A Cincinnati college graduate working in Baltimore makes one error in judgment, sharing a recreational drug with one of his best buddies after a night out with the guys. Neither one of them woke up. Fentanyl mixed in with the drug was the culprit. Jack Quell's life ended too soon and his parents, Tom and Stephanie Quell, have made it their mission to educate young people and parents about the real danger in even occasional drug use. Do It for Jack's new billboards are seen around Cincinnati. Say the F Word. The Quells want that to spark more conversations about fentanyl and how it's killing more people between 18-49 years old than any other cause of death.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
My guests today are Tom and Stephanie Quell. Their son
Jack had graduated from college and moved back home during COVID.
He was a responsible, smart, funny young man. Jack got
a job in Baltimore, packed up his car and headed east. Well. Then,
one normal night with his two best buds, they went
out for drinks and he made one mistake that took
his life. Tom and Stephanie lost their Jack, and they
(00:24):
want others to know how important it is to talk
about fentanyl. The tiny amount that kills the public places
it shows up. This is how one family lost their
son through no fault of their own. To do it
for Jack Foundation has produced a beautiful documentary with his
friends explaining what it was like to find out that
(00:46):
their dear friend had been lost to fentanyl. Jack died
Just how long ago, Stephanie?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
It was September of twenty twenty one. So that's going
to the five year anniversaries coming up.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Oh my goodness, I know Tom is at flown by
or is it eked by slowly every day?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
That is a great question. Certain days fly by and
then some days slog by.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Yeah, grief is weird.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Remind the listeners and me with Jack, an only child,
and what his situation was, how he came to taking
a pill that he thought was something else in college
and it had fentanyl in it.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
We have four boys, and he was home with us.
He came with you all say, do you want to
tell him?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
So yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
He graduated from college in twenty twenty, just at the
height of COVID. So he lived with us for a year.
His job was in Baltimore, so he had to work
remotely and everything was fine. There were no issues, no
type of drugs, anything like that. And none of Jack
Jack or none of his friends were really into serious drugs.
They did it more as a party kind of thing.
(01:56):
You know, hey, here's something, there's a little bump to
pick you up. And it really wasn't It wasn't all.
It was cocaine. So he had moved to Baltimore in
August of twenty one. We went up to see him
Labor Day weekend, got some great pictures with them, some
great conversation, and then two weeks later he had died.
He had tried some cocaine with a friend of his.
(02:17):
Both of them passed away. They had no idea. It
was lace with fat and al and his other friend.
All three of these boys were with us that night
at dinner. His third friend, who did not go out
with them that night, found them the next day.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, he's the one in the documentary, and I give
him so much credit because that's the one thing I'm
thankful for that Tom and I did not have to
find our child unresponsive. We've met so many parents that
have been the ones to walk into a bedroom or
wherever and find their child, and I can't imagine bouncing
back from that vision. And so Aaron, I give him
(02:51):
so much credit. He's the one that made the call
and called me that night.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
He said it was one of the hardest. It was
the hardest thing you'd.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Have fell, right, Yeah, And I mean he waited outside
the hospital all night till we got there. We to
drive what nine hours, and Aaron was out front because
it still was COVID is Baltimore.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
He died in Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, and him to come in town and get on
film and all those kids reliving. We knew what an
impact that would make for our listeners, for these high
school students who get presented with the documentary to make
it real to their age.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
So what we're talking about Do It for Jack Foundation
formed to inform people about the dangers of fentanyl. Young
people get into the schools and want to show this
film which is just beautifully done. It's on YouTube. You
can watch it yourself, and it's called Don't Lose Your Jack.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yes, it's on the Do It for Jack channel. We
show it to adults too. I mean we use that
as our main lesson. We used to use a different documentary.
It's called Dead on Arrival. It's also on YouTube. It's
amazing and we loved it. It was just that some
of the somebody else's story. Yeah, it's three peel of stories,
but it is impactful. It's just that as the years
(04:04):
go by, as our film will be the same time,
you know, statistics change, the drug landscape changes, and so
we have to just constantly be keeping up to date.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
All right. Speaking of statistics, the number one cause of
death for people between the ages of eighteen and forty
five isentl across the country.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Luckily, it's gone down this past year, and it's still
an exorbitant number. It's forty five thousand people a year
that are dying. When we first started talking, it was
around sixty thousand. Then it just went up to eighty
five the ninety thousand a year, which is almost double
everything else that is part of that statistic.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Or car accidents during COVID, people were in.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
A little way after COVID.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yes, yeah, so if you think about it, these are
all great topics like suicide and car accidents and things
like that, but ventanol is almost double those and.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
We just felt like nothing was being said. And now
four years later, every kid in the audience will raise
their hand. They know what it is. People are hearing
about it. We hope part of that's, you know, because
we're spreading the message along with thousands of parents who
have lost kids. But it's two hundred people a day.
