March 13, 2025 • 13 mins
Jack had a lot to live for. He'd just moved from Cincinnati to Baltimore to work after college and begin his adult life. He was highly accomplished. National Honor Society. National Merit Scholar. Moeller High School football player 4 years. Finished Top 10 in his class. Awarded a college scholarship to USC (University of South Carolina).
He had a lot to live for. A month after he settled into his place in Baltimore, he and a friend shared a recreational drug both must've thought was harmless. He didn't do drugs. He wasn't suicidal. Yet that one pill, poisoned with fentanyl, took BOTH of their lives.
Today you'll hear from Jack's Dad, Tom Quehl. He and his wife deeply grieved, then decided no one should have to endure that. They started the Jack Quehl Foundation, dedicated to teaching young people the very real, deadly dangers that disguise themselves in drugs that appear "harmless" or "prescription."
Click here for the Leprechaun Chase 5k information
Find more info on the Jack Quehl Foundation here
He had a lot to live for. A month after he settled into his place in Baltimore, he and a friend shared a recreational drug both must've thought was harmless. He didn't do drugs. He wasn't suicidal. Yet that one pill, poisoned with fentanyl, took BOTH of their lives.
Today you'll hear from Jack's Dad, Tom Quehl. He and his wife deeply grieved, then decided no one should have to endure that. They started the Jack Quehl Foundation, dedicated to teaching young people the very real, deadly dangers that disguise themselves in drugs that appear "harmless" or "prescription."
Click here for the Leprechaun Chase 5k information
Find more info on the Jack Quehl Foundation here
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This week on iHeart Cincy.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well marches upon us, so is Saint Patrick's Day, and
this Irish last is going to share with you today
a way to help you get off your couch by
chasing a little Leprechaun through the streets of Loveland.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
We need to educate our nation's youth and their parents
on the dangers of fedanol so that nobody else loses
their Jack.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Today, my guest is Thomas Quell. He's the founder of
the Duet for Jack Foundation, whose mission is simple sharing
his family story of losing his bright and beautiful son
to fentanyl and how this Leprechaun chase can help.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Now on iHeart Cincy with Sandy Collins, Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
To iHeart Cinci. I'm Sandy Collins. Today my guest is
one of the co founders of the Do It for
Jack Foundation. It's Jack's father, Thomas Cule. Several years ago,
their son accidentally died from fentanyl poisoning, and he is
here today to talk about the mission of his foundation,
what the family wants to do in the wake of
(01:03):
his death, and a fundraiser that's coming up. This is
going to be a lot of fun to help put
some money in the Coffers and help them continue to
spread their mission. And also joining us today is Doug Portman.
He is a spokesperson and the board chair for the
Do It for Jack Foundation and the Leprechaun Chase five
k in Loveland. So for those folks who don't know
(01:25):
what a leprechaun is, it's a little supernatural Irish being
and they wear those little coats and hats, and they're
partaking in mischief and they like to play tricks and stuff,
and they always have pot at the end of the rainbow.
And so you're going to procure these little guys. Did
you actually get real leprechauns for this race or is
(01:46):
it just going to be, you know, volunteer leprechauns.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
We actually And Doug's joining right now, so and I'll
let him talk more about the leprechaun praise because this
is his I believe, third year he's done this, so
he can't give you the whole They're not real leprechauns though,
are they, Doug.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Well, it's all it's all in your mind.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
There, darn Doug. I was Irish and I was hoping
that we could get some real leprechauns. And some real
photos to be serious. Now, the Leprechaun Race is a
very cute theme if you will, to get people's attention,
and it comes as a fundraiser for Do It for
Jack Foundation. We're going to talk about the foundation and
(02:27):
what they do and talk about Jack in right here,
and then we'll talk to you about the race. If
that's okay with you, Doug, will that work?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
That's great? Okay?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
So, Tom, I'm sorry that you lost your son.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I appreciate that Sandy, your.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Son died of an unintended overdose fentanyl in September of
twenty twenty one, and if I remember correctly, that was
still kind of pandemic time, and he was twenty four.
