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Shae Martin, Pat Willis, Buddy & Shannon Towndrow - Special Olympics Vermont · Aired Out

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  Speaker 2: seeing flurries right now out on North Main Street here
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  Speaker 2: in Berry. Wednesday tomorrow high's a little bit better, mid forties,
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  Speaker 2: partly sunny. Condition is going to be improving, still cool,
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  Speaker 2: a little bit more spring like, and by Thursday still
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  Speaker 2: mid forties, mixes sun and clouds. I know this is
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  Speaker 2: the time of year where we're just we just were like,
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  Speaker 2: do have Pat Willis and Shaye Martin who are standing
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  Speaker 2: by and going to be on the couch here in
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  Speaker 2: just a little bit. But first I want to introduce
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  Speaker 2: to you Buddy and Shannon Toundrow, who are my guests
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  Speaker 2: this morning. We're talking about Special Olympics Vermont. We're going
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  Speaker 2: to have some fun this morning. Welcome to both of you.
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  Speaker 2: I'm so glad you're here. I don't know if I've
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  Speaker 2: ever met you before. Shannon, we may have met or
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  Speaker 2: seen each other at the Night to Shine. Tell me
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  Speaker 2: about tell me about out your involvement with Special Olympics,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm gonna we're gonna chat for a little bit
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  Speaker 2: and then I'm gonna have you guys introduce these two
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  Speaker 2: hooligans over here. But how how did you get involved
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  Speaker 2: with this?
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  Speaker 3: Our son, our youngest son, rare combination of on the
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  Speaker 3: spectrum p d D n OS so pervasive development disorder.
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  Speaker 3: He has a brain lesion, okay, and he has a
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  Speaker 3: rare neurologic condition.
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  Speaker 4: So complicated to explain.
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  Speaker 3: It's similar to a mild cerebral palsy okay.
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  Speaker 5: So we have been exploring.
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  Speaker 3: Special Olympics for several years. But he hasn't been ready
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  Speaker 3: until this last year. We he's just developmentally at a
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  Speaker 3: point where his anticipatory anxiety did not overrule him. We
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  Speaker 3: were able to enter him. Pat's nephew actually is in
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  Speaker 3: class with our son, and.
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  Speaker 2: I think that got the ball rolling.
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  Speaker 5: It did it did?
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  Speaker 3: We moved to Eastbury two and we happened to meet
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  Speaker 3: over winter break.
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  Speaker 5: Upon moving, before he.
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  Speaker 3: Started barry Town, we happened to meet Pat's nephew who
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  Speaker 3: happened to be in the same grade and able bodied,
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  Speaker 3: typical you know, Josh kidd athlete, very very good kid,
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  Speaker 3: and he has been protective of our son since he's
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  Speaker 3: been very.
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  Speaker 5: He looks out for him.
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  Speaker 3: He understands his deficiencies, and he understands how vulnerable he is,
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  Speaker 3: and he protects him.
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  Speaker 2: What's your your your son's name? And how well known
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  Speaker 2: is he in our community?
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  Speaker 5: Wedsel Town? Trow is his name?
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  Speaker 2: Pretty cool name?
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  Speaker 6: Thank you?
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  Speaker 2: So really he is?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, so we don't have a fifth. Wetzel is not
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  Speaker 6: the fifth, but.
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  Speaker 5: We Aldridge Library.
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  Speaker 3: He's well known at He's a big reader book Valori's Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: he's he's Wetzel is actually almost a black belt. He
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  Speaker 3: is on the last stage before black belt.
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  Speaker 2: Love this.
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  Speaker 3: So, yeah, Freddie has had to do some accommodations to
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  Speaker 3: help his motor skills.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but he's thrived.
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  Speaker 3: It's actually we call it bonus occupational therapy. Fifteen In February,
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  Speaker 3: he was.
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  Speaker 6: So we moved. We moved to Barry and within days
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  Speaker 6: Wedsel came home from school and he had four five,
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  Speaker 6: four or five friends. He'd been going to more Town
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  Speaker 6: for six years at that point and had maybe one
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  Speaker 6: child at school he could name. So the transition to
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  Speaker 6: a bigger school mind blowing for him.
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  Speaker 5: I mean it just he's flourished.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he went from hoarding up in his room reading
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  Speaker 6: books to martial arts.
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  Speaker 2: Interesting. You never really know. Sometimes it's it's the reverse
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  Speaker 2: of this.
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  Speaker 6: And he just got invited to play in Dallas on
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  Speaker 6: a national level tournament sled hockey.
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  Speaker 5: We play for Central Pioneers as well.
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  Speaker 6: Do we do with John sell or with with Bud.
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  Speaker 2: He's he's badass. Love that guy. He's here absolutely so much. John,
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  Speaker 2: John and Wendy. I mean it's just there's no more.
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  Speaker 5: Devotion than what they have. There is none better people.
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  Speaker 5: They are amazing totally.
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  Speaker 2: They been on the air here. It was a long
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  Speaker 2: time ago that I had Christian and John on the air. Uh,
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  Speaker 2: just wonderful people, many solid.
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  Speaker 3: And Dan, I'm not sure if you know Dan, if
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  Speaker 3: you've ever met Dan, Dan helps It is Wendy's sister.
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  Speaker 5: He's married to Wendy's sister. Yeah, and Dan and.
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  Speaker 2: John doesn't get that. Doesn't lace up the skates and
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  Speaker 2: get out there. Though.
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  Speaker 5: Now he's the photographer. He's the photographer forever.
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  Speaker 2: Just keep him where he belongs, behind the lens, behind
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  Speaker 2: the lens.
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  Speaker 3: He thrives there and everywhere. You'll see him at Norwich,
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  Speaker 3: you'll see everywhere. I mean, they are well, they just
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  Speaker 3: did Easter. They I mean the community with Christian all
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  Speaker 3: the time, and the community is very accepting. I will
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  Speaker 3: say they've they've really developed. The community in general has
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  Speaker 3: developed more than they than.
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  Speaker 5: They used to.
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  Speaker 2: So we we have we have some big things coming up.
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  Speaker 2: April eighth is tomorrow, April eighteenth, eighteenth, I'm sorry, eighteenth
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  Speaker 2: would be.
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  Speaker 6: The Norwich what is it Special Olympics basketball tournament.
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  Speaker 2: Tell me about this.
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  Speaker 5: So our special Olympians.
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  Speaker 3: Huh, well, we play for Capital Region, so these these
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  Speaker 3: Olympians are Capital Region. There's two teams here in CenTra Vermont,
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  Speaker 3: but Capital Region is our team and it'll be I
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  Speaker 3: don't know how many teams are coming. I think Shay
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  Speaker 3: and Pat can answer that when they come up. How
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  Speaker 3: many teams will be playing at that event, which will
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  Speaker 3: be hosted at Norwich, which is a big deal because
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  Speaker 3: that's a great court.
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  Speaker 2: Of course it is.
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  Speaker 4: That's like a great venue.
