Speaker 1: And Milan. Well more than one bourbon anyway, seven oh
Speaker 1: six on a Friday, and a very happy one to you.
Speaker 1: This is a special weekend for me, and I know
Speaker 1: it's even more special for my next guest, Keith Destrics
Speaker 1: from the Care Starts Now. The Big Cure Starts Now
Speaker 1: gala taking place on Saturday night, and I have been
Speaker 1: blessed for years and years to be able to participate,
Speaker 1: doing a little facilitation and some announcements and things like that.
Speaker 1: It is the most awesome charitable gala you can ever
Speaker 1: hope to go to. Welcome back to the fifty five
Speaker 1: Carescene Morning Show. From the Care Starts Now, Keith Destrit.
Speaker 1: It's always great having you on the show.
Speaker 2: Thank you, Brian.
Speaker 1: We appreciate you having us. Yeah, it's well, I mean
Speaker 1: we'll get to the bourbon raffle in a minute here.
Speaker 1: But for those maybe and I for all these years,
Speaker 1: I like to think every one of my listeners is
Speaker 1: familiar with the concept of the Care Starts Now. But
Speaker 1: you lost your daughter many years ago to the pediatric
Speaker 1: brain cancer gioblastoma, and it's one of the most aggressive
Speaker 1: cancers out there, so much so that as I've learned
Speaker 1: from you over the years. They quite often researchers won't
Speaker 1: do research on something so aggressive they can't get ahead
Speaker 1: of it because the mortality rate is so quick. It's
Speaker 1: just it's it's not in their view worthy of the
Speaker 1: research and investment of time, because well, the limited time
Speaker 1: of life on this earth. But as you have demonstrated
Speaker 1: over the years, with the care starts now and all
Speaker 1: the fundraising and global organization, which I want you to
Speaker 1: emphasize on here, global organization, you're now seeing you know,
Speaker 1: years worth of additional life after a diagnosis. I mean
Speaker 1: you've made terrific advancements to your work.
Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, and you know it has stretched to be worldwide.
Speaker 2: We actually just open up a Japanese chapter just about
Speaker 2: a month ago, so we're pioneering trying to grow some
Speaker 2: research there. We're up to fifty four locations now and
Speaker 2: you know we're home based. This is this is where
Speaker 2: we started here in Cincinnati, and some some very very
Speaker 2: big discovery, some of the biggest discoveries in cancer research
Speaker 2: really started with this. Because we believe, as many researchers do,
Speaker 2: that this is a home run chour. This is the
Speaker 2: type of cancer that if we can advance the treatment here.
Speaker 2: It's going to create something totally new, something that's not
Speaker 2: just chemotherapy, radiation, surgery, immunology, but maybe a whole new
Speaker 2: way to fight cancer and beat it for good. And
Speaker 2: that's really what we are. We're just we're not another
Speaker 2: cancer charity. What we are is we are hopefully that
Speaker 2: home run strategy.
Speaker 1: Well, and you've done a rather unique thing. I think
Speaker 1: one thing we can all commonly agree on is researchers
Speaker 1: are very protective of their work. You know, they get
Speaker 1: the research grand or they you know, the pharmaceutical industry
Speaker 1: funds their work. They protect it like a patent or
Speaker 1: like intellectual property. They don't want to You have been
Speaker 1: successful in organizing physicians from around the globe to get together,
Speaker 1: to work together and share this type of research. It's
Speaker 1: it's just unheard of.
Speaker 2: Well, I think what it comes down to is we
Speaker 2: apply a little bit of a business and a ten
Speaker 2: year strategy model to this, and so what we we
Speaker 2: don't look at cancer as bright and shiny as how
Speaker 2: we say it. You know, you don't look at one
Speaker 2: specific trial and go, oh, this is kind of cool,
Speaker 2: let's test it out and then quickly forget about it,
Speaker 2: move on to the next thing. What we do is
Speaker 2: we look at it and say, all right, what do
Speaker 2: we need to fill voids in our strategy. Who is
Speaker 2: the best person to be able to tap to do this?
