We are live for the 23rd annual Jimmy Fund Telethon- Rob Hale joins!

We are live for the 23rd annual WEEI/NESN The Jimmy Fund Telethon Rob Hale | CEO OF Granite Telecommunications joins the show for a big announcement!

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00:00he is the president and ceo of granite telecommunications co-founder of copley equity

00:06partners a part one of the owners one of the partners of boston celtics and a very good friend

00:12everyday listener of this show rob hale is on the phone bright this morning rob rob good morning

00:19hell man how are you i'm great how are you everything's great well i'm really happy to

00:26be on the show with you well we love having you on i'm sure you're probably on your way over there

00:30to granite to uh to get your work your workout in and get started on the day but i appreciate you

00:36taking the time and i know that this is really important and really personal to you and that uh

00:45each year we do this you reach out and say how can i how can i help so we are delighted to have

00:50you on this morning to share a little bit about your story and uh about uh how you might be able

00:56to help us get started here this morning yeah i'm eager to spend time with you i applaud what you

01:02do uh needless to say like everyone else who's listening i have deep admiration for everything

01:06that dana does it's one of the best institutions in the world it's not the best institution in the

01:10world 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

01:16match i don't want to go right for the wallet but uh why why help me when we go out to dinner you do

01:24i i mean really i feel like i i put my credit card out there right i mean it might be reaches for

01:31the wall i might be a little slow after you see the new kiosk thing they have at the at the table

01:35side being clicked you're like oh i want to have it oh shoot i was going to get this one yes uh but

01:40yeah um where i like i think last year if i if memory serves you got us started with a 750 000

01:50match i think am i right about that sounds right to me yes um so uh where where where are you at

01:58this year what do you should move up don't you think i'm in we should move up i think we should

02:02amen uh what increment do you think we should but how far up do you think we should move rob hill

02:08it feels to me like we should go for the big enchilada right let's um

02:13um why don't we say if over the course of the day not just the hill man show but over

02:20all of the wei team uh up until the end of the game why don't we see if we can raise a million bucks

02:27holy cow a million dollars hold on let's let's do it there you go let's do what the red sox would do on

02:31that a million are you guys awake a million dollars there all right that's leveling up uh so we have

02:41until the end of the day essentially until there's a game tonight we gotta we gotta get it all in

02:46uh and if we are able to hit one million dollars you rob hill will match that one million dollars

02:53karen and i would be delighted to match all or nothing no hill man all or nothing