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  Speaker 2: So it starts at nine in the morning, it does
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  Speaker 2: till one in the afternoon.
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  Speaker 5: Yes, all right, what is it?
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  Speaker 2: Is there a ticket to get in?
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  Speaker 3: No, it's just you enter, You just come and watch.
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  Speaker 3: It's free to the public to come in.
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  Speaker 2: I'm hoping somebody is going to be collecting donations here.
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  Speaker 3: Always nice, I mean we have the main second fundraiser.
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  Speaker 3: It would always be nice if people could donate financially
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  Speaker 3: or physical items for the silent auction or still plenty
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  Speaker 3: of time just to show up and cheer on the
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  Speaker 3: Olympians as they're showcasing their talents.
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  Speaker 2: This is a really, really, really big deal. It's huge
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  Speaker 2: when they get out on this court. It's uh, it's
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  Speaker 2: it's more than just game time.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, the passion.
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  Speaker 3: You can't hide the love of it, you can't hide
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  Speaker 3: the collaboration.
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  Speaker 4: You can't hide.
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  Speaker 3: They genuinely are our team players. They just instinctually they're helpful,
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  Speaker 3: they're kind.
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  Speaker 6: So I was saying earlier, I helped coach a little
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  Speaker 6: bit when needed. I coached years ago and middle school level.
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  Speaker 6: These guys are. They're just the most fun I've ever
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  Speaker 6: had coaching. Really, none stop laughing, smiling. It doesn't matter
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  Speaker 6: what they do out here. It's it's just it's fun.
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  Speaker 6: And I told the head coach the other day, so
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  Speaker 6: I would do this every day, every day. It's just
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  Speaker 6: so much fun doing it for.
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  Speaker 5: Me fifteen years.
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  Speaker 3: Jason's been the coach for this basketball team for fifteen
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  Speaker 3: years and he's passionate.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, he loves it.
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  Speaker 3: He keeps coming back. It's it's rewarding, it's fun. These
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  Speaker 3: are the most coachable humans you'll ever meet, and he
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  Speaker 3: needs it so much fun. I mean, they really they are.
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  Speaker 3: It's the best team ever. It really is. Just to
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  Speaker 3: put this group together, it's and I believe, unbelievable, like
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  Speaker 3: the talent and the passion and the skill. It really
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  Speaker 3: and they all grow from the beginning to the end.
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  Speaker 3: You watch them pick up and learn. I mean, they
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  Speaker 3: really are coachable. They want to learn, They weren't to
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  Speaker 3: each other. They very much each other.
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  Speaker 2: April eighteenth at Norwich starts at nine in the morning,
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  Speaker 2: goes to one in the afternoon. Yes, trying to get
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  Speaker 2: as many people.
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  Speaker 6: We're going to share it as much as we can. Yeah,
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  Speaker 6: and hopefully people here free.
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  Speaker 2: So I'm gonna I'm going to share the crap out
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  Speaker 2: of it too. Yeah, it's it's free. Just come out, man,
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  Speaker 2: and and you know, and cheer these these guys on well.
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  Speaker 4: Meet the Olympians.
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  Speaker 7: They love.
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  Speaker 3: These athletes love sure, engaging with the community absolutely, and
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  Speaker 3: they're great at it.
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  Speaker 6: It's competition, but it's it's fun.
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  Speaker 2: It's just and and and you know what I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna try really hard to make it. One of
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  Speaker 2: the things I'm going to do if I can make
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  Speaker 2: it is and and I encourage others to do the
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  Speaker 2: same thing. Before you leave the house, grab a sharpie
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  Speaker 2: and grab something that can be autographed, whether it's a
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  Speaker 2: ball cap or or a T shirt or any anything
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  Speaker 2: even just a piece of paper and bring that with
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  Speaker 2: you and get some autographs from these Olympics.
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  Speaker 6: I know one of the guys that will be speaking next, Shaye,
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  Speaker 6: loves to autograph yeah, anything he can.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Oh yeah, these guys are rock stars. Absolutely, they're
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  Speaker 2: doing uh, they're doing great work. And y'all are kind
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  Speaker 2: of like a big family. Y'all get along really really well.
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  Speaker 3: I have to say that we say it often that
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  Speaker 3: our son has found his tribe.
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  Speaker 6: You found his people.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, Yeah, it's different when you have a different
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  Speaker 3: ability child. It's different involving them. Yeah, Unfortunately it is
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  Speaker 3: two worlds. You don't want it to be.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you would hope that if someone's listening to this
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  Speaker 2: episode and they have someone in their life that he
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  Speaker 2: is has developmental uh challenges and they're not connected in
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  Speaker 2: with Special Olympics and you guys all as a family,
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  Speaker 2: what do they do? How do they break that barrier? What?
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  Speaker 2: What should they do? How do they come out? Meet
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  Speaker 2: you guys, socialize, get together, show up, come to the game.
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  Speaker 3: Begin there absolutely and there's plenty of moot.
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  Speaker 6: You can you know, look online Special Olympics Vermont. They'll
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  Speaker 6: tell you all the chapters throughout the state and it's
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  Speaker 6: really welcoming.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, tell me about the mutwa again that you you
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  Speaker 2: may that earlier. There's there's a fundraiser.
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  Speaker 6: May second, and I think Patrick would be able to
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  Speaker 6: maybe give a little more. He's more involved directly with it.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, it's it's not just basketball, it's soccer, it's skiing,
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  Speaker 2: it's track and field, and these competitions take place statewide.
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  Speaker 2: Correct generally kind of spread out through the year, depending
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  Speaker 2: on what the what the sport is. But the track
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  Speaker 2: and field stuff is massive.
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  Speaker 3: Yes, that was yes St Albans, that's the largest event
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  Speaker 3: for that, the Albans. Yes, that's the following and the
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  Speaker 3: track and field I believe takes most of the Olympians
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  Speaker 3: there were I mean, you have soccer, like we played softball,
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  Speaker 3: so we had to play on the lower field.
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  Speaker 5: We had to actually leave BFA, you know.
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  Speaker 3: The the Pearly Collins that's where the event happened. We
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  Speaker 3: had to go down into Saint Albans City for our
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  Speaker 3: softball itself and then come back up to where the
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  Speaker 3: track field is. But the track is very very large.
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  Speaker 3: Soccer is rather large as well.
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  Speaker 2: So there's unified sports, but there's we should mention here
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  Speaker 2: that there's a good number of athletes that are involved
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  Speaker 2: with this special Olympics who technically really don't have any
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  Speaker 2: I hate to use the word but disabilities. I mean
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  Speaker 2: they're out there Bland win.
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  Speaker 3: Oh yes, oh yes, they're highly competitive and highly skilled
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  Speaker 3: very much.
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  Speaker 5: They have a lot.
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  Speaker 3: Of amazing talents, I mean it, and they showcase them.
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  Speaker 3: I mean they absolutely highlight them during these events, during
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  Speaker 3: the practice, during the games. But and they come from
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  Speaker 3: all over. I mean, there's greatest all of them are.
