May 14, 2024 • 9 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey, I don't know if you caught the story. I
know what we were just talking about it during the song.
But there was an entertainment anchor, reporter, beloved personality out
in Los Angeles. He worked at KTLATV. His name was
Sam Rubin, and all of LA was just floored and
just so sad when he died suddenly. I think it
(00:27):
was last Thursday. He did his last show on KTLA
and then the next morning he had passed away at
home from a massive heart attack. Didn't even see it
coming anyway, the outpouring of love from people in the
entertainment business, especially based in Los Angeles, the entertainment capital
of the world, arguably, all came out to talk about
(00:48):
how Sam Rubin was their favorite. He never really was
the kind of snarky reporter who wanted to go for
the jugular and make people embarrassed and looking for the headlines.
And he'd been a mainstay in the entertainment reporting world
Los Angeles for many, many years. Right, And you actually
knew him, You worked with him for a while, right, Nay?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, Yeah, So when I worked in Los Angeles, he
was the go to anytime an entertainment story was breaking,
it would be get Sam on the phone. And Sam
was always so willing to help. At the drop of
a hat. He'd be like, Hey, when's your break time. Okay,
I can do it in fifteen minutes. Okay, perfect, And
he wouldn't even question. He would just jump on. And
he was just the nicest guy. I remember he would
(01:26):
even take I would go see movies and he would
take my movie review and talk about it on KTLA
Morning News and it was just an crazy thing. So
he was such a nice guy and he'll be missed,
so you know, he made his mark.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Well, they did something really interesting yesterday on KTLA. They
had his young son, Colby Ruben, come on with the
anchors at the anchor table to talk about his father
and it was very emotional and it's just you could
tell this kid, it's just heartbroken. He was talking about
how his dad was not only his best friend, he
learned so much from him on their car rides and
(02:01):
when he was a little when he was a boy scout,
when he was a little kid, his dad was the
only one that would that would hop on the lake
and his kayak and Kayak with him and he was
always there for his son. And his son looked at
the camera and said something that really hit me hard.
And we talked about this at dinner last night. You
never know when you're about to lose someone. Oh, sometimes
(02:23):
you do, sometimes you don't. Sometimes people will just leave
you without any warning, without any indication that they're done
with life, you know. With Uncle Johnny, look, he had
been sick for a long time, but still the day
he left us was a very sad day. But Kolby
(02:44):
Ruben was talking about his dad, Sam Ruben, and he
looked at the camera and if you want to look
at this yourself, there's a video online. He just said, Dad,
there's so many things I wish I would have told you,
so many things I wish I could have thanked you
for tell you how proud I am to be your son.
He said, I'm just living it's sort of un paraphrasing,
(03:06):
and living in a world of regret not being able
to do that before you left us.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Think about that. You never know.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
You kiss them goodbye in the morning and they head
out to school, or you head out to work, or
they head out to their work whatever. You just assume
they're coming back at five o'clock like they do every day,
and God willing, they will and they usually do right,
sometimes they don't. So how we treat people day in
(03:36):
and day out in our lives, people that really are
our best friends, our confidants. What we say to them,
it's so important. But what we don't say to them
is what you should be thinking about. How do you
treat the people that you love and you adore? Do
you ever thank them? Do you ever say hey, you
(03:58):
are f a awesome and I'm so proud of you
because you just went through this. I'm so happy that
you're in my life because you helped me struggle through that.
You know, just like Sam Ruben just without any explanation,
without any warning, had a heart attack and left his
family in an entire industry of people who are mourning
his loss. Never got to say hey, thank you, something
(04:19):
as simple as that. So keep that in mind as
you get.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
On with your day.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Maybe you could pick up a phone today and call someone.
Don't text them, you call them and say hey, I
just want to tell you I love you. They may
think you're a total fruitcake like Warre's this coming from.