And since then you wanted to put this foundation together
to help remember him and to educate about fentanyl and
(03:07):
how dangerous that it is. But you've also noticed that
there's like a stigma from this kind of a loss,
whether it's drugs or overdosing. What have you experienced because
you said he wasn't a drug user. He excelled at Mueller,
and he got a scholarship to USC and he was
(03:28):
a member of the National Honor Society. So tell me
what you've experienced since he's passing.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
When Jack died, and just to get a little background,
because you nailed it on a head on the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Jack worked remotely with us.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
His job was based in Baltimore, Maryland, but because of
the COVID pandemic, he had to live with us for
a year. In hindsight, looking back on it, it was
one of the best years we ever had because we
had Jack with us. He had moved to Baltimore in September.
We visited them Labor Day weekend. About three weeks later,
(04:02):
he and a friend we're out. They tried to party
drug that was laced with fetanyl and they both died tragically.
So obviously you go through a major mourning process over that.
You have to get through shock, and then Stephanie and
I decided that we need to do something. We need
to educate our nation's youth and their parents on the
(04:24):
dangers of fetanol so that nobody else loses their Jack.
We call it fentanyl poisoning because Jack didn't want to
go out and die that night. He had no idea
he was trying fetanyl. Unbeknownst to us. We knew nothing
about fedol, and we realized that parents and children didn't
(04:46):
really know much about it, and that was our whole
mission to educate them. So we've talked to I think
it's up to six thousand students and or parents, young professionals.
We presented mainly to high schools and to corporate on
the dangers of fentanyl. The students are starting to understand
it because it's much more than news.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
But the pairs were like us.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
They had no idea how prevalent fentanyl was and that
it was leading killer in America today ages eighteen to
forty five.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
It is such a potent drug. It's made synthetically, from
what I understand, Chinese components, and they put them all
together down in Mexico and then get them up across
the border. They make them look like other kinds of
drugs that kids might want to try, and have no
idea how incredibly dangerous it is. I remember listening to
(05:37):
the scanners as we do in the newsroom. You would
have the first responders coming in a fentanyl overdose and
they're falling down and succumbing to it because they went
in and didn't realize that it was fentanyl right away,
and they just had a whiff or a little touch
on the I think one guy had a little gram
on his collar on his uniform then passed out, and
(06:01):
so we've heard how quickly this happens. I don't understand
why they're mixing it with these drugs because they're so fatal.
It doesn't make sense. You're killing you, you're killing your market.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
The pill form of fentanyl, they can buy presses online
at you know, Amazon, for one hundred bucks and make
it look like a xanax or an Adderall the misconception
is that they're trying to kill you. They're basically trying
to hook you, trying something that's totally different.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
You're expecting whatever those pills.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Do for you, but they might have fentanyl in it
and you might survive, but now you have a different craving.
It's extremely addictive. So they are killing a lot of people.
But the goal is not to kill people on their end.
They're trying to keep make you a regular customer to
eventually you will die from too much fentanyl. The fact
is they have no idea what they're doing, so they
(06:57):
have no idea how much ventoyl they're putting in a
pill or in any kind of drug that's out there,
and that's why you're seeing these mass deaths related to fentanyl,
because no one's experienced it and no one's used to it.
And basically, when we show our presentation, we'll show a
pencil under a microscope and with a little bit of.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Fenol on the tip of the pencil. Basically, that's enough
to kill you.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
It's shocking. It's like two grains of sweetener, you know, or.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Sugar or salt exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I told my daughter, I said, don't even borrow an
aspirin from somebody at work anymore, because you just don't know.
You You just don't.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Know you'll do it. Even as your best friend. You
can't do it.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Because they don't know, correct, right, right. So you started
the foundation and your basic goal is to educate young
people about the dangers. Now we're having a fundraiser coming
up here in Loveland, and I think this is where
Doug can come in. Doug, I was worried about the
safety of the leprecauns, but we'll move on past that
and let's talk about the actual which is really cute.
(08:01):
A leprechaun chase. It's a five K it's timed. But
what's different about.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
This race, well, first of all, before I go into that,
I want to tell you how much how important do
it for Jack is for the community and for these kids.