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  Speaker 2: This is so much more than physical fitness. This is
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  Speaker 2: so much more than competition, so much more than the sport.
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  Speaker 2: What the game is, what you're doing, what you're playing.
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  Speaker 2: This is about building self confidence. This is about being
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  Speaker 2: included in your community, being accepted and inclusivity.
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  Speaker 5: It matters huge and social connection.
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  Speaker 2: Social connections.
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  Speaker 3: Know each other, I mean they know each other from
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  Speaker 3: all these other teams. When the Randolph team, you know,
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  Speaker 3: they all know each other. You go to all these
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  Speaker 3: teams and it's familiar faces. And like when Knight to Shine,
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  Speaker 3: many of the people that you probably saw at Knight
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  Speaker 3: to Shine play sports and they're from different regions, yet
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  Speaker 3: they all know each other.
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  Speaker 5: There's the overlap.
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  Speaker 3: And and then there's the self advocacy groups, which these
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  Speaker 3: guys can talk about when when they come up that
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  Speaker 3: there's other ways that they connect.
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  Speaker 4: It's not just special Olympics.
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  Speaker 3: There are other events that they do or gatherings that
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  Speaker 3: they have. You know, there there really is an all
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  Speaker 3: inclusive environments. So they can support each other. If they
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  Speaker 3: have questions, if they have needs, they can help each other.
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  Speaker 3: You know that they lean on each other or build
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  Speaker 3: a group. If there isn't if there's several people that
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  Speaker 3: are struggling to hey, how do I navigate the workplace?
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  Speaker 3: Who do I talk to? They can do that amongst themselves.
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  Speaker 3: Vast majority hold jobs. The vast majority of these Special
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  Speaker 3: Olympians are working jobs, most full time jobs, if not
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  Speaker 3: part time at least. But they're in the community in
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  Speaker 3: all different ways.
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  Speaker 4: It's huge.
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  Speaker 3: You know, so a lot of the community members may
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  Speaker 3: recognize one or two, but they may not realize how
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  Speaker 3: tied some of these people are to other events and
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  Speaker 3: other places.
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  Speaker 2: What a gift all this is is. It's so beautiful
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  Speaker 2: to hear this. It really is.
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  Speaker 6: Our son. Our son went from not completely a shut in,
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  Speaker 6: but of a lack of confidence to you know, at
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  Speaker 6: a Mountaineers game and these guys were practicing on the
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  Speaker 6: little league field, you know, they were playing softball, practicing,
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  Speaker 6: and he came back and it was that day that
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  Speaker 6: we finally got into Special Olympics. He had been watching
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  Speaker 6: for weeks, then practice, and then finally he was I
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  Speaker 6: want to try.
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  Speaker 3: But he struggles still with a lot of it's all
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  Speaker 3: new to him. It's overwhelming, and these guys meant for him.
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  Speaker 2: These guys grabbed him and him he worked about the eighteenth.
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  Speaker 3: I don't think so he hasn't shown. But he doesn't
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  Speaker 3: look that far ahead either.
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  Speaker 5: That's part of his.
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  Speaker 6: But he doesn't have to. He doesn't have to. He's
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  Speaker 6: got these guys.
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  Speaker 3: He knows who he's going with now, that's his family.
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  Speaker 3: So he's coming.
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  Speaker 6: We get we get out of the car and he
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  Speaker 6: walks and as soon as he sees any these guys,
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  Speaker 6: it's yeah, Mom and dad don't exist, wouldn't want to
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  Speaker 6: be for fifteen years.
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  Speaker 5: That has been our goal with that independence.
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  Speaker 8: And I'm happy.
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  Speaker 6: And he has it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so wonderful.
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  Speaker 4: He's confident with it.
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  Speaker 3: But and and the caregivers as well. He's familiar with
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  Speaker 3: them because it's the same consistent faces every week, every
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  Speaker 3: time we interact.
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  Speaker 5: It's it really becomes your family.
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  Speaker 3: It becomes your family pretty quickly when you're in a
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  Speaker 3: place where you know that people understand you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and they're not picking you apart.
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  Speaker 2: Did you guys take a little uh ice bath in
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: Lake Champlain a couple of weeks.
• 21:39
  Speaker 6: Now I'm gonna Wedgel wants to. We were too late
• 21:43
  Speaker 6: to try it.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: This year, the penguin plunch.
• 21:45
  Speaker 6: We're gonna do it maybe next year.
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: I think, call me, call you, call me.
• 21:53
  Speaker 6: You hear me as soon as I hit that water'll.
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: Hear you'll hear me too. But let's let's connect because
• 22:02
  Speaker 2: I'll go with you guys. I'll be in the water. Yes,
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: of course I will. Yes, definitely a video.
• 22:10
  Speaker 5: Yes, yes, I did it years ago and I'm not
• 22:13
  Speaker 5: doing it.
• 22:14
  Speaker 2: I would love to do it.
• 22:15
  Speaker 5: It's great wantcause.
• 22:17
  Speaker 1: Of course you go.
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: Let's let's do it and get you in here and
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: sit and we'll hammer away at it and see if
• 22:24
  Speaker 2: we can get some some good funds going.
• 22:27
  Speaker 6: We'll do it.
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: I would love to do it.
• 22:29
  Speaker 6: Yeah, we'll recruit the whole Special Olympics.
• 22:32
  Speaker 7: All right.
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: So I've got about a year to think about what
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: it is that I'm going to be wearing that day
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: when when I go in the water. The speed, Oh
• 22:42
  Speaker 2: you know, I got to figure this out. Maybe not
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: a speedy for me.
• 22:46
  Speaker 6: But you do whatever you gotta do.
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: I'm going to if I can. It's allowed Special Olympics
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: for a couple of extra bucks, I'll do it. I
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: don't give it, damn for.
• 22:58
  Speaker 6: The right, for the right, don't. I'll hold your hand
• 23:01
  Speaker 6: while we're doing.
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: All right, let's let's get these these two guys up here.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Any anything else though that you want to say this morning.
• 23:08
  Speaker 3: No, I think that these two are capable of covering
• 23:12
  Speaker 3: everything anything that you have to ask.
• 23:15
  Speaker 6: Yeah, our questions, our questions are usually answered by these guys.
• 23:19
  Speaker 2: Anyways, what a pleasure it's been to to make.
• 23:22
  Speaker 7: I appreciate it.
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: Yeah, let's take it out there. Yeah, let's and let's
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: get you back in. Welcome in here anytime. I appreciate it, Mike.
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: These mics are your mics, so come on.
• 23:32
  Speaker 5: I appreciate it.
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, let's get these two guys in here.
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: And you know, the Special Olympics has been around since
• 23:41
  Speaker 2: nineteen seventy one, amazing, it was one years old and
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: it is free for athletes and funded by donations and fundraising.
• 23:56
  Speaker 2: Events like the Penguin Plunge just one of several that
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: go on throughout the state. But there's a strong partnership
• 24:06
  Speaker 2: with area schools. Colleges like Norwich is just one of many.
