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25th Annual Freezing Fun For Families Winter Softball Tournament · Aired Out

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Speaker 2: is being ruled non suspicious. National Headlines Eighteen people injured
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Speaker 2: Toronto's Pearson International Airport while attempting to land yesterday afternoon.
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Speaker 2: upside down in their seats. Everybody on board evacuated safely.
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Speaker 2: None of the injuries appear to be life threatening. I
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Speaker 2: late yesterday and early evening who were in critical condition,
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Speaker 2: aren't fatalities. I mean, what a miracle, what a story,
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Speaker 2: my guests this morning. I am so excited to welcome
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Speaker 2: Mark and Angie Duncan of the Freezing Fund for Family's
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Speaker 2: annual Winter Softball Tournament, with its twenty fifth year coming
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Speaker 2: up in a short time the final weekend of this month,
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Speaker 2: and welcome both of you from Conquord, New Hampshire.
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Speaker 3: Thank you, JD. What a pleasure.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what a pleasure to have you here. You guys,
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Speaker 2: we have so much to talk about. But first off,
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Speaker 2: before we even get going, let's give a shout out
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Speaker 2: to Wendell and Corey, two of the drivers of this
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Speaker 2: amazing event. These are great guys.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. So, actually we came up last night and Corey
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Speaker 3: put us up in his house and we had a
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Speaker 3: chance to catch up and go to dinner and spend
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Speaker 3: some time with his family. Yeah, and just even have
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Speaker 3: than to to run into the Peakorp family from the
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Speaker 3: corry as well. So, you know, great start to our
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Speaker 3: visit this time back to Barry. Yeah, so developed, you know,
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Speaker 3: first just knowing Corey from from coming to the tournament
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Speaker 3: and you know, growing to become friends with him inside
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Speaker 3: and outside of the tournament. So as you know JD's
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Speaker 3: he's done so much for the tournament over the years
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Speaker 3: now is changing his role a bit and allowing some others,
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Speaker 3: including Wendell Morse and other great volunteers, to step up
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Speaker 3: and help take the reins.
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Speaker 2: This thing has turned into a monster over the last
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Speaker 2: twenty five years, and I am so not surprised that
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Speaker 2: Corey has has rallied others to to really assist in
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Speaker 2: in driving this thing. I mean, and it's massive, it's huge,
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Speaker 2: and thank god for Wendell. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So along with Wendell a number of long time volunteers.
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Speaker 3: You've got Sarah Touchett, You've got Meg, You've got Judy.
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Speaker 3: Who am I missing? Oh goodness you are? Uh, But
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Speaker 3: since we've been coming, we see the same face as
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Speaker 3: year in and year out, and we look forward to
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Speaker 3: seeing them, you know, and our our participation in the
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Speaker 3: tournament and support for the tournament, you know, started with playing,
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Speaker 3: but evolved into trying to support it in you know,
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Speaker 3: in further ways, just doing things from the start, like
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Speaker 3: staying after the tournament picking up a few picnic tables.
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Speaker 2: Yeah. But for those of you that are just joining us,
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Speaker 2: markin anchie duncan just one.
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Speaker 3: Small corrections Angie Kerrey, Oh, okay, practically married but not
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Speaker 3: quite Yes.
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Speaker 2: I understand understand you guys have been team Conquered Orthopedics.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, for about the past five years ago years or so.
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Speaker 3: So We've had a few sponsors over the years, but
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Speaker 3: very pleased to have the support of Conquered Orthopedics over
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Speaker 3: this past run of the team.
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Speaker 2: So for folks that are just joining us, who are saying,
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Speaker 2: what the heck are we talking about here? Freezing fun
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Speaker 2: for families, This is a winter softball tournament in its
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Speaker 2: twenty fifth year now, and the mission of this tournament
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Speaker 2: has always been to support local families here in the
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Speaker 2: North Country who are fighting a good fight, a great
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Speaker 2: fight against pediatric cancer. And it's not just the child
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Speaker 2: but it's their immediate family and surrounding family, and it
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Speaker 2: goes one step beyond that, which is you guys and
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Speaker 2: all of the players, supporters, spectators, volunteers that make up
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Speaker 2: freezing fun for families as the big umbrella. That's the
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Speaker 2: big family.
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Speaker 3: It really is a big family. We are Family has
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Speaker 3: been the hashtag over the years that that we love
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Speaker 3: and love to use and in some of our communications
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Speaker 3: when we are doing things to support the cause like
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Speaker 3: football squares and and and other aspects. But yeah, it
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Speaker 3: really has a community feel about the tournament.
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Speaker 2: From Conquered New Hampshire. Both of you, Angie, tell me
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Speaker 2: about your story. When did you how did you guys
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Speaker 2: find out about this, How did you get involved on
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Speaker 2: that first year? And when was that?
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Speaker 4: So back in twenty thirteen, friends of ours that had
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Speaker 4: a team called us and said, hey, we're sure to
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Speaker 4: a couple of girls and guys, can you come up
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Speaker 4: and play and fill in for us? So we came
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Speaker 4: up that first year and we got to know, We
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Speaker 4: stayed afterwards, helped pick up picnic tables and stuff, got
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Speaker 4: to know all the volunteers, met Corey and after that
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Speaker 4: we decided, you know what we're going to put our
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Speaker 4: own team in, have an extra team coming up, more
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Speaker 4: funds coming in. So since then we've been putting our
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Speaker 4: own team in.
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Speaker 2: So you go back, you go back home and to
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Speaker 2: your your telling your friends, your family, your co workers. Hey,
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Speaker 2: we were going to Vermont to play softball in the
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Speaker 2: dead of winter, and some of your friends were I'm sure,
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Speaker 2: We're like, oh, hell no.
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Speaker 4: Well a lot of them think that we're playing inside
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Speaker 4: and then we're like, no, no, no, we're playing out
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Speaker 4: in the snow.
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Speaker 2: Wow. Interesting. Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So that that first year was I think probably
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Speaker 3: the most snow that we ever saw at the tournament.
