Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray on WBZ, Boston's new radio.
Speaker 2: Welcome back, everybody. Dan is off for the whole week.
Speaker 2: He'll be back. I'm shooting for August twelfth. I hope
Speaker 2: I'm accurate when I tell you that. And Rob and
Speaker 2: I were just kippetzing while the news is on the
Speaker 2: best late plans. I say that because there was a
Speaker 2: concert last weekend. Casey and the Sunshine Band played there
Speaker 2: and it was to make money for Doors of Change.
Speaker 2: President of that organization is Jeffrey Sitkov and their main
Speaker 2: spokesperson Aaron Murphy. Aaron isn't home at least the answer
Speaker 2: machine kicks him and we call her number. I'm hoping
Speaker 2: whatever's delaying her, we'll be able to get in touch
Speaker 2: with her before the hour is up.
Speaker 3: But Jeffrey, you're here and welcome aboard.
Speaker 4: Thank you so much. And Aaron is trying to get
Speaker 4: through all so give her a call again. She'll be
Speaker 4: able to get it. She'll be able to pick it up.
Speaker 2: Oh okay, so Rob, you heard it. Give Aaron a
Speaker 2: call again, and Jeffrey, let's talk about Doors of Change.
Speaker 2: Tell my audience all about it.
Speaker 4: Well, there's four point two million homeless youth in America today.
Speaker 4: These are youth between the ages seventeen and twenty four,
Speaker 4: of the transitional age youth, so's the most underserved of
Speaker 4: the entire homeless population because people think they're old enough
Speaker 4: they can get by, but they come from such dysfunctional
Speaker 4: families that it's safer to be on the streets in
Speaker 4: their home. Forty percent of the national kids are LGBTQ
Speaker 4: plus they come out and their parents kick them on
Speaker 4: the streets. So you have kids they have no idea
Speaker 4: what to do on the streets by themselves, don't trust anybody.
Speaker 4: And we've been able to house now twenty nine hundred
Speaker 4: homeless youth since two thousand and one in San Diego,
Speaker 4: and we want to get more and more kids out
Speaker 4: the streets because once they trust you, they want to
Speaker 4: get help and want to, you know, succeed.
Speaker 2: But gaining their trust is a big issue because they've
Speaker 2: been abused, they've been downtrodden, they've been harassed by police
Speaker 2: another local law enforcement, and how are you going to
Speaker 2: overcome all the damage those things have done to this
Speaker 2: sense of trust.
Speaker 4: We have in the last three years alone, replaced eight
Speaker 4: hundred and sixty four youth and housing in the last
Speaker 4: three years. We are experts at building trust with kids.
Speaker 4: Once they see that you come through it's your word
Speaker 4: and quickly, and then we you know, we we care,
Speaker 4: We don't judge them, we love them and let them
Speaker 4: come to us when it's they're ready. They're not used
Speaker 4: to that, but very quickly they realize that we're there
Speaker 4: to help them. And that's why we've literally helped thousands
Speaker 4: of kids of the last twenty three years get the
Speaker 4: services they need to be able to get off the streets.
Speaker 2: And I see the content you that you had last
Speaker 2: weekend with Casey in the Sunshine Band. Of the ticket
Speaker 2: sales went to the charity, and that's very rare.
Speaker 4: Yes, it is. We raised over two hundred thousand hours
Speaker 4: in sponsorships because sponsors that see us every year, that
Speaker 4: go to our concerts are actually literally see the youth
Speaker 4: from stage every year, see them their success stories. We
Speaker 4: have so many success stories of these youth and as
Speaker 4: you know, it's very hard to trust today. There's so
Speaker 4: many organizations you know, who do I trust? But if
Speaker 4: they see you every year and they see the success
Speaker 4: stories right in front of them, they realize that we're
Speaker 4: doing is the real deal, and that's why we hit
Speaker 4: over a thousand people there on Saturday night. It was
Speaker 4: the best evoun we've ever done in twenty three years.
Speaker 2: And now we've joined bank eron Aeron Murphy Good Evening
Speaker 2: erin Hello.
Speaker 3: Hello there.
Speaker 2: I was going to lead with you, but I've led
Speaker 2: with Jeffrey and he's gotten across the numbers and the circumstances.
Speaker 4: I know.
Speaker 5: I just heard him to us have.
Speaker 2: Changed now real quick, only because where your fame comes from.
Speaker 2: It is one of the most beloved TV shows ever, Bewitched,
Speaker 2: and most people don't know your backstory. You are hired
Speaker 2: for that show before you even turn.
Speaker 5: Two years old, that's right.
Speaker 2: What do you remember about the process that went into
Speaker 2: you being hired to play Tabitha.
Speaker 5: Stevens, Well, the audition process I've heard about many many
Speaker 5: times over the years. I don't actually remember the audition
Speaker 5: at one I remember shortly after that on set, but
Speaker 5: they were basically doing a nationwide search to cast the
Speaker 5: part of Tabitha. The third season it Bewitched was the
Speaker 5: season I started, and the season that the show turned
Speaker 5: to color, and they really wanted someone who looked like
Speaker 5: Elizabeth Montgomery who could. They wanted the character Tabith to
Speaker 5: be the focus of a bunch of episodes that I
Speaker 5: was lucky enough to be brought in, and also lucky
Speaker 5: enough I have a fraternal twin sister, And while they
Speaker 5: did audition some solo young actors, they were primarily looking
Speaker 5: for twins. So since I have a fraternal twin, we
Speaker 5: were able to get in. And then I kind of
Speaker 5: took over the part shortly after, since we really don't
Speaker 5: look that much alike.
