July 21, 2025 • 19 mins
Ryan Seacrest shared during an emotional moment on-air that his father, Gary, is battling prostate cancer. Gary, who turns 81 on July 27, has been battling the disease for a while now.
Seacrest shared that he had been privately helping care for his dad back home in Atlanta, Georgia, broadcasting from there while Gary was in and out of the hospital.
On top of Gary's cancer, while undergoing chemo, Gary was recently diagnosed with pneumonia and placed in the ICU, unable to do basic functions like eat, walk or use the restroom. Seacrest shared he received the terrifying call from his sister, Meredith, while hosting "American Idol" live.
Seacrest concluded that while Gary still has a long battle ahead of him, Seacrest's mom, Connie, recently shared with the family a photo of Gary smiling at the beach — an image Seacrest was extremely thankful to see after watching his father suffer for so long.
Seacrest shared his dad's story while celebrating Dennis Clark, a long-time colleague's own remission story.
Our thoughts and prayers go out to the millions worldwide who are affected by cancer and their loved ones caring for them as well as all the dedicated and hard-working hospital workers and doctors.
Listen back above for more and to hear Dennis' own victory story.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
So I want to just take a second. I touched
upon this, and coming up next hour, we are going
to bring in somebody that is instrumental to this show
that means a lot to us as a friend and
also just as an amazing coach.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
To our show.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
He produced our show for many years and his name
is Dennis Clark.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
He's a legend.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And Dennis was diagnosed with cancer a while back, and
he'll tell you more about that. And we got some
good news from Dennis that he has beaten it and
he's in remission. Wow. And in fact, Dennis is there
in the back room, Dennis, and it's something to laugh,
(00:39):
la iconic, something to celebrate and Dennis. I haven't shared
this on the air because it has been very private
for me and my family as it was something that
was extremely hard to see with my father. So my
dad is about eighty years old, and I have a
very close relationship with my father, and my father was
(01:00):
diagnosed with prostate cancer years ago and started his treatment
and he it didn't get better, it got worse than
it spread. And when this happens to somebody or someone
really close to you that you love, this is a
hard thing to see because the treatments that are commonly
(01:23):
recommended can be barbaic to the system. They can cause
so much damage to your body in other ways. My
father went and started his chemotherapy, and this is hard,
and you know people who have been through it. It
didn't go well for him. He caught pneumonia. I was
(01:46):
on an American Idol show live during last season, and
my sister called me and she said, Dad is in
the ICU, and how fast can you get here? Forgive
this is really I've never spoken by this and I
haven't even thought about how to say this.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And I finished the show. We were almost done.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I couldn't even I didn't even remember what I was
saying while I was on the.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Show Robotic at that point, you're just getting through it.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I said good night, and I went to the airport
immediately and got on a flight and got to Atlanta overnight.
When I arrived, it was morning, early morning, and I
was the only one there. My sister was somewhere else,
and I went to his bed, and as Dennis will
tell you, and as you know, in the early mornings,
the doctors do something where they get together. They essentially
(02:38):
meet and evaluate what happened. Overnight, they get their updates
and they talk about, you know what the next steps are.
The night that I got there, the conversation they were
having with him about an emergency surgery was a life
or death conversation. And I've never seen my strong, very
(03:00):
smart father with the look on his face that he
had and the concern and looking at me to help
guide what decisions should.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Be made in this moment.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
And this is ICU with pneumonia, with the cancer after
the chemo, so weak, the emergency surgery. He did not
want to have it, Thank god he didn't because it
could cause complications. And so you don't you know this
because you saw me. But for weeks I was broadcasting
(03:34):
from Atlanta. I moved everything there and I was broadcasting
from a hotel room.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Tubs Nosey set.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It up, and I was in the you know, the
hospital every single day in the ICU. And when you
see a parent suffering, and when you see them going
through this and you don't understand it yourself. You're just
listening to all the different doctors and trying to make
sense of what they're trying to suggest and do, it
is a it's a hard thing, but it did didn't
(04:00):
want to miss trying to understand who these people were
that were taking care of my father. He could not
get up to sit, he could not eat, he could
not drink water, he could not go to the bathroom.
