Fridays 10:00am - 11:00am (EDT)
WHAT WILL THE AUDIENCE LEARN?
They will know more about the work of Fans for the cure and how they can be a part of it.
EPISODE SUMMARY:
Since the start of the charity’s annual Baseball Road Trip in 2007, Fans for the Cure has taken part in over 1,200 prostate cancer awareness days/nights at MLB and Minor League ballparks (and football stadiums and hockey arenas) throughout the country.
Ed is completing his forty-eighth season in baseball broadcasting. He hosts Remember When with former Red Sox manager Kevin Kennedy on SiriusXM Channel 89.
A graduate of Fordham University in the Bronx, Ed is an inductee into the All Hallows High School Hall of Fame.
Ed and his wife Luisa reside in Westchester County, New York.
Website: https://fansforthecure.org/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/fans4thecure
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/fans4thecure/?hl=en
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/fans4thecure
KEY WORDS: #cancerawareness
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Tommy D begins the show by discussing men's mental health awareness month and how it connects with his guest. He introduces Ed Randall who works in major league baseball and is the founder of Fans for the Cure which helps men suffering from prostate cancer. Ed himself is a prostate cancer survivor. They discuss some of the facts regarding prostate cancer and how it affects men. Ed also discusses his journey through prostate cancer. He founded Fans For the Cure to help men recognize the risks of prostate cancer and how important it is to detect prostate cancer early.
Tommy D begins the segment by discussing how important it is to detect prostate cancer early. Ed discusses how he has leveraged his connections in Major League Baseball to get more attention to his non-profit. Ed preaches how important it is to detect prostate cancer early. The website is FansForTheCure.org. Ed discusses how baseball legend Steve Garvey became a part of the organization. Garvey is the chairman of the board of Fans For the Cure and on the cusp of reaching the baseball hall of fame. Ed talks more about how he leveraged his MLB connections to spread his message.
Tommy D starts the segment by talking about how passionate his is to work with nonprofits and help amplify their message. Ed talks about the newest initiatives for the nonprofit. Ed discusses some of the upcoming events for the organization and the team that will be hosting the event. Ed talks about some of his work he is currently doing for the MLB and SiriusXM.
Tommy D begins the segment by talking about some of the facts about prostate cancer. Ed discusses a book signing coming up and a new podcast he will be hosting. This podcast will address prostate cancer with the help of medical professionals with the goal of educating the public. Tommy D talks about how the website can help support people with prostate cancer and their families.
00:00:40.930 --> 00:00:47.650 Tommy DiMisa: Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, children of all ages. It's your boy, the nonprofit sector.
00:00:48.020 --> 00:01:11.370 Tommy DiMisa: Wait forward, everybody connect there. The nonprofit sector connector coming out you like I do. I've been doing this man for so many weeks, like 130 weeks in a row on a Friday morning where we bring leaders of nonprofit organizations into the spotlight. This show is called philanthropy and focus, and I tell you all the time that if it wasn't for the nonprofits and the leaders of nonprofits and the founders of nonprofits.
00:01:11.450 --> 00:01:28.860 Tommy DiMisa: Much of the work that our society requires would not get done point blank. That's it. It wouldn't get done. I was talking about it just last night, and I'm saying to people, you know, it'd be nice if the government could manage and solve problems for us, but they can't solve the problems all the time, and you know what they
00:01:28.860 --> 00:01:48.860 Tommy DiMisa: debutize or or really give the access and opportunity to the nonprofit leaders and the nonprofit organizations. So I am the nonprofit sector connector every Friday. What I do is I make my way up the stairs to the attic just below the roof, right just below the roof in my attic, and you know I I'll tell you.
00:01:49.220 --> 00:01:50.330 Tommy DiMisa: I'm just
00:01:50.380 --> 00:02:03.029 Tommy DiMisa: so amazed and jazz about what this has become. You know it's a 129 episodes I think we're into right now, and it's all about shining a light on nonprofits. It's all about helping nonprofit leaders
00:02:03.170 --> 00:02:04.570 Tommy DiMisa: how their story
00:02:04.720 --> 00:02:16.630 Tommy DiMisa: and amplify their message. So I'll tell you this this this year since February. My firm vanguard benefits, and I have decided to collaborate, and each month will have a specific episode of the program
00:02:17.010 --> 00:02:19.769 Tommy DiMisa: that will be connected to an awareness. Month
00:02:19.790 --> 00:02:46.249 Tommy DiMisa: and June, as you may know, is Men's Health Awareness Month. So tell you a quick story. I was looking for an organization to partner up with, to have come on the show. And as I'm doing that, I'm talking to my business partner, Ed probes. And I'm saying, Yeah, you know, this is, it's it's men's health awareness month we should talk about, you know, prostate awareness and things like that. There's a lot of opportunities out there. And because of the way the world is, and as a connector and a network.
00:02:46.310 --> 00:03:09.230 Tommy DiMisa: my business partner, red pro from vanguard benefits, met Ed Randall and I go. He goes. I just met Ed Randall. I was introduced. So Michael talk in baseball, and I was like singing this song. He goes. That's the guy he goes. I met him. I said we should talk to Ed and say, Hey, would you mind connecting with us and getting on philanthropy and focus this month of June? So what happened was
00:03:09.470 --> 00:03:39.080 Tommy DiMisa: you. Ed? And Ed spoke, and then I texted my buddies over at the Queen's Chamber of Commerce. My buddy, Tom Grech, and I, said, Gretch, you know sky. Ed Randall, he goes. I do know Ed Randall, and I know the organization fans for the cure, and he said, I can help hook you up, and you know subsequent it out like within 48 h. I'm texting with Ed Randall, and I go. Look, you know what It'd be great to connect with the great to get you on the show, and at the same time I end up at city field. Let's go match. I ended up in city field
00:03:39.090 --> 00:03:53.960 Tommy DiMisa: for the Queen's Chamber trade show, and I met, and Edward, by the way, good morning. Hello, Ed, how are you? Hi, Tommy! I just granted over here. But I met your colleague, Joe Cosgrove. Correct. That's how I said Joseph
00:03:53.990 --> 00:04:19.729 Tommy DiMisa: Javascript is our director of operations for paying over the cure. So it's like every. It's funny how you know when you attract certain things in the universe, you talk about things. This is where I encourage you all. If you want to do the thing. Get out there and tell people you want to do the thing, because that's what happens. You know, there's gravity to that. When you put that out there. So I end up meeting Joe Cos Griff at City Field, and at the same time I'm texting with it real and long story short, we here it like I. People say to me, tell me, D,
00:04:20.339 --> 00:04:44.609 Tommy DiMisa: you couldn't make a long story short if you wanted to, but I'll tell you what I could do. I could make a long story longer. And that's sometimes what I do. But on this program it's really about the guest. It's about what they do. It's about the organization, and it's about the impact they're making. So really, without any further shenanigans from me, at least, right at this moment, I am going to say a low again to my guess, and I'm going to read a little background on it.
