September 6, 2025 • 36 mins
Saturday’s with Tiffany Hour 2 – Tiffany is diving deep into the lottery curse. PLUS, we are talking to Maryville CEO and President Steven Gunther. Maryville is LA’s oldest children’s charity. It’s all on KFIAM-640!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Saturdays. It is time to one one. The week's been hot.
Time to ease my mind. Turn on my radio just
in time.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Tiffany Hobbs got it feeling fun Jay Saturday.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Okay if I am six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Tiffany Hobbs here with you till seven.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
And wasn't that a great conversation with Sasha Cano of
that farm Lot fifty nine out there in Long Beach.
Incredible that you can't have nice things, right? The adage goes,
you can't have nice things, and I think Southern California
continues to prove that time and time again. If you
have something nice, there's someone there willing and ready to
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challenge it, take it, vandalize it. And in this case,
that's what's happened to Sasha Cano's farm out there. And
hopefully they'll be able to make some money at their
benefit at their fundraisers so that they can start to
repair some of the damage they've incurred. Speaking of damage,
happy to report no damage has been discussed.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
After we had a little earthquake.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yes, we had a little earthquake about thirty minutes ago,
forty minutes ago now, and it's been estimated as a
three point five magnitude earthquake. It's struck in East LA,
eastern Los Angeles, not East LA, but eastern Los Angeles County,
a little over six miles north of Laverne and north
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northeast of San Demis, so it's out there. It's closer
to the Claremont area. Again, no immediate reports of injuries
or damage. So if you felt a little shaken and
you weren't doing a little shaken, then that might have
been what it was at three point five earthquake just
around what is that about five twenty and I saw
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it come on my Facebook, but only one person set anything.
Usually I see a bunch of people, you know, screaming earthquake,
no matter the size, and you got to always cross
check these things.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
But in this case it's true.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Also, some stories we're watching that four five is closed
through Monday. That's between Santa Monica Boulevard and Sunset. The
normal six lanes both directions have been reduced to three lanes,
both directions, so three and three, which is going to
make an already horrible situation that much worse. So if
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you have to get on the four h five this weekend,
just be forewarned. I hate the saying, but I'm gonna
say it so that you can hate.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
It with me.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Pack your patients, Pack your patients. We all hate that saying.
And then also just keeping you up to date on
what's going on. Trump's former surgeon General Jerome Adams is
calling for RFK Junior to be fired. So quite a
bit of infighting there within the Republican Party and the
(03:00):
the the MAGA supporters there and are Jerome Adams, former
surgeon general, is is speaking out saying RFK Junior needs
to go. RFK Junior needs to be fired. All right,
let's get into our Deeper Dives segment. It's a segment
I've been really looking forward to this week because everyone
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is thinking about this powerball, and we should be. It
is dominating the news, it's dominating the updates. We're seeing
the amount increase every few days and it's up to
what one point eight billion dollars? What could you do
with one point eight billion dollars? Eric, What is the
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other other than no longer working? What's the next thing
you're doing when you when you get that money, other
than giving some to me buying a house, giving some
to Tiffany buying a house high on the list.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Yes, uh, definitely going on in a long vacation somewhere tropical,
maybe even Europe or Japan Asia. Do like a whole tour,
like a month long tour. Just get all the different
cities I've always wanted to visit.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, it could be life changing, right.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Check off every point seven billion. That's one point one
point eight billion. Yeah, that's like three lifetimes changing, Brigitta.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Let's say you win the lotto tonight, and after you
give me a sizable portion of your winnings, what are
you doing with the remaining money.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I'm gonna f off for the rest of my life.
I'm also going to travel. I'm gonna have a great time.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I might adopt like fourteen kids, start a little village,
buy an island, but.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Don't say kids an island in the same sentence. You
gotta separate kind of island. Jesus, Brigitta, It'll be a
rescue island.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Okay, clarify please, but yeah, life changing.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Good plans, guys. Well, I will not see you again.
It's been good. Good, good to know you. If we
don't see you tomorrow, then know exactly what I want to.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Cut the checks and then we can all be out
of here. Please, sorry, thank you, So you answered correctly.
Eric kind of hesitated with the give Tiffany sum he Oh.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
You said it for me.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I thought that was a given, you know, I.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Was hoping that we've bonded at this point. Sclar, Okay,
we have.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I'll give you five bucks moving along. If you win,
I hope the curse strikes you. How about that. We'll
get to what the curse is in a second. But
as you've been hearing, one point eight billion dollars. That
is the jackpot. It is the third highest in history,
after no one won the last drawing this previous Wednesday night.
This is the power ball. Now, your odds of winning
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the power ball are one in two hundred and ninety
two point two, so I guess some smaller people there million.
And the overall odds of winning any prize within that
jackpot are one in twenty four point nine. So you
can win something, whether it's five dollars or one point
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eight billion, but the odds, of course decrease the higher
you go. The next drawing schedule for tonight, and you
still have time if you want to get out there
and buy yourself a ticket. I think the it all
closes around seven thirty eight o'clock if I'm right. But
the thing about the powerball jackpot and lotto in general
is that, of course you can choose an annuititized prize
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where you're paid out over the course of a year,
or you can get a lump sum payment. All of
this is before taxes, and it can absolutely change your life.
I recall just November twenty twenty two, Edwin Castro of Auta, Dina,
purchased a ticket, a powerball ticket and one two point
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zh four billion dollars a little over two billion dollars
one billion after taxes. Theodorus that's a name, Theodorus Stroik
and a group of other people who he entered this
pool with from Fraser Park. Another local boy won one
point seven six five billion, Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
So these are huge payouts.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
April of twenty twenty four, Chang also known as Charlie Safin,
won the one point three billion dollar jackpot in Oregon,
which was the fourth largest ever. There have been other
sizeable jackpot wins and history, of course, in recent history.
In fact, just February twenty twenty three, Washington had a
winner of a little over seven hundred and fifty million,
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and it just goes on from there. One point zero
nine billion in April of twenty twenty four, another one
billion jackpot in California, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Massachusetts. And with each win,
we seem to think we're going to be next. We're
going to be next. And I'm not saying I don't
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want you to I want you to win.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I do.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I can suppress my envy. Should you win, Do I
want to be you if?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
If you win?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
And no.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And here's why.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
History has countless examples of winners whose lives have taken
a turn for the better.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You can cite them, you can see them.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Edwin Castro, our winner from Outa Dina in twenty twenty two,
bought so much property was public about his acquisitions is
still public. He is someone who would probably lean toward
the more positive representation of a lotto winner. But then
when you have the positive, you also have the negative.
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And there are countless examples of lotto winners whose lives
have taken a turn for the worst. It's often known
as the lotto curse, the lotto curse. It's so popular
that it's actually had its name coined because people can
point to a lot of misfortune and unfortunate incidents and
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situations after people have won these jackpots. Again, they ranged
from a few million up to way more than that.
