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5th Annual Air Peyton Memorial 5k Walk/Run for Pediatric Cancer Awareness · Aired Out

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  Speaker 1: Good morning everybody, and welcome to a brand new day.
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  Speaker 1: Looking at that a beautiful day today. As I said yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: there's really no change up here in the forecast. It
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  Speaker 1: is going to be sunny and hovering into the low
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  Speaker 1: to mid seventies here pretty much all week and getting
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  Speaker 1: a glance at this coming weekend upcoming, it is going
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  Speaker 1: to be pretty much perfect. I'm not seeing anything that's
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  Speaker 1: jumping out at me, which is great news for any
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  Speaker 1: of you that are going to be doing anything outdoors,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's stack and firewood, maybe buttoning up the roof,
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  Speaker 1: doing some outdoor projects, or maybe you're going to be
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  Speaker 1: involved with the fifth annual Air Paytent Memorial five K
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  Speaker 1: Walk and run for pediatric cancer awareness. And with me
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  Speaker 1: in the studio are my special guests Matt and Danny Smith.
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  Speaker 1: It is an absolute honor to have you both in here.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you very much for having Thank you
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  Speaker 1: so much for being here. You're loving this forecast for
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  Speaker 1: this weekend. Absolutely, yes, you know I have to. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to be very transparent, and it admit a few
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  Speaker 1: things here this morning that I don't know. It's I'm
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  Speaker 1: almost embarrassed to admit I have heard of this, but
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  Speaker 1: I have not taken a full grasp of exactly what
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  Speaker 1: it is and what a big deal it is in
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  Speaker 1: our community. And Danny, I think it was you that
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  Speaker 1: kind of got on me about this, right I did.
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  Speaker 2: I reached out to you on Facebook and sort of
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  Speaker 2: stalked you a little bit and tell.
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  Speaker 1: You I appreciate that so much. You have no idea,
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  Speaker 1: because let's be honest, we all know there's a ton
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  Speaker 1: of stuff that's going on in our community, absolutely and
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  Speaker 1: a lot of a lot of it can fall through
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  Speaker 1: the cracks. But with you, you made sure that this
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  Speaker 1: was this was something that I was not only aware of,
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  Speaker 1: but that I might be able to try to push
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  Speaker 1: a little bit here on my platform. And I'm so
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  Speaker 1: blessed that that you stayed with me and didn't let
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  Speaker 1: me off the hook here because this is because seriously,
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  Speaker 1: once I started looking into this, I realized what a
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  Speaker 1: what a huge deal this is, and what a what
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  Speaker 1: a story this is you are mom and dad. Okay, Vermonters.
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  Speaker 2: Not originally wait a.
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  Speaker 3: Second, not natives.
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  Speaker 4: We've been here since two thousand and eighteen, so I'm
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  Speaker 4: originally from New Sure, Danny's.
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  Speaker 2: We're becoming Vermont, becoming Vermont.
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  Speaker 4: We understand there's significant criteria of which we might get.
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  Speaker 5: We're doing ours.
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  Speaker 3: We're doing our best.
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  Speaker 1: Second, you've you've survived the flood in Montpellier.
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  Speaker 3: We did.
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  Speaker 1: You're Fronors. But you have you have a young child,
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  Speaker 1: boy man, young man, young man, Yes, all right, and
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  Speaker 1: tell me about him.
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  Speaker 2: So are older? We have We actually have two boys.
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  Speaker 2: Our oldest son, Peyton, was just this amazing kid. Everything
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  Speaker 2: was going fine, we were getting ready to move.
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  Speaker 5: We were living in Europe.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 2: Matt was in the Air Force and so we're getting
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  Speaker 2: ready to move. Uh And probably for about a year
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  Speaker 2: before we were getting ready to move, he kept complaining
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  Speaker 2: of pain and in his in his hip and his knee,
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  Speaker 2: and so he played sports. So we would take him
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  Speaker 2: to the doctor. Doctor said, it's just you know, he's
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  Speaker 2: just overuse all of that. Finally did an MRI. They
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  Speaker 2: went in and did a biopsy and found out that
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  Speaker 2: it was ewing sarcoma. A type of bone cancer that
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  Speaker 2: was initially they thought just in his right leg. Immediately,
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  Speaker 2: the Air Force amazingly said, we've got to get you
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  Speaker 2: guys back now. We don't have time to wait.
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  Speaker 1: And you were both in the Air Force.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I'm a reservist and so I was working at
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  Speaker 2: Ramsin Air Base and he was working at the NATO
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  Speaker 2: base there in Germany, and so we were getting ready
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  Speaker 2: to come. His next assignment was at Norwich University as
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  Speaker 2: the Air Force RTC Commander, and so we had planned
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  Speaker 2: on moving back to you know, back to New England anyways,
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  Speaker 2: and when we started looking around, we everyone felt like
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  Speaker 2: the best care could be had at MASS in Boston,
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  Speaker 2: that there's just so many, you know, so many great
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  Speaker 2: doctors and programs there. So on a plane we got
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  Speaker 2: on the plane and headed back, and immediately within that afternoon,
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  Speaker 2: after we got off of the plane from Germany, we
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  Speaker 2: went to MASS Gen they started doing the testing. By
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  Speaker 2: that next week he had started his initial treatments.
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  Speaker 5: So we we were.
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  Speaker 2: Living in a hotel and a residence in sponsored by
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  Speaker 2: the Fisher House, and you know, he was coming back
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  Speaker 2: and forth up here to go to Norwich for work,
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  Speaker 2: and we were just kind of doing what we doing
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  Speaker 2: what we could to get his treatment done.
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  Speaker 5: That was our main focus.
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  Speaker 1: Now, what about your other boy?
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  Speaker 2: So, our younger son has been through all of this
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  Speaker 2: an absolute rock star, like he is just just yeah,
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  Speaker 2: his name's Keegan, and he is just just the best
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  Speaker 2: he has been. When we first got here, he was
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  Speaker 2: staying with friends sometimes people that were old friend of
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  Speaker 2: Matts that he didn't even know, didn't matter, part of
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  Speaker 2: our family.
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  Speaker 5: They just would take.
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  Speaker 2: Him and so trying to get him in school and
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  Speaker 2: all of that would just be it was a lot.
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  Speaker 2: But he was such a trooper the entire time.
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  Speaker 1: Wow, how old was Keegan during all of well, well
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  Speaker 1: this was all unfolding.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, twelve, he was twelve.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so Keegan, Yeah, he turned twelve that summer.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so he turned twelve that summer, going into sixth grade.
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  Speaker 4: Seventh grade, Yeah, seventh grade. And then Peyton was a
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  Speaker 4: rising junior at am Montpellier High School, and so Keegan
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  Speaker 4: was going to the middle school.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, wow, already I'm just like, I'm trying to wrap
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  Speaker 1: my head around this and process this as if, as
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  Speaker 1: if any of this wouldn't be as difficult as it is.
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  Speaker 1: The fact that you guys were in Europe and in
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  Speaker 1: the Air Force and having to uproot and and run
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  Speaker 1: back and and deal with this is it.
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  Speaker 3: Was a lot.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we were on a plane I think probably within
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  Speaker 3: two days.
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  Speaker 4: Right.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, we didn't know at the time.
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  Speaker 4: We didn't know at the time that the Peyton's cancer
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  Speaker 4: and metastasized, and you know, we just didn't we didn't
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  Speaker 4: have an understanding of kind of what we were dealing with.
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  Speaker 4: So we knew time was out of the essence. And unfortunately,
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  Speaker 4: the support that I had just from an Air Force
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  Speaker 4: perspective and then from a Norwich University of perspective. I
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  Speaker 4: mean that at the time President Schnyder, you know, Rich
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  Speaker 4: Snyder was the president at Norwich. He supported us on
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  Speaker 4: equivocally just as a family, even though I didn't necessarily
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  Speaker 4: I worked for them as a university. But he wasn't
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  Speaker 4: necessarily my supervisor. I was still active to the Air
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  Speaker 4: Force and uh, and so I think probably the most
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  Speaker 4: challenging aspect of all of this was literally trying to
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  Speaker 4: find a place to live, knowing that we were going
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  Speaker 4: to end up in central Vermont, you know, where was
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  Speaker 4: that going to be? And then kind of the relationship
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  Speaker 4: that we were going to have with the hospitals in Boston,
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  Speaker 4: and then the relationship potentially that we're going to have
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  Speaker 4: with UVM because UVM has you know, elite resources in
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  Speaker 4: Burlington as well, just from a pediacor cancer perspective, And
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  Speaker 4: it was ultimately determined that you know, going back and
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  Speaker 4: forth for frontline care to Boston was at that time
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  Speaker 4: the best course of action, you know, for.