00:04:44.610 --> 00:04:54.239 Tommy DiMisa: Him when I read some background, real quick founder and chief advocacy officer for fans for the cure, which is a 501 c. 3. Charity organization that started in 2,003
00:04:54.240 --> 00:05:03.130 Tommy DiMisa: to promote prostate cancer, awareness and focus on the importance of testing in achieving early detection and best outcomes. So a
00:05:03.130 --> 00:05:32.289 Tommy DiMisa: crazy background in in the media, in broadcasting and journalism. Certainly in the baseball world. I know Sunday mornings I pop on the fan, and I hear you on there so, and I know when we bumped into a Yankee stadium the other night, and I know you're doing work with serious. So, Ed, can you help everybody who might not know who you are tell us about. You tell us about your background. And certainly we're going to plug into what the organization is all about. Why you founded the organization, the programs, etc. So please tell us about you. Take it away, sir.
00:05:32.620 --> 00:05:39.710 ed randall: Well, my my career has been to be on the air on radio and television.
00:05:39.830 --> 00:05:50.810 ed randall: I've been bringing baseball into people's homes for decades. And currently, I'm working. It's serious. Xm radio, where I host
00:05:50.950 --> 00:06:00.469 ed randall: a baseball nostalgia show heard Saturday mornings. It's 10 Am. On the mob network radio channel 89 on that serious Xm.
00:06:00.490 --> 00:06:06.929 ed randall: And I co-hosted with the former manager of the Texas Rangers in Boston, Red Sox, Kevin Kennedy.
00:06:07.330 --> 00:06:16.239 ed randall: for 17 years, and you referenced this earlier. I was the host of Ed Randall's talking baseball on Wfa. N,
00:06:16.390 --> 00:06:34.980 ed randall: here in New York. I also work at the Mlb network the television network where I do a a lot of work there, producing and researching, and such, and and but the most important part of my life. My North Star
00:06:35.050 --> 00:06:38.340 ed randall: is is the founder of the fans for the cure.
00:06:38.550 --> 00:06:45.900 ed randall: as a prostate cancer survivor. this was the result of my having served.
00:06:47.050 --> 00:06:55.510 Tommy DiMisa: Yeah, I I mean, I love that. I I just think, you know, I talked to a lot of leaders. I talked to a lot of founders of organizations that and I find out.
00:06:55.540 --> 00:07:24.009 Tommy DiMisa: you know, for me. It's like, Wow, when when somebody either, you know, has their own survival story, or, you know, in on the other side of things, when they've lost someone and they create a foundation. And I, we have a I just happened to just be in some meetings earlier this week. We have a family foundation in memory of my cousin Linda, called the Lindy Loo Foundation, and all the money we raise for the foundation goes to organizations that do work with social work or and what I say, social
00:07:24.130 --> 00:07:43.019 Tommy DiMisa: really connecting relationships with with people, with intellectual developmental disabilities as well as we do some work now on the vocational. So I got all that money. It's flowed into these organizations and you know it. It's just I was on a phone call with my Ellen the other day, and and some folks spirit of Huntington are doing some work for us on the marketing side.
00:07:43.020 --> 00:07:58.330 Tommy DiMisa: and it was just it. It's I always find people, the ones who are kind of bit by that bug of. I want to change the world. I want to make. Take an opportunity. And what I, what I've experienced, or or sometimes the loss of a life, what what they've experienced and create
00:07:58.420 --> 00:08:10.959 Tommy DiMisa: change and make impact. So let's can we talk a little bit about kind of your own journey you know, with, because I'm I'm looking at the stuff you handed me when I saw you at Yankee Stadium the other night. One in 8 men
00:08:11.270 --> 00:08:18.710 Tommy DiMisa: will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. They're an expected. This is the the cards you hand to me the other night. There
00:08:18.820 --> 00:08:33.489 Tommy DiMisa: are expected to be 268,400 new at 492, 68, 490 new cases of prostate cancer in the Us. This year, and tragically 34,500 deaths from this disease.
00:08:34.270 --> 00:08:55.430 Tommy DiMisa: So you know, that's always a scary word in all of our lives, and I've experienced it with some of my personal relationships. When we hear that word cancer, it scares the heck out of us right, and I might have said a bad word, you know. But I'll I'll keep the bad words for later on, but you know it's scary, so can you tell us a little bit about your own journey and and what you learn through this?
00:08:56.650 --> 00:09:04.979 ed randall: I was 47 years old, and at the time, and went for a routine annual physical.
00:09:05.330 --> 00:09:22.909 ed randall: At least I thought it was going to be routine. and the next day my doctor called me, and John had never called me. and he goes. You know your Psa is really high now, at this point, in time I'd been broadcasting for about 20 years or so in my only definition of Psa. Tommy was repeated after me
00:09:23.020 --> 00:09:33.380 ed randall: public service announcement. I had no idea this was an Indisha for a cancer. And he said, You know, maybe the lab screwed up the blood test that you took.
00:09:33.560 --> 00:09:49.440 ed randall: Come back. We'll take another blood test. Send it to another lab, which was the last thing I wanted to hear, because I've always had a deathly fear of needles since the age of 5, but I thought, under the circumstances I better go back. And I went back and took another Psa blood test.
00:09:49.440 --> 00:10:06.690 ed randall: And the results of the second test were exactly those in the first my Psa was skyrocketing, and it wasn't as if, the year before John had said to me, You know, we need to keep an eye on this. This was nothing. This was one of those car commercials of 0 to 60 and 4 s.
00:10:06.880 --> 00:10:21.079 ed randall: And so it was shocking. And when you hear the word cancer. You hear nothing else. And through God's grace I got being a baseball guy using baseball allegory I got a second embedded life.
00:10:21.820 --> 00:10:32.630 ed randall: and when I went into my 2 favorite words in the English language, in remission. I came to the realization. You know what. When I was diagnosed I felt fine
00:10:33.760 --> 00:10:37.390 ed randall: because prostate cancer in its early stages has no symptoms.
00:10:37.670 --> 00:10:48.059 ed randall: I said. You know what there could be tens, hundreds, thousands, millions of guys out there like me walking around feeling the I think if they were fine, when in fact, they were time bombs. We got to get to these guys
00:10:48.420 --> 00:11:04.879 ed randall: and tell them that there's a 99% cure rate of prostate cancer is detected early in the way to detected is with a simple blood test. So I founded the charity now called fans for the cure at fans, for the cure
00:11:05.350 --> 00:11:12.110 ed randall: dedicated to helping men recognize the risks of prostate cancer
00:11:12.410 --> 00:11:14.339 ed randall: and the immense
00:11:14.630 --> 00:11:24.840 ed randall: life-saving, potentially life-saving value of early detection to both, extending their lives and saving their lives.
00:11:25.000 --> 00:11:52.970 Tommy DiMisa: So I don't. I know you're you know you never supposed to ask a woman her age, and there's no women on this meeting right now that you and I are having. But I think it's sometimes all right if you ask a man his age. But so I this is a when you say 47 years old, I mean, I'm 45. So this is something we really as young, younger, youngish men need to be aware of. But I mean you've gone on to to live many, many years past your diagnosis. I don't want to put you on a spot, but you're not 48.