Speaker 2: Get them in the game they may not even come
Speaker 2: from our realm, and then build a long term path
Speaker 2: based upon whether it succeeds or whether it fails. And
Speaker 2: you know, we thrown a lot of money against cancer,
Speaker 2: and you know the results have not been tremendously good.
Speaker 2: For the last eighty years. Have been talking about beating cancer,
Speaker 2: but we haven't talked about actually curing cancer enough. And
Speaker 2: so what we do is we look at it and say,
Speaker 2: we've got to We've got to take a long term
Speaker 2: approach to this. You got to stay there with them.
Speaker 2: You've got to be side by side with the pharmaceutical companies,
Speaker 2: with the researchers. You got to ask them what things
Speaker 2: they need to be able to change this and then
Speaker 2: actually put up the money to be able to make
Speaker 2: it happen. And so when you do that, you can
Speaker 2: accomplish really really big things with millions of dollars rather
Speaker 2: than having to throw billions of dollars at it all
Speaker 2: the time.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and you have raised millions of dollars and what
Speaker 1: in terms of the gala? What number? What year is this?
Speaker 1: I've lost track.
Speaker 2: I think this is eighteen.
Speaker 1: Is where we're at.
Speaker 2: We're getting close to twenty years at this point. And yeah,
Speaker 2: it's gotten a lot bigger. I mean this year we
Speaker 2: kind of figured in maybe it's going to be a
Speaker 2: little bit smaller, have moved it to Sharonville. We sold
Speaker 2: out already, So I'd love to be able to talk
Speaker 2: about buying tickets to it today, but no we can't.
Speaker 1: I got good.
Speaker 2: News and we don't have any more chairs.
Speaker 1: Yeah, you used up all the space and what better
Speaker 1: news could you have than that? Sorry, sucks to be you.
Speaker 1: You better get them early next year because it is
Speaker 1: a wonderful event and you know it.
Speaker 2: Is, and we try, we try to make something that's
Speaker 2: different than anything else. And you can buy them ahead
Speaker 2: of time. Now that's the good part about it. Starting
Speaker 2: on sun we're gonna start selling the next year tickets.
Speaker 2: But we try to do something it's called once in
Speaker 2: a lifetime because what we want to do is we
Speaker 2: want to give people a chance to buy something that
Speaker 2: they could never get otherwise. And we hate Rubber Chicken events.
Speaker 2: So what we look for is we look for an
Speaker 2: event that frankly.
Speaker 1: Is a lot of fun.
Speaker 2: And I know tomorrow is going to be just like that.
Speaker 2: I mean, we have a theme this year of a
Speaker 2: game show and Brian, your voice is going to be perfect.
Speaker 1: Get this is going to be so fun. I saw
Speaker 1: the list. I'm not going to reveal anything. I was
Speaker 1: literally laughing out loud when I saw the items that
Speaker 1: I'm going to be announcing about. So you've really put
Speaker 1: a smile the other ticket. I got the materials well.
Speaker 2: And then we have and then we have the live
Speaker 2: auction items.
Speaker 1: I mean a trip to you get to.
Speaker 2: Go to Bali and you get to be a part
Speaker 2: of a surf school. You know, you get to hang
Speaker 2: out with Marty and Tom Brenneman for a night. You know.
Speaker 2: There's all kinds of stuff that are just really really
Speaker 2: cool things, and they kind of were all themed around
Speaker 2: the original one, which is our presenting sponsor, which is
Speaker 2: Greater Greater, Yeah, and their wish to create your own
Speaker 2: flavor of ice cream, which you just don't get that,
Speaker 2: you know, that's a once in a lifetime thing. Yeah,
Speaker 2: And that's I mean, there's us been with us for
Speaker 2: from the beginning, and.
