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Central Vermont softball with Noah Payette, Erica Scott talks up Lacing Up For Cancer event June 20th · Aired Out

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  Speaker 1: Sam, all right, we've got a new week, a whole
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  Speaker 1: new month, a new day.
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  Speaker 2: Weekend is officially over. Here's what's on deck for June.
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  Speaker 2: Happy June first. We have a lot of stuff that
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  Speaker 2: is going to be going on, not just here at
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  Speaker 2: the podcast, but just everywhere everywhere. So much happening. There's
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  Speaker 2: some new movies that I'm looking forward to. The official
• 2:11
  Speaker 2: first day of summer is the twenty first. I wonder
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  Speaker 2: if it's gonna start feeling like summer anytime soon. We
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  Speaker 2: got Father's Day in the month of June. In sports,
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  Speaker 2: there's a ton of stuff that's happening. We got the
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  Speaker 2: Stanley Cup Finals tomorrow, NBA Finals they get going on Wednesday.
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  Speaker 2: French Open that's running through June seventh. We got the
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  Speaker 2: World Cup underway June eleventh, USA, by the way, taken
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  Speaker 2: on Paraguay on the twelfth, that's a Friday. Let's see
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  Speaker 2: US Open June eighteenth through the twenty first, the UFC
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  Speaker 2: White House Event, UFC Freedom two fifty, I know everybody's
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  Speaker 2: talking about it. That's going down June fourteenth. Caroline Hurricanes,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, I'm just seeing defeating the Montreal Canadians
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  Speaker 2: to win the NHL Eastern Conference Finals and they're going
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  Speaker 2: to compete against the Vegas Golden Knights Game one tomorrow
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  Speaker 2: at eight pm. Will Logan loose be talking about this
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  Speaker 2: on Thursday? You bet absolutely one hundred percent guarantee. The
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  Speaker 2: new movies, of course, the one that I'm looking forward
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  Speaker 2: to in the month of June, Jackass Best in Last
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  Speaker 2: Hit in theaters on June twenty six. I got to
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  Speaker 2: get a couple of friends together and go out see that.
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  Speaker 2: It's gonna be amazing. Toy Story five. June nineteenth is
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  Speaker 2: when that drops. I'll be out streaming live at one
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  Speaker 2: of the theaters, either the Paramount or the Capital Theater
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  Speaker 2: in Montpellier. Can't wait. Masters of the Universe coming out
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  Speaker 2: on Friday. Scary Movie six also out on Friday. We
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  Speaker 2: got Spielberg's disclosure Day on the twelfth. Let's see what else.
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  Speaker 2: New seasons of America's Got Talent and Love Island. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we'll be watching that hitting NBC and Peacock. It's gonna
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  Speaker 2: be great tomorrow night. Season five of Sweet Magnolia's coming
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  Speaker 2: out on Netflix on June eleventh. Shriln's gonna be losing
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  Speaker 2: her mind about that. She'll be so excited. Season three
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  Speaker 2: House of the Dragons dropping on the twenty first, Season
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  Speaker 2: two of Avatar, The Last Airbender hitting Netflix on June
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  Speaker 2: twenty fifth, and the fifth and final season of The
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  Speaker 2: Bear dropping June twenty fifth. And that's just a quick snapshot.
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  Speaker 2: We got the CMA Fest on the twenty fifth, we
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  Speaker 2: got June nineteenth on the or juneteenth on the nineteenth
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  Speaker 2: Father's Day in the twenty first. As I mentioned, that's
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  Speaker 2: going to be a crazy weekend. And of course we're
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  Speaker 2: gearing up for America's two hundred and fiftieth birthday in July.
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  Speaker 2: Also launching a new podcast this month called The Learning Collaborative.
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  Speaker 2: I can't wait to tell you more about it, and
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  Speaker 2: I will also going to be announcing another new podcast
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  Speaker 2: in the making right here where you are now, details
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  Speaker 2: coming very soon. On that fifty two degrees right now,
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  Speaker 2: I barry, partly cloudy skies. We're looking at around US
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  Speaker 2: seventy degrees for the daytime high today. We have a
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  Speaker 2: really nice week ahead this coming weekend. I'll take you
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  Speaker 2: there tonight, clear cold forty two. I know that sucks.
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  Speaker 2: Partly cloudy Tuesday seventy two, Tomorrow, mostly sunny, on Wednesday,
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  Speaker 2: enjoy it eighty degrees eighty four and partly cloudy on Thursday,
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  Speaker 2: cloudy and eighty on Friday, but then the rain just
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  Speaker 2: in time for the weekend. And listen, we live in
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  Speaker 2: New England. Things could change. Cloudy sky's rain on Saturday
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  Speaker 2: and Sunday both days' seventies. I know logan email Happy
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  Speaker 2: birthday today, Josh Nauer, Bruce Bussa, Jen Lockett, Claire Driscoll,
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  Speaker 2: Dennis Desiro, Nicole Raymond, Tracy Lord, all celebrating birthdays today.
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  Speaker 2: Amy Schumer's forty five, Brandy Carlisle also forty five, fifty
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  Speaker 2: two for a Lanis Moore set, Heidi Club fifty three,
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  Speaker 2: mister Cooper, Mark Curry sixty five years old today. Look
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  Speaker 2: at this Ronnie Dunn from Brooks and Dunn seventy three
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  Speaker 2: years old. That makes me feel old. Ron Woods seventy nine.
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  Speaker 2: Morgan Freeman eighty nine years old and top of the
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  Speaker 2: list today, Pat Boonett ninety two. What's the one word
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  Speaker 2: that you struggle to spell still to this day? It's
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  Speaker 2: our Facebook question of the day. Mine is necessary. It's
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  Speaker 2: up there right now, which I think I'm misspelled. City
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  Speaker 2: of Barry giving me a notice here this morning that
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  Speaker 2: stormwater upgrades at Camp and Hill Street going to be
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  Speaker 2: affecting traffic today. Hill is going to be closed between
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  Speaker 2: Patterson and Charles today. Traffic's going to be re routed
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  Speaker 2: a way of Washington Street. Thank you Shay for reminding me.
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  Speaker 2: The Special Olympics in Saint Albans on Saturday, the basketball
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  Speaker 2: Summer Games, and this week the Torch Run happened all
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  Speaker 2: this week. I think the Torch Run is Friday, if
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  Speaker 2: I'm not mistaken, and I know that Shay will correct
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  Speaker 2: me if that's not the case. But what a big
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  Speaker 2: deal it's going to be. We have a lot to
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  Speaker 2: get to. We're going to take a deep dive into
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  Speaker 2: the community calendar. Erica Scott is going to connect in
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  Speaker 2: with us from the Lamo Oyl Area Cancer Network to
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  Speaker 2: talking about they're lasen Up for cancer event that's happening
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  Speaker 2: not this weekend, but really really soon. So I'm excited
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  Speaker 2: about that. There is so much happening. Our community calendar
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  Speaker 2: is just I can't keep up with it, honestly. Saturday
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  Speaker 2: Nights meteor was something that I was frustrated that I missed.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't know anything about it. Didn't hear the sonic boom,
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  Speaker 2: didn't see the flash in the sky. But apparently this
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  Speaker 2: sucker was three feet wide and may have made it
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  Speaker 2: to the ground, possibly a touchdown in somewhere in Cape
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  Speaker 2: cod And there's what is it now? I'm trying to
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  Speaker 2: go back. I'm trying to go back to science class
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  Speaker 2: in high school. If it's a meteor, it burns up
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  Speaker 2: in the sky, right, And if it's if it actually
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  Speaker 2: makes its way to the ground, like physical rock hitting
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  Speaker 2: the earth. I think it's a meteorite. Correct me if
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  Speaker 2: I'm wrong. But they're looking for this, They're looking for
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  Speaker 2: remnants of this meteor Saturday night. Everybody saw it, apparently
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  Speaker 2: except for me, all across New England, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont, Maine, Canada.
