FULL SHOW: Lurie Children's Radiothon

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
The Fread's Show is on Wait this morning show. So
it's every year on this day, we transform a cafeteria
at a children's hospital, most specifically Larry Children's Hospital, into
a full on studio. I mean, we've got several radio
stations here. We've got now we have, we've had a

(00:22):
television I guess which I don't know if they do,
they know that we're radio people. I think I'm prepared
for this. I'm gonna hoodie, That's what I'm saying. No
one told me to be glamor ready. But don't worry.
Kiki's being glam ready for hours. Yeah, it would still work.
Why not? You know, not anymore? No, K's I said,
this is when I walked in. It's not a fread
Show event if there's not makeup all over the table

(00:42):
in the first hour.

Speaker 2 (00:44):
Today. I'm serious today.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
No, we're professionals. It's all good, good morning everybody. It's
what day is it? Thursday, December fifth. See, here's the thing.
We're at Larry Children's Hospital. It's our annual radio time.
We're gonna make over a million dollars this year for
Larry Children's Hospital. We're gonna do that. But this is not.
This is a target rich environment for me, for a

(01:06):
guy with ad D. This is a bad idea. They
should have let me stay at home. I would do
a lot better because like I see Sonya, I see
Melissa Foreman's here in the flesh. Unbelievable icon. Jean Sparrow
right there, like an icon is absolute icon. I just
can't believe it. Jene Sparrow, maris the hardest working man

(01:27):
should be awesome. An icon is here is right here.
I mean, I'm all all, it's incredible. Leon Rodgers the desk,
I mean, every station from my heart today is dedicated
to raising money for Larry Children's Hospital. And guess what
the first time of many that I'm going to tell
you how to do it one eight eight three one
seven seven three three is and I'm going to call
it Urry Children's That orgs last radio thought. And you

(01:49):
can also text the word luriy. There's no s by
the way, everyone says Lurry's. Yeah, yeah, ask Jules Louries, Yeah,
you know Jay Olsna prisons mugshots. Yeah right, I don't know. Well,
Garrett's actually, well, you're right, there is no Yeah, let's
get that all out now. So the rest of the

(02:10):
morning is good. Guys. Now, hold on, that's funny. I
always thought there was Garretts. No, now you're telling me, oh,
it's just Garrett.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
It's not his popcorn.

Speaker 1 (02:19):
No, but is thought. I thought it was mister Garrett's popcorn. Right,
So it's now you're telling me it's not the bucket,
says Garrett. And this is the first time that I'm
seeing that. So it's l U R I E two
five one five five five and you'll get a link
to donate, and we're looking for you know what we'd love.
We would love for everyone who can hear us right
now to consider twenty dollars a month, sixty seven cents

(02:42):
a day, which I think most people can do. I
know it's tough right now. I know it's a difficult environment,
but this is an incredible place that you know what
I forgot to do, and I'm gonna have to do it.
I gotta get the thesaurus out so that I can
come up with many different ways to say incredible and amazing,
because otherwise the next four hours everything is going to
be incredible and amazing because it is. But I gotta

(03:05):
do better. Okay. In fact, you look up uh one,
I'm sorry, what is it? Synonyms?

Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yes, okay, maybe I better knew it well I was too,
But astonishing astonishing is.

Speaker 1 (03:24):
Almost like you'd be surprised. I'm not surprised.

Speaker 2 (03:27):
It's a breathtaking, outstanding.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Outstanding that almost seems like if you get an A
on a test, right, all those things ricticulous. That's what
Google's tremendous. You know. The guy in charge of this
came over and he was like, it's a pleasure to
meet you. You're such a professional and and you do
such a good job with this radioson and and we're
gonna raise so much money and and thank you for

(03:49):
and then we were talking about amaze balls with the
first four minutes. So I don't know why you expect
anything out of us. I really don't.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
It's play, it's slay.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
It's slay, slay. Now. See there's another one, Garrett, and
it's slay. I would have said it's slaves.

Speaker 3 (04:05):
No, like you heard our in turn belhamin She's everything.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
Is sligh slay, Okay slay today kind of sound stupious
slay and ring that phone now we want the first
caller to be from us. Call now, right, So that's
the thing. You guys know that I'm extremely competitive. We
all are around here. Yeah, and in our audience, the
Fred Show thirteen will generate the most amount of money
for Larry Children's Hospital. And the way to do it
eight eight three one seven seven three three Ary Children's

(04:32):
that org slash Radio thought and they could text the
word Louriy l u r I E to A five
one five five five to receive it links to donate,
and you're gonna hear throughout the morning, throughout the day,
really all the different ways that Lurie is helping the
Chicagoland community and children and families all over the country
and the world. And I'm not I'm not exaggerated when
I say that, because they have some of the leading
specialists in various fields in the world in this building

(04:56):
in our backyard. Which is why it's so important to
donate and support on not only because families need it,
not only because you can get the care you need
here without paying if you need to, but also because
we got to keep feeding this resource. God forbid you
ever need it, and I hope you never do, but
if you do, how incredible is it incredible? There's another one, Yes,
how amazeballs is it that it's right here in your backyard.

(05:20):
It got real quiet when I said that, by the way,
so I think everybody everyone heard me say that. So
let me promise you, if you listen this morning, you're
gonna hear a lot of amazing stories. You're got maze
ball stories. You're gonna hear from families and children, stories
of perseverance. Calin talked to some of the families, I mean,
incredible stories of healing. And you're also gonna hear me

(05:41):
say things like amaze balls. Don't worry. This will be
done in exactly the way that you would expect us
to do it. Whatever that is. INFI I have one
such story for you next to just a second. It's
the Illary Children's Radio toon on the Fred Show on
Kiss eight eight eight eight three one seven seven three
three A dollar, five bucks, twenty a million. I don't care.
Pick up the phone call, let's raise some money. It's Kiss.

(06:02):
It's a fresh show, Good morning one on three five
Kiss FM, Chicago's number one a music station. We're live
a Leary Children's Hospital. It's our annual iHeart Radio Luriy
Children's radiothon to benefit Larry Children's Hospital and the one
moment hold on apparently apparently uh marvelous.

Speaker 4 (06:18):
No.

Speaker 1 (06:19):
Dictionary dot com has add tons of ads now their
video ads. Who doesn't have it? They know what they're doing.
They got to make their money. And the tremendous, the
tremendous efforts that are going on here at Larry Children's Hospital,
serving children's families in Chicago, in the country, all over
the world. The number to call if you want to
donate eight eight eight eight three one seven seven three
three Leary Children's dot org, slash radiothon and text the

(06:40):
word l u r I E luriy to five one
five five five to receive a link to donate. You're
gonna hear a bunch of stories this morning from families
who have been impacted by Larry Children's Hospital. Incredible stories.
I gotta stop saying that. I bet you're incredible. You're
I've been here for In the truth, I've bet it
for ten minutes. I've used that word seventeen times. I
can tell you as a as a radio broadcaster, this

(07:03):
whole thing is is a little overwhelming, not only because
of the scope of the effort, but also because I
want to do good job because I want to raise
as much money as possible. But Kiki, I'm leaning on you. Yes,
I need you to be the pro I will get
to the money. I need you. I need you to
get to this money.

Speaker 5 (07:19):
Yeah, I think your show can really raise more than
anybody in this room. I'm gonna just go out and
say that. Yes, So I need the thirteen to make
us proud.

Speaker 1 (07:28):
Please, So like, if you need to stop by, get
like a payday loan. If you you know, I'll tell
you what I whatever. How much do you owe the
toll way to raise a million? Is it four digits?
Is it three? How much do you one match? That's
what I'm saying. That's what I'm saying. That's exactly where

(07:48):
I'm going with it. Who wants Who wants to match
Kiki's to a way bill? Here's another thing, And I
don't think I'm supposed to do it. And I don't
even know how we I guess you could text us
maybe if you don't know, Jason, how should we do this?
Because you know every year right when we're trying to
raise money, I'll give you a free commercial and Kalen
Kalen will give you a full on free endorsement for

(08:08):
your business for the right amount of money, which I
don't know if you know this, but we get about
seventeen million dollars per commercial that we play, and boy
do we play a lot of them. Yes, so I'll
do it for a discount price. Okay, whatever price, at
whatever you want to get. Let's just see what comes
in you don't. I don't want to set a bar

(08:29):
kale anyway. I mean, your commercials are worth all every
dollar of that seventeen million.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Yeah, the worse.

Speaker 1 (08:36):
But like, give me an example for a sell. Jojo,
the scout for jewel Osco, just walked in.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Yes he did.

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Next, I've never seen I've never seen a group of
people all universally as the four of us did say
please don't come over here because we're scared, because it's
it's a mess. It's a one eyed mascot touching me.
They well, no, it's a day. The suggest we were

(09:06):
actually instructive that yes, it's important that we that we
don't know who's in there. Well we don't. And I
did ask the question, who do you think in the
PR office that jewel Osco drew the short stick that
they have to walk around in that all day. We
can ask Mary. Mary France is great friend of ours,
who's coming with a big fat check by the way
next hour from jewel Osco. I mean, that's another thing.

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A ton of local businesses are coming in big this morning.
But it's because of people. Like some of the stories
you're gonna hear, like this one I'm about to play
for you. And this young man's name is Carter. Is
this one you met? You met this family cale so
in twenty sixteen, Chante, who is Carter's mom, her pregnancy
was smooth sailing into an unexpected discovery. Okay, someone's I'm

(09:52):
taking credit.

Speaker 6 (09:53):
We did it.

Speaker 1 (09:53):
We did it.

Speaker 7 (09:54):
We did it.

Speaker 1 (09:56):
We did it, we did it. I don't think we
did it, but we Oh boy, there's a turn around. Jojo.
Don't you do what.

Speaker 8 (10:11):
Jo Jo's working on me? Jojo actually just walked on.
They knew not Jojo leave, get out. It's little Jojo
from Jewelasco. Because we didn't know the grocery store has
its own mascot.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
I'm hot, wow. I was afraid of that. We might need, Oh,
I would say, a defibulator. We're in a hospital, which
is a great place, but I was afraid that when
you turned around, you might you might lose your mind.
I did a little. But back to what Shante's story. So,
her pregnancy was smooth sailing until an unexpected discovery during
her five month ultrasound that changed everything. Doctor's here at

(10:50):
Larid's Children has detected a life threatening heart defect in
her unborn son, Carter. It was an actual hole in
his heart that prevented blood from reaching his lungs to
pick a boxygen and without swift intervention, Carter wasn't gonna survive.
And so let's hear about Carter right now.

Speaker 9 (11:06):
Him. We are seeing Williams. I am mom Chante Williams.

Speaker 10 (11:11):
I am Aubrey Williams, I am Patrick Williams, and I
am Carter Williams.

Speaker 11 (11:18):
On my five month check in, just to know whether
it was a boy or a girl.

Speaker 9 (11:23):
It was a boy. So that was the first news
we heard.

Speaker 11 (11:25):
That appointment took a little longer than we had expected.
They first kind of saw that something was wrong developmentally
with his heart.

Speaker 9 (11:35):
This is our third child, so the excitement was there.

Speaker 11 (11:38):
We were talking with family about baby showers and all.

Speaker 9 (11:42):
Of those things.

Speaker 11 (11:43):
It quickly shifted there are multiple things that was wrong
with the heart. That's when Laurie kind of came in
because they were there to start to prepare us for
what the delivery would look like.

Speaker 9 (11:54):
We had a life journey ahead.

Speaker 11 (11:58):
We met the entire staff, and the surgeon asked, did
we have any questions.

Speaker 9 (12:03):
We didn't feel like there was a dumb question.

Speaker 11 (12:05):
They took the time just having a personal relationship with
us that we start to feel like they.

Speaker 9 (12:10):
Were our family.

Speaker 7 (12:13):
We know that Lorie was, if not number one, it
was within the top three of hospitals in the nation
as far as the type of heart condition that Carter
had in terms of taking care of him, but also
taking care of the families.

Speaker 9 (12:28):
When Aubrey did get to visit Carter, he just couldn't
sit up. He wasn't talking.

Speaker 11 (12:33):
We didn't know, if you know, he would get to
the point where he is today.

Speaker 9 (12:37):
And they had tried everything, you.