• 24:14
  Speaker 2: But again, the eighteenth at Norwich from nine to one
• 24:19
  Speaker 2: is the basketball tournament, and then June sixth over at
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: Saint Mike's is going to be another one and it's
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: it's just going to be fantastic. Pat just pull that
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: mic a little closer to you, buddy. So yeah, man, listen,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: here you go. Tell me about what's happening over at
• 24:39
  Speaker 2: the MUTOI On May tewid.
• 24:42
  Speaker 9: So, my mom and my girlfriend they're doing a fundraiser
• 24:47
  Speaker 9: at the Mutual for Special Olympics.
• 24:51
  Speaker 8: It's it's like a good cause.
• 24:53
  Speaker 9: You know, we're trying to get new uniforms and all that.
• 24:58
  Speaker 9: We tried tried at the first time and it was
• 25:01
  Speaker 9: a bus but we're gonna keep on hugging at it
• 25:05
  Speaker 9: and keep on trying.
• 25:07
  Speaker 2: What are they going to do over there on May second?
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: Like a dinner and a dance or like calcula.
• 25:13
  Speaker 9: It's it's based on a potluck dinner. Buddy is going
• 25:20
  Speaker 9: to run the grill, and I'm gonna help Buddy run
• 25:22
  Speaker 9: the grill.
• 25:23
  Speaker 8: We're gonna have.
• 25:26
  Speaker 9: Gift cards to donations we're going to auction off.
• 25:32
  Speaker 8: Pretty much.
• 25:33
  Speaker 9: I think they're ten dollars or twenty dollars or something.
• 25:37
  Speaker 9: I'm not sure about the pricing right now because my
• 25:40
  Speaker 9: mom and is still working on it.
• 25:43
  Speaker 2: It's would you have I'm gonna get in touch with
• 25:46
  Speaker 2: your mom. Yeah, so I can get some more details
• 25:48
  Speaker 2: on this. I want to promote the crap out of it.
• 25:50
  Speaker 2: May seconds coming up fast, Yes, so let's do that.
• 25:54
  Speaker 2: That sounds like a great time. Do you know what
• 25:55
  Speaker 2: time is it in the evening?
• 25:57
  Speaker 7: It's ten to four.
• 25:59
  Speaker 2: It's ten to four, all right, so lunch lunchtime? Perfect? Yes,
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: all right, awesome. That that tells me a lot. I'm
• 26:10
  Speaker 2: already thinking about my schedule that day, which is.
• 26:12
  Speaker 8: So I will touch base with you after and.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: You know, yeah, so the eighteenth at Norwich, what are
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: you guys going to be doing that day?
• 26:25
  Speaker 7: Well, we're gonna be playing basketball. That is my hometown.
• 26:29
  Speaker 7: I'm going What I'm going to be doing is we're
• 26:32
  Speaker 7: trying to recruit all the players from like Norwig's teams
• 26:34
  Speaker 7: to come out and watch us. Because I go out
• 26:37
  Speaker 7: to all the sports, so I go to the basketroom, like,
• 26:40
  Speaker 7: would you like to come watch us?
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: Like heck, yeah, yeah, are you pretty good?
• 26:44
  Speaker 7: Shack? Yes, I'm I'm a captain of our team. And
• 26:48
  Speaker 7: eventually I'm going to stop playing to be a coach.
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: So you can you can move pretty fast? Yeah yeah,
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: damn is he is? He a pretty good path?
• 26:59
  Speaker 8: He is, He's really good.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: What are you going to be doing?
• 27:02
  Speaker 8: I'm actually going to be coaching.
• 27:06
  Speaker 9: Health reasons is they stopped me from playing. I've been
• 27:10
  Speaker 9: playing since I was a young kid. I decided I
• 27:15
  Speaker 9: wanted to stop playing, and I want the younger, the
• 27:18
  Speaker 9: younger kids come up and get the better show, get
• 27:22
  Speaker 9: the feeling of the sport. I wanted to get the
• 27:27
  Speaker 9: feeling of a coaching position because that's my dream goal,
• 27:31
  Speaker 9: to be a coach. Jason is the best coach ever.
• 27:37
  Speaker 9: He actually is putting me under his wing as a coach.
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: What's his name?
• 27:44
  Speaker 9: Yea cup of Blanca. So he's he's he's the best.
• 27:50
  Speaker 9: He started coaching me when I was in high school.
• 27:55
  Speaker 9: He took Neil rosenblood spot from coaching us. And I
• 28:03
  Speaker 9: met Shay when I was moving. He was in high school,
• 28:10
  Speaker 9: and so we all got together like a big happy family. Sure,
• 28:14
  Speaker 9: and then we'sell comes we were talking about we'sel. We
• 28:19
  Speaker 9: wanted Wessel to get get the use of the feeling
• 28:22
  Speaker 9: sure of being with a big group, and I went.
• 28:27
  Speaker 9: I talked to Wetzel's mom over the phone.
• 28:30
  Speaker 8: Hey, give what's maybe.
• 28:32
  Speaker 9: Wessel wants to try softball? Yeah, and she's like, sure,
• 28:36
  Speaker 9: let's try it. So here comes what's coming wrong? What'ssell
• 28:40
  Speaker 9: has been with us ever since?
• 28:41
  Speaker 7: We mentor him too. Ye if he needs help, we
• 28:44
  Speaker 7: go and help him.
• 28:45
  Speaker 2: Okay, this is so badass. I love hearing this. I mean,
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: this is like so refreshing.
• 28:51
  Speaker 7: So I have another story I did, please tell. So
• 28:54
  Speaker 7: We're at one tournament and this girl fell with the ball.
• 28:57
  Speaker 7: I could just took it down the court and ran
• 29:00
  Speaker 7: like a like a person I am, But I just said, no,
• 29:03
  Speaker 7: have the ball back, go and score, because I have
• 29:05
  Speaker 7: more respect for scoring, and then for me scoring, and
• 29:09
  Speaker 7: then for the other team. So I said, go go
• 29:12
  Speaker 7: for it. I got respect the whole entire day.
• 29:15
  Speaker 2: Yep, big life lessons here and then and you know
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: what a lot of parents, a lot of adults have
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: not figured that out. Shay, I'm serious, I know. And
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: then literally and figuratively everything When.
• 29:32
  Speaker 9: I was in high school, the special Olympics actually picked
• 29:36
  Speaker 9: me as the Athlete of the Year because I let
• 29:43
  Speaker 9: the kids score with the needs score. I let them
• 29:50
  Speaker 9: score on me. If I get the rebound, I hand
• 29:52
  Speaker 9: it right back to them and there you go.
• 29:54
  Speaker 7: So if we're ahead by a lot, we stopped, we stopped.
• 29:57
  Speaker 7: We stopped with them. Shoot they missed, we give it
• 29:59
  Speaker 7: back until they score because we don't want to beat
• 30:01
  Speaker 7: them by a whole lot. We want to be competitive.