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  Speaker 2: Even what was I doing Saturday? I don't know. Sitting
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  Speaker 2: right next to me on the curvy couch, Noah Payette
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  Speaker 2: is with me talking softball this morning. Good morning, dude.
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  Speaker 2: How how the hell are you?
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  Speaker 3: Man?
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  Speaker 2: I'm well, man, listen, Uh, here's the thing, and I'll
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  Speaker 2: say this, I'll be transparent right off the front. I
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  Speaker 2: don't really know much about softball anymore. Used to a
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  Speaker 2: little bit when I was in high school and I
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  Speaker 2: had I have since forgotten it, but I know a
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  Speaker 2: little bit about it watching my my kid play, and
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  Speaker 2: I know you have to get you got to run,
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  Speaker 2: you got to run fast. This is softball is something
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  Speaker 2: that is your your love, your passion. You breathe this stuff.
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  Speaker 3: Man.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I've I've grown up around it. I've
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  Speaker 4: been since I was since I was a kid. My
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  Speaker 4: my dad's always played. I've it's always been whatever night
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  Speaker 4: he's playing, I'm met the softball field until till whenever
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  Speaker 4: when whenever, God knows. How long did you did you play?
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  Speaker 2: Uh? Did you play baseball when you were in high school?
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  Speaker 2: I did.
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  Speaker 4: I was a high school catcher for down South, Okay
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  Speaker 4: for four years, and yeah, I mean I loved it.
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  Speaker 2: But softball you were able to get into more of
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  Speaker 2: a kind of a community type of sport, not not
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  Speaker 2: so much specifically baseball exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean, it's it's what the whole thing's about.
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  Speaker 4: It's about just getting that group of group of guys
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  Speaker 4: and girls that can just show up and look forward
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  Speaker 4: to coming and yeah, just have fun.
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  Speaker 2: Let's let's give some love to the pub there. I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: they're all right there on your jersey.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean the pub. The Canadian Club got KG
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  Speaker 4: Auto Detailing, Yeah in Northfield, right, yeah, I mean all
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  Speaker 4: of them. I mean there was I mean the pub.
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  Speaker 4: They came in last minute that I had had a
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  Speaker 4: sponsor back out and they when I'm when I was
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  Speaker 4: over here pulling my hair trying to trying to find
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  Speaker 4: my sponsor, and.
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  Speaker 2: They Lindsey and Saya and everybody over there. They freaking
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  Speaker 2: love softball.
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  Speaker 4: They do.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, it's did they have their own team? I
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  Speaker 2: think they did at one point.
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  Speaker 4: I think at one point. I can't can't quite remember.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, so tell me. So this is Barry Koh Softball League,
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  Speaker 2: which is what you're you're part of, and you've had
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  Speaker 2: this this team caught looking for how long?
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  Speaker 3: Now?
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  Speaker 4: This is actually my first year putting in a team.
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  Speaker 4: Really never done it before. I've been thinking about it
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  Speaker 4: the past year or two. And I've played in the
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  Speaker 4: league for I want to say three four years, so
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  Speaker 4: it's I'm familiar with the league. It's just it's it's
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  Speaker 4: a big step going from playing on a team to yeah,
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  Speaker 4: having a team.
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  Speaker 2: Uh. I wanted to ask you, are you payette? Are
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  Speaker 2: you are you related to Travis? I am my god,
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  Speaker 2: who's not? Really? Who isn't related to Travis Payette? He
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  Speaker 2: is your uncle, your uncle, and he plays softball? Two right?
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  Speaker 2: He does? What does he play for?
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  Speaker 4: He plays in a separate league. It's a over thirty league. Ah,
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  Speaker 4: it's a wood bat league.
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  Speaker 2: Wood yep, okay, which is men only. I think right,
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  Speaker 2: that's exactly all right. Why why co ed softball? Why?
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  Speaker 2: Why is this so? Why is this so important to
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  Speaker 2: have a co ed league, which we do Barry co
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  Speaker 2: Ed Softball League.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, it's it's something for everybody to do. It's
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  Speaker 4: something whether you're a male or female, it's you can
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  Speaker 4: something for everybody to do. And it's makes it a
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  Speaker 4: little bit more competitive.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, is it competitive?
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  Speaker 4: Oh yes, yep, it gets it. It gets really competitive.
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  Speaker 4: I mean there's there's the people out there that like myself.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I'm there to have fun, but at the
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  Speaker 4: same time, I'm there to I'm there to win, I'm
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  Speaker 4: there to there to be competitive about it. And it's
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  Speaker 4: or that's the that's the baseball player in me. I've
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  Speaker 4: always I've always been competitive.
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  Speaker 2: How how often do you guys practice and and where
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  Speaker 2: do you practice?
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  Speaker 4: I mean this year, we've been trying to do once
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  Speaker 4: a week sometimes I mean weather depending. We haven't really
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  Speaker 4: had the best weather. Yeah, sometimes we can't. We've been
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  Speaker 4: I mean, well, will practice anywhere anywhere that has a field,
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  Speaker 4: just something to get the swings in, get get kind
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  Speaker 4: of the cobwebs knocked.
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  Speaker 2: Off, put mostly up Barrytown Reckfield. Okay, uh, and you
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  Speaker 2: practice or win are your games?
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  Speaker 4: I know the rest of the rest of the season,
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  Speaker 4: we're playing Friday nights. But if we get a game,
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  Speaker 4: cancel it happens to it'll get moved to us Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, if if the if mother nature pisses us off. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: and she has she has been yeah a lot. Yeah
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  Speaker 2: all right, so Sundays. Wow, So it's it. I'm guessing
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  Speaker 2: that it's too late to join the team. Yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 2: understand when it's a good time to start. First of all,
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  Speaker 2: you should come out and check out the team. If
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  Speaker 2: you're not familiar with it, come out and meet everybody
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  Speaker 2: and experience the camaraderie. But when it's a good time
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  Speaker 2: for folks to join the team, do you have to
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  Speaker 2: like try out? What if you suck? That's what I'm.