Doesn't matter, Oh, well, at least you just said any thoughts.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
I think about that all the time, just the fact
that somebody can walk out the door and that vision
of them is the last vision that you're ever going
to see. And I try really hard to give people
their flowers while they're alive and tell them that you
love them and tell them that you're proud of them
and that you're happy to be their kid, and all
of those things, because it's life's crazy, you.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Know it is.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
Yeah, Frog, I I lost somebody, somebody I worked with
for a long time. Their spouse just passed away, and
I thought to myself, I remember the last time I
saw her, But I had no idea that that was
going to be the last time I saw her. And
it made me really sad to think that at some point,
most people you come into contact with in your life,
you will see them and you have no idea that
(05:19):
that will be the last time. So always make sure
that you leave on a note and say something nice
to somebody that leaves it okay, so that if that
is the last time you see them, you're okay with
that and can be at peace with how things ended.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I see your mind work at work Danielle, what are
you thinking about?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
No, I'm just it's just all so scary.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
That's all you think about. You think about your dad
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Of course. I mean, you know, I always say to
my mom, like, I wish I had forced dad to
go to lunch with me. More, I wish I had
done this, I wish I had done that. And she
always says to me, you can't, you can't.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
You know, what are you going to do?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
This is the way it worked. He knew you loved him,
you know, blah blah blah. But you just you always
think about what you should have done differently or said
differently or you know.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
So, yeah, I'm telling you, Danielle, I remember your your mom.
Your your mom was what in the kitchen and your
dad was taking a nample on the couch.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
He was just sitting in the in the living room,
she was washing the dishes, and she came in and
he was he was gone, he was dead. And she
got called nine one one and they revived him. Unfortunately.
You know, sometimes I think when the oxygen has been
gone from your brain for too long, you never come
back like you were. And that was one of the issues.
But yeah, she's she said. He just said to me,
(06:33):
that was delicious. Do we have leftovers? That was the
last That was the last thing my mom said, and
my dad said, and my mom says, yeah, we have leftovers.
And the next thing, you know, she came in the
living room and that was it. He was gone.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Is so? So it is wild and so.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
But I know for a fact that when your dad
passed away, he knew how much you loved him.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I think so. I think he definitely knew. But of
course she did, Bill, I don't think. I think even
though that person knows how much you love them, there
you're still going to always say I should have done this,
I should have done that. And my dad worked in
Jersey and I would say, Dad, come over, you know.
And then the day before he had said to me, Hey,
I want to I want to drop off my medical
(07:14):
records to you, because I had said I wanted somebody
else to look at them because I didn't trust the
doctors that he had. And he called me the day
before and said I'm going to come over and drop
them off. And you know I didn't let him. I said, no, Dad,
that's too far. Just put them in the mail. I
shall let him come over, but I didn't want him
to drive that far.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Well that's the thing. You never know. That's that's the
point problem. You never know.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
So look, I'm not saying you have to like you
have to put a sign on the side of the
road that proclaims to the entire world that you love
them or whatever. It's just this morning, when Alex left
the house to go to work, the last thing that
we talked about was just nothing. We just hugged each
other and said, hey, you know, I said, have a
great day today, and he left.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
It was a positive thing.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
So this, you know, they say go to bed in
a fight, you know, Yeah, it's just never I want
to walk out that door if you're in the middle
of a conflict like that.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Ever, Yeah, because you just don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Let them go out into the world feeling love and
there's a great chance they are coming back today.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
You know.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Yeah maybe so you know, yeah, Nate, what are you
thinking about? Well, you know what I've gone through. Let's
flip this. This might be your last day, right. I
mean I was just sitting there eating some French fries
and all of a sudden I had my first stroke
and then the second time I remember crawling to the
toilet in the bathroom and I'm like, well, this is it,
(08:37):
this is how I'm going to die, and it might
be your last day. So say something to those people
that mean something to you. You know, last week I
reached out to a friend I haven't talked to him
fifteen years and it was just great to do that.
So just think that could be your last day. Not
somebody that you talked to every day, not your mom,
(08:58):
not your dad. That could be you. So say something
to those people that matter to you.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
This is true.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
But if I quoke today and screw it, bye, I'm gone,
there's no regrets there. I'm Tit's up, as they say,
so what are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
You know?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
No, but I do agree with that. It's like there
is a flip side of that, and you, of all people,
you and Foggy to a certain degree, understand that, and
we all should learn from that. So the ones you love,
make sure they know you love them. And if they
passed away today, you asked yourself, do you think they
knew I love them the moment the light went out?
And if the answer is yes, then become addicted to
(09:39):
treating everyone like that.
Today's Daily Highlight from Elvis Duran in the morning show.
Speaker 2 (00:05):
Hey, I don't know if you caught the story. I
know what we were just talking about it during the song.
