FULL SHOW: Day 2 of the iHeart Rady Children's Give-A-Thon

We hear from patients, families, and friends about their experiences at Rady Children's Hospital 

You can help the cause and donate by calling 1(800) 285-0007 or text ROCK to 34984

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
It's showtime, people, It's showtime.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Here we are.

Speaker 3 (00:05):
Yes, you're about to experience the show.

Speaker 4 (00:10):
How do you like to get down with some real
gangsters with the ringleader Eddie.

Speaker 2 (00:14):
I'm weird and I have my weird quirks, but overall
I have a pretty normal sensibility.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
The accountant and room mothers Sky.

Speaker 5 (00:22):
I'm also not very brave nor strong.

Speaker 1 (00:24):
The enforcer thor Am I negative all the time? Yeah?
Do I have issues? Yea and dressed in black.

Speaker 6 (00:31):
From head to toe, Emily, I am a mix of
trashy and classes.

Speaker 7 (00:35):
It's the show and it starts right now.

Speaker 1 (00:43):
All right, here we go.

Speaker 2 (00:46):
Day two of our iHeartRadio Rady Children's giveth On is underway.
Yesterday was an incredible day. Thank you so much for
all of those who donated, But we gotta keep it going.
The giveth is going on all day long today and
we're trying to raise as much money as possible for
Rady Children's Hospital. So call right now please eight hundred

(01:09):
two five eight zero zero zero seven, or you could
text the word rock to three four nine eight four.
That's honestly the easiest way to it. It takes like
no time at all. You're gonna text that where you
get a prompt and then you bring you're done, and
it takes like seriously like two minutes. And so either way,
they're standing by right now on the phones too. So
I mean, you'll you'll get in and out if you

(01:30):
call right now. It's pretty pretty easy process. So, like
I said, if you can call right now, that would
be great. Eight hundred two five eight zero zero zero seven. Again,
I always like to be the first one on the board.
I like the pe ones to come strong. And so
anybody listening right now again, any denomination, we will take it.

Speaker 8 (01:48):
And yesterday, I mean it was clear. I mean we
don't want to name winners.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
He's bragging.

Speaker 3 (01:54):
Well, I'm just say because of the midday show.

Speaker 8 (01:58):
Oh it must have been, but I was heardow.

Speaker 1 (02:02):
Yes, I don't know, Emily, who does club?

Speaker 9 (02:06):
Who know?

Speaker 1 (02:08):
How does that go?

Speaker 9 (02:10):
It went?

Speaker 8 (02:10):
It went, it went okay, it was a thing go crazy.
So yeah, my take and again you know it's like,
you know, I don't know because I'm I'm in it,
I'm not hearing it. My take was that when we
had interviews and people in here that we were talking
with and conversational, fine, great, like we were totally normal.

(02:33):
But when Emily and I were trying to do like
the x's and o's and the quick breaks where we
would just like give the phone number or read a sponsor,
it's easy, but it's like awkward for us because that's
not what we're used to doing.

Speaker 5 (02:45):
We're just used to talking.

Speaker 8 (02:47):
Like like and he does all the heavy lifting. We're
just used to talking like normal people. So that was
the part that I felt.

Speaker 2 (02:56):
May have been you've heard you adj before and you
are so good at it, so I'm kind of surprised
that you're saying that you like him.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
I love them.

Speaker 6 (03:08):
This That was that I didn't get stoved on Friday.

Speaker 5 (03:11):
Nobody's watching that. No, I was sober.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
She was very sober and very professional professional broadcasting Sky Broadcast. Okay,
I didn't get I don't okay, I don't get where
professional Sky comes from, because she doesn't act like that
ever on this show. Very professional.

Speaker 2 (03:29):
So it's like when Sky's uncomfortable, because it's like the
same thing with the guests come in here or on
the phone.

Speaker 3 (03:35):
Sky. She she buttons up meeting Sky. Meeting Sky.

Speaker 8 (03:40):
You're right, I'll have to bring a notebook for no
apparent reason.

Speaker 1 (03:43):
No one's taking notes, there's nothing to write. You guys
were like nervous, and I'm like, why we just did
It's out of their element, it's out of our element.
We don't ever like I've been paired up with Eddie before.
Oh yeah, I don't remember what we did.

Speaker 6 (03:56):
We did something, and I wish I remember that show,
but it's like Eddie leads.

Speaker 1 (04:01):
So it's not. I was, and I'm not uncomfortable because
because it's normal. I mean, you do a Saturday show
by yourself. It's good that I did it Emily Saturday myself. Hey,
it's up, it's your Emily. And on Monday we were
talking about stuff. He is so crazy.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Think about that today because because you guys are returned,
you're returning, right, Okay, did.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Jamie pop on it all? He was running the board
for you guys, No, No, he should have.

Speaker 5 (04:38):
He was very behind the scenes.

Speaker 1 (04:40):
I feel like Jamie was probably very uncomfortable. He was
really uncomfortable in here. Thumbs up.

Speaker 2 (04:47):
Definitely definitely was it definitely was.

Speaker 1 (04:50):
Yeah, you know what, we're just doing it for the kids.

Speaker 2 (04:51):
Though, that's what it is.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
That's a really uncomfortable That's why we're young. That's what
should I.

Speaker 6 (04:57):
Tell people that they should donate and if they don't
it xun sky and I will shut up.

Speaker 2 (05:01):
Honestly, that might be the way to goes. What's the
text number? Can we do that for the morning?

Speaker 1 (05:07):
Can you show up? Now? That's not I sorry said
we just got ten five dollars. Stop talking, I swear
that was just from tour.

Speaker 2 (05:19):
Yeah, so let's get these phone lines going right now
eight hundred and two five eight zero zero zero seven.
Or you can text the word rock to three four
nine eight four again. We have our Hero program. For
just nineteen dollars a month, you can become a Hero.
It's a monthly pledge where they just take it out
of your bankcount. No big deal, super easy. You don't

(05:40):
buy it, you know Starbucks a couple times a week
or whatever. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (05:43):
Yeah, no, I think I saw that.

Speaker 6 (05:44):
Breaking it down, the nineteen dollars a month was like
four dollars and ninety three cents a week.

Speaker 1 (05:48):
That's what it ended.

Speaker 8 (05:49):
Less than one star bullsay less. Yeah, that's like less
than a gallon of gas. Oh yeah, serious, And.

Speaker 1 (05:54):
That's all you have to do.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Still get two SeaWorld tickets if you become a hero,
which is fantastic and many that kind of pays for itself,
right there. So you want SeaWorld tickets, become a hero,
you could do that as well. Next hour is a
matching hour. I know that for a fact, And so
get ready for that bad boy, which is always awesome too.
But like I said, I want to be the first

(06:16):
on the board. So let's get the phone going right now.
Eight hundred two five eight zero zero zero seven or
text the word rock to three four nine eighty four. Again,
this is all for Rady Children's Hospital, which to me
is an insurance policy. You know, if you have an
insurance policy, you don't want to use that thing, right No, No,
I mean that means you're in sort of sort of

(06:37):
an accident or your house is some bad happen Yeah,
but you're thankful you do, right, So you don't want
to use Rady Children's Hospital, but we're very thankful it's
here if you do need it. So it's a great
insurance policy. Everybody has a kid in their life, whether
you have kids of your own, whether it is your niece's, nephew's,
neighborhood kids, whatever. Everybody has kids in their lives, and

(07:00):
so why not it will make you feel good, you
donate twenty bucks or whatever it is you can afford.
We just I just think it would make you feel good.

Speaker 1 (07:07):
Yeah, this holiday season. It's a good little karma booster.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
There you go.

Speaker 8 (07:10):
Yeah, yesterday on the Hot Flash Hour, we talked to
Cliff Albert from Coogo and no, he didn't have the
hot flash.

Speaker 1 (07:20):
Yeah, he's way past that.

Speaker 8 (07:23):
But he actually was talking from a grandpa's perspective of
having a grandchild go to Rady children And like you said, like,
it may not be your kid, but it could be
your neighbor's kid who you know and love, or it
could be you know, your niece or your nephew, and
we're just so lucky to have them here in San Diego.

Speaker 2 (07:42):
And Sky, I know you've had your troubles with your daughter,
and you guys have been in and out of Rady
Children's Hospital, especially lately too.

Speaker 8 (07:49):
Yeah, we've spent some time in the roomatology department learning
all about autoimmune disorders. And you know, it's crazy because
I hear the other parents say this, and it's so
different because you know, my daughter, of course has her
normal doctor's appointments, but also the ones at RADY. And
it's so true when you're in the like whatever, the
normal doctor, you feel that vibe of them just waiting

(08:13):
to leave the room, like their hand is literally almost
on the door knob the whole time because they got
a whole pile of patients. But for some reason, when
you go for treatment at RADY, it's different, it's special.
They know how you know, emotional you are, so you
never have that feeling like they're almost taking extra time
and being like, hey you do are you sure?

Speaker 5 (08:33):
You don't have any more questions?

Speaker 8 (08:35):
And it's just little things like that that make the difference,
especially like in my case when you're trying to figure
out something and they're so much unknown and for me
as a control freak, but most people unknown as scary
man and like to be in there and to have
a doctor talk to you normally not talking over your head,
like talking so you can understand that's so special. And

(08:58):
we talk about all the little fun extra things that
fundraising can do at RADY. I remember my daughter during
COVID had went to Rady to get her first COVID shot,
and of course COVID is a freaky time for anybody
but especially a little kid, and now you're having to
get a shot and everybody's masked up.

Speaker 1 (09:15):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 8 (09:16):
Rady did the best job at trying to make it
normal and not weird. They actually had a magician outside
for everybody waiting yes or doing magic tricks. So like,
the kids aren't worried anymore, they're not scared. I know,
I don't know what they might, but there's probably there

(09:40):
was a thing like a coin bro the boy disappeared.
It disappeared and then it came back. It was wild
it So it's just little things like that that Rady
thinks about.

Speaker 1 (09:50):
And this money funds that.

Speaker 8 (09:51):
Other hospitals they don't got magicians, they don't got therapy
dogs things like that. So it's just special and different,
and my family is, oh, thankful for it.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
You're gonna hear a lot of stories of people that
have been through Rady Children's Hospital, and some of the
stories are are unbelievable. You're like, you know, you're told
your your child is not gonna make it, and all
of these horrific things and you're just like, oh my god,
I can't even imagine going through something like that. And
then you know the people are Rady. They're miracle workers.