Weeks go by in ice you, and finally he began
to get some strength back. My mother was in Atlanta,
(04:22):
but you know, I needed her to take a break
from this because she also has cancer and she's in remission.
God bless her. And when you're a kid, no one
tells you how to handle this with your parents.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
You don't know. I don't know. I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
And my father after being absolutely miserable, miserable in ice you,
not only but having the cancer, but feeling like you
know what, feeling bad, feeling weak, feeling sick, not eating. Yeah,
he slowly, he slowly gained strength. He slowly was able
to eat liquids, which he complained about. Dennis, I'm sure
(05:02):
you could complain about some of this stuff too.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Well, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Got no one knows this. I have not shared this
publicly with anybody. Angel I want to give you, well,
I'm gonna come.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I'm gonna come, climb up on your shoulders and give
you a hug in a second here. But my dad
after several weeks. We I remember the morning where we
were going to get him up out of his seat,
his bed and have him walk around the bay where
the nurses are right outside the room. And he did it,
but it was very difficult just to move around a
(05:38):
little circle of these of these desks where the nurses are,
and and the nurses whom I became very very close to,
these are angels. The nurses carry out the doctor's orders.
The nurses are the the people that nurture and care
(05:58):
and have emotion of out their patients. The nurses are
the ones that are really looking after them day and
night for hours. And I loved the team of nurses.
I really spent time with them. I sent them maggianos
because I wanted them to, you know, I wanted them
to have a bunch of good, something good, because I
appreciated the Careah.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
So my father was released.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
This is month, got home in Atlanta, had to take oxygen,
had to we had full time care with him.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
We had to. Weeks went by.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
He didn't leave his his his seat or a hospital
or a home for four and a half months.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I went back and forth over the weekends. You guys
know this. And my dad.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
His birthday is in a few days, and I asked
him first of all to see him getting stronger. I
was just so happy, and I asked him, what would
you like for your birthday? And of course he said,
I just want to get out of his chair. I
just want to leave this house. And so last night
I got the most powerful that's okay, right, the most powerful,
(07:27):
good happy picture from my dad and my mother who
was with him.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
They went to to a beach to sit outside. They
just wanted to look at the water. They can't do much.
But I saw him smile. I saw him mom.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Smile, and you haven't seen that in a long time.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I'm embarrassed to.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Don't.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And so anyway, I watched them over the weekends, then
photos of smiling and happiness and being together. They've been
married for for fifty five years and they've got each other.
And his pneumonia's gone, but his cancer is not, and
so we have to go back into another treatment and
fight this cancer.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And it is it is just it's difficult.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
And so when as Dennis told me his news that
he had beaten it after going through it, I was
so excited and happy for you because I was living
it seeing it. So cancer effects every one of us
(08:47):
in some way, and it then it sucks, and the
treatments suck. They just they're just not The treatments are tough.
But he's gonna I know he's going to get through this.
This is you know, we were worried about him flying
it to take oxygen on the plane.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Thank god he made it.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
And they're just happy to sit together looking at an ocean, and.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I just I need.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I wanted to share that because it's I've been holding
that in for a long time. And my sister, God
bless her, my mom, God bless her. You know, we
were That's it. That's our family. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
So it's Adam.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
This is a mere sending love to you on the air,
and I'm so happy you're feeling better.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Uh And and Dennis is here because we wanted to celebrate.
You got to celebrate this stuff when you when you
get to a place and it's not easy, but man,
is it important to celebrate. So I say all of
that to share it with you and to tell you
that we have a great story of someone who means
so much us coming up next, Nnis Clark is going
(09:52):
to come in the studio. I'm coming in to give
you a hug, right, a paper towel from my face.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
We love you so much and we love your dad
and your family. Sorry, thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
So let's let's hear this good news story next, and
thank you for hearing me. One or two point seven.
