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Toucher & Hardy

Andrew Frates On Toucher & Rich

Toucher & Hardy

Beasley Media Group

Sports

4.3735 Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2017

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Andrew Frates -- brother of Pete Frates -- joined Toucher & Rich to talk about what happened when a reporter falsely reported the death of Pete. Andrew explained how Pete has handled it all in stride and how the family has used the moment to help raise more money and awareness for ALS research.

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0:00.0

And Pete Trades, everyone knows, Ice Bucket Challenge, raising all the money and awareness about ALS, his brother Andrew, very, very involved in everything that's going on.

0:12.2

And on July 3rd, I was on vacation in Tennessee, and Mike Gambino, who is the manager or head coach of the Boston College Baseball

0:24.4

team, texted me at 818 in the morning and say, hey, those reports about Pete aren't

0:30.7

true.

0:30.9

He's still fighting.

0:31.7

I spoke to John, and I got back to him in a timely fashion at 1204.

0:37.3

Is that what you woke up? Yeah. And I'm in Tennessee. What are these reports? Oh, man. And he says, Jesus morning was nuts. It got reported that Pete passed away, and the local sports stations were picking it up, and I just wanted to make sure you had it right. I mean, Andrew, so, okay, let's just start for the beginning. So early in the morning, this report goes out.

0:57.0

Mike Barnacle tweets out that, according to him, a family friend had told him that Pete had passed.

1:04.1

That was up for maybe 45 minutes before it got corrected.

1:09.9

What was the first notice that you had that there was a report that was picking up steam

1:15.5

in the mainstream media that your brother had passed away?

1:18.1

Our house was going like a frenzy.

1:20.1

You know, I was with Pete about six to eight hours before.

1:23.7

I was with them Sunday night, and there was a 10 10 minute window where our family, we were kind of

1:30.3

doubting ourselves. Mike Barnacle put our house into a little bit of a tailspin and

1:35.8

So you were, okay, so you were at home, he's in the hospital. So there's part of you thinking,

1:41.4

whoa, what if? What if someone at the hospital leaks something and we don't know?

1:46.1

We have a private nurse that is on 24 hours a day with Pete as well while in the hospital,

1:52.1

and her phone was off. So we were trying to call her. And we weren't getting any response. So

1:58.7

there was about a 10-minute window, you know, where we were even just kind of, oh, boy, you know.

2:04.5

We, like I said, I was with them eight to 10 hours before. I stayed with them all Sunday night. We watched the Red Sox together, you know.

2:12.1

But yeah, our house was in a tailspin for a few minutes. And then after we found out Pete was all good, we finally just got to Facebook, Twitter, and corrected all the reports. How did you find out? Like, when he was okay, like, who did you speak with? How did you know? My father spoke with our private nurse. Her name is Amy. Okay. And there was a confirmation there, and of course,

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