(10:22):
You know, a lot of these kids aren't even supposed
to be here today, but thanks to a place like
Rady Children's Hospital, they are able to thrive and continue
to live and things like that, which is fantastic. Yes,
So that's why we do this every year for Rady
Children's Hospital, and we're doing the giveth on. So let's
get the phone lines going, like I said, eight hundred
two five eight zero zero zero seven, or you can

(10:43):
text the word rock to three four nine eight four.
Let's get it going. Over the years, we get to
know certain kids and certain families and stuff like that.
And so when I saw that Reef was on the schedule,
I went, I know Reef. We've had Reef in the
last couple of years, and it's always good catching up
with Reef. I remember a Reef for a few things.
Number One, coolest kid, Like he's just a cool kid. Yeah,

(11:06):
you just know this kid's gonna he's gonna grow up
to be a stud and uh and I remember him
because he was a big soccer player. But I got
breaking news this morning. What Reef says soccer Nah done done.
He's now a water polo guy. Which which actually it
actually fits you, Reef. For some reason, I feel like
you're you're a good water polo player. When when did
you start playing water polo?

Speaker 10 (11:26):
About a year and a half ago or two years ago.
Then I took a break for a little bit. Yeah
this season I'm starting up again.

Speaker 2 (11:34):
Nice. Nice, Now, did you are you officially retired from soccer?
Are we done or are we just taking a break.
I don't know yet.

Speaker 10 (11:42):
I don't know yet. I might play in like middle school. Yeah,
school team.

Speaker 5 (11:47):
Never say never, you know.

Speaker 2 (11:48):
Listen, Yeah, Reef was a good soccer player. I remember
that Reef was really good. So we'll see what happened.
And it's crazy to hear all these sports stories. Dad's
in here because when the way Reef came into the world,
you probably weren't expecting a lot of athletic things and
things like that, right.

Speaker 11 (12:05):
Yeah, even the doctor said he'll never play football. We
don't want him to play football. We're like, yeah, that's okay. Yeah,
we're kind of a surfing family.

Speaker 2 (12:12):
Yeah, and so talk to me about it. You know
your story with Rady Children's Hospital, and you know how
Reef came into the world.

Speaker 11 (12:20):
Yeah, Reef was diagnosed within AVM and utero. So when
he was in his mom's.

Speaker 2 (12:24):
Belly, they saw a little spot.

Speaker 11 (12:26):
On his brain in one of the ultrasounds and they
were like, we don't really know what this is, so
we're going to bring him into the hospital and actually
deliver him the next day because we want to find out.
And so they brought him into the world and he
had a little spot on his brain. It was an
aneurysm where the blood vessel balloons up and could be

(12:46):
potentially fatal.

Speaker 1 (12:48):
Oh my, that's Great's I had crazy enough, I had
the same thing just on my back. They didn't catch
it because I wasn't at Rady's and it blew and
I was paralyzed because of that from the waist down.
But like, but I was able to walk again. Stargery
all this stuff. But that's what's great about RADIS is
they were able to catch that. Nobody caught that for
me when I was a kid. Yeah, it's pretty scary
that hearing those that kind of news. What were you

(13:09):
thinking when you heard that?

Speaker 11 (13:10):
It was really crazy because we delivered at the hospital
right next door, and then they took us straight over
to Rady's and there was a tunnel, which is yeah,
it's crazy.

Speaker 2 (13:20):
It was like, is this really a tunnel?

Speaker 11 (13:23):
But it gets to one hospital to the other, and
the beauty of it is is so close and it's
it's there. The first couple of days were nuts because
they didn't really know what they were going to do
or how they were going to treat it. And it
was just a huge roller coaster ride for our family
because Meredith was in the other hospital and my daughter
was at home in Point Loma and reefs at Rady's
and just running back and forth.

Speaker 2 (13:44):
Yeah, that is so scary, and and you know, this
baby is here and you're talking brain stuff. That's that's
not a small thing. That's a pretty big deal. And
so what did they end up doing to treat him?

Speaker 11 (13:58):
So after radies is very unique where the staff they
really make you feel like you're you're welcomed and want
you to know what's going on, so they flood you
with all the technical terms and everything like that, but
then they kind of break it down and the nurses
make you feel special. And then we we had doctors

(14:18):
that said it's gonna be really bad, it's gonna be,
you know, really good, And it was a huge rollercoaster,
and then we met doctor Levy who said, I got this.

Speaker 1 (14:27):
Oh wow.

Speaker 11 (14:27):
He's like, I know what this is. I'm gonna be
the one that's gonna be doing a procedure. We're gonna
basically open up your son's head and remove this and
make it better.

Speaker 2 (14:38):
Oh wow, that's that's just hearing that is like since
chills down my spine. Hearing something like that is baby,
you know, is hours old and you're hearing something like that,
that's gotta be beyond scary. But because he was so
confident and it was so you know, reassuring to you guys,

(14:58):
probably how to make you feel a little bit better,
it totally did.

Speaker 11 (15:01):
And he explained how he was going to do it
and the technology that he was going to use, and
the morning of the surgery, we're like, we didn't even
want to touch his hands. We're like, you're going to
be doing this and yeah, but he's like he he
had this reassuring feeling about him and he said, I've
practiced this on you know, computer module He basically played
a video game on my brain. Oh my god, you know,

(15:22):
fifteen twenty times prior to actually doing the surgery.

Speaker 2 (15:25):
And look at him now he's fine.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Amazing, he's good, right.

Speaker 2 (15:29):
I mean, were there any after effects or is you know?

Speaker 11 (15:32):
No there he said there would be no after effects.
They say he's gonna be a happy, healthy kid.

Speaker 12 (15:37):
He gets straight a's.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
Oh, that made you a super brain, Reef. That's pretty cool.

Speaker 11 (15:43):
He's the smart one in the family for sure. And
then they just just watch out. Don't let him have
you know, trauma or any head injuries. And ironically, on
this week Tuesday, Reef was surfing in Obi and got
cracked in the head and oh no, I just went
back back to Radis two days ago and he got
two more staples in his head.

Speaker 5 (16:03):
Oh wow, oh crack that bad.

Speaker 1 (16:05):
We need staples.

Speaker 2 (16:08):
What's up to your old there? You know? Did they
remember you? Yeah?

Speaker 1 (16:12):
Yeah, they remembered me.

Speaker 2 (16:15):
Man, what did you hit it on eternal or something?

Speaker 10 (16:18):
The fin of my friend's surface.

Speaker 2 (16:22):
Be there, man, pure wipeout. It's not great, not great.

Speaker 11 (16:27):
It was like we've been to other hospitals with Reef
and it was not a good experience. And so when
this happened, I looked at I said, that's probably going
to be a stitch. And so we went straight to
Rady's and he didn't even feel the staples going in.
He didn't even feel you know what they were doing
to close him back up again this time. Wow, because

(16:49):
they're just so keyed in on you know, this size person,
this size human, and they make it right for.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Him so so much. So, You guys appreciate Ready Children's Hospital.
You come back every year to talk about it, and
it's had that kind of an impact on your family's life, right.

Speaker 11 (17:05):
Absolutely, We'll do this for the rest of our lives.

Speaker 2 (17:08):
Yeah, I mean we're all we're all thankful for Rady
Children's Hospital. That's why we do the give on. That's
why these families come back and talk about it. Reef,
what do you want for Christmas this year?

Speaker 10 (17:17):
I want a new wet suit and a bike.

Speaker 8 (17:21):
Sick a regular bike or an e bike? What are
we what are we looking at?

Speaker 1 (17:26):
Just a BMX?

Speaker 3 (17:27):
Come on, I like you old school. Yeah, that's awesome.
We don't traumas.

Speaker 1 (17:33):
Come on.

Speaker 11 (17:35):
Another visit to Yeah, No, we don't need it, we don't.

Speaker 1 (17:38):
Need well you wear your helmet either way.

Speaker 2 (17:40):
Everyone, we don't need to punch card. Where we're going
to get a visit for free?

Speaker 1 (17:44):
Get a free from.

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Great seeing you guys, I love seeing you reef Riders
literally rocking a Rudolph Onesie right now, which I mean,
that's as cool as it gets in my world. I
gotta find out where he got that, because I got
to get one of those. Imagine me coming in there
with that, wouldn't that be cool? So mom in here, Heather,
we got to talk about Writer because this literally happened
this year, right with Writer? What exactly is going on?

(18:08):
To tell me that what happened with Writer?

Speaker 13 (18:11):
So?

Speaker 14 (18:12):
Yeah, he was diagnosed back in April, and it came
on all of a sudden. He was at sixth grade
camp and he ended up starting to feel sick, and
his pediatrician sent him right away to the GI specialists
and then from there she got him on herr schedule
the next day for a procedure, and it was really

(18:33):
clear after the procedure that he had alserative clitis, which
is a form of inflammatory.

Speaker 5 (18:39):
Ball disease, and it's been.

Speaker 14 (18:43):
Life altering for him, especially, but it's also been for
our entire family. He's been in and out of the
hospital and he hasn't really been able to make it
back to school full time since then.

Speaker 2 (18:55):
Dang, So what was the deal? Writer, you just started
having stomach ache or what was going on?

Speaker 15 (19:00):
They all started, Uh, I was on my friend's house
at a party is named Cole shout out bro. I
got there right after they said all the rules. So
I ate six donuts.

Speaker 5 (19:16):
Dude, rus, I feel like two donuts should be the rule.

Speaker 1 (19:19):
That was the rules?

Speaker 2 (19:21):
It six or seven?

Speaker 5 (19:24):
Okay, don't do that right now, don't.

Speaker 1 (19:26):
You're not cool?

Speaker 2 (19:27):
Don't is that something? Should I be aware of that
slade right here, that slade. I don't care what you.

Speaker 3 (19:37):
Said anyway, So you crust six donuts, which I appreciate.

Speaker 15 (19:44):
A few weeks later, I had gone to sixth grade camp.
I was starting to feel stomach pain. I'll go to
the bathroom in law. I went up to the counselor
like the office, front office. They said, I'm getting homesick.

Speaker 12 (19:57):
I snee drink water.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
Clearly there that was misdiagnosis. Okay.

Speaker 15 (20:05):
After six story camp, I had gone to the emergency
room because we had thought I've been feeling really bad lately,
and turned out we I had a sort of clydis
and then we got admitted for a week.

Speaker 2 (20:20):
We had a regular hospital.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
Or he's go to rady. He went to Rady.

Speaker 2 (20:23):
Okay, so they figured it out right away? Were they
were they nice to you there?

Speaker 13 (20:27):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (20:28):
Yeah, they're super cool there man. Yeah. Rady's is a
different kind of place, man, so different it is, you know,
regular hospitals kind of lame, kind of scary, but Rady
Children's Hospital is the best.

Speaker 1 (20:39):
Yeah, it's the way to go.

Speaker 2 (20:40):
So I like that. So you know, now, what is
life looking like right now? As as he's dealing with this,
So he we.

Speaker 5 (20:49):
Are still in the thick of it.

Speaker 14 (20:52):
We're really trying to figure out what therapy works for him.
So he's been, like I said, he's been in and
out of the hospital and this is one of those
really tricky diseases where every body is really different. And
so we've just been he's failed one medication, and the

(21:13):
doctors have been really good about listening to us and
our like our side of things and his symptoms at
home along with like clinical findings and and so now
we're on a new therapy.