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  Speaker 1: Us, and you also got some help from the Jimmy Fund.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So after Peyton did, he was considered cancer free for
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  Speaker 2: about three months before he relapsed. They're not one hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent sure if it was an actual relapse or if
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  Speaker 2: it just the initial treatment knocked it down so far
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  Speaker 2: that it wasn't it wasn't completely detectable. And so when
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  Speaker 2: he relapsed we went back to mass Gen. They said, yes,
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  Speaker 2: the cancer is back and we aren't able to treat it.
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  Speaker 2: There's no uh, there's no actual treatment for you in sarcoma.
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  Speaker 2: After the initial treatment is complete. It all becomes at
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  Speaker 2: that point studies and trying different things and seeing what
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  Speaker 2: might what might take. Clinical trials, Yeah, lots of clinical
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  Speaker 2: trials and things like that. There's no whereas like for
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  Speaker 2: the initial treatment, it's a very set regimen like a
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  Speaker 2: lot of cancers, but for relapse there's nothing.
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  Speaker 4: So at that point, you know, mass Gen has a
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  Speaker 4: you know, obviously unique local relationship with Dana Fiber and
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  Speaker 4: the Jimmy Fun and they said, you know, there's a
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  Speaker 4: there's a doctor who's one of the leading uh pediatric
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  Speaker 4: oncologists and researchers in the country. We're going to pair
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  Speaker 4: you up with them and make sure that to see
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  Speaker 4: if there's some opportunities for Peyton to be on trials.
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  Speaker 1: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: And so that's you know, whe at that.
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  Speaker 4: Point we established that relationship with you know, with them
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  Speaker 4: and UH and so you know, we did all you know,
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  Speaker 4: the battery of tests and so on and so forth
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  Speaker 4: and kind of that, which kind of brings us full
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  Speaker 4: circle to why we do what we do today. The
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  Speaker 4: doctor that we worked with, you know, gets his funding
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  Speaker 4: from Alex's Lemonade stand Foundation, so they do the research
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  Speaker 4: grants to not just the Jimmy Fun hospitals throughout the
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  Speaker 4: entire country. And so that's when, you know, that's when
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  Speaker 4: we realized, you know, obviously through the professionalism and the
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  Speaker 4: care that the Jimmy Fun provides, but also just through
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  Speaker 4: the fact that knowing that if that research money was
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  Speaker 4: not provided to hospitals like Dana Farber, like the Jimmy
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  Speaker 4: Fund and other places, you know, children would literally not
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  Speaker 4: have a second chance at life. And that's really what
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  Speaker 4: you're giving them is you're doing tests to determine what
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  Speaker 4: what what you know, how can we whether it's immunotherapy,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's you know, DNA sequencing, you know, And I'm
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  Speaker 4: probably getting all this wrong, but the bottom line is
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  Speaker 4: we felt like that relationship was unique enough and it
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  Speaker 4: was meaningful enough that if we were going to do
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  Speaker 4: anything in the future as an established you know, in
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  Speaker 4: this case, Air Peyton you know Incorporated, which is you know,
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  Speaker 4: are soon to be nonprofit that we're that we're establishing
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  Speaker 4: that we're we're going to raise money to do that,
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  Speaker 4: and so up you know, up in for the last
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  Speaker 4: five years we worked with Alex or at least four
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  Speaker 4: years we worked with Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation to make
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  Speaker 4: sure that all of our proceeds, one hundred percent go
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  Speaker 4: there so that kids like Peyton can get an opportunity
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  Speaker 4: to do a trial where they are not necessarily I
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  Speaker 4: Dana Farber, but wherever they may be, Philadelphia, Chicago, New York,
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  Speaker 4: you know, you know, Saint Jude. It doesn't necessarily matter
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  Speaker 4: where that for us, where that money goes to. What
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  Speaker 4: matters is that the children have an opportunity to do
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  Speaker 4: that because in some cases that the trials work, Like
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  Speaker 4: you know, you know, when we had when Dan and
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  Speaker 4: I spoke with Liz Scott of Alex's Lemonade Stand Foundation,
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  Speaker 4: she's the co founder of that. Had her daughter Alex
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  Speaker 4: been a lot today, she would have had an opportunity
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  Speaker 4: to go on a trial that potentially would have cured
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  Speaker 4: the type of cancer that Alex had. And so that's
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  Speaker 4: just that's inspirational for us, and it's inspirational I think,
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  Speaker 4: and it just gives parents hope. And like that's our
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  Speaker 4: theme for this year for twenty twenty five is keeping
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  Speaker 4: hope alive. So that's again why kind of why we
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  Speaker 4: do what we do, and we think it's it matters
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  Speaker 4: and it's meaningful and and arguably it's it just keeps
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  Speaker 4: us going.
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  Speaker 1: Alex was a little girl, yep, little girl who was
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  Speaker 1: diagnosed with cancer at age two. I think you were
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  Speaker 1: telling me right, and started a Lemonade Stand. Yeah, for herself.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she wanted to, she wanted to do something, and
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  Speaker 2: so she told her mom, you know, why isn't there money?
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  Speaker 2: Because on average, a lot of a lot of cancer
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  Speaker 2: studies for more adult cancers, for cancers in general, come
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  Speaker 2: from the NIH, the National Institute of Health. Only four
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  Speaker 2: percent of their funding goes to all pediatric cancers and
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  Speaker 2: so and a lot of that goes to the more
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  Speaker 2: common of the pediatric cancers, like leukemia, that type of thing,
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  Speaker 2: and so there just isn't funding. And even as a
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  Speaker 2: little girl, she understood that that that was unacceptable to her,
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  Speaker 2: and so she asked if she could do a lemonade
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  Speaker 2: stand and then told kids in her class, and it
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  Speaker 2: just grew and grew and grew from there. And and
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  Speaker 2: so that's that's kind of their mantra is that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: one person doesn't have to do everything, but if somebody,
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  Speaker 2: if everybody does a little bit, then it just grows
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  Speaker 2: and grows and grows.
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  Speaker 1: Power and numbers.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, yep.
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  Speaker 1: So let's just mention numbers here. Just Alex's lemonade stand.
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  Speaker 1: What do you know, I mean that that first lemonade stand,
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  Speaker 1: what did that pull in? Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: So Alex's initial goal was a million dollars, and so
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  Speaker 2: before she passed, they were able to raise million dollars
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  Speaker 2: through local lemonade stands, her lemonade stand and then her
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  Speaker 2: friends and the community, and it just grew and grew
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  Speaker 2: from there. And so I think.
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  Speaker 5: That was two years. It took her two years to.
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  Speaker 2: Do that, two years to raise the million dollars, the
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  Speaker 2: initial million dollars, which is still amazing for a lemonade stand.
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  Speaker 3: But for a little girl too, Yes.
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  Speaker 2: I know who was sick at the time and going
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  Speaker 2: through treatment and you know, didn't didn't feel well most
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  Speaker 2: of the time, and so I can't I can't imagine
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  Speaker 2: the fortitude that she had to make that happen. So,
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  Speaker 2: but I don't remember how much have they raised now
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  Speaker 2: over the last twenty five.
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  Speaker 3: Years, Yeah, the last twenty five years.
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  Speaker 4: The twenty five year aniversary happened, I think over the summer,
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  Speaker 4: but I think they're close to four hundred and fifty million.
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  Speaker 3: Dollars raised. So which is you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, which is so? Which did?
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  Speaker 3: Which is? Which is incredible? And it's and it's so needed.