Speaker 11 (12:39):
Know, and just the last dish effort of just being
comfortable enough to ask, you know, can his sister come
and visit She wasn't old enough to visit him.

Speaker 2 (12:49):
Oh, well, right by your son.

Speaker 11 (12:52):
In h You know, at that moment they saw us
as just scared parents and it was a matter of.

Speaker 9 (13:03):
Let's see what we can do.

Speaker 11 (13:05):
Allowing her to come visit him change the trajectory of
his health.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
When he was laying.

Speaker 10 (13:12):
The bed, he was trying hard to sit up, but
he couldn't sit up. So I kissed him on his
forehead and then I helped him lift up slowly and carefully.

Speaker 9 (13:21):
Her coming to visit him was the turning point for him, and.

Speaker 7 (13:25):
We started to see him come back around, so we
had some hope.

Speaker 11 (13:30):
I think that Laurie understands that it is twofold in
order to bring these patients back. It's, you know, the
medical expertise, but it also is the love and the
normalcy of the family that they both worked very hard
to combine in order to get our babies back at home.

Speaker 7 (13:48):
He's doing better, and we've had a good run of
time where he's been relatively healthy. It's been a rambunctious
young seven soon to be eight year old.

Speaker 11 (14:01):
Lourie's looking at the total picture resources that you need
that we didn't even think about then, we wouldn't need that.

Speaker 9 (14:06):
They're still here supporting us.

Speaker 12 (14:09):
You can donate now at LURI Children's dot org slash radiothon.

Speaker 1 (14:14):
It's the fred Show one O three five Kiss FM,
Chicago's number one of music station. We're live at LURI
Children's Hospital. It's are annual radiothon raising money U for
the hospital and for people just like Carter and his
family stories that you just heard. Eight eight eight eight
three one seven seven three three is the number LURI
Children's dot org slash radiothon. I'll text the word lurry
l U r I E to five one five five

(14:35):
five and they'll send you a link to donate. And
really anything counts, honestly, a dollar, five dollars, ten dollars,
every single dollar counts. We have thirteen listeners. If every
single one of you donates a dollar, that's a guy,
it's thirteen dollars.

Speaker 9 (14:48):
That's a great start.

Speaker 1 (14:50):
Right, well, then we're done. But but.

Speaker 2 (14:53):
You know funs will help.

Speaker 1 (14:54):
Right right, Okay, okay, kalein thank you so compounding map.
If each person listening calls five people, now we're up
to like how much thirteen times five. I don't know that.
I believe, I believe, I believe it's sixty five. I
will love me chacky, let me chack. You are correct,

(15:15):
sixty five dollars sixty five sixty five. I was gonna
say that that's with the original third. Okay, we need
to do a little bit at So you need to
call approximately four hundred of your friends and then in
each of them need to donate a dollar or five
dollars or whatever. But it's very simple, the word lurie
l u ri I E O s to five one
five five five to receive a link to donate. So

(15:36):
you talked to Carter and his family. What was that like?

Speaker 2 (15:38):
It was amazing.

Speaker 3 (15:39):
He is very chatty, like I am. So we had
so much fun. He loves Spider Man. And my favorite
thing about his story and about Louri is that they
don't just give you like the literal care obviously that
you need medically. They think of a lot of emotional things.
And they allowed his sister to come into the hospital
at a time where I believe it was when you
couldn't have a lot of people in the hospital and

(16:01):
he wasn't speaking. He was actually regressing, and his sister
being at the hospital got him to speak again. And wow, Yeah,
it was just like my favorite part of the story,
just how they incorporated things that were important to him
into his treatment and that helped him you know, get
on the road to recovery.

Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, and you're a big crier. Did you cry the
whole time?

Speaker 13 (16:23):
I didn't.

Speaker 3 (16:24):
Kiki was there as my witness. I tried to be
strong for them. I may or may not have cried
a lot about.

Speaker 1 (16:30):
It after Well that's every day. Yeah, well, yeah, go
home and cry. I mean, no, we all do that.

Speaker 2 (16:36):
Yes, we all do that.

Speaker 1 (16:37):
Yes.

Speaker 3 (16:38):
He also kept asking me if everyone in our office
could hear him on the radio. He was really wanting
to get broadcast through our office.

Speaker 1 (16:45):
Oh, little diso. It goes much further than that.

Speaker 2 (16:48):
It definitely does.

Speaker 1 (16:49):
But yeah, wow, Well that's exciting. Yeah, and I'm really
happy for their family and the amazing story. The Heart
Center at Terry actually is ranked ninth in the nation
for child cardiology and hard surgery by US News and
World Report. That's what I'm talking about, Like, did you know,
if you're listening to us in Chicago, we're raising more money. Yes,
granted there are a lot of other people helping raise money,
but let's just we were raising more money. You guys

(17:11):
are great ring the bell That's another thing. Why do
they put bells in front of us? I know that
we're supposed to ring the bell when like money comes
in or whatever, but like that's just too tempting for
a dude like me.

Speaker 14 (17:21):
Yeah, and.

Speaker 1 (17:24):
See when you do that, usually people start copying. It's
a little bit Pavlovian, like you do oh yeah, you know.
But then Kiki's just messing around. So yeah, I'm just
making sure it works. Yeah yeah, yeah. But if you're
listening to us in Chicago, like the ninth best cardiology
hospital for pediatrics is right here, and again we're all

(17:44):
hoping that you never need to come here. Honestly, it's
fine if you never come to Larry Children's Hospital, it's fine.
But there are so many people that need the resource.
And that's why we need to raise as much money
as possible because the kids cannot wait. You know, many
of us have had to pause or slow down in
our lives, but one area that has remained constant to
urge him is the need to treat the children in
our community. Kids get injured, they continue to be diagnosed

(18:07):
and receive treatment every day. The kids cannot wait. They
need your help and there are people waiting to take
your call. I never thought I would be that guy.
I got to say that in my life. You know,
I used to grow up watching that Jerry Lewis telethon
and it was agents who are waiting to take your call?
And now I'm I am Jerry Lewis, I'm doing it.
We are doing it. Yes, can't you tell him how
to tell them how to call? Oh?

Speaker 5 (18:27):
Just right here, pick up your phone or whatever, you know,
and then one or whatever three one seven seven three three.
And for those who don't like to talk, you can text,
you know, you send us a nice little text text
Lurie no s to five to one five five five okay?

Speaker 1 (18:42):
Good right? And Luri Children's that org slash radio thought.
If you're connected to dial up internet somewhere with you,
if you're on AOL still, I think we're on AOL.
I from what I understand, we might be on AOL.
We are using a CB radio to trans you know
what that is? Yes, my dad used to have. I
used to play with that when I would like be
in the truck with them. Yeah, I would like trying

(19:03):
to talk to people, you know, Uh yeah, yeah, what
what would you say? Sometimes I would want to freak
him out, so I just pick it up in a
heavy breathe like it.

Speaker 9 (19:13):
You were weird.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yeah, it was a weirdo Titanic swing set on my
monkey bars. Yes he was weird.

Speaker 13 (19:23):
No, he still is weird.

Speaker 3 (19:24):
Something else I want to bring up, though, is that
no kid ever gets turned away. I think that's really important.
It's because of the donations.

Speaker 1 (19:30):
Yeah. Yeah, if if you can't afford to pay, then
you know you don't have to exactly. So it's not
as though if you don't have the money you can't
have access to the most incredible treatment or hold on
where my I don't know where my dictionary go the sorrow.
I should have brought an actual thesaurus, but I'm looking
at our text right now. Yeah, I guess we're working
on some technical technical matters. Does it just sounds like

(19:51):
we're on AM radio today, I don't know, it doesn't Yeah,
it doesn't matter. Apparently you can hear as well enough
to text us and tell us that you've heard something
so t tremendous already, no, marvelous, well stunning, it's this
is not stunning. That's queen. That's Jojo Jojo from from
Gewelasco's sunning. Yeah, okay, he's stunned me. Yeah, breathday like

(20:13):
this is need. This is not what I'm looking for.

Speaker 3 (20:15):
Now, Fred, would you be willing I know we get
I get a lot of d ms about going on
dates with you. Would you be willing to do some
sort of exchange? Oh present amount of money?

Speaker 1 (20:26):
Yeah? No, Christopher, Look how much money are we talking about?

Speaker 2 (20:30):
A lot of money?

Speaker 3 (20:31):
Okay, in your per Jason and I will be in
like a tree at the next table, so you'll be safe.

Speaker 1 (20:37):
Oh boy, here comes Jojo again. Okay, Jojo? Yeah, oh Joe,
you've got Joe's laying You're out of Jojo. I know
it's actually couch. Is that laying? Well? Jojo? I'm gonna
file a claim, honestly, I'm going to file a.

Speaker 2 (20:52):
Claims like one of his French girls.

Speaker 1 (20:56):
So how would describe Jojo? If you would? For the
people at homes a jewel Losco. You know jewels, they
have a mascot. And then why they need a mascot
I don't know. Probably for this reason because the mascot
then walks around and then we give them free advertising,
which we've now done for about thirty minutes. So Jojo,
how you can?

Speaker 2 (21:14):
So it makes a lot of sense. Jojo is a
hairy something that's going on.

Speaker 1 (21:21):
It's good. Whatever that sounds good.

Speaker 2 (21:24):
It makes a lot of sense. Jojo is a red,
hairy eyeball in a crop top.

Speaker 3 (21:28):
Right with booty shorts, the best legs I've ever seen,
and some loose converse. It looks like wow and very flexible, flexible.
Oh I can dance pose? Okay, great, it's giving honest.

Speaker 1 (21:46):
Oh yeah, it's interesting, it really is. But I honestly okay.

Speaker 3 (21:54):
Yeah, Harry eyeball, you think grocery store, I get.

Speaker 2 (21:56):
It, honestly.

Speaker 1 (21:57):
And for as much as when we're going to tell
you next hour how much Jewel usco the major check
they came in with, For as much as they're giving
to Lurry, I guess they're skimping on clothing for Jojo
because they don't think they need to put much on
their pants.

Speaker 2 (22:08):
Just a crop top, like Winnie the poo but he is.

Speaker 1 (22:11):
He is Winny the pooing Larry Children's ustin all this.

Speaker 2 (22:13):
Morning, being a little naughty for Lourie. But hey, to
each their own.

Speaker 9 (22:18):
Right, right.

Speaker 11 (22:18):
You know?

Speaker 1 (22:20):
I see some of the supervisors of this thing. They
have their little ear pieces in and there. I think
they're listening to what we're doing. And they're probably wondering, oh,
why why we're here, what our contribution is. But the
truth is this is what you get. So you asked
for it and you got it. So it's the Larry
Children's Radio Thon. We are going to raise a ton
of money this morning. We're also going to entertain the

(22:40):
people who are sitting in traffic and uh and and
trying to imagine what Jojo looks like the Jewelosco mascot
eight eight eight eight three one seven seven three three
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Now we're gonna over a million dollars today. You hear

(23:04):
me say this is going to happen today Kiss FM.

Speaker 15 (23:08):
I connactic help kids out.

Speaker 10 (23:11):
Larry Counts done it today in an honor of my
favorite nurse Harper out Larry Coutres.

Speaker 16 (23:19):
One eight eight three one seventy seven thirty three.

Speaker 1 (23:23):
Okay, mccredit. The Fred Show is not one O three
five Kiss FM, Chicago's number one in music station Live
at Larry Children's Hospital. It's our annual LURI Children's Radiothion
with all of the iHeartMedia stations this morning. Last year,
we raised collectively throughout the day, one single day, because
of you guys and all the corporate sponsors, all the
really generous corporate sponsors and partners, seven hundred and sevent

(23:47):
thousand dollars over seven hundred thousand. Uh huh. And this
year we believe that we are going to break seven
figures one million dollars. Oh my god, I don't even
know that was seven figures. My brain can't even calculate that.
That's crazy. I'll have it. What did you think seven
figures was? I don't know. I've never thought of it.
I think he will never get My brain can't even

(24:09):
count that high. Ky knows what it is. That's what
she owes the tollway.

Speaker 9 (24:12):
So she's well, because I owe them, they'll never be broke.

