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Speaker 1: The Fread's Show is on Wait this morning show. So

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Speaker 1: it's every year on this day, we transform a cafeteria

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Speaker 1: at a children's hospital, most specifically Larry Children's Hospital, into

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Speaker 1: a full on studio. I mean, we've got several radio

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Speaker 1: for this. I'm gonna hoodie, That's what I'm saying. No

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Speaker 1: one told me to be glamor ready. But don't worry.

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Speaker 1: Kiki's being glam ready for hours. Yeah, it would still work.

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Speaker 1: Why not? You know, not anymore? No, K's I said,

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Speaker 1: this is when I walked in. It's not a fread

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Speaker 1: Show event if there's not makeup all over the table

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Speaker 1: in the first hour.

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Speaker 2: Today. I'm serious today.

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Speaker 1: No, we're professionals. It's all good, good morning everybody. It's

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Speaker 1: what day is it? Thursday, December fifth. See, here's the thing.

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Speaker 1: We're at Larry Children's Hospital. It's our annual radio time.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna make over a million dollars this year for

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Speaker 1: Larry Children's Hospital. We're gonna do that. But this is not.

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Speaker 1: This is a target rich environment for me, for a

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Speaker 1: guy with ad D. This is a bad idea. They

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Speaker 1: should have let me stay at home. I would do

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Speaker 1: a lot better because like I see Sonya, I see

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Speaker 1: Melissa Foreman's here in the flesh. Unbelievable icon. Jean Sparrow

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Speaker 1: should be awesome. An icon is here is right here.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm all all, it's incredible. Leon Rodgers the desk,

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Speaker 1: I mean, every station from my heart today is dedicated

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Speaker 1: to raising money for Larry Children's Hospital. And guess what

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Speaker 1: the first time of many that I'm going to tell

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Speaker 1: you how to do it one eight eight three one

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Speaker 1: can also text the word luriy. There's no s by

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Speaker 1: the way, everyone says Lurry's. Yeah, yeah, ask Jules Louries, Yeah,

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Speaker 1: you know Jay Olsna prisons mugshots. Yeah right, I don't know. Well,

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Speaker 1: Garrett's actually, well, you're right, there is no Yeah, let's

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Speaker 1: always thought there was Garretts. No, now you're telling me, oh,

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Speaker 1: it's just Garrett.

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Speaker 2: It's not his popcorn.

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Speaker 1: No, but is thought. I thought it was mister Garrett's popcorn. Right,

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Speaker 1: So it's now you're telling me it's not the bucket,

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Speaker 1: We would love for everyone who can hear us right

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Speaker 1: now to consider twenty dollars a month, sixty seven cents

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Speaker 1: know it's tough right now. I know it's a difficult environment,

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Speaker 1: but this is an incredible place that you know what

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Speaker 1: I gotta get the thesaurus out so that I can

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Speaker 1: come up with many different ways to say incredible and amazing,

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Speaker 1: be incredible and amazing because it is. But I gotta

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Speaker 3: But astonishing astonishing is.

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Speaker 1: Google's tremendous. You know. The guy in charge of this

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Speaker 1: and then we were talking about amaze balls with the

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Speaker 3: It's play, it's slay.

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Speaker 1: It's slay, slay. Now. See there's another one, Garrett, and

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Speaker 1: the thing. You guys know that I'm extremely competitive. We

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Speaker 1: and you're gonna hear throughout the morning, throughout the day,

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Speaker 1: really all the different ways that Lurie is helping the

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Speaker 1: we got to keep feeding this resource. God forbid you

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Speaker 1: It got real quiet when I said that, by the way,

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Speaker 1: so I think everybody everyone heard me say that. So

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Speaker 1: incredible stories of healing. And you're also gonna hear me

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Speaker 1: Kiss FM, Chicago's number one a music station. We're live

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Speaker 1: a Leary Children's Hospital. It's our annual iHeart Radio Luriy

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Speaker 1: I gotta stop saying that. I bet you're incredible. You're

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Speaker 1: I've been here for In the truth, I've bet it

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Speaker 1: for ten minutes. I've used that word seventeen times. I

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Speaker 1: as much money as possible. But Kiki, I'm leaning on you. Yes,

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Speaker 1: Please, So like, if you need to stop by, get

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Speaker 1: like a payday loan. If you you know, I'll tell

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Speaker 1: But it's because of people. Like some of the stories

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Speaker 1: We did it, we did it. I don't think we

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Speaker 3: He is very chatty, like I am. So we had

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Speaker 1: it's actually couch. Is that laying? Well? Jojo? I'm gonna

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Speaker 1: file a claim, honestly, I'm going to file a.

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Speaker 2: Claims like one of his French girls.

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Speaker 1: So how would describe Jojo? If you would? For the

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Speaker 1: people at homes a jewel Losco. You know jewels, they

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Speaker 1: have a mascot. And then why they need a mascot

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Speaker 1: I don't know. Probably for this reason because the mascot

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Speaker 1: then walks around and then we give them free advertising,

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Speaker 1: which we've now done for about thirty minutes. So Jojo,

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Speaker 1: how you can?

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Speaker 2: So it makes a lot of sense. Jojo is a

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Speaker 2: hairy something that's going on.

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Speaker 1: It's good. Whatever that sounds good.

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Speaker 2: It makes a lot of sense. Jojo is a red,

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Speaker 2: hairy eyeball in a crop top.

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Speaker 3: Right with booty shorts, the best legs I've ever seen,

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Speaker 3: and some loose converse. It looks like wow and very flexible, flexible.

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Speaker 3: Oh I can dance pose? Okay, great, it's giving honest.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, it's interesting, it really is. But I honestly okay.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Harry eyeball, you think grocery store, I get.

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Speaker 2: It, honestly.

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Speaker 1: And for as much as when we're going to tell

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Speaker 1: you next hour how much Jewel usco the major check

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Speaker 1: they came in with, For as much as they're giving

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Speaker 1: to Lurry, I guess they're skimping on clothing for Jojo

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Speaker 1: because they don't think they need to put much on

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Speaker 1: their pants.

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Speaker 2: Just a crop top, like Winnie the poo but he is.

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Speaker 1: He is Winny the pooing Larry Children's ustin all this.

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Speaker 2: Morning, being a little naughty for Lourie. But hey, to

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Speaker 2: each their own.

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Speaker 9: Right, right.

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Speaker 11: You know?

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Speaker 1: I see some of the supervisors of this thing. They

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Speaker 1: have their little ear pieces in and there. I think

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Speaker 1: they're listening to what we're doing. And they're probably wondering, oh,

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Speaker 1: why why we're here, what our contribution is. But the

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Speaker 1: truth is this is what you get. So you asked

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Speaker 1: for it and you got it. So it's the Larry

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Speaker 1: Children's Radio Thon. We are going to raise a ton

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Speaker 1: of money this morning. We're also going to entertain the

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Speaker 1: people who are sitting in traffic and uh and and

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Speaker 1: trying to imagine what Jojo looks like the Jewelosco mascot

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Speaker 1: Now we're gonna over a million dollars today. You hear

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Speaker 1: at Larry Children's Hospital. It's our annual LURI Children's Radiothion

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Speaker 1: with all of the iHeartMedia stations this morning. Last year,

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Speaker 1: we raised collectively throughout the day, one single day, because

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Speaker 1: of you guys and all the corporate sponsors, all the

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Speaker 1: really generous corporate sponsors and partners, seven hundred and sevent

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars over seven hundred thousand. Uh huh. And this

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Speaker 1: year we believe that we are going to break seven

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Speaker 1: figures one million dollars. Oh my god, I don't even

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Speaker 1: know that was seven figures. My brain can't even calculate that.

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Speaker 1: That's crazy. I'll have it. What did you think seven

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Speaker 1: figures was? I don't know. I've never thought of it.

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Speaker 1: I think he will never get My brain can't even

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Speaker 1: count that high. Ky knows what it is. That's what

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Speaker 1: she owes the tollway.

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Speaker 9: So she's well, because I owe them, they'll never be broke.

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Speaker 17: That's right.

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Speaker 1: I don't know that makes sense. Say, no, wonder there's

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Speaker 1: so many holes in the road, pay because you fill

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Speaker 1: them in. Oh my god, yeah no, this is not

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Speaker 1: the place for a bunch of people with add But

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Speaker 1: every time you hear people cheer like that, it means

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Speaker 1: that someone has called and donated some money, a lot

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Speaker 1: of money. I don't know what the cheerings hesitates like

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Speaker 1: a lot of money. Yeah, but when you call to

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Speaker 1: make sure that you give your name and they're listening

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Speaker 1: to us anything of business, give your business name, we

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Speaker 1: can give you a shout out. Exactly. No, that's what

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Speaker 1: I'm saying. Look, you will get an incredible free advertisement

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Speaker 1: for the right price. Yes, and it doesn't go to us.

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Speaker 1: It goes to Lyric Children's Hospital and kids like Carter

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Speaker 1: and his family. We're gonna hear his story again in

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Speaker 1: just a second. Someone te that somebody sad the effect

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Speaker 1: of thank you for playing that while I was on

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Speaker 1: my way to work, so that I could put on

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Speaker 1: the waterproof mascara when I got to work before I

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Speaker 1: walked in. Because it is these are really emotional stories,

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Speaker 1: obviously extremely touching because we're talking about families and children

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Speaker 1: and life saving efforts. I mean, Carter had literally a

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Speaker 1: hole in his heart and they were able to find

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Speaker 1: this at a very young age, very young age as

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Speaker 1: a as a he was not even one, right.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Well, I.

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Speaker 3: Believe she found out there were issues when she was utero. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: finding out the gender. So it literally started there. He

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Speaker 3: had or has a little pacemaker. But he's doing great now.

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Speaker 2: But yeah, really really little.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and he's a fighter man. And it's all things

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Speaker 3: to donations because he had a lot of help. I

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Speaker 3: love that the parents were shouting out their dream team.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they knew every.

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Speaker 3: Doctor's name, nurses name. They said, it felt like home

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Speaker 3: here and they became families.

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Speaker 2: So it's amazing.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's something that we should talk about too,

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Speaker 1: is I'm sure we'll talk about throughout the morning. But

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Speaker 1: you know, over the years, working with Cal's Angels, which

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Speaker 1: to get to come monthly and and with the organization

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Speaker 1: and work bedside with the oncology patients inpatient and outpatient.

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Speaker 1: And what you began to realize was that these nurses

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Speaker 1: and doctors, especially the nurses become so much more than

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Speaker 1: caregivers YEA to these kids. In fact, you know, you've

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Speaker 1: got kids here whose parents have to work and they

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Speaker 1: have You've got children here whose parents have other children

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Speaker 1: to attend to, you know, families, and they're not able

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Speaker 1: to be here all the time. And so there's child

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Speaker 1: life specialists and the nurses and you know, all those

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Speaker 1: sorts of folks to doctors. They're here sort of having

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Speaker 1: to not only fill that emotional role but also the

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Speaker 1: you know, care for them from a health standpoint.

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Speaker 13: For sure.

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Speaker 3: There's literally someone who was making sure he was keeping

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Speaker 3: up with his schoolwork, you know, because kids can they

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Speaker 3: can be here overnight, or they can be here for

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Speaker 3: a long time.

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Speaker 2: A lot of kids have to celebrate.

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Speaker 3: Their birthdays here, which is literally what some of these

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Speaker 3: donations will go to birthday celebrations because you have to

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Speaker 3: spend those holidays here.

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Speaker 1: You think about that, you know, think about it's not

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Speaker 1: just unfortunately strolling by, you know, just you're not just

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Speaker 1: pulling up. No, I'm the hospital and then and then

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Speaker 1: hanging out, you know, getting treated and leaving. I mean,

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Speaker 1: in some cases you've got children. If we're gonna hear

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Speaker 1: from one later on this morning, we're gonna hear from

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Speaker 1: two little best friends heart transplant best friends. I might

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Speaker 1: need to wait on my mask errand so that why

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Speaker 1: why did your makeup already that I wait till later

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Speaker 1: for that. But but you know one one, uh, the

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Speaker 1: young girl got I believe she got her heart and

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Speaker 1: her neighbor hospital neighbor, and the room next story is

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Speaker 1: still waiting his but they became best friends. It's just

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Speaker 1: the sweetest story. But you know they're here for months

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Speaker 1: and months maybe longer, you know, waiting for the care

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Speaker 1: they need. Some of this treatment takes a long time.

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Speaker 1: And so that's something that you don't think about that

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Speaker 1: they do here is trying to make this environment as

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Speaker 1: as much like home as possible.

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Speaker 18: One.

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Speaker 2: We're an animal show.

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Speaker 3: We love animals, and something awesome they do is pet therapy.

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Speaker 3: Fifty bucks you can get an individual pace a visit

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Speaker 3: with a little dog and then two hundred bucks.

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Speaker 2: You just help contribute to the whole program.

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Speaker 3: And I mean, if you're an animal lover, you know

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Speaker 3: that animals will heal you. I mean I have a

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Speaker 3: new doggie and I literally will like cry into her

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Speaker 3: like she makes me feel she's not home right now.

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Speaker 3: I'm like, I'm so sad, Like she makes me feel better,

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Speaker 3: and these kids feel the same way.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, it's funny. She actually she called me. She called

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Speaker 1: me and said, who is this crazy woman? Why do

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Speaker 1: I have to be a free psychologist? And I haven't

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Speaker 1: received my cope?

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Speaker 2: And why is she performing Wicked over and over again.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and where are hanging all over the house? Fright?

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Speaker 1: It's it's weird, Will, And I know you fly animals

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Speaker 1: to places will get me. I don't know where you're

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Speaker 1: going next, but I'll go there. And then I had

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Speaker 1: to explain to Willy, right, Yes, I had to explain

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Speaker 1: to Willy that no, I'm going to get dougs and

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Speaker 1: bring them to home. And she said, no, I'll go

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Speaker 1: to the other places. I'll go to the other one.

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Speaker 1: It's I really haven't had enough of this already. But

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Speaker 1: please help us this morning raise money for Lard Children's

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Speaker 1: Hospital for our radio thun and the number to call

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight eight three one seven seven three three

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Speaker 1: and again, like Jason said, I don't think we're supposed

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Speaker 1: to do this. I don't really care. If you call

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Speaker 1: and you donate and it's a lot of money, and

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Speaker 1: a lot of money you could be is relative. But

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Speaker 1: if you call and you donate and you tell them

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Speaker 1: that you're listening to the Freend Show on Kiss, and

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Speaker 1: you tell them the name of your business or whatever

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Speaker 1: whoever you want us to shout out or whatever you

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Speaker 1: want us to say, yeah, we'll say anything. I'll tell

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Speaker 1: you what if it's a thing, if it's enough money,

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Speaker 1: and I'm not trying to go down this road, but

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Speaker 1: if it's enough money, I'll even play a song. You

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Speaker 1: want me to play?

