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Eddie Sanborn & Donna Poitras - 17th Annual Bikers For Beth Ride · Aired Out

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Speaker 1: All right, guys, good morning, welcome to the Aired Out podcast,
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Speaker 1: seen and heard live from North Main Street, literally just
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Speaker 1: feet away from the sidewalk here, North Main Street, Barry, Vermont.
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Speaker 1: It is a well, it wasn't beautiful morning this morning.
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Speaker 1: I still think it's beautiful. We have some sun and
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Speaker 1: some clouds and temperatures today supposed to be mostly sunny.
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Speaker 1: I just think this is some low lying stuff, but
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Speaker 1: it's gonna move aside. Sixty three later today. Tonight I
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Speaker 1: think they said thirty eight with a few clouds rolling in,
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Speaker 1: and then tomorrow still plenty of sunshine, but a little
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Speaker 1: bit cooler. Tomorrow they're saying fifty eight degrees. Wow, good
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Speaker 1: morning and a very happy Tuesday to you sitting across
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Speaker 1: from us. Please let me introduce. I don't know where
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Speaker 1: to begin. Let's go with you on the far left there,
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Speaker 1: sexy lady Donnie Potress, Donne Donna Portress. Geez, you're gonna
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Speaker 1: hold that against me forever now. At least I didn't
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Speaker 1: say your husband was Jerry.
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Speaker 2: Thank goodness.
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Speaker 1: Anyway, Good morning, Donna, morning Jad. Please introduce next to
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Speaker 1: you Eddie and his beautiful wife Linda.
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Speaker 3: This is Ed Sanborn. He is our recipient for Bikers
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Speaker 3: for Beth this year. And this is his wife, Linda.
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Speaker 1: And you, Linda have been putting up with his ship
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Speaker 1: for how many years now? Fifty four years? Oh my god,
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Speaker 1: that's amazing. Yeah, well, listen, Eddie, it is a great
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Speaker 1: pleasure to bring you on the microphones. I've been hearing
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Speaker 1: about you for weeks. It seems like everybody and their
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Speaker 1: brother is related to you in some way, Eddie? Is that?
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Speaker 1: Is there some truth to that?
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Speaker 4: Donna saying yes, yes, I lost my younger brother to
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Speaker 4: colon cancer four years ago. Okay, so I know a
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Speaker 4: lot of people. Yeah, yeah, between riding bikes and going.
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Speaker 1: And Rex was telling me that everybody knew and loved
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Speaker 1: your brother too.
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Speaker 4: Yes, yes, he was a great guy.
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Speaker 1: So obviously, at some point today we're going to be
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Speaker 1: talking about the particulars of year number seventeen for this
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Speaker 1: incredible event which was supposed to be and correct me
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Speaker 1: if I'm wrong, Downer, but wasn't it supposed to be
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Speaker 1: kind of a one and done for Beth? Hemenway, yes,
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Speaker 1: seventeen years ago.
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Speaker 3: Seventeen years ago, started by Cass and Shelley Brisett.
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Speaker 1: I remember, well, yep, I.
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Speaker 3: Wasn't there the first two years, but I've been with
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Speaker 3: it starting in the third year.
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Speaker 1: Amazing and I know that God. I mean it's like
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Speaker 1: every year you're on the air with me, and I
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Speaker 1: know I say this same thing every year, but I'm
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Speaker 1: going to say it again. There have been so many
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Speaker 1: happy stories that have come out of Bikers for Beth
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Speaker 1: where people have overcome the odds and beaten its ass,
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Speaker 1: the ass of cancer and they're doing so well. And
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Speaker 1: not only are they doing well, but they're still involved
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Speaker 1: and still riding motorcycles and it's still volunteering and helping,
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Speaker 1: giving back, helping out, which is really remarkable. I mean,
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Speaker 1: look at Steve England. I mean he's just one example.
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Speaker 3: Of several yep, and Linn Craig.
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Speaker 1: And Randy Tucker, yes exactly, I know that a bear
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Speaker 1: shits in the woods, but Randy Tucker will.
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Speaker 3: Definitely be there right as far as we know, he
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Speaker 3: will be there.
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Speaker 1: Just saying because maybe the whole does a bear shit
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Speaker 1: in the woods comment, maybe that's more appropriate for Travis Payatt, Yeah,
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Speaker 1: because he's has he ever missed one?
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Speaker 3: I don't think so, not since I've been there. No,
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Speaker 3: he has not, and he always tries to beat somebody there.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he tries to be the first bike in the morning.
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Speaker 1: I've come close a couple of years beaten him, but
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Speaker 1: I just can't seem to do it. Eddie back to you,
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Speaker 1: But you're the man of the hour here. You have
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Speaker 1: also ridden a motorcycle for how many years?
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Speaker 4: Since I was fourteen years old?
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Speaker 1: Okay?
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Speaker 4: I rode dirt bikes and then I rode a few
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Speaker 4: jet bikes and then I went to Harley's.
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Speaker 1: Okay, So, but you've ridden in the Bikers for Beth ride.
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Speaker 4: I'd say fourteen fifteen years, most of it all, Yeah,
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Speaker 4: all of them, all, all of it. One or two
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Speaker 4: I missed because that was it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Rex is saying good morning, now, how are you late? Really?
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Speaker 1: I feel bad for you that you're related to to
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Speaker 1: Rex Thompson. How are you related to this my cousin?
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Speaker 1: Your cousin, Yeah, you know that guy loves you, man,
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Speaker 1: he thinks the world?
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Speaker 4: Are you?
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Speaker 1: Oh and your brother? I mean you guys? Are you
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Speaker 1: know you're all well connected?
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Speaker 5: Uh?
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Speaker 1: He speaks very highly of you. Yeah, when he's serious,
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Speaker 1: which is rare. It's it's not often. But so are
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Speaker 1: you still riding your Harley, I sure you.
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Speaker 4: Are until I can't hold it up no more, it
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Speaker 4: can't go.
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Speaker 1: I am going to be riding all right now. Your
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Speaker 1: beautiful wife of fifty four years next to you. Uh,
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Speaker 1: she had a little problem with you and motorcycle riding.
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Speaker 1: Am I right? Yes? Okay? What happened?
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Speaker 4: Well, I had a beautiful soft tail. Yeah, and she
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Speaker 4: didn't trust my legs anymore. Yeah, got nervous.
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Speaker 1: Okay. How long ago was this? You're seventy two now,
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Speaker 1: when I was seventies, probably seventy. Okay. I traded for
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Speaker 1: a trike. You traded it for a trike.
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Speaker 4: So that she could ride. She feels safer.
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Speaker 1: Ok I hated it. I hated it. What's that, Linda?
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Speaker 1: You loved it? He hated it? Yeah, okay, so we
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Speaker 1: got a compromise here. What the hell's going on? I mean,
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Speaker 1: at some point we got to battle this out right.
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Speaker 4: I didn't like the way it handle, I didn't like
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Speaker 4: the way it ride and all well, I put maybe
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Speaker 4: one hundred miles on it whole year that I had it,
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Speaker 4: or two years that I had it, Okay, and I
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Speaker 4: just hated it. And I called up Wilkins and see
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Speaker 4: what they had and I said, you know, this thing's
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Speaker 4: just nothing but a lawn ornament to me because I
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Speaker 4: hate it.
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Speaker 1: Well, they were accustomed to dealing with old fellas.
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Speaker 4: Like you that I'm I'm old cool.
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Speaker 1: You were born and born and raised on two wheels.
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Speaker 1: But I understand, yeah, you know. I mean here's the plus.
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Speaker 4: Though, still you can't lean, and I like leaning, and
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Speaker 4: yet like but you.
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Speaker 1: Still got the wind in the hair though, I mean
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Speaker 1: a little bit. Okay, wait, show us again, show us again,
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Speaker 1: all right, wind on the side of the hair. So
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Speaker 1: so did you what did you do with the trike?
