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00:22Welcome to The Kelly Clarkson Show.
00:26I'm Tara Lipinski.
00:29And I'm Johnny Weir, and together we are your guest hosts for today.
00:35Oh my God, Johnny, I am so excited for this, guys.
00:37I know. I can't believe we're here. Hello, everyone.
00:39I know. So how do you think we should open our first guest hosting show?
00:43Wow. Has to be good.
00:44Well, to be fair, I have been prepping my rendition of Because of You.
00:49You did not tell me this.
00:50Because you wouldn't be ready for it, and I don't think the audience is either.
00:53So we have to think, what would Brian Boitano do?
00:56Right. What would Brian do? Do you guys know?
01:01What would Brian Boitano do if he was here right now?
01:05He'd make a plan and he'd follow through.
01:07That's what Brian Boitano do.
01:08When Brian Boitano was in the Olympics skating for the gold.
01:12He did two South Pals and a triple Lutz while wearing a blindfold.
01:15So what would Brian Boitano do if he were here today?
01:19I'm sure he'd kick an ass or two. That's what Brian Boitano do.
01:27Okay guys, but I definitely think Brian would start with music.
01:31More music specifically from Kelly Clarkson.
01:35I think so. So here is a Kelly Oki encore.
01:38It's Kelly and her band with The Middle by Zedd, Maren Morris, and Gray.
02:09Kelly and her band with The Middle by Zedd, Maren Morris, and Maren Morris, and Maren Morris, and Maren Morris.
02:12So why don't you just leave me in the middle?
02:17I'm losing my mind just a little.
02:21So why don't you just leave me in the middle?
02:25In the middle.
02:29Looking at you, I can't lie.
02:32Just pouring out ambition, regardless of my objection.
02:36No.
02:38It's not about my friend.
02:40I need you on my skin.
02:43Just come over, put me in.
02:45Just, baby, baby.
02:48Oh, why don't you just leave me in the middle?
02:52I'm losing my mind just a little.
02:57Oh, why don't you just leave me in the middle?
03:01In the middle, middle of my heart.
03:06Oh, why don't you just leave me in the middle?
03:10I'm losing my mind just a little.
03:15So why don't you just leave me in the middle?
03:19In the middle.
03:25Give it up for Kelly and her band, Y'all.
03:30All right, let's get our first guest out here.
03:33If you've seen the Lord of the Rings, Star Wars,
03:35or the Planet of the Apes films in the last few decades,
03:37you've likely seen our first guest,
03:39whether you recognize him or not.
03:41He is the genius behind the motion-capture acting
03:44that created memorable characters for a film,
03:46including King Kong and Gollum.
03:49My precious.
03:51That is scary.
03:52I knew you were going to do something like that.
03:54You're welcome.
03:55His latest film, which he directed and stars in,
03:57is an animated retelling of the George Orwell classic Animal Farm.
04:01It's in theaters now.
04:03Please welcome everyone, Andy Serkis!
04:28Yeah!
04:28This is so exciting. We are pumped.
04:31You're our first guest.
04:33Oh, wow, really?
04:34Yes!
04:34Oh, that's exciting.
04:35We've never hosted a talk show before, so that is a pleasure.
04:38We're happy too.
04:40Well, I just want to say congrats on Animal Farm.
04:42I'm so excited for this.
04:45I have a two-and-a-half-year-old.
04:47We'll watch it together.
04:48Some stuff, I'm assuming, will go overhead, but I am all in.
04:50So tell me more.
04:52It's based on Orwell, right?
04:54It's absolutely.
04:55It's based on the book by George Orwell, Animal Farm,
04:58and it's a modern adaptation of it.
05:00And we've been working on it for about 15 years.
05:03Wow.
05:04I read it when I was on the bus to school,
05:07and I was so taken with the story.
05:09I'm sure many people here have read it.
05:11Who knows Animal Farm?
05:12Yeah.
05:12Wow.
05:13It's a classic.
05:14So it's the story of animals being treated really badly
05:18and then rebelling against the farmer
05:19and then setting up this wonderful bucolic utopia,
05:23which then falls apart because the pigs decide
05:26that they're more important than anybody else.
05:28Right.
05:28Speaking of, there's a new character named Lucky.
05:31Can you tell us about him?
05:32Yes.
05:32So the way that we wanted to create this story was,
05:35in the book, you don't have any sort of main character
05:37to follow as such.
05:39The pigs are rather sort of offstage characters.
05:41So we created a character called Lucky,
05:43who's played by the incredible Gaten Matarazzo.
05:46Ooh!
05:47Is that a stranger thing?
05:48Yes!