Speaker 17 (24:17):
That's right.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
I don't know that makes sense. Say, no, wonder there's
so many holes in the road, pay because you fill
them in. Oh my god, yeah no, this is not
the place for a bunch of people with add But
every time you hear people cheer like that, it means
that someone has called and donated some money, a lot
of money. I don't know what the cheerings hesitates like

(24:39):
a lot of money. Yeah, but when you call to
make sure that you give your name and they're listening
to us anything of business, give your business name, we
can give you a shout out. Exactly. No, that's what
I'm saying. Look, you will get an incredible free advertisement
for the right price. Yes, and it doesn't go to us.
It goes to Lyric Children's Hospital and kids like Carter
and his family. We're gonna hear his story again in
just a second. Someone te that somebody sad the effect

(25:01):
of thank you for playing that while I was on
my way to work, so that I could put on
the waterproof mascara when I got to work before I
walked in. Because it is these are really emotional stories,
obviously extremely touching because we're talking about families and children
and life saving efforts. I mean, Carter had literally a
hole in his heart and they were able to find

(25:21):
this at a very young age, very young age as
a as a he was not even one, right.

Speaker 2 (25:25):
Yeah, Well, I.

Speaker 3 (25:26):
Believe she found out there were issues when she was utero. Yeah,
finding out the gender. So it literally started there. He
had or has a little pacemaker. But he's doing great now.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
But yeah, really really little.

Speaker 3 (25:38):
Yeah, and he's a fighter man. And it's all things
to donations because he had a lot of help. I
love that the parents were shouting out their dream team.

Speaker 2 (25:45):
I mean, they knew every.

Speaker 3 (25:46):
Doctor's name, nurses name. They said, it felt like home
here and they became families.

Speaker 2 (25:51):
So it's amazing.

Speaker 1 (25:52):
Yeah, and that's something that we should talk about too,
is I'm sure we'll talk about throughout the morning. But
you know, over the years, working with Cal's Angels, which
is a PDI your cancer organization pre COVID, I used
to get to come monthly and and with the organization
and work bedside with the oncology patients inpatient and outpatient.
And what you began to realize was that these nurses
and doctors, especially the nurses become so much more than

(26:15):
caregivers YEA to these kids. In fact, you know, you've
got kids here whose parents have to work and they
have You've got children here whose parents have other children
to attend to, you know, families, and they're not able
to be here all the time. And so there's child
life specialists and the nurses and you know, all those
sorts of folks to doctors. They're here sort of having
to not only fill that emotional role but also the

(26:38):
you know, care for them from a health standpoint.

Speaker 13 (26:40):
For sure.

Speaker 3 (26:40):
There's literally someone who was making sure he was keeping
up with his schoolwork, you know, because kids can they
can be here overnight, or they can be here for
a long time.

Speaker 2 (26:47):
A lot of kids have to celebrate.

Speaker 3 (26:49):
Their birthdays here, which is literally what some of these
donations will go to birthday celebrations because you have to
spend those holidays here.

Speaker 1 (26:56):
You think about that, you know, think about it's not
just unfortunately strolling by, you know, just you're not just
pulling up. No, I'm the hospital and then and then
hanging out, you know, getting treated and leaving. I mean,
in some cases you've got children. If we're gonna hear
from one later on this morning, we're gonna hear from
two little best friends heart transplant best friends. I might
need to wait on my mask errand so that why

(27:17):
why did your makeup already that I wait till later
for that. But but you know one one, uh, the
young girl got I believe she got her heart and
her neighbor hospital neighbor, and the room next story is
still waiting his but they became best friends. It's just
the sweetest story. But you know they're here for months

(27:38):
and months maybe longer, you know, waiting for the care
they need. Some of this treatment takes a long time.
And so that's something that you don't think about that
they do here is trying to make this environment as
as much like home as possible.

Speaker 18 (27:50):
One.

Speaker 2 (27:51):
We're an animal show.

Speaker 3 (27:52):
We love animals, and something awesome they do is pet therapy.
Fifty bucks you can get an individual pace a visit
with a little dog and then two hundred bucks.

Speaker 2 (28:03):
You just help contribute to the whole program.

Speaker 3 (28:05):
And I mean, if you're an animal lover, you know
that animals will heal you. I mean I have a
new doggie and I literally will like cry into her
like she makes me feel she's not home right now.
I'm like, I'm so sad, Like she makes me feel better,
and these kids feel the same way.

Speaker 1 (28:17):
Yeah, it's funny. She actually she called me. She called
me and said, who is this crazy woman? Why do
I have to be a free psychologist? And I haven't
received my cope?

Speaker 2 (28:31):
And why is she performing Wicked over and over again.

Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yeah, and where are hanging all over the house? Fright?
It's it's weird, Will, And I know you fly animals
to places will get me. I don't know where you're
going next, but I'll go there. And then I had
to explain to Willy, right, Yes, I had to explain
to Willy that no, I'm going to get dougs and

(28:54):
bring them to home. And she said, no, I'll go
to the other places. I'll go to the other one.
It's I really haven't had enough of this already. But
please help us this morning raise money for Lard Children's
Hospital for our radio thun and the number to call
eight eight eight eight three one seven seven three three
and again, like Jason said, I don't think we're supposed
to do this. I don't really care. If you call

(29:14):
and you donate and it's a lot of money, and
a lot of money you could be is relative. But
if you call and you donate and you tell them
that you're listening to the Freend Show on Kiss, and
you tell them the name of your business or whatever
whoever you want us to shout out or whatever you
want us to say, yeah, we'll say anything. I'll tell
you what if it's a thing, if it's enough money,
and I'm not trying to go down this road, but
if it's enough money, I'll even play a song. You

(29:37):
want me to play?

Speaker 2 (29:38):
Whoa he will sing a song? Sing We want them
to give.

Speaker 1 (29:47):
We want a guest, well, I feel whatever it takes.
But you want to hear way out yonder on the Chattahoochie,
then you might. You mightever, Oh I want that. I'm
going to tell right now. I don't even think that's
appropriate for this, but for a thousand dollar dollars, it's
gonna be, you know, or whatever, whatever it takes. Eight
eight eight eight three one seven seven three three Larry
Children's dot Org slash Radio thought you can text the

(30:09):
word lurie. It's l u r i E. Don't add
the midwestern suh to the number five one five five five.
They'll send you a link to donate. It's that simple.
And speaking of Carter, who we were just telling you about,
who's doing great because Caitlin met him and can attest
to that. Kid's got a ton of personality.

Speaker 2 (30:26):
Just had his golden birthday.

Speaker 3 (30:27):
He turned eight on the eighth, and yeah, he loves
spider man, is it the eighth yet or did Yeah?

Speaker 1 (30:33):
No, it's this fifth. Okay, so he's about to were
anticipated it.

Speaker 2 (30:38):
We're exciting to celebrate. Yeah, he's amazing.

Speaker 3 (30:42):
He loves Spider Man, got a lot of energy and
wants to be on the radio.

Speaker 2 (30:45):
So he's gonna take your job.

Speaker 1 (30:47):
I okay, you know, it depends on the day, honestly,
it really does. But think about that. You're gonna hear
a story in just a couple of minutes. But think
about that. They found a hole in his heart when
he was still you know, within his mom was his
mom was still carrying him right right. They found a
hole in his heart, and they they knew to fix it.

(31:07):
They knew what they were trying to do. I mean,
I watched a lot of Gray's anatomy. I'm blown away
by medical miracles. I really am. Yeah. But that seriously though,
that's a little bit and not a little bit. It's
a lot crazy that they have the ability and the
skill and the ninth best of all the hospitals in
the United States, the ninth best pediatric cardiology ward in

(31:28):
the country is right here. And I hope you never
need it, but if you do, it's important that you
supported eight eight three one seven seven three three The
frend Show. We're live at Livery Children's Hospital for the
Radio thon, The French Show and Fred Show. Is I'm
reading this a DM that I got. We're live a
Liarry Children's Hospital for the Leary Children's Radiothon to benefit
all of the kids, the patients of Chicagoland and surrounding

(31:49):
and in the world, the country, the world, the whole
thing everywhere because of this amazing establishment here that's that's
healing in so many different ways, and they need your help,
they need our help, and we're trying to raise a
million dollars. But I'm distracted by this DM because somebody
said if they mentioned their band that they'll give us
fifty bucks. But there's some inappropriate things on here. So

(32:11):
what I was doing is I was trying to tell
you how amazing this place is. Is also trying to
figure out how to say it without saying thing I
shouldn't say.

Speaker 2 (32:18):
Do we have proof that they get an empty bar?

Speaker 1 (32:20):
Yeah? You know what, I'll tell you what. Send the
money text.

Speaker 3 (32:25):
About Bendover and then he donated.

Speaker 1 (32:29):
Yeah, please, I'll tell you what.

Speaker 9 (32:30):
Read all of my side out.

Speaker 1 (32:33):
I'll tell you what. If I freely calls in here
with five thousand dollars, then I proof. I'm telling you,
as you well know, I will sell myself for this organization.
I really whatever it takes. But we're trying to raise
a million dollars. Last year was about seven hundred something thousand.
We think we can get to. Chason just learned this morning.
Seven figures is a million dollars. That's a lot, but

(32:56):
it is a lot. It's a lot of figures. Thank you,
Jason for that kind of my drop. We think we
can get there this year, but we absolutely need your help.
We're also apparently we decided last night to work on
some things on the transmitter. I guess we decided to
do it last night, of course, which is the night
before we raise a million dollars for children before we
have six radio stations live at the same time. We're

(33:18):
gonna do it. Yeah, that seems like a good time,
Absolutely the right time to do that. Yeah, is there
any other time? Is the question I would ask myself,
And the answer is of an obvious no. But uh,
but nonetheless, we're still gonna do it. I don't care
for if I have to hold up tinfoil all day.
We're still gonna do it. We're gonna raise a million
dollars thanks to your help, and we're gonna help kids
like Carter, who we were telling you about a minute ago.

(33:40):
So in twenty sixteen, Chante, who's Carter's mom. Chante's pregnancy
was smooth sailing until an unexpected discovery that happened during
her five month ultrasound that changed everything. Doctors at Larry
Children's then detected a life threatening heart defect in her
unborn son, Carter, an actual hole in his heart that
prevents blood from reaching his lungs to pick up oxygen.
Without intervention, he wasn't going to survive. He did. He

(34:03):
survived all the way to almost his eighth birthday here
in a couple of days. He's still. He's very much
So I was right.

Speaker 2 (34:10):
So my bad. The calendar is confusing to me. No,
he didn't turn eight on November.

Speaker 1 (34:14):
I can. Numbers and dates are confused, it is, And yeah,
I know, mainly because I don't even know what day
it is. I don't know what day it is. I
don't know. I certainly know what date it is.

Speaker 3 (34:23):
Yeah, so he's eight, he's thriving, and the hospital even
worked in his love of Spider Man. I mean they
were like literally like they gave him a stuffed Spider Man,
so like they go above and beyond for each individual patient,
and I love that.

Speaker 1 (34:35):
Let's listen to Carter story right now.

Speaker 9 (34:36):
Hi, I'm weird saying Williams. I am mom Chante Williams.

Speaker 10 (34:41):
I am Aubrey Williams.

Speaker 1 (34:42):
I am Patrick Williams, and.

Speaker 9 (34:44):
I am Card Williams.

Speaker 11 (34:47):
On my five month check in, just to know whether
it was a boy or girl. It was a boy,
So that was the first news we heard. That appointment
took a little longer than we had expected. They first
kind of saw that something was wrong developmentally with his heart.

Speaker 9 (35:05):
This is our third child, so the excitement was there.

Speaker 11 (35:08):
We were talking with family about baby showers and.

Speaker 9 (35:12):
All of those things.

Speaker 11 (35:13):
It quickly shifted there are multiple things that was wrong
with the heart. That's when Laurie kind of came in
because they were there to start to prepare us for
what the delivery would look like. We had a life
journey ahead. We met the entire staff and the surgeon
asked did we have any questions.

Speaker 9 (35:33):
We didn't feel like there was a dumb question.

Speaker 11 (35:35):
They took the time just having a personal relationship with
us that we start to feel like they were our family.

Speaker 7 (35:43):
We knew that Lorie was, if not number one, it
was within the top three of hospitals in the nation
as far as the type of heart condition that Carter
had in terms of taking care of him, but also
taking care of the families.

Speaker 9 (35:58):
When Aubrey did get to visit Carter, he just couldn't
sit up. He wasn't talking.

