1 00:00:01,639 --> 00:00:05,360 Speaker 1: Welcome to Get Connected with Nina del Rio, a weekly 2 00:00:05,480 --> 00:00:09,440 Speaker 1: conversation about fitness, health and happenings in our community on 3 00:00:09,440 --> 00:00:11,760 Speaker 1: one oh six point seven Light FM. 4 00:00:12,039 --> 00:00:15,200 Speaker 2: Thanks for listening to Get Connected. On March twenty ninth, 5 00:00:15,760 --> 00:00:18,919 Speaker 2: as we speak, doctor Larry Grogan is somewhere on his 6 00:00:19,079 --> 00:00:23,320 Speaker 2: run between New Jersey and southern California. Doctor Larry Grogan 7 00:00:23,400 --> 00:00:26,960 Speaker 2: is a chiropractor and accupuncturist who has run many, many, 8 00:00:27,000 --> 00:00:29,560 Speaker 2: many marathons. But this isn't your typical run, and he's 9 00:00:29,600 --> 00:00:33,199 Speaker 2: not your typical runner. On Larry Grogan's seventy first birthday, 10 00:00:33,200 --> 00:00:35,599 Speaker 2: March twenty fourth, he began his run across the country 11 00:00:35,680 --> 00:00:38,320 Speaker 2: with a goal to complete one hundred marathons in one 12 00:00:38,360 --> 00:00:43,479 Speaker 2: hundred consecutive days, benefiting the Davis Finny Foundation for Parkinson's, 13 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:47,360 Speaker 2: the disease Larry was diagnosed with in twenty nineteen. Doctor 14 00:00:47,440 --> 00:00:49,320 Speaker 2: Larry Grogan, thank you for being on Get Connected. 15 00:00:50,240 --> 00:00:51,360 Speaker 3: Thank you. 16 00:00:51,360 --> 00:00:53,159 Speaker 2: You can find out more about the run and how 17 00:00:53,200 --> 00:00:58,360 Speaker 2: to support at Davisfinnyfoundation dot org. It's Davis Finny with 18 00:00:58,360 --> 00:01:01,720 Speaker 2: a pH. Davis Finney, p h I N N E 19 00:01:01,920 --> 00:01:06,240 Speaker 2: Y Foundation dot org. Events Strides for Humanity. You'll see 20 00:01:06,240 --> 00:01:08,119 Speaker 2: the links right there. It's pretty easy to find them. 21 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:12,280 Speaker 2: So we are speaking to you, doctor Grogan, a couple 22 00:01:12,280 --> 00:01:14,720 Speaker 2: of weeks before you run. Where people are hearing this 23 00:01:14,760 --> 00:01:16,920 Speaker 2: in the future, but a couple of weeks before you run, 24 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:19,200 Speaker 2: how are you feeling and how are you preparing? I'm 25 00:01:19,200 --> 00:01:20,880 Speaker 2: actually talking to you while you're in a gym. 26 00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:27,120 Speaker 4: Well, I'll say that I've had a wonderful, adventurous life. 27 00:01:27,160 --> 00:01:31,119 Speaker 4: This is quite a challenge. I'm taking a hike into 28 00:01:31,120 --> 00:01:33,800 Speaker 4: the unknown, but it should be a wonderful experience. I'm 29 00:01:33,840 --> 00:01:37,600 Speaker 4: excited to be out there running and encouraging people to move. 30 00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:39,720 Speaker 4: We have a saying, and we say amongst our group 31 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:44,640 Speaker 4: that movement is medicine and it's so therapeutic for Parkinson's 32 00:01:44,680 --> 00:01:47,840 Speaker 4: patients and for all of us to exercise and move, 33 00:01:47,880 --> 00:01:50,240 Speaker 4: and you know, exercise our right to live. 34 00:01:51,000 --> 00:01:53,760 Speaker 2: And why are you choosing to spread awareness about it 35 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:57,160 Speaker 2: in this form? One hundred marathons in one hundred days? 36 00:01:57,760 --> 00:01:59,680 Speaker 4: Because it rolls off your tongue nights, doesn't it have 37 00:01:59,760 --> 00:02:02,800 Speaker 4: an I click to it? One hundred and one hundred perfect? 