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Donations Pour in for Sick Boy After Dad Jokingly Responds to Accidental Text
After a father gave a good-natured response to a text from a wrong number, donations have started pouring in for his son’s cancer treatment.
It all started when a woman named Syd accidentally texted Tony Wood with a picture of herself wearing an evening gown in a department store.
Wood, who is a father of six kids in Spring Hill, Tennessee, responded to the photos by saying: “I believe this message was intended for someone else. My wife isn’t home, so I couldn’t get her opinion, but the kids and I think you look stunning in your dress! You should definitely go with that one!”
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Not only that, but he also sent a photo of his kids all giving a reassuring thumbs up.
Syd’s friend Mandi Miller posted the exchange to Twitter where it immediately went viral.
Syd accidentally sent pics of her dress to the wrong number and this was their response ? pic.twitter.com/SWmcqSFiqh
— Mandi Miller ❂ (@bbymandi) March 8, 2018
Shortly after Miller posted the photos, social media users found that there had been two people missing from the photo of the happy family. Wood’s wife and his son Kaizler had both been at the chemo clinic when the photo was taken.
Kaizler lives with leukemia; a kind of cancer that affects blood and bone marrow. For the last 26 months, the Wood family has been trying to raise money for Kaizler’s chemo treatments.
Before the tweet of the accidental text went viral, the last donation that was made to the GoFundMe page was from four months ago. Then, a Twitter user posted a link of the crowdfunding page to social media earlier this week – and the donations have been pouring in ever since.
“Some Twitter users joined my son’s Facebook group and took the initiative to post the GoFundMe link themselves,” Wood told Good News Network. “It has been insane! The last I checked we’ve had over $19,000 donated since this all started.”
Over the course of the last few days alone, the funding page has now raised over $35,000.
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Wood says that he first created the campaign 26 months ago because – even though most of Kaizler’s treatment being covered through Medicaid – the disease still came with its fair share of money problems. Although the most recent slew of donations has ensured that he and his family won’t have the same issues in the future.
“All of our financial struggle has come from loss of time at work, travel, and all the other myriad expenses associated with fighting this disease.
“I saw some comments on various articles where people were talking about how awful it was that we had to worry about this situation due to our healthcare system. When we were at Children’s Mercy, their setup combined with Medicaid has taken care of all of our medical expenses in that regard.”
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Wood still expresses his gratitude for the internet’s outpouring of support. Kaizler, on the other hand, is apparently pretty unfazed by the whole thing.
“I don’t think Kaizler really realizes all of the attention he’s getting. We brought it to his attention, but he’s 6, so it was pretty much a ‘oh, that’s cool!’ response,” Wood told GNN.
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‘Humans of New York’ Makes History Raising $1Mil in 4 Days to Build Housing For Rohingya Refugees
Brandon Stanton, the mastermind and photographer behind the Humans of New York series, has made GoFundMe history by raising over $1 million for Rohingya refugees in just 4 days.
The money will be used to build housing for the thousands of refugees crossing into Bangladesh from Myanmar.
According to Stanton’s GoFundMe page, each house will cost roughly $630 to build and can hold a family of six. The houses will be assigned to the most vulnerable families based on their status with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
“The houses we are helping to build are special. They are made of bamboo. They have two bedrooms, which will allow a small degree of privacy and dignity for large families. They have a kitchen area. These things sound simple, but under the current conditions, they represent a huge leap in comfort and security.”
Stanton created the fundraiser in partnership with Love Army, a collaborative charity organization made up of YouTube creators, actors, and celebrities. The group was created in March 2017 by social media star Jerome Jarre as a means of raising money for the Somalian famine. They have also raised $9 million for the heroes of the Las Vegas shooting.
Since creating the organization, Jarre has “quietly spent the last several months on the ground in Bangladesh” helping with the refugee crisis.
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GoFundMe says that the campaign has also become one of the fastest campaigns to raise $1 million in the company’s history.
“Love Army has partnered with the American Refugee Committee and local NGOs such as OBAT Helpers to make sure that every dollar is spent in the most effective way. The houses are being built by refugees themselves, so even the labor costs are funneled back into the community. All of Love Army’s overhead costs are covered through privately sourced funds, which means 100% of your donations will go directly to the construction of houses!”
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Comfy Armchairs Pouring in For Animal Shelter So Every Pet Can Have a Spot
A no-kill Illinois animal shelter now has more armchairs than a furniture store thanks to an adorable 10-second clip that has gone viral.
