Episode #138: Feeney Talks with Ben Fuchs (Fuchs talks with Feeney)

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All right, all right.
Episode 138 FeenEy talks with friends.
Wait.
Or should I say Fuchs talks with friends?
This is your show.
I'm just.
I'm just here, and I'm honored to be here.
Is it friends of Fuchs today?
So we actually,
there was a recommendationfor a promotion in the office
where they wanted to do friends of friendson Facebook, and I said, absolutely not.

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They're like, why? We lovethis is great in the restaurant.
Under no circumstances am I goingto be associated that closely with Feeney.
Give me some some degrees of separation.
So we are on the defensive.
Gotcha, gotcha, So here we are.
Feeney talks with friends.
We're going to talk everythingfrom financial advising
to basketball to the JCC and everywhere in between.

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I'm really looking forward to it again.
My name is Eric Feeney,founder and president, Friends of Feeney.
Our mission is to help
children and families that need assistanceafter heartbreak or tragedy.
And I use this podcast.
Feeney talks with friends,
and I talk to a wonderful people inthe community that are doing great things.
And Ben, you all right?
You you doing all right?
Here's what's coming for you.I'll be honest. I can see it all.

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So first
let it be known that on camera, on mic,this is the first words of praise
that I've ever been given.
The first time I met you,what I got was an elbow to yeah, I will
I will take this as a thank you.
Oh, we're going there already.
We're going to go with your show.
I'm just I'm just to do it.
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All right.
Fuchs. No, you brought it up.That's hilarious.
I gotI got the email to will bring that up.

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2016.
But the incident, the elbow incidentI, I know I have that was an incident.
I just don't know.
Oh I sent an apology and everything.
Yeah.
I don't remember the apology.I just remember the album.
I, I may have seen Red for the first time,but it's a good five.
Wait. You were.
You're a man of the people that operates,

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Cool.
So, as I recall,
there werewe were up by like ten with 30s left
and he has the ball coming. The paint.
I am, of course playing lax defensebecause I know we got a win and tilted
there was this elbow
that like extended likelike dad's name and street Fighter right.
The tall skinny do that use his armI like that.

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That was great analogy.
And it just happened to connect cleanly.
So if you have Poppy on the side,you know why?
That oneI think that was the introduction.
That was.
Yeah.
That's so funny, because I didgo back in my search history.
January 28th, 2016

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regarding last play, Ben,
I want to let you know there was neverany intention to get you in the mouth.
I pump faked and leaned in to draw a foul.
We were down eight and a four pointplay would have been a great miracle.
People do it all the time.
The ref should have called it two.
With that said, I want to know.

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I want you to know.
After looking back on the play,I reacted inappropriately and I apologize.
My bad man.
I regret not checking with youright after it happened.
You had every right to be pissed.
We exchanged wordsin the heat of the moment.
I want to apologize and check in with you.
I hope you're feelingbetter. This morning.
Let me know, did I?

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And you did not respond?
Well, let me just take this opportunity.
No no no no.
Given up again.
I don't know how my jaw could have,
but I apologize, but clearly was,
Yep, yep.
And then so funny. Then in
oh wait, was that.

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Then almost a year later, January 26th,
2017.
F you and your season high just after you.
It just as shocked you even hit one jumperyou made like five.
Hashtag lucky.
Was that new to me?
That was me to you.Oh well, then I'll take it.

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Got it. And you know what? Thatthat's a fair.
That's a fair email.Given that I didn't respond to you.
Yeah.
Yeah, I think I rememberreading the first, you know,
the one where you're apologizing.I'm like,
that was that was like, no.
Nope.
Not today I do peopleI feel like you really appreciate
the art of holding a grudge like I do.
Because, you know, I feel like it's important to hold on to these things forever.

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But now, you know, I'm here on camera.
Yeah. Yep. But, Thank you.
Nine years is a long timeto think on this.
Meditate.
Do you accept my apology?
Accepted. Accept this apology.
You're a good friend, Fuchs.
Well, maybe get back to some JC.
But, again,thank you for being a good friend.

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I'm truly honored to speak with you today.
You, Fuchsfinancial has generously supported
our golf tournament two years in a row.
You're an exclusive hole sponsor.
So two years in a row,you'll see the Fuchs.
You have the entire hole.
So feel free to set up a table,bring some swag.
It is your whole.But for two years in a row.
So thank you so much.
Truly means the world to our nonprofit.

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Can you golf you cannot have a no
is like I consider myself relative.
Like I wouldn't consider myselfa real athlete.
They're real athletes out therethat played Division one or something
like that.
But I was good enough to be like varsityin a couple of sports.
I played football in tennis.
Golf is a thing.
I think, but I would rather fighta grizzly bear than pick up clubs and go,

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no, know. It's challenging. It's not easy.
It's definitely, a mechanical, very mental, physical game.
You know, in basketball,if you can't shoot, you can rebound.
Or if you can't rebound, you could play Dor you could dive on the floor.
You could, you know,there's always there's a niche.
I feel like golf I don't know,maybe it could be a good putter

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driver and mid-range game.
But it's point being it's hard to say.
You're a golfer.You say I golf two weekends in a row.
Actually.
Hawks landing in, Southingtonwith my old college roommate.
So it was a good time, but we'll have it.
We're having our fourth
annual Friends of Fini golf tournamentat Tunc this September 13th.

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Save the date.
We're looking for sponsors.
I want to thank Fuchs again.
Your neighbor of your building in WestHartford.
Golf is going to be a swag sponsor.
You heard of her? Yeah.
I don't know if you've seen around.
No, no, but she come by it all.
We we like we'll see each other like, twoand from one, the elevator.
And that's about like,you know, friendly interactions.

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Nothing negative to say,but just not a lot of interaction.
And that's,
you know, we don't really cross pathsand yeah, when you get in a billboard,
so there was an offer, there's a guythat,
that, super niceguy who does some of my marketing with me
and he said, I will pay for your billboard

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if we can put your last name on thereand say,
does it revives your future with you?
Oh, and I said, that's tempting.
I'm going to pass.
So, I don't have a billboard,
but I hope there'syour via Fuchs with you.
I will just leave that to golf.
She has.
Yeah, she's she's everywhereand she's very

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careful also.
So when you talk about the fourth yearrunning, the charity golf,
I mean, it seems like your organizationhas been able to expand
like you, over the years.
They're like a,
like how many people you've been ableto help like 2020 versus 2025?
Yeah.
Yeah I mean I don't know.
So I know please.
That's great. Great question.Thanks for asking.

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I think I'm not exactly sure.
I know Covid was slow,but just this month actually,
since 2025 started,we've already helped 20 families.
We just hit our hundredth family.
So we're very excited.
We've raised over $250,000and we just helped our hundredth family.

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So what what big do you,Fuchs with that guy?
Well, a hundredth family at
our funeral.
What does that mean?
Like you say,like I help this family, like. Yep.
So our word of mouth is getting aroundso well
that people submit to our emailor to our website page.
And, we have a donation donationrequest form where someone would fill out

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their information,the family's information,
the issue or need or medical support.
And then how much youththey think that would help.
We meet on the board.
The board of directors meet twice a week,every every other Thursday,
and we discuss future eventsand some donations. So.
And we we've never said no, we've saidno, actually to a family in Florida.