05:50And basically, he is a young piglet
05:52who grows up knowing that he is an animal,
05:55like all the other animals,
05:56but then gets corrupted by Napoleon.
05:58And so we follow his journey to being corrupted
06:02and taken under his wing,
06:04and then he finally realises he's made the wrong choices.
06:08So it's so that we can...
06:10For young children who are watching this film,
06:13and this is going to be a family film,
06:14and although it's a very dark story,
06:16we've constructed it in such a way that it's cross-generational
06:20so kids can watch it with their parents and grandparents.
06:22That's what I love.
06:23And I feel like now I'm a first-time mom,
06:25so she's two-and-a-half,
06:26but I feel like even watching anything,
06:28she picks up so much and it's so valuable
06:31when these lessons are taught like that.
06:33Yeah, and so it's all about creating a discussion.
06:35And so seeing the world through this young piglet's eyes
06:37who becomes corrupted and then has to realize
06:39that he's made wrong mistakes,
06:42it's a really great way of starting a debate,
06:45and that's what we wanted to do with our version.
06:47Gorgeous. And I know that there's...
06:49You've got an all-star cast,
06:51and I know some of me and T's favorites are in the film.
06:53Oh, my gosh. Jim Parsons.
06:55Jim Parsons. We've got Jim Parsons.
06:57We've got Glenn Close.
06:58We've got Woody Harrelson.
07:00We've got Seth Rogen.
07:01We've got Laverne Cox.
07:03Tell me about Seth Rogen.
07:05Tell me about Seth Rogen's laugh.
07:08Because I've never met him in real life,
07:09but I think I would just be so...
07:11Enamored.
07:11...over the moon and enamored
07:13to hear him laugh in real life.
07:14Especially for someone who is so well-known
07:16for your voice work.
07:17How does Seth laugh?
07:18Yeah, pretty much. Can you recreate it?
07:22Actually, he does it much better than that, obviously.
07:25Honestly, the cast are incredible,
07:27and they all came on board
07:28because they were passionate about the book
07:29and wanted to tell this story, so, you know?
07:32Did you have any pets growing up,
07:34or do you have pets now?
07:35I had a pet...
07:36I was quite a rebellious kid,
07:37and I actually, when I was young,
07:40because my dad lived abroad,
07:41and so my mom was bringing up kids all on her own,
07:44and I decided to make her life a bit more difficult
07:48by going out to the pet shop
07:50and buying a gerbil without her knowing.
07:53And without permission.
07:54Yeah, I kept in my room for a long time in a shoebox.
07:56I was about seven or eight years old.
07:58Okay, just walked in and was like,
07:59I'd like a gerbil, please.
08:00I'll take the gerbil.
08:01I took the gerbil,
08:02hit it in a little shoebox,
08:04and then she went ballistic
08:06when she found out that, you know,
08:08that what was going on.
08:09Oh, my gosh, my mom would, too.
08:10She used to take it to school in my pocket,
08:12put it in my desk.
08:12She used to chew up all my books.
08:14Oh, how cute!
08:15We should get one.
08:16Just take it around travel.
08:17Absolutely not.
08:18Just like when we're commentating
08:19right on the booths, it's right there?
08:20Yeah.
08:20I've got them here, actually.
08:22Well, it's a family show.
08:24We've stayed right.
08:25Okay, well, it is time for some commercials, guys,
08:29and we have someone in the audience to help.
08:31Hi, Tara and Johnny.
08:32I'm Bess.
08:33Andy, you are a legend in my household.
08:35From Gollum in Lord of the Rings
08:37to Caesar in Planet of the Apes
08:39to your work in Mowgli, Legend of the Jungle,
08:41we're just obsessed.
08:42I can't wait to see you bring more creatures to life
08:45in Animal Farm.
08:46Stay here.
08:47Tara and Johnny have more with Andy after this.
08:57Ah, pigs.
08:59Are you in charge?
09:02Look, between you and me,
09:04I want you animals to stay on this farm.
09:08Am I right?
09:09And to do that,
09:11you gotta pay the bank money.
09:16Now, this magic paper is money.
09:21You must give me a thousand magic papers
09:24every month for the next 30 years.
09:27Because if you don't,
09:29I'll have to sell it to Pilkington.
09:33Welcome back to The Kelly Clarkson Show.
09:36I'm Tara Lukenski.
09:37And I'm Johnny Weir.
09:38And we're here with Andy Serkis,
09:39whose new film Animal Farm is in theaters now,
09:42nationwide.
09:45So tell me, why did you want to adapt this particular book?
09:49I just found it's such an incredible allegory
09:52and it speaks to our times.
09:54It's a really important story about the corruption of power
09:58and about misinformation and disinformation.
