August 15, 2025 • 8 mins
Tony joined us to talk about a very important fundaiser for his nephew.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So Tony Pike is with me here, and God, we
don't spend enough time with each other talking football training
camp reports Tony and Moe training camp show. We're not
going to talk football here. We're not even really going
to talk about sports. We're going to talk about an
event coming up tomorrow at Oakley Greens that you have
put together. I have watched too. I've watched you as
we've been doing shows, work really hard to put this together. Tomorrow.
(00:22):
It's at Oakley Greens. And this is benefiting your nephew, Yes,
your sister's little boy. Yeah, he just turned one at
the end of June. He is two two weeks younger
than our youngest. And it all the day of actually
his birthday party. We went over there, hung out, and
that night, I would call it mother's intuition. Jenna decided
(00:44):
to take him into the hospital, and his long story short,
his hemoglobin levels were extremely low. He was he was
very close a couple times to wondering will he make
it at this point, and he spent leave, three days
in the ICU, twelve days in the hospital, four different
(01:05):
blood transfusions, and then they finally found that he's got
it's called autoimmune hemolytic anemia with giant cell hepatitis, which
is a lot and from what I and again I'm
no expert in it, but it we know how great
Cincinnati Children's Hospital is. It's the first case they've seen
at Cincinnati Children's in seven years, so it is that rare.
(01:29):
It's it's something that attacks the liver and when you
add the autoimmune side to it, when you're going through
these treatments, your immune system is breaking down, so it
creates a very dangerous environment if you were to pick
up an infection or a virus at some point. So
that's that's essentially why. That's the why of how this
fundraiser came about. And there's only, like you told me this,
(01:49):
maybe a few what dozen cases of this in the country.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, I believe under a hundred that has been worldwide.
And you know, it's it's one of the things that
there's just not enough info on, right and it's something
now that since there hasn't been a case in seven years.
There are a lot of doctors, there are three different
teams that are working very closely with ROMAN, but there
is there's been some advancements over the last seven years
(02:15):
that they're hopeful, but they haven't had a case to
try it on. So now that there is Roman's case,
he's he's undergoing these these treatments. It's it's fewer than
one hundred since nineteen eighty have been for years udres,
so it's it's that rare. And again he turned one.
There was no signs of this for a year in
his life. So the medical bills and the treatments are
(02:37):
one thing. But what we're really trying to do on
Saturday tomorrow is is raise enough money that they can
make sure the house is safe for him, to make
sure it's clean, to make sure that the air he's
breathing is not going to put him at risk of anything.
That again that not a lot of us have to
worry about day in and day out.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, I can't even imagine. All Right, So tomorrow Oakley Greens. Yes,
this Oakley Greens is awesome, unbelievable. We've talked about it
a bunch. This is going to be a really good time.
It's a fundraiser. And first of all, let's just talk
about like you have a bunch of silent auction items, man,
and you've been talking about this with me off air
here and there. Yeah, outline for me as of right
(03:17):
now what people can potentially walk away.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
So we have a Bengals Legends package. Anthony Munho signed
jersey okay with a Jim Breech signed football.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
So you get the all time leading scorer and the
best player at his position in the history of the NFL.
There is a package where we've had tickets to the
Jaguars game with the parking pass donated. The Bengals gave
me a signed team football with Jamar Chason T Higgins
on it, and we pair that with a Joe Burrow
signed and framed photo, which is really cool. The Reds
(03:48):
gave an awesome package that includes a couple of diamond
club seats. You see has put together a football and
a basketball basket. Xavier basketball man All Out our Guys
Wolf donated four of his floor seats. It's all you
can eat, all you can drink. And then Greg Christopher
and Xavier Athletics put together something he told me they've
never done before. It's an all access Xavier basketball Day.
