December 12, 2025 • 34 mins
Is the Dems big play in ‘28 Newsom, AOC or none of the above??!!
That Girl! Marlo Thomas on the origin and 65-year history of The Saint Jude’s Children’s Hospital…our spotlight interview of the week!
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Well if you're just waking up its eight minutes after
the hour. Prosecutors are expected to rest their case next
week in accused killer Luigi Mangioni's suppression hearing. We also
have the architects of AI. They have been named Time
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Magazines Person of the Year. Hang on to that cover
see how it looks twenty thirty years from now. White
House says President Trump will act if Congress cannot come
up with a bill to fix the rising healthcare costs.
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And the Falcons.
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Last night, I started playoffs of fantasy football and I
couldn't decide who to start. A quarterback. Did okay with
Baker Mayfield not great. The quarterback last night was Kirk
Cousins three hundred and seventy three yards, three touchdowns, But
I started Kyle Pitts at tight end and three of
those Cousins' touchdowns once went to Kyle Pitts.
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So I had a big night, but the Bucks did not.
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The Falcons with the last second field goal win Thursday
Night Football twenty nine to twenty. All Right, those are
the things that's kind of in the news. As you know,
we go beyond the headlines, and we'd like to cover
stories that people are not going to or just ask
the questions that people don't often ask out loud. Gavin
Newsom is kind of big in the news he's coming
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out with a book, which is kind of you know,
old school what used to happen. A candidate comes out
with a book and then they run for president and
their book is you know, their entire crafting of a messenger,
message and a platform to run It hasn't really worked
(02:38):
that way as of late. And what we thought would
be wise is to make your case on podcasts, to
which Gavin Newsom tried to host a podcast.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I don't think that ever took off.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Now he's out with the book, now he's out doing
extensive interviews, and you know, for me, I would just
say it this way because I don't want to play
shirts and skins.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
If the economy.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Is big, if the housing crisis is big, if immigration
is divisive but still big, how do you put lipstick
on this pig? Do you think Gavin Newsom has any
solutions for the housing crisis state of California? I mean,
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if they're going to frame everything next year that spills
over into the presidential election cycle as an affordability crisis,
ask me where California falls on the wall at hub
affordability at least fiftieth driven by housing, which is.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Poster child if non affordability.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, and it's like, well, you know, when it comes
to immigration, you really can't painted all on him. Why
he does listen, Well, my intent was for you to listen.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
What is going on with this? Will not hit play
talk to me.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Others may say it, I did it first state in
the country, regardless of pre existing editions, ability to pay,
and regardless of your immigration status.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I promptly he believes in universal health care and he's
bragging about how he's done in California.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
But trust me, he's going to get to the border.
Must that I promoted it. I ran three times on it.
I did it when I was mayor. People know who
I am. We failed on the border. We need to
own up to that largest border crossing in the western
hemisphere in my state. Spend billion plus dollars to do
migrant centers try to put a lid on things, and
it was quite critical, but I tried to do it
in a respectful way of the Biden minstra.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
We failed on the border.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
We have to own that, but we've also failed as
a consequence because of that, to lead the comprehensive immigration question.
We've got to get the border right. Then we can
get to that. But I say that to make the
point you don't need sanctuary policy in this country if
we have a federal government doing its job. In the
absence of that, we'll deal with the cards that are dealt.
And one of the cards that are dealt is people
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are going to end up in the emergency room, and
you're going to pay for that one way or another.
I want to keep people out of the emergency room.
I want to keep people healthier, I want to keep
people safer. And that's why we've advanced these values. Trump
uses as a cudgel, uses very effectively to attack our
party and our values.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
But I'll stand up to it and well, while you're
admitting sins, do you want to get to homelessness? Do
you want to get to sanctuary cities? Do you want
to get to healthcare costs? Do you think twenty million
in a presidency coming through a porous open border might
(05:51):
be a threat to public safety, national security, healthcare costs
and premiums and the housing crisis. See, this is my point.
It's going to get Gavin Newsom and I remember when
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he first popped on the scene. I'm on KFAQ radio
in the early earliest of two thousands and some marriages,
walks out the front door of his mayor's office and
starts handing out marriage license and creates a crisis that
goes all the way to the Supreme Court. I guess
(06:31):
we should have seen the ambition Mayor of San Francisco,
governor President. He's taking a very traditional route. That's why
I brought up the book introducing his candidacy with a
book that old tactic, and he's gonna talk specifically about
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issues and in depth. That's going to be a problem.
Unless it's a mea copa, it's a problem. And he
tries to use the border as a me a copa,
but it's a it's a half hearted one.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
This will fail miserably because of life. Question for you though,
is he still the governor of California? Well, yeah, that's
what I'm saying, and they will all.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Has he done anything no to be the governor of California.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I mean he's doing everything but.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Well and and to run basically on the platform of
everything as the example of everything that people want fixed,
and he's the shiny example of its failure and admitting it.
And that's what I'm saying, as old school and so
you know this whole notion that's branding that he is
the early leader early. He's not the early leader. AOC
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is the early leader. In fact, today's is from the hill.
We have the early twenty twenty eight Democratic favorite among
young voters, but trust me, among the sosts led by
the young, but among the socialists, Bernie passed the torch
to AOC. Let me rephrase this in a question. If
Bernie would have got the nomination in twenty sixteen, if
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the DNC didn't rig it for Hillary, if Bernie would
have got the nomination in twenty twenty, if they didn't
rig it for old Joe and hide him in a basement,
and if Bernie probably would have got it again in
twenty four if they hadn't hung on to Joe, then
they were ready to jettison him once he had enough
electoral votes, and they hand the whole thing to Kamala Harris,
who they wanted originally in twenty twenty, and he hands
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the torch to AOC. You don't expect him to naturally
have the same I mean, when you think of what
Bernie did for three presidential nomination primaries, it's extraordinary. He
wasn't even a Democrat, and he passes the torch to AOC.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
You don't think the same thing's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
For see, am I the only one that's a Herman
Hermit's fan? Second verse same as the first. So whatever
ground Gavin Newsom's trying to hang on to.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I don't think he can. It's gonna be owned by
early momentum.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
AOC is gonna be the early leader, and then he
is not who the DNC is going to rig it for.
