1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:02,002 That's good. So that's good. You're you're resilient. 2 00:00:02,002 --> 00:00:03,470 I'm resilient. We're resilient. Right. 3 00:00:03,470 --> 00:00:05,739 So yeah, you learned a valuable lesson then. 4 00:00:05,739 --> 00:00:09,342 And then my neighbor in the following year, he's up on a tree. 5 00:00:09,342 --> 00:00:12,779 He's like 20ft high and he's with a sore channel remember. 6 00:00:12,779 --> 00:00:14,948 And I told him my story and he looked at me like. 7 00:00:14,948 --> 00:00:15,849 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 8 00:00:15,849 --> 00:00:16,616 Not going to happen to me. 9 00:00:16,616 --> 00:00:18,451 Yeah. Okay. 10 00:00:18,451 --> 00:00:20,520 Yeah. And didn't thank God. 11 00:00:20,520 --> 00:00:22,756 But hopefully did a meal train for him. Right. 12 00:00:22,756 --> 00:00:23,390 And yeah, yeah. 13 00:00:23,390 --> 00:00:25,358 Dropped off that lasagna and said yeah. 14 00:00:25,358 --> 00:00:27,327 Remember what I told you, right? 15 00:00:27,327 --> 00:00:29,529 Yeah. No, it was, you had that hurt. 16 00:00:29,529 --> 00:00:30,163 Oh. Got it hurt. 17 00:00:30,163 --> 00:00:30,563 Yeah. 18 00:00:30,563 --> 00:00:34,434 No, I mean, I think going up on ladders is not something I, 19 00:00:35,068 --> 00:00:36,936 you know, cleaning my own gutters, those type of thing is sort of 20 00:00:36,936 --> 00:00:38,004 like the risk reward on 21 00:00:38,004 --> 00:00:41,841 it has gotten to the point where I'm like, you know what, I want to outsource. 22 00:00:41,841 --> 00:00:43,243 I do my own landscaping. 23 00:00:43,243 --> 00:00:44,611 I do a lot of things around the house. 24 00:00:44,611 --> 00:00:47,580 I don't outsource everything, but they're allowed getting up on a ladder. 25 00:00:47,580 --> 00:00:49,983 I've got a got a high roof. 26 00:00:49,983 --> 00:00:51,151 I came home for the hospital. 27 00:00:51,151 --> 00:00:52,519 Both apple trees were gone. 28 00:00:52,519 --> 00:00:55,121 My wife had someone come in and calm down. 29 00:00:55,121 --> 00:00:57,123 He's like, you know what, I'm going to make sure this doesn't happen again. 30 00:00:57,123 --> 00:00:57,991 Yeah, yeah. 31 00:00:57,991 --> 00:01:01,261 Well, so yeah. So anyway, so, 32 00:01:02,228 --> 00:01:03,463 they call you Hinkle? 33 00:01:03,463 --> 00:01:04,998 They do? Yeah. Yeah. So what? 34 00:01:04,998 --> 00:01:05,799 Tell me a little about yourself. 35 00:01:05,799 --> 00:01:08,435 How are you involved in the, Ron Foley Foundation? 36 00:01:08,435 --> 00:01:09,402 Run for the roses? Yeah. 37 00:01:09,402 --> 00:01:12,172 So I've actually, I've been part of it since the beginning. 38 00:01:12,172 --> 00:01:15,842 So, I'm actually married to Kate. 39 00:01:16,309 --> 00:01:18,378 Kate is Barbara's daughter. 40 00:01:18,378 --> 00:01:19,746 Only daughter? 41 00:01:19,746 --> 00:01:26,386 We got married in 2007, so the first Ron's run was 2005. 42 00:01:26,653 --> 00:01:29,222 I believe, if my memory serves me correct. 43 00:01:29,222 --> 00:01:33,693 And the first, Ron's Ron, was, Kentucky Derby event in Barbara's backyard. 44 00:01:34,227 --> 00:01:35,595 You know, it was small. 45 00:01:35,595 --> 00:01:38,231 A lot of family, you know, few friends. 46 00:01:38,231 --> 00:01:40,900 And, you know, it's grown. 47 00:01:40,900 --> 00:01:43,269 It's obviously considerably since then. 48 00:01:43,269 --> 00:01:47,006 Yeah, we've been through several venues, up until now, but it's been 49 00:01:47,640 --> 00:01:49,042 it's been a very rewarding, 50 00:01:50,243 --> 00:01:52,445 activity to be part of. 51 00:01:52,445 --> 00:01:55,281 Right. And not because I've been a huge driver. Right? 52 00:01:55,281 --> 00:01:58,451 I mean, Barbara has been the the beating heart of this organization 53 00:01:58,451 --> 00:02:03,189 since the beginning, but it's been fun to play a variety of roles over the years. 54 00:02:03,990 --> 00:02:08,628 Mostly labor, you know, I, you know, a lot of carrying things. 55 00:02:08,628 --> 00:02:12,031 Hauling things, you know, running out in the truck last minute, 56 00:02:12,332 --> 00:02:15,535 you know, building things at night, doing PowerPoints, whatever, 57 00:02:15,969 --> 00:02:17,570 whatever the job called for. 58 00:02:17,570 --> 00:02:21,241 You know, we all rallied around Barbara to, to help grow this, 59 00:02:21,241 --> 00:02:25,778 you know, Ron was an important person in all of our lives. 60 00:02:25,778 --> 00:02:28,181 And, you know, that's always, 61 00:02:28,181 --> 00:02:30,049 you know, that's always kind of been the focus, right? 62 00:02:30,049 --> 00:02:35,655 Is is, you know, his memory and then translating his memory into how 63 00:02:35,655 --> 00:02:39,959 we can help others that have, you know, gone through similar circumstances. 64 00:02:39,959 --> 00:02:42,795 So, you know, it's been a fun journey thus far. 65 00:02:42,795 --> 00:02:44,264 Yeah. Barb's a sweetheart. 66 00:02:44,264 --> 00:02:47,467 I've known her for a little while, and it's amazing to see this event. 67 00:02:47,567 --> 00:02:49,035 Yeah. How it's grown. 68 00:02:49,035 --> 00:02:49,302 Yeah. 69 00:02:49,302 --> 00:02:52,338 Now, I wasn't I didn't know her when it was in her backyard, but, 70 00:02:52,338 --> 00:02:54,607 there's another place up the road where it was, and. 71 00:02:54,607 --> 00:02:56,709 And they came here, and this is just. Absolutely. Yeah. 72 00:02:56,709 --> 00:02:58,478 I've seen Simsbury volley Farm. 73 00:02:58,478 --> 00:03:00,280 Yeah. That's right. Yeah, yeah. Or Folly Farm. 74 00:03:00,280 --> 00:03:00,813 Folly farm. 75 00:03:00,813 --> 00:03:01,948 Yeah. Yeah. 76 00:03:01,948 --> 00:03:05,018 So you knew, Ron, I did okay. Yeah. 77 00:03:05,018 --> 00:03:06,886 So I actually had the privilege 78 00:03:06,886 --> 00:03:10,957 of knowing Ron for trying to think exact dates here. 79 00:03:10,957 --> 00:03:15,628 But probably 2 or 3 years, prior to diagnosis. 80 00:03:15,628 --> 00:03:20,099 So then ultimately, you know, his passing away in 2005, and, 81 00:03:21,000 --> 00:03:23,937 you know, given that, you know, history 82 00:03:23,937 --> 00:03:27,640 transpired the way that it did, and Kate and I got married and I became part 83 00:03:27,640 --> 00:03:31,578 of the family, having that connection has been incredible, right? 84 00:03:31,578 --> 00:03:35,982 Because, you know, he still is, is a beacon and a lot of great memories 85 00:03:35,982 --> 00:03:38,985 that, you know, that we, we still share together. 86 00:03:38,985 --> 00:03:40,853 And so knowing him and having 87 00:03:40,853 --> 00:03:43,856 that personal relationship is, has been meaningful for me. 88 00:03:44,157 --> 00:03:45,258 And what what a tribute. 89 00:03:45,258 --> 00:03:49,229 I mean, Barb does not just every year, that this time, but all year, 90 00:03:49,229 --> 00:03:49,963 all year out. 91 00:03:49,963 --> 00:03:52,799 I it's not only helping other people that are, 92 00:03:52,799 --> 00:03:54,667 you know, and it's not just pancreatic cancer too. 93 00:03:54,667 --> 00:03:57,070 I think it's just awareness of cancer, period. 94 00:03:57,070 --> 00:03:59,839 Absolutely. And everybody's suffering. And and she does that all year round. 