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Speaker 2: Really so more than what we have now, I think.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and especially on the little league field closest to
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Speaker 3: the woods, where the snow tends to, yeah, hang out
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Speaker 3: and not get drifted away. But so that first year
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Speaker 3: was we came because we love softball. That first year
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Speaker 3: for us, at that point, it wasn't about you know,
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Speaker 3: we heard it was a huge tournament, snow softball tournament.
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Speaker 3: So it wasn't until we got here, yeah, that we
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Speaker 3: started to understand and appreciate what we were here for.
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Speaker 3: And that is only grown over the years.
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Speaker 2: Wait to you hear the answer to this next question,
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Speaker 2: ladies and gentlemen, of how much money this one team
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Speaker 2: has raised since what was that first year for you?
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Speaker 3: Twenty thirteen, twenty thirteen, So we haven't tracked all the
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Speaker 3: way back to when we first started, but the last
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Speaker 3: five or seven years we have moved more into the
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Speaker 3: fundraising mode, looking at teams in the past like we
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Speaker 3: freeze ours, so our member looking at the registrations and
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Speaker 3: seeing them as the number one top fundraising team and
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Speaker 3: wanting to do what we can and do more to
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Speaker 3: support the cause. So over the past four years we
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Speaker 3: have raised as a team, with the support of many,
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Speaker 3: many people, over forty three thousand dollars. So something we're
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Speaker 3: something we're really proud of to be able to support
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Speaker 3: the cause in.
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Speaker 2: The last how many years? Four years, that's unbelievable. I
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Speaker 2: thought that was since twenty thirteen.
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Speaker 3: No, no, that's just in the past four years. So
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Speaker 3: we've had a number of different fundraisers that we've had
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Speaker 3: to help get us.
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Speaker 2: Back at home, back at home.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of a lot of the a lot
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Speaker 3: of the people who are supporting the Causer are from
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Speaker 3: New Hampshire, but you know, all friends that we have
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Speaker 3: from the region. You know, we we encourage to do
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Speaker 3: little small parts to help out.
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Speaker 2: We are approaching the one million dollar mark. Yeah, in
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Speaker 2: twenty five five years.
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Speaker 3: Amazing, isn't it? So something that we're very proud of.
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Speaker 3: Another important milestone that Freezing Fund for Families is working
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Speaker 3: towards is towards us sustainability of the programs. So the
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Speaker 3: three main programs that the organization is working to sustain
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Speaker 3: our the Board of Director's Award, the Connor Drewry Award,
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Speaker 3: and the snow Softball Award and tournament. So there was
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Speaker 3: a time where we would have to get to the
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Speaker 3: end of the tournament, tally everything up, figure out what
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Speaker 3: was raised, and then be able to present the checks
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Speaker 3: to the families. But we're really happy to be at
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Speaker 3: a place where now we're able to provide those checks
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Speaker 3: to the families before Christmas, so not just before the tournament,
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Speaker 3: before Christmas too, So that is really great to be
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Speaker 3: able to do. And so what we're working on is
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Speaker 3: trying to be able to be again sustainable so that
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Speaker 3: if we don't raise another dime, yes, we can still
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Speaker 3: fund the programs that we have right now. So right
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Speaker 3: now we're at about two hundred and seven thousand dollars
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Speaker 3: out of that goal two thousand and seven out.
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Speaker 2: Of twenty five and seventy five.
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Speaker 3: Yes, thank you.
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Speaker 2: That is so remarkable. And you know, Wendel and Corey
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Speaker 2: are always pushing the message of how these families, with
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Speaker 2: these kids who are are fighting cancer, how these families
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Speaker 2: can use that money. They can do anything with that
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Speaker 2: money that brings them joy, alleviate stress, either logistical stuff
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Speaker 2: or just frankly a vacation somewhere warm to to live
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Speaker 2: life and be happy.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, no, no strings attached with the with the money.
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Speaker 2: I love that.
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Speaker 3: So, yeah, the families have an opportunity to choose what,
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Speaker 3: you know, what they would like to do, whether it's
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Speaker 3: a trip to Disney.
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Speaker 2: Or Europe or anywhere.
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Speaker 3: And and we've talked to at least one family and
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Speaker 3: it you know, a lot of times, you know, unfortunately,
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Speaker 3: to help care for the child, you know, one family
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Speaker 3: member has to you know, stop working and then you know,
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Speaker 3: so help puts more of a financial burden on the family. So,
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Speaker 3: you know, there's been families in the past we're getting
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Speaker 3: a better, more reliable vehicle, you know, has been something
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Speaker 3: that was important for getting them back and forth to
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Speaker 3: treatment exactly.
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Speaker 2: So the the Connor Drury Award, can either one of
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Speaker 2: you tell me a little bit about that. That's that's
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Speaker 2: kind of geared towards new diagnosis exactly well.
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Speaker 4: And Corey was just telling us that they actually just
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Speaker 4: awarded some money out of that yesterday. So that's that's
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Speaker 4: kind of a program that helps all year rather than
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Speaker 4: just at the time of the softball.
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Speaker 3: Tournament and especially during that during that early diagnosis to
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Speaker 3: be able to give them some some quick and immediate support.
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Speaker 2: And the Board of Directors award yep.
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Speaker 4: And so so we're pretty that's a pretty new award
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Speaker 4: that's given out.
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Speaker 3: And so that's a twenty five hundred dollars award for
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Speaker 3: each year.
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Speaker 2: Just quit right right there.
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Speaker 3: Bang, you got it.
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Speaker 2: Wow.
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Speaker 3: And so so for the one of the great things
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Speaker 3: too that we have been able to do is uh
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Speaker 3: me and Angie have have never experienced this part personally,
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Speaker 3: but in in past years, you know, there's a number
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Speaker 3: of different nominees, but there hasn't always been an opportunity
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Speaker 3: to award each family each nominee. But in these past
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Speaker 3: couple of years we have been able to support each family. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: that has been nominated. So that's that's a great thing.
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Speaker 3: And we actually had an opportunity to to make one
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Speaker 3: of those calls this year.
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Speaker 2: It's not something can you tell us anything about that?
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Speaker 4: Yeah, So we got to talk to the mom of
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Speaker 4: Levi and they were just very very grateful and very
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Speaker 4: humbled by being chosen. So it was good to be
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Speaker 4: on that end of it and be able to talk
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Speaker 4: to them, and you know, just it makes the impact
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Speaker 4: of this tournament even more. I mean, and it's something
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Speaker 4: that's been close to us for thirteen years.