Speaker 2: But I was about to comment, and you said it yourself,
Speaker 2: there was a resemblance. As you get older, three five,
Speaker 2: seven years old, there was a similarity in your look
Speaker 2: to Elizabeth Montgomery.
Speaker 5: Well, thank you. They were actually casting someone to look
Speaker 5: like and as an adult, I probably look more like
Speaker 5: Samantha than I do like Elizabeth Montgomery, if that makes
Speaker 5: any sense at all.
Speaker 3: Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2: Now I'm going to ask you a question, not let
Speaker 2: you answer, because I have a break to take. When
Speaker 2: we come back from the break, i'll let you answer it.
Speaker 2: And I just want to know how did you get
Speaker 2: involved with Doors of Change? And when we come back,
Speaker 2: you can tell us how that amalgamation began of you
Speaker 2: with Jeffrey and that organization. Anyone listening right now, you
Speaker 2: want to call in, you can talk about Doors of Change.
Speaker 2: You can talk to Aaron mix your comments on both
Speaker 2: of those subjects. Six one, seven, two, five, four ten thirty,
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Speaker 3: I am Morgan White Junior.
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Speaker 2: Dan is off for the week. I am Morgan Morgan
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Speaker 3: My guests this hour. You may remember the name of Aaron.
Speaker 2: Murphy from the classic TV series Bewitched to be Witch
Speaker 2: You've Got un You Spell and her friend, her colleague
Speaker 2: Jeffrey Sitkov from Are You Ready? You should write these
Speaker 2: things down, so if you want to make a donation,
Speaker 2: you know to where to send your check. Doors of
Speaker 2: Change and they have locations in La Chicago, Buffalo, DC,
Speaker 2: San Diego and other communities around the country. Aaron I
Speaker 2: asked you, how did you get involved with Doors of Change?
Speaker 5: Well, Doors of Change appeals to almost everything that appeals
Speaker 5: to me. It's an organization that's based on helping children
Speaker 5: and helping the homeless. It's based in California, where I
Speaker 5: was born and raised and still primarily lived. So it's
Speaker 5: the funny story about how I got involved with this concert.
Speaker 5: A very good friend of mine, Anson Williams, who used
Speaker 5: to play potsy on Happy Days.
Speaker 3: I've interviewed Anson, I've had him my station before.
Speaker 5: He's a great guy, very good friend. He had hosted
Speaker 5: their concert last year and he booked a job. So
Speaker 5: whenever someone replaces Antson Williams, they think, oh, Aaron Murphy
Speaker 5: should replace Anson Williams. So I was called aboard by Jeffrey.
Speaker 5: They told me about the organization and I kind of
Speaker 5: jumped in right away. And one of the reasons that
Speaker 5: they were able to donate one hundred percent of the
Speaker 5: because I donated my time.
Speaker 2: Okay, and Jeffrey, how is it that that figure was
Speaker 2: able to be reached, that all the money coming in
Speaker 2: from the case seeing the Sunshine Band concert, and I'm
Speaker 2: sure that everybody clearly remembers do a little dance, make
Speaker 2: a little love, get down tonight.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 2: How is it that you were able to make sure
Speaker 2: all that money was funneled right into Doors of Change?
Speaker 4: Because we have over forty wonderful sponsors that have been
Speaker 4: with us for years, many of them that have actually
Speaker 4: seen firsthand the youth that we help every year. They
Speaker 4: see them grow on stage and they know that it's
Speaker 4: the real deal. And so we raised over two hundred
Speaker 4: thousand hours in sponships this year, which not only took
Speaker 4: care of all the underwriting for the concert in the
Speaker 4: VIP party, but they actually put eighty thousand hours additionally
Speaker 4: into our program. And it allowed everybody that went to
Speaker 4: the concert that their proceeds went to our program because
Speaker 4: everything was taken care of, everything was paid for, and
Speaker 4: of the costs were taken care of.
Speaker 3: Now, what are you going to do next year? To
Speaker 3: talk yourselves?
Speaker 4: We've had in the last four years, You've had Los Lobos,
Speaker 4: Three Dog Night, Ben Harper, Casey in the Sun, Gen Ban,
Speaker 4: all great groups. Yes, no matter who we have, the
Speaker 4: most important thing is that people are going to go
Speaker 4: to be educated about the homeless youth issue. They're going
Speaker 4: to see some success stories on stage, which they're rocky stories.
Speaker 4: These kids overcome all obstacles and it really touches people's
Speaker 4: hearts and then whatever the music is, it's going to
Speaker 4: be great. So every year we just see when we
Speaker 4: can make it happen, but it'll be once a year
Speaker 4: we have our event.