Speaker 11 (36:02):
We didn't know, if you know, he would get to
the point where he is today.

Speaker 9 (36:07):
And they had tried everything, you know, and.

Speaker 11 (36:11):
Just the last dish effort of just being comfortable enough
to ask, you know, could his sister come and visit
She wasn't old enough to visit him.

Speaker 2 (36:19):
Oh right, weber right by, your son got him.

Speaker 11 (36:23):
You know, at that moment, they saw us as just
scared parents, and it was a matter of let's see
what we can do. Allowing her to come visit him
change the trajectory of his health.

Speaker 2 (36:39):
When he was laying.

Speaker 10 (36:41):
The bed, he was trying hard to sit up, but
he couldn't sit up. So I kissed him on his
forehead and then I helped him lift up slowly and carefully.

Speaker 9 (36:51):
Her coming to visit him was the turning point.

Speaker 7 (36:54):
For him, and we started to see him come back around,
so we had some hope.

Speaker 11 (37:00):
I think that Lourie understands that it is twofold. In
order to bring these patients back is the you know,
the medical expertise, but it also is the love and
the normalcy of the family that they both worked very
hard to combine in order to get our babies back
at home.

Speaker 7 (37:18):
He's doing better, and we've had a good run of
time where he's been relatively healthy. It's been a rambunctious
young seven to eight year old.

Speaker 11 (37:30):
Lourie's looking at the total picture resources that you need
that we didn't even think about that we would need.
That they're still here supporting us.

Speaker 12 (37:38):
Donate now to the Louri Children's Hospital. He is a
memory to call one eight eight eight eight three one
seventy seven thirty three conn help Safe Chicago Lands Children,
I bringing marks.

Speaker 1 (37:53):
All right, sir, Luriy Children's Radio thought eight eight eight
eight three one seven seven three three is the number
to call. I got a list of people who have
done Uh, this is not a lot. This listened to
me longer. I'll be honest with you. I mean, I
got a few names here, we need more. But you
know who AJ our boy agent Okey does't have microphone AJ.
What listener number is he? Probably three or four?

Speaker 2 (38:13):
Yeah, he's up there.

Speaker 1 (38:14):
This is a big it's a big argument. But so
I don't want to start anything this morning. I don't
want to smoke. We're trying to help the kids. I
don't want it.

Speaker 2 (38:20):
No fighting, I'm not interested.

Speaker 1 (38:21):
But he did the monthly so it's twenty bucks a month,
sixty seven cents. That dude is always uh doing the most.
So thank you, Michael and Will Matt Allison in Lombard,
Karen in Chicago. So you can call, you can go
on the website Larry Children's that organize Radio Thought, or
you could text luriy l U r I E to
five one five five five and get a link to donate.
My friend Ella is here. Ella. Are you going to

(38:43):
talk to me? Are you gonna you're no?

Speaker 16 (38:46):
Yeah, that's that looks like a hard no.

Speaker 1 (38:48):
What I mean I'm used to that with most girls,
But like, come on, Ella, can't you be my friend?

Speaker 9 (38:55):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (38:55):
Now, fingers in the.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
Ears, plugging our ears.

Speaker 1 (38:58):
We're not going to listen at all.

Speaker 16 (39:00):
Need more donuts?

Speaker 2 (39:00):
Maybe I get that.

Speaker 1 (39:02):
Okay, I'll give you a donut if you'll talk to me.
If this show doesn't care, Okay, Christina and Joe, Elli's
parents are here. Good morning you guys, Good morning, Good morning.
So I'm gonna play a little clip here of Ella
and Ella's story. You guys have not heard this before,
so we're talking about you. That's right now, she's hiding
from me. It was to play this clip and so

(39:22):
people can hear a little bit about the story and
what you guys have been through. Get the whole family
here this morning. What's everybody's name? What's your name?

Speaker 11 (39:29):
William?

Speaker 1 (39:30):
William? Okay? Good? And then Ella, the star of the show,
won't say anything. Man focus on getting their seatback up here.
She's ready to go. I'll tell you what, Ella, You're
the star, and some days I feel just like you.
I don't want to say a word. But then I
don't get paid. That's a problem. No donuts if I
don't talk exactly, No donuts, No donuts. Oh now it's

(39:52):
still not having it. Okay, Well, let me play this.
We're gonna come back and talk to these guys.

Speaker 4 (39:57):
My name is Joe Siders. I'm here with my wife, Christina.
We have three young kids.

Speaker 1 (40:02):
Eleanor is five. She was treated at LORII.

Speaker 4 (40:06):
Children's Hospital for a cute mindlude leukemia.

Speaker 18 (40:09):
We literally went within a forty eight hour period from
thinking that Ella had an ear infection to being told
that she had leukemia.

Speaker 4 (40:16):
It's a world that we never imagined being a part of.
You're dealing with a life altering diagnosis and wondering how
do we best support our kid and also keep our
whole family together.

Speaker 18 (40:28):
Every week the needs would change, as Ella's status would change,
as you know her how healthy she was versus how
unhealthy she was in that given moment. And then in
the midst of all of this.

Speaker 13 (40:39):
COVID happened.

Speaker 4 (40:41):
You know, we were kind of in our little bubble
with the team around us. You get just so single
mindedly focused on Okay, get through the chemo, and then
once you're through that stage, you get to the transplant
and then the next fight, if and when it comes.

Speaker 18 (40:58):
As part of Ella's treatment, she achieved for a mission
through chemotherapy. She had a stem cell transplant, and in
order to make that happen, she needed a donor. Ella
has two siblings, neither one of them were a match.
Cody is the person who was identified as her.

Speaker 13 (41:12):
Quote unquote genetic twin and her perfect match.

Speaker 18 (41:15):
Twenty year old kid happened to stop at a booth
at school to sign up for the registry.

Speaker 4 (41:20):
And it's not an easy process to donate, and again
for a person he had never met, so selfless and kind.

Speaker 13 (41:26):
He lives in West Virginia.

Speaker 18 (41:27):
Actually he's a medical student, so he's going to be
a physician. The year after transplant, you can get in
touch with the donor, and he literally sent us a
letter like the day he was able to He and
his family have been close to us ever since.

Speaker 13 (41:40):
We've seen them twice.

Speaker 18 (41:42):
Ella and her sister Lily were flower girls in his wedding.
There were little successes in little celebrations along the way,
like when she achieved her first line of remission.

Speaker 4 (41:53):
Ela discovered like soul music, and she was so sick
at something she couldn't raise her head. But like when
she would try to to move to that, and that
was like just I can still remember, you know, like
because she's hooked up to so many chords.

Speaker 16 (42:05):
And then the nurses would come in and dance with us.
It was just it's selfless. It's incredible.

Speaker 18 (42:13):
She's doing great now. February will be her five year
transplant anniversary, which is a really big deal. So she's
been in remission for now four and a half years,
and you would never know what she's been through. I mean,
she's super spunky, she's spirited, she's very confident and bold.

Speaker 4 (42:30):
God, you've got an option for families, like, if your
child is facing that big fight, Laurie is there regardless.

Speaker 18 (42:40):
Laurie's children's literally saved Ella's life without a doubt. They're
not just saving her life once, they're doing it again
and again and again. I cannot even count all the
big decisions and the little decisions that they made right
along the way that has brought her and kept her
with us today. And so we literally owe them her life.

(43:01):
She's doing, you know, amazing well.

Speaker 1 (43:04):
And you guys thought you should put your makeup on
before this? Yeah, I'm who you thought that was a
good idea.

Speaker 16 (43:10):
Yeah.

Speaker 3 (43:11):
Usually I can make it through longer than that. But
the wedding thing got me. The wedding thing got me.
That is that is very sweet. You you two are
flower girls in Cody's wedding that is amazing.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
Now, Ella, are you gonna you have to tell me
about Cody or no, you're not gonna tell me about Cody.
Cody saved your life. You should probably tell me a
little bit about Kobe. What'd you say? Do you know that?

Speaker 18 (43:33):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (43:33):
What is? What is Cody?

Speaker 11 (43:34):
Like?

Speaker 1 (43:35):
Is he a nice guy? Were you in his wedding?

Speaker 16 (43:38):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (43:38):
My goha, Well she's not gonna do so she was
in his wedding?

Speaker 13 (43:41):
Yes, yes, both her and her sister were. He is
his wedding.

Speaker 1 (43:44):
That's amazing. Do you guys begin to kind of feel
like doctors as you go through this because you're spinning
out these terms and this these really complicated things on
this montage, Like it's like it's second nature. I guess
you just have to learn all of it.

Speaker 9 (43:56):
You do.

Speaker 18 (43:56):
You have to learn it in a really short timeframe.
And and I I do like credit her team actually
for involving us. We were every morning, we were participating
in rounds, asking questions, and so you learn a lot.

Speaker 13 (44:08):
You learn a lot quickly, and you have.

Speaker 18 (44:09):
To because you have to be there to ask the
right questions and to advocate when necessary. So yeah, I mean,
but you're kind of placed in that position and you
have no choice but to learn the terminology.

Speaker 1 (44:21):
And we've talked a lot this morning already about I mean,
people think of the hospital and they think of you know,
doctors and healing and all of that, but you guys
have experienced this. This place goes well beyond that, right,
I mean as far as thinking about the patients and
thinking about the families and the experience. Tell us about
that a little bit.

Speaker 4 (44:40):
I mean, the team upstairs is like I mean, I
consider them like family.

Speaker 16 (44:46):
I mean they are.

Speaker 4 (44:48):
They went so above and beyond in really difficult circumstances
to make us all feel like we're connected. You know,
this all happened COVID kind of broke while we were upstairs,
and as a result, we were forced to isolate, you know,
so we were not able to see the other kids
for a lot of the time. If we left, we

(45:09):
weren't going to be allowed to come back in. So
we had to make really difficult decisions, and the team
upstairs just were incredible in making us feel safe and
protected and not so disconnected from everything that was going
on outside, including the other you know, our other two kids.

Speaker 1 (45:28):
Yeah, because that's something I think people don't think about
as well. I mean, you've got three kids, not just Della,
and obviously she's the focus because you're trying to say
we're life, which which they did, but nonetheless you're trying
to make life normal for them as well.

Speaker 16 (45:39):
Right, Yeah, it was it was you know, it was
it was rough.

Speaker 4 (45:43):
We went into e learning was happening right in the
middle of it, and you know, trying to normalize what
is a completely messed up.

Speaker 1 (45:51):
Because of course this all has to happen during COVID, right, yeah, yeah,
top of it.

Speaker 4 (45:54):
I mean, looking down on Michigan Avenue one day, it
was it just empty, you know, it just went the
streets just went empty. Nobody on the sidewalk, nobody on
this on the street. It was it was like a
ghost times, like surreal to look out at Chicago just
shutting down and seventeen eighteen floors.

Speaker 1 (46:08):
You know, we're humming. You can't stop right right, that's
Joe Christina's here. Ella is moving around furniture. I gotta
tell you something. You mentioned. It's been a montage. She's
doing just fine, isn't she not? Only she is sassing me,
I mean, just unbelievable. SaaS We're gonna blame that.

Speaker 4 (46:26):
On Cody her like her stem cell donor. You know,
that's where they're genetic twins. You know, that's what surreal is.

Speaker 2 (46:32):
Wow, so wild.

Speaker 1 (46:33):
Yeah, it's a crime.

Speaker 16 (46:34):
They can blame it on the other through Na.

Speaker 1 (46:37):
Right now, I think she might be the crime committ
I think I'd be scared if I were Cody. I agree,
But he's gonna ask some questions to answer when he's when.

Speaker 16 (46:45):
He was older.

Speaker 4 (46:46):
She seems to be thriving though it's it's we are
so fortunate to be where we are, Christy, I don't know.

Speaker 18 (46:54):
Yeah, she's in kindergarten now, which was sort of a
dream that we had, you know, five years ago at
this time that we didn't know if that was going
to be possible.

Speaker 13 (47:01):
And she's thriving.

Speaker 18 (47:02):
She loves it, she's learning, she's growing, you know, she's.

Speaker 13 (47:06):
She's really just incredible. She's a walking miracle.

Speaker 1 (47:09):
I would not know. I don't think any of us
would know that there was a situation where she, you know,
maybe wouldn't be here. She is acting and certainly emoting
all the things that I would expect from somebody her age.