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Speaker 2: So leave high is this little seven year old from
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Speaker 2: Colchester and his mom an amazing lady, amazing lady.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's and it breaks breaks my heart to think
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Speaker 3: about what these great people go through. And as Angie said,
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Speaker 3: we're just you know, really really thankful to two have this,
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Speaker 3: have this award, have this benefit to their family and
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Speaker 3: you know, help alleviate some some stress.
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Speaker 2: Levi is a uh and we've got this. This story
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Speaker 2: of Levi Is is posted up on the Freezing Fund
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Speaker 2: for Family's page. But Levi is a seven year old
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Speaker 2: stroke survivor who is fighting a brain tumor and is
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Speaker 2: about two years past diagnoses and is trying to build
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Speaker 2: up some some skills and some stamina. And I can't
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Speaker 2: imagine two years old and what spirit in this kid?
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Speaker 2: What spirit?
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Speaker 3: It really seems to be a common theme when we
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Speaker 3: hear the stories about these families and these children, you know,
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Speaker 3: just very very brave, you know, getting getting great support
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Speaker 3: from their families and their siblings.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, oftentimes it seems these these kids are so much
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Speaker 2: stronger than us adults in their attitudes.
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Speaker 3: It's inspiring, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: They they teach us as adults how to be strong
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Speaker 2: and stay tough. I mean, it's really remarkable, it really is.
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Speaker 2: Why do you guys so so twenty thirty team was
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Speaker 2: your first year doing this. Here we are twenty twenty
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Speaker 2: five and you guys are still in the game. Have
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Speaker 2: you missed a year?
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Speaker 3: We have not. We have not missed a year at all. No,
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Speaker 3: we've been here every year since then.
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Speaker 2: Any family roots or ties to Vermont that are you.
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Speaker 3: Know, none actually for I think for either of us.
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Speaker 3: But you know it's next door neighbors, right or from
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Speaker 3: New Hampshire, so we so for us, that's not you know,
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Speaker 3: it doesn't matter. It's about it's about the cause and
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Speaker 3: about what these you know, families are going through.
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Speaker 2: What made you? What made you? How did you discover
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Speaker 2: it in that first year Again in twenty thirteen.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we ended up being invited by some friends of
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Speaker 3: ours who needed a couple more ball players to be
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Speaker 3: able to play all right, And so for us, yeah,
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Speaker 3: as I mentioned it, it wasn't yet about the cause.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there's got to be something in both of you
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Speaker 2: where you said after that first year, we got to
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Speaker 2: come back and do this again.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, And we reached out to a bunch of our friends.
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Speaker 4: Mark was playing men's league, I was playing women's league,
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Speaker 4: and so we pulled some girls and guys from both
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Speaker 4: leagues to come up and hang out in the snow.
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Speaker 4: And actually one of the girls the first year that
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Speaker 4: we played it was like I think we played at
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Speaker 4: like seven in the morning and it was like.
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Speaker 5: Negative ten degrees and I didn't know if.
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Speaker 4: They were coming back for the game too, Like it
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Speaker 4: was just it's it's crazy.
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Speaker 3: And those same girls who we didn't know if they
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Speaker 3: were coming back the next year, I think they It
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Speaker 3: was almost similar to our experience where the first year
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Speaker 3: they came to play ball and then the second year
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Speaker 3: they they got it right they were hooked. So it's
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Speaker 3: cool to see others being inspired by the cause as.
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Speaker 2: Well, and I'm not sure how many. By the way,
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Speaker 2: you can the link is up to register your team.
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Speaker 2: That is officially up if you get on Freezing Fun
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Speaker 2: for Families Facebook page. Everything is right there and the
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Speaker 2: website dot org Freezing Fundfofamilies dot org. You can register
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Speaker 2: your team, but you can also make a donation. No
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Speaker 2: matter where you live, no matter whether you maybe live
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Speaker 2: right here in Barry but playing softball in the snow
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Speaker 2: is not your thing, but you want to get involved
28:02
Speaker 2: in help out, you can. All the links are are
28:05
Speaker 2: right up there to do everything. Do you know if
28:08
Speaker 2: if you know I haven't had a chance to ask
28:11
Speaker 2: Corey or Wendell this, if if more volunteers are needed,
28:19
Speaker 2: if there's if there's extra services that we're hoping. I know,
28:24
Speaker 2: there's warming tents, there's incredible food, there's a swag that
28:29
Speaker 2: you can buy. Is there? Do we need anything else?
28:33
Speaker 2: Do we know?
28:35
Speaker 3: Wendell has done a great job with making sure that
28:40
Speaker 3: we have the necessary supplies and equipment to be able
28:45
Speaker 3: to run the tournament this year. So Wendell's been involved
28:51
Speaker 3: in the snowsoftball tournament for many years, so he's well
28:53
Speaker 3: versed on you know, what is what is needed and
28:57
Speaker 3: has been very organized about getting that in order this year.
29:02
Speaker 3: We're always looking for more folks who who may be
29:07
Speaker 3: interested in volunteering. Okay, so if folks are interested in volunteering,
29:11
Speaker 3: Wendell would be a great person to be able to
29:14
Speaker 3: connect with. Sure, And that's so that's Wendell Morrisey.
29:19
Speaker 2: We're gonna I'll post up his his email here. But
29:25
Speaker 2: there's a committee that you guys are are part of
29:28
Speaker 2: that you have have joined. But there's so much work
29:31
Speaker 2: that needs to be done before the tournament and after
29:34
Speaker 2: the tournament too, So get get in touch with Wendall
29:39
Speaker 2: and we'll post up his his email. Maybe Chris Catret,
29:42
Speaker 2: who's watching and listening right now, can can drop that
29:44
Speaker 2: for me. But and and there's another guy who's what
29:48
Speaker 2: an animal right.
29:49
Speaker 3: There, Chris. Chris has done an enormous amount for for
29:55
Speaker 3: the cause over the year, has done a lot of
29:58
Speaker 3: great work, but a great spoke men for the cause.