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It was out of our local.We're a local charity.
We wish we could have helped.
It was a hurricane, issue in Florida.
But, but that familythat's heard of us in Connecticut,
we wanted to help their brotherin Florida.
Unfortunately, we could not.
But we are helping anywhere from,you know, Hartford to Waterbury
and everywhere in between.

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A lot most a lot of familiescome from West Hartford.
We just help the family.
Unfortunately, someone passed away.
A family is having cancer.
The woman works at a pizza placeat the local in town.
Who else do we help?
My good friend from high school.
His house burnt down. Louie.
Thinking of Louis. Great guy.

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We just helped him with a checkin donations of Amazon
supplies, like cleaning productsand stuff like that.
But, just trying to help as many peopleas you can.
I'm very fortunate, you know?
Teacher, happy career and great job.
I've been helping studentsinside the classroom.
Always want to tryto help them outside the classroom.
It's it's a good,

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And modelsappropriate behavior to my daughters.
You know, we're we're helping others.
So I like to do that.
I'm from a divorce family,so I knew how it was
not to see my dad every once in a while.
I could never imaginenever seeing him again.
So I empathize with thatfirst family that that that happened.
Yeah.
Just.
And then we're working in the community, collaborating with wonderful people like

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Direct Line media, like maximum leverage,like Fuchs Financial.
So great people in the community,has really bought into our, our mission
and our goals and helping us out areare you talking about progress and growth?
Our golf tournament, first year, 10,000.
Second year 18,000, I think 25,000.
So the goal this year30,000 plus, we're already on our way.

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So we have gottena lot more sponsors so far.
So yeah, thanks again for being exclusive
whole sponsor.
And you brought up a book.
Golf book was a podcast.Guests go back and check it out.
Number 62, Brook golf, Brook Golf Guide.
You guys, maybe you should do it.I know you got you got on.
Not the numbers.Yeah. No. Do you need a job?

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Okay. Can you, can I itchy.
Yeah. I didn't get thatfresh tag at that fresh tea.
Yeah, I got the sponsor, you know.
JK, where it all happened.
I mean, you know,after hearing about everything, you do it,
it almost, almost makes me go back.

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On our one on one day.
Have we ever had conversationsabout the lead up to the do tell?
Like, do you want to go through?
You have the family of people
like what you said that inspirethis great one on one up that we had?
I mean, as a third grade teacher,I told you to bring show and tell.
Okay, so, show and tell.
If you could have had the trophy rightnow. Yes.

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Okay, maybe we'll pull up a picture.
You might have a picture.
I might have a picture time.I have a picture.
I burnt all those pictures. So.
So you start. Go ahead.
What do you remember?
And I don't have the taxI didn't go through this year.
I'm just going to go straightfrom memory here.
But there wasa there was a text message to

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the Eric and I, our product right where,
he may have been running his mouthor sometimes I do.
Well, I could be type three.
I could do rebellion, whatever I could.
I was really,I could destroy chips in the post.
And I took exception to that.
Now, granted, it was during Covid.
Nobody had anything else to do.
So became this big, like mash up.

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We both, by the way,we messed up for two weeks ahead of time.
We both tested before theall the things that we needed to do.
Covid friendly ish.
We had our own bubbles right. Yep.
I may have seen some Iraqi
training videos, but it was the first timemy wife failed me jumping rope in.
Last time I.

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And so we set that
up to schedule a time and Shapiro Dave
Shapiro was like, why don't you come overand practice first?
Because I don't think I picked up a ball.
And you heard he he hired a trainer.
But go ahead, continue the day
I shot in his driveway
before going to somebody else's yard.

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And after a Dave, shall we take like,four jump shots?
He's like,if you do that during the game, I'm
going to come down thereand punch you in the face. Yep.
And I said, really?
He's like, absolutely, you can't lose this
or that okay.
And I don'tI think like I wasn't all that nervous,
but Dave was nervous for mebecause I had lost to the amount of,

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for the rest of myit might be more than anyone.
I would have made t shirts.
I would have made t shirts.
We'd be talking a totally different way.
I would have started off.
I remember when I rememberwhen I beat you,
it was about 11 to 5, give or take.

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And not knowing this,you might have gotten to
you. Youdid back me down, but not realizing
you got two inches on me and maybe
50 pounds 40 pounds made easy.
So you two 4250 was

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I want to say so
before Covid, I was like to 25 to 230.
Okay.
At that point during Covid,I was probably back and forth.
Okay.
Right now, about 245 solid muscle,all steel, all steel,
all steel.
The cameras from from the neck.
Yes, yes.
These cameras don't add15 like TV cameras either, but no. Bad.

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And you bringing that up? You had to.
We're already there. Already?How many minutes? In 20 minutes.
He's bringing in the
Feeney versus Fuchs.
There was a trophy made.
There was a trophy made.
Ty has the trophy.
Maybe we'll get the.
We'll put the trophy righthere. I'll find it. Boom.
I would have it on my shoulderthe entire time.
I would have wornit around my neck like, oh,

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you know, so it's not a big deal.
We played at near his house.
Never.
Ty showed up.
Was Billy there?
And I remember, I remember.
So you hired a trainer one.
And then you also brought a coach
because Shapiro was like,back them down, back them down.
And it was just like grinding me outboom, boom, boom, you know?

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And I was just like you said,you could take me in.
I 100% said it.
I'm not going to take less and learn.
Lesson learned.
I thought you wanted a rematch.I thought that was a whole.
We're going to Facebooklive, stream a rematch.
I'm going to have to get like, Rocky fiveand just start running
through the mountainswith a stick picker. Reverse. Rocky.
That was machine gun, not on Drago.

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I just, did I messed that up? Yeah.
Okay. That's okay.
That's my favorite.
Rocky number five didn't exist.
So forget I mentioned that farm football.
No, that's my boat.
But Rocky is like, you know,my dad is a rabbi, my brother a rabbi.
But Rocky is pretty much like the Bible,you know, much.
So it's it's not holy for usto see somebody in that so many times.

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But yes, I love it.
That's what wedo. But, which one's your favorite
and why is it 3 or 4?
Yeah.
Amazing. Clubber Lang okay.
Which is what I think I might have said tobefore we started our one.
I'm remember, that's one.
So I know what I can really enjoy.
You know Rocky man.

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All right. You mentioned it.
So, my favorite RobRabbi is Stephen Chat.
And over favorite rabbi.
Who's your favorite rabbi?
Okay, I'm hoping you were sayingthat my brother is awesome.
I mean, I would say
my father and my brother, my whatever,but on the basketball court,
I like that numbers. Absolutely. There.
With also the exception being my father.

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So I don't know if you ever hadthis experience.
My father, when we were play basketball,basically did to me
what I did to you when I you mentionedthat to you one on one. So
things and my brother and I
would call it the old, like, maneuverand take the ball and turn around
and he was just like a mack truckjust beeping the entire time

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until right into the.
Welcome to my world.For 11 points in a row.
That's what I got.
I was so.
That way.
Revisionist history.
Is your podcast?
No. That I,
So he was bigger than you.
He he backed you down.
And then once I hit puberty, like

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there was no one like you wouldn'tpay me anymore.
And that was.
So is that where you learnedthe swinging left elbow hook square
to clear out offensive foul line?
I should have called that in his driveway.
There was. No. I never hit you with that.
When you hit me with the other, Ithere was one time I was like, all right.
And I looked like I checked with CoachShapiro.

