Ellen K Broadcasting Live From Children's Hospital: Part 1 5a-12p

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
What a day, what a special moment.

Speaker 2 (00:01):
We start every Giving Tuesday here at Children's Hospital Los
Angeles with the man with the legend, President Paul Viviano.
Thank you for always being here to kick off the
special day.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
Well, and thank you so much for being part of
the Children's Hospital Los Angeles family. What a great honor
it is for me to be part of this special
Giving Tuesday, part of KOST and the Ellen Q Show.

Speaker 2 (00:24):
Thank you, thank you, We are here all day. Thank
you for your hospitality. But really, just shine a light
on all the magic that happens here in these walls.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
And no one knows better than you, Paul.

Speaker 2 (00:36):
That it takes a lot of people to make this
hospital happen.

Speaker 3 (00:41):
We have an amazing team. We have more than seven
five hundred team members and a thousand physicians who work
here on a full time basis, and without the great
philanthropic support of the greater Los Angeles community, the magic
that they do every day would literally not be possible.
Miracles happen every day at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, life
saving transformative care literally every single day.

Speaker 1 (01:05):
And it's not just in this building.

Speaker 2 (01:07):
You know, I've really learned a lot this year about
everything that goes into this hospital, the research, the scientists,
the inventions, the global presence of Children's Hospital, Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 (01:21):
We are so lucky.

Speaker 2 (01:22):
And I know I for one, didn't know how lucky
we were to have this hospital until I really needed you,
when my son Calvin broke his elbow and needed emergency surgery.
And I'm telling you, Paul, I don't know that many
people would say this, but I didn't want to leave
the hospital.

Speaker 1 (01:38):
It was very hard to be discharged.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
Well, it was amazing. So we treat more than seven
hundred thousand children every single year, and that is of
course miraculous in and of itself. But to your point,
we're an academic medical center. We have more than four
hundred physician scientists on our campus who have devoted their
entire careers to developing new treatments and new cures for
childhood diseases. In addition to that, we're one of the

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largest training programs in the entire United States, the third
largest as a matter of fact, for training new nurses
and new physicians to provide care to these precious young
children who are entrusted to our care. So research, training
and teaching as well as our clinical responsibilities. This is
a world class organization and every single perspective, oh wow.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
And giving Tuesday, we are giving all day. Okay, So Paul,
we know all that you do and we're going to
learn even more. We're going to talk to patients and doctors,
a lot of celebrities stopping by to do celebrity takeovers
Jamie Lee Curtis, Jimmy Kimmel andmore. But what about you
as a human, Paul, how do you do this every day?

(02:44):
This is a big responsibility.

Speaker 3 (02:46):
Well, it's such an honor to have the opportunity and
privilege of my entire life and career to be the
CEO at Children's Hospital Los Angeles. So we've developed a
fantastic team which makes everybody's job so much more manageable.
But it's an inspiring, gratifying set of initiatives that we
have undertaken to care for every single patient. Everyone receives

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the same great care regardless of their financial status. A
great legacy, the great legacy of Children's Hospital Los Angeles.
So it is inspiring and we have a fantastic team.
So every day we have the opportunity to see families,
to see patients, to engage with them and to provide
literally the world's best care we can for every single
person who walks through these doors. It is incredible the

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impact that you have. Thank you for the generous community
of Los Angeles for supporting Children's Hospital.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, let's go, La. And before you go, Paul, congrats
on all of your awards. This guy's got like you know,
you think who's won a lot of awards? Mariah Carey, Sure, yeah,
Adele remember picturing her with all those Grammys.

Speaker 4 (03:49):
In her arms.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Yeah, they got nothing on Paul Viviano.

Speaker 3 (03:54):
How lucky am I? Oh blessed to be representing Children's
Hospital Los Angeles.

Speaker 5 (04:00):
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Speaker 5 (04:19):
Coast one oh three point five, Good morning.

Speaker 1 (04:21):
Welcome to you giving Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (04:22):
Here it's Coast one of three point five or the
l and K Morning Show. And really, Calvin, I want
to embarrass you, but you're the guy who started this
broadcast here in the lobby because of you, we are
here for our ninth year.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Thank you.

Speaker 7 (04:36):
I'm just grateful to be here. I'm just very happy
to be a part of this. And after nine years,
after nine yeah, keep coming back and I always keep
coming back. Yeah, it's awesome.

Speaker 1 (04:45):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (04:46):
Well, so a shattered elbow during a football game led
us through the emergency room doors and giving Tuesday was
started that year. You left after three days after surgery,
and and we said, we have to go back and
we want to see We want to see the place again.
We want to see the doctors, the nurses wanted to

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see that. We want to help the patients. Some of
the patients that are here have to stay a lot longer,
some of them have to keep on coming back for
all kinds of follow up visits. So what you've done
by breaking your elbow has turned into a good thing.

Speaker 7 (05:23):
Yeah, it isn't that wonderful. Something really bad turned something
really good. And I just I can't wait to see
it keep going, and how they innovate here at CHLA
and just what everything new is coming along And I
hope it benefits the kids, benefits the world.

Speaker 2 (05:38):
That's a lot of good research, a lot of science
going into making it better every year.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Well, you know you you work in tech.

Speaker 2 (05:45):
The technology that's available now to look at a heart
or to see what's wrong and some lungs, it's beautiful, incredible.
So and I know you saw a spinal surgery and
pretty soon they're not going to have incisions. You know,
it's crazy of the future stuff that's non invasive and
all that stuff. But Calvin, I just you know, from

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that broken elbow, and how's it feeling.

Speaker 7 (06:08):
Oh, it feels rock solid, like it's never it's actually
stronger now can I can never break it again?

Speaker 1 (06:14):
I think that's right.

Speaker 2 (06:16):
To now to nine years later Giving Tuesday, and I
just want to say thank you Calvin for believing in
this hospital, for always supporting it, for being a junior ambassador,
and for now coming back every year. You have not
missed a year of Giving Tuesday.

Speaker 7 (06:30):
Yeah. I'm just very happy to be a part of
Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Always come back, always keep coming back.
It's just such a great place.

Speaker 1 (06:37):
Yeah, and your mom is here too, of.

Speaker 7 (06:39):
Course, can't forget that.

Speaker 1 (06:42):
I love you.

Speaker 7 (06:43):
I love you too.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
And we're just getting started. So give now at Coast
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A Happy Given Tuesday.

Speaker 5 (06:50):
More feel Good is coming up on The L and
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Speaker 1 (06:57):
I love the way you guys just get on and
inspire everybody.

Speaker 8 (07:01):
Thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Oh, thank you. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays.

Speaker 9 (07:05):
Merry Christmas.

Speaker 5 (07:06):
Cost one O three point five.

Speaker 2 (07:07):
Let's welcome Meghan Nelson, chair of the Advocacy Committee of
Children's Hospital Los Angeles. And Meghan also probably more important
to you, the most important to you is that you're
Ella's mommy. Welcome, thank you, welcome back.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
I should say.

Speaker 10 (07:21):
Thank you for having me here.

Speaker 1 (07:23):
It's good to be back now.

Speaker 2 (07:25):
Since last year we have seen Ella thrive and grow.
But take us back to Ella's diagnosis.

