This is Rumble Strip. Happy New Year. I'm Erica Heilman, and it is time again for what class are you,

which is a periodic series that I make about the ways that socioeconomic class shapes our lives for better and for worse,

even though we don't really like to talk about it. I make this series for Vermont Public and I'll be

running the new shows on Rumble Strip all this week. Today, Damien Renzello. Damien lives

one town over from me and he is the owner and the inventor of Porter Rinks, which is a portable

ice rink kit. He's also the inventor of the Bambini, which is a

mini ice resurfacing machine. Pretty much Damien is the person you call if you want your own

personal hockey rink and everything that goes with it. He also happens to be exactly my age.

So Damien and I sat in his shop at the Bambini headquarters behind his house

and we compared notes on class. Here's Damien Renzello. My mom came up with an idea about a portable

kit for a skating rink. I thought it was a great idea. So I immediately went to work on it, and I immediately designed and created porter rinks.

Just for people to understand, we're sitting in the back of the Bambini shop, and there's every single inch of the walls is covered in posters and pictures and what the hell is that red thing up there these are all my inventions these are

all my products these are all this is my whole boston bruin's area my american flag stuff

jesus i love jesus yeah and then next door to j Jesus is a very fancy looking bottle of scotch.

Yeah, but it's not.

I had a toothache, and I heard somebody said that if you rinse it with whiskey.

Had it work out?

No, my teeth are kind of screwed up, so it helped for the time, yes.

I caught a softball.

When I was 20 years old, I was playing softball in Barry.

You caught it with your face?

And I caught it with my face.

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