95 00:03:59,839 --> 00:04:02,041 And she's, I mean, you wouldn't even think that she 96 00:04:03,009 --> 00:04:04,410 runs an organization like this. 97 00:04:04,410 --> 00:04:06,613 She's just you would never. But she's. Because she's amazing. 98 00:04:06,613 --> 00:04:06,946 Yeah. 99 00:04:06,946 --> 00:04:09,549 And she's always she's always thinking about it. 100 00:04:09,549 --> 00:04:10,783 Always noodling. 101 00:04:10,783 --> 00:04:13,786 No matter where she is, she'll see something, whether it's, 102 00:04:13,920 --> 00:04:17,657 you know, you know, whether it's, you know, decor, right? 103 00:04:17,657 --> 00:04:20,760 For the setting or maybe it's, you know, an auction item. 104 00:04:20,760 --> 00:04:23,796 She's always she's always noodle, and it's always top of mind. 105 00:04:24,030 --> 00:04:27,800 You know, in a lot of ways, it's sort of become part of who she is 106 00:04:27,800 --> 00:04:30,670 and her identity. And I think that's that's really cool. 107 00:04:30,670 --> 00:04:32,105 What was what was Ron like? 108 00:04:32,105 --> 00:04:34,607 I don't know too much. I've never met him. 109 00:04:34,607 --> 00:04:37,744 I've heard a couple of stories here and there, but I don't really know. 110 00:04:38,011 --> 00:04:39,879 How did you know? What's your memory. Of. Yeah. 111 00:04:39,879 --> 00:04:45,585 So my my memory of Ron, you know, big you know, he is very quiet guy. 112 00:04:45,785 --> 00:04:48,688 But if you were in his inner circle, right. 113 00:04:48,688 --> 00:04:50,890 He was he was big personality. 114 00:04:50,890 --> 00:04:56,663 You know, he's very devoted to his family, you know, love to fish. 115 00:04:57,096 --> 00:04:59,766 Love to have a good time. 116 00:04:59,766 --> 00:05:02,402 Love to joke around. 117 00:05:02,402 --> 00:05:05,872 You know, he was, you know, he was he was a driving force in a lot of the, 118 00:05:05,872 --> 00:05:10,176 the social events in, in their family and, you know, very successful 119 00:05:10,176 --> 00:05:11,110 businessman as well. 120 00:05:11,110 --> 00:05:11,911 And so, 121 00:05:11,911 --> 00:05:16,883 you know, there was definitely, you know, part of our relationship, which was, 122 00:05:18,384 --> 00:05:19,786 you know, me asking questions. 123 00:05:19,786 --> 00:05:21,487 I was starting my career. Right. 124 00:05:21,487 --> 00:05:25,224 And I think at that at the time when he and I first met, 125 00:05:25,224 --> 00:05:28,761 I actually didn't have a job right here I am dating his daughter. 126 00:05:29,028 --> 00:05:31,597 No job that went over well, and. Yeah, exactly. 127 00:05:31,597 --> 00:05:35,068 But, you know, I was grinding it out 128 00:05:35,068 --> 00:05:38,071 and, he, he had said to me, 129 00:05:38,671 --> 00:05:39,639 you know, he, 130 00:05:39,639 --> 00:05:42,875 he gave me some ultimatum of, hey, if you don't have a job in 90 days, right, 131 00:05:42,875 --> 00:05:44,544 this, this relationship and I can go any further. 132 00:05:44,544 --> 00:05:47,747 He always like to say that I pulled it out on, you know, whatever 133 00:05:47,747 --> 00:05:50,983 it was, the, you know, the 49th day, right in 50 was. 134 00:05:50,983 --> 00:05:53,920 That was the mark. So, but he, 135 00:05:54,854 --> 00:05:55,421 like I said, 136 00:05:55,421 --> 00:05:59,525 I, I still recite things that he told me about about business. 137 00:05:59,525 --> 00:06:02,562 And, you know, he was, 138 00:06:02,895 --> 00:06:07,500 he was different because he was, from a different era 139 00:06:07,500 --> 00:06:10,636 where they, you know, he showed up at travelers at a college and, 140 00:06:11,104 --> 00:06:14,574 you know, started, you know, the mailroom or wherever in a while 141 00:06:14,607 --> 00:06:18,811 worked his way up to to CFO, of the company, and, 142 00:06:19,078 --> 00:06:22,949 you know, took the company through, you know, some, some big acquisitions, 143 00:06:22,949 --> 00:06:27,587 and ultimately was at the helm when, they became part of Citigroup. 144 00:06:28,287 --> 00:06:31,190 So he had, you know, some pretty, 145 00:06:31,190 --> 00:06:34,026 pretty interesting stories, you know, with some of the, 146 00:06:34,026 --> 00:06:38,030 the big moguls of that day, you know, Sandy, while and Jamie Diamond 147 00:06:38,030 --> 00:06:42,301 and these names that, you know, anybody would know, but very humble. 148 00:06:42,568 --> 00:06:46,606 Never forgot his roots where he came from, which was Whalen, Massachusetts. 149 00:06:46,606 --> 00:06:50,042 And, yeah, just a sweetheart of a guy. 150 00:06:50,343 --> 00:06:52,545 So he was still working when, you know, where was your title? 151 00:06:52,545 --> 00:06:53,546 He was retired. 152 00:06:53,546 --> 00:06:54,414 He was retired. 153 00:06:54,414 --> 00:06:57,417 But, you know, given that I was trying to 154 00:06:57,917 --> 00:07:00,653 trying to kind of chart my path and my career, you know, 155 00:07:00,653 --> 00:07:03,689 it was something that I was constantly trying to kind of pepper people with. 156 00:07:03,923 --> 00:07:04,824 Hey, what about this? 157 00:07:04,824 --> 00:07:07,059 What do you think about this company and those types of things? 158 00:07:07,059 --> 00:07:10,229 And, you know, he was impressed with my first job 159 00:07:10,229 --> 00:07:13,232 was at Lehman Brothers, which was, an investment bank. 160 00:07:13,232 --> 00:07:16,569 And, you know, he was he thought that was pretty cool. 161 00:07:16,769 --> 00:07:20,373 But, you know, the one thing that he didn't see in 162 00:07:20,373 --> 00:07:23,576 his lifetime was that the company actually went bankrupt in 2008. 163 00:07:24,043 --> 00:07:25,411 Yeah. And I remember that. 164 00:07:25,411 --> 00:07:26,712 During the financial crisis. 165 00:07:26,712 --> 00:07:28,381 So, yeah. 166 00:07:28,381 --> 00:07:30,650 No, he was, he was a great guy. 167 00:07:30,650 --> 00:07:35,188 And, you know, I think this event is a is a wonderful way to carry the memory on. 168 00:07:35,721 --> 00:07:38,090 Can you give me an example? I'm going to put you on the spot. Sure. 169 00:07:38,090 --> 00:07:41,761 Give me an example of, something that he talked to you 170 00:07:41,761 --> 00:07:43,563 about in the conversation you had, 171 00:07:43,563 --> 00:07:45,565 or something like that that sort of sticks with you mentioned 172 00:07:45,565 --> 00:07:47,133 said you still think about things he's told you. 173 00:07:47,133 --> 00:07:49,602 There's anything that you think. Yeah, I mean, the share. 174 00:07:49,602 --> 00:07:55,174 I mean, the one of them was, you know, he he said to me, right. 175 00:07:55,174 --> 00:07:58,144 Because he, he ran the books, right? He was he was an accountant by trade. 176 00:07:58,144 --> 00:07:59,345 Yeah. He said he said Hinkle. 177 00:07:59,345 --> 00:08:02,782 He goes no company can justify having a plane. 178 00:08:02,982 --> 00:08:07,053 He's like, I don't care who they are, how big of a company it is. 179 00:08:07,053 --> 00:08:08,621 He's like the line item expense. 180 00:08:08,621 --> 00:08:10,656 He's like, you just can't justify it, you know? 181 00:08:10,656 --> 00:08:13,659 And I always sort of think about that when you think about, 182 00:08:13,826 --> 00:08:17,463 you know, some of these companies and you know, whether they're, you know, 183 00:08:17,463 --> 00:08:19,599 they've got some fat that you can trim and things like that. 184 00:08:19,599 --> 00:08:22,768 And, you know, listen, you know, you got to move your executives around. 