Speaker 11 (07:31):
Sure June of twenty twenty, we were living in Virginia.
I had just given birth to our son, Francis, three
weeks prior to discovering her diagnosis. When my mom, who
was visiting to help us take care of Francis, gave
Ella a hug as she was getting ready to leave
to go to the airport to go back to Arizona,

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where we're originally from, and she felt a lump on
the side of her abdomen immediately got my husband and
I's attention. We felt it and took her to the pediatrician.
The pediatrician couldn't, you know, confirm or deny anything significant,
and said they basically don't have the tools to say

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what it was, and so they recommended we go to
the emergency room, the local emergency room, which we did,
and because it was COVID, only one of us could go,
so my husband, Marcus went with our daughter and I
stayed home with our newborn. And they were certain it
was something called a Wilm's tumor, which is a pretty
common pediatric kidney tumor, and two days later they did

(08:40):
a surgery and removed the tumor and the kidney it
was attached to. A couple of days after that, the
pathology came back and said, it's not what we thought
it was. It's neuroblastoma, stage four high risk neuro blastoma,
which is a bit different, not great. Based off of
our preliminary research, we knew immediately we needed to go

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to a ciner that specialized in this specific type of cancer.
So we started doing research and it was a family
friend who reached out and said you need to get
to Children's Hospital Los Angeles. She was a nurse practitioner
there and July third, twenty twenty, we were on a
flight to Children's Hospital Los Angeles and landed there and

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knew from that very first appointment with her oncologist, doctor Rosmaricillian,
that we were in the right place. And then we
started her her treatment plan. Two years of treatment and
she is considered NED, which is no evidence of disease.

Speaker 9 (09:44):
You know.

Speaker 11 (09:45):
One of the main things that I took away from
that experience is that, Okay, she's any d now, but
this doesn't end here. There's many kids who are going
through this and families that don't know how to navigate,
you know, such a traumatic diet diagnosis. How can I help?
And so I have enjoyed being the chair of the

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Advocacy Committee because we're able to go out and tell
Ella's story. So this past summer we went to Washington,
d C. For Family Advocacy Day and we're able to
sit down with almost all of the Los Angeles delegation,
our congress men and women, to tell her story, to
advocate for things like medicaid in Children's Hospital graduate Medical

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Education program, which are, you know, important to many pediatric
hospitals around the country. So it's just been an awesome experience.
And for Ella to be able to see, you know,
what advocacy looks like and what that means is really
important to me as her mom.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
And she's six years old now, she's six, six years old.
We met Ella first when she was four. She was four,
and she wasn't out of the woods no when we
met Ella.

Speaker 1 (10:58):
That's right.

Speaker 2 (10:59):
So it's so good to see the whole family out
there spreading the word for c HLA.

Speaker 1 (11:03):
It's it's just so meaningful.

Speaker 2 (11:06):
I know when you get up and speak, Megan, a
lot of people are afraid to speak after you because
you're so good at it.

Speaker 5 (11:14):
It's the L and K Morning Show.

Speaker 8 (11:16):
I love the Chrystmas.

Speaker 12 (11:17):
I wish you could play them all year.

Speaker 2 (11:19):
And I hope that you stay with us after the
Christmas music goes away.

Speaker 12 (11:22):
Oh I do, I do, But I just love this
time of the year.

Speaker 8 (11:24):
Okay, happy, how is you guys? Okay?

Speaker 5 (11:26):
Cost one o three point Welcome to Giving Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (11:29):
Cole and Mama Linda.

Speaker 2 (11:31):
We're so happy you could be with us on this
special day of giving to c CHLA.

Speaker 1 (11:37):
Cole, you beat it, you beat cancer. Way to go.

Speaker 8 (11:41):
Sure did.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
Yeah, thanks for having us, Yeah, of course. And Mama Linda,
you're right there by his side.

Speaker 13 (11:47):
On a team.

Speaker 4 (11:48):
She was there every second in the way. It was
pretty awesome.

Speaker 2 (11:51):
So I have to describe you, Cole. You are tall,
you are beachy in a good way. Yeah, you've got
you've got like wild blonde hair on top, and you.

Speaker 1 (12:03):
Look like a water polo player if there is.

Speaker 4 (12:06):
If I saw you just on the street, I would
get I would say that guy is involved in the water.

Speaker 1 (12:10):
Yeah, surfer, yeah, all that stuff.

Speaker 4 (12:12):
All the stuff, yeah, beach volleyball and just having fun.

Speaker 2 (12:16):
Active athletic And then a year ago, tell us what happened.

Speaker 4 (12:20):
Yeah, So on October third, I was helicoptered down to
c CHLA and from there, about six months before that,
or like six to eight months, I was like getting
ear infections or like we thought it was ear infections,
but there's really a tumor going like in the back
of my ear. And I just kept getting these ear
infections that we thought and we would go to like

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the NT, you know's throat doctor. Yeah, and like they
didn't know.

Speaker 12 (12:46):
What was going on.

Speaker 4 (12:47):
They'd do all this testing on me, and like they
never could find anything until like the week that I
got like super sick, and then it was a weekend
so I couldn't go to my doctor. And then once
we got to the doctor on that Tuesday, I was
like super dizzy and dehydrated because from that week that
I was sick, I couldn't even put down water or anything.
So I was extremely dehydrated and couldn't even walk. And

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we got into my doctor and from there, like around
one point thirty, they told us that they found a tumor.
They weren't for sure if his cancerous. They weren't sure,
but they were like, we need to send you down
to COCHLA, like that's the best spot to be. And
of course it was because it healed me.

Speaker 1 (13:27):
Linda, how hard was that.

Speaker 13 (13:29):
We were in a room at three am and we
thought we were going home, and they said, they're just
something that's just not making sense. We just have to
do one more test and they did a CT scan
and they came in the room and said, yes, we
found something. We're not sure exactly what it is, but
there is a team headed here on helicopter from CCHLA
right now. Oh and they'll be here in forty minutes

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to take hole and yeah, and sure enough, the team
landed in Santa Barbara Airport, took Hole away. He was
really ill and we were there for one hundred and
twenty three days. Oh my god, and the people that
we met were so amazing. It was it has become family.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
Oh yeah, yeah, for sure, it's will always be family
to us. Oh yeah, wow, I know, that's incredible.

Speaker 13 (14:23):
It actually is incredible because my son he has he
just loves life. He's a very positive soul and and
he was so ill and he went through so many
hard heart you know, rounds of chemo and radiation, and
they just took they just took him under their wing
and just did what they do. They're experts at what

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they do, and and they brought so many smiles to
our room.

Speaker 2 (14:50):
And one year later, look what they've done. I know,
we're so thankful, astonishing. It is astonishing. Yeah, and we're
so thankful clause a second chance. And he's just living
his best life right now. Yeah, he's taking up a
new sport. He just tried out for volleyball.

Speaker 4 (15:09):
Uh indoor. Okay, it runs in the family, but all
my sisters played in college and stuff. So they definitely
give me the teachings and stuff about how to play
and stuff. So yeah, a lot to come.

Speaker 1 (15:21):
How has this changed the way you look at life?