And when I do presentations, I said, imagine a loaded
(05:22):
airplane dropping out this guy every day, killing Americans. We
would be talking about it. And I know it's a
hard thing to talk about. I know other parents have
lost their kids and it's finding those people to.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Speak with it.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
We would love for them to come speak and share
their stories. You know, we could have buried our head
in the sands, which we wanted to. I'm sure many
times there's many days I want to quit and say
I'm done, But I just maybe it's because I was
a teacher. I was like, we have to get the
word out. This is crazy, you know, this is something
that can be avoided through education.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
One of his friends had mentioned that, you know, nobody
talks about it because it's tied to the concept of
just drug users, just losers in the street, homeless people,
all the people that society just cast aside. And that's
why nobody wants to talk about it because when then
you say, well, my son died of an overdose, then
(06:18):
whatever they feel about that topic, you know, comes up,
and so it just makes people feel uncomfortable. But now,
like you said, since the COVID pandemic and fentanyl has
just exploded, people are really realizing the narcan pushes from
all of the government entities that are given out freak Narkhan.
(06:39):
Do you think that helped Tom with get the deaths down?
Speaker 5 (06:43):
It definitely helps.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
And you were right there is a stigma to being
a parent that lost a child. And we call fentyel
poisoning because Jack did not go out to try fentel
that night.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, he was out at a bar with some friends, yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And went out afterwards, and ventel had to be laced
and the cocaine and it killed them. After getting over
the stigma of the fact that you lost a child
to drugs. Unfortunately, we said, you know what we have
to there's so many parents like us out there that
don't say anything that now there's a groundswell of parents
(07:16):
that are saying things about it, and that's great, and
I think the message getting out to the adults has
really helped drive the death rate down.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
If somebody wants to participate in your stuff and maybe
speak to losing their child, their friend or whatever, how
do they get a holden to that?
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Oh my gosh?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
So they would go to our website, which is www
do It for Jack dot org, into the contact us.
We're expanding and we are busy, and Tom and I
reliving our story over and over again obviously gets difficult.
So the story, it's the stories that grab attention, these
organic stories, and it'll hit somebody's heart that's listening that
(07:55):
oh my gosh, that could have been me or that
could have been my child. So yes, we would love
to have other people share their stories. It could be
do it for insert name anybody.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Right, because that comes from his eulogy that you gave correct, right,
you tell that story in the documentary. They didn't expect
you to speak.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
And I was shocked when he got up.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I was at the service because you just you couldn't.
I don't know how you do.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah, So I got up, and I have no idea
why I got up, but I did.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
And I said two things. I said.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
In number one, don't forget Jack. I want you to
toast him every morning when you're having a cup of coffee,
if you're out, you know, with your wife on a
date or husband, just the cheers to Jack. And we
actually had cuffs made that say cheers to Jack. And
then the second part was, you know, I wanted to
get the stigma out of the room because people are
uncomfortable when you lose a loved one. And I said,
(08:45):
you know, we know why Jack died, and we know
you know how Jack died. If you find yourself in
a position where you need to make a choice, make
the life saving choice, and if you can't do it
for yourself, do it for Jack.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And it was brilliant and we had I mean all
the church was I mean completely filled. But I was
a teacher, so you can imagine we have our whole
school there and every student. They did it on a
Monday night, which I don't know if we've ever had
a funeral at night, so that the community could come.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Plus, I mean, what two.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Hundred Jack college high school friend. It was crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
So we had the people in the room to hear
that message and maybe it was you know, a God
moment getting you up there to say that, and then
it made the parents send like, okay, we got to talk.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
You know, at the end of the day, it's we
have to talk.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
This is the Jack Quill Foundation and the program is
do it for Jack to try to make sure that
the message gets out there that you just can't take
anything that a doctor didn't prescribe to you, or that
you didn't get from a sealed bottle off of the
pharmacy shelves.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Exactly right.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
You can't take anything unless it's prescribed by a doctor
to you. Yeah, that doesn't mean if if you're a
small you know, younger, and your mom says, here's a
couple of way I bill, Okay, that's okay, Okay. It's
just a friend saying, hey, I you know you want
to study all night.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I got this.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I will stand up and say, who's got some ass
bright and then everyone says, oh, Reese has it or
Jack Hazard. We hit my boss's name is Jackary. Jack
has it, and we'll go in there and you know,
and we stopped doing that because I said, I'm not
taking away. I don't know what you got. I don't
know what I got. No offense to you, my friend.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, And I mean it's good to because contact us too,
like we we want to get in the adult arena more.
