Eric Dane calls for ALS progress

Following actor Eric Dane's absence from this week's Emmy awards the 'Grey's Anatomy' star has appeared in a major new campaign for ALS.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Well, some more entertainment news for you now, and following
out to Eric Dane's absence from this week's Emmy Awards,
the Grace Anatomy star has appeared in a major new
campaign for ALES and some more.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
Peter Ford is back with us.

Speaker 1 (00:13):
What can you tell us people?

Speaker 3 (00:15):
Well, we're talking yesterday and I said, let's hope it's
not a case that things aren't going well, even though
he'd said back in June that he felt his condition
was deteriorating pretty quickly. Now ALS in Australia is better
known as mode of neuron disease. So he has appeared
in this campaign to get more funding for more research.

(00:35):
And I think it's without being mean, I think it's
fair to say that things don't seem to be going
too well. We don't know when this was actually shot,
but his speech is slightly slurred and you'll notice that
there's not a lot of movement in his arms. See
for yourself. This is Eric.

Speaker 4 (00:50):
Dane, America, an actor, a father, and now a person
living with ALS for over a century. ALS is man
incurable and we're done accepting the status quo. We need
the fastest path to occure and that's why I partner
with IMLS on the push for progress, our goal a

(01:13):
billion dollars over the next three years.

Speaker 3 (01:16):
So that is really truly using your celebrity and your
unfortunate condition for something better and for good. So good
on him.

Speaker 1 (01:24):
Yeah, absolutely, what a brave man to be pushing for
change when he's clearly not doing so well himself. That's amazing.
Moving on with just hours away from the new American
season of Dancing with the Stars, we're all we're all
rooting for Robert Irwin.

Speaker 3 (01:40):
Yeah, we sure are. And look what we're doing is
with the time difference on the East Coast, it doesn't
go to air here on the West Coast for several hours,
yet we are recording it on the East Coast so
that we can bring it to you if indeed he
is on dancing within the next few hours. But we
are totally across it. The hype is really extreme. We
know that, you know, Robert and all the Irwins have

(02:02):
got the work ethic, they've got the energy. I mean,
they just bring everything to the table. He's just one
of the many many teasers online to get everybody excited
about Robert. Guys, we're back in the ballroom this is insane.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Look at this, this is crazy. A lot has changed since.

Speaker 1 (02:20):
My sister did this show.

Speaker 3 (02:22):
But also it also kind of feels exactly the same.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
This is so crazy being back.

Speaker 2 (02:26):
Only difference is I'm.

Speaker 3 (02:28):
Not sitting here, I'm out there.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
This is crazy. We're ready, Let's do this. Bring it on.

Speaker 3 (02:34):
It's Born to be Wild. And another fun one they've
done is they've actually gone and shot at at Australia Zoo.
They've got all the various employees and obviously they all
know Robert, and they've got together and put messages down
and they've really got the hype machine working in overdrive.
So at this early stage of the game, I'd be

(02:54):
inclined to put a bit of money on him. As
I said, we're staying across it. If he dances in
the next few hours, you'll see it.

Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, I put money on him for the logis I
lost that Born to be Wild?

Speaker 2 (03:04):
Do we just get a hint of the song?

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Or as they do reveal the song?

Speaker 3 (03:09):
So I didn't have intimate knowledge of the inside working
to the American Dancing with the Stars game.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
America, they reveal the song that the celebrity will be
dancing and what is the song Born to Be Wild?

Speaker 3 (03:18):
Oh my god, how I put that together without any
inside knowledge.

Speaker 2 (03:21):
I'm very good with that stuff.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
Goldie Horn and Kate Hudson, her daughter, have turned up
for something spiritual. That's not surprising.

Speaker 3 (03:30):
Well, Kate and her brother Oliver do a really good
podcast together, and Goldie is involved in this one, and
their guest is John Edward. Now who knew that Goldie
is right into all this and talking to people on
the other side, as it were, and it looks like
a lot of fun. Here's a little of that show.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
This is Keep Quiet. I'm trying to do an intro.
That is what I was going to say before anyone spoke,
was that we have John Edward here, who is a
world renowned medium. Keate couldn't be here because she's working.
And then I was going to say, but we have
another incredible human being here who happened to give birth

(04:07):
to myself. Her name is Goldie Haan, better known as
my mother Proud to be right.

Speaker 1 (04:13):
Also she's also my mother.

Speaker 2 (04:15):
And in this scenario, you weren't here yet, so feeling
the revelry, I'm feeling it, you're feeling.

Speaker 4 (04:22):
I'm filled with so much love when I'm talking to
someone on the other side from a facility.

Speaker 3 (04:29):
So that's just the teaser. So once again we'll stay
across it and when the full show drops we'll see
who they've conjured up. It could be quite interesting, all right, Pete,
Thank you Matte.

Speaker 1 (04:37):
And if there's any change to Robert Irwin's opening song,
please let.

Speaker 2 (04:40):
Us know it first.

Speaker 4 (04:41):
All right.

Speaker 1 (04:42):
I think it's a job.

Speaker 2 (04:44):
You know what I was thinking.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
I was thinking, is he going to do the church
or the jive song?

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Your best shots to jive?

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Thank you, Pete.