38 00:02:02,920 --> 00:02:03,200 Speaker 3: Simple? 39 00:02:03,280 --> 00:02:03,800 Speaker 2: Is that right? 40 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:06,280 Speaker 3: Yep? Yes, indeed, I. 41 00:02:06,280 --> 00:02:10,399 Speaker 2: Wonder about because you're a doctor again, A chiropractor and accupuncturist. 42 00:02:10,480 --> 00:02:12,720 Speaker 2: You've been serving patients in the Tri state area since 43 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:15,280 Speaker 2: nineteen eighty year, based in New Jersey, and you've run 44 00:02:15,320 --> 00:02:18,960 Speaker 2: all these marathons and you've completed thirty iron Man's which 45 00:02:19,040 --> 00:02:21,840 Speaker 2: came first the medical career or the exercise? How do 46 00:02:21,880 --> 00:02:22,680 Speaker 2: they connect for you? 47 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:25,560 Speaker 3: Well, that's a wonderful question. 48 00:02:25,720 --> 00:02:29,720 Speaker 4: Actually, the career blended with exercise, and it kind of 49 00:02:29,840 --> 00:02:31,760 Speaker 4: you know that expression that once you find what you 50 00:02:31,800 --> 00:02:33,280 Speaker 4: really enjoy, you stop working. 51 00:02:33,320 --> 00:02:35,080 Speaker 3: You'll never work another day in your life. 52 00:02:35,720 --> 00:02:39,120 Speaker 4: My life's work was encouraging me as a doctor for 53 00:02:39,200 --> 00:02:40,480 Speaker 4: people to take a. 54 00:02:40,440 --> 00:02:42,600 Speaker 3: Proactive effort in their health. 55 00:02:43,120 --> 00:02:47,040 Speaker 4: And ironically, the Parkinson's teach us a different lesson, which 56 00:02:47,080 --> 00:02:49,280 Speaker 4: is learning how to live with it, not learning how 57 00:02:49,320 --> 00:02:50,080 Speaker 4: to overcome it. 58 00:02:50,240 --> 00:02:51,799 Speaker 3: And that's a hard truth. 59 00:02:52,240 --> 00:02:54,560 Speaker 4: But once you accept that, you can work hard at 60 00:02:54,560 --> 00:02:55,720 Speaker 4: living your best life. 61 00:02:56,440 --> 00:02:59,240 Speaker 2: This is not your first run for charity, though that 62 00:02:59,400 --> 00:03:02,320 Speaker 2: you have been a philanthropist for some time, raising money 63 00:03:02,360 --> 00:03:06,320 Speaker 2: through running. Let's go back to twenty thirteen. You were 64 00:03:06,600 --> 00:03:08,800 Speaker 2: near the finish line of the Boston Marathon when the 65 00:03:08,800 --> 00:03:12,440 Speaker 2: bombing happened. Yeah, so, hendrik Ki, Yeah, how did that 66 00:03:12,520 --> 00:03:13,080 Speaker 2: impact you? 67 00:03:14,040 --> 00:03:14,280 Speaker 3: Well? 68 00:03:14,320 --> 00:03:16,400 Speaker 4: I was running at the time for Paul Newman's Hole 69 00:03:16,400 --> 00:03:19,560 Speaker 4: in the Wall camp to raise money for children with cancer. 