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Speaker 4: I traded it for another soft deal.
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Speaker 1: Good for you, my man. Yeah, and that just done
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Speaker 1: pissed Linda right off.
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Speaker 4: I wrote it last year and by Christopher Bath.
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Speaker 1: So you guys had a you guys had a little
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Speaker 1: scuffle about this.
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Speaker 4: No, just she didn't doctor me anymore? Was you real? Quiet?
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Speaker 4: And I enjoyed it.
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Speaker 1: For how many weeks?
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Speaker 4: Months?
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Speaker 1: Months? I am? Well, so you're writing that, you're writing
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Speaker 1: that that soft tail? Now?
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Speaker 4: Yes, I am okay? And you love it when I
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Speaker 4: get out of the cellar and his mud gets away
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Speaker 4: from the dirt roads.
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Speaker 1: Sure are you? Do you feel stable enough on this.
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Speaker 4: Oh yeah, okay, I stay active. It's the only way
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Speaker 4: I can keep my mind off and what I've got. Yeah,
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Speaker 4: if I didn't, i'd go bananas, Sure I would, I'd
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Speaker 4: go completely berserk.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I bet, I bet.
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Speaker 4: That's why you know I still work part time and
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Speaker 4: I stay active.
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Speaker 1: So where do you work? Programs?
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Speaker 4: Bart Clank?
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Speaker 1: Okay, what do you do?
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Speaker 4: I'm a security okay, up there. It's right next to
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Speaker 4: Jerry's business where he works.
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Speaker 1: Uh, and Jerry's just writing here in a fist fight
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Speaker 1: between Linda and Ed. My money is on Linda. He
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Speaker 1: didn't say how. I mean, he didn't say how much
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Speaker 1: I could. We could be talking about two or three
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Speaker 1: bucks here.
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Speaker 4: Well, next time I see him back and then I
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Speaker 4: will go out, we'll find out who's all right?
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Speaker 1: So how many days a week do you work in? Parts?
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Speaker 2: Are?
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Speaker 1: In there?
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Speaker 4: I work four days a week, okay, They're only like
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Speaker 4: six hours a day, and then the Saturdays I work
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Speaker 4: four hours.
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Speaker 1: Okay. Where do you Where do you guys live? How
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Speaker 1: long you've been there?
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Speaker 4: Thirty five years?
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Speaker 1: Okay? Where? What about before that? Marshfield? Marshfield okay, all right, Yeah.
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Speaker 4: I couldn't keep putting nothing hooked down up there. Sure,
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Speaker 4: that was the only one on the street work and
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Speaker 4: everybody else on welfare.
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Speaker 1: Well, then, so.
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Speaker 4: When you go out to stock your vehicle to go
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Speaker 4: to work, find out it's empty when you just barely
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Speaker 4: got put ten gallons of gas in it, you kind
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Speaker 4: of wonder or you lose three batteries.
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Speaker 1: Sure, Okay? Where'd you go to high school?
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Speaker 4: Spawling High School? I graduated in nineteen seventy.
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Speaker 1: In seventy, the year I was born. Jesus God, Linda,
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Speaker 1: what about you? Where'd you go to high school? Mont Pilier? Okay,
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Speaker 1: how'd you guys.
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Speaker 4: Meet in filling station? We both bumped gas when pet
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Speaker 4: Goo used to be down on a Bearry Montperial Where well,
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Speaker 4: Panera bread, Panera bread, Panera bread. And what's the other
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Speaker 4: place beside that? Uh, just down the road. Yes, we
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Speaker 4: worked down there. I worked night six to midnight.
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Speaker 1: What were you driving?
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Speaker 4: I was driving a fifty nine Ford and then at
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Speaker 4: the time I had a one hundred Honda dirt bike.
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Speaker 1: I'd used wow, and Linda, what were you? What were
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Speaker 1: you driving around?
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Speaker 4: Nothing?
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Speaker 1: In his car? In his car? Yeah? Right. See, guy's
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Speaker 1: met in the sixties and and you've been in from
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Speaker 1: out your your whole life. Oh yes, okay, yeah, you
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Speaker 1: ever thinking about cashing in and bind that island somewhere
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Speaker 1: south and getting the hell out of here? Really?
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Speaker 4: You write me a check?
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Speaker 1: Oh you are okay?
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Speaker 4: Well, you write me a check and I'll head I'll
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Speaker 4: be gone.
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Speaker 1: All right. So so this is this is your state,
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Speaker 1: this is your.
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Speaker 4: Your born raised here, and I'll.
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Speaker 1: Be buried here. Okay, all right.
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Speaker 4: You're my ashes be thrown into the sewer pipe whatever
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Speaker 4: she does with him, and I won't know afterwards.
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Speaker 1: Uh listen, And as I said earlier, we may we
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Speaker 1: may get a couple of incoming calls here this morning
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Speaker 1: from from folks. He may want to talk with you.
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Speaker 1: I'm not sure if Rex is able to uh to
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Speaker 1: do that or not, but uh, he wanted to. He
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Speaker 1: wanted to be here this morning too, and has said
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Speaker 1: so much about you that just you're you're just a
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Speaker 1: great guy and everyone knows you. So what happened? And
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Speaker 1: and don I want your your input on this, to
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Speaker 1: your your your version of the worry, But what what
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Speaker 1: what happened with this diagnosis? What what's going on?
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Speaker 4: Well? Yeah, go ahead, I uh I couldn't go to
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Speaker 4: the bathroom for a week, okay. So I went to
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Speaker 4: my doctor. He sent me up to the hospital for
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Speaker 4: a scan and he found out I had a blockage.
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Speaker 1: Okay.
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Speaker 4: So from there he sent me to see a surgeon
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Speaker 4: and he well, first have a colonoscopy and they couldn't
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Speaker 4: go only maybe a foot or so up and couldn't
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Speaker 4: go no more because it was blocked. So he recommended
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Speaker 4: I go in for surgery and he took a So
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Speaker 4: I went in and had surgery and he took out
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Speaker 4: a third of my coalon okay, and he said it
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Speaker 4: was cancer and uh, he reconnected the two ends together.
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Speaker 4: Which then I stayed there and I don't know, I
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Speaker 4: don't know, four or five more days in the hospital,
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Speaker 4: and then I sent me home. I came home and
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Speaker 4: then one or two days later I couldn't get out
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Speaker 4: of bed. I was sick, sweating, fever. I was bad.
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Speaker 4: And then my wife come in, looked at me, and
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Speaker 4: then she got one of our friend of ours. She
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Speaker 4: came up and she looked at me and I was
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Speaker 4: white as a ghoal. She said, better rush you up
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Speaker 4: to the hospital. This was like eight o'clock in the morning.
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Speaker 4: So they rushed me up to the hospital. They took
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Speaker 4: me into a CT scan and they put me right
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Speaker 4: into emergency surgery where they had sewed me together.
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Speaker 1: Blew a pirate.
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Speaker 4: I was full of septic and the surgeon came in
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Speaker 4: after I was awake. He said, if you'd wait another
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Speaker 4: couple of hours, you'd been dead.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna say, sepsis can kill you fast,
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Speaker 1: and asked.
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Speaker 4: On top of it all, I came down with covid O. God,
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Speaker 4: so I was the most sickest s ob for the
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Speaker 4: next two weeks that you can think of.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 4: Wow, they'd be putting one bag of and but I
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Speaker 4: saw me as soon as that one emptied, the buzzer
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Speaker 4: go off and the nurse come in and put another
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Speaker 4: one right on me because I've had so much septic
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Speaker 4: in me.
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Speaker 1: And Linda, where you were you're driving the bus here,
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Speaker 1: You're you're right there with him. I'm guessing the.
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Speaker 3: Doctor came in after.
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Speaker 5: If you had waited an hour.