Kiss FM will be right back. It's Kiss FM, LA's
number one at music station. Ryan Seacrest, Sistney and Tanya
and you know, over the two decades plus that we've
been doing this show, life happens. Tanya has had a
wedding and Sistany has had some very difficult news with
(10:26):
if you can I say it, yeah, with your miscarriage.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yes, beginning of my journey to have children.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Life happens when you do this and we come every
day and you just you deal with it.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
You put on a I don't want to say a front,
but like you, you don't. It's not like we come
in and just like dump all of our life out
the gate. So you hold onto it like you did
Ryan for months and months, and eventually it's like you
you have to like express.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
It and share it. Yeah, that's and it does.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
And I I just shared the story of my fother
who's been battling a very intense cancer run and it's
still not out of the woods.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
But for the first time I saw him smile.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And so I was telling Dennis and Tania and everybody
about that last hour. But the reason I brought that
up in part was because I had not spoken about
it publicly in a long time. And Dennis Clark has
a victory story for us in the in the cancer world.
And Dennis is somebody my gosh, we met twenty five
years ago. Maybe Dennis started working together four o three
(11:30):
maybe two. Did you work with me before I started
on Kiss or was it then I started a little
bay so on Star. So when I was at Star,
Dennis would come in and we want to know how
the show's doing, because we're in a vacuum.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
We want feedback on the show.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
And he's brilliant at telling us, you know, this is
a this is probably a good thing, maybe not so
much of this, and we go on. It's over the
years he's coached us, and then for a period of
time I convinced him somehow to be the producer like
Mark of the show every day And these were these
are the days where I was tough.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
To work with.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Oh you were you were an angel. I just, you know,
I'm just so excited to take this show. Come on,
let's talk about it.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I was.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I was just I wanted to win so badly, and
I wanted us to be successful, and I was insecure
because I'd never done it and Dennis was there. And
then Dennis moved on to do more corporate things. But
Dennis share with us what happened and why we got
that great text the other day.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Well, first of all, I love your mom and dad.
My god, do I thank you, know, because that was
kind of part of the journey really, So let's just
start there. And one hundred percent. I don't know if
people heard it earlier, but your love for the nurses
and the people that work at those hospitals and no
matter what role they are. You know. It's like I
fell in love with a receptionist named Mary and Cedar,
(12:47):
you know, and she was the best she had. I
knew her story, grandkids, kids, everything, and Disneyland was the
most important thing for her to take her kids to
Disneyland constantly, you know. But yeah, yeah, prostate cancer had
it in twenty twenty, so COVID no one really saw it.
I went through that alone, you know, because I was home. Yeah,
(13:08):
but then it kind of flared up again early last year.
And you know, a public service announcement is to get
the PSA checked. Boys. I don't care how old you are,
if you're thirty five, forty forty five years old, get
that checked. It's it's a lab result. It doesn't mean anything.
(13:30):
People are so strange about that kind of thing. It's
a lab result, just having it's a blood. Yeah, and
you get a level, see like another vial, yeah, exactly,
you know, and mine went up again, and I have
I had cedars is where I went, you know, which
was you know, kind of a new mortgage on my house.
We'll talk about that learner.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
But at least it's convenient you live.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Yeah, yeah, right, it's right next door. Yeah yeah. And
I had a doctor named Gary Kohen who said, here
it is again, go see doctor Josephson, and then I did.
And then he gave me a specialist named come Rava.
So I went through radiation for nine weeks in a row,
(14:13):
you know, radiation every day fifteen and I tried to
make the best of it. You know, I really did.
I became such good friends with every single one of
my nurses. You know, Kenzie was come Rava as a nurse,
and I saw her every day, and I just want
to give her a hug every time I see her.