Speaker 16 (47:23):
This is a therapist.

Speaker 4 (47:23):
So when you use the word of moting and that's like,
oh my gosh, that's triggering.

Speaker 16 (47:34):
But she's I mean, her spirit is all there.

Speaker 4 (47:38):
I mean, she's so full of life, and you know
her siblings as well. For just it was so natural
coming back all together. And Ella just you know, she's
gone for nine months, you know, upstairs really and then
she just slided back in with the other kids and
it was so wonderful to have everybody back together as

(47:59):
like a unit again. And Ella, it's kind of bizarre
how like a family kind of starts to work and
have their own space and their own role in the family.
And I don't know, it's just made the whole family
feel even more complete than what already was.

Speaker 16 (48:12):
Just to have her slotted in.

Speaker 1 (48:14):
Wow, the puzzle well and William, you go by William, Yeah, William,
you're the big brother. How scary was all that when
this was all happening.

Speaker 19 (48:22):
Yeah, it was scary because there was also like COVID,
so I didn't see my friends and not seeing your
family is kind of rough. And like with your sister,
like having like cancer, it's kind of hard.

Speaker 1 (48:34):
Yeah. Yeah, And Lily who has more attitude you or
your sister Ella, who has more attitudes.

Speaker 2 (48:40):
Who are They're pretty thick and one is when one
is the other one kind of picks it up.

Speaker 1 (48:49):
You guys, your hands full. It looks like.

Speaker 4 (48:51):
I'm so happy they they they play off each other
so remarkably well.

Speaker 18 (48:56):
They are.

Speaker 4 (48:56):
They finish each other's sentences, they emote together, which is.

Speaker 16 (49:01):
Kind of terrifying to think about in the next ten years.
But also, okay, bring it.

Speaker 1 (49:05):
In, right, yeah, right, right, absolutely, so, I'm gonna put
you on the spot. One last thing. For the people
listening who were thinking about donating, or maybe don't aren't
compelled to donate for some reason, what would you say
to them, based on your experience.

Speaker 4 (49:17):
I would just even as we're sitting here talking and laughing,
you know, just for everybody commuting in thinking to think
about what's happening.

Speaker 16 (49:26):
With the upstairs.

Speaker 1 (49:27):
In this place.

Speaker 4 (49:28):
Every day you have families who are having their lives
literally turned upside down with a situation that they never
imagined would be something that they would face. And the team,
the teams, the people upstairs are.

Speaker 16 (49:41):
Working to save kids' lives.

Speaker 4 (49:43):
And you don't know how precious this resource is until
you step into this world, and then you realize how
how amazing the wonderful it is, and how fortunate you
are in Chicago to have a resource in place that's
filled with people who are completely selfless.

Speaker 1 (49:57):
You have here a lyric Well said, well, so well, guys,
I'm so happy with this outcome. And even though Ellen
didn't say two words to me, and I think she
just flipped me off, actually, but that's okay, it's fine.
I love her, I love you, guys, and I'm so
happy with this outcome. And I wish you, guys, you know,
continued success and health and all of that. And thank
you for telling your story. I'm sure that's not easy
to do, especially when you have to do it six times,

(50:19):
because you've got a few more times to go. So yeah, well,
thanks for having us from me apps, Thank you guys.
Donate please you heard Ellis story eight eight eight eight
three one seven seven three three Lurry Children's that orgs
last Radio Thought. You can text the word Luriy l
u Rie to five P one five five five and
receive a link to donate. It's the Fred Show Luriy
Children's Radio Thought on kiss Hi.

Speaker 19 (50:39):
I'm will thank you for Helpingicago's kids.

Speaker 4 (50:42):
Your support will help families with sick children right here
in Chicago one eight eight three one seventy seven thirty three.

Speaker 1 (50:50):
It's the Fred Show one O three five Kiss FM,
Chicago's number one in music station, Live from Lurry Children's
Hospital this morning for our annual radio thon. We're going
to raise a million dollars this year. We're going to
raise a million dollars. Last year was seven hundred something.
Ish you're my white gay Anna White since my Filipino
Vana White's not here this morning, so that means you

(51:11):
got to know. I was over Maso Medows seven hundred thousand,
and this year it's going to be a million. And
it's thanks to people like this person that you sent
me listening to the radio thought right now from Hayward, California.
I'm a longtime supporter of the Lurid Children's Hospital. These
stories inspire me to donate every year, and I want
to challenge my friends to donate to such a wonderful cause.

(51:32):
So they have us on the iHeart app, which apparently
is the best place to listen this morning from what
I understand, because we were rearranging wires last night at
the radio station, which why wouldn't we do that? The
night before the thing. Glenda in Arlington Heights gave money
this morning, Jeff and Juliet, Joe and Homeward and Hillary
in is it mobile because I don't know what that
says mobile. Oh sure we'll go with that. And the

(51:56):
person with the big check our good friend every year.
Mary Francis from July is here high good morning, and
you're always stylish.

Speaker 2 (52:02):
Oh, you guys are so kind. I just want to
start off by saying this. I am so glad that
I'm happily married to the most wonderful man because I
listened to you guys in the morning and I hear
these stories about the dating, and I'm so glad that
I'm not out there.

Speaker 1 (52:14):
I thought you were going to say, I'm just glad
I'm not married to you, meaning me, which is a
lot of people feel that way. That's fair. Yeah, how
long is this is totally off topic, but since you
brought it up, and well you've got the one hundred
thousand dollars check, so we can do whatever you want.
How long has it bentioned you went on a date
with another person.

Speaker 2 (52:30):
Well, I've been with my husband for we met, so
for fourteen years. Okay, and so you know, I hear
the stories from some of my single friends. And again,
I listen to you guys all the time, so I
just know what's out there.

Speaker 1 (52:41):
Okay, not great, okay, And I believe you. I know
you're going to say that five more times this morning
as you make the rounds. I know you're a big
inspiration thirteen ninety listener Mary Francis, I know. And that's
on the AM dial. By the way.

Speaker 2 (52:54):
I know that I'm only going to say it in
the show because when I listen to you, guys will
listen to dating and stuff like you know. I don't
know my other the other I heart that they so
I don't listen to them. What's the secret for a
long marriage? I just found this great, wonderful guy and
a lot of prayers, a lot of st Anne, san Anne,
find me a great man. I tell all of my friends,
telling you it works, say Anthony, tell me girl, st Anne,

(53:14):
st Anne, find me a great man.

Speaker 11 (53:16):
All right, Sanne, I'm telling you she works.

Speaker 2 (53:22):
When I move my phone. But I didn't know about Satan.

Speaker 1 (53:24):
I didn't realize I just lost the girl.

Speaker 2 (53:26):
I said that to me years ago, and I'm telling
you now it doesn't happen right away. It may take
some time, but it works.

Speaker 1 (53:35):
Wait a minute, I don't sane, find me a man,
I don't. I don't know if I want to say.

Speaker 2 (53:39):
That, buy me a great girl?

Speaker 1 (53:41):
Well make for you, Andy, you find me a late
who is? I need some alliteration? Okay? So what let's
get you know we have. It's very hard for us
to be serious, and this doesn't have to be serious.
There are very serious things happening here at Loarit Children's Hospital.
But Jewelasco, who you represent, came in here with a
one hundred thousand dollar check. Now we need to that's
a match. So we need to raise one hundred thousand dollars.

(54:04):
All the iHeart stations here, we need to raise one
hundred thousand dollars this hour, and then you're gonna give
us that check, which you're gonna be giving us in
about twenty five minutes. Why why why is it so
important for Jewel Losco to give back? Why wouldn't we
Why wouldn't we? Right?

Speaker 2 (54:16):
So we have the Jewel Losco Foundation, and cancer is
part of our foundation and working with organizations that find
ways to help children's cancer beat. Cancer research is what
we do with jewel Losco being out in the community,
helping others where their needs. They need help, whether it's financial,
whether it's in kind. We continue to do that. It's

(54:37):
what we do. We are the grocery market leader. There's
a reason for that because we have wonderful customers and
with that we go out in the community.

Speaker 1 (54:45):
Even more so, when are you just going to change
the sign to jewels with an ass on the end?

Speaker 2 (54:50):
Because so, friend, it's always gonna be Uwelasco. I mean,
you can call it jewels privately, but it's always gonna
be you.

Speaker 1 (54:54):
Well think it's a private thing. I think it's a
Midwest thing. But we love the jewels, jewels, the jewels.
So how about that?

Speaker 2 (55:00):
How about is the jewel well, let's social media handle that.
But you know, from a corporate branding. So Jelasco. Okay,
she's good, right, No.

Speaker 1 (55:07):
No, she's obviously a professional unlike us. So one eight
eight eight eight three one seven seven three three is
an ever to call Lurry Children's that orgs last radio thought.
You can also text the word Lurie with no S
on that to five one five five five and they'll
send you a link to donate. It's really really simple.
And so your promise to us is before eight o'clock,
if we can raise one hundred thousand dollars, then you

(55:28):
give us another one hundred thousand dollars.

Speaker 2 (55:30):
And I've got the check right here, right here.

Speaker 17 (55:32):
Do you see me.

Speaker 2 (55:32):
Waving this chef for there isn't one, but I believe you.
But you know what, We're going to raise one hundred
thousand dollars. There's no reason not to. The good that
that Loris does is unbelievable for these families, for the
children that are able to walk out of here, that
come in here sick, we're able to walk here to
go home. And it's very successful, clearly, right. Yeah, So
you know what, think of the kids, think of the parents,

(55:53):
think of the families, And they've just done something that
so much good and they will continue to do good,
but they need the money to continue with the research.

Speaker 1 (56:00):
Yeah. Like Ella, who we just met her family, little girl,
what was you five years olds for your son? Yeah,
I've never been happier to be mistreated by a young
lady in my life because she's here today, and it's
because of the life saving efforts of this place and
the stem cell research and the stem cell transplant. I
mean it's each hour we're going to feature a different
area of this hospital that's exceptional. It was cardiac last hour,

(56:22):
it's stem cell this hour. And that's why we need
the money. So here's the thing. If we donate one hundred,
if we earn one hundred thousand dollars, we raise it
this hour, and then you give us another one hundred.
I'm not real smart, That's why I'm doing this, but
two hundred thous that would be two hundred thousand dollars
in one hour towards our million dollar plus goal.

Speaker 2 (56:37):
Right and listen, jewel Osco is happy to do it.
We're always happy to do it. We have a strong
partnership with Lord Children's Hospital. We will continue to have
a strong partnership. And all it can do is ask
all of your listeners out there to please, please, please
donate what you can. Anything helps, anything helps me to
that match. But I don't have a doubt in my
mind we'll be able to raise that money by em
and it doesn't have to.

Speaker 1 (56:57):
Be one hundred thousand dollars or one thousand, even fifty
twenty ten a dollar. If everyone listening to us, right, think.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
Of the kids, Think of the families, Think of the
research involved, from all the money that we raise to
help all of these kids and families.

Speaker 1 (57:12):
And what was that person? I got to talk to
you again about finding out wife? What was it?

Speaker 13 (57:15):
Sane?

Speaker 9 (57:16):
San Anne?

Speaker 2 (57:16):
I don't think that works for me, No, it does.
But you can just place in wife Anne, san Anne,
find me a good wife, life life.

Speaker 1 (57:23):
She knows?

Speaker 2 (57:23):
Does he want a wife?

Speaker 1 (57:24):
I don't know's I know?

Speaker 2 (57:26):
I hear this every morning. Do you really want how?

Speaker 1 (57:29):
Come on?

Speaker 2 (57:29):
I think you like talking about the misery of dating.

Speaker 1 (57:34):
It is kind of my brand.

Speaker 2 (57:35):
I mean, I kind of think it's like a Bravo
storyline for you.

Speaker 1 (57:38):
Yeah, I think things get really boring if I get
married right right, well, that I can just get divorced.

Speaker 9 (57:43):
No, no, no, we don't want that to happen.

Speaker 1 (57:46):
Yeah, you're right. I don't want that either. How did
you get to back? How did they get you? How
do we get right? You did this?

Speaker 2 (57:54):
By the way, Well, you know what, I got to
start up something. I mean, we got to keep it
on a high note. Here, Nancy, Nanna, come on right there?

