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September 22, 2025 • 11 mins
WBZ NewsRadio's Drew Moholland
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We're Keel rolping, MICHAELI Glennon and I'm Raquel Rolfin's son.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
All right, so we're here.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
Mountjoy has partnered with Family Reach to do a lot
of great things here through this cause.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
What does Family Reach mean to you?

Speaker 4 (00:11):
They were a lifeline? They absolutely were as a lifeline.
My son was diagnosed with cancer when he was eighteen
months old, and it took a huge financial toll. As
a single mother, I had to immediately stop working.

Speaker 5 (00:27):
And as anybody knows, if they.

Speaker 4 (00:29):
Was to lose their paycheck and not be able to work,
survival would be very, very difficult. And so for almost
two years during his entire treatment, we lived with nothing.
I sold everything. I had to find resources which were
very little. Any resources that were afforded to me took

(00:50):
weeks to obtain a lot of red tape, a lot.

Speaker 5 (00:54):
Of meetings, phone calls.

Speaker 4 (00:55):
When your child is sick, you don't have the time
to do those things.

Speaker 5 (01:00):
Family Reach learned.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
About our situation through our hospital that we were thought
my son was beginning treatment at, which was Boston Children's Hospital,
and they connected Family Reach with us and said, you
have to help this family. They are having a very
difficult financial situation from medical bills to just daily cost

(01:23):
of living in the hospital and trying to maintain a
apartment outside the hospital.

Speaker 3 (01:28):
It was impossible, so literally money just for every day
living and groceries as bare bones as that.

Speaker 4 (01:34):
Right, every day the car garage was costing me thirty
dollars that alone was I didn't know how I was
going to get my car out of the garage, that's
how difficult it was. But family reach heard about the story.
I literally just sat down and said, do you want
to know what's going on? And for the first time
I had spoke up and kind of really shared what

(01:54):
was happening. It was difficult for me just as a
parent to kind of wrapped my head around that. And
within twenty four hours they were already supporting and helping
me financially, which I didn't even think was possible. And
they were just amazing and for an entire treatment plan

(02:17):
for my son's entire treatment plan.

Speaker 5 (02:19):
For the duration of his two years.

Speaker 4 (02:21):
He had two and a half years the first stint,
and then he relapsed and he had to do another
year and a half and ultimately got a transplant. They
stuck by our side the entire time. They literally became
part of our family.

Speaker 2 (02:34):
Wow, all right, in your son son's name.

Speaker 4 (02:37):
My son is MICHAELO. His nickname is MK. He's an
amazing twenty year old today.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Your smile comes to life when you say that.

Speaker 5 (02:48):
Oh, he is my pride and joy. He's the greatest gift.

Speaker 4 (02:51):
And as unfortunate as our situation was, it just brought
us so close together.

Speaker 5 (02:58):
It changed our lives.

Speaker 4 (03:00):
Family reach gave us the hope, the love, and it
allowed me to be a mom.

Speaker 2 (03:06):
That's outstanding.

Speaker 3 (03:07):
Okay, I'm sure you've heard parts of that story before,
but that can't get old here and talk about that right.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Yeah, that story I hear all the time.

Speaker 6 (03:16):
I ain't going lie.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
It's it's a crazy story. I've been through a lot.
My mom is a really strong mom. She's helped me
a lot growing up, you know, just you know, growing up,
maturing and even family reach a bigger part of my life.
As like my mom said, they're family to us and

(03:38):
I'm just thankful that they can help us. And thank
you for interviewing me. This is my first time getting interviewed,
so I appreciate that. So it's really new to me.
So and I'm happy to share my side of the story.
It's I know, I'm not the only one that's going
through this, or there's probably other people that's going through
worse and I was going through. But it really means

(04:01):
a lot, you know, just helping another person, you know,
one by one.

Speaker 2 (04:06):
The uh you mentioned they're like family.

Speaker 3 (04:08):
That is kind of the truth at this point, right,
I mean, you see the joy that it brought to
your mother, the relief that it brought to your mother
in a lot of ways, and.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
It is it ends up being like another a family outlet.