So let's get into a few examples. I'll give you
one and i'll come back and i'll share some more
with you after the break. But there's one, and we'll
start here. Lara and Roger Griffiths. They lived in England.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Happy couple.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
They won two point seven six million in two thousand
and five. People said they never argued. They were peaceful
of a couple as any they won. They bought a
million dollar barn which was converted into a house. They
bought a Porsche, They took all those luxurious trips Dubai, Monaco,
New York. Not luxurious, but I don't know. They listed
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it here, so we'll include it New York as well.
But stories started to come out about their fortune, and
it said that their fortune actually ended just five years
after they won. They won an OZ five. Their fortune
ended in twenty ten when a Greek fire gut it
their house, which was under in short, we've heard all
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about that in California, which then forced them to pay
out for all these repairs and seven months of temporary accommodations. Okay,
they have the money to pay for it. But shortly
after all of that, there were claims that Roger the
husband Happy Husband, drove away in that Porsche after Lara
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confronted him over emails suggesting he was interested in another woman,
thus ending their fourteen year marriage. The lotto curse had struck.
When we come back, I'm going to give you a
few more examples, including a person who had a hit
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put out on him, a person who or people who
lost their lotto ticket, person who won a bunch and
had to return to their own live life, gambling it
all away, forced to pay gift partying it all away,
going into debt.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
There are countless examples.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I'm going to share a few with you of why
if you win, you might want to be very careful
about what you do with that money. Right here on
Saturdays with Tiffany, We're in our Deeper Dive segment on
KFI AM six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Tiffany Hobbes here with you and we are in our
deep Dive segment talking about winning the lotto and how
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for some it's a positive thing, but there is a
constituency of people who say they've become victims of the
lotto curse.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yes, it has a name.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
It's been coined because there are so many examples of
people's lives becoming worse after they win the lotto. And
I know a lot of us might be thinking, how
how could that possibly happen? Money fixes most things, maybe
not everything, but most things, right, And I know I'm
of that ilk where I feel like, if I win
the lotto, give me three thirty thousand dollars right now,
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give me thirty thousand, and that is a a big
way to make some big changes in my life. But
one point eight billion dollars, I can't even conceive of
just how fast my life would possibly change.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
But experts are.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Saying be careful, be four warned, because you could encounter
some really steep hills along the way. I told you
the example of the husband and wife who ended up
divorcing five years after they won a two million dollar
jackpot in England. Here are some more stories. There's a guy,
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his name is William bud Post and he's from Pennsylvania.
He won sixteen point two million dollars in the Pennsylvania
lottery in nineteen eighty eight, but by nineteen eighty nine,
less than one year later, he was one million dollars
in debt, one sixteen million, and then a year later
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was one million dollars in the whole. He went on
to say, Bud post his name. I wish it never happened.
It was totally a nightmare. Here's some of the details
about what happened with him.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
He said.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
A former girlfriend successfully sued him for a third of
his winnings. So sixteen divide it by three, we're talking
about five points something or so. So she won five
point whatever million dollars in a lawsuit, and his brother
was arrested for allegedly hiring a hitman to kill Bud
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in the hopes that he'd inherit his share of the winnings.
With the remaining money, Bud put it into a family business,
but that business didn't do well, and Bud sank into
debt and spent time in jail for firing a gun
over the head of a bill collector. I think the
kids call that crashing out, he said.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I was much happier when I was broke, but lived
quietly on four hundred and fifty dollars a month and
food stamps until his death in two thousand and six.
That took a turn so quickly. What about Martin and
k Tott who won five million dollars in the UK. However,
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they weren't able to collect their winnings because they weren't
able to claim their winnings due to losing their lottery ticket.
There's a thirty day time limit on reporting lost tickets,
and they were unable to come up with that lost
ticket before the time limit expired. Their jackpot became the
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largest unclaimed amount since the lottery began in nineteen ninety four.
That's out there in the UK. Then there's Sharon Tirabasi.
She won ten million dollars but had to return to
her own life. We're talking the lotto curse here. Two
thousand and four, Sharon tier Bossi, who was a single
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mother on welfare, cashed a check from the Ontario lottery
for more than ten million Canadian dollars. She bought a
big house, fancy cars, money goes away quickly, design her clothes,
lavish party, She took exotic trips. She gave money to
family and loans to friends. In less than a decade,
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she was back quote riding the bus, working part time,
and living in a rented house. She said, all that
stuff was fun in the beginning, but now it's back
to regular life. She even gave some of the money
to her six children. She put it in a trust
and luckily they were able to then claim that money
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when they turned twenty six, or they will be.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Then there's Evelyn Adams.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Okay, those of you who liked to gamble, he probably
shouldn't win the lottery. Evelyn Adams won the lottery not once,
but twice. Nineteen eighty five and nineteen eighty five. She
won five point four million, and it was reported that
she gambled it all away in Atlantic City. What a
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way to go gamble all your money away in New Jersey.
She told The New York Times in nineteen ninety three
that the publicity she received after winning the lottery led
to a bombardment of requests for financial assistance. She said,
I could not go anywhere without being recognized. Then there's
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uh Gerald mus Wagon, a partier. Nineteen ninety eight, he
won ten million dollars in the Super seven jackpot in Canada,
but the instant fame that came with winning the grand
prize really sent him into a tailspin. He bought all
the things, He gave money to all the people. He
bought a huge house and turned it into a nightly
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quote party pad, and celebrated his new lifestyle with drugs
and alcohol.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
He even had multiple big screen TVs, which reminds me
of the studio right here. Looks like this.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Okay, But he poured his money into failed businesses and
eventually went broke. Sadly, all of this got to him,
and he in fact committed suicide and his parents' garage
in two thousand and five. Uh, there's copious, copious examples.
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There's a man who one doesn't even say, but we
do know that he quit his job, lied about winning,
and then got sued, so he won, tried to disappear,
tried to f off Brigitta right, and people found out,
sued him, and apparently he had to pay up. There's
another person. Her name is Ebi ron Kaoli, and she
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was murdered by her husband after the winnings that they
earned collectively as a couple because they were married, were
apparently squandered. The wife and the husband was so vengeful
that he poisoned her with painkillers. He was convicted on
manslaughter and then asked his wife's his deceased wife who
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he murdered, family to help put the bill for her
funeral and his legal charges. Lots and lots and lots
of examples I could share with you. I'm seeing all
sorts of things about families being broken up. People ended
up working back at places that they thought they were
going to just leave, but because they weren't wise with it,
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because they squandered it all or gave it all away,
or gambled it, or whatever they may have done, they
became the latest in a long list of Lotto curse victims.