Speaker 2: Good analogy when you say a rocky story, because everybody
Speaker 2: knows that Rags to Riches's story. Yes, and I have
Speaker 2: been to Philadelphia. I have been to the museum where
Speaker 2: his statue. I know it was there that moved and
Speaker 2: brought back again. I've touched that statue yep. And not
Speaker 2: that it has anything. Oh well, see there you go.
Speaker 5: I ran up the steps.
Speaker 3: I didn't do that, Aaron.
Speaker 4: Yeah. I mean just to let you know. One of
Speaker 4: our youth this year, Sergio, not only was he homeless
Speaker 4: because both of his parents were matheadicts, but they actually
Speaker 4: you know, he left the house at fourteen years old.
Speaker 4: Then he came down with uh with lymphoma. Hopkins did.
Speaker 4: He's lymphoma stage four and you know he's close to death.
Speaker 4: He had chemotherapy, everything, and he's still going to college,
Speaker 4: still getting a's in college, wants to be a dentist
Speaker 4: and be a surgeon to help disadvantage youth with dental care.
Speaker 4: That's the kind of youth we help.
Speaker 2: And that's a clear cut, rocky story. I don't know
Speaker 2: if you've heard, but Leam, Massachusetts have had issues primarily
Speaker 2: with immigrants coming looking for housing and hoping to further
Speaker 2: their dream of coming to America. And I'm wondering if
Speaker 2: an overlap of the youth that in these cities you mentioned, Chicago, Buffalo, Washington,
Speaker 2: LA and San Diego, if they have had I don't
Speaker 2: know how to say this, an over influx of troubled teens,
Speaker 2: disadvantage teens that are immigrants, or primarily primarily a system
Speaker 2: to help those American youth.
Speaker 4: We help every use. It doesn't matter where they're from,
Speaker 4: but we you know, most of these kids are throwaway kids.
Speaker 4: Their parents are so dysfunctional, they're drug addicts, alcoholics, they're
Speaker 4: mentally ill, and it's safer for them to be in
Speaker 4: the streets in their home. And you know, it's just
Speaker 4: that wherever they from the between seventeen and twenty four,
Speaker 4: we will help them. And just so you know, we're
Speaker 4: only in San Diego, California. We actually mentored Chicago, Washingt
Speaker 4: d C. And another city, Philadelphia, when we had our
Speaker 4: national walk about ten years ago. But we are only
Speaker 4: in San Diego. That's enough work to do just here alone.
Speaker 4: But we always share, you know, our secrets for free
Speaker 4: with people because we you know, we want to have
Speaker 4: as many kids off the streets as possible, and we
Speaker 4: have a very successful program. So when people call me
Speaker 4: from all over the country, we readily share what we
Speaker 4: do because we want them to help kids in their community.
Speaker 2: How are you doing with the gang situation, because I
Speaker 2: know street kids are just the food. Not to be
Speaker 2: impolite when I say that that gangs are looking for
Speaker 2: to increase their numbers.
Speaker 4: I mean our kids are. Some of them were in
Speaker 4: gangs sometimes it was actually safe for being a gang
Speaker 4: then and they're set you know, on their streets by themselves.
Speaker 4: So it just depends on the situation. But you know,
Speaker 4: we are there to help people that want to help themselves,
Speaker 4: and we will help anybody from seventeen to twenty four
Speaker 4: if they're homeless or on the verge of being homeless,
Speaker 4: we will help them.
Speaker 2: I am reaching thirty eight states and a significant part
Speaker 2: of Canada with my signal. Can people are alluded to
Speaker 2: this about five minutes ago. Can people dash off a
Speaker 2: check to you?
Speaker 4: Absolutely, you know what I recommend is number one if
Speaker 4: you're touched by what you hear with us, we we
Speaker 4: appreciate donations of any mood. Because we are so busy.
Speaker 4: We had to hire a third full time case manager
Speaker 4: of fifty five thousand dollars a year. That's a lot
Speaker 4: of money for a grassroots organization, but we are seeing
Speaker 4: so many. We're seen between one hundred to one hundred
Speaker 4: and twenty five youth a month. That's a lot of kids.
Speaker 4: So they can go to doorsof change dot org. Doors
Speaker 4: is plural. It changed out or I asked going to
Speaker 4: be on the Angel Team. We trademarked the name Angel
Speaker 4: Team from the California Angels and for eighteen dollars a
Speaker 4: month or thirty six dollars a month, they're fifty four
Speaker 4: dollars a month in multiples of eighteen. They can join
Speaker 4: our Angel Team and get a monthly donation. That would
Speaker 4: help us tremendously by getting monthly donations, and again it's
Speaker 4: two hundred and sixteen dollars a year at eighteen dollars
Speaker 4: a month. We appreciate everybody's help.
Speaker 2: Okay, and and we're not to leave you out of
Speaker 2: the conversation. I get the feeling that you truly enjoyed
Speaker 2: your eight yet, well, five of the eight years that
Speaker 2: show was on, you were part of six of fine,
Speaker 2: So you were part of it for six years and
Speaker 2: those were pleasant years for you?
Speaker 3: Were they not?
Speaker 4: Oh?
Speaker 5: Christ, they were wonderful years. I grew up at Unicorns
Speaker 5: and Monkeys and Elizabeth Montgomery and Agnes Moorehead. They were
Speaker 5: great years.