Speaker 5 (21:26):
I say we, but.

Speaker 1 (21:28):
It's him total, It's it's all him.

Speaker 14 (21:31):
And he has still been kind of struggling. So we're
we're asking a lot of questions trying to figure out
what's the best way forward and then and then I'm
hoping we can get in we he can get into
remission within the next within the next year.

Speaker 2 (21:54):
And they just came out of nowhere. But you weren't
you know, weren't expecting obviously something like this happened, and
it just happened.

Speaker 14 (22:01):
Yeah, wow, And it's it's for life, So it's not
something that's going to just go away. Or it would
be great if they can come up with a care
one day. Yeah, but for now we're just managing symptoms
and hopefully finding a therapy that will get him into remission.

Speaker 2 (22:19):
So, writer, do you have to be careful of what
you eat? Is it that sort of a thing or
is it you know what, like, do you have to
have a special diet or what's going on with that
six donuts?

Speaker 5 (22:28):
Are we allowed to do that anyway?

Speaker 2 (22:29):
Probably not a good idea.

Speaker 5 (22:31):
No, no more success. Sorry if you dont.

Speaker 8 (22:36):
That is like you have a six pack. Yeah, that's
good point.

Speaker 2 (22:43):
That's a good point. Well you're a strong kid man.
I could tell already what kind of stuff do you like?
What kind of stuff are you into?

Speaker 12 (22:48):
Flag?

Speaker 15 (22:49):
Football gaming? I'm a content creator on YouTube?

Speaker 5 (22:52):
Whoa what kind of stuff.

Speaker 1 (22:56):
Content.

Speaker 2 (22:57):
What's your game?

Speaker 12 (22:58):
Minecraft?

Speaker 2 (22:59):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (23:00):
Rock League?

Speaker 2 (23:01):
All right?

Speaker 1 (23:01):
Wow, pretty impressive. Twelve twelve. So my nephew is eleven
also a content creator? Is that right? It's the thing.
He's a he's into Minecraft game. You said Rocket League,
So is my nephew.

Speaker 2 (23:14):
Are you a professional professional gam No?

Speaker 1 (23:17):
No, you don't think you will a professional content creator? Yeah,
there you go.

Speaker 2 (23:21):
That's smart.

Speaker 1 (23:22):
Smart school. They have an e sports. Yes, no, you
really do. Yeah.

Speaker 14 (23:27):
Yeah, and he plays Rocket League and he beats.

Speaker 2 (23:30):
Every Wow, that's awesome.

Speaker 1 (23:32):
That's legit.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Well Writer and pulling for you man, Hey everybody, and
I know it's tough, but but you're doing great. And
Rady Children's Hospital, we're very lucky that they're here in
our town that they can help him take care of you.
So please call and donate help out kids like writer
eight hundred two five eight zero zero zero seven. Or
you can text the word rock to three four nine

(23:54):
eight four, or you could text the word rock to
three four nine eight four. We are in a matching hour, guys,
So whatever it is you donate, it will be matched
by the Lord family. Thank you so much to the
Lord family for doing that. So you donate twenty bucks,
that becomes forty bucks. You donate fifty bucks, what does
that become? Well, there you go. It's got your microphones

(24:16):
on it. Oh sorry, weirdly enough, we could still here.
We still have the monthly Hero program going on. We're
also still doing I talked about this yesterday and a
couple people took advantage of this. If you're a small
business owner, you own a business, you want a free
plug on the radio, you donate at least five hundred bucks.
We'll do it. I'll give you a full blown commercial

(24:37):
here on the radio. So you just got to donate
five hundred bucks. We are joined right now by Sean. Now,
Sean isn't a child, You're you were a child though
then when you went through Rady Children's Hospital.

Speaker 16 (24:49):
Correct, that's right. When I was nine years old, I
was treated there for a brain tumor.

Speaker 2 (24:53):
It just does a little brain tumor.

Speaker 1 (24:54):
Another deal.

Speaker 2 (24:55):
Wow, that's scary. Yeah, So what happened? How did you
figure this out?

Speaker 16 (25:00):
Let's see, So it was actually I was at my
parents' house in Point Loma getting ready to go to
Sunset View the next day, and I had a seizure
just before bed, and so we spoke my pediatrician, doctor
Ben Spiegel, to whom one of the many doctors to
whom I literally owe my life, and he encouraged us
to go to Rady. He said, you know, if there's
anybody who can get to the bottom of this, it's them.
And I was very shortly after he had an MRI,

(25:22):
was diagnosed with the brain tumor. It was removed within
I think seventy two hours or so, and I was
actually discharged a week after I was admitted to the hospital. Yeah,
and then after it was ten years of follow up
MRIs with the benefit of neurosurgeon doctor Randy Scopland and
neurosurgeon doctor Hal Meltzer, and I got a clean bill

(25:42):
of health when I was seventeen.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
Wow, and how old are you know? I'm thirty six,
thirty six and you still remember the names of your doctors.

Speaker 16 (25:50):
Oh yeah, I mean, I owe them everything. It's and
I owe Rady everything. I mean, it is such a
fabulous hospital. I've actually had the opportunity to speak to
other people who have had, you know, very serious health
events as children, and everyone that I speak to, I
feel even more fortunate and lucky that I was treated
at Rady just because of the level of care and
devotion that they bring to their patience.

Speaker 2 (26:12):
Without a doubt. And you know, obviously you're nine years old.
That's one of the most traumatic, scary things ever to hear.
I'm having brain surgery, and so you talk about the
level of care, but it's also how they treat you
as a child too, you.

Speaker 16 (26:26):
Know, oh absolutely, yeah. I mean it's in one sense
it's the little touches, but in another sense, there's nothing
little about them.

Speaker 13 (26:32):
Right.

Speaker 16 (26:33):
My neurosurgeon was able to remove my brain tumor without
shaving my head, so I didn't have to go back
to school, you know, with a weird looking head. The
nurses were consistent, right, they'd give me they giving my
stuff to animal, or they give me my Calvin and
Hobbes comic book. When they were going to change my
IV writer or do something else, it would be a
little bit of whatever. Yeah, that's right, because you're just

(26:56):
you're so starved for comfort. I mean, when you get
sick like that, you lose a lot of things, right,
you lose your bed. You don't think of the food
that your mom cooks you before, right every night, to toys. Yeah,
and so it's such a vulnerable hard time, and they
just do everything within their power to make it just
that little bit better.

Speaker 2 (27:14):
A little bit more comfort. You know, you guys do that.
That is so unbelievable. And you hear a nine year
old brain surgery I'm sure that you know, really affected
his life. Oh no, don't worry. Sean's just fine. John's
a lawyer, deal, it seems very bright.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Yeah, he's wearing a button up so that let me
know he's important.

Speaker 2 (27:34):
I have very few arrests. Yeah, no big deal. Jeohn,
Where did you end up going to school? I wound
up going to the University of Chicago Law School. I'm
now a litigator at Shepherd, Mullenrichter and Hampton and just
I mean, truly, every day is a gift. I mean,
it is unbelievable to say that I am here because

(27:54):
of Radis. And for anyone who's listening, if you're able
to donate, I know that this is a matching hour.
The phone number is one eight hundred two five eight
zero zero zero seven. I have it on good authority
that it will get you into heaven. That represents a
Shawn's firm, represents them. Yeah, so you know, I think

(28:15):
that's great. Thor's wife and baby. We're just in a
car accident. Is there any can we have a meeting here?
Can we get some sort of I don't know, I
don't know if you're an accident or turning or not.
No department, Maybe you could connect him to to somebody
who can get him some dollars here. Yeah. See, see
this is what we're doing. Listen, it's you hear stories

(28:39):
like this, and and you know, obviously Sean is very
successful now, but he might not even have been on
the planet if it wasn't for Rady Children's Hospital. So
you got to think about stuff like that.

Speaker 1 (28:47):
Yeah, the head shave.

Speaker 6 (28:48):
Really got me, Like to think you will go to
any other hospital.

Speaker 1 (28:51):
They're not. They're just buzzing your head. I mean, they're
just gonna buzz like.

Speaker 6 (28:55):
That really got me because as a nine year old boy,
like that would suck.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
You don't want to be different.

Speaker 16 (29:00):
You're already coming back to school as the kid who
was sick for a while.

Speaker 1 (29:04):
I want to do is fit in. Yeah, and yeah
it was.

Speaker 16 (29:07):
I mean I cannot imagine going through that experience with
a half shaved head.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
That's very cool. I didn't talking about that year. Yeah,
that's what they do. That's why Rady Children's Hospital is
so amazing. That is why we do the giveth on
every year. So, like Sehn said, please call him donate
eight hundred two five eight zero zero zero seven or
text the word rock to three four nine eight four again. Yeah,
when are you going to hospital? I'm still waiting.

Speaker 1 (29:30):
When am I going to donate?

Speaker 13 (29:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (29:31):
This is a matching, This is a matching matching.

Speaker 2 (29:35):
You have a baby now?

Speaker 13 (29:36):
Nine?

Speaker 1 (29:36):
Am you have a baby?

Speaker 2 (29:37):
Now?

Speaker 1 (29:37):
I know he's crying right now. I guess gotten alert again.
That's not really babies, Colicky, it is rough dot household. Guys,
I will donate today right when? As soon as I
only donates. Oh wait, wait a second, you might be
waiting forever because we'll get a match together. But Emily's
a hero.

Speaker 5 (29:54):
She donates everyone.

Speaker 1 (29:55):
Yeah, I think I stopped that. Why would you say that? No,
I going to do it again. I just was trying
to organize some finances.

Speaker 5 (30:02):
Oh, I'm sorry.

Speaker 1 (30:03):
I didn't know to stop my bad.

Speaker 5 (30:05):
I just spoke out of school.

Speaker 2 (30:06):
Okay, don't be like Emily.

Speaker 1 (30:08):
Yeah, I'm gonna don't want to be like Sky and
four Wait and donate what you haven't donated that I
will donate today. I always don't do I always donate
during the Very Age podcast do I always do it?

Speaker 3 (30:20):
Always a crazy word, always crazy, always Yeah, I'm gonna
look into this.

Speaker 1 (30:26):
Yeah, I think a fifty spot last year. No, no,
chazz bro, I'll donate fifty today.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
Fifty Can I count on that? Hundred one hundred percent?

Speaker 1 (30:38):
What are you doing now?

Speaker 5 (30:39):
It's so easy to text.

Speaker 1 (30:41):
He's doing He's doing it. I want to donate in
spite of Scott.

Speaker 3 (30:46):
So what do I do? I just texted yes. I
mean I've literally saying it for two days. I'm doing
it right now too, for nine eight four three four
nine eighty four text word rock rock Yes, okay, okay,
we're not not We don't need to do it on
the air.