That's gonna go to Roney Manuel, that's gonna go to
the Maryland governor or Shapiro in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
He ain't of you a part of that. I would
be very, very shocked.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
In fact, I'm sitting here right now, and I do
this often because that's that's how you think things through
literally pretending I worked for Gavin Newsom and trying to
find him a lane, and I think I might be
coming to the conclusion of stay at home. I don't
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know where he finds a lane to run, but this
this tradition that he seems to be following. The traditional
pattern is a time passed. Releasing a book two years
before you run for president just isn't how you get
the word out. His podcast failed, like a state is failing,
(10:15):
and now he's just going around on different shows and
kind of getting into the weeds of the issues. It's
kind of I think it's following the old Barack Obama,
which is an interesting way of looking at it. If
Barack Obama were running today for the first time, would
it have played like it did then? No one of
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any party or no a party affiliation had ever achieved
the ability to move not just the young, but the young.
That doesn't exist anymore. And I don't know if even
Barack Obama or even a Mashel run could put that
(11:02):
back in a bottle. I don't know think gaven news
and has. I mean, because what was Brock really good at.
Brock was really good at compelling you with the statement
of the problem while never giving you a solution, and
you felt like that was a solution just by identifying it,
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just by saying it and getting very detailed in it.
So and Gavenus is trying to do all those things.
I just don't think that's the way you communicate in
twenty twenty eight, and things are a lot more celebrity driven,
and they're a lot more emotional driven and this guy
just doesn't drive emotions. But he's going to get in
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trouble if that interview is You know, if I were them,
I would look at this Ezra Kleine Show video and
look at it long and hard for the next year
and a half. If that's your approach, at the end
of the day, we're all going to look at him
and go, well, you're a great example of everything we're
(12:07):
trying to fix. That's broke. You presided over broke. There's
nobody that wants open borders. And all he's got is
a miakopa. We got to own that. We blew it.
And what about housing? What about healthcare? What about homelessness.
(12:29):
I think it's a tough road to be crowning him early.
As I mentioned, Representative AOC, she's among the young Democrat
voters number one hypothetical presidential candidates a Yale Youth poll,
and it was released on Monday, AOC with a double
digit lead over Kamala Harris, then even Gavin Newsom. He's
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not going to have the youth, he's not going to
be excited to the youth, and he's not going to
have the socialist momentum that is, let's face it, somewhere
between twenty six and thirty eight percent of the party.
Among Democrats, that's twenty three to twenty nine a whopping
thirty five percent would back AOC. I'm sparing you the
rooster this morning. But if you're a longtime listener of
the show, this shouldn't surprise you. While fifteen percent would
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support Harris, fourteen percent would go for Gavin Newsom. She's
got thirty five percent to fourteen percent lead over Gavin Newsom.
Among thirty to thirty four year olds, twenty nine percent
would support AOC, while fifteen percent would back Newsom, fourteen
percent with back Harris. All the change when you went
from thirty to thirty four was the one percentage point
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flip of Newsom and Kamala Harris. And listen, when you're
Gavin Newsom polling under Kamala Harris, that's a bad sign. Now,
when we go to Democrats age forty five to sixty four,
twenty three percent favor Harris, twenty two percent support Newsom,
but fifteen percent support budhaj Edge and eleven percent support AOC.
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The notion that I don't know about you read, but
the notion that forty five to sixty four. AOC is
polling now at eleven percent. It's more impressive than polling
at thirty five percent with young people. Those are real
numbers that are going to carry her deep, deep into
a primary. It's going to be another one of those
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Bernie Sanders like early runaway trains. The DNC is going
to have to involve itself and it's going to have
to rig it for someone else. You ought to be
thinking AOC and who they rig it for. I could
be wrong.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I have friends that say, don't ever make predictions on
the radio.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
There.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I don't care. It's sure.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I've lived enough life to know AOC is going to
be the early leader if she runs. Yeah, and she's
and they're gonna and they're gonna close with probably Robbie Manuel.
I think they they've kind of showed their hand on
that for people don't know how to watch, but keep
your eye on the Atlantic and you can see all
(15:07):
the storylines coming.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
This is your Morning show with Michael del Chrono. Give
me Blaine.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
You know, I haven't read Gavin's book and I'm not
going to. It sounds like a tale of two cities.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
David Copperfield and David Blaine making things disappear magically with
the wave of his flapping hands and uh sleeping beauty
at the same time, and he's probably stole it from
the mouse.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Two things. One, that's how you use the talk back button.
That's how we do talk radio today. You don't rot
on hold and waste your time. You go to the
if you're listening on the iHeart app, you go to
that little microphone press that it counts you down three
to one, gives you thirty seconds to ask a question,
make a comment, take your place at the table, just
like Blaine did. Secondly, I can see somebody like Pete
Boodagi because look, they're going to all run in a primary.
(15:58):
It won't be a Republican that will have to take
out Gavin Newsom. It'll be a Democrat in the primary.
And my guess is uh Budhajig would take him out.
Robny Manuel would take him out on his record, and
that's what's going to do him in.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
He presides over the problem, not the solution.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
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enjoy the podcast. There's a lot to catch up with Friday,
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with forty seven coming up in the third hour if
you're just picking up. The architects of AI have been
named Time Magazines Person of the Year.
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See how that ages.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Ukraine's president Zelensky says the latest talks with the US focused.
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On security guarantees.
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My problem with reading you that headline is every talk
from day one post invasion has been about ultimately long
term security guarantees. Not sure why they're not making any
ground on that front. And then you know, we started this.
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but we started, you know, for those I can't know
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I can't know who's listening later later in the day,
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Speaker 1 (18:01):
And this is this.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
I was just going to say all that to say,
this is the reason I created a spotlight Interview of
the week. Not because she was that girl, and not
just because of that dad she had, but together in
what she's done since the baton has been passed at
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her in a sixty three year history of Saint Jude
Children's Hospital is extraordinary. And I think you're going to
see by listening or hear from listening to this interview,
this is not the Marlo Thomas you expected. And there's
a reason why Saint Jude continues to shine, and shine
is an example and a potential, could it be will
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find the solution for our healthcare crisis? In our healthcare origin?
Have any of you looked at your birth certificate lately?
What's your birth certificate? Say what hospital? Jeffrey Jenny Stewart
Medical Center, Hopkins, Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Ooh, I don't know what that is? What about you?
He's read.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Putnam Memorial, Putnam Memorial, and I'm Saint Joseph's and I
wonder how many Saints are out there listening, or Baptist
Hospital or that. Because the church used to fund the hospitals,
how are they able to afford it? Let me do
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you one better. How does the Saint Jude Children's Hospital,
which is your actuarial worst nightmare? Young children, very ill,
needing years of care. And if you're at at Saint Jude's,
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it's either that serious or no one else could solve it.