70 00:03:20,360 --> 00:03:24,360 Speaker 4: And I must say that in the moment of those explosions, 71 00:03:24,480 --> 00:03:27,480 Speaker 4: I said, maybe this is ridiculous. What's the point of this. 72 00:03:27,560 --> 00:03:29,480 Speaker 4: We're going to get blown up in a bomb trying 73 00:03:29,520 --> 00:03:34,000 Speaker 4: to run in a circle. And then I reconsidered and said, 74 00:03:34,040 --> 00:03:36,320 Speaker 4: what a great opportunity to come back a year later 75 00:03:36,800 --> 00:03:39,640 Speaker 4: when I expected the world would be really watching close 76 00:03:39,760 --> 00:03:42,280 Speaker 4: to see what happened in the Boston Marathon, and we 77 00:03:42,360 --> 00:03:44,440 Speaker 4: really got to get an audience of a lot of 78 00:03:44,440 --> 00:03:47,080 Speaker 4: people and encourage a lot of people to hear our 79 00:03:47,120 --> 00:03:49,640 Speaker 4: messaging and help these children at Paul Newman's Hole in 80 00:03:49,680 --> 00:03:52,280 Speaker 4: the World camp. So we ran with what was then 81 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:55,920 Speaker 4: Grogan's Heroes, and we ran and had a great race 82 00:03:56,000 --> 00:03:58,920 Speaker 4: and kind of took back the finish line, so to speak. 83 00:03:59,080 --> 00:04:01,440 Speaker 2: And you also had the run from Boston to New Jersey. 84 00:04:02,640 --> 00:04:04,840 Speaker 3: Yes, we ran two hundred and fifty miles. 85 00:04:04,880 --> 00:04:07,280 Speaker 4: We ran to the start line of the Boston Marathon, 86 00:04:07,320 --> 00:04:09,120 Speaker 4: took a day off for Easter, and. 87 00:04:09,080 --> 00:04:12,080 Speaker 3: Then ran the marathon. It was a fun experiment. 88 00:04:13,040 --> 00:04:16,440 Speaker 2: The experiments have gotten bigger. So in twenty nineteen, you 89 00:04:16,480 --> 00:04:20,120 Speaker 2: were scheduled to make your first fundraising run across the country. 90 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:23,760 Speaker 2: You received your Parkinson's diagnosis around the same time. 91 00:04:23,920 --> 00:04:26,120 Speaker 4: I received it a couple of months into the training, 92 00:04:26,160 --> 00:04:29,720 Speaker 4: and to the lament of my then twin sons, who 93 00:04:29,800 --> 00:04:32,760 Speaker 4: were concerned about me running it, we amended this cross 94 00:04:32,800 --> 00:04:35,680 Speaker 4: country effort and made it a twelve hundred mile run, 95 00:04:35,720 --> 00:04:38,840 Speaker 4: and we ran all around America, flying in and out 96 00:04:38,880 --> 00:04:41,400 Speaker 4: of the major cities, and had a chance, as we 97 00:04:41,440 --> 00:04:43,600 Speaker 4: put it, hang out with America in her backyard. 98 00:04:44,720 --> 00:04:47,640 Speaker 2: You've spent your life in career focused on health, then 99 00:04:47,680 --> 00:04:52,200 Speaker 2: you have the Parkinson's diagnosis. How did that change your run, 100 00:04:52,320 --> 00:04:54,000 Speaker 2: change your training, change your life. 101 00:04:54,720 --> 00:04:57,040 Speaker 3: That's also a wonderful question. 102 00:04:57,800 --> 00:05:01,120 Speaker 4: I shortened the run in the rese respect for my children, 103 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:06,720 Speaker 4: who are fearful that I would hurt myself. And now 104 00:05:06,720 --> 00:05:09,360 Speaker 4: here we are, seven years later, and with the blessing 105 00:05:09,400 --> 00:05:13,600 Speaker 4: of my children, to live your best, if your best life, 106 00:05:13,760 --> 00:05:16,320 Speaker 4: we're running the original run that we intended to run 107 00:05:16,360 --> 00:05:19,720 Speaker 4: in twenty nineteen, running twenty six miles a day for 108 00:05:19,800 --> 00:05:23,880 Speaker 4: one hundred miles from northern New Jersey to southern California. 