Lotto cursed. The lott of curs is real. So I
wish you well. If you win, send me some just
so you can. I'll put it aside for you. I'll
save it in a really safe place for you, and
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I'll charge you low interest, but you'll be able to
come back to it if you squander the rest the
rest away.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I'll make that deal for you. Okay.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
You can find me right there at tif hobs on
here on Instagram, and you can send the check to
KFI and I have a mailbox. I'm not trying to
convince you. I'm just saying we're friends, right, I care,
I care about you. When we come back, we are
going to talk to Steve Goonther. He is the CEO
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and president of Maryville, a remarkable organization doing the Lord's
work out here with the youth in southern California. They
have a very long history of over one hundred and
seventy years in existence, and they have a big benefit
coming up. Steve is going to tell you all about
the history of Maryville and that benefit and how you
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can get involved when we talk to him on the
other side of the break, and really quick, I just
want to say congratulations to two friends of mine, Sophia
and Ben, who I went to their baby shower today
and they'll have a bouncing baby boy coming very shortly,
and I hope they're listening to KFI. Got to get
some KFI one zis Manyay, thank you so much. We'll
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talk to Steve goother on the other side of the break.
Tiffany hobbs here till seven and then Michael Monks comes aboard,
so you stay right here. KFI am six forty live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio at Tiffany Hobbs here at Saturdays
with Tiffany. And now next we're going to talk to
Steve Gunther. Let me introduce you to Steve Gunther. He
is president and CEO of Maryville. And you might not
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know what Maryville is. I didn't in full honesty, but
once I started to do the research.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Man, oh man, what an organization.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Maryville is Los Angeles' oldest children's charity and one of
the San Gabriel Valley's most trusted and longest running providers
of child and family services for the underserved since get
this eighteen fifty six. We're not talking a new organization.
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We're talking an organ organization that has over one hundred
and seventy years of service to its name. If I
tried to list all of the recognition Maryville has received,
we simply wouldn't have time to talk to Steve. So
I'll let him explain what Maryville is all about and
their incredible impact in southern California. Steve Gunther, CEO of Maryville,
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Welcome to KFI, and thanks so much for coming on
with us.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Oh my pleasure.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
I'm so happy to be with you and having this
opportunity to share with folks about Maryville and our history
and our work.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
So I agree, I agree, I'll get into it.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I have some things to ask you. Is that okay?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Excellent?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Awesome?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
You know, when it comes to orphanages, if you are
like me and north of a certain age, when you
hear the word orphanage, you probably think of the movie
What Annie. Annie's probably the most popular pop culture representation
of what an orphanage was thought to be, and it's
held it's held a test of time for quite a while. Now,
how is Maryvelle different from the Hollywood stereotypes about orphanages.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Well, as you know, maryvell started out originally as an orphanage,
right and back in the day. I mean, that was
normal and typical in many ways. Maryvelle's history is the
history of social services in the United States. But over
the years, it's evolved, and it's evolved into a broader
range of services that orphanage over time evolved into a
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group home and then a residential treatment program for girls
that were placed through the Department of Children's, Family Services
and Probation. And we provided those services until twenty twenty,
and then we made the decision to transition away from that.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
At the same time, in nineteen.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Sixty eight, the Daughters of Charity, who founded and sponsored
the organization, started in early education in connection with what
was their residential program at the time, to provide programming
during the day for their youngest residents. But they also
recognized that there were working families or single parent families
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in the community that would benefit from those services as well.
So as early as nineteen sixty eight, Maryvelle started to
provide early education programs and currently we have three of
those programs.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
One on our campus in Rosemead, one in.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
A facility that we have up in Dwardi, and then
a third one in South Almani. And we also then
as we were expanding into the community, began to provide
community mental health services, and so now we provide therapeutic
services and substance use and services to teens.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
And young folks in the community.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
So the programs and the services have evolved and changed,
and of course that we close that residential program, which
meant we had buildings on our campus.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
That were vacant, and in the last few years we have.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Embarked on a new program, which is a temporary housing
program for single mothers or small children, and so we're
providing some of those services in one.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Of the buildings in our campus. And we've just.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Started a major renovation in one of the large dorms
that was on campus so we can create twenty more
units and expand that program to serve more families.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
So yeah, you know, go ahead, I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
A lots of change, a lots of change, But at
the same time, it's a lot of the same. Right,
we're still serving children's and family, but we're doing it
in new ways and just meeting the needs in the
community today that have evolved and changed over one hundred
and seventy years.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
One hundred and seventy years is an incredible feat. Hardly
anything last one hundred and seventy years, and so to
be able to say that and for it to have
been successful for this entire time is quite an accomplishment.
What do you can what do you attribute that success
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to the fact that one hundred and seventy years, See,
that's that's huge.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Yeah, and you know, you know the foundation was the
Daughters of Charity, right the work that they began.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
In eighteen fifty six.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
You know, they were asked to come out and provide
shelter for children that were being abandoned on the streets.
And you know, the daughters continue to provide, you know,
the services that were needed and that, as they said,
evolved over time. And I think, you know, one of
the main reasons that we have you know, survived and
continued for one hundred and seventy years is that we've
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continue to transform our programs. You know, in twenty twenty,
when we close that residential program, that was a big deal.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
That program had its roots all the way back to
the original.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Orphanage, but we recognized that it was time to move
in a new direction. And as difficult as that was,
it was a necessary decision. And I think those are
the things that have allowed us to.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Be responsive to the needs in the community and not be.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Afraid to make some of those decisions when it becomes necessary.
And the result is here we are, you know, all
these years later, and in the last few years, you know,
we've opened two new programs and we're moving some new
directions and meeting needs that we see in the community.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
I actually, before I was a radio host, have a
history and residential treatment for adolescence at a residential treatment
facility much like what you're saying. Mary Velle closed in
twenty twenty, and I think the implication that I'm reading
there and why you chose to close it is pretty
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clear that is a challenging populist.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
It's a rewarding populist.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
But all of the logistics therein to be able to
keep a residential treatment facility open, especially for adolescents, it's almost.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Impossible to do that.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
You've maintained that bridge to still support adolescence in peril
really is a testament to the core values of Maryville.
And on the other side of the break, I would
like to continue talking about those core values, your connections
by Maryvale, Substance Use and Prevention program, the Seaton House,
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all of these facets of Maryville that should be highlighted
so that more people can learn about all of the
good you're doing. Can I hold you over for a
few more minutes After the break, we're talking with Steve Gunther,
President and CEO of Maryville, Maryville's LA's largest children's charity
and one of the San Gabriel Valley's most trusted and
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longest running providers of child and family services. And we're
going to continue this conversation on the other side of
the break, so we can find out more about everything
that Maryville does. One hundred and seventy years of service.