But there was an entertainment anchor, reporter, beloved personality out
in Los Angeles. He worked at KTLATV. His name was
Sam Rubin, and all of LA was just floored and
just so sad when he died suddenly. I think it
(00:27):
was last Thursday. He did his last show on KTLA
and then the next morning he had passed away at
home from a massive heart attack. Didn't even see it
coming anyway, the outpouring of love from people in the
entertainment business, especially based in Los Angeles, the entertainment capital
of the world, arguably, all came out to talk about
(00:48):
how Sam Rubin was their favorite. He never really was
the kind of snarky reporter who wanted to go for
the jugular and make people embarrassed and looking for the headlines.
And he'd been a mainstay in the entertainment reporting world
Los Angeles for many, many years. Right, And you actually
knew him, You worked with him for a while, right, Nay?
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, Yeah, So when I worked in Los Angeles, he
was the go to anytime an entertainment story was breaking,
it would be get Sam on the phone. And Sam
was always so willing to help. At the drop of
a hat. He'd be like, Hey, when's your break time. Okay,
I can do it in fifteen minutes. Okay, perfect, And
he wouldn't even question. He would just jump on. And
he was just the nicest guy. I remember he would
(01:26):
even take I would go see movies and he would
take my movie review and talk about it on KTLA
Morning News and it was just an crazy thing. So
he was such a nice guy and he'll be missed,
so you know, he made his mark.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Well, they did something really interesting yesterday on KTLA. They
had his young son, Colby Ruben, come on with the
anchors at the anchor table to talk about his father
and it was very emotional and it's just you could
tell this kid, it's just heartbroken. He was talking about
how his dad was not only his best friend, he
learned so much from him on their car rides and
(02:01):
when he was a little when he was a boy scout,
when he was a little kid, his dad was the
only one that would that would hop on the lake
and his kayak and Kayak with him and he was
always there for his son. And his son looked at
the camera and said something that really hit me hard.
And we talked about this at dinner last night. You
never know when you're about to lose someone. Oh, sometimes
(02:23):
you do, sometimes you don't. Sometimes people will just leave
you without any warning, without any indication that they're done
with life, you know. With Uncle Johnny, look, he had
been sick for a long time, but still the day
he left us was a very sad day. But Kolby
(02:44):
Ruben was talking about his dad, Sam Ruben, and he
looked at the camera and if you want to look
at this yourself, there's a video online. He just said, Dad,
there's so many things I wish I would have told you,
so many things I wish I could have thanked you
for tell you how proud I am to be your son.
He said, I'm just living it's sort of un paraphrasing,
(03:06):
and living in a world of regret not being able
to do that before you left us.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Think about that. You never know.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
You kiss them goodbye in the morning and they head
out to school, or you head out to work, or
they head out to their work whatever. You just assume
they're coming back at five o'clock like they do every day,
and God willing, they will and they usually do right,
sometimes they don't. So how we treat people day in
(03:36):
and day out in our lives, people that really are
our best friends, our confidants. What we say to them,
it's so important. But what we don't say to them
is what you should be thinking about. How do you
treat the people that you love and you adore? Do
you ever thank them? Do you ever say hey, you
(03:58):
are f a awesome and I'm so proud of you
because you just went through this. I'm so happy that
you're in my life because you helped me struggle through that.
You know, just like Sam Ruben just without any explanation,
without any warning, had a heart attack and left his
family in an entire industry of people who are mourning
his loss. Never got to say hey, thank you, something
(04:19):
as simple as that. So keep that in mind as
you get.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
On with your day.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Maybe you could pick up a phone today and call someone.
Don't text them, you call them and say hey, I
just want to tell you I love you. They may
think you're a total fruitcake like Warre's this coming from.
Doesn't matter, Oh, well, at least you just said any thoughts.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
I think about that all the time, just the fact
that somebody can walk out the door and that vision
of them is the last vision that you're ever going
to see. And I try really hard to give people
their flowers while they're alive and tell them that you
love them and tell them that you're proud of them
and that you're happy to be their kid, and all
of those things, because it's life's crazy, you.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Know it is.
Speaker 6 (04:58):
Yeah, Frog, I I lost somebody, somebody I worked with
for a long time. Their spouse just passed away, and
I thought to myself, I remember the last time I
saw her, But I had no idea that that was
going to be the last time I saw her. And
it made me really sad to think that at some point,
most people you come into contact with in your life,
you will see them and you have no idea that
(05:19):
that will be the last time. So always make sure
that you leave on a note and say something nice
to somebody that leaves it okay, so that if that
is the last time you see them, you're okay with
that and can be at peace with how things ended.