Speaker 1 (04:18):
Oh yeah, definitely. And uh it's it's like even though
we're not blood, but it's just so family because they've
been there since I was growing up, since I was
young as a child, and even to this day. So
now I'm still you know, experiencing family reach events like
this one, and it's awesome and I'm happy to be here.

Speaker 3 (04:41):
You know, you're you probably got some you know, there
was probably some of your worst fears there when you
were younger, probably before you even realized what any of
it meant. Now you stand here, you know, you're becoming
a young adult here, right, what would your advice be
to you know, those those patients that are battling right
now and maybe struggling on the hope side a little bit.
What's your what's your best advice to those those kids,

(05:02):
those young adults, whatever it may be.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Okay, that's a good question. I say, don't give up,
do what you love, have the people closest to you
that you love, and just focus on the good side positive.
I wouldn't focus on the negative. I would exactly do
what I will love and encourage other people that are

(05:27):
going through it too.

Speaker 2 (05:28):
So great to meet you both. I appreciate it all.

Speaker 3 (05:32):
Right backstage here at Big Night Live, it is I
think it's a safe to say. Matt Quinn, front man
of Mountjoy, that's uh. It is Mountjoy weekend here in Boston,
two nights.

Speaker 6 (05:40):
How's it been been amazing? I mean I think we played.

Speaker 7 (05:44):
I mean that was probably the best crowd we've ever
had last night at the Garden, just singing along with us.
It felt like felt like finally someone from Philly had
won something in the garden.

Speaker 6 (05:55):
Yeah, it was amazing.

Speaker 3 (05:56):
You guys have done Fenway with Noah and all that stuff,
but like that was like your night and it was
sold out crowd.

Speaker 2 (06:02):
It must have been kind of electric.

Speaker 6 (06:03):
On a Saturday, made us feel really good.

Speaker 7 (06:05):
Such an amazing music town and Boston has always been
so good to us, and yeah, there's there's not many
music towns better than Boston.

Speaker 6 (06:13):
It was unbelievable.

Speaker 2 (06:14):
Family Reach is in the house tonight.

Speaker 3 (06:16):
I know what makes you do a whole It was
kind of not a late ad but semi laid ad
to the tour for you. You did a whole night
kind of for them, dedicated to them.

Speaker 2 (06:25):
I know it's a cause very important to your heart.

Speaker 7 (06:28):
Yeah, you know, this tour is is you know, the
hope we have fun tour And on this album, we
have a song that touches on a friend of ours.

Speaker 6 (06:38):
Who was diagnosed with multiple brain.

Speaker 7 (06:41):
Tumors and just meeting the community of people going through
things like that has hugely inspired us. And we were
fortunate enough to meet family the folks Carl and ming
in in Family Reach and hear about what they're doing,
which is just you know, connecting families with resources that
cancer doesn't bankrupt them or put them in situations that

(07:03):
you know, they can't take care of themselves and their family.
And that's something that you know is close to our
hearts and it's been really beautiful to be a part of.
It's just such an obviously great cause and they're doing
great work here in Boston, and we're really stoked to
be a part of it.

Speaker 2 (07:19):
You know.

Speaker 3 (07:20):
I had a single mother talking with me and her
son who's now twenty early years two three years old,
was diagnosed with some serious stuff, and she was like,
the thirty dollars parking garage driving into the city for
treatment every day was like a stressful thing on me.
Family Reach took care of that, Like they don't even
realize it's not only the medical bills and all that,
but it's like what do you need to get by

(07:40):
on a daily basis, And like.

Speaker 2 (07:41):
That kind of hit home with me. I was getting
a little teary.

Speaker 3 (07:43):
I'd listening to her, But now she's standing next to
her twenty year old who's made it this far.

Speaker 7 (07:48):
Yeah, I mean, you know, we have a system no
matter what your political beliefs are, we have a system
here in the United States that doesn't go far enough
to protect people from Yeah, just the you know, amounting
health care costs when things like that that are completely
outside of people's control. You know, I think unfortunately the

(08:10):
private sector and US US citizens have to rally around
these people and make sure we support, you know, our
community and lift each other up. So it's a really
beautiful thing to be a part of, and it's inspiring
for us. We get just as much back just being
around people like that, like you said, and gives us
purpose and it gives us a why for sure?

