In 2006, Megan's Mountain has
been touching the lives since
2006 of those affected by cancer
in the Kentucky Anna area.
Their big fundraiser Dreams in denim.
Coming up August the 19th.
Joining us here in the Great Day Live
studio is Jerry Steinberg with Megan's
Mountain and Susan Sweeney Crum,
a longtime supporter and board member.
And I knew you're coming on.
So warm on denim.
Perfect. We got to talk about this.
Thank you all so much.
We're stopping by to talk about this,
and I was very touched by,
I was not familiar with the background
of how Denny met Megan many,
many years ago.
And it's almost like they were
in cahoots to to kind of come
together to raise awareness long
before she was ever diagnosed.
Well, when she was about 12 years old,
we had a men's club dinner and Danny
was a speaker. And I took Megan,
and everybody got their name in a jar.
And whoever won got assigned basketball.
Megan won. And so she stood up next
to Coach Crum, and he signed the ball.
When he got done, we stayed longer.
He was ready to leave.
He walked to the door and he stopped.
And he came back and he talked to her.
So that picture that we had of
him signing the ball was on her
bedroom night stand forever.
And then when she was diagnosed,
I thought, you know, what if I call,
maybe he'll take the time to call me
on my cell and he could talk to Megan.
So I called his office.
I talked to Judy as secretary.
I explained the situation.
I said if he can just call.
He was in the Denny Crum Joby
Hall radio show at the time.
She called me back two hours
later and she said, I'm sorry,
he cannot make that phone call.
He'll meet you tomorrow at the
elevator at Jewish Hospital at 1:00.
And he went up to see her.
And I always kid her.
It's a love story that lasted 11 years.
It sure
did. You know, and Susan,
it's so great to see you.
And I think, you know,
just it just it's emotional
to read about because I think
it speaks to his his heart,
his soul. And it's been
20 years since they started
the foundation even.
So he and he we intended this
when we had to cancel it
because of COVID this event.
You know the plan was he was going
to be there for it and was going to
be you know he would be honoring Megan.
So since he's not there now
it's kind of turned into. So
now we are going to honor Megan
and we're going to honor Danny.
And I love. I mean you're a board member.
You're a long time supporter too
to have you kind of carrying out
his legacy his wishes in so many
ways that's well it's important
to him. It was Megan was important
to him in the cancer foundations
any of them he's always give me.
He always visited people who
are in the hospital and so
had such a heart for that.
So I mean we love Megan.
We love Jerry and and the foundation.
So whatever we can do to
continue to support it.
You know people like Megan have great
ideas and want to make a difference,
but you can't always get that
step into the front door.
And he opened that door,
but he not only opened it,
he stayed with her.
And so we were able to do things
that normally you couldn't do.
And and Megan's idea was and and
then it was not to just not research,
but to touch people to
give them what they want.
We we support camps where kids can
go to camp for a week for free.
We bought blanket warmers and
recliners for the Brown Cancer Center.
You know, things that you would not think of.
And one of the things that Megan did,
I always tell people Danny always said
she was so far above ahead of her time.
She would go to Cozier Children's
Hospital all the time.
And one day she said, you know, Dad,
the biggest problem is the mothers
are staying with the children 24/7
because kids don't want to be alone.
Dad's at home working.
He's probably there for a week,
Doesn't always come.
They don't have a laundry facility near it,
goes there.
So she gets on the elevator,
goes to the CEO's office
and waits to see him.
The next thing you know,
we're putting in a washer and dryer in a
room right next to the oncology floor.
And you know,
it's those kind of things that make
that make a difference and that's
what she that's what she did and
they're still able to kind of
help make that difference with
all those little things that
maybe we wouldn't think of. You
know, we. Yes. Yeah, we follow.
I follow her guidance and I follow
Danny's guidance. Yes, yes.
And so we we try to make a difference
for people because all cancer patients
are not alike and we're not talking about
like the different types of leukemia.
We're talking about somebody who can't
afford a gas money to get from their
house to to their treatment center.
Our can't stay overnight,
so we try to do that and if we
can like 1 person's mountain,
then we're ahead of the game.
You have your big event coming up.
Oh yeah, August the 13th,
August 19th, August 19th, yes.
Tell us about what we can expect there
because the tickets are still available.
We want you to go. And you
know what? There are a few tickets available.
But if you go to the site and
you go all the way down where
it says you can contact us,
you can put in your name and phone number,
I'll figure out how to get a seat for you.
Yeah. But it's going to be great.
It's a there's a open bar,
there's dinner, there's sound auctions.
And I'm going to tell you not to take pride,
but I think we have the best
sound auctions around. Really.
There's a lot of stuff
and entertainment from the kids. And
we have. We have. Yeah.
And this was Megan's idea.
People that go don't always
know where their money goes.
So we bring in children and we're
going to bring in one adult and
they're going to see them sing.
These are kids that have
fought cancer and and you know,
they want to perform.
They want people to know who
they are and that they're strong
and they're going, yeah.
And then we have a live auction
and one of the things that you
can get is a week at the Denny
and Susan's home in Idaho.
So yeah, and then we have,
there's all kind of live auctions
and and you can go to the website.
You can go to actually to
bidpow.net/megan 23 and
look at everything we have.
I love this picture of Denny and Megan.
We just had it up there.
It is just absolutely gorgeous. Yeah.
To see that. Right. They were they were it
was a special team right. You know I say
special team right here.
Special team right here
and Megan are looking
down saying look at these
two carrying this
on. I believe they'll be there's amazing.
I believe they'll be there. I think
so too. So I get your tickets.
And I mean, Susan,
I wanted to thank you for coming on.
We I, I've reached out to you and
said here at HAS in great day life,
we continue just to pray for you and
and thank you for all you're doing to
kind of keep Denny's light out there,
you know, and leading by example.
He is hard to follow
because he was good. I mean, well,
so much of, I mean just to be a part of this
and continuing to show kindness to people,
isn't that the most simple thing of
what we can do for what Megan did?
Right. There's her example. Yeah.
You had quite a daughter. Yeah.
Thank you. Thank you, you all.
Thank you so much.
We're going to remind everybody
that Dreams and Denim is coming
up August the 19th at the point.
It's from 6 to 10. The cost is 150.
But you heard it right here.
He's going to squeeze you in.
We're going to get you a chair.
We're going to get you in the door so
you can be there to support this cause.
Just go to megansmountain.com to get
those tickets and to find out more.