much. that s why, you know, that was one of the biggest reasons why i came out, to bring awareness to the situation because so many people, 26 million people walking around today that have chronic kidney disease and they re not aware of it. so, you know, i just felt, you know, if i had my 15 seconds of fame i can come out and i can tell my community, you know, go out, get yourself checked. the national kidney foundation, they ll check you for free. they have a program called the keep program. you know, kidney it s kidneys early evaluation perhaps. you can go on kidney.org and larry: kidney.org. go on kidney.org and check out in your community where they ll test you for free. larry: kevin, is the cast is tina fey, alec baldwin, all the rest getting behind grizz in this? absolutely. what we found out is one of the brothers of one of the executive
producers has kidney problems also. it was season three where it was a kidney telethon or something like that. one of the things we were concerned about when grizz found out this happened, how is the show going to act? are they going to allow him the time to go do his dialysis? before they found out, they told us we re far of the family and they stuck by that. whenever he has to do his dialysis or has an appointment, they ll juggle the schedule and do everything they can to let him get the proper medical attention. larry: people watching, grizz, who may want to help, may want to donate a kidney, who do they contact? contact the national kidney foundation, go on kidney.org, they have all the information there. larry: they know all about you? repeat that? larry: they know all about
they re not aware of it. so, you know, i just felt, you know, if i had my 15 seconds of fame i can come out and i can tell my community, you know, go out, get yourself checked. the national kidney foundation, they ll check you for free. they have a program called the keep program. you know, kidney it s kidneys early evaluation perhaps. you can go on kidney.org and larry: kidney.org. go on kidney.org and check out in your community where they ll test you for free. larry: kevin, is the cast is tina fey, alec baldwin, all the rest getting behind grizz in this? absolutely. what we found out is one of the brothers of one of the executive producers has kidney problems also. it was season three where it was a kidney telethon or something like that. one of the things we were
concerned about when grizz found out this happened, how is the show going to act? are they going to allow him the time to go do his dialysis? before they found out, they told us we were part of the family, and they really stuck by that. whenever he has to do his dialysis or has an appointment, they ll juggle the schedule and give him all the time he needs to get the proper medical attention. tina is great, ail he electric is great. tracy is great. they ve all been very supportive. larry: people watching, grizz, who may want to help, may want to donate a kidney, who do they contact? contact the national kidney foundation, go on kidney.org, they have all the information there. larry: they know all about you? repeat that? larry: they know all about you? suppose a very heavy-set person wants to volunteer to be tested on giving you a kidney, he or she could contact that foundation? yes, they can contact the national kidney foundation or go to their local hospitals and, you k