30:02
Speaker 3: So appreciate you, Chris. Thanks for listening. Yeah, and thanks
30:05
Speaker 3: to Chris for supporting some of our football squares as
30:10
Speaker 3: part of our fundraisers as well, talk.
30:12
Speaker 2: About other parts of this. It's turned into you talk
30:17
Speaker 2: about sustainability. This is something that is so massive now
30:21
Speaker 2: that we've got a golf tournament that takes takes place
30:27
Speaker 2: during other parts of the year when it's not so cold.
30:29
Speaker 2: And Mark and Rubin but what a what a great
30:34
Speaker 2: team there, Ruben Bennett, what a great guy.
30:37
Speaker 3: Yeah, we've had a chance to meet Mark and Rubin
30:41
Speaker 3: a little bit through the snow soft or through the
30:45
Speaker 3: Board of directors. Yeah, and committee, so so me and Angie, Yeah,
30:51
Speaker 3: not golfers and that's the that's one of the great things.
30:54
Speaker 3: It's some people, you know, playing snow softball is completely crazy. Yeah,
31:00
Speaker 3: you know, we're not golfers. So it's great that there's
31:03
Speaker 3: different opportunities for folks to be able to to get
31:08
Speaker 3: involved and participate. And like you said, JD, very easy
31:12
Speaker 3: to be able to donate to Freezing Fund for Families,
31:14
Speaker 3: So either through Freezingfrontfofamilies dot org or you can link
31:20
Speaker 3: directly from from their Facebook page as well.
31:23
Speaker 2: Yeah. So the goal this year is is what now
31:29
Speaker 2: for for money two seventy five.
31:33
Speaker 3: That would be a that would be a great goal
31:35
Speaker 3: to be able to achieve and get towards that sustainability.
31:39
Speaker 2: Amazing. Talk about some of these teams. Uh, there's some
31:45
Speaker 2: great other teams that you guys share some fantastic camaraderie
31:51
Speaker 2: between you all.
31:53
Speaker 3: Yeah, there's a number of teams who have been coming
31:56
Speaker 3: for longer than we have. You know, some players and
32:00
Speaker 3: teams that I think have been coming, you know, right
32:02
Speaker 3: from the.
32:02
Speaker 2: Start, Catamount Solar six oh three, Spank Puppy, We Freeze Hours,
32:08
Speaker 2: which has been they've been doing it for a long time,
32:12
Speaker 2: Jersey Swaps, and the list goes on.
32:17
Speaker 3: Yeah, so the so we Freeze our So that was
32:23
Speaker 3: a team that Chris played with for a number of
32:25
Speaker 3: years and now Corey's boys are helping to head up
32:31
Speaker 3: that team. So really cool seeing the next generation, yeah,
32:38
Speaker 3: get inspired and get involved. So that's something I'd really
32:42
Speaker 3: like to see more of too. You know, I'm over
32:47
Speaker 3: a decade older than than when I first came to
32:49
Speaker 3: the tournament. So we're still playing, but you know, won't
32:53
Speaker 3: be able to play forever. So it's nice to see
32:56
Speaker 3: the young blood and how they've really adopted the cause.
33:02
Speaker 3: I think they had about twenty twenty young kids on
33:06
Speaker 3: their team from the sidelines, so it was really really
33:08
Speaker 3: cool to see and other teams. We saw our first
33:13
Speaker 3: proposal and engagement last year at Freezing Fund for Families
33:17
Speaker 3: with the Really Yeah, with two members of the Catamount
33:20
Speaker 3: Soul their team. So we were we were hanging out
33:23
Speaker 3: a bit after the tournament and you know, heard a
33:27
Speaker 3: bit of cheering and excitement and to learn it was
33:31
Speaker 3: it was the first Freezing Fund for Families engagement at
33:33
Speaker 3: least that I'm aware of.
33:34
Speaker 2: So and to think that this has made the Guinness
33:39
Speaker 2: Book of World Records as the largest winter softball tournament
33:45
Speaker 2: on the planet. Who the hell else is doing that
33:49
Speaker 2: other than all of these crazies up here in the North.
33:52
Speaker 3: Country Special Breed, I guess yes very much.
33:55
Speaker 2: So have you guys ever, And by the way, this
33:59
Speaker 2: is coming up Friday, February twenty eighth through Sunday, March second,
34:06
Speaker 2: so last weekend of the month. Have you guys ever
34:08
Speaker 2: woken up on the morning of your playtime and it's
34:15
Speaker 2: a day like yesterday, wind's whipping, snow is coming down,
34:26
Speaker 2: it's freezing, it's maybe it's raining. Where you've just been like,
34:33
Speaker 2: oh my god, I don't know if I can do
34:36
Speaker 2: it this year? Really do we have to do this?
34:40
Speaker 2: Have you ever felt like that little hesitation?
34:45
Speaker 3: Not in past years? You know, yesterday, if we had
34:49
Speaker 3: to play yesterday, it would have been nasty, all right.
34:51
Speaker 3: We took a quick trip up to the field and
34:55
Speaker 3: I was out of the car for probably fifteen seconds.
35:00
Speaker 3: If we hadn't been out there for hours and hours, Yeah,
35:03
Speaker 3: yesterday would have been a tough day for sure. But
35:05
Speaker 3: you know, you can't pick the weather. You take it
35:08
Speaker 3: as it comes. We're here to play in the snow,
35:10
Speaker 3: and we're here for the families.
35:12
Speaker 2: And you know very well, both of you, that the
35:16
Speaker 2: winds get whipping up there at the verytown recreation fields. Yeah,
35:21
Speaker 2: there is no fooling around up there in the hill.
35:26
Speaker 2: So what do you wear? What's your You must have
35:29
Speaker 2: a strategy now where you're how many layers are we
35:33
Speaker 2: We're talking fifteen twenty layers. I long underwear.
35:37
Speaker 3: I'm a hiker now and a winter hiker, so that
35:41
Speaker 3: has helped my gear and my layering experience, so that
35:50
Speaker 3: generally stay pretty warm. And there's you know, there's a
35:54
Speaker 3: warming tense and you know, some opportunitists to get out
35:59
Speaker 3: of the colts the.
36:00
Speaker 4: Fire hanging out by the fire, you meet so many
36:03
Speaker 4: new people like that you never would have met.
