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Speaker 1: Good morning, Tom Brady. Hi Greg, good morning. How you

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Speaker 1: doing man? Well, I'm doing great. We're here at Fenway

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Speaker 1: for this amazing event. And I know that you've had

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Speaker 1: this morning. And I think one of the we're talking

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Speaker 1: it comes to charitable giving, and I think that, um,

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Speaker 1: the same is true when it comes to our athletes.

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Speaker 1: I know that, um that you're somebody and your teammates

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Speaker 1: are are have always been guys who who make the

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Speaker 1: effort to go and visit those who are fighting not

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Speaker 1: only cancer but other things. And um, it's really kind

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Speaker 1: of a unique thing I think in this city. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: it's been pretty great over the years, Universe, since I

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Speaker 1: our team has always really rally around those things. I

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Speaker 1: can think of so many great examples of guys who

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Speaker 1: So this is a really cool thing that Wei has

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Speaker 1: So hopefully you guys can raise a lot of money.

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Speaker 1: That's always the goal of these things, and you know

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Speaker 1: to help. Well. I think Dana Farber also does amazing

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Speaker 1: work with families, and that's something that you can speak

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Speaker 1: to a little bit. Tom is how difficult it is

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Speaker 1: when a family member is fighting cancer. Absolutely, and I

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Speaker 1: think all of us are affected in one way or

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Speaker 1: definitely touched our lives and I'm very cognizant of you know,

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Speaker 1: how fragile um you know it is, you know, you

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Speaker 1: to provide you know, support for for families in need. Well.

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Speaker 1: Over the seventeen year history of this event, over fifty

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Speaker 1: the Dana Farber Cancer Institute. It's um it's something that

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Speaker 1: you certainly shouldn't. I wouldn't waste your time. Well, I

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Speaker 1: When I played with Mike, you know, he never you know,

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Speaker 1: Was it speaking of speculation? Was it? You? As many

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