Have people used B.C. to raise money for charities?
Jason Mittman really got this going. He went huge, raising something like 30 large for breast cancer. Then Kenji Haroutunian did that on a smaller scale and the ball was rolling. We hope to do a lot of this in the future. It’s more involved, for sure, but when you’re doing things that everyone thinks are crazy it’s pretty easy to get money. I wanted to raise money but was so scared that I’d die on, like, day 3 that I didn’t dare. But one woman that was reading the daily reports told me, “if you were raising money for something I would have just given you my checkbook and let you take whatever you needed.” I’ve always felt as though it was a little cop out on my part to not at least try. Are many women participating? There are some, quite a few really, but it’s really very much a guy thing. I mean, it’s like the travails of living, the tormented man. You know: Jesus, Moses, Odysseus, Phidippides… Men have role models all over the place. But women are really starting to come around. Ly
