August 12, 2025 • 32 mins
THE BOYS ARE BACK!! After a small summer hiatus filled with fun, projects and tons of memories we are excited to announce we are back for a “season 2” if you will. We’ve missed you all and we hope you missed us. Here is a little bit of what the last few months for us entailed and also a sneak peak of what’s to come. We got some amazing New Englandah’s in the queue and can’t wait to show them off to you all to continue to spread our beloved region! Stay tuned and remember folks Life’s Bettah in New Englandah’s!
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From Maine. 'S cold coast to Connecticut
pride Vermont green Hills ticketMassachusetts traffic was ripped
and we grind with a dunk and iced coffee.
No peace grind. So New England.
Stand up. Crowd shouting way shouting loud
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from thin weight chance to RhodeIsland side New Hampshire's
crime free or die. Good freaking morning from New
England folks. Welcome back to the So New
England Podcast. We're back to SO51.
We took a little bit of a hiatus, a little bit of time
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off. I had a lot going on.
The boys had a lot going on, a lot of traveling, a lot of fun
summer things. So we are back.
We're going to go guest list today.
We are just going to kind of chit chat it up, catch up with
you folks, talk about the thingswe've been up to, talk about New
England stuff. So yeah, thanks for being here.
Thanks for tuning in. How we feeling, boys?
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So good, so refreshed, so ready to get back into the next 50
bazillion episodes that we're about to film just episodes for
days. How about you, Chance?
Let's do it ready to. Go, you guys, just you guys were
you went to Vegas then? I did, yeah.
Sin City Rumor is online that Vegas has kind of gone downhill,
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that it wasn't that busy. Was it busy there?
Did you? Honestly, it was pretty packed.
Was it? Yeah, it was.
All right. So you can't believe everything
you read on the Internet. Where'd you hear that?
Probably Internet. Oh yeah, the Internet.
You don't know that joke. Yeah, I got it.
We did go for like a tournament and then Beyoncé was there so,
oh, no one flew in there. So it was a pretty.
Big you flew to Vegas to see Beyoncé been queen bee.
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Never that, no. Would you?
Oh, that's right, you're doing the card tournament.
Where'd you stay? At the real Caesar's Palace.
Caesar's Pilate. No, we stayed off the strip.
And what? Like Airbnb or something?
Kind of like what we did for your like all the what do you
call it? Why am I echoing?
You're you're sound fine over here.
Anyway, no, we stayed off the strip at like one of those
houses. Gotcha.
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And then, I mean, we probably should have just stayed on the
strip. How hot was it in Vegas this
time of year? Was it like crazy hot in the
summers? In the hundreds.
Damn dry heat though. Wasn't too bad, yeah.
Didn't sweat too much, are you? I know, 'cause you love Florida.
Yeah. Are you a dry heat kind of guy?
You. Care for dude?
I don't know, like I've been to Arizona and the dry heat is so
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much different than the humid heat of Florida.
Like humidity is definitely likethe killer.
I know that's always the joke where it's like it's not the
heat that'll get you, it's the humidity.
But for real, like I've, I like when I was in Arizona, we golfed
a few times and it was like 9394° and like, look, it's
fucking hot. There's no doubt about it it.
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But it feels like, I don't know,you know, like when you're at
the beach and you feel like you're getting burnt, but
there's like a breeze. So like even though it's
burning, you're like, it doesn'treally bother you because the
breeze is keeping you cool. That's kind of what it feels
like in Arizona. That's the best way I could.
Describe it like those those nights in Vegas sitting outside
like 9° breeze. Beautiful.
That's awesome. Feels cool even though it's hot
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as can be. And you've been to Vegas too,
right? Yeah, we went for.
Oh yeah, we got lucky. We went.
That was like your third time, right?
2nd. Second, yeah, we got lucky and
we booked our hotel room, we booked our suite for all the
boys and like 3 days later they announced McGregor and
Flaymetter Mayweather. We're gonna fight, fight that
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week. So we had booked it, so we were
so. So it was packed out for the
McGregor. Oh my gosh, so many people.
It was $150.00 a cover to just walk into the bars with no
guarantee of even being able to.See it in like the theaters.
Yeah, no, it was crazy. $50 yeah.
What? The that was the cover.
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So we paid 50 and washed it in the room.
Yeah, there you go. I don't know.
I don't know if I want to go. To Vegas, it was a lot of fun.
The cool thing was it's just everything.
It's no different than like going anywhere else, like any of
the fun trips. We it's just the time frame one.
There's no rules on the Strip. You can do whatever you want and
then the time frame is just like.
Rules they had like a whole you never seen cops Las Vegas that
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was one of the that was one of the best ones that's.
Off the strip. On the strip.
Oh no. It's not a street.
It's like it's own. It's Vegas.
The Strip is its own world. It's like a bubble like Sandy
Cheeks. His house in the in SpongeBob.
Outside the bubble, rules apply.Inside the bubble, you can walk
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around and drink, have beer out,smoke.
They don't care. That's crazy.
Yeah, in and out of the. It's not on my list.
It's not on my list of places toget like.
I feel like if I had like. Nights there and then get out of
there. Yeah, it's like if I had like a
work related situation where like that, that would be like a
reason for me to go. I would do it.
Actually, I did have an opportunity.
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There's a new game league that Clinton Sparks.
We're gonna have him on the pot at some point.
Very, very famous music producer, awesome guy.
He started his own gaming league.
The name is missing me at the moment, but he did invite me
out. I couldn't make it that weekend,
but he had like T pain and all that stuff.
It looked really cool and. T pain's big into gaming.
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That's awesome. Yeah, like I said, like just go
for like a weekend. You can get some good food, go
see a show. And they do have a lot of good
shows. All the casinos have their own
spots, so that was fun. Like Bruno Mars, right?
Bruno Mars is like a legally kept there.
He's not allowed to leave. For at the, what do you call the
sphere? The what?
Backstreet Boys. Oh, you were there when
Backstreet Boys were there? Yeah.
Yeah, so you see all these like,trolls dressed up in Star Wars
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going one way, and then everyonedressed in white going.
That's the only thing. It was so funny.
You know, what's actually crazy is I had never thought about
this before with like the Vegas fear, but I saw someone post
online that they got motion sickness and that you should
take Dramamine before you go to a show because there it's, it
moves so much and you're so surrounded that you feel like
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I'm like, I didn't have a fear about going to this sphere
before, but now I kind of do because I suffer from Vertigo
pretty regularly. Like it's a pretty bad thing for
me. So I'm like, I don't know if I
could ever go to this sphere like and see.
I could see that. Dramamine for sure sometimes
like. When you go to like a nice IMAX,
it's like that where you're kindof just like, whoa.
There's a lot. Like I did the 3D glasses once
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for a movie and I was like, Nope, I can't do this, that's
too much. I had to take them off and I saw
everything and I was, it just felt like trippy.
I just saw two of everything theentire film.
That's too funny. So yeah, that was about it.
What about you? What have you been up?
To, oh, you know, filming a movie.
Filming a movie. I was up in New Hampshire for
about 3 1/2 weeks almost. I was, It was 17 days total, 18
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days total, something like that.And then ironically, my family
came into town. So I went home for two days,
three days came back to Rhode Island, did the Bristol 4th of
July parade, oldest running parade in the, you know, US by
the way, it was a really good time.
Love Bristol, love the 4th of July parade there.
And then I went back up to New Hampshire for another week with
my family. So I have always been adamant
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that I love New Hampshire, but having actually spent that much
time in like living there best New England state, I can say
that with confidence now. Like I think Vermont's
beautiful. It's great.