109 00:05:24,000 --> 00:05:27,080 Speaker 4: So it's been seven years in the waiting and then 110 00:05:27,160 --> 00:05:30,040 Speaker 4: kind of voyaging into the into the unknown. 111 00:05:30,760 --> 00:05:35,040 Speaker 2: I'm speaking with doctor Larry Grogan. He's a chiropractor, acupuncturist, 112 00:05:35,160 --> 00:05:39,559 Speaker 2: athlete and philanthropist currently running across the country as we speak, 113 00:05:39,640 --> 00:05:44,120 Speaker 2: raising funds benefiting the Davis Finny Foundation for Parkinson's, the 114 00:05:44,200 --> 00:05:47,440 Speaker 2: disease he was diagnosed with in twenty nineteen. You're listening 115 00:05:47,440 --> 00:05:49,920 Speaker 2: to get connected on one six point seven light FM. 116 00:05:49,960 --> 00:05:52,280 Speaker 2: I'm Mina del Rio. You can find out more about 117 00:05:52,320 --> 00:05:55,960 Speaker 2: the run at Davisfinni Foundation dot org. It's Finny with 118 00:05:56,000 --> 00:06:00,839 Speaker 2: a pH Davisfinni Foundation dot org, Slash Events, Slash Strides 119 00:06:00,880 --> 00:06:03,800 Speaker 2: for Humanity. Again, we're having this conversation before the run. 120 00:06:03,839 --> 00:06:06,200 Speaker 2: Will they be tracking on the website we can follow 121 00:06:06,240 --> 00:06:06,640 Speaker 2: your run. 122 00:06:07,360 --> 00:06:10,560 Speaker 4: Yes, it will be in this you so generously gave 123 00:06:10,600 --> 00:06:11,520 Speaker 4: out the website. 124 00:06:11,600 --> 00:06:12,479 Speaker 3: They'll be tracking. 125 00:06:12,520 --> 00:06:14,800 Speaker 4: You can see my activity during the day and then 126 00:06:14,839 --> 00:06:17,640 Speaker 4: it's summation at the end of every day. And the 127 00:06:18,080 --> 00:06:20,080 Speaker 4: quote that has come up time and time again in 128 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:23,960 Speaker 4: these last couple of weeks is people friends, family and 129 00:06:24,040 --> 00:06:27,800 Speaker 4: strangers getting to know about our adventure, saying that we 130 00:06:27,839 --> 00:06:30,560 Speaker 4: won't be alone and we're so touched and encouraged by 131 00:06:30,600 --> 00:06:33,000 Speaker 4: that and encouraged by a lot of people saying that 132 00:06:33,040 --> 00:06:36,600 Speaker 4: they're inspired to do more. It's an unfortunate thing that 133 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:40,680 Speaker 4: Parkinson's patients benefits so much from exercise, and yet they're 134 00:06:40,720 --> 00:06:43,240 Speaker 4: scared of it and have an aversion to it, scared 135 00:06:43,279 --> 00:06:47,040 Speaker 4: of falling or tripping or straining themselves. And in fact, 136 00:06:47,480 --> 00:06:50,200 Speaker 4: the exercise has been shown to be, if not the 137 00:06:50,320 --> 00:06:52,599 Speaker 4: most important thing, one of the most important things you 138 00:06:52,640 --> 00:06:54,760 Speaker 4: can do, as is true for all of us, to 139 00:06:54,839 --> 00:06:56,080 Speaker 4: exercise and do help. 140 00:06:56,480 --> 00:06:59,120 Speaker 2: I think that's an excellent point because even if you 141 00:06:59,160 --> 00:07:01,640 Speaker 2: are not living with the product disease, you're probably not 142 00:07:01,800 --> 00:07:05,520 Speaker 2: exercising enough. Most Americans don't, but if you are. It 143 00:07:05,640 --> 00:07:11,160 Speaker 2: feels like conversations starts circling around after diagnosis about diet, perhaps, 144 00:07:11,200 --> 00:07:15,760 Speaker 2: but definitely about medications and drugs, not