February 8, 2025 • 49 mins
#BeAGoodFriend and check out episode #126 of #FeeneyTalksWithFriends featuring Helen Brower and Cesar Contreras.
It was great to talk with my #friends, Helen and Cesar!
Helen and Cesar ownSally and Bob’s Eatery.
We talked about:
Podcast sponsors (minute 2)
3 Keys (sponsored by West Hartford Lock) to owning a restaurant (minute 3)
Cesar’s favorite meal to cook (minute 4.30)
Carne Asada & Avocado Eggs Benedict (minute 6)
Helen is always happy! (minute 7)
Google reviews (minute 9)
Supporting Friends of Feeney (minute 10)
Brooke Goff (minute 11)
Cesar’s favorite restaurant and 4 dinner guests (minute 12.30)
Where in the World Wednesday - Mexico (minute 14)
Mariachi Band (minute 16)
Instagram pictures (minute 17)
Supporting The Miracle League (minute 18)
Buying and expanding Sally and Bob’s (minute 21)
The “Newlywed Game” (minute 22)
Favorite superhero (minute 28)
Favorite teacher (minute 29)
Crazy Questions (minute 30)
How did Friends of Feeney start? (minute 38)
Upcoming events (minute 40)
Recommendations (minute 41)
Playhouse on Park (minute 42)
Matt’s calendar of scenery photos (minute 43)
Shoutout to Tommy Ray’s Barbershop (minute 45)
Feeney’s favorite breakfast at Sally and Bob’s (minute 46)
Cesar’s homemade hot sauce (minute 47)
“Shout out to our customers!” (minute 49)
Podcast Sponsors:
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(00:00):
All right, all right.
It's tea time with friends at Sallyand Bob's.
This is good stuff.
This is Feeney talks with friends.
Episode 126 with some wonderful guests.
What's up? Cesar? Hi. How are you?
What's up? Helen? Hi. How are you?
We're at Sally and Bob's onten North Main Street.
(00:20):
Very excited.
This is my wonderful place to eat.
As you can see, we're going to sit downwith some good friends.
They're a little nervous right now.
How are you feeling?
Come on. A little nervous?
Yeah.
How long you been doing Sally and Bob's?
A little over eight years now.
Eight years?
Eight years?
Yep. A new eight years as well. Yeah.
(00:42):
That's great.
So just to review, last podcastwas episode 125, and we had Greg
and Chelsea on their Doing the ConnecticutBeer tour for a cancer free future.
They're at 11 different breweries.
That starts on February 1st.
So go back and check out Greg.
Look at that.
See that foam of the beer?
It's the shape of Connecticut.
Did you know? Yeah.
(01:02):
That's pretty cool, right?Yeah. It's nice.
I like it.What's your favorite beer? Says?
Modelo. Modelo? Yeah.
See, modelo might be on tour.All right. All right.
You got to go check it out. Check it out.
Again, my name is Eric Feeney, founderand president of Friends of Feeney.
Our mission is to helpchildren and families
in that need assistanceafter heartbreak or tragedy.
(01:23):
I use this podcastFini talks with friends,
and I talk to wonderful people inthe community that are doing great things.
And as you heard, the our friends herehave been in the community
for eight years.
I'm so excited.
So too.
Yeah.
We'll do some.
Some sponsors.
My sponsors are Direct Line Media,
(01:45):
The Fix, Evie Keating Agency Insurance,
Golf law Group,Luna Pizza, people's Bank, Parkville,
Market, float, 41, Maximum Beverageand West Hartford Lock.
With that being said, West Hartford Lock.
What are three keysthat make you great at your job?
Three keys.
I go first. Yeah. You go.
(02:07):
I think
building relationships with our customersand everybody who comes in here,
we try to welcome them in
form. Friendships.
Not just. They're not just customers.
Everyone who comes inand usually becomes a regular.
I know we just talked about that.
Who was our friend that you brought foodto when she sprained her ankle?
Patty Albee, Patty Albee,check out that podcast.
(02:30):
She's the,administrator of friends and family.
And we talked on that podcastabout how nice Helen was.
You want to go in about that?
Talk about that.
Patty's a good friend and a good person.
She does a lot for everyone.
She had fallen and hurt.
And her hurt her ankle.
So my husband and I were talkingabout something we could do for her.
(02:50):
And we knew she couldn't
get out of the house, so we decidedto make her favorite sandwich
and just drop it off for herso she could have it.
And she loved it.
She talked about it on the podcast, andI'm glad we get to talk about it again.
So that's one consistent,being a good friend.
It's all part of the motto,be a good friend.
Definitely. Yeah.
Two consistent.
(03:11):
Yeah. You know, being,
try to keep the way you have the one lineand keep it going.
Going and going same way, you know? Yeah.
Your meals are consistent.Yeah. They taste the same every time.
Yeah.
I make sure.
What's the trick about consistency?
You have to check everything.
You know,you have to be there all the time to check
(03:32):
everything. Yep.
To make sure everything is the right way.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Consistency.
Being a good friend.
And our final key.
I think we know what you're doing.
Know what I mean?
You like what you're doingand you really love it.
(03:52):
I think it's easier for you.
You know, you don't you don'tget too stressed because you like it.
Yeah. You're
my, my
best pay is when the customersgo out and smile and text me.
Everything was delicious.
You know, the
make you feel very good.
Yeah. So this.
That's good. Yeah. Keep it consistent.Yeah.
(04:14):
I hear.
I mean, I was just here, everyone. Thanks.
Everything was great.
Is. It's common, common phrasehere at Salem.
You feel.
You make you feel very well.
Very, you know, nice.
It's nice that people love it.
Yeah. Where'd you learn how to cook?
Here.
Oh, nice. In a diner.
I was actually. Was goal wrong down there.
(04:34):
Oh, nice. Yeah, that's. There's one.
Nice.
And what's your favorite meal to make?
Mexican food. Mexican food.
So best serve my.
Oh, nice. Yeah.Can I put that on the menu?
We have it.
Oh. You do? Those are.
We do. On the assumption sometimes.
Gotcha. Yeah.
Speaking of the specials, I just hadthe Kani asada steak and avocado eggs.
(04:58):
Benny. Oh, that was phenomenal. Thank you.
What's the. What's the secret?
The Chipotle day hollandaise sauce. Yes.
I have no recipes.
I just make it.
And the way I think it taste good
is how I bring it to people. You know?
And a lot of people love that.
And never all the ingredients we haveis fresh.
(05:20):
Yeah.
So the meatI have a guy that he he cut the meat
like from fresh for the big pieceand you do it and everything come out.
I asked Helen on Sunday,what's carne asada mean?
Carne asada is,
I use a special cut and you gotta cut this
different weight.
(05:41):
Okay, so, you know, everybody in the chefssay when you kind of
go, you kind of something.
When there's a line like this,you got to go against the line.
So is what we do with my, my meat okay.
And it gets very tender no matter how welldone it is, is not going to get tough.
It's going to be so tender.
(06:01):
No, it was greatall the way through. The meat is the
the key.
It might be my new favorite meal and I'mwe're going to see my favorite meal later.
But that Carmen carne asadais giving it a run for its money.
What's the trick with hollandaise sauce?
Is that just mayonnaise and egg whipped,or am I wrong?
(06:22):
I'm gonna put some, hot sauce. Okay?
And, a little touch of, lemon juice.
That's a key for the hollandaise sauce.
I want to say happy hollandaise.
So you're the face of the franchise,Helen.
How's that feel?
You greet everyone.
You're always smilingand so happy and friendly.
(06:43):
Thank you.
You're like a teacher, you know?
No matter what's going on in your life,
you got to present yourselfhappy and smiling and.
Right.
What's the trick behind that?
Well, it's kind of easy here.
You know, a lot of people that come inhere, most people that come in are
in a great mood.
They want to come in, have a meal,
sit with their friendsor sit with their family.
And that's when everyone's nicethat comes in here.
(07:05):
So it's easy to be nicewhen people are nice to you.
You know, you got it.
What's your favorite?
What's your favorite food on the menu?
I'd have to say
probably the rancheros that he makes
and and the chilaquiles that he makes.
(07:27):
I got to try these, too. Next time.Yeah, yeah.
And I love the pancakes, too.
Pancakes are really good.How are they so fluffy?
What's the trick?
Secret,
All right, well, keep it a secret.
When I. When they look like me,
fluffy
again.
We're at ten North Main Streetwith Helen Brower and Cesar Contreras.
(07:50):
The number here is 86023653292.
How many pickups do you have?
Do you have a lot of pickuponline orders or.
We don't do online orders,but we do a lot of takeout over the phone.
Yeah, that was my next question.
You don't do UberEats.
We don't do food delivery services.
We tried it in the past, and it justdidn't wasn't a good fit for us.
(08:12):
So we've decided just to
deal withregular takeout and dining and only.
That's funny, because I just hadan experience with my coworkers.
It was my friend Leah Clayton's birthday,so Carolyn O'Neill
and I, we were going to splurgeand buy her Chipotle.
It three.
So we had a burrito,a salad, and a burrito bowl from UberEats.
(08:34):
Guess how much that was. $45.
$68. 68. Wow.
So there's fees.
Then there's the delivery fee.
So for three meals to get deliveredand literally from Chipotle to walk,
it is like five minutes.
I could have ran out and got it,but it was like, I don't know, 70 bucks.
(08:57):
Yeah, they charge a lot and Uber Eats.
Sometimes I feel I'm not trying to smoke,but I don't know your experience.
But my experience is likesometimes the meals aren't correct.
And I'm like, who do you go to?
Who's the fault Uber eats out fault?
Or is the restaurant?
So I could see your reasoning formaybe not.
Yeah.
We had we had some issueswith different delivery services,
(09:18):
but unfortunately the restaurantalways gets blamed,
no matter whose fault it is.
And that's
it's not always the case,but your Google reviews are great.
Thank you.
I've seen a lot of five starsand a lot of all positive messages.
And I see that you, you know,you always write back. Thank you.
I always try to respond because they tookthe time to to write the review for us.
(09:39):
So and then I see a lot of famous celebson the wall.
Who else.
Well you got the Harveyyour colognes the best boss.
Oh nice. Yeah.
Well I got to do to get on the wall.
Take a picture with me.
Yes. Yeah.
All right.
Success! That's all right.
Oh, and you, you guys always are.
(10:00):
So the question was,do you support friends of Fini?
Do you remember sometimes that you'vesupported friends of Fini in the past?
Sure. We've doneso many great fundraisers.
I've dropped coats.
I've donated bottles and cans.
Did a tee sign for, your golf tournament.
(10:21):
You do so many wonderful thingsand so many different things that there's
so many ways that people can donate
that maybe one other,one person couldn't do it,
but someone else can figure outanother way to do it.