The Knox County Humane Society in Galesburg posted a plea on social media asking for viewers to donate their old armchairs so their dog and cat residents could have comfy places to sleep while they wait for their forever homes.
Not only that, but they supplemented the request with a quick video depicting three of their canines – Mickey, Tango, and Goober – lounging in some elegant chairs.
“The shelter pets absolutely love their chairs! If anyone has any older chairs they no longer want, please think of the shelter pets!” read the caption for the video.
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Since posting the pawesome video, the shelter has received dozens of chairs, all of which will go towards housing their animal residents. The Galesburg shelter can reportedly hold up to fifty cats and fifty dogs.
The shelter workers first got the idea for the scheme when they gave a pup named Buster Brown the job of guarding the front desk. While he was posted in the lobby, Buster refused to leave his spot on a chair.
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The volunteer staff liked the idea of being able to keep their animals comfortable while they lived in the kennels – so they reached out on social media.
Thanks to their successful furniture campaign, other shelters around the country are asking for similar donations.
(WATCH the video below)
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On Women’s Day, Government Launches Biodegradable Sanitary Pads
In honor of International Women’s Day, the Indian government has just launched a line of biodegradable sanitary pads that will soon be sold to women of all ages and demographics.
The “Suvidha” pads, which will be sold for Rs. 2.50 a pop ($0.15), are going to be made available in 3,200 Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan Aushadhi centers across the country.
The centers are a part of the country’s Department of Pharmaceuticals campaign to make medications and prescription drugs available to the masses for affordable prices.
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The cheap, oxo-biodegradable napkins will especially be welcomed by underprivileged women who have voiced their dissent towards India’s 12% tax on feminine hygiene products in the past.
According to NDTV, Ananth Kumar, the Union Minister for Chemicals & Fertilizers and Parliamentary Affairs, said: “This affordable sanitary pad will promote hygiene, ease of disposal as well as keep the environment clean.”
The pads will be released into stores nationwide on May 28th – which also happens to be World Menstrual Hygiene Day.
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Mark Hamill Gets Chewbacca Hug From Harrison Ford, and a Star on Hollywood Walk of Fame
Earlier this week, Star Wars actor Mark Hamill was honored with his own spot on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
In addition to being joined by George Lucas and Harrison Ford from the original sci-fi franchise, Carrie Fisher’s daughter Billie Lourde and Kelly Marie Train from The Last Jedi also attended the ceremony.
Ford, who also has a spot on the Walk of Fame, teased his old co-star with the opening of his speech by saying: “There was a lot more people that showed up for my star… a lot more.”
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Ford praised Hamill by calling him “a master of his own life” and “a quiet, sincere, honest person”.The Indiana Jones hero also made a point of solemnly mentioning the absence of Carrie Fisher, who passed away at the end of 2016 from cardiac arrest.
Hamill, who was the final speaker of the ceremony, said: “I haven’t been this speechless since The Force Awakens.”
“From Jedi to Joker and back again, it’s been a fantastic ride. Thank you so much and may the force be with each and every one of you.”
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“It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.” – Horace Bushnell
Quote of the Day: “It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience.” – Horace Bushnell
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Mike Rowe Honors 82-yo For Making 800,000 Wooden Toy Cars For Kids in His Spare Time
Alton Thacker has spent the last 16 years making thousands of tiny wooden car toys for kids around the world.
Thacker, who operates the nonprofit called Tiny Tim’s Foundation For Kids, has helped to distribute over 800,000 of his creations to children in Iraq, Russia, Mexico, Pakistan, Ghana, and a dozen other locations. Additionally, many of the little cars are given to children’s hospitals in West Jordan, Utah where the nonprofit is based.
So as a means of thanking the 82-year-old for his work, Discovery Channel star Mike Rowe collaborated with the toymaker’s family to honor him properly.
Rowe is the host of a show called Returning the Favor. The show features compassionate individuals in the community who dedicate their lives to helping others. Then, as a way of giving back to the generous role models, Rowe honors them for their kindness.
For Thacker, Rowe orchestrated a parade so he could give the toymaker $10,000 for the workshop’s rent.
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Surprise Finding Could Lead to New MS Treatments
A surprise finding by medical scientists may lead to the development of a possible treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS).
While examining human brain tissues, researchers from the University of Alberta and McGill University unexpectedly found that the tissues from people who had MS contained an extremely high level of a protein named calnexin, compared with those who hadn’t had MS.
The researchers then tested the susceptibility of mice lacking calnexin to the mouse model of human MS (experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis), and were astonished to find that the mice lacking the protein were completely resistant to the disease.