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I'm like, I'm just going to hack them.
If you're going to back me down, back,just win.
You know, really good hack.
He would have been probably a flagrantin Nia's driveway.
And and Shapiro was like, all right.
But I'm like,we can't do this 50 times in a row.
Shapirosaid, I knew you were going to win.
When he asked you.

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I remember him saying that.
That for you.
Yeah, I that's that's okay.
So I mean, you know, weit was when I said, oh,
when it comes to the guy, I mean,if we're talking about basketball, I think
and I hate to ask this, but last seasonyou were a captain, right? Yep.
How would you rate your abilitiesas a captain?

(18:44):
I mean, I don't measure, like,you know, your team, the league, right?
Wow. I'm just asking questions.
This is my podcast, remember?
Continue. I'm glad you brought this up.
No, I mean, like,because I have the rosters.
Oh, okay. Good. I deserve that all.
I feel like like it's important toto make people human, right?
Yeah. You know, Eric Peters is great.

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I mean, so we're okay.
He's not perfect every time.
No, no. Great example. All right. Agreed.
Are we going to talk aboutlast season two or just this season?
The season was just how about.
No. Okay. Just this
we made.
So you remember the last seasonthat was on a we were holding.
Yeah.
Wait, you won two years in a row?

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I well, I don't want your season zeroto winters in a row.
You won two winters in a row with Alexis.
Both times with Alexis. Yes.
I and, I don't get to talk about myselfbecause I'm not.
I'm not, but I didn't go ahead.
And did you have did you have game high
19 season average, like four pointsa game.

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And I got 19 in that gamebecause that was the one game that my wife
decided to to bring all the kidsand I like I didn't miss a shot.
It was amazing.
I played out of my mind.
I was at about the very next game.
So be it.
Hey, but game on.
The line versus tie.

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You hit back to back threes.
You hit a total of three threes.
I mean I didn't even knowyou could spell the word three.
Yeah.
And and you and you hit three threes andthey were nothing but net top of the key.
Swish I was like you must havesaid your prayers that morning. Yes.
Did your dad rabbi bless you that morning.

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We don't do the cross okay. That was bad.
That was bad.
I don't know if you knowhow bad I can do the cross.
But no, that's not because of that.
That was the best way.
Suspect to Jesus.
But it just wouldn't be with this cross.
I like to say that this. No,
no, no, no, this
is just the nondenominational podcastto get in trouble.

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Man, I few out here spewingwant to try to live that moment.
So you can't get blessed.
Be blessed is not.
So there is a blessing, that my fatherwould give to me every Friday.
And I get to, like it.
But that that just do
turn lights offand no electricity for Shabbat, you know?
Do you have the thingbuilt in your backyard

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that you go and eat,like the the hot. Yep.
Yep. And we do build it.
So that.
How do they get out of hereand I like it's just an activity
where we can do something together to meanbasically the kids will, like,
look at meas I'm doing all the work by myself.
And then the three year olds
who an not beforeyou will come over like steel nails.

(21:34):
I'm about to put in. Perfect.
Yeah.
You know, bonding, familybonding at its best.
They've definitely never heard mesay any words.
And, I, by the way,I don't know if you know this about me.
I'm not the constructionguy, but that's okay.
So. No.
Did you.
Did you know Rabbi means teacher?

(21:57):
If if what you're getting to is.
I know you want me to call you rabbi.
You know,I wasn't going that angle, but you.
That'd be awesome.
Did you bring a kippah for me?
I did not, because I, you know, listen,everybody has their own interpretation.
I think, like,
people say, that they cover their headwhen they're in the presence of God.

(22:18):
And so they were like people when they goto synagogue or something all the time.
I would rather letmy ten year old be kind of my girl.
So I think it's importantto allow that to happen.
So I don't cover it all. Yeah.
Rabbi chatting over episode 54
was I wrote these down, actually,
but it was really, I learned a lotbecause he wears the kippah all the time.

(22:42):
Obviously wears it on the court, wearsit to the grocery store, and he does that
because when he's walking in an aisle
and if someone sees him,
they're more comfortable asking for helpbecause they know he's a rabbi
or he's representing,this culture in this religion for that's,

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you know, that's positive
to have.
They got eternal life.
But I thought that was also trueof the number success.
But let me not but yes.
So yeah.
He said, and then my friendMatt, former camp director, said,
I found that so interestingbecause Matt wears his too,
and he didn't really realizewhy he did it.

(23:25):
But Rabbi, on my podcast exclusive
allowed him to, you know, reflect and say,oh, that's awesome.
That's why I wear my kippah.
And if you're wearing a hat,you don't have to wear it like you have
in your heads covered, and you shouldwear it while you're eating, right?
No. Oh, you're not really big into that.
Your dad
hate to disappoint you.

(23:46):
Yeah,but I know my my feelings on religion,
I care.
That we're doing the right things.
And I feel like as a Jew,I feel like, you know, our goal
is to try to make the worlda better place.
And the people around me
make sense, which is to.

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And, you know,I think that inherently that's,
you know, that's what we're here for.
And I think a lot of the other stuffas well, personally,
I think that sometimeswe use physical things
to remind us of what we thinkand put on to keep our people right there.
And, and I respect that.And I think that's wonderful.
Take anything away from that.
It's just not where I am.
And, you know, I give my kidsthe framework of what I believe

(24:28):
and then you do what you want, right?
I'm not I don't want you to beso unvaccinated into how I feel.
I want you to think for yourselfand to are you.
And I think so much of what I like aboutJudaism is the question of,
why are we doing this?Why does this make sense?
Does this make sense for me?
And I think it's okayto have those questions and to do it.
Your life.

(24:48):
Awesome.
Now you know the Venn diagram,the two circles
we have Rabbi Steve and your dad.
Do they overlap?
Do you see compare and contrast?
Except when I was in high school,there was.
Yeah.
So they were both teach classes thereand that was a big deal.
But I don't like, you know,they they, we I think a lot of times
you see more overlap in the rabbiswhen they disagree.

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And so they, you see them get together
because they're like,you know, they doing their little debates.
And, but I'm not a whole lot because
John Lyons, he's like the local weathermanon Facebook and stuff.
You know, him.
131 I think his daughter'syou don't feel great with the weather.
131 the neighbors, friends and neighbors,I think, his daughters did

(25:34):
bat mitzvah,
but but with your dad,I think he mentioned
because I on the podcast 131I go, hey, future guests.
Fuchs.
And he's like, oh, it's his dad, a rabbi.
And I was like, yes.
And he's like, I think my daughter'sconnected with them. So.
So not all the.
But the amazing thing about my father isI just about anybody he's ever
before, he will still remember 2 or 3

(25:56):
that he had themremember to ask him about it.
One, two, three, fourthat he decades later.
So Aaron Goldman, had dinnerwith the other night,
in his mid 30s.
He says the last time that I saw
your dad on Facebook,he asked me what some people were.
It was like, you know,
and, you know, I still have to remember itbecause he continues to ask, right.

(26:19):
So that's awesome. I, I
able but that's
I you know, I respectthat is now what's you brought up Aaron.
What's his plus minusplaying with Ty or playing without Ty.
So I respect what you're trying to do.
And so there's a thing called the West.
And what you try to do is drivea wedge between two teammates.

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And one of the ways that you do thatis asking, seemingly innocuous questions.
Okay, you can plead the fifthbecause I have another question.
I would say that hishis shots per game are up and down.
He scored 14 I think it was last year.
And, you know, technically
a lot of shotsthat people would choose to pass.