10:00And considering George Orwell wrote it, you know, 80 years ago,
10:04this is the 80th anniversary, actually, of the book.
10:07It's so relevant.
10:08It's eternally relevant, this book.
10:10And it's such an important piece of literature.
10:12But also, we wanted to, as I say,
10:14it really wanted, we wanted to make it
10:16so that it would speak to an audience now,
10:18a young audience.
10:18Yes.
10:19And when you're that passionate,
10:20you're gonna make that come through.
10:21But I love this other passion,
10:23fun fact I heard about you.
10:24So you actually wanted to paint.
10:27How did that lead then to acting?
10:29Well, yeah, it's a long story.
10:30But I was obsessed with painting when I was about seven years old.
10:35Gerbils and painting.
10:36Gerbils and painting.
10:39And that was what I wanted to do.
10:40I wanted to have some sort of job in the arts.
10:43And my parents were like, no, you're gonna get a proper job.
10:45And then I continued painting.
10:48But when I went to college,
10:49you had to do another course in the first year.
10:52So instead of just visual arts, I did theatre studies.
10:55And then I started making props and posters for theatre shows
10:58and so on.
10:59And then I started to do a little bit of acting.
11:01And then I gradually got into acting.
11:03And by the end of my first year,
11:04I phoned up my parents and I said,
11:05it's okay.
11:06I'm not gonna be an artist.
11:08I'm gonna be an actor.
11:09Why?
11:09Were they a little on the fence about it?
11:12They were not even on the fence about it.
11:13Okay.
11:15They were like a tumbleweed when I told them.
11:18I feel like it's a similar thing to raising athletes,
11:21where it's kind of like dicey,
11:23like, oh, our kid's gonna have a future.
11:24Yeah, I want to win the Olympics.
11:26Yeah.
11:27But lucky for you, acting led you to a full family affair,
11:31including your wife, who we know from The Crown,
11:34we know from Bridgerton, Lorraine Ashbourne.
11:36Round of applause, please.
11:39When did you all meet?
11:40How did you come together?
11:41We met at a theatre called the Royal Exchange in Manchester,
11:44and we actually got together on a play,
11:47but we didn't get together just normally.
11:50We, as ourselves, we were actually improvising characters
11:53that we were playing.
11:54So we thought the characters that we were playing
11:56were going through a split up.
11:57We thought it'd be really important to improvise how they got together.
12:00So we met in character on a night out in Manchester,
12:04at Manchester Piccadilly Station,
12:05and we met in a pub in character,
12:07and it just went on and on and on.
12:10And that night, you know, we'd had a few, you know,
12:12it was kind of all going well in character.
12:15And then gradually we had a kiss in character.
12:18And then, actually, I wasn't feeling too well
12:20because I'd drunk too much and I threw up in character.
12:24We got on the bus, we went home, and we went,
12:26oh, dear, I don't think we can spend any time
12:28apart from each other after this,
12:29and we've been together ever since.
12:30Oh, my gosh, that's so incredible.
12:32You role-played your first date.
12:36Yeah.
12:37Now, Dahlin is a really important character to me and my family.
12:40We're huge Lord of the Rings fans.
12:42So...
12:42Yeah, his mom and dad, huge.
12:44Yeah, I mean, they've got tattoos.
12:46Lord of the Rings-inspired tattoos, truly.
12:48And Elven Leaf and the tree,
12:49I forget what the tree's actual name is.
12:51Oh, from Gondor, of Gondor.
12:52Gondor, yes, the tree of Gondor.
12:53But Gollum was probably my favourite character
12:57from Lord of the Rings,
12:58aside from Orlando Bloom, you know, and Legolas.
13:02But where did Gollum's voice come from?
13:06I think that's important for me to know right now.
13:08Yeah, okay, well, forgive me,
13:09but it was actually based on my cat.
13:14My cat was called Dears,
13:16and when I was trying to work on the physicality of...
13:19When I first was going to audition for Lord of the Rings,
13:21I thought, I can't just pull a voice out of thin air.
13:24I don't know, I've got to base it on something.
13:25And obviously it was the psychology of the character
13:27and understanding where his tension was held
13:29and his guilt at killing his cousin and all of that.
13:32But it was just like, how do you...
13:34Where does the voice come from?
13:35And then my cat, Diz, literally came into the kitchen
13:37where I was sort of thinking about things.
13:39He started to cough up furballs.
13:41And I was watching his spine and it was sort of going...
13:46So that became...
13:51I did not know that. That's amazing.
13:54I can't even talk to you anymore.
13:56You just made my whole day.
13:57Do you take it?