so much exercise 145 00:07:16,280 --> 00:07:18,880 Speaker 2: as someone with Parkinson's. What has exercise done. 146 00:07:18,760 --> 00:07:23,360 Speaker 4: For you, Well, it's made it manageable and allowed me, 147 00:07:23,680 --> 00:07:26,080 Speaker 4: as I said earlier, to learn how to live with it, 148 00:07:26,600 --> 00:07:29,560 Speaker 4: not to overcome it or beat it. In time, there'll 149 00:07:29,600 --> 00:07:31,720 Speaker 4: be a blessing and they'll be a cure. But for 150 00:07:31,760 --> 00:07:34,920 Speaker 4: the time being, our focus is on encouraging people that 151 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:38,760 Speaker 4: have Parkinson's or other neurological diseases to live their best 152 00:07:38,800 --> 00:07:41,520 Speaker 4: life and to live and to move and to encourage movement. 153 00:07:41,920 --> 00:07:47,560 Speaker 4: And there are so many benefits psychological, emotional, physiological, digestion. 154 00:07:48,040 --> 00:07:50,640 Speaker 4: It's just a win all the way around. And actually 155 00:07:50,800 --> 00:07:54,120 Speaker 4: exercise is the one activity has been shown to me neurotrophic, 156 00:07:54,200 --> 00:07:57,560 Speaker 4: which means it allows for growth of nerves. So there's 157 00:07:57,600 --> 00:08:01,800 Speaker 4: some hope that even exercising vigorous in whatever way you 158 00:08:01,840 --> 00:08:04,280 Speaker 4: can for everybody. It might just be taking a walk, 159 00:08:04,360 --> 00:08:07,560 Speaker 4: it might be standing up and sitting down ten times rapidly, 160 00:08:07,800 --> 00:08:10,080 Speaker 4: but to get moving. There's a quote that came up 161 00:08:10,200 --> 00:08:13,880 Speaker 4: not long ago that touches me and says it all. Says, 162 00:08:14,000 --> 00:08:16,679 Speaker 4: Larry is running for people that think that they cannot 163 00:08:17,960 --> 00:08:20,360 Speaker 4: And there's a lot of beautiful power in that to 164 00:08:20,480 --> 00:08:23,240 Speaker 4: encourage people to realize that they're still alive and they 165 00:08:23,240 --> 00:08:25,400 Speaker 4: still can live their best life. 166 00:08:26,000 --> 00:08:30,160 Speaker 2: Because you're a chiropractor also and an acupuncturist, how has 167 00:08:30,240 --> 00:08:33,000 Speaker 2: that played a part in your training and how you 168 00:08:33,120 --> 00:08:35,480 Speaker 2: run your own medical knowledge? 169 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:39,720 Speaker 4: Well, I just said to somebody that was running, I 170 00:08:39,760 --> 00:08:42,160 Speaker 4: found a stranger in the woods and we ran together 171 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:45,280 Speaker 4: for a couple of hours together, and I came to 172 00:08:45,320 --> 00:08:48,200 Speaker 4: the conclusion that perhaps as a Parkinson's patience and a 173 00:08:48,280 --> 00:08:52,000 Speaker 4: chiropractor acupuncturists, I have an advantage because I have an 174 00:08:52,040 --> 00:08:56,520 Speaker 4: insight to understand that we have unlimited potential. And that 175 00:08:56,720 --> 00:08:58,920 Speaker 4: was a message that I tried to portray in my 176 00:08:59,080 --> 00:09:02,960 Speaker 4: forty five years in practice to encourage people to understand 177 00:09:03,200 --> 00:09:06,720 Speaker 4: that the primary healer, the primary catalyst for healing, comes 178 00:09:06,720 --> 00:09:12,880 Speaker 4: from our lifestyle or exercise and diet and good social experiences, 179 00:09:13,240 --> 00:09:16,600 Speaker 4: socializing with people and living your best life. 180 00:09:17,000 --> 00:09:19,800 Speaker 2: I have an ultra marathon or I have a couple, actually, 181 00:09:19,800 --> 00:09:22,120 Speaker 2: but one in my family who runs one hundred mile races, 182 00:09:22,120 --> 00:09:24,840 Speaker 2: and like your son's, at times family has been worried 183 00:09:24,840 --> 00:09:27,480 Speaker 2: about him when he does these huge runs. And Mike 184 00:09:27,679 --> 00:09:30,480 Speaker 2: always says, in his mind, as he's running, he just 185 00:09:30,520 --> 00:09:32,920 Speaker 2: thinks the pain I have now is not going to last. 186 00:09:33,360 --> 00:09:35,040 Speaker 2: You know. He listens to music and all those things, 187 00:09:35,080 --> 00:09:37,920 Speaker 2: but the pain is temporary. When you do these runs, 188 00:09:37,960 --> 00:09:39,640 Speaker 2: what do you think about? 189 00:09:40,120 --> 00:09:44,280 Speaker 4: Sometimes I'm enjoying the nature. Sometimes I'm crazily thinking the 190 00:09:44,320 --> 00:09:48,160 Speaker 4: birds are joining me for a spin. If I see 191 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:51,160 Speaker 4: a helicopter overhead, I'm sure I'm winning. The Boston Marathon 192 00:09:51,200 --> 00:09:54,200 Speaker 4: and I'm the first place finisher and they're tracking me close. 193 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:55,520 Speaker 3: To be a little nutty helps. 194 00:09:56,200 --> 00:09:59,320 Speaker 4: Music is so very important to me, sometimes listening to 195 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:03,079 Speaker 4: it time, singing to myself, and sometimes dancing. 196 00:10:03,120 --> 00:10:04,520 Speaker 3: I actually took up tap. 197 00:10:04,400 --> 00:10:07,040 Speaker 4: Dancing when I was training for this race, because in 198 00:10:07,080 --> 00:10:10,160 Speaker 4: the Parkinson's there's certain rhythms that seem to liberate and 199 00:10:10,200 --> 00:10:12,640 Speaker 4: free you aside from taking a long warm up of 200 00:10:12,679 --> 00:10:15,959 Speaker 4: a couple of hours, and I find myself tap dancing. 201 00:10:16,000 --> 00:10:19,200 Speaker 4: I put taps on one pair of my sneakers and 202 00:10:19,240 --> 00:10:21,880 Speaker 4: I'm tapping away and dancing, and in the moment I 203 00:10:22,000 --> 00:10:25,640 Speaker 4: forget that I was running and embrace the tapping. 204 00:10:25,960 --> 00:10:28,040 Speaker 2: Oh that's fun. I bet you'll go through lots of 205 00:10:28,280 --> 00:10:31,400 Speaker 2: pairs of sneakers through this run. And what kind of 206 00:10:31,440 --> 00:10:33,800 Speaker 2: music do you listen to lately? 207 00:10:33,840 --> 00:10:36,280 Speaker 4: It's been a lot of Tony Bennett and Frank Sinatra 208 00:10:37,160 --> 00:10:37,920 Speaker 4: and oldies. 209 00:10:38,240 --> 00:10:39,760 Speaker 3: I jump around and whatever I. 210 00:10:39,679 --> 00:10:44,240 Speaker 4: Get into, I usually find myself waking up singing it 211 00:10:44,800 --> 00:10:47,560 Speaker 4: and craving to hear the next song by that artist. 