Andrew Doud 0:08

All right, everyone, it's Thursday. I'm Andrew Doud. Time for Happening the Hamptons Podcast, our weekly breakdown of the Hamptons market, new listings and events on the East End. We are sponsored today by New York Title Abstract, the Hamptons leading title insurance firm. Visit NewYorkTitle.com. We are joined by Steve Glick, Dave Rattiner, the new dad. Second child, congratulations, is back with us today. And Darius Narrazano, how are you, sir? Good to have you back on the podcast, right? We've had a lot of fun.

Darius Narizzano 0:38

This is like my fourth day. Thank you, gentlemen.

Andrew Doud 0:40

It's been a minute, but it's good to have you back on. So so it's such a beautiful day.

Darius Narizzano 0:44

The sun is shining, 72 today.

Andrew Doud 0:46

I know it's it's got like like a spring vibe, but it's fall. I was just telling someone this morning. It was a beautiful day. There you go.

Steve Glick 0:52

Yeah. It is a beautiful day.

Dave Rattiner 0:54

It's a beautiful day.

Darius Narizzano 0:56

Yeah.

Steve Glick 0:56

And you have a beautiful listing. I do.

Darius Narizzano 1:00

I've had a beautiful listing, but now it has a very beautiful price on it.

Andrew Doud 1:04

All right. So what's the deal with this? $11.68, right? Brick Killen?

Darius Narizzano 1:07

Yeah, you've been there, Andrew.

Andrew Doud 1:09

It's a great house. It's a great property. I mean, it's just got everything. Yeah.

Darius Narizzano 1:12

Five acres, 400 square feet.

Steve Glick 1:15

I love this place. So now what's what's special about this? What makes it unique? We have a new price, right? What's a new price?

Darius Narizzano 1:21

I mean, it's unique because it's a very open concept modern barn.

Steve Glick 1:26

Correct.

Darius Narizzano 1:27

With every bathroom, even the half baths in the house, have radiant heat. The moldings, the the casements are all custom made on site. It's really like a beautiful custom house. And it came on the market at 8.6, right at the wrong time with the interest rates going up. And the the builder, rather than sit there on this house, has decided to let it go. And he actually, over the last couple of months, we've staged it and we've lowered it two million dollars. So it's now available 8,400 square feet on five acres for 6.6.

Dave Rattiner 2:01

Well, I remember going through there, we had such a you brought me through a wonderful tour, and we made a video where we were throwing the football around. Yeah, that's fun. Which you can't. And then what I learned about Darius, I I never knew this about Darius, but Darius rolls around in his car with cider or apple cider in your car, and you also have a leaf blower in your car.

Darius Narizzano 2:24

I do always do a leaf blower.

Dave Rattiner 2:26

Whenever he does an open house, he would he would do a leaf blower and he'd like to clean up the whole house. The house would smell so good. It's like I was like, No, Darius takes this seriously.

Andrew Doud 2:37

I was very impressed. It goes a long way. You inspired me to get one. I think I wouldn't bother.

Steve Glick 2:43

The real estate agent toolkit, you know, at least have a leaf blower. Yeah. Have some you know, cookies or apple cider or something that smells good that you can do.

Andrew Doud 2:53

This is a great house. This is I'm just clicking through the photo.

Steve Glick 2:55

But 1168 brick kiln. Um, you have open houses here, right? They can go online, they could see it.

Darius Narizzano 3:01

This weekend all Saturday and Sunday, I will do 12 to 2 both days. Anybody wants to come check it out?

Steve Glick 3:09

Sounds like a deal. Looking forward to seeing it again. I haven't seen it staged, so I want to get over there and check it out.

Dave Rattiner 3:15

It is a little bit of a testament to the market. Like you're making the point. Like your builder's smart. You know what I mean? He's he's he's trying to find he's trying to find the market.

Darius Narizzano 3:25

Yeah, yeah.

Dave Rattiner 3:26

Your builder's smart, you know.