I want to thank you.
Yeah. You've been a great friendfor all these years.
We just celebrated our four yearsFacebook, friendship last week.
So I was going to mention that too.
(10:42):
We've been friends on Facebookfor four years. Yeah.
But you've been helping friends of Finifor a lot longer, and I can't.
I can't thank you enough.
You have donatedgift cards to our fundraisers again.
You have donated cans.
You were a signsponsor, just like you said.
So thankyou so much for the continued support.
It truly means the world.
You guys are good people.
(11:03):
Thank you.
Thank you.
And speaking of good friends,we mentioned golf.
Remember,we saw each other at the Brook golf party.
How was that?
Oh, it was fun. Cool. It was nice.
It was a nice time.She's a very nice person.
Her staff is nice.
She's nice.
And, her party was really fun.
Yeah, we got a picture with Santa.
We gotta get that framed.
We should frame. Yeah.
(11:23):
There you go. Oh, I like that.
Okay. That's going to be on our wallnext week.
I'll frame it for you, I have to.
Yes. Coming up soon, but no. Brooke.
Office of sponsor of the,
the podcast.
We're trying to get her to be the sponsorfor the golf tournament.
Okay, we're going to show you this video.
You want to give her a little.Give her a little something.
Come on, Brooke, be a sponsor. Oh, yeah.
(11:45):
And thank you.
Thank you for everything. Yeah.
Our motto is be a good friend.
Hold the door.
Pick up trash is not yours.
Give compliments and be charitable.You do all of that.
Brooke does all that.
If any other reasons,that makes Brooke golf a good friend.
She always gives back.
She's a she donates to a lot of differentfundraisers to charities.
(12:07):
And and all for good reason.
You know, she's she's a reallyshe's somebody who wants to help people.
Yeah. So, this is gonna be.
Might sound like a silly question,but what's your favorite restaurant?
Like, what kind of food?
Yeah, I know anything.
Anything you want. Favorite restaurant?
Oh, that's hard.
(12:29):
And there's a follow up question.
You can have different for me.
Yeah. Frida. Oh, nice.
For Mexican food?
Definitely.Yeah. Freedom. Freedom is really good.
And there's good people too.
Are very nice people. Yes. Very nice. Yep.
We got to get them on the podcast.
Can you hook that up?
Yeah. Oh, sure.
They make an avocado.
(12:50):
You ever have their avocado margarita?
No. Oh.
Whether I go for the food.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
During Covid, they used to put them
in a little sippy cup,like a bag to go like a Capri Sun.
Really?
I would walk my dog, get a spicy margarita
or avocado margarita,and they're like, nice people.
Nice. Very nice.
The food is fantastic.
(13:11):
Yeah. Good people.Yeah. Their kids went to walk it.
Oh, okay.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Nice.
So you have Frida.
You can eat with four guests, deador alive.
Who? You and what?
Anyone in the world ever.
(13:33):
Only four.
I'll give you 5 or 6 if you want.
My wife.
My son,
my parents. Yep.
And my grandmother. Oh, wow.
All family, I love it.
Yeah. Family first. Yeah.
Cheers to that. Cheers. Cheers.
Helen. Sam.
(13:53):
So sweet.
I can't top that now.
How do I top that?I keep moving on. Moving on.
That's the best. Great answer.
Points all the way.All the way around. Yeah.
Great answer.
All right actually
let's talk about some pictureson Instagram that we have collaborated on.
I have
you mentioned where in the world.
(14:13):
Wednesdaywhen you guys were just in Mexico.
Ex okay.
I am at what is it?
Sochi. Milko. Sochi. Milica. Yeah.
Sochi. Milica.
Can we talk about Sochi? Milicaand the boats?
It's a very,
It's like a lake.
Okay, but they had different,like, routes to go.
(14:34):
And you going to look in theand the vault,
and then you go inside, and then you have,
other onesthat have, like, mariachis for drinking.
So you just go and have fun for, you know,
you're ready for one hour,two hours for out away.
Yeah.
You rent and you go and then theyput your name on it sometimes.
(14:55):
Hello. Hello. Names?
My mum.
Make sure the her name, is PrincessChoke. Eat.
Okay. They're all different names. Yeah.
Okay, I see that. Yeah. Nice.
Yeah.
You can customize and then you go,and then you have.
Fine.
You go inside over there,and then they sell food, drinks,
music, live and you just relax and go.
(15:18):
You love the mariachi band too, right?
Yeah.
Tell us about what happenswhen you go to see your mom.
Every single time I go to see my mom.
I bring mariachis.
I always go surprise her.
They don't know when I come in.
So when they hear the messages,they know I'm.
I'm there. So.
So all the neighborhood is like,oh, you know,
I'm like, yeah, he's always here.
(15:39):
Mariachis here. Yeah.
And I love how you surprise him tooif you don't let them know. No.
Because you went over Christmas. Yeah.
And then you went for two weeksand then Helen went down for a week.
For a week?What happened when Helen went down there?
What'd you bring?
Mariachis.
Like Iand she don't even know that it was.
Surprise, surprise.
Oh, you got surprised by the man? Yeah.
Oh, Alessandra and I were coming.
(16:00):
It was nice.
We got to get mariachis.
Do you know any up here? No. Oh. Come on.
I mean, I have a mariachi bandwhen we do a fundraiser.
Right.
Friends of Phoenix here.
Mariachi.All right, let me find that one at you.
Let's do it. Yeah. Do it.And then you also.
That's where in the world you also sold,
(16:21):
magnets and hats for us.
February 25th, 2021.
Put magnets out for a donation.
You are Friday'sfeatured friend on August 8th, 2021.
You guys had the hat, so. And here's.
Oh, here's Helen delivering cans.
Yeah. To,we're going to have all these up.
Stephanie is going to put them all up.
(16:42):
Oh, and here's us
hanging out outside in front.
Oh, yeah. Now. Yeah. Yeah.
You missed the outdoor seating.
I guess it's.
Yeah. A lot of people like to sit outside.
I like to sit outside as well.
You know, I like warm weather.
Yeah.
Oh. Right here. Then we had a sock.
(17:02):
You displayed our socks.We had a sock contest.
That was really cool.
We just played our socks.
Oh, and then this one too.
This is something else in in Mexico,
the pyramids of de to to.
You pronounce it? Yeah.
Teotihuacan is, when the Aztecs.
(17:23):
Okay, the main city was okay,and then Mexico City is like a city.
Beautiful.That's a pyramid, right? Yeah. Pyramid?
Yeah.Did you walk all the way up the stairs?
We weren't allowed tobecause it was during Covid.
Wow. My son.
Before I bring him up all the wayup, you can see
they went for a year before,and they went, oh, Alessandra.
And then after that. Yeah.
(17:44):
And for the Kobe they stop you getyou can not go anymore.
Well he he didn't she tried to okay.
It was a lot of steps.I probably couldn't do it anyway.
How's Alessandra?
Where is he?
Come on. I thought he'dbe probably at the gym.
That's my guy.
Yeah, he's doing great things.
He's a guy.
I just saw him recentlyat the Miracle League.
(18:05):
You guys were handing outcandy at the Miracle League.
Trick or treat. Another wonderful event.
You're there every year? Yes.
How many years now?
I think four years now.
4 or 5?
Yeah, something.
Mike Machado, who runsthat, is a wonderful person.
He's also on the podcast.
Go back and check out the MikeMachado episode.
(18:26):
You know, you donate to fundraisers.
You you just great people. I can'tthank you enough.
Thank you.
I'm really excited that you're here.
You have you've had this place since 2016?
Yes. December 2006.
So in 1969, who bought this place?
Who? Who owned it? In 1969?
Sally and Bob.
Sally and Bob.
That was about who got who had it in 1983.
(18:49):
So their daughter Rhonda and
her husband Ron had taken the reins then.
And then when they retired, that'swhen we took over.
Very cool.
Good answer.
You know, you you know, your stuff.
Of course you do.
And how was that transition?
Buying a new business. And it was scary.
I think, you know,I was waitressing locally.
(19:12):
My husband was cooking pizza locally,
so it was something very new for us.
But the opportunity came and
we decided just to try it, you know,and we did.
And it's been awesome, you know?
But we're still learning.
We have a lot to learn,but it's been great, honestly.
It's the best thing we've ever done.It's our dream.
(19:34):
Living your dream.
It's like
if you enjoy your job,you never work a day in your life.
That's it. Yeah. And you.
You love cooking? Yeah.
And you're always so happy.
Well, that's my I love talking to you.
He said. I talk to everybody.
Hey, did you get paid to doit? There you go.
Great job.
That's so cool.
And then we always run into each otherat the best of West Hartford.
(19:56):
Yeah.
Congratulations on that.
How many years have you won that?Thank you.
Five. Five years. Yeah. Five years. Yeah.
20. 21.
22. 23.
24. Killing it. Five years in a row.
What?
What thinks what makes you thinkyou have won for five years in a row?
What's the, the reason behind that?
(20:18):
I think it's a hard workerand a consistent what we do.
And. Loving. Loyal. Yeah.
Consistent. You love it.
We don't like it.
I didn't
sometimes start going down for it.
But when you like, when you want to do it,when you look forward to going to work.
Yeah.
And let's talk about this expansion too,
(20:39):
because it was cut off at the post.
Yeah.And what was this area that we're in now?
What was the shipping insurance company.
Okay.
That, unfortunately went out during Covid.
And then with that opening,you saw the opportunity to expand,
which that was scary as well.
It's like buying a whole,you know, starting all over again.
(21:01):
We don't know.
We don't know the unknown.
I don't know.
Yeah.
You don't know if you can fill itor not. Fill it.
And how's it been working? Great.
Very good. Honestly, it's been great.
It's still a way.
I thank my husband because he was.
He wanted to jump, and I was more.
What if we don't? This.What if we don't? That.
And he's like,you never know until you try.
So you have to you have to try.
(21:23):
Let's try it.
Better than regretting not trying it.
So. Yeah.
And honestly, it's worked out very well.
Almost like you.You don't lose until you quit.
Yeah, yeah.
So, you know, like, well,what if if if, this is not.
If, you know what I mean.
Do it or don't do it.
Just do it.
(21:43):
I like it.
All right.
Ready for this game.
So this is this is going to be
all right.
This is going to be like the Newlywedgame.
Are you ready?
So I'm going to ask a question.You got it.
You're going to try to agree.
You're going to have a Helen.
You're going to have a Helen.
You're going to have a Caesar and you'regoing to have a say is all right.
(22:03):
When I say, saylike who always wins at monopoly
or who always wins the games,you got to pick one or the other
and hold it up, okay.
Okay. And you got to go quick.