(04:11):
Four people. You arrive at the Centas Center on game day,
you meet Richard Patino and the staff. You sit in
on the pregame scouting report, you have dinner at the
club level, you sit on the court, and after the
game you can sit there and listen in the media
room to the postgame comments. So that is cool and
not just that. Cardell Jones from Ohio State donated a
(04:32):
frame jersey and two tickets to Ohio State Penn State,
not just like a random game, but like their biggest
game at home of the year. Marcus Freeman sent two
sweet tickets to Notre Dame Syracuse. All you can eat,
all you can drink at Notre Dame Stadium. So we
have FC Cincinnati tickets, we have Reds tickets, we have
Bengals Bearcat, I mean anything that you can possibly think
(04:53):
of our guys down the hall. William Sag donated a
live appearance on the Student Report. Wow, someone can come
in sit in the Stooge Report. Nate Bargatzi gave me
two sets of tickets for his show coming at the
end of October. I know I'm missing some things as well,
but we've got like eighteen to twenty auction items and
then there's gonna be like twenty raffle baskets as well.
(05:15):
If you don't want to bid high on an auction basket.
We've got some really cool some raffle baskets as well.
There's a Bourbon trip. We have a Bourbon experience where
you and five friends go to three different distilleries. They
pick you up on your front door. You get on
this luxury vehicle. You can take drinks on it. They
stop at three distilleries. There's a lunch that's provided. So
(05:36):
we were overwhelmed by how many people have given.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
If it will sweeten the pot, I'll go on that
with him. Yeah, so you have four friends in Mo.
Actually you three friends MO, and I travel on this
trip with you. But no, it's it's unbelievable how many people.
We have gift cards from so many restaurants that have
stepped up. So it's going to be a lot of fun.
And we'll do it all on Saturday. Even if you
(06:01):
don't want to, just come and have some fun. Come
and support five o'clock and start five to ten. Jeff
Henry a good buddy of ours who plays music all
over the place. Awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, he's donated his time and he's actually starting a
couple of nights ago he played I Believe It Waltz
and opened the donations, and the bartending crew took all
their donations and tips from the night and donated it.
He played last night, He's gonna play for us at
the event as well, So it's gonna be so much fun.
And uh it's it's honestly going to a good cause.
(06:33):
It's my first time putting on a fundraiser and probably
my last.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I was I was gonna say, if I ever need
money raise for something, you're in charge.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
It is.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Uh, it might just be for me to go on vacation,
but if I you're gonna be in charge, I have.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I have always attended fundraisers. I've tried to support fundraisers.
I've never tried to run one, and I likely never
will again. But uh, it is, it's it's something that's
very unfortunate. And and Jenna, my sister, is a rock
star of a mom and romans all. If you met
or have ever met Roman, you would have no idea
what he's going through. And I mean these the transfer
(07:06):
there are fourteen hour treatments that he's receiving fourteen hours
on top of each other, and he's knocked them out
and uh, you know, through all of this, he's learned
to walk, so he's walking at the house and it
is it's really cool to see how everyone has come
together and uh and pushed for this, and it's.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Worth mentioning Red's play tomorrow night. The TV set up
at Oakley Greens is awesome, so you'll be able to
watch the ball game starts at five o'clock. There's it's
family friendly. Yes, so we're We've told Crosley she's going
to Oakley Greens, which she loves.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Perfect, so we'll be there and well that's the selling
point as well.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
That is it in greed you with if you weren't,
if you were sort of on the fence, now that
should that should kick it through for you.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
So which one is this?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Is? There? Is there a way if if folks are
listening and they're like, man, I would love to go,
but I cannot, but I want to help out. What
can people do?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
The easiest way is, uh, if you go to if
you're familiar with GoFundMe, go to GoFundMe and just type
in Jenna Pike and from there you'll be able to
see to support Roman's battle against a rare, rare disease
and from there you can get more information on a
Venmo that's available as well, and then Romans Fight twenty
four on Instagram. Jenna has done a great job of
(08:19):
kind of explaining what's going on, but also giving some
updates along the way, so if you're interested to learn more,
just go to the GoFundMe Jenna Pike but honestly thoughts
wishes and show up and have a good time Saturday
for a good cause.