Speaker 4 (15:24):
Oh my gosh. Oh even Like so between my one
hundred and twenty three days, I probably it was four
rounds of chemo, and between that it would be every
chemo it would be like two weeks off. And like
just like being in my car, being in a car,
like driving on the road at that time, I was like,
I'm not in like a four just like a room

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out in the world. I could like feel the wind
is super awesome. And like I still look at that,
like when I went surfing this weekend, I'm just like,
even though that waves might be not good, I'm like, oh,
I'm just in the water, Like.

Speaker 1 (15:58):
Yes, like living life. You're living your best life.

Speaker 4 (16:02):
In a good way. It's like what God has put
me through it like it's been honestly a great outlook
on life. And then I'm going to have it for
the rest of my life.

Speaker 1 (16:10):
And yeah, you're awesome.

Speaker 2 (16:11):
Yeah, oh my god, l A and Giving Tuesday and
this is what a beautiful story and these these these
stories come out of c h l A all the time.
So we're so happy that we could get you on
the air to share yours.

Speaker 1 (16:28):
Yeah, we're happy to share it.

Speaker 8 (16:30):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
Sorry, we owe a lot to Chla. Yeah, I mean
we all do.

Speaker 8 (16:36):
Well.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
You're blessing Cole, and thank you for being here with
us on Giving Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (16:41):
Really, it's so nice to meet you and mommy Linda.
Way to go you guys.

Speaker 2 (16:45):
You know you're spreading such good hope.

Speaker 1 (16:48):
Keep us posted on the promposals. Oh yeah, that's coming.

Speaker 14 (16:52):
Yeah that sounds good.

Speaker 8 (16:53):
I'll do.

Speaker 5 (16:55):
It's the L and K Morning Show.

Speaker 15 (16:57):
You guys, give up thirsty for more?

Speaker 9 (17:00):
Oh, Merry Christmas.

Speaker 5 (17:03):
Coast one three point five.

Speaker 2 (17:05):
Hi, Jimmy Ellen, Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy jim how are you.

Speaker 8 (17:10):
I'm good. I'm eating a giant bowl of soup.

Speaker 2 (17:12):
I was just about to ask you how many things
are you doing all at once right now?

Speaker 8 (17:18):
Yeah, I'm meaning soup. I'm really That's all I'm doing
on the phone and eating soup.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
What kind of soup, Jimmy.

Speaker 8 (17:26):
It's kind of a rothy shrimp soup with some noodles
in it.

Speaker 2 (17:32):
Okay, is this because you are a television star? Do
you eat differently than you used to, or do you
still enjoy carbs every once in a while.

Speaker 8 (17:40):
Well, I still eat like a pig just for me.
It's really it's hot and cold, like either I will
go wild and eat a whole box of cereal at midnight, yeah,
or I will be can't you know? I get these
like meals delivered that are you don't mind not eating
them because they're terrible and so.

Speaker 1 (18:02):
The portions are so small in most of them.

Speaker 12 (18:05):
Yeah, and you know, and.

Speaker 8 (18:06):
You're like, you know what, I'm glad there's not any
more of this because it's not that good. In fact,
the noodles I'm meaning right now tastes like packing peanuts. Ah,
exactly like packing They might be packing peanuts. I really
need to look back through the box and make sure
I didn't inadvertently heat up some styrofoam.

Speaker 1 (18:25):
All right, Jimmy, We just want you to be safe
because we need you.

Speaker 2 (18:27):
We need you well, we need you every day, but
we really need you on Giving Tuesday.

Speaker 1 (18:31):
So thank you for being here with us.

Speaker 2 (18:34):
We know that Chla is literally in the heart of
your family, and so we really appreciate your time.

Speaker 8 (18:41):
Yeah, you're right, it is. And I appreciate where you are.
You know, I know you do so much for Chla
and we my wife Molly and I very much enjoyed
seeing you at the fundraising gala, and it is it's
a great place, and it's something that you can feel
really good about giving too, because they do so many

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Just take a walk around the place and you'll see
how many families they help and including ours, and they
do that. It doesn't matter how much money you have,
what you do for a living. You don't have to
have a television show. They will give you the same
care that everyone gets. And that is some of the
I have to say, Like when you're you go to
the hospital, you kind of wish like every hospital is

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like you wish adults were treated. It's the same way
that kids are treated at this hospital. But we're very
fortunate to have it here in our city, that's for sure.

Speaker 11 (19:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:34):
Well, your wife, Molly is so beautiful. I just want
to tell you some things I observed about the two
of you.

Speaker 1 (19:40):
Oh yeah, so you've been married eleven eleven years or
ten ten or eleven years, eleven years, eleven year?

Speaker 2 (19:46):
Okay, So first of all, Molly is like willowy, tall, thin,
smiles beautiful, And I'm walking behind Jimmy and Molly, and
Jimmy's holding your hand, and I thought, you know, the
handholding really says so much.

Speaker 1 (19:58):
It's so much more than just holding a hand.

Speaker 2 (20:01):
It's like, you guys have this connection and I know
that you really truly love each other. And I thought
that the hand holding really, I don't know, I just
can't stop thinking about that.

Speaker 1 (20:10):
Jimmy, Oh wow, Well you know my hand.

Speaker 8 (20:13):
The truth is I'm old and she was just holding
me up.

Speaker 12 (20:15):
And I grabbed your hand.

Speaker 1 (20:17):
Too, and we both guided you.

Speaker 8 (20:22):
Jim we doo old hands. And I think, you know,
especially so when she's wearing high heels. We definitely old
hands in that situation because we don't want to stumble
in front of the red cart.

Speaker 1 (20:35):
All right, let's talk about Billy. How is Billy.

Speaker 2 (20:37):
Last time we spoke, you said he's extremely sassy and
a troublemaker.

Speaker 8 (20:42):
He is. He's really funny. He is very healthy. Most
of all, he had another heart surgery, open heart surgery,
earlier this year, and he's doing great. He's gained a
lot of weight. He's gotten like, he's gotten like four
and a half inches taller since then. It's really remarkable.
When you give kids food, they grow something that I

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I don't know why I was surprised by it, but
I was. And and he's he's doing great. He's really
excited about Christmas.

Speaker 2 (21:14):
Of course, well, we know, we know about your journey,
and we know about doctor von Stearn's and I know
that Billy's had multiple surgeries. You know, Terry paris hard
and to grow with him. And I saw some of
the new research from Children's Hospital and some of the
new implementations they have. Kids will not need to be

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opened up in the future.

Speaker 1 (21:35):
It will just.

Speaker 2 (21:36):
Be a valve placed inside or valves that grow with
the child.

Speaker 1 (21:42):
And I thought, this is mind blowing. They can do
it through a cafeter.

Speaker 8 (21:46):
It's unbelievable. And you know, it's for us. We were
hoping that we could hold off on Billy's last heart
surgery long enough for that to be available, and we
just kind of we kind of just missed it. But
it is really wonderful and be able to send the
kids home the next day is it's a miracle. I

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thank god I'm not in charge of that, because thank god,
the smart people in the world. He's trying to do
something good with their intelligence.

Speaker 1 (22:17):
I got to tell you.

Speaker 2 (22:18):
So this guy, doctor Alan Lewis, and then ROBERTA Williams,
they've been practicing medicine for fifty years. Roberta was one
of the first to ever even come up with the
echo cardiogram, and then they are taking us through the
invention of that all the way to Starnes, the guy
who saved Billy's life and who's saving so many lives every.