Speaker 4 (05:31):
I see your mind work at work Danielle, what are
you thinking about?
Speaker 1 (05:34):
No, I'm just it's just all so scary.
Speaker 4 (05:37):
That's all you think about. You think about your dad
a little bit.
Speaker 1 (05:39):
Of course. I mean, you know, I always say to
my mom, like, I wish I had forced dad to
go to lunch with me. More, I wish I had
done this, I wish I had done that. And she
always says to me, you can't, you can't.
Speaker 4 (05:49):
You know, what are you going to do?
Speaker 1 (05:50):
This is the way it worked. He knew you loved him,
you know, blah blah blah. But you just you always
think about what you should have done differently or said
differently or you know.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
So, yeah, I'm telling you, Danielle, I remember your your mom.
Your your mom was what in the kitchen and your
dad was taking a nample on the couch.
Speaker 1 (06:09):
He was just sitting in the in the living room,
she was washing the dishes, and she came in and
he was he was gone, he was dead. And she
got called nine one one and they revived him. Unfortunately.
You know, sometimes I think when the oxygen has been
gone from your brain for too long, you never come
back like you were. And that was one of the issues.
But yeah, she's she said. He just said to me,
(06:33):
that was delicious. Do we have leftovers? That was the
last That was the last thing my mom said, and
my dad said, and my mom says, yeah, we have leftovers.
And the next thing, you know, she came in the
living room and that was it. He was gone.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Is so? So it is wild and so.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
But I know for a fact that when your dad
passed away, he knew how much you loved him.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
I think so. I think he definitely knew. But of
course she did, Bill, I don't think. I think even
though that person knows how much you love them, there
you're still going to always say I should have done this,
I should have done that. And my dad worked in
Jersey and I would say, Dad, come over, you know.
And then the day before he had said to me, Hey,
I want to I want to drop off my medical
(07:14):
records to you, because I had said I wanted somebody
else to look at them because I didn't trust the
doctors that he had. And he called me the day
before and said I'm going to come over and drop
them off. And you know I didn't let him. I said, no, Dad,
that's too far. Just put them in the mail. I
shall let him come over, but I didn't want him
to drive that far.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Well that's the thing. You never know. That's that's the
point problem. You never know.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
So look, I'm not saying you have to like you
have to put a sign on the side of the
road that proclaims to the entire world that you love
them or whatever. It's just this morning, when Alex left
the house to go to work, the last thing that
we talked about was just nothing. We just hugged each
other and said, hey, you know, I said, have a
great day today, and he left.
Speaker 4 (07:56):
It was a positive thing.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
So this, you know, they say go to bed in
a fight, you know, Yeah, it's just never I want
to walk out that door if you're in the middle
of a conflict like that.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Ever, Yeah, because you just don't know.
Speaker 2 (08:10):
Let them go out into the world feeling love and
there's a great chance they are coming back today.
Speaker 4 (08:14):
You know.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Yeah maybe so you know, yeah, Nate, what are you
thinking about? Well, you know what I've gone through. Let's
flip this. This might be your last day, right. I
mean I was just sitting there eating some French fries
and all of a sudden I had my first stroke
and then the second time I remember crawling to the
toilet in the bathroom and I'm like, well, this is it,
(08:37):
this is how I'm going to die, and it might
be your last day. So say something to those people
that mean something to you. You know, last week I
reached out to a friend I haven't talked to him
fifteen years and it was just great to do that.
So just think that could be your last day. Not
somebody that you talked to every day, not your mom,
(08:58):
not your dad. That could be you. So say something
to those people that matter to you.
Speaker 4 (09:03):
This is true.
Speaker 2 (09:03):
But if I quoke today and screw it, bye, I'm gone,
there's no regrets there. I'm Tit's up, as they say,
so what are you gonna do?
Speaker 4 (09:14):
You know?
Speaker 2 (09:15):
No, but I do agree with that. It's like there
is a flip side of that, and you, of all people,
you and Foggy to a certain degree, understand that, and
we all should learn from that. So the ones you love,
make sure they know you love them. And if they
passed away today, you asked yourself, do you think they
knew I love them the moment the light went out?
And if the answer is yes, then become addicted to
(09:39):
treating everyone like that.
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