00:11:53.250 --> 00:12:08.150 ed randall: No, I'm not. But also there's this. When when I was diagnosed in 47 that was really on the younger side of diagnoses, because many of the diagnoses are from men in their fifties and in their sixties.
00:12:08.360 --> 00:12:16.310 ed randall: So the fact that I was diagnosed in 47 really was a wake up call
00:12:16.490 --> 00:12:43.679 ed randall: when establishing this charity going. Wow, 47. That's really young for prostate cancer. we need to get to these guys. And so by founding fans for the cure. That has been a very successful way of getting our message out and telling men that they need to take care of themselves because Tommy, the bottom line here is men don't talk.
00:12:44.030 --> 00:13:00.859 ed randall: Yeah. When a woman, God forbid! Is diagnosed with breast cancer, she tells everybody. She tells her mother. She tells her sisters, she tells her daughters, she tells her family that they have been diagnosed with cancer, with men.
00:13:01.550 --> 00:13:07.629 ed randall: Nothing. Yeah. And so we are on the front lines
00:13:07.930 --> 00:13:13.949 ed randall: working with men to let them know that we are here. For them.
00:13:14.120 --> 00:13:30.320 ed randall: We have established a mint support group, which is fantastically successful, which we do on the miracle of Zoom every other Thursday night. 70'clock, Eastern time. For about an hour we've got about 250 guys signed up around the country.
00:13:30.360 --> 00:13:46.979 ed randall: We also do. We also do a women's support group every other Tuesday night, because let's face it when their partners go through prostate cancer, so do they. A lot of things. And a lot of things happen in the marriage or in the partnership
00:13:46.980 --> 00:14:16.159 Tommy DiMisa: because of the diagnosis of prostate cancer, a hundred percent. And so this is, we're get. We're just scratching the surface, as they say in in this conversation. But I want to leave a couple of things here. What I want to come back and talk about education gang. That's what it is. You know, it's about education. We know again, with my partners, I own vanguard benefits. This is an employee benefits agency, and you know, oftentimes we're in educational conversations with our clients as employers, but also with employees.
00:14:16.160 --> 00:14:22.999 Tommy DiMisa: And you know I, I, you and I. You know it. Many men, not only that, not talk about these things, but
00:14:23.000 --> 00:14:36.230 Tommy DiMisa: you know we're not as good, I think, as a as a as the gender, if you will that to going to doctors, I've said it before I I get, you know, regular stuff I kind of. I kind of like in my mind. Walk it off.
00:14:36.230 --> 00:14:59.529 Tommy DiMisa: I get some pain in the ticker, you know something in my chest. I make sure I get myself to the emergency department, because that's the one that's you know in my mind is the scariest thing right. But when you talk about education, about this type of stuff that people don't even know, there's no symptoms. We must get on there in the front lines. So I will say that that's why we, with our agency, with anger, benefits really partnered up each month to bring in other things. So in honor of
00:14:59.530 --> 00:15:03.690 Tommy DiMisa: men's health. Awareness Month. We're talking to Ed Randall, founder
00:15:03.690 --> 00:15:20.659 Tommy DiMisa: of fans for the cure. We're going to go to a quick break. We come back. I want to talk about. You know what it looks like, the look and feel of the education, the conversations the Zoom calls that you started to mention. I want to ask you about the support and relationships, and how you were able to. Really, if you were leverage, who you are
00:15:20.660 --> 00:15:38.650 Tommy DiMisa: in in the connections you have, whether it be through the leak, through the Mlb. I know there's, you know, some some things. I had read my notes about relationships in the minor leagues and things like that. So we're going to get right back into. We're going to take about and 75 s break. We'll be right back. And right to Tommy, to the show is philanthropy and focus right back
00:17:38.650 --> 00:18:01.109 Tommy DiMisa: Join me in the attic. Join me in my! I didn't know I'd be singing today, but I might, I might. I fancy myself a croon or Ed. I don't have such a great voices. What other people tell me. But you know what? That's their problem. Man, that's about them. That's not about me, man. I'm ready to sing. Nonprofits need connections. That's my buddy, Brendan Levy, Uncle Brendan Levy. I call him from the Queen's Chamber of Commerce.
00:18:01.110 --> 00:18:21.490 Tommy DiMisa: my partner in a lot of the work I do in the networking world, and I'm just excited to tell you know to tell the story that he and I wrote that song together, and I think I sing it just as good as he does. All right, so we'll leave that right there. Let's get right back into it. Since the organization started, fans for the cure has taken part in over 1,200
00:18:21.530 --> 00:18:27.179 Tommy DiMisa: prostate cancer awareness days and nights at Mlb. And Minor League, ballpark.
00:18:27.240 --> 00:18:39.369 Tommy DiMisa: 1,200 of these nights. That's awareness. That's education. That's getting people involved. Because that's what we need to do to save lives. 99%
00:18:39.970 --> 00:18:54.430 Tommy DiMisa: survival rate. You told me, if caught early enough at right. So it sounds to me like the move is got to get people to know what's going on. We got to get them educated. We got to get you, said a simple blood test. I I got to be honest, man. I'm going to schedule a blood test
00:18:54.480 --> 00:19:14.200 Tommy DiMisa: like I don't know if I'll do it today, but I will schedule a blood test for next week to get this done personally, because I have that responsibility to my wife and my 4 children and other people who count on me to be around. So I want to get out there and be on the front lines with you. So let's talk about that. Talk about the collaboration. Talk about when when you get out 1,200 different
00:19:14.380 --> 00:19:17.640 Tommy DiMisa: events already. So far, let's talk about some of that.
00:19:19.180 --> 00:19:33.659 ed randall: Well, it was taking my professional life as a sports journalist. and and having spent time in the minor leagues myself 7 years
00:19:34.230 --> 00:19:37.229 ed randall: And I said, You know what?
00:19:37.880 --> 00:19:42.480 ed randall: There's 50 million fans that go to Minor League ball parks.
00:19:43.250 --> 00:19:52.839 ed randall: 40 million go to affiliated ball parks teams with affiliations for major League teams, another 10 million for independent clubs.
00:19:53.650 --> 00:19:58.019 ed randall: I like the Long Island ducks, for example. And I said, You know what?
00:19:58.330 --> 00:20:07.620 ed randall: That's an unserved constituency. We need to get out. We need to get out there and go to those ballpark. So because of my professional life on the air
00:20:08.780 --> 00:20:14.689 ed randall: and maintaining relationships with League presidents, owner operators, and ball clubs.
00:20:14.710 --> 00:20:20.410 ed randall: I thought, well, let's see, we can go to these ball clubs and have information tables.
00:20:20.720 --> 00:20:29.810 ed randall: So we started in. We started in 2,007, and that year we had 66 teams out of the box.
