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Speaker 1: Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the Morning show.

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Speaker 2: We got a studio full of booth things. Hey, welcome

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Speaker 2: to the day. It's a festive day here at the show.

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Speaker 2: We are so excited. We do this every year. I mean, uh, Gretchen,

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Speaker 2: how many years have we done this? Do you do

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Speaker 2: you know.

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Speaker 1: This is the eighth year?

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Speaker 2: Wow?

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, damn.

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Speaker 2: Mike's here with his numbers. If you're wondering what we're

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Speaker 2: talking about, it's this. Our friends at Delongey who you know,

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Speaker 2: we are. We're family. We're they're family. They're our family.

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Speaker 2: It's just the way it is. But in addition to that,

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Speaker 2: there's this recognition, by recognition by both Delongey and our show,

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Speaker 2: the importance of cookies for kid cancer. And so every

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Speaker 2: year Delongey and Mike Mike Prager, the CEO of Delongey

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Speaker 2: North America n A. I guess that's what that is.

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Speaker 2: Every year, when you go on to Delongey dot com

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Speaker 2: and you buy their incredible, incredible pieces of artwork that

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Speaker 2: so happened to make the best espresso on coffee and

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Speaker 2: cappuccinos in the world, a portion of those proceeds go

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Speaker 2: to Cookies for Kids Cancer, which is of course Gretchen

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Speaker 2: Wit from Cookies for Kids Cancer, my one of my

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Speaker 2: best friends. Hig Gretchen, Hi, how are you so for?

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Speaker 2: How many fingers? Was that seven? That was eight? For

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Speaker 2: eight fingers? This is our is this? This is our

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Speaker 2: eighth finger This is our eighth fingers? Yeah, eight fingers.

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Speaker 1: It's amazing.

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Speaker 2: We only have two more left. Is this a sign?

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Speaker 2: I don't know? Uh, yeah, amazing. And before we talked

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Speaker 2: to Gretchen about what Cookies for Kids Cancer is all about, Mike,

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Speaker 2: why is it so important to you and of course

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Speaker 2: your family at Delongey to be a part of this

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Speaker 2: this day in this message.

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Speaker 3: You know, we've been doing it for eight years, as

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Speaker 3: we've talked about, but it really came out of you know,

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Speaker 3: my colleagues and our company telling us we want to

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Speaker 3: aside from making the world's most amazing coffee machines and

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Speaker 3: espresso machines, we want to be able to do more

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Speaker 3: to help you know the world around us. And when

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Speaker 3: we talked about different things that were important, one of

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Speaker 3: the things that you know, made its way to the

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Speaker 3: top of the list were you know, helping kids, helping

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Speaker 3: kids that were you know, really sick and also that

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Speaker 3: we could really feel like we could have an impact

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Speaker 3: and help. And you know, eight years later, you know,

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Speaker 3: we feel really lucky to have found Gretchen and Elvis,

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Speaker 3: you and the show and in our little way, you know,

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Speaker 3: be able to help a lot of kids out there.

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Speaker 2: So you're a little way I love it. In little way.

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Speaker 3: Well, when you look at the magnitude of what Gretchen

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Speaker 3: has done, we're just a very small piece of an amazing,

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Speaker 3: an amazing thing that she's created.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm mister CEO. I most disagree with you. Even

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Speaker 2: though we're looking at a big number which is about

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Speaker 2: to be exchanged from Delongi to cookies for kids cancer.

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Speaker 2: The fact that you and your your staff and your

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Speaker 2: family come here to talk about it magnifies it even

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Speaker 2: that much more so little thing thing. Sorry, most disagree.

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Speaker 2: You guys are doing monumental thing. Thanks us.

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Speaker 1: Can I tell you first found Gretchen? Like, how did

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Speaker 1: you guys find each other? In the beginning we and.

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Speaker 2: Girl Scouts together.

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Speaker 3: There's a lot of different little touch points that that occurred.

