Author and humanitarian Mitch Albom on love, hope and second chances
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🗓️ 11 October 2025
⏱️ 9 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Finally tonight, a sports writer turned author turned benefactor who puts love and hope at the center of nearly everything he does. |
| 0:09.0 | In our weekend spotlight, Mitch Album. |
| 0:12.0 | This is the big, that Hudson, new Hudson building. |
| 0:16.0 | Spending the day with Mitch Album in Detroit is not a leisurely experience. We try to keep everything happy. |
| 0:22.9 | At Detroit Water Ice Factory, the nonprofit dessert store he started to help fund his humanitarian |
| 0:27.9 | work. |
| 0:28.7 | He whips up a Motown twist with his namesake, Mr. Mitch's chocolate peanut butter. |
| 0:34.6 | Hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi, hi. Yes, it is. |
| 0:38.3 | A stop at say Detroit play, a one-time abandoned city rec center that album transformed |
| 0:43.3 | into a multi-million dollar learning center for hundreds of school students where academics |
| 0:49.3 | come before play. |
| 0:51.3 | We're not going to build something that's good enough for a poor neighborhood in Detroit. We're going to build something that's good enough for a poor neighborhood in Detroit. |
| 0:56.6 | We're going to build something that's good enough for the best neighborhood in all of Michigan. |
| 1:00.6 | If you deliver high expectations, you'll get high performances. |
| 1:03.9 | If you come in with low expectations, say, well, this is good enough. |
| 1:07.1 | That's exactly the performances you're going to get. |
| 1:09.0 | All I did was kind of, you know, kind of |
| 1:11.0 | get it going, you know, but they take the ball and run with it. And you can see, it's a lot of joy here. |
| 1:25.3 | While there, the one-time professional musician shows us his talents on the piano. |
| 1:30.3 | He's never had a lesson. |
| 1:33.3 | I have to know your Flintstones. |
| 1:37.3 | You're going to very-beet. |
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