Speaker 2: Did you understand that at an early age the legends
Speaker 2: that you were working with, Elizabeth Montgomery, Maurice Evans, Paul Lynn.
Speaker 5: No go ahead, you could go on and on and
Speaker 5: name names. And I had no realization of their fame
Speaker 5: or their star power until I was basically an adult.
Speaker 5: Because to me, they were my TV family, and I
Speaker 5: loved them like family members. And I knew that it
Speaker 5: was work, but they were my work family, so I
Speaker 5: loved them and did not know how famous they were
Speaker 5: until much later.
Speaker 3: What was the last episode of The Witch that you
Speaker 3: have seen?
Speaker 5: Oh gosh, it's silly, but I don't really watch it
Speaker 5: that often. If it's on somewhere. I would certainly never
Speaker 5: have someone turn it off, but it's kind of like
Speaker 5: home movies to me. I will say that today I
Speaker 5: watched a couple of clips because I'm trying to be
Speaker 5: more active with my Facebook. Everyone is pushing me to
Speaker 5: do that. So since we're in in the midst of
Speaker 5: the Olympics, I watched the episode where they were trying
Speaker 5: to make Tabitha my character and Olympic ice skater. So
Speaker 5: I watched that since there was a gold medalist in that,
Speaker 5: and I posted a little bit on my Facebook, so
Speaker 5: I can say that's the last episode I watched a
Speaker 5: little bit of.
Speaker 2: It and your Facebook. Would you like to share that
Speaker 2: with people? So if they want to communicate with you,
Speaker 2: they can.
Speaker 4: I would.
Speaker 5: But I don't even know the actual name address. I
Speaker 5: know on Instagram, I'm Aaron Murphy Bewitched. I don't know
Speaker 5: if that's what it is. On Facebook, I know it's
Speaker 5: Aaron Murphy, but if you go on it's a public page,
Speaker 5: so it has I don't know, two hundred and fifty
Speaker 5: thousand followers, so.
Speaker 3: You know it's me and Jeffrey. What is the address?
Speaker 3: Electronics as people.
Speaker 4: Can reach us indoorsdors of change dot org, doors have
Speaker 4: change dot org. You'll see a lot of videos of
Speaker 4: the kids speaking. You'll see interviews. It's very powerful. You'll
Speaker 4: see the mosteberties we have. We're blessed to have Billy Joelton,
Speaker 4: John Santana, Bruce Springsteen, we have you know, Lucy Arnez.
Speaker 4: We have Aaron Murphrey, We've got Anson Williams, Who've got
Speaker 4: you know, Jerry Seinfeld. All these people have helped us
Speaker 4: because they trusted us and they see that we're literally
Speaker 4: getting these kids off the streets and they're having a
Speaker 4: better life because of it.
Speaker 2: All Right, I have another break to take and there's
Speaker 2: a newsit with this break, but we'll come back.
Speaker 3: I'll give the phone number again, anyone out there you've
Speaker 3: always wanted to speak to Tabitha. She's here. Eron Murphy six.
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Speaker 1: It's Night Side with Dan Ray w B Boston's news Radio.
Speaker 2: Ben is off tonight. I'm Morgan Morgan White Junior filling
Speaker 2: in and right now, I've got a pair of individuals
Speaker 2: who are philanthropic with their perspective. Aeron Murphy you may
Speaker 2: remember her from the TV show Bewitched. She played Tabitha
Speaker 2: and Jeffrey Sitkov and Jeffrey, did I pronounce your last
Speaker 2: name properly?
Speaker 4: Yeah? Sitgov That's correct, all right.
Speaker 3: I always want to make sure I get somebody's name right.
Speaker 4: Thank you.
Speaker 2: And you are involved with Doors plural rs Doors of Change?
Speaker 4: Yes?
Speaker 3: And what was it.
Speaker 2: About Doors of Change that got you deeply involved with
Speaker 2: working hard for this charity?
Speaker 4: Well, I'm the founder and president. I've been doing this
Speaker 4: from day one, twenty three years ago. I wanted to
Speaker 4: help kids. I went an outreach one night just to
Speaker 4: see I didn't have any idea of their homeless youth
Speaker 4: in our community. When I heard there were I said,
Speaker 4: I've got to check this out, so I want an
Speaker 4: outreach one night, and that night literally changed my life.
Speaker 4: I've been doing it for twenty three years ever since,
Speaker 4: and almost three thousand kids. Now we've gotten off the
Speaker 4: streets because I just feel it's so important these youth
Speaker 4: that no one is helping and they're the future, and
Speaker 4: everybody wants to you know, help homelessness. How do you
Speaker 4: help homelessness? Well, you start by helping the youth that
Speaker 4: are on the streets, because if you can get them
Speaker 4: off the streets, they're not gonna be a thirty forty
Speaker 4: fifty year old. If you take care of when they're
Speaker 4: in the teens, you know what I mean, when they're
Speaker 4: transitional kids. They can be role models for others to follow,
Speaker 4: give them hope that they can get off the streets.
Speaker 2: You were mentioning a success story of he was a
Speaker 2: kid on the street, Sergio, and he's been driven to
Speaker 2: get schooling, attend college, and basically pull himself up by
Speaker 2: his bootstraps. Are there any other success stories you want
Speaker 2: to share.