13:58Okay, so I also hear that you climb mountains.
14:02That feels very adventurous. Tell me more.
14:04I was obsessed with climbing from quite an early age.
14:08It was, again, based from a book I read on the bus.
14:11I had my journey to school was always on a bus
14:13and that was where I read Animal Farm for the first time.
14:15It was where I read The Hobbit for the first time, actually.
14:18But this book about the ascent of Everest,
14:20the first ascent of Everest, really, really kind of enraptured me.
14:24And so I just started by going to sort of local hills
14:31and did a little bit of rock climbing.
14:32And then gradually we started a club at school
14:34and I went to Scotland and the Lake District
14:38and then to the Alps.
14:39And then it just stayed with me.
14:41That's my place.
14:42My happy place is up in the mountains.
14:43You kept finding the mountains.
14:44Is there a dream mountain that you haven't climbed yet?
14:46Well, there's an amazing mountain in the Himalayas
14:49called Amadablam, which is about 26...
14:51I think it's 26, 27,000 feet,
14:52which I would really like to go back and climb.
14:55I've been to the Himalayas with my family,
14:57just trekking, just going up to the Everest base camp.
15:00But I really want to go back and climb that mountain.
15:03Please just be careful.
15:04Yeah, be careful.
15:05We could talk to you literally all day.
15:08Thank you so much.
15:09But we have to do some more commercials.
15:11So everybody, give it up for Andy Serkis.
15:15Animal Farm is in theaters now
15:18and look for Andy's memoir coming out this fall.
15:20We'll be right back with Levet.
15:36Welcome back to The Kelly Clarkson Show with Tara Lipinski and my bestie Johnny Weir.
15:41Hey, girl. Can you believe we're here?
15:43It's so fun.
15:44Our next guest is a hugely talented musician.
15:47She's a two-time Grammy winner
15:49and one of the youngest people ever to win the award
15:51for Best Traditional Pop Vocal Album.
15:55She was also a 2025 Time Woman of the Year honoree,
16:00and now she's just released her first kids book.
16:03It's called Maymay the Bunny, and you can find it wherever books are sold.
16:07Everybody say hello to Leve.
16:28We're so excited to have you.
16:30Oh, I'm so excited to be here.
16:31Obviously, watching Alyssa skate to your music at the Olympics was a highlight for us.
16:35Yeah.
16:35I mean, Promise has been in, like, my top ten playlist for two years now.
16:39It's...
16:40It was all so amazing seeing Alyssa skate to it.
16:43It just, like, brought this whole new meaning to the song.
16:46And it was...
16:47It was just so lovely.
16:48And, yeah.
16:49I love my song.
16:50I mean, we've been aware of you for a long time because of Alyssa's skating.
16:54But for everyone watching that doesn't know, Olympic champion Alyssa Liu skated to Promise
16:59by Leve at the Olympics en route to winning the Olympic gold medal.
17:07We're here to talk about a special book, though.
17:11And I want to ask how long you've been working on it.
17:13I've been working on it for well over two years now.
17:16Wow.
17:17And it's Maymay.
17:18So Maymay is inspired by a stuffed animal, right?
17:22I mean, everyone loves a stuffy.
17:24Yes.
17:24How do you explain this?
17:25Well, I'm...
17:25So I'm born the year of the rabbit.
17:27And I'm half Chinese.
17:28So I always had a lot of rabbits around me growing up.
17:30And everybody gifted me rabbits growing up.
17:33So I had...
17:34Yes.
17:35Oh.
17:36I had a little rabbit that is in no state for public appearances.
17:42As many stuffies that have lasted many years.
17:45They can often be like that after 26 years.
17:48But...
17:48Wait, is it the same stuffy?
17:50It's the same stuffy, but...
17:52Just, like, sewn up.
17:53Maymay is like a...
17:54You had to fix it.
17:55Maymay is a newer version.
17:57Newer and improved.
17:58No.
17:58I would never say that.
17:59Um...
18:00She's a little different.
18:01And, um...
18:03It's kind of like my alter ego, I feel like.
18:05But like a children's version.
18:06Amazing.
18:07Do you still sleep with a stuffed animal?
18:09No.
18:10But my daughter does.
18:11And it looks so comforting that sometimes I take hers.
18:13I'm like...
18:13I think I've, like, reverted back to being a child since growing into this career.
18:18Because now I go home from tour and I'm like, my bunny.
18:22I don't think I've ever grown up.
18:23I still sleep with my panda that I got at my first trip to New York when I was 12.
18:29And I got him an FAO Schwartz and I still have him.
18:31He's filled with beans.
18:32He's heavy.
18:32I can't sleep without him.