You guys, this is an incredible organization. Don't want to
go anywhere, so keep listening. It's Saturdays with Tiffany. I'm
Tiffany Hobbs here till seven KFI A six forty live
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everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs here with you,
and we're talking with Steve Gunther, the president and CEO
of Maryville, which is an incredible social services agency that
really focuses on child and family services in the San
Gabriel Valley, LA. They've been around for one hundred and
seventy years. And Steve Gunther, the CEO here and president,
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has told us quite a bit about Maryvale's history, and
now let's look at the present. Tell us a bit
about the organization or the aspect of the organization called
your Connections. It's a substance use and prevention program for adolescents.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Tell us a bit more about.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
That, certainly, So Connections by Maryvale is our newest program.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Actually, it's a.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
New community based mental health program focused on adolescents. From
twelve to seven team who are experiencing substance use and
mental health challenges. And there are four main aspects to
the program. There's some drug education, there's school based mental
health services, what are called enhanced care management services.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
And we are working to develop what's called.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
An intensive out patient program, which is essentially a step
down program for kids that have been in a residential
treatment program for substance use and are now transitioning.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Back into the community.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
So it's a sort of an intensive outpatient program designed
to help support them as they continue that journey. So
it's a whole new direction for us, really built out
of our experience and our residential treatment program, taking the
lessons that we learned and the work that we were
doing with the kids in that program, and now offering
it in the community.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
So it's new, it's still in its early.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Stages, but we're very excited about the possibilities and the
opportunity to serve a larger population of kids that we
have not been able to serve in the past.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Do you ever get to speak to any of the
young people who are maybe now adults or still young
who have gone through any of your programs to be
able to kind of get testimonials or just reach back
to see how they're doing.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Yeah, occasionally we do, you know, have some of our
former clients reach out to us and we get a
chance to hear how they're doing. And of course, you know,
we always tell them that, you know, you know, once
you're you know, a Maryvelle kid.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
You're always a Maryvelle kid. And you know, we've had
you know, young.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Ladies who have maybe you know, found themselves struggling to
reach out and to see if there's anything that we
can do to help them. We've we have some funds
available to some generous donors in the past that allow
us to support some of our former residents who are
trying to complete their schooling and you know, go to college.
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And so we for example, have one young lady right
now who's studying it Loyal and Maryman and we're able
to help her with you know, with some of the
cost of her going to school so that she can
complete her degree and continue to do some good work. So, yeah,
we have those opportunities. It's it's generally it's the you know,
the young ladies you know reaching back out to us,
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and we always love to hear from them, to hear
how they're doing, and to help them and support them
any way we can.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
I love to hear the success stories that come out
of social services organizations because that's where it matters most,
right Obviously, people having gone through a program and being
able to say this helped me and this is where
I'm at now. And of course, on the other side
of success, there are still so many people who are
needing your services in LA. Obviously, in southern California, California
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at large, we have an immense problem with homelessness and housing.
Can you tell us a bit about Is it Seaton
House set in house? I don't want to mispronounce it.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Yeah, it's it's Seatonhouse, named after St. Elizabeth N. Seaton,
who was a daughter of charity.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Okay, tell us a bit about Seaton House.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
So, Seatonhouse is our temporary housing program for single moms
with small children. The children are usually under the age
of ten, and it is a program designed four young mothers.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Who have been you know, homeless.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
Who are on the verge of that, who are maybe
you know, at risk of becoming homeless, and the program
is designed to provide them some stability and support for
typically six months, you know, sometimes longer, but the program
is really designed for six months. It allows us to
integrate all of our services around the mom, so they
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are able to live in residence on our campus in Rosemead.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
We have the early Education program right.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
On campus, so if they have the mom has a
young children who are a preschool age, she's able to
walk right across campus and take them to school. And
then we also have our community Mental Health program and
that allows us then to refer moms for mental health
services and for the children, so we're able to bring
all of our services around them moms.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
And then while they're with us, there are classes that
we offer.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
They're the case manager that they meet with, and the
idea is to help them stabilize and concentrate on their
individual goals in order to take whatever next steps they're
wanting to take or needing to take. So there's always
an emphasis on, you know, what is going to be
the next housing solution for them? What do they need
to do in terms of employment or education, And it's
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really exciting to see, you know, the moms come in
really focus on their individual goals and then you know,
to make you know, whatever progress they're able to make
in the time that they're with us so they can
take that next step for themselves and for their children.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
If there's an award, you deserve it, Maryvelle deserves it.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
I definitely nominate you for all of the things.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
But before we do, tell us a bit about the
benefit you have coming up, and also where people can
reach you should they want more information to support, to donate,
give us all the details.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Certainly. So.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
On September thirteenth, we're having what we call Harvest of
Hope Igala at a lovely event that we host wright
on our campus and Rosemie. We have a beautiful campus
in Rosemie, and so we have an outdoor event, live music,
wonderful food. We'll be honoring a gentleman who's doing a
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supporter and involved with Maryville for many years, and it's
just an opportunity to bring the community together to celebrate
the work that we do, and of course to raise
funds to support us in the work that we're doing.
And if anybody is interested in learning more about that
event or about Maryville in general, the easiest thing to
do is just go to our website at marya org
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and all of the information is available on the website
about our programs about how to support us, including the gala,
and we'd be happy to hear from folks, and you
have folks get involved and support us in the work
that we're doing.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Get involved, support the work that Maryvelle is doing, because
they are doing it from the most pure parts of
the heart. To be able to work with this sort
of population, to be able to give so freely and
support so generously, is again a testament to the cornerstone
of Maryville and why it has existed for one hundred
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and seventy years. Steve Gunther, President and CEO of Maryvelle,
you are taking it into the next generation, into the
upper echelons. And I thank you for coming on on
KFI with us and giving us your time.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
We know you're busy, well, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
It's been a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
You're so welcome.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
And again you can go to Maryvelle dot org for
more information on that gala and any other information about
Maryvale that you might be interested in. All right, everybody,
it's been a great show. Thanks so much for hanging
out with us as always, and if you want to
hear any part of the show that you may have missed,
You can go on the iHeart app and click on
Saturdays with Tiffany. That's where everything is and I would
(36:17):
sure love for you to go there and listen back.
I'll see you here next week from five to seven
as usual. It's been a blast, have a great one
and I'll talk to you on the other side. Kfi
An six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Saturdays. It is time to one one. The week's been hot.
Time to ease my mind. Turn on my radio just
in time.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Tiffany Hobbs got it feeling fun Jay Saturday.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Okay if I am six forty live everywhere on the
iHeartRadio app.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
Tiffany Hobbs here with you till seven.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
And wasn't that a great conversation with Sasha Cano of
that farm Lot fifty nine out there in Long Beach.
Incredible that you can't have nice things, right? The adage goes,
you can't have nice things, and I think Southern California
continues to prove that time and time again. If you
have something nice, there's someone there willing and ready to
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challenge it, take it, vandalize it. And in this case,
that's what's happened to Sasha Cano's farm out there. And
hopefully they'll be able to make some money at their
benefit at their fundraisers so that they can start to
repair some of the damage they've incurred. Speaking of damage,
happy to report no damage has been discussed.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
After we had a little earthquake.
Speaker 3 (01:12):
Yes, we had a little earthquake about thirty minutes ago,
forty minutes ago now, and it's been estimated as a
three point five magnitude earthquake. It's struck in East LA,
eastern Los Angeles, not East LA, but eastern Los Angeles County,
a little over six miles north of Laverne and north
(01:35):
northeast of San Demis, so it's out there. It's closer
to the Claremont area. Again, no immediate reports of injuries
or damage. So if you felt a little shaken and
you weren't doing a little shaken, then that might have
been what it was at three point five earthquake just
around what is that about five twenty and I saw
(01:57):
it come on my Facebook, but only one person set anything.