Speaker 3: With the audience? Oh?
Speaker 4: My god, and Aaron's met some of them. We're so blessed.
Speaker 4: We actually had seven success stories at the event on Saturday,
Speaker 4: and one of the big ones is that Justine. She
Speaker 4: was homeless from twelve to sixteen because her mom was
Speaker 4: an alcoholic and her boyfriend U said, drag her by
Speaker 4: her hair started taking her clothes off. When she was
Speaker 4: twelve years old, she ran away. She joined a gang.
Speaker 4: She felt it was safer with the gang. All I
Speaker 4: can tell you is from our mentoring and from our program.
Speaker 4: She graduated in law school last year.
Speaker 3: Oh, there is a success story.
Speaker 2: And I'm glad you mentioned Justine because I'm assuming it's
Speaker 2: tougher on the women out there, not that boys aren't
Speaker 2: sexually abused, yes, but it's tougher on the women because
Speaker 2: of that issue is normally the first issue to which
Speaker 2: they are exposed.
Speaker 4: Yes, it is tougher on the I mean it's tough
Speaker 4: on everybody, but it is very difficult to have a woman,
Speaker 4: a girl that's seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old, that's
Speaker 4: on the streets. She doesn't trust anybody, and you know,
Speaker 4: it's very difficult. But thank god, we have many success
Speaker 4: stories of girls that you know, that didn't take no
Speaker 4: for an answer and pull themselves up. We gave them
Speaker 4: all the case management, all the whether it's whether it's
Speaker 4: you know, mental illness is a big deal, and mental
Speaker 4: health is a huge deal. So we get them hooked
Speaker 4: up with psychiatrists and psychologists to help them process to
Speaker 4: all the trauma on the streets. And they have to
Speaker 4: do that to be able to get to the next level.
Speaker 4: And so that's a very important part as we work
Speaker 4: on their whole being, you know, so they stay off
Speaker 4: the streets.
Speaker 2: That's the key, right, and Aaron I apologize to ping
Speaker 2: ponging back and forth. But I have to ask this question.
Speaker 2: I remember the spin off of Bewitched Tabitha, and I
Speaker 2: know Lisa Hartman played Tabitha. Did they consider you for
Speaker 2: that role? It was the role you created?
Speaker 5: Well, they couldn't consider me for the role. I was
Speaker 5: only twelve years old. So what happened was it Witched
Speaker 5: was scheduled to go on for two more years. We'd
Speaker 5: actually been picked up and had contracts for two additional seasons,
Speaker 5: and we went away on our hiatus, which is our break,
Speaker 5: expecting to come back. And during that time, Elizabeth Montgomery
Speaker 5: decided she didn't want to do.
Speaker 4: The show anymore.
Speaker 5: So there was still an audience for the show, so
Speaker 5: there were still people wanting to t be Witch. So
Speaker 5: they came up with the tap of the spinoff a
Speaker 5: few years later, and I was still a little kid.
Speaker 5: So the premise was that my character was an adult
Speaker 5: working is a weather girl, and I was much too.
Speaker 1: Young turn it.
Speaker 5: Oh no, that's fine, I was twelve.
Speaker 3: That still should have been us series.
Speaker 5: It's Okay, I adore Lisa Hartman, but I can safely
Speaker 5: say it was kind of a flop. They only did
Speaker 5: one season, right, that's true too.
Speaker 3: And one of my favorites, Barb Yurke, was a regular show.
Speaker 5: Yes he was now the show.
Speaker 2: Which came to Massachusetts to film episodes in the Gloucester
Speaker 2: Salem area. Did you come or I.
Speaker 5: Did not go to Salem when I was a child.
Speaker 5: I did go back to Salem a few years ago
Speaker 5: with TVLand to un sale the TV Landmark statue, which
Speaker 5: is the statue of Elizabeth Montgomery that's there in Lappin Square.
Speaker 5: So I have been to Salem and then I posted
Speaker 5: there Halloween parade there, which is a huge party in event,
Speaker 5: but I didn't go there to some when I was
Speaker 5: a kid.
Speaker 3: Are you scheduled for this October to do anything?
Speaker 5: I'm actually not. I'm taking this October off. Halloween is
Speaker 5: a big month for anything related to be wished. But
Speaker 5: I'm at a place in my life where I'm kind
Speaker 5: of picking and choosing the things I support and participate in,
Speaker 5: and it's more about family and travel and that part
Speaker 5: of my life. A little bit of work here and
Speaker 5: there too.
Speaker 3: I wish you were, because I would love to take
Speaker 3: you to lunch.
Speaker 5: Oh that's wait, I'll let you know the next time
Speaker 5: i'm there.
Speaker 2: All right, my dying, I'll treat you to lunch. There
Speaker 2: are plenty of great eateries and this neck of the woods,
Speaker 2: if they're like seafood, you're all set.
Speaker 5: I love secret and I love that side of the
Speaker 5: country absolutely.
Speaker 3: All right. Well, let me go back to Jeffrey and Jeffrey.