(27:04):
Passers by.
Oh, yes.Oh, pass first. You heard it here.
What minute are we for?
The pass first.
What about that?
You know,
and so he creates I like he's,I think it might be that he.
I think it might be that he.
No. Amazing longevity camera bar.
You ever go over there?

(27:24):
Aaron's, family business.
That's an amazing spot.
We got our camera there.
My mother daughter camera there.
Anybody that I ever knowthat ever should buy
a camera should buy it,and then they know what they do.
Yeah, I told himI want to do a podcast with with them.
They're. It's been there for 50 years.
It's like a stapleof the Hartford community about it. So I

(27:46):
and he showed me aroundhow like they do the bars
and the windows,they used to welcome people in.
That's why, I guess, what was Camera Bar?
They used to like hang out,not to drink or anything,
but like to hang outand talk camera stuff.
And then they had to do away with that.
But just an amazing.
And then all the older cameras,
all the progression of the years of likeyou could see the changes.
Great guy.
Great great, great family in Camera bar. Yes.

(28:09):
Buy your cameras from the camera bar.
So we talked rabbis.
Oh, so you're a financial advisor?
I teach third grade. Okay.
Can you explain being a financial advisorto a third grader
when somebody retiresand they stop working,
they need to replace the money that

(28:29):
help themreplace it with the investments that we
boom.
Now, there's a lot that goes into that,right?
There's taxes and Social Security,income planning and recessions
and all of the things that people worryabout from an exaggerated standpoint.
And our goal is to kind of takethat weight off of their shoulders
and put it on ourselves,because this is all the time.

(28:50):
I mean, how can you get a paycheck
and not have to worry about it
and figure outhow to navigate all this stuff
and then we show and we educatelike we'll take our word for it.
I'm a big believer in like,you know, being behind the curtain and
and here's what you have. Here'swhy we're doing it.
You have to agree with the bossbefore you let us make money.
It's crazy because I havepeople come to me with like,

(29:10):
rollover checks from here.
Take this my friends up. This is whatI have to do when I become a client.
I said, hey, look like, let's like,let's make sure you like us first.
Let's let's have the conversation.
But, that's what would be interesting.
All right. Financial advisor. So,
Oh, I got some sponsors.
So let me shout out some spots.

(29:31):
Keating agency float 41.
Oh, the fix I've I meant to mentionbefore we played the fix the
the Fuchs versus Feeney one on oneI went and got a fix.
Remember I sent you the video onI don't think I want anybody.
It didn't work, but I felt great.
You know what? I did a 41 before that.
Oh come on.

(29:54):
Did you eat a Luna pizza after I.
No, said I.
Golf law group,
people's bank, Parkville management, WestHartford lock maximum beverage and Sally
and Bob's West Hartford lock did the locksfor my office and for my house.
And those people are the reasonthey're great.
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(30:16):
If you're wonderingat home, that one I know
that one.
I didn't have the right down.
Louder, louder next time.
Yeah. Eric Brownand you're a great people.
They run a golf tournament every yearat tumble Brook for their company,
and they invite their friendsand, employees and,
clients,and they do our little raffle and,

(30:38):
whatever proceedsthey give to friends of Feeney.
So thank you, Eric.Great people with that.
Yeah. You're coming.
You, but I will,I think I think what would be
great has to do that charity one on one.
And then maybe you should like,
bring somebody back and actually.
Okay, okay,
look, I'mtrying to get Brian Gomes on the podcast.

(30:58):
Maybe I'll.
Maybe I'll have him
in your future studio.
Fuchs versus Feeney,
I so I'll tell you,like, I started the company.
And I
to me, like, financial planning is
giving yourselfenough power to have control.

(31:21):
You know, I,I think that's really important.
So if, if your boss is being a jerk
and you realize that nobodyshould listen to this person
and you want to walk away, it'sknowing that you can actually walk away
not having to be so demandingthat paycheck.
That's right.
I've got other options.I can kind of just myself. Softball.
I've got I'm comfyand I have the ability to walk away.

(31:46):
When I started, for example,I was working for another company
and my daughter is four
and I was having a conversation.
If you want to be,
and he was talking to me in a waythat if he was talking to my daughter,
I hope that she would get a
no matter how much money she was making,what the circumstances

(32:07):
were to have enough respect for herself
to be able to get up and go.
And when I had that thought,my daughter was here, that I would be.
And I have to lead by my own exampleand get up and go.
And that was when I basically was like,I'm not worth anybody else.
I'm going to try this myself.

(32:28):
I'm going to take the time,throw it on the way.
Very exciting stuff.
A little bit terrified.
And I started with April 2019,
and the only way
that I was able to get in business,because I was so afraid to do anything
that the other company didn't, I didn'twant to do anything that I wouldn't do.
I wouldn't do anythingthe way that they did it.
So I only did library workshops,which I had never, ever done this on a

(32:52):
great and all of a sudden,
like, you know, typically takes two yearsfor business to break even for people.
Nine months. Awesome.
And then, it was March of 2020 Covid hit.
Couldn't do libraries anymore.
I remember within the first library said,
hey we can't have you come inbecause we're closed.
It's like, oh man,

(33:13):
what am I going to do?
Because now the third one is anyway, so
oh man, I meant 2019.
Now I was just going to askand now you have Middletown,
West Hartford, Middlebury, mystic.
That's awesome. You got an exclusive.
You got any other ones coming up?
Oh. You want that?

(33:34):
Come on, give me an exclusive.
No, no, no we do.
I was looking to extend it,but I think what I'd like to do is
I feel like
every other companythat I've been at or around,
they always try to treat new peoplebetter than they're going to be.
Like. It's all.
It's all about trying to acquirenew people and the mindset of what?

(33:56):
Instead of taking care of the peoplethat have the mindset.
For me right now,we just want to make sure
that we're taking excellentcare of the people that we already have.
Right.
Mutual friend Jeff.
Right.
Who does your taxes? Right.
Lucky to have him I would not the tablethat I'd get in trouble.
So I'm learning I'm not doing that
but if it was brought on in Januarythis year so that we could do our clients

(34:19):
taxes, us and for the majority of themdidn't charge anything
because it was just a servicethat we want to be able
to take better careof our existing people.
And we were tired. Income.
What are your taxes?You're coming from us anymore.
Like you got Social Security.
But yeah, I agreewith all the stuff that we affect
tax taxes so we can have in one place
if we can have easy communication betweenus, it makes life easier for our clients.

(34:43):
That was the goal. Yeah.
So before we go any more,I want to make sure that we're able
to really warm up our processand make sure we're comfortable for one.
And that's that's awesome.
Jeff Singer just taxes.
He does my taxes.
Great guy.
I thought I was, his daughter's teacherrecommended that I have to say before

(35:05):
I go,
you should check him out because I said,nah, he's just kick them under the table.
I haven't done it.
I think he knows.
Maybe I know why, but no, he let me in.
We were in your.We were in your office at 8 p.m..
I was eating all the snacks.
Your beef jerky, your chips.
I drank all the seltzers.
I moved around your bobblehead of BobRoss took about a handful of pens.

(35:26):
Thank you.
Don't drink from all your mugs.
You actually had the entire office?
Yeah. What?
I also asked Jeff to write down everythingyou know.
So you'll be getting those.
Thank you in advance.
We'll send it to Eric.
We're not friends.
I think we're all good.
I, I but but no.
Jeff Singer, great person. What?