You know, he used to she loved blue bottle coffee.
(14:36):
I'm not the biggest fan of blue bottle, but if
Kenzie likes it, I'll go over. And you know, so
there's Mary, you know, and then Kohen had great nurses,
So it's Nurse Marian, Nurse Kylie, Mary, another receptionist, the receptionist.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
It's so funny you say that I got to know
the receptionist in Atlanta because she's the first person you
see every morning every day.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
And by the way, way, she's the gatekeeper.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
If she doesn't want to take a call or put
somebody through, you ain't getting through. And if you want
something special delivered to Dad that maybe it's not the
food that's in the cafeteria.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yeah, you get through the gatekeeper and she sneaks it
in with you.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I know.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Well, in this pace tell us after radiation and that
was my aunt.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Anna was mine. She was the perceptionist at Cedars. So
I find it takes six months for the doctors, see
now I'm going to turn into a mess a bed.
Six months for the doctors to sort of see that
the radiation worked. And that's when I wrote you I
had it was six months of the day, November fifth,
(15:41):
so it was July fourth. I find out that I'm
cancer free necked in you let's go. So you know,
it's thank you guys, but God, I love you all.
I mean, Ryan, I was so good to hug you
just now because God love what you're going through, you know.
And every story is in that waiting room, you know,
and you know me, I come in like Hi, Hi,
(16:04):
how's it going? You know, and you absorb people's stories,
and you know, you just want to be there for them.
And because they have sometimes they have no one to talk.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
How do you keep that positive energy when you're going
through that day after day, week after week, going in
every day like waking up every morning.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
You have to you have to be the only way, right, Yeah,
And I made it so they were excited to see me,
you know, so including the technician Chris, who was the
radiation guy. So yeah, you know, he was like you know, yay,
you know, and all that kind of stuff because I
can't imagine doing that all the time every day. Con
(16:41):
Sitters has been there for twenty something years, and I
was like, God, love you. You know, so I too
would buy her things and give her little gifts and yeah,
and that you get appointments. Waiting for appointments is so hard, guys. Yeah,
you know. So you're not alone if you're experiencing this.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
And I think the other thing is, you know, when
you're going through it for a first time, you're naive.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
You're learning along the way.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
The doctors are telling you a lot of information and
processing all of it. And I don't know how someone
does it on their own without somebody helping them work
through the decisions that need to be made.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
You know, I have Eric, you have, I mean your
parents have you. That's hate to hear.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
How have you have?
Speaker 4 (17:23):
You?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Are you looking at anything differently now?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Life? Everything?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I'm overbooked, you know, I am overbooked with vacations, you know.
Matter of fact, I went to a part of Italy
last week or two weeks plan uh, it was kind
of and then it was we stayed in place called Rafalo,
and then we went to a place called Demmy I
don't know if you've ever been there. Yeah, yeah, I'm
(17:48):
the worst. But anyway, you had a great time and
we were just like life is good, yes, guys, life
is so great. Yes, And that's why you take your
dad to the beach. Life is so wonderful, especially if
the smile pops up, you know, so you know it
means everything, you know, So.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
You know what we do is a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And the idea of what we do is to try
and get your mind off of tough stuff you might
be going through.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
And just like you got a friend here.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I mean, that's what we were in the business of
just being your friend, and so we hope we can
do that when you're going through tough stuff. Listening Dennis Clark,
we love to appreciate your kind of love you too.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Don't give love to your parents.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Please, thank you.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
You know, We'll just Conne and Gary, I love you.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I mean, this is why I'm not married.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
They've got such a successful marriage for fifty six years.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I'm scared I would do it and screw it up.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Oh yeah, yea, and you did.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
He married her. I know, I know that was beautiful.