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  Speaker 4: Saying no, no tryouts. I mean, if you ever wanted
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  Speaker 4: to put in, whether it's put in a team or
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  Speaker 4: join a team, I mean there's I mean, we're always looking, well,
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  Speaker 4: the league's always looking for new teams and players and players.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if you want to play. I know there's
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  Speaker 4: a post out on the league's Facebook page Common that
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  Speaker 4: you want to play Common, that you want to put
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  Speaker 4: in a team, and somebody from the board will.
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: Either reach out to you or all right, how how
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  Speaker 2: many players do you have to have to make up
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  Speaker 2: a team?
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  Speaker 4: I know the ideal amountains ten?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, but I mean what if you, uh,
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  Speaker 2: you know what if come next year, you're thinking about this,
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  Speaker 2: You're pushing it around in your head January February, but
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  Speaker 2: you're you're just not really sure if if you're good enough.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe you've never played on a team before, but you're
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  Speaker 2: just looking to get out of the house and get
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  Speaker 2: some exercise, meet some people have some fun. Like what
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  Speaker 2: if you kind of you kind of suck at it,
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  Speaker 2: You're just not I mean, do you have to be incredible?
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  Speaker 4: You don't. And I mean this this league when because yes,
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  Speaker 4: I grew up around it, but when I first started.
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  Speaker 4: I yes, I knew how to catch a ball, but
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  Speaker 4: I mean going from swinging a base swinging to hit
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  Speaker 4: a baseball to going from a slow ped softball, it
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  Speaker 4: was Yeah, it was a big curve. And I mean
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  Speaker 4: I I sucked really and it. This is a good
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  Speaker 4: league to get your feet wet.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, but good people pull though. It's greatly like
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  Speaker 2: if if you if if you get up there and
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  Speaker 2: you and you're you're not really good. Uh, They're not
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  Speaker 2: going to ask you too hard. They're going to have
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  Speaker 2: fun with you. They're gonna work with you. They will Okay,
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  Speaker 2: you don't have to know everything about the sport to
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  Speaker 2: be able to play. They'll they'll teach you. They will.
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  Speaker 2: All right, that's good that that's like super important. It
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  Speaker 2: is And I think I think having a community softball
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  Speaker 2: league that's kind of imperative. You've got to you've got
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  Speaker 2: to be like that. Yeah, how many So tell me
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  Speaker 2: about your team? Tell me about looking.
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  Speaker 4: So Like I said, this is our first year. We
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  Speaker 4: have I think on the roster we have about four
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  Speaker 4: I want to say fourteen people, which we've had.
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  Speaker 2: Well that's pretty good, huh, it is.
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  Speaker 4: We we haven't had to forfeit any games yet, which
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  Speaker 4: that's one of my goals has been not need to
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  Speaker 4: forfeit any games. Yes, I know we're sitting at one
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  Speaker 4: win so far this year, which I think came a
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  Speaker 4: couple of weeks back. But I mean it's great people.
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  Speaker 4: It's don't really have an issue with fighting with people
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  Speaker 4: to show up, which I'm glad it's not as stressful
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  Speaker 4: as it could be.
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  Speaker 2: As it could be. Yeah, that's I love that. That's good.
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  Speaker 4: It is.
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  Speaker 2: Finals are coming.
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  Speaker 4: Up this month at some point. I can't quite remember
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  Speaker 4: the dates, but I know we have a couple more
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  Speaker 4: weeks and then we got league tournament and I'm hopefully
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  Speaker 4: bringing our team to States. Know, we have to figure
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  Speaker 4: out how much it costs.
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  Speaker 2: So what does that look like? I mean regionally, were
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: starting to tap into pretty pretty broad area here.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so States we play. It's a tournament out of
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  Speaker 4: Hyde Park that that goes on every year. That that's
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  Speaker 4: when it widens from I mean in the league, we're
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  Speaker 4: playing leagues from local and then we go to States
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  Speaker 4: and it's teams from all over the state that that
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  Speaker 4: they put in their team go and Hyde Park and
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  Speaker 4: we camp camp out for this weekend. And who it's awesome.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, States is all it has been. It's always
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  Speaker 4: been a blast.
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  Speaker 2: And then they were the finals, Like, is there a
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  Speaker 2: home team advantage to where the finals are? Are they
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  Speaker 2: in barry Town Reckfield for.
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  Speaker 4: The league tournament?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's where our league tournament is. We'll play that
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  Speaker 4: over a weekend and that'll be the league champion will
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  Speaker 4: be figured out Sunday at some point.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. What do you win if you win it? If
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  Speaker 2: you win it all I know that. I guessing this
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  Speaker 2: is a trophy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we have a trophy that circulates every year. We
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  Speaker 4: keep with the same trophy and winner keeps a trophy,
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  Speaker 4: and come next season the trophy would be put back
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  Speaker 4: in the pot for if it's going to be a
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  Speaker 4: repeat winner or a new winner.
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  Speaker 2: Wow, are you hoping to uh you open to have
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  Speaker 2: that that hardware at some point.
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  Speaker 4: I'm hoping at some point that would that'd be the
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  Speaker 4: cherry on top.
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  Speaker 2: So your team is you said you've only got one
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  Speaker 2: win in so far? Yep? All right? And how many games.
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  Speaker 4: I can't remember we've played. I think we're I want
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  Speaker 4: to say we've played six. I want to say we're
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  Speaker 4: probably five and one somewhere around there are one and five.
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  Speaker 4: I can't remember exactly how many games we've played.
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  Speaker 2: You know. I I started out saying that I really
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: don't know much about this sport and I'm learning. H
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  Speaker 2: I'm trying to learn, But watching my little kid play softball,
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  Speaker 2: it's a psychological game. I mean, there's so much that's
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  Speaker 2: going on to pay attention to. And I had some
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: you know, I always always said, you know, baseball is
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  Speaker 2: as boring as golf, and I remember I had someone
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  Speaker 2: say to me, but once you start understanding it, it's
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  Speaker 2: addictive and you're going to be bitten by the bug.
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  Speaker 2: And it's that's kind of happening now. Or there's all
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  Speaker 2: these there's so many different scenarios of how things can
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  Speaker 2: shake out good, bad and otherwise. It's it's really, uh,
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  Speaker 2: a psychological game. You got to you got to watch
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  Speaker 2: everything that's happening.
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  Speaker 4: For the people that I mean, I've heard people say that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean it's for people say slow pit. It's still
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  Speaker 4: it's slow pit softball. What's so what's so hard about?
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  Speaker 4: I mean it's coming in slow. I mean it's yes,
• 22:10
  Speaker 4: the pitches might be coming in slow, but there's there's
• 22:12
  Speaker 4: a lot more to it than than people think.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's so cool, and things can go from zero
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: to sixty in less than a second.
• 22:25
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it could be. I mean it can
• 22:28
  Speaker 4: go from having a game that's I mean you're losing
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: by ten to mean next I mean that inning you're
• 22:37
  Speaker 4: yeat up, or it's I definitely it can definitely go
• 22:42
  Speaker 4: from zero to sixty like that.
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: Have you ever been involved with the Winter co Ed
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: Softball I have.