00:20:30.080 --> 00:20:45.160 ed randall: We eventually were doing about a hundred 25 teams during the course of the season. over a period of 13 seasons prior to Covid we were in 1,200 ballpark, as you mentioned
00:20:45.280 --> 00:20:58.579 ed randall: and on days like father's day, where there is a particular focus on prostate cancer. We had one father's day, Tommy, where we were in 22 ballpark
00:20:59.030 --> 00:21:12.539 ed randall: that day starting east to west in Batavia, New York and going all the way to the California League with the Vice versa Ball Club in the in the Central Valley in California.
00:21:12.710 --> 00:21:32.019 ed randall: and that that means getting 22 sets of volunteers that have committed to show up and and hand out your stuff. Well, now, since Covid you can't do that anymore. So now we will have a number of teams running our Psa. Our thirty-second Psa. Which features our chairman of the Board, Steve Garvey.
00:21:32.020 --> 00:21:43.479 ed randall: and Also Bob Kendrick, who is the president of the Negro League Baseball Museum in Kansas City. It's a 30 s message that we want teams to run every single night
00:21:43.850 --> 00:21:53.459 ed randall: during the game telling men simply go to the doctors, save your life and keep your family together. No empty seats on Thanksgiving.
00:21:53.600 --> 00:22:13.959 Tommy DiMisa: Yeah. Yeah. A. A. Again. I I mean, this isn't something getting that. And we learn about this in the first segment of the show here. This isn't something that you're going to have symptoms of right, maybe down the road. But then it's kind of late, right? So. But well, if it is like Tommy, if you've got symptoms from prostate cancer. You're probably at Stage 4, and the the clock has taken.
00:22:14.030 --> 00:22:18.320 ed randall: because that means that the cancer has left the stack
00:22:18.500 --> 00:22:28.949 ed randall: and has traveled into your bones, and it is a very painful, horrible death. If you have symptoms of prostate cancer.
00:22:29.190 --> 00:22:37.460 ed randall: Then the alarm bells have gone off, and it's really difficult to save your life. This is why we preach early detection.
00:22:37.550 --> 00:23:00.829 Tommy DiMisa: Yeah. So just the statistics. I want to go back to some of the stuff you shared with me the other night when when I ran into you again, I'm a met Fan. Let's go, Matt. I did get invited to the Yankee game the other night, and I knew my my new friend, Ed Rail, was going to be there, so I I found him out. I I look for the press box, and it was funny he he did not let me in the press box. He that's not, that's I'm sure that's against the rules. But we came out and said, Hello, but I want to say I was talking to security. I'm like.
00:23:00.830 --> 00:23:12.589 Tommy DiMisa: Where's the press box? And they're like, Well, you can't go to the press box. I know what I'm not going in the press box. Where's just where is the press box? You know. I'll do it back. Where is it. So one guy goes. It's over there, but you're not supposed to go there, and it's like
00:23:12.590 --> 00:23:22.440 Tommy DiMisa: it was just a sign. It said, press boxes here. It wasn't like things. So Ed came out and saw me and and handed out. I'll show you some of the some of the materials that I keep referring to. But
00:23:22.510 --> 00:23:39.189 Tommy DiMisa: you know, prostate cancer is more likely to develop in older men. More likely. However, that doesn't mean at 47 or 45 or 40 that you can't get this thing. So go get the. It's a it's a simple blood test end right? That's what you told me. Right?
00:23:39.350 --> 00:23:57.319 Tommy DiMisa: I I'm gonna you know what. When I go get my blood test I'll make a whole big deal on social media just to point out to the fact that it's and I'll be like, Look, I got a band aid, you know. No big deal guys get get to test because you know, your family need you around more likely to develop in black men. About
00:23:57.860 --> 00:24:27.309 Tommy DiMisa: 6 cases in 10 are diagnosed in men, age 65 or older. That leaves 4 that are not. That means those are younger than 65 it is rare in men under 40, however rare, does not mean never rare means rare, so get a tested. The average age of diagnosis is 66 is currently 66. So we've talked about it like a whole bunch. Go out and get tested. And let's just give a shout out the website again.
00:24:27.380 --> 00:24:47.390 Tommy DiMisa: fans for the cure, dot orgg fans for the cure org. Tell me a little bit so about more. If we could add about some of the relationships. And and again you said, because of Covid, that's changed. But I'm wondering, you know, with through Covid. Now, you know, as we as you and I talk. It's it's June of 23. Do you see
00:24:47.790 --> 00:25:08.650 Tommy DiMisa: getting that outreach again in the ballpark's around the country, or do you feel like the Psa in this public service. Announcement, Psa, so it's sort of like we should play with this. If you don't right. It's a psa's. You could be U.S.A.'s about a Psa. Have you done that already? That's that's my dad. Joke! My wife got me this coffee mug.
00:25:08.650 --> 00:25:19.750 Tommy DiMisa: and it says, Here, Ask me about my dad jokes and I I got plenty of them. So you Ps. A. About Psa. But Do you expect that you'll get back into the ballpark and do it that way, or what are your thoughts there?
00:25:20.540 --> 00:25:49.219 ed randall: No, we're getting to Tommy. We're gonna we're gonna go with the Psa on the scoreboard on the video board. because I think people are a little bit skittish post Covid, to be handed anything But human contact is not what it was prior to 2,019. I do want it to take a moment, though, to tell you about how Steve Garvey the great Los Angeles Dodger became part of fans for the cure.
00:25:49.220 --> 00:25:56.450 ed randall: I was. I was coming home from from mass one day one Sunday.
00:25:56.580 --> 00:25:57.920 ed randall: and
00:25:58.210 --> 00:26:05.459 ed randall: I was a arrived home and my phone answer machine was blinking.
00:26:07.910 --> 00:26:29.789 ed randall: I I hit the button. I edited Steve Garvey, and Immediately I was freaking out because I thought, Oh, my God! Steve Garvey's got my home number, and I'm only kidding. I I had interviewed Steve through the years we we knew each other, but I mean they were just quick interviews in the locker room that sort of thing a but but the apparently knew who I was.
00:26:29.810 --> 00:26:38.960 ed randall: He. So he leaves a message. He goes, and it's Steve Garvey. I just want you to know. I've just come out of Ucla Medical. where I was just operated on for prostate cancer.
00:26:39.050 --> 00:26:48.590 ed randall: My father, he says, has prostate cancer, had had prostate cancer editorial note. if if it runs in the family.
00:26:48.750 --> 00:27:07.160 ed randall: it doubles your chances, that of of getting a being diagnosed or prostate cancer. And I want you to know I just came out of you silly medical Center. I was just operated on for prostate cancer. My father had prostate cancer. And then he said these words, I am ready to become a foot soldier in your army.
00:27:07.260 --> 00:27:19.559 ed randall: So we spoke a number of times over that summer, and he said he would be the chairman of our board, and he remains the chairman of our board. He is, on the cusp
00:27:19.560 --> 00:27:39.520 ed randall: of perhaps being elected into the baseball hall of fame based on his great career. He's also the National League Record holder. He's the Cal Rippon of the National League with 1,207 consecutive games, and he's done a lot in his life, and the philanthropy is a very important part of it.