185 00:08:22,768 --> 00:08:24,504 But I always remember him saying that. 186 00:08:24,504 --> 00:08:27,540 And the other one is, is, you know, we were at Lake 187 00:08:27,540 --> 00:08:31,310 Winnipesaukee, you know, probably his last summer. 188 00:08:31,410 --> 00:08:31,644 Okay. 189 00:08:31,644 --> 00:08:34,981 You know, one of his, his wish on his wish list 190 00:08:34,981 --> 00:08:37,950 was to rent a big house on Lake Winnipesaukee. 191 00:08:38,184 --> 00:08:42,355 It was a place that, he had gone to for, you know, substantial 192 00:08:42,355 --> 00:08:45,925 part of his childhood growing up and and with the family during the early days. 193 00:08:45,925 --> 00:08:49,362 So we rented a big house there and, 194 00:08:50,296 --> 00:08:53,299 and I was cooking steaks one night, and, 195 00:08:53,733 --> 00:08:56,702 you know, Kate's brothers were there one night, and they, 196 00:08:57,270 --> 00:09:01,073 you know, I forget how I cooked it, I sliced it, I put the garlic inside, 197 00:09:01,073 --> 00:09:05,411 I cooked it, and Ron was like, out of this world, off the charts, right? 198 00:09:05,411 --> 00:09:06,579 And he's like, you know, he's like, 199 00:09:06,579 --> 00:09:09,482 I'm not going to take credit for telling you that. 200 00:09:09,482 --> 00:09:11,083 You know, I gave you the recipe for that. 201 00:09:11,083 --> 00:09:15,121 But he's like, you know, my sons, they could never do this kind of work. 202 00:09:15,121 --> 00:09:20,493 And so it led to, this joke that we have going on about getting heckled. 203 00:09:20,560 --> 00:09:20,960 Right? 204 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:25,231 Whereas her brothers always say, you know, just when you think 205 00:09:25,264 --> 00:09:28,701 you've done something, well, you know, Angel shows up and you get heckled, right? 206 00:09:28,701 --> 00:09:31,671 And he does it ten times better than you and that steak. Love it. 207 00:09:31,671 --> 00:09:34,674 That steak story always sticks in my head because, 208 00:09:34,840 --> 00:09:38,411 her brother Mark was there and he always brings that one up. 209 00:09:38,411 --> 00:09:41,380 So those are two stories that I would say stop my head. 210 00:09:41,380 --> 00:09:44,550 Sounds like once you're in that circle, I mean, he's your part of the family. 211 00:09:44,550 --> 00:09:46,252 There's no they're not. Yeah. 212 00:09:46,252 --> 00:09:47,720 I mean, absolutely 100%. 213 00:09:47,720 --> 00:09:49,555 Absolutely. That's a wonderful trait to have. 214 00:09:49,555 --> 00:09:49,822 Yeah. 215 00:09:49,822 --> 00:09:53,025 Someone has that, it's Hinkle, so tell me about that. 216 00:09:53,025 --> 00:09:53,793 How did that do you 217 00:09:53,793 --> 00:09:56,662 do you remember the story that you said your mom gave you that nickname? 218 00:09:56,662 --> 00:09:57,663 Oh, it was my mom. 219 00:09:57,663 --> 00:10:01,767 It was actually, So I went to, I went to boarding school in New Hampshire, 220 00:10:01,934 --> 00:10:03,169 a place called Holderness. 221 00:10:03,169 --> 00:10:05,137 And, you know, it's, 222 00:10:06,172 --> 00:10:06,505 you know, it's 223 00:10:06,505 --> 00:10:09,775 nine through 12, so a bunch of bunch of boys 224 00:10:09,809 --> 00:10:14,313 sitting around a dorm, you know, you know, and it you can imagine what happens. 225 00:10:14,313 --> 00:10:16,515 But, my brother was there. 226 00:10:16,515 --> 00:10:18,718 He was a he was a junior when I was a freshman. 227 00:10:18,718 --> 00:10:22,822 And and he actually got the nickname first, and it was there. 228 00:10:22,922 --> 00:10:25,925 I wish there was a better story, but it was like, hey, what's your last name? 229 00:10:25,925 --> 00:10:27,093 Hinman. 230 00:10:27,093 --> 00:10:27,627 Hinkle. 231 00:10:27,627 --> 00:10:29,629 And everybody laughed, and he was Hinkle. 232 00:10:29,629 --> 00:10:33,032 So when I showed up, it was big Hinkle and little Hinkle. 233 00:10:33,366 --> 00:10:35,034 He graduated. 234 00:10:35,034 --> 00:10:37,003 I dropped the little, so I was just Hinkle. 235 00:10:37,003 --> 00:10:38,070 But then it. 236 00:10:38,070 --> 00:10:41,407 I went to college with a couple buddies from 237 00:10:41,874 --> 00:10:44,877 prep school, and they followed me and so did the name. 238 00:10:45,244 --> 00:10:49,949 And then that's I met my wife Kate, at, at college. 239 00:10:49,949 --> 00:10:52,752 And so then she knew me as Hinkle from the beginning. 240 00:10:52,752 --> 00:10:55,788 And it's just followed me to the point where 241 00:10:55,955 --> 00:10:59,058 my own kids actually will call me Hinkle. 242 00:10:59,225 --> 00:11:03,562 And I say to him, sometimes I'm like you, there's only two people in this world 243 00:11:03,562 --> 00:11:06,632 that can call me dad, and that's you guys, and you choose to call me Hinkle 244 00:11:06,866 --> 00:11:07,800 at the time. 245 00:11:07,800 --> 00:11:11,170 So, you know, I and I think throughout most of my life I've, 246 00:11:11,337 --> 00:11:12,872 I've always had nicknames. 247 00:11:12,872 --> 00:11:15,708 I guess I'm just not a Chris. Right. So. Yeah. 248 00:11:15,708 --> 00:11:16,742 Buffett. 249 00:11:16,742 --> 00:11:19,078 Yeah. It works. You know, it could be worse, right? 250 00:11:19,078 --> 00:11:22,515 I know that, some of the nicknames we gave people growing up 251 00:11:22,515 --> 00:11:25,184 where were much worse. So. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And then all that. 252 00:11:25,184 --> 00:11:27,319 Some of them, though less, you know, they go through maybe college 253 00:11:27,319 --> 00:11:29,221 and after that you get professional or whatever. 254 00:11:29,221 --> 00:11:29,755 Yeah. 255 00:11:29,755 --> 00:11:32,725 But, so what it were they call you can't go work. 256 00:11:32,725 --> 00:11:34,193 No, not at work. 257 00:11:34,193 --> 00:11:38,130 The one that that I can't escape from work is, is chin men 258 00:11:38,130 --> 00:11:41,667 because, you know, a lot of email address is right. 259 00:11:41,667 --> 00:11:43,569 Is first initial right. 260 00:11:43,569 --> 00:11:45,871 Chris C last name Hinman. 261 00:11:45,871 --> 00:11:48,307 So it's always chicken men at whatever. 262 00:11:48,307 --> 00:11:50,609 So then there's a bunch of derivatives that come off of that. 263 00:11:50,609 --> 00:11:54,213 But that's been one that has been hard to catch as well. 264 00:11:54,213 --> 00:11:56,482 That's a good one. Yeah. It's not that nice. 265 00:11:56,482 --> 00:11:58,017 So what are you think this year's event so far? 266 00:11:58,017 --> 00:11:59,518 I mean, I know you just got here. 267 00:11:59,518 --> 00:12:01,287 It seems like it's, it's. 268 00:12:01,287 --> 00:12:03,189 I mean, they come in, there's photographers, 269 00:12:03,189 --> 00:12:05,291 there's people getting there. What do you call them? 270 00:12:05,291 --> 00:12:07,026 Those mint juleps? Yeah. Mint juleps. 271 00:12:07,026 --> 00:12:07,793 Yeah, yeah. 272 00:12:07,793 --> 00:12:12,832 No, I listen, I think this event, seems to up its game every year. 273 00:12:12,832 --> 00:12:14,400 Yeah. I think that 274 00:12:15,601 --> 00:12:16,135 coming 275 00:12:16,135 --> 00:12:21,107 to the Polo Grounds was a big milestone, at least for all of us 276 00:12:21,540 --> 00:12:26,712 legacy veterans, because, it was the point in which we sort of 277 00:12:26,712 --> 00:12:30,649 went from the laborers to like, showing up as guests. 