By the way.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Okay, we'll talk later. This is very good news.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I love you, Dennis, gonna come back here, shift gears,
Jenner's brothers tickets and kiss FM and say hi to Eric.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Okay, thank you Jennis.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Please
So I want to just take a second. I touched
upon this, and coming up next hour, we are going
to bring in somebody that is instrumental to this show
that means a lot to us as a friend and
also just as an amazing coach.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
To our show.
Speaker 1 (00:12):
He produced our show for many years and his name
is Dennis Clark.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
He's a legend.
Speaker 1 (00:19):
And Dennis was diagnosed with cancer a while back, and
he'll tell you more about that. And we got some
good news from Dennis that he has beaten it and
he's in remission. Wow. And in fact, Dennis is there
in the back room, Dennis, and it's something to laugh,
(00:39):
la iconic, something to celebrate and Dennis. I haven't shared
this on the air because it has been very private
for me and my family as it was something that
was extremely hard to see with my father. So my
dad is about eighty years old, and I have a
very close relationship with my father, and my father was
(01:00):
diagnosed with prostate cancer years ago and started his treatment
and he it didn't get better, it got worse than
it spread. And when this happens to somebody or someone
really close to you that you love, this is a
hard thing to see because the treatments that are commonly
(01:23):
recommended can be barbaic to the system. They can cause
so much damage to your body in other ways. My
father went and started his chemotherapy, and this is hard,
and you know people who have been through it. It
didn't go well for him. He caught pneumonia. I was
(01:46):
on an American Idol show live during last season, and
my sister called me and she said, Dad is in
the ICU, and how fast can you get here? Forgive
this is really I've never spoken by this and I
haven't even thought about how to say this.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
And I finished the show. We were almost done.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
I couldn't even I didn't even remember what I was
saying while I was on the.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Show Robotic at that point, you're just getting through it.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
I said good night, and I went to the airport
immediately and got on a flight and got to Atlanta overnight.
When I arrived, it was morning, early morning, and I
was the only one there. My sister was somewhere else,
and I went to his bed, and as Dennis will
tell you, and as you know, in the early mornings,
the doctors do something where they get together. They essentially
(02:38):
meet and evaluate what happened. Overnight, they get their updates
and they talk about, you know what the next steps are.
The night that I got there, the conversation they were
having with him about an emergency surgery was a life
or death conversation. And I've never seen my strong, very
(03:00):
smart father with the look on his face that he
had and the concern and looking at me to help
guide what decisions should.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
Be made in this moment.
Speaker 1 (03:14):
And this is ICU with pneumonia, with the cancer after
the chemo, so weak, the emergency surgery. He did not
want to have it, Thank god he didn't because it
could cause complications. And so you don't you know this
because you saw me. But for weeks I was broadcasting
(03:34):
from Atlanta. I moved everything there and I was broadcasting
from a hotel room.
Speaker 2 (03:38):
Tubs Nosey set.
Speaker 1 (03:39):
It up, and I was in the you know, the
hospital every single day in the ICU. And when you
see a parent suffering, and when you see them going
through this and you don't understand it yourself. You're just
listening to all the different doctors and trying to make
sense of what they're trying to suggest and do, it
is a it's a hard thing, but it did didn't
(04:00):
want to miss trying to understand who these people were
that were taking care of my father. He could not
get up to sit, he could not eat, he could
not drink water, he could not go to the bathroom.
Weeks go by in ice you, and finally he began
to get some strength back. My mother was in Atlanta,
(04:22):
but you know, I needed her to take a break
from this because she also has cancer and she's in remission.
God bless her. And when you're a kid, no one
tells you how to handle this with your parents.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
You don't know. I don't know. I didn't know.
