Yeah, and you could do the girls V neck
• 38:42
  or so. There's three models. There's the unisex slash men's size that I'm
• 38:46
  wearing. There's the lady's version that tray over here, and then there's a
• 38:52
  youth version yep. And it's absolutely incredible because and you'll see them all over
• 38:59
  town that. Oh. I get so excited when I'm driving down Gulf Street
• 39:02
  or I'm over at i Know Dix, or I'm just at shop right and
• 39:06
  I see someone in a Turkey trushert. I'll walk up to them and I'll
• 39:08
  say, I'm a hugger. Can I have a hug? Because apparently in
• 39:12
  today's world it's weird if you just walk up to someone and give him a
• 39:14
  hug. Yeah, but I'm a hugger most people. Most people are okay
• 39:21
  with it because I'm already in my Turkey trutch shirt because that's just what I
• 39:23
  wear. And it's just so fun to see the bright colors running around walking
• 39:29
  around. I'm surprised I've never met her before. I've only been here a
• 39:32
  little while. I know, but I know you run in the same circles.
• 39:37
  Yeah, you run. We run in the same circles. I think
• 39:38
  we'll make it happen. We'll make it up, so Blake on the show,
• 39:42
  Come on now, Oh Ben, Yeah, he's a good guy.
• 39:46
  I I actually met him at the mcvoy's Halloween party a couple of years ago,
• 39:52
  and he was there, and this poor guy, when you're the mayor,
• 39:54
  you're always on oh yeah. And I was just like, hey,
• 39:58
  let's let's not let's not talk paul it, let's not do anything. Let's
• 40:00
  just hang out, good trunk, have fun. And my poor friend that
• 40:04
  came in from California started grilling on politics. Oh jeez, stop. But
• 40:09
  he handled it like a professional politician would. We were we were in agreement
• 40:15
  on one, well not we were greeting on plenty of stuff, but like
• 40:16
  the big old one. No, the one was the masking of the kids
• 40:22
  in the schools. And it was this was like, we did it December.
• 40:27
  We did December of twenty twenty one. So we did the podcast and
• 40:31
  we didn't really talk about it on air, but off air we were like,
• 40:35
  he's like, but there's nothing he could do. He's like, it's
• 40:37
  out of it. That's actually out of my control. Super ten into the
• 40:39
  schools. I can't he goes. But I hate it. I hate sending
• 40:43
  my kids off, you know. And it was a weird time, it
• 40:47
  really was. It really was. We were lucky, We were lucky our
• 40:51
  kids didn't go into school yet so yeah, yeah, we got We bought
• 40:55
  the house at the perfect time. We moved into city. Our neighbors were
• 40:59
  forced to hang out with us and get to know us, because until you
• 41:02
  wrangled up the first few, right, that's right. I thought I was
• 41:06
  so aggressive, Like fifty easy, fifty people have been hanging with me the
• 41:08
  whole time, but they could no longer send their kids to hockey or soccer
• 41:14
  or swimming or rowing. Nothing they had with the people. And then we
• 41:21
  were like, hey, we'll put the solo stove here. We'll sit here,
• 41:23
  and you sit there, and you sit there, and you sit there,
• 41:25
  and we'll bring another twenty families. Here's another solo stove. Yeah,
• 41:30
  marshmallows from Afar. Can we just we turn it everyone? Yeah? It
• 41:34
  was great. It was awful community building in that way. I mean again,
• 41:37
  there was all the school stuff was a nightmare. Yeah, I know,
• 41:42
  you know, everybody did the best they could, and I'm so glad
• 41:45
  to be on the other side of it. I couldn't imagine like just being
• 41:49
  a leader of whatever, anything, anything and just trying to like explain to
• 41:54
  everybody what you've been explained to yourself by someone above you, right, and
• 42:00
  it's like, well, what do you need? Don't have a choice.
• 42:00
  Like, I'm not a big LaMotte fan, but I thought he handled it
• 42:04
  pretty well, you know, And we were right next to New York where
• 42:07
  it got bad and whatever. I'm like, you know what, at the
• 42:09
  end of the day, there was no right answer. Somebody was going to
• 42:13
  be really mad at you, no matter. But anytime you make a decision,
• 42:16
  half the population hates you. Anytime you're elected, half the population hates
• 42:22
  you. And that was at a time when just everyone was so scared,
• 42:25
  so emotions were so high. It was if you couldn't turn the TV on
• 42:30
  without fucking in your face, you know, it was just okay, well
• 42:35
  you can. You just need to turn the TV onto the correct channel.
• 42:37
  Not that not back then South Park is great family guy. Yeah. Yeah.
• 42:42
  Then then then what happens? It goes to commercial. No, no,
• 42:45
  no, sorry, I don't actually pay for TV service. He went
• 42:51
  to college in two thousand and four. That's the difference. I still like
• 42:54
  my clicker, your phone. Don't have your phone. There's an app for
• 43:01
  that. So I'm going to jump into the sponsors. Okay, yeah,
• 43:06
  I got to do some shout outs. So first of all, beer because
• 43:07
  free beer is part of running Nepco, New England Brewing Company. Amazing,
• 43:12
  Rob at Nepko is so generous, and Marty my neighbor, is phenomenal.
• 43:16
  And also Trivis. Trivis is going to come back this year. They were
• 43:20
  there last year. Oh my goodness, they're so good. And then and
• 43:24
  then going down the list, there's really good. Oh my goodness, I
• 43:30
  love that, and it's yeah, it's good. Acadia is a design construction
• 43:36
  for households and things. Zeiss is more of the commercial side. Dick's Sporting
• 43:44
  Goods is a huge sponsor. You're actually doing a packet early packet pickup on
• 43:49
  Saturday, so it's yeah. So is that like a local guy that runs
• 43:52
  that store or No, it's corporate. Really, its corporate. So my
• 43:57
  contact is I'm kind of but you know, I'm not humble, So let's
• 44:04
  go that he knows how to schmooze. Well. It actually came through a
• 44:09
  few of the previous relationships at the Milford Little League and also through Milford United
• 44:15
  Soccer Club, both great organizations for kids to get out and be active,
• 44:19
  which is good and any study you want to read get your kids active.