278 00:12:30,750 --> 00:12:31,083 Right? 279 00:12:31,083 --> 00:12:34,053 Because at that, at this point, and I'm going to get it wrong. 280 00:12:34,053 --> 00:12:37,890 But maybe it's where ten years in, by the time we moved here, and at that point 281 00:12:38,057 --> 00:12:42,828 we had much more of a well-oiled machine where there was less of that last minute, 282 00:12:43,095 --> 00:12:43,896 you know, run into Home 283 00:12:43,896 --> 00:12:47,566 Depot or run into the nursery or we forgot this at the house. 284 00:12:47,566 --> 00:12:47,967 Right. 285 00:12:47,967 --> 00:12:52,471 And, you know, we've got professional vendors and, 286 00:12:52,471 --> 00:12:54,106 and so I've loved having it here. 287 00:12:54,106 --> 00:12:57,109 And each year they found ways to make it better. 288 00:12:57,209 --> 00:13:00,513 And I think that having the inside here 289 00:13:00,513 --> 00:13:04,016 and not having to worry about the weather takes a lot of stress off of the event. 290 00:13:04,250 --> 00:13:07,353 And also the just, the setup and cleanup. 291 00:13:07,419 --> 00:13:08,921 Yeah. You know, this is an event hall. 292 00:13:08,921 --> 00:13:10,389 This is what they're used to doing here. 293 00:13:10,389 --> 00:13:12,691 And so, people love it, right? 294 00:13:12,691 --> 00:13:14,693 And it's, it's a beautiful spot. 295 00:13:14,693 --> 00:13:16,996 It's still got the horse theme, which I think is great. 296 00:13:16,996 --> 00:13:17,296 Yeah. 297 00:13:17,296 --> 00:13:21,167 And, yeah, in this time of year in Connecticut, you can't beat it. 298 00:13:21,167 --> 00:13:22,401 All right. Sweaters. 299 00:13:22,401 --> 00:13:24,336 I mean, a little windy, but I'll take it. 300 00:13:24,336 --> 00:13:25,771 Yeah, it's warm. 301 00:13:25,771 --> 00:13:27,473 But it's, you know, it's it's green. 302 00:13:27,473 --> 00:13:28,808 You've got flowers, right? 303 00:13:28,808 --> 00:13:30,476 I mean, it's, this is the time of year 304 00:13:30,476 --> 00:13:34,246 where at least if you're from New England, you start to remember why you live here. 305 00:13:34,280 --> 00:13:36,749 Because. Right, right. You know, you're absolutely right, Yeah, yeah. 306 00:13:36,749 --> 00:13:40,452 Because you question it like, you know, beginning of February, mid February. 307 00:13:40,452 --> 00:13:41,220 Like why? 308 00:13:41,220 --> 00:13:44,123 Yeah. You're like, I can live anywhere, right? 309 00:13:44,123 --> 00:13:45,858 But now you're like, okay, that is why. 310 00:13:45,858 --> 00:13:47,393 Yeah. Yeah. And it's the people right? 311 00:13:47,393 --> 00:13:50,162 I mean I think well I, I guess I, you know, if you're from New England, 312 00:13:50,162 --> 00:13:53,899 if there's a certain type of person that's here, 313 00:13:53,899 --> 00:13:57,269 you know, and, you know, in terms of this, of add to I think that, 314 00:13:58,037 --> 00:14:01,440 you know, the folks that attend have have grown over time. 315 00:14:01,440 --> 00:14:05,444 I think that, you know, we've been able to, 316 00:14:05,444 --> 00:14:08,614 you know, attract different groups of people right before it was, 317 00:14:08,614 --> 00:14:12,318 you know, you were 1 or 2 degrees of separation from the family. 318 00:14:12,318 --> 00:14:16,589 But I think now, you know, we get, you know, we get folks that, 319 00:14:16,722 --> 00:14:19,625 you know, that are, you know, may have seen the event somewhere or, 320 00:14:19,625 --> 00:14:20,960 you know, they're a friend of a friend. 321 00:14:20,960 --> 00:14:24,396 So I think we've really, you know, shown that, 322 00:14:24,396 --> 00:14:27,700 you know, that we've got some scale now when you actually don't know everybody 323 00:14:27,700 --> 00:14:29,301 that's here, but and you get to meet everybody 324 00:14:29,301 --> 00:14:33,505 that is here, you know, has some connection to, 325 00:14:33,505 --> 00:14:38,410 pancreatic cancer and, you know, shows up and is, is happy to be here. 326 00:14:38,410 --> 00:14:43,682 And, you know, I think is, you know, typically a, a great person. 327 00:14:43,682 --> 00:14:46,719 There's not anybody that I've met here that, you know, 328 00:14:46,719 --> 00:14:49,722 I think, you know, falls outside that, that realm. 329 00:14:49,822 --> 00:14:51,257 Cool. Yeah. Awesome. 330 00:14:51,257 --> 00:14:53,692 And I'm going to wrap it up. I'm call you handle your own. Wrap it up, man. 331 00:14:53,692 --> 00:14:54,326 Thank you so much. 332 00:14:54,326 --> 00:14:55,060 I feel like I appreciate it. 333 00:14:55,060 --> 00:14:57,263 I feel like. We've gotten to that point where where he could do that. 334 00:14:57,263 --> 00:14:59,298 Yeah, that was good. Good stuff. Thanks so much for coming. 335 00:14:59,298 --> 00:15:00,900 Enjoy the event. Have a great time. Yeah. 336 00:15:00,900 --> 00:15:03,068 And, I'll be in there later. Maybe I'll bump in you. Yeah, yeah. 337 00:15:03,068 --> 00:15:05,371 All right, all right. You so much. We'll see you I appreciate it. Thanks. 338 00:15:14,013 --> 00:15:14,580 And that's it. 339 00:15:14,580 --> 00:15:15,848 That's official. Now. 340 00:15:15,848 --> 00:15:17,950 Now we can start. That's what that's all about. 341 00:15:17,950 --> 00:15:20,386 We didn't start a. Yeah, yeah. No, no. 342 00:15:20,386 --> 00:15:23,522 So, so thank you so much 343 00:15:23,522 --> 00:15:27,960 for stopping by at our little table here outside the Ron Foley Foundation. 344 00:15:28,460 --> 00:15:30,029 Ron's run for the roses. 345 00:15:30,029 --> 00:15:31,697 Why don't you, go ahead. So I don't miss it. 346 00:15:31,697 --> 00:15:33,732 I want to go ahead and introduce self for us. 347 00:15:33,732 --> 00:15:36,135 Tell me what you. Well, I'm just going to do it. 348 00:15:36,135 --> 00:15:37,770 That's Kate, and this is Jack. 349 00:15:37,770 --> 00:15:39,972 Jack, you are Ron's cousin? That's correct. 350 00:15:39,972 --> 00:15:44,043 You guys are from Philly, and you are one of Barbara's closest, dearest friends. 351 00:15:44,410 --> 00:15:46,245 I hope so, yeah. Yeah. 352 00:15:46,245 --> 00:15:48,314 So how did how did you always start there? 353 00:15:48,314 --> 00:15:50,282 How did you all meet? How did you two meet? 354 00:15:50,282 --> 00:15:51,350 How did we meet? Yes. 355 00:15:53,485 --> 00:15:55,020 I was a client of hers. 356 00:15:55,020 --> 00:15:57,389 Oh. Get out. Okay. Yeah, a lot of years ago. 357 00:15:57,389 --> 00:15:59,758 Okay. Here we are today. Oh. That's cool. 358 00:15:59,758 --> 00:16:00,492 It's very, very good. 359 00:16:00,492 --> 00:16:03,462 Jack introduced me to his family, and we became fast 360 00:16:03,462 --> 00:16:05,864 friends with Ron and Barbara as a couple. Right. 361 00:16:05,864 --> 00:16:10,035 And, the rest is kind of history all these years later. 362 00:16:10,069 --> 00:16:11,870 Oh. That's terrific. Oh, I love that. Yeah. 363 00:16:11,870 --> 00:16:15,941 I just had Hinkle as just I didn't know I asked him and he says, my name is Chris. 364 00:16:15,941 --> 00:16:17,509 I said, I'm supposed to have Hinkle. 365 00:16:17,509 --> 00:16:20,512 He says, no, that's me. I said, okay. 366 00:16:20,546 --> 00:16:22,014 She's he's wonderful. 367 00:16:22,014 --> 00:16:24,083 He's a great guys. We had a really fun conversation. 368 00:16:24,083 --> 00:16:25,551 We're all the in-laws people. 