• 30:04
  Speaker 1: Wow.
• 30:04
  Speaker 2: Wow, we're getting shout out from Stacy Holden, who wants
• 30:08
  Speaker 2: to say hi to to all you guys. He's he's
• 30:12
  Speaker 2: down in North Florida, Hi, on the beach right now,
• 30:19
  Speaker 2: sun tanning. That's what he does for a living. That's
• 30:22
  Speaker 2: what he does for a living, I know. But he
• 30:27
  Speaker 2: he also wants to know specifically how he can donate.
• 30:32
  Speaker 2: So we'll get some we'll get some information and we're
• 30:37
  Speaker 2: going to get that on the air here before we
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: scoot this morning, all right, because we want to make
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: sure that that's put out there. I love the stories
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: that you guys are telling.
• 30:47
  Speaker 8: This is I even jumped in the lake Champlain.
• 30:50
  Speaker 7: I do do. So we're gonna be so next year
• 30:52
  Speaker 7: we're doing it with you.
• 30:53
  Speaker 8: Yeah, we're gonna go with you.
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: Have you done it before?
• 30:56
  Speaker 1: I have?
• 30:56
  Speaker 8: I did it four years.
• 30:58
  Speaker 7: I think I've been like five years, So.
• 31:00
  Speaker 8: Okay, four or five.
• 31:01
  Speaker 2: So you're used to it.
• 31:02
  Speaker 7: Yep.
• 31:04
  Speaker 2: You know there's multiple things here. There's there's when you
• 31:08
  Speaker 2: jump in like Champlaine, you're raising money for the Special Olympics,
• 31:14
  Speaker 2: but you're also helping in any inflammation that you have
• 31:19
  Speaker 2: in your body.
• 31:22
  Speaker 8: And they don't don't back out.
• 31:25
  Speaker 2: I have a lot of inflammation, and uh, I think
• 31:30
  Speaker 2: it was you know, I put an ice pack on
• 31:32
  Speaker 2: my shoulder every night. You know, I would love to
• 31:35
  Speaker 2: get in Champlain with you guys and do a little
• 31:38
  Speaker 2: ice bath. They may have to pull us out.
• 31:41
  Speaker 7: Oh no, the well that way mean I've done so
• 31:43
  Speaker 7: many times. I love it.
• 31:44
  Speaker 2: Yeah, do you stay you try to stay in for
• 31:46
  Speaker 2: a little while.
• 31:47
  Speaker 8: No, no, you don't let us there you go.
• 31:50
  Speaker 7: I go in and get right back out.
• 31:51
  Speaker 8: They won't let us.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: All right. What's going on with the Mountaineers.
• 31:56
  Speaker 9: So my mom went to Brian Gallagher and asked if
• 32:03
  Speaker 9: he can donated some game tickets for the Mountaineers and
• 32:07
  Speaker 9: he said sure, So he donated fifteen game tickets.
• 32:11
  Speaker 8: To auction off.
• 32:12
  Speaker 9: Wow and so on July eighth, for whoever is part
• 32:17
  Speaker 9: of the Special Olympics, it's a Special.
• 32:21
  Speaker 8: Olympic Night, conclusion or conclusion night.
• 32:25
  Speaker 9: The athletes of Special Olympics can go on the field
• 32:30
  Speaker 9: before the pre game, before the game to do the
• 32:33
  Speaker 9: national anthem and all that stuff.
• 32:35
  Speaker 7: Yeah, when the team's getting announced, when the team's getting
• 32:41
  Speaker 7: announced with the names, you go. You run with the
• 32:44
  Speaker 7: team into their spot and then you stand there for
• 32:47
  Speaker 7: their anthem. Then you run back out and then you
• 32:50
  Speaker 7: can join the game. Yep, joined the game half fin
• 32:52
  Speaker 7: and you don't even have to pay to get into
• 32:54
  Speaker 7: the game. If you're a Special Olympics athlete.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: I'm going to do everything I can to be there
• 32:57
  Speaker 2: July eighth. It's going on my calendar. It's fantastic.
• 33:01
  Speaker 7: Brian.
• 33:02
  Speaker 2: Brian is such a great guy. He's going to be
• 33:04
  Speaker 2: on the air with me. He's going to be sitting
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: on that couch in two weeks I think something like that,
• 33:10
  Speaker 2: twenty six something somewhere around there. He's going to be
• 33:13
  Speaker 2: in here really soon. I'm not sure if he's going
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: to be bringing a player with him or not. I'm
• 33:18
  Speaker 2: not sure if he's going to be bringing skip with him.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: I don't know, but he'll be here and he comes
• 33:24
  Speaker 2: in at least once a year. And I just love
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: the Mountaineers. I have fallen in love with that team.
• 33:31
  Speaker 2: They're so great and they do they do a lot
• 33:34
  Speaker 2: more than playing baseball.
• 33:35
  Speaker 7: They go out in the community, they go on the parade.
• 33:41
  Speaker 9: So we're actually working on getting donations to the Vermont
• 33:47
  Speaker 9: Lake Monsters.
• 33:49
  Speaker 8: That's still in the work.
• 33:52
  Speaker 7: Yes, so all right, we did it one time and.
• 33:55
  Speaker 9: We got we did the fifty to fifty there, so
• 34:03
  Speaker 9: but we're still we're still working on it.
• 34:07
  Speaker 8: If you know, we're just trying our best, trying to.
• 34:11
  Speaker 7: Get We just trying to get out there so we
• 34:13
  Speaker 7: can out in the community anywhere we can so we
• 34:15
  Speaker 7: can show them who we are.
• 34:19
  Speaker 2: What do you guys say about and and Shannon was
• 34:22
  Speaker 2: was talking a little bit about this about self advocacy.
• 34:26
  Speaker 7: So that's a group we do in month Pillier I
• 34:30
  Speaker 7: used to be the president of it now I'm cole
• 34:33
  Speaker 7: vice president. It's people into electical disabilities and we go
• 34:37
  Speaker 7: to a we have a conference every year in Burlington
• 34:42
  Speaker 7: and everybody we have like five to eight hundred people.
• 34:45
  Speaker 7: We go and we have workshops.
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: What's it call it's called.
• 34:49
  Speaker 7: The Green Mountain Self Advocacy and the one that co
• 34:52
  Speaker 7: owner that one is Max Barrows. And we our group
• 34:56
  Speaker 7: is called Cat Capital Advocates together at my so we
• 35:01
  Speaker 7: get to go twice twice, So twice a month we
• 35:04
  Speaker 7: have meetings. We talk about certain things we're gonna do
• 35:08
  Speaker 7: and this time we're talking about firefighters and we're gonna
• 35:11
  Speaker 7: have to put firefighting chief come to our meeting and
• 35:14
  Speaker 7: we're gonna talk to him about what we have questions
• 35:17
  Speaker 7: to ask him.
• 35:20
  Speaker 9: They have groups around the region. Uh friends helping friends.
• 35:27
  Speaker 9: We all get together and just have fun as a
• 35:30
  Speaker 9: big one happy family.