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Speaker 1: If you had waited an hour, you wouldn't be here.
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Speaker 1: Yeah wow, and he does Yeah, oh yeah. I am
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Speaker 1: not surprised, uh Eddie, that you don't like ambulance ambulance rides.
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Speaker 4: I took an ambulance once to Burlington when I had
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Speaker 4: a heart attack a few years back.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, and you probably cussed come out the whole way.
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Speaker 4: Oh, I didn't like it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah. If if I were an EMT driving an ambulance
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Speaker 1: and I pulled up and I just took one look
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Speaker 1: at your face with that hat on and everything, the
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Speaker 1: way you're dressed, everything, I'd be like, oh Jesus, here
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Speaker 1: we go. This guy's going to be a huge pain
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Speaker 1: in my ass.
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Speaker 4: I love you too.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, I mean I could just tell that the
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Speaker 1: way you are, You're you're you're you're an old for honor,
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Speaker 1: You're a self sufficient guy. You're you're tough, tougher than nails.
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Speaker 1: And I'm I could tell by your handshake at what
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Speaker 1: seventy two? I think you said your yeah. Uh. Tim
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Speaker 1: Campbell Senior is saying hi from Florida and wishing all
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Speaker 1: of us a say ride on the eighteenth, I think.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yep, eighteen, yep, eighteenth.
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Speaker 1: Yes, seventeenth is the pre party at Custos. Yeah. So, Donna,
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Speaker 1: how how did you? I mean, obviously you've known Eddie
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Speaker 1: for how long?
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Speaker 3: Well, I've known Linda a lot longer than I've known
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Speaker 3: ed yeah, okay, but yeah, it's been quite a few
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Speaker 3: years so since I've known Ed.
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Speaker 2: But and they've got a good family.
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Speaker 1: Crystal Gale saying good morning from North Carolina. Cindy Wade
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Speaker 1: is locked in here from I think North Carolina.
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Speaker 3: Also, Cindy Wade isn't from is she's from Williamstown.
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Speaker 1: Oh, Cindy Wade, I'm thinking of.
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Speaker 2: The other side.
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Speaker 1: Uh or Briar? And where is she? By the way,
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Speaker 1: She's still in North.
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Speaker 3: Carolina, Cindy Briar, Yeah, she's she'll be up here on
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Speaker 3: the fourteenth or fifteenth, I think.
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Speaker 1: So she's gonna come up and get the helmet on
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Speaker 1: and go and then run right back.
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Speaker 3: Now she's she has a camper. Oh, all right, should
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Speaker 3: be here for this most of the summer. Anyways, she's
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Speaker 3: a bird.
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Speaker 2: Huh yeah, wow, lucky her.
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Speaker 1: So how did you how did you find out about Eddie?
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Speaker 1: I mean, what's like, how did this all unfold? Somebody
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Speaker 1: nominated me? Okay, she wouldn't tell me.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, he was nominated and I knew, you know,
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Speaker 3: what was going on with Ed before he was even nominated.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, but yeah, I still am not telling you
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Speaker 3: who nominated you unless that person told you.
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Speaker 1: Well, we just got to comment. We just got to
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Speaker 1: comment here saying when I congratulated Ed on the nomination,
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Speaker 1: he told me he didn't deserve it, that there were
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Speaker 1: people that are worse off than him.
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Speaker 2: That's what he said.
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Speaker 4: That's what he was said of myself. I think there's
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Speaker 4: got to be people out there worse than me. I
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Speaker 4: told her that when she come up to my house.
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Speaker 3: It's it's hard making that decision, it really is. And
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Speaker 3: we did have a lot of nominations this year, more
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Speaker 3: than we ever had, and just making the decision, it's,
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Speaker 3: you know, it's it's it's difficult.
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Speaker 1: Wrecks you with us?
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Speaker 5: I am my man. Can you hear me?
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Speaker 3: Ye?
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Speaker 1: Can hear you?
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Speaker 3: Laugh?
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Speaker 5: I got to tell you some of my.
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Speaker 6: Best memories with Eddie was growing up and hunting. We
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Speaker 6: always whether it was rabbit hunting, uh, squirrel hunting, bird hunting,
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Speaker 6: and in his Harley's. The guy always had a Harley.
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Speaker 6: I just remember my dad being so jealous and upset
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Speaker 6: every time Eddie got a brand new Harley. I would
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Speaker 6: laugh so hard because he was like, oh, my dad
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Speaker 6: always wanted a Harley. And then Eddie would come up
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Speaker 6: with his brand new Harley, and he was beautiful.
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Speaker 5: He always had like soft tails and shit like that.
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Speaker 5: He's got some tale now, yes, so Eddie's always had him.
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Speaker 6: The Sandborns have always they like they grew up in
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Speaker 6: the woods. They've always been just hard work hunting kind
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Speaker 6: of people. And uh, so I gotta tell you a
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Speaker 6: funny story though. And Eddie, ed do you remember that
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Speaker 6: time you shot Steve Gilman?
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Speaker 4: Oh? Yeah, you, I don't know. I don't remember you
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Speaker 4: being there, but oh.
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Speaker 6: Yeah, we were all there because Eddie. So I'm gotta
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Speaker 6: tell you what happened, JD. Were we got separated. We
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Speaker 6: were Pirateridge hunting. I think cousin Randy was there, my dad, Eddie.
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Speaker 6: I don't remember who Eddie was with, but we all separated.
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Speaker 5: Clarence, that's right. So we separated.
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Speaker 6: We were on the upper hill, Eddie was down below,
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Speaker 6: and a partridge blew up between us.
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Speaker 5: And of course, Eddie, weren't you hunting with a ten gauge?
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Speaker 4: No, no magnums in it.
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Speaker 5: Them fucking tell it's come through.
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Speaker 6: Everybody hit the ground except big old fat Steve Gilman.
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Speaker 5: He couldn't fucking move.
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Speaker 6: He just puts his hands over his head and all
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Speaker 6: the pellets come through. That's where we're start hollering, you
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Speaker 6: killed Steve. He had pellets inside of that. God dang
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Speaker 6: best none of them came through.
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Speaker 1: Oh my god, nobody saw.
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Speaker 5: We didn't even know you were down there.
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Speaker 4: No, you know, I wasn't intentional.
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Speaker 5: No, not at all.
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Speaker 4: No.
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Speaker 6: Randy did the same thing to us once he shot,
22:23
Speaker 6: and the pellets came raining down all around us over
22:26
Speaker 6: at an apple orchard.
22:28
Speaker 1: Rex, Was there any alcohol involved?
22:31
Speaker 5: No, okay, only on Steve's part.
22:34
Speaker 6: Steve was the only one because and it wasn't really alcohol.
22:37
Speaker 6: I think he called it snake bite medicine of the van,
22:42
Speaker 6: and he'd go, oh my god, I just got bit
22:44
Speaker 6: by a snowsnake, And then he'd pull that little bottle
22:47
Speaker 6: out and take a sip off of it.
22:52
Speaker 1: Rex, Are you gonna because are.
22:54
Speaker 5: The things I remember as a kid.
22:55
Speaker 1: Are you going to be riding on the eighteenth?
22:58
Speaker 6: Oh of course I will, all right, Yeah, this full
23:03
Speaker 6: cancer thing is I mean, I went through it with
23:06
Speaker 6: my wife, I went through it with I mean, those
23:09
Speaker 6: guys they just went to His nephew just died. I'm
23:12
Speaker 6: on my way to Dartmouth right now to see Keith
23:15
Speaker 6: and Hornstraw who has just got his cancer back and
23:19
Speaker 6: just went through chemo. So I'm gonna go down there
23:20
Speaker 6: and fuck with him.
23:23
Speaker 1: Wow.
23:25
Speaker 5: So yeah, it's everywhere. You gotta stay away, you gotta
23:27
Speaker 5: watch out. I think it's contagious.