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Speaker 2: Whoa he will sing a song? Sing We want them

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Speaker 2: to give.

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Speaker 1: We want a guest, well, I feel whatever it takes.

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Speaker 1: But you want to hear way out yonder on the Chattahoochie,

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Speaker 1: then you might. You mightever, Oh I want that. I'm

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Speaker 1: going to tell right now. I don't even think that's

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Speaker 1: appropriate for this, but for a thousand dollar dollars, it's

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Speaker 1: gonna be, you know, or whatever, whatever it takes. Eight

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Speaker 1: the midwestern suh to the number five one five five five.

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Speaker 1: They'll send you a link to donate. It's that simple.

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Speaker 1: And speaking of Carter, who we were just telling you about,

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Speaker 1: who's doing great because Caitlin met him and can attest

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Speaker 1: to that. Kid's got a ton of personality.

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Speaker 2: Just had his golden birthday.

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Speaker 3: He turned eight on the eighth, and yeah, he loves

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Speaker 3: spider man, is it the eighth yet or did Yeah?

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Speaker 1: No, it's this fifth. Okay, so he's about to were

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Speaker 1: anticipated it.

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Speaker 2: We're exciting to celebrate. Yeah, he's amazing.

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Speaker 3: He loves Spider Man, got a lot of energy and

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Speaker 3: wants to be on the radio.

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Speaker 2: So he's gonna take your job.

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Speaker 1: I okay, you know, it depends on the day, honestly,

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Speaker 1: it really does. But think about that. You're gonna hear

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Speaker 1: a story in just a couple of minutes. But think

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Speaker 1: about that. They found a hole in his heart when

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Speaker 1: he was still you know, within his mom was his

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Speaker 1: mom was still carrying him right right. They found a

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Speaker 1: hole in his heart, and they they knew to fix it.

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Speaker 1: They knew what they were trying to do. I mean,

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Speaker 1: I watched a lot of Gray's anatomy. I'm blown away

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Speaker 1: by medical miracles. I really am. Yeah. But that seriously though,

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Speaker 1: that's a little bit and not a little bit. It's

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Speaker 1: the United States, the ninth best pediatric cardiology ward in

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Speaker 1: the country is right here. And I hope you never

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Speaker 1: need it, but if you do, it's important that you

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Speaker 1: supported eight eight three one seven seven three three The

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Speaker 1: frend Show. We're live at Livery Children's Hospital for the

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Speaker 1: Radio thon, The French Show and Fred Show. Is I'm

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Speaker 1: reading this a DM that I got. We're live a

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Speaker 1: Liarry Children's Hospital for the Leary Children's Radiothon to benefit

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Speaker 1: all of the kids, the patients of Chicagoland and surrounding

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Speaker 1: and in the world, the country, the world, the whole

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Speaker 1: thing everywhere because of this amazing establishment here that's that's

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Speaker 1: healing in so many different ways, and they need your help,

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Speaker 1: they need our help, and we're trying to raise a

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Speaker 1: million dollars. But I'm distracted by this DM because somebody

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Speaker 1: said if they mentioned their band that they'll give us

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Speaker 1: fifty bucks. But there's some inappropriate things on here. So

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Speaker 1: what I was doing is I was trying to tell

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Speaker 1: you how amazing this place is. Is also trying to

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Speaker 1: figure out how to say it without saying thing I

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Speaker 1: shouldn't say.

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Speaker 2: Do we have proof that they get an empty bar?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? You know what, I'll tell you what. Send the

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Speaker 1: money text.

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Speaker 3: About Bendover and then he donated.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, please, I'll tell you what.

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Speaker 9: Read all of my side out.

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Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. If I freely calls in here

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Speaker 1: with five thousand dollars, then I proof. I'm telling you,

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Speaker 1: as you well know, I will sell myself for this organization.

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Speaker 1: I really whatever it takes. But we're trying to raise

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Speaker 1: a million dollars. Last year was about seven hundred something thousand.

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Speaker 1: We think we can get to. Chason just learned this morning.

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Speaker 1: Seven figures is a million dollars. That's a lot, but

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Speaker 1: it is a lot. It's a lot of figures. Thank you,

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Speaker 1: Jason for that kind of my drop. We think we

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Speaker 1: can get there this year, but we absolutely need your help.

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Speaker 1: We're also apparently we decided last night to work on

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Speaker 1: some things on the transmitter. I guess we decided to

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Speaker 1: do it last night, of course, which is the night

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Speaker 1: before we raise a million dollars for children before we

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Speaker 1: have six radio stations live at the same time. We're

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Speaker 1: gonna do it. Yeah, that seems like a good time,

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Speaker 1: Absolutely the right time to do that. Yeah, is there

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Speaker 1: any other time? Is the question I would ask myself,

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Speaker 1: And the answer is of an obvious no. But uh,

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Speaker 1: but nonetheless, we're still gonna do it. I don't care

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Speaker 1: for if I have to hold up tinfoil all day.

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Speaker 1: We're still gonna do it. We're gonna raise a million

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Speaker 1: dollars thanks to your help, and we're gonna help kids

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Speaker 1: like Carter, who we were telling you about a minute ago.

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Speaker 1: So in twenty sixteen, Chante, who's Carter's mom. Chante's pregnancy

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Speaker 1: was smooth sailing until an unexpected discovery that happened during

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Speaker 1: her five month ultrasound that changed everything. Doctors at Larry

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Speaker 1: Children's then detected a life threatening heart defect in her

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Speaker 1: unborn son, Carter, an actual hole in his heart that

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Speaker 1: prevents blood from reaching his lungs to pick up oxygen.

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Speaker 1: Without intervention, he wasn't going to survive. He did. He

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Speaker 1: survived all the way to almost his eighth birthday here

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Speaker 1: in a couple of days. He's still. He's very much

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Speaker 1: So I was right.

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Speaker 2: So my bad. The calendar is confusing to me. No,

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Speaker 2: he didn't turn eight on November.

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Speaker 1: I can. Numbers and dates are confused, it is, And yeah,

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Speaker 1: I know, mainly because I don't even know what day

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Speaker 1: it is. I don't know what day it is. I

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Speaker 1: don't know. I certainly know what date it is.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, so he's eight, he's thriving, and the hospital even

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Speaker 3: worked in his love of Spider Man. I mean they

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Speaker 3: were like literally like they gave him a stuffed Spider Man,

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Speaker 3: so like they go above and beyond for each individual patient,

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Speaker 3: and I love that.

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Speaker 1: Let's listen to Carter story right now.

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Speaker 9: Hi, I'm weird saying Williams. I am mom Chante Williams.

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Speaker 10: I am Aubrey Williams.

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Speaker 1: I am Patrick Williams, and.

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Speaker 9: I am Card Williams.

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Speaker 11: On my five month check in, just to know whether

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Speaker 11: it was a boy or girl. It was a boy,

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Speaker 11: So that was the first news we heard. That appointment

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Speaker 11: took a little longer than we had expected. They first

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Speaker 11: kind of saw that something was wrong developmentally with his heart.

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Speaker 9: This is our third child, so the excitement was there.

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Speaker 11: We were talking with family about baby showers and.

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Speaker 9: All of those things.

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Speaker 11: It quickly shifted there are multiple things that was wrong

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Speaker 11: with the heart. That's when Laurie kind of came in

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Speaker 11: because they were there to start to prepare us for

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Speaker 11: what the delivery would look like. We had a life

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Speaker 11: journey ahead. We met the entire staff and the surgeon

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Speaker 11: asked did we have any questions.

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Speaker 9: We didn't feel like there was a dumb question.

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Speaker 11: They took the time just having a personal relationship with

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Speaker 11: us that we start to feel like they were our family.

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Speaker 7: We knew that Lorie was, if not number one, it

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Speaker 7: was within the top three of hospitals in the nation

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Speaker 7: as far as the type of heart condition that Carter

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Speaker 7: had in terms of taking care of him, but also

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Speaker 7: taking care of the families.

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Speaker 9: When Aubrey did get to visit Carter, he just couldn't

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Speaker 9: sit up. He wasn't talking.

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Speaker 11: We didn't know, if you know, he would get to

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Speaker 11: the point where he is today.

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Speaker 9: And they had tried everything, you know, and.

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Speaker 11: Just the last dish effort of just being comfortable enough

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Speaker 11: to ask, you know, could his sister come and visit

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Speaker 11: She wasn't old enough to visit him.

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Speaker 2: Oh right, weber right by, your son got him.

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Speaker 11: You know, at that moment, they saw us as just

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Speaker 11: scared parents, and it was a matter of let's see

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Speaker 11: what we can do. Allowing her to come visit him

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Speaker 11: change the trajectory of his health.

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Speaker 2: When he was laying.

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Speaker 10: The bed, he was trying hard to sit up, but

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Speaker 10: he couldn't sit up. So I kissed him on his

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Speaker 10: forehead and then I helped him lift up slowly and carefully.

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Speaker 9: Her coming to visit him was the turning point.

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Speaker 7: For him, and we started to see him come back around,

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Speaker 11: I think that Lourie understands that it is twofold. In

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Speaker 11: order to bring these patients back is the you know,

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Speaker 11: the medical expertise, but it also is the love and

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Speaker 11: the normalcy of the family that they both worked very

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Speaker 11: hard to combine in order to get our babies back

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Speaker 11: at home.

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Speaker 7: He's doing better, and we've had a good run of

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Speaker 7: time where he's been relatively healthy. It's been a rambunctious

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Speaker 7: young seven to eight year old.

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Speaker 11: Lourie's looking at the total picture resources that you need

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Speaker 11: that we didn't even think about that we would need.

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Speaker 11: That they're still here supporting us.

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Speaker 12: Donate now to the Louri Children's Hospital. He is a

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Speaker 12: memory to call one eight eight eight eight three one

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Speaker 12: I bringing marks.

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Speaker 1: All right, sir, Luriy Children's Radio thought eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight three one seven seven three three is the number

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Speaker 1: to call. I got a list of people who have

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Speaker 1: done Uh, this is not a lot. This listened to

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Speaker 1: me longer. I'll be honest with you. I mean, I

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Speaker 1: got a few names here, we need more. But you

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Speaker 1: know who AJ our boy agent Okey does't have microphone AJ.

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Speaker 1: What listener number is he? Probably three or four?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he's up there.

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Speaker 1: This is a big it's a big argument. But so

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Speaker 1: I don't want to start anything this morning. I don't

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Speaker 1: want to smoke. We're trying to help the kids. I

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Speaker 1: don't want it.

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Speaker 2: No fighting, I'm not interested.

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Speaker 1: But he did the monthly so it's twenty bucks a month,

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Speaker 1: sixty seven cents. That dude is always uh doing the most.

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Speaker 1: So thank you, Michael and Will Matt Allison in Lombard,

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Speaker 1: Karen in Chicago. So you can call, you can go

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Speaker 1: on the website Larry Children's that organize Radio Thought, or

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Speaker 1: you could text luriy l U r I E to

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Speaker 1: five one five five five and get a link to donate.

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Speaker 1: My friend Ella is here. Ella. Are you going to

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Speaker 1: talk to me? Are you gonna you're no?

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Speaker 16: Yeah, that's that looks like a hard no.

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Speaker 1: What I mean I'm used to that with most girls,

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Speaker 1: But like, come on, Ella, can't you be my friend?

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Speaker 9: Oh?

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Speaker 1: Now, fingers in the.

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Speaker 2: Ears, plugging our ears.

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Speaker 1: We're not going to listen at all.

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Speaker 16: Need more donuts?

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Speaker 2: Maybe I get that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I'll give you a donut if you'll talk to me.

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Speaker 1: If this show doesn't care, Okay, Christina and Joe, Elli's

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Speaker 1: parents are here. Good morning you guys, Good morning, Good morning.

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Speaker 1: So I'm gonna play a little clip here of Ella

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Speaker 1: and Ella's story. You guys have not heard this before,

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Speaker 1: so we're talking about you. That's right now, she's hiding

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Speaker 1: from me. It was to play this clip and so

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Speaker 1: people can hear a little bit about the story and

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Speaker 1: what you guys have been through. Get the whole family

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Speaker 1: here this morning. What's everybody's name? What's your name?

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Speaker 11: William?

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Speaker 1: William? Okay? Good? And then Ella, the star of the show,

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Speaker 1: won't say anything. Man focus on getting their seatback up here.

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Speaker 1: She's ready to go. I'll tell you what, Ella, You're

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Speaker 1: the star, and some days I feel just like you.

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Speaker 1: I don't want to say a word. But then I

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Speaker 1: don't get paid. That's a problem. No donuts if I

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Speaker 1: don't talk exactly, No donuts, No donuts. Oh now it's

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Speaker 1: still not having it. Okay, Well, let me play this.

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Speaker 1: We're gonna come back and talk to these guys.

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Speaker 4: My name is Joe Siders. I'm here with my wife, Christina.

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Speaker 4: We have three young kids.

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Speaker 1: Eleanor is five. She was treated at LORII.

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Speaker 4: Children's Hospital for a cute mindlude leukemia.

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Speaker 18: We literally went within a forty eight hour period from

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Speaker 18: thinking that Ella had an ear infection to being told

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Speaker 18: that she had leukemia.

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Speaker 4: It's a world that we never imagined being a part of.

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Speaker 4: You're dealing with a life altering diagnosis and wondering how

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Speaker 4: do we best support our kid and also keep our

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Speaker 4: whole family together.

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Speaker 18: Every week the needs would change, as Ella's status would change,

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Speaker 18: as you know her how healthy she was versus how

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Speaker 18: unhealthy she was in that given moment. And then in

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Speaker 18: the midst of all of this.

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Speaker 13: COVID happened.

869
00:40:41,480 --> 00:40:43,240
Speaker 4: You know, we were kind of in our little bubble

870
00:40:43,880 --> 00:40:47,080
Speaker 4: with the team around us. You get just so single

871
00:40:47,080 --> 00:40:50,120
Speaker 4: mindedly focused on Okay, get through the chemo, and then

872
00:40:50,160 --> 00:40:52,879
Speaker 4: once you're through that stage, you get to the transplant

873
00:40:53,080 --> 00:40:55,920
Speaker 4: and then the next fight, if and when it comes.

874
00:40:58,400 --> 00:41:01,040
Speaker 18: As part of Ella's treatment, she achieved for a mission

875
00:41:01,040 --> 00:41:03,799
Speaker 18: through chemotherapy. She had a stem cell transplant, and in

876
00:41:03,880 --> 00:41:06,359
Speaker 18: order to make that happen, she needed a donor. Ella

877
00:41:06,400 --> 00:41:08,880
Speaker 18: has two siblings, neither one of them were a match.