Steve Glick 3:28

So well, you know, speaking about the market, what do you think about you know this this rental market? The season is over, but people are starting to look for rentals now as the the year rounds out in anticipation for next season. Where do you see the rental market going? And do you feel that's the first time? This year was weak, right?

Dave Rattiner 3:46

This year was kind of weak. What's that, Dave? Was it a weak summer, would you say, relatively?

Darius Narizzano 3:52

I I I think that this I I don't know. I haven't seen the analytics to see, you know, where it falls from the case.

Dave Rattiner 3:57

I think we like we we like to talk about the future, not the past. I know, but I think that I think this year was kind of a weak rental.

Darius Narizzano 4:04

I I thought it felt like a kind of like a business. It's interesting you brought this up, Steve, because you know, just watching the news and seeing the horrors, the terrorism and the war overseas. Um I would feel really reticent to bring my family overseas this coming summer. And I think probably a lot of people are feeling that way. And I'm actually feeling I'm seeing the uptick in calls for rentals. And I think this rent it's gonna be like I'm anticipating kind of like the pandemic where people are gonna feel they need to stay here.

Dave Rattiner 4:38

Stay local, stay close to home. Yeah, and be thankful. I think you're I think you're right about that.

Darius Narizzano 4:42

And I mean, I hope everything stops.

Dave Rattiner 4:45

Well, I'm I'm noticing people I'm noticing people that even people even people I follow on social media, I'm noticing where they're normally in the city and you know they're posting things while they're out here, you know. And my analysis of it is that, you know, why would they be out here in the fall when they're typically in the city? And my analysis of it is is that you know, they're a little uncomfortable even in the city. Yeah, being your crowd, place out here, why not be out here, you know?

Andrew Doud 5:16

Do you think that the the interest rates being what they are that that will that more people might rent this summer instead of buying as they like kind of wait for that an adjustment?

Darius Narizzano 5:27

That's a militia cohn question, right? Isn't it?

Andrew Doud 5:29

I mean, I just wonder if like people are like, well, you know, it's like it's it's a lot to buy right now. You know, yeah, money's expensive, so we'll it's probably a mix of both. You know, it has to be maybe just rent this summer instead of it.

Steve Glick 5:39

Yeah, it has to be a mix of hey, interest rates are up, maybe I'm gonna I'm gonna rent and see, watch them go down. But then other people say, look, buy now. You can always refinance and get that rate lower. Yeah, we talk about that a lot. A million ways to analyze it. You can never time the market, but talking specifically on the rental market as in itself, I do see um, I I kind of agree with Darius saying that you know what, people want to make their plans early. They're thinking of a lot of people are already planning their summer plans if I'm gonna travel or not. Some plans are being canceled and they're focusing on, hey, let's just be in the Hamptons this summer again, you know, and enjoy it. It's close to home. And now's the time if you really want to find the best rental for you and and and all your guests, now's the time to look because if you wait too long, all those rent all the good rentals get scooped up early. That's that's the known secret, right? Out here in the Hamptons. The harder it is.

Darius Narizzano 6:31

But to what you said, Andrew, we we do have right now these huge interest rates, but most people that are coming in and buying are buying with cash. And people who are taking a mortgage, they're usually going interest only, like Steve said, with the idea, which is really smart, to refinance. This is not forever.

Andrew Doud 6:49

Right.

Darius Narizzano 6:50

I mean, I when I bought my first house, it was like eight and three quarters percent. I think it was like 1989, I was 27 years old, and I was like, I'll never be able to afford groceries again. And then interest rates went to seven and a quarter, and I refinanced. And that was a good thing. I could go grocery shopping again. It's amazing what it is. Well, that's the thing.

Steve Glick 7:11

People say, look, if interest rates start to go back down to call it five percent, then the home values are gonna go up. Oh, yeah, right? So that's what they're saying. They're saying you're you're better off buying the home a little bit cheaper now at a higher interest rate, and then and then refinance, right? Rather than having the home really high with a low interest rate. I think it's a whole psychological math equation.