Speaker 9 (31:02):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (31:03):
And then they'll send you a link. You click on it.

Speaker 1 (31:05):
Done, there's the link.

Speaker 5 (31:06):
If you got Apple paye bam, you could do Apple pay. Yeah, dude,
it's so fast.

Speaker 1 (31:10):
There's fifty bucks. I don't want to make it a gift.
I also don't want to do it anonymously. I want
them to know I donated. I'm like, Sky, are you
going to put thor your real name. But Tyler, you are,
but then is not going to get the credit. Tyler
is going to.

Speaker 2 (31:26):
Get the credit. And nobody scowls the name like he.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
Tyler is a good guy, thor is the crazy guy?

Speaker 2 (31:33):
Yeah, it's a character you play on the radio.

Speaker 1 (31:35):
Exactly.

Speaker 3 (31:36):
I'm like slim shading and Marshallmann.

Speaker 2 (31:39):
Is that right?

Speaker 1 (31:40):
That's exactly the same.

Speaker 2 (31:43):
Emily, when are you going to get you know, your
mom's pockets.

Speaker 1 (31:48):
To reach out to her. I need to reach out.

Speaker 2 (31:51):
Maybe she can do it, you know, for you.

Speaker 1 (31:53):
I'm doing it right now. Oh you are?

Speaker 2 (31:55):
Yeah? Why are we doing this on the air? We're
on the air, you too.

Speaker 1 (32:00):
It does have Emily g okay. I can't wait to
see it come by, only waiting waiting for oh my god,
processing payment done?

Speaker 2 (32:10):
Fifty wow, well that's an one hundred because we're in
a matching hour.

Speaker 1 (32:12):
And Emily, how much did you donate? Fifty five? Yeah?
The way, what a true bitch.

Speaker 3 (32:21):
That's crazy. Thank you, Emily, thank you.

Speaker 1 (32:25):
No, she sucks. I may donate ten more dollars.

Speaker 3 (32:29):
Let's more, I may donate ten more dollars, right, you
on a donate more than thora?

Speaker 2 (32:35):
And Emily, you can do yeah.

Speaker 1 (32:37):
She sucks. That was so messed up.

Speaker 2 (32:42):
This is what the givethon is about, guys making making
your friends feel bad.

Speaker 3 (32:46):
If my wife's listening, donate ten more dollars it Emily's
emilyes Wn'll put her addy now too. This is this
is getting crazy.

Speaker 2 (32:55):
Does donate right now one hundred two five eight zero
zero zero seven or text word rock to three four
nine eight four. It is a matching hour. So again,
whatever you donate will be matched by the Lord family,
which is fantastic.

Speaker 1 (33:08):
I technically donate one hundred bucks just now.

Speaker 2 (33:09):
You technically then Emily did what one hundred and ten?

Speaker 1 (33:13):
Emily from San Diego one t she's the best than.

Speaker 2 (33:16):
She's so cute.

Speaker 5 (33:17):
Oh there it is Emily g.

Speaker 2 (33:18):
You know she's marrying bro lemonee.

Speaker 1 (33:24):
First of all, it's not Le Mesa. Let's be real.

Speaker 13 (33:26):
So that was it.

Speaker 1 (33:26):
I actually wasn't even ever wasn't whatever. It was Emily
from La Mesas. I put my address in and it
comes up with it. It's on its own sot waiting
for till hoard.

Speaker 5 (33:36):
I'm not seeing yeah, I'm not seeing it.

Speaker 1 (33:38):
Fake it fake? Did he did he lie about do?
That's dirty?

Speaker 5 (33:45):
That's next level bro.

Speaker 1 (33:47):
Baby, Yeah, I didn't finish the donation.

Speaker 13 (33:50):
I didn't do it.

Speaker 15 (33:52):
Do it?

Speaker 1 (33:53):
It says clicks to complete your gift.

Speaker 5 (33:55):
Yeah, button that says shot.

Speaker 1 (34:00):
Okay, here we go. Please wait, please wait. I can't
up in process till everyone take.

Speaker 5 (34:06):
A chill, pick hey, until I see it on this sticker.

Speaker 1 (34:11):
You could have added a couple more bucks and I've
already closed it.

Speaker 2 (34:16):
I got the.

Speaker 1 (34:16):
Compimation email from.

Speaker 2 (34:19):
Well, Emily is better than you. It's pretty crazy.

Speaker 1 (34:25):
Excuse you.

Speaker 2 (34:28):
Listen. Rady Children's Hospital is incredible. Uh, my son ended
up at Rady Children's Hospital when he fractured his skull.

Speaker 1 (34:36):
That was such a scary.

Speaker 2 (34:37):
Oh yeah, I mean it was pretty unbelievable. I was,
you know, I remember being in the car. I was
in the car driving around and my wife called me
and she was in a panic, obviously, and started, you know,
it was like hysterically crying and all this stuff. My
son was I think two at the time, and he
was in the shopping cart. Why she was in the

(34:59):
shopping cart store, no, but I don't know.

Speaker 1 (35:02):
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (35:03):
But he stood up suddenly and then flipped out of it.
Oh my god, and so his head hit the back
of his head hit the you know that whatever floor,
you know, in the grocery store, and it was not good.
And so they immediately took him by ambulance to like
the regular hospital, the closest hospital, and I get the

(35:25):
phone call, so I rushed down there. I walk into
that room and when you see like a kid that young,
and there's doctors all around, and there's tubes and there's
all kinds of things happening, you don't know what's going on.
Like it's one of the scarier moments of my life.
And they said, no, we got to we gotta get
this kid to Rady Children's Hospital right away. And I'm

(35:45):
like what. And so I didn't even get to go
with him in the transport, in the in the ambulance,
and so again I'm driving, you know, I'm rushing there,
trying to beat the ambulance or whatever. And then at Rady,
it was like a whole different scene.

Speaker 15 (35:59):
You know.

Speaker 2 (36:00):
The first hospital chaos. I don't understand what's going on.
Nobody's talking to me.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah, how bad a normal hospital?

Speaker 2 (36:07):
It was gross, Yeah, it was awful. It was it
was you know, people vomiting all over you, and you're
like what is happening right now. I was not a
fan of that. Once I got to Rady, it was
like calm, it was serene. They immediately talked to me,
told me what was going on. The concern was a
brain bleed. You know, they were really concerned about that
because he fractured his skull and so obviously you know,

(36:27):
brain swelling, all those things were possibilities.

Speaker 13 (36:30):
So young.

Speaker 2 (36:31):
Yeah, so and he can't tell you what's going on.
And so basically they were said, well, the first twenty
five hours is really what we're concerned about, and so
we're gonna have to see what's happening. Well, you know,
obviously my wife was there and she was a mess,
and Debra wasn't going to leave no matter what, she
wasn't going to leave his side. So they set up
the room, you know, so that she would be comfortable

(36:51):
too at the hospital. And so those are the kind
of things. You know, again, who cares about the parents,
you know, when your kids in trouble and sick whatever,
But they care, they do. They take care of us.
And that's something that I'm so grateful for and something
that I always remember, and things like that, and just
taking the time to explain to you what's going on
with your kid, and letting you know everything's gonna be okay,

(37:12):
and things like that super important. So that's why I
always love Rady Children's Hospital. The other another time we
ended up at Rady Children's Hospital my daughter. We were
out camping and on the drive home, she started violently
throwing up and it was like, really weird. And then
she started having those mini seizures what do they call
femeral seizures or something like that, and that's when we

(37:35):
were like, oh god, we got to get to Rady
Children's Hospital. So we get to Rady Children's Hospital, and
again she was really young, really little, and she started
like projectile vomiting in the room, and the doctors and nurses. Again,
I'm like looking at like I'm looking at the Exorcist right,
Like I walked into that room and I'm like, oh

(37:56):
my god, what is happening. And a nurse, you know,
there there was a bunch of nurses and the whole
team of doctors and they were working on her, stepped aside,
put her arm around me and was like it's okay, Dad,
we got her. Don't worry. It's gonna be okay. And
that little gesture, Yeah, made me feel okay, and she
was okay you know after that obviously. So those are

(38:17):
the kind of things that you're not going to get
at normal hospitals. If you do good on you, yeah,
normally that's not a thing experience.

Speaker 15 (38:24):
No.

Speaker 2 (38:25):
At Rady Children's Hospital, though, they actually care and they
want to take care of your kid and they want
to take care of you two. So that's why we
would love Rady Children's Hospital, and that's why we do
things like the give Athon. So whatever you can donate,
we would love it and we would appreciate it. Call
right now eight hundred two five eight zero zero zero seven,
whatever you donate, that would be fantastic. One of our
partners that every year comes strong with, you know, helping

(38:48):
out with the giveathon is sea World and we appreciate
sea World so much for you know, their time and
donating tickets. If you become a Hero, that's one part
of the thing. If you me sign up for the
Hero program for just nineteen dollars a month, you're going
to get a pairpastes to SeaWorld. So that in itself
is fantastic and boil boy do we have a very

(39:10):
special guest in here. What is my man's name here?
What is this sloths name?

Speaker 17 (39:16):
Yeah, so this is test. She's our female sloth. She's
one of three sloths that live at SeaWorld, San Diego.

Speaker 2 (39:23):
That's so crazy to see a actual sloth sitting here
in the studio. Now does the sloth split time in
SeaWorld or at the DMV two? Is that the deal
or what is what's going.

Speaker 15 (39:38):
On with that?

Speaker 8 (39:39):
Yeah?

Speaker 17 (39:39):
Everyone knows slots from Zootopia now at the DMV and
it is a perfect job for them to very slow,
but don't be fooled.

Speaker 1 (39:46):
Slots can be fast when they want to be.

Speaker 2 (39:48):
Yeah. The claws on this bad boy, those things are
Now what do they use those claws for? Climbing? Mostly?

Speaker 17 (39:53):
Yeah, So their nails are made out of the same
stuff that our nails are made out of. It's a
protein called keratin. But they're special so that they can break,
eate and move throughout the trees because they do. They
live in the highest layers of the rainforest, all up
in the branches, so they're perfectly made for moving around
up there.

Speaker 8 (40:10):
Now she's clinging to your neck right now? Are her
claws in your back?

Speaker 7 (40:15):
Like?

Speaker 1 (40:15):
What's going on here.

Speaker 17 (40:17):
Yeah, So Tests and I have worked together for a
long time. There's a lot of trust between the two
of us, so she's actually not holding on very tight
at all. She has her other favorite friend, Taylor, feeding
her lots of fair favorite snacks.

Speaker 1 (40:28):
Right, what is she?

Speaker 17 (40:30):
She's a full of wars, so she eats mostly leaves
in the rainforest, A full of war that I know,
they're they're fancy, but another word is an herb of war.
So it's going to be a lot of plant material.
And of course we supplement her diet at sea World
with fresh fruits and vegetables and of course a lot
of leafy grain.

