Well, as I mentioned at the start of the show this morning, you have donated over $74 million,

and it is our mission to beat that over the next couple of days here at Fenway Park.

We can't do it with the help of some of our incredibly generous friends,

and one of those is joining us at the start of the show here this morning.

He is the president and CEO of Granite Telecommunications, co-founder of Copley Equity Partners,

a part one of the owners, one of the partners of Boston Celtics,

and a very good friend, everyday listener of this show.

Rob Hale is on the phone, Brighton news this morning, Rob. Rob, good morning.

Hailman, how are you?

I'm great. How are you?

Everything's great.

I really happy to be on the show with you.

Well, we love having you on. I'm sure you're probably on your way over there to grant it

to get your work, your workout in and get

started on the day. But I appreciate you taking the time. And I know that this is really important

and really personal to you and that each year we do this, you reach out and say, how can I,

how can I help? So we are delighted to have you on this morning to share a little bit about your story and, uh, about, uh, how you might be able to help us get started here this morning. Yeah, I'm eager to spend time with you. I applaud what you do. Uh, needless to say, like everyone else who's's listening i have deep admiration for everything that

and it does it's one of the best institutions in the world it's not the best institution in the world

so i'm honored to try to be able to help now in the past you've uh you've got us started with a match

i don't want to go right for the wallet but uh why hillman when we go out to dinner you do

I mean really

I feel like I put my credit card out there

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