36:05
Speaker 5: But it's it's a great place to just come together.
36:10
Speaker 2: And when does Conquered Orthopedics take the field this year?
36:18
Speaker 3: Not sure yet, schedule hasn't hasn't been released yet, but
36:22
Speaker 3: either Saturday, either Friday night or or Saturday morning.
36:26
Speaker 5: We like Friday night better than Saturday morning.
36:28
Speaker 2: Eat you like at night time?
36:30
Speaker 3: Yeah, so it's good.
36:32
Speaker 2: What do you do when someone knocks a pop fly
36:37
Speaker 2: and here it comes, You miss it and maybe you've
36:42
Speaker 2: missed it by a little bit, and it's it's caught.
36:47
Speaker 2: It's it has just fallen into two feet of powder.
36:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, and the fun part about it is having everybody
36:57
Speaker 4: from your team run out to that spot and start
37:00
Speaker 4: digging because nobody knows where.
37:02
Speaker 5: That ball is.
37:03
Speaker 2: Meanwhile, the batter is rounding the basis, round the bases,
37:09
Speaker 2: maybe slipping and falling on his ass. You've seen that
37:14
Speaker 2: a few times.
37:16
Speaker 3: And sometimes actually you get that top crust of snow
37:20
Speaker 3: with the with the powder underneath. And if you don't
37:24
Speaker 3: see where that ball goes in and be able to
37:27
Speaker 3: get it quickly, the more and more you start searching,
37:31
Speaker 3: the harder it is.
37:32
Speaker 2: Yeah.
37:33
Speaker 3: But then there's also times where the ball goes in
37:35
Speaker 3: the snow, and I've seen I've seen people pretend like
37:39
Speaker 3: they don't know where the ball is to try to
37:42
Speaker 3: get the runner to go and then grab it and
37:46
Speaker 3: try to get him. So there's a little bit of
37:48
Speaker 3: gameplay in there. I probably shouldn't have revealed that.
37:50
Speaker 2: No, that strategy right there. I can't remember if it
37:55
Speaker 2: was Chris or or if it was Corey, but somebody
37:59
Speaker 2: was like, yeah, this year we're going to do white balls.
38:04
Speaker 2: Is it? Is it? Are they colored?
38:06
Speaker 3: Are they they are colored?
38:08
Speaker 4: Yeah?
38:08
Speaker 3: And actually they made a wise move a few years
38:12
Speaker 3: ago to they used to have a regular softball painted orange,
38:17
Speaker 3: but they've gone to there's a flexi ball indoorable that
38:21
Speaker 3: we play when we play some indoor softball that's more friendly.
38:27
Speaker 2: Uh.
38:27
Speaker 3: In the the cold conditions, we had a we had
38:30
Speaker 3: at least one or two years where it ended up
38:32
Speaker 3: getting really icy. When you're getting a frozen softball skipping
38:37
Speaker 3: on ice, it can present a dangerous situation.
38:40
Speaker 2: So have you have you played in the mud and
38:43
Speaker 2: have you played in the rain? I'm sure that's a yes.
38:46
Speaker 4: Oh yeah, Oh, I mean we had one year where
38:49
Speaker 4: there was a lot of snow at the start of
38:51
Speaker 4: the tournament, and then Saturday it got so warm out
38:56
Speaker 4: that there was it was just like water on the field.
39:00
Speaker 4: Old then we were playing in like knee deep water
39:02
Speaker 4: at this point in the snow banking was like keeping
39:06
Speaker 4: the water in so it wasn't going anywhere, and it
39:10
Speaker 4: was just Yeah, I mean, at least it was like warm,
39:14
Speaker 4: so we weren't gonna die of hypothermia.
39:17
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, all right, you gotta you gotta take
39:22
Speaker 2: care of yourself. You gotta make sure that you're frequenting
39:27
Speaker 2: the warming tents and caring for yourself so that you,
39:30
Speaker 2: you know, you don't get hypothermia, which is very easy
39:34
Speaker 2: to get.
39:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, always a good strategy to bring a couple pairs
39:39
Speaker 3: of boots, extra socks.
39:40
Speaker 5: Yeah, bootwarmers, dryers.
39:42
Speaker 2: Oh my god.
39:44
Speaker 3: So it had become a veteran in the tournament, you
39:46
Speaker 3: start to learn some of these tricks a bit.
39:48
Speaker 2: Tell me about the Brantley Brooks banquet.
39:52
Speaker 3: Yeah, so that was a really cool experience and memory
39:57
Speaker 3: for me. So there were a number of years is
40:00
Speaker 3: where there was a banquet the week before the tournament
40:04
Speaker 3: and me and Ange came up to that banquet probably
40:07
Speaker 3: four or five times. And one of those times, like
40:12
Speaker 3: the other times, I was bidding on some items and
40:15
Speaker 3: as I was going around the table, I noticed that
40:21
Speaker 3: the name Kyler Brooks was frequently appearing on the same
40:26
Speaker 3: items that I was bidding on. Yeah, And at the end,
40:30
Speaker 3: one of the items that I won was this cool
40:33
Speaker 3: painted freezing fund for family's bat. And it turns out
40:39
Speaker 3: that I had ended up outbidding Kyler for that, and
40:44
Speaker 3: we were we were chatting, and I knew that Brandtly
40:48
Speaker 3: wanted that bat, and so I was I was able
40:52
Speaker 3: to give it to him and to see him swinging
40:55
Speaker 3: it around and the smile on his face as something
41:00
Speaker 3: I'll never forget, tell me. Yeah, So Brantley's a great
41:05
Speaker 3: little kid. He was one of the former beneficiaries. I
41:09
Speaker 3: believe it was twenty fourteen when when Brantley was the beneficiary,
41:16
Speaker 3: and it was, you know, great to see him at
41:21
Speaker 3: the banquet and just reminds me, honestly of the the
41:29
Speaker 3: sad fact that you know, many of the beneficiaries you know,
41:35
Speaker 3: are not able to to come to banquets in subsequent years.
41:39
Speaker 3: And back to the tournament, so you know, glad that
41:43
Speaker 3: he's he's doing okay, and it was. It was great
41:47
Speaker 3: to meet him and his family. Yeah, great people.