Speaker 2: Yes, of all of the sister agencies that have worked
Speaker 2: with you, can you name one or two or three
Speaker 2: of them? Yeah?
Speaker 4: Well sure. We actually have sixty seven partnerships with people
Speaker 4: in our community because, you know, for us to get
Speaker 4: the best results for these youths, if they're domestic violence,
Speaker 4: we're refermed to domestic violence, If they have been you know,
Speaker 4: if they have all alcohol problems, refer them to alcohol,
Speaker 4: they have drug issues, all these different things that we
Speaker 4: refer to. We have many housing partners that have housing
Speaker 4: and so, you know, it's really important we're not in
Speaker 4: competition with each other. We're there to help these youth
Speaker 4: have a better life, get them off this streets because
Speaker 4: it's a win win for everybody. And so we're just
Speaker 4: so blessed to have you know, the people that we
Speaker 4: work with, all the different agencies. Again, there's sixty seven
Speaker 4: of them and we are blessed to you know, have
Speaker 4: them partner with us. And one of them is Lucky
Speaker 4: Duck and they are a very successful organization in town.
Speaker 4: Peter Seiler, who passed away last year, he was the
Speaker 4: owner of the San Diego Padres. He was on the
Speaker 4: board of directors and they have helped us tremendously. But
Speaker 4: there's many, many other organizations besides Lucky Duck that have
Speaker 4: helped us. It's just, you know, together we're helping get
Speaker 4: these kids a better life for themselves with hard work.
Speaker 4: They have to work hard. And by the way people
Speaker 4: are listening, they go, you know, why should I give
Speaker 4: the San Diego These kids come from Boston, they come
Speaker 4: from Buffalo, where I'm from. They get from Washington, d c.
Speaker 4: Because they can't be outside in the winters there's too cold,
Speaker 4: so they come up west. And so we have kids
Speaker 4: from all over the United States that we treat from
Speaker 4: you know that live in San Diego now, but they're
Speaker 4: from Boston, etc. They're all over the place. So that's
Speaker 4: why we'd be wonderful if you could help help us.
Speaker 4: And also I'm sure there's some good organizations in Boston
Speaker 4: area with homeless youth that you can help support them.
Speaker 2: Also, that is very true, very very true. And the
Speaker 2: thing that I find still decades later disgusting that the animals,
Speaker 2: human animals that are at the train stations, that are
Speaker 2: at the bus stations waiting for a kid getting off
Speaker 2: a bus in a city they know nothing about San Diego,
Speaker 2: they know nothing about Los Angeles. They are fourteen, fifteen,
Speaker 2: sixteen year olds getting off the bus, and they prey
Speaker 2: for these vermin who are looking at these kids as
Speaker 2: dollar signs.
Speaker 4: Yep.
Speaker 3: And I wish there was something that could be done
Speaker 3: about that.
Speaker 4: Well, you can, you can help us. We can them
Speaker 4: off the streets. That's why you know, we we actually
Speaker 4: go on the on outreach four days a week. We
Speaker 4: put up signs everywhere and let them know what the
Speaker 4: resource that we can give them, and they call us
Speaker 4: by the droves just checking, you know, can I get
Speaker 4: a free computer? Can I get you know, phones? And
Speaker 4: if they want to help us, you know, if they
Speaker 4: want to help with themselves with case management, we'll bend
Speaker 4: over backwards to help them. And so you know, it's
Speaker 4: just it's one person tells another kid. You know, I
Speaker 4: was helped by Doors of Change. They can help you.
Speaker 4: So we have many kids that refer their friends to
Speaker 4: us because they see the success that we've given them
Speaker 4: and they want their friends you have the same. So
Speaker 4: you know, anybody can go to Doors Have Changed dot
Speaker 4: org and look look at the interviews on there, you know,
Speaker 4: look at the celebrities that have helped us, and please
Speaker 4: because these kids, I mean, if we can get them
Speaker 4: off the streets, they really can be role models. Just
Speaker 4: like Aaron saw seven role models. These kids that are
Speaker 4: three of them are now thirty five years old. I
Speaker 4: knew when they were eighteen years old, and their role
Speaker 4: models for others to follow. They give hope to homeless
Speaker 4: kids that you can break the cycle. But they also
Speaker 4: give hope to our community that your donations really can
Speaker 4: save life.
Speaker 2: And I wish I could tip my hat to you
Speaker 2: face to face, and if you ever come to Boston, Harlan,
Speaker 2: who is Aaron's agent, has my number, get.
Speaker 3: In touch with me.
Speaker 2: I would love to meet you face to face and
Speaker 2: shake your hand for the good work that you've done.
Speaker 4: Thank you. I tell people it doesn't matter if you're
Speaker 4: touched by this. If you don't take action and even
Speaker 4: give a ten dollars donation, it's doing nothing, you know
Speaker 4: what I mean. You've got to do something if you're
Speaker 4: touched to make a difference. If you just touch it ow.
Speaker 4: I love what they're doing, but you don't participate, what
Speaker 4: is it doing for the world, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 4: So that's why join our Angel team for eighteen bucks
Speaker 4: a month or give a one time eighteen dollars donation
Speaker 4: or whatever. It doesn't matter. Eighteen by the way, means life.