878
00:41:09,480 --> 00:41:12,360
Speaker 18: Cody is the person who was identified as her.

879
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:15,520
Speaker 13: Quote unquote genetic twin and her perfect match.

880
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:18,000
Speaker 18: Twenty year old kid happened to stop at a booth

881
00:41:18,080 --> 00:41:20,040
Speaker 18: at school to sign up for the registry.

882
00:41:20,280 --> 00:41:22,520
Speaker 4: And it's not an easy process to donate, and again

883
00:41:22,560 --> 00:41:25,680
Speaker 4: for a person he had never met, so selfless and kind.

884
00:41:26,040 --> 00:41:27,160
Speaker 13: He lives in West Virginia.

885
00:41:27,200 --> 00:41:29,360
Speaker 18: Actually he's a medical student, so he's going to be

886
00:41:29,360 --> 00:41:33,440
Speaker 18: a physician. The year after transplant, you can get in

887
00:41:33,480 --> 00:41:35,759
Speaker 18: touch with the donor, and he literally sent us a

888
00:41:35,800 --> 00:41:38,759
Speaker 18: letter like the day he was able to He and

889
00:41:38,800 --> 00:41:40,799
Speaker 18: his family have been close to us ever since.

890
00:41:40,840 --> 00:41:41,920
Speaker 13: We've seen them twice.

891
00:41:42,280 --> 00:41:45,400
Speaker 18: Ella and her sister Lily were flower girls in his wedding.

892
00:41:47,840 --> 00:41:50,479
Speaker 18: There were little successes in little celebrations along the way,

893
00:41:50,680 --> 00:41:53,200
Speaker 18: like when she achieved her first line of remission.

894
00:41:53,880 --> 00:41:56,879
Speaker 4: Ela discovered like soul music, and she was so sick

895
00:41:56,920 --> 00:41:58,719
Speaker 4: at something she couldn't raise her head. But like when

896
00:41:58,760 --> 00:42:01,560
Speaker 4: she would try to to move to that, and that

897
00:42:01,719 --> 00:42:03,480
Speaker 4: was like just I can still remember, you know, like

898
00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:05,320
Speaker 4: because she's hooked up to so many chords.

899
00:42:05,960 --> 00:42:08,200
Speaker 16: And then the nurses would come in and dance with us.

900
00:42:08,239 --> 00:42:11,360
Speaker 16: It was just it's selfless. It's incredible.

901
00:42:13,320 --> 00:42:16,640
Speaker 18: She's doing great now. February will be her five year

902
00:42:16,760 --> 00:42:19,520
Speaker 18: transplant anniversary, which is a really big deal. So she's

903
00:42:19,520 --> 00:42:21,719
Speaker 18: been in remission for now four and a half years,

904
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Speaker 18: and you would never know what she's been through. I mean,

905
00:42:25,320 --> 00:42:29,240
Speaker 18: she's super spunky, she's spirited, she's very confident and bold.

906
00:42:30,840 --> 00:42:37,319
Speaker 4: God, you've got an option for families, like, if your

907
00:42:37,400 --> 00:42:40,480
Speaker 4: child is facing that big fight, Laurie is there regardless.

908
00:42:40,800 --> 00:42:43,839
Speaker 18: Laurie's children's literally saved Ella's life without a doubt. They're

909
00:42:43,880 --> 00:42:46,520
Speaker 18: not just saving her life once, they're doing it again

910
00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:49,279
Speaker 18: and again and again. I cannot even count all the

911
00:42:49,360 --> 00:42:51,920
Speaker 18: big decisions and the little decisions that they made right

912
00:42:52,040 --> 00:42:55,879
Speaker 18: along the way that has brought her and kept her

913
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Speaker 18: with us today. And so we literally owe them her life.

914
00:43:01,360 --> 00:43:04,719
Speaker 18: She's doing, you know, amazing well.

915
00:43:04,760 --> 00:43:06,200
Speaker 1: And you guys thought you should put your makeup on

916
00:43:06,280 --> 00:43:10,120
Speaker 1: before this? Yeah, I'm who you thought that was a

917
00:43:10,160 --> 00:43:10,800
Speaker 1: good idea.

918
00:43:10,920 --> 00:43:11,280
Speaker 16: Yeah.

919
00:43:11,520 --> 00:43:13,279
Speaker 3: Usually I can make it through longer than that. But

920
00:43:13,360 --> 00:43:15,400
Speaker 3: the wedding thing got me. The wedding thing got me.

921
00:43:15,520 --> 00:43:17,799
Speaker 3: That is that is very sweet. You you two are

922
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:20,799
Speaker 3: flower girls in Cody's wedding that is amazing.

923
00:43:21,360 --> 00:43:22,840
Speaker 1: Now, Ella, are you gonna you have to tell me

924
00:43:22,880 --> 00:43:25,080
Speaker 1: about Cody or no, you're not gonna tell me about Cody.

925
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:28,640
Speaker 1: Cody saved your life. You should probably tell me a

926
00:43:28,640 --> 00:43:33,200
Speaker 1: little bit about Kobe. What'd you say? Do you know that?

927
00:43:33,400 --> 00:43:33,600
Speaker 18: Yeah?

928
00:43:33,840 --> 00:43:34,800
Speaker 1: What is? What is Cody?

929
00:43:34,920 --> 00:43:35,000
Speaker 11: Like?

930
00:43:35,080 --> 00:43:37,760
Speaker 1: Is he a nice guy? Were you in his wedding?

931
00:43:38,480 --> 00:43:38,680
Speaker 16: Oh?

932
00:43:38,719 --> 00:43:40,719
Speaker 1: My goha, Well she's not gonna do so she was

933
00:43:40,760 --> 00:43:41,319
Speaker 1: in his wedding?

934
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Speaker 13: Yes, yes, both her and her sister were. He is

935
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Speaker 13: his wedding.

936
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Speaker 1: That's amazing. Do you guys begin to kind of feel

937
00:43:46,480 --> 00:43:48,600
Speaker 1: like doctors as you go through this because you're spinning

938
00:43:48,600 --> 00:43:52,120
Speaker 1: out these terms and this these really complicated things on

939
00:43:52,160 --> 00:43:54,600
Speaker 1: this montage, Like it's like it's second nature. I guess

940
00:43:54,640 --> 00:43:55,719
Speaker 1: you just have to learn all of it.

941
00:43:56,000 --> 00:43:56,239
Speaker 9: You do.

942
00:43:56,400 --> 00:43:58,560
Speaker 18: You have to learn it in a really short timeframe.

943
00:43:58,719 --> 00:44:01,800
Speaker 18: And and I I do like credit her team actually

944
00:44:01,800 --> 00:44:05,239
Speaker 18: for involving us. We were every morning, we were participating

945
00:44:05,320 --> 00:44:08,160
Speaker 18: in rounds, asking questions, and so you learn a lot.

946
00:44:08,200 --> 00:44:09,920
Speaker 13: You learn a lot quickly, and you have.

947
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Speaker 18: To because you have to be there to ask the

948
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:15,239
Speaker 18: right questions and to advocate when necessary. So yeah, I mean,

949
00:44:15,320 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 18: but you're kind of placed in that position and you

950
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:21,279
Speaker 18: have no choice but to learn the terminology.

951
00:44:21,480 --> 00:44:23,520
Speaker 1: And we've talked a lot this morning already about I mean,

952
00:44:23,560 --> 00:44:25,360
Speaker 1: people think of the hospital and they think of you know,

953
00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:28,160
Speaker 1: doctors and healing and all of that, but you guys

954
00:44:28,200 --> 00:44:32,080
Speaker 1: have experienced this. This place goes well beyond that, right,

955
00:44:32,120 --> 00:44:34,880
Speaker 1: I mean as far as thinking about the patients and

956
00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,359
Speaker 1: thinking about the families and the experience. Tell us about

957
00:44:37,400 --> 00:44:38,000
Speaker 1: that a little bit.

958
00:44:40,120 --> 00:44:45,520
Speaker 4: I mean, the team upstairs is like I mean, I

959
00:44:45,560 --> 00:44:46,600
Speaker 4: consider them like family.

960
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:48,520
Speaker 16: I mean they are.

961
00:44:48,280 --> 00:44:52,960
Speaker 4: They went so above and beyond in really difficult circumstances

962
00:44:53,080 --> 00:44:56,560
Speaker 4: to make us all feel like we're connected. You know,

963
00:44:56,600 --> 00:44:59,880
Speaker 4: this all happened COVID kind of broke while we were upstairs,

964
00:45:00,120 --> 00:45:03,239
Speaker 4: and as a result, we were forced to isolate, you know,

965
00:45:03,320 --> 00:45:06,080
Speaker 4: so we were not able to see the other kids

966
00:45:06,320 --> 00:45:09,160
Speaker 4: for a lot of the time. If we left, we

967
00:45:09,160 --> 00:45:11,279
Speaker 4: weren't going to be allowed to come back in. So

968
00:45:11,840 --> 00:45:14,439
Speaker 4: we had to make really difficult decisions, and the team

969
00:45:14,520 --> 00:45:20,520
Speaker 4: upstairs just were incredible in making us feel safe and

970
00:45:20,560 --> 00:45:25,080
Speaker 4: protected and not so disconnected from everything that was going

971
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Speaker 4: on outside, including the other you know, our other two kids.

972
00:45:28,239 --> 00:45:30,399
Speaker 1: Yeah, because that's something I think people don't think about

973
00:45:30,440 --> 00:45:32,799
Speaker 1: as well. I mean, you've got three kids, not just Della,

974
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Speaker 1: and obviously she's the focus because you're trying to say

975
00:45:35,200 --> 00:45:37,879
Speaker 1: we're life, which which they did, but nonetheless you're trying

976
00:45:37,880 --> 00:45:39,239
Speaker 1: to make life normal for them as well.

977
00:45:39,320 --> 00:45:42,440
Speaker 16: Right, Yeah, it was it was you know, it was

978
00:45:42,480 --> 00:45:43,000
Speaker 16: it was rough.

979
00:45:43,560 --> 00:45:46,640
Speaker 4: We went into e learning was happening right in the

980
00:45:46,640 --> 00:45:49,840
Speaker 4: middle of it, and you know, trying to normalize what

981
00:45:50,000 --> 00:45:51,239
Speaker 4: is a completely messed up.

982
00:45:51,239 --> 00:45:53,520
Speaker 1: Because of course this all has to happen during COVID, right, yeah, yeah,

983
00:45:53,800 --> 00:45:54,279
Speaker 1: top of it.

984
00:45:54,320 --> 00:45:56,200
Speaker 4: I mean, looking down on Michigan Avenue one day, it

985
00:45:56,239 --> 00:45:58,000
Speaker 4: was it just empty, you know, it just went the

986
00:45:58,000 --> 00:46:00,239
Speaker 4: streets just went empty. Nobody on the sidewalk, nobody on

987
00:46:00,280 --> 00:46:02,319
Speaker 4: this on the street. It was it was like a

988
00:46:02,320 --> 00:46:04,840
Speaker 4: ghost times, like surreal to look out at Chicago just

989
00:46:04,840 --> 00:46:08,200
Speaker 4: shutting down and seventeen eighteen floors.

990
00:46:08,360 --> 00:46:12,520
Speaker 1: You know, we're humming. You can't stop right right, that's

991
00:46:12,600 --> 00:46:16,200
Speaker 1: Joe Christina's here. Ella is moving around furniture. I gotta

992
00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:19,279
Speaker 1: tell you something. You mentioned. It's been a montage. She's

993
00:46:19,320 --> 00:46:24,319
Speaker 1: doing just fine, isn't she not? Only she is sassing me,

994
00:46:24,520 --> 00:46:26,799
Speaker 1: I mean, just unbelievable. SaaS We're gonna blame that.

995
00:46:26,800 --> 00:46:29,480
Speaker 4: On Cody her like her stem cell donor. You know,

996
00:46:29,520 --> 00:46:32,480
Speaker 4: that's where they're genetic twins. You know, that's what surreal is.

997
00:46:32,600 --> 00:46:33,760
Speaker 2: Wow, so wild.

998
00:46:33,840 --> 00:46:34,720
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a crime.

999
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:37,160
Speaker 16: They can blame it on the other through Na.

1000
00:46:37,280 --> 00:46:38,760
Speaker 1: Right now, I think she might be the crime committ

1001
00:46:38,960 --> 00:46:41,600
Speaker 1: I think I'd be scared if I were Cody. I agree,

1002
00:46:42,400 --> 00:46:45,319
Speaker 1: But he's gonna ask some questions to answer when he's when.

1003
00:46:45,280 --> 00:46:45,880
Speaker 16: He was older.

1004
00:46:46,080 --> 00:46:50,040
Speaker 4: She seems to be thriving though it's it's we are

1005
00:46:50,080 --> 00:46:53,920
Speaker 4: so fortunate to be where we are, Christy, I don't know.

1006
00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:56,759
Speaker 18: Yeah, she's in kindergarten now, which was sort of a

1007
00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:58,960
Speaker 18: dream that we had, you know, five years ago at

1008
00:46:58,960 --> 00:47:00,920
Speaker 18: this time that we didn't know if that was going

1009
00:47:01,000 --> 00:47:01,600
Speaker 18: to be possible.

1010
00:47:01,600 --> 00:47:02,440
Speaker 13: And she's thriving.

1011
00:47:02,520 --> 00:47:06,240
Speaker 18: She loves it, she's learning, she's growing, you know, she's.

1012
00:47:06,160 --> 00:47:08,720
Speaker 13: She's really just incredible. She's a walking miracle.

1013
00:47:09,120 --> 00:47:10,880
Speaker 1: I would not know. I don't think any of us

1014
00:47:10,920 --> 00:47:14,360
Speaker 1: would know that there was a situation where she, you know,

1015
00:47:14,520 --> 00:47:19,640
Speaker 1: maybe wouldn't be here. She is acting and certainly emoting

1016
00:47:19,680 --> 00:47:22,080
Speaker 1: all the things that I would expect from somebody her age.

1017
00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:23,960
Speaker 16: This is a therapist.

1018
00:47:23,960 --> 00:47:25,960
Speaker 4: So when you use the word of moting and that's like,

1019
00:47:26,000 --> 00:47:33,400
Speaker 4: oh my gosh, that's triggering.

1020
00:47:34,680 --> 00:47:38,400
Speaker 16: But she's I mean, her spirit is all there.