00:27:40.060 --> 00:27:50.039 Tommy DiMisa: I love that. And and you know thank you, Steve Garvey. Certainly for your leadership, you know, and congratulations on an incredible career. And you know
00:27:50.080 --> 00:28:03.340 Tommy DiMisa: I it. It's so. Not that it's so. Someone's responsibility, but I feel it's so important when those who have the reach yourself at the same way that have the platform. You know I was. I was texting with you the other night.
00:28:03.340 --> 00:28:21.800 Tommy DiMisa: and we were joking. And I go. Yeah, but and you're a celebrity, and it's kind of life right? Like, I think you are a celebrity. And Steve Garvey, you're excited that Steve Carby left your message at home. I think it's all funny, because we're all just people. However, I think when you have that network and that reach and those relationships, and you can have somebody like you say, Steve.
00:28:21.800 --> 00:28:50.610 Tommy DiMisa: to say I'm ready to be a soldier in your army. I'm ready to be. You kind of kind of pick up the journey and walk with you and make this happen. Well, then that's just what it is. Because what are we talking about? Gang again? It's men's health Awareness month, and we're saying that this is something that is treatable you don't have. This is not a death sentence if you get prostate cancer, but you have to catch it. So so I think Steve Garvey going out there, and your other folks getting out there telling these stories at
00:28:50.610 --> 00:28:59.399 Tommy DiMisa: it means that people are going to wake up and do this right. It doesn't mean everybody is going to listen right? But it's certainly, you know it depends who it comes from, that people. Listen more. Wouldn't you agree?
00:29:01.700 --> 00:29:11.779 ed randall: Yeah, hey? You know. And I I told the Garvey I I really passed him. And I said, You know, I'm thinking this is something. A few years ago, I said, I'm thinking about going to spring training.
00:29:11.990 --> 00:29:15.090 ed randall: I I was in Vancouver
00:29:15.320 --> 00:29:31.300 ed randall: broadcasting for Oaklands, aaa and I became friends with one of our outfielders who never did make it to the major leagues. But he did spend 35 years as the Minor League director, the farm director for the open days.
00:29:32.070 --> 00:29:43.210 ed randall: and having been in the minor leagues already during the season with all of these tables of at least a hundred clubs at a time. Yeah, each season.
00:29:43.250 --> 00:29:52.389 ed randall: and I I so I talked to Keith, and I said, Keith Lippin. And I said, You know, lip, or I'm thinking and going coming to can I come to spring training
00:29:52.480 --> 00:30:06.020 ed randall: and talk to your team about prostate cancer? And he said, Yeah, but he then he said, Well, why can't you talk to all the teams, and it was like. Wow, you think I could do that
00:30:06.120 --> 00:30:14.299 ed randall: any? So it was because of Keith Lippin that I started with the Oakland ace camp in Arizona.
00:30:14.670 --> 00:30:35.629 ed randall: and I. I did this for 5 seasons, 5 spring trainings, first with clubs in Arizona and then in Florida, and the wonderful thing about Arizona is that there are 15 teams within a 45 min radius of Phoenix, and you can stay in one hotel room the whole time. Unlike in Florida.
00:30:35.920 --> 00:30:44.190 ed randall: So I was doing multiple teams And the other great thing about Arizona is that there are shared complexes.
00:30:44.190 --> 00:31:07.530 ed randall: The W with the white Sox or with the Dodgers. The Reds are with the what what's called the Indians the the mariners are with the padres. It that kind of thing. So you could kill 2 birds with one stone. So here I am, going into these camps, where everybody allows me 10 to 15 min to talk about prostate cancer.
00:31:07.960 --> 00:31:11.719 ed randall: And I tell these, I I I tell these kids, look.
00:31:12.700 --> 00:31:34.139 ed randall: you guys are masters of the universe. And and you think you're never going to get sick, and, please God, know. And I'm telling you that by the time you become the Targets group for prostate cancer in your forties that, we will have found a cure for prostate cancer, and it won't be an issue. However.
00:31:34.140 --> 00:31:46.829 ed randall: until that time. I want you to tell the men in your family that they are loved and they are wanted, and they are needed, and they are cherished, and they have a responsibility to go to the doctors
00:31:46.950 --> 00:32:10.610 ed randall: and get a simple Psa blood test to save their lives like it saved my life. And let me tell you something. I'm the only CEO you're ever going to meet who hopes to go out of business. 100%, I hope by the time I said, I hope by the time you guys get off the field today the secure for presti cancer, in which case I'm done. Until that time I will be the car alarm. You cannot turn off
00:32:10.610 --> 00:32:29.480 ed randall: to tell the men in your family that they need to go to the doctors because we don't want any empty chairs on Thanksgiving or Christmas, or Hanukkah, or Kwanza, or any of the other holidays that you could name. So I did that for 5 years. And it was just.
00:32:29.480 --> 00:32:44.179 ed randall: It's wonderful. And now I see guys in the major leagues who I talked to when they were minor Leaguers, one of whom is Aaron, judge another is Nick Castellanos in Philadelphia. Now with the Phillies and it's just wonderful. And they remember
00:32:44.180 --> 00:32:57.669 Tommy DiMisa: they remember my message, and it's very gratifying.
00:32:57.670 --> 00:33:14.470 Tommy DiMisa: That's why you're doing the work right. And and you'll probably say to me, Tommy, I'm doing that because it's the mission and the whole thing. But men are still alive because of this work that you've done. That's just real, because if it is such a thing that you can get to test, and you could be aware of it. And then, now you know what to do, and you know the right procedure. I mean I just
00:33:14.470 --> 00:33:26.569 Tommy DiMisa: I I for you got my head spinning with all this. I mean, I see you out in Arizona now, and I'm wondering, are you, how much golf did you play when you were there? You know it's you doing these 1520 min meetings. So do you get out to play? Are you a golfer? By the way, I
00:33:26.750 --> 00:33:40.539 ed randall: no, I'm not old enough that I'm trying to think about. And the thing about golf is, Tommy. Here's the thing about golf in your life, in your life. Did you ever take a baton ball and go out
00:33:40.540 --> 00:34:03.500 ed randall: alone and hit the ball. No, you had somebody out there to catch the ball, correct or chase it down. You hit Fungos right. Well, that's the way it's been in my life, so it doesn't make any sense to me that I got to hit the ball, and then I got to go get the ball, so I got to go get it again, and then I got to hit it with it
00:34:03.500 --> 00:34:18.960 Tommy DiMisa: all the words for you, Mr. Reynold. Here's here's one country club and Caddy, because if you get a caddy it's a different story, and I don't mean to Cadillac. Everybody we got to split for a quick break. We come back. But the other thing in the I know you got to go to a break, but you' to get the thing very quickly.
00:34:18.960 --> 00:34:34.370 Tommy DiMisa: you you gotta work at it. Otherwise it's torture. Yeah, listen. Here's the thing about it we could talk about. I am not very good at golf. I I enjoy going out, but I I in my twenties and early thirties, I would get angry
00:34:34.449 --> 00:34:56.760 Tommy DiMisa: about how bad I sucked at the game, but realizing how little I play now 6 times a season, I don't get mad at myself anymore. I'm like, if I if I put in the time. Maybe I could be angry about it. But now I'm just like, you know, I hit a good one. I'm like, Wow, that's pretty good. I didn't practice or anything. I had a good one. That's a good thing. I want to talk to you like a deal. I'll I'll go out with you.