23:31
Speaker 1: I know, man, it's Uh, it's crazy. And to think
23:34
Speaker 1: that this is this is the eighteenth year that this
23:38
Speaker 1: event has been happening, Rex is Uh, it's amazing. It's amazing. Yeah,
23:46
Speaker 1: any other stories about Eddie before we before we let
23:50
Speaker 1: you go.
23:52
Speaker 5: No, They've always been good people.
23:54
Speaker 6: Eddie's always been a super hard working person, so you know,
23:59
Speaker 6: and and and this whole kind of situation really sucks
24:03
Speaker 6: because between being sick, how do you have a job
24:07
Speaker 6: and how do you fucking take care of your family?
24:09
Speaker 6: Like Hegan's self employed, just like I am. They have
24:12
Speaker 6: no income coming in, so how do they.
24:15
Speaker 5: Fucking do this?
24:17
Speaker 6: Even if he survives it, they're gonna have nothing at
24:20
Speaker 6: the other end of this, Right, Why do we have
24:23
Speaker 6: to go broke or die?
24:26
Speaker 1: Yeah? I don't get it true.
24:29
Speaker 6: We shouldn't have to make those choices when it comes
24:31
Speaker 6: to life and death.
24:34
Speaker 1: Rex, thank you for hopping on with us this morning.
24:37
Speaker 1: I love you bid.
24:37
Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, Eddie, you take care. We will see
24:40
Speaker 6: you at the bike man. Me and my wife will
24:42
Speaker 6: be down there. My son also.
24:44
Speaker 4: Yeah, thanks a lot, Rex, I appreciate it.
24:47
Speaker 5: All right. We love you guys.
24:48
Speaker 1: You take care, all right, buddy, We'll see you. So
24:54
Speaker 1: you went up to Eddie's house and he probably knew
25:00
Speaker 1: that you you guys had had chosen him as as
25:04
Speaker 1: the recipient.
25:07
Speaker 2: No, not at the time.
25:08
Speaker 3: I mean, we couldn't do anything until we got all
25:10
Speaker 3: the interviews done and we went over all our notes
25:14
Speaker 3: with every interview that we did. We had interviews for people,
25:19
Speaker 3: somebody that lives in Bradford, somebody that lives all the
25:21
Speaker 3: way down near Bell's Falls.
25:23
Speaker 1: It's and it's what a decision.
25:27
Speaker 3: It's hard, it really is. I mean we, you know,
25:30
Speaker 3: take our notes, we write everything down the best that
25:32
Speaker 3: we can and Stacy and Stacy Marian and Linn Craig
25:40
Speaker 3: both helped with the interviews. We did a couple over
25:43
Speaker 3: the phone just because we couldn't make it down to
25:46
Speaker 3: these people and but with our notes, and it was
25:51
Speaker 3: a toss up between Eddie and one other person.
25:54
Speaker 1: And you know, what's what's amazing about the money that's
25:59
Speaker 1: raised through Bikers for Bath is that when it goes
26:02
Speaker 1: to the recipient, the recipient, there's no conditions. The recipient
26:10
Speaker 1: can use this money for whatever they want any way
26:13
Speaker 1: they want.
26:15
Speaker 3: The pros that whatever we collect goes to the recipient.
26:18
Speaker 1: It's all cash, sure, no cash, no overhead, nothing. I mean,
26:25
Speaker 1: everyone is volunteering or donating. Food is coming.
26:30
Speaker 3: From Josh is the one that handles the food.
26:34
Speaker 1: So yep, over at Custos does an exceptional job every single.
26:39
Speaker 2: Year, exceptional.
26:41
Speaker 1: Totally rely on him, same mail.
26:42
Speaker 3: It's easy. Oh my gosh, Sue Cass's mother is making
26:49
Speaker 3: potato salad. I can't even think of what her last
26:53
Speaker 3: name is the.
26:54
Speaker 1: Same one its it's that the same uh potato salads
26:57
Speaker 1: last year. Huh, that was unbelievable. We went for seconds.
27:01
Speaker 1: Are you surprised? It was so good? The food is
27:06
Speaker 1: always amazing and you're not going to go away hungry,
27:11
Speaker 1: and you're definitely going to go away with a smile
27:13
Speaker 1: and some laughter because everyone.
27:15
Speaker 2: Getting together with every friends family.
27:17
Speaker 1: What's the deal are we doing the silent auction? Are
27:19
Speaker 1: we what's what's the raffle all of that stuff?
27:23
Speaker 3: So I'm not we are going to be eventually selling
27:26
Speaker 3: tickets for three for three raffle items. One of them
27:31
Speaker 3: is definitely a saddle bag from Bergamot and a more
27:37
Speaker 3: and they they've been great with their donations every year.
27:40
Speaker 1: Williamstown always are.
27:42
Speaker 2: We did the.
27:43
Speaker 3: Ride for his father one year, but the day of
27:49
Speaker 3: the were the kickoff party. We're going to be doing,
27:51
Speaker 3: you know some selling tickets for some items and doing
27:58
Speaker 3: you know, like we did last year. Yeah, it starts
28:02
Speaker 3: at it's only from five to eight and Jane McGrath
28:05
Speaker 3: will be playing for US. Shane McGrath, he played for
28:10
Speaker 3: US last year, is.
28:11
Speaker 1: So ridiculously talented. I don't even I don't even know
28:17
Speaker 1: where to begin with that guy. I mean, the first
28:20
Speaker 1: time I heard him, I was so blown away. Williamstown boy, Yeah,
28:24
Speaker 1: my god, is he good? And everyone listening you should
28:28
Speaker 1: tell him that I said that, because I mean, I've
28:30
Speaker 1: told him, but he's so modest too. God man, he's
28:34
Speaker 1: so good. Ye, And thank you Shane for doing that.
28:39
Speaker 3: Yes, we appreciate it. And the day of the ride,
28:42
Speaker 3: train Wreck is playing. Okay, wow, wow, first time we've
28:47
Speaker 3: had a band in a long time.
28:49
Speaker 1: Now, Eddie. Some of us would like to know if
28:57
Speaker 1: you're willing to share and you don't have to. What
29:01
Speaker 1: you might consider doing with the funds that are raised
29:08
Speaker 1: for you for this year's Bikers for Beth. I have
29:12
Speaker 1: medical bills.
29:13
Speaker 4: That's why medical bills that Medicare does not pay, and
29:19
Speaker 4: I see the only insurance I have. All I can
29:22
Speaker 4: do is pay a little a little bit each time
29:25
Speaker 4: that I can. That's all I can do. That's why
29:28
Speaker 4: I'm working. Other than keeping my mind off and what
29:33
Speaker 4: I've got, it keeps me saying, you know, if I
29:37
Speaker 4: sat home did nothing, I'd go nuts. I'd go nuts,
29:45
Speaker 4: you know, I'd drive me insane. Listen what I'd have
29:50
Speaker 4: a lot of wondering to do. Of course, of course,
29:53
Speaker 4: you know when you get this and you're never gonna
29:55
Speaker 4: get you don't know if you're ever gonna get rid
29:56
Speaker 4: of it or not. Because I have to go in
29:59
Speaker 4: every four months. Colon Oscarby is the last one I
30:02
Speaker 4: went in. They snipped out three more polyps and one
30:06
Speaker 4: of them was cancerous. Okay, so in June I've got
30:10
Speaker 4: to go look for another one. It's just going to
30:13
Speaker 4: be an ongoing thing. Yeah, So it just keeps coming back,
30:19
Speaker 4: and I.
30:19
Speaker 2: Hear you have a good person who schedules.
30:22
Speaker 4: Yes, I do, sweetheart.
30:24
Speaker 1: Does she schedule the colon? Does she does she go
30:28
Speaker 1: in there and hold your hand and insert the camera
30:32
Speaker 1: and do all that stuff? She gets you? Does she
30:36
Speaker 1: help with getting you in the in the little NIKEI.