• 44:23
  So then they connect me with Dix, and Dix is like, yes,
• 44:25
  we'd love this. It's so cool that a big corporate entity like Dix wants
• 44:30
  to make a difference in a smaller local way and offer up their store for
• 44:35
  us to do a packet pick up on a Saturday. So we're gonna have
• 44:37
  tables, have people, everything coming up. It's what is that six days
• 44:42
  away? Which is fun. Real Estate Matters two three is a cool guy
• 44:46
  that just goes out and does a lot of real estate Warrior consulting. Carolyn
• 44:51
  Auger and her Cole World Banker team. I'm reading off the list because it's
• 44:53
  amazing how many we have. Caroly, friend of mine, Carolyn Auger is
• 44:58
  phenomenal. Actually, her husband Bob is the one that I got connected with
• 45:01
  randomly through my friend in Minnesota who's a real estate guy. And Bob is
• 45:06
  the one who unfortunately had to drive me around from multiple offens to search through.
• 45:10
  That was just the last weekend. Did you have a bodily in the
• 45:14
  car? No, but his ear drums might have popped because of my at
• 45:19
  the time one year old Zoe, who would scream and go crazy as we're
• 45:23
  going from house to house to house as my wife is working at the Orange
• 45:27
  office and I'm with Bob in his at the time. I think it was
• 45:30
  like a Yukon or something, or a talloe and I was like, Bob,
• 45:35
  I can smell it. We got we got to pull over, buddy,
• 45:37
  we got to pull over. I need to change a diver. So
• 45:39
  there he is. He pops the drug. I changed a diaper in the
• 45:42
  back of his car. Poor real estate guy is like, who did I
• 45:45
  get set up with? But I bought the house next to his best friend,
• 45:49
  who's Marty from Nevgo, And that's how I from the house. Yeah.
• 45:52
  So, Carolin Auger and team are great. Active Health, which is
• 45:58
  chiropractic, acupuncture, sports medicine, amazing. Dark Stone Digital I was telling
• 46:01
  you the story earlier. He's our local Milford horror video game developer. Super
• 46:07
  cool. Trining Point Wealth is amazing. They're bringing stuff to the to the
• 46:10
  raffle. We're still looking for raffle stuff. If you know, people will
• 46:15
  do that work. M and T Bank is phenomenal. They hepped out quite
• 46:16
  a bit with our golf tournament we did last year. We've got another golf
• 46:21
  tournament coming up May thirteenth. I will definite about that and it's super fun.
• 46:25
  And then play I mean, I love go other places, but the
• 46:31
  packages that they have and the support that that team provides, it's phenomenal.
• 46:36
  It's phenomenal. So that's great. Great tournament course, great tournament course.
• 46:39
  They do, awesome food, you have fun. They let Nebco come in
• 46:44
  and give free beer to everybody throughout the whole tournament. Come on, what
• 46:46
  do you do when you play golf? You drink all You drink beer and
• 46:51
  you you wait for the people get out of the way. Sorry, I
• 46:53
  drink bevas. That's what I meant. I don't have another one. I
• 46:59
  know we're out of beer already. And then Sherry Galina it's the real estate
• 47:04
  Shoreline Marketing Solutions dive bar. I'm gonna go rapid five bars, Shoreline Family
• 47:08
  Chiropractic with doctor p New England home Mortgage with Aaron and Jesse winners, which
• 47:15
  is the odd new this year. Super excited about that. Scratch baking and
• 47:21
  Leslie has been incredible. Leslie has gone around and she she talked to so
• 47:25
  many different people. Leslie is the reason that stone Bridge is involved, but
• 47:31
  she's got his brilliant marketing idea. She goes on to some website and prints
• 47:36
  out a thousand little card says, hey, bring this into Scratch for one
• 47:38
  free cookie. Thanks for being part of the Turkey Trot who in the history
• 47:43
  of life has gone to Scratch and only women's women's wellness stone Bridge West Haven
• 47:52
  Swim Club, a comic Atomic Kids Studio, Nate Plates, Michelle Regazzoni and
• 47:58
  Associates, Milford Body Therapy, Bright Horizons, Milestones Behavioral Service, Archaolo Shoes,
• 48:06
  athleta iPrint inks at this. The guy who's done all the shirts,
• 48:08
  done all the yard signs awesome green Power Monitor. It's my company, not
• 48:14
  really getting anything out of it other than my time. And then a bunch
• 48:16
  of supports like Milford United Soccer Club that I mentioned, the Milford Education Foundation.
• 48:22
  They have a robotics club called Mojo, which is super amazing, and
• 48:25
  then tws the Wilbar Society, and they like to say improving life for all
• 48:30
  while living our best lives. And that's something that's the street that I'm on.
• 48:34
  We just like to do good in the world. So in your third
• 48:37
  year, now that's all you got. I know I need to do better.
• 48:40
  If I could get some money out of DD will make it happen.