Speaker 1: I was going to say, and I was I was
Speaker 1: actually going to bring greaters up because God bless the
Speaker 1: Greater's family. They've been with you from the beginning and
Speaker 1: one of the original sponsors, because I wanted to use
Speaker 1: that as a vehicle to thank all the sponsors that
Speaker 1: help donate. They all the Raffle items have been donated
Speaker 1: by these wonderful sponsors. And I'll put a shout out
Speaker 1: to my friends. At twenty two three, they got a
Speaker 1: fourteen hundred dollars custom cig P three twenty with Wilson
Speaker 1: Combat grips. It's a beautiful firearm. They donated that. And
Speaker 1: of course pivoting over, God bless the Party Source. You know,
Speaker 1: I have literally gone out of my way to go
Speaker 1: make alcohol purchases at the Party Source. It's not even
Speaker 1: close to my house. I'm up in Simms Township, but
Speaker 1: every couple, you know, every once in a while, I'll
Speaker 1: drive all the way Party Source just to give them
Speaker 1: business in thanks for what they do for you and
Speaker 1: other organizations donating these this insane collection of bourbons for
Speaker 1: the Raffles.
Speaker 2: Well, and that's even though we're sold off for the gallo.
Speaker 2: This is something you can do now. It's a Kentucky
Speaker 2: based raffle. It's technically kind of a separate, you know element,
Speaker 2: because there's some restrictions of what we can do for
Speaker 2: Ohio with it, but you can actually go aline. You
Speaker 2: have it on your blog the link to it. But
Speaker 2: if you need it, it's just a CSN Events slash
Speaker 2: CSN events dot org slash Kentucky Bourbon raffle. And what
Speaker 2: it is is we have two separate raffles, but effectively
Speaker 2: four prizes spread between all of them that party source
Speaker 2: has donated to us. And you know, the cool part
Speaker 2: about it is, especially in timing of today, it's it's
Speaker 2: this is American made stuff too, so you don't have
Speaker 2: to worry about any of the news or any of
Speaker 2: the changes or anythings like that. And and go ahead,
Speaker 2: and I guess invest in a raffle, Well, it is investing,
Speaker 2: can't research.
Speaker 1: I'm glad you called it that because I know I
Speaker 1: used to not drink bourbon. I was traditionally a Scotch guy,
Speaker 1: and I've been a bourbon convert over the years. I've
Speaker 1: had so many opportunities to taste it. I kind of
Speaker 1: I've gotten to it, but I've never tasted Pappy Van
Speaker 1: Winkle Bourbon's right. And the reason is because he's so
Speaker 1: expensive and so rare. I mean, there's only a finite supply,
Speaker 1: and the entire world wants to get its hands on
Speaker 1: this because apparently it's the best bourbon out there. The
Speaker 1: one raffle the Van Winkle Reserve collection is a bottle
Speaker 1: of each one they make the Pappy van Winkle Family
Speaker 1: Reserve twenty three year, the Pappy van Winkle Family Deserve
Speaker 1: twenty Pappy van Winkle Family Deserve fifteen, Van Winkle Family
Speaker 1: Deserve RYE, thirteen year Old Van Winkle Special Reserve twelve
Speaker 1: lot B and Old Van Rip Van Winkles Family Deserve
Speaker 1: ten years. Every one of those bottles, one raffle ticket
Speaker 1: can win you all of them. And I go nuts
Speaker 1: when I see the price of these because this street
Speaker 1: value for the first one six grand. Yeah.
Speaker 2: Well, and and here's the thing is that when you
Speaker 2: see these collections, and and if you if you collect bourbon,
Speaker 2: or if you you you see these, you know things
Speaker 2: out there, you know a lot of them have four
Speaker 2: bottles or they have five bottles with it. This is
Speaker 2: a six bottles collection. So this is this is everything
Speaker 2: pretty much that you could find with it, and it's
Speaker 2: one hundred dollars ticket. And you know, there's still tickets sold.
Speaker 2: We're selling them up until April eighth, which is what is.
Speaker 1: That next Tuesday or Wednesday, Tuesday.
Speaker 2: And uh and at that point we're going to be
Speaker 2: drawing it. And so it gives everybody a chance to
Speaker 2: just go online and you can go ahead and purchase it.