Usually I see a bunch of people, you know, screaming earthquake,
no matter the size, and you got to always cross
check these things.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
But in this case it's true.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Also, some stories we're watching that four five is closed
through Monday. That's between Santa Monica Boulevard and Sunset. The
normal six lanes both directions have been reduced to three lanes,
both directions, so three and three, which is going to
make an already horrible situation that much worse. So if
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you have to get on the four h five this weekend,
just be forewarned. I hate the saying, but I'm gonna
say it so that you can hate.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
It with me.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Pack your patients, Pack your patients. We all hate that saying.
And then also just keeping you up to date on
what's going on. Trump's former surgeon General Jerome Adams is
calling for RFK Junior to be fired. So quite a
bit of infighting there within the Republican Party and the
(03:00):
the the MAGA supporters there and are Jerome Adams, former
surgeon general, is is speaking out saying RFK Junior needs
to go. RFK Junior needs to be fired. All right,
let's get into our Deeper Dives segment. It's a segment
I've been really looking forward to this week because everyone
(03:22):
is thinking about this powerball, and we should be. It
is dominating the news, it's dominating the updates. We're seeing
the amount increase every few days and it's up to
what one point eight billion dollars? What could you do
with one point eight billion dollars? Eric, What is the
(03:44):
other other than no longer working? What's the next thing
you're doing when you when you get that money, other
than giving some to me buying a house, giving some
to Tiffany buying a house high on the list.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Yes, uh, definitely going on in a long vacation somewhere tropical,
maybe even Europe or Japan Asia. Do like a whole tour,
like a month long tour. Just get all the different
cities I've always wanted to visit.
Speaker 2 (04:12):
Yeah, it could be life changing, right.
Speaker 4 (04:15):
Check off every point seven billion. That's one point one
point eight billion. Yeah, that's like three lifetimes changing, Brigitta.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Let's say you win the lotto tonight, and after you
give me a sizable portion of your winnings, what are
you doing with the remaining money.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
I'm gonna f off for the rest of my life.
I'm also going to travel. I'm gonna have a great time.
Speaker 3 (04:35):
I might adopt like fourteen kids, start a little village,
buy an island, but.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Don't say kids an island in the same sentence. You
gotta separate kind of island. Jesus, Brigitta, It'll be a
rescue island.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
Okay, clarify please, but yeah, life changing.
Speaker 2 (04:53):
Good plans, guys. Well, I will not see you again.
It's been good. Good, good to know you. If we
don't see you tomorrow, then know exactly what I want to.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Cut the checks and then we can all be out
of here. Please, sorry, thank you, So you answered correctly.
Eric kind of hesitated with the give Tiffany sum he Oh.
Speaker 4 (05:08):
You said it for me.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
I thought that was a given, you know, I.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
Was hoping that we've bonded at this point. Sclar, Okay,
we have.
Speaker 2 (05:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (05:15):
I'll give you five bucks moving along. If you win,
I hope the curse strikes you. How about that. We'll
get to what the curse is in a second. But
as you've been hearing, one point eight billion dollars. That
is the jackpot. It is the third highest in history,
after no one won the last drawing this previous Wednesday night.
This is the power ball. Now, your odds of winning
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the power ball are one in two hundred and ninety
two point two, so I guess some smaller people there million.
And the overall odds of winning any prize within that
jackpot are one in twenty four point nine. So you
can win something, whether it's five dollars or one point
(05:59):
eight billion, but the odds, of course decrease the higher
you go. The next drawing schedule for tonight, and you
still have time if you want to get out there
and buy yourself a ticket. I think the it all
closes around seven thirty eight o'clock if I'm right. But
the thing about the powerball jackpot and lotto in general
is that, of course you can choose an annuititized prize
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where you're paid out over the course of a year,
or you can get a lump sum payment. All of
this is before taxes, and it can absolutely change your life.
I recall just November twenty twenty two, Edwin Castro of Auta, Dina,
purchased a ticket, a powerball ticket and one two point
(06:43):
zh four billion dollars a little over two billion dollars
one billion after taxes. Theodorus that's a name, Theodorus Stroik
and a group of other people who he entered this
pool with from Fraser Park. Another local boy won one
point seven six five billion, Okay.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
So these are huge payouts.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
April of twenty twenty four, Chang also known as Charlie Safin,
won the one point three billion dollar jackpot in Oregon,
which was the fourth largest ever. There have been other
sizeable jackpot wins and history, of course, in recent history.
In fact, just February twenty twenty three, Washington had a
winner of a little over seven hundred and fifty million,
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and it just goes on from there. One point zero
nine billion in April of twenty twenty four, another one
billion jackpot in California, Tennessee, Wisconsin, Massachusetts. And with each win,
we seem to think we're going to be next. We're
going to be next. And I'm not saying I don't
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want you to I want you to win.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
I do.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I can suppress my envy. Should you win, Do I
want to be you if?
Speaker 1 (08:00):
If you win?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Yes?
Speaker 1 (08:01):
And no.
Speaker 2 (08:02):
And here's why.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
History has countless examples of winners whose lives have taken
a turn for the better.
Speaker 2 (08:11):
You can cite them, you can see them.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Edwin Castro, our winner from Outa Dina in twenty twenty two,
bought so much property was public about his acquisitions is
still public. He is someone who would probably lean toward
the more positive representation of a lotto winner. But then
when you have the positive, you also have the negative.
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And there are countless examples of lotto winners whose lives
have taken a turn for the worst. It's often known
as the lotto curse, the lotto curse. It's so popular
that it's actually had its name coined because people can
point to a lot of misfortune and unfortunate incidents and
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situations after people have won these jackpots. Again, they ranged
from a few million up to way more than that.
So let's get into a few examples. I'll give you
one and i'll come back and i'll share some more
with you after the break. But there's one, and we'll
start here. Lara and Roger Griffiths. They lived in England.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
Happy couple.
Speaker 3 (09:21):
They won two point seven six million in two thousand
and five. People said they never argued. They were peaceful
of a couple as any they won. They bought a
million dollar barn which was converted into a house. They
bought a Porsche, They took all those luxurious trips Dubai, Monaco,
New York. Not luxurious, but I don't know. They listed
(09:43):
it here, so we'll include it New York as well.
But stories started to come out about their fortune, and
it said that their fortune actually ended just five years
after they won. They won an OZ five. Their fortune
ended in twenty ten when a Greek fire gut it
their house, which was under in short, we've heard all
(10:06):
about that in California, which then forced them to pay
out for all these repairs and seven months of temporary accommodations. Okay,
they have the money to pay for it. But shortly
after all of that, there were claims that Roger the
husband Happy Husband, drove away in that Porsche after Lara
(10:27):
confronted him over emails suggesting he was interested in another woman,
thus ending their fourteen year marriage. The lotto curse had struck.