You can't look at each otherand think about it.
And we're going to see, you know,how long you guys been married?
We've been married.
(22:25):
It'll be ten years in November, but
we've been together for 22 years.
Oh, wow. Yeah.
Me, too. Wait.
Nice. Yeah.
Yes. I'm not. I'm not.
I mean, I haven't made him. Wait.What are you talking about?
I'm not that easy.
Yeah, I, I actually, we joked about this
at Brooke Goff's housebecause we dated for seven years.
Yeah, my wife and I, and you guys have usdefinitely be 12 years.
(22:49):
Yeah.
Nice, nice. Now, you know, it's.
It worked out.
No one, no one waited. But it's happening.
All right, so are you ready?
I'm going to pick either or. Okay.
We'll start off with the easy one.
Like, who takes the longest showers?
Okay.
And I'm going to check how many you got.
(23:09):
Right. Oh.
Can I borrow that pen again?
You mind? Do you need it?
All right,so that's a tie. You get a point.
Every time you tie, you get a point. Okay.
Longest shower.
Who is the most competitive?
Okay.
Who cried the most
during the proposal or the wedding?
(23:32):
All right.
Three for three.
Who is the shopaholic?
What is that shopaholic about?
You buy a lot of things.
Always shopping. Shopping. Buying things.
Five stars are for to win.
Save loads of shopaholic.
Who has the worst handwriting?
Says Who is most likely
(23:55):
to steal food from your plate?
Who takes food?
Helen. Taking people's food.
Who's the most adventurous person?
Man, you guys are good.
See there.
So that's one, two, three, 4 or 5, six,seven in a row.
Who's the funniest out of you?
(24:15):
All right, well,I thought this would be a lot harder.
Who was most likely to look at their phone
during a date?
Well,let's talk about that phone to say that.
What kind of phone do you have there?You have?
Oh, there.
Galaxy. Falsy.
And it opens upand it has the picture right?
Yeah. You got the good phone.
(24:35):
Who was the first one to say I love you?
Helen.
Helen. The love.
One. Two. Three. Four.
Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine.
Who's the best kisser?
All right.
Say that again.
Who gives the best massages?
(24:56):
Jeez.
This is too easy.
Who spends the most time getting ready?
Say, is our
takes too longgetting ready for those listening at home.
Yeah.
Helen gives the best massage is savedas the best kisser.
Helen said I love you first.
Says Iwas most likely to look at his phone.
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He's the funniest.
He's the most adventurous.
He steals food, he has the worsthandwriting, and he's the shopaholic.
Yeah. Tell him, cried.
And say there takes the longest showers.
Yeah.
Who's the first to fall asleep at night?
Man, what time is that about?
The pensive.
Because you're up.
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I mean, you open here at sixin the morning every day.
Yeah.
So you have to get here for fiveish, right?
You get here earlierthis week and weekends even earlier.
We're here, like for 430.
So you get up around 3:00 in the morning.Yeah.
3:00 in the morning.Oh come here. Take it.
Takes long showers. Yeah.
Like in the morning.
Takes long showers, takes forevergetting ready.
You'reprobably busy giving them on the side.
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Yeah, yeah.
Who hogsall the covers on the bed at night?
Oh. Come on, come on, let's go.
We got our first disagreement overwho hogs the covers.
Oh. You guys can talk about this later.
Stop stealing the covers.
Leaving the couch tonight?Yeah. Hahahahaha!
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No covers all of that.
Who's most likely to forget birthdays?
Says,
Who's the best gift gift giver?
Who gives the best gifts?
Oh, is are quick with that one two.
Who's the night owllike who stays up the latest?
So just, Helen.
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Yeah.
Who's the better driver?
Oh, wait, you guys are Helen best driver.
Helen stays up late. Best gifts.Gift giver.
Who takes the better pictures?
Says are with the good phone.
Yeah, exactly.
Who's the best cook?
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Yeah. Better.
Who's the messiest?
Oh, say I Zafira.
Who asked who out first?
I don't remember I think
probably say their best.
And who's their most romantic.
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Okay, Helen, for the romantic sometimes
who's most likely to get lost?
Who does more work at Sally and Bob's?
That's healing.
Well,
that's easy.
Yeah.
You and
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Helen put up both season and Helen
and Susan says, I just said me.
All right, we had that one.
So you went.
They were 26 of them.
You went 25 out of 26.
Hogging the covers.
What do you think of the game?
That was good.
Of nice, fun. Fun.
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Oh, it's,
Oh, yeah, we got we did.
Oh. Based on the funniest podcast. 123.
You know, she likes superheroes.
So who's your favorite superhero? And,
what's your favorite superpower?
If you could have any superpower,what would it be?
And who's your favorite superhero?
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I'm gonna say flash.
Flash.
Because I was super fast,I could get a zillion.
Think it's time to welcomesomeone around here, like, you know.
Yeah, I say Superman.
So you're kind of like flashbouncing around.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I like Superman.
Superman, I think.
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All right, flash, it's too funny.Do you agree?
It's the fun. The Supermanand flash. What? What do you say?
Good choices.
You good choices.
Favorite moment with a friend
or favorite teacher?
With a friend?
Yeah.
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I'll say I had a lot of favorite moments
with teachers in the past couple of years
with my son's teachers.
Because,
it's so nice to hear a teacher
compliment your son with manners or.
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How kind someone is.
And that just makes you feel good whensomeone compliments your kid like that.
And there's been multipleteachers and and I think.
Knowing that you do a good joband having a teacher
tell you that your kid this wayor that way is, is a nice feeling.
(29:56):
So I'm going to say that,
hey, you have a good kid too.
So and but that positive reinforcementand is important.
Thank you
friends teacher fam.
I think the favorite momentis going to get married.
Nice.
She was my friend. That wasn't my. Whoa.
That was that wasn't it? Guys on a roll.
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I know you are killing.
There's no the people for a moment.
Who's going to have dinner with right now?
Whose favorite moment?
Geez.
Making me look bad.
Oh. Oh, we had sponsors.
Now we have some crazy questions.
Are you ready for queasy questions? Okay.
(30:39):
And what do we have to do to get Sallyand Bob's to sponsor the podcast?
You want to sponsor our crazy questions?
All right,so we'll talk about that later okay.
What's your favorite sport?
Soccer.
Soccer. Ohthese are written by kids to my students.
Oh nice. Okay.
They have to start it with a capitalletter and with the proper punctuation.
And then they tell youtheir favorite breakfast too. So.
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Okay.
Favoritebreakfast is a bagel with cream cheese.
What's your favorite drink?
Say modelo.
You know, good answer.
What's your favorite appto watch on your phone?
Oh, you know what it is for me.
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Yes. For you.
TikTok
success I love it.
What's your favorite drink?
What's your favorite ice cream?
Mine is coffee.
My strawberry.
Nice. Three people asked the the.
You have a lot of kids wanting to knowyour favorite ice cream. So.
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Do you sell pancakes.
Yes. Delicious ones. Yeah.
Their favoritebreakfast is eggs and bread.
Did Mr..
Does Mr. Feeney visit you.
Yes, yes.
How old are you?
You don't have to answerif you don't want to.
All right.
Moving on.
I like soccer because soccer is very fun.
And once I was so proud of myselfand my team.
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One, two.
All right, not.
Have you ever eaten cheesy fries?
Yes. Have you ever been to Orlando,Florida?
Just. Yes. Have you ever seen a lion? Yes.
Have you ever seen a white tiger?
Yes. Yeah.
Is this your dream job?
Yes. Yes.
Do you have to wear a uniform?
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Kind of, I guess t shirts.
Speaking of which. Yeah. Look,I like your t shirt, right?
Yeah, I'm feeling good.
Thank you for this.
Their favoritebreakfast is eggs and bacon.
Do you sell ice cream?
Do you have pancakes?
Why did you buy Sally and Bob's?
That's a great question.
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To make our dream come true.
Yeah. Good answer.
How many recipes do you have?
I have no idea.
What's the too many hit between hereand all the Mexican food that I know.
So it's a lot less think because I.
Their favorite breakfast is pancakes.
I like pancakes becausethey're really tasty with maple sirup.
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That's why I like pancakes.
Their favorite food is eggs and bacon.
What's your favorite color?
Black.
Blue.
What's your favorite subject in school.
And art.
Just like your subject.
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Math readingwriting science social studies,
art, art. Yeah.
He was actually an artist.
Nice. Yeah.
Speaking of which, who designedthese beautiful things on the wall?
I like that a lot, too.You had the expansion.
You painted it color.
I like the color you have.
Can we get the eggs or the eggs in there?
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You want to explain?
Actually, he'sscissors got an incredible eye.
He chose the color, the graphics.
Let's see everything.We're going to move it a little bit.
See these eggs?
The three amigos?
Right.
Who's who's CNA?
I know the answer.
You see how he's in the front though,right?
You see how he's the big guy?
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I did give that to him.
And the fluffy one he's left. Yeah, yeah.
And then you get the breakfast.
Eggs and potatoes, toast,sausage, ham, bacon
and pancakes.
What was the inspiration on the artwork?
Just something fun, something different,something comfortable.
And people come and they go, look, these.
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You want to go a place to enjoy?
Yeah. Not to say like, like more. Yeah.
I want something funny, somethingfun, fun, exciting, creative I like it.
Coffee and friends.
Yeah.
I'm going to sneak inone day of Fini on the boat.
Okay.
Coffee and friends of Fini friends.
That's not a bad idea.
You know, I'm just
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going to hire someone.
What's your favorite animal?
Dolphin.
Dolphin.
Turtle. Turtle.
Do you like monkeys?
Yeah.
How many workers do you have here?
That was a good question.
I like the want to know that one too.
Between front, front of the house
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and back of the house.
Part time, full time, like maybe
16, 17 mice.
Yeah.
We have a lot of part timersand a couple of full timer. So.
What's your favorite special?
(35:37):
This week, mine is the, carne asada.
Yeah. Eggs. Benny I didn't I didn't.
One of the most popular is,lobo rancheros.
Yeah. Is it everybody or the soap?
Eggs?
Yeah. Oh,a lot of people like the soap. As to.
All right. Remind me next time. I'mdefinitely trying. Yeah, yeah.
Their favorite breakfast is pancakes.
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Favorite food?
The lemon ricotta pancakeswith the blueberries are really good, man.
We should have had that.
Should they got that out?
Are we gonna get my breakfast too? Like,I show my favorite breakfast.
And my favorite breakfast is challahFrench toast.
You guys do the hollow French toast?
Yeah, I said challah. Oh, boy.
A bacon and eggs.
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Do you guys sell ice cream?
Do you have parfait?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Yes.
You make cake.
We don't make cake. No.