369 00:16:25,551 --> 00:16:27,820 Yeah, yeah, yeah. No. It's fun. Barbara's wonderful. 370 00:16:27,820 --> 00:16:31,690 I've known her for a while and this is such a great lady time. 371 00:16:31,824 --> 00:16:32,191 Yeah. 372 00:16:32,191 --> 00:16:33,492 So the one thing I don't have. 373 00:16:33,492 --> 00:16:36,495 And, And Chris or Hinkle didn't, you know, 374 00:16:36,495 --> 00:16:39,498 didn't know Ron all that long before I passed. 375 00:16:39,631 --> 00:16:40,799 So I was trying to get it because I don't. 376 00:16:40,799 --> 00:16:42,868 I've never met Ron. 377 00:16:42,868 --> 00:16:44,970 I only met Barbara. Maybe. I don't think I. 378 00:16:44,970 --> 00:16:46,939 I don't even think it's been ten years. Sure. 379 00:16:46,939 --> 00:16:49,441 So you're Ron's cousin. 380 00:16:49,441 --> 00:16:52,244 So can you tell us a little bit about 381 00:16:53,345 --> 00:16:54,713 how he was you guys grow? 382 00:16:54,713 --> 00:16:55,881 I don't know how much time you spent together. 383 00:16:55,881 --> 00:16:57,483 Probably family functions and things like that. 384 00:16:57,483 --> 00:16:58,751 You can tell us about that. 385 00:16:58,751 --> 00:17:01,387 Well, we had a lot of fun together. 386 00:17:01,387 --> 00:17:06,225 Ron had a beautiful 61 Viking that we took up and down the coast, 387 00:17:06,692 --> 00:17:10,629 but we added over it, and Bermuda, went running. 388 00:17:10,629 --> 00:17:12,231 I didn't go to Bermuda. 389 00:17:12,231 --> 00:17:15,367 We flew to Bermuda and then went fishing in Bermuda. 390 00:17:15,367 --> 00:17:18,737 And then we had such a great time caught up 391 00:17:19,938 --> 00:17:22,908 a really large, 392 00:17:22,908 --> 00:17:27,046 smuggling, that that was almost as big as the boat. 393 00:17:27,046 --> 00:17:29,481 I know it was a he came for a while. 394 00:17:29,481 --> 00:17:31,150 The thing was huge. 395 00:17:31,150 --> 00:17:32,785 So let it go. 396 00:17:32,785 --> 00:17:34,186 There's no way we'd get it in the boat. 397 00:17:34,186 --> 00:17:36,822 Yeah, yeah, I think a boat. Yeah. That's a memory. 398 00:17:36,822 --> 00:17:40,192 But you grew up with Ron literally across the street from each other. 399 00:17:40,292 --> 00:17:43,262 Oh. Get out. Okay. Now, when there were no. 400 00:17:43,395 --> 00:17:46,231 Yeah. Up in the bust outside Boston. 401 00:17:46,231 --> 00:17:47,099 In Watertown. 402 00:17:47,099 --> 00:17:49,201 Watertown? Outside of. Boston. Okay. Yeah. 403 00:17:49,201 --> 00:17:50,202 Yeah. I'm not familiar with. 404 00:17:50,202 --> 00:17:52,905 Yeah, it's right next to Cambridge. Okay. Okay. 405 00:17:52,905 --> 00:17:55,240 Perfect. All right. Very nice. 406 00:17:55,240 --> 00:17:57,209 Yeah. Okay. 407 00:17:57,209 --> 00:18:00,212 But I moved out of that area, when I was young. 408 00:18:00,312 --> 00:18:03,315 Basically grew up in South Jersey. 409 00:18:03,749 --> 00:18:06,385 My businesses were in the city. Kate was. 410 00:18:07,386 --> 00:18:10,956 Or public relations for person that handled all of our. 411 00:18:10,956 --> 00:18:12,524 I own McDonald's restaurants. 412 00:18:12,524 --> 00:18:12,991 Oh, cool. 413 00:18:12,991 --> 00:18:17,963 But so where Kate handled all the public relations for us in in our region. 414 00:18:17,963 --> 00:18:20,799 So okay. So Rahm was a bigger than life character, though. 415 00:18:20,799 --> 00:18:24,903 He had a heart the size of the state of Connecticut 416 00:18:24,903 --> 00:18:29,575 and was such a warm and caring person about so many people. 417 00:18:29,942 --> 00:18:32,010 And he was overly generous. 418 00:18:32,010 --> 00:18:35,581 I mean, he was just that guy that just wanted everybody 419 00:18:35,581 --> 00:18:38,884 to have a good time, feel good, and he wanted you to feel like 420 00:18:39,651 --> 00:18:42,654 today's a good day and I'm going to help make that happen. 421 00:18:42,654 --> 00:18:45,190 And he was that person all the time. Well. 422 00:18:45,190 --> 00:18:46,992 All I hear is, is that story. 423 00:18:46,992 --> 00:18:48,727 Yeah. He's real. It was really wonderful. 424 00:18:48,727 --> 00:18:52,698 And his, his favorite, saying was go big or go home. 425 00:18:54,066 --> 00:18:55,467 I love it just all. 426 00:18:55,467 --> 00:18:56,201 And he lived it. 427 00:18:56,201 --> 00:18:57,236 He didn't live that way. 428 00:18:57,236 --> 00:18:59,805 He did live in it. Yeah. And live it. 429 00:18:59,805 --> 00:19:02,808 He, was particularly good with young people. 430 00:19:02,808 --> 00:19:04,209 He loved all the young guys. 431 00:19:04,209 --> 00:19:07,546 Like his is his own children, of course, but his own children's friends. 432 00:19:07,546 --> 00:19:11,617 And watching that and the dynamic with them was always really pretty special. 433 00:19:11,850 --> 00:19:14,853 And Barbara to that together they would be like 434 00:19:15,020 --> 00:19:17,689 everybody's parents in addition to their own parents. 435 00:19:17,689 --> 00:19:20,259 Yeah. So there's the entertainment house. 436 00:19:20,259 --> 00:19:21,393 Oh, okay. Yeah. 437 00:19:21,393 --> 00:19:22,227 That's excellent. 438 00:19:22,227 --> 00:19:24,363 Yeah. A lot of fun all the time. Right. 439 00:19:24,363 --> 00:19:28,634 And yeah, we had a ball bringing joy to other people and and. 440 00:19:28,634 --> 00:19:31,336 The second. Home that people. Okay. 441 00:19:31,336 --> 00:19:32,271 Well yeah. 442 00:19:32,271 --> 00:19:35,040 So were you at I'm assuming you were at the first. 443 00:19:35,040 --> 00:19:38,310 We were, event at Barbara's in Barbara's backyard. 444 00:19:38,310 --> 00:19:40,312 The first event in her backyard. 445 00:19:40,312 --> 00:19:44,850 And she just had this idea, and she said, I'm going to start this. 446 00:19:44,850 --> 00:19:47,853 And then she gathered a bunch of friends and neighbors, 447 00:19:47,920 --> 00:19:50,856 and, they all just volunteered. 448 00:19:50,856 --> 00:19:55,160 And together, they worked super hard to help her figure this out. 449 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:57,896 And they've watched it grow. And evolve over all the years. 450 00:19:57,896 --> 00:20:01,700 It's been already spectacular, the amount of development that's happened. 451 00:20:01,934 --> 00:20:03,969 And now that they're this thriving nonprofit. 452 00:20:03,969 --> 00:20:06,104 It's it's incredible. We've never missed one. 453 00:20:06,104 --> 00:20:06,605 Yeah. 454 00:20:06,605 --> 00:20:12,678 Did she start it with the notion involved of of it create a nonprofit 455 00:20:12,678 --> 00:20:15,080 or she just want to have an event for Ron's memory? 456 00:20:15,080 --> 00:20:15,881 Sort of. What was the, 457 00:20:16,882 --> 00:20:18,550 It was to raise money for pancreatic cancer. 458 00:20:18,550 --> 00:20:21,553 It was okay for sure. Yeah. For sure. 459 00:20:21,620 --> 00:20:24,223 And it just started as an event to raise money and exact. 460 00:20:24,223 --> 00:20:27,259 So the so the event started first and then the Ron Foley Foundation 461 00:20:27,259 --> 00:20:27,893 sort of followed. 462 00:20:27,893 --> 00:20:29,561 Is that exactly okay? 463 00:20:29,561 --> 00:20:31,563 Yeah, I think that originally I'm not sure, 464 00:20:31,563 --> 00:20:34,266 but I think the original idea was to raise money for research. 