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I'm Sally Helm with the podcast History This Week. In each episode, we serve as your eyes and ears into history's biggest events, and the lesser told stories, ones you might not even know happened. Find History This Week on the Free Odyssey app, or wherever you get your podcasts. "Geal in Company Week Demoting 6-10" Coach Phil Martelli is with us. Coach, good to have you on the show this morning. "Great to be with you, May I really appreciate it." Yes, let's start first of all. I can go through the routine of your coaching career. You had such an amazing career, but I know that you are still a very active guy, both in your passions, but also professionally. Before we get to the big announcement, what have you been up to recently in your personal life that I know is a new endeavor or venture, so to speak? Well, I've re-established myself in Philadelphia. I was never far away. My wife, had duty, had stayed in media, and we were going back and forth for the five years that I was in Michigan. When I came home, I made one. I set out to create an idea. An idea that would give back to the community that has given me and my family so much. So for lack of a better term, I've created a business called Make a Difference. In May and June, I was saying, "This is what I hope to do now. I am straight off saying, 'This is what I'm going to do. I'm going to go into schools, Nick. I'm going to go into corporate Delaware Valley, and I want to talk to them about leadership, about coaching, because I believe everybody out there. You're not just a radio host. You're the coach of this segment. So what do we share in common? I have stories, not yuff it up, backwards stories, but these are stories with themes. My intention is starting with schools is to go into 140 school districts this year. I'm just waiting for the invites. I've had an opportunity in the last couple of weeks to go into three different schools, and it's just been terrific. I want to start with the staff and the bus drivers and the maintenance people, the administrative staff, the principals, the teachers, because they're heroes, and they take a lot of body blows, but they are heroes. And then I expand that into corporate. So whether it's a CEO, the head of a Salesforce, an intern, my stories will resonate, and they're going to resonate with the least one person in that whole audience. So I've started this quote-unquote business of make a difference, and I'm looking to build, and I sit here every day, and I'm a novice with the computer, but I sit here and think, okay, how can I touch one person who then can touch one other person to say, you know what, I didn't come home to retire, and I know we're going to talk about golf. I didn't come home to just like golf, and I didn't come home to say, well, you know what, you got a quick tone and a quick wit, and just go do TV. No, I have to make a difference, because so many people in this area have made a difference with me. So I have a management group, I have a website, all kinds of stuff, but I'm just sitting here waiting for the phone to ring and go out there to help one organization be a little bit better tomorrow. Well, I know you're going to be working with companies and nonprofits from basketball to the business world, but you have, Phil, you've always been a big philanthropy guy, co-founder of the Philly chapter of the American Cancer Society, coaches versus cancer program. You guys have raised 20 plus million dollars in over 25 years. For cancer research, it's such a inspirational and heartwarming endeavor that you and other coaches, because I think, you know, no matter what walk of life you come from in sports and politics, whatever it might be, you know, cancer is one of these galvanizing things that unites Americans. And a lot of times when you have those conversations and you have those great moments, there's not a dry eye in the house. So we are very honored to have you and to be a part of a big golf outing that is going to be happening. And we are talking about a day of golfing, eating and fighting cancer, as we will be doing a kale and company, big five coaches, golf spectacular in partnership with the coaches versus cancer, and the 28th annual Jim Maloney golf classic, which is coming up in just about 10 days, September 23rd at Huntington Valley Country Club. Of course, that I can't even get on. So I'm ecstatic to be a part of it. And I know you will be a part of the golf festivities, for sure. I'm Sally Helm with the podcast history this week. In each episode, we serve as your eyes and ears into history's biggest events and the lesser told stories, ones you might not even know happened. Find history this week on the free Odyssey app, or wherever you get your podcasts. Let me ask you I know this is a great endeavor for a great cause. Where's the golf game at right now? Phil, be honest, you're on the radio. Nick, if