November 8, 2017: Writer Marshal Younger talks "Have a Heart," organ transplants, and how his family inspires Odyssey episodes

The Official Adventures in Odyssey Podcast

Focus on the Family

Kids & Family

4.5 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 November 2017

⏱️ 13 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Writer Marshal Younger's wife Stephanie works in a transplant clinic. She met a child who wondered if he would get the personality of the person who donated a liver to him. Hear how that story turned into the touching episode "Have a Heart."

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hi, Odyssey Podcast listeners. I'm Bob, producer of the Adventures in Odyssey Club.
0:09.3	And I'm Jesse Editor of Focus on the Family Clubhouse magazine.
0:12.3	Today we're interviewing Marshall Younger, a marshal of a former Adventures in Odyssey
0:16.2	producer who still writes some great scripts for the program, like Kid and Gems and for
0:20.8	$3 more from a few years ago.
0:22.4	Oh, that's older, Younger. A newer Younger Masterpieces have a heart. It just aired on the
0:26.9	radio and online and was actually inspired by something that happened to his wife, Stephanie.
0:31.3	Let's hear all about it.
0:37.1	Marshall, it's great to have you back in the podcast.
0:39.1	Great to be back.
0:40.1	You know, this episode began with an idea that actually came from your wife's work. So tell
0:45.7	us what Stephanie does and how that led to the real life story that inspired, have a heart.
0:51.0	My wife Stephanie, she works as a nurse at Children's GI Clinic. It's here in Nashville.
0:56.0	That specializes in liver and liver transplants. And she doesn't give me any details about any
1:02.8	of her patients because that would be illegal. But she does give me some general ideas about
1:08.0	some of the stories about kids who come in for a transplant. And she told me a story
1:12.6	about a boy who came in who got a transplant. And he was asking lots of questions about
1:17.5	his new liver. He was curious about where it came from. He even wondered why the kid who
1:21.9	gave it to him didn't need it anymore. And of course, my wife had to tell him that person's
1:25.8	liver he was now using a died. And it was a really touching story to me. This kid who
1:30.4	just wanted to know more about the person who gave up his own liver friend. And it
1:34.6	led me to think about what a kid might think that he might not just be getting a new organ
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Focus on the Family, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Focus on the Family and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.