When Homer Simpson joins in, you know you’ve gone viral.
Although the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge has raised awareness about the disease and a lot of money, there’s so much we still don’t know about it – thus the need for a campaign like this one.
Homer challenged Donald Trump who actually dumped water on that thing on his head, proving that his hair really looks like that! I hope that dump also included a hefty donation!
My favorite is still this 2-year old
I’m pretty confident in guessing that most people didn’t know what ALS was before this month of ice water dumping. Sadly, I knew. I knew about ALS because someone I knew and admired fought the disease and, eventually, succumbed to it.
I first met Eric Lowen in the early 1990’s. He was the “Lowen” half of the duo Lowen & Navarro who wrote amazing songs and sang beautiful harmonies together. Eric was diagnosed with ALS in 2004, and lost his battle in March of 2012.
For the past few months, I’ve been running interviews and performances from my music radio days on Friday mornings as a bridge to the weekend. Today, as ALS is in the news and Eric Lowen is on my mind, I reached out to my dear friend Dan Navarro and invited him to join me to talk about all of it, and share in listening to one of our in-studio sessions from December of 1999 too.
Dan Navarro has continued as a solo artist, and has worked to educate others about ALS with the goal of someday helping to eradicate this awful disease. He’s also fully immersed himself (figuratively and literally) in the ALS ice bucket challenge. You can see some of his work on his Facebook page.
It was a busy first hour of the show too. Jim Dean joined me to talk about the great work Democracy for America is doing. They’ve recently endorse Shenna Bellows in her race for the US Senate against Susan Collins of Maine, Mary Burke for Governor of Wisconsin (vs the evil Scott Walker), and more.
And Jason Leopold, who couldn’t get to Guantanamo Bay this week through no fault of his own (damned weather gods) but has landed firmly and deservedly at Vice News, joined me to talk about his reporting on Gitmo, national security issues and the fact that his persistence in filing FOIA requests has put him squarely inside the story about Sen. Dianne Feinstein trying to delay the release of the CIA torture report.
And with that, it’s the end of the week, the month and, sadly, the summer. I’ll be taking Monday off for Labor Day, but will return Tuesday to kick off the fall with GottaLaff… cuz we gotta laugh, or else we cry… and whatever else the weekend brings. Talk to you then, Radio or Not.