(35:47):
All right. Our motto. Be a good friend.
Pick up trash. Hold the door.
Give a compliment. Be charitable.
What makes Jeff Singer a good friend?
We had a client
before he became a board
last year
who had done something wrongwith their table ties.

(36:09):
They filled out something wrong,and because of that,
they weren't going to get an exemptionthat they needed because it showed
that they made too much.
Jeff showed up to their house
April 15th, which is tax day at 6 p.m.,
to walk them through what they had done,figure it out,
and make sure that they were on the right.

(36:30):
I don't think that you meet a lot of humanbeings, especially accountants,
in the middle of the last yearand tax season,
when you clearly have so much going on
to be able to take time just to help outsomebody you've never been before.
Great guy.
Thank you, Jeff Singer,for being a good friend.
Well, he did mine at 8 p.m. on a Sunday.
Does that count?
That a good friend.

(36:52):
Oh, okay.
Forgot about that part, I'm guessing.
I don't know, you didn't tell me,but that would be my guess.
And. Oh, back to West Hartford lock.
Watch what I do here.
What are three keys that make you
a great financial advisor? For.
Well, I mean, here I'm talking a lot,
but the first thing we have to dois listen,

(37:14):
so many people
just want to come in and be like,okay, let me tell you.
How can I help you if I don't understand
what you're trying to accomplish?
Everyone's different anyway, so listen,
first to.

(37:35):
We stand by what we do.
Think that.
Yeah, I think so many people
just want to give an answer and then
you just us.
You got to be able to follow through onwhat you do.
You got to be able to show peoplethat you all who you say you are.
And then
number three.

(37:56):
We bring everything together.
We don't just focus on one aspect.
Right.
It's not just this investment
or this mutual fundfor this stock, for this whatever. Yes.
How does this workwith your Social Security,
with your taxes, their statements,all those things have to come by.
And if you just look at one outof those four, two, they don't intersect.
And you're not doing the right thingfor people.

(38:16):
You have to put all those pieces together.
And, I know I talk about it,and I got some people talking about what
I like to call it, a Lego set, becauseshe's never put the wrong person on a Lego
straight nails.
I'm like, that's that's what it is.
Sometimes when you do the wrong thingwith the whole time of financial time.
So we want to make surewe're building right pieces.

(38:40):
Good.
Listen, now people don't know this, but
buddy building Markowitz. Yes.
Bikes. You allowed to jump on?
Of course, of course.
Let me ask you, though.
Maybe he had his shine already.
He had his time on, episode.
What's your episode, Billy?
He goes 107.

(39:00):
Let's see.
1071 17. Can we.
I got 127 here, Billy.
Come on.
Now, dude,you started swimming after I was that.
That's what it was.I swam two days in a row.
Boys at the gym half a mile yesterday,half a mile this morning.
You know, the great shark.

(39:20):
What a difference the J makes.
I'm down to 208.
Well, I used to be 220.
My knees are feeling better.
So when I hit your one on oneI only had like 20 pounds.
Yes, because you makeit sound like I'm 50, so we're sort of 82.
You thought I was 270 or at that pointin time I think I was 220 ish.

(39:40):
So I also had some elbows on me.
Yeah, but you made it seem like two 20s.
So you were about 40, 20 000.
You know, we haven't gone there,but we played one on one.
Were you there for that?
You were there.
What was it?
We. I don't know why you want me to bring.
Yeah.
We're going to live stream a rematchFacebook fundraiser here, so we have time.

(40:03):
Time? Okay.
You can you can do the color commentary.
We'll give you the moneynow. True or false?
Can can you talkopenly on how the market is right now?
Today?
So today
the S&P 500 actually went positivefor the year.
And the reason that that happenedis because you brought me. Yes.
The S&P 500 is up a 10th of a percentas of the.

(40:27):
And at one point it was down like 15%.
I gave crazy tonight.
And so
so can I predict what happens next?
I'm not that cool of crystal ball.
But I can learn from the situation.
And that's what we dois make sure that no matter what happens,
we have a planfor what we know how to play.
And that's what the anxiety fixing.

(40:47):
Oh man,I should have done this a while ago.
I should have talked to somebody.
No, that's what we have to worry about it.
The reason that I haven't lostmore of my hair just because we have.
I know you look a little gray right here.
Right.
But Itell you about my daughter this morning.
I just put on a coffee table,while I was sitting on the couch.
This is a dad.

(41:08):
Dad. She's like a,you know, ten going on 15.
You should really start losing your hair.
Oh, thank you so much for that kind of.
Yeah. Daughters are the best like that.
I appreciate your honesty.
So, you know, I'm happy to have the great.
My daughters once said.
Hey, dad, put your hair down.
What's your bald spot look like today?

(41:30):
C and S or a J.
I would show the camera, but let's not.
But yeah, kids, daughters.
Especially to to their dads love them.
Yeah, but man, no.
And so how are you feelingtalking on camera?
I know you're nervous.You don't do that often, right?

(41:50):
I, you know, I mean, it's it'sintimidating right in front of you.
So welcome to the pod.
I noticed on your websiteyou said as seen on
Ctmc channel three,
TCI 1080 news, channel eight.
Are we going to get a beanie Talkswith friends logo up there?
As seen. Can we add that to the website?

(42:12):
Well, since you're askingme, am I asking too much?
Yeah, right.
That's right.
That's a no.
That's the best way to get a it'ssupposed to be get a yes.
Yeah, absolutely.
That'd be awesome.
That'd be awesome.
And true or false. Confirm or deny.
We have chief financialguest on the website.

(42:32):
Deal? Deal.
I have to negotiate. Okay. Yeah.
You know, I got a I was told to.
This is the chairman of the board. Matt.
I'm not looking at you, Billy.
Ben Fuchs, you missed it.
We've been. He'sbeen talking a lot of trash.
Thank you.
I got some backup now.
So confirm or deny.
Do you film?
You have a TV show you have to do? Itairs weekly Sundays, right?

(42:55):
Or Saturday nights?
Saturday nights, 7 p.m. NBC.
If I'm about lucky Derby or,
you know, didyou get bumped for the run of the roses?
How dare they?
Like, why would anybody want to seethose massive hacks? Is that right?
Financial?
Do what you get.
The greatest two minutes in sports.
They wanted to,

(43:15):
bump you.
Well, you have your biggest fanhere, Billy.
Send screenshotsof all of your times on the TV.
Marty,because I have them pulled up and there's,
like, one active viewerand I'm like, Billy, thank you.
Not the best is onceI go to, like, a yard, goats event,
bow ties and baseballs, I go to the barto get a drink and I look on the screen.

(43:37):
And who do I see ruining my evening?
Enhancing?
You. You're welcome.
Where was I? Yep.
This is it. The Yard Goats game.
Look at that.
Look at you at the bar.
That's the one. There's two today.
I go,
then there's there's another one.
Oh, how you retired.com, is that you?

(43:59):
That's me.
That's that's, so that's the website thatyou can go to if you want a,
a taxi business,
but taxes and income.comis really the main site.
So if you want to add taxes and income
because too many people were misspellingviews.
So we, we went with this.
I don't know how you could do itwith taxes going to come back down here

(44:20):
for the community. Yeah.
And your number, you could be reachedat Fuchs financial.com
and (860) 775-4490.
I don't even know that number had
(860) 461-1709.
That could also be true.
Is that your cell phonethat you just gave or.
Okay, I was going to say because if yougave myself what I, I got your cell phone.