30:42
Speaker 2: There?
30:44
Speaker 1: Listen, Eddie, you know, listen, this has been a tough
30:49
Speaker 1: road for you. It's a tough road for for anybody
30:53
Speaker 1: at any age, but for someone who's in their seventies
30:57
Speaker 1: going through this.
30:59
Speaker 4: I don't wish it on no one. I wish it
31:02
Speaker 4: on no one. Yeah, but it doesn't. Cancer doesn't care
31:07
Speaker 4: who would attack.
31:09
Speaker 2: It does not discriminate.
31:10
Speaker 4: It is not onsoever.
31:12
Speaker 1: You know.
31:13
Speaker 4: I never thought i'd come down with it.
31:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, thankfully it was.
31:19
Speaker 4: Unfortunately I caught mine in.
31:21
Speaker 1: Time, probably because Linda suggested that you might go to
31:29
Speaker 1: the doctor.
31:30
Speaker 4: Well, see, I've never my whole life, I've never had
31:33
Speaker 4: a colonoscoy. But now I tell everybody go get one early.
31:36
Speaker 1: Yeah.
31:38
Speaker 4: I even taught my son and my sister and the
31:41
Speaker 4: rest of them all in. My sister had nine poll
31:44
Speaker 4: up taken out yea, and my son had all been
31:51
Speaker 4: We're all negative. Yes, yeah, my son had one. It
31:55
Speaker 4: was positive.
31:57
Speaker 1: I'd say, you know, and there's so much you know
31:59
Speaker 1: we here, Oh you as soon as you turn fifty,
32:02
Speaker 1: you got to do it. Now they've downed it to
32:04
Speaker 1: like forty eight years old, forty five? Is that what
32:07
Speaker 1: it is now?
32:08
Speaker 2: Forty five?
32:10
Speaker 1: I say, man, you know, I say, if you're going
32:14
Speaker 1: to your doctor anyways and you're forty, just ask the question.
32:19
Speaker 3: Hey, if there's a family history of it, some doctors
32:22
Speaker 3: will suggest doing it.
32:24
Speaker 1: That's right earlier, exactly exactly it find out, you know,
32:29
Speaker 1: ask around, Ask your family, do we have some history
32:32
Speaker 1: of this running through our family? Ask these questions?
32:36
Speaker 2: Yep.
32:37
Speaker 4: I was like, my brother passed away from it. I
32:39
Speaker 4: didn't think any of us.
32:40
Speaker 1: Would have it.
32:42
Speaker 4: I get it, Yeah, but I did you know your family?
32:47
Speaker 4: You know. I'm just fighting it until yeah, hopefully I win.
32:51
Speaker 1: It seems like it seems like it's a good fight, Eddie.
32:57
Speaker 4: Yeah, as long as I keep my mind up in
33:00
Speaker 4: it and keep moving and going on.
33:03
Speaker 1: If I was, if I was cancer, I would be
33:08
Speaker 1: a little intimidated by you. Just to look in your eyes.
33:12
Speaker 1: You look like a badass, you do you look you
33:16
Speaker 1: look like you got a lot of fight left in you.
33:18
Speaker 4: Brother.
33:19
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, stubborn too.
33:21
Speaker 4: I'm stubborn, very stubborn. Yeah, you know, as long as
33:27
Speaker 4: I'm upright, I will fight, Yeah, not give in.
33:32
Speaker 1: But you're still enjoying life. You're still playing it on
33:36
Speaker 1: swinging leg on that microphone or on that motorcycle. You're
33:43
Speaker 1: gonna get out this am I right?
33:46
Speaker 4: Excuse me?
33:47
Speaker 1: You're going to get out this spring on the bike? Right?
33:49
Speaker 4: Oh? Yes, okay, oh yeah, I'll ride that thing till
33:52
Speaker 4: I can't get on it no more.
33:53
Speaker 1: Okay, all right, And Linda won't ride on the back
33:57
Speaker 1: with you.
33:57
Speaker 4: Now, I'm just gonna have to find another hundred twenty
34:00
Speaker 4: pounder or something she get right.
34:02
Speaker 1: On the back. Well, if you have a barn, you're
34:13
Speaker 1: gonna be sleeping in anybody. I'm telling you that right now.
34:15
Speaker 2: Let's get something like what I have.
34:18
Speaker 1: He's got a talk house. Yeah, I have to get one.
34:22
Speaker 1: Get him down tractor's fly, go down there and get one.
34:26
Speaker 3: Oh my god, it's all one.
34:31
Speaker 1: Donald. Where are we with? Uh? Silent auction items? Donations?
34:37
Speaker 1: What do you guys need? First of all, kudos to
34:40
Speaker 1: your whole committee too. You guys meet you guys meet
34:43
Speaker 1: what once a month?
34:44
Speaker 3: Once a month until close to the ride, and then
34:47
Speaker 3: we do the week before and two weeks before the ride,
34:51
Speaker 3: just to make sure we have everything in line.
34:54
Speaker 1: Okay.
34:55
Speaker 3: Eileen O'Connor has once again taken up doing the bottle drive.
34:59
Speaker 3: It's been rough because Southbury doesn't can't take it to
35:04
Speaker 3: Southburry and she has to wait at beverage baron for
35:08
Speaker 3: them to count the returnables.
35:10
Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a job. That's a job in itself, it is.
35:17
Speaker 3: I mean, she's I'm not sure where the farthest is
35:20
Speaker 3: that she's been, but I know she just recently went
35:22
Speaker 3: to Chelsea.
35:23
Speaker 1: And wow, Yeah, what a freaking.
35:27
Speaker 3: She's also helping, you know, collect donations too, so and
35:30
Speaker 3: we are If any business is out there, you know,
35:33
Speaker 3: please reach out. You can go to the Bikers for
35:35
Speaker 3: Beth louisel Heman Way facebook page. You can send a
35:40
Speaker 3: message there. You can reach out to me, or you
35:45
Speaker 3: can reach out to Lynn Crai, you know, Cindy Bryer,
35:48
Speaker 3: Travis pay At, Eileen, you know, any of us, jend worth,
35:56
Speaker 3: any of us if you want to reach out.
35:59
Speaker 1: So we make checks payable to Cinebriar yep.
36:03
Speaker 3: Okay, and if you mail it in the mail. If
36:06
Speaker 3: you're not in the area. My mailing address is on
36:09
Speaker 3: there and.
36:10
Speaker 1: It's that's PO box eight, East Berry five. Okay uh,
36:18
Speaker 1: and get on the Facebook page too, because there's a
36:20
Speaker 1: lot of great information there as well. Kickstands up at
36:23
Speaker 1: eleven o'clock sharp. Yes, we'll half the the national anthem.
36:28
Speaker 1: Tiffany Gast is going to be doing that. Didn't she
36:31
Speaker 1: sing in the past, didn't she? Okay?
36:33
Speaker 3: Yes?
36:35
Speaker 1: The send off prayer will be Steve yep by Steve England,
36:39
Speaker 1: who is a survivor, beneficiary, a just a super human
36:45
Speaker 1: being God. Happy birthday to Lisa too. She just celebrated
36:49
Speaker 1: on she did. But there's another guy who's just had
36:54
Speaker 1: prostate cancer and just whooped its assure. But there it's
37:00
Speaker 1: going to be a barbecue, the raffle, live music afterwards
37:05
Speaker 1: at Gusto's. It is going to be a a happy
37:09
Speaker 1: ton Yes you know that.
37:11
Speaker 4: Oh, yes, I know. I've enjoyed it myself every time
37:13
Speaker 4: I've been there.
37:14
Speaker 1: Now do you it's the doctor said it's all right
37:16
Speaker 1: for you to to put down a beer or two.