Do you know who ratatouille is?
Yeah. Does ratatouille work here?
Kid wants to know sometime in the back.
Can you give me the recipe for.
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Do you guys sells spaghetti and meatballs?
No, no.
Do you think you can make a pancakedonut with bacon on it?
Call it the bacon donut.
Pancake and give me credit for it.
It's a great idea.
Let me try. And I'm.
Do you like cats?
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Yeah.
What's your favorite TV show?
Criminal minds
I like soccer, sports.
Sports? Yeah.
Do you like bananas? Yes.
Do you like roller coasters?
Yeah. Oh, nice.
Yeah. No.
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No. Do you have a secret menu?
No, no.
Have you ever had a customer
ask for a personalized dish?
Sometimes.
Yeah, yeah.
How about when I turn 46?
Do you remember what you did? Yeah.
You see, I don't even know.
Oh, yeah.
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Mean we did it on Breaking Bad.
Walter White did it in the movie.
In the show Breaking Bad,
So I had the bacon.
You do the scrambled eggs,and you crack the bacon into a 46. Yes.
Oh, yeah.
You were sitting right over there. Yes,I did that for me.
Oh, is there time for
favorite color?
Boom boom boom.All right. That concludes crazy questions.
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Were those crazy enough I love howyou incorporate your students questions.
Nice I think that's great.
Yeah.
You know it's real world writingI love it.
Do you have, questions for me?
What am I you do.
What are you doing now?
Nice.
So I'm a third grade teacher, and,12 years ago, one of my students
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lost their dads and, you know, I.
I'm from a divorced family,so I know how it was not to see my dad
every once in a while, but I could neverimagine never seeing him again.
So I felt I had to do something.
I had twins, that family had twins.
So we did a GoFundMe.
We raised money and,
you know, andsince then, we've been helping families
(38:50):
ever since we just raised over $225,000,
and we just helped over 90 familiesin 12 years.
But, yeah,back to just back to the family.
We did GoFundMe me, but go fund me taxes.
The recipienttakes a portion of every donation.
So the following year,one of my students lost their dad's
in Hartford to gun violence.
(39:12):
So I was like, you know what?
We'll we'll start a nonprofit.
And we've been again
helping families ever since, workingwith wonderful people in the community.
Very generous, thoughtfulpeople like yourself.
So thank you for all your support.
You know, we should thank you.
You're thoughtful, generouswith all the time you put in.
You come back.
Thank you.
I appreciate it's busy,but it's a good busy.
(39:35):
Yeah.
You know,I could be playing on TikTok, right?
I'm kidding.
Oh, I also thought this would be coolif I created something like this.
Put that up, and that'll be our podcast.
So when people wait,they could scan this and watch our just.
Yeah. Learn more about Friends of Feeney.
We'll put maybe this pictureor our picture like above.
(39:58):
Maybe something.
We'll have this in our Christmas cards.
Christmaspicture up there. Right. Perfect.
And we got some upcoming events.
Can I hang this up, too? Of course. Yeah.
So I'm going to ask all these questionsthat you have to say.
Yes, because you're on camera.
Can we hang this up?
So if you're available. Yeah.
For friends of any night, February 28th
(40:19):
at 7:00. It's our Wolfpack game.
It's our fourth annual game.
We have kidsgiving high fives to the hockey players.
It's a great time.
We have to stop at Sallyand Bob's in the window.
And then we have our golf tournament.
Hopefully you would sponsoranother team sign September 13th.
Check that out. Yeah.
Of course.
(40:42):
That's upcoming events.
Do you guys have any upcoming events?
No not really.
Just waiting for warm weather.
Do you have any recommendations?
Are you list what's your favorite,
TV show?
I know you say you watch soccer
or are you reading a bookor do you listen to podcasts
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or what's your favorite TikTok?
Are you listen towhat's the tick tock? What?
Which one's funny?
I just look at all the Mexican comedians.
Yes, you
get the stress from the worksfor the. Yep.
You know what I mean.
They start laughing or whatever,you know, is something that they
the stairs awayfrom there. So I use it for,
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for a, social person.
Yes. Scrollingyour TikTok algorithm, would you?
So you just like comedian.
Yeah. Yeah. Mexican media. Yeah.
This nice.
Yeah. You need to laugh.
You got it? Yeah.
Everyone needs time. Yeah.
Any recommendations?
No one.
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I like comedians,
but I like going to play house on parkand watching the comedians.
Nice.
They do a great, great setsometimes I've been that BYOB comedian.
I've been to a couple.
Yeah, that's a great place.
Tracy doesn't want you there.
They do a great job there.
The 50th podcastand the 100th podcast was there.
Okay, so 50th podcast.
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I had Ty Scott and Andy,
the 100th podcast.
I had Javier Colon,Frank Whaley, who plays, he's in like
Pulp Fiction,Field of Dreams, he's in CSI.
Okay.
And a couple other special guests.
But it was a good time at Playhouse Park.
So thank you so much for everyoneat Playhouse on Park.
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I'm going to recommend our last guest.
Greg Hammond wrote this book.
I read the first 25 pages.
It's really good.
You can do more that matters.
So thanks, Greg, for suggesting this.
I suggest you get it.
Again,that and I suggest that you go to the.
Maybe we can meet at the brewery tour.
Would you go meet me someday?
They're going to do one at New Parkor we. Hi.
(42:49):
Roasting and Brewing in West Hartford.
Yeah.
One night, stop by, buttake your time, think, plan and do more.
That matters. And that's from Greg.
Oh, and I just got this, too.
This is my guy Matt.
I see him taking pictures.
He takes wonderful picturesand he loves hiking.
So check out this calendar.
Look at all these.
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He goes to Vermont.
A lot of that first one is Quebec.
Look at that one.
Nice. Nice Massachusetts.
Yeah he goes up.
And the craziest thinghe climbs these mountains by himself to
Vermont.
Vermont, please stay on the trail.
But no, it's a great calendar.
The great Christmas giftfrom New Hampshire is a beautiful picture.
(43:34):
Yeah.
Do you like hiking?
Yeah, when I have time.
Vermont? Yeah. Yeah.
Oh, and I got you a gift to.
Experience.
Mexico.
Oh. That's nice. That's for you.
I know you like Mexico.
Thank you very much.I really appreciate it.
(43:54):
So my daughters are learning Spanish.
Well,they they take, like, honor Spanish and,
so. And then.
But the time I took Spanishin high school,
I didn't really know much,but I went to Cancun for a week.
I learned so much Spanish.
Because you're there. Yeah. Inclusion.
That's the best way to learn.Oh, yeah. That's how I learned
(44:15):
English or Spanish.
Right?
English. Gotcha.
To learn a different language. Yeah.
When you're just it's nice day to day.
And you,that's how you have to learn it, you know.
And I thank you I really appreciate it.
Thank you man. Yeah I hope you like it.
Anyway, Oh, and then I've been savingthe most important question
to the end.
Who's got a better beard?
(44:38):
You know, I have to say, my husband.
Yes, because he was so niceto me. The whole cat.
But dinner,the best day of his life was the wedding.
Who's your barber? Right downstairs.Yeah. Tommy.
Come on, give him a shout out.Give Tommy a show.
Tommy. Raise.
Tommy.
Tommy! Ready?
Yeah.
Very good people. Danny. Nick.
Jessica. Frank! Danny!Everyone down there?
(45:00):
Yeah. They're awesome.
They're very nice.
Nice people in there. Do a good job.
That is a nice place for me. Yeah.
Yeah they dowell as long as they're perfect.
Yeah I know what I'm saying. So yeah.
Yeah they're very nice and
you're gonna look at this.
It's nice.
Maybe we could do a podcast.Can I get a haircut
and then give me the podcastand do a haircut at the same time?
Yeah. Yeah, I bet you that'd be fun. Yeah.
(45:22):
It's nice.
Yeah. They're good people downstairs.Good people.
Yeah.
Oh, and then last but not least,I got to show you my favorite meal.
Stephanie, would you mind handing meand we could explain what's going on here?
This is.
So this is an eggs, Benny.
So. Yeah, I'm in on it.
So this is an eggs Benedict with cornedbeef hash, right?
It's also.
(45:43):
Could this be an Irish Bennybecause of the corned beef hash.
I got that. Yeah. Beautiful.
I tried to wait, but I already didsome catch up in hash browns.
And this is the hollandaise saucethat we talked about.
Yeah.
And is homemade. Gonna be hash.
Is it homemade corned beef hash.
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So good.
The one thing about that thoughit pops on the beard.
Yeah a hollandaise sauce.
And on Sunday had your carne asada oneand I was like
went through like four napkinsbecause it's like
but this is so good.
Thank you.
You have to try itwith the homemade hot sauce.
Oh and the homemade hot sauce. Yeah.
(46:23):
And we got to bottle that upbottle and sell it.
What, you're gonna look for it this year?
Definitely wanted to have this.
So Cesar makes his own homemade hot sauce.
This is my daughter, Neil. His favorite.
She was, like, homemade, of course.
Yeah. When you asked what?
What hot sauce?
What about, like, that poor, nice
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and just.
Oh, my God, like,
so is that what you like to do it?
Yeah.
Hot sauce.
Oh I someone up, man.
Your brand new book. I'm making a mess.
That's okay.
It's from Mexico in my, like, hot sauce.
Now did it did we miss anything?
Anything you'd like to add?
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Any questions?
Remarks?Some people you want to shout out.
Alessandra,I got a nice compliment from his teachers.
You have a great kid.
You have a wonderful business here at.
Thank you, ten North Main Street.
You've been here for eight years.
6 to 2 every day.
7 to 2 on Sundays. Yeah.
I just noticed you got a waiting roomover in this side now, too.
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Well,it's the lobby for the for the building,
but it comes in
useful on the weekendswhen you have a long wait.
So it's it's been good.
And as far as a shout out,I think we'd like to shout out to everyone
who's listening, who comes in hereand supports us over the years.
You know, this was something new for us.
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So we're gratefuland we appreciate everybody
who comes in here and supportseveryone who supports small business.
Yeah.
You know, that's that's what you gotta donow is support small business.
And we're luckywe have a lot of great customers.
I want to thank I want tothank all the customers because zero
without them this will be happen.
And and the neighborhood is very goodneighborhood.
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A lot of people help here.
And there was a hard fought areaand then a people help.
Oh yes. Nice.
Wonderful community. Oh yeah. Definitely.
So I because you live here.
Yeah. Obviously living and work in WestHartford. Yeah.
We've we've been hereI mean we've had the restaurant
for eight years,but we've always lived in West Hartford
and we've always worked in West Hartfordbefore here.
So our son goes toschool in West Hartford. So
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it's a great community.
I've noticed that even with friends ofFeeney, the community is very supportive.