The causes of MS are not well understood. Symptoms vary widely but often include cognitive impairment, dizziness, tremors and fatigue. These problems are caused by a type of white blood cells called T cells that, after becoming activated, find their way into the brain and attack the protective covering–myelin–of neurons in the brain and spinal cord, causing inflammation and damage to the central nervous system.
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“It turns out that calnexin is somehow involved in controlling the function of the blood-brain barrier,” said Marek Michalak, a distinguished professor of biochemistry at the U of A. “This structure usually acts like a wall and restricts the passage of cells and substances from the blood into the brain. When there is too much calnexin, this wall gives angry T cells access to the brain, where they destroy myelin.”
Canada has one of the highest rates of MS in the world, and there are no known effective treatments.
“We think this exciting finding identifies calnexin as an important target for developing therapies for MS,” said Luis Agellon, a professor at the McGill School of Human Nutrition. “Our challenge now is to tease out exactly how this protein works in the cells involved in making up the blood-brain barrier. If we knew exactly what calnexin does in this process, then we could find a way to manipulate its function to promote resistance for developing MS.”
(Source: University of Alberta)
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Random Company Will Pay Man’s Drunken $1,600 Uber Fare As Thank You For Not Drinking and Driving
After a night of partying in West Virginia, Kenny Bachman was ready to head home and get a good nights sleep.
Though he does not remember doing it, he ordered himself an Uber so he could safely get back to his friend’s house near the West Virginia University campus.
A few hours after getting into the car, however, he woke up to find himself more than two hours into the 300-mile journey to his home in New Jersey.
Since he had also accidentally ordered himself an Uber XL, rather than a regular car, the fare was doubled from $800 to $1,600.
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Because Bachman did not have the money to pay the fare, he started a GoFundMe page asking for donations.
Thankfully, his predicament caught the eye of Jamie Giovinazzo, the founder of Eat Clean Bro in Freehold, New Jersey.
According to Giovinazzo, the food prep company has a lot of delivery drivers working for them on the road – so as a means of thanking Bachman for not drinking and driving, he volunteered to pay the entirety of the hefty Uber fare.
The money that was raised on Bachman’s GoFundMe page will now be donated to the charity Mothers Against Drunk Driving.
(WATCH the interview below)
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When Woman Sees Anxious Man Missing His Lost Pen, She Grew Determined to Reunite Them
While a pen may not be the most extraordinary object in the world, this writing utensil in particular has led to a blossoming friendship thanks to one woman’s determination to reunite it with its owner.
Lara Bertani and her husband were on a Delta flight from New Orleans to Atlanta after a weekend of festivities in January when she overheard a distressed man looking for a lost pen.
“Two rows ahead of me, in seat 10E, I heard a man ask the lady in front of me if she could see the pen he dropped on the floor. He seemed anxious to get it back. I looked too, but didn’t see it. But when we de-boarded the plane, I kept my eyes on the floor and found his pen!
“It was heavy. I could have thrown my back out,” she added.
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“I walked quickly through the airport and then around baggage claim trying to find him. I failed. Was he in the men’s room crying for his lost pen?!”
Bertani and her husband were shocked to arrive home and find that this was no ordinary pen, either.
Bertani told Good News Network: “I’m not actually sure what made the pen so expensive and I’m blanking on the brand of it. But I looked it up and it was worth around $100!”
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“Any pen over $5 is expensive to me so this [was] one fancy pen,” she added.
Upon calling Delta Airlines, she found that FAA regulations prevented them from telling her who was sitting in the man’s seat unless it was an emergency. The lost and found department also had no record of a lost pen.
Worried about whether the owner was “too shy to put in a report for a missing pen”, Bertani took to Facebook with a “Fancy Pen Seeks Fancy Owner” ad in hopes of finding the man.
“I’ve been happily fostering this pen for the last few days,” said the post. “From the photos, you can see I’ve given it a great home. But I’m sure it longs for its owner and I’m sure the owner is sitting at home, penless, and drowning his sorrows in fancy scotch. What if that pen has deep sentimental value to him?! We need to give this guy his pen back!”
“Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.” – Johannes Kepler
Quote of the Day: “Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.” – Johannes Kepler (who conceived his Third Law of planetary motion 400 years ago today)
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Company Offers to Pay Employees Up to $10 a Day to Cycle to Work
As a means of putting a dent in local air pollution, this advertising company is peddling an innovative deal towards its staff members.