1021
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:41,120
Speaker 4: I mean, she's so full of life, and you know

1022
00:47:41,920 --> 00:47:45,960
Speaker 4: her siblings as well. For just it was so natural

1023
00:47:46,000 --> 00:47:49,279
Speaker 4: coming back all together. And Ella just you know, she's

1024
00:47:49,360 --> 00:47:52,879
Speaker 4: gone for nine months, you know, upstairs really and then

1025
00:47:53,239 --> 00:47:55,759
Speaker 4: she just slided back in with the other kids and

1026
00:47:56,239 --> 00:47:59,319
Speaker 4: it was so wonderful to have everybody back together as

1027
00:47:59,360 --> 00:48:02,560
Speaker 4: like a unit again. And Ella, it's kind of bizarre

1028
00:48:02,560 --> 00:48:04,360
Speaker 4: how like a family kind of starts to work and

1029
00:48:04,680 --> 00:48:06,880
Speaker 4: have their own space and their own role in the family.

1030
00:48:07,480 --> 00:48:10,200
Speaker 4: And I don't know, it's just made the whole family

1031
00:48:10,239 --> 00:48:12,759
Speaker 4: feel even more complete than what already was.

1032
00:48:12,920 --> 00:48:14,000
Speaker 16: Just to have her slotted in.

1033
00:48:14,239 --> 00:48:17,600
Speaker 1: Wow, the puzzle well and William, you go by William, Yeah, William,

1034
00:48:17,640 --> 00:48:21,319
Speaker 1: you're the big brother. How scary was all that when

1035
00:48:21,360 --> 00:48:22,160
Speaker 1: this was all happening.

1036
00:48:22,600 --> 00:48:25,080
Speaker 19: Yeah, it was scary because there was also like COVID,

1037
00:48:25,200 --> 00:48:27,600
Speaker 19: so I didn't see my friends and not seeing your

1038
00:48:27,640 --> 00:48:30,800
Speaker 19: family is kind of rough. And like with your sister,

1039
00:48:30,960 --> 00:48:34,080
Speaker 19: like having like cancer, it's kind of hard.

1040
00:48:34,480 --> 00:48:37,920
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, And Lily who has more attitude you or

1041
00:48:37,960 --> 00:48:40,840
Speaker 1: your sister Ella, who has more attitudes.

1042
00:48:40,840 --> 00:48:46,680
Speaker 2: Who are They're pretty thick and one is when one

1043
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:49,359
Speaker 2: is the other one kind of picks it up.

1044
00:48:49,600 --> 00:48:52,680
Speaker 1: You guys, your hands full. It looks like.

1045
00:48:51,719 --> 00:48:54,600
Speaker 4: I'm so happy they they they play off each other

1046
00:48:54,800 --> 00:48:55,919
Speaker 4: so remarkably well.

1047
00:48:56,000 --> 00:48:56,200
Speaker 18: They are.

1048
00:48:56,560 --> 00:49:01,080
Speaker 4: They finish each other's sentences, they emote together, which is.

1049
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:03,640
Speaker 16: Kind of terrifying to think about in the next ten years.

1050
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:05,239
Speaker 16: But also, okay, bring it.

1051
00:49:05,160 --> 00:49:08,680
Speaker 1: In, right, yeah, right, right, absolutely, so, I'm gonna put

1052
00:49:08,719 --> 00:49:10,320
Speaker 1: you on the spot. One last thing. For the people

1053
00:49:10,360 --> 00:49:12,839
Speaker 1: listening who were thinking about donating, or maybe don't aren't

1054
00:49:12,840 --> 00:49:14,719
Speaker 1: compelled to donate for some reason, what would you say

1055
00:49:14,719 --> 00:49:17,200
Speaker 1: to them, based on your experience.

1056
00:49:17,880 --> 00:49:20,560
Speaker 4: I would just even as we're sitting here talking and laughing,

1057
00:49:20,719 --> 00:49:25,359
Speaker 4: you know, just for everybody commuting in thinking to think

1058
00:49:25,400 --> 00:49:26,640
Speaker 4: about what's happening.

1059
00:49:26,280 --> 00:49:27,239
Speaker 16: With the upstairs.

1060
00:49:27,320 --> 00:49:27,920
Speaker 1: In this place.

1061
00:49:28,000 --> 00:49:31,440
Speaker 4: Every day you have families who are having their lives

1062
00:49:31,520 --> 00:49:34,399
Speaker 4: literally turned upside down with a situation that they never

1063
00:49:34,480 --> 00:49:37,719
Speaker 4: imagined would be something that they would face. And the team,

1064
00:49:38,000 --> 00:49:41,480
Speaker 4: the teams, the people upstairs are.

1065
00:49:41,320 --> 00:49:42,960
Speaker 16: Working to save kids' lives.

1066
00:49:43,120 --> 00:49:46,759
Speaker 4: And you don't know how precious this resource is until

1067
00:49:46,800 --> 00:49:48,839
Speaker 4: you step into this world, and then you realize how

1068
00:49:49,800 --> 00:49:52,160
Speaker 4: how amazing the wonderful it is, and how fortunate you

1069
00:49:52,200 --> 00:49:54,960
Speaker 4: are in Chicago to have a resource in place that's

1070
00:49:54,960 --> 00:49:57,480
Speaker 4: filled with people who are completely selfless.

1071
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Speaker 1: You have here a lyric Well said, well, so well, guys,

1072
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Speaker 1: I'm so happy with this outcome. And even though Ellen

1073
00:50:02,800 --> 00:50:05,640
Speaker 1: didn't say two words to me, and I think she

1074
00:50:05,719 --> 00:50:07,880
Speaker 1: just flipped me off, actually, but that's okay, it's fine.

1075
00:50:07,960 --> 00:50:09,719
Speaker 1: I love her, I love you, guys, and I'm so

1076
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:11,880
Speaker 1: happy with this outcome. And I wish you, guys, you know,

1077
00:50:12,080 --> 00:50:14,799
Speaker 1: continued success and health and all of that. And thank

1078
00:50:14,800 --> 00:50:16,800
Speaker 1: you for telling your story. I'm sure that's not easy

1079
00:50:16,800 --> 00:50:18,520
Speaker 1: to do, especially when you have to do it six times,

1080
00:50:19,320 --> 00:50:21,680
Speaker 1: because you've got a few more times to go. So yeah, well,

1081
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Speaker 1: thanks for having us from me apps, Thank you guys.

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Speaker 1: Donate please you heard Ellis story eight eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: last Radio Thought. You can text the word Luriy l

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Speaker 1: u Rie to five P one five five five and

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Speaker 1: receive a link to donate. It's the Fred Show Luriy

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Speaker 1: Children's Radio Thought on kiss Hi.

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Speaker 19: I'm will thank you for Helpingicago's kids.

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Speaker 4: Your support will help families with sick children right here

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Speaker 4: in Chicago one eight eight three one seventy seven thirty three.

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Speaker 1: It's the Fred Show one O three five Kiss FM,

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Speaker 1: Chicago's number one in music station, Live from Lurry Children's

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Speaker 1: Hospital this morning for our annual radio thon. We're going

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Speaker 1: to raise a million dollars this year. We're going to

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Speaker 1: raise a million dollars. Last year was seven hundred something.

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Speaker 1: Ish you're my white gay Anna White since my Filipino

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Speaker 1: Vana White's not here this morning, so that means you

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Speaker 1: got to know. I was over Maso Medows seven hundred thousand,

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Speaker 1: and this year it's going to be a million. And

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Speaker 1: it's thanks to people like this person that you sent

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Speaker 1: me listening to the radio thought right now from Hayward, California.

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Speaker 1: I'm a longtime supporter of the Lurid Children's Hospital. These

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Speaker 1: stories inspire me to donate every year, and I want

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Speaker 1: to challenge my friends to donate to such a wonderful cause.

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Speaker 1: So they have us on the iHeart app, which apparently

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Speaker 1: is the best place to listen this morning from what

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Speaker 1: I understand, because we were rearranging wires last night at

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Speaker 1: the radio station, which why wouldn't we do that? The

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00:51:41,120 --> 00:51:44,839
Speaker 1: night before the thing. Glenda in Arlington Heights gave money

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Speaker 1: this morning, Jeff and Juliet, Joe and Homeward and Hillary

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Speaker 1: in is it mobile because I don't know what that

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Speaker 1: says mobile. Oh sure we'll go with that. And the

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Speaker 1: person with the big check our good friend every year.

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Speaker 1: Mary Francis from July is here high good morning, and

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Speaker 1: you're always stylish.

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Speaker 2: Oh, you guys are so kind. I just want to

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Speaker 2: start off by saying this. I am so glad that

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Speaker 2: I'm happily married to the most wonderful man because I

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Speaker 2: listened to you guys in the morning and I hear

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Speaker 2: these stories about the dating, and I'm so glad that

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Speaker 2: I'm not out there.

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Speaker 1: I thought you were going to say, I'm just glad

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Speaker 1: I'm not married to you, meaning me, which is a

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Speaker 1: lot of people feel that way. That's fair. Yeah, how

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Speaker 1: long is this is totally off topic, but since you

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Speaker 1: brought it up, and well you've got the one hundred

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00:52:25,239 --> 00:52:27,120
Speaker 1: thousand dollars check, so we can do whatever you want.

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Speaker 1: How long has it bentioned you went on a date

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Speaker 1: with another person.

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Speaker 2: Well, I've been with my husband for we met, so

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Speaker 2: for fourteen years. Okay, and so you know, I hear

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Speaker 2: the stories from some of my single friends. And again,

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Speaker 2: I listen to you guys all the time, so I

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Speaker 2: just know what's out there.

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Speaker 1: Okay, not great, okay, And I believe you. I know

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Speaker 1: you're going to say that five more times this morning

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Speaker 1: as you make the rounds. I know you're a big

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Speaker 1: inspiration thirteen ninety listener Mary Francis, I know. And that's

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Speaker 1: on the AM dial. By the way.

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Speaker 2: I know that I'm only going to say it in

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Speaker 2: the show because when I listen to you, guys will

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Speaker 2: listen to dating and stuff like you know. I don't

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Speaker 2: know my other the other I heart that they so

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Speaker 2: I don't listen to them. What's the secret for a

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00:53:02,120 --> 00:53:05,920
Speaker 2: long marriage? I just found this great, wonderful guy and

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00:53:05,960 --> 00:53:08,200
Speaker 2: a lot of prayers, a lot of st Anne, san Anne,

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Speaker 2: find me a great man. I tell all of my friends,

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Speaker 2: telling you it works, say Anthony, tell me girl, st Anne,

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Speaker 2: st Anne, find me a great man.

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Speaker 11: All right, Sanne, I'm telling you she works.

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Speaker 2: When I move my phone. But I didn't know about Satan.

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00:53:24,680 --> 00:53:26,239
Speaker 1: I didn't realize I just lost the girl.

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00:53:26,400 --> 00:53:28,400
Speaker 2: I said that to me years ago, and I'm telling

1154
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:30,640
Speaker 2: you now it doesn't happen right away. It may take

1155
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Speaker 2: some time, but it works.

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Speaker 1: Wait a minute, I don't sane, find me a man,

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Speaker 1: I don't. I don't know if I want to say.

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Speaker 2: That, buy me a great girl?

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Speaker 1: Well make for you, Andy, you find me a late

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00:53:43,960 --> 00:53:48,359
Speaker 1: who is? I need some alliteration? Okay? So what let's

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00:53:48,360 --> 00:53:51,600
Speaker 1: get you know we have. It's very hard for us

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00:53:51,640 --> 00:53:53,880
Speaker 1: to be serious, and this doesn't have to be serious.

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00:53:53,920 --> 00:53:56,440
Speaker 1: There are very serious things happening here at Loarit Children's Hospital.

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00:53:56,560 --> 00:53:59,400
Speaker 1: But Jewelasco, who you represent, came in here with a

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00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:01,640
Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollar check. Now we need to that's

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00:54:01,680 --> 00:54:04,040
Speaker 1: a match. So we need to raise one hundred thousand dollars.

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00:54:04,080 --> 00:54:06,279
Speaker 1: All the iHeart stations here, we need to raise one

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00:54:06,360 --> 00:54:08,680
Speaker 1: hundred thousand dollars this hour, and then you're gonna give

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00:54:08,760 --> 00:54:10,160
Speaker 1: us that check, which you're gonna be giving us in

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00:54:10,200 --> 00:54:13,200
Speaker 1: about twenty five minutes. Why why why is it so

1171
00:54:13,200 --> 00:54:15,640
Speaker 1: important for Jewel Losco to give back? Why wouldn't we

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Speaker 1: Why wouldn't we? Right?

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Speaker 2: So we have the Jewel Losco Foundation, and cancer is

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Speaker 2: part of our foundation and working with organizations that find

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Speaker 2: ways to help children's cancer beat. Cancer research is what

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Speaker 2: we do with jewel Losco being out in the community,

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Speaker 2: helping others where their needs. They need help, whether it's financial,

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Speaker 2: whether it's in kind. We continue to do that. It's

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Speaker 2: what we do. We are the grocery market leader. There's

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Speaker 2: a reason for that because we have wonderful customers and

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Speaker 2: with that we go out in the community.

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Speaker 1: Even more so, when are you just going to change

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00:54:47,680 --> 00:54:50,200
Speaker 1: the sign to jewels with an ass on the end?

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Speaker 2: Because so, friend, it's always gonna be Uwelasco. I mean,

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Speaker 2: you can call it jewels privately, but it's always gonna

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Speaker 2: be you.

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Speaker 1: Well think it's a private thing. I think it's a

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Speaker 1: Midwest thing. But we love the jewels, jewels, the jewels.

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Speaker 1: So how about that?

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Speaker 2: How about is the jewel well, let's social media handle that.

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00:55:03,440 --> 00:55:06,480
Speaker 2: But you know, from a corporate branding. So Jelasco. Okay,

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Speaker 2: she's good, right, No.

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Speaker 1: No, she's obviously a professional unlike us. So one eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight three one seven seven three three is

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Speaker 1: an ever to call Lurry Children's that orgs last radio thought.

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Speaker 1: You can also text the word Lurie with no S

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Speaker 1: on that to five one five five five and they'll

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Speaker 1: send you a link to donate. It's really really simple.

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Speaker 1: And so your promise to us is before eight o'clock,

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Speaker 1: if we can raise one hundred thousand dollars, then you

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Speaker 1: give us another one hundred thousand dollars.

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00:55:30,200 --> 00:55:32,160
Speaker 2: And I've got the check right here, right here.

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Speaker 17: Do you see me.

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Speaker 2: Waving this chef for there isn't one, but I believe you.

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Speaker 2: But you know what, We're going to raise one hundred

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00:55:37,480 --> 00:55:40,520
Speaker 2: thousand dollars. There's no reason not to. The good that

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00:55:40,520 --> 00:55:43,480
Speaker 2: that Loris does is unbelievable for these families, for the

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Speaker 2: children that are able to walk out of here, that

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00:55:46,000 --> 00:55:47,520
Speaker 2: come in here sick, we're able to walk here to

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Speaker 2: go home. And it's very successful, clearly, right. Yeah, So

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Speaker 2: you know what, think of the kids, think of the parents,

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00:55:53,120 --> 00:55:56,040
Speaker 2: think of the families, And they've just done something that

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00:55:56,160 --> 00:55:58,120
Speaker 2: so much good and they will continue to do good,

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Speaker 2: but they need the money to continue with the research.