465 00:20:34,266 --> 00:20:37,302 And then as it started to come together very quickly, 466 00:20:37,302 --> 00:20:39,271 they started to understand what families really needed 467 00:20:39,271 --> 00:20:41,206 because they had been through it themselves. 468 00:20:41,206 --> 00:20:42,040 And so there's sort of 469 00:20:42,040 --> 00:20:45,877 the two pieces of this, the part that is really for research. 470 00:20:45,877 --> 00:20:47,746 And then there's the the funds 471 00:20:47,746 --> 00:20:51,817 that they, distribute to families in need to do Von's Rescue. 472 00:20:51,817 --> 00:20:54,953 And I think both both are really important. 473 00:20:54,953 --> 00:20:59,157 And I think the fact that they're balanced in their own visual and understanding 474 00:20:59,157 --> 00:21:05,130 of how pancreatic cancer really hits families, is really important. 475 00:21:05,130 --> 00:21:10,202 And, I'm pretty proud of the fact that they were able to think about that. 476 00:21:10,202 --> 00:21:11,770 And, 477 00:21:12,771 --> 00:21:14,940 really focus on individual needs. 478 00:21:14,940 --> 00:21:17,643 So many organizations really and focus on research. 479 00:21:17,643 --> 00:21:20,846 And this part I think is really an important piece of it, too. 480 00:21:21,546 --> 00:21:22,214 So amazing. 481 00:21:22,214 --> 00:21:25,651 The growth so did they did was the 482 00:21:25,651 --> 00:21:28,920 was the the funds that was initially raised, 483 00:21:28,920 --> 00:21:31,523 was that for research or was that for to give to families. 484 00:21:31,523 --> 00:21:32,591 Do you remember I. 485 00:21:32,591 --> 00:21:34,526 Think I'm not I'm actually not sure. 486 00:21:34,526 --> 00:21:36,795 But I think it was originally for research. Right. 487 00:21:36,795 --> 00:21:41,133 And because there was already an established pancreatic, 488 00:21:41,566 --> 00:21:45,137 cancer foundation or group, several of them. 489 00:21:45,537 --> 00:21:47,873 And I think Barbara then started to get in touch 490 00:21:47,873 --> 00:21:50,275 with the hospitals and started working with doctors. 491 00:21:50,275 --> 00:21:54,313 The outreach in the communication that she's had with really world renown 492 00:21:54,680 --> 00:21:56,615 specialists has been pretty extraordinary. 493 00:21:56,615 --> 00:21:59,851 So she she has learned so much about the disease 494 00:22:00,152 --> 00:22:02,321 by how it impacts families, that she just keeps 495 00:22:02,321 --> 00:22:06,091 building the foundation to be supportive of where the greatest needs are. 496 00:22:07,059 --> 00:22:09,795 Yeah, yeah, because you think about research, which is important. 497 00:22:09,795 --> 00:22:12,264 But I think that the families have needs, right. 498 00:22:12,264 --> 00:22:13,965 Whether 499 00:22:13,965 --> 00:22:17,035 whatever those needs are mostly financial, whether it be just living expenses 500 00:22:17,035 --> 00:22:19,304 or maybe medical expenses, is there a separate fund 501 00:22:19,304 --> 00:22:23,675 for medical or living, or is it just how do people go about requesting it? 502 00:22:23,675 --> 00:22:24,343 How does that all work? 503 00:22:24,343 --> 00:22:25,477 I think there's an application. 504 00:22:25,477 --> 00:22:28,413 I think they can turn it really fast within a week or two weeks. 505 00:22:28,413 --> 00:22:28,780 Oh, well. 506 00:22:28,780 --> 00:22:32,384 And, they just need to have some information 507 00:22:32,384 --> 00:22:38,023 from the patient's doctor and they file it. 508 00:22:38,023 --> 00:22:41,660 And then as soon as they review it and they know that it's all, 509 00:22:42,461 --> 00:22:45,797 you know, in good order of the paperwork, they get a check off to them 510 00:22:45,797 --> 00:22:47,032 and it just adds 511 00:22:47,032 --> 00:22:51,737 sometimes it's for a special last wish or a trip with a family member. 512 00:22:51,737 --> 00:22:56,908 Oh, well, sometimes it's for immediate needs at the home to help carry expenses. 513 00:22:57,175 --> 00:23:00,212 So it just depends on the individual person and what they need. 514 00:23:00,812 --> 00:23:06,218 Do you know how much that kind of money the the foundation has distributed? 515 00:23:06,551 --> 00:23:08,587 I asked for their number. Okay. Just wanted to. 516 00:23:08,587 --> 00:23:11,289 I should have looked at. My, Yeah, yeah. So look at your notes. 517 00:23:11,289 --> 00:23:13,592 Yeah. I didn't make any. No, no, that's fine. 518 00:23:13,592 --> 00:23:14,926 That's all right. 519 00:23:14,926 --> 00:23:16,294 I think that's really important. 520 00:23:16,294 --> 00:23:16,628 Yeah. 521 00:23:16,628 --> 00:23:18,930 I, I put together a couple of videos 522 00:23:18,930 --> 00:23:22,601 for this event, and some of the people on there were just so grateful that, 523 00:23:22,834 --> 00:23:24,970 you know, they have this disease and they need it. 524 00:23:24,970 --> 00:23:28,774 And they reached out and, and, Ron, for the foundation was able to help them out 525 00:23:28,774 --> 00:23:30,609 financially, get through some tough times. 526 00:23:30,609 --> 00:23:31,977 And that's that's amazing. Yeah. 527 00:23:31,977 --> 00:23:34,146 I think that's really, really good I love it. 528 00:23:34,146 --> 00:23:36,114 How's the event so far? And I just got here. 529 00:23:36,114 --> 00:23:39,351 But how is the house as shaping up to be one of the best ones yet? 530 00:23:39,351 --> 00:23:41,820 I bet it it's always great. 531 00:23:41,820 --> 00:23:43,822 It is. I've never been the bad one. 532 00:23:43,822 --> 00:23:48,360 Yeah, I actually I like this facility much better, than than it was before. 533 00:23:48,627 --> 00:23:50,328 Which was also still a good facility. 534 00:23:50,328 --> 00:23:52,230 But this one just plays easy. 535 00:23:52,230 --> 00:23:55,233 Yeah. It's easy to move around here. Yeah. 536 00:23:55,367 --> 00:23:56,435 Even with the wind blowing. 537 00:23:56,435 --> 00:23:58,437 With the wind blown blow. Windy. 538 00:23:58,437 --> 00:23:59,070 But then you got. Yeah. 539 00:23:59,070 --> 00:24:01,773 Because you had this here outside now in studio. 540 00:24:01,773 --> 00:24:03,708 Yeah. We basically. Yeah. Boats. 541 00:24:03,708 --> 00:24:05,444 Yeah. That's wonderful. 542 00:24:05,444 --> 00:24:06,278 That's really, really good. 543 00:24:06,278 --> 00:24:08,880 The volunteer group that keeps putting this together 544 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:13,018 every year there's a very small paid staff by the volunteer group 545 00:24:13,018 --> 00:24:15,821 that helps make all this come together is pretty exceptional. 546 00:24:15,821 --> 00:24:19,724 And the fact that so many of these people then with this in the very beginning, 547 00:24:20,091 --> 00:24:22,961 the surprise and to see that longevity, 548 00:24:22,961 --> 00:24:26,431 commitment from the volunteers is pretty special, I think. 549 00:24:26,431 --> 00:24:30,402 So that just is a tribute, I think, to what this has become 550 00:24:30,402 --> 00:24:32,871 and also to Barbara and her leadership. Yeah. 551 00:24:32,871 --> 00:24:36,341 So yeah, and she's genuinely thankful and appreciative 552 00:24:36,341 --> 00:24:39,311 and just humbled by every I just it's really she's. 553 00:24:39,311 --> 00:24:41,580 An amazing. Lady. Yeah. She really, really is. 554 00:24:41,580 --> 00:24:41,813 Yeah. 555 00:24:41,813 --> 00:24:44,282 And I wish I knew Ron because every time I hear 556 00:24:44,282 --> 00:24:46,551 people talk about he's extraordinary. Yeah. Yeah. 557 00:24:46,551 --> 00:24:47,252 The buddy. 