Speaker 2 (40:49):
That's fantastic. What part of SeaWorld will you find Tests?

Speaker 17 (40:53):
Tests actually lives at Dolphins Stadium, so we have them.
That wouldn't make for an interesting presentee.

Speaker 2 (41:01):
Would be amazing.

Speaker 17 (41:04):
Yeah, so you can come visit her after her our
renovations of Dolphin Stadium in March twenty twenty six.

Speaker 2 (41:10):
What I love about SeaWorld is there are a lot
of interactive things that you could do then, yeah, which
is really cool.

Speaker 8 (41:16):
Oh yeah, and you always like learn something, you know
what I mean, You kind of assume you know everything
about animals, but you're always like learning something cool and my,
oh my gosh, my daughter's obsessed with your orders. And
then occasionally when there's the educational experience with the Cappy Bara,
which happens at some events at sea World.

Speaker 5 (41:35):
Okay, Taters right now.

Speaker 9 (41:38):
He'll also be there in January for Inside Look. But yeah,
I go to work and I say I learned something
new every day.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
All right, Yes, that's really cool though.

Speaker 9 (41:46):
I mean even today, just hanging out with Jess and Tess,
I'm learning all about slows as we go from station
to station for the giveth on. But yeah, it's truly
a place where you do learn something because you're walking around,
you're seeing these animals up close, you're excited about them,
getting inspired to care more about them, and you know,
educate yourself even after you leave SeaWorld.

Speaker 2 (42:05):
So yeah, well, well we appreciate you guys being a
part of the give us on as well. You guys
were part of our Warrior Foundation broadcast as well, so
you guys are really involved in the community.

Speaker 9 (42:16):
Yeah, I mean, SeaWorld has been here for over sixty
years and community and education is all is our mission.
So we want to be out with the community. Everyone
who visits us is in the community or nearby, so
it's really important that we care and that we take
care of everybody. So by becoming a hero during the
Rady Children's Hospital give us on, we're helping families locally,
especially with resources and things needed at the hospital. And

(42:39):
it's only nineteen dollars a month, and they get the
benefit and our gratitude of two tickets to SeaWorld for
just a small donation every month.

Speaker 2 (42:48):
And you know, honestly, you take your kids to SeaWorld,
that's almost therapy for them too. Yeah, you know, and
they get to see these you know, animals and fish
and all that stuff. It's pretty cool.

Speaker 5 (42:58):
Oh yeah, it's a cool place to do layers.

Speaker 8 (43:00):
And ever since I moved to the beach in San Diego,
I didn't ring Okay, I'm not trying to Brad. I'm
just saying I didn't realize how involved SeaWorld is in
helping our wildlife on the beaches, that like, other people
just don't have the resources or the knowledge to help.
Like A'll see posts all the time on the next

(43:20):
door app being like I've just seen the seal, or
I've just seen the seagull or whatever.

Speaker 6 (43:25):
What do I do?

Speaker 8 (43:26):
And everybody's like, call SeaWorld, They'll help you. They'll come
out and take care of this animal.

Speaker 9 (43:30):
Yeah, our rescue team is on call twenty four to seven,
three sixty five taking care of marine injured, ill.

Speaker 1 (43:37):
Sick animals that have been left by their mothers.

Speaker 9 (43:40):
It's really a popular time right now for the sea
lion pups because they were just born earlier in their
year and mom thinks that they're ready, so she leaves.
So we see a lot of abandoned, malnourished sea lion
pups and then the rescue team gets many calls right
now specifically on that, and then we take them back
to our rescue center, rehabilitate them, and then the goal
is always to return them to the wild.

Speaker 1 (44:02):
So yes, we have a hotline that anyone can call.
We have that you can call and text.

Speaker 9 (44:07):
We say that pictures are really helpful and then providing
the location of the animals. So it's a really great
resource for San Diego.

Speaker 2 (44:14):
Well, listen, right now is the time to go to
sea World because the Christmas stuff is next level. I
went buck at the store with all the Rudolph stuff.
I mean it's my favorite. It's my favorite, and honestly
it's one of the only places I can find, you know,
the Rudolph and Yukon and Bumble and that all the characters.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
Yes, I did, I did. I made it weird.

Speaker 2 (44:38):
I was pushing kids out of the way. It was
uncomfortable a little bit, but I love it.

Speaker 9 (44:43):
Yes, we have that Rudolph the Red Nose reindeer, but
then we also have real live reindeer that in me
and also learn about. So that's another educational component kind
of combined with Christmas celebration. But we have Holly and Tinsel,
the two reindeers.

Speaker 1 (44:58):
They also came here.

Speaker 2 (44:59):
We remember them.

Speaker 1 (45:00):
Well, I've got a little bit of an accident.

Speaker 9 (45:02):
Yeah, they do not know in their home at Ze
World for Christmas celebration, so people can learn all about reindeers.

Speaker 1 (45:11):
People even come up and they're like, we didn't know
reindeers were really. My daughter said that like when she
was little, the first time she goes they're real, they
are like they are they flew in. It was great.
They don't fly, that's a fact.

Speaker 2 (45:23):
Sky.

Speaker 5 (45:24):
I'm sorry they go.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
You know what, you need to learn some stuff.

Speaker 1 (45:27):
It's Christmas magic. Thank you.

Speaker 2 (45:30):
Well, thank you Sea World so much. We appreciate you
guys being a part of the giveth on and become
a hero and get those Seat World tickets. Call right
now eight hundred two five eight zero zero zero seven. Yeah,
so this is fantastic. We have another former patient at
Rady Children's Hospital in here, Zoey, who is a little cutie.
Look at you, Zoe, who has a new friend, Hattie.

Speaker 5 (45:52):
Yes, we just met Hattie.

Speaker 2 (45:53):
Yeah, Hattie. Hattie is awesome.

Speaker 5 (45:55):
Hattie a lot of stuffed animal was a really cool
pink hat.

Speaker 2 (45:58):
Yeah, very cool. And mom Danielle, Danielle tell us a
little bit about Zoe and her story with Rady Children's Hospital. Yeah,
well Zoe is seven years old now and.

Speaker 18 (46:09):
Amazing she So. I found out about Zoe would be
born with a limb difference when I was, when she was,
when I was still pregnant and my twenty week ultrasound,
and when we got the news at first, it was
pretty devastating. It was like a lot to take in.
But literally from that moment, Rady's came into our life.
We were connected with a specialist who works with kids

(46:31):
with limb differences. Here in San Diego, people fly from
all over to visit her. So we're very lucky to have. Yeah,
And so from that moment, really like she was really
just a support system for us to let me know
like she's gonna do everything and anything, and just really
instilled confidence in me as a parent that like, you know,
she will figure things out. And we're seeing that every

(46:54):
single day. So I was just telling everyone here that
Zoe is practicing with drumsticks n and.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
That's super cool. And I brought up of course def
Leppard Yeah video yesterday.

Speaker 1 (47:07):
So cool, so cool. Yeah, and she was learning to
play seven Nation Army on her guitar. A rock Family
Thanksgiving halftime show.

Speaker 13 (47:19):
Zoe what.

Speaker 1 (47:22):
She's like the what I missed that?

Speaker 17 (47:26):
Cool?

Speaker 1 (47:26):
Yeah, that's a great performance.

Speaker 2 (47:29):
That's amazing.

Speaker 18 (47:30):
So did Probably I was cooking, so I didn't see anything.

Speaker 9 (47:36):
I think.

Speaker 10 (47:36):
I think it was like the guy that like that
like went on like that was like the professional dance
terms as singer.

Speaker 1 (47:43):
Maybe that.

Speaker 12 (47:48):
Was like a halftime show, I believe.

Speaker 1 (47:50):
Okay, just interrupted.

Speaker 2 (47:54):
That's awesome. So you know, you you mentioned you know,
when you think about if you weren't living in San
Diego or close to San Diego, what life would have
been like without them and having Ready Children's Hospital in
your life, I.

Speaker 18 (48:07):
Don't think we would be doing I just don't think
we'd be at the level that we're at today. And
Zoe she you know, in addition that she loves music
and art, but she also she plays so many sports
and they've connected us to an incredible adaptive sports community here.
So she she surfs, she swims, rock climbs, rides a horse.

(48:28):
We played tennis actually today we have tennis.

Speaker 1 (48:29):
After school tennis.

Speaker 18 (48:31):
Oh, it's pretty incredible And I think I'm Rady's like,
you know, we're not the typical, like we have never
stayed one night in the hospital, but we do visit
them multiple times a year to see her specialists. Sure,
she advises us on ot and prosthetics and things that
you know, for a lifelong Like it's just they're going
to be with us for the rest of our lives basically,
So we're super grateful for them.

Speaker 2 (48:52):
So it's incredible. And you think that those kind of
programs that they have and they're in existence through philanthropy
and through donate and so that's why we do things
like the giveth on is programs like that, which is
is so cool. So what sport do you like playing
the best?

Speaker 13 (49:07):
Zoe?

Speaker 1 (49:08):
Oh, if you had to pick one all of them,
it's tough to pick.

Speaker 2 (49:12):
You like riding horses?

Speaker 13 (49:14):
Yeah?

Speaker 8 (49:14):
Oh wow, Oh that's cool. Yeah, there's all kinds of stuff. Yeah,
no doubt, that's really right. Now it's all about Hattie.
Come on, we gotta focus on how cool Hattie is, right,
And Hattie was given to her from the people at
Rady Children's and they also had something special for Zoe's
sister too, And so sometimes people go, well, wait, why

(49:34):
are we donating? Doesn't insurance cover this stuff? But guess
what insurance doesn't cover Hattie and a gift for Zoe's
sister too, And these are the special things that kids
remember about Rady.

Speaker 2 (49:46):
Yeah it is. It is important.

Speaker 1 (49:48):
Oh so true.

Speaker 2 (49:49):
So the real important question, Zoe, what do you want
for Christmas? What are we going to be? Asking for?

Speaker 15 (49:57):
A book?

Speaker 10 (49:58):
And new pastels?

Speaker 3 (49:59):
Just just any book? Can I just give you any book?
Or is there a special like the Dictionary?

Speaker 2 (50:04):
You don't care?

Speaker 1 (50:05):
I would love the Dictionary read?

Speaker 2 (50:09):
Yes, yeah, okay, that's good.

Speaker 8 (50:11):
And painting with the pastels? Is painting your favorite form?
Or do you like pencils? Or all of it, all
of it, Okay, an artist, I love it.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
Love That's very good.

Speaker 2 (50:23):
So yeah, kids like Zoe is why we do the
give on. It is so important. Whatever you can donate,
and like I said, it is a matching hour right now,
so please call and donate eight hundred two five eight
zero zero zero seven, or you can text the word
rock to three four nine eight four.

Speaker 1 (50:40):
I don't look at it. It's not a competition that
is helping rady children. I look at it. I look
at it both. Yeah, yeah, I take it, take it
more seriously than that as a father.