Maine I think is a little bit too.
I want to say like country. You know what, let me take that
back. I have not explored Maine
enough, so I might change my tune.
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But I do feel like New Hampshireis like that happy medium.
And I think growing up in Rhode Island, being like the Ocean
State and always being like a beach guy, I am definitely more
of a lakes guy. And what's so cool about New
Hampshire is like no matter whatyou do, like the Sacco River and
the lakes and just in general, there's like a river everywhere
you go. So like in the back of my
Airbnb, you know, like the stream just like went through.
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So I would just go out there andI would go swimming the stream.
It's cold, but I love it. That's awesome.
Diana's Baths. I was.
Going to say so I grew up for the first what 4 to 13?
So the the beach is up here. What's?
The math on that nine years chance.
The Math 13 -, 4 nine. 1721 So the first like years of my life
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being like a young kid, we spenta lot of time at beaches down
there. So like when I came up here,
like I don't really care for thebeaches up here.
They're beautiful, don't get me wrong.
And like I do love them, but it's just different when you can
just walk right in. Like I feel like it's a process.
I got to be cool up to my anklesand then once my ankles are
numb, I gotta get up to my kneesand then once my calves are
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numb, I gotta get up to my legs.So like, you know, I mean, maybe
it's just me. Do you what?
Do you think? No, I've been saying this
forever. I love Rhode Island.
It has its charm, but I do not believe that we should be the
Ocean State. Now I understand that we are
considered that because it's what, 400 miles of coastline?
Yeah, some ridiculous. But I'm sorry, Dark waters.
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Yeah. And now we have sharks.
That wasn't. I'm sorry, but I never thought
that that was a thing. So we can get into that, but I
just think that like to be the ocean State, like Florida is the
Sunshine State. I get it.
So. But if I'm being honest, like
the well, that's the part that sucks.
The Florida Water is too hot, but the oceans are beautiful.
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Yeah, yeah, they're blue. They're like they're turquoise.
They're. Gorgeous.
Like soft. Sand, like, yeah, you know, in
Warwick, for example, like, you know, there's like oceanfront
property. It's like, yeah, but the the
oceanfront is all rocks. Yeah, it's like, yeah, you have
a beach of rocks. Like no one wants to walk or lay
or bathe in this anyways. I don't know.
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I just, I think Ocean State might be a stretch.
I think that we're on to something with Vin and I's
design of lifespan in New England merch where it's the
traffic state because we have somuch absurd traffic here that we
should change our names. It's getting worse.
It is. It's only getting worse.
When we did Narcolepsy Betsy's episode the second time you had
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you had did a we had to Fact Check you.
Oh, that's right. Was I right?
And. Dude, you were spot on.
I wanted to give you credit. I was, I wouldn't call you out
if it was negative, but me and Vin were like, I can't believe
he said that. We got to check it out and I was
like, Vin, I did. Oh, the 400 miles of coastline.
Whatever number you said in thatand then you said, 'cause it
only I. Mean, I mean, think about, I
mean think about how many jetties there are.
I think Block Islands probably included that.
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And then like Newport and then Tiverton and Bristol.
Like everything is surrounded, yeah, by the coast here.
Like I think that's really what it comes down to.
It's not like it's 400 miles of straight beach, you know what I
mean? It's like course there's
probably only like 5. To six hours of actual beach 5
miles from exit 1 westerly to whatever the tippy top state is
in. I don't.
Know they changed the exit number so I have no idea what
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the last exit was, more 40. 5 minute drive, but then we have
that many miles of coastline, it's crazy.
It doesn't make much sense, but yeah, so I think, but I still
think like, you know, if I could, I think I could.
I kind of want to move up to NewHampshire.
That's kind of where I'm at because realistically I want to
move to Ireland, but I know thatthat's probably not going to
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happen because I made my whole career being the New England
guy. So like I kind of need to stick
around. Could be the.
Ireland guy, I was going to say.You can get get your, I don't.
Think the Irish people would be cool with an American calling
himself the Irish? Guy, one way or another.
I would definitely find a way, but get a nice.
Little buy a little Airbnb that you can rent out so then you
always have it I. Would like to, but that's why I
was like New Hampshire is kind of like a happy medium for me
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because I'm like, it's still NewEngland.
You go up there, there's plenty of areas still where it's still
like quiet and cozy. You can hang.
You guys would come. You guys would come.
Chill right? 100% it's like. 2-3 hour drive.
Not not even a second guess. A free stay wouldn't have to pay
for anything. Dude.
It was on the New England guy. Of course, you know, I feel.
About Free And it was, and it was really cool while we were
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filming the movie. Like the whole talents.
Yeah, tell us about all that. We were mostly.
We were mostly in Lincoln, right?
So a majority of where we filmedwas Lincoln, some in Woodstock,
some in Barlette, and then a little bit in North Conway,
which is right near Barlette anyways.
But hiking film, I can't really tell.
Like a bunch. Of I was going.
To say like, I can't say a bunchof stuff, but it's a it's a
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hiking film about a father and daughter who are estranged.
I play a father with a daughter and obviously, and we are hiking
the Appalachian Trail and we aretrying to rekindle our
relationship. It's the best way to put it.
And we were all throughout the Lincoln area.
But everywhere that we went, like people knew that we were
filming there. And people were like, excited.
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They were really nice. They were saying hello going
into restaurants, like, are you in the movie that's going on?
And you know, again, I just, I loved the Lincoln area.
I had everything that you needed.
Like I'm so used to being over in Loon in the winter time, like
growing up, I always went there snowboarding and skiing.
So it was the first time I really spent like a whole summer
there. And in the summer we usually
stay down by the lake. So it's like still, you know,
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it's 30 minutes N, but just likewaking up to the like the air in
New Hampshire as we sit here in Providence and we can smell the
Bay and the trash and all the dumps flowing through the
windows, through the windows, like the lakes region, like it's
just the air is fresh. It feels like the pace of life
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is a little bit slower. I don't know, man.
I think I'm a New Hampshire guy.Like I if I could, if I could
afford it, if I was ever going to buy a home, which I'm heard
the rates are about to get cut for the first time, I think that
that's probably where I would buy.
That's a good spot. I feel like it's a good happy
medium too, because you get, youknow, like.
You can go to Maine. New Vermont right there.
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Between between Mass, Rhode Island and Connecticut, the
worst drivers. We all suck.
We're all in a rush to go nowhere.
Everyone's entitled, including myself, 'cause.
You know, I was gonna say, just so you know, this is he's
describing himself as a driver. I am the absolute worst.
That's I know, that's why you don't let me drive anywhere.
But I feel like in New Hampshire, it's kind of where
you get that cut off of like where people talk about Southern
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hospitality, but like, that's our version of it, where like,
people are just naturally nicer.They're not in a rush to go
anywhere. They're, you know, just at
peace. But like, from Massachusetts
down, everyone's on the go. Got to go, got to go, get out of
my way, you're in my way. Get the car away.
So, and I will say like having done this social media stuff
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now, like as my full time careerfor the last like 3 years and
feeling that anxiousness of likegoing going need to be viral,
need to post, need to get my fans excited, need to do
something. Like it was so nice to turn it
off. And to be honest with you, like
it was the first time I dip my toes back into the acting scene.
That wasn't just like, 'cause I do like a bunch of commercials
still and I'll do like a short film, but or background work.
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And like the short films are only like a day or two.
It was the first time that I hada lead role in some time where I
was able to really get into character, really engulf myself
with like, not method acting, but you know, finding a way to
kind of become this character for the short period of time
that I was there. And I had some like Ashley
Brooke, an amazing performer. She was playing my daughter.