When we come back, I'm going to give you a
few more examples, including a person who had a hit
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put out on him, a person who or people who
lost their lotto ticket, person who won a bunch and
had to return to their own live life, gambling it
all away, forced to pay gift partying it all away,
going into debt.
Speaker 2 (11:03):
There are countless examples.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
I'm going to share a few with you of why
if you win, you might want to be very careful
about what you do with that money. Right here on
Saturdays with Tiffany, We're in our Deeper Dive segment on
KFI AM six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Tiffany Hobbes here with you and we are in our
deep Dive segment talking about winning the lotto and how
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for some it's a positive thing, but there is a
constituency of people who say they've become victims of the
lotto curse.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yes, it has a name.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
It's been coined because there are so many examples of
people's lives becoming worse after they win the lotto. And
I know a lot of us might be thinking, how
how could that possibly happen? Money fixes most things, maybe
not everything, but most things, right, And I know I'm
of that ilk where I feel like, if I win
the lotto, give me three thirty thousand dollars right now,
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give me thirty thousand, and that is a a big
way to make some big changes in my life. But
one point eight billion dollars, I can't even conceive of
just how fast my life would possibly change.
Speaker 2 (12:12):
But experts are.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
Saying be careful, be four warned, because you could encounter
some really steep hills along the way. I told you
the example of the husband and wife who ended up
divorcing five years after they won a two million dollar
jackpot in England. Here are some more stories. There's a guy,
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his name is William bud Post and he's from Pennsylvania.
He won sixteen point two million dollars in the Pennsylvania
lottery in nineteen eighty eight, but by nineteen eighty nine,
less than one year later, he was one million dollars
in debt, one sixteen million, and then a year later
(12:58):
was one million dollars in the whole. He went on
to say, Bud post his name. I wish it never happened.
It was totally a nightmare. Here's some of the details
about what happened with him.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
He said.
Speaker 3 (13:12):
A former girlfriend successfully sued him for a third of
his winnings. So sixteen divide it by three, we're talking
about five points something or so. So she won five
point whatever million dollars in a lawsuit, and his brother
was arrested for allegedly hiring a hitman to kill Bud
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in the hopes that he'd inherit his share of the winnings.
With the remaining money, Bud put it into a family business,
but that business didn't do well, and Bud sank into
debt and spent time in jail for firing a gun
over the head of a bill collector. I think the
kids call that crashing out, he said.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Quote.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
I was much happier when I was broke, but lived
quietly on four hundred and fifty dollars a month and
food stamps until his death in two thousand and six.
That took a turn so quickly. What about Martin and
k Tott who won five million dollars in the UK. However,
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they weren't able to collect their winnings because they weren't
able to claim their winnings due to losing their lottery ticket.
There's a thirty day time limit on reporting lost tickets,
and they were unable to come up with that lost
ticket before the time limit expired. Their jackpot became the
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largest unclaimed amount since the lottery began in nineteen ninety four.
That's out there in the UK. Then there's Sharon Tirabasi.
She won ten million dollars but had to return to
her own life. We're talking the lotto curse here. Two
thousand and four, Sharon tier Bossi, who was a single
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mother on welfare, cashed a check from the Ontario lottery
for more than ten million Canadian dollars. She bought a
big house, fancy cars, money goes away quickly, design her clothes,
lavish party, She took exotic trips. She gave money to
family and loans to friends. In less than a decade,
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she was back quote riding the bus, working part time,
and living in a rented house. She said, all that
stuff was fun in the beginning, but now it's back
to regular life. She even gave some of the money
to her six children. She put it in a trust
and luckily they were able to then claim that money
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when they turned twenty six, or they will be.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Then there's Evelyn Adams.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Okay, those of you who liked to gamble, he probably
shouldn't win the lottery. Evelyn Adams won the lottery not once,
but twice. Nineteen eighty five and nineteen eighty five. She
won five point four million, and it was reported that
she gambled it all away in Atlantic City. What a
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way to go gamble all your money away in New Jersey.
She told The New York Times in nineteen ninety three
that the publicity she received after winning the lottery led
to a bombardment of requests for financial assistance. She said,
I could not go anywhere without being recognized. Then there's
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uh Gerald mus Wagon, a partier. Nineteen ninety eight, he
won ten million dollars in the Super seven jackpot in Canada,
but the instant fame that came with winning the grand
prize really sent him into a tailspin. He bought all
the things, He gave money to all the people. He
bought a huge house and turned it into a nightly
(16:53):
quote party pad, and celebrated his new lifestyle with drugs
and alcohol.
Speaker 2 (17:00):
He even had multiple big screen TVs, which reminds me
of the studio right here. Looks like this.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
Okay, But he poured his money into failed businesses and
eventually went broke. Sadly, all of this got to him,
and he in fact committed suicide and his parents' garage
in two thousand and five. Uh, there's copious, copious examples.
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There's a man who one doesn't even say, but we
do know that he quit his job, lied about winning,
and then got sued, so he won, tried to disappear,
tried to f off Brigitta right, and people found out,
sued him, and apparently he had to pay up. There's
another person. Her name is Ebi ron Kaoli, and she
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was murdered by her husband after the winnings that they
earned collectively as a couple because they were married, were
apparently squandered. The wife and the husband was so vengeful
that he poisoned her with painkillers. He was convicted on
manslaughter and then asked his wife's his deceased wife who
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he murdered, family to help put the bill for her
funeral and his legal charges. Lots and lots and lots
of examples I could share with you. I'm seeing all
sorts of things about families being broken up. People ended
up working back at places that they thought they were
going to just leave, but because they weren't wise with it,
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because they squandered it all or gave it all away,
or gambled it, or whatever they may have done, they
became the latest in a long list of Lotto curse victims.
Lotto cursed. The lott of curs is real. So I
wish you well. If you win, send me some just
so you can. I'll put it aside for you. I'll
save it in a really safe place for you, and
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I'll charge you low interest, but you'll be able to
come back to it if you squander the rest the
rest away.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
I'll make that deal for you. Okay.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
You can find me right there at tif hobs on
here on Instagram, and you can send the check to
KFI and I have a mailbox. I'm not trying to
convince you. I'm just saying we're friends, right, I care,
I care about you. When we come back, we are
going to talk to Steve Goonther. He is the CEO
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and president of Maryville, a remarkable organization doing the Lord's
work out here with the youth in southern California. They
have a very long history of over one hundred and
seventy years in existence, and they have a big benefit
coming up. Steve is going to tell you all about
the history of Maryville and that benefit and how you
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can get involved when we talk to him on the
other side of the break, and really quick, I just
want to say congratulations to two friends of mine, Sophia
and Ben, who I went to their baby shower today
and they'll have a bouncing baby boy coming very shortly,
and I hope they're listening to KFI. Got to get
some KFI one zis Manyay, thank you so much. We'll
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talk to Steve goother on the other side of the break.