I personally have lost a dear friend's son to fentanyl also.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So it's also near and dear in my heart. Also,
their son, Jack was a classmate of my daughter's at
Saint Columbus.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
So just having them involved is great for the community
and we're hoping that, you know, we can do some
good with it.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Two.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
So that's why we're happy to be partnering with them
this year. As far as the race goes, originally were
the Loves Amazing Race, and then we were the Amazing
Charity Race, which was a big event based on the
TV show The Amazing Race, and that went on for
seventeen years. At that time, I thought I was done.
COVID kind of hurt us a little bit, and I
thought I was done putting on races, And strangely enough,
(08:55):
one night, in a dream, these stupid leprechauns popped up
my head. I told my wife the story. She's like,
what are you crazy? I said, I keep seeing these leprechauns.
I want to do another charity event and So the
idea behind it is, it's not I don't like to
do anything that's just a straight five k. There's a
lot of those, and I think they're great, but that's
not what I My focus is.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
We basically put people dressed.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
As leprechauns around town and they're going to ask you
to do something Irish or ask you a question about
something about Ireland or whatever it may be, and in
order to you know, steal their gold. So you're going
to get a piece of gold each each leprecaon you
go to. Those pieces have symbols on it and you
have to use the symbols to solve the Iris riddle
before you can cross the finish line. And then afterwards
(09:40):
we have breakfast at Ramsey's Trail Side and Loveland there
as part of the event, so you get the race,
you get the help, and also you get to have
a nice breakfast out towards.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
So it's a fun event.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
This is our third year and we're just trying to
grow it each year, and I think, you know, partnering
with things like do It for Jack gives us a
good goal to push even harder each year.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
So you're going to do it close to Saint Patti's
Day This year, it'll be Saturday the fifteenth, starts at
eight thirty there in Loveland, and there's still time to
get signed up.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Correct. Yeah, we'll take it all the way up to
race day.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Obviously, the sooner the better for us, so we can
get shirts and stuff aligned. But yeah, we will take
as many people as we can because it all goes
to it all goes to a good cause.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Now, is Irish clothing optional? Do we need to have
a little reddish orange beards? Can they buy some there?
I mean, you don't want to go and not play alone.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
So each each racer will get an Irish shirt to
do it for Jack and our symbol on it, and
we ask them to wear that during the race, to
not only wear they're green because they're all green, but
just to symbolize their part of the race.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
And you know, the police.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Fire can know who's in the race and who's not
in the race and gets people looking out for them.
So yeah, our leprechauns though, will be dressed in leprechaun
gear so they will be easy to spot on the course.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
That sounds a lot of fun, and I.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Plan to have an orange beard on so Oh, very good.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I will be I will be decked down in Irish attire.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
And you would think that this would just explode in
this area because Irish. I believe that the number of
people in this part of our state and this part
of our country can trace back to Ireland. It's an
enormous number of people that have some Irish in them.
So it's it's another chance to be Irish for a day.
This one is a healthy way to do it. You're running,
(11:32):
you're solving puzzles and things like that. I can imagine
though it's going to get a little crazy, Doug. Don't
you have like a bunch up at the at the
Leprechaun where everybody's trying to get the coin and they're
trying to answer and how do you do that? How
do you fix that?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
We do a little differently. We send four teams off
every three minutes. It's not a shotgun start, okay, So
we try to spread them out a little bit. Yeah,
and we have solved for those those those little mystery
that come up.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
As far as if there's a bunch up.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
We have a little little way we handle that, and
we get some of that for sure, but everybody does
it in the spirit of fun, and the questions are
fun and everybody gets to be irish for the day.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Sounds like a great time. March fifteenth, Why don't you
give the connection details there? Tom, If would you do
that for me.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I'd love to, So let's do it for Jack dot org.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
The website contains information about us, but also have information
about events going on, and one of them is Doug's event,
so it will be there and Doug, I don't know
if you have.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
A separate website you'd like to mention.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Yeah, they can go to amazing charity race dot com.
And I also want to I say, is we have
a lot of people that just come and walk it
because it's so much fun.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
So it doesn't have you don't have to come run.
It's only a little over three miles. Come and stroll
for the day.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
You can do it as a single person, or we
encourage you to do as a team. We find that
people have a lot of fun doing it with partners.
So even if it's a parent child, you know, you
know a lot of them can make the three miles
and have no problem with it at all.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
March fifteenth is the day and it's coming up just
around the corner. Make sure you check that out this
week so that you can be a part of it.