558 00:24:47,252 --> 00:24:47,752 Yeah. 559 00:24:47,752 --> 00:24:52,123 No, I sounds like it, like it was so awesome. 560 00:24:52,123 --> 00:24:54,493 Is there anything else you'd like to chat to me about? 561 00:24:54,493 --> 00:24:56,495 Anything you think people should know? Whether what you know 562 00:24:56,495 --> 00:25:00,532 about pancreatic cancer or how people can can help, people. 563 00:25:00,532 --> 00:25:01,500 That might be a need. 564 00:25:01,500 --> 00:25:05,070 They need social support organizations like this one, for sure. 565 00:25:05,103 --> 00:25:07,739 Yeah. Just being here today. Yeah, it's a big help. 566 00:25:07,739 --> 00:25:11,176 And participating and putting, 567 00:25:11,176 --> 00:25:14,179 bids in on various items to raise money. 568 00:25:14,279 --> 00:25:16,281 This is all the right thing to do. 569 00:25:16,281 --> 00:25:17,516 Perfect. Well, guys. 570 00:25:17,516 --> 00:25:19,518 Jack, Kate, thank you so much for stopping by. 571 00:25:19,518 --> 00:25:21,386 I really appreciate all you do. 572 00:25:21,386 --> 00:25:22,888 Yeah. Pleasure meeting you. Enjoy the rest. 573 00:25:22,888 --> 00:25:26,391 And, maybe you put some money in for the silent auction, which is what 574 00:25:26,424 --> 00:25:29,427 you put your money in for the silent auction over there yet or not? 575 00:25:29,461 --> 00:25:30,862 Not yet. We will. Though. 576 00:25:30,862 --> 00:25:33,632 You got your eye on anything yet? Or do you get, you know. Okay. 577 00:25:33,632 --> 00:25:35,700 I'm not a silent auction person. Okay? 578 00:25:35,700 --> 00:25:38,703 So the the big money is raised later in the. 579 00:25:38,770 --> 00:25:39,337 Budget rate. 580 00:25:39,337 --> 00:25:42,207 Radio event and will certainly participate. Mac. 581 00:25:42,207 --> 00:25:43,708 Sounds good to me. So. 582 00:25:43,708 --> 00:25:45,510 All right, guys, we'll see you. Thanks so much. 583 00:25:51,216 --> 00:25:51,683 But yeah. 584 00:25:51,683 --> 00:25:54,686 So this weather I it's funny, I got here and it was like that was beautiful. 585 00:25:55,153 --> 00:25:57,756 And then just, 15 minutes ago, I was like. 586 00:25:57,756 --> 00:26:00,158 I was like, yeah, you know what? No, I don't see. It's like a get cloudy. 587 00:26:00,158 --> 00:26:02,694 It's gonna be fine. I. You know, I mean, oh, you know what? 588 00:26:02,694 --> 00:26:03,328 What's up? 589 00:26:03,328 --> 00:26:03,495 Yeah. 590 00:26:03,495 --> 00:26:07,299 The line line's coming in, so it's kind of it's going to pour lightning, 591 00:26:07,299 --> 00:26:09,301 some wind, a little worry about the items out there. 592 00:26:09,301 --> 00:26:10,769 You know we're talking. Yeah. Getting ready. 593 00:26:10,769 --> 00:26:12,003 You know. But how are you doing? 594 00:26:12,003 --> 00:26:14,706 I'm doing great. Good. Doing really. Good. Good good good. Good. 595 00:26:14,706 --> 00:26:15,840 I'm sorry. Yeah, it's all good. 596 00:26:15,840 --> 00:26:19,611 Just, you know, just, you know, every time you turn around, 597 00:26:19,611 --> 00:26:20,445 there's something else going 598 00:26:20,445 --> 00:26:24,482 on, and, and, you know, you probably know about my family member. 599 00:26:24,482 --> 00:26:26,418 What we lost, you know. 600 00:26:26,418 --> 00:26:30,455 Yeah, we had my wife's cousin, 46 years old. 601 00:26:30,522 --> 00:26:33,692 She, had pancreatitis. 602 00:26:33,692 --> 00:26:36,661 And it was the summer about five years ago, 603 00:26:36,928 --> 00:26:40,031 and she was going through the summer, and my wife's like, you know what? 604 00:26:40,031 --> 00:26:41,032 Something's not right. 605 00:26:41,032 --> 00:26:44,603 And so they went back and pancreatic cancer in less than a year, she was gone. 606 00:26:44,936 --> 00:26:48,440 And we just had the wedding for her, her daughter just, just last month, 607 00:26:49,040 --> 00:26:50,008 down in Florida. 608 00:26:50,008 --> 00:26:54,746 And so, 609 00:26:54,746 --> 00:26:57,749 this is probably going back about 4 or 5 months ago. 610 00:26:58,149 --> 00:27:00,251 I met my best friend. We grew up together. 611 00:27:00,251 --> 00:27:02,554 I was his best man on his wedding 41 years ago. 612 00:27:02,554 --> 00:27:04,222 Right now, he's a doctor. 613 00:27:04,222 --> 00:27:07,726 He's a chief operating officer for Nuance Medical here in Connecticut. 614 00:27:07,959 --> 00:27:10,061 They are, he has pancreatic cancer. 615 00:27:10,061 --> 00:27:10,795 Oh, my gosh. 616 00:27:10,795 --> 00:27:15,367 So he's been through radiation and chemo or chemo and radiation. 617 00:27:15,367 --> 00:27:16,434 Now he's going to have an operation. 618 00:27:16,434 --> 00:27:19,204 But, you know, he's, Iron man, you know? 619 00:27:19,204 --> 00:27:19,504 Great. 620 00:27:19,504 --> 00:27:22,273 Jane, they found a little something on his pancreas, 621 00:27:22,273 --> 00:27:25,276 and then all of a sudden, in three months, it was huge. 622 00:27:25,276 --> 00:27:27,379 And so pancreatic cancer is just. 623 00:27:27,379 --> 00:27:28,680 It's unbelievable. 624 00:27:28,680 --> 00:27:31,583 And, you know, things happen where, you know, 625 00:27:33,184 --> 00:27:36,221 you get little ideas that something might be, but you never think much of it. 626 00:27:36,221 --> 00:27:38,790 And then by the time you find it, it's, it's a problem. Yeah. 627 00:27:38,790 --> 00:27:40,258 So hopefully he found his in time. 628 00:27:40,258 --> 00:27:43,561 But I just feel like many more people are getting pancreatic cancer these days, 629 00:27:43,561 --> 00:27:44,763 and we keep fighting. 630 00:27:44,763 --> 00:27:47,432 But it's, We gotta we gotta do more. 631 00:27:47,432 --> 00:27:48,500 Yeah, I do more. 632 00:27:48,500 --> 00:27:51,336 My, my wife, stepmom last year 633 00:27:51,336 --> 00:27:54,339 texted me, in March. 634 00:27:54,339 --> 00:27:55,940 She said, I want you to hear from me first. 635 00:27:55,940 --> 00:27:57,609 I have pancreatic cancer. Stage three, I think. 636 00:27:57,609 --> 00:27:59,744 And I think, yeah, I think it was two months later. 637 00:27:59,744 --> 00:28:00,178 Two months. 638 00:28:00,178 --> 00:28:00,612 That's it. 639 00:28:00,612 --> 00:28:03,815 I think how old? Mid 70s, I think. 640 00:28:04,015 --> 00:28:05,550 Okay. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. 641 00:28:05,550 --> 00:28:09,621 So yeah, I mean, yoga teacher organic food I mean healthy. 642 00:28:09,621 --> 00:28:11,122 Yeah. No, it's low stress. 643 00:28:11,122 --> 00:28:11,823 Unbelievable. 644 00:28:11,823 --> 00:28:13,992 I mean, one of the healthiest people I knew. Yeah. You know. Yeah. 645 00:28:13,992 --> 00:28:16,127 Just a wonderful woman. Yeah. 646 00:28:16,127 --> 00:28:17,796 You know, my friend being a doctor, he's 647 00:28:17,796 --> 00:28:21,066 trying to explain to me about mutations and how things can happen and whatnot. 