And here they go into their sixty fifth year. It
was more than just a thrill of meeting that girl.
We meet the amazing woman behind the amazing hospital.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Good morning, Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I've only been in love with you since twelve years old.
Almost changed my name to Donald just so you might
be interested.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
You know, I'm on.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
In one hundred and seven stations nationwide in all the
big cities, but I happen to live in Nashville, Tennessee,
which is a stones throw from Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
And I'm very frille.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, oh yes, but we're very familiar with the Saint
Jute Hospital. You know, I've got pictures going back to
childhood of my dad with your father. I don't know
how they knew each other, but in the golden age
of television, the Danny Thomas Show was top shelf. Walk
us through first Dad and this vision. You know, I
think of Jerry Lewis and all the innovations and the
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great movies and the great comedy and show business, and
of course his legacy ends up being MDA. Your dad
may have one of the greatest legacies ever and you
and heroded it. And that is a hospital that gives
people the highest level of care with such love and
such support, and it needs to be supported by everyone,
and they're going to get a chance to do it.
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Here we are the twenty second year of the Saint
You Thanks and giving a top Brands campaign.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
But let's start with Dad. Where did this vision begin
and how did it come to be?
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Well, you know, my dad was a first generation American
and his parents came from Lebanon. You know Michael Azar,
my friend here, he's Lebanese. And they came from Lebanon,
had no money. They had ten children, nine boys and
a girl, and they were broke, of course, like most immigrants,
and they lived in an immigrant neighborhood, and they never.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Went to a doctor.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
My grandmother had all ten of those babies without a doctor,
just her sister and some hot water.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
That was it.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
And little kids in his neighborhood died of things like
influenza and appendicitis because they couldn't afford to go to
a doctor.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Made a big imprint on my dad.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
The children died because their parents couldn't afford a doctor.
And he had in his mind, if he was ever successful,
he was going to build a hospital where everyone could go,
of any race or religion, because he grew up in
a neighborhood of lots of races and religions and nationalities,
and nobody would pay. That was a huge dream of his,
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and he did it in nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
When he opened the hospital.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
He made the promise that no family would ever get
a bill for travel or treatment, or housing or food.
And people wondered if he'd be able to continue that,
And we have nobody's ever paid ever, and people I
remember I went on the View one day and woo,
big Goldberg said, now wait a minute, really nobody paid.
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What do you mean like no bill would mean not
even their lunch? I mean she couldn't get over it.
And you know the truth is, Michael, if you had
to pay, you couldn't it. No, just go, it doesn't exist.
The children come there for maybe a year, maybe two years.
It's millions of dollars to save one child's life, and
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the parents come not only terrified of losing their child,
but terrified that they're going to have to mortgage their house,
sell their car.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
They don't know what they're gonna have. How are they
going to pay for this?
Speaker 7 (23:19):
And you know any parent would sell their arms to
pay for their children's health, and so it's a great
burden off of them.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
They just focus on their child.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
And I'm so proud to be a part of it
because it's the real thing.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
You know.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
People say to me, what keeps you going? What keeps
me going? Are the children? To see them come there
sick as little dogs, and then a year later I
see the same kid skipping and hopping going home for
the holidays.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I have to I have three children, and I can
tell you I don't think I've ever cried out to
God for myself. When my daughter went through a tough time,
I cried out to God. I screamed out to God
and to be there for parents. I mean, these are
some of the worst cards that ever can be dealt.
And I don't know if your dad had this vision,
but one day this country would struggle to figure out
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the problem of healthcare and look at how his legacy
stands in the midst of that. And it's not just care,
it's some of the best doctors and the best care
and the legacy of love and support for the family
because they're going through something too.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
It's breathtaking. I mean, it's the easiest cell of my life.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Whenever I talk about people giving to the Saint Jude
Hospital and then we don't do telethons so much. I
mean we do still, but I love this because we're
all going to shop this holiday season and you've surrounded
yourself once again with big name celebrities and big brands
and made it so easy for us to make a
massive difference.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
Yeah, and you know, a lot of this is awareness
to Michael to let the people listening who have a
child that may be going through some strange symptoms. I
want them to go on Saint jud Oregon, look around
and see if those symptoms match up with anything that
we're working on and you might even you know, email
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or get in touch with Saint Jude and say what
it is, and then maybe they'll tell you to come.
I mean, I met a mother the other day who
got a death sentence for her six week old child
six weeks and several hospitals said that they just couldn't
help her. They removed a piece of this tumor that
the child had six weeks old, but they couldn't get
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all of it. Forty percent they could not get, and
they said she wouldn't make it. And the mother called
Saint Jude and she said, Saint Jude said, oh, come down,
let's let us try. And she came to my house
here at a fundraiser just last week and brought her daughter,
who's now six years old.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
And you just cry. I just cried when I see
that little girl running around. She'd be dead.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
The mother and father were here and they had already
picked out the burial plot. So that's the story of
Saint Jude. That's why I and this is my thirty
fourth year I think of working for Saint Jude since
my dad's been gone. And people say to me, how
do you keep the passion? I said, meet one child,
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one kid, meet one six week old child who now
is seven or eight years old, and you realize that
you have to do it.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
It's irresistible and it's so easy.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
Like you said, Michael, just go to the We have
these restaurants like Condominoes and Chili's, or stores like Kay
Jeweler's and Home Goods and Williams, so Noma and so
many others, and they open up their doors and their
hearts and they say to their customers, just add a
little something for the kids.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
To Saint Jude. You know, you've got to be out shopping.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
Anyway for food and presents and everything for the family
and have a Mary Mary and a Mary.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Hanukkah and all of it.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
And so just our motto is it gives thanks for
the healthy kids in your life and give to those
who are not.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
And that is the basis of it all.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
You know, while we're enjoying this, there are families struggling
to keep their child alive. And you have children, Michael,
so you know, there's nothing, nothing, nothing more important.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
No, And I'm struck.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
We're talking to that girl about that dad and that
amazing hospital of care and hope, the Saint Hued Hospital
and how you can help the holiday season. You can
always go to the website and find the participating brands.