Speaker 1 (22:35):
Day, And Jimmy, I cry. I sat there.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
I was blown away. I don't even know. How do
you think these people?

Speaker 8 (22:46):
Yeah, how do you thank these people? I mean I
tried to give them tickets to the World Series, but
he said he didn't want them. I mean that seemed
like a pretty good thing. Thank you. And there's no
way to ever thank these people, but you have to try.
And when we should all be very very grateful. Not
only did doctor Stearns save my son's life, he operated

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on my eighty three year old uncle Vinnie. And we're
still not sure if we're grateful for him saving Uncle Vinny. Jeez,
We'll let you know is still out on that one.

Speaker 5 (23:19):
It's the k Morning Show.

Speaker 11 (23:23):
Mary Christmas.

Speaker 5 (23:25):
Coast one O three point five.

Speaker 2 (23:26):
Well, welcome to our studios a very special young man
who is our guest DJ with a smile and sparkling eyes.

Speaker 1 (23:36):
You won't believe. Let's welcome Pierce. Yay, Piers, thank you
for being here. Welcome, thank you.

Speaker 2 (23:44):
Yeah, so, thank you for the flowers and the card too.

Speaker 1 (23:49):
Yeah. Wow, are you out of school for this?

Speaker 15 (23:53):
Yay?

Speaker 2 (23:54):
Mom, Aubrey, thank you for getting Pears here, my pleasure. Yeah,
so you have quite a story, Pierce. It says here
that your nickname is Fierce Pierce. Can you tell us why?

Speaker 16 (24:07):
Because I survived cancer?

Speaker 1 (24:09):
Yes, and I hear twice, Mom, tell us about that.

Speaker 10 (24:14):
Yeah, he's he's a pretty remarkable little guy. So when
he was a toddler, he was diagnosed, you want to
share what you were diagnosed with, Bud.

Speaker 16 (24:25):
My lord, leukemia?

Speaker 1 (24:26):
Okay, that's a big big those are some big words.

Speaker 10 (24:29):
Yeah, it's a tongue twister there.

Speaker 2 (24:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 10 (24:33):
So yeah, he was he was two years old, which
is kind of exactly what you want the burden to
be on the parents. And hopefully I have the kids
not remember too much of it. But it was quite
a journey, humbud. Yeah, yeah, are you the only kid
you want to share a little bit.

Speaker 1 (24:49):
About your sister. Yeah, tell us about it.

Speaker 16 (24:51):
I have one older sister and one younger sister.

Speaker 1 (24:55):
Yeah, what are their names?

Speaker 16 (24:57):
The older sister who named Sierra, and the youngest sister
her names Harper.

Speaker 2 (25:03):
Okay, so they were also there on your journey, the
whole family.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
Really yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 10 (25:11):
So when he was diagnosed as a toddler, Sierra was
four and Harper was four and a half weeks old.

Speaker 1 (25:17):
Oh my goodness.

Speaker 10 (25:18):
And so Children's Hospital Los Angeles was pretty pretty remarkable,
huh bud. Yeah, so we had we had a lot
of people in the room.

Speaker 5 (25:28):
Sure journey.

Speaker 10 (25:30):
Yeah, so he's had nineteen surgeries, nineteen, he's had thirty
one platelet transfusions. And then do you want to share
a bit about your bone marrow transplant? What's special about
your dinner?

Speaker 16 (25:44):
She was from France?

Speaker 1 (25:46):
She was from really you got bone marrow from France?
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 2 (25:52):
And she shifted over and within two days forty eight
hours it saved your life.

Speaker 11 (25:59):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (25:59):
Wow.

Speaker 10 (26:01):
Oh what do we say when you have a skin knee?

Speaker 16 (26:05):
That's French blood, that's French blood.

Speaker 2 (26:09):
Did you learn French in the process? I hear the
two of you correspond a lot too. You write to
each other.

Speaker 1 (26:18):
Yeah, I like preachy. You have good taste. You're gonna
be wearing.

Speaker 2 (26:27):
A yet a croissant, maybe a buttery, crunchy croissant.

Speaker 1 (26:33):
How are you feeling now? Are you feel good? You
feel healthy and strong?

Speaker 16 (26:36):
Yeah?

Speaker 12 (26:37):
Good?

Speaker 1 (26:37):
Why do you have two birthdays? I only have one.

Speaker 16 (26:42):
Well, the day the woman's blood went into me. That's
that's like every year we celebrated because it's saved my life,
and so we call it my blood birthday.

Speaker 1 (27:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
Do you have hobbies or favorite activities that you love
to do now that you're nine?

Speaker 16 (27:07):
I like reading? Okay, I did play baseball and soccer.

Speaker 2 (27:12):
Okay, yeah, you know you look like a baseball play.
You've got that athletic kind of neck and chin like
you know, you look like sturdy. Yeah, definitely.

Speaker 16 (27:26):
Ryan.

Speaker 1 (27:27):
This boy, fierce Pierce, who's with us now.

Speaker 2 (27:30):
Pierce is going to be very popular with the ladies
when you get a little older.

Speaker 1 (27:35):
Well, when the door opened, he was standing there with
flowers in a card for you, Allen. He's already he's
got it figured out. I love it.

Speaker 10 (27:44):
Thank you guys for coming, Thank you so much for
having us.

Speaker 5 (27:47):
It's the Morning Show.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
Thank you so much for playing the Christmas music every year.
You guys rock so much and make the holiday season
brighter for everyone.

Speaker 5 (27:55):
Post one three point five, Well, this is a is
a special hour.

Speaker 2 (27:59):
Actually it's our Giving Tuesday celebrity takeover with the only
Oscar winner who has ever been on the llen K
Morning Show.

Speaker 1 (28:06):
That's you, Jamie Lee Curtis. Really you are first and
only Oscar.

Speaker 2 (28:09):
We've had Oscar nominees, but never an Oscar winner.

Speaker 1 (28:14):
Oh this is so special.

Speaker 15 (28:17):
Hi wow, that's that's just having you say that is
sort of amazing. I you know, I don't remember it all. Yeah,
and then just I think this morning one of my
god children sent me some you know plays don't even
like the tickty talkingty of it all, okay, like sent
me something from the tikety talkty that included that moment

(28:40):
at the Oscars, and my abject shock, I actually say
shut up. Yeah no, like when they called my name.
I actually I watched it this morning, I say shut up.
So to hear you, so that moment still is so
wild to me. That then for you to say that

(29:00):
that and that we're just going to change that. So
everybody listening, who is an Oscar nominee this year, or
who wants to be an Oscar nominee, Get your ass
to Ellen's chair, right because when you win it, you'll
be the second Oscar winner to be on the Giving

(29:21):
Tuesday broadcast broadcast. Yeah you're a hero.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Oh now you are, Jamie, And this is all about you,
please and the hospital and you being here with us.

Speaker 15 (29:32):
It's so we're here because of Children's Hospital ess Angels.
Both of us have had personal connections to them. You
as a parent of a patient. I have not had
a patient child at Children's Hospital, but I've worked with
them as an advocate for them for thirty something years now.
I mean it's been a long time, but we're here

(29:54):
supporting it. But what I'm so moved by is your commitment.
You know, there are people who say and they you know,
they care about something, and yet it's very hard to
get them to continue to have the level of excitement,
energy advocacy that you do, and you do in a big,

(30:14):
big way.

