[laughs]

It's so much fun to see so many people here, happy to be here, supporting.

Staff is having a great time.

It's just a really wonderful day.

[laughs]

Yeah.

And then myself, my oldest son flew in, uh, to play and participate this year, so he'll be here.

Um, and then I've got two, uh, two close friends from Boston that flew in.

[clears throat]

It's so much fun to see so many people here, happy to be here, supporting.

Staff is having a great time.

It's just a really wonderful day.

That's five people [laughs]

... for going.

Yeah.

And then myself, my oldest son flew in, uh, to play and participate this year, so he'll be here.

his pro shop looks great.

He was going to kill me.

I wanted to do two.

And when you do two, you raise more money because your cost goes into the first one.

But we actually generated from the first event we did this past summer, which was to benefit Dolly Parton's Children's Hospital.

We generated about $2,400, so links for leukemia through in the other 26.

So we're going to present Dolly Parton's Children's Hospital this morning with a $5,000 check.

I don't know what your normal is, but this is a pretty good day.

Yeah, that's better.

And, uh, and so it's always been a worry for me.

Boy, I have, uh, through this whole treatment period, I've had joint pain.

Is, is the cancer still here? So, uh, but they, they assured me, um, it's all, uh, medicinally related, and that's ...

I'll tell you, I've been off it for, for a week and it, it really is a remarkable difference.

Um, so-

Therapy

...

Mm-hmm.

And I think when you hit a tipping point in something, it doesn't feel like the flu, it doesn't feel like this.

You just have this innate feeling something is wrong, and that's what happened to me.

And, and I just pushed.

And in fact, um, I didn't listen to the doctors.

I actually, my primary was great.

He's a nice guy.

Mm-hmm

Mm-hmm.

And I think when you hit a tipping point in something, it doesn't feel like the flu.

It doesn't feel like this.

You just have this innate feeling something is wrong, and that's what happened to me.

And, and I just pushed.

And in fact, um, I didn't listen to the doctors.

I actually, my primary was great.

Mm-hmm

Fox Foundation feels are the, are the pillars as we kinda march through 2026 in terms of advocacy.

Yeah.

A- absolutely.

I think for us, it, it very straightforwardly, there's four things, and the fourth thing really is to tie together the, the, the top three, but it starts whether, not just at the federal level, but extends to the state level as well.

First, first, research investment.

This country does not nearly invest in Parkinson's research to the, to, to the degree of, of the challenge of the problem.

Eighty-two billion dollars a year, this disease costs us, and we, at least intentionally at the NIH, only invest 250 million a year.

So, you know, what can someone like myself, even though you always, are always there for me anyway, 24/7, what can someone like me in Florida do to get us on that, um, you know, bu- bill to get rid of paraquat in Florida too?