Speaker 1 (04:39):
And my father after being absolutely miserable, miserable in ice you,
not only but having the cancer, but feeling like you
know what, feeling bad, feeling weak, feeling sick, not eating. Yeah,
he slowly, he slowly gained strength. He slowly was able
to eat liquids, which he complained about. Dennis, I'm sure
(05:02):
you could complain about some of this stuff too.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
Well, you know.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Got no one knows this. I have not shared this
publicly with anybody. Angel I want to give you, well,
I'm gonna come.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
I'm gonna come, climb up on your shoulders and give
you a hug in a second here. But my dad
after several weeks. We I remember the morning where we
were going to get him up out of his seat,
his bed and have him walk around the bay where
the nurses are right outside the room. And he did it,
but it was very difficult just to move around a
(05:38):
little circle of these of these desks where the nurses are,
and and the nurses whom I became very very close to,
these are angels. The nurses carry out the doctor's orders.
The nurses are the the people that nurture and care
(05:58):
and have emotion of out their patients. The nurses are
the ones that are really looking after them day and
night for hours. And I loved the team of nurses.
I really spent time with them. I sent them maggianos
because I wanted them to, you know, I wanted them
to have a bunch of good, something good, because I
appreciated the Careah.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
So my father was released.
Speaker 1 (06:21):
This is month, got home in Atlanta, had to take oxygen,
had to we had full time care with him.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
We had to. Weeks went by.
Speaker 1 (06:33):
He didn't leave his his his seat or a hospital
or a home for four and a half months.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I went back and forth over the weekends. You guys
know this. And my dad.
Speaker 1 (06:50):
His birthday is in a few days, and I asked
him first of all to see him getting stronger. I
was just so happy, and I asked him, what would
you like for your birthday? And of course he said,
I just want to get out of his chair. I
just want to leave this house. And so last night
I got the most powerful that's okay, right, the most powerful,
(07:27):
good happy picture from my dad and my mother who
was with him.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
They went to to a beach to sit outside. They
just wanted to look at the water. They can't do much.
But I saw him smile. I saw him mom.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
Smile, and you haven't seen that in a long time.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
I'm embarrassed to.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Don't.
Speaker 1 (08:02):
And so anyway, I watched them over the weekends, then
photos of smiling and happiness and being together. They've been
married for for fifty five years and they've got each other.
And his pneumonia's gone, but his cancer is not, and
so we have to go back into another treatment and
fight this cancer.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
And it is it is just it's difficult.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
And so when as Dennis told me his news that
he had beaten it after going through it, I was
so excited and happy for you because I was living
it seeing it. So cancer effects every one of us
(08:47):
in some way, and it then it sucks, and the
treatments suck. They just they're just not The treatments are tough.
But he's gonna I know he's going to get through this.
This is you know, we were worried about him flying
it to take oxygen on the plane.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Thank god he made it.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
And they're just happy to sit together looking at an ocean, and.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
I just I need.
Speaker 1 (09:14):
I wanted to share that because it's I've been holding
that in for a long time. And my sister, God
bless her, my mom, God bless her. You know, we
were That's it. That's our family. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
So it's Adam.
Speaker 1 (09:26):
This is a mere sending love to you on the air,
and I'm so happy you're feeling better.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Uh And and Dennis is here because we wanted to celebrate.
You got to celebrate this stuff when you when you
get to a place and it's not easy, but man,
is it important to celebrate. So I say all of
that to share it with you and to tell you
that we have a great story of someone who means
so much us coming up next, Nnis Clark is going
(09:52):
to come in the studio. I'm coming in to give
you a hug, right, a paper towel from my face.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
We love you so much and we love your dad
and your family. Sorry, thank you.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
So let's let's hear this good news story next, and
thank you for hearing me. One or two point seven.
Kiss FM will be right back. It's Kiss FM, LA's
number one at music station. Ryan Seacrest, Sistney and Tanya
and you know, over the two decades plus that we've
been doing this show, life happens. Tanya has had a
wedding and Sistany has had some very difficult news with
(10:26):
if you can I say it, yeah, with your miscarriage.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
Yes, beginning of my journey to have children.