Yeah. Businesses are supportive.
And so thank you for
why you're out there liking likeand share this podcast and subscribe
to the Feeney Talks With Friendspodcast on Spotify or YouTube.
Come on, be a good friend and, subscribe.
(48:56):
We've got some wonderful guests here.
We just sat down with Citizen Helenand can't thank you enough.
Thank you know, thank you.
Any closing remarks you got your closingremarks and you thanked everyone?
Yeah.
So on three will say be a good friend.
One, two, three be a good friend.
All right, all right.
It's tea time with friends at Sallyand Bob's.
This is good stuff.
This is Feeney talks with friends.
Episode 126 with some wonderful guests.
What's up? Cesar? Hi. How are you?
What's up? Helen? Hi. How are you?
We're at Sally and Bob's onten North Main Street.
(00:20):
Very excited.
This is my wonderful place to eat.
As you can see, we're going to sit downwith some good friends.
They're a little nervous right now.
How are you feeling?
Come on. A little nervous?
Yeah.
How long you been doing Sally and Bob's?
A little over eight years now.
Eight years?
Eight years?
Yep. A new eight years as well. Yeah.
(00:42):
That's great.
So just to review, last podcastwas episode 125, and we had Greg
and Chelsea on their Doing the ConnecticutBeer tour for a cancer free future.
They're at 11 different breweries.
That starts on February 1st.
So go back and check out Greg.
Look at that.
See that foam of the beer?
It's the shape of Connecticut.
Did you know? Yeah.
(01:02):
That's pretty cool, right?Yeah. It's nice.
I like it.What's your favorite beer? Says?
Modelo. Modelo? Yeah.
See, modelo might be on tour.All right. All right.
You got to go check it out. Check it out.
Again, my name is Eric Feeney, founderand president of Friends of Feeney.
Our mission is to helpchildren and families
in that need assistanceafter heartbreak or tragedy.
(01:23):
I use this podcastFini talks with friends,
and I talk to wonderful people inthe community that are doing great things.
And as you heard, the our friends herehave been in the community
for eight years.
I'm so excited.
So too.
Yeah.
We'll do some.
Some sponsors.
My sponsors are Direct Line Media,
(01:45):
The Fix, Evie Keating Agency Insurance,
Golf law Group,Luna Pizza, people's Bank, Parkville,
Market, float, 41, Maximum Beverageand West Hartford Lock.
With that being said, West Hartford Lock.
What are three keysthat make you great at your job?
Three keys.
I go first. Yeah. You go.
(02:07):
I think
building relationships with our customersand everybody who comes in here,
we try to welcome them in
form. Friendships.
Not just. They're not just customers.
Everyone who comes inand usually becomes a regular.
I know we just talked about that.
Who was our friend that you brought foodto when she sprained her ankle?
Patty Albee, Patty Albee,check out that podcast.
(02:30):
She's the,administrator of friends and family.
And we talked on that podcastabout how nice Helen was.
You want to go in about that?
Talk about that.
Patty's a good friend and a good person.
She does a lot for everyone.
She had fallen and hurt.
And her hurt her ankle.
So my husband and I were talkingabout something we could do for her.
(02:50):
And we knew she couldn't
get out of the house, so we decidedto make her favorite sandwich
and just drop it off for herso she could have it.
And she loved it.
She talked about it on the podcast, andI'm glad we get to talk about it again.
So that's one consistent,being a good friend.
It's all part of the motto,be a good friend.
Definitely. Yeah.
Two consistent.
(03:11):
Yeah. You know, being,
try to keep the way you have the one lineand keep it going.
Going and going same way, you know? Yeah.
Your meals are consistent.Yeah. They taste the same every time.
Yeah.
I make sure.
What's the trick about consistency?
You have to check everything.
You know,you have to be there all the time to check
(03:32):
everything. Yep.
To make sure everything is the right way.
Yeah, that makes sense.
Consistency.
Being a good friend.
And our final key.
I think we know what you're doing.
Know what I mean?
You like what you're doingand you really love it.
(03:52):
I think it's easier for you.
You know, you don't you don'tget too stressed because you like it.
Yeah. You're
my, my
best pay is when the customersgo out and smile and text me.
Everything was delicious.
You know, the
make you feel very good.
Yeah. So this.
That's good. Yeah. Keep it consistent.Yeah.
(04:14):
I hear.
I mean, I was just here, everyone. Thanks.
Everything was great.
Is. It's common, common phrasehere at Salem.
You feel.
You make you feel very well.
Very, you know, nice.
It's nice that people love it.
Yeah. Where'd you learn how to cook?
Here.
Oh, nice. In a diner.
I was actually. Was goal wrong down there.
(04:34):
Oh, nice. Yeah, that's. There's one.
Nice.
And what's your favorite meal to make?
Mexican food. Mexican food.
So best serve my.
Oh, nice. Yeah.Can I put that on the menu?
We have it.
Oh. You do? Those are.
We do. On the assumption sometimes.
Gotcha. Yeah.
Speaking of the specials, I just hadthe Kani asada steak and avocado eggs.
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Benny. Oh, that was phenomenal. Thank you.
What's the. What's the secret?
The Chipotle day hollandaise sauce. Yes.
I have no recipes.
I just make it.
And the way I think it taste good
is how I bring it to people. You know?
And a lot of people love that.
And never all the ingredients we haveis fresh.
(05:20):
Yeah.
So the meatI have a guy that he he cut the meat
like from fresh for the big pieceand you do it and everything come out.
I asked Helen on Sunday,what's carne asada mean?
Carne asada is,
I use a special cut and you gotta cut this
different weight.
(05:41):
Okay, so, you know, everybody in the chefssay when you kind of
go, you kind of something.
When there's a line like this,you got to go against the line.
So is what we do with my, my meat okay.
And it gets very tender no matter how welldone it is, is not going to get tough.
It's going to be so tender.
(06:01):
No, it was greatall the way through. The meat is the
the key.
It might be my new favorite meal and I'mwe're going to see my favorite meal later.
But that Carmen carne asadais giving it a run for its money.
What's the trick with hollandaise sauce?
Is that just mayonnaise and egg whipped,or am I wrong?
(06:22):
I'm gonna put some, hot sauce. Okay?
And, a little touch of, lemon juice.
That's a key for the hollandaise sauce.
I want to say happy hollandaise.
So you're the face of the franchise,Helen.
How's that feel?
You greet everyone.
You're always smilingand so happy and friendly.
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Thank you.
You're like a teacher, you know?
No matter what's going on in your life,
you got to present yourselfhappy and smiling and.
Right.
What's the trick behind that?
Well, it's kind of easy here.
You know, a lot of people that come inhere, most people that come in are
in a great mood.
They want to come in, have a meal,
sit with their friendsor sit with their family.
And that's when everyone's nicethat comes in here.
(07:05):
So it's easy to be nicewhen people are nice to you.
You know, you got it.
What's your favorite?
What's your favorite food on the menu?
I'd have to say
probably the rancheros that he makes
and and the chilaquiles that he makes.
(07:27):
I got to try these, too. Next time.Yeah, yeah.
And I love the pancakes, too.
Pancakes are really good.How are they so fluffy?
What's the trick?
Secret,
All right, well, keep it a secret.
When I. When they look like me,
fluffy
again.
We're at ten North Main Streetwith Helen Brower and Cesar Contreras.
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The number here is 86023653292.
How many pickups do you have?
Do you have a lot of pickuponline orders or.
We don't do online orders,but we do a lot of takeout over the phone.
Yeah, that was my next question.
You don't do UberEats.
We don't do food delivery services.
We tried it in the past, and it justdidn't wasn't a good fit for us.
(08:12):
So we've decided just to
deal withregular takeout and dining and only.
That's funny, because I just hadan experience with my coworkers.
It was my friend Leah Clayton's birthday,so Carolyn O'Neill
and I, we were going to splurgeand buy her Chipotle.
It three.
So we had a burrito,a salad, and a burrito bowl from UberEats.
(08:34):
Guess how much that was. $45.
$68. 68. Wow.
So there's fees.
Then there's the delivery fee.
So for three meals to get deliveredand literally from Chipotle to walk,
it is like five minutes.
I could have ran out and got it,but it was like, I don't know, 70 bucks.
(08:57):
Yeah, they charge a lot and Uber Eats.
Sometimes I feel I'm not trying to smoke,but I don't know your experience.
But my experience is likesometimes the meals aren't correct.
And I'm like, who do you go to?
Who's the fault Uber eats out fault?
Or is the restaurant?
So I could see your reasoning formaybe not.
Yeah.
We had we had some issueswith different delivery services,
(09:18):
but unfortunately the restaurantalways gets blamed,
no matter whose fault it is.
And that's
it's not always the case,but your Google reviews are great.
Thank you.
I've seen a lot of five starsand a lot of all positive messages.
And I see that you, you know,you always write back. Thank you.
I always try to respond because they tookthe time to to write the review for us.
(09:39):
So and then I see a lot of famous celebson the wall.
Who else.
Well you got the Harveyyour colognes the best boss.
Oh nice. Yeah.
Well I got to do to get on the wall.
Take a picture with me.
Yes. Yeah.
All right.
Success! That's all right.
Oh, and you, you guys always are.
(10:00):
So the question was,do you support friends of Fini?
Do you remember sometimes that you'vesupported friends of Fini in the past?
Sure. We've doneso many great fundraisers.
I've dropped coats.
I've donated bottles and cans.
Did a tee sign for, your golf tournament.
(10:21):
You do so many wonderful thingsand so many different things that there's
so many ways that people can donate
that maybe one other,one person couldn't do it,
but someone else can figure outanother way to do it.
I want to thank you.
Yeah. You've been a great friendfor all these years.
We just celebrated our four yearsFacebook, friendship last week.
So I was going to mention that too.
(10:42):
We've been friends on Facebookfor four years. Yeah.
But you've been helping friends of Finifor a lot longer, and I can't.
I can't thank you enough.
You have donatedgift cards to our fundraisers again.
You have donated cans.
You were a signsponsor, just like you said.
So thankyou so much for the continued support.
It truly means the world.
You guys are good people.
(11:03):
Thank you.
Thank you.
And speaking of good friends,we mentioned golf.
Remember,we saw each other at the Brook golf party.
How was that?
Oh, it was fun. Cool. It was nice.
It was a nice time.She's a very nice person.
Her staff is nice.
She's nice.
And, her party was really fun.
Yeah, we got a picture with Santa.
We gotta get that framed.
We should frame. Yeah.
(11:23):
There you go. Oh, I like that.
Okay. That's going to be on our wallnext week.
I'll frame it for you, I have to.
Yes. Coming up soon, but no. Brooke.