Speaker 1 (30:14):
We love this day.

Speaker 2 (30:15):
This is our favorite day of the year, and it's
our favorite day of the year because we get so
touched and moved by these miracle kids that we meet
and the families and the parents, and I mean, you've
already brought me to tears twice today after my son,
who was there for something that's so I want to say,
easily fixable because compared to you know, some of our
transparence and heart patients, it was a smashed elbow.

Speaker 1 (30:39):
He was rebuilt. He's great. We were in the lobby
that first year.

Speaker 2 (30:43):
And there was a boy in a wheelchair and he
was fourteen, the same age as my.

Speaker 1 (30:49):
Son, and I said, oh, why are you here?

Speaker 2 (30:51):
And he said, there's a new treatment that I can
have and maybe I can get my legs fitted with
braces one day and I can walk for the first time.

Speaker 1 (31:00):
And I just thought, Wow, I don't know. I just
we don't want to leave the lobby when we're here.

Speaker 15 (31:09):
The lobby is the city of Los Angeles in a microclus,
but it has every aspect of our great city of Angels,
because there are Angels everywhere. They're the staff, the administration,
the helpers.

Speaker 13 (31:25):
You know.

Speaker 15 (31:26):
One of my best friends is a woman named Suzann Yankovic,
and she is married to weird Owl Owl and their daughter,
Nina is my goddess daughter. Suzanne has been a volunteer
at the hospital and has graduated through every volunteer program
and she is now cuddling the neonatal babies. And she

(31:48):
told me the story today that when she's entering a
room and there's a brown butterfly on the door, it
means this is a terminal child, and it means that
this child will not survive. And often these are children
whose parents cannot be there with them at all times,

(32:13):
because many of these people work, many have other family members,
other children, and they can't be there with a critically
ill child. And my friend Suzanne goes in, like so
many of the beautiful volunteers of the cuddlers, and my
friend Suzanne goes in and sings and caresses and cares

(32:36):
along with the nursing staff and the doctors who've done
everything they can to save the life of that child.
You know, it is a reality of hospitals. Their intention
is to save every life. And then of course there
are critically ill, dying children, but who still get the
love and attention. And so I'm as moved as you

(32:57):
by the advocacy, the beautiful energy, and what we're talking
about Los Angeles is our local children's hospital. We are
not talking to people in Pittsburgh. Even if they're listening,
We're not talking about Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh. We're not
talking about Children's Hospital in Denver. We're talking about Children's

(33:20):
Hospital Los Angeles. I am born and raised in the
city of Angels. I've raised my children in the city
of Angels, and I am married in the city of Angels.
I work in the City of Angels and I support
my local organizations, primarily Children's Hospital Los Angeles. So this

(33:43):
is Giving Tuesday. This is the day to remember that
you've had a big year. It's for many people a
great year, for many people a tough year. And yet
at the end of the year you try to think
about the annual giving, the way we can give as
a society to the institutions that help and support our children,

(34:04):
most importantly in the city of Angels Children's Hospital of
s Angeles. And that's what Giving Tuesday is all about.
Give beyond just what you do in your daily life.
It really joins you in the community of giving, which
makes is to me, makes us bigger than we are.
It is a mission greater than us. And when you

(34:26):
give to something that's what you feel, You feel like
you have participated in the human existence by helping an
institution like Children's Hospital.

Speaker 1 (34:37):
Jamie Lee, that was a monologue. I want to talk
about nurses.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
Oh, let's talk about talk about coming up with Jamie
Lee Curtis give me L.

Speaker 5 (34:44):
And K Morning Show.

Speaker 1 (34:45):
Thank you so much for playing the Christmas music every year.
You guys rock so much and make the holiday season.

Speaker 17 (34:50):
Brighter for everyone.

Speaker 5 (34:51):
Past one o three point five.

Speaker 2 (34:53):
Thank you for being here with us on Giving Tuesday,
Coast one of three point five. I'm Ellen K here
with Jamie Lee Artists. It is a takeover by Jamie
Lee Curtis.

Speaker 1 (35:03):
Do you need anything to you know what?

Speaker 15 (35:05):
I am staring at ellen K. But I'm telling you,
I am staring at you. That's what I need. Connecting. Yes,
that's what we're talking about. What it is why I'm here,
Why you're doing this, Why you've dedicated over and over again,
year after year, your great talents at what you do,

(35:25):
the joy of your absolute Jois de Ville, joy of
life that you do, your grace as a funny, thrilling
person that people wake up to and listen to every
single day. But what you ultimately are doing is connecting
with those people who often are stuck in their car

(35:46):
on that way.

Speaker 14 (35:47):
A lot of commuters, a lot of commuters, and a
lot of people at their work where they can have
a radio going, and you are a connector and you
connect the dots for people.

Speaker 2 (35:57):
We get to be with people in chemo dialysis cars.
We all love what we do and we love that
you are here. And I know that you are a
huge advocate for the nurses.

Speaker 15 (36:12):
Nurses are the conduits for care. They are the ones
that do the hardest jobs at the hospital because the
doctors come in, but they have a distance from their patients.
They have to they're coming in for their very specific expertise.

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But nurses are the ones who care. And ultimately that
kind of level of care for a child who's frightened,
for a family who's frightened, is life changing when you
have a nurse who has to still do her job.
Nurses are the ones who put the needles in and
for all of us. By the way, I could probably

(36:57):
go through your staff here and even the grown men fainter.

Speaker 1 (37:01):
Oh I can't, Oh Jamie, I can't. Yeah, I can't
even take a needle.

Speaker 15 (37:04):
Yeah, okay, But you have to remember their job is
to administers to patients every single day, often many times
a day, to the same patient, and they so they
have to do the thing that is the scariest for
the child, to be honest, even a surgeon, by the

(37:27):
time the child sees the surgeon, often they're already under anestheis, yeah,
they've already been given a little bit of a sedative,
and then then they've been given the anesthesia and so
then the surgeon does their work. The nurses are the ones.
And if you're a phobic of needles, just think about

(37:48):
these children. And so here we are on Giving Tuesday.
We're talking about Children's Hospital Los Angeles. We're talking about
giving something more than just you know, your appreciation for
the hospital, and we're talking about giving money. Yes, I mean,
let's just be absolutely honest. Tis the season to start giving.
Don't make me sing falla la la, you're a good singer,

(38:12):
but it is Giving Tuesday. And so when I'm asking
you to do is think of your children just going
to the doctor's office and their fear and their you know,
the treatment they get at your pediatrician's office for their
annual checkups and the amount of shots they're going to
get exact part of being preventive medicine. It's what we

(38:38):
get to do if we're privileged enough to be able
to afford it. We get to help our children. Think
about the fear in your child's eyes when you know
they have to get a shot that day, and the
loving care that that nurse gives them. Then think about
that happening to hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of children

(38:58):
every day at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, and the beautiful
nursing care and the nursing team men and women who
dedicated their lives to helping your kids. That's who I
would give to today at Giving Tuesday. My beautiful niece
in another state just became a registered nurse and I

(39:19):
could not be proud of I love nurses, I love
Children's Hospital Los Angeles. I love Giving Tuesday because it
allows us to join together as a community of Los
Angelinas and Los Angelinos and Los angeleine Us, Los angeline Us.