37:19
Speaker 4: I haven't been drink in fifteen years. Wo But guess
37:24
Speaker 4: what we there might be one that night drink Okay,
37:31
Speaker 4: all right, So gave it up because I used to
37:33
Speaker 4: drive tractor trail.
37:35
Speaker 1: Well there you go. I mean that's it right.
37:37
Speaker 4: There instead of eight point eight percentage point two, so
37:40
Speaker 4: I didn't dare to drink.
37:41
Speaker 1: Good for you. Good for you. Uh thirty bucks.
37:46
Speaker 3: Thirty bucks get you the ride and the barbecue if
37:50
Speaker 3: you're there just for the barbecue. It's twenty five dollars
37:53
Speaker 3: per person, and twelve and under are free.
37:58
Speaker 1: Awesome. The ride itself, same route as past years, to
38:05
Speaker 1: be determined.
38:07
Speaker 3: We understand that there's a lot of construction going on
38:10
Speaker 3: in the route, so Cindy has a couple of people
38:13
Speaker 3: making doing look arounds and seeing what's going on.
38:17
Speaker 1: I have ah a suggestion, but i'll make that off
38:24
Speaker 1: the air with with you. Just ride that I did
38:26
Speaker 1: not long ago, and I was stunned and how beautiful
38:29
Speaker 1: it was and the roads were perfectly smooth. But whatever
38:33
Speaker 1: we you're gonna let me know right away once you
38:36
Speaker 1: guys finalize the route, and I'm going to put that
38:40
Speaker 1: on Facebook. Yes immediately, Eddie, are you're going to be
38:45
Speaker 1: riding this year? Did I already ask you that question?
38:47
Speaker 5: Yeah?
38:47
Speaker 1: You're going to try to ride? Okay, try Okay?
38:51
Speaker 4: My health is.
38:54
Speaker 2: On the day, one day at a time.
38:56
Speaker 4: Yeah, where will we because I do have bad days
39:00
Speaker 4: in short days.
39:01
Speaker 1: Up Are you going to be upfront?
39:04
Speaker 4: I don't know where I am. Okay, I have no
39:06
Speaker 4: idea where I'm going to be. Okay, Okay, I haven't been.
39:09
Speaker 4: Nobody said nothing.
39:10
Speaker 1: So yeah, if.
39:12
Speaker 3: You're going to be up front, get there as early
39:14
Speaker 3: as Travis does.
39:15
Speaker 1: Yeah. And you know, if you try to cut in
39:18
Speaker 1: the line on Travis Payette.
39:21
Speaker 4: He's my son in law, so he it doesn't matter.
39:25
Speaker 1: Buddy, you don't put your If your front tire is
39:28
Speaker 1: two inches ahead of his, it's not going to be good.
39:32
Speaker 1: I've tried it before. It doesn't it doesn't work. He
39:35
Speaker 1: gets pissed. So do we need more items for the
39:42
Speaker 1: silent auction if we can get them?
39:44
Speaker 3: Yes, he would love to get more items, and we
39:49
Speaker 3: will definitely be having two or three live auction items, Okay,
39:54
Speaker 3: bigger items.
39:55
Speaker 1: What are the logistics on on doing that? What's the process?
40:00
Speaker 2: Usually?
40:01
Speaker 3: You know, it depends, you know how much Like last
40:05
Speaker 3: year we did a Yeti cooler and everyone knows how
40:08
Speaker 3: expensive yet He is or how high priced I should say,
40:11
Speaker 3: And that was one of our live auction items. So
40:15
Speaker 3: we go by, you know, depending on you know what
40:18
Speaker 3: the item is and if we you know what we
40:22
Speaker 3: can get off of it for a donation.
40:25
Speaker 1: Boy, there's a lot of people listening right now. So
40:29
Speaker 1: many people shout out from Jen Lapan, I don't know
40:34
Speaker 1: if she's going to be riding this year, Kathy Email, Hi, Kathy,
40:38
Speaker 1: gen Dilworth, Crystal, I mean, wow, there's.
40:42
Speaker 3: Just Till Gale is actually my nephew, Dustin's sister.
40:46
Speaker 1: Yes, yeah, adore her, adore her. She listens every morning,
40:51
Speaker 1: you know.
40:51
Speaker 2: I see her commenting a lot.
40:53
Speaker 1: Jason Sanborn as my son. Yeah, yeah, I'm sure if
40:57
Speaker 1: he's riding, he'll be riding right next to you at
41:00
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, yeah.
41:01
Speaker 4: My son rides. My daughter rides.
41:04
Speaker 1: How many kids you guys have to go to?
41:06
Speaker 4: Two kids, one daughter and one son.
41:08
Speaker 1: How old are they?
41:10
Speaker 4: My son's fifties.
41:13
Speaker 3: Well, you know Samantha JDA's daughter.
41:17
Speaker 4: And she's in her fifties.
41:19
Speaker 1: Can't say that, buddy, don't say that. Jesus, You're going
41:23
Speaker 1: to catch a whole rappist ship for I'm afraid of her.
41:26
Speaker 1: I am, Yeah, Kyle, he might be right, Okay, Kyle
41:35
Speaker 1: might be riding too.
41:36
Speaker 4: He might be riding to by my nephew from Florida's
41:41
Speaker 4: coming up, but wow, yeah, I'll be here.
41:46
Speaker 1: Yeah, well maybe we can get him on one. So
41:50
Speaker 1: I'm you know, I'm surprised that that you and Donna
41:53
Speaker 1: are are still friends, knowing that Donna is such a
41:57
Speaker 1: proponent of strikes and loves them so much.
42:00
Speaker 2: It's not a trick, JD.
42:02
Speaker 4: I don't judge.
42:02
Speaker 3: He am spider trikes have the two wheels in the back.
42:09
Speaker 3: Does it have three wheels together? Yes?
42:11
Speaker 1: Then I'm surprised your friends with Eddie still period.
42:15
Speaker 4: I don't judge no one what they ride.
42:17
Speaker 2: Okay, I judge should judge. I'm a motorcycle rider.
42:20
Speaker 3: I got my license just like the next person. And
42:24
Speaker 3: because I choose to ride three wheels.
42:26
Speaker 1: Sure, what about Gary? Is he riding?
42:28
Speaker 3: I'm not sure if he's riding this year or not.
42:30
Speaker 3: I think for Eddie.
42:31
Speaker 1: Will you know what I love about this event is
42:34
Speaker 1: that people just come up from everywhere. Let me, people
42:39
Speaker 1: that don't even know you, Eddie, People people that don't
42:42
Speaker 1: know the recipient, they'll be there. I mean, motorcyclists love
42:47
Speaker 1: to do the stuff we get. We get groups and
42:49
Speaker 1: clubs that'll come over from New York, some that come
42:51
Speaker 1: down from Canada, Massachusetts, and and look at Artie b
42:56
Speaker 1: My god, I freaking love that guy.
42:59
Speaker 3: You know, day we see him, well, keep.
43:04
Speaker 1: Watch because he's going to be on aired out real soon.
43:07
Speaker 1: By the way. But I don't want to make that
43:09
Speaker 1: announcement just yet. I think I just did. But Artie
43:13
Speaker 1: is you know, a couple of years ago he left.
43:18
Speaker 1: I think he was down in Massachusetts or somewhere somewhere
43:20
Speaker 1: far away, left at like five in the morning to
43:24
Speaker 1: get up here. And he's like, I'm just arriving now.
43:28
Speaker 1: And I'm like, dude, are you crazy? And he's like,
43:31
Speaker 1: I wouldn't miss this for anything.
43:35
Speaker 4: Great guy, awful lot of good people out there. I
43:38
Speaker 4: appreciate all of them.
43:39
Speaker 1: Yeah, and this ride, I should say, is very well organized.