212 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:50,600 Speaker 2: So some of the nuts and bolts. What's your schedule 213 00:10:50,760 --> 00:10:53,200 Speaker 2: like for you know, a marathon per day? How much 214 00:10:53,200 --> 00:10:55,160 Speaker 2: time will you run? How much rest will you have? 215 00:10:56,280 --> 00:10:59,880 Speaker 4: Well, we're into the unknown, abyss, so the best like 216 00:11:00,120 --> 00:11:04,199 Speaker 4: plans may be amended and we'll find out. But what 217 00:11:04,240 --> 00:11:07,360 Speaker 4: I'm doing is I get up early in the morning 218 00:11:07,360 --> 00:11:11,439 Speaker 4: as the sun rises, stretch a little bit, take loosen up, 219 00:11:12,160 --> 00:11:16,040 Speaker 4: have a small light breakfast, and basically I'm eating prescribed 220 00:11:16,200 --> 00:11:20,319 Speaker 4: nutrition for the whole somewhere between five and eight hours 221 00:11:20,320 --> 00:11:23,640 Speaker 4: that I'll be running each day. And then we finish 222 00:11:23,679 --> 00:11:25,680 Speaker 4: and rest and have a nice dinner and go to 223 00:11:25,720 --> 00:11:26,680 Speaker 4: sleep and repeat. 224 00:11:27,760 --> 00:11:29,760 Speaker 2: And who's going with you? Who's on the team. 225 00:11:30,200 --> 00:11:35,160 Speaker 4: We have volunteers, so fortunate that Honda donated an Odyssey 226 00:11:35,280 --> 00:11:38,559 Speaker 4: minivan for us. That'll be our support vehicle. And as 227 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:41,480 Speaker 4: we've done in the past, that vehicle will play leap frog, 228 00:11:42,280 --> 00:11:44,640 Speaker 4: showing us where the turns are in the corners, and 229 00:11:45,040 --> 00:11:47,160 Speaker 4: we'll pass the van and the van will pass us. 230 00:11:48,240 --> 00:11:51,559 Speaker 4: And it should should be a fun adventure, if it's 231 00:11:51,640 --> 00:11:54,640 Speaker 4: anything like our prior adventures. We met so many interesting 232 00:11:54,679 --> 00:11:57,920 Speaker 4: and wonderful people. And I think people maybe think that 233 00:11:57,960 --> 00:12:02,160 Speaker 4: I'm running from an institute or from a bank robbery, 234 00:12:02,280 --> 00:12:05,760 Speaker 4: but once they realize I'm innocent, they stop and we'll chat, 235 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:07,680 Speaker 4: not stop strolled. 236 00:12:09,440 --> 00:12:12,040 Speaker 2: So this run again is to create awareness and raise 237 00:12:12,080 --> 00:12:15,800 Speaker 2: funds for the Davis Finny Foundation for Parkinson's Disease. Can 238 00:12:15,840 --> 00:12:17,840 Speaker 2: you talk a little bit about them and your partnership. 239 00:12:18,320 --> 00:12:21,920 Speaker 4: Yes, it's a partnership made in heaven because I had 240 00:12:21,920 --> 00:12:24,880 Speaker 4: this idea to do something that was bigger and. 241 00:12:24,880 --> 00:12:27,640 Speaker 3: More powerful than my just taking a run. 242 00:12:27,920 --> 00:12:31,560 Speaker 4: And I wanted to, as we've discussed, wanted to encourage 243 00:12:31,559 --> 00:12:35,199 Speaker 4: people to begin to exercise and take charge and recognize 244 00:12:35,200 --> 00:12:36,640 Speaker 4: that exercise is pivotal. 245 00:12:37,080 --> 00:12:38,280 Speaker 3: The Davis Finny. 246 00:12:38,000 --> 00:12:42,200 Speaker 4: Foundation loomed as the perfect, perfect partner, and when I 247 00:12:42,280 --> 00:12:44,960 Speaker 4: told them what we were doing, they said, that's exactly 248 00:12:44,960 --> 00:12:45,480 Speaker 4: our mission. 249 00:12:45,520 --> 00:12:46,640 Speaker 3: We educate people. 250 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:51,000 Speaker 4: We institute programs all around the world to encourage people 251 00:12:51,040 --> 00:12:54,360 Speaker 4: with Parkinson's to exercise, to educate them and make them 252 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:56,800 Speaker 4: aware of ways that they can do it, to help 253 00:12:56,880 --> 00:13:02,720 Speaker 4: assess them with gym memberships and sneakers and running clothes guidance. 