Office of sponsor of the,
the podcast.
We're trying to get her to be the sponsorfor the golf tournament.
Okay, we're going to show you this video.
You want to give her a little.Give her a little something.
Come on, Brooke, be a sponsor. Oh, yeah.
(11:45):
And thank you.
Thank you for everything. Yeah.
Our motto is be a good friend.
Hold the door.
Pick up trash is not yours.
Give compliments and be charitable.You do all of that.
Brooke does all that.
If any other reasons,that makes Brooke golf a good friend.
She always gives back.
She's a she donates to a lot of differentfundraisers to charities.
(12:07):
And and all for good reason.
You know, she's she's a reallyshe's somebody who wants to help people.
Yeah. So, this is gonna be.
Might sound like a silly question,but what's your favorite restaurant?
Like, what kind of food?
Yeah, I know anything.
Anything you want. Favorite restaurant?
Oh, that's hard.
(12:29):
And there's a follow up question.
You can have different for me.
Yeah. Frida. Oh, nice.
For Mexican food?
Definitely.Yeah. Freedom. Freedom is really good.
And there's good people too.
Are very nice people. Yes. Very nice. Yep.
We got to get them on the podcast.
Can you hook that up?
Yeah. Oh, sure.
They make an avocado.
(12:50):
You ever have their avocado margarita?
No. Oh.
Whether I go for the food.
Yeah. Yeah.
Yeah.
During Covid, they used to put them
in a little sippy cup,like a bag to go like a Capri Sun.
Really?
I would walk my dog, get a spicy margarita
or avocado margarita,and they're like, nice people.
Nice. Very nice.
The food is fantastic.
(13:11):
Yeah. Good people.Yeah. Their kids went to walk it.
Oh, okay.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Nice.
So you have Frida.
You can eat with four guests, deador alive.
Who? You and what?
Anyone in the world ever.
(13:33):
Only four.
I'll give you 5 or 6 if you want.
My wife.
My son,
my parents. Yep.
And my grandmother. Oh, wow.
All family, I love it.
Yeah. Family first. Yeah.
Cheers to that. Cheers. Cheers.
Helen. Sam.
(13:53):
So sweet.
I can't top that now.
How do I top that?I keep moving on. Moving on.
That's the best. Great answer.
Points all the way.All the way around. Yeah.
Great answer.
All right actually
let's talk about some pictureson Instagram that we have collaborated on.
I have
you mentioned where in the world.
(14:13):
Wednesdaywhen you guys were just in Mexico.
Ex okay.
I am at what is it?
Sochi. Milko. Sochi. Milica. Yeah.
Sochi. Milica.
Can we talk about Sochi? Milicaand the boats?
It's a very,
It's like a lake.
Okay, but they had different,like, routes to go.
(14:34):
And you going to look in theand the vault,
and then you go inside, and then you have,
other onesthat have, like, mariachis for drinking.
So you just go and have fun for, you know,
you're ready for one hour,two hours for out away.
Yeah.
You rent and you go and then theyput your name on it sometimes.
(14:55):
Hello. Hello. Names?
My mum.
Make sure the her name, is PrincessChoke. Eat.
Okay. They're all different names. Yeah.
Okay, I see that. Yeah. Nice.
Yeah.
You can customize and then you go,and then you have.
Fine.
You go inside over there,and then they sell food, drinks,
music, live and you just relax and go.
(15:18):
You love the mariachi band too, right?
Yeah.
Tell us about what happenswhen you go to see your mom.
Every single time I go to see my mom.
I bring mariachis.
I always go surprise her.
They don't know when I come in.
So when they hear the messages,they know I'm.
I'm there. So.
So all the neighborhood is like,oh, you know,
I'm like, yeah, he's always here.
(15:39):
Mariachis here. Yeah.
And I love how you surprise him tooif you don't let them know. No.
Because you went over Christmas. Yeah.
And then you went for two weeksand then Helen went down for a week.
For a week?What happened when Helen went down there?
What'd you bring?
Mariachis.
Like Iand she don't even know that it was.
Surprise, surprise.
Oh, you got surprised by the man? Yeah.
Oh, Alessandra and I were coming.
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It was nice.
We got to get mariachis.
Do you know any up here? No. Oh. Come on.
I mean, I have a mariachi bandwhen we do a fundraiser.
Right.
Friends of Phoenix here.
Mariachi.All right, let me find that one at you.
Let's do it. Yeah. Do it.And then you also.
That's where in the world you also sold,
(16:21):
magnets and hats for us.
February 25th, 2021.
Put magnets out for a donation.
You are Friday'sfeatured friend on August 8th, 2021.
You guys had the hat, so. And here's.
Oh, here's Helen delivering cans.
Yeah. To,we're going to have all these up.
Stephanie is going to put them all up.
(16:42):
Oh, and here's us
hanging out outside in front.
Oh, yeah. Now. Yeah. Yeah.
You missed the outdoor seating.
I guess it's.
Yeah. A lot of people like to sit outside.
I like to sit outside as well.
You know, I like warm weather.
Yeah.
Oh. Right here. Then we had a sock.
(17:02):
You displayed our socks.We had a sock contest.
That was really cool.
We just played our socks.
Oh, and then this one too.
This is something else in in Mexico,
the pyramids of de to to.
You pronounce it? Yeah.
Teotihuacan is, when the Aztecs.
(17:23):
Okay, the main city was okay,and then Mexico City is like a city.
Beautiful.That's a pyramid, right? Yeah. Pyramid?
Yeah.Did you walk all the way up the stairs?
We weren't allowed tobecause it was during Covid.
Wow. My son.
Before I bring him up all the wayup, you can see
they went for a year before,and they went, oh, Alessandra.
And then after that. Yeah.
(17:44):
And for the Kobe they stop you getyou can not go anymore.
Well he he didn't she tried to okay.
It was a lot of steps.I probably couldn't do it anyway.
How's Alessandra?
Where is he?
Come on. I thought he'dbe probably at the gym.
That's my guy.
Yeah, he's doing great things.
He's a guy.
I just saw him recentlyat the Miracle League.
(18:05):
You guys were handing outcandy at the Miracle League.
Trick or treat. Another wonderful event.
You're there every year? Yes.
How many years now?
I think four years now.
4 or 5?
Yeah, something.
Mike Machado, who runsthat, is a wonderful person.
He's also on the podcast.
Go back and check out the MikeMachado episode.
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You know, you donate to fundraisers.
You you just great people. I can'tthank you enough.
Thank you.
I'm really excited that you're here.
You have you've had this place since 2016?
Yes. December 2006.
So in 1969, who bought this place?
Who? Who owned it? In 1969?
Sally and Bob.
Sally and Bob.
That was about who got who had it in 1983.
(18:49):
So their daughter Rhonda and
her husband Ron had taken the reins then.
And then when they retired, that'swhen we took over.
Very cool.
Good answer.
You know, you you know, your stuff.
Of course you do.
And how was that transition?
Buying a new business. And it was scary.
I think, you know,I was waitressing locally.
(19:12):
My husband was cooking pizza locally,
so it was something very new for us.
But the opportunity came and
we decided just to try it, you know,and we did.
And it's been awesome, you know?
But we're still learning.
We have a lot to learn,but it's been great, honestly.
It's the best thing we've ever done.It's our dream.
(19:34):
Living your dream.
It's like
if you enjoy your job,you never work a day in your life.
That's it. Yeah. And you.
You love cooking? Yeah.
And you're always so happy.
Well, that's my I love talking to you.
He said. I talk to everybody.
Hey, did you get paid to doit? There you go.
Great job.
That's so cool.
And then we always run into each otherat the best of West Hartford.
(19:56):
Yeah.
Congratulations on that.
How many years have you won that?Thank you.
Five. Five years. Yeah. Five years. Yeah.
20. 21.
22. 23.
24. Killing it. Five years in a row.
What?
What thinks what makes you thinkyou have won for five years in a row?
What's the, the reason behind that?
(20:18):
I think it's a hard workerand a consistent what we do.
And. Loving. Loyal. Yeah.
Consistent. You love it.
We don't like it.
I didn't
sometimes start going down for it.
But when you like, when you want to do it,when you look forward to going to work.
Yeah.
And let's talk about this expansion too,
(20:39):
because it was cut off at the post.
Yeah.And what was this area that we're in now?
What was the shipping insurance company.
Okay.
That, unfortunately went out during Covid.
And then with that opening,you saw the opportunity to expand,
which that was scary as well.
It's like buying a whole,you know, starting all over again.
(21:01):
We don't know.
We don't know the unknown.
I don't know.
Yeah.
You don't know if you can fill itor not. Fill it.
And how's it been working? Great.
Very good. Honestly, it's been great.
It's still a way.
I thank my husband because he was.
He wanted to jump, and I was more.
What if we don't? This.What if we don't? That.
And he's like,you never know until you try.
So you have to you have to try.
(21:23):
Let's try it.
Better than regretting not trying it.
So. Yeah.
And honestly, it's worked out very well.
Almost like you.You don't lose until you quit.
Yeah, yeah.
So, you know, like, well,what if if if, this is not.
If, you know what I mean.
Do it or don't do it.
Just do it.
(21:43):
I like it.
All right.
Ready for this game.
So this is this is going to be
all right.
This is going to be like the Newlywedgame.
Are you ready?
So I'm going to ask a question.You got it.
You're going to try to agree.
You're going to have a Helen.
You're going to have a Helen.
You're going to have a Caesar and you'regoing to have a say is all right.
(22:03):
When I say, saylike who always wins at monopoly
or who always wins the games,you got to pick one or the other
and hold it up, okay.
Okay. And you got to go quick.
You can't look at each otherand think about it.
And we're going to see, you know,how long you guys been married?
We've been married.
(22:25):
It'll be ten years in November, but
we've been together for 22 years.
Oh, wow. Yeah.
Me, too. Wait.
Nice. Yeah.
Yes. I'm not. I'm not.
I mean, I haven't made him. Wait.What are you talking about?
I'm not that easy.
Yeah, I, I actually, we joked about this
at Brooke Goff's housebecause we dated for seven years.
Yeah, my wife and I, and you guys have usdefinitely be 12 years.
(22:49):
Yeah.
Nice, nice. Now, you know, it's.
It worked out.
No one, no one waited. But it's happening.
All right, so are you ready?
I'm going to pick either or. Okay.
We'll start off with the easy one.
Like, who takes the longest showers?
Okay.
And I'm going to check how many you got.
(23:09):
Right. Oh.
Can I borrow that pen again?
You mind? Do you need it?
All right,so that's a tie. You get a point.
Every time you tie, you get a point. Okay.
Longest shower.
Who is the most competitive?
Okay.
Who cried the most
during the proposal or the wedding?