18:34Um...
18:35But, you know, the story is compelling because it's all about mistakes.
18:40Yeah.
18:41And how...
18:42Like, tell me about the story and why...
18:45Like, why you relate to Mei Mei.
18:47Well, I grew up playing classical music and studying music.
18:50So I've been on a stage since I was very young.
18:53And I think one thing that it's really taught me to do is to overcome both performance anxiety,
18:59but also kind of reframing mistakes.
19:03And, you know, mistakes don't always have to be this life-ending terrible thing.
19:07I think we learn a lot from them.
19:09And I think also, you know, going on stage, having that buzz, those butterflies in your stomach,
19:14that can often be a good thing.
19:17And people often ask me now, like, how to overcome performance anxiety.
19:22And I always say, like, one of the biggest ways of overcoming performance anxiety is
19:28understanding that mistakes are okay and they don't really change anything.
19:32As long as you stay on stage and push through, sometimes it can just be a part of the beauty
19:37of it.
19:38It's probably just...
19:40It's probably for all performers because that's so similar to skating, the nerves and the adrenaline.
19:47And when I was little, I used to be so afraid of it.
19:49I would want to push it away.
19:50And then, like you said, eventually I worked with a sports psychologist who told me,
19:54just, like, let it be there.
19:56They're there to help you.
19:57The nerves, that means you're excited and you're about to have fun and it's gonna make you better at what
20:01you do.
20:01I think, like, if you're not nervous, then you don't care about it enough to be putting yourself in that
20:06position.
20:06Yeah.
20:07So completely relate to that.
20:08There is a melody, Mei Mei's melody, at the front of the book.
20:12Yes.
20:12Did that come before the book or after?
20:14It came after the book.
20:16Amazing.
20:16So I always knew I was going to write a melody, but I needed the story to guide me a
20:19little bit.
20:20And I thought it needed to just be a piece that reminded me of my childhood, of what I practiced
20:26growing up.
20:27And I really wanted it to be inspired by Beethoven because he's one of my favorite composers.
20:32But also, Mei Mei's pet bee is called Beethoven.
20:36Ah.
20:38I love it.
20:38So wait.
20:39Yeah, I feel like.
20:40Is this too much?
20:41We were talking about this.
20:42We have a piano right over there.
20:43Would you play a little for us?
20:49I will turn my back.
20:51Okay, that's it.
20:51That's it.
20:52I will turn my back.
20:54Off you go.
20:58Yay, thank you.
20:59This is like a very simple eight bar melody, so I hope no one's expecting it.
21:03I love eight bar melodies.
21:07All right.
21:08Okay.
21:09Get it, girl.
21:10Here we go.
21:10You know what?
21:11If I mess up, am I not just telling the story of the book?
21:14Like, mistakes are right?
21:15We will dance theatrically.
21:17If there's a mistake, we will cover it.
21:19Yes.
21:19We'll cover for you.
21:20You just start...
21:21We'll just like...
21:22We're just gonna glide and twirl.
21:24Yeah.
21:25Okay.
21:26You'll do a triple axel.
21:27For you.
21:28Certainly.
21:28Yes.
21:28Okay.
21:28All for you.
21:55You are so special.
21:59So special.
22:03Thank you so much.
22:04We have to stop down for a short break.
22:06You can find May May the Bunny wherever books are sold.
22:09We have the story of an organization very close to my heart coming up next, though.
22:14So stay right here.
22:27Welcome back to The Kelly Clarkson Show.
22:29I'm Johnny Weir.
22:30And I'm Johnny's best friend, Tara.
22:32And we're filling in for Kelly today.
22:34So some of you guys may know I'm a mom.
22:38And yes, this is my daughter, Georgie.
22:41Look at her go.
22:42Who's learning to skate right now.
22:44She's fearless.
22:45And Johnny is so proud of this.
22:47Absolutely.
22:49But my journey to get to Georgie was very difficult.
22:53My journey to motherhood was extremely hard.
22:56And I struggled with fertility for years.
22:59I had countless miscarriages and surgeries and a lot of loss before Georgie was born through
23:05surrogacy, which I'm so grateful for.
23:07And personally, I was really lucky to have all of those resources.
23:12And I'm well aware that not many people always have that opportunity, especially when their
23:18health is at risk.
23:19And our next guest is the founder of The Chick Mission.
23:21It's a nonprofit that helps preserve fertility for women diagnosed with cancer.
23:25And that makes her a rad human.
23:33She's also a cancer survivor herself.
23:35Please help us to welcome Amanda to the show.
23:40Thank you so much for being here.
23:43And, you know, I know that this is...
23:46Personally, I know about what you do.
