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Toucher & Hardy

The Hoyt Foundation’s Russ Hoyt | AJ Brown: Who’s Packing Their Bags? | Team Abbott - 4/20 (Hour 3)

Toucher & Hardy

Beasley Media Group

Sports

4.3735 Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

(00:00) Russ Hoyt of the Hoyt Foundation joins Rochie and McCarthy!

(10:48.513) If AJ Brown is traded to the Patriots, who ends up packing their bags? Plus, Thomas E. Smith joins the show to talk about the Thomas E. Smith Foundation and its mission to drive transformative change for people living with spinal cord injuries and paralysis.

(33:29.167) Jeremy Woodward from Team Abbott joins the show 

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Ticket not punched. Hardie. No, the ticket's not punched. You've got a bunch of stuff wrong

0:35.6

when you talk. So much for this country. Toucher and Hardy. This country's a bunch of buffoons that don't know the rules. You idiot? The Sports Out. Toucher and Hardy show live from Hopkinson, the starting line marathon Monday. We are presented by your local New England Honda dealers. The guys are off. It's Matt McCarthy and Dan Roach. In for Toucher and Hardy. Dan, we are now joined

0:55.8

by Boston Marathon Royalty. I mean, just as... Did you hear that little bump music in? Run, run,

1:00.9

run, run, run. Run and run. Just keep on running. That is exactly what Team Hoyt has done

1:06.4

forever, right? And we're joined by Russ Hoyt, who now heads up Team Hoyt, of course, Dick Hoyt, Rick Hoyt. Every Bostonian knows the Hoyts. I don't need to introduce the Hoyts to you, Russ. It's so great to have you. Thanks. It's so great to be here. I really appreciate it, guys. How many did your dad and Rick, too? 32. Oh, man. It's just unbelievable. And his dad was the easiest person to talk to. Like, no matter like, you know, I was just a Cub radio reporter, you know, coming up to him. It just, he made you feel so comfortable and so warm and so humble. Yeah, I appreciate that. And what he did, right? That was the best part of it. And everybody knows them, the statue now, it's just like, cool is it it's awesome it's awesome it's funny

1:45.6

people would often say to me what was your dad's favorite memory rick's favorite memory and then

1:50.3

your favorite memory so my dad's was easy it was 2014 year after the bombing he made a promise to

1:55.2

rick they would come back and show the world that boston is strong did that for rick it was

1:59.2

1993 the year he graduated from Boston

2:01.8

University. The entire course, people had signs up. Congratulations, Rick, on your graduations. We

2:06.7

love you and BU too. And for Rick, it gave him warmth in his heart because he said, people

2:11.1

were now not only seeing him as an athlete who was pushed by his dad, but they knew that he had

2:15.3

finished his educational marathon, too. It was so cool. That's just awesome. And for me personally, it was 1986. There was something about when I dropped them off in Hopkington that year, and I got to leave. I walked away. I was like, something's going to be special, and that was the year they finished the Boston in 248.51, the fastest marathon they've ever run.

2:35.2

Your dad was insane. Oh, he was a stud. Yeah. He really was. Like, to say that. So what was the time?

2:42.4

248.51. To anyone to run that. Crazy. And to be pushing. Yeah. You ever try, like,

2:49.8

there's so many, and I say this with the most utmost

2:52.4

respect a lot of a lot of moms will go out and buy a stroller yeah to run with they have now

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