Bono and Christy Turlington Burns Talking Moms

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Kelly Corrigan Show

Society & Culture

4.8 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 10 May 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Today is #3 in a special 5-part series about moms in honor of Every Mother Counts. Bono lost his mother Iris when he was 14 years old. She had an aneurysm at her father’s funeral and as he says, he’s been singing to her ever since. This is a very special conversation, possibly my favorite interview of all time, made more lovely and intimate by the friendship between Bono and Christy going back many years now.

This series hopes to raise $100,000 to support safe and respectful pregnancy, delivery and postpartum care in 9 countries through Every Mother Counts, founded in 2010 and led every day since by Christy Turlington Burns. Please join us with a donation here. Maternal health is a human right and as Bono says, raising kids takes a village and a mother is a village.

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0:00.0	Okay, so this is an episode for the ages. It turns out that my co-host, Christie
0:14.7	Trillington Burns, met Bono a long time ago and she's going to tell that
0:18.2	story before we get to the conversation so that you have some context for how
0:22.1	they know each other.
0:23.0	Because them knowing each other and having such high regard for one another's work in the world
0:29.0	is part of why this conversation is one in a million.
0:32.0	It was so relaxed and so important. conversation is one in a million.
0:32.8	It was so relaxed and so intimate, so fast.
0:37.6	You know Bono, I can't even begin to explain the things he's done,
0:40.8	but I want you to remember that in addition to leading the greatest
0:44.8	rock and roll band in the history of mankind with the three guys he met in high school, he is also a groundbreaking activist.
0:53.6	I mean, singularly devoted to taking on extreme poverty and AIDS.
1:00.9	He also wrote the most beautiful book, it's called Surrender and he'll read a little bit from that today. Surrender was the foundation of a one-man show he did at the Beacon Theater.
1:12.0	Phew. was that special.
1:14.4	I mean of all the live events I've ever seen in my life.
1:16.7	It was one of my most favorite things.
1:18.6	We were astonished.
1:19.7	I mean, my jaw was on the ground.
1:22.4	So let me share a short clip of Chris. my jaw was on the ground.
1:22.6	So let me share a short clip of Christie explaining the very special relationship
1:27.3	that she and Bono have shared and developed over the years,
1:30.3	and then we'll dive in with Bono talking about his mom Iris.
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