Speaker 2: We didn't have ones for for those that don't want
Speaker 2: to participate in the Pappy it's fifty dollars. But this
Speaker 2: has three prizes in it, so you know, whereas you
Speaker 2: just get one for the Pappy Van Weekle, but you
Speaker 2: get six bottles in this one. There are three different prizes,
Speaker 2: one of which is Brown Foreman's King of Kentucky. That's
Speaker 2: our first prize, yeah, three, and then a second prize
Speaker 2: Eagle Rare straight Bourbon seventeen year, says Iraq right eighteen
Speaker 2: year and George T.
Speaker 1: Stag.
Speaker 2: So all three of those bottles are the second prize.
Speaker 2: I mean, between all those that's probably about four thousand
Speaker 2: dollars freet value. I mean, obviously this stuff goes up
Speaker 2: and down you try to can it as best you can,
Speaker 2: and then you know your third prize, you're talking about
Speaker 2: a William LaRue Weller and a handy says Iraq straight Rye.
Speaker 2: So that alone is probably two thousand. So each one
Speaker 2: of these are huge prizes in and of themselves, and
Speaker 2: it's just really cool to, you know, get this type
Speaker 2: of offering from the party source and be able to
Speaker 2: have something that's the sweetener for people that can't come
Speaker 2: out to the gallop or just didn't get the tickets
Speaker 2: in time.
Speaker 1: So well, nobody cares about winning. They care about helping
Speaker 1: you find a cure for cancer, the home Run Cure.
Speaker 1: And you're doing one hundred dollars for the Van Winklers
Speaker 1: correction per ticket. That's one hundred dollars going in the
Speaker 1: pot of money that's going to fund research that's gonna
Speaker 1: come up with the home run cure. Same thing, raffle
Speaker 1: two fifty bucks a ticket, three opportunities to win on
Speaker 1: that one. So it's easy to remember. Fifty five KRC
Speaker 1: dot com. It's right there, probably displayed on my blog page.
Speaker 1: Thank you Joe Strekker for updating that, and thanks again
Speaker 1: to all the sponsors that are helping out the cure
Speaker 1: starts now, like, for example, the party source with this
Speaker 1: one and all the sponsors at the gallap tomorrow night
Speaker 1: really looking forward to that, and of course the Greater
Speaker 1: family from the get go with the opportunity, which is
Speaker 1: the neatest prize to create your own flavor ice cream.
Speaker 1: Blaine is is real quick because I know we promote
Speaker 1: a Lane's Blueberry Pie ice cream because it's named after
Speaker 1: your late daughter and it is an awesome ice cream.
Speaker 1: Does that is that on so thaut of the year
Speaker 1: it's sold.
Speaker 2: Typically they'll start that about it. Well, it's gonna be
Speaker 2: coming up here shortly, I imagine probably here in June
Speaker 2: as when you might start to see it. They usually
Speaker 2: try to do it as a he's no flavor with it,
Speaker 2: because I think it's one of the most intensive flavors
Speaker 2: to make, so it's not one of those ones that
Speaker 2: they'll have all the time.
Speaker 1: Okay you for that purpose, now come on the morning
Speaker 1: show when it's out, because it's an opportunity for people
Speaker 1: to help out the cure and eat some amazing ice
Speaker 1: cream that is, indeed, if not my favorite, one of
Speaker 1: my favorite flavors that Greaters make. But Greaters makes the
Speaker 1: best ice cream on the planet, hands down, no arguments period.
Speaker 1: End of story. Keith Testers, I'll see you tomorrow at
Speaker 1: the gala. Thanks for coming to the program today, and
Speaker 1: I'll encourage my listeners to get the five KRCA dot com.
Speaker 1: Get yourself a bourbon raffle ticket or four or five
Speaker 1: and have you practice. Come on down. Yeah, I'm working
Speaker 1: on it.
Speaker 2: All right.
Speaker 1: We're looking forward to I guess you event really excited?
Speaker 2: Is?
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