Tiffany hobbs here till seven and then Michael Monks comes aboard,
so you stay right here. KFI am six forty live
everywhere on the iHeartRadio at Tiffany Hobbs here at Saturdays
with Tiffany. And now next we're going to talk to
Steve Gunther. Let me introduce you to Steve Gunther. He
is president and CEO of Maryville. And you might not
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know what Maryville is. I didn't in full honesty, but
once I started to do the research.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
Man, oh man, what an organization.
Speaker 3 (20:37):
Maryville is Los Angeles' oldest children's charity and one of
the San Gabriel Valley's most trusted and longest running providers
of child and family services for the underserved since get
this eighteen fifty six. We're not talking a new organization.
(20:59):
We're talking an organ organization that has over one hundred
and seventy years of service to its name. If I
tried to list all of the recognition Maryville has received,
we simply wouldn't have time to talk to Steve. So
I'll let him explain what Maryville is all about and
their incredible impact in southern California. Steve Gunther, CEO of Maryville,
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Welcome to KFI, and thanks so much for coming on
with us.
Speaker 1 (21:25):
Oh my pleasure.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
I'm so happy to be with you and having this
opportunity to share with folks about Maryville and our history
and our work.
Speaker 3 (21:35):
So I agree, I agree, I'll get into it.
Speaker 2 (21:40):
I have some things to ask you. Is that okay?
Speaker 1 (21:42):
Excellent?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
Awesome?
Speaker 3 (21:44):
You know, when it comes to orphanages, if you are
like me and north of a certain age, when you
hear the word orphanage, you probably think of the movie
What Annie. Annie's probably the most popular pop culture representation
of what an orphanage was thought to be, and it's
held it's held a test of time for quite a while. Now,
how is Maryvelle different from the Hollywood stereotypes about orphanages.
Speaker 5 (22:10):
Well, as you know, maryvell started out originally as an orphanage,
right and back in the day. I mean, that was
normal and typical in many ways. Maryvelle's history is the
history of social services in the United States. But over
the years, it's evolved, and it's evolved into a broader
range of services that orphanage over time evolved into a
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group home and then a residential treatment program for girls
that were placed through the Department of Children's, Family Services
and Probation. And we provided those services until twenty twenty,
and then we made the decision to transition away from that.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
At the same time, in nineteen.
Speaker 5 (22:53):
Sixty eight, the Daughters of Charity, who founded and sponsored
the organization, started in early education in connection with what
was their residential program at the time, to provide programming
during the day for their youngest residents. But they also
recognized that there were working families or single parent families
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in the community that would benefit from those services as well.
So as early as nineteen sixty eight, Maryvelle started to
provide early education programs and currently we have three of
those programs.
Speaker 1 (23:26):
One on our campus in Rosemead, one in.
Speaker 5 (23:28):
A facility that we have up in Dwardi, and then
a third one in South Almani. And we also then
as we were expanding into the community, began to provide
community mental health services, and so now we provide therapeutic
services and substance use and services to teens.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
And young folks in the community.
Speaker 5 (23:52):
So the programs and the services have evolved and changed,
and of course that we close that residential program, which
meant we had buildings on our campus.
Speaker 1 (24:03):
That were vacant, and in the last few years we have.
Speaker 5 (24:06):
Embarked on a new program, which is a temporary housing
program for single mothers or small children, and so we're
providing some of those services in one.
Speaker 1 (24:16):
Of the buildings in our campus. And we've just.
Speaker 5 (24:17):
Started a major renovation in one of the large dorms
that was on campus so we can create twenty more
units and expand that program to serve more families.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
So yeah, you know, go ahead, I'm sorry, go ahead.
Speaker 5 (24:31):
A lots of change, a lots of change, But at
the same time, it's a lot of the same. Right,
we're still serving children's and family, but we're doing it
in new ways and just meeting the needs in the
community today that have evolved and changed over one hundred
and seventy years.
Speaker 3 (24:47):
One hundred and seventy years is an incredible feat. Hardly
anything last one hundred and seventy years, and so to
be able to say that and for it to have
been successful for this entire time is quite an accomplishment.
What do you can what do you attribute that success
(25:07):
to the fact that one hundred and seventy years, See,
that's that's huge.
Speaker 5 (25:13):
Yeah, and you know, you know the foundation was the
Daughters of Charity, right the work that they began.
Speaker 1 (25:20):
In eighteen fifty six.
Speaker 5 (25:21):
You know, they were asked to come out and provide
shelter for children that were being abandoned on the streets.
And you know, the daughters continue to provide, you know,
the services that were needed and that, as they said,
evolved over time. And I think, you know, one of
the main reasons that we have you know, survived and
continued for one hundred and seventy years is that we've
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continue to transform our programs. You know, in twenty twenty,
when we close that residential program, that was a big deal.
Speaker 1 (25:52):
That program had its roots all the way back to
the original.
Speaker 5 (25:55):
Orphanage, but we recognized that it was time to move
in a new direction. And as difficult as that was,
it was a necessary decision. And I think those are
the things that have allowed us to.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Be responsive to the needs in the community and not be.
Speaker 5 (26:10):
Afraid to make some of those decisions when it becomes necessary.
And the result is here we are, you know, all
these years later, and in the last few years, you know,
we've opened two new programs and we're moving some new
directions and meeting needs that we see in the community.
Speaker 3 (26:26):
I actually, before I was a radio host, have a
history and residential treatment for adolescence at a residential treatment
facility much like what you're saying. Mary Velle closed in
twenty twenty, and I think the implication that I'm reading
there and why you chose to close it is pretty
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clear that is a challenging populist.
Speaker 2 (26:49):
It's a rewarding populist.
Speaker 3 (26:50):
But all of the logistics therein to be able to
keep a residential treatment facility open, especially for adolescents, it's almost.
Speaker 2 (26:58):
Impossible to do that.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
You've maintained that bridge to still support adolescence in peril
really is a testament to the core values of Maryville.
And on the other side of the break, I would
like to continue talking about those core values, your connections
by Maryvale, Substance Use and Prevention program, the Seaton House,
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all of these facets of Maryville that should be highlighted
so that more people can learn about all of the
good you're doing. Can I hold you over for a
few more minutes After the break, we're talking with Steve Gunther,
President and CEO of Maryville, Maryville's LA's largest children's charity
and one of the San Gabriel Valley's most trusted and
(27:43):
longest running providers of child and family services. And we're
going to continue this conversation on the other side of
the break, so we can find out more about everything
that Maryville does. One hundred and seventy years of service.
You guys, this is an incredible organization. Don't want to
go anywhere, so keep listening. It's Saturdays with Tiffany. I'm
Tiffany Hobbs here till seven KFI A six forty live
(28:07):
everywhere on the iHeartRadio app. Tiffany Hobbs here with you,
and we're talking with Steve Gunther, the president and CEO
of Maryville, which is an incredible social services agency that
really focuses on child and family services in the San
Gabriel Valley, LA. They've been around for one hundred and
seventy years. And Steve Gunther, the CEO here and president,
(28:30):
has told us quite a bit about Maryvale's history, and
now let's look at the present. Tell us a bit
about the organization or the aspect of the organization called
your Connections. It's a substance use and prevention program for adolescents.