(39:41):
Thank you for that helpful You were hanging me out
to drive for a long we were hoping I was
going to find Los angeleine Us. But my point is
that we are here together, as we are stronger together
as a community who love where we live and who

(40:01):
support Children's Hospital Los Angeles, who supports our children.

Speaker 2 (40:04):
And it feels good to give, and we are with
Oscar winner Jamie Lee Curtis. My goodness, Jamie Lee, you
have generously made an offer for the giving on Giving Tuesday,
and we'll talk about.

Speaker 1 (40:15):
These soft oh yes, happy, oh yes. Next.

Speaker 9 (40:18):
Today is Giving Tuesday, the Global day of Giving Back.

Speaker 5 (40:22):
Coast one oh three point fives.

Speaker 9 (40:23):
Ellen k is teaming up with Children's Hospital Los Angeles,
a nonprofit hospital that cares for LA's most vulnerable kids.

Speaker 5 (40:31):
Please donate now.

Speaker 17 (40:32):
Call one eight hundred nine oh nine CHLA. That's one
eight hundred nine oh nine two four five two.

Speaker 9 (40:39):
Or visit KOST one O three five dot com slash chla.

Speaker 5 (40:44):
It's the lank morning shell, the worst toy maker in
the world.

Speaker 1 (40:47):
It's a cottonheaded Ninny Muggins.

Speaker 5 (40:50):
Coast one oh three point five.

Speaker 2 (40:51):
It is Giving Tuesday, Children's Hospital, Los Angeles, Coast one
oh three point five. We team up on this day
every year. But a woman who gives all year long
and does it.

Speaker 15 (41:00):
You give all year long too well.

Speaker 1 (41:02):
But I don't have a foundation called my hand in yours.

Speaker 15 (41:05):
So you don't but you know what you give. You
give the gift you give, the gift that keeps on giving,
which is which is your talent, your beautiful, beautiful talent
and energy and beauty every day to people, Oh thank you, James,
who often do jobs they don't love to support their families,

(41:28):
and on their way to those jobs, they listen to
you and their day is better. So you're amazing.

Speaker 2 (41:34):
Well you have my hand in yours and now my
paw in yours puppy, and I know that you created
this shortly after you did my hand in yours, and
you for thirty five dollars or more every donation.

Speaker 1 (41:45):
Today a child.

Speaker 2 (41:46):
In the hospital receives a my paw in Yours puppy
and it comes with a name tag.

Speaker 15 (41:52):
A little my paw on yours dog tag. Would you
have to remember to take off the pet because it's
of course with children, it's just it's you have to
undo the ribbon and then keep that separate. Just I'm
being a mom here. It was invented by a nurse
a company called Warm Buddies, and she invented this puppy

(42:14):
and then she has allowed me to sell them through
my hand in yours. And because we started an offshoot
of My paw in Yours, the My paw in Yours
funds that are raised through My hand in Yours, which
is the charity that I started. You can go on
a website my hand in Yours and order things, or
you can just give directly to A five oh one

(42:36):
C three, which is Children's Hospital, Los Angeles. But we
started My Paw in Yours because we have dog bowls
and dog leashes and now a little stuffed puppy. And
there is a program at Children's Hospital where they bring
service dogs to the hospital to visit those days said children.

(43:00):
And they're these beautiful animals who are obviously very well trained,
and they are very loving and completely allow these young
patients to hug them and kiss them and hold their faces.
And My Paw in Yours those funds help support bringing
those animals to the hospital.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 15 (43:21):
I mean, I love the way everything works together and
well but.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
That's but that's it.

Speaker 15 (43:26):
That's what it is, Los Angeles, right, Yeah, everything works
together together, Come together. The Dodgers, Do I need to
say anymore? Do I say anymore? I mean, but that's
Dodger Blue, you know. We Blue is one of the
foundation colors of our butterfly Children's Hospital. I'm even wearing

(43:48):
right now Children's Hospital blue. But it's that's what we
do as a community. We come together giving Tuesday through
your loud not loud like you're loud, Yeah, your loud
reach of people driving, listening, working, whatever you're doing while

(44:09):
you're listening to us right now. Remember this is the
time you can give. By the way, if you can
give ten dollars, yeah, to Children's Hospital Los Angeles, great.

Speaker 12 (44:21):
Yes.

Speaker 15 (44:22):
If you can give one hundred dollars to it's tax
deductible to Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Great. You can give
more than that obviously, great. If you can give five dollars,
if you can give one dollar. We are a community.
We're a city of a lot of people. Can you
imagine if every person in Los Angeles gave a dollar?

Speaker 1 (44:43):
Oh my god, that would be so amazing.

Speaker 15 (44:45):
So it's really about what we can do together. It's
not it's not this individualized thing. It's a community. And
that's why it's so beautiful and important to me certainly.

Speaker 2 (44:57):
And is this why you're so beloved On movie sets?
All your co stars always say how much they love
Jamie Lee Curtis.

Speaker 1 (45:02):
Is it because you go you make a movie.

Speaker 2 (45:05):
You make so many movies that you you know, it's
just it's the sum of parts.

Speaker 15 (45:10):
Well, everything is everything.

Speaker 1 (45:12):
Is this show is it is? Yeah? This show is.

Speaker 15 (45:15):
You're the front of it. Sorry, who where's the back
of editors? Does that mean you're in.

Speaker 1 (45:21):
The back of it? I guess Hey, listen you the tail.
It's okay.

Speaker 15 (45:28):
Here's what I'm going to say to you. Children's Hospital
can't do what they do. Paul Viviano cannot run an
institution like Children's Hospital Los Angeles without all of the people.
And I'm talking about all of the people. I'm talking
about the people that work in the food service department,
the technic keeping the electricity going in that building, keeping

(45:51):
the water going in that building. Everybody has come together
on behalf of the institution to help critically ill and
injured children.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
Cover Jamie Lee Curtis learning get ripped on day Tuesday,
and that's what we want you to let it rip
with your donations. You know, I've got a great story
to tell you about donating to Children's Hospital.

Speaker 1 (46:11):
Jamie. We'll be right back. It's Jamie Lee Takeover.

Speaker 9 (46:14):
Today is Giving Tuesday the Global Day of Giving Back.
Children's Hospital Los Angeles needs your support.

Speaker 17 (46:20):
Join Coast one oh three point five's ellen K as
we team up with CHLA and donate now. Call one
eight hundred nine oh nine CHLA. That's one eight hundred
nine oh nine two.

Speaker 9 (46:32):
Four five two ORB visit KOSD one O three five
dot com slash CHLA wake up with Ellen K.

Speaker 10 (46:39):
I'm enjoying all the holiday music, wishing peace, love, acceptance
and kindness.

Speaker 1 (46:44):
Happy holidays to all.

Speaker 5 (46:45):
Coast one oh three point five.

Speaker 1 (46:47):
It's a JLC takeover. Jamie Lee Curtis with us now
giving Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (46:51):
We are giving to Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 (46:54):
Once a year. We come to the lobby. We do
a twelve hour broadcast.