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  Speaker 1: So and in the Northwestern Mutual and high end dare.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Northwestern Mutual, uh, Northwestern Mutual. In fact, uh, September
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  Speaker 4: is Pediatric Cancer Awareness month, and so Jad, we appreciate
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  Speaker 4: you having us on during this month. I mean, we
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  Speaker 4: appreciate you having us on anyways, but just pediatric cancer
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  Speaker 4: should have more than just one month. But the fact
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  Speaker 4: that this September I think is special. And and if
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  Speaker 4: you go to you know, Northwestern Mutual there they dedicate
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  Speaker 4: an entire page to their relationship with Alex's Laminade Sand Foundation,
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  Speaker 4: and uh, it's you know it, it's heartwarming. It's heart
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  Speaker 4: warming to see just an entire company like that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: just give give, you know, give time, give energy, give
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  Speaker 4: a voice, uh to to pediatric cancer and uh in
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  Speaker 4: pediatric cancer research because uh, again it's needed and they
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  Speaker 4: do it, and they do it in such a meaningful
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  Speaker 4: way you know as well that anyone can contribute. Again
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  Speaker 4: what just like Alex's Laminade Sand Foundation says, they say
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  Speaker 4: literally one cup at a time. And to me, that
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  Speaker 4: translates to, you know, either bringing awareness to if you
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  Speaker 4: can give, if you can give a dollar, give a dollar,
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  Speaker 4: you can give more. That's great because again I think
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  Speaker 4: that Alex's makes it. They make sure that that money
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  Speaker 4: donated matters, that it doesn't. It's not spent frivolously. It's
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  Speaker 4: spent in the meaningful capacity. And we've seen it firsthand.
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  Speaker 4: We've we've been beneficiaries of that research money and grant
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  Speaker 4: and we are so grateful.
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  Speaker 1: Wow. Yeah, how you know, I obviously I want to
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  Speaker 1: ask you about the word air and get into that pussure.
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  Speaker 1: Did Peyton graduate from Montpilier High School? He did.
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  Speaker 2: He graduated in twenty twenty, which was a crazy, crazy
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  Speaker 2: time to be to try and be trying to finish
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  Speaker 2: up high school and graduate. The Mont player High School
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  Speaker 2: did an amazing job. They they actually had each of
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  Speaker 2: the kids come up individually outside to the high school
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  Speaker 2: and they got to put on their cap and gown
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  Speaker 2: and walk across the state and then they spliced it
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  Speaker 2: all together so that the families could zoom it out
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  Speaker 2: and we could all watch it. And so yeah, he
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  Speaker 2: was he was beyond excited that he was able to
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  Speaker 2: go out and uh and do that and and put
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  Speaker 2: on his you know, his cap and gown. So and
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  Speaker 2: it was really it was really tough in a lot
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  Speaker 2: of ways because there was a lot of things that
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  Speaker 2: you know, he missed out on his senior prom because
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  Speaker 2: all of everything was canceled because of COVID. He missed
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  Speaker 2: out on they every year, the Jimmy Fun does a
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  Speaker 2: trip to Florida for spring training, and he was scheduled
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  Speaker 2: to go on that and that was canceled with he
• 19:41
  Speaker 2: was supposed to go to Red Sox spring training. His
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  Speaker 2: baseball team at the high school was supposed to go
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  Speaker 2: on a spring break trip to Florida for baseball to
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  Speaker 2: play baseball down there with a bunch of other teams.
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  Speaker 2: They weren't able to do that, so he, uh, he
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  Speaker 2: missed out on quite a bit because not only because
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  Speaker 2: he was so sick, but because of COVID. So we
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  Speaker 2: just we made the best of it. And Mont Pilier,
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  Speaker 2: you know, in true Mont Pilier High School fashion, took
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  Speaker 2: great care of all the kids and made sure that
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  Speaker 2: they got as much, you know, as much as they
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  Speaker 2: could out of everything.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't know who over at Montpilier High School,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm sure there are several people that just refused
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  Speaker 1: to allow this event to not happen, right, and not
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: only that, but also refused to not let it grow
• 20:43
  Speaker 1: right into into something as big as it is now.
• 20:46
  Speaker 1: And this is year number five this coming Sunday at
• 20:51
  Speaker 1: Montpilier High School. It's from eleven till two and it's
• 20:55
  Speaker 1: a walk and a run of five k right, right, right,
• 20:58
  Speaker 1: And it's done either in person there at the school,
• 21:02
  Speaker 1: right or virtually. Right. It's just the first year that
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: it's been done virtually.
• 21:07
  Speaker 5: No, this is the third year.
• 21:10
  Speaker 3: That's a yeah, it's a third or fourth year.
• 21:12
  Speaker 5: Yeah, third or fourth year.
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: And we started that because we have as a military family,
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: we have friends literally around the world, you know, stationed everywhere.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: And we thought, well, because our younger son had done
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: a couple of virtual five ks during twenty twenty during
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: COVID when everything was shut down, just have something fun
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: to do. And we were like, well, these people would
• 21:36
  Speaker 2: like to participate and they'd like to give, and so
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: what if we do it?
• 21:39
  Speaker 5: What if we do it virtually? What if we offer
• 21:41
  Speaker 5: a virtual option?
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: And so we have people all around the world doing
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: all right, let's.
• 21:45
  Speaker 1: Let's name names and name countries. Sure go.
• 21:49
  Speaker 4: So so this year there's participants just across the just
• 21:54
  Speaker 4: across the US, I mean everywhere from Alaska.
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: Tim in Alaska, what a friend Tim in Alaska?
• 22:01
  Speaker 3: Yes, Actually, there's no Tim.
• 22:04
  Speaker 4: Michelle there's multiple people in Alaska, Uh, this, California, Uh,
• 22:09
  Speaker 4: the Nevada, Texas, Florida, Virginia, Michigan.
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 22:15
  Speaker 4: You know j D I, I we'd be remiss if
• 22:17
  Speaker 4: I didn't give a shout out to you know, we work.
• 22:20
  Speaker 4: I work with some teams in n C double A
• 22:22
  Speaker 4: Hockey Lake Superior State University and Sue Saint Marie, Michigan.
• 22:27
  Speaker 4: Their entire team is coming together wearing air paytent colors.
• 22:33
  Speaker 4: They're going across the border to Sue Saint Marie, Canada,
• 22:36
  Speaker 4: participating in the Terry Fox Run in honor of Peyton
• 22:41
  Speaker 4: and so they're they're doing that there, which of course,
• 22:44
  Speaker 4: the Terry Fox Run specifically raises money for pediatric cancer
• 22:48
  Speaker 4: because Terry Fox himself had OSTEO sarcoma and did the.
• 22:51
  Speaker 3: Marathon of Hope. Uh.
• 22:54
  Speaker 4: And them Union College in New York is also participating.
• 23:00
  Speaker 4: And then you know there's we have our.
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: Younger son goes to Salve Regina University down in Newportwood, Island,
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: and the entire team is doing is doing the run
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: together as a team.
• 23:15
  Speaker 5: So and we have yeah, friends.
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: This just turned into a Texas everywhere.
• 23:19
  Speaker 3: Yeah, it has.
• 23:20
  Speaker 4: And I think that you know, just through platforms like yours,
• 23:23
  Speaker 4: they get the word out there. I think initially, you
• 23:27
  Speaker 4: know what, what was just a humble sort of get
• 23:30
  Speaker 4: together in high school. I think the power of social media,
• 23:33
  Speaker 4: the power of just you know, voices such as yourselves,
• 23:37
  Speaker 4: just I think gives people like us strength to continue
• 23:41
  Speaker 4: because you wonder, like, are we really doing something with this?
• 23:44
  Speaker 3: Is this really? Is this really meaningful? You know, because
• 23:46
  Speaker 3: there's a lot.
• 23:47
  Speaker 4: Of work because into it, you know, there's a ton
• 23:50
  Speaker 4: of work, and we wouldn't be able to do it
• 23:51
  Speaker 4: with I mean, our friends that help out are amazing.