• 48:46
  But I think Viva's on the list. They're on the hit list. It's
• 48:52
  super amazing, and as Tracy mentioned earlier, we've been able the first two
• 48:54
  years to get enough corporate sponsors slash funding. My wife does know about so
• 49:00
  that all of the race registrations and all of the donations on the website go
• 49:05
  to charity, which is amazing. It's been twenty eight thousand dollars in two
• 49:07
  years, a little thing that we just decided to start, and this year
• 49:12
  we're already over twenty one thousand and we're shooting for thirty. It's going to
• 49:15
  be super cool. We've gotten so many cars. Is there like a deadline
• 49:19
  to register or you can register that day? You can register the day up
• 49:22
  and get a nightmare for me? Discourage same day registration. We discourage,
• 49:29
  but will accept more. Honestly, I don't Thanksgiving? Is there any food
• 49:36
  at the so or just beer? Leslie from Scratch donates a ton of food
• 49:40
  for the volunteers. Good morning of Yeah, so if you want to help,
• 49:44
  we don't promise any food. We don't have any vendors. Curious Mission
• 49:47
  barbecue. I see the sign right, there's people cool they're going to bring
• 49:50
  their big tank truck. Oh are they? And they're going to set that
• 49:52
  up. It's not like any food comes out of it, but they're they're
• 49:55
  providing a bunch of donations. Nice, so the raffle, it's just a
• 50:00
  super good time. Yeah. So I tell people to bring their own water,
• 50:04
  bring their own food, bring their own powerballers, just because I can't.
• 50:07
  I can't be responsible for that. But whatever. That's trying to drink
• 50:10
  too much the night before. I mean, that's your choice. Is that
• 50:15
  how you get rid of a head and over? Yes? You did?
• 50:17
  You not play high school football? I did, do you? Yeah?
• 50:21
  So what did you do on Saturday morning after your Friday night game? You
• 50:23
  went, you ran laps and you ran sprints. That's what my coach did.
• 50:28
  He's like, the best way to get over an injury, injury is
• 50:30
  to run through it. Go and then you're doing killers or you're doing last
• 50:35
  Yeah. Well we were fucking seventeen, right, So maybe it's a little
• 50:42
  different. Maybe you sign up for the three mile and you end up turning
• 50:45
  around at the one mile. I'm still running in my head at like nine
• 50:47
  in the morning, just like but like in my job, and we're really
• 50:52
  busy in the summer, Like it's it's crazy. Like I'll get home at
• 50:54
  like three in the morning, and you know, I kind of got to
• 50:57
  decompress a little bit. I'll get the bed by four or and like it's
• 51:00
  I call them nightmares because it's just all my dreams are just never catching up.
• 51:07
  At the bar, it's just like ten deep and I'm like just trying
• 51:10
  to yeah, yeah, like where's Yeah, what the hell, man,
• 51:15
  I don't want to dream about this ship. I don't want to dream about
• 51:19
  other stuff. But that's the thing. You're not really committed until you start
• 51:22
  dreaming about it. And that's I've been I've been at the same company for
• 51:25
  ten five years with you. Like I just it was kind of like a
• 51:30
  not a dream, like you know, a vision, but I thought about
• 51:34
  doing it and then I was like in my head when I was sleeping,
• 51:36
  I was thinking about it, I said, fuck it, let me do
• 51:37
  it. When it happened, Yeah, when you start working somewhere and when
• 51:42
  you start referring to it as we or us and you start having dreams,
• 51:46
  that's when you know you're committed. And that's when you know, So what's
• 51:51
  your business talk about it a little bit. Oh uh, if you want,
• 51:54
  if you know, yeah, it's fine. It's a it's an energy
• 51:58
  management company, very renewed green power monitor. We're part of a larger organization
• 52:02
  called D and V SO d and V is thirteen thousand employees. We're about
• 52:07
  three hundred. We're a global company based out of Barcelona. I take care
• 52:10
  of North America from the CEO of North America. We've got thirty people and
• 52:15
  it's all about monitoring, managing data and information and controlling plants of renewable power
• 52:22
  plants, so solar, wind, energy storage all. I'm a tree hunker,
• 52:27
  not going to get no I'll hug anything that will ex warned. And
• 52:34
  it's wonderful because I was hug Foker amount of haccer. But but I've been
• 52:44
  doing it for over ten and a half years and it's absolutely wonderful. We're
• 52:46
  we're one of the top three globally in what we do is very niche because
• 52:52
  not many people invest in billion dollar renewable power plants, but the ones that
• 52:55
  do know us. And it's absolutely wonderful to wake up and feel like if
• 53:00
  it's a job that you love and you're doing things that you enjoy. It's
• 53:02
  not really a job. And why would you ever think about retirement. I'm
• 53:06
  way too young for that. But why would you ever think about retirement when
• 53:08
  you are excited to get up and get on the phone and talk to people.
• 53:12
  And it's what I do for a living. I'm a professional BS sir.
• 53:15
  I can talk to anyone for anything. You're not. And those guys,
• 53:19
  no, it's honest. It's honest because you want to make the world
• 53:22
  a better place, and you want to make this power plant work. And
• 53:25
  it's not just let's sell something and make it work for two months or six
• 53:30
  months, like, No, we're going to be there for thirty five years
• 53:32
  as this solar farm is running or this wind farm is running. Your professional
• 53:37
  opinion, are we in line for a energy crisis in the next fifteen years
• 53:44
  twenty or is with what you do renewable energy, you know you're going to
• 53:51
  alleviate those stresses of relying on oil and fossil fuels. I don't normally talk
• 53:58
  business after three or four VIVA, but you had two. Oh that was
• 54:04
  on show. We talked for a while before it started. I think that
• 54:10
  there's a lot of work to be done. I think there's a lot of
• 54:14
  risk. I think we need to continue to do more, but I do
• 54:17
  think there's a path forward. There is a route forward. Now is it
• 54:21
  guaranteed. Absolutely not. I think we need to change a lot of things
• 54:27
  in the opinions. And I'm not a fan of subsidizing electrical generation, but
• 54:34
  that's across the board. That's not just for solar on your roof or solar
• 54:38
  in a field or a wind farm. It's also for oil drilling. That's
• 54:42
  also for conventional generation. If we cut subsidies across the board for everybody,
• 54:49
  sorry, renewables would be way more cost effective. But there's so many lobbyists.