• 22:50
  Speaker 4: That's something I that's something I do. I've put in
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: the team the past I want to say, two years,
• 22:56
  Speaker 4: and I've played in it the past three maybe four.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: What's that like? I love it.
• 23:03
  Speaker 4: It's fun, it's a little it puts a little twist
• 23:06
  Speaker 4: on the game. I mean you're going from playing on
• 23:09
  Speaker 4: the field to playing and the foot to god knows
• 23:13
  Speaker 4: how much snow you're we're getting yea with stupid temperatures. Yeah,
• 23:18
  Speaker 4: I mean and maybe rain, Yeah.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: It's not maybe it's There has been many years where
• 23:25
  Speaker 2: it's been rainy, muddy.
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: I mean I know last year last winter, the tournament
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: was nice. It was sun actually came out and warmed
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: everybody up for a little while. But I mean the
• 23:34
  Speaker 4: year before it was I think it was so bad
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: they had to have a warming tent. Wow, I had
• 23:40
  Speaker 4: to have a tent that it was so cold that,
• 23:43
  Speaker 4: I mean, nobody.
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: How many how many years have you done that?
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: I think? I know. I think I've played for about
• 23:49
  Speaker 4: four Okay, I've put in a team the past two years.
• 23:53
  Speaker 2: So you're in this past year? Yeah, I was.
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: And how'd you do?
• 24:00
  Speaker 3: Not?
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Very well?
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: We didn't do bad? I think we I think we
• 24:04
  Speaker 4: went I know we won a couple of games.
• 24:07
  Speaker 3: I don't.
• 24:07
  Speaker 4: I don't think we we placed. We were done on
• 24:10
  Speaker 4: we play it. We made it all the way through Saturday.
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: Didn't make it a Sunday unfortunately. But yeah, we were
• 24:17
  Speaker 4: we were fighting. Yeah, that's so cool man.
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: And and that's that's something that's been going around for
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: that's been happening for a long, long long time. I think,
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: what twenty five years something like that?
• 24:30
  Speaker 4: I think so, if not maybe longer.
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and at least has raised an unspeakable amount of money. Yeah,
• 24:40
  Speaker 2: helping pediatric cancer patients right here, Yeah, in our central
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: mount region. Amazing. What do you what are you looking
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: for for? And I see you got the pub there
• 24:54
  Speaker 2: on on your jersey, But what are you looking for
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: for for sponsors for caught looking right now, you're pretty
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: much buttoned.
• 25:05
  Speaker 4: Up right now. Right now, we're buttoned up. We're coming
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: to the end of the season. I mean, I'm always
• 25:10
  Speaker 4: I mean, if somebody ever wanted to come on board,
• 25:13
  Speaker 4: and whether it's the sponsor for say States, I know
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: we're looking for States, or if there's even just a
• 25:22
  Speaker 4: team that wants to come out and if they want
• 25:25
  Speaker 4: a sponsor for there's another company that wants to sponsor
• 25:28
  Speaker 4: for coming next year. I'm hoping to get the sponsors
• 25:30
  Speaker 4: I have for this year, hoping to get all on
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: them back. What I mean, if there's any else that
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: wants to sponsor, will we'll work with you.
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: How many teams are we talking about here as part
• 25:40
  Speaker 2: of the league.
• 25:42
  Speaker 4: I think we have eight teams.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: Okay, that's pretty decent, man. It is.
• 25:47
  Speaker 4: It's we're slowly we're they're slowly getting more.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: And you're in the process of taking this love for
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: softball to another level. You're you're trying to do something
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: in Tonbridge, right.
• 26:05
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's a fall ball league that I played in
• 26:11
  Speaker 4: I think for two years now that it's a little
• 26:15
  Speaker 4: just league that we go to have fun and the
• 26:21
  Speaker 4: we the players umpire. Yeah, so we don't have our
• 26:24
  Speaker 4: own umpire, so it kind of makes a little twist
• 26:26
  Speaker 4: on the game. And it's during the fall, so it
• 26:28
  Speaker 4: kind of I use it kind of stay in shape
• 26:31
  Speaker 4: for when it comes to springtime. Yeah, I mean, but
• 26:35
  Speaker 4: I mean that's another league that's full of great people
• 26:39
  Speaker 4: that that I mean, there's there to have fun. They're
• 26:43
  Speaker 4: there to play the game that I love.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: Yeah, a little competitive, but but nothing nothing that we
• 26:50
  Speaker 2: that we can't handle. Yeah, what do you get as
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: as a sponsor For folks that are thinking about sponsor
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: for next year, what do they get?
• 27:01
  Speaker 4: So sponsors the main so we have our registration. The
• 27:06
  Speaker 4: league has registration fees that if a company would cover
• 27:11
  Speaker 4: that they would like. For instance, the pub helped us
• 27:16
  Speaker 4: with that, so they got on the front of the jersey.
• 27:19
  Speaker 4: Some teams don't get some teams don't make it. Whoever
• 27:23
  Speaker 4: covers that, that's gonna be the name of the team
• 27:25
  Speaker 4: or so on and so forth. But no matter what,
• 27:30
  Speaker 4: if you sponsor, you go on the jersey. And I
• 27:35
  Speaker 4: mean it's it's a great way to get your company
• 27:39
  Speaker 4: out there, because I mean, whether somebody from the team
• 27:41
  Speaker 4: is just wearing your jersey out and about or yeah,
• 27:45
  Speaker 4: I mean even at the field.
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: Do you do you get a lot of spectators up
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: at barry Town Redfield?
• 27:52
  Speaker 4: Not much. I mean we'll get family from players, but
• 27:54
  Speaker 4: I mean it's it's mainly I mean for the Sunday games,
• 27:57
  Speaker 4: you'll have three four teams that are out there that
• 28:01
  Speaker 4: are waiting to that they play later on that they're
• 28:04
  Speaker 4: waiting to play. But I mean it's mainly just you'll
• 28:06
  Speaker 4: get here in their family that wants to come and
• 28:07
  Speaker 4: watch their family play.
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: But yeah, are you looking for more uh spectators? Is
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: would that be nice? Is that something that would be
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: kind of a goal to promote that, Hey we got
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: a game that's going on two o'clock today or whatever,
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: bring your launch heir, come on up.
• 28:26
  Speaker 4: I mean, yeah, anybody that wants to come and come
• 28:28
  Speaker 4: and watch me and my team play. And yeah, anybody
• 28:32
  Speaker 4: wants to come watch.
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: What do you what do you? Are you already thinking
• 28:36
  Speaker 2: about next year?
• 28:39
  Speaker 4: I'm always thinking about the next year. I'm always thinking
• 28:41
  Speaker 4: about what what I could do to make the team
• 28:44
  Speaker 4: better or what.
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: What has to be done or yeah, like like what.
• 28:52
  Speaker 4: Anything, I mean, whether it's getting more more men or
• 28:57
  Speaker 4: more females or what whatever it's needed. It's all depends
• 29:02
  Speaker 4: on and it also gotta waiting at the end of
• 29:07
  Speaker 4: the year. See who see who says they're going to
• 29:09
  Speaker 4: come back and who doesn't.