43:45
Speaker 1: It's safe. There's kind of a debriefing ahead of time
43:50
Speaker 1: of what spots to be, you know, exercise some more
43:53
Speaker 1: caution in it's blocked well intersections. We have stopping points.
43:59
Speaker 1: Are they the same as the past? So there'd be
44:02
Speaker 1: Route five right there, twenty five and five at the
44:06
Speaker 1: mobile station. Then we bang a left on five. We
44:09
Speaker 1: go north up to Wells River and then to P
44:13
Speaker 1: and H truck stop at the junction of Exit seventeen
44:18
Speaker 1: there on ninety one North and we stopped there for
44:20
Speaker 1: a little bit, pee break, photos, food snacks, whenever you need,
44:26
Speaker 1: drink whatever, hang out for a little bit. Jerry Portress
44:32
Speaker 1: is actually going to be going up in a hot
44:35
Speaker 1: air balloon this year with.
44:39
Speaker 3: Hang on.
44:40
Speaker 1: It's tethered with his camera and he'll be photographing all
44:46
Speaker 1: of the motorcyclists together, which is fantastic. Of course, you
44:50
Speaker 1: remember when he climbed that guy's tractor track.
44:52
Speaker 2: I heard about it.
44:53
Speaker 3: I I remember that.
44:55
Speaker 4: You remember that he climber asked the guy and the
44:58
Speaker 4: guys climbered up on.
44:59
Speaker 1: Top of it.
45:00
Speaker 2: Did a camper one year too?
45:02
Speaker 1: Yeah, someone's camper? Yeah, Canadian? I think they were. And
45:05
Speaker 1: he was like, do you mind if I crawl up
45:08
Speaker 1: on top of your camper?
45:10
Speaker 3: And he's a person who's afraid of heights.
45:13
Speaker 1: He's afraid of heights. Yes, I remember that. Remember that.
45:18
Speaker 1: Remember everyone's yelling at him, don't slep b But Jerry's
45:23
Speaker 1: such a great guy. He does amazing pictures. He rides along,
45:27
Speaker 1: he takes pictures, He actually rides his motorcycle with one
45:30
Speaker 1: hand and with the other hand snaps that. Have you
45:34
Speaker 1: seen him do that, Linda, Yeah, sick bastard. Really. I
45:39
Speaker 1: don't know how he does it, but he's he is,
45:45
Speaker 1: but he takes great pictures. And and so then after
45:49
Speaker 1: PNH will stay on three oh two, watch out for
45:51
Speaker 1: a couple of frost heaves and and some that that
45:54
Speaker 1: road takes a beating every year during the winter. And
45:57
Speaker 1: then three oh two back to Barry.
46:00
Speaker 3: Through the city and take a left here on two.
46:03
Speaker 1: Metroway one one thirty quarter or two somewhere in that ballpark.
46:07
Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, somewhere between.
46:09
Speaker 1: A lot of people show up and receive the bikers
46:14
Speaker 1: when they come back.
46:15
Speaker 2: Yeah, they do.
46:16
Speaker 1: And the bikers make it very well known that they're back.
46:22
Speaker 3: We just ask, you know, those people out there in
46:24
Speaker 3: their vehicles, do not try to cut the bikes off.
46:28
Speaker 2: We're not.
46:29
Speaker 3: This isn't just a fun ride. It is a fun ride,
46:32
Speaker 3: but at the same time, we're doing it for a reason.
46:35
Speaker 1: Sure we are.
46:35
Speaker 3: And it's just so rude when you have a vehicle,
46:38
Speaker 3: somebody in a vehicle trying to cut a bike off
46:40
Speaker 3: and it's happened, It has happened.
46:42
Speaker 1: Yeah, it has. What else do we need to know?
46:50
Speaker 1: We need we need some more silent auction items. Get them, yeah,
46:55
Speaker 1: get them to you more.
46:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, reach out to me.
46:58
Speaker 3: Send a message to the Bikers for Beth okay facebook page,
47:02
Speaker 3: Cindy and I yeah, you know we we monitor that page, okay.
47:09
Speaker 1: And if anyone wants to make any kind of donation,
47:11
Speaker 1: even if you're in a different state, if you're not
47:13
Speaker 1: going to be here you it's so easy to do
47:17
Speaker 1: it is yep. Just get on Bikers for Beth on Facebook.
47:21
Speaker 1: That's simple, and it's all going to uh this good
47:24
Speaker 1: looking chap here right in front of me, Eddie, Sam.
47:27
Speaker 1: Not what you said a minute ago. I'm not going
47:31
Speaker 1: to say what you said about your wife when you
47:32
Speaker 1: watch in here. Lord. But you guys have been married
47:37
Speaker 1: for fifty four years. Congratulations. So what's the secret to
47:42
Speaker 1: fifty four years together?
47:43
Speaker 4: Ear plugs?
47:44
Speaker 1: Ear plugs, ear plugs. What are you saying, Linda, Yeah,
47:50
Speaker 1: he's deaf, right, ear plugs. He's deaf and he needs
47:54
Speaker 1: ear plugs. And so there's a there's a good amount
47:57
Speaker 1: of selective hearing that's going on, I think. And he's
48:00
Speaker 1: just stubborn. God, how do you do it. Linda, does
48:03
Speaker 1: someone pay you by the hour to deal with this guy?
48:06
Speaker 1: She's you'd be a millionaire wow pa in the Yeah, yeah,
48:18
Speaker 1: I you know it's funny, uh, Eddie. The second you
48:22
Speaker 1: walked in here, I felt like I've known you for
48:25
Speaker 1: a long time. I think a lot of people feel
48:27
Speaker 1: that way about you. You're just one of those guys, you're.
48:31
Speaker 4: Yeah, I'm an old time German, so yeah, I grew
48:36
Speaker 4: up having it rough. So yes, yeah, you didn't have
48:45
Speaker 4: much and I learned appreciate what I had.
48:49
Speaker 1: And that was it. Yeah. Good team of doctors that
48:56
Speaker 1: are taking care of that up there on the hill though, right, Yeah, yes.
49:01
Speaker 4: Oh, I give him some crap sometimes.
49:04
Speaker 1: I can't even imagine. You wouldn't believe if some if
49:10
Speaker 1: I was a doctor and I saw you coming in,
49:12
Speaker 1: especially after this conversation this morning, I'd be like, you
49:15
Speaker 1: guys are up in my salary twenty percent if I
49:17
Speaker 1: got to deal with this guy. Oh and Linda is
49:22
Speaker 1: stubborn too? Is he missing? Is it? Tilia listener?
49:30
Speaker 4: Yeah, Dean uh Tila, Tilia.
49:33
Speaker 1: Yeah, Yila. She says you're pretty stubborn too.
49:39
Speaker 5: I'm the bitch of the family.
49:41
Speaker 1: Excusey so the fireworks get flying sometimes. Oh yeah, but
49:47
Speaker 1: you've remained together all these years, fifty four years.
49:50
Speaker 5: Have you ever had a divorce?
49:54
Speaker 1: Yeah?
49:54
Speaker 4: Right, anyways, you don't divorced because I ain't got nothing
49:58
Speaker 4: you can have.
50:02
Speaker 1: Listen, and I say this genuinely. There's so many folks
50:10
Speaker 1: that are listening who are posting comments of first and
50:14
Speaker 1: foremost above everything, love to you and support and encouragement,
50:20
Speaker 1: but also belief in you that if there's anybody that
50:26
Speaker 1: can handle this, it's a tough old guy like you. You know,
50:35
Speaker 1: you're a strong dude. I wouldn't tangle with you right now.
50:41
Speaker 1: I can see it in your eye. You got some fight, man,
50:44
Speaker 1: and you need to stay positive, stay encouraged, and you're
50:50
Speaker 1: going to know damn well on May eighteenth how well
50:56
Speaker 1: you're loved, because you're going to see a lot of
50:59
Speaker 1: people there that love you.