Doug Portman, thank you so much from the amazing charity
race now the Leprechaun Chase, and Thomas Quell he's the
father of the Jack and do it for Jack again,
our condolences. Thank you for turning that family tragedy into
(13:25):
a positive for the community and the young kids across
our tri state.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I appreciate that. I also appreciate you spending time with
us today. Sandy. Yeah, thank you, Sandy. Thank you. WLW.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Coming up next, we're talking social anxiety with doctor Thomas E. Brown.
That's next on iHeart Cincy.
This week on iHeart Cincy.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Well marches upon us, so is Saint Patrick's Day, and
this Irish last is going to share with you today
a way to help you get off your couch by
chasing a little Leprechaun through the streets of Loveland.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
We need to educate our nation's youth and their parents
on the dangers of fedanol so that nobody else loses
their Jack.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Today, my guest is Thomas Quell. He's the founder of
the Duet for Jack Foundation, whose mission is simple sharing
his family story of losing his bright and beautiful son
to fentanyl and how this Leprechaun chase can help.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
Now on iHeart Cincy with Sandy Collins, Welcome back.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
To iHeart Cinci. I'm Sandy Collins. Today my guest is
one of the co founders of the Do It for
Jack Foundation. It's Jack's father, Thomas Cule. Several years ago,
their son accidentally died from fentanyl poisoning, and he is
here today to talk about the mission of his foundation,
what the family wants to do in the wake of
(01:03):
his death, and a fundraiser that's coming up. This is
going to be a lot of fun to help put
some money in the Coffers and help them continue to
spread their mission. And also joining us today is Doug Portman.
He is a spokesperson and the board chair for the
Do It for Jack Foundation and the Leprechaun Chase five
k in Loveland. So for those folks who don't know
(01:25):
what a leprechaun is, it's a little supernatural Irish being
and they wear those little coats and hats, and they're
partaking in mischief and they like to play tricks and stuff,
and they always have pot at the end of the rainbow.
And so you're going to procure these little guys. Did
you actually get real leprechauns for this race or is
(01:46):
it just going to be, you know, volunteer leprechauns.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
We actually And Doug's joining right now, so and I'll
let him talk more about the leprechaun praise because this
is his I believe, third year he's done this, so
he can't give you the whole They're not real leprechauns though,
are they, Doug.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
Well, it's all it's all in your mind.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
There, darn Doug. I was Irish and I was hoping
that we could get some real leprechauns. And some real
photos to be serious. Now, the Leprechaun Race is a
very cute theme if you will, to get people's attention,
and it comes as a fundraiser for Do It for
Jack Foundation. We're going to talk about the foundation and
(02:27):
what they do and talk about Jack in right here,
and then we'll talk to you about the race. If
that's okay with you, Doug, will that work?
Speaker 1 (02:36):
That's great? Okay?
Speaker 2 (02:38):
So, Tom, I'm sorry that you lost your son.
Speaker 1 (02:42):
I appreciate that Sandy, your.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Son died of an unintended overdose fentanyl in September of
twenty twenty one, and if I remember correctly, that was
still kind of pandemic time, and he was twenty four.
And since then you wanted to put this foundation together
to help remember him and to educate about fentanyl and
(03:07):
how dangerous that it is. But you've also noticed that
there's like a stigma from this kind of a loss,
whether it's drugs or overdosing. What have you experienced because
you said he wasn't a drug user. He excelled at Mueller,
and he got a scholarship to USC and he was
(03:28):
a member of the National Honor Society. So tell me
what you've experienced since he's passing.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
When Jack died, and just to get a little background,
because you nailed it on a head on the pandemic.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Jack worked remotely with us.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
His job was based in Baltimore, Maryland, but because of
the COVID pandemic, he had to live with us for
a year. In hindsight, looking back on it, it was
one of the best years we ever had because we
had Jack with us. He had moved to Baltimore in September.
We visited them Labor Day weekend. About three weeks later,
(04:02):
he and a friend we're out. They tried to party
drug that was laced with fetanyl and they both died tragically.
So obviously you go through a major mourning process over that.
You have to get through shock, and then Stephanie and
I decided that we need to do something. We need
to educate our nation's youth and their parents on the
(04:24):
dangers of fetanol so that nobody else loses their Jack.