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She was in a Disney, Disney Plusseries for some time.
So I got to learn a ton from herLillian Rubella.
She was in Only murders in the building on Hulu.
So again, learning from her being her being able to be
around all of the amazing talentthat she was around.
So and it's really fun to make movies with like younger talent
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and crew like everyone on the crew had as either just
graduated still in school. So it's a lot of like artists
who are still like up and coming.
So like they're creative juices are just like through the roof
porn. Great conversation.
It's awesome. Yeah, so and it just like
reminded me like why I got started, started and what like I
actually love. And I think ultimately it was
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kind of a test for me to kind ofbe like, do I want to stay with
just the social media stuff? Do I continue to build like a
social media career and company for the rest of my life or do I
still want to pursue the acting?And the answer is simple, I
could for sure want to still be an actor.
Like that is definitely something I want to pursue.
Well, that was the. First body of the character.
That's how it all realistically started.
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And I remember, I mean, think ina test when we did, you know,
which I thought was cool when you rented out that little spot
so we could come see the first movie.
You did the premiere. Yeah.
Your your movie premiere with the gentleman.
Pete. Pete.
And that was really cool. And it was.
You could just tell. I mean, I know you love social
media. Yeah.
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We've known you long enough to be able to say things like this
to 20 years. But like, when you talk about
acting in that sense, not like the background stuff, because I
know that's just more for fun, potential things like that.
But when you talk about doing stuff like you did with Pete and
when you talk about doing this New Hampshire project, your
tone, your attitude, everything's different about it.
Yeah. So you can totally tell it's
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never something that's fully going to go away.
Even if you blow up social media, the next copy lane like
it's never going to, it's alwaysgoing to be something there, so.
I think what I think the reason why the passion is still not
only still there, but like why Ilove the acting so much is
because the social media stuff is kind of just me.
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Like those are conversations andthoughts that I like regularly
have. And it comes naturally to me to
be performative in that sense. So like outside of like putting
on the fake accent and kind of like trying to come up with
like, you know, shorts, if you will, and like a storyline, I
feel like it's just like second nature to me.
It's very easy. It comes without thought and it
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doesn't challenge me and I feel like acting challenges me.
And that's what I, I think that's why I like it is because
I like to be out of my comfort zone.
I like to be challenged. I want to be working towards
something specific so. Well, you've said it many times
before, TikTok gives you the ability to play every single
role, director, producer, editor, actor, protagonist,
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whatever you want to call it, all those different roles.
But when you go to do something like like when someone asks you
to do that, that film concept, you're kind of like, I only have
to act. I don't have to do.
And I know, but I do know also you like doing that.
But I'm sure it's like a breath of fresh air to be like, I'm
just the actor, dude. I'm I'm just here and like you
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get that little bit of it. So I'm excited for it to come
out because I want to see. Focused on one do.
You know how long the movie is going to be.
I would have to imagine. So let's say they we shot in
total, I think it was 25 days. I was only on there for like I
said, I think it was 16 to 18 days.
I can't remember off my head at the at the time.
So it's a feature length film for sure.
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So it's going to be at least an hour and a half.
It might be a little bit longer than that because there's a ton
of scenes that I'm not in. So, you know, I'm excited.
I guess my guess is about that. There was an article that the
that Deadline released. Deadline did a a write up.
Erica Jolie Dreamers Entertainment is her production
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company. She's the writer and director of
the film. She also is in the film.
She's also acting in the film. But she had shared it with us
that they had done an article for her first feature film.
And yeah, it was really. Cool, that's interesting.
Love that. Can't can't wait to see it.
Yeah, and I, I, I was pretty excited too that like so many
people that, you know, follow and support me, we're excited
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about it too, You know, I mean, it's.
Like dude, it's. Tough when you do the social
media, it makes you very nervousto go out of the zones of what
people are used to because you don't want to upset anybody.
So when you like, hey, guys, I'man actor too, and this is what I
wanna do. And I was going to say it is my
page, but also I feel like I am at the helm of my support.
So I'm like, hey, guys, like I can't necessarily always do what
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I want to do. I have to do what people want
from me. Yeah.
I was going to say because I, I don't know if you had this
happen. I mean, I had, you know, people
obviously know of you and they know of me and they know that
we're friends, but I actually had people.
I'm sorry. Well, don't do that.
What the hell, Sing? What is that?
See how he's got to be. What do you mean?
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You go ahead. You go ahead and you start that
sentence over right now. All right, clip that.
No, no, clip it. Keep that shit in.
People need to know. Clip that.
I'm your what? What?
Are we talking about? Oh, so when you decided to do
the movie? Yeah.
People know of you and they knowof me, and they know that we're
the bestest of friends. 20 yearsstrong.
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Much better. Grip it and RIP it.
Baby, there we go. But they were coming up to me
like, oh, like, what's he doing?Is he OK?
Where's he going? Like, what's his?
I was like just filming a movie.Like he's just stepping out of
his comfort zone. Like, you know, I'm sure if he
had a lot going on, he wouldn't do it.
But, you know, he had the time to put something aside and, you
know, step into what he originally loved to do.
And so, like, from a very small scale, it's good because I think
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the people that were asking about you cared 'cause they were
like, oh, like, where the hell is my guy?
You know what I mean? I will say, like, I think that
that's probably one of the most unique aspects about social
media that I never anticipated is I started my page with a
particular passion to entertain.And it was my page and I was
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like, oh, people are going to come to like support me and want
to see what I'm doing and maybe I can entertain them.
And at this point in my career, it's gotten to the point where
because I've been so fortunate enough to have a following, it's
now become like, it is my, it's their page.
Like I need to feed them. They're here for me.
And I've become, you know, kind of accustomed to being
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performative beyond what I want to do, beyond what I'm willing
to do, beyond what my energy andheadspace allows.
Because social media is so strict in the sense that, like,
in order to have a following, you have to be creating
regularly. So like, it was really hard for
me when I took on this role to like put my phone down, mostly
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because I'm addicted to my cell phone and I can't get the damn
thing out of my hand. But also because I was very
nervous that people were going to be upset that I was gone.
And they were going to be like, where's the content?
And they were going to unfollow me and I was going to lose
engagement and I was going to lose views.
And, you know, I did repost a ton of old stuff just to keep it
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like relevant because I was too scared to go cold Turkey and not
say anything for 3 1/2 four weeks, you know, So I wish I
could say that I entirely relaxed, but I don't think that
I really did. And that part is, I'm not going
to lie, it's like kind of sad. I should be able to put my phone
down and take some time off for myself and chill and not feel
that way but and the same don't like.
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Do cuz when everybody sees this episode, we're right here.
They're gonna comment and they're gonna tell you that it's
OK and they're not going anywhere.
See what I'm doing here, you motherfuckers?
Very good comment. It's like that TikTok trend.
Yeah, I think in TikTok trends at this point in my life, yeah.
Oh my God, it's part of the job.24/7 365 no days off.
Army of One hashtag. Let's talk about this New
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England stuff because get into it.
I'm like trying to wrap my head around the fact that, number
one, we have sharks. That doesn't make sense to me.
I never grew up thinking and am I crazy?
Has it ever been this hot like this?
Like the 14 straight weeks of rain.
And that was insane. Like it was like it's always
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been warm and maybe like you canprobably Google it like oh, it's
always been but like this has been like the humidity and like
an afternoon rain shower that's like.
Florida, dude, it's bad. That is like Florida.