Speaker 4: And since we're bringing life to homeless kids, we do
Speaker 4: things in donations of eighteen. We raise seven million dollars
Speaker 4: by doing in donations of eighteen.
Speaker 2: Let me take my last break of the hour, and
Speaker 2: when we come back, remind me to tell you about
Speaker 2: a personal story for me lineage of my family involved
Speaker 2: with the Salvation Army. And on that note, time and
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Speaker 1: Now back to Dan Ray live from the Window World
Speaker 1: Life Sight Studios on WBZ News Radio.
Speaker 3: This is Nightside.
Speaker 2: Nightside happens every Monday through Friday, eight to midnight, whether
Speaker 2: Dan Ray is here or not. Dan's on vacation. August twelfth,
Speaker 2: I think is the target date of his return. My
Speaker 2: name is Morgan. Morgan White Junior. Been a part of
Speaker 2: the BZ fabric for I'm Gonna Ball Pocket around nineteen
Speaker 2: ninety five. And on that note, sil goat erin Murphy
Speaker 2: here and Jeffrey Sitkov and the charity is Doors of Change,
Speaker 2: and I'll have Jeffrey give the information on how you
Speaker 2: can dash off a donation before we wave goodbye at
Speaker 2: the top of the hour. Aaron, I have another Bewitched
Speaker 2: related question. I know you were there, as you mentioned,
Speaker 2: for six years, and you met all kinds of people,
Speaker 2: both in front of and behind the camera. Unfortunately most
Speaker 2: of the people who were in front of the camera
Speaker 2: have passed on. But did you make any friends on
Speaker 2: that show that the friendship has lasted.
Speaker 3: Up to now?
Speaker 5: I made a bunch of friends on that show. I
Speaker 5: stayed in touch with our main cast, but we also
Speaker 5: had guest stars who were closer to my age. So
Speaker 5: Danny Bonaducci, who was a former child actor, was on
Speaker 5: the show with me twice and I have remained friends
Speaker 5: and actually did Pulk Hogan's Celebrity Wrestling Together a few
Speaker 5: years ago. Also Johnny Whittaker, who was on a show
Speaker 5: called Family and there back at the time. He played
Speaker 5: Jack and the Beanstock on an episode, and I saw
Speaker 5: him last week, So I definitely have stayed in touch
Speaker 5: with people from the show besides the main cast, right.
Speaker 2: And I knew that you had to have some friendships
Speaker 2: because you're spending five, six, twelve hours on set and
Speaker 2: you make friends.
Speaker 3: It's just the news of the business.
Speaker 2: Now, did you I know, not when you first started
Speaker 2: at age two and three and four, but at what
Speaker 2: age did you have to attend a class as well
Speaker 2: as master alliance?
Speaker 5: Very early? I was enrolled in kindergarten at four, So
Speaker 5: I started school on the set when I was four,
Speaker 5: and then if there would be an ajor in the
Speaker 5: week that I wasn't, I would go back to my
Speaker 5: regular school. So I was on school from four years
Speaker 5: to eight years.
Speaker 3: And how did the kids in your regular school treat you?
Speaker 2: Were you a little celebrity or Aaron's gone again to
Speaker 2: film that stupid show.
Speaker 4: You know what?
Speaker 5: Everybody was really nice to me. Sometimes you hear about
Speaker 5: child actors and they have negative experiences outside of the business.
Speaker 5: But maybe because I'm a nice, cute girl. I don't know,
Speaker 5: but everybody was nice to be throughout the running of
Speaker 5: the show. After when Bewitched was over, I didn't have
Speaker 5: any negative experiences based on being a child star. And
Speaker 5: I'm saying that in quotes you can't see me.
Speaker 2: What other work did you do episodic TV or theater
Speaker 2: after your days.
Speaker 5: I'm Bewitched a little bit of everything. When the show
Speaker 5: was over, I can continue doing a lot of commercials,
Speaker 5: and I went back to school, So I mean I
Speaker 5: I was a cheerleader. I was home heavy queen. I
Speaker 5: had a very well rounded childhood outside the business, and
Speaker 5: then as an adult, I returned to doing things in
Speaker 5: the business. I worked as a television host for a
Speaker 5: bunch of years, did some still in radio work. I
Speaker 5: do a lot of voiceover now, so I do a
Speaker 5: lot of looping. So if you watch the most recent
Speaker 5: The Batman movie, which was a pretty big film, I'm
Speaker 5: in that. I'm the weather girl. I'm a newscaster. I
Speaker 5: do a lot of voiceover work, and I still do
Speaker 5: a lot of infomercials and things like that, but cherating documentaries,
Speaker 5: all kinds of stuff.
Speaker 3: Did you ever meet June Foray, who was one of these.
Speaker 5: I did, absolutely.
Speaker 2: She and I share a birthday. I miss her terribly.
Speaker 2: She passed away about a decade or so ago, and
Speaker 2: she was the best in the business. And I'm looking
Speaker 2: at a photo of her right now. One of her
Speaker 2: anime friends animated about three or four dozen characters that
Speaker 2: she supplied their voice and her pictures in the middle,
Speaker 2: and you see an insert of talking Tina from that
Speaker 2: Twilight Zone episode and all the characters she did, the
Speaker 2: Siamese cats from Lady in the Tramp We as Siamese
Speaker 2: if you please, And I don't know if you can
Speaker 2: get your hands on that photo. She sent me a
Speaker 2: copy of it, and I truly miss her to this
Speaker 2: very minute, in this very day.