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Speaker 1: Yeah. Like Ella, who we just met her family, little girl,

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00:56:02,920 --> 00:56:05,160
Speaker 1: what was you five years olds for your son? Yeah,

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00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:08,799
Speaker 1: I've never been happier to be mistreated by a young

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00:56:08,920 --> 00:56:10,920
Speaker 1: lady in my life because she's here today, and it's

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00:56:10,960 --> 00:56:13,640
Speaker 1: because of the life saving efforts of this place and

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Speaker 1: the stem cell research and the stem cell transplant. I

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00:56:16,360 --> 00:56:19,400
Speaker 1: mean it's each hour we're going to feature a different

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00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:22,200
Speaker 1: area of this hospital that's exceptional. It was cardiac last hour,

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Speaker 1: it's stem cell this hour. And that's why we need

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Speaker 1: the money. So here's the thing. If we donate one hundred,

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00:56:27,080 --> 00:56:29,320
Speaker 1: if we earn one hundred thousand dollars, we raise it

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00:56:29,400 --> 00:56:31,240
Speaker 1: this hour, and then you give us another one hundred.

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Speaker 1: I'm not real smart, That's why I'm doing this, but

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Speaker 1: two hundred thous that would be two hundred thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: in one hour towards our million dollar plus goal.

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Speaker 2: Right and listen, jewel Osco is happy to do it.

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Speaker 2: We're always happy to do it. We have a strong

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00:56:42,520 --> 00:56:44,880
Speaker 2: partnership with Lord Children's Hospital. We will continue to have

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00:56:44,920 --> 00:56:46,960
Speaker 2: a strong partnership. And all it can do is ask

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Speaker 2: all of your listeners out there to please, please, please

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00:56:49,680 --> 00:56:52,960
Speaker 2: donate what you can. Anything helps, anything helps me to

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00:56:53,040 --> 00:56:55,160
Speaker 2: that match. But I don't have a doubt in my

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00:56:55,160 --> 00:56:56,960
Speaker 2: mind we'll be able to raise that money by em

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Speaker 2: and it doesn't have to.

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Speaker 1: Be one hundred thousand dollars or one thousand, even fifty

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Speaker 1: twenty ten a dollar. If everyone listening to us, right, think.

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00:57:06,400 --> 00:57:08,239
Speaker 2: Of the kids, Think of the families, Think of the

1242
00:57:08,320 --> 00:57:10,960
Speaker 2: research involved, from all the money that we raise to

1243
00:57:11,040 --> 00:57:12,560
Speaker 2: help all of these kids and families.

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Speaker 1: And what was that person? I got to talk to

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00:57:14,200 --> 00:57:15,640
Speaker 1: you again about finding out wife? What was it?

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00:57:15,760 --> 00:57:16,160
Speaker 13: Sane?

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Speaker 9: San Anne?

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Speaker 2: I don't think that works for me, No, it does.

1249
00:57:18,600 --> 00:57:20,919
Speaker 2: But you can just place in wife Anne, san Anne,

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00:57:20,960 --> 00:57:22,439
Speaker 2: find me a good wife, life life.

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00:57:23,040 --> 00:57:23,520
Speaker 1: She knows?

1252
00:57:23,920 --> 00:57:24,840
Speaker 2: Does he want a wife?

1253
00:57:24,920 --> 00:57:26,440
Speaker 1: I don't know's I know?

1254
00:57:26,600 --> 00:57:29,040
Speaker 2: I hear this every morning. Do you really want how?

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00:57:29,080 --> 00:57:29,360
Speaker 1: Come on?

1256
00:57:29,720 --> 00:57:31,800
Speaker 2: I think you like talking about the misery of dating.

1257
00:57:34,440 --> 00:57:35,360
Speaker 1: It is kind of my brand.

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00:57:35,560 --> 00:57:37,320
Speaker 2: I mean, I kind of think it's like a Bravo

1259
00:57:37,440 --> 00:57:38,120
Speaker 2: storyline for you.

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00:57:38,480 --> 00:57:40,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, I think things get really boring if I get

1261
00:57:40,520 --> 00:57:43,120
Speaker 1: married right right, well, that I can just get divorced.

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00:57:43,440 --> 00:57:44,919
Speaker 9: No, no, no, we don't want that to happen.

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00:57:46,880 --> 00:57:49,160
Speaker 1: Yeah, you're right. I don't want that either. How did

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00:57:49,200 --> 00:57:51,040
Speaker 1: you get to back? How did they get you? How

1265
00:57:51,040 --> 00:57:54,120
Speaker 1: do we get right? You did this?

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00:57:54,320 --> 00:57:55,480
Speaker 2: By the way, Well, you know what, I got to

1267
00:57:55,480 --> 00:57:57,040
Speaker 2: start up something. I mean, we got to keep it

1268
00:57:57,080 --> 00:57:59,560
Speaker 2: on a high note. Here, Nancy, Nanna, come on right there?

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Speaker 11: You go?

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00:58:00,000 --> 00:58:01,600
Speaker 1: Than he over there. She's talking to st Anne right

1271
00:58:01,640 --> 00:58:05,360
Speaker 1: now on the line. She found it one night number

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00:58:05,440 --> 00:58:09,840
Speaker 1: she called it, So please donate so we can get

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00:58:09,880 --> 00:58:13,880
Speaker 1: that one hundred thousand dollars from Jewel Losco aka the Jewels,

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00:58:14,040 --> 00:58:14,960
Speaker 1: the Jewels, and can you.

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00:58:14,960 --> 00:58:16,960
Speaker 2: Bring us chicken next time? Because it's all I'm thinking

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00:58:17,040 --> 00:58:18,680
Speaker 2: about it. I'm sorry, you know what, We open a

1277
00:58:18,720 --> 00:58:20,560
Speaker 2: six am, and every story I could have done this morning,

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00:58:20,800 --> 00:58:21,360
Speaker 2: next year.

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00:58:21,280 --> 00:58:23,640
Speaker 1: Next God grew Field from our show We're here, he

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00:58:23,640 --> 00:58:25,840
Speaker 1: would we'd have twenty minutes of him sitting here telling

1281
00:58:25,840 --> 00:58:28,040
Speaker 1: you every Deli item. No, I'm sorry, he's the most

1282
00:58:28,040 --> 00:58:30,840
Speaker 1: amazing thing. He's it really kind of is amazing, though,

1283
00:58:31,320 --> 00:58:35,160
Speaker 1: says I know it is one more thing cans. With

1284
00:58:35,280 --> 00:58:37,960
Speaker 1: all due respects, Jojo, can we talk about your creepy

1285
00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:40,960
Speaker 1: ass maskot honestly? Like it's where it.

1286
00:58:41,160 --> 00:58:45,520
Speaker 2: Jojo is hugely popular, hugely. We love Jojo. I'm telling

1287
00:58:45,560 --> 00:58:48,400
Speaker 2: you We've got JoJo's magic. So today also Lourie Children's

1288
00:58:48,560 --> 00:58:51,160
Speaker 2: we are handing out with Jojo. We're handing out ornaments

1289
00:58:51,200 --> 00:58:53,439
Speaker 2: to the kids. Oh good, It's part of JoJo's magic.

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Speaker 2: So that's why Jojo. I think he's got to be

1291
00:58:56,120 --> 00:58:56,560
Speaker 2: up there now.

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00:58:56,760 --> 00:58:59,440
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, we will soon JoJo's welcome to move on

1293
00:58:59,520 --> 00:59:00,400
Speaker 1: to another Florida.

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Speaker 16: Is the kids.

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00:59:01,640 --> 00:59:04,760
Speaker 2: Yeah, I think a photo fred you and everybody with

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Speaker 2: Jojo Christmas card.

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Speaker 1: Oh, don't worry. Jojo was was was freaking the table

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Speaker 1: a minute ago, so shoulders he was?

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Speaker 9: He was, I was my coffee.

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Speaker 1: In fact, there's children here and I think we need

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Speaker 1: to be mindful of the gyration. But anyway, oh jo Jojo,

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Speaker 1: You're so bashful now, aren't you. There is a large

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Speaker 1: describe it one more time for the people. Jewel Osco

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Speaker 1: has a mascot which I only knew because of doing this,

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Speaker 1: But how would you describe the one eyed psychops that

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Speaker 1: he is Jojo?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 3: So Jojo is a red Harry eyeball in a white

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Speaker 3: jewel Osco crap top with no pantalones and red converse.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and show me one more time. The connection between

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Speaker 1: bananas and produce and bat.

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Speaker 2: We love Jojo and bananas and we love produce. That's

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Speaker 2: the connection. And by the way, Jojo is willing to

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Speaker 2: be in your in studio if you want it anytime.

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Speaker 1: What a what a nice offer. We'll get back to

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Speaker 1: you on that. It's it's the lury Children's radio. Don

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Speaker 1: Thank you Mary France, thank you, thanks, thank you for

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Speaker 1: your big check that we're taking in nineteen minutes. It's

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Speaker 1: one hundred thousand dollars that we're taking. One eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight three one seven seven three three l u

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Speaker 1: r I E text at to five one five five

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Speaker 1: five and get a link to donate. It's the Lurry

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Speaker 1: Children's Radio Thon on the Fred Show, Kiss FM.

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Speaker 12: This is the Lurie Children's Radiothon on one O three

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Speaker 12: five Kiss f.

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Speaker 1: M Fred Show, Good Morning, one O three five Kiss FM, Chicago,

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Speaker 1: number one a music station. We're live Lourie Children's Hospital.

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Speaker 1: We are here, we are on there. What four are

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Speaker 1: we on the eleventh, thirteenth, twelfth eleventh. We're on a floor.

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Speaker 16: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: I walked in this morning and I was basically a

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Speaker 1: frozen human being, so I don't really remember. I actually

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Speaker 1: remember the walk from the car uh to the building.

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Speaker 1: It's it's rather it's rather frigid out there. I'm with

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Speaker 1: the call it an arctic blast. Is that what they

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Speaker 1: call it? Is that what we're experiencing? An arctic you're

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Speaker 1: the weather guy. Yes, it's giving arctic blast, am an

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Speaker 1: old arctic blast? Oh god, I was about to say something.

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Speaker 1: I just anyway, let's just move on'spal?

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Speaker 5: Well?

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Speaker 1: Really, I mean, come on, it's still the Freend Show. Guys.

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Speaker 1: We are very very close, by the way, We're ten

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Speaker 1: minutes away from eight o'clock, which is our deadline. We

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Speaker 1: need to raise one hundred thousand dollars so that we

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Speaker 1: can take Joejo's check and Mary's check from jewel Osco.

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Speaker 1: Another one hundred thousand dollars. That means two hundred grand

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Speaker 1: this hour alone, towards our million plus dollar goal. Right,

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Speaker 1: Kiki's I did the path right?

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Speaker 8: Yes you did?

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Speaker 1: You still try and talk to that saint I am.

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Speaker 5: I'm working on the saint. You know, I'm trying to

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Speaker 5: get us some more money. Okay, Oh yeah, from the Saint,

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Speaker 5: from the Yes, from all the saints.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, actually we need them today.

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Speaker 1: They need to hit up Saint Anthony then the one

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Speaker 1: for the lost the lost stuff. If you're a Catholic,

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Speaker 1: you know what I'm talking about. I'm trying to find

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Speaker 1: all that lost money.

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Speaker 2: What are you shooing away?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? Well, there was some sort of I don't know

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Speaker 1: seeing stuff. No, there was some I'm not gonna say,

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Speaker 1: I don't know what it was. It was some sort

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Speaker 1: of thing. It was like, this is a very distracting enquirement.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we got six radio stations, all the iHeart

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Speaker 1: stations are involved with this today. We got a phone

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Speaker 1: bank over here. We got a pregnant Diana over there.

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Speaker 1: We got people ringing bells. I don't I think it

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Speaker 1: means something. I got a bell in front of me.

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Speaker 1: I kind of want to ring it. Do it you want? No,

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Speaker 1: I can't. I'll do it all wing at one hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars. I'll do it then. But we need your help.

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Speaker 1: One eight eight eight eight three one seven seven three three.

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Speaker 1: LURIY Children's that organized radio thought. You can text the

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Speaker 1: word Luriy l u r I E to five one

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Speaker 1: five five five and receive a link to donate anything.

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Speaker 1: Anything helps. We talked to Ella and William and Lily,

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Speaker 1: her sister and brother, and Christina and Joe, her parents.

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Speaker 1: A little while ago. You may have heard it an

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Speaker 1: incredible story about it was a bone marrow transplant, stem

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Speaker 1: sound stem cell and uh and that little girl who

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Speaker 1: went from things we're looking grim to thriving and all

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Speaker 1: the attitude and all that. I was sent a toddler

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Speaker 1: is what is what is between toddler and adolescent?

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Speaker 16: Oh she's a lead child.

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Speaker 1: That's a bunch of non parents here.

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Speaker 3: No, she's a queen with her little butterfly headbands.

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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, No, an amazing family with an incredible outcome.

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Speaker 1: Let's listen to Ella's story right now, and please, eight

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Speaker 1: more minutes left. We got to get to one hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars this hour. Yes, I'm begging for money. I

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Speaker 1: only beg for money one time, once a year, and

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Speaker 1: it's for this place, because that's how much I care

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Speaker 1: about it. I know the rest of us too too,

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Speaker 1: and it's how incredible this place is and how fortunate

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Speaker 1: we are to have this resource in our backyard. I

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Speaker 1: hope you never need it, but if you do, it's

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Speaker 1: important that we support support it now and later. One

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight eight three one seven seven three three.

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Speaker 1: Listen to this.

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Speaker 4: My name is Joe Siders. I'm here with my wife,

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Speaker 4: Christina Siders. We have three young kids.

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Speaker 16: Eleanor is five.

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Speaker 4: She was treated at Lorie Children's Hospital for a cute

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Speaker 4: mindlud in leukemia.

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Speaker 18: We literally went within a forty eight hour period from

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Speaker 18: thinking that Ella had an ear infection to being told

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Speaker 18: that she had leukemia.

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Speaker 16: It's a world that we never imagined being a part of.

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Speaker 4: You're dealing with a life altering diagnosis and wondering how

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Speaker 4: do we best support our kid and also keep our

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Speaker 4: whole family together.

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Speaker 13: Every week the.

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Speaker 18: Needs would change, as Ella's status would change, as you

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Speaker 18: know her how healthy she was versus hell unhealthy she

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Speaker 18: was in that given moment, and then in the midst

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Speaker 18: of all of this, COVID happened.