Dave Rattiner 7:33

I think this is isolated to the Hamptons market because the downward pressure, even during 2007, the downward pressure in the Hamptons market, there's just so much resistance to that downward pressure because people can just hang on. Number one, they have the means to hang on out here. Number two, they can talk their themselves into keeping it. They'll say, Well, we don't maybe we don't sell it. Yeah, and you have a small group of people, I think, out here that are kind of forced to sell, you know, in a in a in a financial cr in a in a in a macro scenario that where the there's a financial pressure. And I think that other markets definitely are are gonna be pressed down a lot harder than out here. I agree.

Andrew Doud 8:23

You know, well and like Darius said, I mean, a lot of people have the means to pay for cash.

Dave Rattiner 8:27

Yeah.

Darius Narizzano 8:27

You know, the other thing is I always say But in other markets.

Dave Rattiner 8:30

Not yeah, that's that's not true, even remotely true. Right.

Darius Narizzano 8:33

I think the only way you lose in real estate in the Hamptons is if is if you can't hold on. Right. And you have to you're forced to sell by illness or some financial thing that you have to do.

Steve Glick 8:44

If you have a piece of real estate, you can rent it, you know, you could rent, you know, get some income coming in that.

Dave Rattiner 8:49

Well, that's the key. Uh your to your point, Darius, that's where you really can't lose. And you know, I noticed it growing up, you know, I'm 41 now, but I would notice it growing up, even in high school. Like, you know, my friends whose whose parents, you know, they would all have like, you know, it didn't matter what their job was. It mattered if they had hung on to their property, you know. And I would always I s I still notice that today. Like I have friends even you know from grade school who whose parents are still out here but they're mortgage free. My dad is in that category, he's just mortgage free, he's got his Hamptons property, and it's a it's a it's a real financial freedom, you know, that you can you can set your life track on.

Darius Narizzano 9:30

Oh yeah, you know, so I mean, and if you can if you've got an eye for what's going on and for fixing things, you can very easily sell and find something else with a lot more value. Finding value, yeah. There's building that wealth through that, even if it's only the one property.

Andrew Doud 9:50

I feel like it'll take me 30 years and my mortgage will finally be paid off, and I'll be like, ah, I got all my projects done at home.

Dave Rattiner 9:57

You know what it is for me? It's you know, it's it's like, okay, 30 years sounds like a long time.

Andrew Doud 10:02

Not really.

Dave Rattiner 10:02

But you know, when you do the stock thing, right? They say, Oh, put away X amount of dollars into the stock market, or put away X amount of dollars into this, and then over in 30 years it'll be, you know, X amount of dollars, and it's a significant amount of money. The problem with that is that that money isn't so available to put into the stock market. But when you need a place to live, you're always you're guaranteed to put money into that investment because you have you need a roof over your head, so you're guaranteed to keep extra investments.

Steve Glick 10:29

And it's an investment you can enjoy.

Darius Narizzano 10:31

But it's not even the money you put into it because the equity that builds in it is worth so much more than that. Yeah, and by the way, people don't keep houses for 30 years most of the time. Right. I mean, that's a that's an anomaly. Of course. Really, it you know, , I used to always hear that it was an average of seven years that people own a house.

Steve Glick 10:50

Or is that national?

Darius Narizzano 10:51

That's nationally. Really? But then I just recently read that now it's 12 and a half, but I haven't verified that anymore. It was just in an article that I read. And but even if it is 12 and a half and not seven, that you know, you only have it for that certain turn around time, and then people see their needs change. That's why the you think it's your dream house, and it is your dream house for that point in your life, but your life changes and your dreams change.

Andrew Doud 11:15

That's why the bank collects that interest rate on the front end. Yeah, and as it amateurizes, it gets a little bit more than that.

Steve Glick 11:22

Darius, I want to we want to jump gears and talk about East Hampton town. You're you're a real estate agent, you focus a lot on the East Hampton area. East Hampton Town is going through some new regulations regarding updating your CO certificate of occupancy. What's good? What is this new law all about and when is it going into effect? And how is this going to affect real estate?