41:52
Speaker 2: A bunch of years ago there was a father and
41:54
Speaker 2: son beneficiary team or duo if you will, that watched
42:03
Speaker 2: you guys play. Tell us about that.
42:08
Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think that when I when Angie talked
42:11
Speaker 3: about one of our teammates Amanda and and Kathleen that
42:15
Speaker 3: our second year when it was really cold, we weren't
42:18
Speaker 3: sure if they were going to come back. It was
42:20
Speaker 3: I think that second year when I talked about that,
42:23
Speaker 3: they really it really seemed like they got they got hooked.
42:26
Speaker 3: I remember them having a conversation with uh, the father
42:30
Speaker 3: and son just about their experience, wanting to to to
42:35
Speaker 3: know more and learn more about you know, their their
42:38
Speaker 3: situation and you know, share their support and empathy for
42:42
Speaker 3: for the family.
42:43
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.
42:46
Speaker 3: I I And that's the connection. It's already interrupted. And
42:49
Speaker 3: that's really when you say, what why you guys come
42:53
Speaker 3: from Hampshire? What what draws you? It's it's really you know,
42:59
Speaker 3: there's some to You go to a pharmacy and they
43:02
Speaker 3: ask you for a dollar for a charity that you've
43:06
Speaker 3: never heard of, and you don't know you know what
43:09
Speaker 3: it goes to this is not that this, you know,
43:14
Speaker 3: is a situation where you're actually getting to meet the
43:19
Speaker 3: families who are impacted by childhood cancer, and it really
43:27
Speaker 3: really hits home and means more. Once you have that experience.
43:31
Speaker 2: That's got to resonate pretty pretty deeply for both of you.
43:35
Speaker 2: I'm sure there's been many years where you've been driving
43:38
Speaker 2: home to conquer it at the end of this and
43:41
Speaker 2: your heads are in, your hearts are just so full
43:45
Speaker 2: with what you've experienced, what you've what you've seen, what
43:48
Speaker 2: you've heard.
43:51
Speaker 4: Yeah, we've had the opportunity to meet a lot of
43:58
Speaker 4: the beneficiaries, not I mean all depending on their situation,
44:04
Speaker 4: and get pictures with them. But I mean the one
44:07
Speaker 4: thing that stands out the most to me is last
44:10
Speaker 4: year when we played Team Marcus. Yeah, and oh the
44:14
Speaker 4: year before and you know, last year, whose team do
44:18
Speaker 4: we play in the first game and we used flags
44:21
Speaker 4: to beat them and then we found oh, that was
44:24
Speaker 4: Team Marcus. And we found out, you know, that they
44:28
Speaker 4: were the family of this child, this beneficiary, and we
44:32
Speaker 4: were like, oh, we shouldn't have used our flags, Like
44:35
Speaker 4: we should have just let them beat us.
44:37
Speaker 5: So it's just nice to I think it's just you
44:47
Speaker 5: know that the kids.
44:49
Speaker 4: I mean, I just I can't put the words together
44:53
Speaker 4: for it, but it.
44:56
Speaker 5: These families, like it just breaks your heart.
44:58
Speaker 4: Like and you know, during COVID, they couldn't come out
45:02
Speaker 4: because you know, they couldn't get sick. They are already sick,
45:06
Speaker 4: you know, and you know, when it's really cold, you
45:10
Speaker 4: can't come out and hang out. So when they are
45:12
Speaker 4: able to come out, you know, we just really really
45:16
Speaker 4: like to meet them and get to know them and
45:20
Speaker 4: their families a little bit better.
45:23
Speaker 2: What about your let's throw some some much do love
45:30
Speaker 2: at not only your players but also your sponsors.
45:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, so we have a number of teammates that have
45:40
Speaker 3: been with us for a long time.
45:42
Speaker 4: So we actually have one teammate that's been with us
45:47
Speaker 4: and now his two children are playing with us.
45:52
Speaker 5: So we've got his sons, you know, and.
45:54
Speaker 4: They've they've always supported us, and now they're coming up
45:59
Speaker 4: here and being part of this and it's just great
46:02
Speaker 4: to see it branching out.
46:04
Speaker 3: Yeah. So, uh, Kathleen, Amanda India, Melissa Jess, Josh Levy,
46:15
Speaker 3: Don Levy, Mike Piznowski, Lauren Pasowski, Clint Molten, a longtime
46:22
Speaker 3: teammate Ricky Goudreau and his sons Colton and Callen. Ah Am,
46:30
Speaker 3: I missing anybody, Let's make sure because well while she
46:34
Speaker 3: does that, make sure I haven't missed anybody. So we
46:37
Speaker 3: started when we first started our own team up here
46:40
Speaker 3: coming as Byron Septic, so they were our sponsor for
46:45
Speaker 3: the I think probably the first four years or so.
46:48
Speaker 3: They were also one of the owners. One of the
46:54
Speaker 3: owners was our teammate, teammate and owner on the the
47:00
Speaker 3: of Byron So. And then we shifted to SKR for
47:03
Speaker 3: a year and we were sponsored following that by one
47:08
Speaker 3: of our friends Boomer Hazen and Haysen Electric, before moving
47:14
Speaker 3: to the sponsor that we're working with now, Conquered Orthopedics,
47:18
Speaker 3: which is also where one of our teammates Lauren works.
47:22
Speaker 4: And yeah, so we missed Rob lebron So shout out
47:25
Speaker 4: to Rob who plays this entire tournament with sneakers on
47:29
Speaker 4: shorts in shorts.
47:31
Speaker 5: Yeah.
47:31
Speaker 4: And then a couple of girls that have been with
47:34
Speaker 4: us for a long time, Jess Mason and Lex Surely
47:38
Speaker 4: that aren't able to come this year because of their
47:41
Speaker 4: children being on vacation.
47:45
Speaker 3: And another and another important sponsor is is actually my
47:51
Speaker 3: work your employ Yeah, so I work for Santa Fe
47:56
Speaker 3: and Santafie as a generous charitable matching donation program that
48:03
Speaker 3: I helped I take advantage of to help support these.
48:06
Speaker 2: Families, uh in football.