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Speaker 3: But there were colleagues of ours that had worked with

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Speaker 3: and multiple things sort of happened at the same time.

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Speaker 3: We also had, unfortunately, we had some members of our

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Speaker 1: And so tell the crazy coincidence.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, one of you know, one of our colleagues, uh,

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Speaker 3: a son, Liam that suffered the exact same, you know,

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Speaker 3: very difficult cancer illness that Gretchen's Liam had, And so

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Speaker 3: there were just a lot of elements to it that

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Speaker 3: And you know, here we are eight years later, and

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Speaker 3: your listeners have done, what Delongie has done, what Elvis

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Speaker 3: probably mention, you know, you know what certain amounts of

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Speaker 2: Elvis, Well, I love how you told the story about

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Speaker 2: how you and Gretchen connected and Delongey and Cookies for

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Speaker 2: Kids Cancer connected. But the way I connected with Gretchen

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Speaker 2: as we were we served in prison together. I knew

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Speaker 2: So Okay, you said, so far the marriage between Delongey

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Speaker 2: Gretchen for a second. So Liam, of course, you know,

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Speaker 2: the legacy of Liam who passed away, but definitely was

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Speaker 2: like all of the restaurants in town. I mean that

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Speaker 1: Like without it. For Liam, it was all about the

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Speaker 2: That's the nourishment of restaurants.

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Speaker 1: Exactly, exactly. It's just amazing. It's absolutely amazing. And then

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Speaker 1: the fact that Mike and the Delongey team had a

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Speaker 1: was just this crazy collection. It's just like crazy coincidence

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Speaker 1: or is it a coincidence or like get into those

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Speaker 2: Yeah, And you know it started with Liam and cookies,

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Speaker 2: being a great mom, Gretchen bakes up freaking ninety thousand

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Speaker 2: know it exploded into this massive world of cookies for kids,

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Speaker 1: It started, I thought I was doing a one time fundraiser.

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Speaker 1: let's do it. Like how hard can this be?

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Speaker 2: What could possibly go wrong?

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Speaker 1: Like famous last words?

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Speaker 2: And then the chef community of New York City has

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Speaker 2: I mean, all of them just started coming out on

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Speaker 1: Well, our annual event is the Chefs for Kids Cancer event.

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Speaker 1: Because Liam wanted I couldn't keep him out of the kitchen.

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Speaker 1: his spirit. That's where Chefs for Kids Cancer came up.

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Speaker 1: And the thing about the chef event is that the

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Speaker 2: Who was it, maybe I know Gretua got on stage

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Speaker 2: so honored and so except that Mike Prager couldn't be

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Speaker 2: You can watch basketball on TV And no, I'm kidding,

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Speaker 2: but thank you so much for that. But let's talk

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Speaker 2: seven hundred and fifty thousand so far from delongey one

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Speaker 2: hundred thousand dollars, does what and has solved what so far?

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Speaker 1: Absolutely so me Actually most of the day yesterday working

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Speaker 1: have granted over twenty one million dollars twenty one million,

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Speaker 2: What does do twenty one million?

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Speaker 1: So what twenty one million does is it brings Aidan

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Speaker 1: that we help to fund, three treatments.

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Speaker 2: Vin said had never been heard of before. The money

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Speaker 1: So what we do. We receive grant requests from our

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Speaker 1: partner centers. Those grant requests are reviewed by a separate

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Speaker 1: So my goal was to fund the strongest science, not

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Speaker 1: That will do?

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Speaker 1: Will? It will fund? I mean one hundred thousand will

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Speaker 2: It's a painting of Max and Alie, my my schnauzers.

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Speaker 2: It's painted with coffee coffee. It's an amazing artist.

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Speaker 2: Next year, your two sons Danielle, Preston Spencer will do

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Speaker 2: You're you're buying the most incredible, beautiful, beautiful pieces for

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