• 29:10
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what about the if you thought about having your
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: own Facebook page, your own social media for caught looking?
• 29:21
  Speaker 4: Not yet. I'm trying to give it a give a
• 29:24
  Speaker 4: little bit and then get get everything figured out.
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what about coaching? Have you? Have you thought about
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: getting involved with a local elementary school or or little
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: league or majors for for an area team.
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: I mean, I've thought about it a little bit before
• 29:44
  Speaker 4: I because I lived down South a little while before
• 29:46
  Speaker 4: I moved back, I was going to go back and
• 29:49
  Speaker 4: I was gonna coach my old high school team. Thought
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: about a little bit. But schedule gets schedule kind of
• 29:57
  Speaker 4: gets somewhat busy, so it's kind of hard.
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, you reached out to me. I think it was
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: sometime in April, if I'm not mistaken, I think so.
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: And that was when you guys, that's when you guys
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: are kind of kicking into gear a little bit. And
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: I think I think you were even on the hear
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: with me talking about the dugout I think so Dugout restaurant,
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: which is very much no longer a restaurant. You had
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: some some pretty uh shifting gears here, You had some
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: pretty strong thoughts about that. What say you about that?
• 30:33
  Speaker 4: I mean, like I was saying when we talked about
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: it last, it's it's an eyesore that's waiting for, whether
• 30:41
  Speaker 4: it's a casualty or someone getting killed. Yeah, I mean,
• 30:48
  Speaker 4: it's it's gonna take someone getting.
• 30:50
  Speaker 2: Hurt or killed or or a fire or a fire.
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and God knows if the fire department is going
• 30:58
  Speaker 4: to have the people to respond being a voluntary volunteer
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: department or what it's going to take.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I did. I was able to finally connect with
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: the mal Natties. And I'm hoping that at some point,
• 31:13
  Speaker 2: uh soon this summer, maybe Frankel will be on the
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: air with me and join me and talk about this.
• 31:21
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean, you're how old now?
• 31:24
  Speaker 4: H going on?
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: So you've your whole life, you've been driving past the dugout. Yeah,
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: you've seen you've seen it firsthand.
• 31:33
  Speaker 4: It's always been there, and it's.
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: Been deteriorating for a long time. I mean, yeah, we
• 31:39
  Speaker 2: we've we've we've said very emphatically on the air that
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: hopefully something at some point soon will be U decided Yeah,
• 31:54
  Speaker 2: on how that property is is going to be dealt with.
• 31:58
  Speaker 2: But you know, and and there're some folks, as we
• 32:01
  Speaker 2: said in our conversation about it, some folks that are saying,
• 32:05
  Speaker 2: there's so much history there, just leave it, just leave
• 32:07
  Speaker 2: well enough alone.
• 32:10
  Speaker 4: I mean, I mean, and there is, but I mean
• 32:12
  Speaker 4: there's also I mean there's stuff that can be done
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: to still chairish those that history and memories and not
• 32:18
  Speaker 4: have it a danger.
• 32:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, some things I think should be maybe taken out
• 32:26
  Speaker 2: of there, maybe the sign up front something.
• 32:28
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean save the sign and sign and they're
• 32:32
  Speaker 4: auction it offered.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: You know what. You know what it comes down to,
• 32:36
  Speaker 2: It it comes down to money. You know, who's who's
• 32:39
  Speaker 2: going to be footing the bill for the clean up?
• 32:44
  Speaker 2: You know how much is the state couldn't get involved with,
• 32:47
  Speaker 2: you know.
• 32:48
  Speaker 4: Because I mean it's not going to come free.
• 32:49
  Speaker 2: Hazardous materials and testing and you know what's happening to
• 32:54
  Speaker 2: that that river, that little brook that's running right through there,
• 32:58
  Speaker 2: and what's that goes right into the jail branch. What's
• 33:01
  Speaker 2: happening with that? Yeah, I can only imagine who who knows? Yeah,
• 33:08
  Speaker 2: I know, man, this is a this is a discussion
• 33:12
  Speaker 2: that well, we'll still have on the airways. And I've
• 33:17
  Speaker 2: I've had a few people kind of scratch their head
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: and look at me and say, are you sure you
• 33:22
  Speaker 2: want to go down that road? But yeah, we will.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: And and hopefully if I can get Frank in here
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: on the air and there's a few others too, maybe
• 33:38
  Speaker 2: you can be part of that conversation as as someone
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: who can speak up and say, hey, yeah, something something
• 33:44
  Speaker 2: needs to be done here, what's the town doing about it?
• 33:48
  Speaker 2: Back to caught looking your your team, You've got a
• 33:54
  Speaker 2: couple of Friday nights, a few left, okay, And what
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: what time do those start? These are games right, yep?
• 34:04
  Speaker 2: What what? What do they start at? Like five thirty?
• 34:08
  Speaker 4: So I know for a Friday is it's gonna be
• 34:10
  Speaker 4: either you're playing at six and seven or you're playing
• 34:13
  Speaker 4: at eight and nine. It's one of those two. And
• 34:17
  Speaker 4: I know this Friday, I'm my team's playing on at
• 34:21
  Speaker 4: six and seven. I can't quite remember the other. I
• 34:26
  Speaker 4: think it's I think we have three more weeks left,
• 34:28
  Speaker 4: but I can't quite remember the what times those are
• 34:32
  Speaker 4: at Okay, then whatever makeups we have are gonna be Sundays.
• 34:36
  Speaker 2: All right when you when you sponsor caught looking you
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: get on the jersey, but you're also helping, you said
• 34:46
  Speaker 2: with team registration fees.
• 34:48
  Speaker 4: Yep, we had I mean the pub helped with registration.
• 34:51
  Speaker 4: We had KG detailing, and the Canadian club they helped
• 34:54
  Speaker 4: with the cost of jerseys. So they all got on.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: That helped.
• 35:00
  Speaker 4: That helped make it. I didn't want to make anybody
• 35:02
  Speaker 4: pay this year. Yeah, if I mean I was getting
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: to a point I was ready to pay for the
• 35:07
  Speaker 4: jerseys myself or.
• 35:08
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what about travel expenses and and all that fun stuff.
• 35:14
  Speaker 4: I mean travel, whether it's too and from the two
• 35:16
  Speaker 4: and front of the fielder, that's kind of you on
• 35:19
  Speaker 4: your own. That's that's on your own.
• 35:22
  Speaker 2: And what about traveling outside of of Central Vermont and
• 35:26
  Speaker 2: hotel if we get to that point.
• 35:28
  Speaker 4: Where I mean, if we get to that point, then
• 35:32
  Speaker 4: that'll be a bridge when we crossed to it. That's yeah,
• 35:35
  Speaker 4: I've never experienced that, but you've.
• 35:37
  Speaker 2: Been you've been part of this league for quite a while.
• 35:41
  Speaker 2: The barry co Eds up All League.
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think it's three or four years now.
• 35:44
  Speaker 2: Okay, And this is the first time that you got
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: your own team together called cut Looking.