• 35:32
  Speaker 7: We have a dance that night at the conference. It
• 35:34
  Speaker 7: took a one night conference, so it's.
• 35:37
  Speaker 8: So one one year.
• 35:39
  Speaker 9: We one day we had the police chief of moll
• 35:42
  Speaker 9: Pilier come just talk to us and see how things are,
• 35:47
  Speaker 9: what we can do when they have a disability and
• 35:50
  Speaker 9: all that stuff.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: And there's been a lot of chat lately, it seems
• 35:59
  Speaker 2: in our community about folks with TBIs and advocating for
• 36:03
  Speaker 2: them as well. Yes a lot. Yes, have you been
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: down to brush Bash? No, No, you're gonna be because
• 36:12
  Speaker 2: we got to get you down there. Man voices and
• 36:15
  Speaker 2: choices is the conference. Thank you Jesse, who's given you?
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Uh Jesse, Uh Hunting is giving you a big shout
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: out this morning.
• 36:24
  Speaker 7: Hi Jesse.
• 36:25
  Speaker 2: Hi, that's a big deal in Burlington. Where's that at
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: the Double Tree?
• 36:31
  Speaker 7: Yep? May have two awards, you can have like three awards,
• 36:34
  Speaker 7: so you can get the biggest awards a Trisa Award,
• 36:37
  Speaker 7: which I've gotten that award.
• 36:39
  Speaker 2: Come on serious?
• 36:40
  Speaker 7: Yeah? Oh what they do is you each group picks
• 36:43
  Speaker 7: one person and you know, and only one person in
• 36:47
  Speaker 7: the GMSA can get it. And I got it one
• 36:49
  Speaker 7: year and I loved.
• 36:51
  Speaker 8: It, and I got the self as As Award.
• 36:54
  Speaker 7: That what that is. That's a group award where you
• 36:58
  Speaker 7: have to be thin in your group. We have to
• 37:01
  Speaker 7: do stuff in your group to get it. And then
• 37:03
  Speaker 7: we have an all a award, which one person gets our.
• 37:07
  Speaker 9: Senator, our senator, one of our senators got it last year.
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: Last year.
• 37:12
  Speaker 7: So Connor Casey, Connor Casey, Connor Casey is a great dude. Yeah,
• 37:17
  Speaker 7: So we picked up because he came to our he
• 37:19
  Speaker 7: came to talk to us. So we decided let's pick
• 37:21
  Speaker 7: pick him because he came to talk to us. So
• 37:24
  Speaker 7: he did.
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: So is does Alice get involved with us.
• 37:27
  Speaker 8: Alice, actually, Alice is part of our group.
• 37:30
  Speaker 7: She's in she's in that group. We we love having her.
• 37:33
  Speaker 2: Ye, she's one of the best humans on the planet.
• 37:37
  Speaker 9: She is so well, I'm going back to Special Olympics stuff.
• 37:42
  Speaker 9: So the Special Olympics of Vermont they pick from, say
• 37:47
  Speaker 9: like I picked Shay because I'm a coach. He gets
• 37:51
  Speaker 9: he can go to the summer games. And that's out
• 37:55
  Speaker 9: of state. Last one was no where was it?
• 38:01
  Speaker 7: Remember?
• 38:02
  Speaker 8: But well he So we have a team.
• 38:07
  Speaker 9: USA and they go to say like Colorado or something
• 38:14
  Speaker 9: whatever wherever and they just have fun down there.
• 38:19
  Speaker 7: So we have a player that is going this summer.
• 38:22
  Speaker 7: It's not playing with us right now. It's Finn. He's
• 38:25
  Speaker 7: representing us right now this year this summer. That's our
• 38:30
  Speaker 7: first time. Yep.
• 38:32
  Speaker 9: He uh, this is the first time from our team
• 38:34
  Speaker 9: got picked. Yeah for a while to the summer games.
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: Everybody knows Finn. That's really cool.
• 38:42
  Speaker 8: Wow.
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Norwich April eighteenth, Local Unified Basketball bringing the athletes together,
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: it's just really really cool.
• 38:59
  Speaker 9: We actually looking for players who has a disability to
• 39:04
  Speaker 9: come play, just hang out and play with us, come
• 39:08
  Speaker 9: join the team.
• 39:09
  Speaker 7: You have to have experience you don't have.
• 39:11
  Speaker 9: You don't have to have experience. If you really want
• 39:13
  Speaker 9: to come and have fun, hang out with a group
• 39:15
  Speaker 9: of guys, we would love to do it. I got
• 39:20
  Speaker 9: what's underneath my wing. I had him underneath my wing.
• 39:24
  Speaker 7: No, no, I'm no, I'm helping now, I'm helping other people.
• 39:29
  Speaker 9: We we had a one person, her name was Tica
• 39:34
  Speaker 9: for a while she was under my wing.
• 39:38
  Speaker 8: We just we just love hanging out and just have
• 39:41
  Speaker 8: fun and having fun.
• 39:45
  Speaker 2: There's costs associated with some of this, a lot of this.
• 39:50
  Speaker 2: There's travel, price of fuel, hotels, food.
• 39:55
  Speaker 9: See, we don't we don't stay overnight at at the tournaments.
• 40:02
  Speaker 2: We drive.
• 40:03
  Speaker 7: Yeah, sometimes we sometimes we get together. We do stay
• 40:08
  Speaker 7: if we don't want to travel the night if it's
• 40:09
  Speaker 7: a two days.
• 40:10
  Speaker 9: Sometimes we go the unify and understand the uniforms cost.
• 40:16
  Speaker 9: But we have a big sponsor that helps us out,
• 40:20
  Speaker 9: Preston Kia. Preston Kia started helping us out with donations
• 40:27
  Speaker 9: and we got new uniforms.
• 40:30
  Speaker 8: With our names on the back.
• 40:32
  Speaker 9: It's so blood you know, if you want, whoever wants
• 40:37
  Speaker 9: to go down and see Preston Kia. We have actually
• 40:39
  Speaker 9: a spot of special Olympics with our old jersey and
• 40:43
  Speaker 9: our medals on the on the desk, and.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: You can make a donation right there. Texas Roadhouse. Uh,
• 40:53
  Speaker 2: they've got a fundraiser coming up in May May sixth
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: dying to donate that supports Special Olympics. Burlington Country Club
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: on May eighteenth has a benefit golf tournament for the
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: Special Olympics.
• 41:10
  Speaker 8: Yep, Jersey Mikes just did a donation donation.
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: Tell me about that.
• 41:16
  Speaker 9: Jersey Mike donated one hundred dollars worth of gift cards,
• 41:20
  Speaker 9: like four gift cards for twenty five dollars.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: How'd that happen?
• 41:24
  Speaker 8: I just went in one day and I just went in.
• 41:28
  Speaker 8: I wanted a sandwich.