Speaker 5: She was a lovely lady. I knew her also.
Speaker 3: Yes, now, Jeffrey, I'm going to tell you a story,
Speaker 3: true story.
Speaker 4: Sure.
Speaker 2: My grandmother had two children, my mother and my aunt.
Speaker 2: They lived in New York. In this particular holiday season,
Speaker 2: it was hard time to my grandmother, and there were
Speaker 2: trials and tribulations that prevented her from having a happy holiday.
Speaker 2: Somebody told a member of the Salvation Army in her
Speaker 2: neighborhood that Mary was having a tough time. She had
Speaker 2: two daughters, and the Salvation Army brought food and presents over.
Speaker 2: My grandmother told me that story, and every year up
Speaker 2: to the last year, I look for supermarkets or places
Speaker 2: where you've got the Santa Claus on the corner, ringing
Speaker 2: that bell.
Speaker 3: With the red pot, and I always.
Speaker 2: Make sure I put a little something in that pot
Speaker 2: every year. That's just the way I look at the
Speaker 2: Salvation Army for coming to the aid of my family
Speaker 2: way back.
Speaker 3: When are there people that do that with you?
Speaker 4: Yes, we have donors that have been with us for
Speaker 4: over twenty years and we just had our biggest donor
Speaker 4: passed away two weeks ago. Who you know, just an
Speaker 4: angel of angels and he's with us for twenty years.
Speaker 4: But in Vonda Webb, we can't thank him enough. I
Speaker 4: know he's in a good place right now, and I
Speaker 4: know the legacy he left behind. He's helped us with
Speaker 4: twenty five hundred homeless kids getting off the streets. What
Speaker 4: kind of karma is that?
Speaker 3: There you go and.
Speaker 2: Karma always comes back whether you do well, if you're
Speaker 2: doing a good deed or you're doing a bad deed
Speaker 2: and you want to be a good person and it
Speaker 2: comes back. Usually you don't recognize it until it chills
Speaker 2: up or after it's gone. So when's the old saying goes?
Speaker 2: A colleague broadcaster has a salutation, be good so you
Speaker 2: can do well, that's a Jordan Rich statement and he's
Speaker 2: a colleague of mine here in WBZ, And that's what
Speaker 2: you got to do. Do the best you can to
Speaker 2: help help somebody.
Speaker 4: Yeah, make a difference in the world.
Speaker 2: And I've got to say to you, thank you. Is
Speaker 2: your organization represented in Boston at all?
Speaker 4: No? I mean, well, we have kids from Boston and
Speaker 4: we've helped. But no, again, I'm from Buffalo. Whether it's Detroit,
Speaker 4: New York, you know, Philadelphia, Chicago, et cetera. There is
Speaker 4: homeless kids throughout the United States four point two million.
Speaker 4: So don't think this is you know, not in Boston
Speaker 4: or in Chicago, whatever. It's all over the place. And
Speaker 4: that's why you can help organization. We can be the
Speaker 4: template to show other communities listen, do what they're doing.
Speaker 4: It's working. We can help the kids have a better
Speaker 4: life and get them off the streets.
Speaker 3: Tell everybody again your website.
Speaker 4: Sure it's doors of Change dot org. Doors is plural
Speaker 4: d O O R s of change dot org. You
Speaker 4: can make a donation of any amount and please, I
Speaker 4: really appreciate you, you know, doing something so we can
Speaker 4: have a better life for these kids. They have to
Speaker 4: work hard, this is not easy, but we give them
Speaker 4: the opportunity and we help them. We're like advocates. We're
Speaker 4: almost like their parents because their parents are not functioning,
Speaker 4: you know, it's parents, so we really become like their parents.
Speaker 4: And we need we need to help more kids because
Speaker 4: we're getting great results. But there are so many kids
Speaker 4: that would benefit from our service. And that's why. That's
Speaker 4: why I'm so appreciative of Aaron to take the time
Speaker 4: out of our busy schedule, you know, to come and
Speaker 4: be a co EMC for our event. You know, she
Speaker 4: has been angel of angels. I'm so appreciative of her help.
Speaker 3: Aaron tell people again you a web.
Speaker 5: Side information and once again I'll say I should know
Speaker 5: it and I don't. If you google Aaron Murphy, everything
Speaker 5: will pop up. I'm on Instagram and Facebook and Twitter.
Speaker 5: Since I've refused to convert to X it's still Twitter
Speaker 5: on my phone. Everywhere on social media, you can find me, Aaron.
Speaker 3: Do me a favor.
Speaker 2: Tell Harlan I thank him profusely for coordinating this absolutely.
Speaker 2: All right, good luck to you, Jeffrey, good luck to
Speaker 2: you and the organization. Time Aaron, BZ all right, next hour,
Speaker 2: we're going to talk about our national parks with old
Speaker 2: Buddy Dixie here.
Speaker 3: On night side. Time and temperature nine fifty eight eighty
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