• 23:54
  Speaker 4: I mean, my you know, my sister helps out, my
• 23:56
  Speaker 4: brother helps out, you know, Danny's uh, you know, Danny's
• 23:59
  Speaker 4: friends and family help out. So I mean it is
• 24:02
  Speaker 4: really a team effort. And but I think that the
• 24:06
  Speaker 4: social media platforms itself because you can tell Peyton's story
• 24:09
  Speaker 4: without like, you know, without me having to always tell
• 24:14
  Speaker 4: the story of Danne have to tell the story or
• 24:15
  Speaker 4: a Kegan, you know, whether it's through the website, whether
• 24:18
  Speaker 4: it's through you know, a podcast or or or something
• 24:21
  Speaker 4: like that, you have an opportunity to kind of just
• 24:24
  Speaker 4: say the goodness about Peyton, uh and and what he
• 24:27
  Speaker 4: meant and how hard he fought. You know, I mean
• 24:29
  Speaker 4: childhood cancer kids, whether they passed or whe they're still alive,
• 24:34
  Speaker 4: I mean warriors. I mean, they really are across the board.
• 24:38
  Speaker 4: Peyton never complained, He never complained once, and he just
• 24:41
  Speaker 4: went and did what needed to be done. And I
• 24:44
  Speaker 4: think that that level of resiliency and how he mamed
• 24:48
  Speaker 4: his positive maintained positivity throughout all of it regardless. I
• 24:52
  Speaker 4: think that's something that should be celebrated, not just in
• 24:55
  Speaker 4: the month of September, but it's celebrated throughout. And if
• 24:57
  Speaker 4: this is if this can be our little way of
• 24:59
  Speaker 4: giving back and raising money and bringing awareness, then these
• 25:03
  Speaker 4: kids deserve it. They didn't ask to get cancer. They
• 25:07
  Speaker 4: didn't ask to get cancer at all. And in a
• 25:09
  Speaker 4: lot of cases, I mean all of them were living
• 25:11
  Speaker 4: healthy lives up until the point where they no longer
• 25:14
  Speaker 4: are healthy because they were stricting with cancer. So if
• 25:16
  Speaker 4: we can do our part right, and again, that could
• 25:19
  Speaker 4: be just wearing a bracelet, it could be wearing a
• 25:20
  Speaker 4: T shirt, it could be wearing gold. It could be
• 25:23
  Speaker 4: you know, maybe donating money or time or effort or
• 25:26
  Speaker 4: volunteerism and stuff like that. So that's why we do
• 25:29
  Speaker 4: what we do, and it motivates us. And again, I'd
• 25:32
  Speaker 4: be remiss if I didn't say thank you for having
• 25:34
  Speaker 4: us on and being able to say those words.
• 25:36
  Speaker 3: So appreciate it.
• 25:36
  Speaker 1: Jad. This is I am. I'm sitting here, I'm listening
• 25:42
  Speaker 1: to you, and I'm saying to myself, this is such
• 25:47
  Speaker 1: a blessing for me that I've met you guys, and
• 25:51
  Speaker 1: that we're having this experience this morning here in the air,
• 25:54
  Speaker 1: because I feel like I've made two more friends, and
• 25:59
  Speaker 1: I would love to have you on obviously every year.
• 26:05
  Speaker 5: Yeah, I would love that.
• 26:06
  Speaker 1: And shame on me for for not having you on
• 26:11
  Speaker 1: year one, two, three, and four. I've got to do
• 26:16
  Speaker 1: some making up for that.
• 26:18
  Speaker 5: Well, we appreciate it.
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: Thank you, and I intend to uh and at the
• 26:23
  Speaker 1: absolute least just promote this is as much as possible.
• 26:27
  Speaker 1: Thank you. This is a really this is a fun event.
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: I mean the pictures that I've seen just on your
• 26:38
  Speaker 1: your social media Air Payton twenty five right, Ye, Yes,
• 26:43
  Speaker 1: everybody's happy. Yeah, everybody's having amazing.
• 26:47
  Speaker 2: It's so much fun and it's so it's so heartwarming
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: to see one of the things that as as a
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: mom who's lost a kiddo is you're just so afraid
• 26:58
  Speaker 2: that people will forget him.
• 27:00
  Speaker 5: And every year.
• 27:01
  Speaker 2: Seeing seeing the air Paytent t shirts around town or
• 27:05
  Speaker 2: going out and if I say air Paytent, people know
• 27:09
  Speaker 2: what that is and they remember him. And that to
• 27:11
  Speaker 2: me is like if if there's no other reason to
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: do it than that, just that that people still celebrate
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: him every year.
• 27:18
  Speaker 1: So he's what's the deal now? He aspired to create
• 27:24
  Speaker 1: an athletic sneaker.
• 27:26
  Speaker 5: He did.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: He was absolutely enamored and in love with sneakers and
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: the sneaker culture and from the time he was probably
• 27:35
  Speaker 2: in early middle.
• 27:37
  Speaker 5: School, loved it.
• 27:38
  Speaker 2: Would would look for sneaker drops to see when the
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: next and the latest, greatest thing was coming out.
• 27:43
  Speaker 5: And his goal.
• 27:45
  Speaker 2: One of the one of the things that really meant
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: a lot to him, was to be a sneaker designer someday.
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: And so when we started, like when he went through
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: the whole college application process, that's what we were looking
• 27:57
  Speaker 2: for is programs that have in austrial design or sneaker design.
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: He actually did a summer course down at Risdy in
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: Rhode Island while while he was in between treatment too.
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: It was like a week long program to do sneaker design,
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: and so that was his make a wish was to
• 28:16
  Speaker 2: go to the Nike headquarters and design his own sneaker.
• 28:20
  Speaker 2: And so we were able to go and do that.
• 28:23
  Speaker 2: Make a wish, made that happen, and so he designed
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: a Jordan for he got to sit down with the
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: actual Air Jordan team at the Nike headquarters and design
• 28:34
  Speaker 2: his own sneaker, and so they put on it Air
• 28:37
  Speaker 2: Peyton and so that's where we came up with the
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: name Air Peyton.
• 28:42
  Speaker 6: So, yeah, how come you didn't bring with I know, yeah,
• 28:47
  Speaker 6: so we totally we didn't think this through j but
• 28:51
  Speaker 6: but yeah, but a very quick search, a very quick search.
• 28:55
  Speaker 4: Of Air Peyton and and Air Jordan four will reveal
• 28:59
  Speaker 4: multiple articles by uh, you know, by sneaker magazines, sneaker
• 29:06
  Speaker 4: designers and Instagram posts and Facebook posts and all that
• 29:10
  Speaker 4: sort of stuff. So so yeah, so the real so
• 29:15
  Speaker 4: the backstory on the Air Jordan four. airG Jordan four
• 29:17
  Speaker 4: is obviously their signature shoe when it comes to you know,
• 29:20
  Speaker 4: whether it's artists or athletes and all that sort of stuff,
• 29:23
  Speaker 4: when when they're kind of creating their signature shoes. So
• 29:25
  Speaker 4: Peyton knew that he wanted to create that. And so
• 29:27
  Speaker 4: if you look at the colors on there, JD there,
• 29:30
  Speaker 4: it's air Force blue.
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: Right.
• 29:31
  Speaker 4: He was an air Force kid and and so he
• 29:34
  Speaker 4: spent really in one way, shape, one way or another,
• 29:36
  Speaker 4: eighteen years in the US Air Force as a dependent
• 29:40
  Speaker 4: and so he was traveled literally all over the world,
• 29:42
  Speaker 4: born in Oklahoma, went to school everywhere, and so the
• 29:45
  Speaker 4: Air Force culture was very important to him. So that's
• 29:47
  Speaker 4: why that blue was that blue. So that is that
• 29:50
  Speaker 4: is the air Force blue. And then the yellow that's
• 29:52
  Speaker 4: the pediactor cancer yellow. So and then is that it
• 29:56
  Speaker 4: right there on your Yeah, those are them going to
• 29:59
  Speaker 4: bring them over see yeah, so those.
• 30:01
  Speaker 3: Are them and so.
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: Really yeah, so there's four pair in.