There's a lot of stars and celebrities you love their
work that are encouraging you to do the same. I
won't leave it at just going to those places and
rounding up some of you might want to even perfectly
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consider making some donations at end of your time.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
But you know, I go back to the power of
your dad.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
It was, you know, the things that happened to us,
or the things that we witness, they often, you know,
are uniquely empowering us to make a difference. And he
took us simple action. He couldn't possibly have known everything
it would become that it has. And somebody needs to
look you in the eye and say, and we're you've
taken it since in that passing of the baton.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Yeah, it's yeah, it's our honor. You know.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
It's because nobody pays, and because we're not for profit,
we have to get about eighty nine percent of our
money from the public. Now, a regular hospital, wonderful hospitals
that are are for profit and do have paying customers,
they have to get under ten percent from the customer
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from the donors and the country, so shows like yours
and the Today Show and all these stores that help us.
That's the only way we're going to do it. We
can't pay for it. We have to raise the money.
We have to raise the money to bring the greatest
scientists and researchers to Saint Jude and the doctors.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
That's what's important. You know.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
I was saying to somebody just a bit of go
that it's like a Babylon at Saint Jude. You've got
some of the doctor from China, and you've got one
from Ukraine and an other one from France and Portugal
and everywhere, and they'd come and do their best work
and create the trials that they're going to try on
the children who've been given a death sentence from other places.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
That's the secret sauce of Saint Jude.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
That's the brilliance of my dad to put the research
teams and the clinical teams under one roof, so that synergy,
that that collaboration. Science is a collaboration, it's not a
one man's sport. So when they create something in the
clinic at the laboratory, they take it to the clinic
and try it on this six week old child who's
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been given a death sentence. That's the excitement, and that's
what keeps me alive and going because I know we're
saving children's lives.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I can tell you as a dad, I mean I've
done a lot for homelessness in my lifetime. I would
think the thought that my daughter, one of my two daughters,
or my son would take that baton and take it
to an even higher level would mean so much more
more than whatever I was blessed enough to be involved with.
Your dad would be so proud of you. Can I
ask one personal question? Why did we not?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
You were so.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Brilliant in that girl? What happened that we didn't see
more of you in the coming years? And well, you
were a great, great actress. You did a lot before
that girl.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
But I mean, yeah, well you know I won Miami
for Best Dramatic Actress in nineteen eighty six. That was
way after that girl. Yeah, so I did a lot.
I just didn't do another series. And I did a
couple of Broadway plays and actually, Michael, I want to
do another series now, So if you can think of one,
I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
How about that girl in that fat talk host actually
got that back, all right, So Marla, let's just wrap
this up with a bow to get where should they go?
To get the complete list of all the brands. These
are places we're gonna go, We're gonna shop, but with
a little extra we can make a huge difference collectively
and encourage all of them. Or it would be a
good way to get a list of all the participating
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places to say.
Speaker 7 (31:00):
Jud dot org, where you could incidentally also make a donation,
and you'll see the list of the places you can
go and give money to. You'll see the stars like
Drew Barrymore and Sophia Vigaar and Michael strand John Ham,
Lewis Fonsie and see their commercials, and you can also
see stories of the children. It's a wonderful website. We'll
give you a lot of information. You know, what I'm
(31:22):
just saying today and you're talking about today is just
a tip of the iceberg. There's so much more to know.
But you can certainly make a donation at St Jude
dot org.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Oh'd great, God bless this legacy. I hope everybody listening
to the show finds these participating locations and does some
shopping there and makes an extra difference or makes a donation.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I know I will.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Mar Marlow, thank you for everything that you and dad
have created for mothers and fathers who are screaming out hope.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
I think the one thing you said that hit the
home with me the most. Even even if you had.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
To pay, you couldn't afford it, not the level of
care that's given it sane.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Exactly and great to meet you.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
Thank you, Michael, Marry married to you and your kids
and your wife, and your dog and your cat.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Whatever else you got.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Of this, I got all of them. Merry Christmas to
you and yours as well. Hey, do me a favor.
Can you just kill the music just for a second.
There's three takeaways I don't want you to miss. One
is the story of Danny Thomas. When things happen in
your life of impact, it's for a reason. I went
to school with a kid he unfortunately bordered an area
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of upper middle class to wealth, and he went to
school every day wearing the same pair of pants, the
same shoes, the same shirt, and everybody made fun of him,
and I always defended him and tried to encourage him.
Why it never dawned on me to just bring him
some clothes haunted me for the rest of my childhood,
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and he took his life at like thirteen years old.
Then I had and I've shared this story on the
air before a remarkable week on a beach with a
Vietnam veteran. And that's why every time I did anything
for homelessness, it was anointed and multiplied. When you witness
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things that bother you, you're probably the one to solve it.
The other takeaway is he took a simple action, a
simple shot, and look what it turned into. The third
thing I don't want you to miss there was a
time our churches educated our children. Our churches were the hospitals.
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You're in the midst of a healthcare crisis, and you
think a government is the solution. If you go back
to the beginning, it was never involved. And the Saint
Jude Children's Hospital should haunt everyone. It sits every day.
No one provides better care for a longer period of time,
with better doctors, and that's all supported by people. The
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third takeaway, go to Saint You dot org and perfectly get.
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Well if you're just waking up its eight minutes after
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Magazines Person of the Year. Hang on to that cover
see how it looks twenty thirty years from now. White
House says President Trump will act if Congress cannot come
up with a bill to fix the rising healthcare costs.
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And the Falcons.
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Last night, I started playoffs of fantasy football and I
couldn't decide who to start. A quarterback. Did okay with
Baker Mayfield not great. The quarterback last night was Kirk
Cousins three hundred and seventy three yards, three touchdowns, But
I started Kyle Pitts at tight end and three of
those Cousins' touchdowns once went to Kyle Pitts.
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So I had a big night, but the Bucks did not.
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The Falcons with the last second field goal win Thursday
Night Football twenty nine to twenty. All Right, those are
the things that's kind of in the news. As you know,
we go beyond the headlines, and we'd like to cover
stories that people are not going to or just ask
the questions that people don't often ask out loud. Gavin
Newsom is kind of big in the news he's coming
(02:16):
out with a book, which is kind of you know,
old school what used to happen. A candidate comes out
with a book and then they run for president and
their book is you know, their entire crafting of a messenger,
message and a platform to run It hasn't really worked
(02:38):
that way as of late. And what we thought would
be wise is to make your case on podcasts, to
which Gavin Newsom tried to host a podcast.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I don't think that ever took off.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Now he's out with the book, now he's out doing
extensive interviews, and you know, for me, I would just
say it this way because I don't want to play
shirts and skins.