48:10
Speaker 3: Squares football scores. Yeah, so that's one of our our
48:14
Speaker 3: fundraisers that we do each year. So we'll pick you know,
48:19
Speaker 3: a handful of games and and and do do football
48:23
Speaker 3: squares for them and to help us raise money for
48:27
Speaker 3: the cost.
48:29
Speaker 2: And help about Michaelson's r V and Community National Bank
48:33
Speaker 2: the tournament sponsors.
48:35
Speaker 3: Yeah, so there's been a lot of great sponsors over
48:38
Speaker 3: the years. So Community a National Bank has been a
48:43
Speaker 3: frequent sponsor of a field. So if and that's when
48:49
Speaker 3: you were talking about opportunities for for donations and sponsorships,
48:53
Speaker 3: So companies can sponsor a field, you know, so if
48:59
Speaker 3: you're not a player, don't have a team to join,
49:04
Speaker 3: that's another opportunity for folks to be able to get
49:08
Speaker 3: involved with. And there's been a number of vendors and
49:12
Speaker 3: companies that have supported the cause over the years, from
49:17
Speaker 3: uh from Cassella right, You've got Pike for lighting.
49:25
Speaker 2: There's there's two companies that have been.
49:27
Speaker 5: Huge, The National guard brings out the warmington.
49:31
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, so yeah, and then even even companies who
49:37
Speaker 3: who help and support by not donating you know, four
49:40
Speaker 3: wheelers so that volunteers can get around to the different fields.
49:43
Speaker 2: As well quickly. Yeah, wow, what are you what are
49:49
Speaker 2: you going to be wearing this year?
49:51
Speaker 3: We'll be wearing.
49:53
Speaker 2: That's it.
49:55
Speaker 4: We'll layer up underneath our sweatshirts depending on how the
49:58
Speaker 4: weather is, and then snow pants and our boots.
50:02
Speaker 2: And now is Rob doing the the sneakers in the
50:07
Speaker 2: shorts thing weather depending?
50:10
Speaker 3: No, No, Rob, Rob's Rob's hardcore.
50:14
Speaker 5: That's w.
50:18
Speaker 3: Yeah, I know, it's just it's not right.
50:22
Speaker 5: Yeah, it's Robbie. Yeah.
50:26
Speaker 2: I mean, you know, it's good to take an ice
50:29
Speaker 2: bath every now, and they're playing winter softball with shorts
50:34
Speaker 2: and sneakers.
50:36
Speaker 3: You know, it's it's not for me. He's been. We
50:39
Speaker 3: talked about players who have been coming for a long time.
50:41
Speaker 3: Rob has been. I don't know exactly how many years,
50:44
Speaker 3: but I know Rob's longer than fifteen plus year is easy.
50:49
Speaker 3: So Rob's uh serious legend, Yeah, tournament legend.
50:57
Speaker 2: Is there anyone else that does anything like that?
50:59
Speaker 3: You know there's a few here and there, not on
51:01
Speaker 3: not on our team, but right you see it?
51:05
Speaker 2: Wow, Mark and Nancy, anything else that you can think
51:09
Speaker 2: of before we close out this morning. You guys are
51:14
Speaker 2: just I mean, how many thousand, forty three thousand dollars
51:19
Speaker 2: in four years just your team alone.
51:22
Speaker 5: Yeah, we're hoping to add some more to that this year.
51:29
Speaker 2: My goodness, you know. And we should also mention here
51:35
Speaker 2: that we talked about Levi and his family, but there's
51:39
Speaker 2: also Alistair, Carla, Eleanor, Elisha and Nico this year children
51:47
Speaker 2: who are beneficiaries.
51:49
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's so two very young kids two years old.
51:55
Speaker 3: Two others were who are seven and ranging up to
51:57
Speaker 3: the oldest at ed Niko.
52:00
Speaker 2: So six kids six.
52:01
Speaker 3: Yeah, so six kids this year. I think it was
52:03
Speaker 3: five last year. So it so these these past two
52:09
Speaker 3: or three years, we've been fortunate enough, as I alluded to,
52:13
Speaker 3: that we haven't had to say no to any of
52:16
Speaker 3: the nominated families. So another another great stuff for freezing
52:20
Speaker 3: bunk for families.
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Speaker 2: Some of these families are using the money toward medical expenses,
52:29
Speaker 2: some of them are using it for other things logistically,
52:33
Speaker 2: like you said, Mark, reliable transportation to get to and
52:38
Speaker 2: from medical appointments, which aren't always right here in the
52:42
Speaker 2: Green Mountain State and in some families using their their
52:48
Speaker 2: money to just go and enjoy life with whatever that
52:52
Speaker 2: might look like.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, cancer is incredibly expensive, and so it's
53:00
Speaker 3: great that it's in no strings attached a word sure
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Speaker 3: that that the families get can go for anything to groceries,
53:08
Speaker 3: to rent to a vehicle, to something more you know,
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Speaker 3: fun enjoyable, like like a vacation.
53:14
Speaker 2: Yeah, anything else that we can think of before we
53:19
Speaker 2: skip out.
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Speaker 4: So I went through I think we're oh, do we
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Speaker 4: talk about we didn't talk about the jersey swaps?
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Speaker 3: Okay?
53:28
Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: So that was one cool thing that that actually Corey
53:32
Speaker 3: had had kind of engineered two years ago that we
53:37
Speaker 3: continued last year and we're hoping that it kind of
53:41
Speaker 3: becomes a tradition. So he was he he came over
53:44
Speaker 3: and was like, hey, you should swap jerseys with my
53:48
Speaker 3: with my son, you do, let's do a jersey swap.
53:50
Speaker 3: And so actually, no, I it was it was last
53:54
Speaker 3: year that we did the jersey swap the son. He
53:56
Speaker 3: was even more special in moving two years ago, I
54:00
Speaker 3: did a jersey swamp with Marcus's mother from Team Marcus.
54:07
Speaker 3: So to you know, have that experience and and have
54:12
Speaker 3: a chance to chat with them. Just phenomenal, phenomenal people
54:15
Speaker 3: who were so appreciative of the cause, you know, so
54:18
Speaker 3: much so that they you know, put in a team
54:22
Speaker 3: to support the cause as well.