• 35:51
  Speaker 4: This is my first year sweet man.
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: Wow, And again, big kudos to the pub for helping out.
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: I'm frankly surprised that Lindsay's not on the team because
• 36:06
  Speaker 2: she loves this kind of stuff big time.
• 36:10
  Speaker 4: I know we have a Lindsay. I don't know if
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: the same lens they were talking contoys.
• 36:14
  Speaker 2: I mean, she just loves. She loves well inside too.
• 36:17
  Speaker 2: I mean I'll have to talk to her if he
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: wants to. Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, dude. Thank you for coming
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: on this morning and anything that we can do here
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: at the aired Out podcast to uh to support you guys.
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: You'll let me know. Yeah, and we're gonna blast it
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: all over the air and on on Facebook. So thanks
• 36:41
  Speaker 2: for coming on. Due very much, uh for too. Over
• 36:46
  Speaker 2: two decades now, the Lamoyl Area Cancer Network has accomplished
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: something that is truly remarkable with their annual Lasen Up
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: for ke Answer event I have with me Erica Scott
• 37:03
  Speaker 2: on the line. Erica, good morning. It is a pleasure
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: to have you on this morning. The Lemoyl Area Cancer Network.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: This is a local nonprofit that does so much for
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: our community. We've got a big event coming up that
• 37:21
  Speaker 2: you're you're driving the bus on. But tell us what
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: you guys do throughout the year to help out families
• 37:29
  Speaker 2: with the expense and the emotional difficulties of carrying on
• 37:36
  Speaker 2: the burden of cancer.
• 37:40
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 37:40
  Speaker 5: So one of the great things about our organization is
• 37:42
  Speaker 5: that we let them do whatever they want with the
• 37:45
  Speaker 5: money as long as they're going through cancer in a facility,
• 37:48
  Speaker 5: you know, cancer treatments in a facility. They can use
• 37:50
  Speaker 5: the money for whatever they want. They let us know
• 37:53
  Speaker 5: that they have cancer, they let us know where they're
• 37:55
  Speaker 5: going for treatment, and then we said it's as simple
• 37:57
  Speaker 5: as that. We start sending checks every month and if
• 38:00
  Speaker 5: they want to use that towards the expensive gas or utilities,
• 38:03
  Speaker 5: if they're not working, that's fine, or they can use
• 38:06
  Speaker 5: it for a night out, you know, they want to
• 38:08
  Speaker 5: go do something or just you know, whatever it is,
• 38:11
  Speaker 5: they can use the money.
• 38:13
  Speaker 3: There's no parameters on it for us.
• 38:14
  Speaker 5: So which makes me feel really good to know we're
• 38:17
  Speaker 5: able to do that for people during something at a
• 38:19
  Speaker 5: time that is extremely obviously difficult.
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: It's it's staggering that this has been something that you
• 38:26
  Speaker 2: guys have been doing for over over twenty years.
• 38:29
  Speaker 3: Now, Yeah, we're just talking about that.
• 38:32
  Speaker 5: Yeah, over twenty five years.
• 38:35
  Speaker 2: It's unbelievable. And I know there's been some chatter around
• 38:41
  Speaker 2: Central Vermont that the uh, the ANSUL the annual cancer
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: Walk Walk Walk for Life, I think it is is
• 38:52
  Speaker 2: not happening.
• 38:53
  Speaker 3: Oh no, kidding, I hadn't heard that.
• 38:55
  Speaker 5: I know that they do it for the American Cancer Society,
• 38:59
  Speaker 5: which obviously is also important. They raise money for research
• 39:02
  Speaker 5: and all of that is obviously also important. But there's
• 39:06
  Speaker 5: a need for the same thing to be in Central
• 39:10
  Speaker 5: Vermont for sure.
• 39:12
  Speaker 2: Absolutely. You know, we we chat with folks every year,
• 39:17
  Speaker 2: especially from our local Bikers for Beth Benefit motorcycle poker run.
• 39:24
  Speaker 2: The expenses, the price tag for cancer is it's unspeakable,
• 39:30
  Speaker 2: and it's it's disgusting.
• 39:32
  Speaker 3: It's awful.
• 39:33
  Speaker 2: It is disgusting. That is absolutely, uh the word. I mean,
• 39:37
  Speaker 2: there's you know, aside from the bills, there's there's food,
• 39:41
  Speaker 2: there's transportation, there's fuel.
• 39:45
  Speaker 5: Yeah, life, life keeps going on is the hard part,
• 39:49
  Speaker 5: you know, And that's the part that's just not fair,
• 39:52
  Speaker 5: is that you know that insurance companies aren't you know,
• 39:56
  Speaker 5: catering to people that have cancer and some people seductibles
• 39:59
  Speaker 5: are out of control, and even when they have deductibles
• 40:02
  Speaker 5: that are manageable, it's still you know, you life keeps happening,
• 40:07
  Speaker 5: but you have to take a step back a lot
• 40:08
  Speaker 5: of the time.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: So this event, this event I was reading, has raised
• 40:14
  Speaker 2: over three million dollars.
• 40:20
  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, it's just incredible the generosity Vermonors have. And again,
• 40:26
  Speaker 5: yes we're in Loamoyle County, and yes we help people
• 40:29
  Speaker 5: in the lo Oyal area, so that includes places like Hardwick,
• 40:32
  Speaker 5: you know, a little bit outside of our own, but
• 40:34
  Speaker 5: we get people from all over the state and outside
• 40:36
  Speaker 5: of it that help us because they either have friends
• 40:39
  Speaker 5: and family or they just want to do good things
• 40:41
  Speaker 5: and give back. And also it's a fun event regardless
• 40:44
  Speaker 5: to go to. But I think Vermonors are the most
• 40:47
  Speaker 5: generous people I know. They they help each other when
• 40:51
  Speaker 5: it matters the host.
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: Where is this happening on June twentieth.
• 40:58
  Speaker 5: It's a People's Academy High School on Copley app and
• 41:01
  Speaker 5: morris Felt that the track and field there and you
• 41:04
  Speaker 5: won't be able to miss it once you get into Morrisville.
• 41:06
  Speaker 3: It's usually science pointing you right right in the right direction.
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: I know, that there's there's been somewhat some raffle tickets
• 41:15
  Speaker 2: being sold and some headway fundraising on this in advance
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: of the big date. But how can people learn more?
• 41:24
  Speaker 2: I know that you have a Facebook page called Lacing
• 41:27
  Speaker 2: Up for Cancer, but how do people get registered to
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: be a participant?
• 41:34
  Speaker 5: So it's probably the Facebook page if you have Facebook,
• 41:37
  Speaker 5: is the easiest place to go on and send us
• 41:38
  Speaker 5: a direct message and you know, usually myself or another
• 41:41
  Speaker 5: committee member, we'll get back to you on how to
• 41:43
  Speaker 5: do so, which we make it really easy. But yeah,
• 41:46
  Speaker 5: there's also our website LACNBT dot org that people can
• 41:50
  Speaker 5: go to.