Speaker 1 (03:06):
If the economy.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Is big, if the housing crisis is big, if immigration
is divisive but still big, how do you put lipstick
on this pig? Do you think Gavin Newsom has any
solutions for the housing crisis state of California? I mean,
(03:33):
if they're going to frame everything next year that spills
over into the presidential election cycle as an affordability crisis,
ask me where California falls on the wall at hub
affordability at least fiftieth driven by housing, which is.
Speaker 1 (03:54):
Poster child if non affordability.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
Yeah, and it's like, well, you know, when it comes
to immigration, you really can't painted all on him. Why
he does listen, Well, my intent was for you to listen.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
What is going on with this? Will not hit play
talk to me.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Others may say it, I did it first state in
the country, regardless of pre existing editions, ability to pay,
and regardless of your immigration status.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
I promptly he believes in universal health care and he's
bragging about how he's done in California.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
But trust me, he's going to get to the border.
Must that I promoted it. I ran three times on it.
I did it when I was mayor. People know who
I am. We failed on the border. We need to
own up to that largest border crossing in the western
hemisphere in my state. Spend billion plus dollars to do
migrant centers try to put a lid on things, and
it was quite critical, but I tried to do it
in a respectful way of the Biden minstra.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
We failed on the border.
Speaker 4 (04:49):
We have to own that, but we've also failed as
a consequence because of that, to lead the comprehensive immigration question.
We've got to get the border right. Then we can
get to that. But I say that to make the
point you don't need sanctuary policy in this country if
we have a federal government doing its job. In the
absence of that, we'll deal with the cards that are dealt.
And one of the cards that are dealt is people
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are going to end up in the emergency room, and
you're going to pay for that one way or another.
I want to keep people out of the emergency room.
I want to keep people healthier, I want to keep
people safer. And that's why we've advanced these values. Trump
uses as a cudgel, uses very effectively to attack our
party and our values.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
But I'll stand up to it and well, while you're
admitting sins, do you want to get to homelessness? Do
you want to get to sanctuary cities? Do you want
to get to healthcare costs? Do you think twenty million
in a presidency coming through a porous open border might
(05:51):
be a threat to public safety, national security, healthcare costs
and premiums and the housing crisis. See, this is my point.
It's going to get Gavin Newsom and I remember when
(06:11):
he first popped on the scene. I'm on KFAQ radio
in the early earliest of two thousands and some marriages,
walks out the front door of his mayor's office and
starts handing out marriage license and creates a crisis that
goes all the way to the Supreme Court. I guess
(06:31):
we should have seen the ambition Mayor of San Francisco,
governor President. He's taking a very traditional route. That's why
I brought up the book introducing his candidacy with a
book that old tactic, and he's gonna talk specifically about
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issues and in depth. That's going to be a problem.
Unless it's a mea copa, it's a problem. And he
tries to use the border as a me a copa,
but it's a it's a half hearted one.
Speaker 1 (07:08):
This will fail miserably because of life. Question for you though,
is he still the governor of California? Well, yeah, that's
what I'm saying, and they will all.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Has he done anything no to be the governor of California.
Speaker 1 (07:25):
I mean he's doing everything but.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Well and and to run basically on the platform of
everything as the example of everything that people want fixed,
and he's the shiny example of its failure and admitting it.
And that's what I'm saying, as old school and so
you know this whole notion that's branding that he is
the early leader early. He's not the early leader. AOC
(07:51):
is the early leader. In fact, today's is from the hill.
We have the early twenty twenty eight Democratic favorite among
young voters, but trust me, among the sosts led by
the young, but among the socialists, Bernie passed the torch
to AOC. Let me rephrase this in a question. If
Bernie would have got the nomination in twenty sixteen, if
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the DNC didn't rig it for Hillary, if Bernie would
have got the nomination in twenty twenty, if they didn't
rig it for old Joe and hide him in a basement,
and if Bernie probably would have got it again in
twenty four if they hadn't hung on to Joe, then
they were ready to jettison him once he had enough
electoral votes, and they hand the whole thing to Kamala Harris,
who they wanted originally in twenty twenty, and he hands
(08:39):
the torch to AOC. You don't expect him to naturally
have the same I mean, when you think of what
Bernie did for three presidential nomination primaries, it's extraordinary. He
wasn't even a Democrat, and he passes the torch to AOC.
Speaker 1 (08:58):
You don't think the same thing's going to happen.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
For see, am I the only one that's a Herman
Hermit's fan? Second verse same as the first. So whatever
ground Gavin Newsom's trying to hang on to.
Speaker 1 (09:10):
I don't think he can. It's gonna be owned by
early momentum.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
AOC is gonna be the early leader, and then he
is not who the DNC is going to rig it for.
That's gonna go to Roney Manuel, that's gonna go to
the Maryland governor or Shapiro in Pennsylvania.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
He ain't of you a part of that. I would
be very, very shocked.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
In fact, I'm sitting here right now, and I do
this often because that's that's how you think things through
literally pretending I worked for Gavin Newsom and trying to
find him a lane, and I think I might be
coming to the conclusion of stay at home. I don't
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know where he finds a lane to run, but this
this tradition that he seems to be following. The traditional
pattern is a time passed. Releasing a book two years
before you run for president just isn't how you get
the word out. His podcast failed, like a state is failing,
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and now he's just going around on different shows and
kind of getting into the weeds of the issues. It's
kind of I think it's following the old Barack Obama,
which is an interesting way of looking at it. If
Barack Obama were running today for the first time, would
it have played like it did then? No one of
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any party or no a party affiliation had ever achieved
the ability to move not just the young, but the young.
That doesn't exist anymore. And I don't know if even
Barack Obama or even a Mashel run could put that
(11:02):
back in a bottle. I don't know think gaven news
and has. I mean, because what was Brock really good at.
Brock was really good at compelling you with the statement
of the problem while never giving you a solution, and
you felt like that was a solution just by identifying it,
(11:24):
just by saying it and getting very detailed in it.
So and Gavenus is trying to do all those things.
I just don't think that's the way you communicate in
twenty twenty eight, and things are a lot more celebrity driven,
and they're a lot more emotional driven and this guy
just doesn't drive emotions. But he's going to get in
(11:45):
trouble if that interview is You know, if I were them,
I would look at this Ezra Kleine Show video and
look at it long and hard for the next year
and a half. If that's your approach, at the end
of the day, we're all going to look at him
and go, well, you're a great example of everything we're
(12:07):
trying to fix. That's broke. You presided over broke. There's
nobody that wants open borders. And all he's got is
a miakopa. We got to own that. We blew it.