We've talked to construction companies, UH, small businesses, corporations, and
every time we speak, the adults are like what And
so we found I was like, well, how are they
going to have a conversation with their kids if they
aren't educated themselves?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
And what we're saying and what do you think blew
them away so much?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I think they were like us. I think they Number one,
not my child, right, My child's not going to do that.
And number two, the amount of fentanyl in the United
Days today and the people dying. No one knows about
that because when we first started talking, there was no
press on fentanyl, desks, nothing, And then you had this
grassroots organization RS and many like ours across the country
(11:14):
that pushed the message out and they finally got in
the news and people started realizing this is really a
terrible thing.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
And it's two pieces of salt.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Yeah, two grains of salt can kill you.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Two grains of salt.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
That image of fentanyl will kill Tom and I as well.
So people are dying taking a half of a pill.
And I just heard a mom yesterday on Instagram say
half a pill doesn't kill.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
That's a poisoning.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
When we show our presentation with statistics and how it's
done and what they're doing, it's just.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
They're just their jaws are opening, like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I remember telling friends contact with fentanyl at the scene
has dropped two hundred and fifty pounds sheriff's deputies and
cops to their knees and need to be narcanned because
they didn't even know what they were walking into. They
weren't protected from it, and that little grain of fentanyl
somehow got into their lung or whatever they breathe and
(12:11):
they there and my friends didn't believe me, that's true.
Can you believe that? And I said, what are you
kidding me? I'm not joking.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Well there's another example.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
There was a French couple that came to uh Disney World,
uh and read an airbnb. Well, the weekend before they
had a bachelor party with all kinds of drugs, and
fentanyl was in part of that, and they had a
one or two year old infant that was crawling around,
got fentyl on her fingers and ingested it and died.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Oh we've heard.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Yeah, And there's many more stories like that out there.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
The parent groups were in.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I almost can't scroll sometimes, you know what I mean,
I have to stay away because I could just read
it all day long.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Well what does that mean for airbnbs?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
And I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I've never really searched of what I just I mean,
you don't want to be like fear mongery, but like.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
No, but just want to be smart.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I never would have, right, You just have to be aware,
and you know that's what we especially we're talking to colleges.
I mean, it's odorless, it's tasteless. You could drop it
in a drink airbor like nobody you would never know.
So we just you know, people need to be aware.
We say stay with your friends and just don't leave
your wingman kind of like a DD if you're a
(13:19):
designate driver. If you have friends that are doing recreational drugs,
then someone don't stay sober, be the person have the nark.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Can you don't want them to do it? There we
can say don't.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Do it all we want and people are going to
make those decisions and they're still going to go do drugs.
So you will never be able to quantify live saved
or who's hearing us, But that's our our prayer that
they will listen.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Tom and Stephanie Quell, they are running the Jack Quell Foundation.
Do it for Jack. Thank you for being here and
telling that story again for the millionth time.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Can I say one more thing? So we started a
new campaign. It's called say the F Word and you'll
see billboards around the city that say nothing more than
say the F word and it says do it for
Jaggie at the bottom. And there's more to come on that.
We'll provide information after that. But it's the reason why
we picked that is because it really stands out. You know,
(14:18):
people are like, you know, that's that's very boisterous to
put that out there, and it's all about having a conversation,
right because that will spark a Yeah, that'll spark their attention.
To have a conversation with a loved one. It could
be a child, it could be a spouse, it could
be a brother, a sister, or a cousin, a best friend,
but you have to have the conversation about.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
It coming up. So I called to make Cincinnati clayest
city in the United States. And we know that we
can only do that one block out of time. Next
on iHeart Cinsey
My guests today are Tom and Stephanie Quell. Their son
Jack had graduated from college and moved back home during COVID.