We call it fentanyl poisoning because Jack didn't want to
go out and die that night. He had no idea
he was trying fetanyl. Unbeknownst to us. We knew nothing
about fedol, and we realized that parents and children didn't
(04:46):
really know much about it, and that was our whole
mission to educate them. So we've talked to I think
it's up to six thousand students and or parents, young professionals.
We presented mainly to high schools and to corporate on
the dangers of fentanyl. The students are starting to understand
it because it's much more than news.
Speaker 1 (05:06):
But the pairs were like us.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
They had no idea how prevalent fentanyl was and that
it was leading killer in America today ages eighteen to
forty five.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
It is such a potent drug. It's made synthetically, from
what I understand, Chinese components, and they put them all
together down in Mexico and then get them up across
the border. They make them look like other kinds of
drugs that kids might want to try, and have no
idea how incredibly dangerous it is. I remember listening to
(05:37):
the scanners as we do in the newsroom. You would
have the first responders coming in a fentanyl overdose and
they're falling down and succumbing to it because they went
in and didn't realize that it was fentanyl right away,
and they just had a whiff or a little touch
on the I think one guy had a little gram
on his collar on his uniform then passed out, and
(06:01):
so we've heard how quickly this happens. I don't understand
why they're mixing it with these drugs because they're so fatal.
It doesn't make sense. You're killing you, you're killing your market.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
The pill form of fentanyl, they can buy presses online
at you know, Amazon, for one hundred bucks and make
it look like a xanax or an Adderall the misconception
is that they're trying to kill you. They're basically trying
to hook you, trying something that's totally different.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
You're expecting whatever those pills.
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Do for you, but they might have fentanyl in it
and you might survive, but now you have a different craving.
It's extremely addictive. So they are killing a lot of people.
But the goal is not to kill people on their end.
They're trying to keep make you a regular customer to
eventually you will die from too much fentanyl. The fact
is they have no idea what they're doing, so they
(06:57):
have no idea how much ventoyl they're putting in a
pill or in any kind of drug that's out there,
and that's why you're seeing these mass deaths related to fentanyl,
because no one's experienced it and no one's used to it.
And basically, when we show our presentation, we'll show a
pencil under a microscope and with a little bit of.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
Fenol on the tip of the pencil. Basically, that's enough
to kill you.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
It's shocking. It's like two grains of sweetener, you know, or.
Speaker 1 (07:26):
Sugar or salt exactly.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I told my daughter, I said, don't even borrow an
aspirin from somebody at work anymore, because you just don't know.
You You just don't.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Know you'll do it. Even as your best friend. You
can't do it.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Because they don't know, correct, right, right. So you started
the foundation and your basic goal is to educate young
people about the dangers. Now we're having a fundraiser coming
up here in Loveland, and I think this is where
Doug can come in. Doug, I was worried about the
safety of the leprecauns, but we'll move on past that
and let's talk about the actual which is really cute.
(08:01):
A leprechaun chase. It's a five K it's timed. But
what's different about.
Speaker 4 (08:05):
This race, well, first of all, before I go into that,
I want to tell you how much how important do
it for Jack is for the community and for these kids.
I personally have lost a dear friend's son to fentanyl also.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
So it's also near and dear in my heart. Also,
their son, Jack was a classmate of my daughter's at
Saint Columbus.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
So just having them involved is great for the community
and we're hoping that, you know, we can do some
good with it.
Speaker 1 (08:30):
Two.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
So that's why we're happy to be partnering with them
this year. As far as the race goes, originally were
the Loves Amazing Race, and then we were the Amazing
Charity Race, which was a big event based on the
TV show The Amazing Race, and that went on for
seventeen years. At that time, I thought I was done.
COVID kind of hurt us a little bit, and I
thought I was done putting on races, And strangely enough,
(08:55):
one night, in a dream, these stupid leprechauns popped up
my head. I told my wife the story. She's like,
what are you crazy? I said, I keep seeing these leprechauns.
I want to do another charity event and So the
idea behind it is, it's not I don't like to
do anything that's just a straight five k. There's a
lot of those, and I think they're great, but that's
not what I My focus is.