• 54:52
  The government is so crazy on spending money here and focusing on this,
• 54:57
  And I'm buddy buddy here and buddy buddy there, and I don't care what
• 55:00
  your opinions are, and I'm just going to continue to support this. It's
• 55:05
  not going to be broken, and I don't have visions of that being broken.
• 55:07
  But I do realize that if we can make clean energy, it's going
• 55:12
  to be much better. And yes, there's costs to the batteries and electric
• 55:15
  cars, and there's cost to the silicone. It's like a big talking point
• 55:19
  the electric cars. But but there's also cost to build combustion engines, right,
• 55:23
  and there's cost to those emissions. And if you add it all up
• 55:28
  and you get rid of subsidies again across the board, right, it's a
• 55:31
  no brainer. Unfortunately, there's a lot of I don't want to use the
• 55:36
  word fake news, there's a lot of misinformation out there say, oh,
• 55:39
  batteries are so bad. What are you going to do when it fails?
• 55:43
  Like what do you do with a junked car when it fails? Like what
• 55:46
  do you do with all these other chemicals and things that you're throwing in your
• 55:51
  grass, throwing in the ocean all over the place? I don't know.
• 55:54
  I'm I'm a tree hugger. I've been in this space for my entirety.
• 55:59
  I'm very biased. I drove, I drive the floor every year. And
• 56:02
  two years ago was that big storm that came across Washington, d C.
• 56:07
  And all the cars got stuck and a bunch of we actually were smart enough
• 56:12
  saw the weather and drove down and beat the storm to North Carolina before we
• 56:15
  got stuck corridor there. And you know, I go on the internet,
• 56:22
  I always say it's a cesspool. It is what it is, but you
• 56:27
  know, there were some good points about like, you know, electric cars
• 56:30
  in cold climate, you know, like so there were cars on that highway
• 56:35
  that got stuck. You know, every car was stuck and the batteries died
• 56:38
  and the people had the you know, no one's coming to help you,
• 56:40
  you know for the Yeah, how long have we had electric cars around?
• 56:45
  Yeah? No, nor ten years whatever? How long have we had combustion
• 56:47
  cars? There needs to be evolution in the table. Well, that's what
• 56:51
  the point I was getting at, Like where do you where do you think?
• 56:54
  Like, you know, the charging stations popped up at the mall,
• 56:58
  you know, like the Tesla ones, and now outside of Target there's you
• 57:00
  know, regular ones for the other cars. And the Tesla sharging stations are
• 57:06
  a great example though, because not only is Elon must crazy, it's not
• 57:10
  going to figure out who I am? Ever, it's fine, but they
• 57:15
  also purchase solar city and they have solar everywhere. So the majority of the
• 57:19
  energy going into those charging stations is supposed to be renewable. Now with the
• 57:24
  grid we have today, Yes, it's not going from sunlight solar panel straight
• 57:30
  car. There's transitions, there's storage, there's different things happening, but the
• 57:35
  generation amount that they're doing versus the usage amount that they're doing, the ideas
• 57:39
  that they're offsetting it. And now we need transmission distribution, we need better
• 57:45
  storage, we need technology to evolve. You look at a laptop. A
• 57:47
  laptop has been the same for X number of years. Physically, it's a
• 57:52
  keyboard and a stream. Oh the iPad came out, and then what do
• 57:57
  they do? They added a keyboard. Okay, guys, it's pretty much
• 58:00
  the same thing. It's just now it's disconnected. Okay, fine, Now
• 58:04
  I want to see the evolution of what happens to storage. And I don't
• 58:07
  know if that's batteries. I don't know if that's pumping water up a hills
• 58:10
  so that it can come down when you need energy generation. There's all kinds
• 58:15
  of opportunities out there. One company is lifting weights. They're literally lifting weights
• 58:20
  above a massive hill or hole that they drilled so that when they have excess
• 58:24
  generation from the solar wind, whatever, you can lift it up. When
• 58:30
  they need it, they lower the weight and we're talking many many tons.
• 58:35
  Is it going to succeed? Probably not, But it's a creative idea and
• 58:38
  I'm all about that. So let's see how we can get creative and use
• 58:43
  this American ingenuity that we're supposed to be famous for and not letting trying to
• 58:46
  catch up to us to create something any thoughts trace, so pay grade.
• 58:54
  I can't call that. No, no, no, you can jump in.
• 58:58
  Like I said, I don't like to tog work so many vas in
• 59:01
  but I am passionately a tree hugger. I believe that clean energy is the
• 59:06
  solution forward. And unfortunately I don't have solar on my roof yet. But
• 59:10
  now that I have a new roof as of this I got, I'm in.
• 59:15
  Yeah, yeah, that's surprising. He doesn't have solar. You know.
• 59:17
  I had to get a new roof first. We had to replace the
• 59:21
  windows. We had to replace the roof. We had to spray foam insulate
• 59:24
  the house because it wasn't insulated. There's a lot of things to do.
• 59:29
  You buy a money pit. No, I bought a beautiful home. It
• 59:32
  turns out that I have spent quite a bit of money. Yeah, nineteen
• 59:37
  twenties. Yeah, yeah, that area for sure. But it's beautiful.