Speaker 11 (57:59):
You go?

Speaker 1 (58:00):
Than he over there. She's talking to st Anne right
now on the line. She found it one night number
she called it, So please donate so we can get
that one hundred thousand dollars from Jewel Losco aka the Jewels,
the Jewels, and can you.

Speaker 2 (58:14):
Bring us chicken next time? Because it's all I'm thinking
about it. I'm sorry, you know what, We open a
six am, and every story I could have done this morning,
next year.

Speaker 1 (58:21):
Next God grew Field from our show We're here, he
would we'd have twenty minutes of him sitting here telling
you every Deli item. No, I'm sorry, he's the most
amazing thing. He's it really kind of is amazing, though,
says I know it is one more thing cans. With
all due respects, Jojo, can we talk about your creepy
ass maskot honestly? Like it's where it.

Speaker 2 (58:41):
Jojo is hugely popular, hugely. We love Jojo. I'm telling
you We've got JoJo's magic. So today also Lourie Children's
we are handing out with Jojo. We're handing out ornaments
to the kids. Oh good, It's part of JoJo's magic.
So that's why Jojo. I think he's got to be
up there now.

Speaker 1 (58:56):
Yeah, yeah, we will soon JoJo's welcome to move on
to another Florida.

Speaker 16 (59:00):
Is the kids.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
Yeah, I think a photo fred you and everybody with
Jojo Christmas card.

Speaker 1 (59:06):
Oh, don't worry. Jojo was was was freaking the table
a minute ago, so shoulders he was?

Speaker 9 (59:13):
He was, I was my coffee.

Speaker 1 (59:16):
In fact, there's children here and I think we need
to be mindful of the gyration. But anyway, oh jo Jojo,
You're so bashful now, aren't you. There is a large
describe it one more time for the people. Jewel Osco
has a mascot which I only knew because of doing this,
But how would you describe the one eyed psychops that
he is Jojo?

Speaker 4 (59:37):
Yes?

Speaker 3 (59:37):
So Jojo is a red Harry eyeball in a white
jewel Osco crap top with no pantalones and red converse.

Speaker 1 (59:46):
Okay, and show me one more time. The connection between
bananas and produce and bat.

Speaker 2 (59:54):
We love Jojo and bananas and we love produce. That's
the connection. And by the way, Jojo is willing to
be in your in studio if you want it anytime.

Speaker 1 (01:00:01):
What a what a nice offer. We'll get back to
you on that. It's it's the lury Children's radio. Don
Thank you Mary France, thank you, thanks, thank you for
your big check that we're taking in nineteen minutes. It's
one hundred thousand dollars that we're taking. One eight eight
eight eight three one seven seven three three l u
r I E text at to five one five five
five and get a link to donate. It's the Lurry
Children's Radio Thon on the Fred Show, Kiss FM.

Speaker 12 (01:00:24):
This is the Lurie Children's Radiothon on one O three
five Kiss f.

Speaker 1 (01:00:28):
M Fred Show, Good Morning, one O three five Kiss FM, Chicago,
number one a music station. We're live Lourie Children's Hospital.
We are here, we are on there. What four are
we on the eleventh, thirteenth, twelfth eleventh. We're on a floor.

Speaker 16 (01:00:43):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:00:44):
I walked in this morning and I was basically a
frozen human being, so I don't really remember. I actually
remember the walk from the car uh to the building.
It's it's rather it's rather frigid out there. I'm with
the call it an arctic blast. Is that what they
call it? Is that what we're experiencing? An arctic you're
the weather guy. Yes, it's giving arctic blast, am an
old arctic blast? Oh god, I was about to say something.

(01:01:06):
I just anyway, let's just move on'spal?

Speaker 5 (01:01:10):
Well?

Speaker 1 (01:01:11):
Really, I mean, come on, it's still the Freend Show. Guys.
We are very very close, by the way, We're ten
minutes away from eight o'clock, which is our deadline. We
need to raise one hundred thousand dollars so that we
can take Joejo's check and Mary's check from jewel Osco.
Another one hundred thousand dollars. That means two hundred grand
this hour alone, towards our million plus dollar goal. Right,

(01:01:34):
Kiki's I did the path right?

Speaker 8 (01:01:36):
Yes you did?

Speaker 1 (01:01:36):
You still try and talk to that saint I am.

Speaker 5 (01:01:38):
I'm working on the saint. You know, I'm trying to
get us some more money. Okay, Oh yeah, from the Saint,
from the Yes, from all the saints.

Speaker 2 (01:01:45):
Yeah, actually we need them today.

Speaker 1 (01:01:47):
They need to hit up Saint Anthony then the one
for the lost the lost stuff. If you're a Catholic,
you know what I'm talking about. I'm trying to find
all that lost money.

Speaker 2 (01:01:55):
What are you shooing away?

Speaker 1 (01:01:56):
Yeah? Well, there was some sort of I don't know
seeing stuff. No, there was some I'm not gonna say,
I don't know what it was. It was some sort
of thing. It was like, this is a very distracting enquirement.
I mean, we got six radio stations, all the iHeart
stations are involved with this today. We got a phone
bank over here. We got a pregnant Diana over there.

(01:02:19):
We got people ringing bells. I don't I think it
means something. I got a bell in front of me.
I kind of want to ring it. Do it you want? No,
I can't. I'll do it all wing at one hundred
thousand dollars. I'll do it then. But we need your help.
One eight eight eight eight three one seven seven three three.
LURIY Children's that organized radio thought. You can text the
word Luriy l u r I E to five one
five five five and receive a link to donate anything.

(01:02:43):
Anything helps. We talked to Ella and William and Lily,
her sister and brother, and Christina and Joe, her parents.
A little while ago. You may have heard it an
incredible story about it was a bone marrow transplant, stem
sound stem cell and uh and that little girl who
went from things we're looking grim to thriving and all

(01:03:04):
the attitude and all that. I was sent a toddler
is what is what is between toddler and adolescent?

Speaker 16 (01:03:10):
Oh she's a lead child.

Speaker 1 (01:03:14):
That's a bunch of non parents here.

Speaker 3 (01:03:19):
No, she's a queen with her little butterfly headbands.

Speaker 1 (01:03:21):
Oh yeah, No, an amazing family with an incredible outcome.
Let's listen to Ella's story right now, and please, eight
more minutes left. We got to get to one hundred
thousand dollars this hour. Yes, I'm begging for money. I
only beg for money one time, once a year, and
it's for this place, because that's how much I care
about it. I know the rest of us too too,
and it's how incredible this place is and how fortunate

(01:03:42):
we are to have this resource in our backyard. I
hope you never need it, but if you do, it's
important that we support support it now and later. One
eight eight eight eight three one seven seven three three.
Listen to this.

Speaker 4 (01:03:55):
My name is Joe Siders. I'm here with my wife,
Christina Siders. We have three young kids.

Speaker 16 (01:04:00):
Eleanor is five.

Speaker 4 (01:04:02):
She was treated at Lorie Children's Hospital for a cute
mindlud in leukemia.

Speaker 18 (01:04:07):
We literally went within a forty eight hour period from
thinking that Ella had an ear infection to being told
that she had leukemia.

Speaker 16 (01:04:14):
It's a world that we never imagined being a part of.

Speaker 4 (01:04:17):
You're dealing with a life altering diagnosis and wondering how
do we best support our kid and also keep our
whole family together.

Speaker 13 (01:04:26):
Every week the.

Speaker 18 (01:04:27):
Needs would change, as Ella's status would change, as you
know her how healthy she was versus hell unhealthy she
was in that given moment, and then in the midst
of all of this, COVID happened.

Speaker 4 (01:04:39):
You know, we were kind of in our little bubble
with the team around us, and you get just so
single mindedly focused on Okay, get through the chemo, and
then once you're through that stage, you get to the
transplant and then the next fight, if and when it comes.

Speaker 18 (01:04:56):
As part of Ella's treatment, once she achieved for a
mission through chemo, there she had a stem cell transplant,
and in order to make that happen, she needed a donor.

Speaker 13 (01:05:04):
Ella has two siblings, neither one of them were a match.

Speaker 18 (01:05:07):
Cody is the person who was identified as her quote
unquote genetic twin and her perfect match twenty year old
kid that happened to stop at a booth at school
to sign up for the registry and it's.

Speaker 4 (01:05:18):
Not an easy process to donate, and again for a
person he had never met, so selfless and kind.

Speaker 18 (01:05:24):
He lives in West Virginia. Actually he's a medical student,
so he's going to be a physician. The year after transplant,
you can get in touch with the donor, and he
literally sent us a letter like the day he was
able to He and his family have been.

Speaker 13 (01:05:38):
Close to us ever since. We've seen them twice.

Speaker 18 (01:05:40):
Ella and her sister Lily were flower girls in his wedding.
There were little successes and little celebrations along the way,
like when she achieved her first line of remission.

Speaker 4 (01:05:52):
Aha discovered like soul music and she was so sick
good something she couldn't raise her head.

Speaker 16 (01:05:56):
But like when she would try to move to that and.

Speaker 4 (01:06:00):
She's like, just I can still remember, you know, like
because she's hooked up to so many chords.

Speaker 16 (01:06:04):
And then the nurses would come in and dance with us.
It was just it's selfless. It's incredible.

Speaker 13 (01:06:11):
She's doing great.

Speaker 8 (01:06:12):
Now.

Speaker 13 (01:06:13):
February will be her five.

Speaker 18 (01:06:14):
Year transplant anniversary, which is a really big deal. So
she's been in remission for now four and a half years,
and you would never know what she's been through. I mean,
she's super spunky, she's spirited, she's very confident and bold.

Speaker 4 (01:06:33):
We've got an option for families like if your child
is facing that big fight, Laurie is there.

Speaker 16 (01:06:38):
Regardless.

Speaker 18 (01:06:39):
Lurie's Children's literally saved Ella's life without a sou They're
not just saving her life once, they're doing it again
and again and again. I cannot even count all the
big decisions and the little decisions that they made right
along the way that has brought her and kept her
with us today. And so we literally owe them her life.

(01:06:59):
She's doing, you know, amazing.

Speaker 12 (01:07:02):
Donate now to the Luri Children's Hospital. Here's a memory
to Cock one eight eight eight eight three one seventy
seven thirty three Conner help save Chicago Lands children I
Bring in their kills.

Speaker 1 (01:07:16):
Fred Show is on, Oh Hey, good morning everybody. We
are live at Louri Children's Hospital on the eleventh floor
with all of our iHeart family six radios. We have six, yes, six,
that's cool. We got six radio stations. All right, we're
the best one, but it's fine, and we're raising money

(01:07:37):
for lourr Children's Hospital all day to day on all
the iHeart stations. We're trying to get to a million
plus last year. You guys, you because of you, guys,
and our corporate sponsors are partners who are amazing. We
raise almost Oh, I'm rounding up now. We're gonna say
somewhere between seven and eight hundred thousand minus approximately, which
is a ton of money, which goes a really long
wave for this place. But it costs millions and millions

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and millions of dollars to operate Larie Children's Hospital, where,
by the way, nobody has came and pointed out earlier.
Nobody has turned away. And we're hearing these inspiring stories
all morning of the work that they're doing here. And
I mean when we've heard about a young boy who
they found a hole in his heart in utero, he
hadn't even been born yet and they were able to

(01:08:21):
repair that and he's thriving. We talked to Ella and
her family. She's thriving, and there are so many stories.
He's like, we're gonna hear another one in just a
minute from from Aiden. But I want to thank all
the people who have donated so far this morning. Alexander
in Spring Grove, I don't know what it is. It
Benna I think that is Danna or Ben Ahead. It's

(01:08:42):
not great, but that's okay. In Carrie, North Carolina. Oh
there's a Cary, Illinois, is there. Yeah, I'm gonna be
in to carry North Carolina in about three hours. So
I was like, Wow, you guys are really committed. Kim
and Tinley Park, Carrie Lake Villa, Glenda in Arlington Heights,
Jeff and Joe and Homewood Hillary and uh, this is

(01:09:03):
the same list I did before most they gave me
the same list again. Oh Bill, we still don't know
where that is. Oh DJ, I'm afraid of these days.

Speaker 2 (01:09:12):
I would never doesn't have a pen.