Speaker 2 (28:46):
Tell us a bit more about.
Speaker 5 (28:47):
That, certainly, So Connections by Maryvale is our newest program.
Speaker 1 (28:52):
Actually, it's a.
Speaker 5 (28:54):
New community based mental health program focused on adolescents. From
twelve to seven team who are experiencing substance use and
mental health challenges. And there are four main aspects to
the program. There's some drug education, there's school based mental
health services, what are called enhanced care management services.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
And we are working to develop what's called.
Speaker 5 (29:19):
An intensive out patient program, which is essentially a step
down program for kids that have been in a residential
treatment program for substance use and are now transitioning.
Speaker 1 (29:28):
Back into the community.
Speaker 5 (29:30):
So it's a sort of an intensive outpatient program designed
to help support them as they continue that journey. So
it's a whole new direction for us, really built out
of our experience and our residential treatment program, taking the
lessons that we learned and the work that we were
doing with the kids in that program, and now offering
it in the community.
Speaker 1 (29:51):
So it's new, it's still in its early.
Speaker 5 (29:54):
Stages, but we're very excited about the possibilities and the
opportunity to serve a larger population of kids that we
have not been able to serve in the past.
Speaker 3 (30:05):
Do you ever get to speak to any of the
young people who are maybe now adults or still young
who have gone through any of your programs to be
able to kind of get testimonials or just reach back
to see how they're doing.
Speaker 5 (30:19):
Yeah, occasionally we do, you know, have some of our
former clients reach out to us and we get a
chance to hear how they're doing. And of course, you know,
we always tell them that, you know, you know, once
you're you know, a Maryvelle kid.
Speaker 1 (30:33):
You're always a Maryvelle kid. And you know, we've had
you know, young.
Speaker 5 (30:37):
Ladies who have maybe you know, found themselves struggling to
reach out and to see if there's anything that we
can do to help them. We've we have some funds
available to some generous donors in the past that allow
us to support some of our former residents who are
trying to complete their schooling and you know, go to college.
(30:57):
And so we for example, have one young lady right
now who's studying it Loyal and Maryman and we're able
to help her with you know, with some of the
cost of her going to school so that she can
complete her degree and continue to do some good work. So, yeah,
we have those opportunities. It's it's generally it's the you know,
the young ladies you know reaching back out to us,
(31:20):
and we always love to hear from them, to hear
how they're doing, and to help them and support them
any way we can.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
I love to hear the success stories that come out
of social services organizations because that's where it matters most,
right Obviously, people having gone through a program and being
able to say this helped me and this is where
I'm at now. And of course, on the other side
of success, there are still so many people who are
needing your services in LA. Obviously, in southern California, California
(31:50):
at large, we have an immense problem with homelessness and housing.
Can you tell us a bit about Is it Seaton
House set in house? I don't want to mispronounce it.
Speaker 1 (32:00):
Yeah, it's it's Seatonhouse, named after St. Elizabeth N. Seaton,
who was a daughter of charity.
Speaker 2 (32:05):
Okay, tell us a bit about Seaton House.
Speaker 5 (32:08):
So, Seatonhouse is our temporary housing program for single moms
with small children. The children are usually under the age
of ten, and it is a program designed four young mothers.
Speaker 1 (32:21):
Who have been you know, homeless.
Speaker 5 (32:24):
Who are on the verge of that, who are maybe
you know, at risk of becoming homeless, and the program
is designed to provide them some stability and support for
typically six months, you know, sometimes longer, but the program
is really designed for six months. It allows us to
integrate all of our services around the mom, so they
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are able to live in residence on our campus in Rosemead.
Speaker 1 (32:50):
We have the early Education program right.
Speaker 5 (32:52):
On campus, so if they have the mom has a
young children who are a preschool age, she's able to
walk right across campus and take them to school. And
then we also have our community Mental Health program and
that allows us then to refer moms for mental health
services and for the children, so we're able to bring
all of our services around them moms.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
And then while they're with us, there are classes that
we offer.
Speaker 5 (33:17):
They're the case manager that they meet with, and the
idea is to help them stabilize and concentrate on their
individual goals in order to take whatever next steps they're
wanting to take or needing to take. So there's always
an emphasis on, you know, what is going to be
the next housing solution for them? What do they need
to do in terms of employment or education, And it's
(33:41):
really exciting to see, you know, the moms come in
really focus on their individual goals and then you know,
to make you know, whatever progress they're able to make
in the time that they're with us so they can
take that next step for themselves and for their children.
Speaker 3 (33:55):
If there's an award, you deserve it, Maryvelle deserves it.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
I definitely nominate you for all of the things.
Speaker 3 (34:03):
But before we do, tell us a bit about the
benefit you have coming up, and also where people can
reach you should they want more information to support, to donate,
give us all the details.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Certainly. So.
Speaker 5 (34:17):
On September thirteenth, we're having what we call Harvest of
Hope Igala at a lovely event that we host wright
on our campus and Rosemie. We have a beautiful campus
in Rosemie, and so we have an outdoor event, live music,
wonderful food. We'll be honoring a gentleman who's doing a
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supporter and involved with Maryville for many years, and it's
just an opportunity to bring the community together to celebrate
the work that we do, and of course to raise
funds to support us in the work that we're doing.
And if anybody is interested in learning more about that
event or about Maryville in general, the easiest thing to
do is just go to our website at marya org
(35:01):
and all of the information is available on the website
about our programs about how to support us, including the gala,
and we'd be happy to hear from folks, and you
have folks get involved and support us in the work
that we're doing.
Speaker 3 (35:15):
Get involved, support the work that Maryvelle is doing, because
they are doing it from the most pure parts of
the heart. To be able to work with this sort
of population, to be able to give so freely and
support so generously, is again a testament to the cornerstone
of Maryville and why it has existed for one hundred
(35:37):
and seventy years. Steve Gunther, President and CEO of Maryvelle,
you are taking it into the next generation, into the
upper echelons. And I thank you for coming on on
KFI with us and giving us your time.
Speaker 2 (35:50):
We know you're busy, well, thank you for having me.
Speaker 1 (35:53):
It's been a pleasure.
Speaker 2 (35:53):
You're so welcome.
Speaker 3 (35:54):
And again you can go to Maryvelle dot org for
more information on that gala and any other information about
Maryvale that you might be interested in. All right, everybody,
it's been a great show. Thanks so much for hanging
out with us as always, and if you want to
hear any part of the show that you may have missed,
You can go on the iHeart app and click on
Saturdays with Tiffany. That's where everything is and I would
(36:17):
sure love for you to go there and listen back.
I'll see you here next week from five to seven
as usual. It's been a blast, have a great one
and I'll talk to you on the other side. Kfi
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