He was a responsible, smart, funny young man. Jack got
a job in Baltimore, packed up his car and headed east. Well. Then,
one normal night with his two best buds, they went
out for drinks and he made one mistake that took
his life. Tom and Stephanie lost their Jack, and they
(00:24):
want others to know how important it is to talk
about fentanyl. The tiny amount that kills the public places
it shows up. This is how one family lost their
son through no fault of their own. To do it
for Jack Foundation has produced a beautiful documentary with his
friends explaining what it was like to find out that
(00:46):
their dear friend had been lost to fentanyl. Jack died
Just how long ago, Stephanie?
Speaker 2 (00:52):
It was September of twenty twenty one. So that's going
to the five year anniversaries coming up.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Oh my goodness, I know Tom is at flown by
or is it eked by slowly every day?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
That is a great question. Certain days fly by and
then some days slog by.
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Yeah, grief is weird.
Speaker 1 (01:12):
Remind the listeners and me with Jack, an only child,
and what his situation was, how he came to taking
a pill that he thought was something else in college
and it had fentanyl in it.
Speaker 2 (01:28):
We have four boys, and he was home with us.
He came with you all say, do you want to
tell him?
Speaker 5 (01:34):
So yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
He graduated from college in twenty twenty, just at the
height of COVID. So he lived with us for a year.
His job was in Baltimore, so he had to work
remotely and everything was fine. There were no issues, no
type of drugs, anything like that. And none of Jack
Jack or none of his friends were really into serious drugs.
They did it more as a party kind of thing.
(01:56):
You know, hey, here's something, there's a little bump to
pick you up. And it really wasn't It wasn't all.
It was cocaine. So he had moved to Baltimore in
August of twenty one. We went up to see him
Labor Day weekend, got some great pictures with them, some
great conversation, and then two weeks later he had died.
He had tried some cocaine with a friend of his.
(02:17):
Both of them passed away. They had no idea. It
was lace with fat and al and his other friend.
All three of these boys were with us that night
at dinner. His third friend, who did not go out
with them that night, found them the next day.
Speaker 2 (02:31):
Yeah, he's the one in the documentary, and I give
him so much credit because that's the one thing I'm
thankful for that Tom and I did not have to
find our child unresponsive. We've met so many parents that
have been the ones to walk into a bedroom or
wherever and find their child, and I can't imagine bouncing
back from that vision. And so Aaron, I give him
(02:51):
so much credit. He's the one that made the call
and called me that night.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
He said it was one of the hardest. It was
the hardest thing you'd.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Have fell, right, Yeah, And I mean he waited outside
the hospital all night till we got there. We to
drive what nine hours, and Aaron was out front because
it still was COVID is Baltimore.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
He died in Baltimore.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Yeah, and him to come in town and get on
film and all those kids reliving. We knew what an
impact that would make for our listeners, for these high
school students who get presented with the documentary to make
it real to their age.
Speaker 1 (03:25):
So what we're talking about Do It for Jack Foundation
formed to inform people about the dangers of fentanyl. Young
people get into the schools and want to show this
film which is just beautifully done. It's on YouTube. You
can watch it yourself, and it's called Don't Lose Your Jack.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
Yes, it's on the Do It for Jack channel. We
show it to adults too. I mean we use that
as our main lesson. We used to use a different documentary.
It's called Dead on Arrival. It's also on YouTube. It's
amazing and we loved it. It was just that some
of the somebody else's story. Yeah, it's three peel of stories,
but it is impactful. It's just that as the years
(04:04):
go by, as our film will be the same time,
you know, statistics change, the drug landscape changes, and so
we have to just constantly be keeping up to date.
Speaker 1 (04:13):
All right. Speaking of statistics, the number one cause of
death for people between the ages of eighteen and forty
five isentl across the country.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Luckily, it's gone down this past year, and it's still
an exorbitant number. It's forty five thousand people a year
that are dying. When we first started talking, it was
around sixty thousand. Then it just went up to eighty
five the ninety thousand a year, which is almost double
everything else that is part of that statistic.
Speaker 1 (04:44):
Or car accidents during COVID, people were in.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
A little way after COVID.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Yes, yeah, so if you think about it, these are
all great topics like suicide and car accidents and things
like that, but ventanol is almost double those and.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
We just felt like nothing was being said. And now
four years later, every kid in the audience will raise
their hand. They know what it is. People are hearing
about it. We hope part of that's, you know, because
we're spreading the message along with thousands of parents who
have lost kids. But it's two hundred people a day.
And when I do presentations, I said, imagine a loaded
(05:22):
airplane dropping out this guy every day, killing Americans. We
would be talking about it. And I know it's a
hard thing to talk about. I know other parents have
lost their kids and it's finding those people to.