23:49So, but I want to tell everyone else.
23:50It's an incredible organization.
23:52And can you explain why it's so very, very important?
23:56So, as you may or may not know, young adult cancer is on the rise.
24:02And although that is really scary, survivorship is also on the rise.
24:05So when you think about your full life after cancer, you want that option to become a parent.
24:12And one of the things that is sort of a lesser known thing that people talk about is infertility.
24:18So if you have chemotherapy, the quality and quantity of your eggs can diminish quite rapidly.
24:23And so we are the Chick mission.
24:25We're all about helping young women with cancer preserve their fertility, cover the cost of egg freezing.
24:30Because it can be very expensive.
24:32It could be.
24:32I mean, egg freezing, I've done it myself many times.
24:35It's $20,000 just to go through that process.
24:39And I just think it's, you know, for someone like me who was trying to become a mom for a
24:45half decade,
24:47without going through a medical journey that many women face through cancer, fighting for their lives,
24:53and then afterwards when they want to rebuild their life and build a family and look forward and hopefully have
25:00children,
25:00if they don't have that option, that's just more loss on top of loss.
25:05So, I mean, you're just changing so many people's lives.
25:08So thank you.
25:09Yes, thank you for what you do.
25:12This was inspired by your own cancer journey.
25:16Tell us about that.
25:17Yeah.
25:18I was diagnosed not one, not two, but three times in my 30s.
25:23And it took my breath away.
25:25You know, it was the third time I was diagnosed, the prognosis was really good.
25:30But I was still scared.
25:33It was the moment where I actually had fertility benefits and went to freeze my eggs.
25:37And the insurer told me that I didn't qualify because I wasn't infertile yet.
25:42Yeah, it is just so much work needs to be done in this area and especially because it's not only
25:50emotionally draining,
25:52physically draining, but financially, the cost.
25:56So what are the financial requirements for the program and how exactly does that work?
26:01You know, it's need-based, but we try to be really generous because it costs $15,000 to $20,000
26:06to freeze your eggs.
26:07So if you're a single woman, $150,000 or less will make you qualify if that's your income.
26:14If you're a couple, $250,000 or less, you would qualify for one of our grants.
26:20Which is, it can change so many people's lives and build families.
26:25And I know that you're also doing something that actually I'm involved in and that's fighting to change fertility laws.
26:32I actually was just on Capitol Hill fighting for this, demanding that we get this insurance.
26:38But go on.
26:43All of our voices matter.
26:46Our state and federal politicians, they want to hear from us what's important, what's important to the future.
26:52And so we've gone state by state and lend our voices and our stories and the stories of our grant
26:59recipients to legislators to tell them,
27:02we can band together and change this.
27:04And so far, 21 state laws have changed.
27:07We're part of a broader coalition that has just worked tirelessly to get this done.
27:12And we're currently working on legislation in both Arizona and Pennsylvania.
27:17So if anybody in this audience, you guys, anyone that you know, you can sign a letter of support.
27:23It takes 15 seconds.
27:24Yeah, just sign the letters.
27:25It's amazing.
27:26I'm...
27:26It's so efficient.
27:28It's an efficient way to change.
27:31We do need to take a short break.
27:33And when we come back, we'll meet a mom who just had her first baby, thanks to the Chick Mission.
27:51Welcome back to The Kelly Clarkson Show.
27:54I'm Johnny Weir.
27:55And this is my dearest friend in the world, Tara Lipinski.
27:58And we are here with Amanda, the founder of The Chick Mission, which helps women diagnosed with cancer pay for
28:04expensive fertility treatments.
28:06And we're also now joined by Rebecca, who turned to The Chick Mission after her cancer diagnosis.
28:11Okay.
28:11So you always wanted to be a mom.
28:14Was it a dream that you had from being a little girl or where did that come about?
28:19Yes.
28:20I come from a big Italian Irish family.
28:23I have multiple cousins on both sides of the family.
28:26And I actually grew up with all of my cousins, aunts, and uncles, siblings on one piece of property.
28:31So a big family was always something that I saw for myself.
28:34Therefore, fertility was always at the top of my mind.
28:37I was 28, as single as could be, and really wanted to make sure that I could have kids.
28:44So I went to the doctor and got just a regular checkup, and then came back with an abnormal pap
28:50smear.
28:51Long story short, it ended up being cervical cancer.
28:54It was tumor-based.
28:55I had to move very quickly.
28:56It was a fertility preservation-type situation, and I got recommended by a friend to reach out to The Chick
29:04Mission.
29:05They saw my story, read my file, and really just stepped in with no questions asked, and really just, like,
29:14was there with me and just said,
29:15OK, we're going to do this, we're going to preserve your option to be a mom while you're also dealing
29:20with this life-threatening illness.
