Jonathan Kraft details Patriots' efforts to deliver over a million surgical masks to the U.S.
Toucher & Hardy
Beasley Media Group
4.3 • 735 Ratings
🗓️ 3 April 2020
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
Patriots president Jonathan Kraft joins Toucher & Rich to talk about the team's latest efforts in the global battle against the COVID-19 pandemic. Kraft details the work that he and his father Robert Kraft did with members of the Patriots organization and the Mass. government to secure 1.7 million surgical masks from manufacturers in China. Most of the masks were flown back to the U.S. on Thursday via the Patriots' team plane, after an arduous weeks-long process.
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| 0:00.0 | B-Pod Studios |
| 0:03.0 | This is not your conventional sports radio show. |
| 0:11.3 | It's a lot of fun, right? |
| 0:12.2 | You're having fun. |
| 0:12.7 | Toucher and Rich, 985, the Sports Hub. |
| 0:16.6 | 985 to Sports Hub, we're Toucher and Rich, |
| 0:19.2 | and the Kraft family's stepping up huge, getting the masks here to the people that need them, |
| 0:28.8 | taking the plane over there to China. |
| 0:32.9 | And Jonathan Kraft, one of the masterminds of the endeavor, joins us. |
| 0:39.9 | Mr. Kraft, hello, sir. |
| 0:42.2 | Yeah, hi, Fred. |
| 0:43.4 | Let me, I don't like correcting you, but let me correct you at the start. |
| 0:50.1 | We didn't step up huge. |
| 0:52.0 | The health care workers, the frontline caregivers in this state and around the country, they're the ones who are stepping up huge. And that's not hyperbole. I've walked the ICU units at Mass General in the last couple of days. And to see nurses and doctors and support |
| 1:17.2 | staff working among people who are so, so sick from this virus and in very bad shape. |
| 1:27.8 | And these are frontline caregivers who go home to their kids, their spouses, and in a lot of |
| 1:34.9 | cases, elderly parents or in-laws. |
| 1:39.3 | And I didn't see one caregiver who was worried about themselves, but this lack of PPE has weighed on them because they want to give care, but then they have to go home and be with the loved ones. |
| 1:55.1 | So to do your job, you shouldn't have to be worried about infecting somebody who you love. |
| 2:02.8 | It's just a horrible situation. |
| 2:05.3 | So they are the ones who are stepping up big every day. |
| 2:08.1 | And I don't mean, I know you were trying to be nice to me. |
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