• 30:05
  Speaker 3: The So there's four pair in the world.
• 30:07
  Speaker 4: Uh So mine's still fresh minor unworn, and Danny's are
• 30:12
  Speaker 4: still unwarned.
• 30:12
  Speaker 3: Keegan has worn his, and Peyton of course wore his.
• 30:15
  Speaker 4: And that's him with all four pair right there in
• 30:19
  Speaker 4: his in his bedroom. And so the you know again
• 30:23
  Speaker 4: the backstory, you know, in fall of twenty nineteen, through
• 30:27
  Speaker 4: make through Make a Wish Vermont and in collaboration with
• 30:30
  Speaker 4: Make a Wish Oregon, he went out to Nike headquarters,
• 30:32
  Speaker 4: sat down, just like Danny said, sat down with the
• 30:35
  Speaker 4: Jordan Division and created those shoes.
• 30:37
  Speaker 3: So we sat with people, Yeah, crazy amazing.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: People that actually sat down with Michael Jordan and make shoes. Yeah,
• 30:44
  Speaker 2: which it's just yeah, we were so blown.
• 30:47
  Speaker 4: Away, blown away, so selecting whether it's the colorway, whether
• 30:50
  Speaker 4: it's the cloth or the leather, you know, and all
• 30:54
  Speaker 4: that sort of stuff. And so there's unique things throughout
• 30:56
  Speaker 4: that sneaker, you know, all the places that Peyton lived
• 30:59
  Speaker 4: or lasering graved along the base of the shoe. The
• 31:02
  Speaker 4: bottom of the shoe is pediacric cancer yellow uh in it.
• 31:05
  Speaker 4: So and then just something that's super unique jd On
• 31:08
  Speaker 4: on the right side is if you notice that logo,
• 31:11
  Speaker 4: it's not just a cancer logo, but the white is
• 31:14
  Speaker 4: the Nike you it's yeah, Peyton, Yeah, that was Peyton's idea.
• 31:22
  Speaker 3: So he came up with that.
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: So it's a it's gonna I could have something like
• 31:24
  Speaker 1: that so obvious right in front of my face.
• 31:27
  Speaker 2: I know I would have never he was so so creative, right.
• 31:31
  Speaker 4: Right, So it's so subtle but yet so uh just
• 31:34
  Speaker 4: so poignant. And so that and and Nike has been
• 31:38
  Speaker 4: amazing to work with and just you know, just essentially
• 31:43
  Speaker 4: uh you know, as far as allowing that to be
• 31:47
  Speaker 4: on the sneaker and allowing to be part of the
• 31:49
  Speaker 4: Air Peytent history. And so that's why, that's why the
• 31:52
  Speaker 4: event itself is called Air Peyton.
• 31:53
  Speaker 1: And so can we get more than four? Me though?
• 31:56
  Speaker 3: I know, right, you're one of a million, that's yeah.
• 31:59
  Speaker 4: So there's been a lot of folks and there's been
• 32:02
  Speaker 4: you know, it's no surprise, there's been a lot of
• 32:04
  Speaker 4: people that have offered an unbelievab amount of money for
• 32:07
  Speaker 4: those shoes. And yes, yeah, well they're at our house,
• 32:14
  Speaker 4: locked up in a vault.
• 32:15
  Speaker 3: No, I'm just kidding.
• 32:16
  Speaker 4: Uh no, we so we have a gym downstairs. So
• 32:19
  Speaker 4: peyton shoes are in the gym which is called it's
• 32:21
  Speaker 4: the Air Payton Memorial Gym, which our friends built for
• 32:24
  Speaker 4: Keegan in honor of his brother who passed.
• 32:27
  Speaker 3: Wow, and so but all but Peyton.
• 32:30
  Speaker 4: That's where Peyton's sneaker collaboration is in a very it's
• 32:33
  Speaker 4: in a temperature controlled environment.
• 32:35
  Speaker 1: I know. No, yeah, that's not that's not but.
• 32:40
  Speaker 4: You got to make sure you take care of him,
• 32:42
  Speaker 4: and uh and and whatnot. And so Peyton was very
• 32:46
  Speaker 4: particular about how he cared for his shoes, how he
• 32:49
  Speaker 4: cared for his clothing and all that sort of stuff.
• 32:51
  Speaker 4: And so you know, when he was designing it, he
• 32:53
  Speaker 4: had an idea. And what's pretty cool, JD is on
• 32:55
  Speaker 4: the tongue or not the tongue, but the in sool
• 32:59
  Speaker 4: is nozar art from nose art from World War two aircraft,
• 33:04
  Speaker 4: so like you know, the the shark's teeth if you will,
• 33:07
  Speaker 4: So if you go back to like a P forty
• 33:09
  Speaker 4: Warhawk or P fifty one, he took the nose art
• 33:12
  Speaker 4: off of that and that is the insol to the
• 33:15
  Speaker 4: shoe as well.
• 33:15
  Speaker 3: So crazy, yeah, it is crazy.
• 33:18
  Speaker 5: Yeah, he's very creative.
• 33:19
  Speaker 1: Guys. This is this is really quite a story here.
• 33:28
  Speaker 1: Look at this. I'm going to be sharing this up
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: to I'm going to get all of this.
• 33:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah.
• 33:33
  Speaker 4: There they are, Yeah, there they are right there. And
• 33:36
  Speaker 4: so if you look at the bottom right hand part
• 33:38
  Speaker 4: of that shoe, I don't know if you can see that. Yeah,
• 33:40
  Speaker 4: so like the left side, the furthest of the left
• 33:42
  Speaker 4: says Oklahoma City and then all the places that he's
• 33:46
  Speaker 4: that he's that he's lived with the last one being.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: Vermont, Pennsylvania, Italy Germany.
• 33:55
  Speaker 3: Right, yep. And then there's the tongue.
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: Yep, absolutely incredible. There it is.
• 34:07
  Speaker 3: There we go, yeah, there we go, there we go.
• 34:12
  Speaker 4: And then then of course the Nike the you know
• 34:15
  Speaker 4: you're the yellow inside the yeah, right in there, and
• 34:25
  Speaker 4: then yellow on the bottom and then blew as well.
• 34:27
  Speaker 3: That was his idea.
• 34:31
  Speaker 4: And then there's that's the insult that I'm talking about.
• 34:33
  Speaker 4: So if you turn them on their side, if you
• 34:35
  Speaker 4: remember back in the day, you know, it was just
• 34:37
  Speaker 4: important for the crews to personalize their aircraft, and so
• 34:41
  Speaker 4: Peyton thought, you know, it's important that I'm personalizing my shoe,
• 34:45
  Speaker 4: and I want to personalize my shoe akin to what
• 34:49
  Speaker 4: you know, are you know US Army Air Force, you know,
• 34:55
  Speaker 4: air Corps aviators at at the time. So it was
• 34:58
  Speaker 4: important to him that to have military Air force representation.
• 35:01
  Speaker 4: So again this is this is all him. I have
• 35:05
  Speaker 4: zero design ability in my body. And yes, so yeah,
• 35:12
  Speaker 4: what a story. Yeah it's great.
• 35:15
  Speaker 5: He's pretty amazing.
• 35:17
  Speaker 1: I'm so blown away. I didn't I didn't know this.
• 35:20
  Speaker 1: I mean I do now. Yeah. I think a good
• 35:22
  Speaker 1: number of people who weren't aware of this are now.
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: I mean, this is incredible.
• 35:27
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and yeah, and so just a quick shout out
• 35:33
  Speaker 4: to you know, Peyton got accepted to a lot of
• 35:36
  Speaker 4: schools across the country. I mean, University of Oregon. He
• 35:39
  Speaker 4: applied to Universe of Oregon just because the the unique
• 35:42
  Speaker 4: ties between University of Oregon and obviously Nike with Phil
• 35:45
  Speaker 4: Knight and all that sort of stuff, and you got
• 35:49
  Speaker 4: a step in the bailor the University of Texas.
• 35:52
  Speaker 3: That's where Danny.