• 59:39
  It's beautiful, lovely house. Now the windows opening closed, you can see
• 59:44
  it if you pick up your race packet. Let's jump into that. So
• 59:46
  there's early packet pick up on Saturday at Dick's Sporting Goods. There's early packet
• 59:52
  pickup at doctor Paterna's Shoreline Chiropractic, right across from Adam'smoking. He's he was
• 1:00:00
  league coach. I think, oh, yeah, he's great. His son,
• 1:00:05
  his son, I can say his name right, Miles, Yeah,
• 1:00:07
  phenomenal picture. Yeah. I have to give him a hard time of how
• 1:00:09
  many shutouts he has. He's like, oh that was a one hit.
• 1:00:13
  That was a two hit. And I look at his dad. It's like
• 1:00:15
  you were doing the books, weren't you, mat Yeah, yeah, I
• 1:00:16
  saw that hit to the second basement. That wasn't a hit, but second
• 1:00:22
  basement, Yeah, there was a there was shoot. Yeah. I hope
• 1:00:25
  he's not listening. There was that. So that's packet pick up on Sunday
• 1:00:30
  and then Tuesday, Wednesday before the race is at my house because it's just
• 1:00:36
  so many people sign up. We've had over three hundred people signed up in
• 1:00:38
  the last two weeks both of the first two years, which means I'm sitting
• 1:00:42
  at my computer printing out things as they're walking up, saying, oh,
• 1:00:45
  can I get my bib and my shirt and I lack it, and I'm
• 1:00:49
  like, oh, when'd you register? How about forty five minutes ago?
• 1:00:51
  Give me a second on inside print some stuff out and it just they don't
• 1:00:55
  understand how difficult it is for those procrastinators. Yep, do you guys,
• 1:01:00
  Like I know the feeling with like buying shirts and all that, and it's
• 1:01:05
  all the logistics. Oh sadly Seth. Seth has made it so much better
• 1:01:08
  over at iPrint, because this is the first year we're working with him.
• 1:01:12
  He's phenomenal. But he's telling me, hey, we put in the first
• 1:01:15
  or we were nine hundred and seventy five shirts on the first order, which
• 1:01:19
  is incredible to show the growth. And then he says, I can put
• 1:01:23
  in another order on Monday, just to make sure that everybody gets it,
• 1:01:28
  because one of the biggest complaints in the first two years is that only these
• 1:01:31
  people got shirts, and only these people got Everyone is going to want the
• 1:01:35
  shirts. Sorry, Like, come on, you didn't register until twenty four
• 1:01:38
  hours before the event. I am trying to focus on getting money to charity.
• 1:01:43
  I'm not focusing on ordering these extra twelve dollars shirts for you. Right,
• 1:01:46
  So, oh no, it's a pain in the ass. Pain in
• 1:01:50
  the ass, how it is? I do? I do? I mean
• 1:01:52
  you ever thought about like just selling the shirts, like buy an extra and
• 1:01:57
  selling them there. Yeah, there's a lot of opportunity for growth and improvement.
• 1:02:02
  Yeah, I think that every so since I got involved, So I
• 1:02:07
  ran, ran in quotes, I strolled it the first year. It was
• 1:02:12
  a blast. And then I got involved last year and I helped tour and
• 1:02:15
  had so much fun and we kind of spitballed some ideas for this year,
• 1:02:22
  which we've implemented. But I think that we can really blow it out and
• 1:02:28
  make it even bigger and better next year. And we have a ton of
• 1:02:30
  ideas, so I think we start planning early, we can really do great
• 1:02:35
  things. And community involvement is key. We've heard what people said. We've
• 1:02:39
  got a big twenty five foot inflatable arch. The rum runners are coming.
• 1:02:44
  I mean, come on, they're going to start music at eight am.
• 1:02:46
  Those guys are going to be great guys. A dance party, come down.
• 1:02:51
  I talk about them more. Yeah, you know, with all the
• 1:02:53
  local stuff I do. So even if this guy listening from you know,
• 1:02:58
  Minnesota, he's going to know who the rum Runners. Oh for sure,
• 1:03:00
  Johnny's coming on in the first week of the summer too, to talk to
• 1:03:04
  I think they have I know they're just in the recording studio, but he
• 1:03:07
  said he's got some big stuff coming up, so you come on show.
• 1:03:09
  Yeah. They're so great. They're so great. They're really fun. During
• 1:03:14
  COVID, they came over and did a block party in my deeper's driveway and
• 1:03:17
  I just moved here. I didn't know what was going on. Oh my
• 1:03:21
  goodness, there was penmenal. Was that legal? No? I didn't think
• 1:03:24
  somebody but if you go into COVID legal, No, No, we're twelve
• 1:03:30
  feet Oh yeah, you're all yeah, you're all. Yeah, you just
• 1:03:32
  have to walk up to the hie. Right, I can't touch you.
• 1:03:37
  No, it's the inflatable balls. That'd be a fun block party. But
• 1:03:44
  yeah, it's just they're they're phenomenal people. So we're gonna have a good
• 1:03:46
  time and love music, free beer, lots of opportunities to either run or
• 1:03:52
  low level exercise thing. You can do whatever you want to do. Some
• 1:03:55
  last year eleven yeah, it was like five eleven. Yeah, but I
• 1:04:01
  just got to go home. Followers like, if you call them groupies if
• 1:04:05
  you will. They're like, hey, can I just donate and hang out
• 1:04:08
  and not run? Of course please all about the journey absolutely, but yeah,
• 1:04:13
  they're supposed to play from eight to eight forty five, and then we
• 1:04:15
  do announcements and let's let the sponsor speak and have seriously safety conversations because it's
• 1:04:21
  a lot of people. We're staying on sidewalks. We're gonna be safe.