Speaker 1 (09:17):
We basically put people dressed.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
As leprechauns around town and they're going to ask you
to do something Irish or ask you a question about
something about Ireland or whatever it may be, and in
order to you know, steal their gold. So you're going
to get a piece of gold each each leprecaon you
go to. Those pieces have symbols on it and you
have to use the symbols to solve the Iris riddle
before you can cross the finish line. And then afterwards
(09:40):
we have breakfast at Ramsey's Trail Side and Loveland there
as part of the event, so you get the race,
you get the help, and also you get to have
a nice breakfast out towards.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
So it's a fun event.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
This is our third year and we're just trying to
grow it each year, and I think, you know, partnering
with things like do It for Jack gives us a
good goal to push even harder each year.
Speaker 2 (10:02):
So you're going to do it close to Saint Patti's
Day This year, it'll be Saturday the fifteenth, starts at
eight thirty there in Loveland, and there's still time to
get signed up.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Correct. Yeah, we'll take it all the way up to
race day.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Obviously, the sooner the better for us, so we can
get shirts and stuff aligned. But yeah, we will take
as many people as we can because it all goes
to it all goes to a good cause.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Now, is Irish clothing optional? Do we need to have
a little reddish orange beards? Can they buy some there?
I mean, you don't want to go and not play alone.
Speaker 4 (10:35):
So each each racer will get an Irish shirt to
do it for Jack and our symbol on it, and
we ask them to wear that during the race, to
not only wear they're green because they're all green, but
just to symbolize their part of the race.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
And you know, the police.
Speaker 4 (10:48):
Fire can know who's in the race and who's not
in the race and gets people looking out for them.
So yeah, our leprechauns though, will be dressed in leprechaun
gear so they will be easy to spot on the course.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
That sounds a lot of fun, and I.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
Plan to have an orange beard on so Oh, very good.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
I will be I will be decked down in Irish attire.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
And you would think that this would just explode in
this area because Irish. I believe that the number of
people in this part of our state and this part
of our country can trace back to Ireland. It's an
enormous number of people that have some Irish in them.
So it's it's another chance to be Irish for a day.
This one is a healthy way to do it. You're running,
(11:32):
you're solving puzzles and things like that. I can imagine
though it's going to get a little crazy, Doug. Don't
you have like a bunch up at the at the
Leprechaun where everybody's trying to get the coin and they're
trying to answer and how do you do that? How
do you fix that?
Speaker 4 (11:47):
We do a little differently. We send four teams off
every three minutes. It's not a shotgun start, okay, So
we try to spread them out a little bit. Yeah,
and we have solved for those those those little mystery
that come up.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
As far as if there's a bunch up.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
We have a little little way we handle that, and
we get some of that for sure, but everybody does
it in the spirit of fun, and the questions are
fun and everybody gets to be irish for the day.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Sounds like a great time. March fifteenth, Why don't you
give the connection details there? Tom, If would you do
that for me.
Speaker 1 (12:19):
I'd love to, So let's do it for Jack dot org.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
The website contains information about us, but also have information
about events going on, and one of them is Doug's event,
so it will be there and Doug, I don't know
if you have.
Speaker 1 (12:33):
A separate website you'd like to mention.
Speaker 4 (12:36):
Yeah, they can go to amazing charity race dot com.
And I also want to I say, is we have
a lot of people that just come and walk it
because it's so much fun.
Speaker 1 (12:43):
So it doesn't have you don't have to come run.
It's only a little over three miles. Come and stroll
for the day.
Speaker 4 (12:49):
You can do it as a single person, or we
encourage you to do as a team. We find that
people have a lot of fun doing it with partners.
So even if it's a parent child, you know, you
know a lot of them can make the three miles
and have no problem with it at all.
Speaker 2 (13:04):
March fifteenth is the day and it's coming up just
around the corner. Make sure you check that out this
week so that you can be a part of it.
Doug Portman, thank you so much from the amazing charity
race now the Leprechaun Chase, and Thomas Quell he's the
father of the Jack and do it for Jack again,
our condolences. Thank you for turning that family tragedy into
(13:25):
a positive for the community and the young kids across
our tri state.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
I appreciate that. I also appreciate you spending time with
us today. Sandy. Yeah, thank you, Sandy. Thank you. WLW.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
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