Speaker 2 (46:59):
We talked patients, We talked to doctors, nurses, administrators, we
talked to scientists and researchers. And then we have celebrities
like yourself, Jamie Lee. None of them Oscar winners like you.
But but you are here, and but.

Speaker 15 (47:14):
I'm here in the belly of the I would say
the belly of the beast. But you're not a beast.
You're like the best. You're in the belly of the best.

Speaker 1 (47:24):
Thank you.

Speaker 15 (47:25):
I can twist it.

Speaker 1 (47:26):
Yeah, it's amazing, good job.

Speaker 2 (47:31):
But we're we're giving, so give whatever you can. We
had a bartender stopped by the lobby last year and
he had a brown bag with him and he said,
I put out tip jars for c h l A.
Come on, and here's a bag of cash. And there
were thousands of dollars in this bag. Just it was

(47:53):
at the end of our broadcast and I think that
they had opened like an early bird, like a four
PM thing, and the end of the day, so it
was around seven or eight or something, and then there
he was with a bag of cash.

Speaker 15 (48:05):
And okay, there's my challenge. Okay to all of my
beverage server. Yes, in the city of angels put a
jar out on Giving Tuesday, just Giving Tuesday that says
every tip here will go to Children's Hospital Los Angeles,

(48:28):
and follow the lead of that young man.

Speaker 1 (48:30):
Yes, yeah, man who did that.

Speaker 15 (48:32):
That's see, that's how you can make a community without
again having to really dig in your pocket and have
to give up something that you don't have. If you're
going to put a tip in a jar, what a beautiful,
beautiful thing to dedicate your tip day to Children's Hospital.
Los Angeles. And by you doing that, you're saying you

(48:55):
support Children's Hospital Los Angeles, which then makes your patrons
feel like they want to support. I mean, it's just beautiful.

Speaker 2 (49:02):
Like you said, everyone works together and the giving, it's
the butterfly effect.

Speaker 1 (49:06):
Yeah, it just keeps on going.

Speaker 15 (49:08):
Yeah, it's beautiful.

Speaker 1 (49:09):
It was so cool. That was that was such a
that was such a great moment. He said, you heard
us on the way into work. It thought it up
and then came at the end there you go.

Speaker 15 (49:16):
So this Giving Tuesday, let's let's follow that up. Let's
have somebody else walk in with a bag of cash
that you that you've gathered at whatever establishment. If you
work at an establishment that allows tips and you can
afford not to get the tip jar amount that day,
put it on the front of a jar and say

(49:37):
every cent here is being donated today on Giving Tuesday
to Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

Speaker 2 (49:43):
And we are loving all the miracle stories that we're
sharing with you today. We have transplant patients, we have
oh my gosh, this this fifteen year old boy who
recovered from leukemia. He ended up in a helicopter, landing
on on the rooftop and less than a year later,

(50:03):
after chemo and scary moments, he is back in the
water surfing, and he said one of his biggest joys,
the way he changes life is just to feel the
breeze and feel the water on his body and just look.

Speaker 1 (50:17):
Up at the sky. And there's so many great stories
in this hospital.

Speaker 15 (50:22):
Well, we take for granted, Ellen, if we take for
granted life, yeah, we get we get sidelined by petty,
you know, things that make us lay traffic or the
Internet goes down or whatever it is, whatever the petty

(50:44):
inconsequential inconvenience that we have in our daily life. We
take everything for granted. And what you just described the
freedom that that young man feels when he's on a surfboard,
feeling the sun and the water and the air, and
the ability to be able to be strong enough to

(51:04):
be able to go out into the ocean. I mean
we take it for granted. Everything we do we take
for granted, which is sort of I guess the human condition.
Until your life stops when you have a critically ill
or injured child, you've had experience with it. I've had
experience with it. I'm sure everybody this experience with it

(51:25):
because that's also life. Life hinging on a couple seconds.
Is every patient a Children's hospital of sanngelis every family
a children's hospital of Sandelus. Their lives hinged on a
couple seconds they never saw coming, be it an accident
or an illness, or some catastrophe that has occurred that
was not planned. And what was planned was the institution

(51:48):
that received them. So what you do in those next
seconds determines everything. That's knowing where to go, knowing that
the ambulance knows to go to a children's hospital, knowing
that there is a children's hospital in Los Angeles who
will receive you, regardless of your family's ability to pay

(52:09):
for the treatment, and then everything changes once that happens.
So here we are. If you're driving to work, or
listening at work or wherever you're listening, you're living your
life out in the wild. Yeah, you have the freedom,
But if you're a parent of a child who's critically
ill and injured, you have no freedom. Yeah none, So

(52:31):
very quickly your life becomes hyper focused on easing the
pain and suffering of your child. And that's what this
institution is all about. And that's why Giving Tuesday is
the day that you get to say thank you for
existing Children's Hospital Los Angeles and we will give you
money to help you do what you do.

Speaker 1 (52:51):
We love you so much. Jamie Lee Curiz, thank you
for taking over.

Speaker 15 (52:56):
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taking over. I'm I'm all in. God bless you all.
Thank you all for listening. Continue giving. The day is
long and we're a couple dollars short, and then it's
still some time, so God bless you all.

Speaker 14 (53:19):
Thank you.

Speaker 5 (53:20):
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Speaker 6 (53:22):
You have such wonderful laughter, entertainment, positivity. Just want to
say how great everyone is there that makes the Lank
Show on Cost the best station in the US to
listen to.

Speaker 5 (53:35):
Cost one three point five.

Speaker 1 (53:37):
For Giving Tuesday.

Speaker 2 (53:38):
Doctor Jennifer Raymond, Cheap Division of Endochronology, Diabetes and Metabolism
here at Children's Hospital Los Angeles, thank you for coming
on with us.

Speaker 15 (53:48):
Thank you for having me.

Speaker 18 (53:49):
I'm thrilled to be here.

Speaker 2 (53:50):
Well, we are excited to We love to spread the
word about what you do and how you help everyone
that comes through your doors here in LA. And a
lot of patients you see have diabetes, so let's talk
about that.

Speaker 18 (54:04):
Yeah, so we see patients with type one diabetes, type
two diabetes, and also other types of genetic diabetes. Type
one diabetes is an autoimmune condition where you're not able
to make enough insulin, and so we teach patients and
families how to give insulin. And then with type two diabetes,

(54:24):
it's a process where your genetics or environment make it
hard for your body to process sugar, and so we
teach patients and families how to manage that and then
take the medications that they need to be able to
live a healthy life.

Speaker 2 (54:38):
I know Joe Jonas has been really a hero in
the world of educating about diabetes and living with it. Yes,
and so I'm not sure is the type one or two?

Speaker 18 (54:48):
Type one, and he was actually cared for at Children's
Hospital Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 (54:52):
It's amazing.

Speaker 2 (54:53):
Yeah, I love I love the way he demonstrates normal life, Yeah,
while maintaining health.