(44:44):
Stick around to the end.
I'm Sharon Fuchs cell phone.
So you and his address.
So I swear to God,I came here like, two minutes late.
I was going to be here at 429.
I should have at 432because I was in the Starbucks next door.
And as I'm getting in my car to leave,somebody pulls like,
this is how you get out.
Somebody pulled right in front of me
and like, hey, are you that financialthat I'm like, yeah.

(45:08):
And ask me like, I'm not happy.
Like, no, I'm I'm happy with what?
I'm like, oh man, I don't want to be latefor this podcast.
Like I give hard enough time to then sure.
It's just purely disrespectful.
I don't want to do that.
So I apologize for being two minutes late,but I did.
Interesting. Did you give him your card?
I did, that's very cool.
He recognized Joe recognizable face.

(45:28):
This guy is weird because I don't feellike I'm that like, I don't.
I mean, between golf and bend,which is interesting because they share.
Yeah, well, I let her
so they.
Bruce came to us and was like,you know, you're okay with it.
Very.
I was going to say,I thought, you're going to Starbucks.
Lady pulled outand you saw a magnet on her car.
No, no, no.

(45:49):
So what I dois I carry with me a spray paint.
So every time I see a good friend,I just want to enhance the border.
Nice, nice.
You can get these now.These are our fundraiser.
We did a mural at ParkvilleMarket at the local,
and they're being soldat the Daily Ground in Farmington.
But as you can see, it's a starry nighttheme.

(46:09):
Vincent van Gogh.
So thank you to our friends Zoe,
Jack, Teaganand Hannah and Julie from Rise Up Murals.
They help us do this.
We'll share a link,but these are some cool new.
Maybe you'll buy one, shootthe lock off your wallet and buy a magnet.
Fuchs will. I just said that.
That's true. Oh.

(46:29):
Oops. Oops oopsI you're right, you're right.
Okay, can I get alligator?
All right.
Back to confirm or deny.
Do you film your show in Arizona? So.
And how does that work?
I film,
yes, but. So
breaking news, we actually have finished
or are in the process of finishingthe studio in our little town office

(46:52):
so that I will not have to fly downto Arizona anymore,
because it used to be like,oh cool, I get a break and now
my daughter will hug my like the onethat's two likes me and a three year old.
So hug my leg.
Don't go big.
The guilt of leaving every time.
And it's like two days, but it's still,you know, where did you go?
So we do film in Arizona.

(47:13):
There's a great studio, down therethat we were able to use
where we can film that,and they have a production crew in there.
So it's it's really cool.
But, shout out to to go to GreenlightProductions.
Adrian Gallagher,she is, the one that's going
to be filming the showand we're really excited about that.
And you're going to host in Middletown.

(47:34):
You have quitethe playhouse in that Middletown office.
Arcades, pinball?
No. Pinball ball arcade, though.
Pool table, ping pong table.
Come on, man, I got singer.
Show me pictures.
First of all, check the pictures.
I will show what there is.
There is a there is a basketballpop shot here for that man.

(47:55):
Listen, I have a midlife crisis.
Know didn't we? All right?
And instead of buying, like,the convertible, to show off my life,
I decided thatit would be more cost efficient
and fun to buy the time. And.
Yeah, time is like.
So we have.
I tell you what we havebecause I can visualize.
Well, we have air hockey,you know, and, like a coffee shop. Yep.

(48:20):
We have skee-ball.
We have side by side,
car racing and, kind of, I suppose,
because nothing is more fun than talkingtrash to your eight year old son
as you are destroying him on my,
And then we also havethis old school. Yes.

(48:40):
We got there and
and so it's just art.
They do just like the big screen.
And it has every arcade game from 1982to like 2005.
Street fighter two, NBA jam,
I'm coming over middle.
I mean, you know, all kinds of like contraupupdowndown left.

(49:00):
They start.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah. So weird. I mean, it's a.
Oh, and can we give a shout outto one of my advisors at the asthma?
He lost it to the last showon Mike Tyson's.
Oh, and I didn't know thatthat could actually happen.
Don't say that.
So I'm Eddie, I was, Alex cow.
It's kind of one of ours.
Was just got a CFP. Amazing.

(49:22):
With Gina Mazara.
Been an advisorwith us for five years now.
It's crazy.
So we're we're verylucky to have two people. So.
CFP, I meant to mention it.
What acronym
like financial planner. Got you.
What's CP?
WA? She is a certified title.
And she would have said you also haveto say the professional after.

(49:45):
So she professionalnot my rules their rules.
And I just want to lose a licensedlike I go by the rules and that one was
made me like you know a specificallythe people out of $5 million.
And I
and I hesitate to say that stuffbecause we don't need to have one of the
problems to become a client at all.

(50:05):
We don't have limits at all.
We can help.
But it was interestingbecause there are a lot of like,
tax pieces and estate planning piecesthat I did not know before that
can be applied to plenty ofpeople, so I like that one.
Middletown offices.
What about the Middlebury office?
Do you ever go to Quasi Lake, quasiPark out there?

(50:26):
Middlebury apparently, no.
I feel like I should tell me about Lake.
You should bring your kids.
It's like it was Six Flags before.
Six flags.
Well, it'sthat that's that side of town. Six flags.
It's the Waterbury Six FlagsI grew up going to quarter night,
quarter hot dogs, quarter soda and coffee.
You eat so much, and you falland you spin around, and then and

(50:47):
and finish school.
Reverse reversal of fortune. Yes.
I actually went to Six Flags on Easter,
so it was great because that's smart.
You got nothing else to do.
There was no lines.
It was like the best day.
So for all of you, it was open
smart Chinese on ChristmasI think was also 5 to 6 back on Easter.
That's the through.

(51:09):
You heard them.
You heard me. I don't know if I should.We put a sign up at the.
Yes. Did they not. They don't
I won't mention. Who's that.
No they do not yet.
Yet keyword.
No. Rachel Metzger.
How's she doing?
She's great.So you guys got a good little.
Now, who's got better report?
Me and you or you and Rachel

(51:31):
going back and forth. Yeah.
So, I mean, close, it's really close, but.
And what do I have to doto get her on the podcast?
Good luck.
I couldn'tI out like the Rachel puts up with me.
Like I was like,oh, Rachel, just come on the show.
You can ask me questions.She's like, no, no.
I'm like, what do you mean?
I mean, it just asked me, like,any questions?
Like,I don't know about financial planning.

(51:54):
I am a professional you have to give me.
We're going to have a show.
You can't just have me out thereas they asked me stuff.
So I was like, oh,we need to actually, like plan this out.
I didn't realize thatwe had to have structure, I just, I did
you have topic and scriptand yeah, do practice rounds.
No, noI don't because I like to be off the.
Yeah.

(52:14):
Like I don't want to be practiced.
Yeah.Some idea of what I want to talk about.
I have some conceptbut I like to give out topics.
We'll give out ideas.
I want to give her enough classso she's good in ask.
But I don't want to do outside.
Yeah. No, she's super cool.
She host. Actually,I heard her on the way over

(52:34):
River 159.
Your ride home, Rachel. Oscar.
And I was like, hey,I'm going to bring that up.
And I saw her at the BrookGolf Christmas party.
Okay?
And I talked with, I think I said, hey,what are you going to be a podcast guest?
And what's her husband do?
Is you like a cop or somethinglike, oh, whoops.
And she does a show with you.