254 00:13:03,040 --> 00:13:07,040 Speaker 4: Sometimes it's many Parkinson's patients lose their right to drive 255 00:13:07,200 --> 00:13:11,080 Speaker 4: a car, so just having uber rise and lyft rights 256 00:13:11,120 --> 00:13:12,839 Speaker 4: to get to in front of the gym can change 257 00:13:12,840 --> 00:13:16,319 Speaker 4: the quality someone's life. And the Davis Finney Foundation already 258 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:19,400 Speaker 4: is doing all that they have peddling for Parkinson's. They 259 00:13:19,440 --> 00:13:22,920 Speaker 4: have yearly summits and sponsor meetings all around the country, 260 00:13:23,600 --> 00:13:27,679 Speaker 4: educating people, and so that's what we're doing. And I'm 261 00:13:27,720 --> 00:13:30,000 Speaker 4: so excited that they've come on board and been a 262 00:13:30,040 --> 00:13:31,840 Speaker 4: team to help make this a reality. 263 00:13:32,640 --> 00:13:36,000 Speaker 2: You can find out more about doctor Larry Grogan's run 264 00:13:36,160 --> 00:13:41,640 Speaker 2: at Davisfinney Foundation dot org, slash events slash Strides for Humanity. Again, 265 00:13:41,679 --> 00:13:44,080 Speaker 2: as we have this conversation, he's about five days into 266 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:46,280 Speaker 2: the run. I'm sure you've looked at lots of maps. 267 00:13:46,880 --> 00:13:48,440 Speaker 2: Where do you think you will be on day five? 268 00:13:49,440 --> 00:13:52,920 Speaker 4: Day five is we've multiplied times twenty six, so one 269 00:13:52,960 --> 00:13:56,160 Speaker 4: hundred and twenty five. I'll be in the southern hills 270 00:13:56,200 --> 00:14:01,840 Speaker 4: of Pennsylvania, looking forward to West Virginia and Ohio and 271 00:14:01,880 --> 00:14:08,280 Speaker 4: Illinois and Missouri and Indiana and Arizona and Colorado and 272 00:14:08,360 --> 00:14:10,080 Speaker 4: Las Vegas and California. 273 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:11,679 Speaker 3: But we'll be in Pennsylvania. 274 00:14:11,720 --> 00:14:13,600 Speaker 2: And what day do you expect to arrive? What day 275 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:16,160 Speaker 2: should you arrive in California. 276 00:14:15,440 --> 00:14:18,440 Speaker 4: If all goes as planned? July first, sometime in the 277 00:14:18,520 --> 00:14:22,240 Speaker 4: late day of July first. And I understand that if 278 00:14:22,280 --> 00:14:25,080 Speaker 4: we succeed that in America is going to have fireworks all. 279 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:25,720 Speaker 3: Over the country. 280 00:14:26,120 --> 00:14:29,840 Speaker 2: Good luck to you, sir. It's an amazing, amazing task 281 00:14:29,880 --> 00:14:32,320 Speaker 2: you're taking on and it's going to be an incredible achievement. 282 00:14:33,000 --> 00:14:33,880 Speaker 3: Thank you so much. 283 00:14:34,640 --> 00:14:37,600 Speaker 1: This has been get connected with Nina del Rio on 284 00:14:37,600 --> 00:14:40,400 Speaker 1: one oh six point seven light Fm. The views and 285 00:14:40,440 --> 00:14:43,120 Speaker 1: opinions of our guests do not necessarily reflect the views 286 00:14:43,120 --> 00:14:45,200 Speaker 1: of the station. 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