29:21I'm sure they were cheerleading you the whole way through, but we understand something unexpected happened in the middle of
29:26your journey.
29:27Yes.
29:28Five days after my egg retrieval, I met my husband, which was really the last thing that was on my
29:33mind.
29:33You're, like, 15 pounds heavier than you want to be from IVF treatments, and then our mutual friend Ashley set
29:41us up, and we just hit it off, really, right away, and moved very quickly.
29:46We both wanted a family.
29:47We knew that it was going to look a lot different for us than most people.
29:51We didn't know how long it was going to take, so we met.
29:54We fell in love.
29:54We got married on New Year's Eve of 2024, and we now have a little baby boy, Tino, who was
30:01just born in January.
30:03Congratulations!
30:03Congratulations!
30:05Oh!
30:05It's amazing!
30:06That must be so exciting for you, right?
30:10Like, when you get the call or you hear the news that something that you did, you know, two years
30:15ago, or whatever it was, that little embryo then that you were able to create is now Earth's side.
30:21I can't even imagine how rewarding.
30:22It's crazy.
30:23I mean, we have 13 babies from our program so far, and every time one arrives, I just lose my
30:29mind.
30:29I know.
30:29Okay, but that's not the only exciting news.
30:33No.
30:34Everyone likes to say that me and my husband go from, like, zero to 100 very quick, and we really
30:39hit this one out of the park.
30:40We, because of my situation and how we didn't know how long everything was going to take, it was a
30:46very high-risk pregnancy, so we didn't know if it was going to be successful or not.
30:49We did surrogacy simultaneously, and our gestational carrier is pregnant, and we are welcoming our second.
30:57Wow!
30:58Wow!
31:00Congratulations!
31:01I did surrogacy, too.
31:03Yes, it's a very different journey, and I'm sure it was very challenging, and I can understand all of those
31:09nuances, but to be able to have two embryos from my egg retrieval with Chick Mission now become my kids
31:17is really something that I couldn't have imagined.
31:19I know you definitely have.
31:22Yes.
31:24And I feel like you may have a very special message for Amanda.
31:27Yes.
31:28I just want to say thank you to you and to Chick Mission because, like I said, it, you know,
31:33you stepped in immediately, gave the money, gave the medication.
31:36They are literally shipped to your house, and you become a doctor very quickly, and they were shipped to my
31:40house, but the fact that you and Tracy and all of Chick Mission heard my story, were on my team,
31:47were on my side, and now have given me two little babies is really just something that I could never
31:52thank you enough for.
31:57Can we hug you guys?
31:59Can we please hug?
32:01Oh.
32:04Well done.
32:05Congratulations.
32:06Thank you so much for what you did.
32:10Oh.
32:11Well done.
32:12Okay, so we just, come on to Kelly Clarkson's show.
32:14Right.
32:15It's fine.
32:16Okay, but I have some more exciting news.
32:19The owners of Lola Blankets created their company in memory of their mom, Amy, during her cancer battle.
32:25Amy's blanket brought her so much comfort, and before she passed, Amy gave each of her kids a blanket to
32:31always feel her love.
32:32To help you give more women hope for the future, and in honor of their mom, they're donating $5,000.
32:42Thank you so much.
32:45Thank you for everything you've done.
32:47Congratulations.
32:48That's amazing, wonderful news.
32:49But guys, let's take another quick break.
32:51We have an exclusive performance with the singer-songwriter, Gurley, next.
33:07Welcome back.
33:09Our next guest is a London-based singer-songwriter whose songs cover topics like queer love, feminism, and mental health.
33:15Her sound is a blend of many genres, including pop and rock.
33:19Her cutting-edge lyrics have gained her a dedicated fan base worldwide, performing her protest song,
33:24Slap on the Wrist, from her upcoming album, It's Just My Opinion.
33:27Give it up for Gurley!
33:31If I could be king for a day He wouldn't fill me up on the train
33:37I never have to spit in his face I take my shot off and run down the inner state
33:44You could be the queen for a change Got a little taste of my pain
33:49Your eyes on your drink on the first date Walking home alone when it's dark in the rain
33:56They said it's my fault But when he got caught
34:01Guess it's a big bad world For a pretty young girl
34:07So I got my key that I missed Just in case you persist
34:14Cause once I didn't wanna kiss And all that he got was a slap on the wrist
34:20And all that he got was a slap on the wrist
34:36Switch parties, we could trade plays You could put the makeup on your face
34:42Hey girl, what's up? She was drunk, he was scum How the hell were you turned on?