Darius Narizzano 11:46

So, first of all, it's East Hampton Town only that has just made this change, not Southampton Town or any of the other towns. The villages have been for quite a while where every village in the Hamptons, you have to have an updated CO to sell your house. But you have been able up until January 1st of this year coming to be able to forego getting an updated certificate of occupancy, meaning you can keep things that might not pass if you forego getting the updated certificate.

Steve Glick 12:19

It has always been recommended by the attorneys and per, you know, if you're buying a home, you should have an updated CO, right? That's always the recommendation from any attorney, yes. Now it's gonna be the law, right? It's gonna be required by East Hampton Town starting January 1st. So how does that affect transacting?

Darius Narizzano 12:39

One of the reasons that people sometimes forego an updated C of O, if it's not because they want to keep an attribute that they would otherwise have to lose, it's because of time. Yeah because often getting an updated C of O, you've got to make a couple of changes here and there, then you've got to get the survey redone, then you have to get inspections. And the slowest thing is East Hampton Town getting there to do your inspections. And then you're inspected and you're passed, and they still take like six weeks to send you the certificate. So you can't close on your hands.

Steve Glick 13:09

What's crazy is some people buy these homes and they're called teardowns. They're gonna buy this home, but I'm gonna knock it down and build a brand new home. So it's like I don't need an updated CO because I'm not living in here. I'm knocking it down the day I close on the property, but now that quote unquote teardown property is gonna have to have an updated CO, regardless of what you're gonna do with the property.

Darius Narizzano 13:30

That's an interesting point. I don't even have a goal. I don't even know. I haven't even got to do it. That blows my mind. It's like yeah, I mean there has to be some kind of an exception for that.

Steve Glick 13:39

I would think so, but you know, what categorizes a property as a a teardown? Some may view that property as, hey, that's that's not a teardown, it's totally livable. But a builder may say, you know what? No, I'm I'm gonna build more money with yeah, I'm gonna build a big new construction that I can build a bigger home here.

Darius Narizzano 13:54

You know, this is so new, I haven't seen anything, but I'm thinking the same thing. You're smart.

Dave Rattiner 13:59

You're you're super smart with this stuff. I've I I I bought my house without a CEO, and um, you know, you gave me some advice on how on how to get a CEO. What I don't understand is is the spirit of the law to prevent people from buying houses that have ridiculous upgrades, or is the spirit of the law a safety thing? Like, for example, I have my CEO required I needed new smoke detectors and I needed a new banister. And it was a safety thing, and I was like, fine, I'll do that after I buy it. And I went and after I and I and I did, I followed through, obviously, and got my CO. But like let's say I had like a whole other structure on my house and there wasn't a CO for it. Is the point of the law to prevent people from building with I'm just I didn't I'm not clear.

Darius Narizzano 14:53

So here's here's what I I think. I think first of all, if you ask the town, they'll tell you it's all about safety, just like it is for the rental laws.

Dave Rattiner 15:01

Right.

Darius Narizzano 15:01

You know, the the rental permits, you have to have the smoke detectors, as you pointed out, CO detectors, means of escape during a fire, which is called egress. And these things are alarms on doors so that kids don't drown in pools. Yeah, I mean, these are real stuff. Yeah. And , but but yes, there's also it's about fees and bringing money into the town. And it's also about stopping people from having accessory apartments on properties that might be slightly smaller than allowed, you know, because you have to have I think it's now three-quarters of an acre in order to have an accessory apartment. Um, I'm all for this.

Steve Glick 15:41

I'm all for the updated CEO. I think it's gonna be it's a good thing to clean up a lot of the mess that that exists out there. But as a real estate agent, I don't know if I like it. If you're your real estate agent, you're trying to guide someone to say, hey, here's how here's the time to list your property. Now this comes into the fold. How are you advising or helping your clients manage through this process?

Darius Narizzano 16:06

From my personal experience of flipping houses myself and renovating houses myself, either as a contractor or actually banging nails, um, I have a good I know what needs to be done to make a house compliable. And so I'm able to advise my clients on that. And I know a lot of people that can help with bringing the houses to compliance. Um as well as I've got these great tools from New York Title in order to expose the issues before. And really the important thing here is it's all about time.