So Tony Pike is with me here, and God, we
don't spend enough time with each other talking football training
camp reports Tony and Moe training camp show. We're not
going to talk football here. We're not even really going
to talk about sports. We're going to talk about an
event coming up tomorrow at Oakley Greens that you have
put together. I have watched too. I've watched you as
we've been doing shows, work really hard to put this together. Tomorrow.
(00:22):
It's at Oakley Greens. And this is benefiting your nephew, Yes,
your sister's little boy. Yeah, he just turned one at
the end of June. He is two two weeks younger
than our youngest. And it all the day of actually
his birthday party. We went over there, hung out, and
that night, I would call it mother's intuition. Jenna decided
(00:44):
to take him into the hospital, and his long story short,
his hemoglobin levels were extremely low. He was he was
very close a couple times to wondering will he make
it at this point, and he spent leave, three days
in the ICU, twelve days in the hospital, four different
(01:05):
blood transfusions, and then they finally found that he's got
it's called autoimmune hemolytic anemia with giant cell hepatitis, which
is a lot and from what I and again I'm
no expert in it, but it we know how great
Cincinnati Children's Hospital is. It's the first case they've seen
at Cincinnati Children's in seven years, so it is that rare.
(01:29):
It's it's something that attacks the liver and when you
add the autoimmune side to it, when you're going through
these treatments, your immune system is breaking down, so it
creates a very dangerous environment if you were to pick
up an infection or a virus at some point. So
that's that's essentially why. That's the why of how this
fundraiser came about. And there's only, like you told me this,
(01:49):
maybe a few what dozen cases of this in the country.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
Yeah, I believe under a hundred that has been worldwide.
And you know, it's it's one of the things that
there's just not enough info on, right and it's something
now that since there hasn't been a case in seven years.
There are a lot of doctors, there are three different
teams that are working very closely with ROMAN, but there
is there's been some advancements over the last seven years
(02:15):
that they're hopeful, but they haven't had a case to
try it on. So now that there is Roman's case,
he's he's undergoing these these treatments. It's it's fewer than
one hundred since nineteen eighty have been for years udres,
so it's it's that rare. And again he turned one.
There was no signs of this for a year in
his life. So the medical bills and the treatments are
(02:37):
one thing. But what we're really trying to do on
Saturday tomorrow is is raise enough money that they can
make sure the house is safe for him, to make
sure it's clean, to make sure that the air he's
breathing is not going to put him at risk of anything.
That again that not a lot of us have to
worry about day in and day out.
Speaker 1 (02:55):
Yeah, I can't even imagine. All Right, So tomorrow Oakley Greens. Yes,
this Oakley Greens is awesome, unbelievable. We've talked about it
a bunch. This is going to be a really good time.
It's a fundraiser. And first of all, let's just talk
about like you have a bunch of silent auction items, man,
and you've been talking about this with me off air
here and there. Yeah, outline for me as of right
(03:17):
now what people can potentially walk away.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
So we have a Bengals Legends package. Anthony Munho signed
jersey okay with a Jim Breech signed football.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
So you get the all time leading scorer and the
best player at his position in the history of the NFL.
There is a package where we've had tickets to the
Jaguars game with the parking pass donated. The Bengals gave
me a signed team football with Jamar Chason T Higgins
on it, and we pair that with a Joe Burrow
signed and framed photo, which is really cool. The Reds
(03:48):
gave an awesome package that includes a couple of diamond
club seats. You see has put together a football and
a basketball basket. Xavier basketball man All Out our Guys
Wolf donated four of his floor seats. It's all you
can eat, all you can drink. And then Greg Christopher
and Xavier Athletics put together something he told me they've
never done before. It's an all access Xavier basketball Day.