It's. Funny too, 'cause we got very,
very lucky in Montreal. So the weather here was really,
really good up there. It was like 75, no humidity,
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perfect weather like cool I think the first.
Night we. Were it was a little windy like
at like 2:30 in the morning whenwe were leaving, but other than
that perfect weather. But like it's so true.
I remember sitting at work, our ACS went out or our HVAC system,
I don't know, something happened.
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So the floor was just hot and itwas like 2 days before that like
most recent heat wave and I was sitting there like working and
I'm dripping and I was like I know we're inside and I'm I know
I'm sure the sun is just beatingdown in the office but like it
is hot. What is up with that?
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It's way too hot or like I don'tI, I just, I don't know, like
what do you think? Can you Google that?
Can you find out like the last 10 years at least to find out?
Like I mean is. This like global.
Warming is is this is global warming now humidity is thicker
could be now we're in the 120% I.
Also, let's get on the conspiracy tinfoil hats on here.
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Yeah, but our tinfoil hats on. I saw something online saying
that like there aren't forest fires in Canada and because like
we've had the smoke the last fewweeks.
Forest fires. Yeah, there's been forest fires
in Canada blowing and that's whythere's been so much like smog
and stuff like that. I don't know.
I I mean, I don't know how I feel about it.
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Like as a conspirator seems a. Little.
Seems a little far fetched, I mean that can't be true, but
also. Six hours away, I could
understand. I almost kind of want it and
it's like, do I want it to be true?
Because I don't want to see the Canada Forest burning down, But
then what the hell is the smoke?I'm not.
Going to lie though, geographically speaking, if I'm
picturing at least the most the area of Canada that is most
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close to us, that forest is likeat.
Very far past. Cause like it took like Montreal
is one of the closer cities besides like I think where
Niagara Falls goes, but that's alittle bit more that's but like,
I mean, Montreal, that's all city.
I mean there's trees and stuff, but it's mostly city.
It's very similar. Like a forest fire happens in
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like, but typically in the north.
And that forest and we. Were people are saying, yeah,
it's been ramped up this year. Like the heat and stuff.
And this hot and a. Long time dude.
And like I don't know, I'm like it's such a double edged sword
because I'm going to say it dude, I'm done with summer.
I look forward to summer so muchand I love it.
I'm ready for fall, but I'm done.
I'm ready for fall. I really am.
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Like this has been a little bit too much.
My AC bill was like $300.00 for my electric this month.
I was like what are we doing here?
Let me just say this, everyone in New England loves a colonial
home. No, absolutely not because my
condo was probably built only inlike the 80s and I have an HVAC.
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I have like central air conditioning and I still have to
put a CS in the window upstairs because it still gets so hot.
Like the system isn't strong enough to like keep it cool
upstairs. So then like my living room is
like being in a freezer and thenupstairs is still like I'm just,
so it's just too hot for me. I'm ready for fall.
I am. I'm ready.
Pumpkin spice lattes. I'm ready to be a little pumpkin
(26:57):
like dirty pumpkin spice naughtyboy who is just floating around
with his donkeys with a little bit of apple cider doughnut on
top. Want to be a little goblin, a
little ghoul getting crazy around New England?
That's what I want. I'm ready to leaf peep and be a
tourist up in Vermont. That's what I want to do.
Big time Halloween parties this year.
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I'm going ham and cheese. I can't wait to see what you're
going to be. I've already told you guys you
got to tell the secret this year.
I have. What are you going to be?
I'm going to be a minion. You're going.
To be a minion yellow. A fun fact already about the
paint. I love that he's going to be a
minion for Halloween and he's going to have the overalls on,
but he's still going to paint his entire body top to bottom,
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every crevice. 100% every there's.
Going to be no need for it. And he's going.
To get I don't want that job. Every single crap.
What do you mean he's you're theone that has to paint them.
That's not in the contract. It is now renegotiating.
Well, boys, we have made it to 50 episodes.
Yeah, that's great for everybodywho's watching.
Fun accomplishment. Just for fun, drop in the
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comments Your favorite episode? Oh yeah, and why We want to know
why. I just just had a for fun.
Yeah, if you had a favorite episode, yeah.
Or if you want us to bring somebody back.
We have a fun some some fun new questions.
Yeah. To add to our SO New England
segment that we've been working on to try and be a little bit
more New England based change. Is good.
Change is good. We've heard your feed back about
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a lot of things. We're going to try and improve
on what we can improve on. And we've also started a new
segment where we are going to betelling New England stories.
So if you have lost my voice there, if you have a story that
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only can happen here in New England that when you tell it,
everyone's like that is so New England.
We want to hear it every week. We're going to be posting on our
Instagram stories with a link where you can go in and you can
type down, give us your name, give us your story.
And then we're going to start reading them out loud to all of
our audience to hear. So anything you guys want to
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share that is so New England about you, your friends, your
family members, a work story, whatever it is, we there's
nothing off limits. If you're willing to share it,
we are willing to tell it. So we are wicked excited about
that. You guys pass that along to us
whenever, whenever you see it onour story or shoot us.
Adm So you got a story. We'll, we'll give you guys the
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Contact. Contact.
Yep, press contact and at the bottom you can Scroll down.
You can say I have a So New England story and we'd love to
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there, and I appreciate a lot ofpeople sliding in the messages
and being like, hey, I got a sweet story.
If you're willing to let us share it, put it in there.
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We'd love to talk about it on the pod.
And we are very open to suggestions as well, right?
We've had 50 the amazing guests.We have a long, we have a very
long list of future guests coming on.
We are very excited to continue this journey with you guys.
Bring on some guests that can tell some awesome stories about
themselves, share some really cool insight about their
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experience here in New England. And then of course, get their
opinions on our beautiful state,on our beautiful state.
So any suggestions that you guysmight have on how we can improve
for your viewers experience, foryour listening experience,
whatever it might be, please pass it along.
We'd love to hear it. Can't wait for all the DMS to be
flooding my phone, it's going tobe great.
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But yeah, that's it for episode 51, guys.
We are just kind of checking in,seeing how everyone's doing,
testing the waters. We look forward to episode 52,
which we already filmed. We just finished up.
That's going to be a great one. All right.
We're going to put them on the spot.
Oh, what? Uh oh.
Just like you do the other guests.
Do you have anything coming up that you want to tell our lovely
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audience for yourself outside ofthe pod?
Not that I can think. Of damn it, I thought you had
something. No, honestly got this.
The only the only stuff I have going on is, you know, obviously
I finished the movie. I have launched my own social
media marketing and strategy company, mostly consulting
called Beta Socials. You'll see the hyperlink in my
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personal bio on Instagram. So if you are a business owner
or small business, you're someone looking to get into the
social media space yourself and you would like some consulting
or you'd like to kind of figure out how the heck any of this
works, please reach out. Send me your information, we can
get connected. I've also been doing some public
speaking. I did stuff with the Rhode
Island National Guard, Discover Newport, where I'm speaking on
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panels about social media, how to strategize, how to capture an
audience, how to create fun and engaging content that's right
for you and your business. So please reach out with that.
And if anyone's interested in starting their own podcast, they
have questions about graphic design, they maybe want to start
their own merchandise line, whatever it is.
Our boy Vinnie G is open. He is also accepting new
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clients. So if that's a space you're
interested in, please reach out.We'd be happy to help.
All right, ladies and gentlemen,that's going to conclude episode
51 of the So New England Podcast.
Thank you so much for checking in with us.
We hope you've had a wonderful summer.
We look forward to bringing on all of these new guests and
looking forward to all of your guys suggestions.