• 35:52
  Speaker 4: Went wentworth in Studo Technology in Boston, because again he
• 35:57
  Speaker 4: wanted to be an industrial designer, if you will. However,
• 36:01
  Speaker 4: what we ended up doing was just going to Saint Mike's.
• 36:03
  Speaker 4: You know, He's like, well, I just I want to
• 36:05
  Speaker 4: try to experience college. And so Peyton applied to Saint Mike's,
• 36:11
  Speaker 4: got into Saint Mike's and we moved him in and
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: all that sort of stuff, and you know, that was
• 36:16
  Speaker 4: to be the start of his kind of collegiate you know,
• 36:19
  Speaker 4: sort of experience with the hopes of at least something
• 36:22
  Speaker 4: possibly some trial working out and whatnot. But you know,
• 36:28
  Speaker 4: and that was the fall of twenty twenty. And bottom line,
• 36:32
  Speaker 4: Saint Mike's was incredible and supported him and supported us throughout.
• 36:38
  Speaker 3: And whatnot.
• 36:39
  Speaker 4: And I say that just because of the fact that
• 36:41
  Speaker 4: you know, that was that was important to him, was
• 36:44
  Speaker 4: to try to experience college, try to experience some semblance
• 36:48
  Speaker 4: of what it meant to be a normal eighteen year
• 36:50
  Speaker 4: old kid.
• 36:51
  Speaker 2: So that was kind of one of our themes kind
• 36:54
  Speaker 2: of throughout his treatment is to give him as much
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: normal as we could. You know, he got his driver's license,
• 37:04
  Speaker 2: he did driver z he he tried to go to
• 37:07
  Speaker 2: school as much as he possibly could. And they were
• 37:12
  Speaker 2: his treatment team at mass Gen, his treatment team at
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Dana Farber, the high school. You know, everyone worked so
• 37:18
  Speaker 2: hard to give him as much normal and everyday life
• 37:24
  Speaker 2: that he could have the normal teenager things and girlfriends
• 37:28
  Speaker 2: and friends and being a part of the sports teams,
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: and the high school was Monpular High School was amazing.
• 37:35
  Speaker 2: From the moment he showed up, they were just like,
• 37:38
  Speaker 2: whatever we need to do to make sure that he
• 37:42
  Speaker 2: is here as much as he can be, that we
• 37:44
  Speaker 2: make accommodations when he can't, and we just go from there,
• 37:49
  Speaker 2: and that was really important to him. We would when
• 37:52
  Speaker 2: he was going through radiation, we would be in Boston
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: for the radiation treatment for pro They only have proton
• 37:59
  Speaker 2: radiation treatment in certain locations, and there's only a couple
• 38:03
  Speaker 2: on the East Coast, and one is in Boston at
• 38:06
  Speaker 2: mass Gen and you have to it's Monday through Friday
• 38:09
  Speaker 2: treatment every day, and so we had to stay down there.
• 38:13
  Speaker 2: And so Peyton and I basically moved down to Boston
• 38:17
  Speaker 2: and he would do a treatment Friday morning, we would
• 38:19
  Speaker 2: get in the car, drive back up to Vermont and
• 38:22
  Speaker 2: he would go to his last two classes just so
• 38:25
  Speaker 2: that he could go.
• 38:25
  Speaker 5: To school just a little bit, because.
• 38:27
  Speaker 2: It's a six week program and he was going to
• 38:29
  Speaker 2: miss six weeks at school and he just didn't didn't
• 38:32
  Speaker 2: want to do that, So so we made accommodations and
• 38:37
  Speaker 2: made it happen. And to be as sick as he
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: was and to just be like whatever, I'm going to
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: still get up and I'm going to go to school,
• 38:44
  Speaker 2: and that was so important to him.
• 38:47
  Speaker 5: It's just it's amazing the things that he was able to.
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: Accomplish in tough absolutely he gets from mom.
• 38:57
  Speaker 1: Wow, that didn't spread my mom, Sir. Both of you
• 39:02
  Speaker 1: are remarkably strong individuals and fantastic parents. This this event
• 39:13
  Speaker 1: on Sunday brings together not just Montpelier and students from
• 39:19
  Speaker 1: Montpelier no High School, but Norwich University and several other
• 39:24
  Speaker 1: schools too.
• 39:25
  Speaker 3: Absolutely.
• 39:26
  Speaker 4: Yeah, so you thirty two has been in this from
• 39:28
  Speaker 4: Jump Street as well. We also have support, uh, you
• 39:33
  Speaker 4: know from you know, there's been there's been Berry residents
• 39:38
  Speaker 4: you know, and and folks from all of central Vermont
• 39:42
  Speaker 4: that have been a part of this, you know, from
• 39:43
  Speaker 4: from day one. And the support that we receive from
• 39:46
  Speaker 4: businesses and Montpelier, the support that we receive from businesses
• 39:49
  Speaker 4: you know here and Barry has been has been amazing.
• 39:55
  Speaker 1: I know that you guys don't have papers in your
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: hands right with a cheat sheet right with the list
• 40:03
  Speaker 1: of all of the businesses and individuals that have made
• 40:07
  Speaker 1: this such as success. But you got some pretty big sponsors.
• 40:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we do. We've been very everyone has been amazingly generous.
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: And I'm always amazed each year when we reach out
• 40:20
  Speaker 2: and say, hey, we're you know, this is this is
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: the next year, next year, that they're just like absolutely
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: what can we do to help? From you know, people
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: in the local community to just a huge variety of
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: sponsors and our friends that own businesses kind of around
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: the country sponsor as well, and they're just everyone is
• 40:40
  Speaker 2: just amazing. It's amazing to see the people that come
• 40:43
  Speaker 2: out and give and we have everything from you know,
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: small donations. If that's what the business can provide, then
• 40:50
  Speaker 2: that's awesome. We do a huge raffle at the event
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: every year.
• 40:55
  Speaker 5: That's usually a huge, huge hit.
• 40:57
  Speaker 2: So we do everything from We've had Norwich key from
• 41:00
  Speaker 2: the hockey team, you signed.
• 41:02
  Speaker 5: Jerseys VM VM here.
• 41:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah. This year they've donated not only a a fight
• 41:10
  Speaker 2: cancer jersey from the team, but they've also donated hockey
• 41:14
  Speaker 2: tickets and basketball tickets.
• 41:17
  Speaker 5: We've had we I mean all kinds of stuff.
• 41:20
  Speaker 1: You guys are blowing my mind right now.
• 41:22
  Speaker 5: So it's amazing.
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: This year we are actually, in addition to our normal raffle,
• 41:26
  Speaker 2: we're having flowers by Danielle donated a e bike, so
• 41:31
  Speaker 2: we have an amazing I wish it were mine e bike.
• 41:35
  Speaker 5: It's it's awesome.
• 41:36
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're raffling that off as well to raise
• 41:39
  Speaker 2: more money.
• 41:40
  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean Telbert's Maple Syrup in Maple Syrup Farm
• 41:44
  Speaker 4: in Cabot, I mean.
• 41:47
  Speaker 2: Big Fox and Skinner has been, they've been, They've they've
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: sponsored every year.
• 41:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, not surprised.
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, no, that Heidi graph over there and her partner
• 41:59
  Speaker 2: there amazing.
• 42:01
  Speaker 5: We were very lucky.
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: They were one of the first families that we met.
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: Our boys played baseball together, our younger son and their
• 42:08
  Speaker 2: son played baseball together, and they are lifelong friends. Whether
• 42:13
  Speaker 2: he he likes it or not, we're she's she's amazing
• 42:16
  Speaker 2: and they have been amazingly supportive like they are to
• 42:20
  Speaker 2: a lot of different community events.
• 42:22
  Speaker 5: So mmr the Trench.
• 42:24
  Speaker 4: Fan Yeah, mmr, the Trench family. I mean every almost
• 42:28
  Speaker 4: literally every single restaurant in Montpellier has done a gift
• 42:32
  Speaker 4: you know, done a gift card.
• 42:33
  Speaker 2: Everything from Buddies in the Mad Taco.
• 42:35
  Speaker 3: Yeah, Buddy's Mad, all of the.
• 42:42
  Speaker 1: We're all just talking raffle here.