Dave Rattiner 16:39

The sleeve it's New York Title, man. Having them in your back pocket to help awesome.

Darius Narizzano 16:43

So but the thing is that this time, right now, it takes too much time to get an updated CL in a house. Wait till January 1st. Everyone has to do it. It's gonna be an S show for sure. And it's gonna take too much time. So it really makes sense. If you're thinking of selling your house today, you start working on these things right away. Have a have a meeting to understand what you need to do. You have to get a survey right away.

Steve Glick 17:12

We see a lot of we see a lot of customers calling the agents early in the process saying, hey, I'm gonna list my home in three months. I want to start the process now. So a lot of the process starts with photography and videos and floor plans and all the marketing materials. But another part of it is, hey, I want to work with the real estate agent and say, how do I get my home up to code? I haven't had a survey since the day I bought the home 20 years ago. Do I need an updated survey? Yes. Do I need to update the CEO? Yes. Can New York Title help me, you know, run a report to see any outstanding issues or you know, the latest survey and information that we have on file? Yes. So it's a new thing to say, hey, engage your real estate agent month, a month, two, three months before you want to list a property, because we can get that all cleaned up. Because what's going to happen is you're going to list that property, the offers are going to come in, hopefully quickly, and now all of a sudden it comes up, oh, there's a CO issue. We got to clean this, we got to fix that. That deal could die, the buyer could walk. If you if you figured all that out prior to, and when the offer comes in, you can move that thing into contract and then move that along to closing in in a shorter amount of time if you clean this up.

Darius Narizzano 18:22

Every agent broker knows that the biggest killer of deals is time. Time. And so if you're not prepared, like you said, and somebody comes in with an offer, you know, and then you start working on these problems six weeks. I know we've seen it happen. Because there are these other attributes you want, and you lost the deal.

Andrew Doud 18:43

The biggest killer is time.

Darius Narizzano 18:45

I don't think you mentioned those, Steve. A really lucky thing is every agent who works with Saunders and associates, like myself, has New York title helping them. Great. Because it's a it's a tool that's given to us. So everybody gets a land use report, and that land use report from title issues all the way down to the survey issues and can so I'm trying to visualize.

Dave Rattiner 19:08

So, what's the nightmare scenario for somebody where where this law goes into place in East Hampton and they're a seller, and they what's like I'm trying to visualize what's the nightmare scenario where this really dramatically affects them. They couldn't be able to do that. Well, is this an inconvenience or is this something where certain people like, oh man, I mean you can do it? You want to go worst case scenario, Dave? Or we gotta we gotta lower the price or whatever.

Steve Glick 19:37

Yeah, what's the worst case scenario? It's like you have you have to take down a part of your house. It's a structure that is completely illegal.

Andrew Doud 19:44

Right. You know, put that bathroom in and didn't get the permits. Or the pools, you never got well.

Darius Narizzano 19:48

That doesn't necessarily mean if you have a bathroom without permits, you're gonna have to have to get solder supports. You're gonna have to get electrical underwriting, and you're gonna have to do floor plans. You know, everything has to be checked, and then you're gonna have to get the building, you're gonna have to I don't know what what do you call when instead of putting in for a building permit ahead of time, you're doing one after the fact, and you're paying all the fees and you're getting inspections, but that all takes so much time again, that's why. And it costs money to do it. So that's one of the reasons.

Steve Glick 20:20

Um all right, let's move forward even more to something positive is what you do with your time when you're not selling real estate or not helping people update their COs. You you volunteer your time at the East Hampton food pantry, you're on the board at the East Hampton food pantry, yeah, and there's a food drive happening when?

Darius Narizzano 20:39

Yeah, our newest one. Well, you know, we always do the polar bear plunge on January 1st at Main Beach in East Hampton, which is our big fun thing that we do. And you've done that once, right?

Dave Rattiner 20:50

He invited me last year, and I forget why. Andrew Dadd has done one. I know that. I haven't.

Andrew Doud 20:55

I actually haven't done one.