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from thin weight chance to RhodeIsland side New Hampshire's
crime free or die. Good freaking morning from New
England folks. Welcome back to the So New
England Podcast. We're back to SO51.
We took a little bit of a hiatus, a little bit of time
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off. I had a lot going on.
The boys had a lot going on, a lot of traveling, a lot of fun
summer things. So we are back.
We're going to go guest list today.
We are just going to kind of chit chat it up, catch up with
you folks, talk about the thingswe've been up to, talk about New
England stuff. So yeah, thanks for being here.
Thanks for tuning in. How we feeling, boys?
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So good, so refreshed, so ready to get back into the next 50
bazillion episodes that we're about to film just episodes for
days. How about you, Chance?
Let's do it ready to. Go, you guys, just you guys were
you went to Vegas then? I did, yeah.
Sin City Rumor is online that Vegas has kind of gone downhill,
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that it wasn't that busy. Was it busy there?
Did you? Honestly, it was pretty packed.
Was it? Yeah, it was.
All right. So you can't believe everything
you read on the Internet. Where'd you hear that?
Probably Internet. Oh yeah, the Internet.
You don't know that joke. Yeah, I got it.
We did go for like a tournament and then Beyoncé was there so,
oh, no one flew in there. So it was a pretty.
Big you flew to Vegas to see Beyoncé been queen bee.
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Never that, no. Would you?
Oh, that's right, you're doing the card tournament.
Where'd you stay? At the real Caesar's Palace.
Caesar's Pilate. No, we stayed off the strip.
And what? Like Airbnb or something?
Kind of like what we did for your like all the what do you
call it? Why am I echoing?
You're you're sound fine over here.
Anyway, no, we stayed off the strip at like one of those
houses. Gotcha.
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And then, I mean, we probably should have just stayed on the
strip. How hot was it in Vegas this
time of year? Was it like crazy hot in the
summers? In the hundreds.
Damn dry heat though. Wasn't too bad, yeah.
Didn't sweat too much, are you? I know, 'cause you love Florida.
Yeah. Are you a dry heat kind of guy?
You. Care for dude?
I don't know, like I've been to Arizona and the dry heat is so
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much different than the humid heat of Florida.
Like humidity is definitely likethe killer.
I know that's always the joke where it's like it's not the
heat that'll get you, it's the humidity.
But for real, like I've, I like when I was in Arizona, we golfed
a few times and it was like 9394° and like, look, it's
fucking hot. There's no doubt about it it.
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But it feels like, I don't know,you know, like when you're at
the beach and you feel like you're getting burnt, but
there's like a breeze. So like even though it's
burning, you're like, it doesn'treally bother you because the
breeze is keeping you cool. That's kind of what it feels
like in Arizona. That's the best way I could.
Describe it like those those nights in Vegas sitting outside
like 9° breeze. Beautiful.
That's awesome. Feels cool even though it's hot
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as can be. And you've been to Vegas too,
right? Yeah, we went for.
Oh yeah, we got lucky. We went.
That was like your third time, right?
2nd. Second, yeah, we got lucky and
we booked our hotel room, we booked our suite for all the
boys and like 3 days later they announced McGregor and
Flaymetter Mayweather. We're gonna fight, fight that
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week. So we had booked it, so we were
so. So it was packed out for the
McGregor. Oh my gosh, so many people.
It was $150.00 a cover to just walk into the bars with no
guarantee of even being able to.See it in like the theaters.
Yeah, no, it was crazy. $50 yeah.
What? The that was the cover.
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So we paid 50 and washed it in the room.
Yeah, there you go. I don't know.
I don't know if I want to go. To Vegas, it was a lot of fun.
The cool thing was it's just everything.
It's no different than like going anywhere else, like any of
the fun trips. We it's just the time frame one.
There's no rules on the Strip. You can do whatever you want and
then the time frame is just like.
Rules they had like a whole you never seen cops Las Vegas that
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was one of the that was one of the best ones that's.
Off the strip. On the strip.
Oh no. It's not a street.
It's like it's own. It's Vegas.
The Strip is its own world. It's like a bubble like Sandy
Cheeks. His house in the in SpongeBob.
Outside the bubble, rules apply.Inside the bubble, you can walk
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around and drink, have beer out,smoke.
They don't care. That's crazy.
Yeah, in and out of the. It's not on my list.
It's not on my list of places toget like.
I feel like if I had like. Nights there and then get out of
there. Yeah, it's like if I had like a
work related situation where like that, that would be like a
reason for me to go. I would do it.
Actually, I did have an opportunity.
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There's a new game league that Clinton Sparks.
We're gonna have him on the pot at some point.
Very, very famous music producer, awesome guy.
He started his own gaming league.
The name is missing me at the moment, but he did invite me
out. I couldn't make it that weekend,
but he had like T pain and all that stuff.
It looked really cool and. T pain's big into gaming.
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That's awesome. Yeah, like I said, like just go
for like a weekend. You can get some good food, go
see a show. And they do have a lot of good
shows. All the casinos have their own
spots, so that was fun. Like Bruno Mars, right?
Bruno Mars is like a legally kept there.
He's not allowed to leave. For at the, what do you call the
sphere? The what?
Backstreet Boys. Oh, you were there when
Backstreet Boys were there? Yeah.
Yeah, so you see all these like,trolls dressed up in Star Wars
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going one way, and then everyonedressed in white going.
That's the only thing. It was so funny.
You know, what's actually crazy is I had never thought about
this before with like the Vegas fear, but I saw someone post
online that they got motion sickness and that you should
take Dramamine before you go to a show because there it's, it
moves so much and you're so surrounded that you feel like
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I'm like, I didn't have a fear about going to this sphere
before, but now I kind of do because I suffer from Vertigo
pretty regularly. Like it's a pretty bad thing for
me. So I'm like, I don't know if I
could ever go to this sphere like and see.
I could see that. Dramamine for sure sometimes
like. When you go to like a nice IMAX,
it's like that where you're kindof just like, whoa.
There's a lot. Like I did the 3D glasses once
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for a movie and I was like, Nope, I can't do this, that's
too much. I had to take them off and I saw
everything and I was, it just felt like trippy.
I just saw two of everything theentire film.
That's too funny. So yeah, that was about it.
What about you? What have you been up?
To, oh, you know, filming a movie.
Filming a movie. I was up in New Hampshire for
about 3 1/2 weeks almost. I was, It was 17 days total, 18
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days total, something like that.And then ironically, my family
came into town. So I went home for two days,
three days came back to Rhode Island, did the Bristol 4th of
July parade, oldest running parade in the, you know, US by
the way, it was a really good time.
Love Bristol, love the 4th of July parade there.
And then I went back up to New Hampshire for another week with
my family. So I have always been adamant
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that I love New Hampshire, but having actually spent that much
time in like living there best New England state, I can say
that with confidence now. Like I think Vermont's
beautiful. It's great.
Maine I think is a little bit too.
I want to say like country. You know what, let me take that
back. I have not explored Maine
enough, so I might change my tune.
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But I do feel like New Hampshireis like that happy medium.
And I think growing up in Rhode Island, being like the Ocean
State and always being like a beach guy, I am definitely more
of a lakes guy. And what's so cool about New
Hampshire is like no matter whatyou do, like the Sacco River and
the lakes and just in general, there's like a river everywhere
you go. So like in the back of my
Airbnb, you know, like the stream just like went through.
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So I would just go out there andI would go swimming the stream.
It's cold, but I love it. That's awesome.
Diana's Baths. I was.
Going to say so I grew up for the first what 4 to 13?
So the the beach is up here. What's?