648 00:28:21,066 --> 00:28:22,834 And it's like, okay, you know, it's just, 649 00:28:23,868 --> 00:28:24,703 I don't know, it's, 650 00:28:24,703 --> 00:28:28,440 scary, scary stuff, but you doing something like this 651 00:28:28,773 --> 00:28:33,745 Ron Foley Foundation, you know, just, you know, taking what happened to Barbara 652 00:28:33,745 --> 00:28:37,649 and making it into this unbelievable event, raises money and. 653 00:28:37,749 --> 00:28:43,254 Yeah, you know, finding out what the what the researchers are doing and hopefully, 654 00:28:43,254 --> 00:28:45,857 you know, we're going to be able to do something about this. 655 00:28:45,857 --> 00:28:47,258 Yeah. And I was talking to Jack and Kate. 656 00:28:47,258 --> 00:28:48,093 And not only is it 657 00:28:48,093 --> 00:28:51,529 raising money for research, it's raising money to help families that are suffering. 658 00:28:51,763 --> 00:28:52,831 And that's huge. 659 00:28:52,831 --> 00:28:55,700 When we, 660 00:28:55,700 --> 00:28:58,937 Debbie Lafon, my wife's cousin, 661 00:28:59,304 --> 00:29:02,307 she was the first recipient of Ron's rescue. 662 00:29:02,373 --> 00:29:05,376 And so, when that first came out, 663 00:29:07,245 --> 00:29:09,914 my wife Tracy, who works at channel three. 664 00:29:09,914 --> 00:29:10,648 I know Tracy. 665 00:29:10,648 --> 00:29:13,418 You know Tracy. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. How are you doing? 666 00:29:13,418 --> 00:29:14,853 You know. Great. Good, good, good. Oh. 667 00:29:14,853 --> 00:29:18,523 So, you know, all of us in this business, we all know each other. 668 00:29:18,690 --> 00:29:24,195 And she, she had gotten to know Barbara, somehow, probably through, you know, 669 00:29:24,763 --> 00:29:28,666 probably had her in on the show or something, but anyhow, they 670 00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:32,570 supplied, Debbie and her 671 00:29:32,570 --> 00:29:36,574 two daughters, the ability to go to Disney World, and, 672 00:29:36,674 --> 00:29:40,779 you know, they were there, and I didn't want to say 673 00:29:40,779 --> 00:29:44,282 it was maybe May, and she was gone in October. 674 00:29:44,482 --> 00:29:45,316 Wow. So. 675 00:29:45,316 --> 00:29:47,986 Yeah, but they got to have that one last special love thing. 676 00:29:47,986 --> 00:29:50,121 So, so helping the family, it's important because, you know, 677 00:29:50,121 --> 00:29:53,491 it happens to a person, but it's the what it does to the whole family. 678 00:29:53,725 --> 00:29:56,427 Just. Yeah. It affects the whole family. Yeah. Yeah I used way. Yeah. 679 00:29:56,427 --> 00:29:57,529 Oh absolutely. 680 00:29:57,529 --> 00:29:58,963 Oh was it. How many years we've been doing this. 681 00:29:58,963 --> 00:30:00,331 And we got to wrap because I just heard some thunder. 682 00:30:00,331 --> 00:30:03,001 Yeah I gotta we gotta get out of here. I've been doing this now. 683 00:30:03,001 --> 00:30:04,202 I probably a solid ten years. 684 00:30:04,202 --> 00:30:05,603 Maybe. Maybe has been that long. 685 00:30:05,603 --> 00:30:08,239 Yeah, yeah. So, it along your own. Barbara. 686 00:30:09,407 --> 00:30:11,242 Known Barbara for probably 687 00:30:11,242 --> 00:30:14,245 going on and, eight, 688 00:30:14,979 --> 00:30:16,047 eight, nine, ten years. 689 00:30:16,047 --> 00:30:16,681 Yeah. 690 00:30:16,681 --> 00:30:18,683 So. So, okay, so about a while, so right on. 691 00:30:18,683 --> 00:30:20,552 So quite wonderful. 692 00:30:20,552 --> 00:30:20,852 Yeah. 693 00:30:20,852 --> 00:30:23,822 One of the organization, and, we just, 694 00:30:23,822 --> 00:30:27,292 you know, have to get, you know, we gotta we gotta, gotta get rid of this stuff. 695 00:30:27,325 --> 00:30:28,593 Yeah. And she keeps coming. 696 00:30:28,593 --> 00:30:30,662 She just every year, she keeps chugging along. 697 00:30:30,662 --> 00:30:33,665 Oh, you know, every day she's, you know, she's working. 698 00:30:33,698 --> 00:30:36,434 But what you can do to to make people's lives a little bit better. 699 00:30:36,434 --> 00:30:40,238 And it's better for all the great people that come to an event like this 700 00:30:40,238 --> 00:30:43,508 and, you know, money that is raised through other organizations 701 00:30:43,508 --> 00:30:45,643 and the big walks, those at the Pan can walk out into Rhode 702 00:30:45,643 --> 00:30:49,214 Island last weekend, you know, we, we we can't stop. 703 00:30:49,581 --> 00:30:52,050 So is she. Involved with other, organizers? 704 00:30:52,050 --> 00:30:53,284 I'm sure she is a she. 705 00:30:53,284 --> 00:30:55,420 I know she's involved with another nonprofit out of Hartford, 706 00:30:55,420 --> 00:30:57,055 but they're they do they don't do cancer stuff. 707 00:30:57,055 --> 00:30:59,624 But is you involved with other, cancer research? 708 00:30:59,624 --> 00:31:01,025 Pancreatic cancer research. 709 00:31:01,025 --> 00:31:04,162 Nonprofit groups is a she goes, I say, yeah, well, 710 00:31:04,195 --> 00:31:08,299 I mean, as far as the, you know, the different doctors and so forth. And. 711 00:31:08,499 --> 00:31:09,734 Yeah, she okay. Yes. She is. 712 00:31:09,734 --> 00:31:11,402 Yeah. So, just, 713 00:31:12,370 --> 00:31:14,472 we're, you know, we're continuing to fight. 714 00:31:14,472 --> 00:31:16,174 You just don't know from day to day. That's the whole thing. 715 00:31:16,174 --> 00:31:17,275 When I see my friend, 716 00:31:17,275 --> 00:31:20,211 one day find the next day she's got this, you just don't know. 717 00:31:20,211 --> 00:31:21,512 So you just don't know. Oh. 718 00:31:21,512 --> 00:31:24,148 So is there anything you can tell us that's going to be exciting? 719 00:31:24,148 --> 00:31:26,584 Maybe different, that you're doing for the first time 720 00:31:26,584 --> 00:31:28,319 this year that you haven't done in past years. 721 00:31:28,319 --> 00:31:28,686 Anything like. 722 00:31:28,686 --> 00:31:29,053 Well, you got it. 723 00:31:29,053 --> 00:31:31,556 We got $100 raffle ticket, for a, 724 00:31:31,556 --> 00:31:35,360 a bottle of bourbon, that's worth like, $1,000. 725 00:31:35,493 --> 00:31:38,630 We got a great necklace for $2,200 from Monarch Jewelers. 726 00:31:38,830 --> 00:31:42,400 We got some wonderful live auction items, which is always great. 727 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:47,438 And, and then, speakers, you know, hearing the stories. 728 00:31:47,672 --> 00:31:47,972 Yeah. 729 00:31:47,972 --> 00:31:49,908 Compelling stories about what people have been through 730 00:31:49,908 --> 00:31:51,542 and then hearing from the doctors about, 731 00:31:51,542 --> 00:31:55,179 you know, what's happening and, and what what we're doing to love it. 732 00:31:55,213 --> 00:31:56,648 Get rid of the stress. 733 00:31:56,648 --> 00:31:57,682 Of this awful thing. 734 00:31:57,682 --> 00:31:58,483 It affects everybody. 735 00:31:58,483 --> 00:32:00,952 It's just about anybody you talk to. Yeah. 736 00:32:00,952 --> 00:32:02,253 So somewhere as a related. Yeah. 737 00:32:02,253 --> 00:32:06,190 With but you know now just for me it just keeps hitting too much you know. 738 00:32:06,224 --> 00:32:09,193 So I need we need to fight. Perfect. Keep fighting. 739 00:32:09,193 --> 00:32:10,328 Yeah you fight Joe. 740 00:32:10,328 --> 00:32:12,397 You get back to work. We're going to. We're going to thank you. 741 00:32:12,397 --> 00:32:14,632 All right. Great pleasure. See you. Good. You're great. 742 00:32:14,632 --> 00:32:16,734 You're awesome. Thanks so much. All right, now let's pack up. 743 00:32:16,734 --> 00:32:19,370 Get out of here with that. Joe, we had to go. 744 00:32:19,370 --> 00:32:21,572 All right, get under the table. 745 00:32:21,572 --> 00:32:22,774 We'll see. Joe on.