Darius Narizzano 20:58

You guys will be happy to know I'm having Saunders Speedos made this year for all of you.

Andrew Doud 21:04

What like the shorts? The ones that go to your knees or like this.

Darius Narizzano 21:09

It's like a thumb. And it'll say Saunders across the back, and we're all gonna run in together. What do you think? Not a lot of, you know. Did was this approved by marketing? I'm not sure. It's no, I bypassed you guys. Andrew and Colleen have approved it.

Dave Rattiner 21:24

I remember Darius said, , can I I gotta tell this story? If you don't want the public to hear the story, let me just say this one too. We'll just cut it out.

Darius Narizzano 21:30

We are doing a food drive on November 18th. November food drive.

Dave Rattiner 21:36

This is my this is my favorite Darius story when it comes to marketing. Darius comes into my office and he goes, Um, Dave, what do you think about getting one of those, you know, those big like blow those machines that blow up and the man and the that waves back and forth like in front of the car dealership for open edges? Yeah, for open heads. He's like, Why don't we do that? And I five stories. I didn't know he was joking. And I was like, I I was like, make it happen, Dave. It's a good idea.

Steve Glick 22:09

All good ideas. Um, but back to the food drive. November 18th, this is this is what, a food drive?

Darius Narizzano 22:15

And what's a food drive and East Hampton Middle School from 10 to 2 p.m. We're collecting non-perishable goods.

Steve Glick 22:24

Well, Thanksgiving is good.

Darius Narizzano 22:26

Yeah, this is the Saturday. Around the corner, yeah. Thanksgiving.

Steve Glick 22:29

Yeah. Uh Wednesday is November 1st. Next week's November 1st. Thanksgiving is my favorite home. Then you come into, you know, of course, Saunders does their donation drive, and Thanksgiving's coming. So tis the season, but always contribute to the food pantry. They're open year-round. I mean, they're always accepting donations. It's not just for Thanksgiving. You know, people always forget that. Oh, it's the everyone needs to eat Thanksgiving. Obviously, we Thanksgiving is a time that everybody should have a hot meal, but it's year-round. And the food East Hampton Food Drive does. The need is more than you can imagine.

Darius Narizzano 23:02

If on a if if you go there on a Tuesday, because that's when we distribute, right behind East Hampton Town Hall.

Steve Glick 23:09

Okay.

Darius Narizzano 23:10

They have been so supportive to give us a small building to use.

Steve Glick 23:15

Great.

Darius Narizzano 23:16

And if you go back there on a Tuesday afternoon, two, three o'clock in the afternoon, you will be so surprised by the line of cars and the need that we have in our incredible community. It's it's sad.

Dave Rattiner 23:29

And I encourage anyone listening to this to contact Darius and you know let him bring you, bring you, because it really impacted, it impacts you. And it it it's a real direct way to give money and like directly help people right around you.

Darius Narizzano 23:49

Money is what we really need, Dave. Thanks for seeing that. You know, because we could buy food in bulk. Yeah, you can buy food in bulk. And by the way, we also have an East Hampton food pantry in the John Marshall School and the East Hampton High School, , where it's not only food, but it's also toiletries and clothes and such. And you know, we only started it a few years ago now, and it's really sad to say, it's really taken off. You know, there's a big need there.

Steve Glick 24:17

Yeah.

Darius Narizzano 24:18

All right, well, thank you for that. Um glad you're doing that.

Andrew Doud 24:22

Um, just to circle back to real estate before we get to Dave with what's happening. Let's go to Steve with the numbers.