The math on that nine years chance.
The Math 13 -, 4 nine. 1721 So the first like years of my life
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being like a young kid, we spenta lot of time at beaches down
there. So like when I came up here,
like I don't really care for thebeaches up here.
They're beautiful, don't get me wrong.
And like I do love them, but it's just different when you can
just walk right in. Like I feel like it's a process.
I got to be cool up to my anklesand then once my ankles are
numb, I gotta get up to my kneesand then once my calves are
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numb, I gotta get up to my legs.So like, you know, I mean, maybe
it's just me. Do you what?
Do you think? No, I've been saying this
forever. I love Rhode Island.
It has its charm, but I do not believe that we should be the
Ocean State. Now I understand that we are
considered that because it's what, 400 miles of coastline?
Yeah, some ridiculous. But I'm sorry, Dark waters.
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Yeah. And now we have sharks.
That wasn't. I'm sorry, but I never thought
that that was a thing. So we can get into that, but I
just think that like to be the ocean State, like Florida is the
Sunshine State. I get it.
So. But if I'm being honest, like
the well, that's the part that sucks.
The Florida Water is too hot, but the oceans are beautiful.
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Yeah, yeah, they're blue. They're like they're turquoise.
They're. Gorgeous.
Like soft. Sand, like, yeah, you know, in
Warwick, for example, like, you know, there's like oceanfront
property. It's like, yeah, but the the
oceanfront is all rocks. Yeah, it's like, yeah, you have
a beach of rocks. Like no one wants to walk or lay
or bathe in this anyways. I don't know.
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I just, I think Ocean State might be a stretch.
I think that we're on to something with Vin and I's
design of lifespan in New England merch where it's the
traffic state because we have somuch absurd traffic here that we
should change our names. It's getting worse.
It is. It's only getting worse.
When we did Narcolepsy Betsy's episode the second time you had
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you had did a we had to Fact Check you.
Oh, that's right. Was I right?
And. Dude, you were spot on.
I wanted to give you credit. I was, I wouldn't call you out
if it was negative, but me and Vin were like, I can't believe
he said that. We got to check it out and I was
like, Vin, I did. Oh, the 400 miles of coastline.
Whatever number you said in thatand then you said, 'cause it
only I. Mean, I mean, think about, I
mean think about how many jetties there are.
I think Block Islands probably included that.
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And then like Newport and then Tiverton and Bristol.
Like everything is surrounded, yeah, by the coast here.
Like I think that's really what it comes down to.
It's not like it's 400 miles of straight beach, you know what I
mean? It's like course there's
probably only like 5. To six hours of actual beach 5
miles from exit 1 westerly to whatever the tippy top state is
in. I don't.
Know they changed the exit number so I have no idea what
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the last exit was, more 40. 5 minute drive, but then we have
that many miles of coastline, it's crazy.
It doesn't make much sense, but yeah, so I think, but I still
think like, you know, if I could, I think I could.
I kind of want to move up to NewHampshire.
That's kind of where I'm at because realistically I want to
move to Ireland, but I know thatthat's probably not going to
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happen because I made my whole career being the New England
guy. So like I kind of need to stick
around. Could be the.
Ireland guy, I was going to say.You can get get your, I don't.
Think the Irish people would be cool with an American calling
himself the Irish? Guy, one way or another.
I would definitely find a way, but get a nice.
Little buy a little Airbnb that you can rent out so then you
always have it I. Would like to, but that's why I
was like New Hampshire is kind of like a happy medium for me
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because I'm like, it's still NewEngland.
You go up there, there's plenty of areas still where it's still
like quiet and cozy. You can hang.
You guys would come. You guys would come.
Chill right? 100% it's like. 2-3 hour drive.
Not not even a second guess. A free stay wouldn't have to pay
for anything. Dude.
It was on the New England guy. Of course, you know, I feel.
About Free And it was, and it was really cool while we were
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filming the movie. Like the whole talents.
Yeah, tell us about all that. We were mostly.
We were mostly in Lincoln, right?
So a majority of where we filmedwas Lincoln, some in Woodstock,
some in Barlette, and then a little bit in North Conway,
which is right near Barlette anyways.
But hiking film, I can't really tell.
Like a bunch. Of I was going.
To say like, I can't say a bunchof stuff, but it's a it's a
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hiking film about a father and daughter who are estranged.
I play a father with a daughter and obviously, and we are hiking
the Appalachian Trail and we aretrying to rekindle our
relationship. It's the best way to put it.
And we were all throughout the Lincoln area.
But everywhere that we went, like people knew that we were
filming there. And people were like, excited.
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They were really nice. They were saying hello going
into restaurants, like, are you in the movie that's going on?
And you know, again, I just, I loved the Lincoln area.
I had everything that you needed.
Like I'm so used to being over in Loon in the winter time, like
growing up, I always went there snowboarding and skiing.
So it was the first time I really spent like a whole summer
there. And in the summer we usually
stay down by the lake. So it's like still, you know,
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it's 30 minutes N, but just likewaking up to the like the air in
New Hampshire as we sit here in Providence and we can smell the
Bay and the trash and all the dumps flowing through the
windows, through the windows, like the lakes region, like it's
just the air is fresh. It feels like the pace of life
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is a little bit slower. I don't know, man.
I think I'm a New Hampshire guy.Like I if I could, if I could
afford it, if I was ever going to buy a home, which I'm heard
the rates are about to get cut for the first time, I think that
that's probably where I would buy.
That's a good spot. I feel like it's a good happy
medium too, because you get, youknow, like.
You can go to Maine. New Vermont right there.
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Between between Mass, Rhode Island and Connecticut, the
worst drivers. We all suck.
We're all in a rush to go nowhere.
Everyone's entitled, including myself, 'cause.
You know, I was gonna say, just so you know, this is he's
describing himself as a driver. I am the absolute worst.
That's I know, that's why you don't let me drive anywhere.
But I feel like in New Hampshire, it's kind of where
you get that cut off of like where people talk about Southern
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hospitality, but like, that's our version of it, where like,
people are just naturally nicer.They're not in a rush to go
anywhere. They're, you know, just at
peace. But like, from Massachusetts
down, everyone's on the go. Got to go, got to go, get out of
my way, you're in my way. Get the car away.
So, and I will say like having done this social media stuff
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now, like as my full time careerfor the last like 3 years and
feeling that anxiousness of likegoing going need to be viral,
need to post, need to get my fans excited, need to do
something. Like it was so nice to turn it
off. And to be honest with you, like
it was the first time I dip my toes back into the acting scene.
That wasn't just like, 'cause I do like a bunch of commercials
still and I'll do like a short film, but or background work.
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And like the short films are only like a day or two.
It was the first time that I hada lead role in some time where I
was able to really get into character, really engulf myself
with like, not method acting, but you know, finding a way to
kind of become this character for the short period of time
that I was there. And I had some like Ashley
Brooke, an amazing performer. She was playing my daughter.
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She was in a Disney, Disney Plusseries for some time.
So I got to learn a ton from herLillian Rubella.
She was in Only murders in the building on Hulu.
So again, learning from her being her being able to be
around all of the amazing talentthat she was around.
So and it's really fun to make movies with like younger talent
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and crew like everyone on the crew had as either just
graduated still in school. So it's a lot of like artists
who are still like up and coming.
So like they're creative juices are just like through the roof
porn. Great conversation.
It's awesome. Yeah, so and it just like
reminded me like why I got started, started and what like I
actually love. And I think ultimately it was
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kind of a test for me to kind ofbe like, do I want to stay with
just the social media stuff? Do I continue to build like a
social media career and company for the rest of my life or do I
still want to pursue the acting?And the answer is simple, I
could for sure want to still be an actor.