Speaker 2 (50:50):
Now, okay, barely you should have done Walker's name instead
of your name.

Speaker 12 (50:58):
Sweet.

Speaker 1 (50:59):
That is maybe next year I will.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
Okay, let's give some shout outs before that, and then
again give you the number eight hundred two five eight
zero zero zero seven or text the word rock to
three four nine eight four. Again, it is a matching hour,
so go about a half an hour left to make
sure you get matched with whatever donation you give. We've
got the monthly Hero program going on as well. Also

(51:23):
throw out if you're a business owner you want to
shout out on the radio, give you a full commercial.
Then you know if you don't at least five hundred bucks,
we'll do it for you.

Speaker 1 (51:31):
Sky was dropping full sixty second spots yesterday. People donate.

Speaker 2 (51:34):
She's unbelievable, she was.

Speaker 1 (51:37):
If you donate that much, I'm going to give your
website your phone number. She does a lot, yeah, all
of it.

Speaker 2 (51:45):
I've been watching Sky over there writing feverishly all morning long.
She has a full page. We don't we don't have
to go through everybody. We don't have the time to
go through everybody. We'll get you. We'll do it again.
We'll do it again. We'll do it again for sure. Yes,
yesterday I kind of give you a shot, and you
ended up reading off like a thousand names.

Speaker 8 (52:03):
I only get a couple of shots in here. You're
you're all busy talking to kids and stuff. I know
I get so much time, so.

Speaker 1 (52:11):
This se.

Speaker 9 (52:14):
Al right?

Speaker 2 (52:14):
Well go ahead, okay, Well.

Speaker 1 (52:16):
Since you know, we're just gonna stick to a few here.

Speaker 8 (52:20):
But i' mean coming in from all over the county,
all over the country, all over the world.

Speaker 7 (52:26):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (52:26):
For some reason, multiple donors from Laguna Beach.

Speaker 5 (52:30):
It was very nice. I don't think it a minute.

Speaker 1 (52:34):
I don't think new Dad donate. No, it's it's for Emily.

Speaker 15 (52:39):
Emily.

Speaker 1 (52:39):
I'm still waiting for a birthday a gift from my
child of from Emily's mom. Okay, let me throw that out.
I don't know why I said that, Yeah, baby, I
don't know. I said that my mom would probably give
you a baby.

Speaker 2 (52:51):
Parents did.

Speaker 1 (52:52):
Yeah, super nice, really super nicely. And you know, Eddie,
your parents got me a gift and my wife was
over the moon over it because she wanted one them.
We're segning to thank you card.

Speaker 3 (53:01):
Oh okay, thank you mister missus still a best Okay, okay,
it's crazy. She doesn't have a kid, right, I met children.

Speaker 8 (53:14):
Your baby, that's your baby's your baby's got plenty. Yeah,
new dad specifically, we want to it wasn't him unless
edd h No, I don't think his name is.

Speaker 2 (53:35):
I don't think.

Speaker 1 (53:36):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (53:40):
A big thank you to Christina C.

Speaker 8 (53:42):
From San Diego who became a monthly donor, which is awesome.

Speaker 1 (53:47):
We have Mary G.

Speaker 8 (53:48):
For Marietta who makes generous donation every single year, so nice.
And this one just blew my mind because no business,
no mention of a plug. But Raymond T from Winchester
just donated a thousand dollars.

Speaker 7 (54:06):
There you go.

Speaker 2 (54:07):
That's fantastic. Again, we're in a matching hour, so that
thousand dollars turns into two thousand dollars. So whatever you
can donate, we will accept this fantastic stuff. This giveth
on is going great, so let's keep it going, especially
during this matching hour.

Speaker 1 (54:22):
The matching hour is the best.

Speaker 2 (54:24):
Yeah, so definitely call and donate right now eight hundred
two five eight zero zero zero seven or text the
word rock to three four nine eight four. It is
our Rady Children's giveth on on the show, So please
call and donate right now eight hundred two five eight
zero zero zero seven or text word rock to three
four nine eight four. Uh. This is very interesting because

(54:47):
we've been seeing this guy running around nonstuffing jipp it around. Well,
he's volunteering and you know, he's taking care of all
kinds of different stuff. And I did see he was wearing,
you know, a Rady's shirt and stuff like that. Well,
it turns out Josh not only has a story, but
he's also helping on volunteering. Josh, how's it going.

Speaker 1 (55:03):
I'm doing great?

Speaker 2 (55:04):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (55:04):
Great?

Speaker 4 (55:05):
Actually, well thank you for helping. First of all, yeah,
thank you we appreciate that. I looked at my watch
yesterday at the end, I had walked six miles.

Speaker 2 (55:12):
Is that right? Just six miles? That's something, Well that's insane.

Speaker 1 (55:19):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (55:19):
No, We've been seeing you zipping around and stuff like that,
and you know you are helping out, which is fantastic,
But you do have a story connected to raide each
other's hospital and why you actually help.

Speaker 1 (55:29):
Yes.

Speaker 2 (55:29):
Absolutely.

Speaker 10 (55:30):
Uh.

Speaker 4 (55:30):
Basically what happened was when my son was around ten
months your ten months, he had to have tubes in
his ears you know, like a lot of kids do
you know that stuff to make it easier, and then
they had to do a chest X ray prior to
that procedure and noticed that there was something called a
vascular ring which is like part of his artery that
was wrapped around as esophagus. Oh oh my gosh, so

(55:52):
like that was restricting his esophagus at that point, I've.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
Never even heard of something that had neither yea, and
we wouldn't have known.

Speaker 2 (55:59):
Well, it's remarked how many stories like that, you know,
parents coming in and be like they rattle off this
name and I'm like, what the heck is that we
obviously wouldn't know about that until it affects us autely,
you know, And so something like that, again, you wouldn't
be looking for or know that that was an issue.
So crazy.

Speaker 4 (56:15):
Yeah, and it was interesting because we at that time
they were like, you probably should have something done, but
the ro would I say that the risk reward is
tough because he's ten months, Like, he's so young.

Speaker 2 (56:26):
We're talking about heart surgery.

Speaker 4 (56:28):
But between the time he was diagnosed with that and
and a little bit later, we had moved to San
Diego and luckily in the shadows of one of the
best children's hospitals in the country.

Speaker 1 (56:39):
Oh so when you found this out, you weren't even
in San Diego at the top is not.

Speaker 4 (56:43):
In fact, we were told that if we had to
have the procedure done, we'd probably have to go live
in another city in state for about a month.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
Wow. Think about that. Yeah, that's crazy.

Speaker 4 (56:51):
So to be able to just fall into something so awesome.
And then we met with the Ready team and they
were like, look, we can fix this, we can change
his life for the better.

Speaker 1 (57:00):
Oh, let's just do it.

Speaker 2 (57:01):
How is something like that would how would it have
affected him?

Speaker 4 (57:05):
It would have restricted his breathing, was already restricted by
all thirty percent. As from what I understand, my wife
is much better with these. Uh, the more he grew,
the esophagus would have grown, but the ring would not have,
so it would have continued to restrict, which could have
led to stroke blood, I mean, a heart disease and stuff.

Speaker 2 (57:23):
That's really scary. Yeah, So talk to me about the
team that you worked with. Oh it's awesome.

Speaker 4 (57:29):
Well, there's a team that actually made the surgery incredible
as doctor Niger, who is a superhero and his team
a specialists that just went in there, did the job. Cut, cut,
literally cut the artery, took it, unwrapped it around the esophagus,
and then reattached it with gortex. What yes way and
you would never know. Yeah, he's eleven years old now

(57:50):
and he's just living a dream.

Speaker 1 (57:51):
And how old was he that you said?

Speaker 7 (57:53):
Again?

Speaker 4 (57:54):
I think, oh wow, So we waited a few years
because we were like, let's see what happened, you know,
and that it was so worth it when we got
the reassurance that the confidence that we came out with
from when we talk with Rady's folks and then my team. Now,
I remember saying after the procedure. This is such an
incredible thing. I hope I get a chance to pay
back Rady for this incredible experience. And now I'm working

(58:17):
for the foundation and helping with a givethon like this.

Speaker 1 (58:19):
Wow.

Speaker 3 (58:20):
So what kind of stuff does the foundation do besides
the givethon and things like that. The Foundation does tremendous things.
My role in particular is to kind of introduce people
to what RADY does and means to the community so
they can get more involved and see just how many
lives it impacts in this region. It's not even just
San Diego. It's regional and somewhat worldwide. I mean people
come from around the world to get procedures done at

(58:42):
this hustle.

Speaker 2 (58:42):
I've heard about it. Yeah, it's incredible, and you know,
we're very lucky obviously living in San Diego having this
in our backyard. But there are people again who I
don't even know. You live in Bakersfield or wherever, and
you're like, where do we do?

Speaker 1 (58:55):
Where do we go?

Speaker 8 (58:56):
Can you imagine when your kid's sick and that's all
you're worrying about, but you still have to go to
work and clean the house and buy groceries and then
you're told, well, if you want to help your child,
you have to move to another city for an entire month,
Like how could that even be possible for a family,
And like, we take ready for granted the fact that
they're right here. We don't have to move our entire

(59:18):
family to get our kid healthy. Like that just blew
my mind when you said that you would have to
move for a month if you wanted that treatment.

Speaker 4 (59:26):
I've had some friends have to do that as adults,
you know, and it's obviously it's jarring, to say the least.
And we have a younger daughter too, so that would
have up ended her life as well. So wow, it's
quite the gift.

Speaker 5 (59:39):
Yeah, we're so lucky to have them in San Diego,
you know.

Speaker 2 (59:41):
And you hear about where your children's hospital and all
of these different programs and things like that, But honestly,
to me, it's the people, the doctors and nurses that
work there. They're just different. I don't know where they
find these people, but they are angels on earth. And
I say that all the time, and I hope that
you understand. People never experienced it. They are just a

(01:00:02):
different breed, they really are.

Speaker 4 (01:00:03):
And I think I'm so glad you brought that up,
because one of the things that this giveth on actually
helps provide is the childlife specialist that I had never
experienced until this, uh, you know, with my son. And
they are literally trained in such great detail to be
able to communicate and relate to your child. And that's
so strange because you're so used to going as an

(01:00:24):
adult and being like, Okay, we're gonna do this, we're
gonna do this and good luck. And this is like,
I mean, they taught my kid how to swallow a
pill for the first time using M and m's They
told him what to expect, when to expect it, when
it would be over. It was just a life changer,
not only for us, but for my son as well. Yeah,
and he's good now, he's great. He's eleven. He cringes

(01:00:45):
at hearing six seven.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
Don't listen to me then, I'm so cool. Jokes, I'm
so cool, yeahad jokes. I got you on that. Well, Josh,
we appreciate you for helping out and running around and
doing all the things that you're doing today, which which
is fantastic, and talking about Rady Children's Hospital because we
love it too. It is the best. The giveth on

(01:01:08):
is going on right now. We're so call right now
eight hundred two five eight zero zero zero seven or
text the word rock to three four nine eight four.
This is very interesting because a lot of times you
work with people and you don't know what's going on
with them, you know, I mean you may say, hey,
what's up at the water cooler? Or you know, you
may steal their lunch or whatever it is you know

(01:01:30):
you want to do, but you don't know what's going
on with coworkers sometimes. And so one story, of course,
I'm very familiar with because he's one of my best friends,
talking about the world famous b dub b dubb is
in the house there he is. Yeah, the legendary, the
legendary clip come on man, so b dub I know

(01:01:51):
his story. But our good friend Aaron, who has been
our coworker for many, many years, I didn't realize you
had a rady story as well.