Advertising agency Make Stuff of Christchurch, New Zealand has just started paying its employees $5 a day to bike to work. If the employee manages to keep up the biking routine for at least half of their annual work days, the company doubles the offer to $10 a day, all of which is payable at the end of the year in the form of a cash bonus.
Since making the offer last week, all but one of the employees started participating in the scheme.
The biking exchange is not just a more environmentally friendly way of getting to work, either – the employees say that once they have their blood flowing from the bike ride, they are more energized during the work day. Plus, they don’t have to shell out any money for a gym membership.
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Make Collective’s Tim Chesney told Stuff: “For a while I had been thinking it would be great to incentivize cycling in some way. I’m a really keen cyclist [and] cash is clearly the most obvious incentive.”
“My gut instinct is that it could be something really good for the workplace. I know for myself I show up feeling a lot more energized, my blood is already flowing.”
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Watch What Happens When Woman Rushes into Police Station With Lifeless Puppy
It was an ordinary Sunday at the North Reading Police Department when a woman rushed into the building and said that her puppy had stopped breathing.
The woman, Megan Vitale, said that her 9-week-old Saint Bernard puppy named Bodhi had gotten a piece of food lodged in its throat. When her acquaintance brought the dog into the station, it was limp and unresponsive.
Several officers rushed out from around the counter and started giving the pup back blows and chest compressions.
After ten harrowing minutes of emergency resuscitation procedures, the obstruction finally became dislodged and the dog started breathing again.
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The Massachusetts officers gave the puppy some oxygen before its owners took it to a veterinarian for treatment.
“Ultimately, a life was saved thanks to rescuers falling back on their training and remaining calm. Even though we are not faced with this kind of incident every day, the officers reacted just as they would in any emergency situation,” said police department Chief Murphy. “We are hopeful that the puppy will make a full recovery.”
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“This day is a beautiful room that’s never been seen before.” – Courage to Change
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Emotional First Aid: The Practical Science Of Healing Emotions
Practical advice from an engaging speaker and PhD who will give you tools for dealing with regret, loneliness, guilt, and low self-esteem. “Using the power of emotions and psychology to advance your own needs and happiness.”
The Lesson: It occurred to psychologist Guy Winch that when it comes to a physical injury– like a cut or a cold or a broken bone –we know exactly what to do. We know the difference between something that we can treat, or something a doctor needs to treat. We’re so sophisticated in how we go about it, but, when it comes to these psychological injuries we are literally in ignorance, we are unaware of how and when we are injured and what we can do about it—and especially what happens if we don’t treat or manage them. So he went into the current research studies, and translated the findings into language that can benefit the average person.
What to do about low self-esteem? Winch says positive affirmations will not help unless you really believe them about yourself. If you use generic affirmations, they could actually make things worse because you don’t believe they are true. (‘You are gorgeous and attracting love,’ for instance, would make you beat yourself up if you don’t believe it.) Instead, make a list of your good qualities that you know to be true: I’m supportive, a good listener, a calming influence or joyful presence.
Notable Excerpt: “Feelings of rejection are extremely common, (yet) we have this stoic idea about feelings—that we should not have them. The most impressive finding of the many research studies done on rejection, and why it hurts so much, was done using MRI machines and people who just experienced emotional break-ups in their relationships. The same areas of the brain get activated when we experience rejection as get activated when we experience physical pain. Literally the same areas—and there’s no other emotion in which that happens. The term ‘hurt feelings’ is the same in almost any language around the globe, because it really, really hurts.”
The Guest: Dr. Guy Winch is a licensed psychologist, speaker, the author of “Emotional First Aid”, a definitive guide to healing from emotional injury.
The Host: After spending years of his young life and athletic career struggling with his own emotional wellbeing, a crippling injury left Lewis Howes without an identity and without any work. Instead of wallowing in self-pity, however, Howes recreated himself as a multi-million dollar media producer, motivational speaker, bestselling author, and podcast host. The ex-football player now spends his days chatting with the most inspirational icons of this generation on his School of Greatness podcast.
Podcast: The School of Greatness podcast is available for download on Soundcloud and iTunes. You can also watch footage of the interviews on Howes’s YouTube channel.
Books: Howes is the author of the New York Times bestselling book “The School of Greatness”: an in-depth collection of lessons and wisdom that he has gathered from interviewing hundreds of the world’s greatest role models and thinkers. Howes’s latest book, “The Mask of Masculinity”, is based on his experience with the dangerous stereotypes and expectations that are placed on men in modern society.