And what about housing? What about healthcare? What about homelessness.
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I think it's a tough road to be crowning him early.
As I mentioned, Representative AOC, she's among the young Democrat
voters number one hypothetical presidential candidates a Yale Youth poll,
and it was released on Monday, AOC with a double
digit lead over Kamala Harris, then even Gavin Newsom. He's
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not going to have the youth, he's not going to
be excited to the youth, and he's not going to
have the socialist momentum that is, let's face it, somewhere
between twenty six and thirty eight percent of the party.
Among Democrats, that's twenty three to twenty nine a whopping
thirty five percent would back AOC. I'm sparing you the
rooster this morning. But if you're a longtime listener of
the show, this shouldn't surprise you. While fifteen percent would
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support Harris, fourteen percent would go for Gavin Newsom. She's
got thirty five percent to fourteen percent lead over Gavin Newsom.
Among thirty to thirty four year olds, twenty nine percent
would support AOC, while fifteen percent would back Newsom, fourteen
percent with back Harris. All the change when you went
from thirty to thirty four was the one percentage point
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flip of Newsom and Kamala Harris. And listen, when you're
Gavin Newsom polling under Kamala Harris, that's a bad sign. Now,
when we go to Democrats age forty five to sixty four,
twenty three percent favor Harris, twenty two percent support Newsom,
but fifteen percent support budhaj Edge and eleven percent support AOC.
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The notion that I don't know about you read, but
the notion that forty five to sixty four. AOC is
polling now at eleven percent. It's more impressive than polling
at thirty five percent with young people. Those are real
numbers that are going to carry her deep, deep into
a primary. It's going to be another one of those
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Bernie Sanders like early runaway trains. The DNC is going
to have to involve itself and it's going to have
to rig it for someone else. You ought to be
thinking AOC and who they rig it for. I could
be wrong.
Speaker 1 (14:43):
I have friends that say, don't ever make predictions on
the radio.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
There.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
I don't care. It's sure.
Speaker 2 (14:47):
I've lived enough life to know AOC is going to
be the early leader if she runs. Yeah, and she's
and they're gonna and they're gonna close with probably Robbie Manuel.
I think they they've kind of showed their hand on
that for people don't know how to watch, but keep
your eye on the Atlantic and you can see all
(15:07):
the storylines coming.
Speaker 1 (15:10):
This is your Morning show with Michael del Chrono. Give
me Blaine.
Speaker 6 (15:15):
You know, I haven't read Gavin's book and I'm not
going to. It sounds like a tale of two cities.
Speaker 1 (15:20):
Uh.
Speaker 6 (15:21):
David Copperfield and David Blaine making things disappear magically with
the wave of his flapping hands and uh sleeping beauty
at the same time, and he's probably stole it from
the mouse.
Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:34):
Two things. One, that's how you use the talk back button.
That's how we do talk radio today. You don't rot
on hold and waste your time. You go to the
if you're listening on the iHeart app, you go to
that little microphone press that it counts you down three
to one, gives you thirty seconds to ask a question,
make a comment, take your place at the table, just
like Blaine did. Secondly, I can see somebody like Pete
Boodagi because look, they're going to all run in a primary.
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It won't be a Republican that will have to take
out Gavin Newsom. It'll be a Democrat in the primary.
And my guess is uh Budhajig would take him out.
Robny Manuel would take him out on his record, and
that's what's going to do him in.
Speaker 1 (16:15):
He presides over the problem, not the solution.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Hey y'all, it's Mike McCann, the announcer guy down in
New Orleans, and my morning show is your morning Show
with Michael del Juneo.
Speaker 1 (16:36):
Hey it's Michael.
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a part of your morning routine. But so glad you're here. Now,
enjoy the podcast. There's a lot to catch up with Friday,
(16:57):
with forty seven coming up in the third hour if
you're just picking up. The architects of AI have been
named Time Magazines Person of the Year.
Speaker 1 (17:05):
See how that ages.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
Ukraine's president Zelensky says the latest talks with the US focused.
Speaker 1 (17:10):
On security guarantees.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
My problem with reading you that headline is every talk
from day one post invasion has been about ultimately long
term security guarantees. Not sure why they're not making any
ground on that front. And then you know, we started this.
(17:34):
I don't know how many. I guess this was our
year two change. I wonder what year three change will be,
but we started, you know, for those I can't know
who's listening live as a part of their morning routine.
I can't know who's listening later later in the day,
days later to the podcast, but for people that wake
(17:56):
up live and in a routine, it's possible to miss
some of our big interviews.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
And this is this.
Speaker 2 (18:03):
I was just going to say all that to say,
this is the reason I created a spotlight Interview of
the week. Not because she was that girl, and not
just because of that dad she had, but together in
what she's done since the baton has been passed at
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her in a sixty three year history of Saint Jude
Children's Hospital is extraordinary. And I think you're going to
see by listening or hear from listening to this interview,
this is not the Marlo Thomas you expected. And there's
a reason why Saint Jude continues to shine, and shine
is an example and a potential, could it be will
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find the solution for our healthcare crisis? In our healthcare origin?
Have any of you looked at your birth certificate lately?
What's your birth certificate? Say what hospital? Jeffrey Jenny Stewart
Medical Center, Hopkins, Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (19:01):
Ooh, I don't know what that is? What about you?
He's read.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Putnam Memorial, Putnam Memorial, and I'm Saint Joseph's and I
wonder how many Saints are out there listening, or Baptist
Hospital or that. Because the church used to fund the hospitals,
how are they able to afford it? Let me do
(19:27):
you one better. How does the Saint Jude Children's Hospital,
which is your actuarial worst nightmare? Young children, very ill,
needing years of care. And if you're at at Saint Jude's,
(19:48):
it's either that serious or no one else could solve it.
And here they go into their sixty fifth year. It
was more than just a thrill of meeting that girl.
We meet the amazing woman behind the amazing hospital.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
Good morning, Good morning, Michael.
Speaker 2 (20:09):
I've only been in love with you since twelve years old.
Almost changed my name to Donald just so you might
be interested.
Speaker 1 (20:17):
You know, I'm on.