Speaker 1 (10:33):
Life happens when you do this and we come every
day and you just you deal with it.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
You put on a I don't want to say a front,
but like you, you don't. It's not like we come
in and just like dump all of our life out
the gate. So you hold onto it like you did
Ryan for months and months, and eventually it's like you
you have to like express.
Speaker 2 (10:52):
It and share it. Yeah, that's and it does.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
And I I just shared the story of my fother
who's been battling a very intense cancer run and it's
still not out of the woods.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
But for the first time I saw him smile.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Uh.
Speaker 1 (11:07):
And so I was telling Dennis and Tania and everybody
about that last hour. But the reason I brought that
up in part was because I had not spoken about
it publicly in a long time. And Dennis Clark has
a victory story for us in the in the cancer world.
And Dennis is somebody my gosh, we met twenty five
years ago. Maybe Dennis started working together four o three
(11:30):
maybe two. Did you work with me before I started
on Kiss or was it then I started a little
bay so on Star. So when I was at Star,
Dennis would come in and we want to know how
the show's doing, because we're in a vacuum.
Speaker 2 (11:43):
We want feedback on the show.
Speaker 1 (11:44):
And he's brilliant at telling us, you know, this is
a this is probably a good thing, maybe not so
much of this, and we go on. It's over the
years he's coached us, and then for a period of
time I convinced him somehow to be the producer like
Mark of the show every day And these were these
are the days where I was tough.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
To work with.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Oh you were you were an angel. I just, you know,
I'm just so excited to take this show. Come on,
let's talk about it.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
I was.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
I was just I wanted to win so badly, and
I wanted us to be successful, and I was insecure
because I'd never done it and Dennis was there. And
then Dennis moved on to do more corporate things. But
Dennis share with us what happened and why we got
that great text the other day.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Well, first of all, I love your mom and dad.
My god, do I thank you, know, because that was
kind of part of the journey really, So let's just
start there. And one hundred percent. I don't know if
people heard it earlier, but your love for the nurses
and the people that work at those hospitals and no
matter what role they are. You know. It's like I
fell in love with a receptionist named Mary and Cedar,
(12:47):
you know, and she was the best she had. I
knew her story, grandkids, kids, everything, and Disneyland was the
most important thing for her to take her kids to
Disneyland constantly, you know. But yeah, yeah, prostate cancer had
it in twenty twenty, so COVID no one really saw it.
I went through that alone, you know, because I was home. Yeah,
(13:08):
but then it kind of flared up again early last year.
And you know, a public service announcement is to get
the PSA checked. Boys. I don't care how old you are,
if you're thirty five, forty forty five years old, get
that checked. It's it's a lab result. It doesn't mean anything.
(13:30):
People are so strange about that kind of thing. It's
a lab result, just having it's a blood. Yeah, and
you get a level, see like another vial, yeah, exactly,
you know, and mine went up again, and I have
I had cedars is where I went, you know, which
was you know, kind of a new mortgage on my house.
We'll talk about that learner.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
But at least it's convenient you live.
Speaker 4 (13:52):
Yeah, yeah, right, it's right next door. Yeah yeah. And
I had a doctor named Gary Kohen who said, here
it is again, go see doctor Josephson, and then I did.
And then he gave me a specialist named come Rava.
So I went through radiation for nine weeks in a row,
(14:13):
you know, radiation every day fifteen and I tried to
make the best of it. You know, I really did.
I became such good friends with every single one of
my nurses. You know, Kenzie was come Rava as a nurse,
and I saw her every day, and I just want
to give her a hug every time I see her.
You know, he used to she loved blue bottle coffee.
(14:36):
I'm not the biggest fan of blue bottle, but if
Kenzie likes it, I'll go over. And you know, so
there's Mary, you know, and then Kohen had great nurses,
So it's Nurse Marian, Nurse Kylie, Mary, another receptionist, the receptionist.
Speaker 1 (14:53):
It's so funny you say that I got to know
the receptionist in Atlanta because she's the first person you
see every morning every day.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
And by the way, way, she's the gatekeeper.