• 1:04:26
  We're not closing down any streets, and it's a beautiful run, so we
• 1:04:29
  want to respect all the people's yards. And then when they start playing again
• 1:04:32
  at nine to twenty, whenever they get warm again in the warming house,
• 1:04:36
  then they go until eleven. And Jim was saying, just just do on
• 1:04:41
  Wednesday. He's like, yeah, man, if there's a big crowd,
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  everyone's comfortable playing later, we'll keep going. Just don't tell the city on
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  the permits. And it's gonna be a good time. So hopefully we get
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  a lot of people, hopefully have fun. Maybe you'd take a longer break
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  that morning because everyone's going to be over at the Ndatorium instead of Stone and
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  then they'll go over to snow Bridge later. No, No, we're sold
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  out that day. Oh, it's a ticket. Yeah, well it's not
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  a ticket. It's the reservations only though. Well you come into the bar,
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  but it's it's just a you know, what I found over the years
• 1:05:13
  is Thanksgiving just grows. I'm surprised more restaurants aren't open. Yeah, the
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  Wednesday before, as I recalled during my call you, it used to be
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  the night was to see your friends that you have. Yeah, it's a
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  really nights are and weekend yeah, which my parents hated. Yeah, because
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  then you show up Thanksgiving morning. Yeah, but what better way to get
• 1:05:34
  over a hangover than do a turkey drive? That's it. Yeah, But
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  now now I just see, you know, we were so busy. It's
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  funny because you'll see, like, you know, parties of twenty families.
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  Yeah, some families. Yeah, and they don't hate each other, you
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  know, and they come in and they just but it's clean. They're like,
• 1:05:51
  they get along for an hour and a half and then they go their
• 1:05:54
  separate ways. Right. I feel like you should end the YouTube version of
• 1:05:58
  this with the Saturday Night Live a Dell version of Thanksgiving. Yeah, they're
• 1:06:03
  just yelling at each other and all of a sudden, The S and L
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  version of Adela starts calling. She starts tumbling because the wind's too strong.
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  But anyways, yes, Thanksgiving is challenging for a lot of people. It's
• 1:06:18
  nice to start with a run and a beer, give back to the community.
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  A beer, he said, beer. There will be plenty if you
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  so. Our beers available before the run. No, no comment, no
• 1:06:34
  comment, no comment on the beer. The beer, So bring your bloody
• 1:06:41
  questions about what one is talking about adding a bloody Mary bar to the event,
• 1:06:46
  and this person was talking about a Midwest bloody Mary. So we're not
• 1:06:49
  talking about tomato, juice and vodka. We're talking about primarily shrimp meat salery
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  like slim gyms, hot dog, two or three pieces of bacon, cheese,
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  and a side of cheese, curtsy and then we'll splash, we'll fill
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  it with vodka. We'll splash some. But no, that's not part of
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  the event. That's informally. What's uh Minnesota? What's the food there?
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  Oh gosh, like what's bad? So I'm very Scandinavian Swedish Norwegian. My
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  mom is a big Ludafisk fan. And I don't know if you know a
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  ludifisk or not, but it is like a white fish that has lie applied
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  to it and stored so it turns into a gelatine, and then when you
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  cook it in the house, your house smells awful for months. So my
• 1:07:42
  dad was strategic enough to find the one bar in Minneapolis that would cook it
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  during the season, Jake's on Northeast, and we would take the family there
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  because I don't want to smell in my house anymore. That's That's the only
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  Minnesotan Scandinavian thing I can think of, because just like the rest of the
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  country, we steal food from everywhere else. If someone shows up and says,
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  oh, let's have some Connecticut food, like, oh, do you
• 1:08:06
  want Indian? Do you want Chinese? Do you want to get the lobster
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  rolls from Milford? Invented in Milford, the hot buttered one. I've heard
• 1:08:16
  that. I've also heard that lobster rolls were invented in me the band style.
• 1:08:24
  Yeah, I love I love the Seas. We've had many a turkey
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  trap meeting over lunch at the Seas. Oh yeah, but the Minnesota food,
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  I don't know. Throw it on the bar. I can't get this
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  vision of what the frick you were eating that I don't want to google it,
• 1:08:45
  and you guys actually made it, like went to Jakes to go eat
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  it. We went to Jakes so my mom could order it something I was
• 1:08:51
  going to say. It was like they lay the big fishes. It's like
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  a serving and this is this is my mom. So she's like, in
• 1:09:00
  the world, it's like fucking fish jello gelatin. Oh yeah, yeah,
• 1:09:04
  because it's soaked in lie, like you're not supposed to eat that, and
• 1:09:09
  then they hose it off. How do they cook it? What's left?
• 1:09:12
  They boil it? I don't know they even have to cook it if it's
• 1:09:15
  immersed in lie. I'm not speaking ill of this restaurant. Maybe put the
• 1:09:20
  mic wave. I don't know I cook. No, I'm sure they do
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  something gourmet. I'm not in the kitchen. And my dad was smart enough
• 1:09:31
  to get it out of our house before I remembered what we were doing.
• 1:09:36
  So where does that fish come from? Wherever? In Europe? White fish?
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  I don't know. Huh No, I'm sure it's a breed of fish
• 1:09:45
  though, right. No, No, I mean it's just what you guys
• 1:09:47
  call it. Maybe it's caught. Is just the google this in correct me?
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  This is my childhood memories. It's just a spell it. So you're
• 1:09:57
  fine, that's great, but no to do is I know? I don't
• 1:10:00
  and uh yeah, it's just this nasty gelatine smelling thing. Other than that,
• 1:10:06
  what do you do? You put food on a barbecue that's that's Minnesota.
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  Yeah, or pizza in the oven? Yeah? Whatever, No,
• 1:10:16
  this is, this is going to be. This is going to be.
