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Classic Moment: Cam Neely · Billy & Lisa in the Morning

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  Speaker 1: Bad the ball.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and bad to the bone is a key word.
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  Speaker 2: Because we have Cam Neely from your Boston Bruins on
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  Speaker 2: the phone. Cam.
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  Speaker 1: You there, Buddy, I am Billy.
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  Speaker 3: I see what you did there?
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  Speaker 1: You know that smooth? Buddy? Come on right, I'm great. Cam.
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  Speaker 1: Now became your theme song? Is it still your theme song?
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  Speaker 3: I don't have a theme song? You know?
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  Speaker 1: They should play that was.
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  Speaker 3: Retired a long time ago as well.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, but I'm just saying, when you walk into the
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  Speaker 2: luxury suite, the Presidential suite at the TD Garden before
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  Speaker 2: the game, they should play bad to the Bone and
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  Speaker 2: then you waved everybody.
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  Speaker 3: That's not a bad idea.
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  Speaker 1: Here we go again, buddy, comics come home.
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  Speaker 2: How many years is this?
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  Speaker 3: This is twenty nine. We lost a couple during the
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  Speaker 3: COVID years, but this is twenty nine, which is kind
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  Speaker 3: of crazy if you think about it.
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  Speaker 2: And it's really a beautiful story. I was there at
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  Speaker 2: the beginning. It's a beautiful story. How it was born.
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  Speaker 2: We get new listeners to the show every day. Cam,
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  Speaker 2: can you briefly tell us the story how it was born?
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  Speaker 1: The foundation?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, so just before I got traded, my father was
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  Speaker 3: having seizures. This is April of eighty six, he started
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  Speaker 3: having cazars. I got traded in June and subsequently found
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  Speaker 3: out he had a brain tumor. And then well, my
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  Speaker 3: dad was going through that. My mother wasn't well and
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  Speaker 3: ended up having cancer of the secum, which is part
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  Speaker 3: of the colon. So you know, as a professional athlete,
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  Speaker 3: you get asked to a lot of charitable things, and
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  Speaker 3: I was like, Okay, if I'm going to give my time,
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  Speaker 3: I want to make it more meaningful. So I got
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  Speaker 3: involved with more cancer related charities and then I said, well,
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  Speaker 3: as a family member of a cancer patient, I kind
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  Speaker 3: of saw some things that were needed for to I'm
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  Speaker 3: a big believer in research obviously, but I noticed that
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  Speaker 3: there was a gap to be able to help patients
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  Speaker 3: and families today. So while playing in Vancouver, the Canucks
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  Speaker 3: were heavily associated with the Ronald McDonald House, and I
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  Speaker 3: really liked that concept. So I, a long story short,
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  Speaker 3: ended up connecting with Tufts Medical Center at the time
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  Speaker 3: New England Medical Center and they said, well, we have
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  Speaker 3: a vacant wing. If you want to renovate that, you're
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  Speaker 3: welcome to do so. And that was the birth of
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  Speaker 3: the Neely House and memory of my parents. It's really
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  Speaker 3: to help cancer patients and families, and we've had you know,
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  Speaker 3: since it's open, we've had over forty thousand families. It
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  Speaker 3: really is. I mean, it just gives you an idea
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  Speaker 3: of the need for a facility like that. And you know,
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  Speaker 3: we're very blessed with the support we've got. As I've
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  Speaker 3: said many times, most everybody has been touched by cancer
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  Speaker 3: in one way, shape or form.
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  Speaker 2: Well as it happens, Cam, I lost my dad to
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  Speaker 2: a brain tumor. But it's amazing when you've seen the
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  Speaker 2: Neely House and the foundation grow.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, you really see.
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  Speaker 2: Your money at work. And now we've got comics come Home.
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  Speaker 2: It's happening again November eighth. And I know Dennis Leary
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  Speaker 2: traditionally kicks off the show and it's one of the
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  Speaker 2: highlights every single year. I always wanted to ask you, Cam,
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  Speaker 2: when does he start rehearsing that?
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  Speaker 3: Oh, I mean he does our event in Michael J.
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  Speaker 3: Fox's event, and you know he hosts both of them
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  Speaker 3: and they're a week apart. What I do know is
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  Speaker 3: that he starts, you know, not long after both events
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  Speaker 3: are done. You know, he starts cultivating ideas and how
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  Speaker 3: he's going to kick off each each event. But with
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  Speaker 3: the comedy show, I know he works on it probably
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  Speaker 3: eight months leading up to and then really founes it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, his schedule is crazy. Right now, he's in
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  Speaker 3: Ireland shooting a series. So you know, I give him
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  Speaker 3: all the credit in the world for not only not
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  Speaker 3: only putting putting the show on and kicking it off,
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  Speaker 3: but inviting all the comics that have come over all
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  Speaker 3: these years and gratefully they have donated their time, which
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  Speaker 3: also is a huge benefit to the foundations.