00:34:56.760 --> 00:35:15.219 Tommy DiMisa: I'll go out with you and the go, of course. I'm a great driver. That's what I'm going to do. I'm going to drive the card that was coming man. I got to get you all these coffee mugs. I did that joke with that with that line. I knew that one. I saw that one coming. As soon as you said it. We're gonna take a quick break, and Randall, Tommy D. Fans for the cure will be right back
00:37:14.300 --> 00:37:35.379 Tommy DiMisa: the one and only non-profit sector connector. And I guess that's when you get give yourself a nickname, you know, you get to just be the one and only, and all I'm about is amplifying the message for nonprofits, helping them tell their story, helping them get the word out, helping people understand that by getting involved with nonprofits you can really make change. You could be part of the change. You can change the world.
00:37:35.380 --> 00:37:51.439 Tommy DiMisa: And that's what philanthropy and focus is for me. That's what my mission is. That's where my journey is to continue to just let everybody know what nonprofit organizations are doing. I want to get into some other conversations with my new friend, Ed Randall. Thanks for the cure of the organization. It is
00:37:51.440 --> 00:38:16.850 Tommy DiMisa: Men's Health Month Men's Health Awareness Month. Shout out to my partners vanguard benefits because there's been a lot of stuff we put out each month, so go to vanguard benefits you. yo.com if you want to check it out. But there's been a lot that we've put out around men's health this month, so false on Linkedin follows on Facebook vanguard benefits. And you'll see a lot of that stuff that we're putting out there. So. And I want to get into some stuff that like what what I was, what I was talking to my business partner at Probes when you had met you.
00:38:16.850 --> 00:38:35.000 Tommy DiMisa: and I was like enamored, and I'm like Dude. He's a celebrity. I want to get on my show. Do you think he'll do my show? I'm so excited in the whole thing because I get again. I was I I you're a guy who's on the radio. And I was like, you know, I gotta get this guy be great if he said, Yes, Ed pros told me when he met with you that.
00:38:35.290 --> 00:38:44.490 Tommy DiMisa: there's this campaign that you have, and I'm looking at it on your website getting the website fans for the cure.org fans for the cure.org
00:38:45.070 --> 00:39:08.790 Tommy DiMisa: this campaign about having a cat. You compared it to something that was really, I was gonna say, hot a few years ago, but it was really cold. A few years ago there was something with the with the for Als. The ice bucket challenge right there was that. That's you sort of compared the cash to to that. Tell us about what what I'm really not doing a great job of explaining. Can you please explain it, sir?
00:39:09.580 --> 00:39:18.129 ed randall: our latest initiative, our newest initiative, Tommy and I really appreciate the opportunity to speak about it is called catch for the cure.
00:39:18.740 --> 00:39:45.790 ed randall: we've all had catches in our lives at some point, and it evokes such memories of childhood and happiness having a catch with your dad, who may have introduced the game of baseball to you. And now, with the reintroduction of field of dreams and Major League baseball playing a game up in Iowa the last couple of years. They're not doing it this year, but they they've done it in the past, as we know.
00:39:45.880 --> 00:40:04.739 ed randall: starting with the Yankees and the white Sox. we thought this could be really something that captures the imagination of everybody, not just not just men but everybody. So we're asking people to have catches
00:40:04.890 --> 00:40:11.220 ed randall: have a catch with a loved one with a former teammate with anybody.
00:40:11.300 --> 00:40:15.490 ed randall: Have a catch, if you'd like, put it on your cell phone and send it to us
00:40:15.660 --> 00:40:19.140 ed randall: at fans for the cure.org slash, catch.
00:40:19.330 --> 00:40:31.369 ed randall: and If you were running in a 5 K or a 10 K. You would get people to support you. Run? Well, we're looking for people to support your catch.
00:40:31.560 --> 00:40:55.649 ed randall: We would love that, and of course pass the word on to everybody that you possibly can to have a catch on behalf of fans for the cure. All of the proceeds will go to our education programs. that will allow us to do more free screenings and speak to more people about how prostate cancer can be avoided by a simple blood test.
00:40:55.650 --> 00:41:11.100 ed randall: And you you you reference, the ice bucket challenge here. You don't have to get wet. You don't have to run up 5 k. Or a 10 K. And be exhausted here. You could just simply have a catch.
00:41:11.290 --> 00:41:29.930 ed randall: and if we are 1 100 is successful, and we think it's going to be a whole lot more than that, because we're gonna do this all the time. we're 1 100. The successful is the ice bucket challenge. We're going to be jumping around like a bunch of hyenas, and I think you could say hyen is still and not offend anybody.
00:41:29.930 --> 00:41:50.069 Tommy DiMisa: I think you still can. I don't think that's offensive to say the word hyena so we'll we'll just. We'll allow it. We'll allow it. No flag on the play, you know, so I catch for the cure I have 4 children of my own, and you know I certainly have catches with them. They all play different levels of baseball and softball. So
00:41:50.650 --> 00:42:19.140 Tommy DiMisa: so it's a it's a pretty It seems like a a no-brainer to get involved and do this type of thing. I see from a social media perspective that this could be a home run unintended, but I think it really could be. And I want to find out what you know. What are you from a social media perspective? What do you think, you know? Because I'm going to. Just I see this is an Instagram thing. You get a catch going. You have. You? Take a 30 s clip of that and you get it out there and the tag some other people I remember that was a big thing to it from my memory.
00:42:19.140 --> 00:42:38.359 Tommy DiMisa: you know, with the the ice pocket thing was, it was like, All right, you're going to do it. And now you're going to challenge me to do it, and then I'm going to do it. I'm a challenge and probes to do it. So it had. That sort of that was part of, I think of the viral piece was that it was. Now I'm going to challenge you now, like you know, it was like, now go do it it, you know, and that's
00:42:38.390 --> 00:42:47.810 Tommy DiMisa: becomes the push a little bit. So have you kind of like you have, like a social media team in house for the organization or the is like, how do you think that's going to go.
00:42:47.860 --> 00:43:05.479 ed randall: Yeah, we we're we're social. Media is going to be a very large component of this. we have an offer from the Cedar Rapids kernels for the Midwest League. they're looking to put 600 people on the field after a Sunday game in early July.
00:43:06.080 --> 00:43:33.070 ed randall: And what that's gonna that's really going to look good on camera. Where is it? Where the Cedar Rapids kernels, kernels? Because, of course, Iowa is the home of corn. And so the Cedar Rapids kernels are going to have a an event for us after a day game in early July, and they expect that there's going to be 600 people on the field, having catches with loved ones.
00:43:33.100 --> 00:43:56.170 ed randall: What a great thing that is! I'm I'm so blessed and lucky to have numerous relationships in the game from my time on the air. And I've spoken to various managers coaches about this, and they're like we're in. Just give us the instructions. So we're just trying to keep an Tommy as simple as possible.