• 1:10:19
  You might have to cut the video. Now. I'm a big fan of
• 1:10:23
  Chicago deep dish pizza and that is not a New Haven style no pizza that
• 1:10:28
  is. See, I'm losing friends right now. No you're not. Maybe
• 1:10:31
  people are watching you dropping because that soup or whatever you want to call it.
• 1:10:36
  Jeffy with a fork, Oh my goodness. We drove to Minnesota.
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  Mnats out there. Do you go to Luminatis in Chicago? I don't know
• 1:10:45
  that one's deep it's one of like the top three, it's like one of
• 1:10:47
  the top three places there. Well, you can go to Chicago and even
• 1:10:49
  if it's not on the list, it's still going to be. I don't
• 1:10:53
  I love it? Yeah, we ordered a sausage one and it took and
• 1:10:57
  they explained to you, it's gonna take it while you got to be here
• 1:11:00
  for a while, and uh, I don't know it. I love it
• 1:11:05
  too, I do. It's different. I don't really consider it pizza,
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  right. Would you call it castrol? Yeah, it's like a castro.
• 1:11:13
  Oh if you're a Minnesota called it hot dish? Oh, what's a hot
• 1:11:16
  dish? Anything that's in the fridge in a dish on top? This this,
• 1:11:26
  This is what I want to hear about. I don't want to hear
• 1:11:27
  about some fish that becomes it's like a horn bugles on fungals. The word
• 1:11:35
  bugles. Put some crushed bugles on top. Oh my gosh, that's a
• 1:11:41
  hot dish in Memoriam. I don't know if Jimmy Wayne, I'm sure you
• 1:11:45
  never met him. He passed away a couple of years ago. But his
• 1:11:46
  favorite food was bugles with easy cheese, and he'd fill it. Is that
• 1:11:50
  the spree? Yeah, you fill the cone up? Yeah? So we
• 1:11:57
  had his uh you know, we had his after funeral. Let's home bridge
• 1:12:00
  and uh, we just put bugles and cheese was everywhere. Yeah. I
• 1:12:04
  hope people were bold enough to grab them and just do the mouth. Oh
• 1:12:08
  yeah, once once the beers and viva started flowing, that was going on.
• 1:12:13
  Yeah, that was great. See, that's that's the thing. When
• 1:12:15
  my when my funeral comes, which might not be too far away, I
• 1:12:18
  hope that there's Keke Stands. I hope there's Keke Stands at my funeral.
• 1:12:23
  And techno music. I spent a lot of time in Europe. I love
• 1:12:26
  euro techno, trans dance, anything that involves a foam machine, I'm in.
• 1:12:30
  I went to one foam party and I said, what the fuck am
• 1:12:33
  I doing here? Where was it Orlando? Yeah, it was at like
• 1:12:36
  some club and there was like it was like it was like a box and
• 1:12:40
  you still had your clothes. Yes, yes, unfortunate. It's a sham.
• 1:12:45
  It's a sham party in German future. I no, speaking of Germany,
• 1:12:51
  the Patriots lost ten to six, so think they they suck? I
• 1:12:57
  suck. I needed some more more points out of that run back. But
• 1:13:00
  oh Stevenson, Yeah yeah, No, No, I'm not gonna win this
• 1:13:03
  week. No. I have like seven Fantasy teams and I think I'm out
• 1:13:09
  of contention and all of them, which ridiculous. How many people have been
• 1:13:11
  hurt this year, I know, and we still have one team in our
• 1:13:14
  league. The poor forgot how to blog in he's got chubbed still starting every
• 1:13:18
  week the Pumpkin Pumpkin bar Panthers. And it's like these guys go down and
• 1:13:25
  there's like so many teams in the league. There's no one available really,
• 1:13:28
  unless you know there's the guy that's you know, got the waiver claim for
• 1:13:31
  well, the backup running back. Unless you're looking at like the Jets or
• 1:13:34
  the Vikings who have known what their third or fourth Yeah, you might get
• 1:13:41
  lucky. I don't know. I just got from my goodness. It wasn't
• 1:13:46
  even playing for LA was cut almost and then now he's starting for the Vikings.
• 1:13:51
  It's and I can't. I don't follow it that much. I mean,
• 1:13:54
  I like watch football every week, but like who's where and who's going
• 1:13:58
  to start, and like all the shows are but that's all they do.
• 1:14:00
  It's like they're based on it. I don't have time to watch that.
• 1:14:02
  Yeah. Yahoo Yahoo Sports is great because you open it up and at the
• 1:14:06
  top there's a red alert like this guy is no longer playing, this guy
• 1:14:11
  has retired, this guy tore his knee and is done for Oh, I
• 1:14:15
  will click recommended, yes, recommend it, recommend it done. I'm uh
• 1:14:18
  yeah, I don't know. I like the ones where you just click them.
• 1:14:21
  You know that you just click set the line up, just click it.
• 1:14:24
  Oh, and it like optimizes your team for like projected point. I
• 1:14:30
  have no Yaho's not that this is uh, I mean like four different fucking
• 1:14:33
  sites CBS, Yahoo, ESPN, and then to talk to my league manager
• 1:14:39
  because I need that button in my life. Get on that. Yeah,
• 1:14:42
  and you're listening. I don't. You're right though, I don't think you
• 1:14:45
  can do it. Yahoo. It's this one's NFL, NFL dot com one,
• 1:14:49
  and it just optimized and it just puts everyone that's smart. You still
• 1:14:55
  got to look at it and be like, well, you go with your
• 1:14:57
  guts. He's playing this on defense yet, right, you know what I
• 1:15:00
  mean? But no, I I'm not into it that much. But I
• 1:15:05
  am going to put a plug in. I have won the last two years,
• 1:15:10
  and with the first year, I went and used the winnings to go
• 1:15:13
  buy a trophy from some stinking website. So I have this four foot trophy
• 1:15:17
  behind me and all my zoom calls you bought your own off the side,
• 1:15:24
  Oh yeah, oh yeah, And that the rule was, Hey, whoever
• 1:15:27
  wins that year needs to buy the placard sign for the next team, and
• 1:15:30
  then and then I won. The next year, I was like, I'll
• 1:15:32
  buy the sun. It's still there. So I show up to dinner parties
• 1:15:35
  in the neighborhood. I put a centerpiece that was the last last place team.