(23:32):
All right.
Three for three.
Who is the shopaholic?
What is that shopaholic about?
You buy a lot of things.
Always shopping. Shopping. Buying things.
Five stars are for to win.
Save loads of shopaholic.
Who has the worst handwriting?
Says Who is most likely
(23:55):
to steal food from your plate?
Who takes food?
Helen. Taking people's food.
Who's the most adventurous person?
Man, you guys are good.
See there.
So that's one, two, three, 4 or 5, six,seven in a row.
Who's the funniest out of you?
(24:15):
All right, well,I thought this would be a lot harder.
Who was most likely to look at their phone
during a date?
Well,let's talk about that phone to say that.
What kind of phone do you have there?You have?
Oh, there.
Galaxy. Falsy.
And it opens upand it has the picture right?
Yeah. You got the good phone.
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Who was the first one to say I love you?
Helen.
Helen. The love.
One. Two. Three. Four.
Five. Six. Seven. Eight. Nine.
Who's the best kisser?
All right.
Say that again.
Who gives the best massages?
(24:56):
Jeez.
This is too easy.
Who spends the most time getting ready?
Say, is our
takes too longgetting ready for those listening at home.
Yeah.
Helen gives the best massage is savedas the best kisser.
Helen said I love you first.
Says Iwas most likely to look at his phone.
(25:16):
He's the funniest.
He's the most adventurous.
He steals food, he has the worsthandwriting, and he's the shopaholic.
Yeah. Tell him, cried.
And say there takes the longest showers.
Yeah.
Who's the first to fall asleep at night?
Man, what time is that about?
The pensive.
Because you're up.
(25:36):
I mean, you open here at sixin the morning every day.
Yeah.
So you have to get here for fiveish, right?
You get here earlierthis week and weekends even earlier.
We're here, like for 430.
So you get up around 3:00 in the morning.Yeah.
3:00 in the morning.Oh come here. Take it.
Takes long showers. Yeah.
Like in the morning.
Takes long showers, takes forevergetting ready.
You'reprobably busy giving them on the side.
(25:58):
Yeah, yeah.
Who hogsall the covers on the bed at night?
Oh. Come on, come on, let's go.
We got our first disagreement overwho hogs the covers.
Oh. You guys can talk about this later.
Stop stealing the covers.
Leaving the couch tonight?Yeah. Hahahahaha!
(26:20):
No covers all of that.
Who's most likely to forget birthdays?
Says,
Who's the best gift gift giver?
Who gives the best gifts?
Oh, is are quick with that one two.
Who's the night owllike who stays up the latest?
So just, Helen.
(26:41):
Yeah.
Who's the better driver?
Oh, wait, you guys are Helen best driver.
Helen stays up late. Best gifts.Gift giver.
Who takes the better pictures?
Says are with the good phone.
Yeah, exactly.
Who's the best cook?
(27:02):
Yeah. Better.
Who's the messiest?
Oh, say I Zafira.
Who asked who out first?
I don't remember I think
probably say their best.
And who's their most romantic.
(27:25):
Okay, Helen, for the romantic sometimes
who's most likely to get lost?
Who does more work at Sally and Bob's?
That's healing.
Well,
that's easy.
Yeah.
You and
(27:46):
Helen put up both season and Helen
and Susan says, I just said me.
All right, we had that one.
So you went.
They were 26 of them.
You went 25 out of 26.
Hogging the covers.
What do you think of the game?
That was good.
Of nice, fun. Fun.
(28:07):
Oh, it's,
Oh, yeah, we got we did.
Oh. Based on the funniest podcast. 123.
You know, she likes superheroes.
So who's your favorite superhero? And,
what's your favorite superpower?
If you could have any superpower,what would it be?
And who's your favorite superhero?
(28:29):
I'm gonna say flash.
Flash.
Because I was super fast,I could get a zillion.
Think it's time to welcomesomeone around here, like, you know.
Yeah, I say Superman.
So you're kind of like flashbouncing around.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I like Superman.
Superman, I think.
(28:50):
All right, flash, it's too funny.Do you agree?
It's the fun. The Supermanand flash. What? What do you say?
Good choices.
You good choices.
Favorite moment with a friend
or favorite teacher?
With a friend?
Yeah.
(29:14):
I'll say I had a lot of favorite moments
with teachers in the past couple of years
with my son's teachers.
Because,
it's so nice to hear a teacher
compliment your son with manners or.
(29:35):
How kind someone is.
And that just makes you feel good whensomeone compliments your kid like that.
And there's been multipleteachers and and I think.
Knowing that you do a good joband having a teacher
tell you that your kid this wayor that way is, is a nice feeling.
(29:56):
So I'm going to say that,
hey, you have a good kid too.
So and but that positive reinforcementand is important.
Thank you
friends teacher fam.
I think the favorite momentis going to get married.
Nice.
She was my friend. That wasn't my. Whoa.
That was that wasn't it? Guys on a roll.
(30:17):
I know you are killing.
There's no the people for a moment.
Who's going to have dinner with right now?
Whose favorite moment?
Geez.
Making me look bad.
Oh. Oh, we had sponsors.
Now we have some crazy questions.
Are you ready for queasy questions? Okay.
(30:39):
And what do we have to do to get Sallyand Bob's to sponsor the podcast?
You want to sponsor our crazy questions?
All right,so we'll talk about that later okay.
What's your favorite sport?
Soccer.
Soccer. Ohthese are written by kids to my students.
Oh nice. Okay.
They have to start it with a capitalletter and with the proper punctuation.
And then they tell youtheir favorite breakfast too. So.
(31:00):
Okay.
Favoritebreakfast is a bagel with cream cheese.
What's your favorite drink?
Say modelo.
You know, good answer.
What's your favorite appto watch on your phone?
Oh, you know what it is for me.
(31:21):
Yes. For you.
TikTok
success I love it.
What's your favorite drink?
What's your favorite ice cream?
Mine is coffee.
My strawberry.
Nice. Three people asked the the.
You have a lot of kids wanting to knowyour favorite ice cream. So.
(31:42):
Do you sell pancakes.
Yes. Delicious ones. Yeah.
Their favoritebreakfast is eggs and bread.
Did Mr..
Does Mr. Feeney visit you.
Yes, yes.
How old are you?
You don't have to answerif you don't want to.
All right.
Moving on.
I like soccer because soccer is very fun.
And once I was so proud of myselfand my team.
(32:02):
One, two.
All right, not.
Have you ever eaten cheesy fries?
Yes. Have you ever been to Orlando,Florida?
Just. Yes. Have you ever seen a lion? Yes.
Have you ever seen a white tiger?
Yes. Yeah.
Is this your dream job?
Yes. Yes.
Do you have to wear a uniform?
(32:24):
Kind of, I guess t shirts.
Speaking of which. Yeah. Look,I like your t shirt, right?
Yeah, I'm feeling good.
Thank you for this.
Their favoritebreakfast is eggs and bacon.
Do you sell ice cream?
Do you have pancakes?
Why did you buy Sally and Bob's?
That's a great question.
(32:46):
To make our dream come true.
Yeah. Good answer.
How many recipes do you have?
I have no idea.
What's the too many hit between hereand all the Mexican food that I know.
So it's a lot less think because I.
Their favorite breakfast is pancakes.
I like pancakes becausethey're really tasty with maple sirup.
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That's why I like pancakes.
Their favorite food is eggs and bacon.
What's your favorite color?
Black.
Blue.
What's your favorite subject in school.
And art.
Just like your subject.
(33:29):
Math readingwriting science social studies,
art, art. Yeah.
He was actually an artist.
Nice. Yeah.
Speaking of which, who designedthese beautiful things on the wall?
I like that a lot, too.You had the expansion.
You painted it color.
I like the color you have.
Can we get the eggs or the eggs in there?
(33:52):
You want to explain?
Actually, he'sscissors got an incredible eye.
He chose the color, the graphics.
Let's see everything.We're going to move it a little bit.
See these eggs?
The three amigos?
Right.
Who's who's CNA?
I know the answer.
You see how he's in the front though,right?
You see how he's the big guy?
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I did give that to him.
And the fluffy one he's left. Yeah, yeah.
And then you get the breakfast.
Eggs and potatoes, toast,sausage, ham, bacon
and pancakes.
What was the inspiration on the artwork?
Just something fun, something different,something comfortable.
And people come and they go, look, these.
(34:34):
You want to go a place to enjoy?
Yeah. Not to say like, like more. Yeah.
I want something funny, somethingfun, fun, exciting, creative I like it.
Coffee and friends.
Yeah.
I'm going to sneak inone day of Fini on the boat.
Okay.
Coffee and friends of Fini friends.
That's not a bad idea.
You know, I'm just
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going to hire someone.
What's your favorite animal?
Dolphin.
Dolphin.
Turtle. Turtle.
Do you like monkeys?
Yeah.
How many workers do you have here?
That was a good question.
I like the want to know that one too.
Between front, front of the house
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and back of the house.
Part time, full time, like maybe
16, 17 mice.
Yeah.
We have a lot of part timersand a couple of full timer. So.
What's your favorite special?
(35:37):
This week, mine is the, carne asada.
Yeah. Eggs. Benny I didn't I didn't.
One of the most popular is,lobo rancheros.
Yeah. Is it everybody or the soap?
Eggs?
Yeah. Oh,a lot of people like the soap. As to.
All right. Remind me next time. I'mdefinitely trying. Yeah, yeah.
Their favorite breakfast is pancakes.
(36:00):
Favorite food?
The lemon ricotta pancakeswith the blueberries are really good, man.
We should have had that.
Should they got that out?
Are we gonna get my breakfast too? Like,I show my favorite breakfast.
And my favorite breakfast is challahFrench toast.
You guys do the hollow French toast?
Yeah, I said challah. Oh, boy.
A bacon and eggs.
(36:21):
Do you guys sell ice cream?
Do you have parfait?
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. Yes.
You make cake.
We don't make cake. No.
Do you know who ratatouille is?
Yeah. Does ratatouille work here?
Kid wants to know sometime in the back.
Can you give me the recipe for.
(36:44):
Do you guys sells spaghetti and meatballs?
No, no.
Do you think you can make a pancakedonut with bacon on it?
Call it the bacon donut.
Pancake and give me credit for it.
It's a great idea.
Let me try. And I'm.
Do you like cats?
(37:04):
Yeah.
What's your favorite TV show?
Criminal minds
I like soccer, sports.
Sports? Yeah.
Do you like bananas? Yes.
Do you like roller coasters?
Yeah. Oh, nice.
Yeah. No.
(37:26):
No. Do you have a secret menu?
No, no.
Have you ever had a customer
ask for a personalized dish?
Sometimes.