00:43:56.300 --> 00:44:08.470 ed randall: Pick a partner to have a catch with if you'd like to put it on your cell phone, you'll send it to to info at fans for the cure.org info. It fans for the cure.org
00:44:08.470 --> 00:44:36.270 ed randall: and you will get people to support your catch financially. And again, whatever proceeds we are able to derive from this will go to helping expand our programs to prostate cancer, awareness and education. We, we think this is going to be huge. But we're trying to keep it as simple as we can for people to to come to us at fans for the cure. It's fans for the cure. Org flash.
00:44:36.270 --> 00:44:57.560 ed randall: catch. We will set up a page for you we'll take care of that. If you just want to donate to fans for the cure, it's fans for the cure.org slash, donate, so we are. We just can't wait for this to to to take place. I think I just made a decision while you were talking. I just made a decision because you said. You'll set up a page.
00:44:57.560 --> 00:45:21.399 Tommy DiMisa: I want to figure out a way where I could. Just certainly I'm going to have a catch with my children and my friends and whatnot. But I want to figure out like I want to challenge Tom Grech, my buddy, over the Queen's stream or commerce. The CEO of the Queen's chamber, and I want Tom Gretch. I want you to have a catch with Uncle Steve Cohen at City Field one day. Can we make that happen and like, push it like, push it to the limit, you know, and get that kind of stuff going on in, because I think that'll be the fun of it.
00:45:21.400 --> 00:45:34.800 Tommy DiMisa: but I want to see if I could put a number out there where I can have like a hundred catches like over the summer with people. And if there's a page, and there's people going to support that. And who's Tommy D gonna have a cache with now? That would be kind of a fun thing.
00:45:34.900 --> 00:45:48.899 ed randall: and I'm going to head. And I'm going to add to this, I am making myself available to have catches. I in the trunk of my car I always carry. For years I've got
00:45:48.930 --> 00:46:15.670 ed randall: gloves. I've got baseballs. I've got bats, and I will go to whomever wants to have a catch with me. I'm happy to tell you that I am well rested. My arm is fine. I was voted one of the a lot of people don't know this, Tommy. I'm gonna let the Canad of the big right here. I was voted one of the top 1,000 pictures in Fordham university history. And
00:46:15.900 --> 00:46:22.790 ed randall: thank you. So there's that I am the holder in perpetuity
00:46:22.850 --> 00:46:35.179 ed randall: of the University Heights, Little League record for strike out to the 7 inning game for the Holy Family Club. One Saturday morning I struck out 16 batteries in a 7 inning game.
00:46:35.630 --> 00:46:37.200 ed randall: This was, I was
00:46:38.020 --> 00:46:39.770 Tommy DiMisa: 14, okay?
00:46:39.900 --> 00:46:56.719 ed randall: And and I was 14, and that record will be in perpetuity because the University I it's literally no longer exists. So when I'm interviewing Dave Winfield or Willie Randall for Ron Gidrie or Mike Piazza, whomever
00:46:56.800 --> 00:47:14.129 ed randall: I tell them you know this is great Winfield piazza. You're in the baseball hall of fame. Well, good for you, but only one of us. Here is the holder in perpetuity of the University Heights, Little League record for strike. That's in a semin in game, and I remind people that that's for pitching, not for hitting.
00:47:14.130 --> 00:47:37.329 ed randall: So I'm bringing my my considerable baseball card mine to whomever would like to have a catch with Ed Randall and I. And then I also want to get this in. I'm the only person in America when I was on Wfa and and currently, on serious exam radio. I'm the only person in America who stops to show every single week
00:47:37.560 --> 00:47:48.830 ed randall: to talk about prostate cancer and the importance of going to the doctor, because by and large that audience that's listening to me. My loyal listeners are in the demographic
00:47:48.880 --> 00:47:55.509 ed randall: for prostate cancer. So on this Saturday show. I will.
00:47:55.510 --> 00:48:21.579 ed randall: In the last break I will take 90 s to talk about the importance of prostate cancer, because we want to keep families together.
00:48:21.750 --> 00:48:45.270 Tommy DiMisa: and they show air. Saturday mornings 8 to 10 Am. Eastern time on the Mlb. Network radio channel. 89. All right. Good and gang. Look, we'll share that on you know, on my Instagram, Tommy, d dot Nyc, so you can connect with Ed. And and is that when you do stuff like that on serious. Are you able to take calls? Is that a call in show or no? We don't do. No, we don't take. We don't take calls
00:48:45.290 --> 00:49:08.480 ed randall: it's just an inner. It's an interview show. And I, we bring back people from the past to you don't hear anymore. In the last, in the recent weeks we've had goose gossip. We've had, Tommy John. We've had Jim Cott. I'll have Roy White on this show because he's just written a new book, and in fact, the charity is having an event for Roy White this coming Wednesday in Manhattan.
00:49:08.480 --> 00:49:16.860 Tommy DiMisa: a book signing party for him. So that's it's it's an it's an interview show which I share with Kevin Kennedy.
00:49:16.860 --> 00:49:41.769 Tommy DiMisa: the former manager, the Texas Rangers, and Boston Red Sox. He's my co-host alright. Let's split. We got one short segment when we come back. I want you to call out that event again. I want to talk to you about you know how people can plug into your stay in the game. Podcast if that's something that's still going on currently and the future, the organization, how we can help and and about the catch. So we're going to have a short segment when we come back. This is one at the P and focus, and then we'll we'll take it to a close editorial. And Tommy D. Right back.
00:51:50.230 --> 00:52:04.759 Tommy DiMisa: at Randall. We don't know each other all that. Well, so you probably don't know what I want it to be when I grow up, or if I ever grow up, I want to be a game showhole. So this is the lightning round we're running out of time. This is the you remember the lighting round. I always wanted to do this. This is the lightning.
00:52:04.790 --> 00:52:15.789 Tommy DiMisa: They're running out of time, and then the judge will go and they go. Oh, my God, we're running out of time, all right. So we're running out of time, one and 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer in their lifetime. This is treatable. Okay.
00:52:15.800 --> 00:52:40.379 Tommy DiMisa: there are expected to be 268,490 new cases of prostate cancer in the Us. This year, and 34,500 deaths from this disease, which, if you got the Psa. You could have known about this, and you could have addressed what was going on, and the cause, and and the symptoms and the disease. You could, just you could make a change. And I want you in this lighting round. Tell me about you started to talk about a book signing or something. And then I want to hear about the podcast stay in the game.
00:52:41.290 --> 00:52:54.710 ed randall: we're hosting a book signing for Roy White, the great New York Yankees just read the book from Compton to the Bronx. and we're going to be having that in Manhattan at the Capital Grill on Wednesday evening
00:52:54.720 --> 00:53:09.560 ed randall: on East 40 s street the podcast is also an outgrowth of Covid Tommy. because when Covid hit, we had a whiteboard full of events going especially to black churches
00:53:09.560 --> 00:53:25.049 ed randall: where the incidents of prostate cancer in the African American community is 2 to 3 times higher than it is the white community, one for a one of 8 white guys, one of 6 African Americans. And so Covid hits. And we're like, what are we gonna do?