• 41:52
  Speaker 3: They can give us a call to which our numbers
• 41:54
  Speaker 3: on the website.
• 41:54
  Speaker 5: But we have a lot of people selling things ahead
• 41:57
  Speaker 5: of time, actually right and Barry our family team sells
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: the Babe with Love bracelets and they do that all
• 42:04
  Speaker 5: year round, and they have their own Facebook page. And
• 42:07
  Speaker 5: then there's lots of teams selling raffles for I mean
• 42:10
  Speaker 5: trips and giveaways, and I mean there's also so many
• 42:13
  Speaker 5: things ahead of time. But then the day of the
• 42:15
  Speaker 5: walk you can get fried oreos and ice cream and pizza,
• 42:19
  Speaker 5: and I mean.
• 42:20
  Speaker 3: It's a carnival and that's our theme carnival for a here.
• 42:23
  Speaker 2: So you've had some great keynote speakers in the past.
• 42:29
  Speaker 2: This is somewhat of an informal presentation, but Rushy Deweze
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: knocked it out of the park a couple of years ago.
• 42:40
  Speaker 2: Great guy.
• 42:42
  Speaker 3: Yeah, he like that was such.
• 42:44
  Speaker 5: An honor to have him come and tell his story
• 42:46
  Speaker 5: because I know he's also very private about his personal life.
• 42:49
  Speaker 3: So I thought that was really impactful. This year. We
• 42:52
  Speaker 3: have maybe not as well known to like.
• 42:54
  Speaker 5: Other communities, but the Damars family is pretty big in
• 42:57
  Speaker 5: thea Moyle County and Peg Damars was on board for
• 43:01
  Speaker 5: many many years and unfortunately her daughter got cancer and
• 43:04
  Speaker 5: they became from you know, she was on the board
• 43:07
  Speaker 5: to then being a family recipient and unfortunately her daughter
• 43:11
  Speaker 5: passed away and she's going to tell her story and
• 43:14
  Speaker 5: I just think her story will be very impactful.
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: Wow. So you take the money raised and you do
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: what you decide on a certain number of people, and
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: you basically cut them a check to help with their expenses.
• 43:35
  Speaker 5: So basically, like I think right now, we're helping around
• 43:38
  Speaker 5: fifty five or sixty people a month, and that number
• 43:41
  Speaker 5: ebbs and flows obviously as we hear more from people
• 43:44
  Speaker 5: you know that reach out their neighbors, friends personally. However
• 43:48
  Speaker 5: they reach out, they tell us where they're going for
• 43:50
  Speaker 5: their treatment and the frequency, and then we just start
• 43:53
  Speaker 5: cutting checks every month based on like if so, if
• 43:56
  Speaker 5: somebody's going to Boston for their treatments, we do give
• 43:59
  Speaker 5: them more than somebody that maybe going around the corner
• 44:02
  Speaker 5: for treatments. And again it depends on the frequency of them,
• 44:05
  Speaker 5: if they're going every day versus.
• 44:07
  Speaker 3: Once a month.
• 44:08
  Speaker 5: And then until they stopped getting treatments, we keep sending money.
• 44:13
  Speaker 2: Who started this what was the inception of lation Up
• 44:18
  Speaker 2: for Cancer with the Lemoyl Area Cancer Network, So there.
• 44:24
  Speaker 5: Was more than one person, but I selfishly always mentioned
• 44:27
  Speaker 5: my great aunt Mary Hoisington, who was since past it's
• 44:30
  Speaker 5: been thirteen years as of last week, but she was
• 44:34
  Speaker 5: one of the founders that she just saw a need
• 44:37
  Speaker 5: and her she had gone through breast cancer twice herself
• 44:41
  Speaker 5: and reached out to the American Cancer Society and I
• 44:45
  Speaker 5: think she got a check for like twenty five dollars
• 44:47
  Speaker 5: in the mail and it was something like that, and
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: she just realized that.
• 44:50
  Speaker 3: Wasn't going to cut it.
• 44:51
  Speaker 5: And yes, the American Cancer society serves a purpose, but
• 44:55
  Speaker 5: it wasn't helping the everyday people going through cancer, you know,
• 45:00
  Speaker 5: while they couldn't work, while they had you know, all
• 45:02
  Speaker 5: the things. So they sat around a kitchen table and
• 45:06
  Speaker 5: they developed this idea and it just kind of, little
• 45:09
  Speaker 5: by little has grown into the huge organization that we
• 45:13
  Speaker 5: are today.
• 45:14
  Speaker 3: And I am fever grateful that she had that idea.
• 45:18
  Speaker 5: I mean, through her own struggles that she was still
• 45:22
  Speaker 5: thinking of others, but.
• 45:23
  Speaker 3: That's just who she was.
• 45:25
  Speaker 2: And here we are more than twenty years later.
• 45:28
  Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, it's incredible.
• 45:31
  Speaker 2: You say, we walk for the fighters, for the survivors,
• 45:37
  Speaker 2: for the ones that we miss every day. Yeah, there's
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: few of us who have not been touched by cancer
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: in one form or another, in one way or another,
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: directly or indirectly.
• 45:54
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so sad. True.
• 45:57
  Speaker 5: I don't know anybody him life that can't say that
• 46:01
  Speaker 5: they don't know of somebody that has had cancer, whether
• 46:04
  Speaker 5: directly or indirectly.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: Wow. Yeah, you're helping. You're helping real from honors, fighting
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: a real disease right here in our own Green Mountain state,
• 46:16
  Speaker 2: and you're doing it directly organically.
• 46:21
  Speaker 3: That's huge, And we're having fun too.
• 46:24
  Speaker 5: I mean, we're taking something that's very emotional, and we're
• 46:28
  Speaker 5: trying to also make this a day where they can
• 46:31
  Speaker 5: forget about what they're going through. They can forget about
• 46:34
  Speaker 5: the treatment that starts a get on Monday, that they
• 46:36
  Speaker 5: can walk around and watch their local legislators and you know,
• 46:41
  Speaker 5: friends get dunked in the dunk tank.
• 46:43
  Speaker 3: They can you know, do all the things.
• 46:45
  Speaker 5: Just to keep their mind off of it, and then
• 46:47
  Speaker 5: we end the night with fireworks.
• 46:48
  Speaker 3: I mean, we just try to make it.
• 46:51
  Speaker 5: Yes, it's important all the things that we're doing in
• 46:54
  Speaker 5: the background, but also we're trying to make it fun
• 46:56
  Speaker 5: for people so that they have a break, you know, just.
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: Have fun, enjoy the music, the entertainment, the food, the hope.
• 47:07
  Speaker 2: It's I mean, it's you got survivors that are there
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: able to share their stories and by God, they're going
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: to walk no matter what they'll they'll they're going to
• 47:18
  Speaker 2: be part of this every year.