Speaker 9 (01:01:58):
I do.

Speaker 1 (01:01:58):
It's a new one, yeah this year. It did, Yeah,
just a couple of months ago.

Speaker 2 (01:02:02):
So it's a little scary, A.

Speaker 19 (01:02:03):
Little scary, not a good idea when you are sitting
here at work and your husband calls and says, hey,
our daughter has some sort of reaction. Took her to
our normal doctor, and they are sending us directly to
Rady Children's.

Speaker 2 (01:02:14):
That's a scary call.

Speaker 19 (01:02:15):
That's when your heart sings, especially working on these givathons
for so many years, I've heard all the I've heard
house sideways there, sent there. It's probably because something's actually
really badly wrong.

Speaker 2 (01:02:27):
If a regular doctor doesn't really know what's up, and
you got to send them to the children's hospital.

Speaker 19 (01:02:31):
Right, So to me, you know, the five minute drive
from here to the hospital, worst five minute drive, like
sobbing in the car, like I'm going to be on
the giveath on next year.

Speaker 18 (01:02:44):
Thought.

Speaker 2 (01:02:44):
But I mean it's true, but you are that.

Speaker 19 (01:02:46):
We live in right, and we were doing because it
was just in October, so we were already doing planning
for this, so it was top of mind and like,
oh no.

Speaker 1 (01:02:52):
So she ended up being completely fine.

Speaker 19 (01:02:55):
We think she just got some sort of infection from
the beach careful, I don't know, they don't really know,
but they treated it as such. She's completely fine. It
was like a like an allergic reaction to something.

Speaker 2 (01:03:06):
And that was your first experience at.

Speaker 1 (01:03:09):
The same kid too.

Speaker 19 (01:03:10):
But she broke her leg when she was little, she
was almost three years old, didn't stick the landing, jumping
off the couch to Rady's. And they've got this whole
like cast factory. They're like, it's it's crazy. It's like
an assembly line. But they've got it dialed in over there.
So everything they do shout out to also the Childlife
Specialty team that's there. You hear about those that team
that helps the kids who are not only staying in

(01:03:32):
the hospital, keeping them busy, talking talking to them like
their actual kids and not over them, like using medical
jargon stuff they look, they talk to them.

Speaker 1 (01:03:41):
They're also working in the er too.

Speaker 19 (01:03:42):
So when my daughter was bored out of her mind
for hours in the ear when they were trying to
figure out this infection that she had, they were they
were keeping her busy. They were offering iPads and coloring pages,
talking about similar TV shows that they like.

Speaker 1 (01:03:55):
Just making sure that you're not scared and it's not
a scary place to be.

Speaker 16 (01:03:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:03:59):
Is this the aughter that's in Girl Scouts former Girls
former Girl Scout? Okay, so graduated, Yeah, just like ours are.
You know, Aaron took over are when we would have
we would you know, hassle everybody in the building, Me
and Sky for cook and then Aaron took over for that.

Speaker 1 (01:04:16):
So that was a good risky waylow. She had the
cookies out in the break and said please take one
and here's the Venmo and people like Sky I don't trust,
but then you put your kid, don't steal from They
checked out.

Speaker 2 (01:04:34):
Kay, good, b Dub. Now, B Dub, it wasn't just
a one timer. B Dub has been in and out
of Rady Children's Hospital for many, many years with your
son Graham. Correct Now, what what was exactly going on
with Graham?

Speaker 13 (01:04:47):
Well, he has a Crone's disease.

Speaker 7 (01:04:48):
So the first time we were there was about eleven
day kind of stay and diagnosed and it was kind
of at the time they called it a house case,
kind of like the TV show House. No, yeah, we're sure,
like they they really couldn't pinpoint why. At one point
they thought he had mono and I'm like, he's six
years old. I mean he's making out.

Speaker 13 (01:05:07):
Maybe he's like his old man.

Speaker 7 (01:05:16):
But in all honesty, it was the eleven long days. Uh,
my wife and I were both there at the time.
I think we had we had all three kids, so
there's definitely like, you know, help there and support. But
when he was officially diagnosed g I was the last
one to see him and then they did an endoscopy
and they came back to see as crones. You then
kind of go and figure out what you're gonna have
and what you're gonna deal with, and like, you know,

(01:05:38):
as a sports guy, like what's my game plan?

Speaker 13 (01:05:39):
What am I rooting for? Like how do I go
approach this?

Speaker 7 (01:05:42):
And he's been on Biologic since he was six years old,
and you know, it's it's amazing what that place will
do for you if you need it. I hope no
one ever has to spend time there. And this is
where it gets like I couldn't be more real of
I never thought of my wildes streams. I'd be their
often as I was. We've all been in this game
for a long time. But remember like slinging newspapers for

(01:06:02):
it and doing broadcasts there before I even had kids,
and then all of a sudden come full circle. I
think one of the most telling moments that I always
tell is we were supposed to do a team bonding
thing and serve food at Ronald McDonald's across the street.
That's kind of attached to the radis and I end
up my son got you know, admitted, and Sarah and
I went over and got food from our coworkers here.

Speaker 13 (01:06:22):
Wow, which was a very humbling ex.

Speaker 2 (01:06:24):
Yeah, I mean tell you about surreal.

Speaker 7 (01:06:26):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:06:27):
But yeah, you guys have been in and out, you know,
every time it flares up or there is a situation,
you guys are in there. I know your wife Sarah
has been in I mean every day. Well, you know,
it is a sort of tag team situation at that
point if you have multiple kids where Bm's got to
you know, run kids to school, and then Sarah's at
the hospital and she talks glowingly about everybody that works there.

Speaker 13 (01:06:48):
Oh yeah.

Speaker 7 (01:06:49):
We always talk about the doctors because they're so good
and they bring in, you know, different people, and they
move around and the you know, the gi team we
dealt with. You know, they've kind of it's evolved over
the years, and they do a great job their bedside manner.
Sometimes you're like, ah, man, just kind of talk to me,
what's going on. They're just trying to cure your kid, right,
But that's why those you know why I always talking
about the nurses, the nurses, there are angels. They're the

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nicest humans you've ever met in your life. They know
exactly what you're going through. They help you cope every day.
It's not just like they have bad days. I mean,
there's so many of you there. You walk through and
as bad as you have it, you walk down the
hall and you see kids sitting there by himself because
both parents are maybe having to work, or they only
have one parent they're having to work.

Speaker 13 (01:07:29):
What's going on?

Speaker 2 (01:07:30):
Life still has to happen.

Speaker 7 (01:07:32):
As Aaron talked about the the in care that they do,
they bring animals around, all the stuff they've done. I mean,
I think Graham's been in there well, he was granted
a make a wish at twelve because he'd been in
there well over one hundred plus days. So in his
lifetime he probably did I always guessmated about a buck fifty.
Now he's actually turned nineteen, so now he goes to UCSD.
But I will never not be thankful and will never

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not champion that because we're so lucky to have it
in our backyard.

Speaker 2 (01:07:58):
Without a doubt. That's why we do the giveth on.
You know, it is so important and I talk about
it as an insurance policy. You never want to use
your insurance policy because that means you're in an accident
or you're in something. But if you do have something happen,
thank god you have insurance. That's what Rady Children's Hospital
is is that you don't rarely want to go there,
but if you do, you're so thankful that it's there,

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and so it is an amazing place. That's why we
do the giveth on every single year. So please call
and donate. Like I said, it's still a matching hour
going on right now eight hundred two five eight zero
zero zero seven or so if you just want to
go with the text, you can do rock to three
four nine eight four as well. So we've been doing
the givethon for about eight years now and we get

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to know certain form of patients and families and things
like that. Kellen, I feel like I've known Kellen almost
his whole life. Seriously, Kellen, you've been coming in here
talking to us over the years, and you know, now
Kellen's almost bigger than me, which is wild. What the
heck is going on?

Speaker 1 (01:08:57):
Like I think you only barely got like a well, it's.

Speaker 2 (01:08:59):
Weird when you see my kids same thing with my son.
You know, he's getting to the point where he's almost
tolleran me and then you walk in and I'm like, oh,
we've got a man here. Now, this is great, this
is crazy. We're just talking about driving, Like Kellen, you're
an old dude. Now, what's going on? Just agent bro,
which is which is awesome because if you hear Kellen's story, yes,
you kind of go. Man, I'm just glad Kellen's here

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and he's thriving and all this stuff. So talk to
me mom about about Kellen's story and why you guys
come back every year and support Rady Children's Hospital.

Speaker 1 (01:09:29):
Oh so, there's so.

Speaker 20 (01:09:30):
Many things but to try and just boil it down
into a nutshell. Kellen wouldn't be here if it wasn't
for Rady children. Y. So we were given that like
awful choice that no parent ever wants to make of
do you trust them to save your child's life or
do you terminate your pregnancy and try again.

Speaker 5 (01:09:48):
So, oh gosh, he's only here.

Speaker 1 (01:09:51):
Because of them.

Speaker 2 (01:09:52):
Yeah, I mean, that's it's an unbelievable situation to be
put in. You made the right choice. So what was
going on with killing? Why? Why did you know, he
need the help.

Speaker 20 (01:10:03):
Yeah, So we found out that he had a heart defect,
and then it just got more complicated and just there
was there was no way to survive it. So there
was a lot of stuff going on in his heart.
So he had reconstructive surgery at four days old.

Speaker 2 (01:10:17):
Four days old. And again, you go to a normal hospital,
they probably don't have the equipment and the tools to
actually work on a baby like that.

Speaker 1 (01:10:27):
That's how big is a baby's heart at four days old.
It's the size of a walnut. Oh wow.

Speaker 8 (01:10:32):
To do surgery on a walnut like that, and surgery
that important with tools like that's so insane to me.

Speaker 2 (01:10:39):
Yeah.

Speaker 20 (01:10:39):
So and now that he's older, you know, they they
have done such a great job explaining like his follow
up surgeries, and I mean he can talk about what
he's had done in the past.

Speaker 2 (01:10:50):
What have you had done?