• 41:29
  Speaker 9: So I saw Special Olympics stuff on the on the door,
• 41:33
  Speaker 9: and I was talking to you, the manager Tom about it,
• 41:36
  Speaker 9: as like, hey, I do Special Olympics. And so I
• 41:40
  Speaker 9: asked him on May second, would you like to be
• 41:43
  Speaker 9: my guest of honor to come and chat with us
• 41:47
  Speaker 9: and just tell the story how Jersey Mikes came and
• 41:51
  Speaker 9: how over.
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: At the mootoi yep, And he accepted.
• 41:55
  Speaker 9: He said he's going to try, He's gonna text me
• 41:58
  Speaker 9: I have his information, and then they he just said
• 42:03
  Speaker 9: Special Olympics and Jersey Mike's. They donated over thirty thousand dollars. Yeah,
• 42:12
  Speaker 9: from both stores nationally nationally to the Special Olympics of Vermont.
• 42:18
  Speaker 2: In Vermont, in Vermont, so not nationally. Wow, that's huge. Yeah,
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: it is damn tipping the hat to Jersey Mikes.
• 42:30
  Speaker 1: Yep.
• 42:32
  Speaker 2: Wow. Summer games coming up in uh in June, June
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: fifth through the sixth in Colchester over at Saint Mike's College.
• 42:45
  Speaker 2: That's gonna be big. It's gonna be big. You guys
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: gonna be part of that.
• 42:49
  Speaker 7: Yeah, yes, we are.
• 42:51
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 42:52
  Speaker 9: So back in Norwich they only have four or five
• 42:57
  Speaker 9: that's a small tournament. So they only have like four, five,
• 43:00
  Speaker 9: five or six teams. Yep, go and we're one of them.
• 43:05
  Speaker 9: And the Central Vermont team goes.
• 43:08
  Speaker 7: That's at a barry.
• 43:09
  Speaker 8: That's at a barry.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: Where'd you guys grow up?
• 43:13
  Speaker 8: I grew up in Montpiliure, Okay, what about you?
• 43:15
  Speaker 7: She I grew up in small town Northfield.
• 43:18
  Speaker 2: Okay, where do you live now?
• 43:20
  Speaker 7: I live in Northfield now and I work at VTC
• 43:24
  Speaker 7: at Vermont State College for seventeen years.
• 43:26
  Speaker 2: What do you do there?
• 43:27
  Speaker 7: I do dishroom and I do all the other stuff,
• 43:30
  Speaker 7: like anything they need me. And on my spare time,
• 43:33
  Speaker 7: I'm always at Norwich. Every single sport you can command,
• 43:36
  Speaker 7: I'm at Norwich. I work out there, I go all
• 43:39
  Speaker 7: the sports. I go in the locker rooms during after
• 43:42
  Speaker 7: games like them high five. So I'm all around.
• 43:45
  Speaker 2: Dude, you've been You've been there. You've been a VTC
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: for seventeen years.
• 43:51
  Speaker 7: Since since O nine. Wow, And they love me there,
• 43:57
  Speaker 7: so I bet they do. People believe I still stay.
• 44:01
  Speaker 9: What about you, Pat, I just actually bought a house
• 44:05
  Speaker 9: up in Berrytown.
• 44:07
  Speaker 5: Really yep.
• 44:09
  Speaker 9: And and I worked for the New School of the
• 44:14
  Speaker 9: New School of Mapillar.
• 44:15
  Speaker 8: They're changing the name.
• 44:16
  Speaker 9: From the New School the New School there. It's in
• 44:21
  Speaker 9: the works. I've been there almost three or four years.
• 44:26
  Speaker 2: I love the New School.
• 44:27
  Speaker 7: Man.
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: That place is.
• 44:29
  Speaker 8: Just And then on my free time, I go to
• 44:31
  Speaker 8: thunder Road.
• 44:32
  Speaker 7: Same here, we're part I know you guys are big t.
• 44:35
  Speaker 9: Actually I'm last year I build a Warrior car for
• 44:39
  Speaker 9: thunder Road.
• 44:39
  Speaker 7: Yeah, I'm part owner of the car too.
• 44:41
  Speaker 2: Really, you're getting behind the wheelshaw.
• 44:44
  Speaker 7: No.
• 44:44
  Speaker 8: I don't trust them driving.
• 44:46
  Speaker 7: I don't feel safe driving.
• 44:48
  Speaker 8: I don't trust myself driving.
• 44:50
  Speaker 2: Half time either at I mean so many people have
• 44:53
  Speaker 2: seen you up at Walmart too. Ye you're still working up.
• 44:56
  Speaker 9: There, Nope, I've been done Walmart, oh about four years now.
• 45:01
  Speaker 2: All right. I always love seeing you man.
• 45:04
  Speaker 8: I I used to wear a price shopper too.
• 45:07
  Speaker 2: Yeah. Wow, let's get some some people in the gym
• 45:13
  Speaker 2: over at Norwich on April eighteenth.
• 45:17
  Speaker 7: Yeah, well let's go. Let's come and watch us. We
• 45:19
  Speaker 7: all have a good rock and time.
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: Yep, yeah you do. Is there gonna be a concessions
• 45:23
  Speaker 2: their food? Are they serving up anything?
• 45:25
  Speaker 8: No, they don't, all.
• 45:26
  Speaker 7: Right, they just you just come, come cheer us on
• 45:30
  Speaker 7: and let's have a good time.
• 45:33
  Speaker 2: I love this man, just getting it.
• 45:35
  Speaker 8: It's even closer to Deeper Square Pizza.
• 45:37
  Speaker 7: Deepot Square downtown. They have to subway.
• 45:42
  Speaker 9: I would like to thank DEEPO Square for helping us
• 45:45
  Speaker 9: to uh. They donated one large pizza to us.
• 45:53
  Speaker 8: I liked like.
• 45:54
  Speaker 9: I appreciate all the donations. Track to Supply donated a
• 45:58
  Speaker 9: big bag bird feed one year, and then they donated
• 46:04
  Speaker 9: two big bags of.
• 46:08
  Speaker 8: Dog food.
• 46:09
  Speaker 7: Yeah.
• 46:12
  Speaker 9: Last year, Walmart donated the shirts. We even have My
• 46:17
  Speaker 9: mom's even making special Olympic shirts for.
• 46:21
  Speaker 7: People that donate. So they they want to buy them,
• 46:24
  Speaker 7: they just donate money to us. Yeah, and there you go.
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: Yep, telling you now, folks, bring brings a little bit
• 46:31
  Speaker 2: of cash with you on April eighteenth, if you can,
• 46:34
  Speaker 2: there's going to be an opportunity for you to make
• 46:37
  Speaker 2: a donation over at Norwich for the game. Yep, the
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: tournament from nine am until one pm. Get in a
• 46:47
  Speaker 2: note here from Stacy Holton, who's telling me, reminding me
• 46:52
  Speaker 2: the sons of the American Legion National Commander has chosen
• 46:56
  Speaker 2: Special Olympics as it's charity of choice this year. I
• 47:01
  Speaker 2: didn't know if you knew that.