Like that is definitely something I want to pursue.
Well, that was the. First body of the character.
That's how it all realistically started.
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And I remember, I mean, think ina test when we did, you know,
which I thought was cool when you rented out that little spot
so we could come see the first movie.
You did the premiere. Yeah.
Your your movie premiere with the gentleman.
Pete. Pete.
And that was really cool. And it was.
You could just tell. I mean, I know you love social
media. Yeah.
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We've known you long enough to be able to say things like this
to 20 years. But like, when you talk about
acting in that sense, not like the background stuff, because I
know that's just more for fun, potential things like that.
But when you talk about doing stuff like you did with Pete and
when you talk about doing this New Hampshire project, your
tone, your attitude, everything's different about it.
Yeah. So you can totally tell it's
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never something that's fully going to go away.
Even if you blow up social media, the next copy lane like
it's never going to, it's alwaysgoing to be something there, so.
I think what I think the reason why the passion is still not
only still there, but like why Ilove the acting so much is
because the social media stuff is kind of just me.
(17:17):
Like those are conversations andthoughts that I like regularly
have. And it comes naturally to me to
be performative in that sense. So like outside of like putting
on the fake accent and kind of like trying to come up with
like, you know, shorts, if you will, and like a storyline, I
feel like it's just like second nature to me.
It's very easy. It comes without thought and it
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doesn't challenge me and I feel like acting challenges me.
And that's what I, I think that's why I like it is because
I like to be out of my comfort zone.
I like to be challenged. I want to be working towards
something specific so. Well, you've said it many times
before, TikTok gives you the ability to play every single
role, director, producer, editor, actor, protagonist,
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whatever you want to call it, all those different roles.
But when you go to do something like like when someone asks you
to do that, that film concept, you're kind of like, I only have
to act. I don't have to do.
And I know, but I do know also you like doing that.
But I'm sure it's like a breath of fresh air to be like, I'm
just the actor, dude. I'm I'm just here and like you
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get that little bit of it. So I'm excited for it to come
out because I want to see. Focused on one do.
You know how long the movie is going to be.
I would have to imagine. So let's say they we shot in
total, I think it was 25 days. I was only on there for like I
said, I think it was 16 to 18 days.
I can't remember off my head at the at the time.
So it's a feature length film for sure.
(18:41):
So it's going to be at least an hour and a half.
It might be a little bit longer than that because there's a ton
of scenes that I'm not in. So, you know, I'm excited.
I guess my guess is about that. There was an article that the
that Deadline released. Deadline did a a write up.
Erica Jolie Dreamers Entertainment is her production
(19:04):
company. She's the writer and director of
the film. She also is in the film.
She's also acting in the film. But she had shared it with us
that they had done an article for her first feature film.
And yeah, it was really. Cool, that's interesting.
Love that. Can't can't wait to see it.
Yeah, and I, I, I was pretty excited too that like so many
people that, you know, follow and support me, we're excited
(19:27):
about it too, You know, I mean, it's.
Like dude, it's. Tough when you do the social
media, it makes you very nervousto go out of the zones of what
people are used to because you don't want to upset anybody.
So when you like, hey, guys, I'man actor too, and this is what I
wanna do. And I was going to say it is my
page, but also I feel like I am at the helm of my support.
So I'm like, hey, guys, like I can't necessarily always do what
(19:48):
I want to do. I have to do what people want
from me. Yeah.
I was going to say because I, I don't know if you had this
happen. I mean, I had, you know, people
obviously know of you and they know of me and they know that
we're friends, but I actually had people.
I'm sorry. Well, don't do that.
What the hell, Sing? What is that?
See how he's got to be. What do you mean?
(20:10):
You go ahead. You go ahead and you start that
sentence over right now. All right, clip that.
No, no, clip it. Keep that shit in.
People need to know. Clip that.
I'm your what? What?
Are we talking about? Oh, so when you decided to do
the movie? Yeah.
People know of you and they knowof me, and they know that we're
the bestest of friends. 20 yearsstrong.
(20:31):
Much better. Grip it and RIP it.
Baby, there we go. But they were coming up to me
like, oh, like, what's he doing?Is he OK?
Where's he going? Like, what's his?
I was like just filming a movie.Like he's just stepping out of
his comfort zone. Like, you know, I'm sure if he
had a lot going on, he wouldn't do it.
But, you know, he had the time to put something aside and, you
know, step into what he originally loved to do.
And so, like, from a very small scale, it's good because I think
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the people that were asking about you cared 'cause they were
like, oh, like, where the hell is my guy?
You know what I mean? I will say, like, I think that
that's probably one of the most unique aspects about social
media that I never anticipated is I started my page with a
particular passion to entertain.And it was my page and I was
(21:17):
like, oh, people are going to come to like support me and want
to see what I'm doing and maybe I can entertain them.
And at this point in my career, it's gotten to the point where
because I've been so fortunate enough to have a following, it's
now become like, it is my, it's their page.
Like I need to feed them. They're here for me.
And I've become, you know, kind of accustomed to being
(21:38):
performative beyond what I want to do, beyond what I'm willing
to do, beyond what my energy andheadspace allows.
Because social media is so strict in the sense that, like,
in order to have a following, you have to be creating
regularly. So like, it was really hard for
me when I took on this role to like put my phone down, mostly
(22:00):
because I'm addicted to my cell phone and I can't get the damn
thing out of my hand. But also because I was very
nervous that people were going to be upset that I was gone.
And they were going to be like, where's the content?
And they were going to unfollow me and I was going to lose
engagement and I was going to lose views.
And, you know, I did repost a ton of old stuff just to keep it
(22:20):
like relevant because I was too scared to go cold Turkey and not
say anything for 3 1/2 four weeks, you know, So I wish I
could say that I entirely relaxed, but I don't think that
I really did. And that part is, I'm not going
to lie, it's like kind of sad. I should be able to put my phone
down and take some time off for myself and chill and not feel
that way but and the same don't like.
(22:41):
Do cuz when everybody sees this episode, we're right here.
They're gonna comment and they're gonna tell you that it's
OK and they're not going anywhere.
See what I'm doing here, you motherfuckers?
Very good comment. It's like that TikTok trend.
Yeah, I think in TikTok trends at this point in my life, yeah.
Oh my God, it's part of the job.24/7 365 no days off.
Army of One hashtag. Let's talk about this New
(23:02):
England stuff because get into it.
I'm like trying to wrap my head around the fact that, number
one, we have sharks. That doesn't make sense to me.
I never grew up thinking and am I crazy?
Has it ever been this hot like this?
Like the 14 straight weeks of rain.
And that was insane. Like it was like it's always
(23:23):
been warm and maybe like you canprobably Google it like oh, it's
always been but like this has been like the humidity and like
an afternoon rain shower that's like.
Florida, dude, it's bad. That is like Florida.
It's. Funny too, 'cause we got very,
very lucky in Montreal. So the weather here was really,
really good up there. It was like 75, no humidity,
(23:44):
perfect weather like cool I think the first.
Night we. Were it was a little windy like
at like 2:30 in the morning whenwe were leaving, but other than
that perfect weather. But like it's so true.
I remember sitting at work, our ACS went out or our HVAC system,
I don't know, something happened.
(24:04):
So the floor was just hot and itwas like 2 days before that like
most recent heat wave and I was sitting there like working and
I'm dripping and I was like I know we're inside and I'm I know
I'm sure the sun is just beatingdown in the office but like it
is hot. What is up with that?