51:02
Speaker 4: It's just one thing I never expected. And like I
51:06
Speaker 4: told her, I'm I'm not a person that I don't
51:10
Speaker 4: know how to say out a word for it, but
51:14
Speaker 4: I think there's other people that are worse than me.
51:18
Speaker 4: But mhm, I'm just that's the way I was brought up,
51:23
Speaker 4: you know. Yeah, But you know I don't know what
51:27
Speaker 4: the word is for it, not selfish or whatever the
51:30
Speaker 4: hell is. It's just the way I was brought up.
51:33
Speaker 1: You're a humble guy.
51:36
Speaker 4: Yeah, you know, I think other people before I think
51:39
Speaker 4: of myself.
51:40
Speaker 1: You would you'd rather give than receives?
51:45
Speaker 4: Right?
51:45
Speaker 1: Yeah? Is there anything I'm missing? Donna? There any Is
51:56
Speaker 1: there anything that that we're missing here? I want to
51:58
Speaker 1: make sure we get it all out there.
52:00
Speaker 3: Kickoff party Gustos five to eight.
52:03
Speaker 1: Seventeenth on the seventeenth.
52:05
Speaker 3: The ride registration is from eight to ten thirty on
52:08
Speaker 3: the eighteenth, across the street where it always is from
52:13
Speaker 3: Gusto's kick stands up at eleven. You don't have to
52:19
Speaker 3: ride to attend the barbecue. You can show up. Yeah,
52:23
Speaker 3: for the barbecue. Twenty five dollars for the barbecue.
52:25
Speaker 1: Only best meal you'll have allways, Yep.
52:29
Speaker 3: Checking barbecue rolls me. It's always a good meal. Sure, always.
52:38
Speaker 2: Be there or b square.
52:40
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's a good time.
52:42
Speaker 2: It's an emotional day, it really is.
52:44
Speaker 1: Yeah, Eddie, you've been through You've been through a lot, man,
52:48
Speaker 1: you've been through a lot.
52:49
Speaker 4: Well. I went through hell. First couple of times I
52:53
Speaker 4: thought I was in hell, especially after I ended up
52:57
Speaker 4: with septic almost died. It makes you think, sure, it
53:03
Speaker 4: makes you and then having set and then having COVID
53:06
Speaker 4: on top of it afterwards, You've never been so sick
53:09
Speaker 4: in your life for two weeks?
53:11
Speaker 1: Never?
53:12
Speaker 4: Yeah, never have you been there?
53:14
Speaker 1: You you had quite the infection. Yeah.
53:19
Speaker 4: If I hung around home another hour or two, I
53:21
Speaker 4: wouldn't be here right now.
53:23
Speaker 1: Yeah, well, your your whole body was was poisoned.
53:30
Speaker 4: Yeah. And I was asked if they to reconnect it,
53:33
Speaker 4: and I told him where you could go with reconnection?
53:39
Speaker 4: I did? I sure did. He keeps trying to ask
53:43
Speaker 4: me every time I go for a colost you come
53:46
Speaker 4: in and have that reconnection, And I said, I told
53:48
Speaker 4: you once, sorry, what you can do with your reconnection.
53:50
Speaker 1: So I'll play with this.
53:54
Speaker 4: I'll play with colossia bag even though it's a mess
53:56
Speaker 4: of stinks and everything else. I'll deal with it. But
53:59
Speaker 4: I'm not going to deal with almost dying again.
54:03
Speaker 1: No way, he says.
54:05
Speaker 4: Some people, he says, they heal up, fine. I said,
54:08
Speaker 4: well I didn't, and the way I felt and what
54:11
Speaker 4: was on my mind and everything what I was told, No, yeah,
54:15
Speaker 4: it ain't gonna happen. Good for you, for you know,
54:19
Speaker 4: like I said, I'm stubborn. Yeah, well you know, I
54:22
Speaker 4: went through hell and I'm not going to go through
54:23
Speaker 4: it again.
54:24
Speaker 1: You're also you're stubborn, yes, but you're also you're advocating
54:29
Speaker 1: for yourself. And good for you for speaking up and
54:31
Speaker 1: saying that I'd probably do the same thing. Man, Really,
54:38
Speaker 1: quile of your life, dude.
54:39
Speaker 4: You know, I feel a little better, feel better, and
54:43
Speaker 4: I do better, and I get around and I'm not gonna.
54:48
Speaker 1: Do that again. Yeah, a lot lost a lot of weight.
54:53
Speaker 4: Yeah, I went from uh, two hundred and forty three pounds,
54:57
Speaker 4: I'm down to one hundred and eighty two.
55:00
Speaker 1: Wow.
55:02
Speaker 4: Wow, probably another reason why I feel a little better.
55:07
Speaker 1: Who knows? Listen comment here that cancer doesn't know who
55:13
Speaker 1: it's messing with. He's a strong and stubborn guy. He
55:17
Speaker 1: will win this fight. Oh and good morning, and good
55:23
Speaker 1: luck Ed and Linda, and thank you Donna. From Mary Haynes.
55:28
Speaker 3: Thanks Mary, You've got a.
55:30
Speaker 1: Lot of Eddie. You've got some homework to do. Brother,
55:34
Speaker 1: you need to figure out.
55:35
Speaker 4: How to get please do go ahead. I want to
55:40
Speaker 4: thank all of you very very very much. You're very thoughtful,
55:47
Speaker 4: very nice. I appreciate it.
55:52
Speaker 1: You have some work to do tonight. You need to
55:54
Speaker 1: figure out how to get this loaded up on your computer,
55:59
Speaker 1: which you don't have, I'm guessing, or your phone and
56:04
Speaker 1: read through these comments. Donna's gonna make see she's not
56:07
Speaker 1: in her head already. She's gonna make this happen. You
56:09
Speaker 1: can read them on her phone. You got to read
56:11
Speaker 1: through these comments, Buddy, You've got a lot of love here. Yeah.
56:14
Speaker 1: Well Linda knows how to do it. Thank God.
56:17
Speaker 2: I've got to go to work after this.
56:20
Speaker 1: Thank you, Eddie, I thank you for having me. You're
56:23
Speaker 1: doing You're doing all right, buddy. Yeah. Like I said,
56:26
Speaker 1: I could see the fight in your eyebuddy.
56:28
Speaker 4: Oh, I've got it.
56:29
Speaker 1: I know you do.
56:30
Speaker 4: I've got it.
56:31
Speaker 1: It's going to be a fantastic event and I can't
56:35
Speaker 1: wait to be there and be part of it. I'll
56:36
Speaker 1: be there streaming live. We'll be running around with a
56:38
Speaker 1: microphone shoving it in your face and and several others. Course,
56:44
Speaker 1: Donna always I always get, I always get. I always
56:48
Speaker 1: get my bikers for Beth. Good morning kiss from Donna
56:52
Speaker 1: Poitras which I'm gonna be honest with you, Eddie. To me,
56:57
Speaker 1: that's worth the thirty bucks.
57:00
Speaker 3: No not everyone is going to get a good morning
57:03
Speaker 3: kiss from Donna thirty Bucks.
57:05
Speaker 1: It's a kissing both kissing booth.
57:08
Speaker 4: Thirty Buck used to be a Buck.
57:11
Speaker 1: But it's Donna Poortress we're talking about, buddy. There's a
57:14
Speaker 1: new kissing booth this year. That's amazing. Jesus, we just
57:17
Speaker 1: announced it. Thank you, Linda, thank you, Eddie, thank you Donna.
57:24
Speaker 1: Love you guys. I'm so glad to have met you
57:26
Speaker 1: and now call you a friend as well.
57:29
Speaker 4: Eddie, thank you very much.
57:30
Speaker 1: All right, I appreciate it.
57:31
Speaker 3: Yeah, you're doing this every year for us.
57:33
Speaker 1: You've got always always well. Thank you, Love you, Tatt