I was born in Brooklyn, Greenpoint Brooklyn, a big Polish neighborhood. When I was, I don't know, elementary years, forget exact. I think about second grade, moved out to the suburbs of Long Island. Okay. Where in Long Island? Suffolk County. Suffolk County. I lived in Massapequa for a little bit. There you go. So you know exactly suburb I'm talking about. Yeah, I did like six months there when I was at Whole Foods.

Oh, okay. Yeah, I know some of the listeners I've said this before, but yeah, I was out that way.

Gotcha. And then I was in, um, that little town near kind of near JFK.

What, in Nashville? No, I moved from Massapequa out. Oh, out more like towards the boroughs. Yeah, gotcha. Okay, okay, okay, okay. So I was out that way, and then I moved back to Danbury. Long Island's not for me. I have family out there, too, that live in Rockville Center. Bro, it ain't cheap. I'll tell you that much. I was in an Airbnb. One bedroom. It was 1,200 a month. For one bedroom,

no kitchen, nothing. It's crazy. You know, me and my business partner, we have a big real estate

background, you know, especially, you know, when it comes to rentals, house rentals, you know,

private landlords. In our area in Suffolk County, you can't find a two-bedroom apartment less than $2,800 a month. It's not. It's disgusting. And it just, you know, it does. It gives no opportunity for anybody else. You know, if you're not, if you're not sticking, you know, to the script of life and, you know, getting your degree, getting your job, getting this, you're struggling. You know, it's a nightmare out there. So it's definitely not the ideal place for the average person to live,

without a doubt. What kind of family did you have two parents, siblings? What was the dynamic?

I, uh, I have a older sister and a younger brother who's autistic. Um, growing up in Brooklyn,

um, after my parents got divorced, my mother got remarried

and we moved out to Long Island, just for them to give us a better life. So definitely grew up in a,

you know, I'll say this, you know, we grew up in one of the liliest white neighborhoods you can

possibly imagine, you know, mommy and daddy, everybody's parents made over 400 large a year combined.

All my friends in high school got brand new cars off the lot when they got their license, the whole nine yards.

But did I get all of that?

No, I lived in an upper middle class neighborhood, but my parents were kind of bringing us to reality, so to speak. So I'm glad they gave me that level sense of mind, so to speak.

So your parents were successful in a way?

Oh, yeah. You know, once my stepfather adopted us and really took us as a family under his

wing, he was actually a head chef at john's pizzeria in

manhattan so he was big time chef for decades but he wanted to stay closer to the family so he

cut the traveling and actually believe it or not got into the coffee business so he was he was

we're a big coffee family so uh he was raking in the dome, selling coffee out of Mineola and that's all.

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