Speaker 12 (01:10:51):
So these past two years, I've had two surgeries.

Speaker 3 (01:10:54):
And this guy, Yeah, I don't minute what's going on here?
So beating old man, I got this unbelievable. I'm sorry, sorry, sorry,
we're just throwing up.

Speaker 1 (01:11:08):
We're just throwing up.

Speaker 2 (01:11:09):
You started talking and I'm like, whoa, yeah, yeah, yeah, you.

Speaker 5 (01:11:12):
Should hear him in the morning when he's got like
the morning sleeping.

Speaker 2 (01:11:15):
Yeah, might say the same way. I'm like, who's that?

Speaker 1 (01:11:20):
The first time I heard Eddie's kid after he hit puberty,
I went, hey, Jack, and he went.

Speaker 2 (01:11:25):
That's the weirdest thing the last couple of years. Tell
me about it.

Speaker 12 (01:11:30):
So this summer of twenty three, I had a double
rob replacement, so they took out my ertic valve, they
took my pulmonary valve, moved it to where my eertic was,
and then gave me a new pulmonary valve.

Speaker 1 (01:11:43):
Oh my gosh.

Speaker 12 (01:11:44):
And then the summer of twenty four I got in
a new pacemaker.

Speaker 13 (01:11:47):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:11:48):
So you were going through all this, You're still very young,
at a very young age. Were you freaked out or
were you feeling pretty good that you were in the
right hands.

Speaker 12 (01:11:57):
I was feeling pretty good, like I knew I was
the right hands.

Speaker 2 (01:12:00):
Yeah. And you've been dealing with this your whole life,
so again, this is not anything new to you. So
how are you feeling these days? Are you feeling all right?

Speaker 12 (01:12:09):
I'm feeling great.

Speaker 13 (01:12:09):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:12:10):
Good.

Speaker 1 (01:12:10):
And as it slowed you down at all, are you
still able to do a lot of stuff.

Speaker 12 (01:12:14):
No, my doctor gave me the all clear. I'm able
to do just about like anything. Really, anybody else can.
It's great, it's so great.

Speaker 1 (01:12:20):
It's so crazy.

Speaker 5 (01:12:22):
And you were told maybe you should terminate this pregnancy.

Speaker 8 (01:12:26):
And it's crazy to think from talking to other families
this morning, like, if you guys weren't in San Diego,
I wonder.

Speaker 5 (01:12:33):
If you would have even had an option.

Speaker 20 (01:12:35):
Yeah, we we probably still would have chose life. But
I don't. I mean, he would not have.

Speaker 5 (01:12:40):
Made it, so it would have been a very different
picture for your.

Speaker 2 (01:12:45):
Yeah, so what kind of stuff were we into these days?

Speaker 12 (01:12:54):
Honestly, right now, the thing that's taking up most of
my time is working on my small business.

Speaker 13 (01:12:58):
I have that going on.

Speaker 2 (01:13:00):
Kind of small business we're talking about here?

Speaker 12 (01:13:02):
Sure?

Speaker 1 (01:13:02):
Whoa a clothing company?

Speaker 2 (01:13:04):
Really? Yeah?

Speaker 9 (01:13:05):
What is it?

Speaker 2 (01:13:05):
Give some clothes?

Speaker 9 (01:13:07):
Sure?

Speaker 12 (01:13:07):
You know it's Faith Apparel Underscore co on Instagram. I
do Christian clothing.

Speaker 2 (01:13:12):
Okay, we did?

Speaker 13 (01:13:14):
How did you start this?

Speaker 15 (01:13:15):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (01:13:15):
I just noticed your shirt. It's because I thought you
were wearing like a skate sweatshirt.

Speaker 1 (01:13:20):
But I see this is actually my church of city.
Oh Okay, all of a sudden, I thought it was
a skate thing, and then I saw Jesus. But so
you do like cool Christmas skate apperil.

Speaker 2 (01:13:29):
Jesus is cool?

Speaker 1 (01:13:29):
Well you talking about I just didn't know.

Speaker 5 (01:13:33):
That's so amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:13:35):
So what made you decide to want to do this?

Speaker 12 (01:13:38):
Honestly, it was an idea that popped into my head
and I just said why not, like I'll just do it,
and so I did.

Speaker 2 (01:13:44):
But I mean, I wouldn't know how to start a
clothing company. How does one start even a clothing company?

Speaker 12 (01:13:49):
You just met the right people or I mean I
started mine off for like twenty bucks really and I
just research and there's a lot.

Speaker 20 (01:14:00):
I know, and Apple cash happening for sure.

Speaker 2 (01:14:02):
Oh yeah, yeah, wow, get in the killing business. I'm
gonna have to become an investor. This is great, knew,
that's awesome killing Well congratulations. Yeah, you're feeling good and
everything's going well. And I love seeing him every year.
It's it's an awesome story. And so yes, reason like
a kid like Kellen who is now a grown man,

(01:14:23):
you know, and he's here today because of Rady Children's Hospital.
That's why we do the giveth on every year. So
whatever you can donate again, we're in a matching hour,
please call eight hundred two five eight zero zero zero seven.
Call eight hundred two five eight zero zero zero seven,
or text the word rock to three four nine eight four.
We did just get a pretty big donation that we

(01:14:44):
need to mention, right skuy.

Speaker 8 (01:14:45):
Oh yeah, this is massive, A huge thank you to
our C Creations for their four thousand dollar donation. It's
a matching during a matching hour. That's eight thousand dude.
That's awesome.

Speaker 7 (01:15:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 8 (01:15:00):
So if you need any sort of concrete work done,
they're out of North County, out of San Marcos, but
I'm sure they work all over the county if not
outside of it, and they do like a.

Speaker 6 (01:15:10):
Great bootment appointment to Julius.

Speaker 8 (01:15:13):
Okay, big concrete construction needs, so they need driveway side whatever,
so you can find them r C Creations dot com.

Speaker 2 (01:15:23):
Oh that's awesome. Well, thank you very much everybody that
donated today. I mean, so I'll be honest with you.
Day two sometimes is a little bit slower than day one.
Obviously a lot of people we're going to donate, you
hear the first day you kind of call in and donate.
But they came strong today. This might be our biggest
Day two of all time.

Speaker 1 (01:15:42):
I'd like to shout my mom out, who finally donated.

Speaker 8 (01:15:45):
Wait, wait a minute, here, wait a minute, here see
a car m from San Diego.

Speaker 5 (01:15:51):
Generous donation.

Speaker 1 (01:15:53):
Twister, Twister. She doesn't aware this was happening. I had
to let her know.

Speaker 6 (01:16:00):
Who wasn't listening, judge, And I'm really bummed that I
didn't save her donation for when Sky and I are
on the air after the show.

Speaker 1 (01:16:06):
Because we're on from ten to it all goes to
the same place I should have got or your sister
could still donate. I see, uh, I don't see. I'm
not guys, I'm not sleeping a lot. So for a second,
heal me's don Okay, well that's awesome. I'll tell your

(01:16:35):
mom thank you. That's very nice. Yes, as Emily just
alluded to their the menopause midday show.

Speaker 8 (01:16:42):
Is coming up next told you yesterday that's not what
it's the HoTT by the way.

Speaker 1 (01:16:48):
It would be Perry menopause. We're not quite there yet.

Speaker 2 (01:16:50):
Well one of you is.

Speaker 1 (01:16:54):
Our hour ones the hot hour, and then our two
is the cool down?

Speaker 2 (01:16:58):
Is that right? That works?

Speaker 8 (01:17:00):
All our guests that come in get little hand fans
to keep them cool during the broadcast.

Speaker 2 (01:17:05):
Guy and Emily are going to take over. How did
yesterday go?

Speaker 3 (01:17:11):
I may have everybody listened any it was a lot
it why uh, well, you know, get some.

Speaker 2 (01:17:20):
Notes Sky Sky becomes professional broadcaster. Sky, she's in charge.

Speaker 1 (01:17:25):
Scott, Yeah, you're listening to go.

Speaker 2 (01:17:28):
Yeah, I don't know what was going on with that? Yes,
it was. It was interesting. It was interesting. So today
we may get more. Emily, well Sky was yesterday, well,
we got wild. We decided to start switching off.

Speaker 8 (01:17:45):
But then but then god, but then by the end
of the broadcast, we're in the middle of one break
and I go, was this the one I was supposed
to end?

Speaker 12 (01:17:53):
Or?

Speaker 5 (01:17:53):
And then we just yeah, it was a miss.

Speaker 2 (01:17:55):
You gave up a bit.

Speaker 1 (01:17:57):
We should maybe be more consistent today.

Speaker 2 (01:17:59):
Instead of say it really doesn't matter. I hate to
break it to you.

Speaker 5 (01:18:02):
The only reason it matters is if we forget and
then it's just silent.

Speaker 2 (01:18:05):
Well, then you just got one of you at tags
in and takes what is it? You guys are such great?

Speaker 1 (01:18:10):
Who's the lead right now?

Speaker 2 (01:18:11):
Well it doesn't have to be.

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
They can't do it.

Speaker 5 (01:18:14):
So op, we don't insult like one another.

Speaker 1 (01:18:17):
I don't think you're insaulting one another. You're back, Yeah, happen.
We'll figure it out.

Speaker 2 (01:18:26):
Guy.

Speaker 3 (01:18:26):
Yeah, that's going to be a great show. Have Jamie lead. No,
come on you saying wild man wild.

Speaker 2 (01:18:35):
He's out of your mind.

Speaker 1 (01:18:40):
What's more offensive? Sky being professional Sky or.

Speaker 2 (01:18:44):
None? None of this sounds like a great option. But
either way, we appreciate you guys, you know, still continuing
to give a talk. Oh totally big thank you to
cable pipe and leaked detection he set keeping sandygo safe
and sound of course sea World still you can become
a hero, get some SeaWorld tickets, become a monthly donator

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nineteen dollars per month and you conceive two tickets to SeaWorld,
which is fantastic. And like I said, we're still in
a matching hour. You gott like nineteen minutes or so
to get your donation in and have it matched because
that is the best. Yes, and so please call eight
hundred two five eight zero zero zero seven text the
word rock to three four nine eight four h The

(01:19:28):
giventhon is not over just because we're getting off. Like
I said, the ladies are coming up. Beto's gonna be
on in the afternoon. The Give it on is gonn
continue all day long, so keep those donations pouring in.
If you're listening on the podcast, you can still donate,
you can still don't. Let's get those podcasts calling in,
Let's go. They'll be here all afternoon as well, So
back to regular programming tomorrow. Tomorrow, of course, is throw

(01:19:50):
Back Thursday, so throw Back Trivia, plus we're gonna have
Daredevil on himself after Charlie Cox, nice Daredevil.

Speaker 1 (01:20:00):
He is going to be.

Speaker 2 (01:20:01):
Joining us on the show tomorrow morning. We'll see you then,