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Speaker 4: You know, we were kind of in our little bubble

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Speaker 4: with the team around us, and you get just so

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Speaker 4: single mindedly focused on Okay, get through the chemo, and

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Speaker 4: then once you're through that stage, you get to the

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Speaker 4: transplant and then the next fight, if and when it comes.

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Speaker 18: As part of Ella's treatment, once she achieved for a

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Speaker 18: mission through chemo, there she had a stem cell transplant,

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Speaker 18: and in order to make that happen, she needed a donor.

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Speaker 13: Ella has two siblings, neither one of them were a match.

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Speaker 18: Cody is the person who was identified as her quote

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Speaker 18: unquote genetic twin and her perfect match twenty year old

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Speaker 18: kid that happened to stop at a booth at school

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Speaker 18: to sign up for the registry and it's.

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Speaker 4: Not an easy process to donate, and again for a

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Speaker 4: person he had never met, so selfless and kind.

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Speaker 18: He lives in West Virginia. Actually he's a medical student,

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Speaker 18: so he's going to be a physician. The year after transplant,

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Speaker 18: you can get in touch with the donor, and he

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Speaker 18: literally sent us a letter like the day he was

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Speaker 18: able to He and his family have been.

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Speaker 13: Close to us ever since. We've seen them twice.

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Speaker 18: Ella and her sister Lily were flower girls in his wedding.

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Speaker 18: There were little successes and little celebrations along the way,

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Speaker 18: like when she achieved her first line of remission.

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Speaker 4: Aha discovered like soul music and she was so sick

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Speaker 4: good something she couldn't raise her head.

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Speaker 16: But like when she would try to move to that and.

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Speaker 4: She's like, just I can still remember, you know, like

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Speaker 4: because she's hooked up to so many chords.

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Speaker 16: And then the nurses would come in and dance with us.

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Speaker 16: It was just it's selfless. It's incredible.

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Speaker 13: She's doing great.

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Speaker 8: Now.

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Speaker 13: February will be her five.

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Speaker 18: Year transplant anniversary, which is a really big deal. So

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Speaker 18: she's been in remission for now four and a half years,

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Speaker 18: and you would never know what she's been through. I mean,

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Speaker 18: she's super spunky, she's spirited, she's very confident and bold.

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Speaker 4: We've got an option for families like if your child

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Speaker 4: is facing that big fight, Laurie is there.

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Speaker 16: Regardless.

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Speaker 18: Lurie's Children's literally saved Ella's life without a sou They're

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Speaker 18: not just saving her life once, they're doing it again

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Speaker 18: and again and again. I cannot even count all the

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Speaker 18: big decisions and the little decisions that they made right

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Speaker 18: along the way that has brought her and kept her

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Speaker 18: with us today. And so we literally owe them her life.

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Speaker 18: She's doing, you know, amazing.

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Speaker 12: Donate now to the Luri Children's Hospital. Here's a memory

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Speaker 12: to Cock one eight eight eight eight three one seventy

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Speaker 12: seven thirty three Conner help save Chicago Lands children I

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Speaker 12: Bring in their kills.

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Speaker 1: Fred Show is on, Oh Hey, good morning everybody. We

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Speaker 1: are live at Louri Children's Hospital on the eleventh floor

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Speaker 1: with all of our iHeart family six radios. We have six, yes, six,

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Speaker 1: that's cool. We got six radio stations. All right, we're

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Speaker 1: the best one, but it's fine, and we're raising money

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Speaker 1: for lourr Children's Hospital all day to day on all

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Speaker 1: the iHeart stations. We're trying to get to a million

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Speaker 1: plus last year. You guys, you because of you, guys,

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Speaker 1: and our corporate sponsors are partners who are amazing. We

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Speaker 1: raise almost Oh, I'm rounding up now. We're gonna say

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Speaker 1: somewhere between seven and eight hundred thousand minus approximately, which

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Speaker 1: is a ton of money, which goes a really long

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Speaker 1: wave for this place. But it costs millions and millions

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Speaker 1: and millions of dollars to operate Larie Children's Hospital, where,

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Speaker 1: by the way, nobody has came and pointed out earlier.

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Speaker 1: Nobody has turned away. And we're hearing these inspiring stories

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Speaker 1: all morning of the work that they're doing here. And

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Speaker 1: I mean when we've heard about a young boy who

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Speaker 1: they found a hole in his heart in utero, he

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Speaker 1: hadn't even been born yet and they were able to

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Speaker 1: repair that and he's thriving. We talked to Ella and

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Speaker 1: her family. She's thriving, and there are so many stories.

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Speaker 1: He's like, we're gonna hear another one in just a

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Speaker 1: minute from from Aiden. But I want to thank all

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Speaker 1: the people who have donated so far this morning. Alexander

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Speaker 1: in Spring Grove, I don't know what it is. It

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Speaker 1: Benna I think that is Danna or Ben Ahead. It's

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Speaker 1: not great, but that's okay. In Carrie, North Carolina. Oh

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Speaker 1: there's a Cary, Illinois, is there. Yeah, I'm gonna be

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Speaker 1: in to carry North Carolina in about three hours. So

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Speaker 1: I was like, Wow, you guys are really committed. Kim

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Speaker 1: and Tinley Park, Carrie Lake Villa, Glenda in Arlington Heights,

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Speaker 1: Jeff and Joe and Homewood Hillary and uh, this is

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Speaker 1: the same list I did before most they gave me

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Speaker 1: the same list again. Oh Bill, we still don't know

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Speaker 1: where that is. Oh DJ, I'm afraid of these days.

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Speaker 2: I would never doesn't have a pen.

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Speaker 5: She asked for a pen, you did, but he honestly

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Speaker 5: donated through social media.

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Speaker 13: He let us know that.

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Speaker 1: Here because because because Kiki has been trying to get

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Speaker 1: me for two weeks to say names that are inappropriate. Yes, because,

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Speaker 1: but this is not the day for that. This is

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Speaker 1: not the day you promised me. This is real promise you,

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Speaker 1: This is promise on fine Kiki Man, Yes, yes, DJ,

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Speaker 1: Hammer and Hank, Yes, she got you. You would do

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Speaker 1: it every day. Oh look, and then Seymour Butts gave

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Speaker 1: us somebody. All right, it's mister Oh my god, its birthday.

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Speaker 1: Sean and Indiana gave us somebody you would you would

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Speaker 1: though we're not here. I love you.

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Speaker 9: I'm gonna wait till nine o'clock hours.

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Speaker 1: I don't always trust you. I love you, don't always

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Speaker 1: trust you. But we need your money this morning to

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Speaker 1: help Lord Children's Hospital. Eight eight eight eight three one

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Speaker 1: seven seven three three luriy l u ri i E

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Speaker 1: Children's that organized radio thought. You can also text the

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Speaker 1: word lury l u ri i E to five one

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Speaker 1: five five five and they're gonna send you a link

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Speaker 1: to donate anything, anything helps A dollar, five dollars, twenty

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Speaker 1: one hundred one thousand, a million, whatever it is, and

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01:10:24,560 --> 01:10:26,599
Speaker 1: we will shout out your business. By the way, if

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Speaker 1: you give us enough money, yes, I'll play a stupid

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Speaker 1: song if you give us the price. If the price

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Speaker 1: is right, I can make things happen. Ah.

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Speaker 18: Yes.

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Speaker 1: And what we're really hoping for will be amazing are

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01:10:37,680 --> 01:10:41,680
Speaker 1: monthly donations of twenty dollars per month. That makes you

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01:10:41,760 --> 01:10:44,400
Speaker 1: a monthly partner sixty seven cents a day, and that

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Speaker 1: really helps out as many of those as we can

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Speaker 1: possibly give. Eight eight eight eight three one seven seven

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Speaker 1: three three l U r I E to five one

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Speaker 1: five five five to receive a link to donate. Amazing news.

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Speaker 1: You can ring the bell, Jason, we did raise last hour.

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Speaker 1: We didn't do that.

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Speaker 2: Oh and then here when we do that, we didn't

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Speaker 2: do that.

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Speaker 1: That's why we can't fake it. If we can't, well

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Speaker 1: not here at least. So we did raise one hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars, which means another one hundred thousand dollars from

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Speaker 1: Jewel Losco. So that alone, that hour alone, two hundred

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Speaker 1: thousand dollars. Thanks to your generosity, and we really appreciate that.

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01:11:20,640 --> 01:11:22,719
Speaker 1: And also if you're having any issue hearing us this morning,

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01:11:22,880 --> 01:11:27,160
Speaker 1: I guess they decided to move the tinfoil this today, right,

1552
01:11:27,720 --> 01:11:29,560
Speaker 1: because why would you we not, you know, sort of

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Speaker 1: do that. Now you can hear us on the app

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01:11:32,280 --> 01:11:35,160
Speaker 1: Apparently we are crystal as crystal clear as possible, considering

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01:11:35,160 --> 01:11:38,679
Speaker 1: we are broadcasting a cafeteria in a children's hospital, rising

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Speaker 1: broadband internet. This is not me. I set it up,

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Speaker 1: and it sounds beautiful coming from here. Okay, I'll have

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01:11:43,680 --> 01:11:46,439
Speaker 1: you know. And I appreciate the people who are texting

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Speaker 1: us saying, hey, it doesn't sound that great. It sounds amazing.

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01:11:51,479 --> 01:11:55,920
Speaker 1: Our end is solid, I'll have you. Yes, we have

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01:11:56,080 --> 01:11:59,439
Speaker 1: enough chords for the business for once, for once, we

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01:11:59,520 --> 01:12:01,760
Speaker 1: have enough course for the business. But we're going you

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01:12:01,800 --> 01:12:03,720
Speaker 1: some towels for the business if we don't get this

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01:12:03,720 --> 01:12:07,000
Speaker 1: straighten out pretty soon. I know that's right, because I'm

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Speaker 1: gonna put Kiki on it and that won't be nice. Nope, nope, nope,

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Speaker 1: uh uh uh. So let's hear from Aiden and his story,

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01:12:14,120 --> 01:12:15,920
Speaker 1: and we're here from his family this hour as well.

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01:12:16,160 --> 01:12:19,200
Speaker 1: And we can't wait to hear from you as you call,

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01:12:19,439 --> 01:12:21,960
Speaker 1: because operators are standing by something I never thought I

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Speaker 1: would get to say. Eight eight eight eight three one

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Speaker 1: seven seven three three. We're trying to get to over

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Speaker 1: a million dollars for Lurry Children's Hospital today with iHeartRadio,

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01:12:31,240 --> 01:12:34,759
Speaker 1: The Fred Show and Kiss by Jason Still got still

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Speaker 1: got here. A lot of fun left me. That was beautiful.

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Speaker 1: That was beautiful. Ain't no, Wow, that was really good. No,

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Speaker 1: tell him, tell him how to do it, Jason, you

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Speaker 1: have it. Yeah, you can call us, call us right now.

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Speaker 1: Eight eight eight eight three one seven seven three three.

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Speaker 1: I want to hear them phones ring, make them ring, yeah, now, Kiki,

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Speaker 1: now you tell them in your way. Oh call me now,

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Speaker 1: we have one paper for the business.

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Speaker 9: Eight eight one seven seven three three.

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01:13:02,560 --> 01:13:04,720
Speaker 1: Can you text me though I got texts? Yeah, tell

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Speaker 1: them how to do that the word.

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Speaker 5: Lurie l u r I E to five one five

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Speaker 5: five five and you'll get a link and then you

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Speaker 5: can send me your money.

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Speaker 1: You know what. I promise he doesn't go right to

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Speaker 1: Kigi or Rufio. They won't be handling the affair. It goes.

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Speaker 1: It goes right to the hospitals directly.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Eight eight eight eight three one seven seven three three.

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Speaker 1: Also this hour another power hour, so another amazing organization.

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Speaker 1: H Robinson. If we can raise twenty five thousand dollars

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Speaker 1: this hour, which I know we can do because last

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Speaker 1: hour it was one hundred grand, then they'll match it,

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01:13:35,320 --> 01:13:38,120
Speaker 1: so another twenty five grand. So this hour minimum fifty grand.

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Speaker 1: But we need your twenty five thousand dollars. And thank

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Speaker 1: you to everyone who's donated so far this morning. But yeah,

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Speaker 1: call call a number, tell the operator who answers you

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01:13:47,040 --> 01:13:49,200
Speaker 1: listen to the Fred Show and tell them your name.

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01:13:49,400 --> 01:13:51,759
Speaker 1: And if you want us to say something about your business,

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01:13:51,840 --> 01:13:53,679
Speaker 1: you want to shot somebody out, you want us whatever?

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Speaker 1: If the price is right, We'll do it. Things are happening,

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Speaker 1: Things are happening. Whatever you want, what you want. Honestly,

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Speaker 1: we got to get to over a million dollars this year.

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Speaker 6: We have to.

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Speaker 1: I want to go in here tomorrow morning on our

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Speaker 1: show and be able to thank all of well, I'll

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Speaker 1: thank all of you anyway, because it's whatever we do

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01:14:11,960 --> 01:14:13,559
Speaker 1: is amazing, but I want to be able to say

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Speaker 1: that we did at Chicago Land we raise over a

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Speaker 1: million dollars for Lourie Children's Hospital, an organization that I

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Speaker 1: know means a lot to all of us here. So

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Speaker 1: I want you to hear about Aiden. Aiden is eleven

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Speaker 1: years old and we're going to have him on the

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Speaker 1: show here in a little bit. But this is his

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Speaker 1: story of perseverance, of healing, of health and another tribute

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Speaker 1: to the amazing work happening at Luri's Children's Hospital.

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Speaker 9: I'm Aiden, I'm a patient for Larry's Children's.

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Speaker 6: Aiden had his seven year check with his pediatrician. He

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Speaker 6: had only gained one pound and grew one inch for

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Speaker 6: that year.

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Speaker 14: One of the things we noticed going on, like the

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Speaker 14: bike ride, he would get tired what we thought was

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Speaker 14: probably like a little sooner than necessary.

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Speaker 6: So the pediatricians started to do some testing and she said,

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Speaker 6: have you ever heard pallycystic kidney disease?

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Speaker 1: I was like, what I know? I was in shock.

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Speaker 15: We started bawling in the appointment.

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Speaker 17: They actually escalated pretty quick. That first visit with Larry's.

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Speaker 14: We found out it was stage four and he needed

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Speaker 14: to be put on the transplant list right away.

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Speaker 15: It moved very quickly. We met with the you know

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Speaker 15: transplant surgeon and you know larry Children's.

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Speaker 2: I mean, they're amazing. They were all making our appointments

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Speaker 2: for us.

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Speaker 9: Everything is seamless.

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Speaker 2: Three months later he.

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Speaker 15: Was active on the transplant list.

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Speaker 14: I'd look back on it now and it's been a

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Speaker 14: very big positive to have Larry's in our life, and

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Speaker 14: it truly feels like our family when we go there.

