Latest / The Daytime Emmys Specials / 2025 Daytime Emmy Nominees: Producers and Star of Making Good
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- 0:08Speaker 1: Hi, everyone, Tammy Cove with j l J Media. You're
- 0:12Speaker 1: at the fifty second Daytime Emmy Awards. So kind of
- 0:17Speaker 1: crazy out here, isn't it. Please introduce yourselves. Hi.
- 0:21Speaker 2: I'm Married Slater, I'm a story producer, I'm Making Good.
- 0:24Speaker 2: I'm Kirby Hayborne. I'm the host of Making Good.
- 0:27Speaker 3: And I'm Ron Johnson, one of the producers are Making
- 0:29Speaker 3: Good and also a story producer.
- 0:32Speaker 1: It's kind of your job is to make everyone look good?
- 0:36Speaker 3: Yeah, what we really do?
- 0:38Speaker 2: I mean, look at me?
- 0:39Speaker 1: Look how good?
- 0:40Speaker 4: You're the host, so you know, look great of these guys.
- 0:45Speaker 1: Yeah, how does it feel today? What's the vibe and
- 0:51Speaker 1: the emotions? What have they been a.
- 0:53Speaker 4: Lot of gratitude, a lot of pride.
- 0:56Speaker 1: I think our team puts our whole heart into every
- 0:58Speaker 1: single story.
- 0:58Speaker 4: So this is just a test.
- 1:00Speaker 3: Went to that and yeah, I've never been a part
- 1:03Speaker 3: of a project like this and I never want to.
- 1:07Speaker 3: Dan like, I love this show.
- 1:09Speaker 1: What makes a show different for you?
- 1:11Speaker 3: The people? The people we So we go out. Kirby
- 1:15Speaker 3: goes out and finds these organizations, these real people in
- 1:18Speaker 3: everybody's neighborhoods, and he dives in and learns about these
- 1:23Speaker 3: people along with the audience, and he gets hurt.
- 1:29Speaker 2: He loves these are all they are all nonprofits that
- 1:32Speaker 2: are making a difference in the world, doing something unique
- 1:35Speaker 2: that's making the world a better place. And it's been
- 1:38Speaker 2: so great for the nonprofit world this show because they're
- 1:41Speaker 2: getting a voice people see what it really takes to
- 1:44Speaker 2: be a nonprofit. We've worked with vets, we've worked with
- 1:47Speaker 2: special needs kids, we've worked with cowboys, We've worked with
- 1:51Speaker 2: the whole range of people, and it's it's just been
- 1:54Speaker 2: a blessing, this whole thing.
- 1:55Speaker 1: Yeah, so share a moment that may have changed your
- 1:59Speaker 1: life that you walked away from and thought, Okay, well
- 2:03Speaker 1: that's touched me.
- 2:04Speaker 2: And wow. I was in Wyoming on a cattle drive
- 2:08Speaker 2: with first responders who are going through PTSD and for
- 2:12Speaker 2: a week we're there with an amazing man named Tom
- 2:15Speaker 2: Bircher who's taking us on a cattle drive. And I
- 2:18Speaker 2: got bucked off a horse and I was terrified. There
- 2:21Speaker 2: were no cameras around, but Tom came up like Gandolf
- 2:25Speaker 2: over the hill and came and rescued me and grabbed
- 2:29Speaker 2: me by the hand and prayed over me and helped
- 2:32Speaker 2: me feel safe. And that was a life changing moment
- 2:35Speaker 2: for me. Yeah, and he does that with all of
- 2:38Speaker 2: these first responders and military vets that are going through
- 2:42Speaker 2: a hard time. So yeah, that's just one of many.
- 2:45Speaker 1: Whenever we get on the subject of the community.
- 2:48Speaker 4: That suffers from PTSD.
- 2:51Speaker 1: I don't suffer from it. I don't have anyone in
- 2:53Speaker 1: my family, but it triggers me and it gets me
- 2:56Speaker 1: very emotional for whatever reasons.
- 2:59Speaker 4: So thank you for sharing their stories because their voices
- 3:06Speaker 4: matter and their stories need to be heard.
- 3:11Speaker 1: Thank you.
- 3:12Speaker 3: It's made this show has made us better people like
- 3:15Speaker 3: you can't you can't help it be a better person
- 3:18Speaker 3: by surrounding yourself with all of these people in our communities,
- 3:22Speaker 3: and they just need to be seen.
- 3:24Speaker 2: I was a horrible person before this.
- 3:31Speaker 1: Thank you so much for your time, for the work
- 3:33Speaker 1: that you're doing, and have a lovely time to appreciate
- 3:38Speaker 1: your time. Of course,