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Jane Polian, this is Sunday morning. Christmas day is coming this Wednesday.

Monica begins tonight at sunset.

Where in the season of giving them a sign of our social media times. Crowdsourcing websites are making it possible for people to donate money to perfect strangers in need. David Pogue examines the gift of giving in our Sunday morning cover story age 14. Morgan Stickney was an elite swimmer with Olympic aspirations. You tell it 22. She has lost both her legs to a rare vascular disease is expenses that people don't even have any idea as far as losing work and taking time off and it never ends. Eventually total strangers came to the family's financial rescue on a site called go fund me. People think about all the time when there's a problem started coming up on Sunday morning, America's safety net are Sunday profile is of Jennifer Lopez. The recent Golden Globe nominee. Many say another big acting nomination in the near future. She's talking with Tony to Coble go back to wage if there's one reason for the Oscar bars surrounding the role Jennifer Lopez plays and hustlers. It may have to do with her new approach to acting like this was different. This felt better than maybe I've done before.

He felt different to be fearless and we have never been before the fearless Jennifer Lopez later on Sunday morning as the season got and traits hot off the griddle from Martha Tyson or this morning a taste of tradition, way you could also have these crispy potato pancakes with applesauce and sour cream or caviar for lunch. The lovers is less about lighting more about this Sunday morning ride ministry.

He was a legend in the music world, a composer for all seasons. No wonder the songs of Irving Berlin live on and on as morocco will remind us being Crosby first white Christmas in 1941 the Irving Berlin song has been a Yuletide staple ever since he spoke directly to our hearts next to me what makes a timeless name is white. Berlin's music still matter later on Sunday morning and will have more music compliments of the young Horus of New York City plus holiday cheer from Steve Hartman – of humbug from Jim Gaffigan and more coming up when our Sunday morning podcast continues is what one social media innovation makes possible all year long. David Pogue shows us how it works and who helps in our cover story Morgan Stickney of Bedford, New Hampshire has always been something of a move made all those just metals from over the years. By age 14 she had a room full of swimming metals and was dreaming of the Olympics. This is that sectionals that was when I was ranked top 20 in the country.

But one day in eighth grade.

Her entire life changed. I was walking to some practice and then my office just all of a sudden started hurting over the next six years. The pain became excruciating for doctors at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston eventually determined that she had a rare vascular disease and that there was only one sure solution below the knee amputation on that seems like a big deal yeah I mean I was struggling for six years I was on opioids in my life was kind of just like there really wasn't much left of it felt like with only three months after the surgery.

Morgan was back in the pool. She won two events for the 2018 or Olympic Games. But then the disease came back in her right leg. It was amputated in October, left like I say emotionally, I did really well was the next step that I can move on with my life. When this happened with my right leg and it was devastating for me and my family. You had health insurance going in right and of course they pay for all this wonderful okay a large portion of course, but there's so many expenses that are not covered. Tony and Sherry Stickney have spent over 1/4 of $1 million of their own on medical expenses and their in debt. During these medical procedures. Is there a tally in the back of your head going.

When I got home and for this never even thought about it once most important things get, Morgan healthy this past September just before Morgan's second amputation. Sherry's best friend offered to start go fund me campaign. She said I think that this would be something that could really help you guys. It's not something that we would ever have hope that we have to get involved in other than to donate to somebody else but Morgan needs a lot longer. Go fund me is a website where anyone can appeal to the public to contribute money for pretty much anything was found 10 you might've waited for help from the government or charities if you were in trouble today people turn to crowdfunding sites like go fund me after a natural disaster or a mass shooting when they need money for funeral expenses for acts of kindness or for acts of politics like this one to build a border wall in New Mexico but 1/3 of all go fund me campaigns are for medical expenses like Morgan's.

So far, her campaign has raised more than $45,000 would become the world's largest properly cite people think of it all the time when there's a problem started up on Rob Solomon's go fund me CEO or the $9 billion has been donated on the platform, and this is pretty starting 120 million donations of our homepage and read it just started a funny go fund me wouldn't tell us exactly how many campaigns are on site, but says 10,000 new campaigns are created every day there's no charge to set up a campaign you can ask for any amount of money leave the campaign running as long as you want and keep whatever comes in their people were to see this go. It's that easy.

I could do that for myself.