(52:54):
Yeah. Oh, boy.
So I said, I said, listen, first of all,have you met him?
Yeah, he's a big dude.
He's a big he's he's he bigger than you.
He was better.
No he's a big boy.
So first of all, he's a great guy. Yeah.
Gave him a big, obviously,with that, okay.
A little different room, right?

(53:14):
They do like, we,we like, you know, your Venn diagram.
We overlap a little bit, but not a lot.
You and I had a conversation,so if you guys want, like,
ever, you need to have an industry.
But I'm a big fan of,you know, he was a cool guy.
Mean handshake, big boy.
But I chatted him up at the BrookGolf Christmas party,

(53:34):
like, you know, like he could likelike I was a wishbone.
I mean, and it's out of.
I think he's in the Hall of Fame at all.
I want to say you live with your foot.
I believe that's what it is for. What?
Oh come on. Yeah, he's a big dude.
I was going to say powerlifter.
It could have been the, shotput.
It could have been anythingbecause he's a big boy.
Yeah, no, I would if I had to fight him,which is like what?

(53:56):
I got into politics. Like,what would I do?
Immediately go to the.
Yeah, the shins.
And I'm running like, run, run like kick.
Is that memory allowed?
Okay, so shout out to the J.
We're going to name some ballers here.
Now are you better them in court
or financial advisingbecause Evan Gilchrist

(54:17):
55 he's a
financialplanner and the deejay episode 55
John Decker
Baller, financial planner.
Episode 65.
Is there one that you'd like to discuss?
Who who's better on the courtor off the court?
Who has?
I ask all the tough question.
Rachel doesn't askthose kind of questions.
Not what Rachel would have. The up.

(54:39):
Rachel's never been like.
You know, Ben, I want to watch youplay in the oh, torture.
Great thrilling stuff.
But, Evan Gilchrist has sneaky goodlaughs.
You know finishes betterthrow money and Decker who is 55.
Yeah just turned it I think you still play
a 40 minute game.

(55:01):
Incredible shape.
He's a marvel and he's he's great.
Better returns. Good idea.
But that's what I meanrespectfully it's not the goal.
I'm not going to have two clientsand one's going to have better
returns than the otherbecause they give me a different stuff
based on what they want.
That's not like a fair comparison.
I think the better question isif you're going to compare a business,

(55:21):
which I don't want to be compared to thosewho both work for human beings, but
it did.
They do what I asked them to do.
If I told them that I will save them,I want to go through,
you know, whatever was progressive,I want to come out here just I want,
you know, I want to save money in taxes.
Did they tell you they do it in the,
I think that's where we.

(55:42):
Yeah, that's a good answer.
Very diplomatic way to answer.
You could have tooka lot of different angles about that.
You should have over is tap dancing.
I feel like I did a good job of that.
You tapped around it perfectly.
So before we move onbecause we're getting close to the end.
Anything that I missed onfinancial planning.

(56:03):
Anything you like to share.
Anything you'd like to add?
Yeah.
There's no one. Is.
I think that
people want to gravitate towards house.
Everything should be in stocks.Everything should be mixed funds.
Everything should be in bonds.
Everything should be in the movies.
Everything should be respected.
I disagree with all of that.
I think the best of For Everything.

(56:23):
And there's a
we shouldn't dismiss any typeof investment because of the name of it.
And you should see if that investmentmakes sense for us.
Sometimes,
like I think we dismiss any charityjust because it's expensive to
write.
I shouldn't just not give to that basebecause of who's running it.
Right. I should look at the workthat they're actually doing.
And do they do the things that they saythey do and have they actually helped

(56:46):
100 families? That's amazing. Right.
Let's let's make sure that we're giventhe right.
Let's just love it.
Well, Billy's a great don't donation.
He's a good friend on and off the court.
Right Bill.
He tries itjust all the more for being a good friend.
And Billy'spodcast has like 300 plus views.
Fuchs.

(57:06):
Oh, I he's going to be me.
Okay, you know what's underrated?
Not only Billy's, good friends,but also his his barbecuing skills.
Oh, right.
There is that barbecue later.
Two weeks.
Two weeks. Yeah.
He's got he's got some things to do.And then he's invited over.
We we try to invite him ourselvesover the other day.

(57:27):
Yeah.
I will say like the, the the chair of the furniture.
This is okay.
Yeah. Yep. Propane tank. Yes. Oh. Okay.
So right after this will be going to go.
Yep. We're going over thereright down the street. So
do you feel like
what drafting.
I was a captain this year.
However do you do you ever answer thequestion of how your team Billy's hair.

(57:51):
Billy was on that teama couple years ago, but
we were all in 14 oh, two years ago.
Oh, for winter, two years agothis year, I think we won four games.
We finished the three in a row.
I scored 19 in the finale.
That's awesome for me right here at the J.
In two years
I was I was 14, 28

(58:13):
cool or four and do the math for today.
All right. Hold on.
Let's see. Hold on a second.
So no, these are these are cute pictures.
When you won I just had a question.
Seeing that we're bringing stuff up.
This yellow onethere's there's a great team here.
There's Seth,
recruits.
Ty, Ben that,

(58:35):
Jason Ryan and, LaSalle.
Is that LaSalle? Vessel?
Vassal. Vassal. Aaron.
Doctor. Vessel. Excuse me.
And why are you still family?
Can we zoom in on Ben?
Is he flexingand holding his back in this picture?
Can you you did you let out any

(58:56):
any huge exhale after this picture
was taken to the neckveins in your neck? Or.
You know what?
When I, when I, when I got the opportunity
to play basketball, I just, you know, I get excited I and then there's another one.
This is the real reason you want to the.
Oh, you're you're hoisting Ty.
You shouldn't even countthat championship.

(59:16):
You just piggybacked on Ty.
Piggybacked on Ty, and then. Hold on.
You got the blue one. Oh, okay.
That. Oh, then.
Oh, you.
You near Aaron?
Jim? Yeah.
Alex Frankel, who was MVP.
Some other dude.
And look again,I don't know if you're flexing, but you're

(59:37):
I mean, you're not holding your breath,but you're relaxing.
G you know why I would because I was overI happen I just happened to be.
Congratsto Fuchs Financial for winning 2022
of Winter Vets League.
Entire city.
We won. What year did we win?
Even wanted to make 19.
Maybe,

(59:58):
I have three championships.
How many do you have?
How long have you been playing? 16 years.
I it's, how many titles without a title?
Yo. Good one.
Okay, that's two out of three.
No. We already.Oh, that's a fun fact. Two.
Oh. We have this birdiesfor charity thing going.

(01:00:19):
It's a wonderful opportunityfor you to donate.
Webster Bank is matching with 15%.
I was looking for more ways to get moneycoming in.
But anyway, championship game, I go, hey,let's give
five points per bucket for Bender.
Let's give.
Was it two bucks? Oh no, it was five.

(01:00:41):
It was five.
Oh yeah, it was a dollar for tie,five for you, ten for Bender
per point.
So I had 20.
That's 20.
You had 19.
That's 95.
Do the math.
Bender had zero.
Sorry that's zero I was I was wrong.