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Speaker 6: Dan and I had to go through genetic testing because

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Speaker 6: ideally it would be great if one of us could

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Speaker 6: be his donor.

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Speaker 9: I was approved. Two months after that was our surgery.

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Speaker 15: Aiden had his transplant. Aiden was impatient two weeks post transplant.

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Speaker 9: I think he took twenty two pills a day.

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Speaker 15: It was this scary time, but I was very happy

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Speaker 15: that I could be the one to help it's very

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Speaker 15: cool that I went on kidney.

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Speaker 1: She did it for me job.

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Speaker 15: In terms of Aiden, I would say how resilient he has.

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Speaker 14: Been and brave, like literally the first time he got

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Speaker 14: out of bed to walk after the training's playing. It

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Speaker 14: just make you realize just how special those little moments are.

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01:16:30,800 --> 01:16:33,559
Speaker 14: To celebrate every little thing, no matter how big or small.

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Speaker 15: Okay, Lurie's took a time for us that was.

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Speaker 17: So hard, something that was obviously very scary, very life changing.

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Speaker 6: And tested us, and it allowed it to become something

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Speaker 6: that we made it through, survived it, and thrived from that.

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Speaker 17: There's no other place I would take a sick child,

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Speaker 17: that's for sure.

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Speaker 12: Thank you for being part of our Lurie Children's radioson

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Speaker 12: right here on one oh three five.

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Speaker 1: Kiss us M. It's the Fred Show. Good morning, one

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Speaker 1: o three five Kiss FM, Chicago's number one hit music station.

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Speaker 1: Thank you so much for waking up with us today

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Speaker 1: a very special day. Today, it's our Luried Children's Hospital

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Speaker 1: radiothon Expect all day today on Kiss FM and all

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Speaker 1: the iHeartMedia Chicago stations. We're gonna raise over a million

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Speaker 1: dollars today for Loury Children's Hospital eight eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: three one seven seven three three luriy Children's dot org

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Speaker 1: slash radio thought again. I'll text the word lury l

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Speaker 1: u r I E to five one five five five

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Speaker 1: to receive a link right to your phone to donate.

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Speaker 1: What we would love is for everyone to be a

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Speaker 1: monthly partner twenty bucks a month. I know it's a lot,

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Speaker 1: So it's okay if you don't have that five dollars,

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Speaker 1: ten dollars, twenty whatever you've got. I know coffee is essential.

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Speaker 1: It would be hard for me to give up coffee.

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Speaker 1: You know, I haven't had any dat today. That being said,

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Speaker 1: maybe the coffee is like six bucks, ten bucks, whatever

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Speaker 1: it is. Maybe one day you make it at home

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Speaker 1: and you send the ten bucks to Louri Children's Hospital

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Speaker 1: to benefit. And there's so much going on here. We

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Speaker 1: we're hearing stories from families, stories of perseverance in survival.

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Speaker 1: And I've said this on the ear before and we've

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Speaker 1: probably talked about it, but in all the years that

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Speaker 1: we've all done, you know, very sort of been honored

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Speaker 1: to volunteer with Cal's Angels and Larid Children's in different

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Speaker 1: organizations that deal with pediatric illness. I am amazed at

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Speaker 1: the resilience of these children. Yes, I am amazed at

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Speaker 1: how strong these kids are. And I don't know if

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Speaker 1: it's I feel like as adults we teach ourselves, we

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Speaker 1: learn how to feel bad for ourselves, and we learn

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Speaker 1: I guess it's age and experience and wisdom and maybe

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Speaker 1: a little bit more awareness, But nonetheless, the fight in

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Speaker 1: these kids, I mean, the things that they're being asked

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Speaker 1: to do at such a young age in order to

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Speaker 1: live is incredible and inspiring. And we're hearing those stories

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Speaker 1: this morning, and it's all possible because of places like

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Speaker 1: this and this Lurid Children's in Chicago, in downtown Chicago

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Speaker 1: happens to be the world leader in so many areas.

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Speaker 1: I mean, it's top ten in almost every specialty, if

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Speaker 1: not better than that, And it's right here, and it's

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Speaker 1: why we have to give because I hope you never

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Speaker 1: need it. I hope you never need to come here.

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Speaker 1: But if you do, what you're supporting now is the

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Speaker 1: best of the best, and you would have access to that,

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Speaker 1: and that way, you too would have an incredible outcome,

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Speaker 1: just like the ones that we're hearing about today. I mean,

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Speaker 1: we're talking about kids that were that had a dire

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Speaker 1: outcome in the womb, whose lives they were able to save.

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Speaker 1: We're talking about young people who had no other options

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Speaker 1: and they found a way. We're talking about incredible research

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Speaker 1: happening here. So many things. And the other thing that's

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01:19:42,680 --> 01:19:46,959
Speaker 1: incredible about LURI is that they think about stuff that's

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01:19:47,040 --> 01:19:50,880
Speaker 1: therapeutic but not necessarily medical. They think about the experience.

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01:19:51,000 --> 01:19:53,000
Speaker 1: They think about the fact that kids are here instead

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01:19:53,000 --> 01:19:54,880
Speaker 1: of in school with their friends and their family. They

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01:19:54,920 --> 01:19:58,080
Speaker 1: think about the families who aren't with their loved one

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01:19:58,160 --> 01:19:59,840
Speaker 1: every day in a lot of ways. And their child

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01:19:59,840 --> 01:20:01,360
Speaker 1: life department here is amazing.

1726
01:20:01,640 --> 01:20:04,360
Speaker 3: There's literally a salon upstairs for the parents that have

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01:20:04,439 --> 01:20:06,360
Speaker 3: to be here for extended periods of times.

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01:20:06,400 --> 01:20:08,160
Speaker 2: I mean, they think of everything.

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01:20:08,240 --> 01:20:10,519
Speaker 3: I mean, you know, we all went to school and

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01:20:10,640 --> 01:20:12,679
Speaker 3: it was just a part of life, and you drop

1731
01:20:12,720 --> 01:20:14,400
Speaker 3: your kids off at school. But like, if you're here

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01:20:14,520 --> 01:20:16,240
Speaker 3: for an extended period of time and the hope is

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01:20:16,320 --> 01:20:18,200
Speaker 3: to get out right, but you're you're gonna fall behind

1734
01:20:18,240 --> 01:20:18,920
Speaker 3: on school work.

1735
01:20:19,360 --> 01:20:22,759
Speaker 2: For ten bucks, you can give a child school supplies.

1736
01:20:22,840 --> 01:20:24,479
Speaker 2: I mean, ten bucks is nothing.

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01:20:25,160 --> 01:20:27,040
Speaker 3: This one made my eyes a little wet, so we'll

1738
01:20:27,080 --> 01:20:29,599
Speaker 3: try to say it you know, it's been an emo

1739
01:20:29,680 --> 01:20:33,479
Speaker 3: week for me already. But for twenty five dollars, you

1740
01:20:33,560 --> 01:20:35,639
Speaker 3: can supply a baby in the nick you a comfort

1741
01:20:35,720 --> 01:20:38,000
Speaker 3: doll Oh my god, it's a cuddle when they're not

1742
01:20:38,120 --> 01:20:38,799
Speaker 3: with their parents.

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01:20:38,920 --> 01:20:40,880
Speaker 2: Like that gives me chills, That makes me want to cry.

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01:20:41,000 --> 01:20:46,400
Speaker 3: I'm trying to get you fifty bucks. These kids, they

1745
01:20:46,479 --> 01:20:49,280
Speaker 3: have to celebrate their birthdays here. Sometimes they will throw

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01:20:49,479 --> 01:20:52,760
Speaker 3: them a birthday party. Fifty bucks you can help make

1747
01:20:52,840 --> 01:20:56,080
Speaker 3: a kid forget for one day that they are sick

1748
01:20:56,320 --> 01:20:57,920
Speaker 3: and just celebrate their birthday.

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01:20:58,000 --> 01:20:58,479
Speaker 18: Be a kid.

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01:20:59,280 --> 01:21:04,679
Speaker 3: Also, fifty do pet therapy visit and there's scientific research

1751
01:21:04,760 --> 01:21:05,240
Speaker 3: to support this.

1752
01:21:05,360 --> 01:21:07,320
Speaker 2: But we all know how animals. I mean, we're animal

1753
01:21:07,360 --> 01:21:08,160
Speaker 2: lovers on the show.

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01:21:08,600 --> 01:21:11,679
Speaker 3: And these kids are separated from their norm, from their homes,

1755
01:21:12,080 --> 01:21:14,040
Speaker 3: and you should see the way that they light up

1756
01:21:14,080 --> 01:21:15,800
Speaker 3: win the little therapy dog comes in.

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01:21:15,920 --> 01:21:18,920
Speaker 2: I mean it's fifty dollars a little higher.

1758
01:21:18,960 --> 01:21:21,320
Speaker 3: Two hundred bucks supports the whole pet therapy program, so

1759
01:21:21,560 --> 01:21:24,160
Speaker 3: they think of everything, and it's the whole package, not

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01:21:24,400 --> 01:21:25,920
Speaker 3: just the medical things.

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01:21:26,040 --> 01:21:29,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, and when I was three, I hadn't menagia. It's

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01:21:29,240 --> 01:21:31,479
Speaker 1: not to make this about me, It's really about my mom, actually,

1763
01:21:31,520 --> 01:21:33,240
Speaker 1: but I was three. I was in the hospital in Phoenix,

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01:21:33,280 --> 01:21:35,360
Speaker 1: the Phoenix Children's for a month. I lost the hearing

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01:21:35,439 --> 01:21:37,400
Speaker 1: in my left ear. So if you ever approached me

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01:21:37,479 --> 01:21:40,360
Speaker 1: from the wrong side, I am I am rude, but

1767
01:21:41,120 --> 01:21:43,920
Speaker 1: but I'm not ignoring you. I would usually just be

1768
01:21:44,040 --> 01:21:45,519
Speaker 1: rude right to your face if I were going to be.

1769
01:21:46,080 --> 01:21:48,599
Speaker 1: But you guys have all witnessed if people have had

1770
01:21:48,640 --> 01:21:51,000
Speaker 1: full on conversations from my left side and they and

1771
01:21:51,120 --> 01:21:52,760
Speaker 1: I don't hear them, and I really don't hear them,

1772
01:21:52,960 --> 01:21:54,400
Speaker 1: and then I come to work and blast my ears

1773
01:21:54,439 --> 01:21:57,240
Speaker 1: with Rachel plattin all day, so as you shit, yeah, right,

1774
01:21:57,280 --> 01:21:59,600
Speaker 1: which is I think? You know, if my hearing is

1775
01:21:59,640 --> 01:22:01,280
Speaker 1: going to go, it should go that way. But I

1776
01:22:01,360 --> 01:22:05,519
Speaker 1: bring this up because my mom stayed at the hospital

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01:22:05,640 --> 01:22:07,720
Speaker 1: every single night that I was in the hospital. But

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01:22:07,760 --> 01:22:09,960
Speaker 1: they didn't have any of these resources, none of this

1779
01:22:10,080 --> 01:22:13,640
Speaker 1: stuff then and they probably do now, but they didn't then.

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01:22:14,240 --> 01:22:16,360
Speaker 1: She slept in a chair, there was no bed, there

1781
01:22:16,439 --> 01:22:18,880
Speaker 1: was no salon, there was you know, child life was

1782
01:22:19,680 --> 01:22:22,120
Speaker 1: maybe present, but certainly not as prolific as it is now.

1783
01:22:22,880 --> 01:22:24,800
Speaker 1: None of these creature comforts, none of this stuff that

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01:22:24,880 --> 01:22:26,800
Speaker 1: we all take for granted, because it's part of our

1785
01:22:26,800 --> 01:22:30,040
Speaker 1: everyday life and we make it happen. But yet again,

1786
01:22:30,120 --> 01:22:32,120
Speaker 1: why would you think about this stuff? You wouldn't because

1787
01:22:32,120 --> 01:22:34,280
Speaker 1: hopefully you never have to experience it. But if you do,

1788
01:22:35,880 --> 01:22:37,800
Speaker 1: you're gonna appreciate the fact that it's all here and

1789
01:22:38,080 --> 01:22:39,160
Speaker 1: that they're so thoughtful about it.

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01:22:39,320 --> 01:22:40,840
Speaker 3: And why you bring up your mom, I mean, your

1791
01:22:40,880 --> 01:22:43,040
Speaker 3: mom is such a strong force, like she loves you

1792
01:22:43,200 --> 01:22:45,519
Speaker 3: so much. And something that I learned from Carter's family

1793
01:22:45,600 --> 01:22:49,520
Speaker 3: that I thought was amazing is that the doctors consulted Carter's.

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01:22:49,160 --> 01:22:52,559
Speaker 2: Parents on his treatment, like should we do this, should

1795
01:22:52,640 --> 01:22:55,080
Speaker 2: we do that? What do you think will make him talk? Again? Like,

1796
01:22:55,439 --> 01:22:58,080
Speaker 2: no one knows their kid better than their kid or

1797
01:22:58,120 --> 01:22:58,639
Speaker 2: their parents.

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01:22:58,720 --> 01:23:01,360
Speaker 3: Rather, so they asked the parents, what do you think

1799
01:23:01,400 --> 01:23:03,160
Speaker 3: they involve them in the treatment?

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01:23:03,200 --> 01:23:04,519
Speaker 2: And I think that's really amazing.

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01:23:04,720 --> 01:23:06,240
Speaker 1: Yeah, And it's it's just I mean, just just some

1802
01:23:06,360 --> 01:23:08,720
Speaker 1: of the reasons why we need your donations. Today. We're

1803
01:23:08,720 --> 01:23:11,160
Speaker 1: gonna raise over a million dollars two hundred grand last

1804
01:23:11,240 --> 01:23:14,599
Speaker 1: hour this hour Tia t Robinson a twenty five thousand

1805
01:23:14,680 --> 01:23:16,640
Speaker 1: dollars match, so if we can get we had one

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01:23:16,720 --> 01:23:18,559
Speaker 1: hundred last hours, so we can do twenty five easy

1807
01:23:18,640 --> 01:23:21,120
Speaker 1: this hour, and then another twenty five, So there's fifties.

1808
01:23:21,160 --> 01:23:24,720
Speaker 1: That's a quarter million dollars in two hours, thanks to

1809
01:23:24,760 --> 01:23:27,120
Speaker 1: you guys. And think of how far that's going to go.