Steve Glick 24:27

The numbers, all right, guys. This week there are 14 listings that went into contract from West Hampton to Montauk. Last year there were 19, so it's a decrease of 26 percent. The year prior in 2021, there were 55 listings that went to contract. That's a decrease of 75 percent off of this year. The breakdown of the 14 transactions this week, there was one between 10 and 20 million, three between four and six million, three between two and three million, seven between one and two million, zero under one million this week. Um, over the past week, the dollar volume was forty-four million. Last year, the dollar volume was forty-eight million, so that's a decrease of just eight percent. And the year in 2021, that the dollar volume was 180 million with a decrease of 76 percent. But the positive news, again, the trend still continues to be this way. The inventory increased by 18 listings with 32 new listings that came onto the market this past week. The breakdown of those 32 new listings there was three between 10 and 20 million, four between five and ten million, eight between three and five million, seven between two and three million, and ten between one and two million, and again at zero under one million. The overall inventory stands at nineteen hundred and thirteen total listings with fourteen hundred and seventy-three active and four hundred and forty in contract.

Dave Rattiner 25:45

So you gotta wonder when what will the inventory ever be above three thousand? You gotta wonder, will that ever be?

Steve Glick 25:53

Yeah, we're we're we're teetering over two. Um yeah, I mean, if at this point inventory time, it's certainly taking its time. 20 listings, 20 plus a week, you know, that's gonna start adding up. So time will tell. Um, but look at the numbers, you know, under one million is now not even a category of listings going into contract or coming onto the market. So the new low is between one and two. So keep an eye on that, folks. And if a new listing comes on under a million, I suggest you call Darius quickly to go take a look at that listing because far and few and great investments right there under a million bucks. For sure.

Dave Rattiner 26:31

And demand's still there.

Steve Glick 26:32

Demand's still there.

Dave Rattiner 26:33

Always.

Steve Glick 26:34

Uh Dave, what do you got?

Dave Rattiner 26:35

Halloween. Halloween, man.

Steve Glick 26:37

What do you mean for Halloween, Dave?

Dave Rattiner 26:39

Abe Lincoln is doing it. So here's the thing. So Halloween's literally my least favorite holiday. Wow. And it I feel strange because I would think I was like that ever since I was a kid. Like I never really liked it even as a kid. Wow. Did you get it? Everyone loves it. And I'm just like, first of all, I don't really like scary movies or horror movies. I'm just I'm just not like one of those guys. I just like candy. And then yeah, I like the candy aspect, but it seems like it always seems like a lot of work. It's like you gotta get dressed up, and it's like, what do you wear?

Steve Glick 27:10

So you're dressing up as a real estate agent. Got it.

Dave Rattiner 27:12

Yeah, I'm not my kid's gonna be father of two. Oh, what's your what's your kid's gonna be? Uh she's like like a like a witch, I think, like a witch outfit. But there's some cool witch outfit that's going around on Instagram. Oh, that's cool. That's like the cool thing, I guess. Um what are you gonna be?

Steve Glick 27:29

Uh my go-to is Scream. Uh the Scream mask. Can't go wrong with that. Maybe I'll get a mask. I might my son is gonna be some devil faced ghost face killer. Yeah. Oh, that sounds nice. And my daughter, yeah, yeah, it sounds nice.

Dave Rattiner 27:49

My daughter is gonna be Angel. Yeah. I was a ninja from five years old to like twenty. I was a ninja turtle. I loved what about you, Dad?

Andrew Doud 28:00

Dow, Andrew, you have two girls. I got one's one's a witch and one's yeah, the witch is a very popular costume. Other one, I don't know. She's changed her mind like nine times.

Steve Glick 28:10

And you will be a fireman? Sure. We'll go with that.

Andrew Doud 28:14

I like the idea of like wearing a mask, though. That way you're like walking around and like if you don't want to talk to somebody.

Steve Glick 28:19

Does not disappoint on Halloween. I know you had a crazy mask one year. Yeah, I remember that one. Um, what are you going this year?

Darius Narizzano 28:27

I probably I have a whole bunch of crazy masks, Steve. I don't, I think I'll probably recycle something from the past, but I have two kids also. And my oldest, who's 21, he's tall like Dave. He's like 6'4. I think he might be Abe Lincoln. Oh, I was thinking it would be perfect for you.

Steve Glick 28:44

I should do that. You would be a great Abe Lincoln. Just put a top hat on. That's all it is.

Darius Narizzano 28:48

And my youngest will probably be like the screen mask or something. He's gonna have a party at our house.