• 1:15:42
  Gotta do something stupid, like a lot of these people, we haven't.
• 1:15:45
  We haven't gotten because it's typically the team you know that still starts Chubb
• 1:15:50
  But yeah, right, the guy that just stops cars start man. All
• 1:15:59
  right, well you I have so much fun. I'll be working, so
• 1:16:02
  think of it. We'll be thinking of you. Maybe join. You can
• 1:16:05
  join virtually and run in the morning between your four am shift that I'll swing
• 1:16:11
  by and say hi, and the way into work, though, please do
• 1:16:14
  I'm not sure what time I got to be. We start the setup around
• 1:16:15
  five am here it's yeah, oh all right, yeah, so I'll leave
• 1:16:18
  like fifteen to twenty minutes earlier, and I'll stop by and say oh.
• 1:16:21
  Tracy was asked to show up at six because she's been voluntold that she's known.
• 1:16:26
  Now, Tracy, are you cooking that day? No? No,
• 1:16:28
  We're going to my sisters. I'm in charge of nothing like I'm sure,
• 1:16:31
  i'll have to. I'll bring something, but yeah, it's gonna be pretty
• 1:16:33
  low key. So I'm really excited to spend the morning with all of Milford
• 1:16:38
  at the trick drive tour. What are you guys doing? For dinner?
• 1:16:42
  I go to my neighbor's house because I use all my neighbors and he's so
• 1:16:45
  nice. Last year he's like, oh, please bring your family, which
• 1:16:47
  he anticipated was for plus my dog, and I said, well, we've
• 1:16:50
  got a few people in town. He's like, oh, bring them all,
• 1:16:53
  bring them all all right? Well, so plus seventeen we all went
• 1:16:58
  over to his house and he was great. Became it's our own dining room
• 1:17:00
  space. It was wonderful. This year, it's a little bit smaller.
• 1:17:03
  The family from Texas is staying in Texas, are building our own home.
• 1:17:06
  But yeah, we'll still be a plus nine nice and we just go next
• 1:17:12
  door and he cooks something like seven birds, so that you try all kinds
• 1:17:15
  of different things. There's always a bonus bird. It's super fun, awesome,
• 1:17:19
  and that way I don't have to worry about it because I just do
• 1:17:21
  the trot and then yeah, well your wife is she had to cook.
• 1:17:26
  She probably at the trot. Oh. Oh, we did provide a charcuterie
• 1:17:31
  board that she found on Instagram. You're talking about social media that I'm so
• 1:17:34
  poor at. She found that, she goes, we're gonna make that.
• 1:17:38
  So she goes in the back, cuts out a piece of plywood, so
• 1:17:41
  it's half a sheet of plywood, you know, what is that? Six
• 1:17:45
  feet your feet or whatever, and she puts some food grade paper down,
• 1:17:49
  drew some lines on it, and then they just put all these fruits and
• 1:17:54
  vegetables and dips and everything, and they carried that from our house across the
• 1:17:59
  street over to the neighbors. It's all on video. It's hilarious, but
• 1:18:02
  it looks like an Instagram post. Yeah, because it's so beautiful, so
• 1:18:05
  much fun. Should do that again, I hope. So sorry, honey,
• 1:18:12
  I love you. You live in the house. I don't know if
• 1:18:15
  you have some inside info. No, no, I just do what I'm
• 1:18:17
  told. Okay, Well that's smart, yes, dear, right away?
• 1:18:21
  Yeah? All right, Well you guys, I'm sure you'll break you what
• 1:18:26
  your your goal was, thirty thousand. We're over nine hundred runners right now.
• 1:18:30
  We're shooting for one thousand, and we're over twenty one hundred in donations
• 1:18:32
  and we're shooting for thirty twenty one. Yes to join us? Yeah,
• 1:18:39
  yeah, I spread the word. I need to get a shirt for twenty
• 1:18:43
  five bucks. Come on. Yeah. If you would have registered earlier,
• 1:18:45
  it would have been much much cheaper. But twenty three fifty. Worry about
• 1:18:49
  that next year. I think the original price was twelve. Oh was it?
• 1:18:55
  Yeah? But people love to procrastinate and it makes my life much harder.
• 1:19:00
  You get more money out of it. Right to Tracy, Great seeing
• 1:19:08
  you again, Nice to meet you. We'll have a couple of vivas after
• 1:19:12
  we close this show out what I go next week? Oh? Next week?
• 1:19:15
  I got my buddy Pascual Is he bought uh full Full Circle Pizza in
• 1:19:23
  West Haven. You know what that is by the Bowling Alley. Yeah,
• 1:19:26
  yeah, So they closed and he does uh, he does meal prep that
• 1:19:31
  he started during COVID and it kind of took off on him. So he
• 1:19:34
  need his own kitchen. So he bought Full Circle and he's actually gonna make
• 1:19:38
  it a pizza place too, because well his name is passed well, so
• 1:19:41
  he kind of knows what he's doing and he's got around the restaurant in his
• 1:19:45
  blood. So he'll be on next Wednesday, and thanks again guys for coming
• 1:19:49
  on. Yeah, absolutely yes, gobble Gobble