(24:26):
It's way too hot or like I don'tI, I just, I don't know, like
what do you think? Can you Google that?
Can you find out like the last 10 years at least to find out?
Like I mean is. This like global.
Warming is is this is global warming now humidity is thicker
could be now we're in the 120% I.
Also, let's get on the conspiracy tinfoil hats on here.
(24:48):
Yeah, but our tinfoil hats on. I saw something online saying
that like there aren't forest fires in Canada and because like
we've had the smoke the last fewweeks.
Forest fires. Yeah, there's been forest fires
in Canada blowing and that's whythere's been so much like smog
and stuff like that. I don't know.
I I mean, I don't know how I feel about it.
(25:10):
Like as a conspirator seems a. Little.
Seems a little far fetched, I mean that can't be true, but
also. Six hours away, I could
understand. I almost kind of want it and
it's like, do I want it to be true?
Because I don't want to see the Canada Forest burning down, But
then what the hell is the smoke?I'm not.
Going to lie though, geographically speaking, if I'm
picturing at least the most the area of Canada that is most
(25:32):
close to us, that forest is likeat.
Very far past. Cause like it took like Montreal
is one of the closer cities besides like I think where
Niagara Falls goes, but that's alittle bit more that's but like,
I mean, Montreal, that's all city.
I mean there's trees and stuff, but it's mostly city.
It's very similar. Like a forest fire happens in
(25:53):
like, but typically in the north.
And that forest and we. Were people are saying, yeah,
it's been ramped up this year. Like the heat and stuff.
And this hot and a. Long time dude.
And like I don't know, I'm like it's such a double edged sword
because I'm going to say it dude, I'm done with summer.
I look forward to summer so muchand I love it.
I'm ready for fall, but I'm done.
I'm ready for fall. I really am.
(26:14):
Like this has been a little bit too much.
My AC bill was like $300.00 for my electric this month.
I was like what are we doing here?
Let me just say this, everyone in New England loves a colonial
home. No, absolutely not because my
condo was probably built only inlike the 80s and I have an HVAC.
(26:35):
I have like central air conditioning and I still have to
put a CS in the window upstairs because it still gets so hot.
Like the system isn't strong enough to like keep it cool
upstairs. So then like my living room is
like being in a freezer and thenupstairs is still like I'm just,
so it's just too hot for me. I'm ready for fall.
I am. I'm ready.
Pumpkin spice lattes. I'm ready to be a little pumpkin
(26:57):
like dirty pumpkin spice naughtyboy who is just floating around
with his donkeys with a little bit of apple cider doughnut on
top. Want to be a little goblin, a
little ghoul getting crazy around New England?
That's what I want. I'm ready to leaf peep and be a
tourist up in Vermont. That's what I want to do.
Big time Halloween parties this year.
(27:20):
I'm going ham and cheese. I can't wait to see what you're
going to be. I've already told you guys you
got to tell the secret this year.
I have. What are you going to be?
I'm going to be a minion. You're going.
To be a minion yellow. A fun fact already about the
paint. I love that he's going to be a
minion for Halloween and he's going to have the overalls on,
but he's still going to paint his entire body top to bottom,
(27:41):
every crevice. 100% every there's.
Going to be no need for it. And he's going.
To get I don't want that job. Every single crap.
What do you mean he's you're theone that has to paint them.
That's not in the contract. It is now renegotiating.
Well, boys, we have made it to 50 episodes.
Yeah, that's great for everybodywho's watching.
Fun accomplishment. Just for fun, drop in the
(28:02):
comments Your favorite episode? Oh yeah, and why We want to know
why. I just just had a for fun.
Yeah, if you had a favorite episode, yeah.
Or if you want us to bring somebody back.
We have a fun some some fun new questions.
Yeah. To add to our SO New England
segment that we've been working on to try and be a little bit
more New England based change. Is good.
Change is good. We've heard your feed back about
(28:23):
a lot of things. We're going to try and improve
on what we can improve on. And we've also started a new
segment where we are going to betelling New England stories.
So if you have lost my voice there, if you have a story that
(28:44):
only can happen here in New England that when you tell it,
everyone's like that is so New England.
We want to hear it every week. We're going to be posting on our
Instagram stories with a link where you can go in and you can
type down, give us your name, give us your story.
And then we're going to start reading them out loud to all of
our audience to hear. So anything you guys want to
(29:05):
share that is so New England about you, your friends, your
family members, a work story, whatever it is, we there's
nothing off limits. If you're willing to share it,
we are willing to tell it. So we are wicked excited about
that. You guys pass that along to us
whenever, whenever you see it onour story or shoot us.
Adm So you got a story. We'll, we'll give you guys the
link to go and apply. Just go to sonewenglandpod.com
(29:25):
as well and it'll be there underthe hyperlink.
Contact. Contact.
Yep, press contact and at the bottom you can Scroll down.
You can say I have a So New England story and we'd love to
hear it. Yeah, we already have a few in
there, and I appreciate a lot ofpeople sliding in the messages
and being like, hey, I got a sweet story.
If you're willing to let us share it, put it in there.
(29:46):
We'd love to talk about it on the pod.
And we are very open to suggestions as well, right?
We've had 50 the amazing guests.We have a long, we have a very
long list of future guests coming on.
We are very excited to continue this journey with you guys.
Bring on some guests that can tell some awesome stories about
themselves, share some really cool insight about their
(30:06):
experience here in New England. And then of course, get their
opinions on our beautiful state,on our beautiful state.
So any suggestions that you guysmight have on how we can improve
for your viewers experience, foryour listening experience,
whatever it might be, please pass it along.
We'd love to hear it. Can't wait for all the DMS to be
flooding my phone, it's going tobe great.
(30:28):
But yeah, that's it for episode 51, guys.
We are just kind of checking in,seeing how everyone's doing,
testing the waters. We look forward to episode 52,
which we already filmed. We just finished up.
That's going to be a great one. All right.
We're going to put them on the spot.
Oh, what? Uh oh.
Just like you do the other guests.
Do you have anything coming up that you want to tell our lovely
(30:48):
audience for yourself outside ofthe pod?
Not that I can think. Of damn it, I thought you had
something. No, honestly got this.
The only the only stuff I have going on is, you know, obviously
I finished the movie. I have launched my own social
media marketing and strategy company, mostly consulting
called Beta Socials. You'll see the hyperlink in my
(31:09):
personal bio on Instagram. So if you are a business owner
or small business, you're someone looking to get into the
social media space yourself and you would like some consulting
or you'd like to kind of figure out how the heck any of this
works, please reach out. Send me your information, we can
get connected. I've also been doing some public
speaking. I did stuff with the Rhode
Island National Guard, Discover Newport, where I'm speaking on
(31:32):
panels about social media, how to strategize, how to capture an
audience, how to create fun and engaging content that's right
for you and your business. So please reach out with that.
And if anyone's interested in starting their own podcast, they
have questions about graphic design, they maybe want to start
their own merchandise line, whatever it is.
Our boy Vinnie G is open. He is also accepting new
(31:54):
clients. So if that's a space you're
interested in, please reach out.We'd be happy to help.
All right, ladies and gentlemen,that's going to conclude episode
51 of the So New England Podcast.
Thank you so much for checking in with us.
We hope you've had a wonderful summer.
We look forward to bringing on all of these new guests and
looking forward to all of your guys suggestions.
Please remember folks, life's better in New England Red Sox.
(32:18):
Crack in the Celtic fly, the Patriots fights and the Bruins
cry from six great states. We raised this down New England
strong, homeward back.
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