Speaker 18 (55:00):
Yeah, it's really interesting as somebody that really appreciates and
enjoys the psychology aspect of it. For kids, developmentally, you
just want to be like your friends. You just want
to you know, do those things, and you also want
to spend less time with your family, and then you know,
not have been control things diabetes and other chronic diseases,
whether it be we help those that are living with

(55:22):
obesity or in general hypothiroidism, any of those things run
in opposition to the developmental milestones for folks, right, and
so it's it's really important to be able to see
other people who are living and being open with diabetes
because a lot of times kids, or any of those
chronic diseases, a lot of times kids will not want

(55:44):
to share with others. That makes it hard to manage
something that you have to do, you know, something for
multiple times a day. So being able to see people
you know speak about that and speak to it is
really amazing, especially folks that you see like in the media.

Speaker 4 (55:58):
Yeah, you mentioned develop and I know you're doing research
a study about how it affects the development of children's brains.

Speaker 18 (56:05):
So this is one of our newest grants which I'm
really excited about. It's looking at how does diabetes impact
neurodevelopment from a young age and to better understand what
are the things that can be protective, So like, what
are the things that we could help kids and families
do to help protect and allow their their brain to

(56:25):
develop in the best way possible, and then what are
the things that we want to avoid or decrease, you know,
to help them have the best chance for you know,
excellent development. One of the things that's really exciting to
me about the project is the work that has been
done in the past was really looking at why privately ensured,
highly educated, you know, young people, and this grant that

(56:48):
we have is really looking at diverse folks, which is amazing.
As I read the call for applications, I was like, Oh,
this is us right, Like, this is what we need
to do.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
You are a soldiery.

Speaker 18 (57:00):
Yeah, And so we get to we get to then,
you know, have all of our patients and families represented,
which is huge, and so I'm very excited for that study.
And we get to be part of eleven sights across
the United States to be able to do that work.

Speaker 1 (57:16):
Wow, you're an amazing woman, doctor Raymond. Thank you.

Speaker 18 (57:21):
I appreciate that.

Speaker 9 (57:22):
Did you know Today is Giving Tuesday, the global day
of Giving Back? Coast one oh three point fives llen
K is teaming up with Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Your
donations ensure that critical life saving care is available to
every child the hospital.

Speaker 17 (57:35):
Treats called one eight hundred nine oh nine CHLA. That's
one eight hundred nine oh nine two four five.

Speaker 9 (57:42):
Two or visit KOSD one O three five dot com
slash chla.

Speaker 5 (57:47):
It's the L and K Morning Show.

Speaker 6 (57:49):
I love the way you guys just get on and
inspire everybody.

Speaker 15 (57:53):
Thank you so.

Speaker 1 (57:54):
Much, Oh thank you. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays.

Speaker 9 (57:57):
Merry Christmas.

Speaker 5 (57:58):
Coast one oh three point It is post one of
three point five.

Speaker 2 (58:03):
It is Giving Tuesday. We are joined now by the
voice of Matchbox twenty. It is Rob Thomas, and Rob
thank you for always being there for not just us
on our show on Giving Tuesday, but for Children's hospital.
You always come through and it's not just on Giving Tuesdays.
It's like all the time.

Speaker 12 (58:20):
Yeah, I mean, you know, we're we're all older men,
we all have families, you know, and like God God willing,
Like I've been so fortunate that my son, you know,
is now twenty six years old, and he's always been,
you know, robustly healthy, like insanely embarrassingly healthy. And you know,
like Paul went through about where he had his daughter
in the hospital for six months when she was like

(58:40):
eight years old, and it was the scariest time of
his life. And so when you think about, like any
blessings that you have, you have to remember that at
every minute, all through the year, by the way, and
not just during the holidays. People are dealing with these
kind of crises and it's only places like CHLA that's
actually there for them and you know, and create real
miracles in their lives.

Speaker 1 (58:58):
Yeah, that's so true.

Speaker 12 (58:59):
I am.

Speaker 2 (59:00):
I just went to a meeting for CHLA and they
were talking about the science and the research, and they
have four hundred scientists. So it's not just the current
medicine that's come so far even year to year, but
the stuff in the future, even coming up in January.
It's mind blowing. It's it's like space age. It's it's

(59:22):
so good for the patient and for the family, and
non invasive heart methods and all these, like you said,
these miracles. I just here are these people who do
this every day, and they're world leaders in what they do,
and they don't want anything but a well child. That's
all they care about is your well being and your child,

(59:45):
and they take care of whole families, and that to
me is one of the most beautiful things about CHLA.

Speaker 12 (59:51):
Yeah, I think it's you know, and it's top down
because you have all these all these like all this
money that you give to to CHLA You're talking about
all the way from the research to the doctors to
the surgeons. But also you know, there are hundreds and
hundreds of staff that spend all of their days and
their time with these patients and with these children, and
they become part of their families as well. They give

(01:00:12):
up their own actual comforts in their life to be
there for these these kids. And I've seen it firsthand,
and I've seen how how it affects them and how
they give up everything they can just to be there
for them. Uh, you know. And so you're you're talking
about all of all of every facet of that hospital,
from the researchers all the way down, you know, just
to the to the nurses that are just there for
them day to day to day.

Speaker 2 (01:00:33):
Yeah, those nurses, they just are always in a good mood.
They're like they're a really good reset for your mind.
If you ever think you're having a bad day, go
volunteer at ch l A and you will see nurses
who are around critical cases and they always bring the joy.

Speaker 12 (01:00:50):
It's it's it's amazing, you know, like I've been around.
You know, I think when you're a child and you're
going through something like that, you have to grow up
very very early, and it gives you an un fortunate
it's source of perspective, right, Yeah, And I find that,
you know, the time that I spent going to these
children's hospitals and playing there and getting to walk around
to the beds and get to meet the kids. You know,
it's myself. I'm guilty.

Speaker 8 (01:01:11):
You know.

Speaker 12 (01:01:11):
It's a holiday. I'm complaining about traffic, I'm complaining about family.
I'm playing about, you know, not being able to get
where I need to be on time. And I'm talking
to these kids who are going through more than I
could ever imagine, And how's your holiday? And they say
it's great. I'm having a great holiday. I'm so happy
to be here, and you're just It really puts a
lot of perspective on you.

Speaker 1 (01:01:29):
Yeah, it really does.

Speaker 2 (01:01:30):
Thank God for you in Matchbox twenty for always supporting
Children's Hospital Los Angeles.

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
You do so much and.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
You do it silently, and I know that you do
a lot behind the scenes too, But we love that
we can put you on the air today on Giving
Tuesday to help raise awareness and funds for all the
families who need it and the kids.

Speaker 12 (01:01:51):
It's been so many years, you know that you guys
have had a kosc have like given us the opportunity
and given us the format to be able to help.
And so thank you so much.

Speaker 1 (01:01:59):
For that ninth year together. And we'll see you for
year ten.

Speaker 12 (01:02:04):
That is so amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:02:06):
Thank you, Rob.

Speaker 12 (01:02:07):
All Right, Ellen, if I do, I'll talk to you.
Have a wonderful holiday. Okay, all right you too?

Speaker 9 (01:02:10):
Did you know today is Giving Tuesday, the global day
of giving Back. Coast one oh three point Five's Ellen
k is teaming up with Children's Hospital Los Angeles. Your
donations ensure that critical life saving care is available to
every child the hospital.

Speaker 17 (01:02:23):
Treats called one eight hundred nine oh nine CHLA. That's
one eight hundred nine oh nine two four five

Speaker 9 (01:02:30):
Two, or visit KOST one oh three five dot com
slash CHLA