Speaker 2 (20:18):
In one hundred and seven stations nationwide in all the
big cities, but I happen to live in Nashville, Tennessee,
which is a stones throw from Memphis, Tennessee.
Speaker 5 (20:26):
And I'm very frille.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, oh yes, but we're very familiar with the Saint
Jute Hospital. You know, I've got pictures going back to
childhood of my dad with your father. I don't know
how they knew each other, but in the golden age
of television, the Danny Thomas Show was top shelf. Walk
us through first Dad and this vision. You know, I
think of Jerry Lewis and all the innovations and the
(20:50):
great movies and the great comedy and show business, and
of course his legacy ends up being MDA. Your dad
may have one of the greatest legacies ever and you
and heroded it. And that is a hospital that gives
people the highest level of care with such love and
such support, and it needs to be supported by everyone,
and they're going to get a chance to do it.
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Here we are the twenty second year of the Saint
You Thanks and giving a top Brands campaign.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
But let's start with Dad. Where did this vision begin
and how did it come to be?
Speaker 7 (21:21):
Well, you know, my dad was a first generation American
and his parents came from Lebanon. You know Michael Azar,
my friend here, he's Lebanese. And they came from Lebanon,
had no money. They had ten children, nine boys and
a girl, and they were broke, of course, like most immigrants,
and they lived in an immigrant neighborhood, and they never.
Speaker 5 (21:40):
Went to a doctor.
Speaker 7 (21:41):
My grandmother had all ten of those babies without a doctor,
just her sister and some hot water.
Speaker 1 (21:46):
That was it.
Speaker 7 (21:47):
And little kids in his neighborhood died of things like
influenza and appendicitis because they couldn't afford to go to
a doctor.
Speaker 5 (22:00):
Made a big imprint on my dad.
Speaker 7 (22:02):
The children died because their parents couldn't afford a doctor.
And he had in his mind, if he was ever successful,
he was going to build a hospital where everyone could go,
of any race or religion, because he grew up in
a neighborhood of lots of races and religions and nationalities,
and nobody would pay. That was a huge dream of his,
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and he did it in nineteen sixty two.
Speaker 5 (22:27):
When he opened the hospital.
Speaker 7 (22:28):
He made the promise that no family would ever get
a bill for travel or treatment, or housing or food.
And people wondered if he'd be able to continue that,
And we have nobody's ever paid ever, and people I
remember I went on the View one day and woo,
big Goldberg said, now wait a minute, really nobody paid.
(22:48):
What do you mean like no bill would mean not
even their lunch? I mean she couldn't get over it.
And you know the truth is, Michael, if you had
to pay, you couldn't it. No, just go, it doesn't exist.
The children come there for maybe a year, maybe two years.
It's millions of dollars to save one child's life, and
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the parents come not only terrified of losing their child,
but terrified that they're going to have to mortgage their house,
sell their car.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
They don't know what they're gonna have. How are they
going to pay for this?
Speaker 7 (23:19):
And you know any parent would sell their arms to
pay for their children's health, and so it's a great
burden off of them.
Speaker 5 (23:26):
They just focus on their child.
Speaker 7 (23:28):
And I'm so proud to be a part of it
because it's the real thing.
Speaker 5 (23:32):
You know.
Speaker 7 (23:33):
People say to me, what keeps you going? What keeps
me going? Are the children? To see them come there
sick as little dogs, and then a year later I
see the same kid skipping and hopping going home for
the holidays.
Speaker 2 (23:46):
I have to I have three children, and I can
tell you I don't think I've ever cried out to
God for myself. When my daughter went through a tough time,
I cried out to God. I screamed out to God
and to be there for parents. I mean, these are
some of the worst cards that ever can be dealt.
And I don't know if your dad had this vision,
but one day this country would struggle to figure out
(24:08):
the problem of healthcare and look at how his legacy
stands in the midst of that. And it's not just care,
it's some of the best doctors and the best care
and the legacy of love and support for the family
because they're going through something too.
Speaker 1 (24:24):
It's breathtaking. I mean, it's the easiest cell of my life.
Speaker 2 (24:28):
Whenever I talk about people giving to the Saint Jude
Hospital and then we don't do telethons so much. I
mean we do still, but I love this because we're
all going to shop this holiday season and you've surrounded
yourself once again with big name celebrities and big brands
and made it so easy for us to make a
massive difference.
Speaker 7 (24:46):
Yeah, and you know, a lot of this is awareness
to Michael to let the people listening who have a
child that may be going through some strange symptoms. I
want them to go on Saint jud Oregon, look around
and see if those symptoms match up with anything that
we're working on and you might even you know, email
(25:08):
or get in touch with Saint Jude and say what
it is, and then maybe they'll tell you to come.
I mean, I met a mother the other day who
got a death sentence for her six week old child
six weeks and several hospitals said that they just couldn't
help her. They removed a piece of this tumor that
the child had six weeks old, but they couldn't get
(25:31):
all of it. Forty percent they could not get, and
they said she wouldn't make it. And the mother called
Saint Jude and she said, Saint Jude said, oh, come down,
let's let us try. And she came to my house
here at a fundraiser just last week and brought her daughter,
who's now six years old.
Speaker 5 (25:50):
And you just cry. I just cried when I see
that little girl running around. She'd be dead.
Speaker 7 (25:55):
The mother and father were here and they had already
picked out the burial plot. So that's the story of
Saint Jude. That's why I and this is my thirty
fourth year I think of working for Saint Jude since
my dad's been gone. And people say to me, how
do you keep the passion? I said, meet one child,
(26:15):
one kid, meet one six week old child who now
is seven or eight years old, and you realize that
you have to do it.
Speaker 5 (26:24):
It's irresistible and it's so easy.
Speaker 7 (26:27):
Like you said, Michael, just go to the We have
these restaurants like Condominoes and Chili's, or stores like Kay
Jeweler's and Home Goods and Williams, so Noma and so
many others, and they open up their doors and their
hearts and they say to their customers, just add a
little something for the kids.
Speaker 5 (26:44):
To Saint Jude. You know, you've got to be out shopping.
Speaker 7 (26:46):
Anyway for food and presents and everything for the family
and have a Mary Mary and a Mary.
Speaker 5 (26:52):
Hanukkah and all of it.
Speaker 7 (26:54):
And so just our motto is it gives thanks for
the healthy kids in your life and give to those
who are not.
Speaker 5 (27:01):
And that is the basis of it all.