(01:01:02):
So that's 115 total Billy
took thatand donated it to Birdie's a charity.
That's that I just mentioned.
So Billy always a good friend.
Thank you for dropping 19.
Ty drop 20.
I was surprised when I got five.
Obviously my season high,my season average was like

(01:01:23):
4 to 19 in the championshipand we would all swish on those threes.
Billy, remember that.
All right.
Unbelievable. Playoff bend.
That's it. Are we are we okay.
Yeah I'm sorry.
Oh hold on a second.
Hold on a second.
Oh it's getting high here.

(01:01:43):
Oh oh not over yet.
Oh what is that. Oh shoot.
It's really coming through.
I mean, this is this is this kind of shot.
Are you excited for.
I do like, we'll be ableto keep up with that even the entire game.
It's hard to dislike them because.
Is he getting the start?
Oh, I'm not sure. With six.
Maybe you don't get some wrong

(01:02:06):
two with them.
If you're sixman of the year starter goes up up
rightI mean us well it's three one Knicks.
The garden was rocking.
I mean to have Tatum have his best.
He didn't miss 42 didn't miss deep threes.
And like to go out like thatis unfortunate sad stinks I don't want to
you know I hate it for the Knicksto win this way.

(01:02:26):
But I'm going to take the dubtomorrow night.
Came back from three.
LeBron James
yeah the 73 win.
How about against the team with the bestrecord in the history of the NBA.
How about I text Ty like hey got the bestrecord in the history of the NBA.
He does somethingthat nobody else had ever done.

(01:02:49):
And he led, if I remember in 2016about the time that you hit me
in the door, if memory serves,
he led both teams in rebounds,
assists, points, steals and blocks.
Is that like has anybody ever done that?
That's all right.
That's like me and the J.
On a regular night.

(01:03:11):
What.
No. How about Ty?
I'm like,hey, give me some insight tidbit.
Fun fact on Ben.
Like, you know very wellyou're going to give me something good.
Ty writes
fun fact about Ben
he loves LeBronand thinks LeBron is the Goat.
Like how fun of this factare we going here.

(01:03:31):
But come on Ty
you know
Anthony Mason
love Anthony Mason.
Yeah we have so many I think you mighthave to be returning podcast guests.
You 2 billion Fuchs Bill and Benthe opportunity to be on Billy's rehab.
Listen I'm grateful.

(01:03:51):
Thank you for having me onI seriously I mean, for all the stuff
that I give you on a daily basis, I am.
Amazed by all the work that you do,that you continue
to put in, all the effort that you putinto trying to help people grow.
And I think that it's amazing,and it's an example that I
thanks future.
Well, I had a blast talking tolots of laughs, a lot of razzing

(01:04:13):
heating up, dissingwhatever you want to call it, roasting.
But I love it. I would welcome it.
I, welcome it.
And I was going to say so oh the J.
I want to thank the J.
Not only does it provide a wonderfulopportunity to swim workout, play,
but you network.
And I met some wonderful friends,Billy Ty Bender,

(01:04:36):
Jim Roy near.
We didn't get enough about nearbut near hosted us at the Fini.
Fuchs and his wife cooked some wonderful.
Hello.
Whenever you have made a mistake,I can just give it to me.
Why? Why, Greg?
Greg called qualifier Greg.
He's got in my arm every time.

(01:04:58):
Every time
game. Cancel. Dude,you just got me cancel.
I don't know, captain.
Scotty. Mac. Andy.
Oh, Scotty. Mac or Andy.
Thank you.
You are sponsoring the podcast.
Great community. I'm happy to be here.
Oh, no, I do.
I think the JCC does provide
an incredible resourceto where I'm a member of the board.

(01:05:22):
Oh, you are have.
I'm happy to be a part of the financecommittee there.
But I think it's a great placeto a wonderful place to play basketball.
Have. No. Yeah. No.Thank you so much to the J.
Wonderful people over there.
Shout out to Brad Drazen.
He's on the board.
He was in the leaguealso a guy, and he was on episode 53.
Brad Raisin.

(01:05:43):
Raisin was the one that Bradwho used to wear the mouthpiece.
Oh, yeah, he was
he was nuts.
You see him on TV? Such a nice guy.
Nice guy on the courtcomes out when the rebound goes up. Yes.
You're like, I would not know if I'm.
If I boxed him out, that's fine.
But if I'm anywhere to the side of him.
Yeah, he's got the rebound.
It's okay I rememberhe like jumped over my back like, oh.

(01:06:04):
So big guy Grayson like two years agoinvited me to breakfast with Josh Malcolm.
And, we're sitting down readingand at the end of the breakfast,
we're just talking was like,thanks for being a part of it, you know?
Sorry.You're on the finance committee now.
And I said, I'm sorry.
What?
You kids, I'm kind of busy.
The second

(01:06:24):
they know you're going to be onTuesday. As.
Okay, great.
And then it's like, oh, you'renow the head of the audit committee.
Oh, that's something I've never donebefore.
I can't wait to be a part of that.Very excited.
And then like nine months later, like,all right, you're on the board now.
That's called being volun told.
Yeah. No, that's a great strategy Brad.

(01:06:44):
Yes, it kind of Volun told
you were Voluntold you're coming on this podcast.
Well, let's wrap it up.
But I don't know if you read my my mug.
Hold on. Let me sit with this. Great.
Having tea with you.
Who's the LeBron?
What's that say.
Read that to readthat to everyone at home.
Police.

(01:07:04):
Now read it for real, though.
This is what the world's bestteacher looks like.
Yes, yes, like Michael Scott had to buythat for himself, but that's okay.
That doesn't make it not true.
Why lower the credibility?
I just I'm sure it's there.
It's in writing.
So with that being said.
Oh, hold on, it came with a card.

(01:07:25):
Thank you to my friend Zoe.
This year you've taught mehow to do multiplication fractions
and to be a good friend to.
Everyone says it right here.
Give me your hand. Write it.
I wrote it with my left hand.
Do you have a favorite teacherbefore we close?
Favorite teacher?
Man on the spot.
Mrs. individual, my fifth grade teacher

(01:07:48):
who taught us about the Holocaust.
And was herself a survivor and,
you know, she felt like she was 100 backwhen I was in fifth grade
in Tennessee, and she,
is just one of those teachers that cared.
And you don't have to go crazywhen you're a teacher,
but when people know that you care,it's just a different level.

(01:08:11):
Well said it, she cares.
Oh that's why you're a Titans fan.We don't have to go there.
But you're born in Tennesseeand Tennessee.
Raised in Tennessee.
All right.
This is the Feeney Talks with Friendspodcast.
We're friends of Fuchs today.
Upcoming events.
Quickly though we have a memorial dayparade looking for sponsors.
We have a HartfordAthletic game on six six.

(01:08:33):
We have a Bristol Blues game on 712.
We have our friends of Feeney, friendsof Nicholas fourth annual Yard Goats
game on August 16th,and our fourth annual golf tournament 15.
We have our fourth annual golf tournament,which Fuchs Financial
is a exclusive whole sponsorfor the second year in a row.
So with all his words being said,I really thank you.

(01:08:54):
You're very generous,you're very thoughtful.
You're a good friend.
And let's go.
Next we're going to say be a good friendon three or you add something.
First.
I will say I,
I wasn't going to say what you just said,but I'll say this where I be good friend,
I'm ready. You want to come down?
I wouldn't want to take your show,but you're on TV.
Thank you all for being friends with you.

(01:09:15):
People here, one, two, three.
Friends of meaning. No. Be a good friend.
One, two.
Three. Be a good friend.

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