• 47:21
  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's that's also impactful to see the people that
• 47:24
  Speaker 5: take that lap after our opening ceremony. You know that
• 47:27
  Speaker 5: we do a survivor lap and they can go out
• 47:30
  Speaker 5: with their caregivers or they can just walk by themselves
• 47:32
  Speaker 5: and to see the amount of people now that take
• 47:35
  Speaker 5: that lap. Yeah, it's kind of devastating but also very
• 47:40
  Speaker 5: impactful at the same time. And then we also do
• 47:42
  Speaker 5: a illuminary ceremony in the evening at dusk where we
• 47:46
  Speaker 5: fill bags white paper bags and people put pictures and
• 47:49
  Speaker 5: names of an honor and memory of their loved ones,
• 47:52
  Speaker 5: and then we light candles inside of them, and that
• 47:56
  Speaker 5: is impactful to see huge.
• 47:58
  Speaker 2: You know, I was just reading that they are right
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: here in central Vermont over at Montpillier High School. They
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: are sunsetting the Relay for Life over there, and it's
• 48:13
  Speaker 2: I know they're they're doing it in Rutland County, but
• 48:17
  Speaker 2: it is It is so wonderful to note that it's
• 48:20
  Speaker 2: still happening here in central Vermont and that it'll never end.
• 48:26
  Speaker 2: It'll never end. You guys are going to carry this,
• 48:29
  Speaker 2: uh this torch forever up there, I think so.
• 48:33
  Speaker 5: I mean, there's too many people that that care, they
• 48:36
  Speaker 5: would never want to let it go.
• 48:38
  Speaker 3: It's a lot of work, don't get me wrong, A
• 48:40
  Speaker 3: lot of work.
• 48:41
  Speaker 5: We start in you know, January February every year, so
• 48:45
  Speaker 5: it's not like it's not a lot of work. But
• 48:46
  Speaker 5: I also think the one in Central Ron. I'm sad
• 48:51
  Speaker 5: to hear that it's no longer. But I also think
• 48:53
  Speaker 5: that this will be an opportunity for somebody that has.
• 48:57
  Speaker 3: Always wanted to do something to maybe step up.
• 49:00
  Speaker 5: Maybe they'll come to ours, get some ideas and start
• 49:03
  Speaker 5: small and work their way up to it. I mean,
• 49:06
  Speaker 5: it doesn't have to be a twenty four hour affair.
• 49:09
  Speaker 3: Sure it's ten hours.
• 49:10
  Speaker 5: Sure you can have just as much of an impact
• 49:13
  Speaker 5: in ten hours as you can in twenty four.
• 49:15
  Speaker 3: So who knows.
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: Maybe this is the opportunity Central Vermont, just like Glamoyle County,
• 49:21
  Speaker 5: we have people that care, that have been waiting for
• 49:24
  Speaker 5: an opportunity, and maybe maybe.
• 49:26
  Speaker 3: Now's the time.
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: So wonderful. I hope to get you here in the
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: studio and you can bring anyone you want with you.
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: I would love to have you in here, Erica.
• 49:37
  Speaker 3: I'll I'll bring the circus.
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: I would love that so much. We got a little
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: ways to go, I mean here it is June first.
• 49:46
  Speaker 2: June twentieth is the big date up there at you
• 49:49
  Speaker 2: said People's Academy.
• 49:51
  Speaker 3: Yes, yep.
• 49:52
  Speaker 5: Opening ceremonies at one o'clock and it ends at ten.
• 49:55
  Speaker 3: Week do fireworks around nine point thirty Wow.
• 49:59
  Speaker 2: Anyone is welcome to come up and experience this.
• 50:03
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 50:03
  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's no fee to get in. You don't have
• 50:06
  Speaker 5: to sign up ahead of time. If you don't have
• 50:07
  Speaker 5: a team, you can, but you don't have to. You
• 50:09
  Speaker 5: can just come as you are. You can walk two.
• 50:11
  Speaker 3: Laps, twenty five laps, whatever you want to do.
• 50:14
  Speaker 5: You can just eat, you can buy things, you can
• 50:17
  Speaker 5: come and go as you please.
• 50:18
  Speaker 3: I mean, all are welcome. Is there actually a really
• 50:21
  Speaker 3: it's a great day from start to finish.
• 50:23
  Speaker 2: So lasen up for cancer June twentieth. We hope you'll
• 50:29
  Speaker 2: do just that. Erica Scott our guest this morning. Thank
• 50:33
  Speaker 2: you so much, Erica for hopping on the line with us.
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: We appreciate you so much.
• 50:38
  Speaker 3: Thank you. Jad We'll talk to you soon.
• 50:39
  Speaker 2: You got it. Our community calendar. As I said earlier,
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: this this is just going to be one event of
• 50:47
  Speaker 2: many that we're going to be talking about here in
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: the next step, days and weeks ahead. I know that
• 50:55
  Speaker 2: the fact that today is June first, it's got me
• 50:59
  Speaker 2: looking at the June calender. Here, Curry your park starting
• 51:02
  Speaker 2: up on Wednesday right here in the Granite City. The
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: food trucks, the Farmer's market, the live music. It is
• 51:10
  Speaker 2: going to be amazing all summer long, every Wednesday right
• 51:14
  Speaker 2: here in Barry. Also hoping to run up to the
• 51:19
  Speaker 2: Upper Valley Adult Daycare Enchanted Garden their fourth annual Senior
• 51:25
  Speaker 2: Prom fundraiser at the Kuecha Inn on Thursday. How exciting.
• 51:29
  Speaker 2: We had some folks on talking about that as well.
• 51:34
  Speaker 2: There's just so many great things happening. Berry City Middle
• 51:37
  Speaker 2: School has got their spring concert on the fourth, also
• 51:41
  Speaker 2: on Thursday at six thirty, and then the fifth This
• 51:45
  Speaker 2: coming Friday, the thirtieth Annual Hospice Memorial Golf Tournament hosted
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: by the Central Vermont Home Health and Hospice at the
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: Country Club of Barry. I'll be up there as one
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: of the park sponsors. I cannot wait. I'll be taking
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: you with me too. We'll be streaming live and having
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: some fun up there. That's just a quick snapshot of
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: what's happening. There's just a ton and I love it.
• 52:15
  Speaker 2: I love that there's so many great positive things happening
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: in our community. Thanks to Noah Payette for joining me
• 52:23
  Speaker 2: this morning talking about softball and the Barry co Ed
• 52:26
  Speaker 2: Softball League, which is very active right now, get on
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: up to the Barry Reckfield one of these Friday nights
• 52:34
  Speaker 2: for one of their games and Chairmont come up and enjoy.
• 52:38
  Speaker 2: We'll catch you tomorrow morning. Tomorrow's going to be an
• 52:46
  Speaker 2: interesting episode. A recent overdose in central Vermont and tomorrow
• 52:55
  Speaker 2: the father comes in and speaks out about what happen.
• 53:01
  Speaker 2: Also Vermont's foster program, how healthy is it? What's needed? Aaron, Jocelyn,
• 53:08
  Speaker 2: You're going to be joining me tomorrow morning to discuss that.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: A lot happening. It's going to be a very busy week.
• 53:16
  Speaker 2: Sweethearts and Heroes on Wednesday, and so much more. Have
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: a fantastic rest of your day, and thanks for catching
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: The Art Out Podcast