Speaker 4 (05:34):
Speak with it.
Speaker 2 (05:35):
We would love for them to come speak and share
their stories. You know, we could have buried our head
in the sands, which we wanted to. I'm sure many
times there's many days I want to quit and say
I'm done, But I just maybe it's because I was
a teacher. I was like, we have to get the
word out. This is crazy, you know, this is something
that can be avoided through education.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
One of his friends had mentioned that, you know, nobody
talks about it because it's tied to the concept of
just drug users, just losers in the street, homeless people,
all the people that society just cast aside. And that's
why nobody wants to talk about it because when then
you say, well, my son died of an overdose, then
(06:18):
whatever they feel about that topic, you know, comes up,
and so it just makes people feel uncomfortable. But now,
like you said, since the COVID pandemic and fentanyl has
just exploded, people are really realizing the narcan pushes from
all of the government entities that are given out freak Narkhan.
(06:39):
Do you think that helped Tom with get the deaths down?
Speaker 5 (06:43):
It definitely helps.
Speaker 3 (06:44):
And you were right there is a stigma to being
a parent that lost a child. And we call fentyel
poisoning because Jack did not go out to try fentel
that night.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
Yeah, he was out at a bar with some friends, yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
And went out afterwards, and ventel had to be laced
and the cocaine and it killed them. After getting over
the stigma of the fact that you lost a child
to drugs. Unfortunately, we said, you know what we have
to there's so many parents like us out there that
don't say anything that now there's a groundswell of parents
(07:16):
that are saying things about it, and that's great, and
I think the message getting out to the adults has
really helped drive the death rate down.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
If somebody wants to participate in your stuff and maybe
speak to losing their child, their friend or whatever, how
do they get a holden to that?
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Oh my gosh?
Speaker 2 (07:32):
So they would go to our website, which is www
do It for Jack dot org, into the contact us.
We're expanding and we are busy, and Tom and I
reliving our story over and over again obviously gets difficult.
So the story, it's the stories that grab attention, these
organic stories, and it'll hit somebody's heart that's listening that
(07:55):
oh my gosh, that could have been me or that
could have been my child. So yes, we would love
to have other people share their stories. It could be
do it for insert name anybody.
Speaker 1 (08:05):
Right, because that comes from his eulogy that you gave correct, right,
you tell that story in the documentary. They didn't expect
you to speak.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
And I was shocked when he got up.
Speaker 1 (08:16):
I was at the service because you just you couldn't.
I don't know how you do.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Yeah, So I got up, and I have no idea
why I got up, but I did.
Speaker 5 (08:24):
And I said two things. I said.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
In number one, don't forget Jack. I want you to
toast him every morning when you're having a cup of coffee,
if you're out, you know, with your wife on a
date or husband, just the cheers to Jack. And we
actually had cuffs made that say cheers to Jack. And
then the second part was, you know, I wanted to
get the stigma out of the room because people are
uncomfortable when you lose a loved one. And I said,
(08:45):
you know, we know why Jack died, and we know
you know how Jack died. If you find yourself in
a position where you need to make a choice, make
the life saving choice, and if you can't do it
for yourself, do it for Jack.
Speaker 2 (08:58):
And it was brilliant and we had I mean all
the church was I mean completely filled. But I was
a teacher, so you can imagine we have our whole
school there and every student. They did it on a
Monday night, which I don't know if we've ever had
a funeral at night, so that the community could come.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Plus, I mean, what two.
Speaker 5 (09:16):
Hundred Jack college high school friend. It was crazy.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
So we had the people in the room to hear
that message and maybe it was you know, a God
moment getting you up there to say that, and then
it made the parents send like, okay, we got to talk.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
You know, at the end of the day, it's we
have to talk.
Speaker 1 (09:37):
This is the Jack Quill Foundation and the program is
do it for Jack to try to make sure that
the message gets out there that you just can't take
anything that a doctor didn't prescribe to you, or that
you didn't get from a sealed bottle off of the
pharmacy shelves.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Exactly right.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
You can't take anything unless it's prescribed by a doctor
to you. Yeah, that doesn't mean if if you're a
small you know, younger, and your mom says, here's a
couple of way I bill, Okay, that's okay, Okay. It's
just a friend saying, hey, I you know you want
to study all night.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I got this.