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Speaker 2: Wow, It's almost like you have to ask yourself, you know,
54:31
Speaker 2: like what's next for freezing fun for families other than
54:36
Speaker 2: embarking on a one million dollar amount of money that's
54:45
Speaker 2: been raised over twenty five years that we're approaching. But
54:48
Speaker 2: it's like, what's next? Man, It's like, we get the
54:50
Speaker 2: golf tournament. We've got so many incredible businesses and sponsors
54:55
Speaker 2: and volunteers that are involved here.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I mean the organist I think is looking to continue
55:02
Speaker 3: to to do more and help families in more in
55:07
Speaker 3: different ways. So I know that there's ideas and talk
55:13
Speaker 3: once we're able to reach that sustainability point of introducing
55:18
Speaker 3: new programs things potentially like you know, meal vouchers or
55:22
Speaker 3: hotel vouchers while while families are going through treatments. So
55:30
Speaker 3: just those little things that can help.
55:33
Speaker 2: I you know, I can't, I can't help, but but
55:37
Speaker 2: sit here and look at you guys as just two
55:43
Speaker 2: of so many people that make this event not only
55:47
Speaker 2: successful every year, but something that has created its its
55:53
Speaker 2: own momentum and has grown in twenty five years to
55:58
Speaker 2: something that you know, I refer to it, uh at
56:01
Speaker 2: the beginning of today's episode as a monster. I mean,
56:04
Speaker 2: this thing is just huge. We've got the attention of
56:10
Speaker 2: not only the Guinness Book of World's Records globally, but
56:17
Speaker 2: also nationally. Other states are watching what we're doing here
56:23
Speaker 2: in Vermont, and I would love to see some more
56:28
Speaker 2: national press on on this, on this event, but other
56:32
Speaker 2: states are you guys? This has garnered the attention of
56:36
Speaker 2: of a lot of people beyond our borders. It's really remarkable.
56:41
Speaker 3: It is. It's it's impressive to see the reach and
56:46
Speaker 3: how many people are you know, know about what's going on. Sure, yeah,
56:51
Speaker 3: we try to. We try to do our small part
56:53
Speaker 3: by wearing our freezing fund for family's gear.
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Speaker 5: Uh everywhere we go.
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Speaker 4: Everywhere we go, We've bought shirts for every season.
57:04
Speaker 3: So yeah, I have a freezing fund for famili's wardrobe.
57:08
Speaker 2: Yeah, sure you do. Guys. Thank you for all you do, obviously,
57:14
Speaker 2: but also for taking time out of your very busy lives,
57:20
Speaker 2: your work schedules, and thanks to your employers for supporting
57:27
Speaker 2: you both and your willingness to travel all the way
57:32
Speaker 2: here from Concord, New Hampshire, to stay overnight last night
57:36
Speaker 2: in some horrific weather, and to be willing to share
57:42
Speaker 2: your story and promote this event on the microphones this morning.
57:46
Speaker 5: It snows every time we come up here, I'm sure.
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Speaker 3: And we wanted to We wanted to thank you JD
57:53
Speaker 3: and for the aired out podcast, you know, highlighting freezing
57:59
Speaker 3: for and for families and the cause. Just to keep
58:03
Speaker 3: pushing it bigger and further.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, I wouldn't have it any other way. Congratulations to
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Speaker 2: you both. Forty three thousand bucks just from your team
58:13
Speaker 2: alone over the last four years, and you've been participating
58:19
Speaker 2: in this since twenty thirteen. I can only imagine how
58:25
Speaker 2: much money you guys have raised. I can only imagine.
58:28
Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of a lot of great memories. There's
58:30
Speaker 3: a lot of a lot of teams who are participating
58:35
Speaker 3: in and raising a lot of money on their own too.
58:37
Speaker 3: So it's not just our team, you know, we freeze
58:40
Speaker 3: ours catamount Solar. The young they they you know, some
58:46
Speaker 3: teams changed changed sponsors over the years, but Young Guns
58:49
Speaker 3: they placed the red flags. Now they were the top
58:54
Speaker 3: fundraising team four years ago, and they won the tournament
59:02
Speaker 3: two years ago. I mean, you talk about the camaraderie.
59:06
Speaker 3: They actually gave the trophy to us, not because we
59:12
Speaker 3: won the tournament, because we were the top fundraising team
59:15
Speaker 3: for that year. So that's the type of camaraderie and
59:18
Speaker 3: respect that we have between the teams.
59:21
Speaker 2: And I don't think you guys have the goal necessarily
59:25
Speaker 2: we've got to be the top fundraising team. You're just
59:28
Speaker 2: doing what you do. You're just doing what you're passionate about,
59:32
Speaker 2: and you're doing it from a place of love.
59:36
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's definitely. It's definitely from a place of love
59:40
Speaker 3: for sure.
59:41
Speaker 2: Yeah. You know I have heard, and I know you
59:46
Speaker 2: both have too, that cancer is so evil, especially pediatric cancer,
59:59
Speaker 2: and there's you know, we've all heard there's nothing good
1:00:06
Speaker 2: that can result from cancer. But if cancer was a
1:00:14
Speaker 2: person that was looking at this event, I would imagine
1:00:26
Speaker 2: cancer just shaking its head and saying, damn it, here
1:00:31
Speaker 2: comes that that Winter co Ed Softball tournament freezing fun
1:00:35
Speaker 2: for families again this year. It's a it's a you
1:00:41
Speaker 2: guys are really battling something that is you're really taking
1:00:47
Speaker 2: non cancer head first, and that's impressive as hell, all
1:00:53
Speaker 2: of you, not just the two of you, just this
1:00:56
Speaker 2: whole event, a.
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Speaker 3: Lot of a lot of people over the years that
1:01:03
Speaker 3: have really made this all happen for you know, over
1:01:06
Speaker 3: fifty families at this point, so wow.
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Speaker 2: Thank you so much for coming in here, Thanks for
1:01:12
Speaker 2: having us drive carefully. Hope to see you in it,
1:01:17
Speaker 2: what another two weeks, ten days something like that. Ye,
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Speaker 2: Mark and Angie appreciate you both so much. From Team
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Speaker 2: Conquered Orthopedics, the Freezing Fund for Families Winner co Ed Softpalter,
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