Speaker 2 (08:30):
What do you think makes you go in that direction?

Speaker 3 (08:31):
Because I mean, you can play it's a Boston Garden,
sold out crowd, Madison Square Garden, Fenway Park, and you
got fans screaming for you all day.

Speaker 2 (08:39):
But like in the end, that human.

Speaker 3 (08:42):
Touch or whatever you want to call it, is that
that's important to your band you personally.

Speaker 2 (08:46):
I can see that from a distance.

Speaker 6 (08:48):
Yeah, I mean, you know, we tour a lot.

Speaker 7 (08:52):
You know, we've surrendered ourselves to this music thing and
it's it's beautiful. But at the end of the day,
there's something bigger about the people show up for us,
and we just want to give back as much as
we can. Like I think, at the end of the day,
like we've just been a part of so many people's

(09:12):
stories and they've been a part of ours, and you
see a chance to help people that are struggling in
your community. And yeah, it's an easy one for us
to grab.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
To the music a little bit.

Speaker 3 (09:22):
You guys have torn behind a new album, some new
new music a little bit for you. I have a
bunch of friends out here who was seeing you, and
they remember the State Theater Portland show COVID you had
to reschedule, and you guys came out and said, you know,
we're gonna kind of honor like you guys all bought
tickets for this, We're gonna play some of the old stuff.
And for so many people, I think was rearrange us right.
It became their favorite album in the end. Anyway, it

(09:44):
was so great. But I thinking back to those days,
here you are with new music again. Is it kind
of cool to like play the old stuff and then
see your fan base really react to the new music
as well.

Speaker 2 (09:54):
It must be like so rewarding.

Speaker 6 (09:56):
Yeah, that's that's the best part.

Speaker 7 (09:57):
I mean, like I said, we're out touring a bunch,
and so you do play these songs, some of the
older ones enough times where you know, you can kind
of get into the muscle memory zone and not be
thinking and feeling as much as maybe you would want to.
And but you know, injecting new songs into the set.
I think having fans react to those is amazing. But
there's this, you know, this other amazing aspect to it,

(10:20):
which I think it brings life back to the old
songs because it pumps new blood into the set and
gets us, Yeah, it gets us feeling fresh again.

Speaker 6 (10:28):
I think it's really important.

Speaker 3 (10:30):
It's awesome about you know. I've seen you in the
bars of Boston. I've seen you at Boston Garden. Now
you're doing Big Night Live. It's it's your Boston weekend.
Are you sick of Boston or never? Never going to
be the case?

Speaker 7 (10:40):
No, you know, I went to school here Northeastern. I
have a ton of family, have family in Gloucester, family
out in like Boxborough, family kind.

Speaker 6 (10:48):
Of all over and New England and Boston.

Speaker 7 (10:50):
Have been a huge part of my life and I'm
super grateful for the way they've like rallied around, you know,
our band. I had a ton of family in the
house last night, and it's just super cool for me
to to feel like we've we've made it in some
way in Boston because it's been a city that's been
really important to me in my whole life.

Speaker 3 (11:05):
So it's a bit of a staple for you guys.
This is a Mountjoy kind of a staple fan base.

Speaker 6 (11:10):
I would say, no question.

Speaker 7 (11:11):
I mean, you know there we have a few cities
like this that we do.

Speaker 6 (11:15):
Really well in, but none better. You know.

Speaker 7 (11:16):
It's it's really it's really unbelievable. Every time we get
to stop here and the band gets excited. You know,
you said the Boston Weekend like there's a there's a
lift you know when we when we roll into town
for us too, so it goes both ways.

Speaker 2 (11:29):
We love it here and your Eagles got a big win.

Speaker 6 (11:31):
Congrats man, we pulled it out from the jaws of defeat.
We'll take it. Yeah, we're riding the high right now.

Speaker 3 (11:36):
It's great backstage with Matt Quinn out of Mountjoy, one
of the best in the business.

Speaker 2 (11:40):
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