- As a part of Drew's News,
we'll be interest (mumbles)
As a part of Drew's News we'll be interest...
Its like Steve Carell in Anchorman.
My favorite, he's like (mumbles)
we'll be introducing you to some special correspondents.
And the very first Drew's News correspondent
I want to introduce you to is a young man
who captured my heart last year
when we first got to know each other.
Take a look.
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Jonah Larson,
oh he is such an amazing soul.
And he's the preteen crocheting phenom
taking the needle point world by storm.
Jonah and I met last year
when we did the pilot.
And we became fast friends.
Look!
Remember, back when we could hug?
Jonah's wise beyond his years.
He authored his first book at 11
and he helped create a new library in the Ethiopian village
he was born in.
- Thank you Jonah. We love you.
- He is an inspiration to me
and I think we have so much to learn from him.
He's so knowledgeable too
and he has great taste in movies, and TV.
He's so well read.
The award winning, life affirming,
cross stitching, Drew's News correspondent
Jonah Larson.
(audience cheering)
Please welcome,
my dear friend and now our friend,
Jonah Larson!
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Jonah we're really doing it!
We're finally here!
What a journey,
are you excited?
- Oh! I'm super excited and it has been an amazing journey.
I know ever since, I met you on that pilot show,
that day you were so inviting and I sat down with you
and chatted and chatted about our hopes
and what we wanted to do.
And our love of books, and libraries.
And really helping others.
And ever since then,
I've been so thankful to be a part of your adventures
and journey.
And it's been a wonderful experience.
And I've really enjoyed being able to have you as a friend.
- Oh Jonah,
by the way I seem like the younger kid
sometimes when we're together.
Just FYI everybody.
I mean, you're just so wise and smart.
And I just, you know, I love your mind and your taste,
you're also this, you know,
crotchet, award winning crotchet genius.
And so, do you wanna just talk about that really quick.
To introduce that very important aspect of your life.
- Oh yeah.
It's a big story of how crotchet's help me.
I'll start off when I was five years old,
it was a happy accident.
I found a crotchet hulking in a bag of crafts,
and watched a YouTube tutorial on a dish cloth.
And I made that dish cloth in about an hour,
and I still have it and use it today.
But I fell in love with it,
it was so therapeutic and calming,
and a really fun way to relax my very active mind.
And I've just always loved it for the next seven years
because I'm 12 now.
And it really really helped me in school,
because up until fifth grade,
I was really rascally.
Although my mom,
may say more of an extreme word,
I call it rascally.
- Well.. - For example,
for example in third grade,
I took a big bucket of paint
and I poured it all over the floor in the art room
and then I backed up and slid through around my belly
like a penguin.
And I have to say,
as rascally as that was,
so it was really really fun.
- Do we have any time?
- And another benefit is that I got to become
really good friends with our school custodian.
And that sort of gives you an idea
of what kinda rascally things I did.
- Well we... - But in fifth grade,
my teacher, Mrs. Quick,
allowed me to bring my crotchet into school
and I put it in my desk the next day,
and when I finished my assignment early as usual,
I brought it out and crocheted away,
and my mom never picked me up from school again.
So, she was really happy about that too.
- Well guess what Jonah,
we're gonna have more stories
and you're gonna be our great correspondent
and I cant wait for all the good things that we're gonna do.
So, stick around everybody.
Reese Witherspoon is next.
Jonah, I just love you so much.
I can't wait for (audience cheering)
all our adventures.
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