Should we set some expectations on how many of them actually succeed. They don't always hit their goal. The reality is you have to tell a very compelling story have to be very transparent about what you're doing you have to share your campaign sharing means spreading the word on social media like Facebook and Twitter, or even the news media more eyeballs you can get on a fundraiser more potential house to raise money for years, go fund me 5% of every donation for itself +3% for credit card fees, but in 2017, CEO Rob Solomon made a change instead of taking a cut of every donation go fund me now asks every donor for a voluntary there's no way that will work works very people who donate on the platform actually small to well okay it's wonderful that this for-profit Silicon Valley tech company is actually helping people every day, but is not all sunshine and bunnies. Whenever a lot of money changes hands. There are always scammers nearby Chester County woman is arrested for faking cancer charged with collecting donations through go fund me. And then there was a New Jersey couple raised over $400,000 to help unknowable homeless man turns out the three of them were working together to scan the public. What's to prevent that sort of thing from happening. We probably hundred people just focus on nothing but trust and safety of recall a lot of technology reviews, machine learning and artificial intelligence is very rare less than 1/10 of 1% of our campaigns of any type of missions associated with them. Of course, that number includes only the scams that go fund me catches. Fortunately, when it does go fund me says it refunds all donations. Anytime you have a fraudulent transaction. I think that raises a lot of concerns because it weaknesses trust nicely. The associate Dean for research at the Indiana University lily family school of philanthropy. We started tracking disaster giving going back to 9/11. She studies the economics of charity. If people give money to crowdfunding campaigns.

Are they then less likely to give traditional charities. So far we are not seeing that in the data compared to more traditional fundraising campaigns at crowdfunding is still a small slice of the pie.

What we are.

See is that crowdfunding is changing and shifting how nonprofits raise money to use social media to tell their stories in a more compelling way. Some charities like the American Red Cross and United Way have even partnered with go fund me to help raise money. Meanwhile, CEO Rob Solomon encounters the best and the worst of human nature every day that bad things happen.

It's like a dagger in the heart, but I think people are lately good. I would like to believe that.

As for Morgan Stickney.

Her fight continues, she will soon get a second prosthetic leg to match her first one has my name on it for a swimmer or pipe human partner made in the new year. She hopes to be back in the pool training for the 2024 Paralympic games your legs down to find who you are, cheered on by her go fund me supporters about it, to hear that people from all over the country believe in me, and that they think that I'm an inspiration means a lot to me because I'm just trying to live my life and get back up on my TV now page from our Sunday morning on December 22, 1997, 22 years ago today. The day the FDA approved Propecia once a day pill for combating the genetic condition known as male pattern baldness is a positive link between hair and virility dates back to at least the biblical story of Samson advertisements touting suppose in baldness cure all flourished during the 19th century absolutely blossoms during by the way. As for Propecia prescription only pill. It can slow hair loss or even promote limited hair growth among some men, but in a better irony. It can adversely affect virility. Some take it as well. Definitely ask your doctor would be our best advice from camouflaging their hair loss some bald but bold men have always embraced you don't have it way back in 1985 out like Holly Bob Simon paid a visit to a baldheaded man of America convention in 2004. Our John Blackstone dropped in for lunch.

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Georgia is right up there with New Hampshire's products to New Hampshire people really just don't like you have more from this week's conversation, follow the takeout with Maj. Garrett on Apple podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts is the season for delicious treats latkes off the gravel as much a part of high as tonight's initial lighting of the menorah, Martha Tyson, or invites us to a tasting or two it takes to write that. What is the logical thing to do next. Crispy fried slightly onion, potato euphemism why lot the simple answer is that they're meant to remind you of the miracle of the oil that this story is anything 164 is a devout Jew called himself and his overthrew the Syrian on the people of Israel Hanukkah means dedication it commemorates the victory of the Maccabees who retook the temple. Jane Cohen is a Jewish food historian cookbook writer and when they we sanctified the temple and cleaned everything they needed ritual oil for the candelabra and the only ritual oil that was pure enough was only enough to last for one day.

According to the story but miraculously it lasted eight days. Centuries after the fact. Jews were told to celebrate by eating foods cooked in oil but again I will enter Judith Darling of the art. According to BEAUTIFUL widow and she set out to seduce a lot who was holding the town of philia under siege and she had these very salty pancakes levy vote and fill them with a salty cheese and Loch Ness, who intended to seduce a rape her kept eating these, and he became so thirsty that he just drank incredible quantities of wine until he passed out, at which point this beautiful widow chopped off his head. How does Judas get connected with Hanukkah.

That's where the bizarre part comes in.

Nobody is actually sure how the two became conflated, but they did.

And by the Middle Ages Jews in Italy were eating cheese pancakes during Hanukkah. Now we come to the potato potatoes were cheap and thanks to poverty among Eastern European Jews.