(04:11):
Four people. You arrive at the Centas Center on game day,
you meet Richard Patino and the staff. You sit in
on the pregame scouting report, you have dinner at the
club level, you sit on the court, and after the
game you can sit there and listen in the media
room to the postgame comments. So that is cool and
not just that. Cardell Jones from Ohio State donated a
(04:32):
frame jersey and two tickets to Ohio State Penn State,
not just like a random game, but like their biggest
game at home of the year. Marcus Freeman sent two
sweet tickets to Notre Dame Syracuse. All you can eat,
all you can drink at Notre Dame Stadium. So we
have FC Cincinnati tickets, we have Reds tickets, we have
Bengals Bearcat, I mean anything that you can possibly think
(04:53):
of our guys down the hall. William Sag donated a
live appearance on the Student Report. Wow, someone can come
in sit in the Stooge Report. Nate Bargatzi gave me
two sets of tickets for his show coming at the
end of October. I know I'm missing some things as well,
but we've got like eighteen to twenty auction items and
then there's gonna be like twenty raffle baskets as well.
(05:15):
If you don't want to bid high on an auction basket.
We've got some really cool some raffle baskets as well.
There's a Bourbon trip. We have a Bourbon experience where
you and five friends go to three different distilleries. They
pick you up on your front door. You get on
this luxury vehicle. You can take drinks on it. They
stop at three distilleries. There's a lunch that's provided. So
(05:36):
we were overwhelmed by how many people have given.
Speaker 1 (05:40):
If it will sweeten the pot, I'll go on that
with him. Yeah, so you have four friends in Mo.
Actually you three friends MO, and I travel on this
trip with you. But no, it's it's unbelievable how many people.
We have gift cards from so many restaurants that have
stepped up. So it's going to be a lot of fun.
And we'll do it all on Saturday. Even if you
(06:01):
don't want to, just come and have some fun. Come
and support five o'clock and start five to ten. Jeff
Henry a good buddy of ours who plays music all
over the place. Awesome.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
Yeah, he's donated his time and he's actually starting a
couple of nights ago he played I Believe It Waltz
and opened the donations, and the bartending crew took all
their donations and tips from the night and donated it.
He played last night, He's gonna play for us at
the event as well, So it's gonna be so much fun.
And uh it's it's honestly going to a good cause.
(06:33):
It's my first time putting on a fundraiser and probably
my last.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
I was I was gonna say, if I ever need
money raise for something, you're in charge.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
It is.
Speaker 1 (06:41):
Uh, it might just be for me to go on vacation,
but if I you're gonna be in charge, I have.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
I have always attended fundraisers. I've tried to support fundraisers.
I've never tried to run one, and I likely never
will again. But uh, it is, it's it's something that's
very unfortunate. And and Jenna, my sister, is a rock
star of a mom and romans all. If you met
or have ever met Roman, you would have no idea
what he's going through. And I mean these the transfer
(07:06):
there are fourteen hour treatments that he's receiving fourteen hours
on top of each other, and he's knocked them out
and uh, you know, through all of this, he's learned
to walk, so he's walking at the house and it
is it's really cool to see how everyone has come
together and uh and pushed for this, and it's.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Worth mentioning Red's play tomorrow night. The TV set up
at Oakley Greens is awesome, so you'll be able to
watch the ball game starts at five o'clock. There's it's
family friendly. Yes, so we're We've told Crosley she's going
to Oakley Greens, which she loves.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Perfect, so we'll be there and well that's the selling
point as well.
Speaker 1 (07:40):
That is it in greed you with if you weren't,
if you were sort of on the fence, now that
should that should kick it through for you.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
So which one is this?
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Is? There? Is there a way if if folks are
listening and they're like, man, I would love to go,
but I cannot, but I want to help out. What
can people do?
Speaker 2 (07:56):
The easiest way is, uh, if you go to if
you're familiar with GoFundMe, go to GoFundMe and just type
in Jenna Pike and from there you'll be able to
see to support Roman's battle against a rare, rare disease
and from there you can get more information on a
Venmo that's available as well, and then Romans Fight twenty
four on Instagram. Jenna has done a great job of
(08:19):
kind of explaining what's going on, but also giving some
updates along the way, so if you're interested to learn more,
just go to the GoFundMe Jenna Pike but honestly thoughts
wishes and show up and have a good time Saturday
for a good cause.
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