you get if you were going to write a check, if I said Nick write a check, go on, write a check for a thousand dollars. If I could find my golf clubs, I have no idea. I can't find that. I will I will I'm sitting in my home office here. I'm looking at the window. And for five years of Michigan, I was looking at my office window and way across the street was the University of Michigan golf course. And we were given nine free rounds a year, and so I guess by my math, I'm a 45-round stop. I never took my clubs. And if you said to me today, where do you think your clubs are? I don't know. What I can do out there is I can run my math. I love it. And I love because on the course, Nick, you're not a radio host. You're not one of the leading guys that filled up. You're not a basketball coach. You're just a guy out there with three of your friends and telling stories and some of them are true and some of them are falsehoods, but it's just it's just a remarkable way and for this, for that's anything that anybody can do. You know, and people talk about the 21 million dollars that's been raised and showed up yet. It's not enough because somebody in your listening audience is going to hear that a family member has cancer or they may have cancer or a business colleague or somebody from your church or somebody from a charitable endeavor that you're involved with and cancer straight up is a bully. It does not discriminate, so we cannot fight it like it's a straight fair one. You know, like the older people in Philadelphia would say, oh, when I got offered a fair one, man, you and me are going to just go and then best man is going to win. Now, cancer is a bully. We must crush it and your efforts are a step along the way of crushing cancer. So thank you, thank you, thank you, Nick, and everybody involved at your station for for for for backing coaches versus cancer. No, Phil, it's my honor for those who don't know this golf classic will honor the memory of former Temple men's basketball coach Jim Maloney in his 14 years behind the bench with former coach John Cheney, who by the way, his last year was my senior year at Temple. So this definitely hits home Maloney mentored future going to be a guys if you remember Aaron McKee on that 016ers team. He was a temple guy and he Jones, great player for the Lakers in attendance with Phil Martelli and myself will include Fran Dunphy, who's coached at multiple big five schools. Kyle Neptune, who if I recall, recall, he's now up at Lehigh coaching that that squad. So there's going to be Amy Fadoul from NBC Philadelphia for NBC Sports, formerly Comcast Sports. So it's going to be a great day and you can now place and I'll tweet out the link during the break. It's up on the YouTube chat too. It's up. Okay, beautiful. It's September 23rd. Yep. Yep. And you can place your bid for the threesome to join myself. You know, Fran's going to be there. Phil, you're going to be there. We're going to have golf. There's going to be a cocktail hour, which is my favorite part of the day. There's going to be a dinner the whole bit. So I'm looking forward to it, Phil. And I know I've interviewed you years ago in sports, but I've actually never been in person with you. So this will be a first time pleasure. Nick, if you have a second, I have a great John Chaney disc golf classic and Huntington Valley story. Yeah. John Chaney had never played golf, decided to take up golf. And he took up golf at Huntington Valley, which is Phil's and tough shots. It's a tough shot to show tough shots. The first round of golf that he ever played. When John won a club, he called Mikey, he was working with Mikey on basketball, and they sent him clubs. He requested the clubs that Tiger Woods uses. They sent him, they sent him those clubs. He was out on the course and Fran, Duncan, and I were riding around. We rode up to see his swing. And when we went into his bag to pull out the club, the clubs were still in the wrapping. So like the cellophane wrap, whatever they call that wrapping. And we said, John, you have to take the wrap off the club. And he looked at us like we had seven heads. He said, this is the way Nike sent them to me. This is the way Tiger uses that. 18 holes of golf. Amazing. With the wrap on his club. Oh my God. Yeah, that's John chain. And he got it too over. I'll be too over after the first hole. Phil, thank you so much. Looking forward to. Thank you. Thank you. Crushed cancer. Yeah. And I will put out that link right now. Thank you very much, coach. We'll see you in a couple of days. Start your day with Kaylin Company, weekday morning, six till 10 on Tark Radio 1210 WPHT and the free Odyssey app. I'm Sally Helm with the podcast history this week. In each episode, we serve as your eyes and ears into history's biggest events and the lesser told stories. Ones you might not even know happened. Find history this week on the free Odyssey app or wherever you get your podcasts.