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Doctors on a Plane Save Woman’s Life by Constructing Makeshift Ventilator Out of Nearby Parts
A normal flight to Jamaica turned into a life-saving endeavor after two anesthesiologists created a makeshift medical ventilator to save an elderly woman who had gone into respiratory arrest.
Matthew Stevenson and John Flanagan were on a JetBlu flight in January when the senior started having trouble breathing. A nurse who also happened to be aboard the plane tried to help the woman recover – but nothing would relieve the breathing distress.
When Stevenson saw what was going on, he flagged down Flanagan for help. They asked the flight crew if they had a hand-operated manual resuscitator on board to pump oxygen into her lungs.
Because they did not, the doctors resolved to build their own.
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As Flanagan conducted CPR on the woman, Stevenson reportedly cut off the tubing and airbag from one of the plane’s emergency masks in the ceiling and connected them to an on-board oxygen tank.
Using the makeshift ventilator to keep oxygen flowing into the woman’s lungs, the doctors – who both work at the same private practice in Florida – were able to keep the woman alive until the plane made an emergency landing in Fort Lauderdale 45 minutes later.
They weren’t the only passengers who leapt into action, either – many of the people surrounding the doctors prayed and held onto the men in order to make sure they did not fall over during the emergency landing. When medics rushed onto the plane to take over, the passengers gave a cheering round of applause to the two doctors.
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Flanagan’s wife Xenia, who snapped some pictures of the ordeal, says that she felt honored to see her husband act so heroically.
“It was both amazing and terrifying at the same time to witness my husband and his friend do something they do everyday… save someone’s life,” Xenia wrote on Facebook. “It was beautiful to witness so many good Samaritans praying and holding them up during the entire ordeal. I’m so thankful God placed them there at the right time.
“I know I can speak for [Mrs.] Stevenson when I say how proud we are to be married to such great men,” she added.
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Researchers Drop Ice Chunk Down Glacial Hole and it Makes the Most Satisfying Sound Ever
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— Peter Neff (@peter_neff) February 28, 2018
When #science is done, it's fun to drop ice down a 90 m deep borehole in an #Antarctic ?? #glacier ❄️. So satisfying when it hits the bottom.
Happy hump day. pic.twitter.com/dQtLPWQi7T
Even scientists can delight over the little things.
Take Peter Neff, for example – the Seattle glaciologist and his team had just finished drilling a 295-foot (90 meter) borehole in an Antarctic glacier when they decided to just drop a massive piece of ice down the gaping tunnel.
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The resulting sound is unbelievably satisfying; especially when it finally hits the bottom.
Even Neff and his team “could not contain their glee” over the wonderful incident.
Peter Neff posted video footage of the experiment to Twitter the caption: “When science is done, it’s fun to drop ice down a 90-meter deep borehole in an Antarctic glacier. So satisfying when it hits the bottom.”
Lest you think we were able to control our glee while putting #Antarctic #glacier ice back in the borehole it came from... pic.twitter.com/hjLyZe8Bms
— Peter Neff (@peter_neff) February 28, 2018
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‘Black Panther’ Star Reveals That Denzel Washington Paid For His Theatre Studies at Oxford
Chadwick Boseman, the stunningly talented star of the new Marvel movie Black Panther, recently revealed in an interview that Denzel Washington actually played a large role in his developing acting career.
Boseman was promoting the action flick on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” earlier this week when he mentioned that he had studied theater at Oxford University in London.
The actor had been taking classes from actress Phylicia Rashad at Howard University when he found out that he had been accepted into the summer exchange class at Oxford. Unfortunately, he did not have the money to attend the course.
But instead of allowing Boseman to miss out on the golden opportunity, Rashad reached out to her celebrity friends for sponsorship.
After attending the course, Boseman received a benefactor’s letter saying that Denzel Washington had paid for him to attend the class.
The Black Panther star finally revealed the identity of his secret benefactor during an interview with Rolling Stone.
“I never wanted to ever say that until I met him,” Boseman told Fallon. “I was doing that Rolling Stone interview, and (the reporter) asked me about it and I was like, ‘You know, I think I can say it now.’ I made it to the point where he’s not going to think I’m trying to get something out of him by saying it.
“The weird thing about it is, I did the interview, and just before the movie came out we did the New York premiere and he came and I met him before the article came out. So I actually lived up to what I originally wanted to do. It was amazing.”
When Washington heard about his role in Boseman’s career, he jokingly told the actor: “Oh, so that’s why I’m here, you owe me money!”
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