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  Speaker 2: And let's not forget Dennis Leary is also an outstanding actor.
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  Speaker 2: I mean everything he's in he's really good, and you've
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  Speaker 2: got an outstanding lineup. Sebastian Menascalco is coming. Is this
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  Speaker 2: his first time it Comics Come Home?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, it is, And we thought we might have had
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  Speaker 3: him a couple of years ago, but his schedule didn't permit.
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  Speaker 3: He said, believe me, it'll be back, and he was
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  Speaker 3: true to his words. So anybody that knows his comedy
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  Speaker 3: it's gold. So we're very excited to have Sebastian this year.
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  Speaker 2: And I can't remember if you've had Sarah Silverman before
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  Speaker 2: she's hilarious.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, she's all right. She came early on in our benefit.
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  Speaker 3: I don't know what year it was, but it was
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  Speaker 3: early on and we're thrilled to have her back. She
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  Speaker 3: is the right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I got to tell you the Morning Show, the
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  Speaker 2: entire Morning Show goes every single year and Lisa am
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  Speaker 2: I lying.
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  Speaker 1: We just laugh one minute to the next.
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  Speaker 3: It's our favorite event of the whole year. Well, it's
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  Speaker 3: you know, the beauty of it is, you know, everybody's
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  Speaker 3: going through something in life, right, and you know, the
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  Speaker 3: last bunch of years has been very, very toxic. If
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  Speaker 3: you if you will and to be able to be
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  Speaker 3: able to you know, whether you're dealing with someone that's
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  Speaker 3: not feeling well or ill or or whatever's going on
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  Speaker 3: in your life, you can go to go to this
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  Speaker 3: event and help raise money but also laugh your butt
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  Speaker 3: off for a couple of hours. It's not a bad
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  Speaker 3: not a bad way to spend an evening.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you're right, cam, if you're feeling down, something's
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  Speaker 2: going on with the family, why not go to one
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  Speaker 2: of the best comedy events of the entire year. And
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  Speaker 2: it's always at the TD Garden. Although it didn't start there, or.
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  Speaker 1: Did it cam No.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, you know, initially I'd asked Dennis would you
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  Speaker 3: do a benefit for the foundation. I thought it was
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  Speaker 3: just going to be him doing an hour set and
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  Speaker 3: you know, we'll raise some money, and he said, listen,
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  Speaker 3: I'm going to invite Thomas come home. Was really about
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  Speaker 3: a lot of local comedians, you know, got their start
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  Speaker 3: here in Boston, whether they're from Boston or in Massachusetts.
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  Speaker 3: But you know, there's as you know, Billy, there's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of great comedy houses in Boston area. So we
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  Speaker 3: started the orphiuan was twenty five hundred seats. We sold
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  Speaker 3: out right away. We kept selling out. Then people kept asking,
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  Speaker 3: you know, can you put me on a waiting list?
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  Speaker 3: I want to go. Yeah. Then we went to the
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  Speaker 3: Aganist Arena and I think it was six or seven
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  Speaker 3: thousand seats, and then Dennis, as we were approaching our
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  Speaker 3: twenty at Dennis goes, do you think we can get
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  Speaker 3: the Garden? I said, well, I'm fairly certain we can
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  Speaker 3: get the garden, but do you think we can sell
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  Speaker 3: it out? He goes, I know we can sell it out.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, You've got some connections at that garden. Speaking of
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  Speaker 1: the garden camp.
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  Speaker 2: My son Chris's company I think is right above your
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  Speaker 2: office in the garden for a card vault by Tom Brady.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yeah, yeah, right the Verizon tower there.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, Cam wouldn't kill you to drop by,
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  Speaker 2: knock on the door and say hi Chris, because let's
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  Speaker 2: not forget when my son Chris was born. You were
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  Speaker 2: the first person to visit and I was so close.
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  Speaker 1: To naming him Cam And I'm not even making that.
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  Speaker 1: How could he possibly.
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  Speaker 3: Remember that day like it was yesterday. It's crazy how
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  Speaker 3: long ago that was, Billy Well.
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  Speaker 2: Cam always a pleasure. We can't wait for comics to
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  Speaker 2: come home. It's November eighth. Where do they go for tickets? Cam,
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  Speaker 2: They're going to go fast?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, ticketmaster dot com. I mean there's they have done fast.
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  Speaker 3: So if you're interested in going and supporting a great
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  Speaker 3: cause and having a great night, elast go to ticketmaster
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  Speaker 3: dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Ah I Cam loved Pauline and the kids.