Speaker 1 (15:01):
If she doesn't want to take a call or put
somebody through, you ain't getting through. And if you want
something special delivered to Dad that maybe it's not the
food that's in the cafeteria.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
Yeah, you get through the gatekeeper and she sneaks it
in with you.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
I know.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Well, in this pace tell us after radiation and that
was my aunt.
Speaker 4 (15:21):
Anna was mine. She was the perceptionist at Cedars. So
I find it takes six months for the doctors, see
now I'm going to turn into a mess a bed.
Six months for the doctors to sort of see that
the radiation worked. And that's when I wrote you I
had it was six months of the day, November fifth,
(15:41):
so it was July fourth. I find out that I'm
cancer free necked in you let's go. So you know,
it's thank you guys, but God, I love you all.
I mean, Ryan, I was so good to hug you
just now because God love what you're going through, you know.
And every story is in that waiting room, you know,
and you know me, I come in like Hi, Hi,
(16:04):
how's it going? You know, and you absorb people's stories,
and you know, you just want to be there for them.
And because they have sometimes they have no one to talk.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
How do you keep that positive energy when you're going
through that day after day, week after week, going in
every day like waking up every morning.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
You have to you have to be the only way, right, Yeah,
And I made it so they were excited to see me,
you know, so including the technician Chris, who was the
radiation guy. So yeah, you know, he was like you know, yay,
you know, and all that kind of stuff because I
can't imagine doing that all the time every day. Con
(16:41):
Sitters has been there for twenty something years, and I
was like, God, love you. You know, so I too
would buy her things and give her little gifts and yeah,
and that you get appointments. Waiting for appointments is so hard, guys. Yeah,
you know. So you're not alone if you're experiencing this.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
And I think the other thing is, you know, when
you're going through it for a first time, you're naive.
Speaker 2 (17:05):
You're learning along the way.
Speaker 1 (17:06):
The doctors are telling you a lot of information and
processing all of it. And I don't know how someone
does it on their own without somebody helping them work
through the decisions that need to be made.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
You know, I have Eric, you have, I mean your
parents have you. That's hate to hear.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
How have you have?
Speaker 4 (17:23):
You?
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Are you looking at anything differently now?
Speaker 4 (17:25):
Life? Everything?
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (17:26):
I'm overbooked, you know, I am overbooked with vacations, you know.
Matter of fact, I went to a part of Italy
last week or two weeks plan uh, it was kind
of and then it was we stayed in place called Rafalo,
and then we went to a place called Demmy I
don't know if you've ever been there. Yeah, yeah, I'm
(17:48):
the worst. But anyway, you had a great time and
we were just like life is good, yes, guys, life
is so great. Yes, And that's why you take your
dad to the beach. Life is so wonderful, especially if
the smile pops up, you know, so you know it
means everything, you know, So.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
You know what we do is a lot of fun.
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And the idea of what we do is to try
and get your mind off of tough stuff you might
be going through.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
And just like you got a friend here.
Speaker 1 (18:16):
I mean, that's what we were in the business of
just being your friend, and so we hope we can
do that when you're going through tough stuff. Listening Dennis Clark,
we love to appreciate your kind of love you too.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Don't give love to your parents.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
Please, thank you.
Speaker 4 (18:29):
You know, We'll just Conne and Gary, I love you.
Speaker 2 (18:33):
I mean, this is why I'm not married.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
They've got such a successful marriage for fifty six years.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
I'm scared I would do it and screw it up.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Oh yeah, yea, and you did.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
He married her. I know, I know that was beautiful.
By the way.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
Okay, we'll talk later. This is very good news.
Speaker 1 (18:59):
I love you, Dennis, gonna come back here, shift gears,
Jenner's brothers tickets and kiss FM and say hi to Eric.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Okay, thank you Jennis.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
Please
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