34:47They said my purity's gone But when he took me gone
34:53Guess it's a big bad world For a pretty young girl
35:00So I got my key that I missed Just in case you persist
35:06Cause once I didn't wanna kiss And all that he got was a slap on the wrist
35:13If he were me today Tells me you'd feel the rage
35:18They blame it on my outfit And all that he got was a slap on the wrist
35:26If he were me today And all that I wanted was the right to exist
35:28And all that I want was to walk with no risk
35:32And all that they said was my case was dismiss
35:35And all that he got was a slap on the wrist
35:44Cause once I didn't want to kiss
35:47And all that he got was a slap on the wrist
35:50If you don't need for a day
35:53Trust me, you feel the rage
35:56They banged on my outfit
35:59And all that he got was a slap on the wrist
36:03If you don't need for a day
36:36One more time, give it up for My Girlie
36:38Her new album, It's Just My Opinion
36:40Drops Friday, wherever you get your music
36:43And you can see her on tour starting next month
36:45We'll be right back with What We're Liking
36:58We've had so much fun this hour, haven't we, Jay?
37:00I've had an absolute blast
37:02Oh my gosh, but before we go
37:04Let's share a fun story from the world of social media
37:07This is what we're liking
37:12It's not just ice skating and fabulous outfits that bond us
37:15Some people don't know this
37:16But Tara and I are actually both
37:18From the Philadelphia metro area
37:20Really? Whoop whoop!
37:21Can we hear it for Philly?
37:23That's a very, that's like a golf club
37:24That was a week
37:25Let's hear it for Philly!
37:27Go Philly!
37:28Go Philly!
37:29She's a little bit better
37:30But that's why we love this next story
37:33Two friends help run a non-profit that uses goats to teach wellness and community engagement
37:39It's called the Philly Goat Project
37:41And their mission is to provide accessible wellness activities in nature
37:44They even bring the goats into the city for different events
37:46So say hi to our friends Karen and Leslie
37:49Who watch on NBC 10 Philadelphia
37:53Hi guys
37:54So where did you come up with this idea?
37:57Because it is genius
37:59Oh, thank you so much
38:01And we're so honored to be with you guys today in our favorite city
38:06I came up with this because I'm a social worker
38:09And I was working with families who were struggling
38:11For 30 years I was doing this kind of work
38:14And it was very isolating
38:15Both for me and the families
38:17A lot of families and people who were suffering
38:20Really were isolated
38:22And I thought about what were ways to get people outside in nature
38:26Even in the middle of the city
38:28Which we are in Germantown
38:30And I thought animals bring people together
38:32And we have 13 amazing goats
38:34And what we do with our goats is pretty cool
38:38Because we have now over a million people
38:42That we have impacted through our programs
38:45And our motto is Goats for the Greater Good
38:47And we do a lot of good stuff with our beautiful, very versatile goats
38:53They're so cute
38:54They're so cute
38:55Can you introduce us to some of them?
38:57Yeah, what's that guy's name?
38:58Yeah
38:58This guy is Ray
39:00Hey Ray
39:01He looks needy
39:02Is he needy?
39:04But he is doing amazing
39:06Most of our goats are named after famous Philadelphians
39:10Who made the world a better place
39:11Ray is named after Ray Pace Alexander
39:14Who was the first African American circuit court judge
39:16In the United States
39:18We also have
39:22A lot of people don't know that Billie Holiday was born in Philadelphia
39:27So this is Holiday named after Billie Holiday
39:32And I could go on and on
39:35This one I would love to introduce though
39:37This is Joy
39:38Come on Joy Joy
39:39This is Joy
39:40As she runs away
39:42Bye Joy
39:42She's named Joy
39:43Because that's what we want people to take from our program
39:46Well thank you so much
39:48Karen and Leslie
39:49It was so fun meeting you
39:50And your friendly beautiful goats
39:53Okay
39:54So we are liking your post
39:57Right this second
39:59But that's not all
40:00Our season long partner Pilot Pen
40:02Makers of G2
40:03The go to pen
40:04Of the Kelly Clarkson show
40:05Want to honor your mission
40:07Wait a minute
40:07This is our pen
40:09No lie guys
40:10We use this pen
40:11And specifically this pen
40:12Only this pen
40:13Only this pen
40:14But they will be writing
40:16The Philly Goat Project
40:18A check
40:18For $1,000
40:20Woo
40:23It's amazing
40:25Well thanks to all of our guests this hour
40:28Andy Serkis
40:29Leve
40:29Amanda
40:30Rebecca
40:30And our goalie
40:32As Kelly always says
40:34Have a great day
40:35And if it's not
40:35Change it
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