Speaker 5 (01:09:14):
She asked for a pen, you did, but he honestly
donated through social media.

Speaker 13 (01:09:19):
He let us know that.

Speaker 1 (01:09:19):
Here because because because Kiki has been trying to get
me for two weeks to say names that are inappropriate. Yes, because,
but this is not the day for that. This is
not the day you promised me. This is real promise you,
This is promise on fine Kiki Man, Yes, yes, DJ,
Hammer and Hank, Yes, she got you. You would do

(01:09:43):
it every day. Oh look, and then Seymour Butts gave
us somebody. All right, it's mister Oh my god, its birthday.
Sean and Indiana gave us somebody you would you would
though we're not here. I love you.

Speaker 9 (01:10:00):
I'm gonna wait till nine o'clock hours.

Speaker 1 (01:10:01):
I don't always trust you. I love you, don't always
trust you. But we need your money this morning to
help Lord Children's Hospital. Eight eight eight eight three one
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Children's that organized radio thought. You can also text the
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one hundred one thousand, a million, whatever it is, and
we will shout out your business. By the way, if
you give us enough money, yes, I'll play a stupid
song if you give us the price. If the price
is right, I can make things happen. Ah.

Speaker 18 (01:10:34):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:10:35):
And what we're really hoping for will be amazing are
monthly donations of twenty dollars per month. That makes you
a monthly partner sixty seven cents a day, and that
really helps out as many of those as we can
possibly give. Eight eight eight eight three one seven seven
three three l U r I E to five one
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You can ring the bell, Jason, we did raise last hour.

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We didn't do that.

Speaker 2 (01:11:02):
Oh and then here when we do that, we didn't
do that.

Speaker 1 (01:11:04):
That's why we can't fake it. If we can't, well
not here at least. So we did raise one hundred
thousand dollars, which means another one hundred thousand dollars from
Jewel Losco. So that alone, that hour alone, two hundred
thousand dollars. Thanks to your generosity, and we really appreciate that.
And also if you're having any issue hearing us this morning,
I guess they decided to move the tinfoil this today, right,

(01:11:27):
because why would you we not, you know, sort of
do that. Now you can hear us on the app
Apparently we are crystal as crystal clear as possible, considering
we are broadcasting a cafeteria in a children's hospital, rising
broadband internet. This is not me. I set it up,
and it sounds beautiful coming from here. Okay, I'll have
you know. And I appreciate the people who are texting
us saying, hey, it doesn't sound that great. It sounds amazing.

(01:11:51):
Our end is solid, I'll have you. Yes, we have
enough chords for the business for once, for once, we
have enough course for the business. But we're going you
some towels for the business if we don't get this
straighten out pretty soon. I know that's right, because I'm
gonna put Kiki on it and that won't be nice. Nope, nope, nope,
uh uh uh. So let's hear from Aiden and his story,

(01:12:14):
and we're here from his family this hour as well.
And we can't wait to hear from you as you call,
because operators are standing by something I never thought I
would get to say. Eight eight eight eight three one
seven seven three three. We're trying to get to over
a million dollars for Lurry Children's Hospital today with iHeartRadio,
The Fred Show and Kiss by Jason Still got still

(01:12:34):
got here. A lot of fun left me. That was beautiful.
That was beautiful. Ain't no, Wow, that was really good. No,
tell him, tell him how to do it, Jason, you
have it. Yeah, you can call us, call us right now.
Eight eight eight eight three one seven seven three three.
I want to hear them phones ring, make them ring, yeah, now, Kiki,
now you tell them in your way. Oh call me now,

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we have one paper for the business.

Speaker 9 (01:12:59):
Eight eight one seven seven three three.

Speaker 1 (01:13:02):
Can you text me though I got texts? Yeah, tell
them how to do that the word.

Speaker 5 (01:13:06):
Lurie l u r I E to five one five
five five and you'll get a link and then you
can send me your money.

Speaker 1 (01:13:11):
You know what. I promise he doesn't go right to
Kigi or Rufio. They won't be handling the affair. It goes.
It goes right to the hospitals directly.

Speaker 6 (01:13:20):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:13:20):
Eight eight eight eight three one seven seven three three.
Also this hour another power hour, so another amazing organization.
H Robinson. If we can raise twenty five thousand dollars
this hour, which I know we can do because last
hour it was one hundred grand, then they'll match it,
so another twenty five grand. So this hour minimum fifty grand.
But we need your twenty five thousand dollars. And thank

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you to everyone who's donated so far this morning. But yeah,
call call a number, tell the operator who answers you
listen to the Fred Show and tell them your name.
And if you want us to say something about your business,
you want to shot somebody out, you want us whatever?
If the price is right, We'll do it. Things are happening,
Things are happening. Whatever you want, what you want. Honestly,
we got to get to over a million dollars this year.

Speaker 6 (01:14:05):
We have to.

Speaker 1 (01:14:06):
I want to go in here tomorrow morning on our
show and be able to thank all of well, I'll
thank all of you anyway, because it's whatever we do
is amazing, but I want to be able to say
that we did at Chicago Land we raise over a
million dollars for Lourie Children's Hospital, an organization that I
know means a lot to all of us here. So
I want you to hear about Aiden. Aiden is eleven
years old and we're going to have him on the
show here in a little bit. But this is his

(01:14:27):
story of perseverance, of healing, of health and another tribute
to the amazing work happening at Luri's Children's Hospital.

Speaker 9 (01:14:36):
I'm Aiden, I'm a patient for Larry's Children's.

Speaker 6 (01:14:39):
Aiden had his seven year check with his pediatrician. He
had only gained one pound and grew one inch for
that year.

Speaker 14 (01:14:48):
One of the things we noticed going on, like the
bike ride, he would get tired what we thought was
probably like a little sooner than necessary.

Speaker 6 (01:14:55):
So the pediatricians started to do some testing and she said,
have you ever heard pallycystic kidney disease?

Speaker 1 (01:15:01):
I was like, what I know? I was in shock.

Speaker 15 (01:15:04):
We started bawling in the appointment.

Speaker 17 (01:15:07):
They actually escalated pretty quick. That first visit with Larry's.

Speaker 14 (01:15:10):
We found out it was stage four and he needed
to be put on the transplant list right away.

Speaker 15 (01:15:17):
It moved very quickly. We met with the you know
transplant surgeon and you know larry Children's.

Speaker 2 (01:15:22):
I mean, they're amazing. They were all making our appointments
for us.

Speaker 9 (01:15:26):
Everything is seamless.

Speaker 2 (01:15:28):
Three months later he.

Speaker 15 (01:15:29):
Was active on the transplant list.

Speaker 14 (01:15:32):
I'd look back on it now and it's been a
very big positive to have Larry's in our life, and
it truly feels like our family when we go there.

Speaker 6 (01:15:39):
Dan and I had to go through genetic testing because
ideally it would be great if one of us could
be his donor.

Speaker 9 (01:15:45):
I was approved. Two months after that was our surgery.

Speaker 15 (01:15:49):
Aiden had his transplant. Aiden was impatient two weeks post transplant.

Speaker 9 (01:15:54):
I think he took twenty two pills a day.

Speaker 15 (01:15:57):
It was this scary time, but I was very happy
that I could be the one to help it's very
cool that I went on kidney.

Speaker 1 (01:16:05):
She did it for me job.

Speaker 15 (01:16:12):
In terms of Aiden, I would say how resilient he has.

Speaker 14 (01:16:16):
Been and brave, like literally the first time he got
out of bed to walk after the training's playing. It
just make you realize just how special those little moments are.
To celebrate every little thing, no matter how big or small.

Speaker 15 (01:16:34):
Okay, Lurie's took a time for us that was.

Speaker 17 (01:16:41):
So hard, something that was obviously very scary, very life changing.

Speaker 6 (01:16:46):
And tested us, and it allowed it to become something
that we made it through, survived it, and thrived from that.

Speaker 17 (01:16:54):
There's no other place I would take a sick child,
that's for sure.

Speaker 12 (01:16:57):
Thank you for being part of our Lurie Children's radioson
right here on one oh three five.

Speaker 1 (01:17:03):
Kiss us M. It's the Fred Show. Good morning, one
o three five Kiss FM, Chicago's number one hit music station.
Thank you so much for waking up with us today
a very special day. Today, it's our Luried Children's Hospital
radiothon Expect all day today on Kiss FM and all
the iHeartMedia Chicago stations. We're gonna raise over a million
dollars today for Loury Children's Hospital eight eight eight eight
three one seven seven three three luriy Children's dot org

(01:17:26):
slash radio thought again. I'll text the word lury l
u r I E to five one five five five
to receive a link right to your phone to donate.
What we would love is for everyone to be a
monthly partner twenty bucks a month. I know it's a lot,
So it's okay if you don't have that five dollars,
ten dollars, twenty whatever you've got. I know coffee is essential.

(01:17:47):
It would be hard for me to give up coffee.
You know, I haven't had any dat today. That being said,
maybe the coffee is like six bucks, ten bucks, whatever
it is. Maybe one day you make it at home
and you send the ten bucks to Louri Children's Hospital
to benefit. And there's so much going on here. We
we're hearing stories from families, stories of perseverance in survival.
And I've said this on the ear before and we've

(01:18:08):
probably talked about it, but in all the years that
we've all done, you know, very sort of been honored
to volunteer with Cal's Angels and Larid Children's in different
organizations that deal with pediatric illness. I am amazed at
the resilience of these children. Yes, I am amazed at
how strong these kids are. And I don't know if

(01:18:29):
it's I feel like as adults we teach ourselves, we
learn how to feel bad for ourselves, and we learn
I guess it's age and experience and wisdom and maybe
a little bit more awareness, But nonetheless, the fight in
these kids, I mean, the things that they're being asked
to do at such a young age in order to

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live is incredible and inspiring. And we're hearing those stories
this morning, and it's all possible because of places like
this and this Lurid Children's in Chicago, in downtown Chicago
happens to be the world leader in so many areas.
I mean, it's top ten in almost every specialty, if
not better than that, And it's right here, and it's

(01:19:09):
why we have to give because I hope you never
need it. I hope you never need to come here.
But if you do, what you're supporting now is the
best of the best, and you would have access to that,
and that way, you too would have an incredible outcome,
just like the ones that we're hearing about today. I mean,
we're talking about kids that were that had a dire

(01:19:30):
outcome in the womb, whose lives they were able to save.
We're talking about young people who had no other options
and they found a way. We're talking about incredible research
happening here. So many things. And the other thing that's
incredible about LURI is that they think about stuff that's
therapeutic but not necessarily medical. They think about the experience.

(01:19:51):
They think about the fact that kids are here instead
of in school with their friends and their family. They
think about the families who aren't with their loved one
every day in a lot of ways. And their child
life department here is amazing.

Speaker 3 (01:20:01):
There's literally a salon upstairs for the parents that have
to be here for extended periods of times.

Speaker 2 (01:20:06):
I mean, they think of everything.

Speaker 3 (01:20:08):
I mean, you know, we all went to school and
it was just a part of life, and you drop
your kids off at school. But like, if you're here
for an extended period of time and the hope is
to get out right, but you're you're gonna fall behind
on school work.

Speaker 2 (01:20:19):
For ten bucks, you can give a child school supplies.
I mean, ten bucks is nothing.

Speaker 3 (01:20:25):
This one made my eyes a little wet, so we'll
try to say it you know, it's been an emo
week for me already. But for twenty five dollars, you
can supply a baby in the nick you a comfort
doll Oh my god, it's a cuddle when they're not
with their parents.

Speaker 2 (01:20:38):
Like that gives me chills, That makes me want to cry.

Speaker 3 (01:20:41):
I'm trying to get you fifty bucks. These kids, they
have to celebrate their birthdays here. Sometimes they will throw
them a birthday party. Fifty bucks you can help make
a kid forget for one day that they are sick
and just celebrate their birthday.

Speaker 18 (01:20:58):
Be a kid.

Speaker 3 (01:20:59):
Also, fifty do pet therapy visit and there's scientific research
to support this.

Speaker 2 (01:21:05):
But we all know how animals. I mean, we're animal
lovers on the show.

Speaker 3 (01:21:08):
And these kids are separated from their norm, from their homes,
and you should see the way that they light up
win the little therapy dog comes in.

