Round two. Make a wish employees, what was the most strange thing a make a wish kid asked for and actually received?

I shot an internal promotional video for Make a Wish once.

I got to read through a big book of wishes they had granted.

Some of them were so extravagant and amazing.

Family vacations, celebrity meetings, and then I saw a three-year-old who wished

for a banana split for breakfast. And that's what they gave him. No one was like,

a yo, wish higher. I helped host a visit to a planetarium by a kid whose wish was to go to the

moon. The front office folks thought I could just give her a

personal tour of the planetarium and show her some nice high-resolution visuals, but I thought

she deserved better than that. I commissioned a jeweler friend and meteorite enthusiast to make a silver

crescent moon necklace, which she graciously donated to the cause, and I donated a small lunar meteorite for my own collection.

It was a gorgeous necklace, very much to the credit of my friend's artistry and generosity.

We couldn't take her to the moon, so we gave it to her instead.

She was thrilled, but later said her real highlight of the trip was the astronaut ice cream.

Ah, kids.

My daughter was a make-a-wish kid.

She asked to go to Australia to meet the Wiggles.

Unfortunately, she wasn't able to travel that far.

We live in the U.S., health-wise.

She made a second wish to meet Captain America.

We never told Cap that he was a backup wish after the Wiggles were a no-go.

When my sister was five and I was eight, she had cancer and the opportunity to make

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