• 42:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, this is just Yeah, the raffle is kind of
• 42:46
  Speaker 4: a big deal. It's super exciting and uh, it's an
• 42:48
  Speaker 4: opportunity for i mean, Danny and friends and family. They
• 42:51
  Speaker 4: build gift they guilt build gift baskets if you will,
• 42:55
  Speaker 4: and then you can just get you know, you get
• 42:56
  Speaker 4: raffle tickets by just signing up for the event. Anyways,
• 42:58
  Speaker 4: you can buy additional raffle ticket in mind you we're
• 43:01
  Speaker 4: not charging.
• 43:01
  Speaker 3: Obviously thousands of dollars for affle tickets. Which kind of
• 43:04
  Speaker 3: makes it exciting. Uh.
• 43:05
  Speaker 4: And so it's just an opportunity for one, is for
• 43:09
  Speaker 4: the local businesses and community and and whatnot to get exposure,
• 43:12
  Speaker 4: right you know, because if you get a gift card,
• 43:14
  Speaker 4: you're gonna go there, right, I mean yeah, you know,
• 43:18
  Speaker 4: and again whether whatever whatever that is, and so gives
• 43:22
  Speaker 4: them an opportunity to maybe try something that they haven't
• 43:24
  Speaker 4: had an opportunity to try, you know, in the pasture
• 43:28
  Speaker 4: and you know, Morse Farm another one they have more
• 43:30
  Speaker 4: year in and year out. You know, those guys have
• 43:34
  Speaker 4: those guys have been have Beenary Capital, Stationary, Eric Biglestone
• 43:38
  Speaker 4: and team. It's been, it's been. It's been amazing. Forget
• 43:42
  Speaker 4: me not Flowers just across the street has been great
• 43:45
  Speaker 4: ye as well. So yeah, I mean it's it's been great.
• 43:49
  Speaker 4: And you know, in some cases it's not thousands upon
• 43:51
  Speaker 4: thousands of dollars of gift cards. But we don't care
• 43:54
  Speaker 4: like it does. It doesn't people get excited, you know.
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: And we have a good friend too that our younger
• 44:01
  Speaker 2: sons played baseball together and they he donates. He's a
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: bit of a sneaker head as well, just like Peyton was.
• 44:08
  Speaker 2: And so every year he donates. Last year, he donated
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: Jordan Force for the fourth annual.
• 44:14
  Speaker 3: Yeah, and so easy slides.
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this year it's easy slides and the phone.
• 44:18
  Speaker 3: Phone runners, phone runners.
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we'll be raffling those off as well.
• 44:22
  Speaker 4: And that's the stage ad and the theme of just
• 44:24
  Speaker 4: you know, the air Payton the sneakerhead, the sneaker head
• 44:27
  Speaker 4: sort of theme, you know. And also I mean, what
• 44:28
  Speaker 4: kid doesn't want you know, yeah, yeah, you know fresh.
• 44:32
  Speaker 5: Hair, Yeah exactly.
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, So I don't know, hold you are, man,
• 44:38
  Speaker 1: but this kind of stuff wasn't happening when we were kids. No, no, no, no,
• 44:42
  Speaker 1: there there was no sneaker on the earth that was
• 44:45
  Speaker 1: going for two or three hundred bucks.
• 44:47
  Speaker 3: Yeah no, no, no, you know what I'm saying.
• 44:49
  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, maybe maybe like you know, yeah parent Chuck Taylor's.
• 44:55
  Speaker 2: Or when Peyton first got into it and he would
• 44:57
  Speaker 2: come home and we were like, what on earth?
• 45:01
  Speaker 5: Yeah, this is crazy.
• 45:03
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 45:03
  Speaker 4: So Peyton declared himself, I think maybe when he was
• 45:06
  Speaker 4: twelve or thirteen, he's like yeah, he's like, I'm I'm
• 45:11
  Speaker 4: in you know, I'm a sneakerhead and all that sort
• 45:13
  Speaker 4: of stuff, like that's my hobby. Yeah, and I'm thinking
• 45:15
  Speaker 4: to myself, well, your hobby requires you.
• 45:17
  Speaker 5: To spend that amount of money.
• 45:19
  Speaker 3: Amount of money.
• 45:20
  Speaker 4: And to his credit, I mean he he would save
• 45:22
  Speaker 4: money and and he would save up baby, and he
• 45:27
  Speaker 4: would you know, work at the pool and do all
• 45:29
  Speaker 4: that sort of stuff just so we could save money,
• 45:31
  Speaker 4: so we could buy sneakers.
• 45:33
  Speaker 1: That was his groove.
• 45:34
  Speaker 5: That was groove absolutely.
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Matt and Danny Smith are my guests this morning, the
• 45:38
  Speaker 1: parents of Peyton and this coming Sunday is the fifth
• 45:43
  Speaker 1: annual Air Peyton Memorial five K Walk and run for
• 45:46
  Speaker 1: pediatric cancer awareness Sunday from eleven to two at Montpellier
• 45:50
  Speaker 1: High School. Registration is going to end on September tenth,
• 45:55
  Speaker 1: so five pm, right.
• 45:56
  Speaker 2: There's a there's a couple of the preregistration will will stop,
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: but people can show up day of and register. The
• 46:04
  Speaker 2: way that we have registration set up is if you want,
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: if you want to register and purchase a T shirt,
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: it's thirty dollars, but we encourage everyone to just come
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: out and you it's it's by donation. If you don't
• 46:18
  Speaker 2: want a T shirt and you can donate a dollar,
• 46:21
  Speaker 2: you can donate one hundred dollars.
• 46:22
  Speaker 5: It doesn't matter.
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: We we just want to encourage everyone to come out
• 46:25
  Speaker 2: and participate.
• 46:27
  Speaker 5: So we've kind of set it.
• 46:28
  Speaker 2: Up that way because we want to we want to
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: make sure we're including everyone and giving everyone that opportunity.
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: It's not like you have to do the five K No.
• 46:36
  Speaker 3: No, not at all.
• 46:37
  Speaker 4: Yeah, there's I mean, there's there's food vendor coming from
• 46:39
  Speaker 4: Merthy's Kingdom.
• 46:42
  Speaker 5: Rockies New York style hot Dogs is coming.
• 46:44
  Speaker 1: Yeah.
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: Uh and they're going to have and they all hot dogs.
• 46:49
  Speaker 3: I mean they're they're bringing their thing.
• 46:51
  Speaker 1: So those food trucks obviously, lemonade, absolutely, face painting, lawn games, yes,
• 46:57
  Speaker 1: bouncy house.
• 46:58
  Speaker 4: Oh yeah, we have two huge is coming for older
• 47:01
  Speaker 4: people like myself and.
• 47:03
  Speaker 3: Really yeah oh yeah.
• 47:04
  Speaker 1: So seriously, I'm going to chiropractor next this morning because
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: I threw I threw mine out, so I will be
• 47:08
  Speaker 1: at the bouncy house. But it's good that there's an
• 47:11
  Speaker 1: adult version.
• 47:12
  Speaker 2: Yes, there's a larger and a smaller to keep everyone safe. Wow.
• 47:15
  Speaker 5: Yeah, so it'll be great. We'll have a hugeage right
• 47:18
  Speaker 5: outside that yeah, abs exactly.
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: We do have a couple of massages that have been
• 47:22
  Speaker 2: donated for the raffles, so yeah.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: Perfect, good, maybe some Aceta.
• 47:27
  Speaker 2: Metafine exactly, exactly.
• 47:29
  Speaker 1: This is absolutely incredible, guys, And no matter what the
• 47:32
  Speaker 1: weather's doing, you're showing this.
• 47:35
  Speaker 3: We are fully prepared rainer shine.
• 47:37
  Speaker 1: Do I understand this? Am I reading this correct? Us?
• 47:39
  Speaker 1: Of last year, twenty six thousand dollars raised for Alexis
• 47:43
  Speaker 1: Lemonade stand.