Steve Glick 28:53

Oh, nice.

Darius Narizzano 28:53

Yeah, but he hasn't on Halloween? On no, this Saturday, I think. Ooh. Yeah. Watch Halloween, baby. You know? No rest for me. Love it. I love Halloween. Maybe I'll dress up like a policeman. There you go.

Dave Rattiner 29:07

You should you should look on Hamptons.com for like all of the Halloween parties that are going on. I'm going to speak briefly about those that I just kind of saw were cool. You got Sola East destroying a Halloween party at the backyard restaurant on the 28th, 8 p.m. to 10 p.m. Um, then you got the monster smash costume dance party from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in Sag Harbor. Uh then you in Sag Harbor, this is the coolest thing. You got the Ragamuffin parade. That's well it's for kids, but man, just always town my kids the whole town just shows up and just walks in the middle of the street all dressed up. And it's I I've done it every year with Sophia, and I guess I'll do it this year with the newborn.

Darius Narizzano 30:00

Keepers really get into it.

Dave Rattiner 30:01

Yeah, yeah. And even during COVID, people showed up for that. It was great. Like even during COVID, it was like one of the only social things you could do because it was all out, it's all outside. Um, but yeah, it's a lot of fun, and then it ends, I think, at the church. Um at the one on 48 Madison Madison Street, and then over there they got cookies and all that stuff, and the candies and all that stuff. So that's a really fun thing to do.

Darius Narizzano 30:24

Um, one in Southampton with dogs.

Dave Rattiner 30:28

Yeah, it's called the Little Lucy's 22nd annual pet parade. That's fun. So that's on the 28th as well. That's from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. That's right on Jobs Lane. You can get all this information on Hamptons.com. There's quite a few events, those are a couple of my favorite ones. Outside of Halloween, you got the San Janeiro feast in Hampton Bay's, which Andrew.

Andrew Doud 30:52

This is the third time it's been like rescheduled because it's been raining like every Saturday.

Dave Rattiner 30:56

Oh, that's right. You know, yeah, it was supposed to be like three weeks ago. You know, like last Saturday was like the first one in like weeks, yeah.

Andrew Doud 31:03

Months, even I think. So it's if if it doesn't rain, I guess it's still on. It's still on now. They're setting up. I just love the whole concept of it.

Dave Rattiner 31:11

You know, it's just an eating fast. Great. It's not to like about that. I love stuff like that. The diet starts tomorrow. Yeah, you just go in, you know, you skip breakfast and you just go ham.

Andrew Doud 31:22

If you're not dieting now, the diet starts in the new year because you got like, you know, the Thanksgiving holidays, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Dave Rattiner 31:28

January one. Yeah, it's just so great. Um, but that's from 12 to 9. I am dieting. I've been a week, I've been keto. I haven't had a single carbohydrate for a week. You're crazy. The first day is hard. After the second day, I was like, this isn't that hard. But I don't think it does anything. You know, whatever. Um, that's the San Janeiro Festival in the Hamptons. And then you have the Springs Food Pantry, chow to Chowdah, chow down, 12 p.m. to 3 p.m. Chowdown. That should be delicious. You have 1770 house, Amiganset Seafood Store, Chef Peter Ambrose, Chef Jeremy Bloodstein from Mavericks, Bonfire Coffee, Boswick's, Christians from Wolfer, Clam Bar Cookery. The list goes on. The Honest Man Group and Tony's all those people, Rosie's Amiganset, Silver Spoon, every single one of these places is showing up with clam chowder. And they make amazing different clam chowders. And you get to go bananas on the clam chowder. So, what's better than that? I don't know. I eat the same thing every day. So that's cool. Yeah. Good. Well, good for you. And then that's it. That's it. That's all you got. That's what you got.

Andrew Doud 32:40

All right. Happy Halloween. That's it. I'll call it a podcast. There, thanks so much for joining us. That was awesome, man. As always, good to have you. Uh, have a great Halloween, everybody. Be safe. I'm Andrew Dowd. That's what's happening in the Hamptons.