Speaker 2 (01:21:15):
I mean it's fifty dollars a little higher.

Speaker 3 (01:21:18):
Two hundred bucks supports the whole pet therapy program, so
they think of everything, and it's the whole package, not
just the medical things.

Speaker 1 (01:21:26):
Yeah, and when I was three, I hadn't menagia. It's
not to make this about me, It's really about my mom, actually,
but I was three. I was in the hospital in Phoenix,
the Phoenix Children's for a month. I lost the hearing
in my left ear. So if you ever approached me
from the wrong side, I am I am rude, but
but I'm not ignoring you. I would usually just be
rude right to your face if I were going to be.

(01:21:46):
But you guys have all witnessed if people have had
full on conversations from my left side and they and
I don't hear them, and I really don't hear them,
and then I come to work and blast my ears
with Rachel plattin all day, so as you shit, yeah, right,
which is I think? You know, if my hearing is
going to go, it should go that way. But I
bring this up because my mom stayed at the hospital
every single night that I was in the hospital. But

(01:22:07):
they didn't have any of these resources, none of this
stuff then and they probably do now, but they didn't then.
She slept in a chair, there was no bed, there
was no salon, there was you know, child life was
maybe present, but certainly not as prolific as it is now.
None of these creature comforts, none of this stuff that
we all take for granted, because it's part of our
everyday life and we make it happen. But yet again,

(01:22:30):
why would you think about this stuff? You wouldn't because
hopefully you never have to experience it. But if you do,
you're gonna appreciate the fact that it's all here and
that they're so thoughtful about it.

Speaker 3 (01:22:39):
And why you bring up your mom, I mean, your
mom is such a strong force, like she loves you
so much. And something that I learned from Carter's family
that I thought was amazing is that the doctors consulted Carter's.

Speaker 2 (01:22:49):
Parents on his treatment, like should we do this, should
we do that? What do you think will make him talk? Again? Like,
no one knows their kid better than their kid or
their parents.

Speaker 3 (01:22:58):
Rather, so they asked the parents, what do you think
they involve them in the treatment?

Speaker 2 (01:23:03):
And I think that's really amazing.

Speaker 1 (01:23:04):
Yeah, And it's it's just I mean, just just some
of the reasons why we need your donations. Today. We're
gonna raise over a million dollars two hundred grand last
hour this hour Tia t Robinson a twenty five thousand
dollars match, so if we can get we had one
hundred last hours, so we can do twenty five easy
this hour, and then another twenty five, So there's fifties.
That's a quarter million dollars in two hours, thanks to

(01:23:24):
you guys. And think of how far that's going to go.
And we're doing this all day, by the way, so
this is only I'm amazed so far eight eight eight
eight three one seven seven three three luriy Children's dot
orgs last radio thought. You get a'll text the word
urry l u ri I E to five one five
five five and get a link right to your phone
to donate. And we're gonna hear from one of these families.
And these are the I'm telling you, these are the

(01:23:45):
stories that are getting all of us. They're getting all
of you at home. If you can hear us, they
can now, yeah, oh they can.

Speaker 5 (01:23:52):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (01:23:52):
Apparently we had apparently we had four transmitters on at
the same time, which is the right thing.

Speaker 2 (01:23:57):
All the power window breaks now, yeah, yeah do this.

Speaker 1 (01:24:01):
Yeah lost an hour, well we lost three Okay. It
was the most incredible three hours of radio I've ever done.
I don't know if you've heard it, buddy, it was
so good. Honestly, we cried, uh Kiki Kalin Jason, your
contributions were incredible.

Speaker 2 (01:24:15):
We know we'll go again, yeah right about it.

Speaker 1 (01:24:18):
Never cried on the air, but I did an hour
and a half ago. And you may have missed him
because we went to radio check last night and decided
to shape to resisters. So I mean really honestly. Eight
eight eight eight three one seven seven three three The
Frend Show. It's the Lurry Children's Radio thought all day
to day. I want to three five Kids FM.

Speaker 17 (01:24:33):
Today for my son Aiden.

Speaker 14 (01:24:34):
Thankful for Lurry Children's. Because of them, my son is
healthy today.

Speaker 1 (01:24:39):
Eight three one seventy seven thirty three It's the French Show,
one of three five Kiss FM, Chicago's number one in
music station. I want to welcome my man Aiden. What's
going on? Aiden? Nothing? You're talking? We talked to a
couple years ago. You're talking a lot more now than
you were last time.

Speaker 13 (01:24:53):
Yes, I was.

Speaker 1 (01:24:54):
You got a lot to say. Man, Who are these
people that I don't really know about them? But who
I'm only worried about you? But who are these people
that are with you?

Speaker 9 (01:25:00):
My dad, my sister and my mom.

Speaker 1 (01:25:02):
Do they have names?

Speaker 13 (01:25:03):
Yeah?

Speaker 10 (01:25:04):
Ryan is my dad, Christine is my mom, and Ella
is my sister.

Speaker 1 (01:25:10):
That's exciting. Are they cool people? Yeah? Okay, that's good.
And how you feeling? You're doing great? Yeah? Wait, you
saved the best interview for last Yeah, we're very professional.
Can you tell Yeah? Yeah? What do you want to
do when you grow up? Hopefully not this?

Speaker 10 (01:25:22):
Right?

Speaker 9 (01:25:23):
I want to be a video game tester?

Speaker 1 (01:25:25):
That is a way better job than this. Yeah, I
recommend yeah fortnite?

Speaker 2 (01:25:29):
Oh period, oh wow? Yeah, okay, you know a Fortnite.
I know what it is with the skins. Yeah, you
gotta get skins.

Speaker 9 (01:25:36):
Okay, see I know a little bit.

Speaker 1 (01:25:37):
Okay, look at you. Do you play any sports games?
I don't play any sports games, but I play like sports. Well, yeah,
so you are an actual athlete, unlike some of us
who just sit on the couch and played them. Right.
Yeah yeah. Look at the look on his face. He's like,
who's this guy? Right? Yeah? Let me I'm gonna play
a little a little montage about you. Maybe you've heard it,
Oh you haven't heard it, yety. I'm gonna play this

(01:25:58):
a little bit about your story where Lurid Children Hospital,
and here's the story about ages.

Speaker 6 (01:26:03):
I'm a patient from Larry's Children's Aiden had his seven
year check with his pediatrician.

Speaker 15 (01:26:10):
He had only gained one pound and grew one inch
for that year.

Speaker 1 (01:26:15):
One of the things we.

Speaker 14 (01:26:15):
Noticed going on, like the bike ride, he would get tired,
what we thought was probably like a little sooner than necessary.

Speaker 6 (01:26:22):
So the pediatricians started to do some testing and she said,
have you ever heard of bally systic kidney disease?

Speaker 9 (01:26:28):
I was like, what I know.

Speaker 1 (01:26:30):
I was in shock.

Speaker 2 (01:26:31):
We started bawling in the appointment.

Speaker 17 (01:26:34):
They actually escalated pretty quick that first visit with Larry's.

Speaker 14 (01:26:37):
We found out it was a stage four and he
needed to be put on the transplant list right away.

Speaker 9 (01:26:44):
It moved very quickly.

Speaker 15 (01:26:45):
We met with a you know transplant surgeon and you
know larry Children's.

Speaker 9 (01:26:49):
I mean, they're amazing.

Speaker 2 (01:26:51):
They were all making our appointments for us.

Speaker 15 (01:26:53):
Everything is seamless. Three months later he was active on
the transplant list.

Speaker 14 (01:26:59):
I'd look back on it now and it's been a
very big positive to have Larr's in our life, and
it truly feels like our family when we go there.

Speaker 6 (01:27:06):
Dad and I had to go through genetic testing because
ideally it would be great if one of us could
be his donor.

Speaker 2 (01:27:12):
I was approved two months after that.

Speaker 9 (01:27:15):
Was our surgery.

Speaker 15 (01:27:16):
Aiden had his transplant. Aiden was impatient two weeks post transplant.

Speaker 9 (01:27:21):
I think he took twenty two pills a day.

Speaker 15 (01:27:24):
It was this scary time, but I was very happy
that I could be the one to help. It's very
cool that I am a moms kidney.

Speaker 1 (01:27:32):
She did it for mek You.

Speaker 15 (01:27:39):
In terms of Aiden, I would say how resilient he
has been.

Speaker 14 (01:27:43):
And brave, Like literally the first time he got out
of bed to walk after the transplant. Sy that doesn't
make you realize just how special those little moments are.
To celebrate every little thing, no matter help or small.

Speaker 13 (01:28:06):
Laurie's took a time for us that was so.

Speaker 14 (01:28:09):
Hard, something that was obviously very scary, very life changing,
and tested us.

Speaker 6 (01:28:14):
And it allowed it to become something that we made
it through, survived it, and thrived from that.

Speaker 17 (01:28:21):
There's no other place I would take a sick child,
that's for sure.

Speaker 1 (01:28:25):
Brian and Christine, they're all here right in front of me. Aiden.
Your mom gave you her kidney, which means anything she
wants you to do for the rest of her life,
you're gonna have to do it right. Yeah, yeah, Like,
have you tried to act up and then she said,
remember that kidney, and then you had to be like
straighten up, Yeah a few times. Yeah, has that happened?

(01:28:47):
Do you say that to him? Remember when I saved
your life.

Speaker 2 (01:28:50):
Sometimes you have to pull out what you can.

Speaker 1 (01:28:53):
Mate, No, it's an amazing story. How did that make
you feel to be able to save your son's life?
I mean, in a very quantifiable way, an actual part
of you saved him.

Speaker 6 (01:29:02):
Yeah, it was a relief because not everybody is able
to donate to their own child. You think it would
make the most sense, but a lot of families we
know were not approved. So it was a huge relief
to be able to give Aiden.

Speaker 16 (01:29:16):
What do you needed?

Speaker 1 (01:29:17):
Yeah? And Ryan, you got emotional telling the stories anybody would.
Did you think you'd be sitting here like this now
and he's thriving and the family's doing great. I mean
when this was all happening, I mean, what was your
emotion level then? Yeah? It was. It was tough.

Speaker 14 (01:29:30):
I mean obviously, you know, with Christine going into the
surgery and him getting the transplant. I was trying to
keep everybody together, even though I was clearly a mess inside.
But as soon as the transplant was over, meeting the
surgeon and just how he explained the surgery went. I
kind of quickly realized how second nature it was to them,

(01:29:51):
and we were very much in the right place, and
I knew we were going to be okay.

Speaker 17 (01:29:54):
This is the second I talked to this surgeon.

Speaker 1 (01:29:56):
What comes to mind some of the maybe people don't
know that the hospital did for you guys, that really
stands out. Maybe something that people drive into work right now,
they don't they don't realize it's necessary, or a touch
or a feeling of home or something like that, that
that that you remember that changed the experience for you.

Speaker 14 (01:30:11):
I think just what they do to help him emotionally
and mentally through everything. You know, the nursing staff was
was phenomenal and you know, they just want to put
a smile on his face every day.

Speaker 1 (01:30:22):
Yeah, you're in here for for two weeks.

Speaker 14 (01:30:25):
There's not a whole lot to do when you're in
the hospital impatient for two weeks. But the nursing staff
truly felt like family to us. And again they made it,
you know, a much better experience, you know, just having
their support throughout it.

Speaker 1 (01:30:36):
Yeah, and Aiden's sister Ella is here. Are you over this?
Are you? Are you done with this. No, okay, you
see you seem like we need the intention to be
on you a little bit. Here. What's your favorite thing
to do?

Speaker 19 (01:30:48):
Play outside?

Speaker 1 (01:30:49):
Okay, that's good because this thing's all about Aiden and
it's like, hey, let's talk about Ella for a minute, right,
it's right. I think she likes that. Well, guys, thank
you for sharing your story, you know, on the Manta
in here today, and I know you've been making the
rounds and doing it so many times. I'm sure it's emotional,
but we're also happy that the outcome is as you
look great, you're thriving. Don't forget about me when you're

(01:31:09):
a professional Fortnite player, right well, making all kinds of
money you probably will, but don't because I want some
of that money. Okay, Okay, that's good. And be nice
to your mom because well you know, I love I
love that. I mean, it's it all works out, so
I guess now we can we can add some levity
to it, right yeah, Well, thank you guys very much,

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