1810
01:23:27,160 --> 01:23:28,720
Speaker 1: And we're doing this all day, by the way, so

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01:23:28,840 --> 01:23:31,680
Speaker 1: this is only I'm amazed so far eight eight eight

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Speaker 1: eight three one seven seven three three luriy Children's dot

1813
01:23:35,080 --> 01:23:36,920
Speaker 1: orgs last radio thought. You get a'll text the word

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Speaker 1: urry l u ri I E to five one five

1815
01:23:38,680 --> 01:23:41,080
Speaker 1: five five and get a link right to your phone

1816
01:23:41,320 --> 01:23:43,360
Speaker 1: to donate. And we're gonna hear from one of these families.

1817
01:23:43,439 --> 01:23:45,200
Speaker 1: And these are the I'm telling you, these are the

1818
01:23:45,240 --> 01:23:47,400
Speaker 1: stories that are getting all of us. They're getting all

1819
01:23:47,439 --> 01:23:50,640
Speaker 1: of you at home. If you can hear us, they

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01:23:50,720 --> 01:23:51,960
Speaker 1: can now, yeah, oh they can.

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01:23:52,120 --> 01:23:52,280
Speaker 5: Yes.

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01:23:52,360 --> 01:23:55,640
Speaker 1: Apparently we had apparently we had four transmitters on at

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01:23:55,680 --> 01:23:57,439
Speaker 1: the same time, which is the right thing.

1824
01:23:57,520 --> 01:24:01,080
Speaker 2: All the power window breaks now, yeah, yeah do this.

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01:24:01,240 --> 01:24:04,920
Speaker 1: Yeah lost an hour, well we lost three Okay. It

1826
01:24:05,040 --> 01:24:07,320
Speaker 1: was the most incredible three hours of radio I've ever done.

1827
01:24:07,600 --> 01:24:08,960
Speaker 1: I don't know if you've heard it, buddy, it was

1828
01:24:09,120 --> 01:24:13,720
Speaker 1: so good. Honestly, we cried, uh Kiki Kalin Jason, your

1829
01:24:13,760 --> 01:24:15,040
Speaker 1: contributions were incredible.

1830
01:24:15,680 --> 01:24:17,840
Speaker 2: We know we'll go again, yeah right about it.

1831
01:24:18,040 --> 01:24:19,400
Speaker 1: Never cried on the air, but I did an hour

1832
01:24:19,400 --> 01:24:20,640
Speaker 1: and a half ago. And you may have missed him

1833
01:24:20,880 --> 01:24:22,759
Speaker 1: because we went to radio check last night and decided

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01:24:22,760 --> 01:24:25,760
Speaker 1: to shape to resisters. So I mean really honestly. Eight

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Speaker 1: eight eight eight three one seven seven three three The

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Speaker 1: Frend Show. It's the Lurry Children's Radio thought all day

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01:24:30,880 --> 01:24:32,840
Speaker 1: to day. I want to three five Kids FM.

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01:24:33,200 --> 01:24:34,439
Speaker 17: Today for my son Aiden.

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01:24:34,880 --> 01:24:37,640
Speaker 14: Thankful for Lurry Children's. Because of them, my son is

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01:24:37,680 --> 01:24:38,320
Speaker 14: healthy today.

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Speaker 1: Eight three one seventy seven thirty three It's the French Show,

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01:24:43,240 --> 01:24:45,360
Speaker 1: one of three five Kiss FM, Chicago's number one in

1843
01:24:45,520 --> 01:24:48,120
Speaker 1: music station. I want to welcome my man Aiden. What's

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01:24:48,160 --> 01:24:50,920
Speaker 1: going on? Aiden? Nothing? You're talking? We talked to a

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01:24:50,920 --> 01:24:52,680
Speaker 1: couple years ago. You're talking a lot more now than

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01:24:52,720 --> 01:24:53,439
Speaker 1: you were last time.

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01:24:53,840 --> 01:24:54,400
Speaker 13: Yes, I was.

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01:24:54,640 --> 01:24:56,400
Speaker 1: You got a lot to say. Man, Who are these

1849
01:24:56,400 --> 01:24:58,040
Speaker 1: people that I don't really know about them? But who

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01:24:58,280 --> 01:24:59,760
Speaker 1: I'm only worried about you? But who are these people

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01:24:59,760 --> 01:25:00,200
Speaker 1: that are with you?

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01:25:00,720 --> 01:25:02,400
Speaker 9: My dad, my sister and my mom.

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01:25:02,560 --> 01:25:03,280
Speaker 1: Do they have names?

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01:25:03,680 --> 01:25:03,920
Speaker 13: Yeah?

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01:25:04,840 --> 01:25:09,120
Speaker 10: Ryan is my dad, Christine is my mom, and Ella

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01:25:09,280 --> 01:25:09,960
Speaker 10: is my sister.

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Speaker 1: That's exciting. Are they cool people? Yeah? Okay, that's good.

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01:25:13,040 --> 01:25:15,479
Speaker 1: And how you feeling? You're doing great? Yeah? Wait, you

1859
01:25:15,560 --> 01:25:19,439
Speaker 1: saved the best interview for last Yeah, we're very professional.

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01:25:19,520 --> 01:25:21,400
Speaker 1: Can you tell Yeah? Yeah? What do you want to

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01:25:21,400 --> 01:25:22,439
Speaker 1: do when you grow up? Hopefully not this?

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01:25:22,680 --> 01:25:22,800
Speaker 10: Right?

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01:25:23,320 --> 01:25:24,920
Speaker 9: I want to be a video game tester?

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01:25:25,439 --> 01:25:27,600
Speaker 1: That is a way better job than this. Yeah, I

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01:25:27,760 --> 01:25:29,519
Speaker 1: recommend yeah fortnite?

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01:25:29,800 --> 01:25:32,919
Speaker 2: Oh period, oh wow? Yeah, okay, you know a Fortnite.

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01:25:33,160 --> 01:25:35,560
Speaker 2: I know what it is with the skins. Yeah, you

1868
01:25:35,640 --> 01:25:36,320
Speaker 2: gotta get skins.

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Speaker 9: Okay, see I know a little bit.

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01:25:37,439 --> 01:25:39,960
Speaker 1: Okay, look at you. Do you play any sports games?

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01:25:40,880 --> 01:25:44,320
Speaker 1: I don't play any sports games, but I play like sports. Well, yeah,

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01:25:44,360 --> 01:25:47,000
Speaker 1: so you are an actual athlete, unlike some of us

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01:25:47,040 --> 01:25:48,559
Speaker 1: who just sit on the couch and played them. Right.

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01:25:48,680 --> 01:25:50,920
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah. Look at the look on his face. He's like,

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01:25:51,000 --> 01:25:53,400
Speaker 1: who's this guy? Right? Yeah? Let me I'm gonna play

1876
01:25:53,400 --> 01:25:55,720
Speaker 1: a little a little montage about you. Maybe you've heard it,

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01:25:56,439 --> 01:25:58,200
Speaker 1: Oh you haven't heard it, yety. I'm gonna play this

1878
01:25:58,320 --> 01:26:00,639
Speaker 1: a little bit about your story where Lurid Children Hospital,

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01:26:01,040 --> 01:26:02,759
Speaker 1: and here's the story about ages.

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01:26:03,840 --> 01:26:07,719
Speaker 6: I'm a patient from Larry's Children's Aiden had his seven

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01:26:07,840 --> 01:26:10,000
Speaker 6: year check with his pediatrician.

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01:26:10,920 --> 01:26:13,960
Speaker 15: He had only gained one pound and grew one inch

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Speaker 15: for that year.

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Speaker 1: One of the things we.

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Speaker 14: Noticed going on, like the bike ride, he would get tired,

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01:26:19,520 --> 01:26:22,000
Speaker 14: what we thought was probably like a little sooner than necessary.

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Speaker 6: So the pediatricians started to do some testing and she said,

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01:26:26,360 --> 01:26:28,559
Speaker 6: have you ever heard of bally systic kidney disease?

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Speaker 9: I was like, what I know.

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Speaker 1: I was in shock.

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01:26:31,880 --> 01:26:33,759
Speaker 2: We started bawling in the appointment.

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Speaker 17: They actually escalated pretty quick that first visit with Larry's.

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Speaker 14: We found out it was a stage four and he

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01:26:39,800 --> 01:26:42,559
Speaker 14: needed to be put on the transplant list right away.

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01:26:44,400 --> 01:26:45,479
Speaker 9: It moved very quickly.

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Speaker 15: We met with a you know transplant surgeon and you

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Speaker 15: know larry Children's.

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Speaker 9: I mean, they're amazing.

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01:26:51,120 --> 01:26:53,200
Speaker 2: They were all making our appointments for us.

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Speaker 15: Everything is seamless. Three months later he was active on

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Speaker 15: the transplant list.

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Speaker 14: I'd look back on it now and it's been a

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01:27:00,920 --> 01:27:03,519
Speaker 14: very big positive to have Larr's in our life, and

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01:27:03,600 --> 01:27:06,040
Speaker 14: it truly feels like our family when we go there.

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Speaker 6: Dad and I had to go through genetic testing because

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01:27:09,320 --> 01:27:11,240
Speaker 6: ideally it would be great if one of us could

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Speaker 6: be his donor.

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01:27:12,280 --> 01:27:14,560
Speaker 2: I was approved two months after that.

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01:27:15,080 --> 01:27:15,960
Speaker 9: Was our surgery.

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Speaker 15: Aiden had his transplant. Aiden was impatient two weeks post transplant.

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Speaker 9: I think he took twenty two pills a day.

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Speaker 15: It was this scary time, but I was very happy

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Speaker 15: that I could be the one to help. It's very

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01:27:30,200 --> 01:27:31,679
Speaker 15: cool that I am a moms kidney.

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01:27:32,520 --> 01:27:37,160
Speaker 1: She did it for mek You.

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Speaker 15: In terms of Aiden, I would say how resilient he

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01:27:43,280 --> 01:27:43,920
Speaker 15: has been.

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Speaker 14: And brave, Like literally the first time he got out

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01:27:48,280 --> 01:27:54,200
Speaker 14: of bed to walk after the transplant. Sy that doesn't

1920
01:27:54,200 --> 01:27:57,640
Speaker 14: make you realize just how special those little moments are.

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01:27:57,760 --> 01:28:00,479
Speaker 14: To celebrate every little thing, no matter help or small.

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01:28:06,600 --> 01:28:09,000
Speaker 13: Laurie's took a time for us that was so.

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01:28:09,760 --> 01:28:13,160
Speaker 14: Hard, something that was obviously very scary, very life changing,

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01:28:13,680 --> 01:28:14,559
Speaker 14: and tested us.

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01:28:14,479 --> 01:28:17,680
Speaker 6: And it allowed it to become something that we made

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Speaker 6: it through, survived it, and thrived from that.

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Speaker 17: There's no other place I would take a sick child,

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Speaker 17: that's for sure.

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Speaker 1: Brian and Christine, they're all here right in front of me. Aiden.

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Speaker 1: Your mom gave you her kidney, which means anything she

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Speaker 1: wants you to do for the rest of her life,

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01:28:34,600 --> 01:28:37,000
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to do it right. Yeah, yeah, Like,

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Speaker 1: have you tried to act up and then she said,

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Speaker 1: remember that kidney, and then you had to be like

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Speaker 1: straighten up, Yeah a few times. Yeah, has that happened?

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Speaker 1: Do you say that to him? Remember when I saved

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Speaker 1: your life.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes you have to pull out what you can.

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Speaker 1: Mate, No, it's an amazing story. How did that make

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Speaker 1: you feel to be able to save your son's life?

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Speaker 1: I mean, in a very quantifiable way, an actual part

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Speaker 1: of you saved him.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, it was a relief because not everybody is able

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Speaker 6: to donate to their own child. You think it would

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Speaker 6: make the most sense, but a lot of families we

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Speaker 6: know were not approved. So it was a huge relief

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Speaker 6: to be able to give Aiden.

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Speaker 16: What do you needed?

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Speaker 1: Yeah? And Ryan, you got emotional telling the stories anybody would.

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Speaker 1: Did you think you'd be sitting here like this now

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Speaker 1: and he's thriving and the family's doing great. I mean

1952
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Speaker 1: when this was all happening, I mean, what was your

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Speaker 1: emotion level then? Yeah? It was. It was tough.

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Speaker 14: I mean obviously, you know, with Christine going into the

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Speaker 14: surgery and him getting the transplant. I was trying to

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Speaker 14: keep everybody together, even though I was clearly a mess inside.

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Speaker 14: But as soon as the transplant was over, meeting the

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Speaker 14: surgeon and just how he explained the surgery went. I

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Speaker 14: kind of quickly realized how second nature it was to them,

1960
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Speaker 14: and we were very much in the right place, and

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Speaker 14: I knew we were going to be okay.

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Speaker 17: This is the second I talked to this surgeon.

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Speaker 1: What comes to mind some of the maybe people don't

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Speaker 1: know that the hospital did for you guys, that really

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Speaker 1: stands out. Maybe something that people drive into work right now,

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Speaker 1: they don't they don't realize it's necessary, or a touch

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Speaker 1: or a feeling of home or something like that, that

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Speaker 1: that that you remember that changed the experience for you.

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Speaker 14: I think just what they do to help him emotionally

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Speaker 14: and mentally through everything. You know, the nursing staff was

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Speaker 14: was phenomenal and you know, they just want to put

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Speaker 14: a smile on his face every day.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, you're in here for for two weeks.

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Speaker 14: There's not a whole lot to do when you're in

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Speaker 14: the hospital impatient for two weeks. But the nursing staff

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Speaker 14: truly felt like family to us. And again they made it,

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Speaker 14: you know, a much better experience, you know, just having

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Speaker 14: their support throughout it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and Aiden's sister Ella is here. Are you over this?

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Speaker 1: Are you? Are you done with this. No, okay, you

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Speaker 1: see you seem like we need the intention to be

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Speaker 1: on you a little bit. Here. What's your favorite thing

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Speaker 1: to do?

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Speaker 19: Play outside?

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Speaker 1: Okay, that's good because this thing's all about Aiden and

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Speaker 1: it's like, hey, let's talk about Ella for a minute, right,

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Speaker 1: it's right. I think she likes that. Well, guys, thank

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Speaker 1: you for sharing your story, you know, on the Manta

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Speaker 1: in here today, and I know you've been making the

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Speaker 1: rounds and doing it so many times. I'm sure it's emotional,

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Speaker 1: but we're also happy that the outcome is as you

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Speaker 1: look great, you're thriving. Don't forget about me when you're

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Speaker 1: a professional Fortnite player, right well, making all kinds of

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Speaker 1: money you probably will, but don't because I want some

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Speaker 1: of that money. Okay, Okay, that's good. And be nice

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Speaker 1: to your mom because well you know, I love I

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Speaker 1: love that. I mean, it's it all works out, so

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Speaker 1: I guess now we can we can add some levity

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Speaker 1: to it, right yeah, Well, thank you guys very much,

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Speaker 1: and all the more reason why, one more reason why

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Speaker 1: we need your donations this morning eight eight eight eight

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