Potatoes became the key ingredient in life Yiddish for pancakes like normal day holiday ballot. They Nikki Russ Fetterman is a fourth-generation owner of Rawson New York City 105 years. Her family's business. Latkes are made in small batches by hand technique is square. If there's a secret to getting latkes right it's fun like this straining out down the mixture is formed in which our first item, then deep fried in oil, canola oil here they're meant to be eaten. Crispy and warm.

The story of the lot is one of perseverance and little bit of magic which is how the Brooklyn Museum justifies taking my chefs dissipating in its annual you ever heard of the Koreans is considered minor holiday, but it's not snowing Judaism decrees that during there is no reason and no really good.

No problem. The lockers are good and plentiful Christmas is just one of the hundreds of songs, composed by that legend of popular music. Irving Berlin story of how he came to Makkah and how he came to write so many of our most love songs is the story maraca has to tell King Cole, you, Judy Garland broke hearts with him and try to stay danced passions's as did Gene Wilder and Peter Boyle sort of unit Young Frankenstein is a fellow songwriter once said of the man who wrote all those songs. Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music. I like everything about everything. Broadway musical director is a longtime fan of Lynn's thing with interesting now as we and we define them, determine why the timeless.

You know, he spoke directly to our heart. Berlin wrote more than 1500 songs removed and every occasion. Yes Berlin wrote white Christmas in Crosby on his NBC radio show on Christmas day 1941, six Easter Parade was a Jewish immigrant Irving Berlin is actually the quintessential Irving Berlin was born Israel Bailey in Russia in 1888 five watched his house bound to the ground. Victims of religious persecution.

They found refuge in America settling in New York City's lower East side Berlin was 13. His father died. The family needed money.

One of the things he did was busk singing on the street singing on the street singing for restaurants, singing clubs, Josh Perlman is chief curator at the national Museum of American Jewish history in Philadelphia Berlin soon started writing his own songs, words and music. He bought this piano at 21 and this was the first piano he owned personally and he owned it. When you compose Alexander's Brecht on his first international. This process was often to imagine the music in his head and then uses what skills he had as a pianist to find the melody. Berlin was not a great pianist. He could only play one key so he bought this special piano by pulling this knob the whole keyboard moved, changing keys here is Berlin explaining to Dinesh in the 1920s: love with a young heiress Ellen Mackey tell young people today while he was Jewish. She was Irish Catholic. So what is a big deal. It was her father did not approve what he initially disowned her. The marriage lasted 63 years. Catherine Sweatt is Irving and Ellen Berlin's granddaughter story behind where we are now. This house was bought by my grandfather for my grandmother in 1938 Sweatt came here to the Catskill Mountains in upstate New York.

Every summer she was a teenager and he bought it and gave it to her as a place that we all came to his children and adored like to hold gears. Berlin's 1942 Academy award for white Christmas song with an origin story that wasn't exactly merry and bright has a melancholy underpinning the song and my grandparents had a baby boy, Irving Berlin Junior and he died on Christmas Eve when he was just four weeks old Christmas Eve 1928, will you where growing up that privately they were grieving something we could talk about very private about 1918. While Berlin was serving in the U.S. Army. He wrote a musical review for his fellow troops that initially included a song called God bless America. It wasn't quite making it up to snuff.

So they decided okay this is so he put it away in his trunk. 20 years later, with Hitler threatening world order Irving Berlin thought the song's time was right as a message of peace. He ended up slightly revising the lyric and then I give it to the singer Kate Smith sang it on her radio show in 1938 in a quick second national anthem for Berlin.

The song was personal. My mother always like to point out that it God bless America land that I write. Not we. It's about his America and I think that's very I think he really was very grateful to this country, Kate Smith raised hundreds of millions of dollars in war bonds singing God bless America. But this year the New York Yankees and the Philadelphia Flyers stopped playing her version and the Flyers removed a statue of her after it was discovered that Smith had sung to songs with racist lyrics in the 1930s, but a different kind of controversy swirled around. God bless America. Early on there were anti-Semites who said who is this Jewish man to call on God bless America its generation American topless America. I can be here singing for the whole America and stay true to who I am sure little lamb is ultra-Orthodox Jewish singer who grew up in Brooklyn when is the first time you herded your number is actually the first time I hear the song was a youth issues either description and Outlook will not growing up. He has the godless American youths to bend man kid. She sung the song major league baseball games. How do you feel very grateful rule very grateful for the United States for their involvement in World War II, especially as Jews knows what the population would be if not American involvement in World War II.

So I feel very grateful and as an Orthodox Jew. What better way to express gratitude to the United States than with a prayer.

And that's exactly what the song is progress and crazy time once final point is when there are people in the best way to protect good people is to convict final season Millstream