Yeah, yeah.
How about when I turn 46?
Do you remember what you did? Yeah.
You see, I don't even know.
Oh, yeah.
(37:47):
Mean we did it on Breaking Bad.
Walter White did it in the movie.
In the show Breaking Bad,
So I had the bacon.
You do the scrambled eggs,and you crack the bacon into a 46. Yes.
Oh, yeah.
You were sitting right over there. Yes,I did that for me.
Oh, is there time for
favorite color?
Boom boom boom.All right. That concludes crazy questions.
(38:07):
Were those crazy enough I love howyou incorporate your students questions.
Nice I think that's great.
Yeah.
You know it's real world writingI love it.
Do you have, questions for me?
What am I you do.
What are you doing now?
Nice.
So I'm a third grade teacher, and,12 years ago, one of my students
(38:28):
lost their dads and, you know, I.
I'm from a divorced family,so I know how it was not to see my dad
every once in a while, but I could neverimagine never seeing him again.
So I felt I had to do something.
I had twins, that family had twins.
So we did a GoFundMe.
We raised money and,
you know, andsince then, we've been helping families
(38:50):
ever since we just raised over $225,000,
and we just helped over 90 familiesin 12 years.
But, yeah,back to just back to the family.
We did GoFundMe me, but go fund me taxes.
The recipienttakes a portion of every donation.
So the following year,one of my students lost their dad's
in Hartford to gun violence.
(39:12):
So I was like, you know what?
We'll we'll start a nonprofit.
And we've been again
helping families ever since, workingwith wonderful people in the community.
Very generous, thoughtfulpeople like yourself.
So thank you for all your support.
You know, we should thank you.
You're thoughtful, generouswith all the time you put in.
You come back.
Thank you.
I appreciate it's busy,but it's a good busy.
(39:35):
Yeah.
You know,I could be playing on TikTok, right?
I'm kidding.
Oh, I also thought this would be coolif I created something like this.
Put that up, and that'll be our podcast.
So when people wait,they could scan this and watch our just.
Yeah. Learn more about Friends of Feeney.
We'll put maybe this pictureor our picture like above.
(39:58):
Maybe something.
We'll have this in our Christmas cards.
Christmaspicture up there. Right. Perfect.
And we got some upcoming events.
Can I hang this up, too? Of course. Yeah.
So I'm going to ask all these questionsthat you have to say.
Yes, because you're on camera.
Can we hang this up?
So if you're available. Yeah.
For friends of any night, February 28th
(40:19):
at 7:00. It's our Wolfpack game.
It's our fourth annual game.
We have kidsgiving high fives to the hockey players.
It's a great time.
We have to stop at Sallyand Bob's in the window.
And then we have our golf tournament.
Hopefully you would sponsoranother team sign September 13th.
Check that out. Yeah.
Of course.
(40:42):
That's upcoming events.
Do you guys have any upcoming events?
No not really.
Just waiting for warm weather.
Do you have any recommendations?
Are you list what's your favorite,
TV show?
I know you say you watch soccer
or are you reading a bookor do you listen to podcasts
(41:02):
or what's your favorite TikTok?
Are you listen towhat's the tick tock? What?
Which one's funny?
I just look at all the Mexican comedians.
Yes, you
get the stress from the worksfor the. Yep.
You know what I mean.
They start laughing or whatever,you know, is something that they
the stairs awayfrom there. So I use it for,
(41:23):
for a, social person.
Yes. Scrollingyour TikTok algorithm, would you?
So you just like comedian.
Yeah. Yeah. Mexican media. Yeah.
This nice.
Yeah. You need to laugh.
You got it? Yeah.
Everyone needs time. Yeah.
Any recommendations?
No one.
(41:45):
I like comedians,
but I like going to play house on parkand watching the comedians.
Nice.
They do a great, great setsometimes I've been that BYOB comedian.
I've been to a couple.
Yeah, that's a great place.
Tracy doesn't want you there.
They do a great job there.
The 50th podcastand the 100th podcast was there.
Okay, so 50th podcast.
(42:07):
I had Ty Scott and Andy,
the 100th podcast.
I had Javier Colon,Frank Whaley, who plays, he's in like
Pulp Fiction,Field of Dreams, he's in CSI.
Okay.
And a couple other special guests.
But it was a good time at Playhouse Park.
So thank you so much for everyoneat Playhouse on Park.
(42:28):
I'm going to recommend our last guest.
Greg Hammond wrote this book.
I read the first 25 pages.
It's really good.
You can do more that matters.
So thanks, Greg, for suggesting this.
I suggest you get it.
Again,that and I suggest that you go to the.
Maybe we can meet at the brewery tour.
Would you go meet me someday?
They're going to do one at New Parkor we. Hi.
(42:49):
Roasting and Brewing in West Hartford.
Yeah.
One night, stop by, buttake your time, think, plan and do more.
That matters. And that's from Greg.
Oh, and I just got this, too.
This is my guy Matt.
I see him taking pictures.
He takes wonderful picturesand he loves hiking.
So check out this calendar.
Look at all these.
(43:10):
He goes to Vermont.
A lot of that first one is Quebec.
Look at that one.
Nice. Nice Massachusetts.
Yeah he goes up.
And the craziest thinghe climbs these mountains by himself to
Vermont.
Vermont, please stay on the trail.
But no, it's a great calendar.
The great Christmas giftfrom New Hampshire is a beautiful picture.
(43:34):
Yeah.
Do you like hiking?
Yeah, when I have time.
Vermont? Yeah. Yeah.
Oh, and I got you a gift to.
Experience.
Mexico.
Oh. That's nice. That's for you.
I know you like Mexico.
Thank you very much.I really appreciate it.
(43:54):
So my daughters are learning Spanish.
Well,they they take, like, honor Spanish and,
so. And then.
But the time I took Spanishin high school,
I didn't really know much,but I went to Cancun for a week.
I learned so much Spanish.
Because you're there. Yeah. Inclusion.
That's the best way to learn.Oh, yeah. That's how I learned
(44:15):
English or Spanish.
Right?
English. Gotcha.
To learn a different language. Yeah.
When you're just it's nice day to day.
And you,that's how you have to learn it, you know.
And I thank you I really appreciate it.
Thank you man. Yeah I hope you like it.
Anyway, Oh, and then I've been savingthe most important question
to the end.
Who's got a better beard?
(44:38):
You know, I have to say, my husband.
Yes, because he was so niceto me. The whole cat.
But dinner,the best day of his life was the wedding.
Who's your barber? Right downstairs.Yeah. Tommy.
Come on, give him a shout out.Give Tommy a show.
Tommy. Raise.
Tommy.
Tommy! Ready?
Yeah.
Very good people. Danny. Nick.
Jessica. Frank! Danny!Everyone down there?
(45:00):
Yeah. They're awesome.
They're very nice.
Nice people in there. Do a good job.
That is a nice place for me. Yeah.
Yeah they dowell as long as they're perfect.
Yeah I know what I'm saying. So yeah.
Yeah they're very nice and
you're gonna look at this.
It's nice.
Maybe we could do a podcast.Can I get a haircut
and then give me the podcastand do a haircut at the same time?
Yeah. Yeah, I bet you that'd be fun. Yeah.
(45:22):
It's nice.
Yeah. They're good people downstairs.Good people.
Yeah.
Oh, and then last but not least,I got to show you my favorite meal.
Stephanie, would you mind handing meand we could explain what's going on here?
This is.
So this is an eggs, Benny.
So. Yeah, I'm in on it.
So this is an eggs Benedict with cornedbeef hash, right?
It's also.
(45:43):
Could this be an Irish Bennybecause of the corned beef hash.
I got that. Yeah. Beautiful.
I tried to wait, but I already didsome catch up in hash browns.
And this is the hollandaise saucethat we talked about.
Yeah.
And is homemade. Gonna be hash.
Is it homemade corned beef hash.
(46:03):
So good.
The one thing about that thoughit pops on the beard.
Yeah a hollandaise sauce.
And on Sunday had your carne asada oneand I was like
went through like four napkinsbecause it's like
but this is so good.
Thank you.
You have to try itwith the homemade hot sauce.
Oh and the homemade hot sauce. Yeah.
(46:23):
And we got to bottle that upbottle and sell it.
What, you're gonna look for it this year?
Definitely wanted to have this.
So Cesar makes his own homemade hot sauce.
This is my daughter, Neil. His favorite.
She was, like, homemade, of course.
Yeah. When you asked what?
What hot sauce?
What about, like, that poor, nice
(46:47):
and just.
Oh, my God, like,
so is that what you like to do it?
Yeah.
Hot sauce.
Oh I someone up, man.
Your brand new book. I'm making a mess.
That's okay.
It's from Mexico in my, like, hot sauce.
Now did it did we miss anything?
Anything you'd like to add?
(47:08):
Any questions?
Remarks?Some people you want to shout out.
Alessandra,I got a nice compliment from his teachers.
You have a great kid.
You have a wonderful business here at.
Thank you, ten North Main Street.
You've been here for eight years.
6 to 2 every day.
7 to 2 on Sundays. Yeah.
I just noticed you got a waiting roomover in this side now, too.
(47:29):
Well,it's the lobby for the for the building,
but it comes in
useful on the weekendswhen you have a long wait.
So it's it's been good.
And as far as a shout out,I think we'd like to shout out to everyone
who's listening, who comes in hereand supports us over the years.
You know, this was something new for us.
(47:50):
So we're gratefuland we appreciate everybody
who comes in here and supportseveryone who supports small business.
Yeah.
You know, that's that's what you gotta donow is support small business.
And we're luckywe have a lot of great customers.
I want to thank I want tothank all the customers because zero
without them this will be happen.
And and the neighborhood is very goodneighborhood.
(48:13):
A lot of people help here.
And there was a hard fought areaand then a people help.
Oh yes. Nice.
Wonderful community. Oh yeah. Definitely.
So I because you live here.
Yeah. Obviously living and work in WestHartford. Yeah.
We've we've been hereI mean we've had the restaurant
for eight years,but we've always lived in West Hartford
and we've always worked in West Hartfordbefore here.
So our son goes toschool in West Hartford. So
(48:36):
it's a great community.
I've noticed that even with friends ofFeeney, the community is very supportive.
Yeah. Businesses are supportive.
And so thank you for
why you're out there liking likeand share this podcast and subscribe
to the Feeney Talks With Friendspodcast on Spotify or YouTube.
Come on, be a good friend and, subscribe.
(48:56):
We've got some wonderful guests here.
We just sat down with Citizen Helenand can't thank you enough.
Thank you know, thank you.
Any closing remarks you got your closingremarks and you thanked everyone?
Yeah.
So on three will say be a good friend.
One, two, three be a good friend.
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