00:53:25.050 --> 00:53:42.369 ed randall: We? We're told we have to shelter in place. What are we gonna do? So that's why we started the podcast for men on Thursday nights up for an hour, 7 to 8 Pm. Eastern time started for the women Tuesday nights, 7 to 8 Pm. Eastern time and the podcast which
00:53:42.370 --> 00:54:04.859 ed randall: without the use of any public relations, firm or any outside publicity. This podcast called stay in the game which features doctors, researchers, prostate cancer survivors, all all men are people that are connected to prostate cancer is rated number one by this waiting service, and we're just
00:54:04.910 --> 00:54:17.279 ed randall: flabbergasted that it is so popular. So it's they can go to fans for the cure org, and they can dial up any of our podcasts which we have been very well received. It was so gratified about that
00:54:17.850 --> 00:54:25.219 Tommy DiMisa: I love it. I mean, listen, because it's about education, right? People are hungry to get educated. And you know just that. You know, you mentioned
00:54:25.220 --> 00:54:49.230 Tommy DiMisa: getting out to the churches. I I just think, in terms of getting out to the community centers, I think, and getting in term in in connection with I mean. I have handfuls of other nonprofit organizations that I think you would benefit from knowing them, and they would benefit from knowing you in the organization, you know. Certainly I I actually I recently stepped down from the Board of directors for an organization called the Health and Business Alliance. Shout out to my friend, Burt lurks. Who's the president there?
00:54:49.260 --> 00:55:14.040 Tommy DiMisa: Bursts of client. A friend, you know, as a company called Ec. A medical management, and they do revenue cycle management for for health care for doctors, they would be a great hook up for you. I think it'd be a great educational thing for us to partner with the Health and Business Alliance and Birds Company, just to get the word out, because it's all about education. and we're always on the up. We're always on the lookout for sponsors.
00:55:14.040 --> 00:55:21.759 ed randall: and I think that the work that we're doing would be very attractive to a a multitude of businesses.
00:55:21.800 --> 00:55:45.479 Tommy DiMisa: Yeah, I I think it. You know, I think, from a marketing perspective. I talk a lot about things being on Brand. So that's why, like, where is this most fit, you know. Sure you'll take. We we all as nonprofits will take dollars from from businesses, you know. But where is that partnership? And I talk a lot, especially my friend Ken serene. He founded the New York City and the Long Island. Imagine awards, all in terms of the partnership between for profit and not for profit organizations.
00:55:45.530 --> 00:55:53.840 Tommy DiMisa: Where it's like, what is the most likely target. I mean, we we own an employee benefits agency right? We're constantly talking to employers.
00:55:53.840 --> 00:56:17.989 Tommy DiMisa: This is an educational piece, this this conversation you and I had, and certainly what's going to the the ripple effect from this conversation? Because I'm going to have a catch. What you had, Randall, no matter what and I got I got. I got 2 sons and 2 daughters, and I know the boys are going to want to have a catch with you. So that's 3 catches. But I just I don't know who gets credit for those catches. You do. I do, we'll have to figure it out right. But the thing about it is, I think you know.
00:56:18.090 --> 00:56:38.869 Tommy DiMisa: it's about that education piece, and it's about bringing those those different brands together. So we own a benefits agency. It certainly makes sense for us to partner with an organization like yours. You know the health and business alliance certainly makes sense. So gang, if you want to support the organization, and I think you should fans for the cure org. That is the website. If you also are looking
00:56:38.870 --> 00:57:04.850 Tommy DiMisa: for, how do I? I need a support group? I don't know what to do. I I've just gotten a diagnosis, or my husband or my partner has just gotten a diagnosis. What do we do? All those resources are on the website. Everything's right there and right, and they can reach out. And and there's events. And there's news. And there's the podcast, and there's really so much there, anything else you really want to sort of leave out there for for folks to to be aware of to to.
00:57:04.860 --> 00:57:07.050 Tommy DiMisa: you know, to follow. Tell us that stuff in
00:57:07.350 --> 00:57:13.669 ed randall: I just Tommy, just for meant to take possession of their help.
00:57:13.960 --> 00:57:29.749 ed randall: the so many men will go. I feel fine. Well, just because you feel fine doesn't mean you are fine, and I am a a living Testament to that, because I felt fine. And then I went to the doctors for routine, annual, physical, and I was told I had cancer.
00:57:29.790 --> 00:57:41.419 ed randall: So we want to keep families together. We can't emphasize enough the importance of early detection where there is a 99% curated prostate cancer detected early.
00:57:41.430 --> 00:57:53.110 ed randall: 33,000 men are gonna die of prostate cancer in this 2,023 calendar year. They don't have to. They don't have to right if they completely avoidable.
00:57:54.260 --> 00:58:07.139 ed randall: completely avoidable. And we are here, and if you need, and this is very important, if you need a doctor, if you need a hospital. We have thirty- of the greatest urologist in this country.
00:58:07.140 --> 00:58:25.090 ed randall: on our medical advisory board, and if you are, if you are hearing Tommy and me in California or in Mississippi. we've got somebody who can help you. And that's very important that we are able to do that and provide that service.
00:58:25.090 --> 00:58:46.059 ed randall: and as far as I'm concerned, you could be in contact with me all the time. I'm like a 7 11. We never close, even if it's just to provide an empathetic ear to what you're going through or what you have gone through. We want to be able to fans, for the cure wants to be with me and their families throughout their entire cancer journey.
00:58:46.080 --> 00:59:06.110 Tommy DiMisa: And and you know what he wants to go out of business gang. Remember that he wants to go out of business right now. There's an absolute need for what Ed and his team are doing, so you must go check out fans for the clear. I will be going out and getting a Psa within next 7 days. Just so I can show you that this is where it's all about again.
00:59:06.130 --> 00:59:34.919 Tommy DiMisa: It it has to be done. It's a requirement. I'm going to tell all my friends. Tell me your friends, I'm going to tell all my friends that they need to go out and get this done. And, Randall, I appreciate you. I appreciate this new friendship that we have. I look forward to our catch and many catches, and I would say this, too. You know what the universe brought us together. All right. I believe in that wholeheartedly. And, as I'm saying to my business partner, Ed Probes, I want to get a guest for this for this particular month of June.
00:59:34.920 --> 01:00:04.729 Tommy DiMisa: He we were talking about it on like a Monday, and on Thursday he met you, and then the whole thing happens. And that's how gang. If you want to do something. If you want to change the world, give me a favor. Do you self a favor? Just go do the freaking thing, do the thing, change the world to show someone that being focused, you're both the nonprofit sector connector, and Randall was here transferred to cure org. Make it a great day. Make it a great weekend. I'll see you guys all check me out, Tommy Dwyc. Anywhere, you know Instagram Tik tok even whatever. Have a great day gang. See you next week. Bye.
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