Speaker 1 (10:09):
I will stand up and say, who's got some ass
bright and then everyone says, oh, Reese has it or
Jack Hazard. We hit my boss's name is Jackary. Jack
has it, and we'll go in there and you know,
and we stopped doing that because I said, I'm not
taking away. I don't know what you got. I don't
know what I got. No offense to you, my friend.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, And I mean it's good to because contact us too,
like we we want to get in the adult arena more.
We've talked to construction companies, UH, small businesses, corporations, and
every time we speak, the adults are like what And
so we found I was like, well, how are they
going to have a conversation with their kids if they
aren't educated themselves?
Speaker 1 (10:47):
And what we're saying and what do you think blew
them away so much?
Speaker 3 (10:50):
I think they were like us. I think they Number one,
not my child, right, My child's not going to do that.
And number two, the amount of fentanyl in the United
Days today and the people dying. No one knows about
that because when we first started talking, there was no
press on fentanyl, desks, nothing, And then you had this
grassroots organization RS and many like ours across the country
(11:14):
that pushed the message out and they finally got in
the news and people started realizing this is really a
terrible thing.
Speaker 4 (11:20):
And it's two pieces of salt.
Speaker 5 (11:22):
Yeah, two grains of salt can kill you.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Two grains of salt.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
That image of fentanyl will kill Tom and I as well.
So people are dying taking a half of a pill.
And I just heard a mom yesterday on Instagram say
half a pill doesn't kill.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
That's a poisoning.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
When we show our presentation with statistics and how it's
done and what they're doing, it's just.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
They're just their jaws are opening, like, are you kidding me?
Speaker 1 (11:50):
I remember telling friends contact with fentanyl at the scene
has dropped two hundred and fifty pounds sheriff's deputies and
cops to their knees and need to be narcanned because
they didn't even know what they were walking into. They
weren't protected from it, and that little grain of fentanyl
somehow got into their lung or whatever they breathe and
(12:11):
they there and my friends didn't believe me, that's true.
Can you believe that? And I said, what are you
kidding me? I'm not joking.
Speaker 5 (12:18):
Well there's another example.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
There was a French couple that came to uh Disney World,
uh and read an airbnb. Well, the weekend before they
had a bachelor party with all kinds of drugs, and
fentanyl was in part of that, and they had a
one or two year old infant that was crawling around,
got fentyl on her fingers and ingested it and died.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
Oh we've heard.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Yeah, And there's many more stories like that out there.
Speaker 4 (12:43):
The parent groups were in.
Speaker 2 (12:45):
I almost can't scroll sometimes, you know what I mean,
I have to stay away because I could just read
it all day long.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Well what does that mean for airbnbs?
Speaker 4 (12:52):
And I don't know.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
I've never really searched of what I just I mean,
you don't want to be like fear mongery, but like.
Speaker 1 (12:57):
No, but just want to be smart.
Speaker 2 (12:59):
I never would have, right, You just have to be aware,
and you know that's what we especially we're talking to colleges.
I mean, it's odorless, it's tasteless. You could drop it
in a drink airbor like nobody you would never know.
So we just you know, people need to be aware.
We say stay with your friends and just don't leave
your wingman kind of like a DD if you're a
(13:19):
designate driver. If you have friends that are doing recreational drugs,
then someone don't stay sober, be the person have the nark.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Can you don't want them to do it? There we
can say don't.
Speaker 2 (13:30):
Do it all we want and people are going to
make those decisions and they're still going to go do drugs.
So you will never be able to quantify live saved
or who's hearing us, But that's our our prayer that
they will listen.
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Tom and Stephanie Quell, they are running the Jack Quell Foundation.
Do it for Jack. Thank you for being here and
telling that story again for the millionth time.
Speaker 3 (13:56):
Can I say one more thing? So we started a
new campaign. It's called say the F Word and you'll
see billboards around the city that say nothing more than
say the F word and it says do it for
Jaggie at the bottom. And there's more to come on that.
We'll provide information after that. But it's the reason why
we picked that is because it really stands out. You know,
(14:18):
people are like, you know, that's that's very boisterous to
put that out there, and it's all about having a conversation,
right because that will spark a Yeah, that'll spark their attention.
To have a conversation with a loved one. It could
be a child, it could be a spouse, it could
be a brother, a sister, or a cousin, a best friend,
but you have to have the conversation about.
Speaker 1 (14:38):
It coming up. So I called to make Cincinnati clayest
city in the United States. And we know that we
can only do that one block out of time. Next
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