Speaker 7 (27:04):
You know, while we're enjoying this, there are families struggling
to keep their child alive. And you have children, Michael,
so you know, there's nothing, nothing, nothing more important.
Speaker 1 (27:14):
No, And I'm struck.
Speaker 2 (27:15):
We're talking to that girl about that dad and that
amazing hospital of care and hope, the Saint Hued Hospital
and how you can help the holiday season. You can
always go to the website and find the participating brands.
There's a lot of stars and celebrities you love their
work that are encouraging you to do the same. I
won't leave it at just going to those places and
rounding up some of you might want to even perfectly
(27:36):
consider making some donations at end of your time.
Speaker 1 (27:39):
But you know, I go back to the power of
your dad.
Speaker 2 (27:42):
It was, you know, the things that happened to us,
or the things that we witness, they often, you know,
are uniquely empowering us to make a difference. And he
took us simple action. He couldn't possibly have known everything
it would become that it has. And somebody needs to
look you in the eye and say, and we're you've
taken it since in that passing of the baton.
Speaker 5 (28:04):
Yeah, it's yeah, it's our honor. You know.
Speaker 7 (28:09):
It's because nobody pays, and because we're not for profit,
we have to get about eighty nine percent of our
money from the public. Now, a regular hospital, wonderful hospitals
that are are for profit and do have paying customers,
they have to get under ten percent from the customer
(28:31):
from the donors and the country, so shows like yours
and the Today Show and all these stores that help us.
That's the only way we're going to do it. We
can't pay for it. We have to raise the money.
We have to raise the money to bring the greatest
scientists and researchers to Saint Jude and the doctors.
Speaker 5 (28:49):
That's what's important. You know.
Speaker 7 (28:51):
I was saying to somebody just a bit of go
that it's like a Babylon at Saint Jude. You've got
some of the doctor from China, and you've got one
from Ukraine and an other one from France and Portugal
and everywhere, and they'd come and do their best work
and create the trials that they're going to try on
the children who've been given a death sentence from other places.
Speaker 5 (29:14):
That's the secret sauce of Saint Jude.
Speaker 7 (29:16):
That's the brilliance of my dad to put the research
teams and the clinical teams under one roof, so that synergy,
that that collaboration. Science is a collaboration, it's not a
one man's sport. So when they create something in the
clinic at the laboratory, they take it to the clinic
and try it on this six week old child who's
(29:38):
been given a death sentence. That's the excitement, and that's
what keeps me alive and going because I know we're
saving children's lives.
Speaker 2 (29:47):
I can tell you as a dad, I mean I've
done a lot for homelessness in my lifetime. I would
think the thought that my daughter, one of my two daughters,
or my son would take that baton and take it
to an even higher level would mean so much more
more than whatever I was blessed enough to be involved with.
Your dad would be so proud of you. Can I
ask one personal question? Why did we not?
Speaker 1 (30:07):
You were so.
Speaker 2 (30:08):
Brilliant in that girl? What happened that we didn't see
more of you in the coming years? And well, you
were a great, great actress. You did a lot before
that girl.
Speaker 7 (30:18):
But I mean, yeah, well you know I won Miami
for Best Dramatic Actress in nineteen eighty six. That was
way after that girl. Yeah, so I did a lot.
I just didn't do another series. And I did a
couple of Broadway plays and actually, Michael, I want to
do another series now, So if you can think of one,
I'll do it.
Speaker 2 (30:36):
How about that girl in that fat talk host actually
got that back, all right, So Marla, let's just wrap
this up with a bow to get where should they go?
To get the complete list of all the brands. These
are places we're gonna go, We're gonna shop, but with
a little extra we can make a huge difference collectively
and encourage all of them. Or it would be a
good way to get a list of all the participating
(30:58):
places to say.
Speaker 7 (31:00):
Jud dot org, where you could incidentally also make a donation,
and you'll see the list of the places you can
go and give money to. You'll see the stars like
Drew Barrymore and Sophia Vigaar and Michael strand John Ham,
Lewis Fonsie and see their commercials, and you can also
see stories of the children. It's a wonderful website. We'll
give you a lot of information. You know, what I'm
(31:22):
just saying today and you're talking about today is just
a tip of the iceberg. There's so much more to know.
But you can certainly make a donation at St Jude
dot org.
Speaker 2 (31:31):
Oh'd great, God bless this legacy. I hope everybody listening
to the show finds these participating locations and does some
shopping there and makes an extra difference or makes a donation.
Speaker 1 (31:43):
I know I will.
Speaker 2 (31:44):
Mar Marlow, thank you for everything that you and dad
have created for mothers and fathers who are screaming out hope.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
I think the one thing you said that hit the
home with me the most. Even even if you had.
Speaker 2 (31:56):
To pay, you couldn't afford it, not the level of
care that's given it sane.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Exactly and great to meet you.
Speaker 7 (32:03):
Thank you, Michael, Marry married to you and your kids
and your wife, and your dog and your cat.
Speaker 5 (32:07):
Whatever else you got.
Speaker 2 (32:08):
Of this, I got all of them. Merry Christmas to
you and yours as well. Hey, do me a favor.
Can you just kill the music just for a second.
There's three takeaways I don't want you to miss. One
is the story of Danny Thomas. When things happen in
your life of impact, it's for a reason. I went
to school with a kid he unfortunately bordered an area
(32:33):
of upper middle class to wealth, and he went to
school every day wearing the same pair of pants, the
same shoes, the same shirt, and everybody made fun of him,
and I always defended him and tried to encourage him.
Why it never dawned on me to just bring him
some clothes haunted me for the rest of my childhood,
(32:53):
and he took his life at like thirteen years old.
Then I had and I've shared this story on the
air before a remarkable week on a beach with a
Vietnam veteran. And that's why every time I did anything
for homelessness, it was anointed and multiplied. When you witness
(33:14):
things that bother you, you're probably the one to solve it.
The other takeaway is he took a simple action, a
simple shot, and look what it turned into. The third
thing I don't want you to miss there was a
time our churches educated our children. Our churches were the hospitals.
(33:38):
You're in the midst of a healthcare crisis, and you
think a government is the solution. If you go back
to the beginning, it was never involved. And the Saint
Jude Children's Hospital should haunt everyone. It sits every day.
No one provides better care for a longer period of time,
with better doctors, and that's all supported by people. The
(34:02):
third takeaway, go to Saint You dot org and perfectly get.
Speaker 1 (34:05):
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