• 47:44
  Speaker 4: Yeah, last year we raised twenty six last year, yeah,
• 47:46
  Speaker 4: last year, twenty six. The goal this year is fifty thousand,
• 47:49
  Speaker 4: and so we think we think there is a very
• 47:52
  Speaker 4: very strong chance of us not just achieving that, but
• 47:55
  Speaker 4: exceeding that.
• 47:57
  Speaker 2: We're almost a forty thousand already.
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: Yeah. Oh wow.
• 48:01
  Speaker 4: Yeah, and that's without just any of the stuff that
• 48:03
  Speaker 4: happens on the day of the event.
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: Yeah, we get a lot of folks that come and
• 48:07
  Speaker 2: sign up the day of, so we will still have
• 48:09
  Speaker 2: two shirts available.
• 48:10
  Speaker 1: So yeah, this has really turned into you guys are
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: like notched now, this is really something huge. You should
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: be very proud of yourself.
• 48:21
  Speaker 3: Thank you.
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: I know you feel blessed from we do your community
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: very much. Yeah, yes, for showing up and all the
• 48:28
  Speaker 1: faces that you don't know, people that exactly you don't
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: get to me, right, but they're there because in some
• 48:37
  Speaker 1: way right, directly or indirectly, they have been touched from
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: some form of cancer. It's a hot button, it is.
• 48:44
  Speaker 1: It's just the word cancer a lot doesn't have to
• 48:47
  Speaker 1: be pediatric, which is whole other level.
• 48:49
  Speaker 3: That's a true statement.
• 48:50
  Speaker 1: But man, it's like, yeah, we're touched by.
• 48:53
  Speaker 4: This, right right, And that's the idea is just to
• 48:55
  Speaker 4: bring awareness obviously the pediatric cancer, but at the same
• 48:58
  Speaker 4: time we recognize that we're not alone in this, in
• 49:00
  Speaker 4: this in this battle, and and if it helps other folks,
• 49:04
  Speaker 4: either through their own personal struggles or someone in there,
• 49:07
  Speaker 4: someone in their family's loved one, then then that's that's great,
• 49:10
  Speaker 4: and we welcome them wholeheartedly and get them on board
• 49:14
  Speaker 4: for sure.
• 49:15
  Speaker 1: Right ahead.
• 49:16
  Speaker 5: I sorry.
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: I met a lady last weekend at the farmer's market
• 49:22
  Speaker 2: that's coming out to run. She had just recently lost
• 49:24
  Speaker 2: someone to cancer, and so she was so grateful to
• 49:28
  Speaker 2: have something that she felt like she could do because
• 49:31
  Speaker 2: she said she felt so helpless, you know, losing someone
• 49:35
  Speaker 2: that was close to her, and she was very excited
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: to be able to come out and participate. So yeah,
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: so I'm hopeful that you know that we can continue
• 49:43
  Speaker 2: that I know, I I don't think I've ever met
• 49:47
  Speaker 2: someone who hasn't at least known someone, whether it was
• 49:51
  Speaker 2: someone personal to them, a friend, a family member, or
• 49:54
  Speaker 2: just someone that they knew that has that has been
• 49:57
  Speaker 2: diagnosed with cancer.
• 49:59
  Speaker 5: So it's such a.
• 50:01
  Speaker 1: It just it.
• 50:02
  Speaker 2: Like Matt said, it touches absolutely everyone in some way,
• 50:05
  Speaker 2: shape or form.
• 50:06
  Speaker 1: So Peyton is so happy for what you guys have
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: done and what you're continuing to do with such tragedy
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: and great deep sadness. You guys have turned this around
• 50:34
  Speaker 1: and you've turned it into something massive that is hopefully
• 50:41
  Speaker 1: going to continue to have a residual effect on many
• 50:47
  Speaker 1: more thousands of people than it already has.
• 50:51
  Speaker 2: So hopeful.
• 50:53
  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's really something else.
• 50:55
  Speaker 4: Thank you, Thank you very much, and thanks for Dadie
• 50:58
  Speaker 4: for just giving a voice to it. I mean, yeah,
• 51:00
  Speaker 4: we are forever grateful and absolutely you are now part of.
• 51:06
  Speaker 1: Man that gives me goosebumps.
• 51:08
  Speaker 6: I am.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: If I can sneak over there on Sunday, I'm gonna well,
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: And if I can't, I'm saving the date next year
• 51:17
  Speaker 1: on the calendar.
• 51:18
  Speaker 3: Awesome.
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: You guys are are doing incredible work. Thank you, an
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: absolute pleasure to have you on. Thank real quick hit
• 51:28
  Speaker 1: on the Colonel and the coach. We cannot we cannot
• 51:32
  Speaker 1: close out without giving a given some props to you guys.
• 51:35
  Speaker 1: What is this podcast?
• 51:36
  Speaker 4: Yeah, So the Colonel and the coach is is myself
• 51:39
  Speaker 4: and business partner cam Elsworth and uh, you know, and
• 51:43
  Speaker 4: we we of course have a very unique close partnership
• 51:46
  Speaker 4: with our Peyton. We sponsor our Peyton just you know,
• 51:50
  Speaker 4: just through obviously the relate that you know, unique relationship.
• 51:54
  Speaker 3: But we work with uh, you know.
• 51:56
  Speaker 4: We work with anyone who's looking to take their organization, unit, team,
• 52:02
  Speaker 4: whatever to the next level and become you know, empowered
• 52:06
  Speaker 4: to be their more authentic selves and leaders and whatnot.
• 52:10
  Speaker 4: That could be a college teams, military units, small businesses,
• 52:13
  Speaker 4: large businesses and all that sort of stuff, and just
• 52:15
  Speaker 4: give them an opportunity to to to enhance, you know,
• 52:21
  Speaker 4: enhance themselves in the role in which they fill in
• 52:24
  Speaker 4: their organization. So and we do that through an enduring relationship.
• 52:28
  Speaker 4: It's not a one and done type thing. It's a
• 52:30
  Speaker 4: long term partnership that we have because we know growth
• 52:33
  Speaker 4: takes time and the growth is hard sometimes, but we
• 52:37
  Speaker 4: do it in a positive manner and we just you know,
• 52:38
  Speaker 4: we look forward to working with folks, whether it's in
• 52:40
  Speaker 4: central Vermont or in Vermont in general or anywhere.
• 52:43
  Speaker 3: And so that's that's the crona coach.
• 52:46
  Speaker 1: Where do we find this podcast?
• 52:48
  Speaker 4: So you can find the podcast itself. The podcast itself
• 52:51
  Speaker 4: is called on Authentic Leadership, and we are on We
• 52:56
  Speaker 4: are on Spotify, Apple, YouTube, uh, Instagram, Facebook, and Blue Sky.
• 53:03
  Speaker 4: So we're I'm not sure we're as on as many
• 53:05
  Speaker 4: as you, JD, but we're all over the place. Uh yeah,
• 53:10
  Speaker 4: so yeah and uh and yeah, so multiple guests, uh,
• 53:13
  Speaker 4: you know, military guests, athletes, retired professional athletes, you know,
• 53:19
  Speaker 4: and and everything everything in between. Folks that help veterans
• 53:23
  Speaker 4: with post traumatic stress disorder, you know, I mean, and
• 53:27
  Speaker 4: everything in between, just trying to give them a voice,
• 53:29
  Speaker 4: just like you've given us a voice.
• 53:31
  Speaker 3: So thank you.
• 53:31
  Speaker 1: Amazing stuff.
• 53:32
  Speaker 3: Yeah, thank you.
• 53:33
  Speaker 1: Let's let's do some great stuff together. Thank you. So
• 53:36
  Speaker 1: happy to have you guys on here. What an honor.
• 53:38
  Speaker 3: Thank you very much.
• 53:39
  Speaker 1: Matt and Danny Smith from the fifth annual Air Peyton
• 53:44
  Speaker 1: Memorial five K Walk and Run for pediatric cancer awareness.
• 53:47
  Speaker 1: And again it is this Sunday from eleven till two
• 53:50
  Speaker 1: at Montpilier High School. We hope to see all there.
• 53:53
  Speaker 1: Thank you so much for coming in here sharing your story.
• 53:56
  Speaker 1: Thanks very much in assass