• 47:03
  Speaker 8: I did not know that.
• 47:04
  Speaker 7: And thank you for Tuesday Special Olympics.
• 47:06
  Speaker 3: Ye.
• 47:09
  Speaker 2: Where'd you go to school?
• 47:11
  Speaker 8: I went to Monfiler High School?
• 47:13
  Speaker 2: And what about you?
• 47:14
  Speaker 7: I went to Northfield High School. And when I was
• 47:17
  Speaker 7: in high school, I got cut from sports except my
• 47:20
  Speaker 7: UH soccer. But now when I do Special Olympics, now
• 47:23
  Speaker 7: I get to play more, I get to have more fun.
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: Badass. It is so great. It's so great. You guys
• 47:29
  Speaker 2: best friends.
• 47:30
  Speaker 7: We are We we do everything together with our owners
• 47:33
  Speaker 7: of race cars. We go to Borrow Burrowington, Boston. We
• 47:39
  Speaker 7: went to UH Dallas, to the Dallas Cowboys game together. Really,
• 47:44
  Speaker 7: we go all over.
• 47:45
  Speaker 9: We actually went to the fox Fire Old Mass to
• 47:48
  Speaker 9: watch the Patriots play in Dallas. What we went to
• 47:52
  Speaker 9: Fenway Park, Yeah, to watch the Red Sox.
• 47:56
  Speaker 7: Playing with my with my uncle and stuff. So I
• 48:00
  Speaker 7: I went to New York.
• 48:01
  Speaker 8: I don't know, watched the Yankees and the Mets play.
• 48:04
  Speaker 8: I don't know if he went with us that year.
• 48:06
  Speaker 2: You guys ever gotten in trouble together? No?
• 48:10
  Speaker 7: No, really we should put we well, we support each other.
• 48:14
  Speaker 2: Yep, really, yep, pat give me some dirt on Shay.
• 48:19
  Speaker 7: There's nothing.
• 48:19
  Speaker 8: There's nothing about Shay. He you know, she's actually a
• 48:23
  Speaker 8: pretty good, good guy.
• 48:24
  Speaker 9: He he's there when I need him as a friend
• 48:27
  Speaker 9: to talk to. Some days, like like last night, we
• 48:32
  Speaker 9: were We even bowled together on Twin City. We both
• 48:37
  Speaker 9: two leagues, and I give Jen Twin City. They thank
• 48:41
  Speaker 9: you for their donation. They gave us twenty five dollars
• 48:44
  Speaker 9: each for pizza and stuff. So she's just just driving
• 48:56
  Speaker 9: home bringing them home one last night and he came
• 49:00
  Speaker 9: out of this random stupid thing saying I was dating
• 49:03
  Speaker 9: his girlfriend and he was dating my girlfriend. I was like,
• 49:06
  Speaker 9: wait a minute, how are we dating different girlfriends, you know,
• 49:12
  Speaker 9: and he's like, I don't know, I have no brain
• 49:14
  Speaker 9: in there.
• 49:15
  Speaker 7: Which I don't see, and my girlfriend does specially.
• 49:20
  Speaker 2: Julia Bolton is giving you a shout out here this morning.
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: She's watching shay Uh give me some dirt on Pat.
• 49:29
  Speaker 7: I have no dirt on him?
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: What but I got dirt off?
• 49:34
  Speaker 7: But what well? He was racing last year and oh,
• 49:40
  Speaker 7: I don't want to hear that.
• 49:41
  Speaker 8: I don't want to hear it. I don't want to
• 49:43
  Speaker 8: hear it.
• 49:43
  Speaker 1: I had to.
• 49:44
  Speaker 7: I had to say this one he was he forgot
• 49:45
  Speaker 7: to put in second gear and they were going this
• 49:48
  Speaker 7: one because he was new and no one told them
• 49:50
  Speaker 7: he had to put in the second gear. So he's going
• 49:53
  Speaker 7: and they're going half what they're almost in the start
• 49:55
  Speaker 7: feels line, and he's coming right out.
• 49:58
  Speaker 8: I feel like I was a Dayton of five under.
• 50:01
  Speaker 7: Forward. But I'm thinking more time he gets on that track,
• 50:06
  Speaker 7: he's going to he's going to learn. Yeah, yeah, hey
• 50:14
  Speaker 7: j D j D. I want to hear your story.
• 50:16
  Speaker 2: If you've got anything on him, Bro, you're gonna give
• 50:21
  Speaker 2: me some cash if you want. If you want me
• 50:25
  Speaker 2: to give your dirt on Pat, you need to pay up, dude,
• 50:28
  Speaker 2: I'm not just going to offer that out for free.
• 50:30
  Speaker 8: Come on, JD, you have nothing on me.
• 50:34
  Speaker 2: I might what How do people donate? How do people donate?
• 50:39
  Speaker 9: So my mom is actually the person that does the donations.
• 50:45
  Speaker 9: I will give JD the you the contact information, and.
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: I'll put that in the comments.
• 50:54
  Speaker 8: Let's just give Sharon and Buddy I call if.
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: I'll get I'll get there, I'll get it. All of
• 51:05
  Speaker 2: this hip.
• 51:05
  Speaker 7: Ye don't they what you don't they what you can?
• 51:08
  Speaker 6: Ye?
• 51:09
  Speaker 7: We don't ask for a lot. We don't.
• 51:11
  Speaker 8: We don't ask for a lot.
• 51:12
  Speaker 7: Don't they five five bucks?
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: You can?
• 51:16
  Speaker 9: Yeah?
• 51:17
  Speaker 2: You guys are I just absolutely loved having you on
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: the air.
• 51:21
  Speaker 9: On one year, we got over three thousand dollars of
• 51:25
  Speaker 9: donations and we it goes into the special account, and
• 51:31
  Speaker 9: then we bought like new uniforms. Uh new basketball is
• 51:35
  Speaker 9: new softball stuff we need for we need because this
• 51:39
  Speaker 9: stuff was all handy down and we have to pay
• 51:42
  Speaker 9: off Jason somehow.
• 51:44
  Speaker 2: What's he charging you?
• 51:46
  Speaker 8: Uh? He doesn't charge as much. Just he just charges.
• 51:49
  Speaker 8: He just loves the loves the game.
• 51:52
  Speaker 2: It, guys, it's the highlight of my week right here,
• 51:56
  Speaker 2: having you both on here. Really, I mean that, come
• 52:00
  Speaker 2: in again to all right? But are we going to
• 52:02
  Speaker 2: do this again? He yes, all right.
• 52:04
  Speaker 7: I love I love it, I love being here.
• 52:06
  Speaker 2: And next February we're breaking out speedos. We're getting in Champlaine.
• 52:12
  Speaker 7: We got you.
• 52:13
  Speaker 9: You won't catch me Dad in speedos now for me,
• 52:16
  Speaker 9: but I would die.
• 52:20
  Speaker 2: Thanks boys, thank you.
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: Stansstas stands, stands, Spans attends, name outs, costs and beasts