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Hey, before we do the 5 to 6 to 5, I know this is a huge time that a lot of high school kids listen to us. If you are listening to this radio show and you go to Lutheran North or you go to Cardinal Mooney High School or you're a fan of this radio show and you want to help out a friend, I want you to listen up for one second. um have you guys ever had a friend of yours be seriously ill and completely keep it from you and you did not know what was going on for literally months yeah yes so wow all of us we we have a friends of ours he actually was luke's favorite teacher that uh that he had no offense to any of the other teachers but he was a male teacher so mr p was one of the guys that luke all luke wanted was mr p and you know how you you wish for your teachers yeah like this was the guy he wanted to he wanted him because he's cool he's the guy that played football with the kids he would do stuff with him he's engaging he was awesome he's the best um mr p bobby patterson became then a friend of of ours you know his wife kelly and uh and chelsea and myself and you know love that family so much they got beautiful young kids um he and i go back and forth on text messages we've been doing this for you know well over a year with the lions getting all crazy he keeps thinking that our show's screwing up because we haven't come up with a theme song for the lions like we need to have like he said every championship team has a song like don't stop believing by journey is like you know one that teams have taken in the past or he'll like pick like certain songs like he said you know there's always got to be some kind of so he'll always send me like songs randomly i get like a bunch of music sent to me you know basically from him and i didn't find out until literally three or four days ago that bob is battling cancer and um he kept it quiet from a lot of people and then he told some of the people that he told told about it to keep it quiet from others and um so far since bob uh has been more vocal about it and it's because of who we're going to talk to next uh coach mike is on the phone with us right now he is the the varsity basketball coach and he has been for more than 20 what how many years now at cardinal mooney this is uh my 27th season his 27th season at cardinal mooney high school in marine city right morning

coach that is correct good morning guys thanks for having me on this guy knows so many different

people like he's best friends you know with uh tommy iso and best friends with uh greg campy

I don't know if I'd go that route.

Well, they love you.

Best friends with Bobby Patterson. How about that?

And best friends with Bobby Patterson. So you had reached out to a couple of different coaches just to talk to them and see if they could give words of encouragement, including Coach Lou Holtz. And he had Coach Lou Holtz give him a video saying to him, hey, you got this, Bob. And then it spurred on to we're going to start telling people that Bob's going through this. And, Coach, Bobby's been going through this since June. He's a battler. He's a winner. He's going to win this thing. And you're putting together a fundraiser tonight. But before we give everybody the details about that, will you tell everybody in the short few days how much money has been raised on a GoFundMe page for Bob Patterson?

Yeah, so Bobby fought me on this. Obviously, as you know, Mojo, Bobby, you know, can be hard-headed at times. But I got to the point with Kelly and Bobby, and I said, look, I'm just going to ask for forgiveness instead of permission here. So we started the GoFundMe on Tuesday afternoon. And as of this morning, between the GoFundMe and a few private donations, we have raised over $93,000. Oh, no.

So Mr. P, as Luke calls him, Mr. P has touched so many people, including my son, Luke, his friends, Landon and Evan. They've all personally donated money. They're probably college beer drinking money to help out to help out Mr. P, who is a he's a school administrator over at Marist Notre Dame Prep. And his wife is the assistant principal also at the middle school at Notre Dame. So they're both on, you know, school people salaries. And so we want to try to make it possible that they don't have to worry about taking time off from work to be able to get healthy. But tonight you're doing something at the Cardinal Mooney Lutheran North game. What are you doing, coach?

Yeah, so, Bobby, it's important to me because Bobby and I met here at Cardinal Mooney. We're both alumni of Cardinal Mooney. We met here at 14 years old in 1989, played three sports together. When I found out about this, I had this idea. He fought me on, and then I finally just ran with it. And we're doing what we're calling Ballin' for Bobby, which all the proceeds tonight from T-shirt sales, our concessions, our gate, our 50-50, all of that cash, checks, everything will be donated and taken home with Bobby and Kelly tonight. So it is no doubt in my mind that we will be well over $100,000 for that family by the time we're done tonight. That's incredible.

That is awesome.

You know what, first off, Coach, you are an excellent coach. You're a great mentor to these kids, but you're even better. You're a great best friend to Bob Patterson, to Mr. P.

Well, I appreciate that. There's not a shadow of a doubt in my mind that if the roles were reversed, Bobby Patterson would step up for me. Bobby has been there for me my entire life. He has showed up in my hardest times. He was there when my father passed away for me three years ago. As a matter of fact, you know how it is when you grew up in the 80s and 90s. Like, Mr. and Mrs. Patterson's house, I walked in like I lived there. And every time he walked in my house, I think my parents were more excited to see him than they were me. Right. I think they loved him more than they loved me. But it's just something that's important to me. You know, friendship, you and I talked about this yesterday, Mojo. Friendship, as you get older and life takes different courses, friendship isn't measured in how many times you see or talk to each other. It's measured on whether you show up or not when you're needed. And that's all this is about, is just showing up for Bobby. And it's a testament to Bobby, not anybody else. I'm just facilitating. The amount of money raised is because of the incredible impact he has had on so many people in both communities you know mojo you and i talked about it yesterday the best way i can describe bobby for people that don't know him um whether you've spent five minutes with bobby five hours with bobby or 35 years with bobby like myself you feel better after every single interaction yeah and there are very few people you come across that make

you feel that way what a testament to say about somebody he made listen he made my child better and he made my family better and you know there's that famous movie it's a wonderful life at the end when George Bailey's brother Harry comes in and says to my you know big brother George the richest man in town to Bobby Patterson the richest man in town you are getting through this thing and you know what you are rich with love and friendship and I truly believe that will get his immune system better and the doctors better and uh kelly and the kids better and so when they get through this thing you know we'll look back on it and we'll have a bigger celebration for uh

for bob patterson yeah and and kelly's been an absolute kelly's a saint right um i mean she started her canonization process to becoming a saint by marrying bob patterson yeah yeah um but through all of this she has been the backbone for him sure yeah he uh he loves his family he loves

his wife dearly and i will tell you this the power of prayer if our listeners can just say a prayer for bobby patterson i think that that works uh coach go get them tonight lutheran north ain't

no slouch i have to say go mustang sorry that's where my stepkids go to school but it's going to be a great game and you're going to raise a lot of money i'm sorry i'm not sorry

coach i think it's going to be a fun game tonight so everybody cardinal mooney high school tonight will be secondary yeah yeah yeah love you buddy take care of yourself it was really

If anything good comes of this, is that you and I have gotten a chance to meet and we'll always be friends, so we'll celebrate together. Talk to you, Coach.

I appreciate what you guys are doing. See you, man. Merry Christmas.

Bye.

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